As far as I’m concerned, getting kicked off a Zach Bryan album is way fuc-ing cooler than being on a Zach Bryan album. But one of the reasons it’s so hard to believe that John Moreland didn’t know about Zach Bryan or his behavior until recently is Zach Bryan has been polarizing among his fellow performers for years, partly due to jealously, partly due to a sense that Bryan hopscotched the process due to his viral success, and partly stemming from Zach Bryan’s own personal behavior, similar to the stuff alleged by Moreland. In 2021, Zach Bryan played a pre-party show at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma, not far from Tulsa where John Moreland is based, and where Zach Bryan was raised in Oologah.