Nothing quite like the pit you get in your stomach getting caught doing something you’re not supposed to be doing. Growing up, I’m sure we’ve all had our fair share of moments like that. Whether it’s being somewhere you’re not supposed to be and having your cover story fail, sneaking out and getting caught, or some combination of the two, we all know how sick you feel after getting caught red-handed. Cody Johnson is no stranger to this feeling as well. The “The Ride” singer knows all too well this feeling, recalling on the Bobby Bones podcast, Bobbycast, a time in his teenage years when his father caught him red-handed where he wasn’t supposed to be. This might be surprising to hear, given that Johnson grew up rodeoing, and most of those kids are well-disciplined and understand the importance of hard work. Johnson was all of that in his younger years, but still had a little bit of a wild side that got him in trouble. Johnson recalled the moment to Bones, saying he snuck out of the house at 14 and got caught big time. “The night I snuck out of my parents’ house to go play a bar. I think I was 14. I snuck out and hopped into a truck with a buddy that was 16, and we went down to the bar.” Most kids that age would be ready to hit the town and throw back a few cold ones, but their venture to the bar was far from getting into some underage trouble. And who knows that could have happened as well, but Johnson’s main purpose was to perform: “And there there was like 100 people at this little honky tonk. The band let me jump up and play with them, and then they said, ‘We’re gonna take a break, why don’t you play?'” Johnson’s moment of small town fame came to a quick halt when he was mid-performance and spotted a familiar face near the back of the crowd. But instead of being a friend or a fan, it was his father. Johnson knew this would not end well and recalls it as one of his “oh sh*t” moments. “I was playing by myself and looked in the back of the bar, and my dad was standing there. You want to talk about an oh sh*t moment? That’s one of them. I got whipped pretty good for that. You know, ‘You play in these bars, it’s going to lead to a life of destruction, and you’re going to wind up becoming a drug addict and an alcoholic.'” Bones asked Johnson if he remembered how many songs he had gone through before he spotted his dad, and Johnson quickly replied that he had made it through three. I mean, it could have only been one, right? Johnson then elaborated on the whipping he got from his father after being caught, noting that although he was punished for sneaking out, his dad did share some words of praise for the aspiring musician, too. “And after I got my whipping, he said, ‘You actually sounded really good, just so you know.'”  I’ve got to hand it to Johnson’s father for that. Of course, you want your kids to walk a straight and narrow line, following the law and avoiding trouble, and while he was upset at his son for sneaking into that bar, he also had to commend him for the guts it took to hop up on that stage and perform. This moment clearly showed that Johnson’s father was good, making it clear that his son would turn out to be a respectable man, but he couldn’t deny that his son was talented and had a future on the big stage. Parenting is a balance of good cop and bad cop, and Cody Johnson’s dad played both roles well in this life lesson. Check it out: View this post on Instagram The post “Got Whipped Pretty Good For That”: Cody Johnson Says His Dad Caught Him In A Bar When He Was 14… But It Wasn’t To Party first appeared on Whiskey Riff.