Zach Top has spent the last few months serving as the opening act on Dierks Bentley's Broken Branches Tour. Bentley is known for doing a cold plunge before a show, immersing your whole body in freezing cold water. Top recalls doing it with Bentley once on tour, where he humorously used a Sharpie to draw fake muscle lines on him, since he, by his own admission, is not very muscular.
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"It's just his thing," Top says on SiriusXM's The Highway. "I guess he was telling me about all the rest of the other opening acts he's had over the years that he's done it with. And we talked some smack on Riley Green and Parker McCollum. I thought it was funny because I'm sure all you ladies know those boys, they're pretty cut up. They spend some time in the gym.
"And I mostly just do 12-ounce curls all day long, and that shows," he continues with a laugh. "I knew I was gonna have my shirt off for my little video of the cold plunge with Dierks. So I took a Sharpie and I drew pecs and abs on myself. That was my attempt at trying to keep up with those boys, but then I just had to sit in the cold plunge and talk smack on them."
How Zach Top Beat Riley Green and Parker McCollum
Both Green and McCollum might be more muscular than Top. But when it comes to being able to do a cold plunge, Top has them beat, hands down.
"We probably sat in there for like five minutes or something, I think five or seven minutes," Top recalls. "I don't know what it was. But in the time that we did, [Bentley], he's like, 'Well, you already kicked Riley Green's butt. I think he was in there for like 30 seconds. And Parker McCollum, he barely put a toe in there.' And I know that those guys probably do them all the time. That was my first time, and I'm just in there, 'Yeah, those guys suck.'"
Fortunately, there are likely no hard feelings between any of them.
"Anyway, I know them both fairly well. And I hope they didn't take it too hard. Getting beat down by a man with Sharpie abs," he adds with a chuckle.
