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Speaker 2: Welcome to Episode four seventy eight with Brenda Lee. Brenda

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Speaker 2: is almost eighty years old and super vibrant and has

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Speaker 2: she was trying to make that go number one, and

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Speaker 2: And to me, I guess I thought that song had

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Speaker 3: I mean, I was famous my whole lifetime.

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Speaker 2: Greatest Hits is out digitally so you can stream it

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Speaker 2: and here we go. Hello miss Brenda Lee. Hello, it's

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Speaker 2: The last time that we talked, we were trying to

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Speaker 1: And you did it?

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Speaker 1: When you think of how old it is, it truly is,

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Speaker 2: So what's remarkable about that song? And then I definitely

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Speaker 2: So you put out the Brindaly Greatest tits. It's digital.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. The label thought it was a good

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: The Beatles open for you. I read that. Yeah, must

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how did that come together? It's your man, your

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Speaker 1: It was a big tour. There was Dusty Springfield, me,

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Speaker 1: Very yeah, and really kind of like a I don't

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. So I go back to New York and

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Speaker 2: Same contract.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I said, I took a picture of them

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Speaker 1: They walked in rank and file like they do, and

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00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: it got through playing and it was very quiet, and

445
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 1: I thought, this could be bad, could be good. And

446
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: I said, okay, what do you think? And the president

447
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: stood up and said, Brenda, we're very proud that you

448
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: brought this sin, but this look will never happen and

449
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: this sound won't either either. Next year they were playing

450
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: the Ballpark Stadium, filling it.

451
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 2: Up like Shay Stadium. Wow. And when you saw them

452
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 2: the first time, was Ringo with them or was it

453
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 2: still Pea Best.

454
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 1: Pete was with them? But then Ringo came right along.

455
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: So I've worked with them.

456
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 2: You've been there through all of it. Yeah, that's exciting.

457
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 2: Do you ever listen back to any year old music?

458
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 2: Like every once in a while, put something on you

459
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 2: haven't thought about in a long time.

460
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 1: I do. I listened back to like when I started

461
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: at ten and I sound like Mickey Mouse on steroids,

462
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my lord, but I was ten.

463
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: What would you tell that kid?

464
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: Now, I would tell them, if that's what you want

465
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: to do, you don't give up. People might give up

466
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: on you, but don't you give up on you.

467
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 2: And you would tell that to yourself as well. That's

468
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 2: the advice you'd give to yourself.

469
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 1: Because and I didn't know if I was good or not.

470
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: I just knew I loved it and that's what I

471
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: wanted to do.

472
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 2: So were you able to be a support for any

473
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,120
Speaker 2: other artists like Patsy and you know you listed all

474
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 2: those wonderful women in the history of country music? YEA

475
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 2: be able to do that with any artists?

476
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah?

477
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 2: I kind of repay that.

478
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was fun. And I don't know how

479
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: to put this back today with all the mechanical stuff

480
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: they have to use, you don't know if they're singing

481
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: or not. Even I don't, and I can usually tell same.

482
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: So if somebody asks me an opinion on somebody new,

483
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 1: I just have to say, I don't know.

484
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 2: There's We're lucky that we can take live performances off

485
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: of like somebody's phone or YouTube, because there'll be people

486
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 2: that want to come up and do my show and perform,

487
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 2: and we've not checked if they can. We've just listened

488
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 2: to the like that the studio version they come in,

489
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 2: and then maybe they're not as good. So what we

490
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 2: do now is we'll do like super research and try

491
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 2: to go find some like natural yeah, just to hear

492
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: if they can really sing, because when you get in

493
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 2: a studio, obviously, like you said, you can make anybody

494
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: sound pretty good. You can write a good song, make

495
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 2: them sound pretty good. There you go. Hey, that's how

496
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: it's does what I need to wish they do that

497
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: to me, make me sound good. When you listen back

498
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: to the songs from like the fifties sixties, can you

499
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 2: kind of hear the person you were? Like, if you

500
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 2: hear a song, for example, losing you early sixties little

501
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: you're not old by any means, but you're a little older.

502
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little older.

503
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 2: Can you kind of hear that song and put yourself

504
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 2: back to where you work?

505
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: I can because as a teenager in those years, I

506
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to date and or anything like that, so

507
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: all I had was my music and that was my

508
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: heart beat, and I don't I never had the thought, oh,

509
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm doing this because I'm going to be a big success.

510
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: I was doing it because I loved it and it

511
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: was my company. It was something that I could always

512
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: turn to that I knew would be there and it

513
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't change, and that's why I loved it.

514
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 2: What's your favorite song you've ever recorded?

515
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: Gosh? Owen Bradley was such a genius, and I had

516
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: such wonderful songwriters. I mean they're writing great songs today too,

517
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but they're not writing great ballads.

518
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: And you know when you and I had a lot

519
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: of foreign ballads like I Want to Be Wanted and

520
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: Losing You and those kind of songs were overseas songs.

521
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: So it was the a team of musicians. It was Owen,

522
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: it was Selby Kaffeen the engineer, it was the Anita

523
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: Kerr singers. It was Britain Banks and his strings. It

524
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: was a family, which doesn't happen today, and that's why

525
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: I stopped.

526
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 2: Recording, because it felt more like a business or a

527
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: machine in a family.

528
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can't. I've been in the studio

529
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: and I'm just thinking it's going great, and I'm singing

530
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: good and all, and one of the musicians may say, hey,

531
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: everybody stop because they heard a clunker that I didn't hear.

532
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: And that's how it was back then. If you did

533
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: that today, you wouldn't be working that session anymore. But

534
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: it was. It was a cohesive thing between everybody. Everybody

535
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: wanted to be good, wanted it to be good. And

536
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: I think that's the difference in today and sixties.

537
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: Today, maybe mercenaries have brought end just to go and

538
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 2: do the job and get out, get to the next session.

539
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 2: More than you got it, invest themselves into the art.

540
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

541
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: You still like music, still like just listening to music.

542
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 2: You get to like, just pick whatever you want to

543
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: listen to. What do you pick? Now?

544
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: Oh lord, what my scope of musicians is is a

545
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 1: little bit weird. I like everybody from Ozzie to Frank Sinatra,

546
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, as I'm all out there because I hear

547
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: different things with different people, and I try to figure

548
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: out two, Okay, why was that a hit? Why was

549
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: that a success? And of course it all boils back

550
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: to y'all too. Artists can't do anything unless you play it.

551
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: I mean, they can, but it's probably going to lay

552
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: on a table or lay somewhere. So it's to me,

553
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,959
Speaker 1: we're all a family. We're all like, I want you

554
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: to do good, you want me to do good. It

555
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: behooves you, it behooves me, and it's not thought of

556
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: that way today in the industry, and it saddens me.

557
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 2: I have two final questions. Not your song, but what's

558
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: your favorite song of all time? If you had to

559
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: pick a favorite song.

560
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: It can't be that's too hard.

561
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 2: It's too hard. You can give me a couple and

562
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: I'll vamp for you. I meaning I'll give you a

563
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: couple of mind. Whay you think about yours? Blue Eyes

564
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: Crying in the Rain is one of my favorites.

565
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: Oh that's a great song.

566
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 2: It's perple and I love ballads. I'm big Valley g

567
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: I am too because the Balladspien. Yeah, I feel like

568
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: I can really experience them.

569
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: But I'm one of those girls too. When I was

570
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: in France, of course I didn't speak French when I

571
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: first went over, but I heard this song and it

572
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: was love be Lovable? Who said this was of me?

573
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: You know?

574
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: And I thought, I don't really like that, and I'd

575
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: go up and down the sidewalk singing that song, and

576
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: finally somebody tapped me on the shoulder because I'm like thirteen,

577
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: and they said, don't sing that, and I said, why,

578
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: I like it. They said, you're singing about a toilet?

579
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: What was it?

580
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 4: Like?

581
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: No song? What was this? Do you even know what

582
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: the toy?

583
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they said, you're singing about the

584
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: toilet on the corner. I said, oh, well.

585
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: The melody must have been good.

586
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. I loved it.

587
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 2: Okay, last favorite song of all time? What is it?

588
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 2: That's not yours? You gotta pa, that's not mine? Not yours?

589
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: Oh that's due.

590
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: No, it's really hard. You don't have to commit to it.

591
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: You can just say one.

592
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: Now, okay. Oh gosh over the rainbow.

593
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: Judy Garland.

594
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I finally got to meet her.

595
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: How old were you?

596
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: Thirteen?

597
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 2: And what was the experience? Give me walk me through it.

598
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: I followed her to the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas.

599
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 2: What do you mean you followed her?

600
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: I mean I was next to perform. She was laying

601
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: out by the pool and I thought, okay, this is

602
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: my chance.

603
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: How old was she at the time?

604
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: Judy was probably early late twenties, early thirties. I thought,

605
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: if I don't go now, I'll probably never see her

606
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: again in my life. So I just brazenly walk up

607
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: and I said, miss Garland, my name is Brenda Lee,

608
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: and I am a huge, huge fan. You cannot believe

609
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: how you have influenced what I do. If you had

610
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: one piece of advice to give me, what would that be?

611
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: And she didn't skip a beat, and she said, don't

612
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: let them take away your.

613
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: Childhood, probably because a lot of hers we yeah taken away.

614
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a memory I'll never forget.

615
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: It's really kind of her to not just brush you

616
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: off and actually give you give.

617
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: Me a kernel of wonderful advice.

618
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 2: Brenda Lee's greatest tits it's you can stream it, you

619
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 2: get the vinyl. The vinyl is always really cool to have.

620
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 2: It has I'm sorry, it has sweet nothings. It hasn't

621
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: want to be wanted. Eleven of the tracks on the

622
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 2: album we're in the top ten of the Billboard Hot

623
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: one hundred. You are a joy to be Thank you

624
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 2: my friend. And I Brett who lives over He's an

625
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 2: artist too. He sings Brett Aldritch he sings Christmas song.

626
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 2: I know, okay, making sure we would always see a

627
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 2: drive around and we would be like, we just saw

628
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 2: Brenda run all. That was kind of our way of

629
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 2: like checking in on each other, and we just saw

630
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 2: Brindley driving around. So we'd always see a driving around.

631
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: I love that. Tell m A.

632
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 2: I definitely will now you know I'm southern. Hey, that's right,

633
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Congratulations on all your very recent

634
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: success too.

635
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: Well, thank you.

636
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 2: It's really it's it's really amazing, rushing to see that

637
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: you went viral again and you had a number one song. Yeah,

638
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:10,959
Speaker 2: and that is.

639
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: That's who knew? Who knew after all these years after that,

640
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: that's what you That's what gets you in this business

641
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: because you don't know what's coming. That's true, and it's

642
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: the it's it's the wanting to know that just keeps

643
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: you there.

644
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a big fan. Thank you so much.

645
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: Thank you.

646
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: This thirty forty minutes we just been together.

647
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: Thank you, ver and I love it too. Thank you.

648
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 5: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the

649
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 5: Bobby Cast.

650
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 2: I want to take a second and since we're talking

651
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: about music and talking about Keith Urban, for a second,

652
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: we Eddie nine. Eddie's in here now. We traveled to

653
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. You went with me and I hosted a

654
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: Keith Urban album release party. Yeah.

655
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 3: I've never been to one of those, especially the one

656
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: in LA. I'd never been to that one yet.

657
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 2: It's it's a long long road.

658
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 3: It's a long trick on travel for sure, from Nashville.

659
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: And I don't normally do those. I used to do

660
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: them in New York a bit because it was close

661
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 2: and I could get back for the show. But LA's tough.

662
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 2: But I do really like Keith and he asked me

663
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 2: to do it. So we go out. And I've been

664
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 2: with Keith a lot in the last seven eight years,

665
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: personally a little bit, professionally a lot. But it's the

666
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: first time for you to do something like that. What

667
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 2: did you notice about Keith Man.

668
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 3: I'd never been there for a sound check. And I've

669
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 3: seen lots of soundchecks, you know, since I mean, we

670
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 3: just were around music a lot. So I've seen artists

671
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 3: come in, they sing half a song, maybe they adjust

672
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 3: a little bit of like hey, can I get some

673
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 3: more kick drama on my left ear or whatever, and

674
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 3: then they're done. But not Keith Man. I noticed because

675
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 3: we got When we got there, Keith was in the

676
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 3: middle of soundcheck. He probably did about three maybe four songs,

677
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 3: full songs, full songs, and then the he dismissed the band.

678
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 3: The band was like, all right, you guys are good.

679
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 3: Everybody left and it was just him and the crew

680
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 3: and they were working on lights. He was just saying, hey,

681
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 3: that light right there, like where does that go to?

682
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 3: And and you know they were adjusted over here, and

683
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 3: then it's like, okay, so if I went to this

684
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: side of the stage, am I gonna be lit here?

685
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 3: Am I gonna be lit there? And I'd never seen

686
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 3: that before. And I was with one of his record

687
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 3: people and they said, yeah, he does this all the

688
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 3: time because he wants to make sure that everything he

689
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 3: does is perfect for the fan.

690
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it was a one time show on a

691
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 2: small stage that was being broadcast, YouTube, radio, digitally in

692
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 2: every way. But also he wanted the people in the

693
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 2: room to really enjoy it, Yeah, to get all of it.

694
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 3: It's perfectionist like that. I did not know that side

695
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 3: of him.

696
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 2: Man.

697
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 3: I was so like just caught off guard by that.

698
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 3: And it's really cool to me because he's Keith Urban.

699
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: He doesn't have to stick around and do anything. He

700
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: could literally go and like farten the mic and they'd

701
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 3: be like, this is so good.

702
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 2: What do you have to sound check? And it would

703
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 2: be he's so good. But he's that kind of he

704
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 2: is so meticulous about tone and lights. Why I spend

705
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: so much time like building his tour. So I just

706
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 2: set like it's his path to get to the crowd,

707
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: where the lights are, where the band members stand, the

708
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 2: clothes they wear.

709
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 3: The tones of the guitars and all that. Hey, and

710
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 3: you know what's funny, It's like it made me think

711
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 3: of we've done sound checks with people and they never

712
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 3: showed up.

713
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: Yes, like artists, you mean big artists, big.

714
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: Artists that were supposed to sound check and they pushed

715
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 3: us to the side, like I, they're coming to soundchecks,

716
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 3: so you can't sound check with him this time, and

717
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 3: then they never never come.

718
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's different, so such a different different people have

719
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: different styles, but also there's a style that you understand

720
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 2: why they've been successful for so long because of how

721
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 2: important even the small details are. Boom. Also another thing musically,

722
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention, I'm kind of getting jealous of

723
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: Morgan Wallen oh not because of his music.

724
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 3: Oh the girls.

725
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: No, not because as girls, none of that, None of

726
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: that because I think, you know, I don't. I don't

727
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: really want to be a rock star, Like I kind

728
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 2: of like my desired path.

729
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 3: There was a time though where that would have been cool, though, Yeah, but.

730
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 2: I never had a skill set that I thought it

731
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 2: was possible. So it's not like, Okay, there's the jealousy

732
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 2: of him crushing it as a rock store. I think

733
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 2: it's really remarkable what he Luke Combs and what Zach

734
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 2: Bryan have been able to do where they sell out arenas.

735
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 2: That to me does not make me jealous. What makes

736
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: me jealous is all like the cool athletes that he gets,

737
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: like to walk out with them during the intro when

738
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 2: they do the video, Mike, can you see these?

739
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.

740
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 2: Like when he did Vegas and Tom Brady came out

741
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 2: with them, I was like, that's so sick. Whenever he

742
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 2: did neland Stadium, which is his home show, is super cool.

743
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: He did two nights there and he got Peyton Manning

744
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 2: to come out with them. But not only that, Peyton

745
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 2: was dressed fully in his Tennessee football uniform. Do you

746
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: see any of this.

747
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 3: I did see that I saw on TikTok, But I mean,

748
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 3: does he ask them.

749
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 2: To I don't know. I don't know how that conversation

750
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: goes down. But like the sports part of it is

751
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 2: where I start to go, dang, that will be all

752
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: where I get to where I get like a I

753
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: think it's a healthy jealousy. Do you feel like it's

754
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 2: just people already coming to his show and he's like, Hey,

755
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 2: you want to do this with me?

756
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 3: Because now it's a thing. Now he's been doing it

757
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 3: in a while.

758
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 2: I would compare it to Taylor Swift bringing somebody out

759
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 2: all the shows and it turned out ended up being

760
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 2: a big thing where she'd fly people in. Now I

761
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: think it has got to be a thing where he

762
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: and just ask somebody. He probably asked somebody that is

763
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 2: important to that area or that team where they're having

764
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 2: this state and he gets them to come out. Because

765
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: Brady now is going to be a part owner of

766
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 2: the Raiders, so he's very Las Vegas tied. Mike Tyson

767
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: was a part of that obviously. Peyton Manning, Yeah, he

768
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: got the second the first night maybe or second night.

769
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: He got the Tennessee baseball team to come out with them,

770
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 2: Like all, that's what's what I'm jealous of. Pretty Like

771
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 2: it'd be cool to be able to call athletes that

772
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: you like love and like loved as a kid and

773
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: be like, hey, you may be come to my show anyway,

774
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 2: I don't know, but do you want to come out

775
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 2: on the big screen?

776
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 3: Like if you did that in Arkansas?

777
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 2: Who would you want to walk out with you? I

778
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 2: was thinking about this. I mean, yeah, I thought about

779
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 2: it a lot.

780
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 3: Actually, it's got to be Arkansas related.

781
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 2: Right if I did, like to say, we we opened

782
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 2: for Garth there and it was super cool because like

783
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 2: we had coach Mauso might come on stage with us.

784
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: That was super cool. But it's a good question, Like

785
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: I if it were the same situation and I was

786
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 2: selling out a stadium, who would I choose to walk

787
00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 2: out with me in Arkansas?

788
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 3: People Quinn Grovey, it's no quarterback, Probably.

789
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: Darren McFadden.

790
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 3: Oh well, that'd be awesome.

791
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of if they were like, it's limitless,

792
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 2: you can get anybody. It doesn't have to be an athlete, though,

793
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 2: I just get jealous of the athletes that he gets

794
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: here that not everybody's an athlete he comes out with.

795
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 2: But I would get Darren McFadden. Oh, Jerry Jones. He

796
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: hasn't lived there though, Yeah, I made you do that.

797
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 2: If I did that in Dallas, I would have Jerry Jones.

798
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 2: That's true, broh. It's a tough question. I would go

799
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 2: Darren McFadden. I would go Bobby Petrino, coach Cal. I

800
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 2: don't know him. I don't even know by Petrino. But

801
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: Cal hasn't even done a season yet, so yeah, I

802
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 2: have no like personal relationship, even like in my heart

803
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 2: even if huh, so I go Darren McFadden, I'll go

804
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 2: Bobby Petrino, who's offensive ordinator but was the head coach

805
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: for a long time. And I think I would.

806
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 3: Go Bill Clinton's cool. But there you want to go political,

807
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 3: right like I wouldn't.

808
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 2: I would. I want to go Bill Clinton. I want

809
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 2: to go back Clinton. I'm just really, I'm really grinding

810
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 2: out here.

811
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 3: Cash like poss possibly John Daly.

812
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 2: I like John we text a little bit, but I

813
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 2: don't want in Arkansas. They wouldn't, you know, he's so political,

814
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: But in Arkansas they can roll with him, so probably John. Okay,

815
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go John Daily Bobby Petrino, Darren McFadden,

816
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 2: anybody not in sports though I don't think so.

817
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 3: But who who is there from Arkansas?

818
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: I mean I could go like, uh uh place with

819
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 2: Lakers Austin Reeves. Yeah he's in Arkansas, but he didn't

820
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 2: play in Arkansas.

821
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 3: Okay, but I would, you know, I don't think that

822
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 3: people know that.

823
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,479
Speaker 2: I don't think he'd pop on the board like people

824
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 2: would just see his face and go like, oh my god,

825
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 2: I think that's my three, Mike, that's my three. Yeah.

826
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