Speaker 1: Welcome to episode one three with Rachel Womag. I like
Speaker 1: to sing your song because when we're playing our show
Speaker 1: together as a reimon, it was I like to sing
Speaker 1: it in a big like Broadway style. Yes, I know,
Speaker 1: can that's a good one though, but I like to
Speaker 1: sing it and a little bit I wanted to sing
Speaker 1: it with you. But it's so good, you know what?
Speaker 1: You know what I did during the show, because, um,
Speaker 1: whenever you're listening to this, here's the deal with Rachel,
Speaker 1: she played my you maybe listen is ten years from now.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's probably the arch How do you
Speaker 1: think of the Library Congress. So back at the beginning
Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, I played and I put together a
Speaker 1: big charity show called the It's My Band, the Raging
Speaker 1: Idiot's the Million Dollars Show. And you came in and
Speaker 1: the rule for the new artists, which you're considered a
Speaker 1: brand new artist. Do you remember the rule? You know
Speaker 1: what the ther of strength I put on new artists
Speaker 1: were with songs. It was you have to do you
Speaker 1: can do one original, but do ye not not too
Speaker 1: originals because you two knew. I didn't know. It was
Speaker 1: a restraint. So okay, cool, or maybe it was. I
Speaker 1: was glad you asked for that. So, so what you
Speaker 1: were gonna do is you were gonna do damage first,
Speaker 1: play me a little bit of damage. This song I'm singing,
Speaker 1: this is a good one for me. I like to
Speaker 1: sing in this one. Come. So I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but we went to practice to day before and you
Speaker 1: were playing this first and you were doing uh sitting
Speaker 1: sitting dock of the bay. Second. Yes, I was like,
Speaker 1: don't do that because I know what second one slow,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to crowd like standing up for
Speaker 1: you got damage second, and I switched it up and
Speaker 1: then you played it and what happened? They freaking with crazy.
Speaker 1: That was amazing. You're right, You're right, it was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: I got to pick five artists at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this year for my class of twenty nineteen, and I
Speaker 1: did pick you put you in my class, which means
Speaker 1: we do stuff like this. I know. I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1: Late at night for me, I know we're here in
Speaker 1: the after aternoon. No, it's six pm, this is evening.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's after my afternoon evening for me, because I
Speaker 1: don't know what time you go to bed right. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, Boffy, I have to wake up. It used
Speaker 1: to be three. Are you serious? You wake up at
Speaker 1: three thirty? I used to be three until recently it was.
Speaker 1: But you can understand, Rachel, I have to be on
Speaker 1: the air and ready to go at five. So and
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not a morning person in anyway, the
Speaker 1: morning person. I'm the happiest in the mornings, really, yes,
Speaker 1: but I don't. But I like to sleep in so
Speaker 1: and I'm riding every day, so you know, my day
Speaker 1: starts at like eleven for a right, which is like
Speaker 1: really awesome. Would you time out from like eleven to three? Four? Yeah? Four, five?
Speaker 1: It just depends on like what kind of demo we're doing.
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes I like to do a lot of
Speaker 1: background vocals and that will take a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: But if it's something a little bit more simple, we
Speaker 1: can get done earlier. Rachel and I would just we
Speaker 1: spent a little bit of time talking about interviews and
Speaker 1: how to be interviewed. And did you feel like you'd
Speaker 1: learned anything? Yes, I learned a lot. Do you think
Speaker 1: because we sat down in a living room just for
Speaker 1: a bit of time. I'm glad you asked that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you some some hacks I t because I
Speaker 1: come from the land of not only am I interviewing everyone,
Speaker 1: the biggest artists to brand new artists that I really
Speaker 1: like their music. And I don't have to interview everyone
Speaker 1: because they're a big artist, and I say no to
Speaker 1: all the time. There are new artists that people will go,
Speaker 1: why would you put them on? And I'd be like,
Speaker 1: because I love their music, right, And so I was
Speaker 1: kind of I interviewed everyone, and I also have interviewed
Speaker 1: all the time because I'm also not I'm just not
Speaker 1: an interview radio guy. I also do other things. People
Speaker 1: want interview me for their shows, and so um I
Speaker 1: was telling her, I said, sometimes about once or twice
Speaker 1: an interview, tell them that's a that's a really good question,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Make them feel like, wow, do
Speaker 1: you really think I'm special in interviewing. I've never been
Speaker 1: asked by honestly, genuinely, I do want to say that
Speaker 1: to people sometimes and I think it and I don't
Speaker 1: say it out loud. So I think I'm glad you
Speaker 1: pointed that out because she's doing it right now. People
Speaker 1: people ask me some very intriguing questions sometimes and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I can get into this. Thank you for asking me.
Speaker 1: So that's that's great advice. And then what do you
Speaker 1: what do you not? She's using my words back? I
Speaker 1: told her, I said, I'm not teaching you how to
Speaker 1: do every interview. I'm just tools. Here's our tools. Rachel Um.
Speaker 1: You said not to say I get that question. All
Speaker 1: that's I get when because there are some questions you
Speaker 1: just have to ask an interview and you don't want to,
Speaker 1: but you feel like if you don't, there's part of
Speaker 1: your audience that is new to whom. For example, Dan
Speaker 1: and Shaye. I've known him since the very beginning, but
Speaker 1: there are times I have to be like, hey, so
Speaker 1: how did you guys get to go there again? And
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it for me, but I'm doing it
Speaker 1: for the people listening. And they wouldn't do this to
Speaker 1: me at this point, but they could easily be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we get asked all the time, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're like, I know, yeah, I really like,
Speaker 1: I know you get asked all the time, but throw
Speaker 1: me a bone. Just answer the freaking question. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a basic, great question that a lot of people
Speaker 1: might not know, so it's very informational. You don't say, oh,
Speaker 1: I get that all the time? Quit it question? Do
Speaker 1: you get asked all the time? I get asked if
Speaker 1: I am Leanne Wimac's daughter, Rachel Walmack, Leanne Womack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people I don't know. They don't know
Speaker 1: our names are spelled differently. But I have never met
Speaker 1: LeAnn Wimac. I've never met her. I would love to
Speaker 1: meet her and just tell her that everyone thinks I'm
Speaker 1: her daughter. But she does have a daughter who's in
Speaker 1: country music Aubrey Sellers who I'm sure it is fantastic.
Speaker 1: But lean Willmack and I get our hair done at
Speaker 1: the same place, So that's all pretty great? Is that
Speaker 1: my anecdote? Yet? Great answer? Right, that's good, that's funny,
Speaker 1: but that is pretty I am like, pretty honored that
Speaker 1: we get our hair done at the same place, and
Speaker 1: her hair always looks amazing, so I trust mine hopefully
Speaker 1: well too. How much the haircut cost for you our
Speaker 1: style more than it is in Alabama? Yeah, but I wonder,
Speaker 1: I wonder, like I don't know if Leanne like has
Speaker 1: to because I feel like she has a lot of
Speaker 1: different colors too, like overtime, So not the question I asked,
Speaker 1: how much is the haircut like an actual mind, I'll
Speaker 1: go first my style. If I go in it's like
Speaker 1: and then I'm close with it's probably more for you
Speaker 1: and I'm close to my pace. I get like color too,
Speaker 1: so I don't think yeah, I mean under a little
Speaker 1: under two hundred. But it also depends if I'm doing
Speaker 1: like a partial or a full color. How often do
Speaker 1: you do a color? It depends I'm going arcor right now.
Speaker 1: So basically my cral is like growing out my natural
Speaker 1: hair color. It's kind of like people doing ombre a
Speaker 1: little bit, but she grows out my natural hair color
Speaker 1: and also colors the top of my head the natural
Speaker 1: hair color. So it's like it can grow out now
Speaker 1: and I don't have to get it colored as much
Speaker 1: because it's hard when you're like on radio tour and touring,
Speaker 1: like you can't just go and get your hair done
Speaker 1: all the time. So they work with me. Listen, I
Speaker 1: get I can't get mine done all the time. My
Speaker 1: I have my stylus on all the time. Like if
Speaker 1: you get like tomorrow, I'm going because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go shoot American Idol, And how often do
Speaker 1: you get your hair done? More than I probably should.
Speaker 1: But anytime I have to go back on camera, I
Speaker 1: make it fresh, and I trying to make the toplic fresh.
Speaker 1: Top needs to look a little bit long, but I
Speaker 1: can't have my neck all gross if I'm on TV.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a week and a half, sometimes a month and
Speaker 1: a half, but that's how Yes, well one would never
Speaker 1: be a week and a half. But yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: your mind's probably okay. They say, like for color you
Speaker 1: go in like every six or eight weeks, but I
Speaker 1: probably wait longer. So let me play some of these
Speaker 1: songs real quick. Let's this is Rachel Walmack. This is
Speaker 1: a song that we just talked about. This is called Damage,
Speaker 1: Go Ahead, can Do, can Do? All right? Tell me
Speaker 1: about this song. Well, when I moved to Nashville from
Speaker 1: Muscle Shoals, I didn't have a deal and so I
Speaker 1: had to get a job. And I didn't know anybody
Speaker 1: in Nashville, hardly other than my friend who worked at
Speaker 1: this bar in Green Hills, and he got me a
Speaker 1: job working with him, and um, I was a job
Speaker 1: I've worked as a bartender, and I'd never been a
Speaker 1: bartender before and I worked there for a year and
Speaker 1: I was pretty crappy bartender. Well I'm not I've never
Speaker 1: been good at making drinks, so like Martini's are really difficult,
Speaker 1: Margarita's are difficult. But the good thing was it was
Speaker 1: a hotel bar, so a lot of people just wanted
Speaker 1: like gin and tonic or whiskey and coke or whatever.
Speaker 1: But despite not being the quickest at making drinks, the
Speaker 1: nights that were like really slow, and I would have
Speaker 1: one or two people come and just sit with me
Speaker 1: for like three or four hours. I would I feel
Speaker 1: like I was a therapist to people a lot, and
Speaker 1: I would just hear a lot of stories that I
Speaker 1: didn't expect people to open up and tell me. And
Speaker 1: it made me feel really good because I felt like
Speaker 1: people told me a lot of things that they probably
Speaker 1: hadn't shared with like friends or family in years, things
Speaker 1: that you just kind of bottle up over time. And um,
Speaker 1: it was it was really cool because I got to
Speaker 1: share stories too, and I just felt like we're not
Speaker 1: all that different. And damage just came. Uh. The next day,
Speaker 1: after writing UM with Mr Tom Douglas and M. David Hodges,
Speaker 1: and I just told him about me bartending and hearing
Speaker 1: some of these stories, and I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: really know what I'm doing, but you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of people really need to be listened to,
Speaker 1: UM and it's really important for us. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that I was able to be a bartender so I
Speaker 1: could listen to people and um just be there for people.
Speaker 1: And I felt like in my life before being a bartender,
Speaker 1: I was not a really great listener, and I feel
Speaker 1: like I wasn't honestly like it made me a better
Speaker 1: friend just being a bartender, because I don't know. The
Speaker 1: funny thing is, I wasn't able to leave, you know,
Speaker 1: when people telling me stories. But I think that was
Speaker 1: like really really important that I, you know, had to
Speaker 1: be there. And I was like, this is really important
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, because you know, they say like your
Speaker 1: bar tender, in your hairdresser or whatever. They they are
Speaker 1: your therapist, and it was really awesome. I'm thankful that
Speaker 1: my first single came from the job that I never
Speaker 1: thought I would have. It's funny that you talk about
Speaker 1: being a bartender making you a better friend. I feel
Speaker 1: like being a waiter made me a better human because
Speaker 1: as soon as you have to depend on other people,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you have to, you know, make your means
Speaker 1: through their kindness. It makes you such a just a
Speaker 1: better person. And treat people differently, and to treat your
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a metaphor, but treat your waiter
Speaker 1: is different. Everybody different. Oh yeah, I mean I tipped
Speaker 1: on bartenders, you know, yeah, because you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: because you're a bartender, is having to pay their based
Speaker 1: on your tips. Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 1: live in Nashville if I, you know, wouldn't have had
Speaker 1: a job. And and I'm thankful though that that was
Speaker 1: the job. I mean not only because I got my
Speaker 1: first single, but like you said, like I just feel
Speaker 1: like it made my heart better and made me um
Speaker 1: like not cut people off in conversation when they're trying
Speaker 1: to talk about something deep or important because a lot
Speaker 1: of times I'd be like I gotta go, I gotta
Speaker 1: you know, do whatever. And I feel like I give
Speaker 1: people more of my time now. Yeah, those early jobs
Speaker 1: like I worked at hobby lobby for a long time
Speaker 1: and I love hobby lobby. And then my name takes
Speaker 1: a hobby lobby Bobby, Yeah, I got made fun of Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right where the song came from. We both wrote
Speaker 1: songs based on our past. That yeah, that made us
Speaker 1: better people. So what you're thankful for them? Let me
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Speaker 1: know what song I like? And I think I put
Speaker 1: this on my answer story A long time to go
Speaker 1: with closure? Yeah, yeah, yeah, any story behind this one.
Speaker 1: I wrote this with Mr Johnny Price, and in Nashville,
Speaker 1: we do a lot of like three way rights and
Speaker 1: and this was just the two of us, and this
Speaker 1: was probably my longest rite I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1: I think we wrote from eleven am too, probably seven
Speaker 1: at night, and then Johnny wanted to come back the
Speaker 1: next day and continue to rework the vocals. And my
Speaker 1: voice was like just shot and yeah and and um
Speaker 1: okay because after singing like eight hours straight, and at
Speaker 1: that point, I hadn't had much vocal coaching either, so
Speaker 1: I didn't really know how to warm up. And I
Speaker 1: just like torched my voice that day. And I came
Speaker 1: back and I was like pissed because I was like,
Speaker 1: my voice is so tired. I was like, Johnny, come on,
Speaker 1: And it ended up being one of my favorite songs
Speaker 1: I've ever written. And I'm so thankful that he was
Speaker 1: as conscious and intentional about getting the right vocal on
Speaker 1: the demo because when I went in the studio with Dan,
Speaker 1: I just felt like I knew exactly what it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be like, so it was worth every second.
Speaker 1: And he's brilliant. There's a Bobby Castle with Dan Huff,
Speaker 1: which we did a year and a half ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm a big Dan Huff fan because even when
Speaker 1: he played, he's a player. I mean he and he
Speaker 1: has Michael Jackson stories and he has Paul Abdul stories
Speaker 1: and now he produces the coolest stuff. But I asked
Speaker 1: him a long time ago, I said, Hey, who is
Speaker 1: at the Druk one? Now that's like any good that
Speaker 1: I've never heard of? He said, your freaking name? What
Speaker 1: I love Dan? Enclosure is um was one of Dan's favorites.
Speaker 1: I feel like that we did on that EP and
Speaker 1: Um he's the best man. And leave me not voicemail,
Speaker 1: He'll leave me voice text. He do. He's like, he's
Speaker 1: like Bobby, hey man, I just watching it was so
Speaker 1: great that he's the nicest guy. Well he is the
Speaker 1: first way, uh, I ever heard about you because we
Speaker 1: went in to the studio and he actually had to
Speaker 1: push it back a little bit later and I didn't
Speaker 1: know why, but I went in with him later and
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, sorry, I had to, you know,
Speaker 1: push us back. I just did this interview with Bobby
Speaker 1: Bones and I was like, oh, yeah, I've heard of
Speaker 1: him and he was like, oh, he's he's awesome and
Speaker 1: he said I felt well. I asked him. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, do you like interviewing after all this time?
Speaker 1: Like how how was it with Bobby? And he said
Speaker 1: it was amazing because he had my tracks that I
Speaker 1: had done when I was a teenager pulled up and
Speaker 1: it was just like a really cool experience because he
Speaker 1: had all the knowledge and just made me feel so welcomed.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, Bobby's cool, Bobby's cool. You
Speaker 1: know me too. And the coolest best part about Dan
Speaker 1: other than him being a brilliant musician producer, is that
Speaker 1: he is one of my favorite humans ever. And even
Speaker 1: though he has like the most amazed, like just amazing
Speaker 1: repertoire of all the things he've done, he's done on
Speaker 1: these amazing projects. Um, he's humble, like genuinely humble and
Speaker 1: genuinely kind, and it's just awesome to work with someone
Speaker 1: like that, because I was intimidated going in with my
Speaker 1: first producer ever, and I was like, crap, this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna be like it's my way or the highway. You know,
Speaker 1: I've done all this stuff, and he's truly collaborative and
Speaker 1: just made me feel like my ideas are just as
Speaker 1: valid as his, and I don't know, that's just a
Speaker 1: really good feeling for someone like me who's young and inexperienced,
Speaker 1: and he just made me feel important. If you listen
Speaker 1: to the Dan Have Bobby cast, it's back a few episodes,
Speaker 1: but there's a story he tells about being in an
Speaker 1: airport and hearing uh, like a guitar look and he's like,
Speaker 1: that's really good. It's a Paula Abdul song. Is that's
Speaker 1: a good And his brother's like, yeah, that's huge. I
Speaker 1: mean when he just went in the studio and played
Speaker 1: it reading off the paper and then once the list
Speaker 1: goes on and on, so yeah, yeah, yeah, So shout
Speaker 1: out Dan if you're listening to this I love you. Dan.
Speaker 1: You're from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Yeah, what's that? What's that
Speaker 1: tell me about you? Growing up? Well, Hustle Shoals is
Speaker 1: like two hours south of Nashville. And yeah, and so
Speaker 1: I can go home heck in a day, or just
Speaker 1: spend a weekend at home and come back. I'm pretty spoiled. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'll I will say. You know, the Muscle Strolls
Speaker 1: music history is just very vast and very amazing, um
Speaker 1: as far as its blues history. And so you would
Speaker 1: think that I would be like some blues guitar player,
Speaker 1: but actually my main instrument in the high school marching
Speaker 1: band was the marimba and oversized xylophone. That's what's called
Speaker 1: it's a marimba. Marimba. How but how do you get
Speaker 1: into doing the marimba the first time? Well, I started
Speaker 1: in middle school band. And I remember being in the
Speaker 1: middle school band playing the uh snare drum because I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just liked the percussive instruments. And we
Speaker 1: watched the high school players do this concert one night
Speaker 1: and I saw for their like into the show, they
Speaker 1: had a bunch of it was marimba's and vibraphones and xylophones.
Speaker 1: Sorry if I bore you. Xylophone, what's it called the vibraphone? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's it's a xylophone with a pedal and it's
Speaker 1: like a metal instrument. And um, anyway, they did this
Speaker 1: really cool song and everyone was just performing so well,
Speaker 1: like smiling, and it just sounded really cool and unique,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I just I want to do
Speaker 1: that one day. And so in high school I tried
Speaker 1: out for the marimba and started playing in this thing
Speaker 1: called percussion ensemble and which taught me a lot of
Speaker 1: work ethic and we competed and a piano though I
Speaker 1: played piano. Um My mom made me take lessons when
Speaker 1: I was six years old, and she said, you need
Speaker 1: to take four years of lessons and then you can
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. And I'm thankful that she did
Speaker 1: because now I get to play piano as part of
Speaker 1: my shows. It's amazing playing piano the whole time. So
Speaker 1: after ten years old, you stay on the piano. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I hated lessons with like a burning passion, which
Speaker 1: I guess any little kid, you know, they don't like
Speaker 1: to sit down forever. But um, I played for four years,
Speaker 1: learned some great theory, I feel like, and learned how
Speaker 1: to read music. And then in middle school, at like
Speaker 1: eleven and twelve, I was listening to Sarah Burrillis and
Speaker 1: Adele who were very piano driven m artists at the time,
Speaker 1: and it was something that I was like, I could
Speaker 1: learn these songs on piano. So I started learning, learned
Speaker 1: someone like you on the piano and m I learned
Speaker 1: uh Gravity by Sarah Burrillis, and I just feel in
Speaker 1: love with figuring out how different songs just come together
Speaker 1: on the piano keys and how I could play them.
Speaker 1: And that was what birthed a song writing for me
Speaker 1: because I just started writing my own music and put
Speaker 1: chords together and I just loved the way the piano sounded,
Speaker 1: and so it just kind of went from there. I
Speaker 1: just kept on writing in middle school, in high school,
Speaker 1: were you like King Dingling of music in school? Like
Speaker 1: in college, were there like she's the best like this
Speaker 1: big um no? But I was kind of an attention hog.
Speaker 1: I feel like I always, um like, just wanted to perform,
Speaker 1: Like that's all I wanted to do. Literally, my whole
Speaker 1: life is performing. My parents say that at family gatherings
Speaker 1: when I was really little at my grandparents they had
Speaker 1: this little blue stool in the middle of the room
Speaker 1: and I would get on top of the little blue
Speaker 1: stool and I would say, everybody's singing with me, and
Speaker 1: I just wanted, like to perform for whoever, And like
Speaker 1: that carried in middle school, in high school for our
Speaker 1: graduating class. I wrote a song for a graduating class
Speaker 1: and performed it at graduation. I did, and like, now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's so nerdy, but everybody said that they
Speaker 1: liked it, and like, you know, everybody was crying. But
Speaker 1: what it was called thanks for the memories. It was
Speaker 1: so lame, but it was really fun and it's a
Speaker 1: sweet memory now. But um yeah, I just I love
Speaker 1: performing out and I was. I was song grinding a
Speaker 1: whole lot in high school and just working on my craft.
Speaker 1: My high school graduation, I wrote a poem and read
Speaker 1: it out out it would stop. But you sing a song,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. Like I wrote a big poem. No,
Speaker 1: I love that, Okay, Well, I love the fact that
Speaker 1: you played a song. Well. Thanks. I look back at
Speaker 1: my poem. I think I have it here in my
Speaker 1: house somewhere, and I was like, how cheesy is this?
Speaker 1: But you know, we should always look back at the
Speaker 1: work we created a long time ago and think, oh,
Speaker 1: that kind of sucks, because as long as it still sucks,
Speaker 1: I mean, we are going and so it's okay to
Speaker 1: feel that way. Well, mine, I always talk about food
Speaker 1: in my songs. I've well, I can't remember. I think
Speaker 1: we talked about French fries in the song, but you
Speaker 1: thanks for the memory. Miss all you guys there was
Speaker 1: something like a sharing French fries or whatever. You know
Speaker 1: you were, Miss University of North Alabama. Yes, I was.
Speaker 1: You're a pageant girl. No, I wouldn't say I was
Speaker 1: a pageant girl. Paget. You're a paget girl. I guess
Speaker 1: I was. I just feel like I wasn't, but I started.
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up doing pageants. There's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: pet I know. I'm just saying. Most girls in the
Speaker 1: pageant that competed with me would say it's not like
Speaker 1: negative or positive that I just really wasn't a pageant girl.
Speaker 1: And like in high school, I feel like I maybe
Speaker 1: did one pageant in high school. No, do you know
Speaker 1: how Judgments America this year? This last time? Yes, I
Speaker 1: was one of the freaking judges I control. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: How did you feel like it had too much power?
Speaker 1: To be honest, because what they did is they cut
Speaker 1: it from they cut it to like the top twenty four,
Speaker 1: and they pulled us in a room. It was me,
Speaker 1: Randy Jackson from American Idol. I love Randy. It was
Speaker 1: Carrie I was dead host because she wasn't a judge.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm judging and there are like five of us,
Speaker 1: and I'm like writing scores down and the freaking girl
Speaker 1: that I picked one, it's crazy. You knew that had
Speaker 1: too much power? We wait to watch to watch videos.
Speaker 1: My point was there's a lot that goes into that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot. And I went into UM competing for
Speaker 1: miss University of North Alabama because UM, I wanted to
Speaker 1: pay for my college, and that's it's like one of
Speaker 1: the primary things is it's a scholarship pageant and so
Speaker 1: and me again wanting to perform. I knew that there
Speaker 1: was a talent portion, and I knew that I had
Speaker 1: a unique instrument, the marimba. I played it, yes and no.
Speaker 1: So what I did was I played the marimba and
Speaker 1: I had a lapel mic and I sang. And so
Speaker 1: when I was competing for Miss u n A, I
Speaker 1: played flashdance What a Feeling by Irene Karra. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And I had my high school band director arrange UM
Speaker 1: like a version of that for me to play on Maremba.
Speaker 1: And I learned it and it was so freaking fun,
Speaker 1: Like I loved it, and everyone else was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this is so different. And I one talent
Speaker 1: at Miss n A and and ended up winning the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And I went and competed at Miss Alabama
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what am I doing here? Like I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing, and all these girls are
Speaker 1: so experienced, and I learned just I learned how to
Speaker 1: walk in hills, um running hills. But it was really
Speaker 1: cool because playing um and doing my talent for that
Speaker 1: larger of an audience, I feel like prepared me even
Speaker 1: for something like you know, playing on your million dollars show,
Speaker 1: like just it was another practice for me for playing
Speaker 1: for bigger audiences. And it was really fun. Yeah that's funny.
Speaker 1: Could you still play Maramba? I think I can. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I played it at at a radio station. Act really
Speaker 1: on radio tour. They heard that I played maremba and
Speaker 1: brought the maremba from their high school in that area.
Speaker 1: And that's a funny bit. Who do you remember what
Speaker 1: show it was? I get my shot out gets a funny,
Speaker 1: but um, it was in Florida. They were literally so
Speaker 1: so sweet and brought like mallets and everything, and I
Speaker 1: played I played the irene ka um and it was
Speaker 1: just it was awesome, like standing of of all whatever
Speaker 1: fifteen listeners that were in. There wasn't on the air.
Speaker 1: Um well it was on the air, but everyone in
Speaker 1: the room like they had some listeners come in and
Speaker 1: it was just so funny. I thought that was so
Speaker 1: thoughtful like of them to bring in the marimba because normally,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just playing piano or or not playing
Speaker 1: at all. It's playing piano, so so you're playing marimba.
Speaker 1: If you pull that out on stage at some point
Speaker 1: like a real like you're playing a show, people would
Speaker 1: lose their crap, right if I'm telling you, let me
Speaker 1: tell you, Bobby, Okay, one day, my if if I
Speaker 1: can headline a show, go ahead, you will at some point. Um,
Speaker 1: my encore would be the marimba and I would do
Speaker 1: I would do like three songs, just so it could
Speaker 1: be like, thing, you just want to do one, like
Speaker 1: you want to roll it out, you want to what
Speaker 1: you wanna do is I'm gonna go ahead and set
Speaker 1: yourself when you see it one day, you're gonna want
Speaker 1: three songs. But here's here's what you do, ready, Rachel.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you how to play the Miranda
Speaker 1: because I've never even seen one in your next you
Speaker 1: know you know it if you saw it, this is
Speaker 1: what I would do. I would roll it out and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what if being you right now? What
Speaker 1: what is this? What this like a big old xylophone.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to like hit this thing and you go bing.
Speaker 1: You're like, huh thing bing, Well, this is crazy, and
Speaker 1: you look back at your guys go does anyone who
Speaker 1: want to work this thing? Is it plugged in? At
Speaker 1: this point, everyone's like she's got a huge hot phone.
Speaker 1: This is funny, bing bibing bing bing, huh well, I
Speaker 1: guess I can try it. Pours out the full the
Speaker 1: four mallets and yeah, and it's like, oh what a
Speaker 1: bit you crush it in the crouds like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: because I do it. That would be the debut. It
Speaker 1: would be hilarious. People will be shocked and you would
Speaker 1: crush it because you would do it. You would tilt
Speaker 1: them a certain way of them rooting for you, going, oh,
Speaker 1: we obviously are familiar with this instrument. I right, and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, this is gonna be Then when you
Speaker 1: crush it, they go the whole different direction and they're
Speaker 1: so moved by it there they'll give you a standing out.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Okay, we're gonna do it. It's my dream.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do it, but it's definitely hard
Speaker 1: to transport it seems like. So I do a bit
Speaker 1: on my comedy shows where if we can and if
Speaker 1: Brandon Ray's opening for me, do you love him? Love him?
Speaker 1: And he's in the crowd, I will We did this
Speaker 1: in Michigan and and so I'll be like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'd like to give new Art's the shots or anybody
Speaker 1: in the crowd who plays guitar, and so if you
Speaker 1: people raise your hand and I'll be like, what about you?
Speaker 1: And then it's Brandon have Planet in the crowd, and
Speaker 1: then Brandon will walk out be like, what's your name?
Speaker 1: Manna go mana'ge Jimmy like Jimmy, you ever played for
Speaker 1: a crowd this big because there'll be a couple of
Speaker 1: thousand people there. Uh no, just give it a shot,
Speaker 1: jim And then he takes the same thing, right, he
Speaker 1: got clung clungk clunk, And I'm like, dude, just take
Speaker 1: take a breath, and then he'll play and he'll go
Speaker 1: and then he just crushes it, and the crowd has
Speaker 1: gone from just rooting for him with all their money
Speaker 1: and then they're all like, Okay, I love that, so
Speaker 1: um tell him. So you've told me the story before,
Speaker 1: but I think it's such an interesting story. So you're
Speaker 1: playing and arrested one of those spinning restaurants in Alabama?
Speaker 1: Are you just playing at dinner or something like trying
Speaker 1: to make a few bucks for for college or what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this had become at this point kind of a
Speaker 1: regular gig for me in Alabama. More one let one?
Speaker 1: Did you win Miss Alabama? Where do you place? I
Speaker 1: didn't make top ten, but I did win, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what place I did if you're not top
Speaker 1: ten or whatever, um, but I did win Miss Congeniality
Speaker 1: and I won talent overall, which was cool. You got
Speaker 1: two things you didn't even it's weird like that. It's weird.
Speaker 1: You never know. I should have been judging this one. Well.
Speaker 1: My parents were like after I won the preliminary talent,
Speaker 1: my parents were like, oh, she's top ten, She's top
Speaker 1: to a moment, I'm like, y'all, do not get excited
Speaker 1: because I didn't make top ten. But I did get
Speaker 1: enough scholarship money to pay for college, and that was
Speaker 1: my goal. And I learned a lot of really wonderful
Speaker 1: things along the way, how to um, you know, volunteer
Speaker 1: like things that I just didn't realize when along with
Speaker 1: the pageant. So anyway, anyway, let's talk about you're playing
Speaker 1: in the rotating restaurant. Yes, so the restaurant is in Florence, Alabama,
Speaker 1: which I'll educate you a little bit. Muscle Shoals and Florence,
Speaker 1: Alabama are separated just by this bridge. So Muscle Shoals
Speaker 1: is where I grew up, Florence is where the rotating
Speaker 1: restaurant is, and where the University of North Alabama is
Speaker 1: there like in the same area. And it had become
Speaker 1: like my regular thing, um because I would sub ind
Speaker 1: for my friend Mr Harvey Thompson Jr. Who's like the
Speaker 1: most fabulous piano player, and he just had me feeling
Speaker 1: for him when he couldn't make it, and he was
Speaker 1: playing a lot of gigs, so I just feel in
Speaker 1: for him a lot. And it's a rotating restaurant, which
Speaker 1: means like the tables are moving on the outside, but
Speaker 1: I would be stationary, so people would come by me
Speaker 1: and like hear me, like really loud and close, and
Speaker 1: then they'd move away and they're like, can hear before
Speaker 1: a while? And I was like, okay, cool. But it's
Speaker 1: kind of nice for people that want to have a
Speaker 1: nice dinner because you can have time to talk and
Speaker 1: then you can come back around and listen to music.
Speaker 1: So one night, um, I noticed this guy at the
Speaker 1: bar um and I have no idea who he was,
Speaker 1: but I knew he was paying attention to my music,
Speaker 1: and so I always try to cater to whoever that is,
Speaker 1: and you know, if they want to ask me, you know,
Speaker 1: to play something for him, I'll try to play a
Speaker 1: cover and he he just though just I felt like
Speaker 1: he was just really appreciating the music. And then I
Speaker 1: saw him go over to his table, and so I
Speaker 1: didn't see him for a while and then at the
Speaker 1: end of the night he comes up to me again
Speaker 1: and uh, he gives me his card and he says, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Jim. Uh, I'm from Sony Music in Nashville. And
Speaker 1: I was a senior in high school, so I was
Speaker 1: seventeen and literally thought he was about to kidnap me.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, this is catchy. I don't know, he's
Speaker 1: not definitely not who he says he is. And anyway,
Speaker 1: but I was like, thank you so much, you know,
Speaker 1: for like in my music. And he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: let me know if you would ever like to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, your songwriting career and maybe if you'd be
Speaker 1: interested in moving to Nashville. UM, I'd love to talk
Speaker 1: to your parents because I'm like just a kid. And
Speaker 1: so anyway, I took the card home and my parents
Speaker 1: were like, no, this is legit Sony Nashville. And so
Speaker 1: my dad and I went to Nashville, um first time
Speaker 1: for me, and we met with Jim and just talked
Speaker 1: about what it would be like to songwrite. And we
Speaker 1: actually looked out his window and saw like all of
Speaker 1: music Row and he was like, yeah, everyone goes just
Speaker 1: about every day to ride in these little houses out there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, why would they do that? I
Speaker 1: don't even understand why. Everybody, like it was so foreign
Speaker 1: to me, the whole thing. And so we even you know,
Speaker 1: talked about moving to Nashville instead of going to college,
Speaker 1: like what that would be like and um, So we
Speaker 1: had a great meeting. But I ended up, you know,
Speaker 1: knowing in my gut that I wanted to go get
Speaker 1: a degree because that's something you know, nobody can ever
Speaker 1: take away from me. And I am really glad that
Speaker 1: I got one because it was cool, you know, growing
Speaker 1: up in my hometown and then performing out in my hometown.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of support and I would play
Speaker 1: at a lot of different restaurants and that would turn
Speaker 1: into me playing at people's business meetings and playing at
Speaker 1: people's weddings and just parties and like playing people's barns,
Speaker 1: like just literally so much fun. And that would be
Speaker 1: like basically helping me pay rent as well. In college
Speaker 1: and um worked on my craft as a songwriter. And
Speaker 1: I'm thankful, you know, everybody's path is different, but I'm
Speaker 1: thankful that I spent my you know, four years of
Speaker 1: college they're developing. UM, because I felt like I was
Speaker 1: able to just really focus on me, and here, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so many artists, I feel like you can just
Speaker 1: feel like you're getting lost. And I really felt like
Speaker 1: I could just completely be myself. And so then I
Speaker 1: graduated college and I remember I was running on the
Speaker 1: treadmill and I had this thought in my head and
Speaker 1: it was just just can't just like text Gym now
Speaker 1: and invite him to a show? And so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'll invite him because I felt
Speaker 1: like that was kind of bold to do. But um,
Speaker 1: I invited him and he said, this is like June
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, and he says, yeah, yeah, And so
Speaker 1: he says, I'm um, it's really crazy here at c
Speaker 1: M A fest in Nashville, and that's just like nuts
Speaker 1: for us. So would you be willing to just come
Speaker 1: play for our A and R team and just bring
Speaker 1: your piano and do your new songs here? And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, of course. And I didn't realize how
Speaker 1: cool that was like to have that opportunity, um, but
Speaker 1: it was amazing having known him um for the several
Speaker 1: years that I had and just asking him questions along
Speaker 1: the way. A I wasn't like super nervous to play
Speaker 1: for them, and so I just like I went and
Speaker 1: played like four songs for them and sang my heart out,
Speaker 1: and Taylor Lindsay on their team was just like, you
Speaker 1: need to move here now, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: y'all aren't offering a deal, so I don't know what
Speaker 1: I was supposed to do. And within two weeks I
Speaker 1: had contacted my friend who was bartending Green Hills and
Speaker 1: had known a girl who was living in Madison. I
Speaker 1: just lived in a room in her house and moved
Speaker 1: to Nashville two weeks later, and I can't believe it,
Speaker 1: And now you have a deal with Sony R c A.
Speaker 1: And as soon as I got to Nashville, you know,
Speaker 1: I was bartending every night and songwriting every day. And
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for that year of songwriting because I met
Speaker 1: so many people. I was thankful and blessed to being
Speaker 1: a lot of really just just rooms with really brilliant people,
Speaker 1: and ended up signing with the I didn't know they
Speaker 1: were just as serious about signing me as an artist,
Speaker 1: like I thought they loved me as a songwriter. But
Speaker 1: I was surprised, like about a year into moving Um,
Speaker 1: Jim said, Hey, we wanna um schedule a meeting and
Speaker 1: you just play as some of the new songs you've
Speaker 1: been writing in town. And I was like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it. And at the end of that meeting, they
Speaker 1: offered me a developmental deal and I was just blown
Speaker 1: away because I wasn't expecting that at all, and um,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I was very naive to how
Speaker 1: the industry works, so they probably said words that I
Speaker 1: didn't realize meant that they were wanting to sign me.
Speaker 1: But I was just so honored and now I have
Speaker 1: an EP out and damage just went to radio and
Speaker 1: I'm just really thankful. It's pretty amazing story. It's crazy
Speaker 1: that you're just playing at a little restaurant. I know
Speaker 1: you would never know, and then it doesn't work out
Speaker 1: the first time, but then it kind of works out
Speaker 1: the second time, and in the end it all kind
Speaker 1: of worked out. It was really crazy and very like
Speaker 1: a lot of people that I've met while I was
Speaker 1: on radio tour, we've just talked about how amazing it
Speaker 1: is that everybody has just a break and like whatever
Speaker 1: your break is, like it's just someone really really helping
Speaker 1: you out and seeing some potential in you. And I'm
Speaker 1: just thankful that I was playing that night at that restaurant,
Speaker 1: or else we would have never met and my life
Speaker 1: could be totally different. So it's pretty amazing. That's the
Speaker 1: title of this podcast. It's Rachel Womack parentheses and how
Speaker 1: she was discovered playing in a rotating restaurant. Make that
Speaker 1: people look click on that. Have you seen the Netflix? Yes?
Speaker 1: I loved you. Have you watched the Firefest documentary yet? No?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is? Oh man, you should
Speaker 1: watch it. It su there was a big festival two
Speaker 1: years ago they were planning in the Bahamas and how
Speaker 1: this dude actually screwed to watch people out of their
Speaker 1: money and it's he's in jail now, okay, and it's
Speaker 1: it's good. It's interesting. F hy are Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: the news when it happened. It's kind of the thing
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about right now. And I want you to
Speaker 1: be a part of everybody, and I I want you to
Speaker 1: be able to thank you. Okay. Cool. So there's a
Speaker 1: there's one on Hulu, and there's one on Netflix. Have Hulu? Yes?
Speaker 1: You watch anything on Hulu? I? Um, well, I missed
Speaker 1: The Bachelor this week, so I'm going to be watching
Speaker 1: that on Oh crap, I was supposed to watch Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was supposed to watch that tonight. Hopefully I can
Speaker 1: make it in time because I think it's on at
Speaker 1: seven tonight on Hulu. Okay, I'll get you out of here.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, you're fine. Oh my gosh, you're so fun.
Speaker 1: But what do you watch on Netflix? So right now,
Speaker 1: I've been having bad dreams after watching um you, have
Speaker 1: you heard of it? I watched the first episode now
Speaker 1: I just finished the season, so I have heard of it. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'll watched the first episode of You and a Bit.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little too creepy for me
Speaker 1: because it's about what i've seen you. I don't want
Speaker 1: to spoil it for me, but I will not spoil it.
Speaker 1: It's about this dude, by the way, really good luck.
Speaker 1: And dude, did you watch Gossip Girl? He's on Gossip
Speaker 1: Girl too. He's a little too good looking for me.
Speaker 1: Really get a little resentful. I don't think he's that cute.
Speaker 1: You don't know, Oh, I think he's like super cute.
Speaker 1: I think he's super right. So I think he's okay.
Speaker 1: But and he works at a bookstore, yeah, which is
Speaker 1: so that is cute, you know, and then she goes
Speaker 1: in and gets a book and he's like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: all hit on her. And then he like stalks her
Speaker 1: and like finds everything about her. And that's all I know,
Speaker 1: because that's that's what they tell all that in episode
Speaker 1: one an episode ones all I've watched, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I wanted to go to episode two or not.
Speaker 1: I know same, So I can't watch I can't watch
Speaker 1: like thriller stuff by myself normally, and I don't watch
Speaker 1: scary movies like it all. And this weekend we did
Speaker 1: like this last minute random show with Brett Young opening
Speaker 1: up for him in Missouri and so on the way
Speaker 1: to and from the show, um, it was a seven
Speaker 1: hour drive. I binged the show with my manager who
Speaker 1: had seen the whole show, so she was rewatching it
Speaker 1: with me, and it is crazy. I think you should
Speaker 1: definitely watch it. No, it's well, I I just have
Speaker 1: very vivid dreams at night. I tried to read Twilight.
Speaker 1: I could act like a nightmare. That's great, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I know. I didn't sleep well last night,
Speaker 1: Like I'm really tired today because I dreamed about him
Speaker 1: stalking me last night. I know, No, it's bad, but
Speaker 1: the show is so good and it's I love it
Speaker 1: because there's so many twists, like the whole time and end.
Speaker 1: If I don't know if you've seen like a lot
Speaker 1: of the feed on like Twitter or whatever anything I'm
Speaker 1: currently watching, well I haven't. I haven't seen the feed,
Speaker 1: but my my bestie is she is on top of
Speaker 1: all feed um, and she was saying that a lot
Speaker 1: of people like him because of some of the things
Speaker 1: he does. Don't spoil it's like the protagonist antagonist at
Speaker 1: the same time. Yeah, because in the episode one he
Speaker 1: has a great relationship with the kid and he continues
Speaker 1: that I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's almost like you
Speaker 1: ever watched that he has some great son. No, so
Speaker 1: Dexter is a serial killer, I know, and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to watch that where oh, it's such a good
Speaker 1: show and you're like, oh, man to get them. But
Speaker 1: he's also like a good dude. I know. See that's well,
Speaker 1: and you I'm not gonna spoil it, okay, why you
Speaker 1: know somewhat why he um does the things he does? Okay,
Speaker 1: ever read that I watched that. No, I read it,
Speaker 1: and the first one, yeah, I read it. The movie
Speaker 1: was weird. I never I never saw either of them.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to stay up on all
Speaker 1: big things I can talk about. And then I lost
Speaker 1: a bet on the show where we all drew and
Speaker 1: I lost. I had to read the book and it
Speaker 1: was pretty good. It's fine, but that was it as
Speaker 1: good as the movie. I don't I don't know finishing
Speaker 1: the movie. Remeb read the book is and how it
Speaker 1: relates is that because he's yeah, there's a reason he's
Speaker 1: like I don't know if he's bad, but yes, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a reason he's like he is, and you go
Speaker 1: exactly like you have. They do a great job of
Speaker 1: developing him as a character throughout the series, and it's
Speaker 1: only ten episodes, and so you do feel for him,
Speaker 1: but you're also like, bro, like my best, my best
Speaker 1: he was like, never mind, I'm not can't. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give him. You have to watch it, watch it.
Speaker 1: I will watch more view I'll give it two more
Speaker 1: episodes before I make my decision that you have to watch. Definitely,
Speaker 1: if you watch too, you have to watch Fire the documentary. Okay, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'll watch Dexter, but i'll watch it with
Speaker 1: somebody was like eight seasons, like this is a great show,
Speaker 1: but oh dang, okay, this is only one season for me.
Speaker 1: Just watch the Firefest documentary. What we'll do it we
Speaker 1: have the phones in here, we'll call her and get
Speaker 1: update on a podcast. Okay, so let me know after
Speaker 1: you're done with that, and we'll get a recap on
Speaker 1: this podcast of the fire Festival. That sounds amazing. Um
Speaker 1: anything you're watching? You know what I watched on Amazon
Speaker 1: was I'm still watching it is um Man in high Castle. No.
Speaker 1: I just started because a friend was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: watch it. It's like if World War two would have
Speaker 1: ended the other way where we got beat and Japan
Speaker 1: and Germany one America was taken over by them. Oh
Speaker 1: but anyway, clap The idea is very interesting. The movie
Speaker 1: it's a little slow. Okay, you ever see you ever
Speaker 1: watch Amazon anything on Amazon? No? Have you ever seen Office?
Speaker 1: Shut your face? I watch all the that all the time.
Speaker 1: So I watched it probably more than you did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Scott's tats or no? Okay, no, everybody, So that's
Speaker 1: the episode that you decide if they love it or
Speaker 1: hate it. Scott's Tats is where Michael Scott tells these
Speaker 1: kids in kindergarten he's gonna pay for their college. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And then he goes back and he's like, they're a
Speaker 1: big party for him. They're like, I love that episode
Speaker 1: just because I love every episode. Um, and over Christmas break,
Speaker 1: I got my parents watching and they've never seen like
Speaker 1: a real episode. And now my dad is like bench
Speaker 1: watching The Office for the first time, and it's so
Speaker 1: fulfilling for me that I showed them. But I do
Speaker 1: like that episode, even though like most people say they
Speaker 1: don't it makes them uncomfortable. I like, I love uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: It's love best, my best comedy to watch and to live. Yes,
Speaker 1: do you like to dinner Party episode where they go
Speaker 1: over to Jan's and Michael's apart of it condo. Yes,
Speaker 1: And it's super uncomfortable the whole thing, like she's done
Speaker 1: a fish ready, takes three hours sleep on the foot
Speaker 1: of the bed. It's the best. He shows a little TV.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Well and see that's like my
Speaker 1: mom at first was like, I just this is just
Speaker 1: it's too uncomfortable, you know, it's too awkward. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's the point though, mom, because because it gets you
Speaker 1: into your weird you know, I do this joke. I
Speaker 1: love uncomfortable, right, And I do this joke on my
Speaker 1: stand up tour. I haven't done it in a bit
Speaker 1: because I wrote about in my book, but my second book.
Speaker 1: But I go out and I say, by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I recently met him, but I
Speaker 1: haven't know my biological father. He left round was like
Speaker 1: five or six years old. And I'm like, how don't
Speaker 1: you know? Um? I say, uh man tyle joking so long,
Speaker 1: but it's I got on Facebook and you know how
Speaker 1: they do that thing where they recommend friends. You should know. Yes,
Speaker 1: they recommended my biological father, but I don't, well, what
Speaker 1: is your crowding? Well? And they don't know if they
Speaker 1: can laugh or not? Just wait, so they go so
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, that's okay, okay. I said, well listen,
Speaker 1: sorry about that. I'd like to do an impression now,
Speaker 1: and they're like okay. I like, I like to do
Speaker 1: an impression of my biological father with me, with me
Speaker 1: as a kid. And I just walk off stage and
Speaker 1: I just I just stand off off stage like that,
Speaker 1: you can't even see me, but they laugh. It's it's
Speaker 1: night by night. Sometimes they last, sometimes they're like it's
Speaker 1: so good, but like I live for that kind of humor. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the best when we can laugh at just But
Speaker 1: that's the best thing about comedy, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: just it breaks open all barriers. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of comedy where you know, some people will get pissed
Speaker 1: because comedians will do something that they don't agree with
Speaker 1: right or though that's over the line, or you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have said that, and then they go, we should boycott.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of letting the market decide what
Speaker 1: you should and shouldn't go to, meaning if someone says
Speaker 1: something and you don't agree with it, just as if
Speaker 1: you comedy can be anything, just even a TV show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't watch it, Okay, don't let them, let them market decide,
Speaker 1: don't watch it. Go ahead. Here's the big question. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: This is if we're real friends or not? Um, because
Speaker 1: obviously I missed up the tots um. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about Jack Black? Jack Black? Yes, I mean I
Speaker 1: used to really really think he was funny in his heyday.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him a lot lately. Um, I love
Speaker 1: him except for kids like the kids movies? Does he
Speaker 1: do like kids cartoons stuff? Like? Yes? But I really
Speaker 1: like Jack Black when he was really like any He
Speaker 1: is my number two next to Steve kill as far
Speaker 1: as and I think I like the most about Jack
Speaker 1: Black is he's really talented, like really like you can sing,
Speaker 1: he can run, he can sing, yeah, go ahead. But
Speaker 1: he doesn't take it seriously or does he take it
Speaker 1: so seriously? You just don't know. That's what I would
Speaker 1: put him at. Yeah, so good at it. But he
Speaker 1: but he gives you just enough to be like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: he's really good. Some people are annoyed by him because
Speaker 1: he's a lot. I love him. I love him very
Speaker 1: you know about that. I only want to understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just watched it actually to you, who's the funniest
Speaker 1: person alive? Oh? I love Steve Carrell. It's a fine answer.
Speaker 1: There's no wrong answer. Go ahead, give me. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of but Jack Black number two? Um, yeah, gosh,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't listen to a lot. I
Speaker 1: listened to like a lot of clean stuff as far
Speaker 1: as comedians go, So that rules out like a lot
Speaker 1: of people. And number three. I loved him Hawkins. Do
Speaker 1: you know him. He's funny Christian comedian. Huh, he's funny.
Speaker 1: I listened to him while I was on radio tour
Speaker 1: and he he was really funny. He has a podcast
Speaker 1: called Potty Break, and it was just it was just funny,
Speaker 1: easy listening. I don't curse in my acts. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't curse ever, only curse in the car. I
Speaker 1: used to. I don't curse it all anymore, just because
Speaker 1: I'm not against it. Used to curse awesomely. I was
Speaker 1: hilarious cursor. Yeah, but then I realized I couldn't write
Speaker 1: or or without writing cursing, and then go, well, that
Speaker 1: doesn't work because I don't want to do that on stage.
Speaker 1: I just stopped a limited cursing. But some of my
Speaker 1: favorite funniest people, my top three tell me number one,
Speaker 1: it's tough. I can remember my order. I think that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see where I ranked them because Chris Rock
Speaker 1: is up there for me, Ricky Gervais, and I think
Speaker 1: Adam Caroll is super funny, so I would go. If
Speaker 1: I were ranking the three, I would go because Ricky
Speaker 1: Geras created the Office you ever watched The British Office? No,
Speaker 1: but I heard it's great. Should it takes a second?
Speaker 1: Because I really really want to watch it. Turn the
Speaker 1: close caption on because there are things they say you
Speaker 1: don't understand. They're great, but it's great. And you see
Speaker 1: how the characters were based on the American version the
Speaker 1: way you see how the American character based on the
Speaker 1: British version. Yeah, okay, quickly, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that Ricky Gervais first, Chris Rock second,
Speaker 1: Adam Carolla third, those are mighty as were about to
Speaker 1: wrap this up? Do you have anything? Yeah? I go
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle number one, Yes, and then I love Dmitri
Speaker 1: Martin like super funny, his drawings are hilarious right on.
Speaker 1: And then I really like John Mulaney like his last
Speaker 1: two specials are probably my one of my favorite comedian
Speaker 1: specials ever. Did you watch the was Sebastian granted Cowski
Speaker 1: whatever his name is the new special I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: You know that's really funny. You like comedy? Huh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: To laugh? Who doesn't like them? To let me run
Speaker 1: down this list real quick? Would you really go to
Speaker 1: the Mountains of the Beach Mountains NFL or college football
Speaker 1: NFL really even being from Alabama. Well, my family would
Speaker 1: say college because they're like the biggest Rold Todd fans.
Speaker 1: But my boyfriend is a big Chiefs fan, so I've
Speaker 1: been trying to just you know, support him even then
Speaker 1: they lost, but love them? L A or New York?
Speaker 1: Where would you rather be? L A? You would you
Speaker 1: rather read the book or watch the movie? First? Watch
Speaker 1: the movie? Would you rather go watch Adele or Carrie Underwood?
Speaker 1: H Del pancakes or waffles? Waffles? Backstreet Boys are in sync?
Speaker 1: Back Street Boys. We I thought we were friends. We
Speaker 1: are not want the office or friends? Oh no, don't
Speaker 1: make me do that, go ahead, office and that. Finally,
Speaker 1: ballads are up to opposed what you would rather listen
Speaker 1: to other than the Backstreet Boys. We're pretty right on
Speaker 1: in friendship. Yeah. Cool, that's good to know. You would
Speaker 1: go to the mountains. I don't care either way. I
Speaker 1: would just go to wherever. If if I had a girlfriend,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, where do you want to go? All right? Cool?
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yeah, it's all the same. Not I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about either one of them. Uh yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna end this, like to finish it with a
Speaker 1: nice story, put a bow on it. Yes, Once upon
Speaker 1: a time, I think it was maybe the summer of
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen. I was doing one of my friends.
Speaker 1: I called and say, would you come and perform at
Speaker 1: my show? And I was like sure. He said, he said,
Speaker 1: come to do a couple of songs, do one of
Speaker 1: your comedy raging idiot songs. And you and I performed together,
Speaker 1: and I say, that's cool, it's cool, it's cool, And
Speaker 1: it's a friend I care about a lot. And I
Speaker 1: was like, of course, you've done things for me. I
Speaker 1: do things for you. That's how friendship works. Yes, we
Speaker 1: love each other absolutely so I So I go and
Speaker 1: he's he's putting on the show and it's at the
Speaker 1: Rhyming Auditorium and I was like, this is crazy. I'm
Speaker 1: playing the rheman again. And I go out and before
Speaker 1: the show, I'm doing a bunch of interviews for my
Speaker 1: friend's name was Darius Rucker, who you probably know as
Speaker 1: a solo artist. Wasn't who you the Blowfish? And I'm
Speaker 1: there and I'm doing interviews before and there was this
Speaker 1: new artist that I went to and I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. I said, I'm by Bones, and she
Speaker 1: totally ignored me. I don't know if she didn't see
Speaker 1: me or maybe she doesn't remember. It was very brief,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, did she went to our
Speaker 1: next interview? Her name is Rachel Walmack. That must have
Speaker 1: been somebody because I brought it up like three, Bobby,
Speaker 1: Listen up, listeners, Bobby is up little crap in y'all
Speaker 1: because he bull craped to me. He told me this
Speaker 1: story story I don't remember lies. He told me that.
Speaker 1: I would have definitely remembered if Bobby came up to
Speaker 1: me and was like, hey, Rachel, what's up? Like I
Speaker 1: wasn't saying Rachel I said, and I said, hey, Rachel Walmack,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan something like that. I didn't introduce myself,
Speaker 1: Bob Bones, because I don't don't do that. And we
Speaker 1: were doing interviews around like this half circle in the
Speaker 1: side room. Yeah I was there, but I didn't. You
Speaker 1: weren't there. You weren't there, Like to end on that story,
Speaker 1: you never know, that's a great fake story. And to end,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play a little bit of my boyfriend doesn't
Speaker 1: speak for me anymore. This is a Rachel Walmax song
Speaker 1: played Friend, which is about my ex. My boyfriend gets
Speaker 1: so much crap for this song. Your current boyfriend, Yes,
Speaker 1: the boyfriend you have now get the boyfriend I have now? Um,
Speaker 1: he gets a louto crap for this song. But he's
Speaker 1: so easy going about it. He's like, oh, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: what's your boyfriend? Now do music? He um? He is
Speaker 1: in school at Travica down in downtown Nashville to do.
Speaker 1: What is he going to treat you? Right? And he yes,
Speaker 1: he treats me like a queen. He's so kind. And
Speaker 1: he's from Montana, which is the reason that I said
Speaker 1: the mountains because last year I went with him to
Speaker 1: Glacier National Park, um, right outside of his hometown, and
Speaker 1: just it blew mym on because I've never seen mountains before.
Speaker 1: That was the first time I ever. So I've got
Speaker 1: a great one, all right. And I know you mean
Speaker 1: it because you told me that before we became up here. Yes,
Speaker 1: So okay, Regel Walmack, We've done an hour is as
Speaker 1: long as interview you've ever done. Yes, and you did
Speaker 1: pretty good. Thank you. You know, I used my tools,
Speaker 1: got a new tool kit before before the interview, Thank you, Bobby.
Speaker 1: I was talking to her before and she was like, right,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not that witty. And I was like,
Speaker 1: it's okay if you're not funny, because no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: funny because I've just done that. And I was like,
Speaker 1: don't focus on things that you're not like you really
Speaker 1: find your strength, and she was like, we're focusing on
Speaker 1: my strength. That's right, that's right. Rechel Walmack w A
Speaker 1: M M A c K. Because I met everybody's like,
Speaker 1: how do you say your name? Yea woman? Thank you
Speaker 1: all so much. To be fair, it does look like whamick,
Speaker 1: it does. It looks like Walmart. Whatever. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't mind, Reel Walmack. She say it wrong. I'll still
Speaker 1: be your friends. Stream down the go, buy a ticket
Speaker 1: and watch your play. She's ever anywhere near you. And
Speaker 1: that is all for this time. Class, see y'all in
Speaker 1: the festivals this summer. Are you playing firefest this year? Watch? Alright, alright,