#253 - Creed Bratton from The Office On His New Album + Keb' Mo' on The Security Situation When Performing at the White House + New Music Top 5

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Speaker 1: M h. Welcome to episode two fifty three. I just drove in. We drove six hours to get back here today, so we're gonna start with the five pieces of music you need to know. That's why we do this on Friday. That's why I had to get back tonight. We drove from Arkansas back to Nashville. What to look at it a little cabin up there. I think we found one, which is nice. Kind of in a part of the of the state where I used to be a dishwasher, so kind of full circle same like a mile from where I used to wash dishes, one of my first jobs. So we did that today. Um, listen to a bunch of music on the way back. Listen to a lot of podcasts. We kind of did the bear Brook You hear that one bear Brook. The bear Brook podcast is about a town called barrett Brook where there some bodies found and some like barrels for and they didn't even they couldn't find the killer because they didn't even know who the bodies were. They just found four human bodies. But eventually you kind of here and then it ends all of a sudden. I thought it ended way too quick. But they don't have a killer. I don't think I'm spoiling it here. And then we've been catching up with the updates, but they do have the killer. You'll have to hear it, okay, but it's pretty interesting. I'm not a big crime podcast guy, but if you're listening to this, you obviously listen to podcasts. You know. Another one I'm listening to before we get into the five pieces of music you need to know is the Presidential Wants called It is called Presidential and the woman who I think she works with the Washington Post. She did this podcast I think four years ago, but it doesn't really matter because it doesn't mean our current it did. She starts with President one, which is George Washington, and does anywhere from thirty to fifty minutes on each president, and it's how they grew up, what they wanted to do in office, what did they do, what they do after office? You know, one of the presidents went back and served in Congress for sixteen years or eighteen years after he was the president. So for me, I kind of nerd out about that. But I tweeted her and said he enjoyed the podcast, and she's like, oh, thanks, that's crazy. And then I said, heyhe come on our podcast some point. We'll just talk to you. And so maybe next week or the week after that. Cool, we'll get her on. But she has a people podcasts, but no, pretty pumped about that. I listened to another one today in the car on the long drive called conspiracy Theory. Now, there are a lot of podcast called conspiracy theory, because I looked it up, but the one it's the it's called Conspiracy Theories and it's kind of got a yellow or orange just or just I'm colored blind. What color is that yellow? Okay, it's a yellow cover. It says conspiracy Theories. It's on podcast Network. And the first they're all two pieces. The first one it's kind of the history, like I listened to one about Hitler and where he came from, how he turned into the monster that he ended up being. But then the second one they go through the conspiracies like did he actually not die in the bonk or like a lot of people think. And then they go and they're a conspiracy theorists at all, So they take the data and then they raised it. You know, we'd to give this one a two out of ten or a seven out of ten. Yeah, pretty wild, and so there were some crazy ones about Hitler. One was aliens one what you have to hear it if you want to hear that one, that he was an alien, that he had help. I don't want to spoil it. But they didn't give it. They didn't get that one that many stars. So there's that one. I listened to one on the uh Shakespeare today where they don't think Shakespeare wrote all of his plays because he was kind of he didn't have a great education. They go through who they think wrote them was that this guy was, that this guy was a group of people, that he stole it from them, or they just like it was common. First of all, back then there were no copyright laws. So even if it was let's let's even if it was William Shakespeare, the guther we know it as people did all the time. They took other people's work and then just did a little stuff around it and changed it. But are a couple of scenarios where they go, you know, this person needed to fake his own death because he got caught being a spy, and he may have used someone's name who was an actor in William Shakespeare's We Know Him, which just a dumb actor. They think. Now we're talking about fifteen hundreds. So but it's interesting. I don't want to tell you what they think. But I listened to that one two parts, and I listened Abraham Lincoln his assassination. And you know, by now we've heard a lot of the Lincoln stories about how he got into office. You know, his whole team was rivals and they all hated each other. But you know, he put together a team to win, like he ran and Republicans then through Lincoln had a lot of the same sensibilities as Democrats do. Now a lot of the parties have changed around. But you know, um, but he but he ran with a Democrat. He was a Republican who ran with a Democrat. They ran on a unity ticket Andrew Johnson, and they hated each other. But he was a very pragmatic guy in that he was like, listen, let's represent his first election. He barely won the first election. He only won the vote before people ran at the same time, and he had the most because so most people didn't like him when he he was never popular. Even when he died, he was never popular. It was only after he died that he became popular and while this sounds crazy, and then they figure out who they think was behind Did Abraham Lincoln was Andrew Johnson who was vice president and hated him? Was it his? So and so? Did John Wilkes Booths fake his own death? Did John the h This podcast is not on our network, have no affiliation with him whatsoever. But I've been driving over the past two days, I've drove, I've driven thirteen hours and so I've had a lot of time to digest podcasts. And then Caitlin has one that she loves called The Morning Toast Take a Bite out of Your Morning or something like that, and so podcast a game changers for long drives. So that's what we've been doing driving and I thought I'd recommend a few of those podcasts. What You're doing today? I was just hanging out today listening to some new music. Anything good on your list? Um on my list? One of my favorite punk bands put on a new album. They have put it out in six years, and listening to that pretty much. What's their name? Lawrence Arms? So a popular punk band like Lawrence's Arms, Lauren's Arms, Lauren's Arms, Lawrence Lawrence Arms. How many Instagram followers as a popular punk band like Laurence. I don't know how many they have, maybe as many as, like a little more than I would have. Let's see, how do you spell it? L A Lawrence Laurence, the Lawrence Arms they have. Okay, I just wonder about these punk bands I've never heard of and the followings that they have. Can they go to any major city and play a decent sized club. Yeah, like here, they would probably play a place called Marathon Music Works and sell that. They could sell that out because Marathon hold over two thousands. They could sell that place out. Play me some of this, I'll pull it out I didn't put it, and then I'll go through we'll look at you not being biased, and then I'll go to the five pieces of new music you need to know or something we're just don't working on what this is about. We'll talk to Creed Bratton from the office coming up in a second. Who played Creed Bratton and a talk with keV Mo, who's a really great blues artist. I thought it'd be cool talk to him for a few minutes. Maybe give me something you can check out if you haven't checked it out. This is then, Okay, here's Lawrence Arms. It was ninth grade and we went to class. We held hands, but we went to Fast Sleep Slash The sad pretty good and there's a bit of production. It sounds like they got in a real studio. Yeah, they went out to like some remote studio in Texas and recorded it, turned it up a little more. Sometimes you'll bring in these people or it sounds like they just went into a shed there was being sold at low. This actually has some really good production on it. Yeah, no, yeah, that sounds good. All right, all right, um, we're just giving a little plug here. Their name is Lawrence Arms. Arms. What does that mean. It's like the name of the apartment that lived in growing up, Lawrence Arms. All right, let's do five songs and we'll do some music news too before we get into these interviews. Number five Cam has a new song called Classic Big Change for Cam, she changed labels. I'm not sure what happened, And I don't know if for other label dropped her or or if she said, hey, can I get out of this? I don't like the direction we're going wing and they because if you do that, that's that's always tough to get out. It usually costs a lot of money. You know, we had to I say we. I had to get out of my record deal when Eddie and I were um at No Broken Bow, Black Black River. Yeah, because I didn't want to put on albums. I wanted to put out just comedy singles. And there's no money for them to make with comedy singles because they're not selling anything. They're streaming one song and and so I had to go and I had to pay to get out of it, and that would be nothing compared to if you're an artist now. I say, now, it wasn't that long ago. But I had to buy like three songs and get out of it, and it cost me a little bit of money. But I don't know what happened with camp. I just know she's on a new label. So it's been a while. So we've seen her, said a baby. I've seen her a couple of times, but she hasn't been around a whole lot. I don't know if she's been in Nashville or in California. Are aware, but good to see her back. Number four A thousand Horses has a new song called a Song to Remember. I need a song. He did a drink fall again. I'm all right, I like those guys. We did Bobby Cast with Mike. Yeah, I just look back a few episodes. Really good. He's we won't say who won't make you go check it out. But he's related to another famous lead singer in a rock band, someone that I loved and I geeked out when they came to the studio. I've only ever met him once, but you can check that out on the Michael Hobby Bobby Cast. At number three, the guys from a Lanko. They have a new song out called Save Me. I really like those guys too. There's a good one of these. And now we're along with Brandon, the lead singer. I think Brendon I had met a few times, but then but we stayed after if you go back and listen to a Brandon Lancaster, we stayed after, hung out and then we kind of became buds to the point where we did Charlie Worsham Show together because he does something every Friday for a while during maybe fall, and we did a nineties throwback where I think I went into Alan Jackson, he did Travis Trip. We stayed hung out there, he played, they played the Million Dollar Show. He came out and played because I was gonna be or forever and you were gonna be and so uh yeah, good dude, good band. They have a song called save Me At number two. The Chicks put out their new album called gas Lighter. It's their fifth album, their first and fourteen years. Here's a new song called sleep at Night, how do You Sleep? And night? You know. I tweeted about them yesterday. I said, for as much as people complain about the Chicks not getting on the radio, and invited them on the show multiple times, even recently through the label through Twitter, I've played their new stuff. Just apparently they don't want to. It's not me not offering or it's not me not being a fan. I think we've talked about her here on this too, played them on the radio show, play the old stuff on the radio show, the new stuff. I just like them. But the weird thing is they will talk about how they're not getting respect or they won't get play, and I'm like, come on, come over. You're saying nobody wants to hang out with you. This this must be how people in my personal life with me for years. You're like, you're saying your loan, but we're inviting you to come out, and I would be like, I just want to go out, and then the next to be like, who ever invites me anywhere. That's me and the Nixy Chicks. Right now, I literally have the biggest country music radio show in the history of the format. I showed that as broken artist careers, they don't need that. But my point is we have a lot of people to listen, and I'm not gonna be able to take a song that day and take it to number one. But maybe some program directors here, maybe the exhibited is the minutes. Maybe some listeners who knows it doesn't hurt to have millions of people here. You I'm just a fan. I was. I haven't did some interviews about them, but the Wall Street Journal was like, Hey, would you mind talking about the chicks? At first it was the Dixie Chicks before their name changed. I was like, sure, I'd love to. I spend an hour talking about the Dixie Chicks. They used three lines. I talked to the girl that does the pr and I was like, man, I did an hour and they used three lines. She goes to just be like that sometimes. Uh, but they have a record I haven't heard at all. I shouldn't have listened to it during the road trip. I really liked the Chicks. Number one is Keith Urban. He dropped a new song. It's called Superman. It's his eleventh studio album, The Speed of Now Part one. Except for release this is September eighteen. Is that still true? Is it August believe? I'll tell you why I say that. I was just at a house, and I would only say this on this show. I wouldn't say it on the radio show because I don't people think I think I'm cool. But in the music world, I'm a bit of a nerd, so me and other music nerds bond over that. And Keith Herb and I are friends a bit outside of the country music world. So I just went to his house two days ago. I'll tell you that story in a second. But this is a song called Superman. Go ahead. Number one. Superman was scar Shot Sweet Stars song sing the video. I've seen a teaser for it there. You know, you have to get creative in Quarantine, and instead of just him doing something in his house, they did a flip book of him playing. It's pretty cool, colorful. Yeah. I don't know if the videos out. Video videos out but I saw a clip of it on Twitter. Yeah. Um, maybe the album's out sece very teeth that there's another thing if his coming out in August. Okay, yeah, album is September. He's hosting the a c m S, which he's now he's hosting with nobody there because they're not doing the A c MS with people, but they're doing it, and I think I'm gonna be involved from three different locations. They're gonna do the Opery House, They're going to do the Rhyman, and they're going to do the Blue Bird. I'm not sure which one key is gonna be at, but I think i'll I think I'm gonna be at one of them unless for some reason they kicked me off the show or now it's getting so close to the c m A S because that's in November, and if you do one in September October and then you don't want to November. Sometimes they get awfully touchy about if you do one show you can't not the artists, but the folks that are on this show. Because I've been up, I've been in discussions because I was gonna host c m A Fest this year, my first year to host one of these big shows and then Corona got it. But they were like, if you do that, you don't need to go on the A, C M, two different networks. You know, that's my number one song, Keith, I'm gonna ropping that new song. So I guess. Keith called me a four or five days ago. I was like, Hey, what's up. Are you taking Corona seriously? And I was like, duh unless I have to see you, I don't see you right now. And he's like, great, me too. He said, I got new music, got the whole record done, Come over. I want to play it for you now. I don't like doing that, and I don't do that except with Keith, who I think I've done it with three times at this point. But here's what he does. The only reason I do this is because he makes the environment comfortable for me, because, first of all, Corona wise, he was like, hey, I want you to touch you. Like I know where to go to his house, so Drew, I know how to get to his house, I know where to walk to this to his place and we do the deal. Um, but he said, like ten feet away a new door to go in, and he had sanitizer by the door. He's also a jarmaphobe like myself. And then he goes, I know you want to sit anywhere close to this, So he put a chair in the back of his studio and I sat in the chair. He sat at the big board, you know, you do the little flips and knobs, and we listen to a bunch of song. Now I don't like do I like to listen to songs, but I don't listen to songs in front of people because basically all they're doing is watching you nod your head, and even if it sucks, you gotta be like, oh yeah, it's just a weird thing to have someone watch you listen to their song, Like that's awkward. It's awkward, like when someone pulls off their phone goes watches YouTube video it's hilarious. And then you watch and you're like, it's fine. I know you didn't get it, you didn't laugh, think it's okay, And maybe I would have liked it without all the pressure being told it's great and then having you watch me. Why it's that kind of feeling. But what he does is he turns around and looks at the board as I'm listening to it. So I don't have to do anything with my head or face. So I listened to it and some of them I'm like, that's cool, who'd write that with? Who wrote that? There's one song that he wrote with Jarren from CAD like three who we just did one of these with, uh freaking great. And so I text Jarren and I was like, dude, this is the jam and He's like to Harman to put down on the radio. So, but keeps a good guy. Is you know why I like Keith is that he man. He pushes the limits on fusion of different sounds and music. I mean he is he can hear something and just rip, just play it, play a play a plate. So pretty cool. But that's my number one song. Check it out. Keith Urban's got a new song called Superman and new music out today, No clips from Tucker. Bethard got a new song I called Faithful Rust and Kelly has a new song called Pressure. Chris Tomlin has a new song featuring Brett Young and Cassidy Pope called Be the Moon. Laura McKenna Balladeer and Brent Cobb has a new song called keep Them On They Toes. I wonder what that conversation is like, all right, we spell it right, we put keep it on their toes or day toes. So there you go. Do we want to take a quick break before we do music news or just do it now? Yeah? I do a quick great, okay, al right a music news. The Beatles and BTS are the only groups to sell more than a million albums so far this year. Crazy that it's the Beatles, though, right still, I get to BTS, folks. They're the biggest thing freaking Korea and in the States are big two. But when on Twitter, when that thing gets ten thousand retweets, it's a lot of Korean South Korea. The Korean pop group's new album, Map the Soul seven, is the best selling physical album of the year and the only one to sell over five dred thousand copies in the United States, which is massive. You know, maybe I'm not given enough of United States credit because they are loved. They are loved and be loved, and I don't know what they're saying. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I hear something, but a little bit there's some catchiest crap though sometimes well there's one of the y Yeah, just a rapper. Yeah, more than doubling the sales of runner up Kenny Chesney Map the Soul seven is the ninth biggest overall album of the year. Uh ets a lot of a lot of things, a lot of things. Only one of the group's managed sell one million album units in the United States, and it's the Beatles we're talking about. Fifty years after their breakup. They're still the biggest rock band of it, says shifting one point zero nine four million album equivalent units through the first six months of the year. You know what I was reading about. We just talked about this a few weeks ago. They're gonna stop counting album sales with bundles, ticket bundles, because like Chesney did that, you said, you buy a concert ticket, you get an album. They then they what they do is they put a tour on sale the week of the album comes out, and let's say they sell a hundred thousand tickets. That's hundred thousand album full albums. Two. People are really buying albums like you get it with the ticket, and it was manipulating the reality of what people were going to do. So they finally shut that down. Let's see, remember trapped, you play me a little heads Strong? You this sounds hard. It was a big pop song as a as a rock song first, don't get me wrong, but it gets so big and rock that cross over to pop maybe the second or third hardest song that crossed over. Papa Roach Last Resort was always to me when it first went to pop, I was like, are you kidding me? This thing is hard. But according to Nielsen sound Scan, only six hundred copies of Traps album were sold in its release. You know, how could they sell so few? Well, it was all The rollout was a mess. The album released was a mess, by the way. They're claiming they sold four thousand, but we're looking at the actual Nielsen here. No proper promotional cycle, so you know, but that's for everybody right now. Yeah. I was talking about Eldridge recently and he was like, man, I just sat at home the whole time. Everybody feels like they need to be back in Nashville to pro both the records. But he's like, I couldn't do it anywhere because he just said he lives in Nashville. But he's like, I could have been anywhere and didn't done my album tour um so and then July three date when they released it. It was released on Spotify and Apple Music. Um, it was a July three release date of the album, but it came out in June ninth or whatever. They are different dates the things came out. It was all just messed up. Give him a break, Did you have another good song about that? Maroon five basis Mickey Madden is taken a leave of absence after being arrested for domestic violence. Quota happen things I need to deal with an address right now, So I've decided to take leave of absence from roon five. You know, as long as Adam Levine is in the band, you wouldn't know the difference. You can't really name another member of Maroon five now, just one Mickey Madden. But yeah, they have to be so pumped that Adam Levine still wants to be in the band, you know. Rapper Logic announces retirement and final album. I was looking at him on Twitter Today's Oldest Baby maybe and his wife and he's like, I'm out. Yesterday, the rapper revealed they'd be retiring after the release of No Pressure, saying it's been a great decade, it's not gonna be a great father. His sixth and final studio album is out next week. It's a listen. He's not retired. He may quit for a bit, but he's not retired a real retirement. Does it come right before an album comes out, because that's great promotional fodder. We're talking about it. I like Logic. Logic is married to fashion designer Brittany Noel. They have a son. That was that song right titled online. I like that guy. And anybody Eminem will do a track with Eminem must think is good, and so Eminem a song with him didn't. Yeah, I'm so cool. Atlantis Morrisett didn't even want Ironic on Jagged Little Pill Man. This song. I remember where I was for a year for this song. This song was that. I don't know if it was the biggest hit, like in everybody else's mind. And I'll read you some stuff here about her and this, but holy crap, was this song man? This whole album was massive Ironic it's your biggest streaming Yeah, is it really ironic? One of the biggest hits. But if it were up to her, we may have never heard. It's just quote. I didn't want to put it on the record, and I remember a lot of people saying please, please please. I said, Okay, it wasn't that precious about it, And they came to realize later that perhaps I should have been. By the way, they're not all actually ironic. And I'm not the guy who hates on this because I think it's great works for me. I'm not so smart. I was like, that's not what the word ironic means, not literally. If you wrote a song called literally and it wasn' about literally, I'll probably get you with that. But they point out that they're all not on it, they're just what unfortunate? But isn't that ironic in itself that there's a song called ironic not about irony that I've never heard. Uh soundtrack of Hamilton jumps to number two thanks to Disney. Plus, I was asking Mike, because you watch this. I saw it live. The struggle for me was I didn't know it was gonna be all rapping, so I was kept waiting for them to talk and catch up on everything I didn't understand. They never do. Once I kind of figured out what was going on, I got in the most. So just know they're wrapping the whole time. I think, if I watch it like that now, I will enjoy it more. I don't have Disney Plus, but this could get me over to it if I do decide to watch it. What's that cost a month? I think it's like seven nine nine a month. Well, I watch anything else over there, though I don't feel like, well there's the NATO stuff is on there. True, you can watch yourself. Well, maybe my show is supposed to start. We're supposed to start taping next week. That got delayed first episode. Now it's three weeks and I hope we still get to do it because I'm gonna go and do some female wrestling. There's a a girl who I'm wrestling with. Her name is Fraud. And then the whole let me set this up. The whole idea of the show that we came up with was about people that come from backgrounds like mine, that also have interesting jobs like me, and then I go and do their job with them a little bit. And she's a female wrestler. And right now we're in wrestling wardrobe. We're doing wardrobe, and they called. They were like, hey, we need you to be a villain. You're gonna be your taxiing partner. Her name is Frost. It's okay, and I thought, well, we can do brain Freeze. I'll be the Brain, Bobby the Brain. But there's Bobby the Brain heenan, But I thought brain would be a funny tag team good And then I was like, well, how about frost Bite? And so now I'm Bobby the Biter. So apparently I just gonna bite people. But I have to go. I'm going to California to to do this. But our goal is to have the show on by January, which is quick, and I don't think we're gonna be done shooting it when it goes on. But now they're in kind of a speed uh speed hustle because they gotta get some content on because nobody's been shooting anything. But yeah, if not Geo's on Disney Plus on for sure, we're probably to get that. But Hamilton's number two now, the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton's An American Musical surges to a new peak of number two on Billboard. The album is basking in the glow of the July three, third Disney streaming premiere. What was number one? It was another rapper m a little baby one of the babies or the small baby, A little baby, baby, Baby, Baby Baby. Hey, but you liked Hamilton. I thought it was really good. You let me rephrase you liked it watching it on Disney Plus. Yeah, it was still. I just wondered how much translate? You know? Yeah, I mean it feels like watching a movie you can kind of follow along pretty well. I kind of wish I would have put the subtitles on so I could have caught everything. Yeah, that's what I was gonna mention earlier. I may rewatch it again with the subtitle over two hours. You know, I hate two hour movie like two Have you talked on your podcast about the Charlie's Throng movie? I haven't yet. Are you gonna watch it? I've already watched you so on my Netflix that pops up. But I was like, you gotta watch this. It's pretty If you like action movies, you like that. Is it good for a Netflix movie or a good movie? There's a difference. It's a really good Netflix movie. If it was in theaters, I would have thought it was okay, because we're closing the gap though, Netflix is getting closer. I'd say this is as close as they've got in a while. What's the best Netflix movie? Period? It's a bird box box. Yeah, that's the best one. Did you watch the Will Smith one with the Aliens? Right? Yeah? Yeah, that was terrible. Yeah, and that was like the first one they spent like a lot of money on. And I think they're gonna make a part too, but yeah, that was very good. Did you watch the David Spade one That's Doing Well Wrong? Miss Yeah? Yeah, that's pretty funny. I mean it's very dumb. It's like kind of Adam Sandler esque, but for a comedy on Netflix, pretty good. I watched The Last American Crime, the Last Great American Crime, because it was rated the worst movie on Netflix period, which is why we did a stupid bed on the show. The movie is two hours and forty minutes long, and I watched it, and you know what, it got zero percent for a long time. But I actually kind of enjoyed it. I split it up in two parts. I think maybe because my expectations were so low, you found things inside and I just enjoyed it. But I really love the concept, meaning at this certain time, the government they're shutting off crime because everybody's got some a little chip and planet in them, and so what they're trying to do is commit a crime real quick before the government, because but I like that the government's got control of us. I like that stuff. I like the end of the world. I like, you know, what would you do if the world ended? How would you survive? So if our world ended up going to my cabin, we just found if I get it, go back, I'm out going back. What's what's on your podcast this week? This week I have underrated Disney songs, and then next week I have an interview with the actor from the movie Twister, who Sean Whalen. Is he one of your favorite actors? He's one of my favorite movies and he's been on a lot of stuff. So I talked to him about all the big movies he was in the nineties, like a guy like Sean Whalen, who I don't know who either? Sure? What if I saw his face? Yeah, you wouldn't recognize his face? Is he easy to get as a guest? Pretty easy? Yeah? I just messaged him on Instagram? Yeah, that's cool Instagram and I was like, hey, I got a podcast, Um, I love your movie. You want to be on it? He's like yeah, sure? Was he cold talk to It was really cool to talk to, like all the behind the scenes stuff with that movie, and he like told me about the stuff in the nineties. But like Tom Hanks, he wasn't in that thing you do, was he one of the one of the guys had a small part in it, but he got to like audition in front of Tom Hanks. I'll say this in my final music piece. I because I don't care, I'll drop names of my friends on this show. I don't worry. But people are judging me on this show, this podcast, more than I did the radio show. Because if you're here, you'd like music. But Dan from Danna Shay, him and Abby came over and we had dinner a week or so ago. We did it outside, so because they were like us, we don't get close to anybody, but you can have an outside dinner and not right we ordered food in no Corona dinner and then he was like, going to hear the new song. I'm not gonna say the name of the song or anything. Is really good. Yeah, it was so good that I texted him. I was like, wow, I hate but i' let's say you did' maybe listened in front of him because I wouldn't have. But they have a new song. Soon. That's really good. But all their craps good now, Dann, she didn't put out a song down that's not monster, but it's yeah, it's like the next level good. What reminded me was that just gonna message from m um. But that's a that's it. I can't wait for this Creed interview. I loved it. I was glad he had music projects we could put him in this podcast. We were the last one of he was doing interviews that day, but we were the last once we got talked to him a little longer than everybody else did. But that's pretty cool. Check out mm hmm, Who's podcast? Check out Velvet's Edge podcast. I thought it'd be a good one for you. I think right now I was seeing she was talking about is it okay to be in your thirties and not be married? Because she's not thinks she was having a little breakdown, like the little emotional But if that's your jam, check it out. It's called Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson. Lovely podcast. All right, anything else that I need to promote? Anything Rocket, I've been driving forever. I'm a little lupie. We're a little late putting this up. But enjoy. We'll take a little break, come back with Creed from the office. Creed, alright, how are you man, I've got take it, take a minute, chew it up. Yeah, we're on. Well, but we're recording this for Friday when the record comes out. Yeah yeah, So listen. I've done many of these long press tours as the interviewees. So each your almonds will We're happy to wait for a second. Oh no, no, I would just starving and heavy. Get here. I'm ready for you, Bobby. Is this the last one of the day for you? Well, let me say first off, I'm a I'm a huge fan. I uh, you know, obviously watched The Office from from the beginning to end, and the very final song, which I don't think a lot of people realize that that has played on the entire series, is your song. I'm gonna actually play some of this real quick before we get to the new record. You know that they have that, So you're you're sitting in the office, you're playing that. How do you get them to play an original Creed Bratton song on the finale of the show. Was that? Was that my version? It was your version? It was that version? There was from you playing an acoustic like on YouTube more than it was. But that's the song. Yeah, that's that's um well, um. We were in the in the finale the uh the ninth reason, Um, Dave, I think I've been doing talking about my brooch. Dave, who like Greg Daniels, invited me to the office and he talked to all the actors saying, how do you think you're your characters would leave the leave the show, and I told him that I had written a song right after I left the grass Mus called All the Faces. I told him I thought it was one of my firstal most spiritual songs about meeting people that you've you've known in other lives, that their kindred spirits and you recognize them right away, you steel comfortable with them, and that's what the song is about, and I should be it. Uh, what's the what's the name of the bar and tramp that we always have on their own just matter, it doesn't matter anyway. It was the bar that we'd always go to after the show on the show, on the show, and the cast would walk through in the bar singing this song and we see their faces, all the faces. So he gave me the opportunity. So he great dand those arts of songs, enjoyed it and decided to put have me sing it in the finale. And that I mean, my guy, Bobby. That just opened up my my musical career big time a it It allows me to be here, allows me to still cut albums and to have a fan base, not just because the office, but because of the music. So it was win win in every aspect. And that's how I knew that you were also a professional musician. And that's how I tried back the grassroots stuff. And you know, when you were playing with the grassroots, you were singing, you were playing, you were writing, and that was back in the sixties. And so I was thinking, like when you started off your career, was it, Hey, I want to be a musician, or hey, I want to be an actor in comedy? What was it? What was like sixteen year old Creed Bratton wanted to do Crea bat had always played music. I remember I played trumpets for years and years. By thirteen, I started learning guitar. My grand parents had a semi professional band called the Happy Timers. My mother played mandolin. I didn't know my dad, but my stepdad played the drums, so we had we had a family band. I played. I'm seventy seven, so sixty years ago, around seventeen, I started working professionally but a place called Bash late in the band Coktor Case. So I've been doing this obviously for a long long time. Uh, I know, dude, I never thought that it was something that I could take a living at. I just love playing music. When I started acting, it was because I just thought I gravitated toward it. I loved being on stage. I love the fear conquering, the fear that the strength of you get from uh being good at something didn't be able to deliver it, uh, because it's a lot there's a lot of pressure on stage, and when you learn to get comfortable that you you can handle a lot of stuff in a lot of situations. And that's that's been a good growth mechanism for me. And we'll get back to some of the office stuff later. But I was listening to some of the new stuff here, the new album which this airs it will be out today, So is out today. It is your ninth record. I'm gonna play some of the first single here. This is chance you Toad, Here you go all right, can you hear that? Created? Yeah, okay, let's play a little more right to what what's a chance you? Toad creed d joad is a statue people put in the in their homes. Chinese in origin, the three legged toad, red eyes. It has a constellation and the big dipper down its back. It has a coin in its mouth and it's there two Uh protect your money from leaving the house and also to draw money into your homes. Based upon a god, god of immortality. His wife feels his a lecture of immortality, and for her punishment, she's thrown down into a well. And when Sohn He finds her, he releases her and then she comes out. And then my song he used the beautiful Oriental woman and I'm dating, but she's still she's still a frog. Maybe she's a frank oriotal if I'm not sure about that. But it's creat it's creat Go figure what he's talked about. Here is another song called the Ride. Check us out. This song is a little one of my vibe, Like I can actually understand this when I feel this one a little bit. Tell me about this one. This is uh, this is one I did with uh. The actors in the Canyon band I had played. I had written lyrics for the office theme, which I did in All My Lives goes to Michael Scott played by Steve Carell and Ray Wilson, and he played shrewd blah blah blah. So I recorded fans love this. It's on the YouTube version of that. Uh, I went, I recorded with Dave Way and Dylan O'Brien and Uh. Then NBC says, no, we don't want you to do this, and then there was they have their reasons because there's everybody in the world has mentioned on that. We probably have to give permission from everybody. So I tried the right new lyrics to the track. That didn't work out, but the new lyrics threw me into said, oh you know what, let's just cut another complete other track, and so then I started this is This's been a year over a year recording this album. Uh. When I got tour, I played the song live whistically the audience of Bobby with instantly goes side by the whole you know, it was like I was a big hit already. They they were singing along and they loved the song. So I called Dave from the road and said, you know what, the ride it's so catchy. The people really picked up on it's so hooking they get it away. So there there's story behind that, and I'm really the way it turned out. New records out today, everybody check it out. It's for three originals that we've played here. And you may not have known that the final song in the office was actually an original Creed Bratton song. You know when that show when it ended, were you more famous as far as people seeing you on the streets then or now because of the streaming success of the show now? Now? It was popular then, but it seems like everybody now it's still the most stream show. It's it's unprecedented, right that show still be the most stream show on television. It's ridiculous. But generations what the show then? They're younger are sympicly now recognized me. So it's not only we were popular then. We still have. The younger kids are still and I've got a very young I do. They're like, they're all in there. It's just big young audience. I don't I can't get a date from my from my people. I told him on stage, bring your grandmothers. They think I'm joking, I'm not very serious. Was there a reason that you went or got to use your real name on the show instead of being given a even a last name character name. Yeah. Greg Daniels was incorporated by career as graft He wanted me, he wanted a rock star. He wanted me there as as who I was Grafts and uh, there's a deleted scene from the Boutish cruise where I played guitar and showed grassroots. And they're scene where a reporter like take my own guests recognized the pred the grassroots. But those are deleted scenes, so they were they weren't on the prime time easy until the finale that they finally uh went public with that I was uh in the grassroots. There there was a reason. That was all planned at the beginning. That's great Daniel's plan. Is there any evidence that you could have been the Scranton strangler, Bobby, God damn, I listen. If I was in the studio right now, I would strangle you. I care you. Uh well, I let's think about let's think about this way. Uh, I had blood all when when people were nervous about me. If I had been the scramping Stapfer. Sure I could see that, but the strangle doesn't leave a lot of blood, So I don't know, not that there has been people that I wanted to strangle asking character. Um, but I can't see anybody else being beside him, can you really? Because he was a dark, defarious guy for sure. Yeah. Him, Gabe, I can see Gabe. He was always Gabe, not around Yeah, no, he could have done that Anthony Berkin's face and it strangles, so absolutely yeah, I actually think that Zack, which could strangler? Who won that show? And well and strangling strangling people beause I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It doesn't give me any pleasure, and there's life put out of it. Well maybe a little, a little bit of pleasure, not much stuff. It feels good that that cast, you know, it seems like you guys are still relatively closely some of you. Who is your your your closest friend in the cast. Oh it's still Anzo kids. Uh, we're just you though, we're just grew just very close. Um. I get along obviously well with everybody. There's nobody that I don't get along with. It's probably because we lived close to each other. But uh, I talked to Oscar. I talked to Oscar, I talked to Rain, and I see Steve Carell and we live in the same area. I see him around it and parties and stuff and a gracious, gracious, talented guy. That was just an amazing past. Look what everybody did, It's just astonishing. And that was lightning in a bottle of that joke for sure. All right, Creed Bratton is here with us now. The new album is slightly altered. It's out today. We played you some tracks chopped on the seven Team. Uh. Now we're airing this today. Don't forget. We're saving this to air the day it's out. Yes see, Creedy, that's right, I'm doing you a solid. We're holding it till the day so people can hear this and immediately go right over and start streaming the new Creed Bratton album. See just just added out that, Hey, let me let me end with this. Is it? Is it true? And I'm gonna ask the whole question because it may be a dumb question that you almost got let go on season two of the Office for real, because what I read was between you and another background character, but that guy bowed out because he had just booked a play in New York. Any truth to that? Yes, yes, and uh obviously shot that all that that fix to have page we've seen would be to give me the shot. But he hadn't seen two and uh so they weren't really sure. Uh but luckily I I made the cut and thank god for that. It was wonderful way it turned out. But that was that was that was the uh, the rubicon that I had to cross that scene with Keith Grill to prove my my my chop, my comedic chops. And luckily I got through the audition six s as as we let you go, My friend, what's the line you're known most for? What's your favorite line of the line that people quote back to you that you said during the show. They screamed from the audience, especially when I'm singing all the faces, all the space, I'm singing this ship. You can hear a pin drop and the back guy O party, Oh what hard feel like you do a fucking start, willness, I'm singing this song, you know well, Craive, thank you for the time. Congratulations on another record. I'm big fan and I'll check it out today. Remember today t O D A Y. The record comes out even though we're taping this earlier. Uh it's called slightly Alter from Creed bed and Hey, Creed, good to talk to you. I hope you have a ton of success and hopefully I'll see a live around Nashville or some other place. I hope. So, Bobby, Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it, buddy. All right, By Creed, Bye, take care Bobby. By guys, how are you man? I'm doing good man. Yeah, I missed you at the Opry. I you know, I had to leave. Is the one show I really want to I mean a lot of those shows I want to see, but a lot of those folks are my friends and I get to see them all the time. But when you and Brad were playing, I had to leave town and I was so disappointed that I missed you. What was that like for you playing an empty Opry room? Well, you know, we've gotten the gun you used to play in earty places now, so it's kind of normal. Isn't that weird? That's a normality of Brobbly freak out. I'm gonna play up of clips here. By the way, Kemo was on with us five time Grammy Award winner First One Back in the most recent Grammy Best American Album for Oklahoma'm gonna play a song, uh this is Oklahoma right here, so you can hear that with sunsheping through the phase Jesus stay away. I'll ask you about winning a Grammy, like is it cooler the first time you win it or the last time you win it? The first time the first time I won one, it was kind of like wow, you know, you know, But the fifth one it was like, really, holy crap. I was. I wouldn't expect him to get that one at all. I meant one of you sit there, you want it, but you can't expect it because you get your feelings when they do the nominations. Are you just chilling at the house and you get a call and go, hey, cab, you were nominated for a Grammy? Is that how you get You're told that no, no, I go no, we suit up. No for nominations. No no, not for the show. Yeah, like when whenever they announced the nominations because the recent category was Best American Album and they listened to all the albums, Like, how do you find out you were actually nominated for a Grammy? My wife killed me? How does she even know? Is that is that on Twitter? Like they just throw it up there or is there some secret call you get between between my manager and her and I have. I have a hard times a hard time with that. So because I'm always working at the moment, my mom is trying to come up be good enough to be a musician. So at every time I need like, oh can you blew it again? Man? Wow, I'm gonna play this song here. This is one of my favorites. This is called this is My Home. Tell me about this song, Kevin. That's a song about immigrants, because we're all immigrants in this It's about acceptance and it's about people's personal stories and uh and just um, just tell a story that need to take what you can take it, like the warning. I was watching some of your Instagram stuff and it just seems like there's a lot of guitar and a lot of different guitars everywhere. I look like, oh, yeah, yeah, how do you even keep track? How many guitars do you have? Do you even if would you recognize your own if someone put a few in front of you, Like, how in the world do you keep all those going gus? And so um um? But I just I use them all. You know that the tools. It's like having a lot of scoot drivers a lot of hammers. They're different to do different things. But but you, man, I mean you, you know what you know. I saw you on the dance with the Start your dance with my my fa Milo Milo. Man. I know Milo, Yeah, he should have beat me. He been in second I know Milo, Well, good kid, man, I know, dude born Yeah because with the mom Yeah, I got to spend time with Cameron too up there. And you know, there are some nice people and what a cool folks to man. I gotta say that you got some swagger. That's all I'm gonna say. Did you vote against me? Did you vote for Milo? I alright, alright, I like the outcome. No, no, I like the outcome. I like to watch the outcome what actually happened. And I'm going you know, my thought was realised with you, like you know, you brought it something there. You taught Milo a lesson, you know about bringing it. Well, he was a much little better dancer. Great, he's a great dancer. But but this is there's a certain little thing. There's a lot of piano players, but some people in life. I have this thing I call the thing you know, you call it just swagger. You know, it's just a certain a certain kind of gifts of communication of passion that makes them rise above you know, not being good. It's not enough. And that was the lesson that you taught everybody. A enough about me. I appreciate that. Enough about me, I got a lot. I'm not like I told you, I'm done with me. I'm so over me. Let me ask you this, Let me ask you this. I was watching some clips on YouTube. It was probably like two thousand twelve. You guys are all to White House and it was it was a PBS special. I was watching clips and I just wonder if you're like the music star and you're performing, because it was you bb King, Buddy Guy and Warren Haynes, You're all performing. Like, what is secure any like for superstars when they go into the White House? Is it the same as like normal folks security? The superstar nobody cares about you. They only care about the president. So you go through the same everything, metal detectors, frisks. It's like going to the airport with the background check. What was that like playing in the White House? That was that pretty cool? It was awesome. It's awesome because in the White House and plan for the President first Lady and the Tigertarians being in what they called the People's House. It's something I didn't know about you because because I am a fan by, something I didn't know is that you're the Mike and Molly theme song. Guy. I had no idea. Yeah, that's that's myself and Josh Kelly. I mean you had to make some money off that, right, getting a big TV show like that show made some serious like multiple seasons, it's you every episode, like come come on, you get the house on Mike, Michael Molly, Right, it's my my guitar had Yeah, well listen, I hope everybody goes and and if they don't know you yet, you know that this was a reason for them to check it out. Let me ask you this too, because I know you run name is Kevin. The people call you Cab or Kevin like you're close friends. But I've come to realize that my real name is Cab ho Um because you know, actually like you know, not to not to be I'm accused of being too political. I'm not political. I'm just very historical. And since you know that since you know, Kevin Moore is not my name. That was the name boy was given to me by slave owner, and so that's not my name. Well, Kevin, I appreciate your time. I'm a big fan. Hope everybody checks out the new stuff. Okay, you're bad, I tell you. I saw you. Stop it, stop it, enoughing enoughing you man. Kevin'm sorry I didn't get to see you in person. Big fan, and now hopefully I see around soon. Be safe. All right, thank you for thank you for them. Thank you so much. All right, yeat see man. H