WEBVTT - #153 - Rachel Wammack and How She was Discovered Playing in a Rotating Restaurant (Bobby Bones Class of 2019) 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:07.360 Welcome to episode one three with Rachel Womag. I like 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.560 to sing your song because when we're playing our show 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.760 together as a reimon, it was I like to sing 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.400 it in a big like Broadway style. Yes, I know, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.640 can that's a good one though, but I like to 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:22.920 sing it and a little bit I wanted to sing 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:24.640 it with you. But it's so good, you know what? 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.639 You know what I did during the show, because, um, 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.720 whenever you're listening to this, here's the deal with Rachel, 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.199 she played my you maybe listen is ten years from now. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:34.400 I don't know. It's probably the arch How do you 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.479 think of the Library Congress. So back at the beginning 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.479 of twenty nineteen, I played and I put together a 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.440 big charity show called the It's My Band, the Raging 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.559 Idiot's the Million Dollars Show. And you came in and 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.720 the rule for the new artists, which you're considered a 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.320 brand new artist. Do you remember the rule? You know 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.320 what the ther of strength I put on new artists 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.360 were with songs. It was you have to do you 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.440 can do one original, but do ye not not too 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.760 originals because you two knew. I didn't know. It was 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.400 a restraint. So okay, cool, or maybe it was. I 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.880 was glad you asked for that. So, so what you 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.760 were gonna do is you were gonna do damage first, 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.679 play me a little bit of damage. This song I'm singing, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.160 this is a good one for me. I like to 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:26.840 sing in this one. Come. So I don't know why, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.480 but we went to practice to day before and you 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:33.000 were playing this first and you were doing uh sitting 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.320 sitting dock of the bay. Second. Yes, I was like, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.640 don't do that because I know what second one slow, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.120 but you're gonna have to crowd like standing up for 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.880 you got damage second, and I switched it up and 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.800 then you played it and what happened? They freaking with crazy. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.520 That was amazing. You're right, You're right, it was pretty amazing. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.480 I got to pick five artists at the beginning of 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.080 this year for my class of twenty nineteen, and I 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.640 did pick you put you in my class, which means 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.680 we do stuff like this. I know. I'm so thankful. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.520 Late at night for me, I know we're here in 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.320 the after aternoon. No, it's six pm, this is evening. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.520 Maybe it's after my afternoon evening for me, because I 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.480 don't know what time you go to bed right. Oh 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.720 my gosh, Boffy, I have to wake up. It used 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.600 to be three. Are you serious? You wake up at 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.040 three thirty? I used to be three until recently it was. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.920 But you can understand, Rachel, I have to be on 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.280 the air and ready to go at five. So and 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.040 I don't. I'm not a morning person in anyway, the 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.880 morning person. I'm the happiest in the mornings, really, yes, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.280 but I don't. But I like to sleep in so 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.959 and I'm riding every day, so you know, my day 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.079 starts at like eleven for a right, which is like 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:53.560 really awesome. Would you time out from like eleven to three? Four? Yeah? Four, five? 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.120 It just depends on like what kind of demo we're doing. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.920 You know. Sometimes I like to do a lot of 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.840 background vocals and that will take a couple of hours. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.160 But if it's something a little bit more simple, we 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.880 can get done earlier. Rachel and I would just we 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.560 spent a little bit of time talking about interviews and 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.000 how to be interviewed. And did you feel like you'd 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.120 learned anything? Yes, I learned a lot. Do you think 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.120 because we sat down in a living room just for 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.120 a bit of time. I'm glad you asked that. Okay, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.360 I'll tell you some some hacks I t because I 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.200 come from the land of not only am I interviewing everyone, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.280 the biggest artists to brand new artists that I really 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.880 like their music. And I don't have to interview everyone 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:37.600 because they're a big artist, and I say no to 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.200 all the time. There are new artists that people will go, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.800 why would you put them on? And I'd be like, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.240 because I love their music, right, And so I was 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.760 kind of I interviewed everyone, and I also have interviewed 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.640 all the time because I'm also not I'm just not 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.600 an interview radio guy. I also do other things. People 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.480 want interview me for their shows, and so um I 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.760 was telling her, I said, sometimes about once or twice 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.640 an interview, tell them that's a that's a really good question, 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.600 that's a great question. Make them feel like, wow, do 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.000 you really think I'm special in interviewing. I've never been 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:08.560 asked by honestly, genuinely, I do want to say that 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.800 to people sometimes and I think it and I don't 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.560 say it out loud. So I think I'm glad you 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.440 pointed that out because she's doing it right now. People 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.760 people ask me some very intriguing questions sometimes and I'm like, okay, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.360 I can get into this. Thank you for asking me. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.760 So that's that's great advice. And then what do you 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.360 what do you not? She's using my words back? I 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.640 told her, I said, I'm not teaching you how to 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.039 do every interview. I'm just tools. Here's our tools. Rachel Um. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.400 You said not to say I get that question. All 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.520 that's I get when because there are some questions you 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.839 just have to ask an interview and you don't want to, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:50.919 but you feel like if you don't, there's part of 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.320 your audience that is new to whom. For example, Dan 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.800 and Shaye. I've known him since the very beginning, but 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.960 there are times I have to be like, hey, so 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.240 how did you guys get to go there again? And 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.200 I'm not doing it for me, but I'm doing it 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.039 for the people listening. And they wouldn't do this to 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.680 me at this point, but they could easily be like, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.320 oh man, we get asked all the time, and all 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.080 of a sudden, you're like, I know, yeah, I really like, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.680 I know you get asked all the time, but throw 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.000 me a bone. Just answer the freaking question. Yeah, you know, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.359 that's a basic, great question that a lot of people 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:24.560 might not know, so it's very informational. You don't say, oh, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.560 I get that all the time? Quit it question? Do 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.080 you get asked all the time? I get asked if 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:38.679 I am Leanne Wimac's daughter, Rachel Walmack, Leanne Womack. Yeah, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.680 a lot of people I don't know. They don't know 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.720 our names are spelled differently. But I have never met 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.599 LeAnn Wimac. I've never met her. I would love to 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.960 meet her and just tell her that everyone thinks I'm 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.920 her daughter. But she does have a daughter who's in 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.760 country music Aubrey Sellers who I'm sure it is fantastic. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.560 But lean Willmack and I get our hair done at 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.039 the same place, So that's all pretty great? Is that 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.159 my anecdote? Yet? Great answer? Right, that's good, that's funny, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.880 but that is pretty I am like, pretty honored that 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.560 we get our hair done at the same place, and 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.480 her hair always looks amazing, so I trust mine hopefully 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.440 well too. How much the haircut cost for you our 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:23.360 style more than it is in Alabama? Yeah, but I wonder, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:28.479 I wonder, like I don't know if Leanne like has 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.240 to because I feel like she has a lot of 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.120 different colors too, like overtime, So not the question I asked, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.120 how much is the haircut like an actual mind, I'll 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.720 go first my style. If I go in it's like 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.600 and then I'm close with it's probably more for you 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.920 and I'm close to my pace. I get like color too, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.160 so I don't think yeah, I mean under a little 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.200 under two hundred. But it also depends if I'm doing 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.279 like a partial or a full color. How often do 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.880 you do a color? It depends I'm going arcor right now. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:06.480 So basically my cral is like growing out my natural 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.600 hair color. It's kind of like people doing ombre a 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.320 little bit, but she grows out my natural hair color 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.720 and also colors the top of my head the natural 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.440 hair color. So it's like it can grow out now 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.800 and I don't have to get it colored as much 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.280 because it's hard when you're like on radio tour and touring, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.280 like you can't just go and get your hair done 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.680 all the time. So they work with me. Listen, I 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.720 get I can't get mine done all the time. My 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.920 I have my stylus on all the time. Like if 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.760 you get like tomorrow, I'm going because I was like, yeah, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.640 I'm gonna go shoot American Idol, And how often do 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.160 you get your hair done? More than I probably should. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.960 But anytime I have to go back on camera, I 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.920 make it fresh, and I trying to make the toplic fresh. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.440 Top needs to look a little bit long, but I 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.640 can't have my neck all gross if I'm on TV. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.840 Sometimes a week and a half, sometimes a month and 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.080 a half, but that's how Yes, well one would never 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.920 be a week and a half. But yeah, I feel 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.840 your mind's probably okay. They say, like for color you 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.760 go in like every six or eight weeks, but I 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.040 probably wait longer. So let me play some of these 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.760 songs real quick. Let's this is Rachel Walmack. This is 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.200 a song that we just talked about. This is called Damage, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:32.280 Go Ahead, can Do, can Do? All right? Tell me 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:38.920 about this song. Well, when I moved to Nashville from 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:44.320 Muscle Shoals, I didn't have a deal and so I 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.600 had to get a job. And I didn't know anybody 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.760 in Nashville, hardly other than my friend who worked at 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.079 this bar in Green Hills, and he got me a 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.160 job working with him, and um, I was a job 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.800 I've worked as a bartender, and I'd never been a 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.880 bartender before and I worked there for a year and 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.800 I was pretty crappy bartender. Well I'm not I've never 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:18.040 been good at making drinks, so like Martini's are really difficult, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.800 Margarita's are difficult. But the good thing was it was 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.000 a hotel bar, so a lot of people just wanted 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.240 like gin and tonic or whiskey and coke or whatever. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:31.560 But despite not being the quickest at making drinks, the 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.280 nights that were like really slow, and I would have 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.440 one or two people come and just sit with me 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.199 for like three or four hours. I would I feel 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.160 like I was a therapist to people a lot, and 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.440 I would just hear a lot of stories that I 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.439 didn't expect people to open up and tell me. And 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.160 it made me feel really good because I felt like 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.920 people told me a lot of things that they probably 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.760 hadn't shared with like friends or family in years, things 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.559 that you just kind of bottle up over time. And um, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.320 it was it was really cool because I got to 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.679 share stories too, and I just felt like we're not 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:15.080 all that different. And damage just came. Uh. The next day, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:21.520 after writing UM with Mr Tom Douglas and M. David Hodges, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.520 and I just told him about me bartending and hearing 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.360 some of these stories, and I was like, I don't 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.800 really know what I'm doing, but you know, I feel 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.080 like a lot of people really need to be listened to, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.280 UM and it's really important for us. And I'm glad 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.000 that I was able to be a bartender so I 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.439 could listen to people and um just be there for people. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:47.240 And I felt like in my life before being a bartender, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.960 I was not a really great listener, and I feel 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.720 like I wasn't honestly like it made me a better 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.640 friend just being a bartender, because I don't know. The 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.439 funny thing is, I wasn't able to leave, you know, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.560 when people telling me stories. But I think that was 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.720 like really really important that I, you know, had to 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.760 be there. And I was like, this is really important 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.199 what I'm doing, because you know, they say like your 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.439 bar tender, in your hairdresser or whatever. They they are 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.880 your therapist, and it was really awesome. I'm thankful that 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.320 my first single came from the job that I never 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.560 thought I would have. It's funny that you talk about 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.520 being a bartender making you a better friend. I feel 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.119 like being a waiter made me a better human because 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.800 as soon as you have to depend on other people, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.480 and hopefully you have to, you know, make your means 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.600 through their kindness. It makes you such a just a 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.240 better person. And treat people differently, and to treat your 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.440 you know, and it's a metaphor, but treat your waiter 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.000 is different. Everybody different. Oh yeah, I mean I tipped 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.280 on bartenders, you know, yeah, because you know, because you know, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.079 because you're a bartender, is having to pay their based 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.880 on your tips. Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.360 live in Nashville if I, you know, wouldn't have had 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.120 a job. And and I'm thankful though that that was 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.360 the job. I mean not only because I got my 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.600 first single, but like you said, like I just feel 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.840 like it made my heart better and made me um 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.000 like not cut people off in conversation when they're trying 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.280 to talk about something deep or important because a lot 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.280 of times I'd be like I gotta go, I gotta 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.400 you know, do whatever. And I feel like I give 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.880 people more of my time now. Yeah, those early jobs 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.400 like I worked at hobby lobby for a long time 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.720 and I love hobby lobby. And then my name takes 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:46.360 a hobby lobby Bobby, Yeah, I got made fun of Yes, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.160 that's right where the song came from. 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Alright, so how about we do you 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.120 know what song I like? And I think I put 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.280 this on my answer story A long time to go 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:17.959 with closure? Yeah, yeah, yeah, any story behind this one. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:23.880 I wrote this with Mr Johnny Price, and in Nashville, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:29.840 we do a lot of like three way rights and 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.160 and this was just the two of us, and this 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.400 was probably my longest rite I've ever had in my life. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:42.240 I think we wrote from eleven am too, probably seven 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.480 at night, and then Johnny wanted to come back the 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.760 next day and continue to rework the vocals. And my 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.640 voice was like just shot and yeah and and um 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.800 okay because after singing like eight hours straight, and at 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.600 that point, I hadn't had much vocal coaching either, so 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:02.800 I didn't really know how to warm up. And I 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.560 just like torched my voice that day. And I came 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.600 back and I was like pissed because I was like, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.400 my voice is so tired. I was like, Johnny, come on, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.880 And it ended up being one of my favorite songs 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.120 I've ever written. And I'm so thankful that he was 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.520 as conscious and intentional about getting the right vocal on 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.000 the demo because when I went in the studio with Dan, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.000 I just felt like I knew exactly what it was 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.360 supposed to be like, so it was worth every second. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:38.080 And he's brilliant. There's a Bobby Castle with Dan Huff, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.240 which we did a year and a half ago. Yeah, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.160 And I'm a big Dan Huff fan because even when 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.000 he played, he's a player. I mean he and he 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.200 has Michael Jackson stories and he has Paul Abdul stories 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.760 and now he produces the coolest stuff. But I asked 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.040 him a long time ago, I said, Hey, who is 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.720 at the Druk one? Now that's like any good that 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:03.160 I've never heard of? He said, your freaking name? What 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.760 I love Dan? Enclosure is um was one of Dan's favorites. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.920 I feel like that we did on that EP and 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:17.120 Um he's the best man. And leave me not voicemail, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.760 He'll leave me voice text. He do. He's like, he's 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.000 like Bobby, hey man, I just watching it was so 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.680 great that he's the nicest guy. Well he is the 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.160 first way, uh, I ever heard about you because we 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.520 went in to the studio and he actually had to 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.800 push it back a little bit later and I didn't 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.760 know why, but I went in with him later and 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.840 he was like, yeah, sorry, I had to, you know, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.720 push us back. I just did this interview with Bobby 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.400 Bones and I was like, oh, yeah, I've heard of 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.120 him and he was like, oh, he's he's awesome and 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.040 he said I felt well. I asked him. I was like, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.600 you know, do you like interviewing after all this time? 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.560 Like how how was it with Bobby? And he said 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.320 it was amazing because he had my tracks that I 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.399 had done when I was a teenager pulled up and 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.639 it was just like a really cool experience because he 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.440 had all the knowledge and just made me feel so welcomed. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:22.000 And I was like, Okay, Bobby's cool, Bobby's cool. You 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:26.040 know me too. And the coolest best part about Dan 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:32.520 other than him being a brilliant musician producer, is that 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:38.359 he is one of my favorite humans ever. And even 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.120 though he has like the most amazed, like just amazing 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.000 repertoire of all the things he've done, he's done on 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:51.440 these amazing projects. Um, he's humble, like genuinely humble and 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.800 genuinely kind, and it's just awesome to work with someone 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.879 like that, because I was intimidated going in with my 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.440 first producer ever, and I was like, crap, this guy's 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.399 gonna be like it's my way or the highway. You know, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.800 I've done all this stuff, and he's truly collaborative and 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.320 just made me feel like my ideas are just as 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.480 valid as his, and I don't know, that's just a 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:22.120 really good feeling for someone like me who's young and inexperienced, 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:26.280 and he just made me feel important. If you listen 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.040 to the Dan Have Bobby cast, it's back a few episodes, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.680 but there's a story he tells about being in an 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.320 airport and hearing uh, like a guitar look and he's like, 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.600 that's really good. It's a Paula Abdul song. Is that's 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.639 a good And his brother's like, yeah, that's huge. I 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:44.880 mean when he just went in the studio and played 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.600 it reading off the paper and then once the list 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.080 goes on and on, so yeah, yeah, yeah, So shout 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.240 out Dan if you're listening to this I love you. Dan. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.960 You're from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Yeah, what's that? What's that 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.080 tell me about you? Growing up? Well, Hustle Shoals is 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:06.720 like two hours south of Nashville. And yeah, and so 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.679 I can go home heck in a day, or just 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.480 spend a weekend at home and come back. I'm pretty spoiled. Um, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:18.400 but I'll I will say. You know, the Muscle Strolls 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:24.320 music history is just very vast and very amazing, um 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.360 as far as its blues history. And so you would 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.679 think that I would be like some blues guitar player, 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.600 but actually my main instrument in the high school marching 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:43.680 band was the marimba and oversized xylophone. That's what's called 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.800 it's a marimba. Marimba. How but how do you get 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.560 into doing the marimba the first time? Well, I started 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.879 in middle school band. And I remember being in the 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:03.119 middle school band playing the uh snare drum because I 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.119 don't know, I just liked the percussive instruments. And we 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.240 watched the high school players do this concert one night 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.280 and I saw for their like into the show, they 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.639 had a bunch of it was marimba's and vibraphones and xylophones. 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:26.000 Sorry if I bore you. Xylophone, what's it called the vibraphone? Yeah, 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.360 so it's it's a xylophone with a pedal and it's 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.000 like a metal instrument. And um, anyway, they did this 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.080 really cool song and everyone was just performing so well, 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.439 like smiling, and it just sounded really cool and unique, 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.080 and I was like, I just I want to do 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.120 that one day. And so in high school I tried 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.440 out for the marimba and started playing in this thing 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.960 called percussion ensemble and which taught me a lot of 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.679 work ethic and we competed and a piano though I 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.760 played piano. Um My mom made me take lessons when 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.760 I was six years old, and she said, you need 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.840 to take four years of lessons and then you can 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.880 do whatever you want. And I'm thankful that she did 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.480 because now I get to play piano as part of 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.280 my shows. It's amazing playing piano the whole time. So 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.560 after ten years old, you stay on the piano. Yeah, 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.800 So I hated lessons with like a burning passion, which 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:21.800 I guess any little kid, you know, they don't like 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:26.639 to sit down forever. But um, I played for four years, 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.520 learned some great theory, I feel like, and learned how 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.479 to read music. And then in middle school, at like 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:38.240 eleven and twelve, I was listening to Sarah Burrillis and 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:44.040 Adele who were very piano driven m artists at the time, 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.200 and it was something that I was like, I could 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:51.120 learn these songs on piano. So I started learning, learned 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.879 someone like you on the piano and m I learned 0:21:55.640 --> 0:22:00.119 uh Gravity by Sarah Burrillis, and I just feel in 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:05.520 love with figuring out how different songs just come together 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.760 on the piano keys and how I could play them. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.280 And that was what birthed a song writing for me 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:16.560 because I just started writing my own music and put 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.240 chords together and I just loved the way the piano sounded, 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.320 and so it just kind of went from there. I 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.119 just kept on writing in middle school, in high school, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.359 were you like King Dingling of music in school? Like 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.840 in college, were there like she's the best like this 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:39.320 big um no? But I was kind of an attention hog. 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:45.760 I feel like I always, um like, just wanted to perform, 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:47.960 Like that's all I wanted to do. Literally, my whole 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.680 life is performing. My parents say that at family gatherings 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:54.440 when I was really little at my grandparents they had 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.680 this little blue stool in the middle of the room 0:22:57.720 --> 0:22:59.720 and I would get on top of the little blue 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.520 stool and I would say, everybody's singing with me, and 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:06.359 I just wanted, like to perform for whoever, And like 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.040 that carried in middle school, in high school for our 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:15.040 graduating class. I wrote a song for a graduating class 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:19.720 and performed it at graduation. I did, and like, now, 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.400 I'm like, that's so nerdy, but everybody said that they 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.160 liked it, and like, you know, everybody was crying. But 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:32.200 what it was called thanks for the memories. It was 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:36.399 so lame, but it was really fun and it's a 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:40.240 sweet memory now. But um yeah, I just I love 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.080 performing out and I was. I was song grinding a 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:45.960 whole lot in high school and just working on my craft. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:48.760 My high school graduation, I wrote a poem and read 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:54.120 it out out it would stop. But you sing a song, 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:56.040 it's the same thing. Like I wrote a big poem. No, 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.040 I love that, Okay, Well, I love the fact that 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:00.600 you played a song. Well. Thanks. I look back at 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:02.439 my poem. I think I have it here in my 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:05.280 house somewhere, and I was like, how cheesy is this? 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.520 But you know, we should always look back at the 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:10.600 work we created a long time ago and think, oh, 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:12.919 that kind of sucks, because as long as it still sucks, 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:16.919 I mean, we are going and so it's okay to 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:20.760 feel that way. Well, mine, I always talk about food 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:26.399 in my songs. I've well, I can't remember. I think 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:29.720 we talked about French fries in the song, but you 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.840 thanks for the memory. Miss all you guys there was 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.360 something like a sharing French fries or whatever. You know 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:42.040 you were, Miss University of North Alabama. Yes, I was. 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:45.199 You're a pageant girl. No, I wouldn't say I was 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.800 a pageant girl. Paget. You're a paget girl. I guess 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.560 I was. I just feel like I wasn't, but I started. 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:55.600 I didn't grow up doing pageants. There's nothing wrong with 0:24:55.960 --> 0:25:00.199 pet I know. I'm just saying. Most girls in the 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:03.159 pageant that competed with me would say it's not like 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.920 negative or positive that I just really wasn't a pageant girl. 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:10.840 And like in high school, I feel like I maybe 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:14.760 did one pageant in high school. No, do you know 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:18.119 how Judgments America this year? This last time? Yes, I 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:22.040 was one of the freaking judges I control. It was crazy. 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:24.240 How did you feel like it had too much power? 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:27.120 To be honest, because what they did is they cut 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:30.360 it from they cut it to like the top twenty four, 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:31.880 and they pulled us in a room. It was me, 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:39.159 Randy Jackson from American Idol. I love Randy. It was 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:42.520 Carrie I was dead host because she wasn't a judge. 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:46.080 So anyway, I'm judging and there are like five of us, 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.280 and I'm like writing scores down and the freaking girl 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:53.320 that I picked one, it's crazy. You knew that had 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:55.879 too much power? We wait to watch to watch videos. 0:25:55.880 --> 0:25:57.959 My point was there's a lot that goes into that. 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:04.159 There's a lot. And I went into UM competing for 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:08.600 miss University of North Alabama because UM, I wanted to 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.240 pay for my college, and that's it's like one of 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:17.560 the primary things is it's a scholarship pageant and so 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.880 and me again wanting to perform. I knew that there 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:25.640 was a talent portion, and I knew that I had 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:33.000 a unique instrument, the marimba. I played it, yes and no. 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:38.760 So what I did was I played the marimba and 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:42.680 I had a lapel mic and I sang. And so 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:46.560 when I was competing for Miss u n A, I 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:58.480 played flashdance What a Feeling by Irene Karra. Yes, yes, 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:02.040 And I had my high school band director arrange UM 0:27:03.000 --> 0:27:05.560 like a version of that for me to play on Maremba. 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:08.280 And I learned it and it was so freaking fun, 0:27:08.440 --> 0:27:11.440 Like I loved it, and everyone else was like, oh 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.520 my gosh, this is so different. And I one talent 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:17.879 at Miss n A and and ended up winning the 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:20.639 whole thing. And I went and competed at Miss Alabama 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:24.119 and I'm like, what am I doing here? Like I 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:26.040 don't know what I'm doing, and all these girls are 0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:31.119 so experienced, and I learned just I learned how to 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:35.080 walk in hills, um running hills. But it was really 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:39.919 cool because playing um and doing my talent for that 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.040 larger of an audience, I feel like prepared me even 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:46.359 for something like you know, playing on your million dollars show, 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:50.240 like just it was another practice for me for playing 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:54.879 for bigger audiences. And it was really fun. Yeah that's funny. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.880 Could you still play Maramba? I think I can. Yeah. 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:00.240 I played it at at a radio station. Act really 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:03.560 on radio tour. They heard that I played maremba and 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:08.440 brought the maremba from their high school in that area. 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:11.080 And that's a funny bit. Who do you remember what 0:28:11.119 --> 0:28:12.720 show it was? I get my shot out gets a funny, 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:17.440 but um, it was in Florida. They were literally so 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:20.159 so sweet and brought like mallets and everything, and I 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:24.399 played I played the irene ka um and it was 0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:29.159 just it was awesome, like standing of of all whatever 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.800 fifteen listeners that were in. There wasn't on the air. 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:36.119 Um well it was on the air, but everyone in 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:38.560 the room like they had some listeners come in and 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:40.320 it was just so funny. I thought that was so 0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:43.680 thoughtful like of them to bring in the marimba because normally, 0:28:43.720 --> 0:28:46.280 you know, I'm just playing piano or or not playing 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:50.960 at all. It's playing piano, so so you're playing marimba. 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:52.880 If you pull that out on stage at some point 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:54.960 like a real like you're playing a show, people would 0:28:54.960 --> 0:29:00.560 lose their crap, right if I'm telling you, let me 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:06.719 tell you, Bobby, Okay, one day, my if if I 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:10.320 can headline a show, go ahead, you will at some point. Um, 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:14.200 my encore would be the marimba and I would do 0:29:14.360 --> 0:29:17.920 I would do like three songs, just so it could 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:23.040 be like, thing, you just want to do one, like 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:25.280 you want to roll it out, you want to what 0:29:25.320 --> 0:29:27.160 you wanna do is I'm gonna go ahead and set 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:29.520 yourself when you see it one day, you're gonna want 0:29:29.560 --> 0:29:32.680 three songs. But here's here's what you do, ready, Rachel. 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:34.400 I want to tell you how to play the Miranda 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:36.880 because I've never even seen one in your next you 0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:38.640 know you know it if you saw it, this is 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:42.120 what I would do. I would roll it out and 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:45.680 I'd be like, what if being you right now? What 0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:48.800 what is this? What this like a big old xylophone. 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:52.080 I'm supposed to like hit this thing and you go bing. 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:56.600 You're like, huh thing bing, Well, this is crazy, and 0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:58.200 you look back at your guys go does anyone who 0:29:58.200 --> 0:30:00.280 want to work this thing? Is it plugged in? At 0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:03.720 this point, everyone's like she's got a huge hot phone. 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:09.360 This is funny, bing bibing bing bing, huh well, I 0:30:09.360 --> 0:30:11.320 guess I can try it. Pours out the full the 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:13.520 four mallets and yeah, and it's like, oh what a 0:30:13.600 --> 0:30:16.400 bit you crush it in the crouds like, oh my god, 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:19.040 because I do it. That would be the debut. It 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:21.320 would be hilarious. People will be shocked and you would 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:24.360 crush it because you would do it. You would tilt 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:26.480 them a certain way of them rooting for you, going, oh, 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:28.800 we obviously are familiar with this instrument. I right, and 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:30.120 they're like, oh, this is gonna be Then when you 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.400 crush it, they go the whole different direction and they're 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:34.920 so moved by it there they'll give you a standing out. 0:30:35.200 --> 0:30:38.960 I'm telling you, Okay, we're gonna do it. It's my dream. 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:42.760 I've always wanted to do it, but it's definitely hard 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:47.360 to transport it seems like. So I do a bit 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:51.040 on my comedy shows where if we can and if 0:30:51.040 --> 0:30:54.480 Brandon Ray's opening for me, do you love him? Love him? 0:30:54.560 --> 0:30:56.760 And he's in the crowd, I will We did this 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.400 in Michigan and and so I'll be like, hey, listen, 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:00.920 I'd like to give new Art's the shots or anybody 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:03.200 in the crowd who plays guitar, and so if you 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:05.440 people raise your hand and I'll be like, what about you? 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:08.080 And then it's Brandon have Planet in the crowd, and 0:31:08.120 --> 0:31:09.760 then Brandon will walk out be like, what's your name? 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:12.320 Manna go mana'ge Jimmy like Jimmy, you ever played for 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:13.600 a crowd this big because there'll be a couple of 0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:18.640 thousand people there. Uh no, just give it a shot, 0:31:18.720 --> 0:31:20.680 jim And then he takes the same thing, right, he 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.880 got clung clungk clunk, And I'm like, dude, just take 0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:27.160 take a breath, and then he'll play and he'll go 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:29.840 and then he just crushes it, and the crowd has 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:32.360 gone from just rooting for him with all their money 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:37.400 and then they're all like, Okay, I love that, so 0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:40.320 um tell him. So you've told me the story before, 0:31:40.400 --> 0:31:42.320 but I think it's such an interesting story. So you're 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:44.800 playing and arrested one of those spinning restaurants in Alabama? 0:31:45.320 --> 0:31:46.960 Are you just playing at dinner or something like trying 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:49.560 to make a few bucks for for college or what? Yeah, 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:52.640 So this had become at this point kind of a 0:31:52.640 --> 0:31:56.800 regular gig for me in Alabama. More one let one? 0:31:56.840 --> 0:32:00.320 Did you win Miss Alabama? Where do you place? I 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:03.480 didn't make top ten, but I did win, So I 0:32:03.520 --> 0:32:05.160 don't know what place I did if you're not top 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:08.880 ten or whatever, um, but I did win Miss Congeniality 0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:12.200 and I won talent overall, which was cool. You got 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:16.240 two things you didn't even it's weird like that. It's weird. 0:32:16.320 --> 0:32:18.760 You never know. I should have been judging this one. Well. 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:21.640 My parents were like after I won the preliminary talent, 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:23.640 my parents were like, oh, she's top ten, She's top 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:26.719 to a moment, I'm like, y'all, do not get excited 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:29.240 because I didn't make top ten. But I did get 0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:32.680 enough scholarship money to pay for college, and that was 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:35.600 my goal. And I learned a lot of really wonderful 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:40.360 things along the way, how to um, you know, volunteer 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:43.160 like things that I just didn't realize when along with 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:47.040 the pageant. So anyway, anyway, let's talk about you're playing 0:32:47.040 --> 0:32:52.280 in the rotating restaurant. Yes, so the restaurant is in Florence, Alabama, 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:57.120 which I'll educate you a little bit. Muscle Shoals and Florence, 0:32:57.160 --> 0:33:00.760 Alabama are separated just by this bridge. So Muscle Shoals 0:33:00.760 --> 0:33:03.000 is where I grew up, Florence is where the rotating 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:05.840 restaurant is, and where the University of North Alabama is 0:33:05.960 --> 0:33:09.560 there like in the same area. And it had become 0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:14.160 like my regular thing, um because I would sub ind 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:18.200 for my friend Mr Harvey Thompson Jr. Who's like the 0:33:18.240 --> 0:33:22.840 most fabulous piano player, and he just had me feeling 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.160 for him when he couldn't make it, and he was 0:33:25.160 --> 0:33:26.680 playing a lot of gigs, so I just feel in 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:30.600 for him a lot. And it's a rotating restaurant, which 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:35.200 means like the tables are moving on the outside, but 0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:38.640 I would be stationary, so people would come by me 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:40.600 and like hear me, like really loud and close, and 0:33:40.600 --> 0:33:42.560 then they'd move away and they're like, can hear before 0:33:42.560 --> 0:33:45.400 a while? And I was like, okay, cool. But it's 0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:47.160 kind of nice for people that want to have a 0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:48.920 nice dinner because you can have time to talk and 0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:50.680 then you can come back around and listen to music. 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:55.200 So one night, um, I noticed this guy at the 0:33:55.240 --> 0:34:01.000 bar um and I have no idea who he was, 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:02.880 but I knew he was paying attention to my music, 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:05.440 and so I always try to cater to whoever that is, 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:08.600 and you know, if they want to ask me, you know, 0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:10.560 to play something for him, I'll try to play a 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:14.239 cover and he he just though just I felt like 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:17.279 he was just really appreciating the music. And then I 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:19.960 saw him go over to his table, and so I 0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:21.680 didn't see him for a while and then at the 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:23.440 end of the night he comes up to me again 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:27.480 and uh, he gives me his card and he says, hey, 0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:32.480 I'm Jim. Uh, I'm from Sony Music in Nashville. And 0:34:32.600 --> 0:34:35.040 I was a senior in high school, so I was 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:39.880 seventeen and literally thought he was about to kidnap me. 0:34:40.440 --> 0:34:44.640 Like I'm like, this is catchy. I don't know, he's 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:47.840 not definitely not who he says he is. And anyway, 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:49.880 but I was like, thank you so much, you know, 0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:51.640 for like in my music. And he was like, you know, 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:53.960 let me know if you would ever like to talk about, 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:57.239 you know, your songwriting career and maybe if you'd be 0:34:57.239 --> 0:34:59.879 interested in moving to Nashville. UM, I'd love to talk 0:34:59.880 --> 0:35:04.000 to your parents because I'm like just a kid. And 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:07.560 so anyway, I took the card home and my parents 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:12.160 were like, no, this is legit Sony Nashville. And so 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:16.000 my dad and I went to Nashville, um first time 0:35:16.160 --> 0:35:19.759 for me, and we met with Jim and just talked 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:23.040 about what it would be like to songwrite. And we 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:25.480 actually looked out his window and saw like all of 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:28.440 music Row and he was like, yeah, everyone goes just 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:30.920 about every day to ride in these little houses out there, 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:32.040 and I was like, why would they do that? I 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:35.120 don't even understand why. Everybody, like it was so foreign 0:35:35.120 --> 0:35:40.759 to me, the whole thing. And so we even you know, 0:35:41.280 --> 0:35:44.200 talked about moving to Nashville instead of going to college, 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:47.880 like what that would be like and um, So we 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.600 had a great meeting. But I ended up, you know, 0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:54.200 knowing in my gut that I wanted to go get 0:35:54.239 --> 0:35:56.759 a degree because that's something you know, nobody can ever 0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:59.680 take away from me. And I am really glad that 0:35:59.719 --> 0:36:04.320 I got one because it was cool, you know, growing 0:36:04.400 --> 0:36:07.600 up in my hometown and then performing out in my hometown. 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.439 I had a lot of support and I would play 0:36:10.480 --> 0:36:14.319 at a lot of different restaurants and that would turn 0:36:14.360 --> 0:36:18.359 into me playing at people's business meetings and playing at 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:22.720 people's weddings and just parties and like playing people's barns, 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:28.120 like just literally so much fun. And that would be 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:32.320 like basically helping me pay rent as well. In college 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:36.759 and um worked on my craft as a songwriter. And 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:39.440 I'm thankful, you know, everybody's path is different, but I'm 0:36:39.520 --> 0:36:43.400 thankful that I spent my you know, four years of 0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:46.680 college they're developing. UM, because I felt like I was 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:49.880 able to just really focus on me, and here, you know, 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:52.160 there's so many artists, I feel like you can just 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:55.839 feel like you're getting lost. And I really felt like 0:36:56.560 --> 0:37:01.680 I could just completely be myself. And so then I 0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:06.360 graduated college and I remember I was running on the 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:09.880 treadmill and I had this thought in my head and 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:12.600 it was just just can't just like text Gym now 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:16.360 and invite him to a show? And so I was like, Okay, 0:37:16.480 --> 0:37:18.319 I guess, I guess I'll invite him because I felt 0:37:18.320 --> 0:37:20.680 like that was kind of bold to do. But um, 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:25.040 I invited him and he said, this is like June 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:31.560 two thousand sixteen, and he says, yeah, yeah, And so 0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:34.960 he says, I'm um, it's really crazy here at c 0:37:35.120 --> 0:37:38.680 M A fest in Nashville, and that's just like nuts 0:37:38.719 --> 0:37:41.799 for us. So would you be willing to just come 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:44.319 play for our A and R team and just bring 0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:47.080 your piano and do your new songs here? And I 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:49.480 was like, yeah, of course. And I didn't realize how 0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:52.719 cool that was like to have that opportunity, um, but 0:37:52.800 --> 0:37:57.280 it was amazing having known him um for the several 0:37:57.360 --> 0:37:59.720 years that I had and just asking him questions along 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.399 the way. A I wasn't like super nervous to play 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.759 for them, and so I just like I went and 0:38:05.800 --> 0:38:08.640 played like four songs for them and sang my heart out, 0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:12.200 and Taylor Lindsay on their team was just like, you 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:17.040 need to move here now, and I was like, well, 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:20.920 y'all aren't offering a deal, so I don't know what 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:24.040 I was supposed to do. And within two weeks I 0:38:24.080 --> 0:38:27.840 had contacted my friend who was bartending Green Hills and 0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:29.799 had known a girl who was living in Madison. I 0:38:29.880 --> 0:38:33.680 just lived in a room in her house and moved 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:37.200 to Nashville two weeks later, and I can't believe it, 0:38:37.760 --> 0:38:40.360 And now you have a deal with Sony R c A. 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:43.880 And as soon as I got to Nashville, you know, 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:47.040 I was bartending every night and songwriting every day. And 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:49.879 I'm thankful for that year of songwriting because I met 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:53.160 so many people. I was thankful and blessed to being 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:57.520 a lot of really just just rooms with really brilliant people, 0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:01.799 and ended up signing with the I didn't know they 0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:05.920 were just as serious about signing me as an artist, 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:09.040 like I thought they loved me as a songwriter. But 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:15.920 I was surprised, like about a year into moving Um, 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:19.040 Jim said, Hey, we wanna um schedule a meeting and 0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:20.719 you just play as some of the new songs you've 0:39:20.760 --> 0:39:23.680 been writing in town. And I was like, Okay, let's 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:26.399 do it. And at the end of that meeting, they 0:39:26.440 --> 0:39:30.120 offered me a developmental deal and I was just blown 0:39:30.160 --> 0:39:34.000 away because I wasn't expecting that at all, and um, 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:35.759 I mean, I guess I was very naive to how 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:39.200 the industry works, so they probably said words that I 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.759 didn't realize meant that they were wanting to sign me. 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:47.120 But I was just so honored and now I have 0:39:47.160 --> 0:39:51.680 an EP out and damage just went to radio and 0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:54.920 I'm just really thankful. It's pretty amazing story. It's crazy 0:39:55.000 --> 0:39:57.600 that you're just playing at a little restaurant. I know 0:39:57.800 --> 0:39:59.920 you would never know, and then it doesn't work out 0:39:59.920 --> 0:40:02.000 the first time, but then it kind of works out 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:03.759 the second time, and in the end it all kind 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:08.120 of worked out. It was really crazy and very like 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:10.600 a lot of people that I've met while I was 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.239 on radio tour, we've just talked about how amazing it 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:19.080 is that everybody has just a break and like whatever 0:40:19.160 --> 0:40:21.840 your break is, like it's just someone really really helping 0:40:21.880 --> 0:40:24.839 you out and seeing some potential in you. And I'm 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:27.640 just thankful that I was playing that night at that restaurant, 0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:30.479 or else we would have never met and my life 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:34.480 could be totally different. So it's pretty amazing. That's the 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:41.640 title of this podcast. It's Rachel Womack parentheses and how 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:48.200 she was discovered playing in a rotating restaurant. Make that 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:52.560 people look click on that. Have you seen the Netflix? Yes? 0:40:52.640 --> 0:40:55.920 I loved you. Have you watched the Firefest documentary yet? No? 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.560 I don't know what that is? Oh man, you should 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:02.399 watch it. It su there was a big festival two 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:05.120 years ago they were planning in the Bahamas and how 0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:07.359 this dude actually screwed to watch people out of their 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:11.560 money and it's he's in jail now, okay, and it's 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:15.200 it's good. It's interesting. F hy are Yeah, I remember 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:16.880 the news when it happened. It's kind of the thing 0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:19.239 everybody's talking about right now. And I want you to 0:41:19.280 --> 0:41:20.320 be a part of everybody, and I I want you to 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:22.400 be able to thank you. Okay. Cool. So there's a 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:25.919 there's one on Hulu, and there's one on Netflix. Have Hulu? Yes? 0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:30.720 You watch anything on Hulu? I? Um, well, I missed 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:33.640 The Bachelor this week, so I'm going to be watching 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:37.200 that on Oh crap, I was supposed to watch Yeah, 0:41:37.680 --> 0:41:41.000 I was supposed to watch that tonight. Hopefully I can 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:43.319 make it in time because I think it's on at 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.920 seven tonight on Hulu. Okay, I'll get you out of here. 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:48.479 No, no no, no, you're fine. Oh my gosh, you're so fun. 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:52.000 But what do you watch on Netflix? So right now, 0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:57.440 I've been having bad dreams after watching um you, have 0:41:57.560 --> 0:41:59.359 you heard of it? I watched the first episode now 0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:04.600 I just finished the season, so I have heard of it. Okay, 0:42:04.680 --> 0:42:07.640 so I'll watched the first episode of You and a Bit. 0:42:08.760 --> 0:42:10.279 I thought it was a little too creepy for me 0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:12.759 because it's about what i've seen you. I don't want 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:15.280 to spoil it for me, but I will not spoil it. 0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:17.879 It's about this dude, by the way, really good luck. 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:21.000 And dude, did you watch Gossip Girl? He's on Gossip 0:42:21.000 --> 0:42:23.000 Girl too. He's a little too good looking for me. 0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:26.400 Really get a little resentful. I don't think he's that cute. 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:28.680 You don't know, Oh, I think he's like super cute. 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:32.040 I think he's super right. So I think he's okay. 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.840 But and he works at a bookstore, yeah, which is 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:37.920 so that is cute, you know, and then she goes 0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:40.759 in and gets a book and he's like, oh, they're 0:42:40.880 --> 0:42:42.359 all hit on her. And then he like stalks her 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.440 and like finds everything about her. And that's all I know, 0:42:44.760 --> 0:42:47.240 because that's that's what they tell all that in episode 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:49.560 one an episode ones all I've watched, but I didn't 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:51.160 know if I wanted to go to episode two or not. 0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:56.120 I know same, So I can't watch I can't watch 0:42:56.160 --> 0:42:59.399 like thriller stuff by myself normally, and I don't watch 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:03.919 scary movies like it all. And this weekend we did 0:43:04.040 --> 0:43:09.680 like this last minute random show with Brett Young opening 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:12.880 up for him in Missouri and so on the way 0:43:12.920 --> 0:43:16.160 to and from the show, um, it was a seven 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:20.440 hour drive. I binged the show with my manager who 0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:22.920 had seen the whole show, so she was rewatching it 0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:29.560 with me, and it is crazy. I think you should 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:32.560 definitely watch it. No, it's well, I I just have 0:43:32.719 --> 0:43:35.080 very vivid dreams at night. I tried to read Twilight. 0:43:35.120 --> 0:43:38.239 I could act like a nightmare. That's great, Yeah, that's 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:41.040 what I'm saying. I know. I didn't sleep well last night, 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:45.319 Like I'm really tired today because I dreamed about him 0:43:45.360 --> 0:43:49.960 stalking me last night. I know, No, it's bad, but 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:54.600 the show is so good and it's I love it 0:43:54.760 --> 0:44:00.279 because there's so many twists, like the whole time and end. 0:44:01.000 --> 0:44:02.520 If I don't know if you've seen like a lot 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:05.759 of the feed on like Twitter or whatever anything I'm 0:44:05.800 --> 0:44:08.840 currently watching, well I haven't. I haven't seen the feed, 0:44:08.880 --> 0:44:12.080 but my my bestie is she is on top of 0:44:12.120 --> 0:44:15.439 all feed um, and she was saying that a lot 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:21.160 of people like him because of some of the things 0:44:21.200 --> 0:44:27.480 he does. Don't spoil it's like the protagonist antagonist at 0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:30.200 the same time. Yeah, because in the episode one he 0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:33.520 has a great relationship with the kid and he continues 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:35.440 that I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's almost like you 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:37.680 ever watched that he has some great son. No, so 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:40.239 Dexter is a serial killer, I know, and I didn't 0:44:40.239 --> 0:44:42.399 want to watch that where oh, it's such a good 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:45.200 show and you're like, oh, man to get them. But 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:48.040 he's also like a good dude. I know. See that's well, 0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:53.360 and you I'm not gonna spoil it, okay, why you 0:44:53.440 --> 0:45:00.440 know somewhat why he um does the things he does? Okay, 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:03.000 ever read that I watched that. No, I read it, 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:05.959 and the first one, yeah, I read it. The movie 0:45:06.000 --> 0:45:09.719 was weird. I never I never saw either of them. 0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:13.600 I feel like I have to stay up on all 0:45:13.719 --> 0:45:16.080 big things I can talk about. And then I lost 0:45:16.080 --> 0:45:18.040 a bet on the show where we all drew and 0:45:18.400 --> 0:45:20.040 I lost. I had to read the book and it 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:22.560 was pretty good. It's fine, but that was it as 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:25.160 good as the movie. I don't I don't know finishing 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:27.000 the movie. Remeb read the book is and how it 0:45:27.040 --> 0:45:31.560 relates is that because he's yeah, there's a reason he's 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:33.440 like I don't know if he's bad, but yes, okay, 0:45:33.640 --> 0:45:35.960 there's a reason he's like he is, and you go 0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:40.080 exactly like you have. They do a great job of 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:43.680 developing him as a character throughout the series, and it's 0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:48.399 only ten episodes, and so you do feel for him, 0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:52.360 but you're also like, bro, like my best, my best 0:45:52.400 --> 0:45:56.600 he was like, never mind, I'm not can't. I'm not 0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:58.840 gonna give him. You have to watch it, watch it. 0:45:58.920 --> 0:46:00.920 I will watch more view I'll give it two more 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:03.240 episodes before I make my decision that you have to watch. Definitely, 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:08.000 if you watch too, you have to watch Fire the documentary. Okay, yeah, well, 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:09.960 I don't. I'll watch Dexter, but i'll watch it with 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:12.680 somebody was like eight seasons, like this is a great show, 0:46:12.719 --> 0:46:16.080 but oh dang, okay, this is only one season for me. 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:18.239 Just watch the Firefest documentary. What we'll do it we 0:46:18.400 --> 0:46:19.919 have the phones in here, we'll call her and get 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:22.600 update on a podcast. Okay, so let me know after 0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:24.160 you're done with that, and we'll get a recap on 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:28.080 this podcast of the fire Festival. That sounds amazing. Um 0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:30.040 anything you're watching? You know what I watched on Amazon 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:35.920 was I'm still watching it is um Man in high Castle. No. 0:46:36.080 --> 0:46:37.560 I just started because a friend was like, you gotta 0:46:37.600 --> 0:46:39.719 watch it. It's like if World War two would have 0:46:39.800 --> 0:46:43.320 ended the other way where we got beat and Japan 0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:46.759 and Germany one America was taken over by them. Oh 0:46:46.840 --> 0:46:49.879 but anyway, clap The idea is very interesting. The movie 0:46:50.040 --> 0:46:52.279 it's a little slow. Okay, you ever see you ever 0:46:52.280 --> 0:46:55.640 watch Amazon anything on Amazon? No? Have you ever seen Office? 0:46:56.840 --> 0:47:00.839 Shut your face? I watch all the that all the time. 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.799 So I watched it probably more than you did. Yeah, 0:47:05.360 --> 0:47:13.919 like Scott's tats or no? Okay, no, everybody, So that's 0:47:13.920 --> 0:47:16.560 the episode that you decide if they love it or 0:47:16.600 --> 0:47:19.040 hate it. Scott's Tats is where Michael Scott tells these 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:22.200 kids in kindergarten he's gonna pay for their college. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:24.400 And then he goes back and he's like, they're a 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:27.600 big party for him. They're like, I love that episode 0:47:27.880 --> 0:47:34.080 just because I love every episode. Um, and over Christmas break, 0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:37.680 I got my parents watching and they've never seen like 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:41.359 a real episode. And now my dad is like bench 0:47:41.360 --> 0:47:43.640 watching The Office for the first time, and it's so 0:47:43.760 --> 0:47:47.759 fulfilling for me that I showed them. But I do 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:50.520 like that episode, even though like most people say they 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:53.440 don't it makes them uncomfortable. I like, I love uncomfortable. 0:47:54.440 --> 0:47:59.120 It's love best, my best comedy to watch and to live. Yes, 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:01.640 do you like to dinner Party episode where they go 0:48:01.680 --> 0:48:04.840 over to Jan's and Michael's apart of it condo. Yes, 0:48:05.000 --> 0:48:07.759 And it's super uncomfortable the whole thing, like she's done 0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:09.919 a fish ready, takes three hours sleep on the foot 0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:12.439 of the bed. It's the best. He shows a little TV. 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:15.400 That's a good one. Well and see that's like my 0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:18.040 mom at first was like, I just this is just 0:48:18.320 --> 0:48:21.640 it's too uncomfortable, you know, it's too awkward. I'm like, 0:48:22.080 --> 0:48:25.680 that's the point though, mom, because because it gets you 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:28.360 into your weird you know, I do this joke. I 0:48:28.400 --> 0:48:30.440 love uncomfortable, right, And I do this joke on my 0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:31.759 stand up tour. I haven't done it in a bit 0:48:31.800 --> 0:48:34.080 because I wrote about in my book, but my second book. 0:48:34.360 --> 0:48:37.839 But I go out and I say, by the way, 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:40.279 I don't I mean, I recently met him, but I 0:48:40.320 --> 0:48:42.320 haven't know my biological father. He left round was like 0:48:42.360 --> 0:48:44.759 five or six years old. And I'm like, how don't 0:48:44.840 --> 0:48:49.160 you know? Um? I say, uh man tyle joking so long, 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:51.440 but it's I got on Facebook and you know how 0:48:51.480 --> 0:48:54.160 they do that thing where they recommend friends. You should know. Yes, 0:48:54.600 --> 0:49:01.000 they recommended my biological father, but I don't, well, what 0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:03.480 is your crowding? Well? And they don't know if they 0:49:03.480 --> 0:49:07.719 can laugh or not? Just wait, so they go so 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:10.240 I'm like, no, no, that's okay, okay. I said, well listen, 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:12.160 sorry about that. I'd like to do an impression now, 0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:14.040 and they're like okay. I like, I like to do 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:16.960 an impression of my biological father with me, with me 0:49:17.000 --> 0:49:20.120 as a kid. And I just walk off stage and 0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:23.480 I just I just stand off off stage like that, 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:26.480 you can't even see me, but they laugh. It's it's 0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:30.120 night by night. Sometimes they last, sometimes they're like it's 0:49:30.160 --> 0:49:33.399 so good, but like I live for that kind of humor. Oh, 0:49:33.440 --> 0:49:36.880 it's the best when we can laugh at just But 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:40.520 that's the best thing about comedy, you know, it's like 0:49:40.719 --> 0:49:44.439 just it breaks open all barriers. I'm a big fan 0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:47.160 of comedy where you know, some people will get pissed 0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:51.319 because comedians will do something that they don't agree with 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:53.680 right or though that's over the line, or you shouldn't 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:55.920 have said that, and then they go, we should boycott. 0:49:56.239 --> 0:49:58.600 I'm a big fan of letting the market decide what 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:01.879 you should and shouldn't go to, meaning if someone says 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:04.440 something and you don't agree with it, just as if 0:50:04.440 --> 0:50:07.359 you comedy can be anything, just even a TV show. Yeah, 0:50:07.600 --> 0:50:11.080 don't watch it, Okay, don't let them, let them market decide, 0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:14.680 don't watch it. Go ahead. Here's the big question. Go ahead. 0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:18.240 This is if we're real friends or not? Um, because 0:50:18.280 --> 0:50:22.040 obviously I missed up the tots um. How do you 0:50:22.040 --> 0:50:26.680 feel about Jack Black? Jack Black? Yes, I mean I 0:50:26.840 --> 0:50:29.360 used to really really think he was funny in his heyday. 0:50:29.560 --> 0:50:32.600 I haven't seen him a lot lately. Um, I love 0:50:32.680 --> 0:50:35.200 him except for kids like the kids movies? Does he 0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:39.719 do like kids cartoons stuff? Like? Yes? But I really 0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:43.040 like Jack Black when he was really like any He 0:50:43.239 --> 0:50:46.520 is my number two next to Steve kill as far 0:50:46.600 --> 0:50:52.319 as and I think I like the most about Jack 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:57.760 Black is he's really talented, like really like you can sing, 0:50:57.800 --> 0:51:00.920 he can run, he can sing, yeah, go ahead. But 0:51:01.040 --> 0:51:03.920 he doesn't take it seriously or does he take it 0:51:04.000 --> 0:51:06.160 so seriously? You just don't know. That's what I would 0:51:06.200 --> 0:51:08.759 put him at. Yeah, so good at it. But he 0:51:09.000 --> 0:51:11.760 but he gives you just enough to be like, oh wait, 0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:14.359 he's really good. Some people are annoyed by him because 0:51:14.360 --> 0:51:19.960 he's a lot. I love him. I love him very 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:26.319 you know about that. I only want to understand. Yeah, 0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:29.760 I just watched it actually to you, who's the funniest 0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:37.320 person alive? Oh? I love Steve Carrell. It's a fine answer. 0:51:37.360 --> 0:51:39.919 There's no wrong answer. Go ahead, give me. I'm trying 0:51:39.920 --> 0:51:46.560 to think of but Jack Black number two? Um, yeah, gosh, 0:51:46.719 --> 0:51:48.320 but I don't. I don't listen to a lot. I 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:52.719 listened to like a lot of clean stuff as far 0:51:52.760 --> 0:51:55.080 as comedians go, So that rules out like a lot 0:51:55.080 --> 0:51:58.880 of people. And number three. I loved him Hawkins. Do 0:51:58.920 --> 0:52:03.720 you know him. He's funny Christian comedian. Huh, he's funny. 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:06.080 I listened to him while I was on radio tour 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:09.480 and he he was really funny. He has a podcast 0:52:09.520 --> 0:52:14.080 called Potty Break, and it was just it was just funny, 0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:17.759 easy listening. I don't curse in my acts. I don't. 0:52:18.040 --> 0:52:20.680 I don't curse ever, only curse in the car. I 0:52:20.760 --> 0:52:22.440 used to. I don't curse it all anymore, just because 0:52:22.480 --> 0:52:24.239 I'm not against it. Used to curse awesomely. I was 0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:27.400 hilarious cursor. Yeah, but then I realized I couldn't write 0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:31.239 or or without writing cursing, and then go, well, that 0:52:31.280 --> 0:52:33.080 doesn't work because I don't want to do that on stage. 0:52:33.080 --> 0:52:35.640 I just stopped a limited cursing. But some of my 0:52:35.719 --> 0:52:41.560 favorite funniest people, my top three tell me number one, 0:52:45.360 --> 0:52:48.279 it's tough. I can remember my order. I think that 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:51.440 I'm gonna see where I ranked them because Chris Rock 0:52:51.520 --> 0:52:55.759 is up there for me, Ricky Gervais, and I think 0:52:55.760 --> 0:52:58.319 Adam Caroll is super funny, so I would go. If 0:52:58.320 --> 0:53:02.439 I were ranking the three, I would go because Ricky 0:53:02.480 --> 0:53:06.440 Geras created the Office you ever watched The British Office? No, 0:53:07.160 --> 0:53:09.720 but I heard it's great. Should it takes a second? 0:53:09.760 --> 0:53:12.040 Because I really really want to watch it. Turn the 0:53:12.120 --> 0:53:13.920 close caption on because there are things they say you 0:53:13.960 --> 0:53:17.439 don't understand. They're great, but it's great. And you see 0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:20.040 how the characters were based on the American version the 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:21.960 way you see how the American character based on the 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:25.520 British version. Yeah, okay, quickly, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go. 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:29.560 I didn't realize that Ricky Gervais first, Chris Rock second, 0:53:29.600 --> 0:53:34.239 Adam Carolla third, those are mighty as were about to 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:35.799 wrap this up? Do you have anything? Yeah? I go 0:53:36.080 --> 0:53:39.120 Dave Chappelle number one, Yes, and then I love Dmitri 0:53:39.239 --> 0:53:43.160 Martin like super funny, his drawings are hilarious right on. 0:53:43.360 --> 0:53:46.000 And then I really like John Mulaney like his last 0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:48.680 two specials are probably my one of my favorite comedian 0:53:48.680 --> 0:53:54.560 specials ever. Did you watch the was Sebastian granted Cowski 0:53:54.600 --> 0:53:56.279 whatever his name is the new special I haven't seen. 0:53:56.360 --> 0:53:59.520 You know that's really funny. You like comedy? Huh? Yeah? 0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:03.640 To laugh? Who doesn't like them? To let me run 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:05.239 down this list real quick? Would you really go to 0:54:05.280 --> 0:54:09.480 the Mountains of the Beach Mountains NFL or college football 0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:14.520 NFL really even being from Alabama. Well, my family would 0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:16.720 say college because they're like the biggest Rold Todd fans. 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:19.719 But my boyfriend is a big Chiefs fan, so I've 0:54:19.760 --> 0:54:22.080 been trying to just you know, support him even then 0:54:22.080 --> 0:54:24.359 they lost, but love them? L A or New York? 0:54:24.360 --> 0:54:26.960 Where would you rather be? L A? You would you 0:54:27.040 --> 0:54:30.120 rather read the book or watch the movie? First? Watch 0:54:30.200 --> 0:54:34.640 the movie? Would you rather go watch Adele or Carrie Underwood? 0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:41.320 H Del pancakes or waffles? Waffles? Backstreet Boys are in sync? 0:54:44.560 --> 0:54:47.160 Back Street Boys. We I thought we were friends. We 0:54:47.200 --> 0:54:54.480 are not want the office or friends? Oh no, don't 0:54:54.520 --> 0:54:59.040 make me do that, go ahead, office and that. Finally, 0:54:59.080 --> 0:55:01.120 ballads are up to opposed what you would rather listen 0:55:01.160 --> 0:55:04.920 to other than the Backstreet Boys. We're pretty right on 0:55:04.960 --> 0:55:07.839 in friendship. Yeah. Cool, that's good to know. You would 0:55:07.840 --> 0:55:10.320 go to the mountains. I don't care either way. I 0:55:10.320 --> 0:55:12.720 would just go to wherever. If if I had a girlfriend, 0:55:12.719 --> 0:55:14.160 I'd be like, where do you want to go? All right? Cool? 0:55:14.239 --> 0:55:17.600 That's nice. Yeah, it's all the same. Not I don't 0:55:17.640 --> 0:55:21.400 know anything about either one of them. Uh yeah, Okay, 0:55:21.760 --> 0:55:23.920 we're gonna end this, like to finish it with a 0:55:24.000 --> 0:55:27.319 nice story, put a bow on it. Yes, Once upon 0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:30.160 a time, I think it was maybe the summer of 0:55:30.360 --> 0:55:32.799 two thousand and eighteen. I was doing one of my friends. 0:55:32.840 --> 0:55:35.680 I called and say, would you come and perform at 0:55:35.680 --> 0:55:38.200 my show? And I was like sure. He said, he said, 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:39.960 come to do a couple of songs, do one of 0:55:40.120 --> 0:55:42.279 your comedy raging idiot songs. And you and I performed together, 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:43.799 and I say, that's cool, it's cool, it's cool, And 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:45.800 it's a friend I care about a lot. And I 0:55:45.880 --> 0:55:47.600 was like, of course, you've done things for me. I 0:55:47.640 --> 0:55:50.279 do things for you. That's how friendship works. Yes, we 0:55:50.320 --> 0:55:52.320 love each other absolutely so I So I go and 0:55:52.480 --> 0:55:54.000 he's he's putting on the show and it's at the 0:55:54.040 --> 0:55:56.319 Rhyming Auditorium and I was like, this is crazy. I'm 0:55:56.320 --> 0:55:59.160 playing the rheman again. And I go out and before 0:55:59.160 --> 0:56:01.680 the show, I'm doing a bunch of interviews for my 0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:04.480 friend's name was Darius Rucker, who you probably know as 0:56:04.480 --> 0:56:06.560 a solo artist. Wasn't who you the Blowfish? And I'm 0:56:06.560 --> 0:56:08.120 there and I'm doing interviews before and there was this 0:56:08.160 --> 0:56:09.719 new artist that I went to and I said, Hey, 0:56:09.760 --> 0:56:13.880 how's it going. I said, I'm by Bones, and she 0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:16.520 totally ignored me. I don't know if she didn't see 0:56:16.560 --> 0:56:18.760 me or maybe she doesn't remember. It was very brief, 0:56:18.760 --> 0:56:20.040 and I was like, hey, did she went to our 0:56:20.080 --> 0:56:22.640 next interview? Her name is Rachel Walmack. That must have 0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:26.200 been somebody because I brought it up like three, Bobby, 0:56:26.239 --> 0:56:30.680 Listen up, listeners, Bobby is up little crap in y'all 0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:33.239 because he bull craped to me. He told me this 0:56:33.280 --> 0:56:35.800 story story I don't remember lies. He told me that. 0:56:36.080 --> 0:56:39.680 I would have definitely remembered if Bobby came up to 0:56:39.719 --> 0:56:42.480 me and was like, hey, Rachel, what's up? Like I 0:56:42.560 --> 0:56:45.520 wasn't saying Rachel I said, and I said, hey, Rachel Walmack, 0:56:46.080 --> 0:56:49.080 I'm a big fan something like that. I didn't introduce myself, 0:56:49.480 --> 0:56:51.080 Bob Bones, because I don't don't do that. And we 0:56:51.080 --> 0:56:53.759 were doing interviews around like this half circle in the 0:56:53.880 --> 0:56:56.520 side room. Yeah I was there, but I didn't. You 0:56:56.560 --> 0:56:59.960 weren't there. You weren't there, Like to end on that story, 0:57:00.120 --> 0:57:03.719 you never know, that's a great fake story. And to end, 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:05.359 I'm gonna play a little bit of my boyfriend doesn't 0:57:05.360 --> 0:57:07.480 speak for me anymore. This is a Rachel Walmax song 0:57:07.520 --> 0:57:17.800 played Friend, which is about my ex. My boyfriend gets 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:21.240 so much crap for this song. Your current boyfriend, Yes, 0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:25.200 the boyfriend you have now get the boyfriend I have now? Um, 0:57:25.240 --> 0:57:26.800 he gets a louto crap for this song. But he's 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:29.840 so easy going about it. He's like, oh, yeah, you know, 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:33.480 what's your boyfriend? Now do music? He um? He is 0:57:33.560 --> 0:57:38.680 in school at Travica down in downtown Nashville to do. 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:41.439 What is he going to treat you? Right? And he yes, 0:57:41.840 --> 0:57:46.800 he treats me like a queen. He's so kind. And 0:57:47.640 --> 0:57:49.920 he's from Montana, which is the reason that I said 0:57:50.600 --> 0:57:54.080 the mountains because last year I went with him to 0:57:54.160 --> 0:57:58.240 Glacier National Park, um, right outside of his hometown, and 0:57:58.480 --> 0:58:01.720 just it blew mym on because I've never seen mountains before. 0:58:01.760 --> 0:58:03.760 That was the first time I ever. So I've got 0:58:03.760 --> 0:58:05.560 a great one, all right. And I know you mean 0:58:05.600 --> 0:58:07.560 it because you told me that before we became up here. Yes, 0:58:07.880 --> 0:58:10.280 So okay, Regel Walmack, We've done an hour is as 0:58:10.320 --> 0:58:13.360 long as interview you've ever done. Yes, and you did 0:58:13.440 --> 0:58:16.600 pretty good. Thank you. You know, I used my tools, 0:58:17.160 --> 0:58:21.120 got a new tool kit before before the interview, Thank you, Bobby. 0:58:21.240 --> 0:58:23.880 I was talking to her before and she was like, right, 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:26.640 I was like, I'm not that witty. And I was like, 0:58:27.160 --> 0:58:28.840 it's okay if you're not funny, because no, no, I'm 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:33.760 funny because I've just done that. And I was like, 0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:35.919 don't focus on things that you're not like you really 0:58:35.920 --> 0:58:38.120 find your strength, and she was like, we're focusing on 0:58:38.160 --> 0:58:41.600 my strength. That's right, that's right. Rechel Walmack w A 0:58:41.880 --> 0:58:44.000 M M A c K. Because I met everybody's like, 0:58:44.000 --> 0:58:46.920 how do you say your name? Yea woman? Thank you 0:58:46.960 --> 0:58:49.160 all so much. To be fair, it does look like whamick, 0:58:49.440 --> 0:58:52.880 it does. It looks like Walmart. Whatever. I don't. I 0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:55.840 don't mind, Reel Walmack. She say it wrong. I'll still 0:58:55.840 --> 0:58:59.320 be your friends. Stream down the go, buy a ticket 0:58:59.320 --> 0:59:01.360 and watch your play. She's ever anywhere near you. And 0:59:01.440 --> 0:59:03.960 that is all for this time. Class, see y'all in 0:59:04.000 --> 0:59:10.920 the festivals this summer. Are you playing firefest this year? Watch? Alright, alright,