Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode thirty six The Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1: Here this episode with Walker Hayes. Hey boy, hey buddy. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I guess now we spent a lot of time together
Speaker 1: because we're on the road right now together and so
Speaker 1: now I get to ask the questions that I don't
Speaker 1: get to ask, like when we're just sitting down, because
Speaker 1: the people want to know, like the real stuff, and
Speaker 1: so they'll be stuff like some of the stuff I
Speaker 1: wouldn't ask you, like we're just hanging out before show,
Speaker 1: will like tell me your deepest fear a stuff like yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, we just talked. Yeah, we're just talked.
Speaker 1: But we're always like getting ready for stuff too, because
Speaker 1: you always got go want to play. Um. So here's
Speaker 1: the the whole. What we'll do is we're kind of
Speaker 1: encapsulate you and then we'll just work back. So right now,
Speaker 1: you just signed a record deal to monu My Records.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Uh? My goodness. Uh. I mean
Speaker 1: it means I have another chance and having a career,
Speaker 1: you know, as an artist, and and that being my
Speaker 1: full time job. I mean, that's what it means to me.
Speaker 1: It might sound simple, but that's exactly what it means.
Speaker 1: It means I have a career, a chance at a career,
Speaker 1: a long lasting career. Again, yes again, another shot for sure.
Speaker 1: So you talk about other shots and and just quickly
Speaker 1: here because then I want to go all the way
Speaker 1: back through it. But you've been on labels before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is my third record deal. I've been in Nashville
Speaker 1: twelve years and I Will signed a Mercury got dropped.
Speaker 1: I'll signed a Capital got dropped, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was going to get another chance
Speaker 1: because you don't really get that many um here. Most
Speaker 1: people don't get too and so this is my third.
Speaker 1: The thing about Walker too is that I we didn't
Speaker 1: know each other and I we first moved here. It
Speaker 1: was when my co host, Amy's mom was sick and
Speaker 1: I got the song and say, hey, this's got any Walker.
Speaker 1: He's what the song called joy like Judy and so
Speaker 1: because and I heard the songs, so we'd be choosing
Speaker 1: to use it to make up as the name's mom
Speaker 1: was fighting cancer and we were doing a fundraiser and
Speaker 1: it wasn't for her mom. It was just we were,
Speaker 1: you know, doing a pimp and joy thing. That's how
Speaker 1: we met, and so he came and the song actually
Speaker 1: was downloaded a bunch of times, you know that kind
Speaker 1: of thing happened, and then I didn't see it for
Speaker 1: a bit, and see, I don't see anybody first of all,
Speaker 1: if i didn't see it for a bit. And then
Speaker 1: I'm on YouTube and I do the thing on YouTube,
Speaker 1: I find an artist and it'll go also recommended, also recommended,
Speaker 1: also recommended. And so until I find music and artists
Speaker 1: and I'll go to SoundCloud, I'll do whatever, and I'm
Speaker 1: going through and I see this song right here, and
Speaker 1: I was like that. I was like, you know, that's
Speaker 1: a joy, like dude together shaking, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: nothing else. I remember taking that was like, I sounds
Speaker 1: like nothing else even stay. So I played it on
Speaker 1: the radulo the next morning and I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like this, you just hear something that it strikes
Speaker 1: you oddly. And then from there I just started to
Speaker 1: play all your stuff on the air because I sit
Speaker 1: there and I'll be like, oh, you think that's good.
Speaker 1: You got to hear this one star. I was like,
Speaker 1: my favorite song is a comedian is too bad? Being fun.
Speaker 1: So all these songs as I would hear them, I
Speaker 1: would be like, this is not like anything I'm hearing
Speaker 1: right now. I'm period. And I would talk to my
Speaker 1: friends like Dan Smarts from Dan and Shay, Him and
Speaker 1: I talked about music a lot, and I was like this, Walker, hey,
Speaker 1: stuff is like next level, like cerebral type stuff. And
Speaker 1: I don't even think Aboudy even notices it right now,
Speaker 1: and he's like, well, you know, we talked about it.
Speaker 1: Then you end up going on tour with them. Now
Speaker 1: you're on tour with me, and it's like, that's where
Speaker 1: we are right now. So that's where, That's where you are.
Speaker 1: What's where we're gonna come back to. But now I
Speaker 1: whant to go back to the very beginning. So you
Speaker 1: talk about you came to Nashville. You came to Nashville.
Speaker 1: How old were you when you came to Nashville twenty
Speaker 1: let's see seven four? You go to school and study music.
Speaker 1: I went to college and I did eventually change my
Speaker 1: major to piano. I graduated with a degree in music
Speaker 1: with an emphasis on piano. You're a good piano player,
Speaker 1: are you? Are you a piano player? Ye? Sit down
Speaker 1: at the piano and people be like, oh, that guy
Speaker 1: could play piano. I could, Um, you know, I could.
Speaker 1: I could play with the songs, my songs, you know,
Speaker 1: I could play for myself. I had to do a
Speaker 1: lot of classical stuff, you know, obviously to graduate. But
Speaker 1: when I moved to Nashville, are you saying backing a
Speaker 1: little bit like like a golfer would be like, I'm
Speaker 1: not that good and he no, No, I mean honestly,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I didn't really play piano until
Speaker 1: college and I met you know, a met a professor
Speaker 1: and I said, can I finish this on time? So
Speaker 1: I got pretty proficient, you know, while I was in college.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of muscle memory and a lot of
Speaker 1: cool stuff I learned. But now I could just cord
Speaker 1: around kind of like I'm as good at piano as
Speaker 1: I am a guitar. Songs. You knew the guitar then too,
Speaker 1: the right, Yeah, well you musical through like elementary school,
Speaker 1: high school. You're growing up. My wife and I we
Speaker 1: actually met in a in a school play, you know,
Speaker 1: So I did that kind of stuff school theater and
Speaker 1: sang in choirs and things like that. Music really, um,
Speaker 1: my dad was a music minister before he started selling
Speaker 1: real estate in Alabama. Yeah, in Alabama, and so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he kind of gave me that music bug.
Speaker 1: I didn't really chase it as like a dream, you know,
Speaker 1: a job or anything like that. Then definitely didn't even
Speaker 1: do that. Out of college. I went to kind of
Speaker 1: go work for him. So when you finished, well you
Speaker 1: went to work for your dad? Was yeah. So I
Speaker 1: finished school, got my real estate license, and I got
Speaker 1: engaged to Laney. You know, we've been dating on and
Speaker 1: off for a bazillion years. And uh, that was my plan.
Speaker 1: That was my answer to her her dad, you know,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? And it was worked for
Speaker 1: my dad, and uh, my dad encouraged me to go
Speaker 1: play at a bar. It's called Mobile Yacht Club off
Speaker 1: a Dolphin Island Parkway in Mobile, and he kept encouraging
Speaker 1: me to do that. He thought it was funny kind
Speaker 1: of how I would mimic people. I knew like a
Speaker 1: couple of songs on the guitar and would play around
Speaker 1: at the house. And he wanted me to do it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to do because I had stage
Speaker 1: fright that scared me to death, you know, getting up
Speaker 1: in front of people and singing, and uh, finally I said, Dad,
Speaker 1: I'll do this if you'll leave me alone you know
Speaker 1: about it, and stop asking me to do it. And
Speaker 1: I went up there on a Friday night, sang some
Speaker 1: songs and pretty much changed changed my mind about life.
Speaker 1: So you went and you performed. You were like, all right,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to do it. I mean, crazy
Speaker 1: whim called Laney, So we're moving. Then I had to
Speaker 1: tell her parents really, and um, they weren't. You weren't
Speaker 1: too excited. I wouldn't be either. Yeah, alright, two things. One,
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Speaker 1: And so okay, uh, but by do you cook? By
Speaker 1: the way, can you have six kids? Not? Because six
Speaker 1: kids and one kids, three boys, three girls and a
Speaker 1: wife and you don't cook. I don't cook. No, I cook.
Speaker 1: I mean I cook an egg? Yeah, cook an egg?
Speaker 1: All right? So you you decided we're moving to Nashville's
Speaker 1: just from one night of playing in front of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty wild. I mean I played, had such
Speaker 1: a great time. I'm called Laney. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to move to Nashville to sing? That was it? So
Speaker 1: I want to go he uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: she was pretty adventurous. You know at the time we
Speaker 1: were kids excited about you know, getting out of town. Um,
Speaker 1: she was with it. I mean, oddly enough, she there
Speaker 1: was no second guessing on her part. She was ready
Speaker 1: to go. And so what what was your style back then?
Speaker 1: So my style back then? I remember two songs that
Speaker 1: I played. One was h sitting on the dock of
Speaker 1: the bay, and then Uh, didn't doubIe Gray drift Away? Yeah,
Speaker 1: drift I guess drift Away, And uh I only played
Speaker 1: like five songs. I just played him over and over
Speaker 1: and um so yeah, I mean I was just gonna
Speaker 1: home up and singing. You know, moved to Nashville, try
Speaker 1: to be a rock star. Do you think you're gonna
Speaker 1: make it? Yeah? I did. I was dumb enough to
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, I'm gonna go, you know, and
Speaker 1: figure this out, be famous. I mean I knew nobody.
Speaker 1: We had a great time picking out our apartment, um
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Honestly, meeting with their parents, they
Speaker 1: were really frightened and just thought I was nuts. You know,
Speaker 1: this was not This was on such a whim and
Speaker 1: the security that I had, you know, in Mobile made
Speaker 1: a lot more sense to them, and um so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, man, we just found an apartment, got married,
Speaker 1: and drove up here. So you move here. And what
Speaker 1: does one do when you don't know anybody in a
Speaker 1: town like Nashville and you want to make music, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the first step? You go outside? And man, I mean,
Speaker 1: as cliche as it sounds, the absolute first thing I
Speaker 1: did was go sign up for an open mic night
Speaker 1: at the Bluebird. I was I don't remember exactly what
Speaker 1: number I chose, you know, to get selected that night.
Speaker 1: But so you played the first night you went. I
Speaker 1: came on a Monday night. It stood in line, got selected.
Speaker 1: Uh they they were about to call my name, but
Speaker 1: I realized that everybody in there was playing songs that
Speaker 1: they had written, and I showed up to play cover.
Speaker 1: So we left and then I came back the next
Speaker 1: Monday with a couple of songs that I wrote that
Speaker 1: week and then performed. And it was the same rush.
Speaker 1: You know. So the first time you went, you end
Speaker 1: up not playing. Well, I check it out. I wasn't
Speaker 1: about to get up and play that. I was gonna
Speaker 1: play drift away. Everybody give me the bet boy free
Speaker 1: enough if you write that something I wrote. So the
Speaker 1: first time you don't do it, the second time you're going,
Speaker 1: you do? What did you play? What song? You remember?
Speaker 1: I do? I remember? I played a song about as
Speaker 1: short of a time period as we have been married.
Speaker 1: I learned very quickly that when you bring up the
Speaker 1: in laws that your significant other gets really pissed, and
Speaker 1: so I wrote a song about that, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of a joke. You know, a funny song and
Speaker 1: uh on remember the title of it. And I played too,
Speaker 1: and I just remember the crowd reacting. You know, they laughed,
Speaker 1: they had a great time. I mean, they went nuts.
Speaker 1: It's a real supportive crowd at the blue Bergs. They're
Speaker 1: there to hear the writer performing their songs, so they
Speaker 1: went nuts. I mean, it wasn't I didn't like get
Speaker 1: a deal or anything quick. You know, did you feel
Speaker 1: like after that night though, that you had submitted a
Speaker 1: little more in your head, like I can do this. Uh?
Speaker 1: I didn't really think about whether I could or not.
Speaker 1: I just did, you know what I'm saying. And I
Speaker 1: also it was like a drug. I mean I honestly,
Speaker 1: But since then, I haven't stopped writing songs. It's just
Speaker 1: I fell in love with that, that conceiving the idea,
Speaker 1: putting it together, playing it for somebody, getting their reaction,
Speaker 1: moving on to the next one. You know, my favorite
Speaker 1: song is always the one I'm working on right now,
Speaker 1: And that's kind of how I've been since then. It
Speaker 1: just it pretty much consumes my life and has since then.
Speaker 1: So how long until you get and I'm assuming you're
Speaker 1: getting a publishing deal first, which is what happened to
Speaker 1: get there? They pay you to write songs? How long
Speaker 1: did it take from you playing that bluebird til you
Speaker 1: getting a publish and deal? So I had a I
Speaker 1: had a day job. I booked motivational speakers at Premier
Speaker 1: Speakers Bureau, Uh in Franklin, Like what motivational speakers ran
Speaker 1: through in Franklin. A lot of right wing conservatives, old
Speaker 1: Steelers player Rocky Blyer, a couple of authors, um, Oliver
Speaker 1: North there, Sean Hannity. We booked them. Uh some of
Speaker 1: those were exclusive. Um sorry again, trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of that tick. But yeah, just I booked them and
Speaker 1: uh lost, actually lost my job in a year. And
Speaker 1: then I got a pub deal. So it took me
Speaker 1: a year and a couple of months to secure a
Speaker 1: pub deal. So in that year, you're just writing and
Speaker 1: singing songs to people are going, hey, check it out.
Speaker 1: I know in that year I was working, you know
Speaker 1: that was none, none to five. My clientele was West
Speaker 1: Coast event planners. So I got to show up a
Speaker 1: little bit later and stay a little longer. But I
Speaker 1: was writing songs while I was working, you know, on
Speaker 1: my computer, just loading it up, and yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: playing open mic nights anybody could I could ever get
Speaker 1: my songs in front of Obviously I was trying to
Speaker 1: do that, playing all the local um you know songwriter
Speaker 1: nights that I could and um yeah, I wasn't really
Speaker 1: comparing myself to other people. I just loved, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I loved, loved, loved writing, I mean obsessed with writing.
Speaker 1: So you're right, and you start to get paid to write,
Speaker 1: and what did you What were your first cut? Shoot? Man,
Speaker 1: I mean my my first pub deal actually got me
Speaker 1: a record deal first. I mean I didn't get a cut.
Speaker 1: So your pub deal got your record deal first? Is
Speaker 1: this the key Thurban demo story? No, that's that's capital.
Speaker 1: That's the second deal. The first pub deal I ever
Speaker 1: got was from a neighbor heard me messing around on
Speaker 1: the porch. He said, man, I really like what you do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you into douce you to two or
Speaker 1: three people. He brought me into town. I met two
Speaker 1: big time producers neighbor where Franklin and Franklin. Here's your
Speaker 1: playing on your porch. Here's me on the porch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like, dude, I really love your voice. Did you
Speaker 1: did you write that? I'm like, yeah, you want to
Speaker 1: hear some more. You know, I wrote a song about
Speaker 1: his kid and whose name is Hogan, which that was
Speaker 1: a business move right there. I was like, dude, if
Speaker 1: I write song by his kid, really, you know, hoo
Speaker 1: me up. So he takes me into town, introduced me
Speaker 1: to to introduced me to Scott Hendricks, David Malloy and
Speaker 1: a guy named Christie de Napoli. And uh, Christie wanted
Speaker 1: to sign me to a pub deal. The other two
Speaker 1: wanted to maybe cut some sides and do the shoppy
Speaker 1: thingy and I wasn't really ready for that. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to write, you know, really bad. I wanted to
Speaker 1: get paid to write songs. Uh. And at that time
Speaker 1: I only had one kid, so I didn't have to
Speaker 1: make that much money. Um. And so anyway, Christie sign
Speaker 1: me under a guy named Buddy Killing who's gone now
Speaker 1: but great first publisher to have learned a lot from
Speaker 1: that guy. And Alison Jones. I know this is the industry,
Speaker 1: but signed me at Mercury and so you get a
Speaker 1: publishing deal and a record deal basically at the same time. Well,
Speaker 1: I got a pub deal and then we we worked
Speaker 1: on it, you know, and he had cut some sides
Speaker 1: there and then they shot me and then got me,
Speaker 1: got me my first record development deal. So when you
Speaker 1: get signed to a development deal, what do they start
Speaker 1: doing with you? What do they develop? So the development
Speaker 1: deal basically got me James Stroud, great producer. He cut
Speaker 1: some sides on me. So what we did is just
Speaker 1: accumulate songs, kept writing for a little while, Uh, chose
Speaker 1: the best ones, went in the studio, caught him with
Speaker 1: an excellent band. So that was my first experience with that,
Speaker 1: you know, And of course we came home with five songs.
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna be Garth Brooks. I sounded
Speaker 1: like him. That sounded better than Now I was not
Speaker 1: Garth Brooks. I I had some great stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: looking back, I think some of those sides were good.
Speaker 1: But uh, there was a falling out within the company
Speaker 1: and it wasn't long until I was off that that
Speaker 1: labeled mean that that deal expired pretty quick. So you're on,
Speaker 1: did you put a record on? I didn't. I cut
Speaker 1: five sides, literally celebrated the cutting my first five songs.
Speaker 1: You cut five songs, I'm going I were beside myself
Speaker 1: and stuff sounds so great. Uh, we finished those in
Speaker 1: a December. I got a call in January saying that, uh,
Speaker 1: James Stroud was gone from the label and that they
Speaker 1: he had parted with co you know, head People and
Speaker 1: Alison Jones was leaving and I wasn't. I wasn't on
Speaker 1: the label anymore. But the label stayed, label stayed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you remever put out a single? I never put out
Speaker 1: a single. Did you tell the publishing deal? You still writing,
Speaker 1: still writing, and I still still still trying to get
Speaker 1: outside cuts, but did not get outside cuts? So you
Speaker 1: have to go to another try to get how long
Speaker 1: until you get signed to a different label. So after
Speaker 1: that it took me to two years to get another label.
Speaker 1: This when Urban, here's your This is when Autumn House,
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, pitched the song for Keith Urban.
Speaker 1: Keith Urban did not take the song, but the A
Speaker 1: and R rep at Capital Autumn House said, I like
Speaker 1: this guy singing, I like this writing style. You know
Speaker 1: who is this kid? And uh, they said it's Walker Hayes,
Speaker 1: you know. And within a couple of months I had
Speaker 1: a deal in Capital. A lot of my deals came
Speaker 1: pretty quick. You know, deals are hard to get. But
Speaker 1: my first two just kind of fell into my lap.
Speaker 1: I mean if they just kind of came out of
Speaker 1: nowhere for me. So you get a deal, he sort
Speaker 1: of cut songs again, or to use your old songs. Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: when I got deal at Capital, I was writing you
Speaker 1: go through the producer search. You know. I was on
Speaker 1: Capitol two years probably before we even decided, you know,
Speaker 1: to try a single. You've been slacking for two years
Speaker 1: before you put a song out. Yeah, yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: a Capital around that time. The frustrating Yeah it was, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I mean we were looking for the right producer.
Speaker 1: We tried some, we cut some. They just didn't didn't
Speaker 1: blow our minds, you know. So then you have your
Speaker 1: first song. What's your first single? My first single was
Speaker 1: pants all right, she can but she came round the shoes.
Speaker 1: She can crack a wheel like Indie Yana John, she can't.
Speaker 1: I can't take off. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1: Look you're giving the body? Do you write that? I did?
Speaker 1: I wrote it for my wife. Gives the colders, makes
Speaker 1: of plans had woman's with When you hear the song, now,
Speaker 1: what do you think why? I don't know, man, you know,
Speaker 1: I just hear it and Uh, it's just doesn't sound
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't sound that great. I just don't
Speaker 1: I don't hear it like I did then. And when
Speaker 1: when I heard it then, I just yeah, I just
Speaker 1: thought this is gonna be amazing, And um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just hear it now and it just the maybe
Speaker 1: I've gotten better at writing, you know, and I can
Speaker 1: just see the holes in there. But yeah, I career
Speaker 1: just like hearing myself on a answering machine. Thanks, So,
Speaker 1: how the sing will do? I have no idea. The
Speaker 1: song was added heavily, you know, right off the bat,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I saw success coming my way
Speaker 1: quick and uh then it just hit a wall and
Speaker 1: uh some people were slow to pick it up, and
Speaker 1: it went to thirty eight and uh eventually, um, you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Dungan and Capital pulled it and they decided to
Speaker 1: go with another one shortly after that. What song was?
Speaker 1: After that one? They went with a song called wild
Speaker 1: Wait for Summer and it did not do um as
Speaker 1: well those pants. If you have two singles that didn't work,
Speaker 1: did they drop you or they go, We're gonna work
Speaker 1: on some other stuff. So we we chilled out for
Speaker 1: a long time. You know, I got put on the
Speaker 1: back burner, and uh I sat for a long long time.
Speaker 1: And man, honestly, just to give Capital some credit, I
Speaker 1: mean they believed, I mean, they believed hardcore and and
Speaker 1: they stuck their neck out for me. Um, I didn't
Speaker 1: fully understand, you know, the need for the machine. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how the bids really worked, you know at
Speaker 1: that time, you know, there was a little bit of arrogance.
Speaker 1: I'm not the most coachable human being on the planet,
Speaker 1: and that kind of you know, shot me in the
Speaker 1: foot back then. But yeah, we sat for a long time.
Speaker 1: I continue to just right and write and try to
Speaker 1: give them that one. You know that they felt confident,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna go three deep, a third one,
Speaker 1: I mean that's your hail Mary right there, you know,
Speaker 1: especially at the first two have flopped. Um So I
Speaker 1: fought and fought, you know, to write and and to
Speaker 1: get that that song, the one, and man just couldn't
Speaker 1: find it, and you know, eventually got dropped. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that was that was the beginning of some
Speaker 1: dark some dark times right there. So you get dropped. Ever,
Speaker 1: your second label, what year was that, you know, let's
Speaker 1: see it's two thimes, seventies six, probably fourteen, getting fourteen,
Speaker 1: So you get dropped in two thousand and fourteen, So
Speaker 1: what do you do well at that period? I think
Speaker 1: I have four kids, so I'm still not I'm still
Speaker 1: not a truly buried in final financial woes. But I
Speaker 1: had a pub deal, you know, and still my my publishers.
Speaker 1: That's one thing that's that I've always had a pub deal,
Speaker 1: publishers that believe that I can get outside cuts, you know.
Speaker 1: So at that time I didn't. I wouldn't say I
Speaker 1: just shut the artist thing down, but I wrote, man,
Speaker 1: I aimed and aimed to get outside cuts. You know.
Speaker 1: I wanted outside country cuts. I wanted these mainstream artists,
Speaker 1: uh to to you know, I just knew somebody was
Speaker 1: gonna cut one of my songs are gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: Kind of solidified me a spot in that writer community.
Speaker 1: And uh, I eventually did get a cut um from
Speaker 1: Rodney Atkins. Uh he cut one of my songs called
Speaker 1: Touching Feet, and uh it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: a great motivation, you know, to keep on writing and
Speaker 1: didn't end up being a single. But okay, what about
Speaker 1: this one? I kind of forgot about love you repeat.
Speaker 1: That's right, Gus too, right, Yeah, that was the So
Speaker 1: that was when he cut on the next album, and
Speaker 1: that was ended up being his single. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I killed his career. No, you didn't, Squeez didn't know.
Speaker 1: He uh. Man, Roddy's a great guy and he believed
Speaker 1: in some of my songs. And man, even though you know,
Speaker 1: I had several of those types of songs that that
Speaker 1: would get cut and maybe they weren't the single the
Speaker 1: big the Big Dog on the record, But when you
Speaker 1: get those, man, it just kind of tells you. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like a whisper saying, hey, stick around, It's
Speaker 1: all right, you're here for a reason. What about this
Speaker 1: here cole Forth song Dirty Side Dude, I love this song.
Speaker 1: This is my jams. You're right it Yeah, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: featured me dirty time, but if he side I love
Speaker 1: good Dirty side side? You're looking for sad I loved.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you can dance like I got it?
Speaker 1: So you together. Yeah, I'm super appreciate it. They featured me.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a perfect girl. Man, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you that everyway stopped looking at Magazine's head on out.
Speaker 1: So you're writing. You're out, you don't have artists, y'll
Speaker 1: what you probably still want, even though you still want
Speaker 1: to be the artist, but you do have you want
Speaker 1: to be the writer. You're talking about having dark times
Speaker 1: like your mind just like where did I tell you what?
Speaker 1: The darkest period I ever experienced here in Nashville was
Speaker 1: past these cuts. You know, you get a couple of cuts,
Speaker 1: and I'm still I'm not able to I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: barely supporting us, you know what I'm saying. No, no,
Speaker 1: the money is not just rolling in from from these
Speaker 1: types of cuts. I'm not having hit singles, which is
Speaker 1: kind of what you gotta have, you know, nowadays to
Speaker 1: to to thrive as a writer. You gonna have one
Speaker 1: every now and then. Um, I'm loving what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I'm getting better and better
Speaker 1: and so much closer to dial in it in, you know,
Speaker 1: with with what artists need and what they want and
Speaker 1: getting those outside cuts. But I'm playing at Puckets boat
Speaker 1: House and money gets real tight. I'm talking seriously tight,
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't really like to ask for help.
Speaker 1: And I had toyed with, you know, getting kind of
Speaker 1: a second gig, and I remember this this night, I
Speaker 1: will never forget. I'm playing Puckets boat House, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, it's like a restaurant and a stage for people.
Speaker 1: I um just so that it's like a very famous
Speaker 1: Nashville Southern food restaurant and there's a stage, right, And
Speaker 1: so what I what I was doing is, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't have artists deal, but I want to keep
Speaker 1: performing so that that the Andy Marshall Puckets so always
Speaker 1: so gracious to me giving me a gig, and I'm
Speaker 1: playing for tips, and what I would do is play
Speaker 1: an hour and then host an open mic night just
Speaker 1: for the community. I wanted to meet new writers and
Speaker 1: stuff and kind of do what people did for me
Speaker 1: in my first couple of years here. So one night,
Speaker 1: this guy comes and his name is Nick Candre, and uh,
Speaker 1: sweet sweet guy comes up, wants to play at the
Speaker 1: open mic night. And he just thinks, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's heard my songs on Rodney, my stuff on Colt.
Speaker 1: He thinks I'm like Elvis, you know, and he's just
Speaker 1: treating me like it too, and he and he mentions
Speaker 1: at one point in the night that he worked at
Speaker 1: the tire center at Costco, and I was looking for
Speaker 1: a job at night so I could continue writing during
Speaker 1: the day, and so it was just a humbling moment
Speaker 1: to kind of be like, Hey, while you're getting my autograph,
Speaker 1: do you know any you know, is there any openings
Speaker 1: at Costco? You know, are they looking for people that
Speaker 1: stock stuff overnight and stuff? And he hooked me up
Speaker 1: and that's how I got a job at Costco. But
Speaker 1: it was just I mean, I don't know if embarrassing
Speaker 1: is the word, but you know, it was just it
Speaker 1: was an interesting moment that he saw me as kind
Speaker 1: of like an influence on him musically, and I was
Speaker 1: so happy, you know, to meet me. And I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: uh I kind of need a job, you know, I
Speaker 1: need some help. Can you can you hook me up?
Speaker 1: And uh so that was that that was a low
Speaker 1: a low point for me. Um, kind of having to
Speaker 1: ask for help from that guy. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: he learned from it and appreciate it even more afterward?
Speaker 1: Just through that experience with cost experience, everything everything that
Speaker 1: is connecting with people now is pretty much about that
Speaker 1: experience in my life. So yes, um, it's been truly beneficial. Um,
Speaker 1: I got a great perspective. Uh you know and what matters,
Speaker 1: you know, what matter in life. That's kind of what
Speaker 1: Leela Stars is about. You know, I did a lot
Speaker 1: of I did a lot of I don't know what
Speaker 1: you say, like not soul searching, but you know, we
Speaker 1: uh interesting songs and it's just a roof from about daughter. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that song is about the thumb tacks that she gave
Speaker 1: me to hold up the roof of my Honda that
Speaker 1: I had at the time, and when my roof was
Speaker 1: coming down, I lost it and I was just crazy
Speaker 1: at that point in my life. I was drinking a
Speaker 1: time just to kind of cut the edge off the heaviness,
Speaker 1: um and the burdens and stuff that I that was
Speaker 1: kind of up against with wanting to still chase my dream,
Speaker 1: kind of thinking I was nuts um. Pretty much to
Speaker 1: let everybody looking at us from the outside, I probably
Speaker 1: thought I was nuts too. Um. You know, I had
Speaker 1: all the kids and I was still trying to do
Speaker 1: that to take care of them when I could have
Speaker 1: you know, done a lot of other things and made
Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense, you know, to take care
Speaker 1: of them. But yeah, Little the Stars is about those
Speaker 1: thumb tacks that she she let me borrow, and I
Speaker 1: was really bummed and frustrated at the time the roof
Speaker 1: coming out in my car. I was one of those
Speaker 1: moments in your life where you're looking up and you're like,
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me, you know, like I need
Speaker 1: one freaking more thing unit to carry right now. And uh,
Speaker 1: one morning, when I was about to clock in at Costco,
Speaker 1: I looked up and I saw those thumb tacks and
Speaker 1: it just reminded me. Well, first I thought of her
Speaker 1: face and just her smile and how much fun she
Speaker 1: had putting those up, and uh, she just thought they're awesome.
Speaker 1: You know, they made the car look incredible, And it
Speaker 1: was just an interesting perspective at that time to remember, Hey,
Speaker 1: I got healthy kids, I do have a job. I
Speaker 1: have to you know what I mean. And I'm still
Speaker 1: able to write. My wife never was unhappy, you know.
Speaker 1: I was really the only one, uh that was unhappy. Um.
Speaker 1: And so that was a that was a great moment
Speaker 1: um and and got a cool song out of it.
Speaker 1: So you were drinking a lot. You don't drink it
Speaker 1: all now, so so you must be drinking a lot.
Speaker 1: I have to stop, man, I was, I mean, we want,
Speaker 1: we want to talk about numbers. I mean I was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I was drinking from I was drunk at Costco. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously I was doing my work, um, working hard,
Speaker 1: but I mean I was, I was drinking on on
Speaker 1: breaks at Costco. You know, I go to the parking lot,
Speaker 1: you know, and do that leave, go do a show
Speaker 1: with the Bluebird. You know, they were hiring me for shows.
Speaker 1: I was still able to get some work out of them. Um.
Speaker 1: I drink before him, drinking after him, drink while I wrote,
Speaker 1: drive home, drink because you're sad man. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you know, I think I was just uh, I
Speaker 1: just didn't want to face not making it, you know,
Speaker 1: not not being able to to take care of everybody.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's almost like when you're drunk. Uh,
Speaker 1: those things aren't as heavy, you know, they don't matter,
Speaker 1: I guess, and um, drinking a little bit out of
Speaker 1: just insecurity and fear, you know, I guess, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just scared. What was the point where you were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta chill, dude. Me Quitting is the
Speaker 1: weirdest story, I don't, you know. Hopefully at some point
Speaker 1: it will make sense where I could kind of help
Speaker 1: other people and and and and and explain it, but honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I was. I think my body
Speaker 1: just said to my brain, you have to you have
Speaker 1: to quit. You know, we're working and drinking that much.
Speaker 1: I woke up on a Saturday. I remember that as
Speaker 1: in October football game day, me and football. Not drinking
Speaker 1: just didn't ever happen. That hadn't happened since I was
Speaker 1: probably like fifteen, I don't know, something crazy like that.
Speaker 1: And I just didn't drink one Saturday. And I don't
Speaker 1: even know why. I didn't like wake up and say, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta stop. I just woke up, didn't drink that day. Um,
Speaker 1: didn't drink on Sunday. A couple of days turned into
Speaker 1: a week, you know, and then it became this like
Speaker 1: challenge where it was like I've gone this far, I
Speaker 1: want to go backwards, you know. And I also kind
Speaker 1: of had a little sobriety high. You know, when you
Speaker 1: quit drinking you've been drinking that much, your body feels
Speaker 1: really really good once it gets over, um, you know,
Speaker 1: not craving just to drink with with all your might.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, now I'm like that was two octobers ago,
Speaker 1: so I'm a year and almost a half. The funny
Speaker 1: thing is I don't drink. Guy there, Walker doesn't drink.
Speaker 1: And when we go on tour, beer like the writers
Speaker 1: like full of beer and around it just sits there.
Speaker 1: It's like, Walker, I know you don't drink, but if
Speaker 1: you know anybody that wants beer, they can have it.
Speaker 1: Send Nikita end up drinking some of it. Show a
Speaker 1: little Nikita. So okay, tell me about this song here,
Speaker 1: all right, this one, let's play. Let's see, man, I
Speaker 1: got all of them. It's like asking me which kid
Speaker 1: I'd like to do here? Talk about this one beer
Speaker 1: in the fridge. I quit drinking. The reason I want
Speaker 1: to get drunk because I played on the radio. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was moved by the song. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: still account for the cups when I'm driving around town
Speaker 1: and I'm still not quite sure what to do with
Speaker 1: my hands. It's in a crowd. There's a lot I
Speaker 1: can't remember, and a lot I can't get one silver
Speaker 1: bulling in the chamber. And I don't play rush rule
Speaker 1: it without being the friend. Last of twelves, soul surviving,
Speaker 1: but my last all not the back of the bottom
Speaker 1: how ruled that all It's gonna be so real man. Uh,
Speaker 1: it just touches on a lot of you know, fears,
Speaker 1: insecurities that I deal with. And like you know, you're asking,
Speaker 1: you know, why were you drinking that much? Uh? You
Speaker 1: know my wife has never never threatened to leave me,
Speaker 1: but she probably should have several times you know in
Speaker 1: those in those in that time period, you know, when
Speaker 1: I was drinking that much and uh there you know
Speaker 1: there was there's so many lines in that song the front.
Speaker 1: My one song line, one lyric in that song that
Speaker 1: I feel like describes me and something that I that
Speaker 1: I deal with is the first one about ranting to
Speaker 1: your mama, church, Mama, praying for you is now well,
Speaker 1: like I'm just I just care what people think, you know,
Speaker 1: and I and I and I in my own worst
Speaker 1: critic as well. And drinking, uh made me care less.
Speaker 1: You know that was one positive about drinking. You know
Speaker 1: obviously don't you don't need to drink to do that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I I feel pressure, you know, to
Speaker 1: to be a certain just I don't know, to succeed,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, prem yourself for myself. But but
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, when I told Lady's parents
Speaker 1: we were coming here. I feel the eyes, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel the fill, people saying, are you crazy, You're
Speaker 1: not gonna make it, You're not good enough. You know
Speaker 1: you're not this, And I don't want to believe them,
Speaker 1: but I kind of do. And when I'm drinking, I
Speaker 1: definitely don't. I don't care what they think. Um, but
Speaker 1: that song is so true, you know the line about
Speaker 1: the hands. I mean, dude, the first show that I
Speaker 1: played without a beer, I just felt completely naked. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've never felt stupider in my life because, you know,
Speaker 1: so many years of strumming that last chord and reaching
Speaker 1: for that beer. I was to a point where just
Speaker 1: holding a beer before I even opened the thing it
Speaker 1: gave it made me feel a sense of security. You know.
Speaker 1: That's kind of where I was with drinking. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true. I mean, um, but again I will say,
Speaker 1: I mean, Lenny, it's not true. I didn't lose you know,
Speaker 1: my wife, but uh, you know, she saved many tears,
Speaker 1: you know, talking to me about it, and I was
Speaker 1: at a went where I admitted, you know, she would
Speaker 1: say things like she didn't say things anymore like do
Speaker 1: you have a problem. I would admit I wasn't in denial.
Speaker 1: At the point when I quit, I said, I do
Speaker 1: have a problem, and I can't. I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: without it. You know, I need this right now for me,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to move over to the comedian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your dark songs like resonate with me, like hardcore, like
Speaker 1: being in the fridge. You know, I come from a
Speaker 1: family of addicts and alcoholics. And I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: ma I just I just I feel the honesty in
Speaker 1: these songs um with the comedian, which I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: right here. It's too bad. Being funny and being happy.
Speaker 1: He ain't the same thing. It ain't the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's so sad some of the onliest hearts in the
Speaker 1: crowd of the most enter thing. Such a strange he
Speaker 1: is to the ones who make and laugh to keep
Speaker 1: themselves from crying, gears to the ones who make is
Speaker 1: laugh to keep themselves from cry. Like I heard this
Speaker 1: song and it's tell you it's like it can and
Speaker 1: I have issues like that, like where it's you know,
Speaker 1: I want to make people laugh so they can't see
Speaker 1: how sad. And it's the process that I've been dealing
Speaker 1: with for a long time, and it's that's the front
Speaker 1: you try to people laugh, That's where you find love.
Speaker 1: That's where I always was able to find love. Like
Speaker 1: let maybe the guy that make people laugh, because that's
Speaker 1: I'll find the love from that. I have trouble accepting love,
Speaker 1: of trouble giving love just from the environment. You know,
Speaker 1: you and I talking about a nature or nurture, like
Speaker 1: we have that conversation like away from stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: for me, I think it was definitely nurture the love thing.
Speaker 1: And I heard that song, I was like, dear God,
Speaker 1: are you writing songs from my brain? Like every song
Speaker 1: he would sing, I'll be like God. So the comedian
Speaker 1: is that about a front of your specifically? So with
Speaker 1: high school with them? Yeah, it's about a friend I
Speaker 1: grew up with and he did not, uh commit suicide. Hey,
Speaker 1: but he died at an early age. And um he
Speaker 1: was that guy, uh you know, just hilarious. Um, but
Speaker 1: did have issues, you know, and as we all do.
Speaker 1: You know, I think so many people can can relate
Speaker 1: with that song. You know. It's that we all try
Speaker 1: to find that affirmation. That's never really enough, but it
Speaker 1: sure helps, you know, it doesn't sustain any any long
Speaker 1: term healing or fix us. You know, it's like drinking
Speaker 1: a beer. And it does make me feel good immediately,
Speaker 1: you know, and as does me performing on stage and
Speaker 1: getting that laughing. It makes me feel like I just
Speaker 1: jumped out of a plane. You know. But when you
Speaker 1: get back in your green room and you all by yourself,
Speaker 1: all the real stuff comes back, you know, when you
Speaker 1: gotta do it again. But yeah, that that song. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad a guy named Matt Jenkins and Josh Jenkins
Speaker 1: they wrote it with me, and they were insistent that
Speaker 1: that we that we do that song together, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad you appreciate it. I'm glad people. Yeah, that's like
Speaker 1: and and we'll get to the more of beat stuff
Speaker 1: because you have a sound that is not like anyone else.
Speaker 1: But I just you know, it's my podcast. I told
Speaker 1: about whatever I want. So those are like, those are
Speaker 1: the songs that hit me hard. And I was just like, okay,
Speaker 1: he's like speed songs a lot of times don't speak
Speaker 1: in real human words anymore. And when you do feel
Speaker 1: something out then in regardless of sonically what it sounds like,
Speaker 1: it being authentic still cuts through no matter what's behind it?
Speaker 1: Something for real still cuts through regardless of the format
Speaker 1: the instruments, like realness cuts through. And so that's what
Speaker 1: I felt from like stars and the Comedian and beer
Speaker 1: in the fridge, and but then you know, you got
Speaker 1: stuff like break the inner back, a little bit of shake,
Speaker 1: shake a little bit, how did your dog? You make?
Speaker 1: All the stuff in your shack? And then beat on tables,
Speaker 1: beat on the wall, slammed the door, all these sounds.
Speaker 1: It's see you in that microphone and you're beaten cups
Speaker 1: and it sounds. Listen, I got a keyboard, break back
Speaker 1: the internet. You're doing all these bats B G B maniacs.
Speaker 1: But I got the record. As you're cutting this and
Speaker 1: you're playing it for people, what are they saying to you, Like, man,
Speaker 1: itsn't gonna work? Or is its great? Or what they
Speaker 1: are they saying? Well, uh, you know, my the people
Speaker 1: at my publishing company, they saw me obviously, uh you know,
Speaker 1: to write songs, but wanted me to. They saw me
Speaker 1: with the intention of me being an artist. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think at first they thought, hey, he's gonna write
Speaker 1: that one, you know, dangerous one on the country Ready,
Speaker 1: you know that country radio slap Slam first release, bah Boom,
Speaker 1: And what happened was I kind of got off therapeutic
Speaker 1: you know, on them, like you talk about Comedian and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Those feel so good for me to write,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's just great to get that stuff
Speaker 1: off of your chest and tell everybody that makes me
Speaker 1: feel better. And so that's what I was doing with
Speaker 1: those those dark ones and then the happy ones. That's
Speaker 1: just kind of how that's how I want a party,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the stuff I want to play live.
Speaker 1: And they definitely were. What what happened once I started
Speaker 1: turning and turning them in and my team didn't see
Speaker 1: really a fast track. Hey this is going to country radio,
Speaker 1: you know obviously from the sound. But they just love them,
Speaker 1: you know, they liked they loved the song. They found
Speaker 1: themselves listening to them, um and cheat And I know
Speaker 1: it's cheesy, but I even found myself I would listen
Speaker 1: to them like they're not me. I'd be like, I
Speaker 1: just liked this song the Comedian you know too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my money wi shock sucking based on my money on
Speaker 1: a honey you make me want to shake time cruise
Speaker 1: in my mind, he said to be, I say that's
Speaker 1: something me. I scrubb in the front seat telling me
Speaker 1: hanging out like Mike my Dina funk of all this
Speaker 1: project was the first song you wrote. So the first
Speaker 1: song on this project that was written was either say
Speaker 1: sober you broke up with me? I don't know which
Speaker 1: came first, the chicken or the egg um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: those those those two you broke up with me was
Speaker 1: the one where we all went, Hey, keep doing that,
Speaker 1: because that's something about that. It's unique and digestible. And
Speaker 1: this is a single now he broke up to see me?
Speaker 1: But hey, can you broke up with me? It was
Speaker 1: can I say anything? You broke up me? What's funny
Speaker 1: is I remember texting you because this song came out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you produced it yourself. And I tell us, like, hey,
Speaker 1: or the new version, it's it's produced slightly different parts,
Speaker 1: it's like more radio palatable. And your response was I'm
Speaker 1: listening to it like I never heard of before. God
Speaker 1: and you can't grasp my party with yo. Sorry, sound bodies,
Speaker 1: don't be raining on my money proper rate for a minute.
Speaker 1: I ain't eat my fix. Listen the yoga tripping y'o
Speaker 1: focus and girl you made Yo Man and then on
Speaker 1: me in and whoa simmer down to night and nobody
Speaker 1: making you watch me get my FeAs my That is good.
Speaker 1: So that's a single now and you're working out, you know.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing is is that And I'll just talk
Speaker 1: about my listeners for a second, because I can always
Speaker 1: tell by my listeners if it's a suppose the right way,
Speaker 1: what will work, because all I gotta do is play something.
Speaker 1: My listeners are no bs and they don't like it.
Speaker 1: They just don't. They don't do what I say. I
Speaker 1: just try to give them good options that they probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to hear other places. Like honestly, god,
Speaker 1: I can't make them do anything. But what I try
Speaker 1: to do in my job is go, this is different
Speaker 1: or this is really good, and you're not going to
Speaker 1: hear this anywhere else, and if you like it, then
Speaker 1: consume it. However, and I played that song, and I
Speaker 1: looked at an iTunes before I played it because I
Speaker 1: like to see what happens. And I gave it one
Speaker 1: full spin. It was a three. I played it one
Speaker 1: time with an hour and half went to thirty eight
Speaker 1: or something, and I was in it, and for me,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a like for me. It wasn't like, man, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I told you you knew what was good. It was
Speaker 1: God if people can get out of that box a
Speaker 1: little bit and see this is one spin. People reacted
Speaker 1: to this song. And so you know, I've tinkered with
Speaker 1: it a bit more. But now it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: let's let's let the label see what they can do.
Speaker 1: But it's gotta be cool to see people hear it
Speaker 1: and go, wow, I heard it. Now, I like it.
Speaker 1: Let me buy that. Yeah, it's gonna be some kind
Speaker 1: of it, like like, okay, maybe there's something to this.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that? Oh? Man? Yes? And uh, you
Speaker 1: know you have. The first question you're asking was what
Speaker 1: it what's it mean for you to to be on
Speaker 1: a label? And I just didn't It's all every day
Speaker 1: it's a good day. I'm not kidding though. I mean
Speaker 1: every that that day we celebrated. I celebrate everything right now.
Speaker 1: And that is amazing that that that I woke up
Speaker 1: that day and you know, you play my song one
Speaker 1: time and it does that and and yes, man, I
Speaker 1: mean you know, you work so hard on music and
Speaker 1: you just think it's so good and and you just
Speaker 1: then he produced and it's so awesome and then he
Speaker 1: put out put it out there, and you're like, it's
Speaker 1: time to see. You know, the critics are paying and
Speaker 1: using their criticizing with their money, and when they pay it,
Speaker 1: they're not criticized. And when they don't pay it, they cize, right,
Speaker 1: and so now just to see I mean, we had
Speaker 1: a sick first week when we blew it up and
Speaker 1: it was awesome, and yeah, I mean it is so
Speaker 1: it is so gratifying. Uh, you know that people that
Speaker 1: people liked it like they're liking it. I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: another song too that I saw a track and I
Speaker 1: was like, how can this song even be a song?
Speaker 1: He just by looking at the name of it. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I was like, he wrote a song
Speaker 1: about Halloween. And I remember because I think it was
Speaker 1: on the second the set. But how long is that
Speaker 1: the second age break the Internet? So Halloween? I was like, well,
Speaker 1: let me even see what this song is about Halloween?
Speaker 1: Like what is this about that? Dude? One? Like one
Speaker 1: of the deepest songs and a beautiful way, because that's
Speaker 1: like I get to take out my costume around you're
Speaker 1: talking about your wife. Yeah, and then I knock knock
Speaker 1: on yo though. The mascot Ye shouted like glass on
Speaker 1: the phone and it was like Halloween and all the
Speaker 1: people opportun rest in piece rees, rest in piece, so deep,
Speaker 1: so good, all the people opportunder Simpies a timpies besties.
Speaker 1: What's like playing that for your wife? Oh? Man? Uh
Speaker 1: awesome because she's so numb. You know, love songs in
Speaker 1: twelve years, three or four pub deals, you write a
Speaker 1: ton of love songs and you just you come home
Speaker 1: and you're like, did I get you? Did it? Did
Speaker 1: this one get you? And? Uh? None? None of them?
Speaker 1: You know. God, her like this one because we dated
Speaker 1: in high school and she knew that's what she meant
Speaker 1: to me immediately, you know, right off the bat, I
Speaker 1: was a real insecure kid trying to fit in andmobile,
Speaker 1: and then I met her and she just saw the
Speaker 1: side of me that she really fell in love with.
Speaker 1: And um, that's yeah, one of her favorite songs for sure.
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Speaker 1: wanted to, but I want to. I'm glad you didn't.
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Speaker 1: here on the Bobby Bones Show Bobby Cast and so
Speaker 1: that's there and there, that's good. I like listen. I
Speaker 1: like having sponsors because that's how you people are listening
Speaker 1: to the we we started this thing. I mean think
Speaker 1: aboudy even gonna listen like Mike d and I this
Speaker 1: is no this is our equipment, like, this is just
Speaker 1: stuff that we wrangled up. And we started doing this
Speaker 1: little podcast and we were talking to people like, for example,
Speaker 1: kit Lyn, one of the first ones who's on your
Speaker 1: it's just your Caitlin. Right now. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: like come over to the house because I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: this thing. I'm gonna talk to artists, talk songwriters. And
Speaker 1: then now we got to sleep number sponsor and this thing.
Speaker 1: But so uh yeah, it's cool. It's cool. It's like,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. You put all your stuff
Speaker 1: out for free. At first, well, who thought of that?
Speaker 1: Why was that the plan? So that was thought of
Speaker 1: by my manager, Rob Robert Carlton, and he's kind of
Speaker 1: famous now, but he, uh, you know, he heard my
Speaker 1: stuff and like we were talking earlier, he heard those
Speaker 1: songs that I was building in the shack and he said,
Speaker 1: you know, he ain't gonna fit country radio right now,
Speaker 1: but these will build a fan base. People will share these,
Speaker 1: they will love them, they will connect to them. And
Speaker 1: so that's what we did. We just started putting them out,
Speaker 1: started touring a little bit, got a couple of opening
Speaker 1: slots you know last year, and places to go play them,
Speaker 1: got the loop, started learning how to do that because
Speaker 1: just wanted them to sound as close as I could
Speaker 1: do these tracks, and that's why we started putting out
Speaker 1: free music. And it was so exhilarating. It was so
Speaker 1: therapeutic for me. It obviously made me a better writer.
Speaker 1: I feel like they just keep getting better and better.
Speaker 1: I'm already working on number three. I don't know where
Speaker 1: that lives, you know, as far as label stuff goes,
Speaker 1: but they will let me continue the eight tracks and
Speaker 1: so I'm excited about those. They'll just keep coming for me.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of you and the music that
Speaker 1: you write, and yeah, welcome, shut up. I became a
Speaker 1: huge fan way early, like I was obsessed with it
Speaker 1: and I would say on the radio, It's like, what's
Speaker 1: the biggest albums a year? And I'd be like, you
Speaker 1: know I played record from Urban a lot Maren and
Speaker 1: Walker Hays and I was now and I would mean
Speaker 1: it from the bottom of my heart. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: like you and I were talking every day. We were
Speaker 1: I don't even know if we were talking. We were
Speaker 1: maybe exchange the text occasionally. But I was just a fan.
Speaker 1: Like I was just a fan because I love people
Speaker 1: who try things that aren't the same, even if they
Speaker 1: fall in their face, Like I love people that take
Speaker 1: shots falling forward, it's still it's still moving forward. And
Speaker 1: so one I like the music and too, I enjoy
Speaker 1: the fact that you were trying something new, and so
Speaker 1: I would say that stuff like magazine to do interviews
Speaker 1: like what you let's do most. I love Dirk's album,
Speaker 1: I love the Walker Hayes's album like it was just
Speaker 1: that's just because it was a like, what's the most
Speaker 1: thing that you're playing, I'll tell And so something that
Speaker 1: shook me a bit. And I'm jaded and the first
Speaker 1: to admit it because I've been doing this now and
Speaker 1: just in this capacity for four years and I've had
Speaker 1: Garth Brooks sit beside me right and play, and I've
Speaker 1: had you name it's it's it's great, and it never
Speaker 1: loses the fact that it's great. But when when you
Speaker 1: eat Filet mignon every day, it becomes kind of normal.
Speaker 1: So it's like I enjoy it and I still appreciate it,
Speaker 1: but rarely the things shake me. Occasionally, things like really
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you. I get a message from
Speaker 1: one of my friends, she works at my record label,
Speaker 1: and it's Mega boardman and she says, uh, do you
Speaker 1: hear this song called Payne Walker Hay sent on the email.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm not on his email list.
Speaker 1: I'm not anybody's email us. I didn't know he had
Speaker 1: to email us. Like I just listened to the music
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, she goes, you should probably
Speaker 1: hear it, and I was like, we'll send me the email,
Speaker 1: and so like I'm gonna tell you eyeball to eyeball,
Speaker 1: I just sat in my car and I was like,
Speaker 1: to have someone you're such a huge fan of like
Speaker 1: even mention you and that song. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is like crazy in my life. Honestly, it means the
Speaker 1: world for you to say that, because when you put
Speaker 1: somebody in a song, you're like they're gonna hate, Like
Speaker 1: is this gonna suck for them. It it was. It
Speaker 1: was the weirdest thing. It was a great I have
Speaker 1: trouble with emotion, feeling at trouble letting myself feel emotion
Speaker 1: because I feel like any good emotion is gonna be gone,
Speaker 1: and any good emotion has to be met with equal bad.
Speaker 1: So I try not to have good emotion like it's
Speaker 1: a listen, I'm nuts, right. I had great emotion from
Speaker 1: the song good Man, that's awesome and so and you
Speaker 1: can't do this. This is online, but this is pain
Speaker 1: from walking around. Here you go, mate, two thousand sixteen,
Speaker 1: seven something in the morning, I was driving when a
Speaker 1: dream come true came through my high the factory speakers
Speaker 1: and on me. Bobby Bones played a song and I
Speaker 1: wrote about lonely beer and a fresh It's one of
Speaker 1: my doctrines. What you hear is out felt from the
Speaker 1: broken in my heart was about addiction, love, loss and recovery.
Speaker 1: Trust Me only wrote it because I had to get
Speaker 1: it out of me, not for Nashville, not for radio,
Speaker 1: for nobody bought me. And maybe that trouble so pressing rewind,
Speaker 1: wrestling demons like mine looking for company in this design
Speaker 1: that doesn't really feel so grand all the time. I
Speaker 1: didn't feels so good, feel so grand all the time.
Speaker 1: I didn't know because feels so good like I get
Speaker 1: Jo bump now listen to. So I guess I want
Speaker 1: to know about it because well, I never asked you
Speaker 1: about the song because I was kind of embarrassed to
Speaker 1: do it, because it was like, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed. So did you know I was gonna
Speaker 1: play your song that morning? Because I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't tell anybody I'm gonna play their music. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: when we've we've talked about this, UM, I just feel weird,
Speaker 1: you know, asking you know people to do that. You know,
Speaker 1: I honestly you know that that song is in that
Speaker 1: category of of a comedian uh leadless Starr. You know,
Speaker 1: nobody asked me to write about that. Um, I just
Speaker 1: had to, you know, it was it was a special
Speaker 1: moment for me. I was out in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: um picking up Actually I had my loop worked on
Speaker 1: in close to Murfreysboro, So I was just driving when
Speaker 1: you played beer in the fridge, and man, it just
Speaker 1: was another one of those moments where you gotta pinch
Speaker 1: yourself and and I was like, I can't believe what
Speaker 1: is happening to me at that at this point in
Speaker 1: my life. You know, I got six kids I could
Speaker 1: barely feed, uh, you know a year ago, and now,
Speaker 1: uh my work tapes rocking on the radio, you know,
Speaker 1: and Beer in the Fridge is a naked song. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the truth. There's like three things on the track. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so I'm hearing Keith Urban blow it up
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I hear just you
Speaker 1: know always, And it just rocked me. Man. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have a lot of I have
Speaker 1: a lot of those moments where I like pull over
Speaker 1: and cry. I mean, I freaking love music and it
Speaker 1: it has so much emotional power over me. But I
Speaker 1: have never felt like I did when I listened to
Speaker 1: that song. Uh. And so I had to write about
Speaker 1: that moment and everything that it made me think of,
Speaker 1: you know, how far my life had changed pretty quick,
Speaker 1: you know, And so I just blurted it all out
Speaker 1: in that song. And you were obviously a part of
Speaker 1: that story. Um. So thanks. It was a great business.
Speaker 1: But honestly, like you said, I mean, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: there were moments where I was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I want to release it. Like I was also like,
Speaker 1: do I just put like a DJ. I didn't know
Speaker 1: whether whether you would appreciate having your name in it
Speaker 1: or I was like, he's gonna think this is just
Speaker 1: a business move. But honestly, I've rent you know, we're
Speaker 1: running by my team as I was creating the song,
Speaker 1: and they were like, man, you mentioned Mike, that guy
Speaker 1: you worked with a Costco. You mentioned your wife and
Speaker 1: your kid, and you you know the the song is
Speaker 1: honest about every detail. There's not one I've always We've
Speaker 1: always laughed because I'm like, somebody's gonna ask about that
Speaker 1: song and be like can you can you tell me
Speaker 1: about it? And I'm just gonna be like, well, two
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, so you know, just I'm gonna recite
Speaker 1: this song because there's really nothing else to say. It's
Speaker 1: just the on truth down to the Costco card in
Speaker 1: the freaking console. I believe you too, because one you
Speaker 1: didn't put it out like out out. Yeah, you sit
Speaker 1: down an email, it's still up there for you can't
Speaker 1: even like stream it. Yeah, you gotta get us nowhere,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I hope you eventually if you
Speaker 1: put it up, it's all good. And I don't believe
Speaker 1: anybody at any time for any reason. I believe you
Speaker 1: because I just I don't believe you. I don't believe
Speaker 1: anybody like you. Know how it is around here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when times are good, everybody's your friend. And when times
Speaker 1: aren't good, and no I want anything to do with you.
Speaker 1: And I do know that, man, And that's that's that's
Speaker 1: the nature of this beast. And so you got to
Speaker 1: find the people. And this isn't just our business, this
Speaker 1: is like a life thing. You have to find the
Speaker 1: people that when times are on that stock market downtick,
Speaker 1: that are right by your side, and you keep them
Speaker 1: by your side when that stock market goes back up
Speaker 1: because it's gonna go back down again. And so those
Speaker 1: are the people just ride, they just ride, Let them
Speaker 1: ride with you, and you ride with them. And that's
Speaker 1: how you find the people, like the people that are
Speaker 1: with you when it's down, or the people that you
Speaker 1: just keep on surrounding yourself. Right, And there's like a
Speaker 1: few and that's it. I know. We had this whole
Speaker 1: conversation like off Mike days ago. But yeah, yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's been cool. It's been cool getting to know you
Speaker 1: because again, I'm just a huge fan and that's why
Speaker 1: I went. And I was like, because I was doing
Speaker 1: this whole stand up comedy tour and you know, I
Speaker 1: can ask whoever I want to open. And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I would love to freaking Walker Hayes come out because
Speaker 1: I just want to watch a blay like no other reason,
Speaker 1: Like I just want Walker to come out. And then
Speaker 1: in the middle of all this to see like you popping,
Speaker 1: like just popping. Is it now where you're starting to
Speaker 1: be cool and people are now coming out going, hey,
Speaker 1: cool guy, you want to work together? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: bet that happens. And you know what, that's okay because
Speaker 1: you're gonna trust as far as you can throw them,
Speaker 1: but you can still use each other for for whatever
Speaker 1: advantage you're working together. Yeah, and that's you know, I'm
Speaker 1: ashamed to say this, but I'm sure I've done that
Speaker 1: to some money in this town, you know, And I
Speaker 1: try to remember that that we're all capable of that.
Speaker 1: And um, but yeah, I mean a lot of people
Speaker 1: are definitely coming out of the woodwork. Um, and that's tough.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's tough to accept that you need
Speaker 1: the people coming out of the woodwork, though it is
Speaker 1: the thing exactly you need them. It's just used them
Speaker 1: for what they're there to be used for. Yeah that
Speaker 1: they're not the people that are completely down, but they're
Speaker 1: down for what you need them for, and you're down
Speaker 1: for what you need them for. Just remember I didn't
Speaker 1: come out of the woodwork. Was where I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like hiding in the woods. I was waiting,
Speaker 1: like I was up in a tree looking down. I
Speaker 1: was like, you see Walker, Oh man, it's been good.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed like hanging and talking. No, I did, man,
Speaker 1: Thank thanks for having me for like I've been on
Speaker 1: out like it's therapeutic. Here's a little something. This is
Speaker 1: called Walker singing to the Duggers. Would you like to
Speaker 1: talk to us? Oh my gosh, singing to the Duggers?
Speaker 1: You told me from the show. You tell me what
Speaker 1: this is? Hey, how's it going? You guys like music?
Speaker 1: No way? You got a second? You have the episode? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so go ahead and tell me before I play what exactly? Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is uh s is when Derek and Jill
Speaker 1: I think is her name, got engaged and how did
Speaker 1: you end up on this show? Okay, so there The
Speaker 1: producer of the show lives near me and called me
Speaker 1: one day on the porch. He didn't hear yeah, you
Speaker 1: heard me on the back porch. Now he actually, man,
Speaker 1: He was just like, we're thinking about doing this segment.
Speaker 1: If you can give us a song, I can convince
Speaker 1: the network that they need to do this. And I say, man,
Speaker 1: tell me about their love story. He was like, it's
Speaker 1: really cool. They went all the way to Catman Do,
Speaker 1: but they lived, you know, super close, but went all
Speaker 1: the way to another country and met each other there.
Speaker 1: So I just wrote this song and uh, he was like, boom,
Speaker 1: that's perfect for their uh engagement. Here we go. Hey guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. You guys like music? You got a second?
Speaker 1: I got a song that reminded me music. Hey, that'd
Speaker 1: be great. Will you go up about thirty show minutes
Speaker 1: down the street. But we had to go eight thousand
Speaker 1: miles away to meet I'm not sure the Lord was
Speaker 1: thinking taking us all the way to cat Man Do,
Speaker 1: but I know he was thinking of me when he
Speaker 1: made you so and as beautiful as that is, the
Speaker 1: acting is, first of all, has anyone ever in the
Speaker 1: history of questions answered the word no till you do? Like, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you like music? It's a safe question. Nah, not really?
Speaker 1: All right, man, Hey do you like food? No? And
Speaker 1: they just listen to the acting here, Uh yeah, what's up?
Speaker 1: Even the Hey guys, it's pretty bad. You're just like
Speaker 1: sitting in Hey guys. Hey, how's it going? God? This
Speaker 1: is awful. They acted, nobody wrote a script. I remember
Speaker 1: meeting with him and I talked to him because he
Speaker 1: knew he was in on it. I would hope. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we botched it big tim But she was still, Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. You guys like music? She's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do, Yeah, I do. How lucky because of all
Speaker 1: the people in the world, they both liked music, and
Speaker 1: you're lucky that they both did. Man, it was a dude.
Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm no actor. Come on, hey man, it's uh.
Speaker 1: And I haven't been written a song about your whole life? Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have a second to stop for me? While
Speaker 1: I played this? Who long I read about your life?
Speaker 1: This is totally random. By the way, do you like music?
Speaker 1: I've I'm actually auditioned for some stuff and failed big time.
Speaker 1: I mean, acting is talk about putting your guard down.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a scary thing, kind of like your
Speaker 1: comedy thing. We were talking about before we went out.
Speaker 1: I was asking you if you're a friend. It's all vulnerable.
Speaker 1: It's all vulnerable. Music, vulnerable, comedy, vulnerable acting, it's all.
Speaker 1: If you're creative, you are vulnerable because people are choosing
Speaker 1: if they like or don't like what you're doing, and
Speaker 1: you need them to do that. That's vulnerable. You need
Speaker 1: someone to like or not like you. Hopefully they like you.
Speaker 1: But you don't create, so people don't care. You create
Speaker 1: so hopefully people care, and then when they don't, you
Speaker 1: realize I didn't create good enough or or at the time,
Speaker 1: I didn't create good enough. So just as you get
Speaker 1: up and you sing songs about your life, they are
Speaker 1: very vulnerable. I get up and I tell stories, and
Speaker 1: the entire light, the entire him is focused on my mouth. Hoole,
Speaker 1: And that's it. But I mean, really that's it. But
Speaker 1: I thrive off that the same way that you've been
Speaker 1: writing music. I thrive off of just and again it
Speaker 1: comes back to just being like needing that love too,
Speaker 1: like that that's that's finding love for me, I go out.
Speaker 1: I need that. I need that love, so I fight
Speaker 1: for it. Have terrible relationships, God terrible. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. No, I don't think so it's not
Speaker 1: it's not in the moment, not right now. This is
Speaker 1: this is not a Bob. This is not a Bobby.
Speaker 1: Bobby casts a Walker podcast. All right, So download you
Speaker 1: broke up with me? That's the only saw him that
Speaker 1: you can download. Right, Yeah, we need to do nobody
Speaker 1: making you watch. It's good. I know it's difficult to
Speaker 1: see me, but hey, you broke up with me. It
Speaker 1: was you broke up. So Walker, depending on when you
Speaker 1: hear this, will be out on the road with me
Speaker 1: until May. Walker Hayes dot com website to um whenever.
Speaker 1: What's Fun is on on tour Nikita Car when it
Speaker 1: comes out and sings Halloween with you? Is it? Like
Speaker 1: she's so good, right, and like nobody even knows about
Speaker 1: her really yet that's weird to me. She's so because
Speaker 1: she's so good. But they're going to you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull her once and you know she I
Speaker 1: just met her on Skype and was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: move to the States. Oh really? Oh yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I didn't know your story and I don't
Speaker 1: know oh yeah, yeah. We were just looking for someone,
Speaker 1: like I needed a girl in the band so I
Speaker 1: could like write funny stuff from a girl perspective, raise
Speaker 1: ball women. And so I went through and I didn't
Speaker 1: You couldn't find anybody. So I gave up and friend
Speaker 1: was like, hey you should. There's just go in Australia.
Speaker 1: She's not trying to get to the States and be
Speaker 1: a singer song right over here, but she plays some
Speaker 1: pubs and I was like okay. So I skyped with
Speaker 1: her and things like ten am. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you hear your guitar in the office, and she
Speaker 1: wouldn't got her guitar. Skyped with like an hour later
Speaker 1: and she played on skype. That's the only time I
Speaker 1: ever said, ever seen and I was like, oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're so good. She's like, oh, I didn't known
Speaker 1: about that. And I was like, can you get on
Speaker 1: a plane in the year in three days? And she
Speaker 1: got on a plane quarter job, moved here. I didn't
Speaker 1: have any murder live. She lived with me for like
Speaker 1: two and a half months or so and so, and
Speaker 1: I was just like you just just right right. She's
Speaker 1: just writing. She got a publishing deal. She you know,
Speaker 1: you know, but she's so good. Yeah, and people will
Speaker 1: find her. I wonder if I every day let me
Speaker 1: talking dude with me. She's sick. She uh yeah, she's
Speaker 1: like two ft tall. Here we go, Nikita Karmen. This
Speaker 1: is the first a place with this m m M.
Speaker 1: I didn't cry when he said I'm not the one
Speaker 1: because I ain't want to come undone. I hear my
Speaker 1: head up high and bit my tongue. Let the goodbye
Speaker 1: setting like us couldn't stop thinking about two of us,
Speaker 1: and heartbreaks hard to rise above. I'll take the high
Speaker 1: road and I'll keep my cool. Pretty soon won't be
Speaker 1: thinking about you. First, I me tell my friend, she's
Speaker 1: not that pretty. You don't look how for s happy
Speaker 1: as you do with me. She's wearing that trendy Tom
Speaker 1: Petty t shirt. Stop being petty by your American girl.
Speaker 1: The first time he was my week's wage one Guila
Speaker 1: cursening a lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and damn gonna
Speaker 1: wake up, gonna feel just fine. I just gotta go
Speaker 1: a little out of my mind. First. I guys say
Speaker 1: like I know you you talk about she like calls
Speaker 1: that a EP or she's just like those are all
Speaker 1: worked tape. I'm gonna tell you something. I believe if
Speaker 1: you were to do that whole play a thing, that
Speaker 1: joker would jump off the charge. I mean that song
Speaker 1: reminds me of like something Lord the royal personal person.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. No, she's legitimately like fantastic.
Speaker 1: I'm looking over here. It's like other artists you may
Speaker 1: know if it's her, Ready for the list, Walk ahead,
Speaker 1: Lindsay l my my girlfriend, Slash, our roommate now Brandon Ray,
Speaker 1: who is like they're one of the greatest, and like
Speaker 1: that's another you can sing his brains off. The raging idiots,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Smith, Natalie Himby, that's her people you may know. Yeah, Walker,
Speaker 1: good luck, man, dude, thank you. I need it. I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying this. I appreciate you have. I mean, man, this
Speaker 1: is awesome. Relaxing the chair, it is I don't want
Speaker 1: to get up. He walked in the house and like
Speaker 1: this is where you live. You know what, though, seriously,
Speaker 1: you need to let somebody do a Bobby cast on you.
Speaker 1: I do every morning. It told the Boby Bunt show.
Speaker 1: But you need some I wrote a book. You need
Speaker 1: someone asked no questions about uh personal stuff like Amy
Speaker 1: kind of did a bit, right, A mean, yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't with Amy and she did a bit. But I
Speaker 1: wrote a book. Good. I'm good on yeah, second one.
Speaker 1: I've talked about that maybe yeah, but yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: If life's good for me. I'm the thing about me.
Speaker 1: It's about Walker. I'm a huge fan, like die hard fan,
Speaker 1: like as legitimately as possible. And I kept you from
Speaker 1: this for a while because it was like everybody was like,
Speaker 1: all right enough for Walker ahead talking about Walker Hayes,
Speaker 1: like you just wait. I have a tweet that I
Speaker 1: say from like seven months ago that was like in
Speaker 1: a year. But it's gonna be like, why did I
Speaker 1: sleep on Walker Hays. I save that tweet. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show everybody one day and be like I told you
Speaker 1: good to see you man. Thanks. All right, Walker Hays
Speaker 1: download anything he puts out, I demand it. Alright, good, alright, Mike,
Speaker 1: we're out. What episode was that thirty six? All right,
Speaker 1: Walker Hayes at Walker Hayes right dot com. H A
Speaker 1: y E s walk from me on the Instagram. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At Walker Hayes on Instagram and Twitter at walkers dot com.
Speaker 1: He's out with me doing all the music and I
Speaker 1: do with the jokes until may have you announced the
Speaker 1: other thing? Ye don't know, okay, So then in mind
Speaker 1: other stuff coming down, other stuff coming for us. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll see you, uh siting, Bye, buddy. You can hearly
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Speaker 1: turn her part down anyway, by it