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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode one three with Rachel Womag. I like

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Speaker 1: to sing your song because when we're playing our show

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Speaker 1: together as a reimon, it was I like to sing

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Speaker 1: it in a big like Broadway style. Yes, I know,

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Speaker 1: can that's a good one though, but I like to

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Speaker 1: sing it and a little bit I wanted to sing

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Speaker 1: it with you. But it's so good, you know what?

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Speaker 1: You know what I did during the show, because, um,

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Speaker 1: whenever you're listening to this, here's the deal with Rachel,

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Speaker 1: she played my you maybe listen is ten years from now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's probably the arch How do you

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Speaker 1: think of the Library Congress. So back at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, I played and I put together a

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Speaker 1: big charity show called the It's My Band, the Raging

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Speaker 1: Idiot's the Million Dollars Show. And you came in and

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Speaker 1: the rule for the new artists, which you're considered a

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Speaker 1: brand new artist. Do you remember the rule? You know

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Speaker 1: what the ther of strength I put on new artists

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Speaker 1: were with songs. It was you have to do you

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Speaker 1: can do one original, but do ye not not too

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Speaker 1: originals because you two knew. I didn't know. It was

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Speaker 1: a restraint. So okay, cool, or maybe it was. I

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Speaker 1: was glad you asked for that. So, so what you

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Speaker 1: were gonna do is you were gonna do damage first,

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Speaker 1: play me a little bit of damage. This song I'm singing,

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Speaker 1: this is a good one for me. I like to

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Speaker 1: sing in this one. Come. So I don't know why,

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Speaker 1: but we went to practice to day before and you

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Speaker 1: were playing this first and you were doing uh sitting

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Speaker 1: sitting dock of the bay. Second. Yes, I was like,

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Speaker 1: don't do that because I know what second one slow,

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to crowd like standing up for

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Speaker 1: you got damage second, and I switched it up and

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Speaker 1: then you played it and what happened? They freaking with crazy.

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Speaker 1: That was amazing. You're right, You're right, it was pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: I got to pick five artists at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this year for my class of twenty nineteen, and I

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Speaker 1: did pick you put you in my class, which means

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Speaker 1: we do stuff like this. I know. I'm so thankful.

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Speaker 1: Late at night for me, I know we're here in

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Speaker 1: the after aternoon. No, it's six pm, this is evening.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's after my afternoon evening for me, because I

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Speaker 1: don't know what time you go to bed right. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, Boffy, I have to wake up. It used

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Speaker 1: to be three. Are you serious? You wake up at

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Speaker 1: three thirty? I used to be three until recently it was.

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Speaker 1: But you can understand, Rachel, I have to be on

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Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not a morning person in anyway, the

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Speaker 1: morning person. I'm the happiest in the mornings, really, yes,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. But I like to sleep in so

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Speaker 1: and I'm riding every day, so you know, my day

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Speaker 1: starts at like eleven for a right, which is like

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Speaker 1: really awesome. Would you time out from like eleven to three? Four? Yeah? Four, five?

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Speaker 1: It just depends on like what kind of demo we're doing.

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Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes I like to do a lot of

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Speaker 1: But if it's something a little bit more simple, we

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Speaker 1: can get done earlier. Rachel and I would just we

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Speaker 1: spent a little bit of time talking about interviews and

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Speaker 1: how to be interviewed. And did you feel like you'd

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Speaker 1: learned anything? Yes, I learned a lot. Do you think

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Speaker 1: because we sat down in a living room just for

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Speaker 1: a bit of time. I'm glad you asked that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you some some hacks I t because I

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Speaker 1: the biggest artists to brand new artists that I really

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Speaker 1: why would you put them on? And I'd be like,

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Speaker 1: So that's that's great advice. And then what do you

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Speaker 1: what do you not? She's using my words back? I

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Speaker 1: You said not to say I get that question. All

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Speaker 1: how did you guys get to go there again? And

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it for me, but I'm doing it

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Speaker 1: for the people listening. And they wouldn't do this to

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Speaker 1: me at this point, but they could easily be like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, we get asked all the time, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're like, I know, yeah, I really like,

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Speaker 1: I know you get asked all the time, but throw

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Speaker 1: that's a basic, great question that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: might not know, so it's very informational. You don't say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I get that all the time? Quit it question? Do

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Speaker 1: you get asked all the time? I get asked if

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Speaker 1: I am Leanne Wimac's daughter, Rachel Walmack, Leanne Womack. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people I don't know. They don't know

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Speaker 1: our names are spelled differently. But I have never met

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Speaker 1: LeAnn Wimac. I've never met her. I would love to

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Speaker 1: country music Aubrey Sellers who I'm sure it is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: But lean Willmack and I get our hair done at

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Speaker 1: but that is pretty I am like, pretty honored that

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Speaker 1: well too. How much the haircut cost for you our

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Speaker 1: and I'm close to my pace. I get like color too,

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Speaker 1: you get your hair done? More than I probably should.

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Speaker 1: But anytime I have to go back on camera, I

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Speaker 1: Sometimes a week and a half, sometimes a month and

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Speaker 1: a song that we just talked about. This is called Damage,

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Speaker 1: Go Ahead, can Do, can Do? All right? Tell me

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Speaker 1: about this song. Well, when I moved to Nashville from

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Speaker 1: we talked about French fries in the song, but you

427
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: thanks for the memory. Miss all you guys there was

428
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: something like a sharing French fries or whatever. You know

429
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: you were, Miss University of North Alabama. Yes, I was.

430
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 1: You're a pageant girl. No, I wouldn't say I was

431
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: a pageant girl. Paget. You're a paget girl. I guess

432
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: I was. I just feel like I wasn't, but I started.

433
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up doing pageants. There's nothing wrong with

434
00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,199
Speaker 1: pet I know. I'm just saying. Most girls in the

435
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: pageant that competed with me would say it's not like

436
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: negative or positive that I just really wasn't a pageant girl.

437
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: And like in high school, I feel like I maybe

438
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: did one pageant in high school. No, do you know

439
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: how Judgments America this year? This last time? Yes, I

440
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: was one of the freaking judges I control. It was crazy.

441
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: How did you feel like it had too much power?

442
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 1: To be honest, because what they did is they cut

443
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: it from they cut it to like the top twenty four,

444
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 1: and they pulled us in a room. It was me,

445
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: Randy Jackson from American Idol. I love Randy. It was

446
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: Carrie I was dead host because she wasn't a judge.

447
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm judging and there are like five of us,

448
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: and I'm like writing scores down and the freaking girl

449
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: that I picked one, it's crazy. You knew that had

450
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 1: too much power? We wait to watch to watch videos.

451
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,959
Speaker 1: My point was there's a lot that goes into that.

452
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: There's a lot. And I went into UM competing for

453
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: miss University of North Alabama because UM, I wanted to

454
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: pay for my college, and that's it's like one of

455
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: the primary things is it's a scholarship pageant and so

456
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 1: and me again wanting to perform. I knew that there

457
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: was a talent portion, and I knew that I had

458
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: a unique instrument, the marimba. I played it, yes and no.

459
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: So what I did was I played the marimba and

460
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: I had a lapel mic and I sang. And so

461
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: when I was competing for Miss u n A, I

462
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: played flashdance What a Feeling by Irene Karra. Yes, yes,

463
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: And I had my high school band director arrange UM

464
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: like a version of that for me to play on Maremba.

465
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: And I learned it and it was so freaking fun,

466
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: Like I loved it, and everyone else was like, oh

467
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: my gosh, this is so different. And I one talent

468
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: at Miss n A and and ended up winning the

469
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: whole thing. And I went and competed at Miss Alabama

470
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what am I doing here? Like I

471
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing, and all these girls are

472
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: so experienced, and I learned just I learned how to

473
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: walk in hills, um running hills. But it was really

474
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: cool because playing um and doing my talent for that

475
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: larger of an audience, I feel like prepared me even

476
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: for something like you know, playing on your million dollars show,

477
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: like just it was another practice for me for playing

478
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: for bigger audiences. And it was really fun. Yeah that's funny.

479
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: Could you still play Maramba? I think I can. Yeah.

480
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: I played it at at a radio station. Act really

481
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: on radio tour. They heard that I played maremba and

482
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: brought the maremba from their high school in that area.

483
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: And that's a funny bit. Who do you remember what

484
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: show it was? I get my shot out gets a funny,

485
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: but um, it was in Florida. They were literally so

486
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: so sweet and brought like mallets and everything, and I

487
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: played I played the irene ka um and it was

488
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: just it was awesome, like standing of of all whatever

489
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: fifteen listeners that were in. There wasn't on the air.

490
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: Um well it was on the air, but everyone in

491
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: the room like they had some listeners come in and

492
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: it was just so funny. I thought that was so

493
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: thoughtful like of them to bring in the marimba because normally,

494
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just playing piano or or not playing

495
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: at all. It's playing piano, so so you're playing marimba.

496
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: If you pull that out on stage at some point

497
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: like a real like you're playing a show, people would

498
00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: lose their crap, right if I'm telling you, let me

499
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: tell you, Bobby, Okay, one day, my if if I

500
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: can headline a show, go ahead, you will at some point. Um,

501
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: my encore would be the marimba and I would do

502
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: I would do like three songs, just so it could

503
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: be like, thing, you just want to do one, like

504
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: you want to roll it out, you want to what

505
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: you wanna do is I'm gonna go ahead and set

506
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: yourself when you see it one day, you're gonna want

507
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: three songs. But here's here's what you do, ready, Rachel.

508
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: I want to tell you how to play the Miranda

509
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: because I've never even seen one in your next you

510
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: know you know it if you saw it, this is

511
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: what I would do. I would roll it out and

512
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what if being you right now? What

513
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: what is this? What this like a big old xylophone.

514
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to like hit this thing and you go bing.

515
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: You're like, huh thing bing, Well, this is crazy, and

516
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: you look back at your guys go does anyone who

517
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: want to work this thing? Is it plugged in? At

518
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: this point, everyone's like she's got a huge hot phone.

519
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: This is funny, bing bibing bing bing, huh well, I

520
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: guess I can try it. Pours out the full the

521
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: four mallets and yeah, and it's like, oh what a

522
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: bit you crush it in the crouds like, oh my god,

523
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: because I do it. That would be the debut. It

524
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: would be hilarious. People will be shocked and you would

525
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: crush it because you would do it. You would tilt

526
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: them a certain way of them rooting for you, going, oh,

527
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: we obviously are familiar with this instrument. I right, and

528
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, this is gonna be Then when you

529
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: crush it, they go the whole different direction and they're

530
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: so moved by it there they'll give you a standing out.

531
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Okay, we're gonna do it. It's my dream.

532
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do it, but it's definitely hard

533
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: to transport it seems like. So I do a bit

534
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: on my comedy shows where if we can and if

535
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: Brandon Ray's opening for me, do you love him? Love him?

536
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: And he's in the crowd, I will We did this

537
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: in Michigan and and so I'll be like, hey, listen,

538
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: I'd like to give new Art's the shots or anybody

539
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: in the crowd who plays guitar, and so if you

540
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: people raise your hand and I'll be like, what about you?

541
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: And then it's Brandon have Planet in the crowd, and

542
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: then Brandon will walk out be like, what's your name?

543
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: Manna go mana'ge Jimmy like Jimmy, you ever played for

544
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: a crowd this big because there'll be a couple of

545
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: thousand people there. Uh no, just give it a shot,

546
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: jim And then he takes the same thing, right, he

547
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: got clung clungk clunk, And I'm like, dude, just take

548
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: take a breath, and then he'll play and he'll go

549
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: and then he just crushes it, and the crowd has

550
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: gone from just rooting for him with all their money

551
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: and then they're all like, Okay, I love that, so

552
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: um tell him. So you've told me the story before,

553
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: but I think it's such an interesting story. So you're

554
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: playing and arrested one of those spinning restaurants in Alabama?

555
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: Are you just playing at dinner or something like trying

556
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: to make a few bucks for for college or what? Yeah,

557
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: So this had become at this point kind of a

558
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: regular gig for me in Alabama. More one let one?

559
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: Did you win Miss Alabama? Where do you place? I

560
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: didn't make top ten, but I did win, So I

561
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: don't know what place I did if you're not top

562
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: ten or whatever, um, but I did win Miss Congeniality

563
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: and I won talent overall, which was cool. You got

564
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: two things you didn't even it's weird like that. It's weird.

565
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: You never know. I should have been judging this one. Well.

566
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: My parents were like after I won the preliminary talent,

567
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: my parents were like, oh, she's top ten, She's top

568
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,719
Speaker 1: to a moment, I'm like, y'all, do not get excited

569
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: because I didn't make top ten. But I did get

570
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: enough scholarship money to pay for college, and that was

571
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: my goal. And I learned a lot of really wonderful

572
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: things along the way, how to um, you know, volunteer

573
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: like things that I just didn't realize when along with

574
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: the pageant. So anyway, anyway, let's talk about you're playing

575
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: in the rotating restaurant. Yes, so the restaurant is in Florence, Alabama,

576
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: which I'll educate you a little bit. Muscle Shoals and Florence,

577
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: Alabama are separated just by this bridge. So Muscle Shoals

578
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: is where I grew up, Florence is where the rotating

579
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: restaurant is, and where the University of North Alabama is

580
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: there like in the same area. And it had become

581
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: like my regular thing, um because I would sub ind

582
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: for my friend Mr Harvey Thompson Jr. Who's like the

583
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: most fabulous piano player, and he just had me feeling

584
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: for him when he couldn't make it, and he was

585
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: playing a lot of gigs, so I just feel in

586
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: for him a lot. And it's a rotating restaurant, which

587
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: means like the tables are moving on the outside, but

588
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: I would be stationary, so people would come by me

589
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: and like hear me, like really loud and close, and

590
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: then they'd move away and they're like, can hear before

591
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: a while? And I was like, okay, cool. But it's

592
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: kind of nice for people that want to have a

593
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: nice dinner because you can have time to talk and

594
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: then you can come back around and listen to music.

595
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: So one night, um, I noticed this guy at the

596
00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: bar um and I have no idea who he was,

597
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: but I knew he was paying attention to my music,

598
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: and so I always try to cater to whoever that is,

599
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: and you know, if they want to ask me, you know,

600
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: to play something for him, I'll try to play a

601
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: cover and he he just though just I felt like

602
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: he was just really appreciating the music. And then I

603
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: saw him go over to his table, and so I

604
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: didn't see him for a while and then at the

605
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: end of the night he comes up to me again

606
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: and uh, he gives me his card and he says, hey,

607
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm Jim. Uh, I'm from Sony Music in Nashville. And

608
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: I was a senior in high school, so I was

609
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: seventeen and literally thought he was about to kidnap me.

610
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, this is catchy. I don't know, he's

611
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: not definitely not who he says he is. And anyway,

612
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: but I was like, thank you so much, you know,

613
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: for like in my music. And he was like, you know,

614
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: let me know if you would ever like to talk about,

615
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: you know, your songwriting career and maybe if you'd be

616
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: interested in moving to Nashville. UM, I'd love to talk

617
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: to your parents because I'm like just a kid. And

618
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: so anyway, I took the card home and my parents

619
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: were like, no, this is legit Sony Nashville. And so

620
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: my dad and I went to Nashville, um first time

621
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: for me, and we met with Jim and just talked

622
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: about what it would be like to songwrite. And we

623
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: actually looked out his window and saw like all of

624
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: music Row and he was like, yeah, everyone goes just

625
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: about every day to ride in these little houses out there,

626
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: and I was like, why would they do that? I

627
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: don't even understand why. Everybody, like it was so foreign

628
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: to me, the whole thing. And so we even you know,

629
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: talked about moving to Nashville instead of going to college,

630
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: like what that would be like and um, So we

631
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: had a great meeting. But I ended up, you know,

632
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: knowing in my gut that I wanted to go get

633
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: a degree because that's something you know, nobody can ever

634
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: take away from me. And I am really glad that

635
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: I got one because it was cool, you know, growing

636
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: up in my hometown and then performing out in my hometown.

637
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 1: I had a lot of support and I would play

638
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: at a lot of different restaurants and that would turn

639
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: into me playing at people's business meetings and playing at

640
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 1: people's weddings and just parties and like playing people's barns,

641
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: like just literally so much fun. And that would be

642
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: like basically helping me pay rent as well. In college

643
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: and um worked on my craft as a songwriter. And

644
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm thankful, you know, everybody's path is different, but I'm

645
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: thankful that I spent my you know, four years of

646
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: college they're developing. UM, because I felt like I was

647
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: able to just really focus on me, and here, you know,

648
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: there's so many artists, I feel like you can just

649
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: feel like you're getting lost. And I really felt like

650
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: I could just completely be myself. And so then I

651
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: graduated college and I remember I was running on the

652
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: treadmill and I had this thought in my head and

653
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: it was just just can't just like text Gym now

654
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: and invite him to a show? And so I was like, Okay,

655
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'll invite him because I felt

656
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: like that was kind of bold to do. But um,

657
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: I invited him and he said, this is like June

658
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, and he says, yeah, yeah, And so

659
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: he says, I'm um, it's really crazy here at c

660
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: M A fest in Nashville, and that's just like nuts

661
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: for us. So would you be willing to just come

662
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: play for our A and R team and just bring

663
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: your piano and do your new songs here? And I

664
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, of course. And I didn't realize how

665
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: cool that was like to have that opportunity, um, but

666
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: it was amazing having known him um for the several

667
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 1: years that I had and just asking him questions along

668
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: the way. A I wasn't like super nervous to play

669
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: for them, and so I just like I went and

670
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: played like four songs for them and sang my heart out,

671
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: and Taylor Lindsay on their team was just like, you

672
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: need to move here now, and I was like, well,

673
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: y'all aren't offering a deal, so I don't know what

674
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: I was supposed to do. And within two weeks I

675
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: had contacted my friend who was bartending Green Hills and

676
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: had known a girl who was living in Madison. I

677
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: just lived in a room in her house and moved

678
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: to Nashville two weeks later, and I can't believe it,

679
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: And now you have a deal with Sony R c A.

680
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: And as soon as I got to Nashville, you know,

681
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: I was bartending every night and songwriting every day. And

682
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for that year of songwriting because I met

683
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: so many people. I was thankful and blessed to being

684
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: a lot of really just just rooms with really brilliant people,

685
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: and ended up signing with the I didn't know they

686
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: were just as serious about signing me as an artist,

687
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: like I thought they loved me as a songwriter. But

688
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: I was surprised, like about a year into moving Um,

689
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: Jim said, Hey, we wanna um schedule a meeting and

690
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: you just play as some of the new songs you've

691
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: been writing in town. And I was like, Okay, let's

692
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: do it. And at the end of that meeting, they

693
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: offered me a developmental deal and I was just blown

694
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: away because I wasn't expecting that at all, and um,

695
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I was very naive to how

696
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: the industry works, so they probably said words that I

697
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: didn't realize meant that they were wanting to sign me.

698
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: But I was just so honored and now I have

699
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: an EP out and damage just went to radio and

700
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm just really thankful. It's pretty amazing story. It's crazy

701
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: that you're just playing at a little restaurant. I know

702
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: you would never know, and then it doesn't work out

703
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: the first time, but then it kind of works out

704
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: the second time, and in the end it all kind

705
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: of worked out. It was really crazy and very like

706
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: a lot of people that I've met while I was

707
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: on radio tour, we've just talked about how amazing it

708
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: is that everybody has just a break and like whatever

709
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: your break is, like it's just someone really really helping

710
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: you out and seeing some potential in you. And I'm

711
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: just thankful that I was playing that night at that restaurant,

712
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,479
Speaker 1: or else we would have never met and my life

713
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: could be totally different. So it's pretty amazing. That's the

714
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: title of this podcast. It's Rachel Womack parentheses and how

715
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: she was discovered playing in a rotating restaurant. Make that

716
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: people look click on that. Have you seen the Netflix? Yes?

717
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: I loved you. Have you watched the Firefest documentary yet? No?

718
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is? Oh man, you should

719
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: watch it. It su there was a big festival two

720
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: years ago they were planning in the Bahamas and how

721
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 1: this dude actually screwed to watch people out of their

722
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: money and it's he's in jail now, okay, and it's

723
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: it's good. It's interesting. F hy are Yeah, I remember

724
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: the news when it happened. It's kind of the thing

725
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about right now. And I want you to

726
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: be a part of everybody, and I I want you to

727
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: be able to thank you. Okay. Cool. So there's a

728
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: there's one on Hulu, and there's one on Netflix. Have Hulu? Yes?

729
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: You watch anything on Hulu? I? Um, well, I missed

730
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: The Bachelor this week, so I'm going to be watching

731
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: that on Oh crap, I was supposed to watch Yeah,

732
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: I was supposed to watch that tonight. Hopefully I can

733
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: make it in time because I think it's on at

734
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: seven tonight on Hulu. Okay, I'll get you out of here.

735
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,479
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, you're fine. Oh my gosh, you're so fun.

736
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: But what do you watch on Netflix? So right now,

737
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: I've been having bad dreams after watching um you, have

738
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: you heard of it? I watched the first episode now

739
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: I just finished the season, so I have heard of it. Okay,

740
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: so I'll watched the first episode of You and a Bit.

741
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little too creepy for me

742
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: because it's about what i've seen you. I don't want

743
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 1: to spoil it for me, but I will not spoil it.

744
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: It's about this dude, by the way, really good luck.

745
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: And dude, did you watch Gossip Girl? He's on Gossip

746
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: Girl too. He's a little too good looking for me.

747
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: Really get a little resentful. I don't think he's that cute.

748
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: You don't know, Oh, I think he's like super cute.

749
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: I think he's super right. So I think he's okay.

750
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: But and he works at a bookstore, yeah, which is

751
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: so that is cute, you know, and then she goes

752
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: in and gets a book and he's like, oh, they're

753
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: all hit on her. And then he like stalks her

754
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: and like finds everything about her. And that's all I know,

755
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 1: because that's that's what they tell all that in episode

756
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: one an episode ones all I've watched, but I didn't

757
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: know if I wanted to go to episode two or not.

758
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: I know same, So I can't watch I can't watch

759
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: like thriller stuff by myself normally, and I don't watch

760
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: scary movies like it all. And this weekend we did

761
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: like this last minute random show with Brett Young opening

762
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: up for him in Missouri and so on the way

763
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: to and from the show, um, it was a seven

764
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: hour drive. I binged the show with my manager who

765
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: had seen the whole show, so she was rewatching it

766
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: with me, and it is crazy. I think you should

767
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: definitely watch it. No, it's well, I I just have

768
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: very vivid dreams at night. I tried to read Twilight.

769
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: I could act like a nightmare. That's great, Yeah, that's

770
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I know. I didn't sleep well last night,

771
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: Like I'm really tired today because I dreamed about him

772
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: stalking me last night. I know, No, it's bad, but

773
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: the show is so good and it's I love it

774
00:43:54,760 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: because there's so many twists, like the whole time and end.

775
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: If I don't know if you've seen like a lot

776
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: of the feed on like Twitter or whatever anything I'm

777
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: currently watching, well I haven't. I haven't seen the feed,

778
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: but my my bestie is she is on top of

779
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 1: all feed um, and she was saying that a lot

780
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: of people like him because of some of the things

781
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: he does. Don't spoil it's like the protagonist antagonist at

782
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: the same time. Yeah, because in the episode one he

783
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: has a great relationship with the kid and he continues

784
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: that I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's almost like you

785
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: ever watched that he has some great son. No, so

786
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: Dexter is a serial killer, I know, and I didn't

787
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: want to watch that where oh, it's such a good

788
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: show and you're like, oh, man to get them. But

789
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: he's also like a good dude. I know. See that's well,

790
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: and you I'm not gonna spoil it, okay, why you

791
00:44:53,440 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: know somewhat why he um does the things he does? Okay,

792
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: ever read that I watched that. No, I read it,

793
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,959
Speaker 1: and the first one, yeah, I read it. The movie

794
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: was weird. I never I never saw either of them.

795
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to stay up on all

796
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: big things I can talk about. And then I lost

797
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: a bet on the show where we all drew and

798
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: I lost. I had to read the book and it

799
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: was pretty good. It's fine, but that was it as

800
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: good as the movie. I don't I don't know finishing

801
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: the movie. Remeb read the book is and how it

802
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: relates is that because he's yeah, there's a reason he's

803
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: like I don't know if he's bad, but yes, okay,

804
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: there's a reason he's like he is, and you go

805
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: exactly like you have. They do a great job of

806
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: developing him as a character throughout the series, and it's

807
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: only ten episodes, and so you do feel for him,

808
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: but you're also like, bro, like my best, my best

809
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: he was like, never mind, I'm not can't. I'm not

810
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: gonna give him. You have to watch it, watch it.

811
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: I will watch more view I'll give it two more

812
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: episodes before I make my decision that you have to watch. Definitely,

813
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: if you watch too, you have to watch Fire the documentary. Okay, yeah, well,

814
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: I don't. I'll watch Dexter, but i'll watch it with

815
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: somebody was like eight seasons, like this is a great show,

816
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: but oh dang, okay, this is only one season for me.

817
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: Just watch the Firefest documentary. What we'll do it we

818
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:19,919
Speaker 1: have the phones in here, we'll call her and get

819
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: update on a podcast. Okay, so let me know after

820
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: you're done with that, and we'll get a recap on

821
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: this podcast of the fire Festival. That sounds amazing. Um

822
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: anything you're watching? You know what I watched on Amazon

823
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: was I'm still watching it is um Man in high Castle. No.

824
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: I just started because a friend was like, you gotta

825
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: watch it. It's like if World War two would have

826
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: ended the other way where we got beat and Japan

827
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: and Germany one America was taken over by them. Oh

828
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: but anyway, clap The idea is very interesting. The movie

829
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: it's a little slow. Okay, you ever see you ever

830
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: watch Amazon anything on Amazon? No? Have you ever seen Office?

831
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: Shut your face? I watch all the that all the time.

832
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: So I watched it probably more than you did. Yeah,

833
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:13,919
Speaker 1: like Scott's tats or no? Okay, no, everybody, So that's

834
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: the episode that you decide if they love it or

835
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: hate it. Scott's Tats is where Michael Scott tells these

836
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: kids in kindergarten he's gonna pay for their college. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

837
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: And then he goes back and he's like, they're a

838
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: big party for him. They're like, I love that episode

839
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: just because I love every episode. Um, and over Christmas break,

840
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: I got my parents watching and they've never seen like

841
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: a real episode. And now my dad is like bench

842
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: watching The Office for the first time, and it's so

843
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: fulfilling for me that I showed them. But I do

844
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: like that episode, even though like most people say they

845
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: don't it makes them uncomfortable. I like, I love uncomfortable.

846
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: It's love best, my best comedy to watch and to live. Yes,

847
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: do you like to dinner Party episode where they go

848
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: over to Jan's and Michael's apart of it condo. Yes,

849
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: And it's super uncomfortable the whole thing, like she's done

850
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 1: a fish ready, takes three hours sleep on the foot

851
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: of the bed. It's the best. He shows a little TV.

852
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Well and see that's like my

853
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: mom at first was like, I just this is just

854
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: it's too uncomfortable, you know, it's too awkward. I'm like,

855
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: that's the point though, mom, because because it gets you

856
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: into your weird you know, I do this joke. I

857
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: love uncomfortable, right, And I do this joke on my

858
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: stand up tour. I haven't done it in a bit

859
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: because I wrote about in my book, but my second book.

860
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: But I go out and I say, by the way,

861
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I recently met him, but I

862
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 1: haven't know my biological father. He left round was like

863
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: five or six years old. And I'm like, how don't

864
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: you know? Um? I say, uh man tyle joking so long,

865
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: but it's I got on Facebook and you know how

866
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: they do that thing where they recommend friends. You should know. Yes,

867
00:48:54,600 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: they recommended my biological father, but I don't, well, what

868
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: is your crowding? Well? And they don't know if they

869
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: can laugh or not? Just wait, so they go so

870
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, that's okay, okay. I said, well listen,

871
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: sorry about that. I'd like to do an impression now,

872
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: and they're like okay. I like, I like to do

873
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: an impression of my biological father with me, with me

874
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: as a kid. And I just walk off stage and

875
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: I just I just stand off off stage like that,

876
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: you can't even see me, but they laugh. It's it's

877
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: night by night. Sometimes they last, sometimes they're like it's

878
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: so good, but like I live for that kind of humor. Oh,

879
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: it's the best when we can laugh at just But

880
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: that's the best thing about comedy, you know, it's like

881
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: just it breaks open all barriers. I'm a big fan

882
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: of comedy where you know, some people will get pissed

883
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: because comedians will do something that they don't agree with

884
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: right or though that's over the line, or you shouldn't

885
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: have said that, and then they go, we should boycott.

886
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of letting the market decide what

887
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,879
Speaker 1: you should and shouldn't go to, meaning if someone says

888
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: something and you don't agree with it, just as if

889
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: you comedy can be anything, just even a TV show. Yeah,

890
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: don't watch it, Okay, don't let them, let them market decide,

891
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: don't watch it. Go ahead. Here's the big question. Go ahead.

892
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 1: This is if we're real friends or not? Um, because

893
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: obviously I missed up the tots um. How do you

894
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: feel about Jack Black? Jack Black? Yes, I mean I

895
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: used to really really think he was funny in his heyday.

896
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him a lot lately. Um, I love

897
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: him except for kids like the kids movies? Does he

898
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: do like kids cartoons stuff? Like? Yes? But I really

899
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: like Jack Black when he was really like any He

900
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: is my number two next to Steve kill as far

901
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: as and I think I like the most about Jack

902
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: Black is he's really talented, like really like you can sing,

903
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: he can run, he can sing, yeah, go ahead. But

904
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't take it seriously or does he take it

905
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: so seriously? You just don't know. That's what I would

906
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: put him at. Yeah, so good at it. But he

907
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,760
Speaker 1: but he gives you just enough to be like, oh wait,

908
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: he's really good. Some people are annoyed by him because

909
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: he's a lot. I love him. I love him very

910
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: you know about that. I only want to understand. Yeah,

911
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 1: I just watched it actually to you, who's the funniest

912
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: person alive? Oh? I love Steve Carrell. It's a fine answer.

913
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 1: There's no wrong answer. Go ahead, give me. I'm trying

914
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: to think of but Jack Black number two? Um, yeah, gosh,

915
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't listen to a lot. I

916
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: listened to like a lot of clean stuff as far

917
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: as comedians go, So that rules out like a lot

918
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: of people. And number three. I loved him Hawkins. Do

919
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:03,720
Speaker 1: you know him. He's funny Christian comedian. Huh, he's funny.

920
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: I listened to him while I was on radio tour

921
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: and he he was really funny. He has a podcast

922
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: called Potty Break, and it was just it was just funny,

923
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: easy listening. I don't curse in my acts. I don't.

924
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: I don't curse ever, only curse in the car. I

925
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: used to. I don't curse it all anymore, just because

926
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: I'm not against it. Used to curse awesomely. I was

927
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: hilarious cursor. Yeah, but then I realized I couldn't write

928
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: or or without writing cursing, and then go, well, that

929
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: doesn't work because I don't want to do that on stage.

930
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: I just stopped a limited cursing. But some of my

931
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: favorite funniest people, my top three tell me number one,

932
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: it's tough. I can remember my order. I think that

933
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see where I ranked them because Chris Rock

934
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: is up there for me, Ricky Gervais, and I think

935
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: Adam Caroll is super funny, so I would go. If

936
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,439
Speaker 1: I were ranking the three, I would go because Ricky

937
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: Geras created the Office you ever watched The British Office? No,

938
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: but I heard it's great. Should it takes a second?

939
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: Because I really really want to watch it. Turn the

940
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: close caption on because there are things they say you

941
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 1: don't understand. They're great, but it's great. And you see

942
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: how the characters were based on the American version the

943
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: way you see how the American character based on the

944
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: British version. Yeah, okay, quickly, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go.

945
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that Ricky Gervais first, Chris Rock second,

946
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: Adam Carolla third, those are mighty as were about to

947
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: wrap this up? Do you have anything? Yeah? I go

948
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle number one, Yes, and then I love Dmitri

949
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: Martin like super funny, his drawings are hilarious right on.

950
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: And then I really like John Mulaney like his last

951
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: two specials are probably my one of my favorite comedian

952
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: specials ever. Did you watch the was Sebastian granted Cowski

953
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: whatever his name is the new special I haven't seen.

954
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: You know that's really funny. You like comedy? Huh? Yeah?

955
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: To laugh? Who doesn't like them? To let me run

956
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: down this list real quick? Would you really go to

957
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: the Mountains of the Beach Mountains NFL or college football

958
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: NFL really even being from Alabama. Well, my family would

959
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,720
Speaker 1: say college because they're like the biggest Rold Todd fans.

960
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: But my boyfriend is a big Chiefs fan, so I've

961
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: been trying to just you know, support him even then

962
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: they lost, but love them? L A or New York?

963
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: Where would you rather be? L A? You would you

964
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: rather read the book or watch the movie? First? Watch

965
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: the movie? Would you rather go watch Adele or Carrie Underwood?

966
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: H Del pancakes or waffles? Waffles? Backstreet Boys are in sync?

967
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: Back Street Boys. We I thought we were friends. We

968
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: are not want the office or friends? Oh no, don't

969
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: make me do that, go ahead, office and that. Finally,

970
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: ballads are up to opposed what you would rather listen

971
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: to other than the Backstreet Boys. We're pretty right on

972
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: in friendship. Yeah. Cool, that's good to know. You would

973
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 1: go to the mountains. I don't care either way. I

974
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 1: would just go to wherever. If if I had a girlfriend,

975
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: I'd be like, where do you want to go? All right? Cool?

976
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yeah, it's all the same. Not I don't

977
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: know anything about either one of them. Uh yeah, Okay,

978
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna end this, like to finish it with a

979
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: nice story, put a bow on it. Yes, Once upon

980
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: a time, I think it was maybe the summer of

981
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen. I was doing one of my friends.

982
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: I called and say, would you come and perform at

983
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: my show? And I was like sure. He said, he said,

984
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: come to do a couple of songs, do one of

985
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: your comedy raging idiot songs. And you and I performed together,

986
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: and I say, that's cool, it's cool, it's cool, And

987
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: it's a friend I care about a lot. And I

988
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: was like, of course, you've done things for me. I

989
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: do things for you. That's how friendship works. Yes, we

990
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 1: love each other absolutely so I So I go and

991
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: he's he's putting on the show and it's at the

992
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: Rhyming Auditorium and I was like, this is crazy. I'm

993
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: playing the rheman again. And I go out and before

994
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: the show, I'm doing a bunch of interviews for my

995
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: friend's name was Darius Rucker, who you probably know as

996
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: a solo artist. Wasn't who you the Blowfish? And I'm

997
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: there and I'm doing interviews before and there was this

998
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: new artist that I went to and I said, Hey,

999
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: how's it going. I said, I'm by Bones, and she

1000
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: totally ignored me. I don't know if she didn't see

1001
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 1: me or maybe she doesn't remember. It was very brief,

1002
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, did she went to our

1003
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: next interview? Her name is Rachel Walmack. That must have

1004
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: been somebody because I brought it up like three, Bobby,

1005
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: Listen up, listeners, Bobby is up little crap in y'all

1006
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: because he bull craped to me. He told me this

1007
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: story story I don't remember lies. He told me that.

1008
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: I would have definitely remembered if Bobby came up to

1009
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: me and was like, hey, Rachel, what's up? Like I

1010
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: wasn't saying Rachel I said, and I said, hey, Rachel Walmack,

1011
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan something like that. I didn't introduce myself,

1012
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: Bob Bones, because I don't don't do that. And we

1013
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: were doing interviews around like this half circle in the

1014
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: side room. Yeah I was there, but I didn't. You

1015
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: weren't there. You weren't there, Like to end on that story,

1016
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: you never know, that's a great fake story. And to end,

1017
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play a little bit of my boyfriend doesn't

1018
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: speak for me anymore. This is a Rachel Walmax song

1019
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: played Friend, which is about my ex. My boyfriend gets

1020
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 1: so much crap for this song. Your current boyfriend, Yes,

1021
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: the boyfriend you have now get the boyfriend I have now? Um,

1022
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: he gets a louto crap for this song. But he's

1023
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: so easy going about it. He's like, oh, yeah, you know,

1024
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: what's your boyfriend? Now do music? He um? He is

1025
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: in school at Travica down in downtown Nashville to do.

1026
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,439
Speaker 1: What is he going to treat you? Right? And he yes,

1027
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: he treats me like a queen. He's so kind. And

1028
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 1: he's from Montana, which is the reason that I said

1029
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: the mountains because last year I went with him to

1030
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: Glacier National Park, um, right outside of his hometown, and

1031
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: just it blew mym on because I've never seen mountains before.

1032
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: That was the first time I ever. So I've got

1033
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: a great one, all right. And I know you mean

1034
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: it because you told me that before we became up here. Yes,

1035
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: So okay, Regel Walmack, We've done an hour is as

1036
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: long as interview you've ever done. Yes, and you did

1037
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: pretty good. Thank you. You know, I used my tools,

1038
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: got a new tool kit before before the interview, Thank you, Bobby.

1039
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: I was talking to her before and she was like, right,

1040
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not that witty. And I was like,

1041
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: it's okay if you're not funny, because no, no, I'm

1042
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: funny because I've just done that. And I was like,

1043
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: don't focus on things that you're not like you really

1044
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: find your strength, and she was like, we're focusing on

1045
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: my strength. That's right, that's right. Rechel Walmack w A

1046
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: M M A c K. Because I met everybody's like,

1047
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: how do you say your name? Yea woman? Thank you

1048
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: all so much. To be fair, it does look like whamick,

1049
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: it does. It looks like Walmart. Whatever. I don't. I

1050
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: don't mind, Reel Walmack. She say it wrong. I'll still

1051
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: be your friends. Stream down the go, buy a ticket

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Speaker 1: and watch your play. She's ever anywhere near you. And

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Speaker 1: that is all for this time. Class, see y'all in

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Speaker 1: the festivals this summer. Are you playing firefest this year? Watch? Alright, alright,