Then the road stories get worse: a Texas state trooper draws his gun on Jordan Walker's drummer, host Byron Kennedy gets thrown off a plane in Vegas and has to drive home, and Adam Craig admits what happened at the gym at 6 AM. It ends with Adam Craig playing "MIA Down in MIA" live — the song George Strait cut on Cowboys and Dreamers, written by Adam Craig and Dean Dillon.

NashViva is a writers' round, rewired: Nashville's hit songwriters + Las Vegas comedians, one room, zero filter.

IN THIS EPISODE:

0:00 Cold Open

0:46 Welcome to NashViva: Nashville songwriters meet Vegas comedians

0:57 Trent Tomlinson on The Howard Stern Show

1:28 How "Drunker Than Me" + Miss Howard Stern got him booked

3:58 Howard's on-air question: "Would you?"

5:54 The Stern bump: 150,000 albums

8:57 Jordan Walker buys Adam Craig's tour bus (no CDL needed)

9:18 Pulled over in Paris, Texas with guns on the bus

11:00 "The trooper draws, bro!"

12:16 Butch Bradley's cop-show obsession (Tasers & "June")

14:03 Byron gets kicked off a plane in Vegas

16:08 The sinkhole story that started it

18:02 Banned from flying: the drive home & "halfway to Barstow"

19:16 Adam Craig's 6 AM gym disaster

22:00 The Episode 1 callback

22:26 George Strait cut his song and he called Jordan

23:12 LIVE: Adam Craig performs "MIA Down in MIA"

26:05 Who won the episode?

27:10 Outro

PANEL:

Byron Kennedy, host / comedian

Butch Bradley, Las Vegas headliner

Trent Tomlinson, "Drunker Than Me," "One Wing in the Fire"

Adam Craig, co-writer of George Strait's "MIA Down in MIA"

Jordan Walker

Plus: he explains how he taught himself golf on a baseball field with his dad's old clubs, breaks down his favorite golf courses (St. Andrews, Augusta, Bay Hill), and closes the show with a brand-new live performance of "Whiskey and Water."

IN THIS EPISODE:

0:00 Cold Open — Welcome to NashViva

1:03 John's charity work — $600K+ raised for Boys & Girls Club Arkansas

2:04 The Willie Nelson story — his last ever musical collaboration

6:24 Childhood dreams of golf legends

8:58 Growing up in Arkansas & the George Strait origin story

10:04 Teaching himself golf on a baseball field

17:02 The 1995 British Open playoff story

24:29 John's favorite golf courses of all time

27:20 Behind the scenes of Happy Gilmore 2 with Adam Sandler

32:52 LIVE: "Whiskey and Water" performance

36:17 The bee story — the shortest putt he ever missed

40:13 LIVE: Trent Tomlinson debuts a brand-new song

Guest: John Daly

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Butch Bradley, Trent Tomlinson, Adam Craig, and Jordan Walker go head-to-head with AI — from a ChatGPT-generated country song performed on the spot, to an AI roast of host Byron Kennedy, to why a hologram pop star is selling out arenas in Japan.

IN THIS EPISODE:

0:00 Intro — Welcome to NashViva

0:26 Nashville vs. Vegas: Broadway, The Strip & Last Call

1:26 Meet the crew: Jordan Walker, Trent Tomlinson, Adam Craig, Butch Bradley & Byron Kennedy

2:36 Is AI being used to write songs in Nashville?

2:55 The viral AI song about Puerto Rico — why it feels "gimmicky" and not human

4:00 The Alexa rant — "She's cocky now"

6:36 Songwriter caught secretly using ChatGPT in a co-write (the mirror story)

8:41 Another writer getting all his song titles from ChatGPT

9:54 AI hologram artists & why live entertainment always wins

11:41 "Backseat Driver" — let's see what ChatGPT does with it

12:02 The experiment: "Write me a country song called Backseat Driver"

12:59 Jordan Walker performs the ChatGPT-written song LIVE

14:17 Reacting to the AI song — "It wrote Hotel California"

15:39 The real story behind "Backseat Driver" (written with Jacob Davis in 2019)

16:51 Jordan Walker performs his REAL hit "Backseat Driver"

20:12 The verdict: AI vs. the human element

21:34 Testing Suno AI's version + AI-written comedy jokes

23:40 "We're like God to AI"

24:08 Using AI to fire people & Byron's record-deal firing story

25:56 The fake ChatGPT newspaper roast prank (Seattle Times story)

28:57 Putting AI on real problems: traffic & colonoscopies

Guests: Jordan Walker, Trent Tomlinson, Adam Craig, Butch Bradley

In Episode 1, host Byron Kennedy brings together singer-songwriter Adam Craig, hit songwriter Trent Tomlinson ("One Wing in the Fire," co-written with Bobby Pinson), Jordan Walker (co-writer of Kane Brown's "Backseat Driver"), and Las Vegas headliner Butch Bradley for 40 minutes of music industry war stories, stand-up confessions, and a live acoustic performance you won't forget.

This is the unfiltered side of Nashville and Vegas — the gigs nobody talks about, the radio promoters nobody forgets, and the stories behind the hits.

IN THIS EPISODE:

0:08 Welcome to NashViva — Nashville meets Vegas

0:50 How Byron Kennedy created the show (and his record label past)

3:00 "Apparently we have five comedians"

4:27 Blacking out on stage — the Willie Barcena story

7:01 The brutal truth about record promotion & radio

11:44 Driving door-to-door to radio stations "like you're with Elvis"

12:56 The mattress store gig

15:31 Playing a pot shop in Vegas (why stoned crowds are the hardest)

18:02 The New Orleans story — a radio PD kissed him ON THE MOUTH at 3AM

21:11 How long has Butch Bradley been a Vegas headliner?

22:02 The youngest headliner in Las Vegas

26:37 "Today, 7 years sober" — Butch gets real

29:30 Surviving a rocket attack on a USO tour — 4,000 soldiers didn't flinch

32:01 The story behind "One Wing in the Fire" (w/ Bobby Pinson)

32:15 Trent Tomlinson performs "One Wing in the Fire" LIVE

35:55 Post-performance chaos — "this might be a good time to kiss"

39:54 NASH FM! Let's go, baby — sign-off

Guests: Adam Craig, Trent Tomlinson, Jordan Walker, Butch Bradley