WEBVTT - Josh Kelley 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 What's up everybody? Why do I always feel the need 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.880 to start shows like speaking differently than I normally do, 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.200 like with like a different energy. What's up everybody? I 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.039 don't ever talk I never talked like that? Why am 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.160 I talking like that? So you gotta start it differently 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.360 or weird or fun or something. I don't know. Why 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.760 don't I just be like, Okay, here we go, because 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.479 that's that's myself. I don't know, I'm overthinking it. Hey. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.720 By the way, the Hills are coming back. And for 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.119 a lot of you out there, you might not remember, 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.880 but the beginning of this show was actually not called 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.480 the Wells Cast. It was called the Pratt Cast because 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.880 Stephanie Pratt of The Hills had her own podcast. Steph 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.760 being Steph my Heart, had had asked if I would 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.680 help co host a show with her with you know, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.280 my radio background, kind of keep her between the mustard 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.880 and the mayonnaise, keep things on track, if you will. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.360 But then Steph left the show, moved to London. She go, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.920 but the show is coming back. The Hills are coming 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.520 back with some even bigger names apparentl So we're talking 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.680 about it, like what do we do here? Do we continue? 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.000 Doing the Wells Cast. We bring back some of the 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.600 Pratt Cast. We changed the name over to the Hills Cast, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.760 Like what do we do? And I think paying homage 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.360 to the genesis of this show. We gotta do a 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.959 little bit of Hillstock even though the person who you 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.200 know was on the show was no longer on this show. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.840 It's whatever. We're gonna do it long Diet Tribe to 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.600 tell you the next week we're going to have a 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.479 Drey No, that's right now, we're gonna talk about Hills 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.760 season two coming back. All right, let's get out with 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.880 the show wrote it. This is a Wells Cast with 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:34.760 Wells Adams and I heart radio podcast. Welcome into the 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:42.280 Wells Cast. I'm your host, Wells Adams. Anyways, super pumped 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.560 about this show. And I'll tell you what. The guy 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.760 that's coming on today as a very similar story to mine. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.880 He grew up playing golf as a kid, went the 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.400 same college as I did, moved to Nashville after college 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.160 just like I did, got super lucky in some how 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:05.480 was able to trick a famous beautiful actress into being 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.160 with them. Were like the same person, We're cut from 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.680 the same cloth. Now is he more talented? Than me. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.119 Yes is my mother reminded me of that every time 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.280 we speak. Yeah, am I working it out with my therapist? Maybe? 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.440 Probably not though, because we got bigger problems. This guy's 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.320 been doing it for a long time. Absolutely amazing musician. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.720 He got offered a record deal when he was like fourteen. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.200 You have to meet James Brown back then. His mainstream 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.760 debut for The Ride Home found a top five single 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.120 with Amazing, and his second album, Almost Honest, included a 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.040 top ten single Only You. He's appeared on the Today show, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.160 Good Morning America, Ellen DeGeneres, That's the Night Show at 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.560 Jay Leno Lie with Regis and Kelly, Rachel Ray, Last Call. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.920 I mean literally, the dude has done everything. Oh yeah. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.040 He also wrote the theme song for Mike and Molly 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.440 and if that wasn't all very impressive. He's married to 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.600 the one the Lee Katherine Heigel from Like Grey's Anatomy 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.720 or Under Siege or Knocked Up or if you're Josh 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.000 from My Father The Hero. His story is so cool, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.600 so interesting, and he is so candid about his life. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.200 This is a really really enjoyable interview for me. I 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.760 truly loved having this guy on this show so stick 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.040 around because it's coming up in the Wells cast an 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.280 episode you do not want to miss with the one 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:43.440 the Only Josh Kelly Yellow. Can you hear me? Oh yeah, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.800 I can hear you. Fantast dude. Thanks for having me. 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.240 By the way, man, this is awesome. There's some sort 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.560 of wonderful flex of doing an interview as someone who 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.080 instead of beats by dre headphones, they've got in ears in. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.400 I really do appreciate that. The other day it looks 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.040 silly when I was where in my mind, but you 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.080 look cool with yours on. But I just, you know, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.560 I don't know, man, something about this face just looks 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:13.680 silly on on Skype with headpons on. Josh Kelly, Welcome 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.680 to the Wells gass dude. Good to see a man. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.560 Yeah you too. Our paths aligned a lot. Did you 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.560 know that? No? I didn't give me tell me why. Okay, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.680 so you're a couple of years older than me. But 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.960 I went to Old Miss What yep. I was there 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:33.360 from two thousand two to two thousand seven Victory Lab. Okay, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.840 so let's think here. So let's see I was nine nine, uh, 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.279 and I got my record deal. I think it was 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.159 in two thousand two, so like right when you got 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.840 there is right? I was playing that was it like 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.080 the height of my old miss fame as far as 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.520 like playing the Sneaky Tiki and all those places, the 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.400 Sneaky teky Man. I remember that place. It's no longer there. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.919 I played that. There was a venue called the Library. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.200 I played a lot still there. There was a couple 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.400 different places, and I remember, basically like when I first 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.920 started writing songs that I knew, I was like, oh 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.960 my god, I think these are good. I would make 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.520 flyers and I put the flyers for the Sneaky Tiki 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:13.080 shows on every single sorority door and put it under there, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:14.840 and I would, you know, sometimes they would open the 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.479 door and be like, guys, I'm playing the show now. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.440 I think you're gonna love it. I just kept on 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.000 like promoting it. And then at one point the Sneaky Tiki, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.480 I think they were giving me three dollars ahead at 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.480 the door. And there was one night I had a 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.960 thousand people there, so I was like a I was 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.200 still a dependent. I was like twenty years old and 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.279 I made three grand on a Thursday. I remember just going, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.200 holy mold it. We in the money. Baby. I was like, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.880 I'm like at the time, I was dating this girl 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.239 at Brittany, I was like, dude, we're going out for shrimping, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.480 grits and wine tonight. Baby, We're going to city grocery. Baby, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.159 let's go. We're going to the city grocery. We're gonna 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.560 have them fried bottom fetus. I think we basically just 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.800 missed each other at Old Miss, And then after that 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.880 I graduated from Old Miss with my journalism degree, and 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.640 I went and did radio in Nashville and worked at 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.480 Lightning one hundred for seven years and then I heart 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.640 after that. So I assumed you you must have been 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.000 gracing the Lightning one airwaves when I was there. Absolutely 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.839 I was. I was in Lightning one hundred a lot 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:20.680 like Amazing was part of heavy rotation for a long time. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.279 it was. I remember that, uh, And I remember there 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.800 was country radio stations and pop stations in Nashville that 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:32.159 we're playing Amazing, and um, you know what's funny about 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.480 that too, is that originally Amazing was a bluegrass song. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.440 And I was trying to get a record deal in 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.680 Nashville in the very beginning. I got turned down somehow 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.360 got a pop deal in with Hollywood Records, and all 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.600 I did is just all we did is just changed 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.839 the song a little like, Yeah, we just changed the groove. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.560 And that's how closely related like country and pop music 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.320 really actually is. Its attitude and groove. That's the only 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.560 thing that's a little it different. Yeah, take out the 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.040 Mando and the Van Joe and now it's a pop song. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.320 He'll be fine, it really is. So I do want 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.360 to go back to all that, but I just wanted 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.120 to kind of start the interview off with you and 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.600 I have Hotti Totty and I missed Nashville. You're no 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.600 longer there. You're in like Utah now right, Yeah, we're 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.640 right right right outside of Park City, Utah. Congratulations. You 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.760 are one of the very few people in the music 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.440 industry that I've been able to put out music because 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.800 and I totally get it, you can't tour behind anything 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.920 right now. But you've got an unplugged record out now 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.240 right yea. You know, I mean, I don't know if 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.000 you can see this, but this studio, this is my 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.840 mad scientist laboratory. And you know, over the years since 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.480 I was a kid. I think it's because my parents 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.200 never gave me out of all, I just ended up 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.840 learning like fifteen different instruments. So I produce everything, I 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.120 engineer everything, I mix it all, master at all. I 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.080 mean I've always done it like that myself. So you know, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.640 no matter really what happens and comes my way, I 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.400 I always will make music. I'll be making music until 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.320 I can't talk anymore. And because for lack of better words, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.400 there's no overhead. I mean, I make everything here, so 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.120 it's like a little it's like a little factory. So 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.680 me during the pandemic, it just gave me an excuse 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.080 to sort of lose myself in the studio and spend 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.000 more time with the kids. And UM, I did a 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.320 lot of online shows, but I have written this is 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.560 the most prolific I've been in my whole life, because 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.160 I don't know how to sit around and do nothing 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.280 unplugged from upstream studios. Is upstream studios like your little 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.200 man cave. Yeah, it's this is actually a it's like 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:40.440 a it's a farm. So it's a horse ranch, pigs, goats, chickens, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:45.280 you name it, dog rescue. UM and my mother in 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.000 law buitless place, and there's this room at the very 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.360 sort of end like if you go outside these doors 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.040 as a bunch of horse stalls and all that. And 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.120 she was gracious enough to give me this space. And 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.800 it's a nice big room because I used to create 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.160 at home, and and as much as I love that, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.560 my kids are getting to the point now where they 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.439 will come in and you know, we want to hang 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.680 with Dad, and they will, you know, kind of take 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.679 me out of the moment I have to escape to 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.640 to be able to really create. And so it's this 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.600 is this is great that I can come here and 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.720 sort of get lost in the music and then go 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.440 back home and be dad. What can people expect from 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:28.000 this Unplugged record that they wouldn't normally from past releases? Well, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.960 you know, I mean I grew up at the very 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.440 beginning of MTV Unplugged, and I used to love that stuff. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.240 And I used to love I mean, I remember I 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.600 could probably paint every frame of their Nirvana Unplugged and 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.360 the air Clapton one. And so over the last probably 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.480 four or five years, my team and I we've noticed 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.520 that my my my solo acoustic shows which I played 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.600 piano acoustic guitar sometimes, I mean I had my rig two. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.480 So sometimes where I'm like, let's just have a dance 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.400 party and I'll just like press the space bar and 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.400 we just rock out. And there something about the solo 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.800 acoustics show that moves the needle more than the full 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.720 band show. I think it's because it's a variety show. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.559 I can grasp my fans a little bit better and 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.000 you know, make him laugh, make him cry, take him 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.280 through a sort of an emotional roller coaster. And because 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.120 of that, my fans have asked, you know, repeatedly on 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.080 social media for me to record the songs the way 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.040 I do them, you know, on the shows. And so basically, 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.000 you know, of it is there was their choice, you know, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.280 songs that they chose, and then the other were some 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.360 of the new songs that I only got to do 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.560 three shows right before the pandemic that I was doing 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.080 those songs live and it was really moving the needle. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.520 And one of them is a gospel song called hold 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.160 Me My Lord, and so I just kind of cherry 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.240 picked him and started recording them in here and kept 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.240 them really minimal, you know, just sup just not a 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.679 whole lot going on, and very exposed, very naked, and 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.080 and it allows the voice and the message to really shine. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.560 So I'm really proud of it. I mean, it kind 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.120 of was just something that I did for fun, and 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.200 when I sent it into my team, they were like, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.160 we're putting this out right. So that's kind of how 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.079 it happened, is very organically and having fun. You can 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.440 never really beat that. I used to always say that 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.319 my favorite bands to go see where three pieces because 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.960 there was nowhere to hide. You can't be bad at 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.120 your craft to a three piece, And I guess I 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.360 should revise that to what you're doing because you have 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.400 to be super vulnerable in that space. You are the 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.079 piano player, you are the guitar player, you are the 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.960 lead singer. I used to play music back in the 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.480 day and stuff, and there is something nice about being 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.880 able to hide behind people when you need to. Was 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.240 it a hard transition to be like, guess what, it's 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.360 just me now, you know? No, it was. I remember 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.960 the moment. It was two thousand fourteen. I was in 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.720 Virginia and I was about to play this show, and 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.920 I was in my hotel room and I just decided, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.280 I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:03.760 not on the show. You can probably bleep it, but 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.760 I decided to not. I didn't give it anymore. I 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.920 didn't give a ship what people thought about me. I 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.840 didn't give I don't care. I'm not going to censor 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.240 myself anymore. And because of that, it allowed me to 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:19.480 be authentically me and goof around, mess with people, make 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.960 them laugh, and then play a song about my daughter 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.080 and make him cry, like just instead of trying to 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.959 be someone else. It just it just literally was like 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.760 light bulb went off. And ever since that day, I 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.160 walk into shows going I'm about to mess these people 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.640 up like I and it and it's fun for me 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.760 because you know, I've been doing it long enough now 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.679 to where I really know what I'm doing, and I 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.360 really really love it. I love it when people don't 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.560 know if they're about to have an uncomfortable moment. You know, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.839 some shows, like acoustic shows, you're like, oh my god, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.480 this is so uncomfortable. Man. I make us a family 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.600 right off the bat, and and once we're a family, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.120 then it's a variety show that we're all on together. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.600 I want to know about the science of creating the 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.600 set list because you're like me, my fiance is an actress, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.280 your wife is an actress, and I've learned so much 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.400 just from being around her about character arc in stories, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:11.920 and a lot of times should be like, well this 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.840 is gonna happen, because this needs to happen, for this, this, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.520 and this to happen. I'm like, I never even thought 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.920 about movies and TV shows that way. And I guess 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.040 the question is that live music is very similar. You're 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.000 taking people on this emotional roller coaster. What's your blueprint 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.840 for setting that all up beforehand or is it all 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.480 off the cuff and just how the crowd is reacting 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:36.400 to Well, yeah, so it's it's for me, it's mainly 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.160 based on the crowd and they, you know, they based 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.040 on how what whether show is, what kind of show 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.360 it is, what the venue is. I tailored that to 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.439 the crowd for sure. What I what I make is 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.200 a cheat sheet. So I make I will write down 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:55.480 a list and very big black sharpie on the ground 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.400 of like forty songs, and I kind of put little 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.920 little cartoons next to some of them, like hey make 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.120 sure you you know hit these these are the most 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.280 important ones for this kind of venue. And then based 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.480 on the crowd, I sort of organically kind of decide 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.800 what kind of journey I'm going to take them on 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.640 based on how they're reacting. If it's like a chill crowd, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.800 like let's say it's a hotel cafe in l A. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.840 Or let's say, like in Boston, it is a city winery, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.360 and those people are there, they pay, they pay top 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.360 dollar to wine and dine and to really listen to music. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.200 And so that's a totally different experience. I don't have to, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.840 you know, like if I'm doing a festival and there's 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.240 a bunch of drunk idiots, it's completely different, like an 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.080 outdoor thing, you know where it is, And so I mean, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.280 I really do tailor it towards that. Um it's the 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.240 people will let me know what kind of journey they 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.160 want to go on. But I think usually my big 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.840 thing is is I love to make people laugh, and 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.520 I love stupid Dad ones and jokes and all that 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.760 stuff and coming up with him, and I you know, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.320 if I'm flying from here to New York or Boston 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.080 or something, I spend the majority of the flight coming 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.360 up with new jokes and it's really fun. Some of 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.480 them suck, and those are the funniest ones. What's more, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.800 gratifying doing like let's say a show that would be 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.680 outdoors or at the festival where where people aren't paying 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.000 as much attention as you'd like and then winning them over, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.040 or from jump Street playing a show, or everyone is 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.160 just already hanging on every word. Dude. I will give 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.800 you an example. So I did this. I was headlining 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:43.200 this country festival and I can't remember was in the 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.320 middle of nowhere. I mean, I don't even know where 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.080 this place was on the map, but it was, you know, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.680 it was an outdoor festival, and right before me, a 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.040 full band with like smoke and it come out of 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.080 cannons played and then all of a sudden, it's just 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:04.240 me and acoustic and are and this one dude, super drunk, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.320 kind of young guy. He kept going play Garth Brooks 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.480 and he was so loud, and there's probably three thousand 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.840 people there they could all hear him play Garth Brooks. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.240 The old me would have just like kind of shrunk into, 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.600 like just shrunk in and just like gotten through the show. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.160 The new me that doesn't give a shit, starting in 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.680 two thousand fourteen, said, um, I think I think what 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.840 I said is I said, is there any security here? 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.080 I said, see that guy over there yelling Garth Brooks, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.560 I said, can you get that mother effort out of here? 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:41.120 And the crowd erupted and then I had him. We 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.280 were together. They clapped and the dude got escorted out 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.120 and all of a sudden, we're a family, you know, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.920 And and then the show was great. Before that, all 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.520 I could hear is this guy kept on saying that 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.800 over and over again. Play Garth Brooks and I love 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.880 Garth Brooks, but no, not right now. And it worked. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.720 And that's one of the things that I've learned just 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.720 over the years, Like you know, there's gonna be outside 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.000 forces that try to can mess you up and skip 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.480 you up, and you just don't give it a heartbeat, 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.840 get rid of it or play with it, don't shrink. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.520 And then once that mother was kicked out, you brought 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.080 the house down with color on baton rouge and everyone 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.880 loved it. It was fun, man, it was very interesting. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.239 I don't know if you know this. Do you know 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.040 When when I was at Old Miss, I was actually 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.480 there on a golf scholarship. So we're gonna get into 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.840 all that. Don't worry about this because now you've got 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.320 me thinking about Old Miss Man. That was so fun. Yeah, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.679 a great place. Speaking of all this live music, I 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.480 feel like it's it's about to happen, or it's like 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.879 slowly happening. I was talking to Russell Dickerson on my 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.040 other podcast and he was like, dude, were about to 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.119 release a tour. You've got a tour coming up in 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:56.560 the fall of It's happening. We're back. I'm so excited. Yeah. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.359 I mean, you know, right when the pandemic happened, I 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.439 finished three shows and and we were still I was 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.720 still thinking about going to Atlanta and finishing out that 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.840 next little part of the run, and my wife was like, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.000 are you sure? And then next thing, you know, my 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.520 manager calls me and she was like, no, no, You're 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.320 not going anywhere. But what I did during that is, 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:18.879 I will tell you the positives of COVID For me, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.960 there was actually I hate saying this, but there was 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.600 a lot of them. Um. The positives are I created 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.560 a much better and closer relationship with my fans. My 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.320 social media following doubled, and because I just became more involved, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.280 and so I spent a whole week researching how to 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.800 how to create my own really great online live shows 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.720 with multiple cameras UM using and using o b S 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.440 online broadcast service and but like really owning it UM 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.400 and so I was kind of one of the first 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.560 guys that I know of during it that really hit 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.480 the ground running with the live shows online. I had, 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.800 you know, three camera set up. I switched the cameras 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.960 with my toes and it was so fun. Man, it 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.920 was really cool and I was able to do these fun, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.760 quirky things that I do. But I will tell you this, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.080 there are subtle things that you do in a live show, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.800 really subtle things that do not translate online. And I'm 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.600 so looking forward to October because the tour got pushed 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.760 four times. In October, It's happening and I am ready 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:27.640 two to have a tangible experience with other humans, well 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.919 everyone out there. You can go get your tickets at 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.119 a Josh Kelly dot com. And the new unplugged record 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.639 is called Unplugged from Upstream Studios. It's out now on 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.960 Spotify and Apple Music and everywhere you can everywhere you 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.520 can get music out. Is there anything else that you 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.240 want to talk about or promote before we kind of 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.680 pivot over to my portion of the show. Yeah, well, 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.800 I'll just tell you too. Like the album that came 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.879 out in November is called My Baby in the Band, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.359 and we just printed let's see if I have it 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.919 right here. We it's my first time ever, you know, 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:04.280 basically printing vinyl, like doing it on my own. Check 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.080 this out, dude. So we got this. This is actually 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.160 a picture that of my wife and I when we 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.720 were in New York in our honeymoon phase where we 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.640 you know, where everything was sparkles and butterflies. I got 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.480 to choose the color, dude. I have a huge vinyl 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.119 collection and I don't have one that's read and I 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:27.159 love it. Yeah, it's like lipstick red. So we're selling 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:31.120 these on online on my website and I'm I'm personalizing 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.960 and signing every one of them. So when people get 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.119 the record, you just have to put in the and 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:41.639 the comments like this is first stay Facious loves Jeremy 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.600 Day and and I'll put it on and I put 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.320 it on there. It's fun, man, I love it. And 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.280 we're like a homegrown one stop shop over here and 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.359 it's my wife and I and it's actually really fun. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.320 I'm back to being an independent artist again because we've 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.480 thought about doing the major label thing again. But but 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.520 the thing is is, I'm forty one now, I've got 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.560