Zach Bryan on Becoming Famous While Still in the Navy

And that was it . That was gonna be my life . And I was thinking about it yesterday how crazy my reality is now like coming back to Oklahoma and being around people and people like coming to get me in diners and be like take a picture of me .

Zach Bryan on Becoming Famous While Still in the Navy

And then man , one , I was in , I was training in Florida and one day I put like four or five videos up and they just went like crazy viral and I was like , cool , neat . And then my life just kept going up and up and up and I was like , at that time , did you have any , what were your , your aspirations about recording ? No , I didn't even know what it was .

Zach Bryan on Becoming Famous While Still in the Navy

And I was like , I guess you're right . And it's one of those stories in my life where I kinda , I look back and I'm like , man , if things would have been different , what would have happened ? But uh she passed away and then I moved to Washington to be an ordinance man .

Zach Bryan on Becoming Famous While Still in the Navy

It's absolutely crazy . Yeah , this is a crazy story , right ? It is .

Zach Bryan on Becoming Famous While Still in the Navy

But like life is crazy . And my chief , my chief who's like high ranking , he looked at me and he was like , man , you want to go out there and die or something ? Why do you want to do this so bad ?