Zac Brown likes to keep things real, and keep the hate outside of his circle. The 47-year-old artist has been in the music industry for quite some time now. Zac Brown Band’s debut album, The Foundation, came out in 2008, and they’ve been riding the wave of their hit song “Chicken Fried” ever since. Zac’s group has taken chances and changed things up multiple times throughout the past 10-plus years, and just recently, they announced that a “new chapter” was on the way. After the Zac Brown Band briefly wiped everything off their social media accounts, they announced a new album coming out later this year titled Love & Fear: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zac Brown Band (@zacbrownband) So now, the media circuit awaits the Zac Brown Band frontman. To help promote his new album, Brown stopped by the Fishing with David Lucas show and… well, talked and fished with comedian David Lucas. If there was a through line to the conversation, it was that the “Knee Deep” singer doesn’t like to give much attention to the haters. At one point, Zac admitted that being a high-profile figure in today’s world requires thick skin, and he shared that he’s opted out of a lot of the noise: “You’ve got to have a certain amount of stubbornness inside. If you get online and start reading all the hate that’s around anything… you’ve got to have thick skin these days. We’re not supposed to hear everybody’s voice in the world. If it wasn’t within earshot, you weren’t supposed to hear what they had to say. It’s a weird time that we live in, and it’s great in some ways… I don’t watch the news. I don’t participate in it. It’s all manipulation.” Some of the ways that “the time that we live in” is great is the information (and music) that’s right at everyone’s fingertips. But as Zac Brown pointed out, the negatives of online culture are often noticed more than the positives: “I don’t spend a lot of time on (social media) because it’s kind of like sipping on poison. You just find yourself getting upset about things that aren’t even in your own reality. If you don’t shut down some of that and keep what actually is healthy around you, the people that are healthy around you, (things won’t go well).” The good news is that even if Zac Brown was online a lot, he wouldn’t take offense to anything that anyone has to say. He made it very clear that takes pride in not being offended by anything anyone has to say, and actually prefers to surround himself with like minded people when it comes to that: “It’s impossible to offend me, man. We gotta be able to laugh at ourselves as human beings. All of us are a little jacked up, no matter what background (we’re from) or whatever. If it’s for comedy, if it’s for a laugh, everything is fair game. I generally don’t hang out with people who choose to be offended.” And that’s great to know… because I somewhat ripped into Zac Brown and the Zac Brown Band not too long ago. I mean, Zac Brown Band is basically entering into a “new chapter” once again, and that I can’t be alone when I say that I’m starting to lose track of all the musical shifts that the band tries out. Correct me if I’m wrong… but chapters typically fit and work together, right? Every “new chapter” from the Zac Brown Band reads more like an entirely new (strange and puzzling) book. Then I really took a shot at Snoop Dogg and Zac Brown’s new song: “Let It Run.” I’ve never heard a song mention spit so much in my life. I’m officially out on it, and I’m not exactly excited to see what else is to come from the Zac Brown Band. Not to mention the janky, AI cover art… “Let It Run” Good to know that Zac Brown isn’t offended by my thoughts on his new stuff though…The post Zac Brown Says He’s “Impossible” To Offend, Surrounds Himself With People That Can Take A Joke: “Got To Have Thick Skin” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.