This week on the 'Friday Night Takeover' with Rob + Holly, HARDY joins us to talk about parenting, songwriting, and prepping for "doomsday." The "Favorite Country Song" singer doesn't have a bunker built, but he knows what do to if the bombs are coming.

"Definitely a few months ago, when the nuke stuff was going on, there was a lot of videos on what exactly to do if one goes off near you," recalls HARDY. "I saved all those because it's like, you know, it's just good to know."

"I don't think you're too crazy these days for having the knowledge of what to do if a nuke goes off within a 20 mile radius of it."

Meanwhile in the here and now, HARDY continues to climb the Country charts both as an artist and a writer, and shares that sometimes the more boring the location, the more productive a songwriting session can be.

"I think you definitely get more done in town," he admits. "The more exciting of a place you go for a writing retreat, the less productive because like if you go to the beach, everybody's just like writing a song looking out the window, wondering when they're gonna get to go be done and go outside to go to the beach."

"I find it better either in town, out of just a house or, you know, anything that's not wanting you to go do something else, or trying to take your attention away from writing a song. The most boring setting is usually the best for writing retreats."

You can hear more from HARDY above and on the 'Friday Night Takeover' with Rob + Holly on your favorite Audacy Country station.

Just a few months away from turning 50, and Blake Shelton is busy celebrating another milestone. The singer's "Stay Country or Die Tryin'" has landed at number one, marking his 30th song to top the Country chart.

Before it all became official, Shelton joined Rob + Holly for the 'Friday Night Takeover' to talk about the song, his new TV show, 'The Road,' and life on the ranch with his wife, Gwen Stefani.

"I think at this point in my career is I celebrate them like I did the first couple in my career," Shelton says of his collection of chart-topping tracks. "This is all I ever wanted, is to have success in Country music, and the fact that here now, 100 years later, I'm still getting some of those moments, it is a big deal."

"It doesn't happen a lot, and I know that," he adds. "I'm just blessed and thankful for it."

Beyond momentous celebrations and filming his new show, 'The Road,' Blake is back at home on the ranch with Gwen, who has put her own spin on the couple's land. "Once she realized, 'wait a minute, we can just take your tractor and like, mess up the dirt.' Like I'm talking in Gwen language here, 'mess up the dirt and then go back and put seeds there. Why can't we do that with flowers?'"

"I'm like, 'well, we can, I guess, it's not necessarily what I want to plant for deer,' but, next thing you know, it's like, I'm talking about we have easily 25, 30 acres of just like these plots where it's like zinnias and, hands and knees down, putting iris bulbs in the ground."

"She puts all this stuff on social media, people see it, it's the two of us doing it," he shares. "We really love doing it. It's fun to do together and we'll play music. We've lately, we've been playing a lot of Ella Langley out there planting the stuff and just really getting into it."

To hear more on music, life with Gwen, and his latest single success, check out the full conversation above.

To celebrate the release of their latest single, "Searchlight," Shinedown joins us for a special Audacy LIVE, as the band talks with Rob + Holly about the making of the track, and performs the song exclusively inside our Audacy Sound Space.

"The song just kind of came to us. It didn't take long to write, and when it came to, it just lent itself to that kind of thing," shares Zach Myers. "We're never like, 'this is the only chart we haven't been on. Let's go to this chart,' because then the next one we'd have to make like an R&B record. We've been on 5 so far."

"That's one thing I respect so much about the Country world is, a good song is a good song is a good song, and that's all we care about. Whatever the song lends itself to is what we want it to be, we're never gonna try to force something."

"The whole reason that we've been able to be able to be authentic and honest is because radio has allowed us to do that, our fan base has allowed us to do that." reveals Brent Smith. "You have to have something to say, and for 'Searchlight,' when we were in there, the initial first run of the song, it was a different song, and then I sat with it for a few days, went back into the studio with everybody, and said, 'let me re-sing this.'"

"I just heard it differently than what had been presented in the demo," adds Brent. "And, you know, me and Zach were born and raised in Tennessee. He's 901, I'm 865, so Memphis and Knoxville. We were raised on Country music. We were raised on a lot of different music, but for the song, I just went in and said, 'let me do this and just hear me out.'"

"We added a banjo because it asked for a banjo. We added a steel guitar and a slide because it asked for that, and it had more of an endearing quality because I sang it with a bit more of a draw. We have some people that listen to it that are in Country music that are like, 'this is very Country,' and then we have some people who are like, 'I don't know if it's Country,' and that's fine because at the end of the day we had to be honest with the song. We're a vessel for these songs. We have to be very open and allow the universe to talk to us."

For more from Shinedown on their relationships with Carrie Underwood and Jelly Roll, and stories behind other hits like "Second Chance," don't miss the band's full conversation with Rob + Holly and a special performance of "Searchlight" above.