#601 - Megan Moroney Shares Swiftie Dreams, Tour Burnout and Why She Loves Sad Songs

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Speaker 1: I'll do all my rehearsals and a weighted best because sometimes my outfits weigh like ten to fifteen pounds, and when I've done the performance, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Like, oh, like, I am not in shape for this.

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Speaker 3: Today's guest is one of the biggest stars in country music and one of my favorite artists.

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Speaker 4: Megan Marony.

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Speaker 3: Billions of streams, so many number one songs, with songs like Tennessee Orange, am I, Okay Jam. She just dropped her brand new album, Cloud nine, which obviously debuted at number one, and she's about to hit the road on her massive Cloud nine tour, and somewhere in the middle of all that, she's writing songs. She leads the ACM Awards nominations this year with nine nominations, including Entertainer of the Year, Big Fan, Awesome Artist. Here she is, Megan Maroni. Megan, good to see you.

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Speaker 2: Good to see you.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to start this is a little bit selfish in me, but I get a lot of email asking for advice to me. Okay, I have the same answers over and over. It feels like, so you want to do some of these with me? Sure? Thank God?

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Speaker 2: What if I was just like, no.

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Speaker 3: Then we just move on. We would literally just move on down. Okay, Okay, let's go with the first one here. Hey, Bobby, I'm a twenty three year old singer songwriter living in a small town in North Carolina. I've been writing songs since high school and playing local coffee shops and bars on the weekends.

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Speaker 4: I've saved up a little money.

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Speaker 3: Nashville has always been a dream, but making that leap feels terrifying.

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Speaker 4: What advice would you give me? Sign girl with the guitar.

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Speaker 1: I think all good things are terrifying at first, And I would say, if I'm in your position, that's kind of like where I was at in Athens, like when I was like playing at bars, and like I was scared moved to Nashville, but I just felt like I needed to.

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Speaker 2: It was like a gut thing, and I knew that.

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Speaker 1: I also moved to town knowing like this could not work, so but I don't want to die without trying, So that would be my advice would just be to do it, give it your all.

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Speaker 2: And I would say, also, like.

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Speaker 1: Try to build as annoying as it is, try to build a following on socials and post your original songs and stuff and build a fan base that way, so then when you move to Nashville, maybe you'll have a couple of people show up at writers gens or whatever you get into.

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Speaker 3: I have a friend that is thinking about changing careers and hit me up a couple of days ago. He said, Hey, when should I do this? And I said, well, you can either do it now or in six months. You'll be in the same position going when should I do this? And then you can either do it then or in six months, and then before you know it, two years have gone by and you haven't done crap, and you're going, man, when should I have done this? And like, if you physically can do it right, like, do it now, because what happens is even if you make mistakes, when you do it, you actually get to learn on those mistakes rather than just in action, which you get to learn nothing.

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Speaker 1: That was kind of my reasoning to my parents too when I wanted to move, because it was during COVID, so my parents were trying to be like, there's no point for you to spend your money and rent in Nashville when like nothing's happening. And I told my parents, I'm like, well, nothing's going to happen here in Covington, Georgia, so that's for certain, But you don't know it's going to happen. Like I could at least maybe make friends right with people like you don't know.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say good things are scary.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do it. If you're watching us on Netflix right now, I'm looking at the camera, do it. Move if you can afford it. Yeah, but even if you can't, you can figure it out, right, Like people move here and get jobs.

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Speaker 2: There's weird ways to make money in.

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Speaker 4: Nashville, but not not weird weird.

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Speaker 3: No yeah, yeah, yeah, not weird weird, just weird. Let's just go one weird. Yeah, you can do it. We believe in you. Next up, Hey, Bobby, I've heard it's uncool to wear an artist's merch to their own concert. Is that actually a thing? Because I feel like I want to wear it. What's your official ruling? Cool or not cool to wear an artist merch to their own concert?

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Speaker 2: Super cool?

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Speaker 3: I think such.

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Speaker 2: It's super cool.

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Speaker 1: If it's like an old tour too, you have something not everyone at this place can have.

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Speaker 4: So if you want to go and buy a shirt and then put it on do it.

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Speaker 2: My my fans do that one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Like I look out and it looks like an army of camo, and it's just yeah, it's like they don't even worry about their outfit.

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Speaker 2: They just put on the shirt when they get there. So I love it.

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Speaker 3: And in the end, who gives a crap what other people think about what you're wearing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dumb And like that artist you're at their show. I can tell you from an artist's point of view, they love it.

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Speaker 2: I love seeing like a lucky shirt. I'm like, oh, wow, you've been around for a while.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever see any really cool old merch that you haven't seen in a long time and somebody's wearing it? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: During the like my EP Pistolmato Roses Era, there's this like sparkly denim jacket with like a picture of me that I took on like an iPhone, And there was only like a few of those made, but they was sold for like a hundred bucks, which like back then was like I can't couldn't believe anybody would spend one hundred dollars on me.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, there's a couple of them floating out there.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember any of those we'll call them day one ers who were fans of you before you had really popped.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have.

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Speaker 1: Like a notes app of my fans and my phone, not like all of them obviously.

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Speaker 3: But well now that'd be a that'd be a tough app to keep. But yeah, but like but like yeah.

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Speaker 1: I know, and like I remember like some of these girls too at my meet and greets, Like I've met them like several times, like to the point of where like I know what's going on in their lives and stuff. So it's like we would definitely be friends. We are friends.

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Speaker 3: I started a long time ago, like taking questions from people, like helping out. Basically, I come from the streets, obviously, look at me. Nobody's more street than me. So I started to like just give advice randomly. I bet though in your DMS there's probably a lot of people constantly asking you questions too, right.

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Speaker 1: I don't go there too often. Scary right answer, scary dark place.

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Speaker 3: I only go on Tuesdays, Tuesday, the comments or DMS. I only go on Tuesdays because it's brutal.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: I mean. And you can be as conditioned, you can be as calloused as you. But if you're eating eat right that day, if you're sad about something else and you see a comment that catches you just wrong. Even me who has dealt with all of it in all capacities, like it sucks.

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Speaker 4: So I give myself Tuesdays.

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Speaker 3: As like my cheat day, like when I you know, I'm like, I'm working out for something. Tuesdays is a day when I go in and I read the comments. Otherwise, so Wednesday is just horrible.

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Speaker 2: You wake up Wednesday, that's.

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Speaker 3: A good point. That's a good point. Tuesday, you know, you.

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Speaker 2: Monday night comes, you start sweating.

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Speaker 3: I can think about getting nervous for Tuesdays and then the effect of after Tuesdays usually by the time I go to bed, and because it's it's like a cheat day. Like if if I was doing a TV show or something, I would really want to get in shape because I did feel like it put weight on me to be on camera, and so I would like hyper focused. But then on my cheat day, I wouldn't even cheat that bad. Yeah, but the fact that I just allowed myself that would keep the ability to r And so some Tuesdays I don't even go to the comments wow, because it straight What is your rule?

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Speaker 4: Do you go to comments?

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Speaker 1: You know, this is an interesting question because it's been really relevant lately to me. I'm obviously in tour prep, you know, like doing all the things physically, and I had this like epiphany the other day where it's like, just like I am disciplined about my like physical prep, my mental prep has to be just as important, and so stuff like reading the comments, like I actually have to like not do it, like you just can't. And when if I if I do see something like, I have to tell my brain that can't affect you today.

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Speaker 2: You have to You can't like you.

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Speaker 1: Know, dwell on it and let it like fester and then you think about it. It's like to be I'm disciplined physically, now, have to be disciplined mentally even if I saw that. I've also like gone to therapy enough to where I know how to like not carry that and stuff. But it's more so been like a that can't affect me today, So I'm going to move on, you know. So I really just yeah, I don't have a Tuesday rule or anything, but in my head too, it's like ninety nine percent of the time for me, it's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, I don't need to know. Screw y'all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the point one one one one percent. Screw y'all. I agree, screw y'all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it sucks.

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Speaker 3: But what I've talked about a lot in therapy as well, I came from therapy straight here. Wasn't talking about that. That had been weird. If I was talking about that today, I wasn't. But what I try to do now too is instead of on Tuesday just focusing on the negative ones, which I really it's what I'm searching for on Tuesday, is like I try to spend time on the positive ones, like commenting back to the positive ones, because I neglect the comment section because it's not good for my mental health. It's a weird thing, right, because you would think I would think you would be you're good, it didn't bother you, nothing bothers you. Yeah, that's what the normal person would think.

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Speaker 1: And I think, like most days I can let it not bother me. But obviously there's some days where you just like feel like shit and you kind of agree with them and you're like.

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Speaker 3: I know what I'm saying. If I don't eat right, absolutely, I'm off my blood sugars off right, something's wrong.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just yeah.

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Speaker 1: What I've learned though, is just like you can't It requires discipline to not look, and you just have to not look.

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Speaker 3: How I got a couple more. This is fun. I love that you're doing. This saves meat a lot of effort. Right next up, Hey, Bobby, I have a full time marketing job. I'm also chasing creative dreams. But I feel like I'm exhausted constantly. I think I'm starting to burn out. How do you handle burnout?

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Speaker 2: How do you handle burnout?

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Speaker 4: Do you handle burnout?

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Speaker 1: I don't ever allow myself to say I'm burnt out. I think it's it's once again like I think your mind creates a narrative and it can become real in your head. Like your mind is a scary place, so you have to like my burnt out. Like, let's like even right now, I'm not really writing songs right now because I'm trying to de stimulate my.

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Speaker 3: World right now.

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Speaker 1: And I guess you could call that burnout if that's how you looked at it. But for me, it's like I'm I just need to like chill out for a second, and you I think as a creative person, if you tell yourself I'm burnt out, then you think like, am I never going to write a good song again? Am I never going to do anything good again? Like your brain just like can't go there. So I think like burnout is just like you probably just need to breathe, and why don't you just like chill for a second, do something else. Stop putting so much pressure on yourself and it'll come naturally. Because that's always I feel like I've never been in a what do they call.

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Speaker 2: It, like a writer's block.

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Speaker 1: I've never had writer's block because I don't if I'm not feeling creative that day, that's just because like we do, I don't even know where songs come from, you know what I mean, Like you'll just write one day and you just get this idea and.

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Speaker 2: You're like, how the hell did I come up with that?

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Speaker 1: And it just comes, and then you don't know where it came from, and then maybe next day it doesn't come.

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Speaker 2: It's okay.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of just like not putting pressure on yourself because obviously, I mean, if you're writing out I'm in a creative block, then you're like, oh fuck, I'm not gonna like, I'm not gonna be able to be creative anymore. I'm feeling so stuck, and it's like, no, that's your mind telling you that perhaps you should just go do something.

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Speaker 2: Touch grass, breathe.

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Speaker 4: Touch grass for sure. Yeah, yeah, take a break.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but don't put pressure on yourself to get back. For me, the greatest comes when I'm bored. It's so hard to be bored though, whenever you have like an active mind and an active professional lifestyle. If I can be bored, if I can find time to be bored, which is a weird thing to do, if I can schedule boredom.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you your mind starts just flowing with things that like exactly like you have time to actually be creative, then worry you're spending that time worrying about why you're not being creative. So yeah, I always tell any of my songwriters and stuff too, like if we're in the room and I'm just not feeling it today, then like that's okay.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean me suck. That just means like it's not happening today.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps it'll happen tomorrow, maybe it won't, Maybe it'll happen in a week, So.

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Speaker 3: There are two times where I feel like I can even check out during the day. We have a sauna at the house. If my phone goes in, it overheats.

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Speaker 2: Right, and that sucks and you're forced to drink water.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's two things. Yep, be right.

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Speaker 4: So when I go into the sauna, that's one.

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Speaker 3: The shower is always good because I can't have a phone in the shower, so I can't get too hot.

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Speaker 4: It's all phone related. That's what's crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's all phone related because your phone. Yep. The sauna, the shower, and the baby. If I'm holding the baby, I can't be on the phone.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 3: That's where my mind does get to flow. So I think my advice too is take a break because that will be so beneficial to you in the areas you're worried about doing more in because if you just keep pushing, you're not going to create yeah, as much as you would if you took a break. I used to feel the way about sleeping. Do you sleep well?

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Speaker 2: I sleep great?

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Speaker 1: You do One thing that, yeah, I do do well is sleep. I can fall asleep right now sitting like this.

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Speaker 3: Probably has that always been the case. Yeah, so you have clear conscious.

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Speaker 2: Is that what that means?

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Speaker 3: I mean probably partially. Mostly, Yeah, I struggle with sleep and I find that because I would I would just go, I'm not getting enough sleep.

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Speaker 4: Same thing too.

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Speaker 3: I would say it so much that I think it would also start to manifest just like you're talking about if you say you're burnt out.

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Speaker 4: I'd be like, I'm not sleeping good.

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Speaker 3: And I think it did actually make me sleep worse that I wasn't sleeping good.

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Speaker 1: I like sleep so much to the point where like, I'm really bad at watching movies because if it's dark afall sleep.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's called dart lefty man. I don't know if that's.

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, if we're like just in a living room and like, heyke.

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Speaker 3: You to lie up. If I had a natural sleep pattern, because mine is so jacked up now because I started doing working in the morning so early in my life and baby probably well, my wife crushes that, like she knows my job's a bit weird and I'm probably not always going to make all the money that I make now, so she's very like sensitive to the fact of your job. I'll take care of this stuff. Do your job.

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Speaker 2: That's nice.

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Speaker 4: It's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like I'm so I'm so fortunate there. But I wake up, you know, wake up at three or four in the morning. I try to go to bed at nine or so. But my normal body clock is go to bed at four in the morning and wake up at noon or one pm. Wow, that's my natural cycle. And if I'm off for a few days, like on vacation, especially when I was single, that's that's that's what happened. Yeah, I would stay up until almost the sun came up.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever stayed up like till like six am in my life.

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Speaker 4: It's not like I'm partying or anything like. I would just stay up.

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Speaker 3: That's great, you know, watching Netflix or something. So yeah, that's that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Crazy.

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Speaker 3: I get two more. Hey, Bobby, I'm twenty five. I feel like I'm at the stage of life for everyone else seems to have it together and constantly questioning every decision that I make. I am career wise, where I want to live, what I'm doing next, How do I trust my gut when there are so many opinions coming out of me? Have you ever made a decision you warn't a hundred percent sure about.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five is super young.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm twenty eight, and I even sometimes am like what am I doing? But I would say it's one of those things where you just got to take action, like whatever your gut is saying the loudest, Like even for me, like I let's think about me like moving to Nashville. This was like right after college during COVID. I'm like, should I move or are my parents right? I usually always listen to my parents, so I'm like, maybe my parents have something with this, like stay at home and then move like after COVID's over, whenever that's going to be. But I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna move. And if I hate it and nothing happens in like six months, I give myself like six months, then I'll move back and say that at least I did it, and that rules out one option. So I would say in your case, like you don't know what you're doing, don't know where to live, try something like whatever your gut is the loudest about, go towards that.

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Speaker 2: Give yourself a.

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Speaker 1: Timeline of how long you want to try it. If you love it, then keep going. If you absolutely hate it. I mean, you might hate it at first, but with potential of loving it, so keep doing it then.

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Speaker 2: But if you just absolutely hate it, you can try something else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and at least you have information to make a decision on exactly. Inaction is the worst because you have you have no data, right, you just are your thoughts are just swirling it. In action, if you even make a wrong decision, there's more of an understanding of what the right decision is because you know what's not right at that point. And also the first line of this, I feel like I'm at the stage of life where everyone seems to have it together. There is no stage of life where everybody has it together. Say it again, There is all the stages I have felt. Man, I just don't have it together. Yeah, I can't wait to let it to that age. There is no age where you have it together. That is never a thing. It's just a presentation put on by people. And sometimes it's not even put on by them, it's you're putting that presentation for them. You just think they.

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Speaker 4: Have it together. Yeah, I don't think.

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Speaker 2: You get out of your head.

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Speaker 3: Yep, take action one more, Hey, Bobby, I'm chronically overcommitted because I say yes to everything. Brunch, yes, shift, sure, help someone move Yes. Now I'm exhausted and a little resentful. How do you say no without being a bad person?

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Speaker 2: You always said yes? To be honest, you do or I don't know. I haven't always.

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Speaker 1: Said yes because I I'm very in touch with myself and I know what I can take and what I can't take. And it's been really helpful over the past couple of years for my team to get to know me really well, because they'll know what, like I can handle well and what I can't. And so I would say, that's just about I mean, you're not a bad person if you can't do everything.

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Speaker 2: Ever, though no one expects that of you but yourself.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's just, you know, pick a couple and do it, but say no to some stuff because you got to take care of yourself.

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Speaker 3: One of the great maturations of my life has been learning how to draw boundaries. Yeah, professionally and personally. People also respect you more when you have boundaries, right, Not that they don't respect the person who messaged me, because they probably do. They probably like you a lot. But when you start to draw boundaries, one you respect yourself more. Yeah, then you don't resent people as much.

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Speaker 1: You have to show up as a better person when you're not just like completely drained from doing everything all the time.

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Speaker 3: Do you get to a stage where you feel drained from doing everything? If it's like end of tour, if it's like the recording process, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean maybe a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think it's more so though, like my year is planned out where we strategically have like pockets of time for me to be off because over the years we've learned what I need. And so it's like, right now I'm in a phase of like I'm you know, destimulating myself from like the tour or mean sorry, the album release and like the nine Cities nine Days thing.

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Speaker 2: But now I'm like can't wait to get back on tour. So it like comes and it.

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Speaker 1: Goes from like I really need this break to like okay, let's go. So I think, yeah, I think it's also like just prioritizing yourself. I guess, like you you know yourself, and you're like, I've I've got to take time off. Time off is important and just like whatever you need, maybe do what things that make you happy.

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Speaker 3: When you did the nine cities, nine days. Did you just stay and like take a ton of pictures?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I met every single person that came.

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Speaker 4: That's crazy, that's awesome, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy.

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Speaker 1: I will say, that's like the craziest, most ambitious thing I've ever done.

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Speaker 2: When I told my team that.

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Speaker 3: They were like, so what would that day look like? Let me think, so, because you're are you bussing to most of your cities?

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Speaker 1: I sing, and like, let's say, okay, so we start in Virginia. People would actually start lining up like a day twenty four hours before or like forty eight hours before, and they you had to get your ticket in person because I didn't want people to be able to sell them like I wanted to be my real fans. And they didn't know that I was going to do this. Like when I advertised nine cities and nine days, it was a nine dollar ticket and I was going to play like three songs or two songs or something, can't remember was it three? Okay? Yeah, okay, so three songs. But then so they're all excited that you know, they're what am I doing?

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Speaker 2: I probably got ready.

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Speaker 1: It takes me about two hours to get ready, so I think we would start in the middle of the day though I'm kind of blinking because they're all a little bit different, but like they would line up everyone. Once everybody was inside the venues, then I would come out play three songs and then tell them I'm gonna meet.

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Speaker 2: Every single person. So then after I would do the three.

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Speaker 1: Acoustic songs, I would go to this like booth and then would stay till every single person got something signed.

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Speaker 3: That's super cool to you one. And also it's great that you played not a full set, because we I used to do that doing stand up shows. I'd be like, I'm gonna meet everybody in the theater, would kick everybody out because we would be midnight, right, and then we'd be out on the street, and that wasn't safe. Yeah, and so then like you can't do this anymore, right, Yeah? Yeah, I bet they were so happy. That's so cool to stay and meet everybody, Like they had to be freaking out right. Yeah. It was really.

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Speaker 1: Exciting, and like it's one of those things where on paper it seems really draining, but like I feed off people's energy, and like they were just so excited. So my hand was literally bleeding by like day nine, which was just like so funny. I'm like imagine like telling like college Megan, she was gonna have this problem. You're gonna sign so many items of anything that you're gonna your hand's gonna be bleeding. But anyways, Yeah, it was fun. It was crazy and nine cities, nine days.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any place that you go that's like your place, your vacation place, or like a favorite place.

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Speaker 1: Anywhere that's the beach, love the beach, Turks, Bahamas, thirty a down there a lot.

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Speaker 3: We went to Turks. I'm not cool enough to call it Turks. I'm only ever been there once. Went to the Turks and Kekos. Have you been there a bunch? Yeah, Okay, I'm not cool. I probably need to be at least three times to call of that. So we went we went to Turks and Gaikos and we stay at this place, super cool place. Everybody's so nice there too, I mean, everyone is so nice. So we go in and we're having dinner one night at because we're staying in this hotel, and there's like three couples there my wife and myself and two other couples.

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Speaker 4: Nine thirty.

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Speaker 3: So it's later in the evening and we see these guys come in and kind of jumpsuits, three or four of them, and they're talking to them like the person running the wait station, and they're just kind of going back and forth, and I'm like, some funny is kind of happening over there. They all had Michael Jordan logos on, like Jumpman logos, and they're.

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Speaker 4: Like arguing with the person.

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Speaker 3: And our waiter comes over and it's like, hey, somebody's here is asking if everyone would leave the restaurant so they can have dinner by themselves. And they're like, I don't think they're going to allow it, but I'm just giving you guys their heads up.

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Speaker 4: That's the conversation.

00:23:01
Speaker 3: And we're like, wow, first of all, we can't believe you're telling us that before Either you're kicking us out or you're not. And they decided to not let them do it, and we and we didn't know who it was still, and so we see them walking through and it was Drake and he they tried to get a body kicked out of the restaurant, and we're like, dude, we don't care, like how the internet, well we're not even taking a picture of you will be annoyed that you're sitting next to us. But yeah, the one time we went to Turks and I didn't think about it, but he rapped about Turks a lot.

00:23:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's his place.

00:23:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, his plane's always there when you land. It's like he's got a big like.

00:23:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my one pretty cool Turk story. But it's really I'm not a beach guy. Wow, I kind of hate the.

00:23:44
Speaker 2: Beach, Mountain Lake. What's the vibes?

00:23:47
Speaker 4: Wi fi?

00:23:48
Speaker 3: Just give me fi?

00:23:49
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, screen time? I mean I know, okay, Tuesdays. Yeah, you know.

00:23:56
Speaker 3: I'm from Arkansas, so I grew up in the woods a lot, and we some good on outside. I'm all caught up being outside. Yeah. I think I've never had alcohol and I don't have much sun. I plan to live to be like one hundred and ten. Yeah, and we never went to the beach, so I don't really have a relationship with the beach. Like what do you do? You lay in the sand?

00:24:13
Speaker 1: I live, Yeah, I lay there and I disconnect. I feel like, yeah, it's really nice and I like son.

00:24:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a fan.

00:24:23
Speaker 2: No.

00:24:24
Speaker 3: No, Well, like I get all the things that I like at the beach.

00:24:29
Speaker 1: It gives me into like an Apple Stores on it's where you're going to have your birthday.

00:24:33
Speaker 3: I freaking love the Apple Store. That's one of the greatest players to go. So the Bahamas, Saint Bart's is really nice too. Yeah I haven't, man, I've been to the Bahama's Mama is. The Bamas is cool, but it's we're Saint Bart's. Is that same area? Like Caribbean, you're been a Bali?

00:24:51
Speaker 2: No, but my best friend wants to go there this year or next year.

00:24:54
Speaker 4: I'm like, I had to look it up on a map. It's that's a far one.

00:24:57
Speaker 2: That's far.

00:24:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like Australia type like travel to get over there. I had a friend that just had a wedding over there, and luckily my wife was pregnant, so we didn't go. Good excuse because that would have been that's a Have you flown those really far trips like Australia, Japan.

00:25:10
Speaker 2: Australia, Yeah, brutal, it was brutal.

00:25:13
Speaker 1: One time we were planning I was actually going coming back from New Zealand, Like I went to Australia and the New Zealand and I didn't download anything like because I was like, oh, we'll have Wi Fi.

00:25:25
Speaker 2: Didn't even have like messaging, so.

00:25:28
Speaker 1: Like, no book, no nothing, just like me and my thoughts for like eighteen hours or however long it is.

00:25:35
Speaker 4: I was just like people were raw dog flights.

00:25:37
Speaker 3: You ever see those who are like I got nothing, They just stare at the back of a seat. I'm just scared of those people. Oh my god. Well, so you just read a magaze.

00:25:43
Speaker 1: I'm like trying to like take some AVILPM and I'm like looking at the thing because I can't even look up how many it's.

00:25:48
Speaker 2: Safe to take.

00:25:50
Speaker 4: I just guess I.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: Felt like I was in like the eighteen hundreds.

00:25:55
Speaker 3: That's funny. That also sucks. Yeah, over those international flights time as they do shut off Wi Fi. It's not even the point of life, you know what.

00:26:02
Speaker 1: You couldn't even warn a brother, like, hey, there's no Wi Fi. I could have downloaded something, but yeah, Champagne.

00:26:09
Speaker 3: Problems, that's what I say. No crying on the yacht. Yeah, like you got a yacht, no crying on it. You brought the Kesey Musgraves album here if you don't mind holding it up. And so what we do is we have people bring in music that really inspired them and then we donate all the music. But yeah, so tell me why you picked this album right here.

00:26:28
Speaker 1: This album I think changed the trajectory of my life.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: So it's same trailer, different party.

00:26:33
Speaker 2: Trailer, different part of Casey musk Graves.

00:26:36
Speaker 1: My dad and I obviously he taught me how to play guitar and we really connected through music growing up, and this was the first album that I showed him. And I just remember hearing this album and I'm like, it was what probably like a freshman in high school or something, and I remember thinking, if I ever write songs, I want it to be something like this, because how is she's so clever, How it's her voice so good, how she's so funny and it's like seems really effortless, and it was so country, and I just, yeah, what.

00:27:10
Speaker 4: Are your favorite songs on it?

00:27:12
Speaker 2: Oh? Man?

00:27:12
Speaker 3: I them?

00:27:13
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to say Mary Goround because that's just like all timer.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: I really, where's Oh keep it to yourself? There it is? Yeah, I love keep it to yourself. Step off is really.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: Funny, like when you step off.

00:27:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep climbing that mountain of dirty tricks, and when you finally get to the top, step off, I'm like, are you kidding?

00:27:35
Speaker 2: Iconic?

00:27:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, her ability to be like super strong and extremely vulnerable at the same time, right, And I saw.

00:27:41
Speaker 1: Her live after this like eighteen times, and I just this album has been a staple. Like I sometimes if I'm bored with music, I just listen to that.

00:27:50
Speaker 3: I go back. Do I have it behind me? Yeah? You do.

00:27:52
Speaker 4: I keep so these are all my favorite albums of all time.

00:27:55
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I keep around me like my top albums, behind you, behind Me. It's one of my top ten albums of all time. I think it's possibly one of my favorite debut albums of all period.

00:28:06
Speaker 1: I agree, and like follow Your Arrow, just all these songs are so.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: They were way ahead.

00:28:13
Speaker 3: Of their time for sure, and.

00:28:17
Speaker 1: Like I Miss You too, the chord progression in that I just I love it.

00:28:21
Speaker 3: And there had to be times that it wasn't super comfortable for her because it wasn't met with I'll wrap the industry wrapping its arms around her. I think if that same album comes out today, it'd be like, oh, this is amazing. You're right, it was so far ahead of its time. When you got your first guitar, Hold were you sixteen? Did you do the thing where you go and you play to your fingers bleed or ah?

00:28:43
Speaker 2: Yes, I did so.

00:28:44
Speaker 1: My dad had been like trying to teach me, but it wasn't until I got the tailor that I got as a breakup consolation prize.

00:28:51
Speaker 4: And the tailor was it smaller?

00:28:53
Speaker 2: No, it was a real one.

00:28:54
Speaker 1: And I was not good enough to be having a tailor because I had I knew G, C and D and But after I got that guitar, I just like loved how it sounded, because it's a lot more fun to learn how to play guitar and a good guitar than like a super shitty one.

00:29:07
Speaker 2: So yeah, I was sold after that.

00:29:11
Speaker 4: Did you ever have an electric?

00:29:13
Speaker 2: My dad would try to get I have an electric now.

00:29:15
Speaker 3: But electrics don't hurt your fingers as bad. Yeah, I'm glad, like when I was starting to learn how to play for like comedy reasons, I'm glad I never had an electric then because I think I would have just played electric and never had to like develop finger strength.

00:29:30
Speaker 2: Yes exactly.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: The callouses, Yeah, are are you pretty callous?

00:29:34
Speaker 4: Up now. Yeah, are you playing a lot now?

00:29:37
Speaker 2: Honestly, no.

00:29:37
Speaker 1: My rehearsals start tomorrow, so in twenty four hours. Yes, but right now no, I've really been disconnected. I've been trying to like totally do nothing.

00:29:49
Speaker 4: Does that mean not even listening to music.

00:29:51
Speaker 2: I don't listen to music right now.

00:29:52
Speaker 3: No, just podcasts, nothing usual, Raw Dog on Earth.

00:29:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not true. I listened to Joshua Sloan. If I need music, I listened.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: To Joshua Sloan.

00:30:03
Speaker 3: I don't know who Joshua slone.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: Is debut album, one of the.

00:30:06
Speaker 4: Best, Okay, I tell me more.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: I just love him. I talked about him a lot of interviews.

00:30:10
Speaker 1: I've never met him, so he's probably like this freaking weirdo.

00:30:13
Speaker 4: Compare him to something.

00:30:14
Speaker 3: I'm asking for the comparison, so so compare him to somebody for me, so I know.

00:30:17
Speaker 1: It's it's unlike anything I've heard. Actually, No, No, Rustin Kelly got it Rusting Kelly?

00:30:24
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:30:25
Speaker 3: Does he live in town? Oh?

00:30:27
Speaker 2: You don't know nothing about this dude. But I've worn that album out.

00:30:31
Speaker 1: I literally had it on yesterday and my mom was like, this guy's really sad. Megan, you always listen to him, I'm like, exactly, but other than Joshua Sloane nothing.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just had driving just thinking, how do you find Joshua?

00:30:45
Speaker 2: I don't even remember.

00:30:46
Speaker 1: I think he came up on like my Spotify playlist and then his whole album, Like I just put it on and it's one of those things where you can just like listen all day.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: And this it's been out since like end.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: Of last year. I'm still wearing it out.

00:30:59
Speaker 3: What is it now?

00:31:00
Speaker 2: April May, April, April October? Where are we? Who am I?

00:31:09
Speaker 6: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the Bobby Cast.

00:31:23
Speaker 4: Are you drawn to sad music?

00:31:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all that's all I listened to as far as like love why why you?

00:31:30
Speaker 2: It's just calming to me. I don't know.

00:31:34
Speaker 1: Sad music has always been easier for me to write, and yeah, his shit's.

00:31:39
Speaker 3: Pretty sad, it is.

00:31:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, even my guys are going yeah over.

00:31:43
Speaker 1: There like like I'll have it on while I'm like getting glam done, and everyone's like in a bad mood, everyone's moping around.

00:31:51
Speaker 2: I'm like sorry, But to me, I'm like.

00:31:54
Speaker 3: This is awesome. Favorite sad song ever. Oh, most played sad song, ever, how about that m.

00:32:06
Speaker 2: Jealous who sings that?

00:32:09
Speaker 4: Which one Jonas brothers?

00:32:11
Speaker 3: No, not Jonas makes me happy? Jealous, don't worry?

00:32:20
Speaker 2: Yes, oh sad he know that.

00:32:25
Speaker 3: Yes? Did you watch any of Justin Bieber Coachella? Yeah, we watched both nights.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: I love him so much.

00:32:33
Speaker 3: I thought it was super cool what he was doing, and I think people didn't understand what he was doing with the videos behind him. I think it was wildly misunderstood.

00:32:40
Speaker 1: I think it was perfect. And if you're just if you're not a Justin Bieber fan, you're gonna look at that and be like, oh, he's he was being lazy. If you know Justin Bieber and even have been keeping up with him over the past few years, that is exactly what he wanted to do. And like you could tell how fun, how much fun he was having. So for me, I was just my Bieber fever through the roof this weekend last weekend.

00:33:02
Speaker 3: Same for my wife, and she's twelve years younger than I am, so she's Bieber forever.

00:33:07
Speaker 4: But I woke up.

00:33:10
Speaker 3: I didn't watch it live, I didn't stream it live, but I woke up and I saw mostly adult men my age being like that sucked, and I was like, did it or they did not understand? So I got on and I watched and we spent a lot of time listening to his new stuff too before it came out, so I knew all the new stuff and I was like, Okay, he's playing all the new stuff, and then he sat down and started playing videos. I thought that it was so incredible because he kind of took you through his life because it was all that his whole life was there. Yea. When he was singing along with the covers that he did. Yeah, like as a kid, he would he'd.

00:33:41
Speaker 1: Say, imagine how cool that is for him too, and all the stuff he's gone through. It's like to be on a stage and be doing exactly what you want to be doing.

00:33:48
Speaker 3: And yeah, and also to have so many hits. There is no way he could have sang his full songs anyway. Yeah, and for him to do a verse in a chorus A baby, that's good enough. Yeah, everybody got there the fix. Yeah, everybody got their fill and they heard baby and he did one like my favorite, one time favorite girl, one less Lonely Girl. I got to say it's my favorite.

00:34:07
Speaker 1: With Billie Eilish too, and I'm like, oh my god, I've never wanted to be Billy Headlers so bad.

00:34:13
Speaker 3: Same the one most lonely guy. You know what, I'll take girl too, just making me. The uh crazy thing about the Billie Eilish stuff is when she was a kid. Do you ever see the pictures of her room? Yeah, but all the Justin Bieber posters are behind us.

00:34:28
Speaker 1: I wish I had a picture my room because that was my room. I had the stand up of him when like the Red Pants or whatever.

00:34:33
Speaker 3: There was a video of her when she was younger, going I can't wait to have a boyfriend. But I don't know, she's like twelve. I don't know if I'll ever love him as much as I'll love Justin Bieber. Like it's fair, it's awesome. Yeah, and then yeah, I just I felt like that was super cool. Casey played night too of Coachelle came back and played her new stuff.

00:34:49
Speaker 4: I did see some of that, hah a second weekend. Excuse me, Yeah, I rode.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: Out on a horse.

00:34:53
Speaker 3: Iconic.

00:34:56
Speaker 2: She's iconic.

00:34:57
Speaker 3: She Yeah.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: Her and I got into a little tiff when I first moved to town.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: All my fault. I was pretty reckless, but she's top five artists for me all time, like Massive, Casey muskras Fan.

00:35:12
Speaker 4: I'm imagining she's up there.

00:35:13
Speaker 3: On yours too.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: As far as like favor who else do you have up in that list?

00:35:17
Speaker 1: Well, Taylor's up there, Taylor, Casey, Miranda. I would say those are like my three they got me into.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: Like country music.

00:35:26
Speaker 4: Have you met all three?

00:35:27
Speaker 1: No? I haven't met Taylor. I've met Miranda and Casey. Yeah, not Taylor. Everyone will know when I meet Taylor. I'll make it very known all my friends and family. I might send postcards or something.

00:35:38
Speaker 3: She has the ability. And I've heard this set about certain politicians and a couple celebrities to make you feel like you're the absolutely only person in the whole room when she's talking to you, and she knows and Gartha does this? Have you met Gartha all?

00:35:53
Speaker 2: No?

00:35:53
Speaker 3: Okay, So you think Garth is somehow he's like logged in and read your journal or something you know so much about you, Like he's got people that have who knows. But he comes in and when he's talking to you, there's nobody else around. And he said he knows things, he notices things. But Taylor is the same way. There are a couple, probably four, I would say since I've moved to town, that you meet and you go okay. They obviously have the talent, but they have that thing that makes them amazing. Taylor won Matter when I first moved here, Garth, Dolly. I haven't met Dolly at Oh my god. I understand the complete adulation towards her from Afar. I've probably Dolly did my comedy special with me like she was like, I'm happy to I've probably spent eight or nine instances with Dolly. She wants you's so sharp, but she is sharp and cutting and loving at the same time. And Riba reba' is the other one. You're just like, I get it. I get why. It makes total sense. They have the talent, but they have that kind of element that separates them and makes them super special. But they're all like, you're funny. I was telling someone the other day about how funny you were. They were asking, I think it was something I was doing this with someone and they were like, what, what's Megan Maroony like?

00:37:10
Speaker 4: And I was like, the one, it's freaking funny.

00:37:13
Speaker 3: I told him a story you probably don't remember, and I won't even say it for here, But we were backstage in Dallas. We were doing a charity show. I think I was telling jokes and you were playing it was brooks.

00:37:25
Speaker 2: Oh, I know what you're talking about.

00:37:28
Speaker 3: I would never share that story, but I had to do with an automobile and I was just I was like, dude, she's so funny, Like I get paid to write jokes and do jokes. She was funnier than I was, So that's I think you have that element though. I think you're you're wildly funny. Is your family funny?

00:37:46
Speaker 2: I got a lot on my humor from my brother.

00:37:50
Speaker 1: He's hilarious, and I grew up wanting to be just like him. In fact, I played baseball instead of softball because I wanted to be like my brother.

00:37:57
Speaker 3: Really really, as a girl you played baseball, only girl on the team.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: They would especially get me a trophy with a ponytail.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: Well that's called him to do that.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was nice.

00:38:05
Speaker 3: When did you stop playing baseball?

00:38:07
Speaker 2: I don't even know.

00:38:08
Speaker 1: I was pretty young, but when you know it was time to sign up for baseball or softball, I'm like, what's Connor doing? My mom is like baseball obviously, and I was like, I'll do it.

00:38:16
Speaker 4: What's he doing now?

00:38:18
Speaker 1: He is in school to be a nurse anesthetus hard to say, you RNA is the easier way.

00:38:27
Speaker 4: So here was kind of your family role model.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: One of them.

00:38:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look up to both my brothers. My other brother is an attorney, so and he's the musical one. So I think like both of them. Yeah, I wanted to be like both of them.

00:38:41
Speaker 3: Does he look over your stuff or do you have? No, I don't never.

00:38:44
Speaker 1: He's like helped me out a little bit with smaller things, but yeah, he does like criminal stuff.

00:38:50
Speaker 3: So oh so you don't want him looking at you stuff. That'd be better if he never looked at your stuff.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: Actually, know, Well, yeah, I guys.

00:38:56
Speaker 3: What about Christian Bush? Now I know he's not You're not related to Christian, but you guys met way back in the day, right, Yeah.

00:39:01
Speaker 2: It was this an intern, which.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: Is crazy because Christians from Sugarland. Yeah, I uh, how'd you get a job with him?

00:39:08
Speaker 1: It was with him and Brandon Bush's brother. And I was in the music business program at Georgia and I remember David Barbie, who's the music he like runs the music business over there. He was like if this program will do anything for you, you need to go and be this, like, sign up for this internship and I'll do what I can to make sure that you get it if you want it.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: But it was not ideal because a lot of the.

00:39:33
Speaker 1: Other internships were in town in Athens, and I was gonna have to drive to Atlanta, which obviously, with a college schedule, how am I going to party every day? If I got a I got to drive to Atlanta. But anyways, long story short, Yeah, I got that internship, learned how to do publishing a little bit, and then I didn't even tell them. They I think they might have known that I was like moving to Nashville, but at this time, you know, like I wasn't going around telling people like I'm moving to Nashville to be a country music star. Like I was like, I'm gonna move and see how it goes, and if I if I don't survive, I'm gonna move home. But yeah, he didn't even know about it until like a year of me living in Nashville probably, and then hooked me up with some writers and yeah, now he's produced my first three albums.

00:40:21
Speaker 3: That's pretty crazy.

00:40:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, started from an internship now we're here.

00:40:27
Speaker 4: He's so delightful.

00:40:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's so smart and just like has lived a lot and it's cool that he knows so much about like the production side of things. But also he's been an artist, so you're in the studio a lot of hours. So anytime I'm just like talking about stuff, he's gone through it too. So it's nice to have someone i'd just be vinting, you know.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: Through it.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. Wow, and we're back on the Bobby Cast.

00:41:06
Speaker 3: When you're tour prepping or your tour what did you say you were doing your tour tour prep?

00:41:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, tour prep?

00:41:10
Speaker 3: What does that? What does that mean? So?

00:41:13
Speaker 1: No alcohol and it's really I'm like a week in, a month out. So May first is when I really super duper lock in with like the diet stuff. Right now, it's just kind of been like I'm not eating out and like it's mostly like steak, fish, vegetables, like the boring stuff. But it might get even crazier May first, We'll see. But anyways, it's like the diet aspect, no drinking. My rehearsals start tomorrow. I'll do all my rehearsals in a weighted vest. I've underestimated how sometimes my outfits because sometimes my outfits weigh like ten to fifteen pounds, And when I've done the performance, I'm like, oh shit, like I I am not in shape for this, So I'm rehearsing in a weighted vest.

00:41:58
Speaker 3: That's crazy.

00:41:59
Speaker 1: Also, the singing with a weighted vest on a treadmill.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: Doing that red light therapy I was going. He actually gave me.

00:42:11
Speaker 1: He was like I was asking him about it because he had a red light map and he was like, oh, do you want this one? I have an extra one, just gave it to me, Like absolutely yes, But it's the higher dose Matt. So doing that every day sauna and cold tub every day.

00:42:28
Speaker 3: Physically, it feels like it's such a positive grind, though I don't think a lot of people would understand that it takes all of that, Like for you to do all that just to get ready for this.

00:42:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I think it's I obviously agree to Have you ever been to agree?

00:42:43
Speaker 3: It's like a crazy plot.

00:42:47
Speaker 4: Machine times eight?

00:42:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then go super slow and die the whole time. Like my legs fall asleep while I'm doing it. I'm like, I'm not sure this is good for me, but yeah, a lot of strength training too. But I I think that I've never taken touring as serious, like as far as like the prep for it as I'm doing right now. But I want it to be the best show, and it's the biggest one yet it's going to be the biggest, most involved show.

00:43:14
Speaker 2: So just really locking in.

00:43:16
Speaker 3: I had a doctor in here pretty recently. We were talking about red light therapy and red light. We have a red light bed at the house, one of the yeah beds, and you know, red light's great and then the deep red light, which is what that bed is, and how I'm cynical towards everything at this point, I've been burned by everyone and cynical towards everything until it's proven, until I'm proven otherwise, yeah, I know, I'm super fun to be around. And so we were talking about so why I started to believe that red light works because I had to see data to go, because otherwise you're just laying in it looked like a tanning bed and you're not tan That sucks, laid a tan of every twenty minutes you came out o tanner. But there were these studies that nasted it on plants like broken plants, and they did a whole study with them under red light and a whole study with them not just under sunlight, and they held back at such a faster rate under the red light than they did with sunlight.

00:44:16
Speaker 4: So I can't see it, but I believe it.

00:44:19
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:44:20
Speaker 1: They said it's like like get laying out in the sun too, but better so but better. It's like vitamin D basically, like I don't do.

00:44:31
Speaker 3: That, go to the sun.

00:44:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm hoping that like the winter months in Nashville, because this is like I just got it recently, So I'm hoping like in the winter months when it's like the seasonal depression comes out.

00:44:43
Speaker 2: I'll be like GNA me and my red light therapy.

00:44:46
Speaker 4: We have Tuesday depression.

00:44:48
Speaker 3: Have I told you about that? I have two day depression. That's why I go. One of the comments that's, yeah that always when you're doing this tour, are you keeping like how do you keep things a surprise nowadays by.

00:45:01
Speaker 2: Not telling anyone at all?

00:45:02
Speaker 3: Though, Like do you do you take everybody? Do you take everybody's phones?

00:45:06
Speaker 2: What do you mean?

00:45:06
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're even tour prepping.

00:45:08
Speaker 2: Are you rehearsing rehearsing? Oh, everybody knows better.

00:45:13
Speaker 3: But how do you like not have random security people in there?

00:45:16
Speaker 2: Or we just don't we keep that locked down?

00:45:20
Speaker 1: I think too. Like, obviously my touring crew is expanding. I think they said I have sixteen trucks this year.

00:45:28
Speaker 3: Holy crap, that's a lot of truck. That's a lot of truck. You know what I hear. That's a lot of truck to pay for.

00:45:33
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:45:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, but good for you for needing them. Also, like it's both.

00:45:36
Speaker 1: So obviously with that many trucks, there's a lot more people on tour, but a lot of my touring crew is the same they've been for a long time.

00:45:44
Speaker 2: So it's kind of just an understanding. Yeah, we have a I have a good group.

00:45:51
Speaker 3: So you're doing forty nine shows on this tour?

00:45:54
Speaker 2: Is that's true?

00:45:55
Speaker 4: That's what I see here. It says maybe.

00:45:58
Speaker 2: Forty nine in summer Fest. I don't know.

00:46:00
Speaker 1: I thought it was fifty, but maybe it's forty nine. Fifty sounds better, so we'll go with that.

00:46:06
Speaker 3: And so if you're doing okay, let's say fifty shows, how is that different do you do different wardrobes every night or do you have that.

00:46:15
Speaker 2: Would be a secret?

00:46:19
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, very good? All right, you got me there. How do you feel like the response has been to the album good?

00:46:29
Speaker 1: I'm especially obviously like the response online is always like fun to look at.

00:46:38
Speaker 2: But I think that.

00:46:40
Speaker 1: Each one of my albums has really come to life during the live shows. So I'm really excited to see, like what it's like an experience singing these songs, you know. So I'm excited to see like how the meanings of these songs and stuff changed for me on tour, because that's happened in my past albums.

00:46:58
Speaker 3: Do you have any really great songs that you've written that you haven't recorded that are so great you just don't know when you're gonna be able to put them out or if they're great, do you just record it immediately?

00:47:07
Speaker 1: Ah, if they're great, I usually record them. I've got a few songs that are not out that I think are great, but yeah, I usually usually just put them out.

00:47:22
Speaker 3: Nothing you'd pass on You ever passed on a song to somebody else? Mm hmmm, you want to keep it all.

00:47:28
Speaker 2: For now?

00:47:29
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:47:29
Speaker 1: I just think like I like to think of myself in the building phase of my career, so I phrase things a certain way.

00:47:39
Speaker 3: You know, if you died, could they release three or four records of songs stuff you've recorded that isn't how.

00:47:45
Speaker 1: But even like, for example, the reason too that I don't pitch songs a lot is because like wedding Dress I wrote during the Lucky era, and that just made this album because it like wasn't time for that.

00:47:55
Speaker 3: So that would have been a great song you were holding on to then that. Yeah, do you have any of those?

00:47:59
Speaker 4: Now?

00:48:00
Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm not even asking anything specific because I don't want to tip off somebody a great concept and they steal it from you. But I just wonder how long you have stuff sitting on your phone? Do you have just concept ideas that are great that you haven't written yet? Yeah?

00:48:11
Speaker 2: Tons of those. My notes app is really scary.

00:48:14
Speaker 3: Do you sing into your app? Sometimes the melodies I.

00:48:18
Speaker 2: Do, but I forget to name them.

00:48:20
Speaker 1: So then in my just as like new recording eight hundred, and I'm like I have.

00:48:25
Speaker 2: To go through and like listen all. So it's really time consuming.

00:48:28
Speaker 1: So usually no, But there are some things we're all just be driving and I'm like hmm, I need to sing into the phone.

00:48:36
Speaker 4: Do you ever get ideas when you sleep?

00:48:38
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, there's been times where like I've woken up in the middle of the night and I learned my lesson because there's one time that I was like, oh, I'm going to remember this in the morning, so I'm not going to write it down. Didn't remember it, lost that idea forever. Still haven't found it, but I know that it exists somewhere, which I always find really interesting because I'm like, I wonder when it's going to come back to me, because I'm sure it will, but yeah, if I up in the middle of the night, like got to write it down. That's why I wrote hair Salon from a dream.

00:49:04
Speaker 3: That's my favorite song ever ever, of yours, not of all time. There are other ones I like more than like, yeah, I'm surprised of my song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hairson is I think because that's the song that I was sent like, hey, my wife actually sent it to me. She goes, hey, this girl's good.

00:49:19
Speaker 4: And then nice and then I know their other writer as well.

00:49:24
Speaker 1: McKenzie Yeah, MIKEA Ben Yeah, I love them.

00:49:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really cool song because I think it like reminds me of well, my home, my small town.

00:49:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, just how people are.

00:49:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was literally a dream that I'm in my hometown hair ason.

00:49:39
Speaker 2: I haven't like sat down yet.

00:49:42
Speaker 1: I'm in like the waiting chairs and it's like an open thing and three chairs down. In my dream, they're like, oh my god, So and so got engaged, like how cute they are, And everyone in the hair salon runs over to this person's chair like three chairs down and.

00:49:55
Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, they lie so cute, like I heard ring, They're so cute.

00:49:58
Speaker 1: And I'm like sitting there looking out the window like with a tear coming down my face.

00:50:01
Speaker 2: And I woke up and I was like hair salon like it was crazy.

00:50:07
Speaker 3: But that was a dream song. Yeah that's cool. I have three things left. You got a puppy, Yeah, puppy puppies are very hard. They are.

00:50:16
Speaker 4: They're awesome.

00:50:18
Speaker 3: She's awesome, so hard.

00:50:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's been doing this thing.

00:50:21
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like I'm not into the woo woo moon stuff that much, but like it wasn't New Moon recently, right, And she's been crazy at like ten forty five pm every night, and I go to bed by then like I'm lame in my like you know, training Era, and it's just like, yeah, she's crazy nuts. She she had my hat running around the other day.

00:50:44
Speaker 2: Last night She's like, my.

00:50:45
Speaker 1: Wood floor has like real wood, so there's like some holes in the floor that are from the wood. Does that make any sort of sense? Yes, okay, she's digging at it, trying to open the floors. I'm like, please don't do that. I'm not sure how I would replace it.

00:51:00
Speaker 4: Name Boots, and you named her after so her.

00:51:04
Speaker 1: Back feet are white like my boots that I were on stage, it was between Boots and Lorraine because my song Waiting on the Rain is going to ruin the song for everybody, by the way, so sorry, if you listen to that song, it sounds like I'm saying lading all Lorraine, laiding on flood, waiting on.

00:51:23
Speaker 3: Lorraine, you know, but the rain right, So why was that run? I think that's funny, I know, but because now you can't unhear it.

00:51:32
Speaker 2: It's not waiting on it's waiting on the rain.

00:51:34
Speaker 4: But you know, I know what the I know what the song is.

00:51:37
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just like who's Lorraine?

00:51:39
Speaker 3: Who the hell is the rain got it like that kind of thing.

00:51:42
Speaker 1: So anyways, I thought she would be cute, like a puppy name Lorraine would be cute. But then when I saw her back, feet were white like my boots that I wear, And then I was thinking, what could her middle name be with a fur, so it sounds distinct, Yeah, it sounds distinguished.

00:51:57
Speaker 3: Boots with the fur obviously flow rider. Right. Did you see the picture of Riba though, with the boot the fur? Okay, So Riba was standing at a window and she's what do you think about the boots with the fur? What do you think that means? Before I tell you this, I had them apple bottom jeans boots with the fur with the fur.

00:52:16
Speaker 4: But to explain, describe the boot.

00:52:18
Speaker 2: The boot is probably a stiletto boot with fur around it.

00:52:21
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I always thought. It was like a boot with the fur on it. But Riba was wearing fur and then had boots on it. She was like boots with the fur.

00:52:28
Speaker 4: And that's the first time I ever thought, maybe it's just somebody.

00:52:30
Speaker 3: Wearing boots with a jacket with the fur. The furs not on the boot.

00:52:33
Speaker 4: Maybe it just weren't freaking fur.

00:52:35
Speaker 2: Boots with the fur. It was one of the that is perspective.

00:52:40
Speaker 3: Man.

00:52:42
Speaker 4: I spent a lot of time thinking about that.

00:52:43
Speaker 2: It's with the fur. Yeah, you know.

00:52:45
Speaker 1: I was also thought about naming her boots Eve period Wootsy.

00:52:51
Speaker 3: Whenever my daughter was born, I wanted to name her Sue and are my real last name is Estelle? Did you know that? No, it's my wife. She goes by her normal name. She was like, I'd never be called bones kill me and so uh so I'm big Arkansas guy. I wanted her name to be Sue Eye Suey like yeah, And my wife was like, I know what you're trying to do doing that.

00:53:15
Speaker 4: Flow ride at do you know?

00:53:17
Speaker 3: Do you know what that name is?

00:53:19
Speaker 2: Florida?

00:53:20
Speaker 3: Yeah? How about that?

00:53:21
Speaker 2: I knew that one. Yeah.

00:53:22
Speaker 3: It took a minute though for me too. Yeah boom flow right of Florida.

00:53:26
Speaker 2: Is he from there? Probably?

00:53:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd or maybe he's just like I never even looked it up. I just thought Florida. Okay, two things left? Uh?

00:53:32
Speaker 4: Do you believe in aliens? Have any thoughts at all?

00:53:36
Speaker 1: My thoughts about aliens are that like when you sometimes I just look up at the stars and like realize how vast the universe is and how minuscule we are, and I'm like, there's no way in hell where you're just like magically the only people here.

00:53:52
Speaker 3: I have those thoughts mostly when it's like a Southwest flight just right over, like Antioch flying out of Nashville, and I look down and I'm like, there's no way.

00:53:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I saw this thing that was like, I bet aliens like lock their doors when they fly.

00:54:04
Speaker 4: By, marks.

00:54:09
Speaker 3: Fly by.

00:54:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got, we got. I think they're in the ocean.

00:54:14
Speaker 2: Though you think they're in the ocean.

00:54:16
Speaker 3: The ocean is so much less explored, like we have we have no idea what's in the ocean.

00:54:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet the dinosaurs are down there.

00:54:24
Speaker 3: We don't know what's in the middle of the earth. We guess, but we don't know what's in the middle the earth.

00:54:28
Speaker 2: I think something's ignorance.

00:54:29
Speaker 4: Is bliss sometimes.

00:54:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I felt a little more complete before I thought about Boots with the fur than like furry boots.

00:54:39
Speaker 4: I felt better.

00:54:39
Speaker 3: But now there was Boots with the fur. I feel like all those years I wasted thinking they were furry boots. Last question, how many singles do you think you put out on this album?

00:54:47
Speaker 2: How many do you think I will, uh till till they stopped playing them?

00:54:54
Speaker 3: I guess.

00:54:56
Speaker 2: How many songs on the album thirteen or actually there's like way more than that sixteen.

00:55:03
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:55:04
Speaker 2: I've been like I've been on off mode.

00:55:07
Speaker 3: So it's not even like you're writing stuff for the next at all.

00:55:12
Speaker 1: Yes, I am, of course, I'm always plotting, but yeah, I'm letting this one ride out. I think the tour is gonna be really fun, and I'm excited to play these songs live. It's like it's been the hardest thing trying to decide what to cut from the set list. Three albums in is like my first time I've been like, Wow, there are gonna be some people upset.

00:55:35
Speaker 4: Will you switch it out?

00:55:37
Speaker 3: Uh?

00:55:38
Speaker 1: There will be parts to get switched but yeah, Like, for example, this is kind of a spoiler hair Salon didn't make.

00:55:43
Speaker 2: The set list.

00:55:46
Speaker 4: I'd be the one pissed.

00:55:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm like, you gotta pick, you know, hair Salon or or Bless your Heart? And if I if I've seen my I think both of those are bad options to lose to them.

00:56:04
Speaker 4: So he lost me.

00:56:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, so sorry, Bobby won't be joining us.

00:56:13
Speaker 3: Uh, tell me about medicine, Like what when you write that? Like what, I don't know what happens in a room? What do you remember about it?

00:56:21
Speaker 1: I was with Connie Harrington, Jesse Alexander, and Jesse Joe. We were in the East Tennessee Mountains and I had the how you like to Taste your own Medicine in my notes app And it's like so easy writing with them, and especially too when it's just like you.

00:56:37
Speaker 2: Know it's the day that like great things are going to happen. It was one of those days, and I was just talking about how like let's write a song about how when you treat.

00:56:49
Speaker 1: A man like one percent of how they treat you, like sometimes they just freak out and they're like this is horrible.

00:56:54
Speaker 2: This is the worst thing to ever happen. And I'm like, oh, you don't like it, do you?

00:56:58
Speaker 6: Like?

00:56:58
Speaker 2: Oh imagine that?

00:57:00
Speaker 3: And so.

00:57:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just like a really fun song to like just talk about. We were all like giggling the whole time and just thinking like heard from you in three long days. You won't hear from me for five. Oh you gave your number to an La Blonde while I gave a quarterback mine it's just like just playing your game the same way you.

00:57:21
Speaker 3: I learned how to.

00:57:22
Speaker 2: Play it from you.

00:57:23
Speaker 4: So are you playing that in concert?

00:57:27
Speaker 3: For sure?

00:57:27
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:57:29
Speaker 4: I still pick Haircelon.

00:57:30
Speaker 3: I like it, but as medicine Hairzelon over all.

00:57:34
Speaker 4: Other than I told you my favorite song, Oh no, I love Hairzon.

00:57:38
Speaker 2: I love your hairson Truther, because it's.

00:57:41
Speaker 3: Existed so long.

00:57:42
Speaker 4: It's like when you pick a favorite song in life. You don't pick a new song.

00:57:45
Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'll play it sometimes it's just so difficult.

00:57:48
Speaker 3: You just need to know what show. I'm mad that's what you're saying. So I'll let you know ahead of time, and that one you can play. You guys can get tickets we talked about before you came in the Cloud nine tour just Meganmaroney dot com. Most of the dates are sold out, there are still some tickets left. I really appreciate you coming hanging out. I'm a massive fan.

00:58:04
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.

00:58:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a massive fan.

00:58:06
Speaker 3: Obviously. Tell everybody I said, Hi, your brothers, your dog, Christian, Casey, Yeah, tell Casey. I can't get Casey in here. I apologized to her once I saw her. I apologized to her many times because I was a jerk. I was a bull in china shop. When I got to this town, everybody hated me. I was pissing everybody off. I was just so different than anything in this town. And I misconstrued something she said and I was wrong about it. And I saw her in a parking lot and what ELP? I said, Hey, it's Bobby, you know bones.

00:58:39
Speaker 2: Where'd you find her in a parking lot?

00:58:42
Speaker 3: She was in we were outside of a hotel. Oh yeah, in a parking lot. We were both going into the hotel.

00:58:48
Speaker 4: And I was like, hey, I know it's been a long time, and I've message you this, Bob.

00:58:54
Speaker 3: Really. She was like, no, we're all good. We're all good, but I can't get her in here yet. So I'm working on it. Yeah, so if you see her, be like that, dude, cool as to do.

00:59:00
Speaker 2: New album coming out, So maybe I.

00:59:01
Speaker 3: Know I'll be on it regardless. Maybe I shouldn't say that, though. Nope, won't be on it unless she comes in. I'll be on it. I'll be on it. To Casey Meghan, thank you very much, thank you, she is the great. Megan Marony, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production