Morgan Wallen is a country musician and songwriter originally from Knoxville, Tennessee. His new album “I’m the Problem” is out May 16th. Morgan Wallen returns to talk about his new album, putting together the perfect hunting lease, and watching his son learn his music. Morgan Wallen: https://www.instagram.com/morganwallen I’m The Problem (out 5/16/25): https://morganwallen.lnk.to/imtheproblemalbum Morgan Wallen Foundation: https://morganwallenfoundation.org ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ DraftKings: Download the DraftKings Pick Six app NOW and use code THEO. That’s code THEO for new customers to play $5, get $50 in Pick 6 credits. Better payouts. Bigger wins. Only with Pick6 from DraftKings. The Crown is yours. https://draftkings.com Moonpay: Moonpay: Looking to get into crypto? Head over to https://Moonpay.com/Theo to sign up. BetterHelp: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/theo to get 10% off your first month. ShipStation: Go to http://shipstation.com and use code THEO to sign up for your free trial. Manscaped: Go to http://manscaped.com and use code THEO to get 20% off your order plus free shipping. Call of Duty: Download Call of Duty: Warzone for FREE and drop into Verdansk on April 3rd. ------------------------------------------------- Gambling Problem? Call one eight hundred gambler. Help is available for problem gambling. Call eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven, or visit c c p g dot org in Connecticut. Must be eighteen plus, age and eligibility restrictions vary by jurisdiction. Pick6 not available everywhere, including New York and Ontario. Void where prohibited. One per new customer. Bonus awarded as non-withdrawable Pick Six Credits that expire in fourteen days. Limited time offer. See terms at pick six dot draftkings dot com slash promos. ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Theo Von's tour and merch?
I have some tour dates to tell you about. The Return of the Rat tour is finishing up and it's coming to Oxford, Mississippi on April 9th, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Miami, Florida, Winnipeg, and Calgary in the Canada. You can get all your tickets at theovon.com slash T-O-U-R. And thank you guys so much for your support. We've got new merch. We've got these Onward hoodies.
These are my favorite type of hoodie that we've ever used, the template, the material, the style of it. I think they'll be your favorite as well. We're going to try to focus on making sure that the template is perfect so that it just feels good and that you enjoy it and that you keep it and wear it for a long time. Yeah, those are really great. I want you to check them out.
They're at theovonstore.com. And thank you for your support if you choose to purchase one. Today's guest made me feel welcome when I got here to Tennessee. He's arguably the most popular musician on the planet. He's the East Tennessee Elvis, baby. You know what he is. I mean, he's so prolific. He's very competitive, and I admire his attention to detail.
Today's guest is one of a kind, Mr. Morgan Wallace.
Chapter 2: Who is Morgan Wallen and what is his new album about?
Thank you.
Yeah, dude, good to see you, bro. Good to see you, too, man. Yeah, it's awesome, man. What's been going on? Yeah, my mom was visiting for my birthday. We went to the Opry. You did? Yeah.
Cool, man.
It was cool, dude. Trace Adkins. Did she come up here a lot or no? No, she hadn't been here since I moved here.
It was your birthday?
Yeah.
Oh, happy birthday.
Yeah, thanks, man. When is your birthday? Two days ago, March 19th. Okay, cool.
Yeah, my parents are in town as well, but I'm trying to get them to move here, so...
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Chapter 3: How does Morgan Wallen balance fame with personal life?
Yeah, he needed some space. Didn't have enough money to get a trailer or something.
but that was I just didn't because it was crazy because I'd just been looking into fasting because people say it like if you fast it'll help like eat away the cancer cells that are in your body so when he was like I've been on 40 days well they say that that only takes like a couple days to do that what you're talking about right yeah like if you fast for a couple days it'll do that yeah I think yeah yeah no that's right you get past 48 hours yeah I think what he was doing it for was spiritual purposes yeah that's what he used to do it for and that's probably what he's doing it for now
Yeah, a team of researchers from MSK has shown for the first time that fasting can reprogram the metabolism of natural killer cells, helping them to survive in the harsh environment in and around tumors while improving their cancer-fighting ability. But it just blew my mind. I was like, God, this dude's on 40 days. Put this dude back in the Bible. Yeah.
I mean, dude, I don't understand how that's physically possible. You know, I pretty much have been, for the last little while, fast until, you know, noon. I'll do my workout and, like, everything in the first part of the day without eating. But I can't imagine... going a whole day without doing that, to be honest.
He's got some bandwidth on him, man. Yeah, he's a pretty strong-willed guy. He's always so chipper, dude. Yeah, I'd love to get to hang out with him. And he tells stories from being in the military and stuff. Some of that stuff is bonkers.
Oh, yeah, some of that stuff ain't going to be repeated on here. He makes me look calm.
Dude, that's the crazy part. You start talking to him, you're like, oh, well, some of this checks out. For sure it checks out. We don't need a DNA test in this family. But you said they're moving down here?
Yeah, I'm trying to get them to. We'll see how it goes, but I'm working on it. I've been talking to them about it for a while. But, you know, just somebody uprooting their entire life to come somewhere. But me and my sister live down here. It's a tricky, you know, it's always tricky getting stuff like that to happen, but we're working on it.
Yeah, that's a lot, man. Is it, I know you have a son, Indio. Indio.
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Chapter 4: What role does family play in Morgan Wallen's life?
I don't even know how to ask that question I think it just gets better and better as you know the older he gets I mean it's always been cool but you know when he's he's four years old now he'll be five this year just the personality that keeps coming out and the relationship that you build you know and he's he's got a little he's got a little sass on him like he's got a he's got a little attitude you know which is I like I like that spunk you know like that yesterday my dad was telling him he was trying to get him to eat it's kind of a task to get him to eat to sit still long enough to eat you know
And my dad was like, hey, man, if you don't eat, I'm going to put you in the bedroom. You got to go to sleep or whatever. You know, I don't know exactly what my dad said to him, but he looked at my dad and he said, I don't want you to stay here anymore.
Oh, dang, brother. Wow. But I just, I mean, like, it's just hilarious, you know. And you're behind your dad.
You're telling him, like, keep telling him.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just anything to keep him rocking. But he's a sweetheart. Is he? Yeah, oh, yeah. He's almost too sweet. He's too nice to everyone. Like, people he doesn't know. Yeah. Like, hey, man. We don't like everybody, man.
We don't know these people, man. Stranger danger, baby. Yeah, yeah. So I'm trying to teach him a little bit of that. He's wild, definitely. He emailed me the other day asking me to send him some Zens. I was like, dude, you got to.
Yeah, I couldn't believe he figured out how to get a hold of the iPad like that. I'm not really big on letting him, you know, sit around with an iPad, but I guess he got my nieces or something. She probably had him send, or he probably had hers send the email, you know. Hey, Haven, type this out for me.
Threes or sixes? Does he have a... Threes or sixes?
I just downgraded to the threes, man. I'm weaning myself off. Are you? I don't know. I might just be putting two in. Yeah, that's right.
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Chapter 5: How does Morgan Wallen approach songwriting and creativity?
If there were the dictionary, guys. Yeah, dude, definitely. It's like a lot.
Producing much fruit. Producing much fruit, foliage, or offspring, actually, it says. I ain't been that prolific in that term, but yeah. Presenting one plentiful, it says. Producing many works. But does it get tougher to like, okay, how do I not have a song that's similar to a song I previous had? Because when you have so many songs, does that get a little bit tough, or what's that like?
Yeah, I think it does.
Has there been a great song that you guys have put together and then you're like, oh man, it's just a little too close to this?
Well, for this album, I feel like I just didn't let it get to that point. At least if I was a part of writing it. I can't remember exactly how many ones I was and wasn't a part of writing. But if a song came in as a pitch, I kind of knew immediately. I was like, oh, these people are writing... This might have made my last record. Maybe. Probably not.
But, you know, it's like that's what it felt like to me. Right. A lot of the pitches were that.
Yeah, because I guess people are just going, they don't know where your next step is and who you are.
There was a select group of writers that I kind of, you know, told a little bit what I was trying to accomplish, you know, and I feel like that really helped me find a certain one of the sounds that's on my record. But for me, when I'm writing, I kind of, you know, you can kind of tell from the idea almost if the song is going to be similar or not, you know.
And that was something that was tougher for me because a lot of, you know, a lot of the things that were successful and that were easy in the past were just like whiskey drinking, you know, like all that stuff. And I've kind of just almost explored every angle of that that's possible, you know. Like there's still some possible ways to get that in there.
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Chapter 6: What are Morgan Wallen's experiences with AI and technology?
Yeah. It's kind of funny. You can't really go to a bar anymore because there'd be too much hassle, and it's probably the best thing for you. It's definitely the best thing for me.
I mean, if you're using a bar as a specific example, that's definitely the best thing for me. I ain't been in a bar since the last time I was in a bar that everybody knows about.
How is that? That feels like a bar right there. It does.
It sounds like an old country song for sure. But yeah, that's the most public time I was in a bar. That's the last time I was in a bar.
Dude, have you seen those? There's an AI thing that makes country songs. There's one about a bar. See if you can pull it up, Trevin. Is it good? Dude, it's pretty funny. Let me see. This shit kind of surprised me. Oh, it's the right one. Kitchen. And the second one right there with the guy and the lady in the truck. Yeah. Turn that up for a second. It's just ridiculous.
Look, change it to whiskey and have Morgan Wallen sing it. That's one of the number one comments.
Hey, start it back over and just turn it up a little bit. We can't hear it, but this is just like AI made this.
To crack myself a beer Then went down to the kitchen To grab myself a beer Made myself some breakfast Another beer of course That's when my baby said to me I won't get a divorce So now I definitely need To go grab another beer Or two or three So I can start thinking clear Oh
That's good, man. But it's just crazy that AI wrote that. Like, it's just somebody just put it in.
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Chapter 7: What music influences and collaborations does Morgan Wallen have?
People talk about Keith Whitley. That's one of his bigger type songs, I guess. But we flipped it and turned it into more of like a... It's a little more like rap style. But it's cool, man. I like it. It's cool. It seemed like it could use a rapper on there. I didn't end up using a feature. We ended up just making a second verse. But...
It's one of those songs where it wouldn't be surprising if we got a remix and did that. You know what I mean? Once it's out and all that stuff.
You're famous. You guys had these different walkouts that you did over the years, right? Really fun. And thanks for letting me be part of the one in Nashville. Yeah, yeah. Do you have a favorite one that kind of stood out to you? And no judgment to any of them. What was it? I mean...
Neyland Stadium is you know that's my home that's where I grew up watching games Peyton put those pads on Peyton that one was really good the baseball team one we did was really good too but that Peyton one that was that was one of the you know it's hard to beat anything that happened those two nights at that stadium I find myself just being like yeah that's that's pretty those those are like the you know some of the best memories I've had yeah
Oh, yeah. So sick. He's so ridiculous.
He came out looking like he was actually about to go play with his facial expressions and stuff.
Probably.
Hey, man, you got another year of eligibility.
We'll find something out.
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Chapter 8: What are Morgan Wallen's favorite moments from live performances?
Yeah, me and my band do it together. You know, it's... A lot of it's... A lot of it's data-driven, you know, because you can see. You know which songs people... The majority of people want to hear. Oh, yeah. You're always going to miss somebody's favorite song. You're probably going to miss my favorite song, you know, in some sets.
Just trying to figure out a way this year, since I'm only playing 20 shows. So probably... If I can Try to figure out a way To not play the same Set list All the time You know Cause last year I'd interchanged A couple But I think it's gonna be I'm gonna Make a bigger effort To try to make The set list Different for
at least each night, you know, maybe not every single show be a different set list, but like night one, night two. Yeah. Cause we're playing two nights in each place. So night, you know, trying to separate the two nights as far as music goes should be, should be interesting. Cause we've never done that before.
we would always just do like maybe change one or two songs you know I'm thinking maybe a little more than that so I like that yeah that way if he wanted to come for both nights too they couldn't hear different stuff yeah a lot of people already do come both nights so that would be nice for them too yeah there's really no way to do it perfectly somebody's gonna be disappointed or
You know, at any point. Oh, he didn't play this song or he didn't play that song. But trying our best. I'm not going to play for four hours either. So, you know. Yeah.
You got to keep it within reason. We got to meet in the middle, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll do my best.
Like, I don't want to sing for four hours, you know. Two hours about. Maybe a little longer than two hours.
You put it on, man. My show, I'll be out there for maybe about an hour, and 15 minutes is probably the sweet spot for me to be on stage, I think, with a comedian where they're just... Because we don't have any backup instruments, so people are like, fuck, somebody tap in a violin or something with this bastard. People get a little bit tired of it. But I can't... And that burns me out, man.
I used to do two shows, and now I only do one a night.
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