Speaker 1: Bobby Bone show.
Speaker 2: All right, he guys, Bobby here backstage Las Vegas for
Speaker 2: our iHeart Radio Music Festival, and we're about to talk
Speaker 2: with Bailey Zimmerman and Diplo and it is with Hyundai
Speaker 2: and hope you.
Speaker 1: Get a chance to go over and watch the video.
Speaker 2: We just shot a really fun video where it's basically
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to drive them around the city, but then
Speaker 2: I'm really early and they're also kind of late, and
Speaker 2: then we get in the Hyundai.
Speaker 1: But watch it all.
Speaker 2: You'll be able to see it up on the socials.
Speaker 2: But we're going to go over to them now. Bailey
Speaker 2: Zimmerman Diplo backstage before their performance at the iHeart Radio
Speaker 2: Music Festival. Bobby Bone, He it's Bobby Bones backstage at
Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio Music Festival. And this whole festival is
Speaker 2: known for its once in a lifetime collaborations. So how
Speaker 2: did ashes come together?
Speaker 1: Diplo?
Speaker 3: Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at
Speaker 3: Morgan's show, one of them, and I think he's just
Speaker 3: a guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell, and I
Speaker 3: had a new kind of sound that wanted to do,
Speaker 3: and I think he's the one guy that could carry it,
Speaker 3: and I came to his house. I had a show.
Speaker 3: Hold up real quick. He was about to leave on tour.
Speaker 3: You're about to jump in your tour bus. And we
Speaker 3: had like three hours played the record for him. We
Speaker 3: kind of like got a scratch, and then he handsled
Speaker 3: on his own on the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really cool. He literally just like randomly
Speaker 4: showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, diplo, what.
Speaker 2: Are you doing.
Speaker 4: He's like, I have a song? Did I want to
Speaker 4: show you? And I was like okay. And then now
Speaker 4: we're here playing it live.
Speaker 2: And so you record you say, like a scratch like
Speaker 2: the first version at the house.
Speaker 5: Did you use any of that in the actual track?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: We changed the key a little bit, changed the tempo
Speaker 3: kind of like out of how he liked it, and
Speaker 3: then he made it his own.
Speaker 5: Do you just pull people's houses randomly, just be like
Speaker 5: I got music.
Speaker 3: I do that actually a lot. It works sometimes though
Speaker 3: they don't answer the door. But he had a big
Speaker 3: ass truck in his yard. I knew it was his house, so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how you know it's Bailey's. Yeah, big trucks,
Speaker 5: big rims, flashy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know to me honestly, seeing Diplo just like
Speaker 4: park and get out and be like hey, it's like, dude,
Speaker 4: imagine that. Like you're listening right now. You walk outside
Speaker 4: of your house and Diplo is just standing in your
Speaker 4: drive way and he has basically he just was there
Speaker 4: with a boombox. He was like, listen to this song.
Speaker 2: He was like, that's that's it, Bailey, I'll go to
Speaker 2: you on this one, all right. Who would you want
Speaker 2: to see duet together? If you could, you can magically
Speaker 2: match two people, one dead, one alive.
Speaker 5: Let's look like that. Okay, all right, all right, hmmm.
Speaker 5: Or you can pick a dead person with you, but
Speaker 5: it has to be dead person.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go okay, all right, yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a dead person only, all right.
Speaker 4: If I if I, if I could make a song
Speaker 4: with anybody that isn't alive right now, I probably.
Speaker 5: Can't pick Jesus.
Speaker 2: Then that's the cop out here, Okay, But he wants
Speaker 2: make a song with Jesus, got it?
Speaker 5: Got it? Honestly?
Speaker 4: Probably probably Chester Bennington, Lincoln Park, Yeah, Lincoln Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, big fan.
Speaker 4: Either that or Kirk Cob That would all be all
Speaker 4: so crazy, same vibe diplo.
Speaker 3: Uh shoot, I know it's gonna be next, but there's
Speaker 3: nobody else. Who would you do with Bobby Jesus?
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna go back to Jesus with Jesus? Okay,
Speaker 2: if I were gonna Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 3: Oh, like a like a spoken word album, yeah, like
Speaker 3: funny spoken Kurt's a good one. I think. I think
Speaker 3: David Bowie for me. He was such a legend and
Speaker 3: did kind of every genre and did whatever he wanted.
Speaker 5: Diplog go to you on this one.
Speaker 2: When you record music, do you go in knowing you
Speaker 2: want to make a song that sparked a certain emotion?
Speaker 2: Or at times do you have a song and you
Speaker 2: feel but then you find because you're recording it, it sparks
Speaker 2: a different kind of emotions you alter that.
Speaker 3: I just go with the blankest slate you can imagine,
Speaker 3: like I don't have any idea what I'm doing, Like
Speaker 3: it could be like a reggae record, country record, metal.
Speaker 3: I just kind of go in with, like, what is
Speaker 3: the weirdest thing I can make and how can I
Speaker 3: make it make sense?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: And then emotions comes later. That's when the songwriting comes
Speaker 3: and everything kind of fits in.
Speaker 5: You know what about you, Bailey?
Speaker 2: Is there ever a song that you write and it
Speaker 2: feels it's an up tempo or a ballad and you
Speaker 2: switch it, Like you change it and you go, what
Speaker 2: if we shift this because it feels different?
Speaker 4: I feel that's always later in the process, Like I'll
Speaker 4: write it like the same thing, just blake blank slate
Speaker 4: acoustic guitar, and then you start just writing off of
Speaker 4: like immediate emotion, like what are those what does that
Speaker 4: tracker chords.
Speaker 5: Make you feel?
Speaker 4: And then it's usually my producer Austin that'll be like, dude,
Speaker 4: we should change this because this will feel a little
Speaker 4: better here, and then we should up this tempo here
Speaker 4: and do this. So yeah, it usually comes later for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when do you feel driven to listen to music?
Speaker 2: Like when you're just listening for listening's sake, Like what's
Speaker 2: what's the time when you turn it on just to
Speaker 2: listen to old, old stuff that makes you feel good.
Speaker 3: It's my car man, like just kind of like driving
Speaker 3: the best sound system. You just kind of like roll.
Speaker 3: And then I like to listen to new music too,
Speaker 3: but like the classics, you know, put on like Fleetwood
Speaker 3: Mac or something but I always like to listen to
Speaker 3: something I never heard to kind of like hear, what's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 5: You know, what's your comfort music? Bailey?
Speaker 4: Ah, there's this again. I'm not even gonna lie m.
Speaker 4: I get grilled for this, but I go. I found
Speaker 4: this awesome playlist and it's called massage music that's not boring,
Speaker 4: and it actually makes me so's in when I'm trying
Speaker 4: to chill and trying to just like just like feel myself.
Speaker 5: You know. So I listened to that. How did you
Speaker 5: come across that? To begin with? Liketh? Let's get into this.
Speaker 4: So we talk about never having things in life, and
Speaker 4: one of the things I had never experienced was a massage,
Speaker 4: and I'd been torn so much and I'm like, you
Speaker 4: know what, I'm gonna get a massage, I think. So
Speaker 4: when I was looking for music to put on, I
Speaker 4: was like, well, I don't want to be boring, so
Speaker 4: I was like, massage music that's not boring.
Speaker 5: And then it just came up.
Speaker 4: And then from then on, I just find myself going
Speaker 4: back to that playlist, like this is nice.
Speaker 1: Massage yourself, like rubbing your own shoulders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, either that or I've been on I've been on
Speaker 4: Scizzor's like twenty fourteen album. So yeah, I guess that too.
Speaker 3: Speaking of massages. Is my dad's birthday yesterday and I
Speaker 3: got a a masseuse to come to his house. Okay,
Speaker 3: your dayton, I.
Speaker 5: Know a great playlist to play?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I K yeah, yeah, you had.
Speaker 3: Never really gotten solved before either, really?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What he said?
Speaker 5: What did he say about his persons stage? Did he
Speaker 5: hit you up after?
Speaker 3: I gotta hit him up position, So I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to remind him I'm in the playlist. We can have
Speaker 3: it for next time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Final question, do you have a cool memory that stands
Speaker 2: out for how music has connected fans together or an
Speaker 2: event you've been at where you've seen fans really come together?
Speaker 5: And Bailey, I'll go to you first.
Speaker 4: I would say every show of mine is like it
Speaker 4: reminds me why I do music and hearing we were
Speaker 4: talking about earlier today, just the stories that come from
Speaker 4: how far this music has reached in the world and
Speaker 4: just like what it's got them through and why they're
Speaker 4: at the show and hearing those stories. Oh yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, it's like connection on a whole different level.
Speaker 4: You're like, I know this person and they know me,
Speaker 4: and they feel like like all the way across the world,
Speaker 4: they've connected with me somehow through music.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you about when you play a festival
Speaker 2: and it's like people that are there for kind of
Speaker 2: everybody and nobody at the same time, but they come
Speaker 2: together as one.
Speaker 5: Do you see that from up on stage?
Speaker 3: Every festival is different. Because I'm a DJ, I kind
Speaker 3: of look at the crowd and be like, what's gonna work.
Speaker 3: What's gonna like change their attitude or make them feel
Speaker 3: some they never felt before. So I always try to
Speaker 3: think of that. It's like a DJ's job is to
Speaker 3: you can always play like great set, but if you
Speaker 3: really make people go like I didn't know, I'd like that.
Speaker 3: You know. That feels like a real skill set that
Speaker 3: I'd love to do. But I travel all over the world,
Speaker 3: so going places like Pakistan, you know, like my first
Speaker 3: time was like who people party here? And then I
Speaker 3: was like they do the songs from YouTube and places
Speaker 3: where like the music is contraband you know when you
Speaker 3: play records for them and they're like, it's just like
Speaker 3: the world is so united, you know, we don't know
Speaker 3: about music is the one thing that everybody shares in common.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the time guys, Congratulations on the new song,
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing a live performance tonight.
Speaker 5: Good luck, guys, have good yoh, thank you, thanks.
Speaker 1: All right. Awesome to hear from those guys.
Speaker 2: My first time ever meeting Diplo, and he doesn't remember,
Speaker 2: and he shouldn't remember, because I'm they meet like ten
Speaker 2: thousand people. I was doing the red carpet for the
Speaker 2: Grammys for e He had hired me to come out
Speaker 2: and be on the red carpet for a TV show and.
Speaker 1: There's a clip of I asked Dippolo.
Speaker 2: The question, does he ever hear sounds like random sounds
Speaker 2: like when you open the door at the gas station
Speaker 2: and it goes ding dong, like has he ever made
Speaker 2: a song after something like that? And I think he
Speaker 2: made a song after with that idea, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I think I inspired that idea because I had never
Speaker 2: heard the idea and it was a Joe question, and
Speaker 2: then I think he did that. But a really cool
Speaker 2: guy and obviously Bailey super cool. Crazy to see someone
Speaker 2: like Bailey or even Jelly Roll explode in the past
Speaker 2: couple of years.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about Bailey.
Speaker 2: That's so interesting if you don't know Bailey's story. And
Speaker 2: sometimes it's hard to know the story that come up
Speaker 2: once they get so big. But Bailey was basically working
Speaker 2: for a pipeline and really didn't sing much like he's
Speaker 2: saying at home and had saying one time and had
Speaker 2: put it on social media, and I did it the
Speaker 2: first ever interview he ever did, Like he came over
Speaker 2: to my house because I thought his story was so
Speaker 2: wild because he wasn't like on the radio or anything.
Speaker 2: He had this crazy streaming success and I was so
Speaker 2: interested in it. And the first interview he ever did,
Speaker 2: he came and he set for an hour with me,
Speaker 2: and he said that he went to bed, put one
Speaker 2: video up.
Speaker 1: It had like three million views.
Speaker 2: The next day he called his job and he quit
Speaker 2: working on the pipeline. And this is all during COVID
Speaker 2: as well. He didn't know what a manager was, and
Speaker 2: you really wouldn't unless you've been in this industry, like
Speaker 2: you wouldn't know what a manager does. He didn't know
Speaker 2: about fees, you know, the difference in managers and agents,
Speaker 2: and he had to learn all of that kind of
Speaker 2: himself because he was driving down. He was from the
Speaker 2: Midwest and he would drive down all the time every
Speaker 2: week during COVID and take these meetings. And he talked
Speaker 2: about how he had a meeting with an agent once
Speaker 2: in a record label and he didn't know the difference.
Speaker 2: He had no idea what they were trying to get
Speaker 2: him to do, but he signed a deal. Obviously, he's
Speaker 2: massive now and you know for him, just talking with
Speaker 2: him a lot and get to know him a little
Speaker 2: bit too. It's the Morgan Wall and toward when Morgan
Speaker 2: called him to ask him to open I know that
Speaker 2: was super significant in his life. Bailey's also a kid,
Speaker 2: and I say kid because he's quite a bit younger
Speaker 2: than I am.
Speaker 1: But when he started to make it.
Speaker 2: We grew up very similarly, like I never had a
Speaker 2: bedroom going up, grew up very poor. Same thing with Bailey,
Speaker 2: and Bailey was one of those kids. I was like, hey, dude,
Speaker 2: here are the things you don't want. And I kind
Speaker 2: of walked them through the things you can get in
Speaker 2: trouble doing and not be canceled, and the things that
Speaker 2: you can't do because.
Speaker 1: You will get canceled.
Speaker 2: And I was like, if you ever have to go
Speaker 2: to jail, you can call me at any time. And
Speaker 2: thank god he's never had to go to jail. We
Speaker 2: appreciate that about Bailey. But he's a great, great kid,
Speaker 2: and he's it's crazy to see how how fast he's
Speaker 2: blown up, and like in the country music critical mass,
Speaker 2: but even outside of country music, because again with Big
Speaker 2: exa Plug and with Diplo, and I think both are
Speaker 2: to which is pretty crazy. I was with Jelly Roll
Speaker 2: earlier at the festival, and that's another guy that's been
Speaker 2: pretty amazing to see, Like Jelly Roll stories super just professionally,
Speaker 2: like he was like with three six Mafia back in
Speaker 2: the day, Like he was a hip hop artist, like
Speaker 2: a full hip hop artist. And I would see Jelly
Speaker 2: Roll on the golf course in Nashville. When I first
Speaker 2: moved to town, I lived on in this gated community.
Speaker 2: I had never lived in a gated community, but I
Speaker 2: was starting to make money and I had been like jumped,
Speaker 2: I'd been attacked, I got pistol whipped at atm once.
Speaker 2: I got jumped at work outside of work going in
Speaker 2: and so when I moved to Nashville, they made me
Speaker 2: move somewhere that either had security or had gates.
Speaker 1: It was kind of part of the deal.
Speaker 2: And so I moved into this gated community and it
Speaker 2: was kind of crazy because like Rascal flats Let Singer.
Speaker 1: Lived there, Carrie lived there.
Speaker 2: I moved there, and there's a golf course, and I
Speaker 2: would see Jelly Roll on the golf course, except I
Speaker 2: didn't know him from anything other than people.
Speaker 1: Would say he's a very face tatted rapper.
Speaker 2: But he was also on the golf course and he's
Speaker 2: in a country club, and I thought the juxtaposition to
Speaker 2: that was crazy. So that's how I knew jelly Roll
Speaker 2: to begin with. He played golf with like Steve Hodges,
Speaker 2: who was like a record guy, and so I would
Speaker 2: see Jelly Roll and wouldn't know much about him until
Speaker 2: later he got into the country music space. Now he
Speaker 2: was a fan of our show, and we were probably
Speaker 2: his first ever country interview that he did, and he
Speaker 2: came in for like forty five to fifty minutes. That
Speaker 2: interview has been streamed millions of times at this point,
Speaker 2: but even then you could tell the guy was super
Speaker 2: appreciative for all the new things that had happened to him.
Speaker 2: Now he's got a really great come up story as well,
Speaker 2: like spend a lot of time in prison, like cut
Speaker 2: a lot of his creative teeth in prison and now
Speaker 2: goes back to prisons a lot and works with inmates
Speaker 2: and has built recording studios in prisons, just so these
Speaker 2: guys and women know that there's when you do get out,
Speaker 2: like there is a way to actually be successful. But
Speaker 2: Jelly Roll has been that guy and he was here today.
Speaker 2: He's lost two hundred pounds, which is crazy to see.
Speaker 2: He's like almost half, you know, of what he used
Speaker 2: to be. He had a wrestling shirt on, which is
Speaker 2: you know, there's nothing more Jelly Roll than Jelly Roll
Speaker 2: wearing a wrestling shirt. Another thing about Jelly that was
Speaker 2: super cool is what he He was a wrestler, like
Speaker 2: a raw and he wrestled Logan Paul and like for
Speaker 2: a guy that came up going up in the South
Speaker 2: that loved wrestling, actually got to go and wrestle like
Speaker 2: on a pay per view like a super cool And
Speaker 2: to be able to see him here tonight, and I
Speaker 2: hadn't seen him in probably like three months. But the
Speaker 2: cool thing about Jelly Roll is that he remembers everybody's name.
Speaker 2: And if you were like, I don't want to use
Speaker 2: the word loyal, because I wouldn't say I was loyal,
Speaker 2: but he was a fan of the show. His mom
Speaker 2: was a fan of my show. And as soon as
Speaker 2: he sees you, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, what a big hug.
Speaker 2: In this situation too, I would expect you kind of
Speaker 2: know what you're walking into with interviews. But I saw
Speaker 2: jelly Roll the last time before this. I was in
Speaker 2: New Orleans for the Super Bowl and I was on
Speaker 2: Fox and I was doing I was giving away an
Speaker 2: award for the NFL Honors, and jelly Roll was a
Speaker 2: part of one of the sketches. And again, there are
Speaker 2: much more, much cooler people there than me at this event,
Speaker 2: but jelly Roll's in the second row. And as soon
Speaker 2: as the lights go down and they go off of
Speaker 2: the television to commercial, first person yelling Bobby from the
Speaker 2: crowd was jelly Roll.
Speaker 1: So that's just one of those guys that.
Speaker 2: As soon as you see him and he's so nice
Speaker 2: and kind, you're like, is that real?
Speaker 1: For sure?
Speaker 5: Is real?
Speaker 2: We were walking in we saw Yellow Cool Jay. He's
Speaker 2: a big dude, like still a big dude, full long
Speaker 2: leather like still puts on a super energetic, like sweaty show.
Speaker 5: But that was super cool.
Speaker 1: Brian Adams. Rumor is he had everybody clear.
Speaker 2: Of the room earlier when he was going into the room,
Speaker 2: and I thought, well, that's interesting Brian Adams, because that's
Speaker 2: like got my first reels, and you know, some people
Speaker 2: don't want people like staring at him.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 2: But then when I saw him walk by, he had
Speaker 2: like one person with them. Usually it's people that have
Speaker 2: like twenty people inside their entourage. So I don't really
Speaker 2: know if that story is even true that he didn't
Speaker 2: want people looking at him, But saw Brian Adams pretty
Speaker 2: crazy to see somebody you've only seen on television. Saw
Speaker 2: Maroon five, dude, Adam Durrett's no Adam, Adam Levine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Dirret's is kind of crows, thank.
Speaker 1: You full of tattoos.
Speaker 2: I was talking to a guy a few minutes ago
Speaker 2: and I was like, Hey, who do you want to see?
Speaker 2: And this guy's probably like sixty five or so, and
Speaker 2: I thought maybe he'd say Sammy Haygark is Sammy Hagar's
Speaker 2: playing tonight? And he said, uh, Tate McCrae, And I said,
Speaker 2: how about that? Look at you like, he's like, I
Speaker 2: bet she's a great performer. I was like, I bet
Speaker 2: that's so it's an interesting night tonight. This is always
Speaker 2: the coolest festival. Big thanks to Hyundai as well, because
Speaker 2: one they give.
Speaker 1: Me a car and it's my favorite car. It's awesome.
Speaker 2: And I was caught on Mike earlier. I'll give you
Speaker 2: one other behind the scenes thing. We were doing this
Speaker 2: video shoot with Bailey and Diplo and I was miked
Speaker 2: like an hour before. So I had this mic on
Speaker 2: the whole time, and the Hyundai people have headphone because
Speaker 2: they want to hear the shoot. I forget that I'm
Speaker 2: wearing a mic because you don't see the mic. It's
Speaker 2: taped to my chest. And Bailey comes up and he's like,
Speaker 2: do you like this car? And I'm like, dude, if
Speaker 2: I didn't have this car given to me, I would.
Speaker 1: Buy the car. And he was like, are you serious.
Speaker 2: I said, I, me and my brother in law buy
Speaker 2: this car. And so it's a fantastic car like I
Speaker 2: have right now. I have the Santa Fe, but we're
Speaker 2: doing the Santa Fe the palis Ad hybrid, which is awesome,
Speaker 2: so check it out. Check out Hyundai if you haven't
Speaker 2: like the Elite cars. And they sponsored the end the
Speaker 2: House of music in front of the arena, which was
Speaker 2: super cool.
Speaker 1: So that's what we got from here.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for listening to this again thanks to
Speaker 2: Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman, all of our guests at.
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio Music Festival twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. I'm watching the screen now and I think I
Speaker 2: saw my uncle. Nope, it's Sammy Hagar. It's Sammy Hagar
Speaker 2: on the stage right now. And Uncle Sammy is going
Speaker 2: hard right now. Looks like they just pulled him out
Speaker 2: of the Hey won't you get up there and do
Speaker 2: a couple of songs? And he's doing them so super cool.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for listening. And by the way, you
Speaker 2: can watch the show. I know they're going to do
Speaker 2: a replay on Hulu. We'll give you more details on
Speaker 2: the show, but if you want to watch the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: Music Festival, we'll give you all those as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, you guys, have a good day, See you later.
Speaker 2: Thrown away.
Speaker 5: Don't need to clap