The Backstage Pass Powered By The Sports Guys Podcast
Oct 14, 2026 · 33 min · 15 segments
**The story of a man that is all grit and no quit! Darren Waren joined us on the show to talk about his new music releases and how music provides us hope everyday because we never know when our last…
Brandon MorrellHost
And I think, uh, to be able to do that and never lose focus, I mean, I almost lost focus of this radio show, you know, years back.
You know, I had this radio show by year four on the Grand Ole Opry, you know, for me on WNOX.
So then when you look back, you're like, "Well, what if? What if I'd have given it up in the first, you know, couple of years and things weren't going the way I want it to?" And then you start realizing, man, last year I hit a million streams on this very show.
And you, you look back and you're just like, man, those are big time accomplishments.
But, so I have to remind myself, I took that title, I put myself in it, it's not doing most country songs, and The Good Outweighs The Bad, just what a hell of a song y'all come up with, with this, uh, single-
Man, you know, that was one of the, probably the most, one of the more special songs that I've ever written, uh, that was written.
My granddad had just passed away, and there's a guy that come in there named Sarge.
So I went over and was talking to him about my granddad, and tell you this quick story real quick of how the song came about.
And, um, and, and I told him when I got rid done talking, I said, "Sarge," I said, "I, I don't get into politics much." I said, "But I, I gotta ask you something." I said, "If you'd known this world, this country was gonna go the way it has today, some agree, some disagree, don't care where you stand, but I gotta ask you a question." I said, "Would you have fought in the..." He fought in a couple different wars.
I said, "Would you have fought in those wars, drug your buddies out of those situations, some of them dead, some of them wounded? Would you have done it for this country?" And I'll never forget this as long as I live.
He was drinking a Miller Lite bottle, and he wore dark prescription sunglasses, and I watched his knuckles as they began to turn white on that Miller Lite bottle, and a big old tear come down his cheek.
He said, "Son," he said, "If freedom lasts for a little while, guess the good outweighs the bad, don't it?"
And I was like, "Oh my gosh, what a line." And that's where, that's where the song, that's where the song came from.
And, and you know, I, I find that back to business, like you're talking the grind, man.
And I think, uh, to be able to do that and never lose focus, I mean, I almost lost focus of this radio show, you know, years back.
You know, I had this radio show by year four on the Grand Ole Opry, you know, for me on WNOX.
So then when you look back, you're like, "Well, what if? What if I'd have given it up in the first, you know, couple of years and things weren't going the way I want it to?" And then you start realizing, man, last year I hit a million streams on this very show.
And you, you look back and you're just like, man, those are big time accomplishments.
But, so I have to remind myself, I took that title, I put myself in it, it's not doing most country songs, and The Good Outweighs The Bad, just what a hell of a song y'all come up with, with this, uh, single-
Man, you know, that was one of the, probably the most, one of the more special songs that I've ever written, uh, that was written.
My granddad had just passed away, and there's a guy that come in there named Sarge.
So I went over and was talking to him about my granddad, and tell you this quick story real quick of how the song came about.
And, um, and, and I told him when I got rid done talking, I said, "Sarge," I said, "I, I don't get into politics much." I said, "But I, I gotta ask you something." I said, "If you'd known this world, this country was gonna go the way it has today, some agree, some disagree, don't care where you stand, but I gotta ask you a question." I said, "Would you have fought in the..." He fought in a couple different wars.
I said, "Would you have fought in those wars, drug your buddies out of those situations, some of them dead, some of them wounded? Would you have done it for this country?" And I'll never forget this as long as I live.
He was drinking a Miller Lite bottle, and he wore dark prescription sunglasses, and I watched his knuckles as they began to turn white on that Miller Lite bottle, and a big old tear come down his cheek.
He said, "Son," he said, "If freedom lasts for a little while, guess the good outweighs the bad, don't it?"
And I was like, "Oh my gosh, what a line." And that's where, that's where the song, that's where the song came from.
And, and you know, I, I find that back to business, like you're talking the grind, man.
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