Danny Jones Podcast - #83 - Tow Truck Driver Turned YouTube Music Phenomenon | Marty Ray Project

Episode Date: March 23, 2021

Marty Ray is a musician & YouTube sensation who was born in Memphis, TN but grew up Arkansas driving tow trucks for a living. He was always the funniest, and scariest, guy in any room growing up, and still is. Marty makes YouTube videos where he covers popular songs like Old Town Road, No Woman No Cry, Simple Man, Ice Ice baby, and lots more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello world. Today's guest on the podcast is Marty Ray of the Marty Ray Project. He's a musician, singer, and songwriter based in Memphis. He's just an all-around funny motherfucker and super talented dude. He, uh, his YouTube channel, he's got these remakes. He makes these insanely good music videos with his, uh, with his video producer who has actually made a guest appearance towards the end of the podcast. And they have trillions of views.

You can see him on his YouTube. channel Marty Ray Project. Anyways, this was a super fun conversation. I hope you guys enjoyed as much as I did. Please welcome Marty Ray. I like it. I like your setup. I do too.

Somebody was on here there today because I don't know anything about audio, but somebody was on here is like, oh man, I got the SM7Bs or whatever. I'm like, what's that? Is that a camera? And he was like talking to me and he was like looking at me like you're looking at me a minute ago. Like how the fuck do you not know what an SM7B is? It's the name of this microphone.

Right. And I was like, I don't know. I just order whatever one else uses on fucking YouTube. You looked at Joe Rogan. Yeah, it's what everyone uses. Right. Well, not everyone. I don't, but I wish.

You probably have way better microphones. No, no, no, no. I don't. I use a Aston origin. I like those. I like those. But these are like really the best mic for this situation. Yeah, these are super crispy mics.

I love it. And they're not that expensive. They're like 300 bucks or something. Yeah, they're not too bad. That's about what mine cost. It's about the same thing. But there's microphones online that are like thousands of dollars. That's foolish.

Have you seen the one Drake uses? No. I saw an Instagram post that showed like Drake's microphone that he has in his home recording studio and it's supposed to be like $60,000 mic or something. Probably a noemann. Yeah. And it probably cooks you breakfast and makes your coffee. Like what kind of mic? Can you tell that a mic is $60,000?

Like does it really make that much of a difference? Probably not. But singing, I can see you paying more money than just speaking. Yeah. Because speaking, you can really use anything. Look at the podcast that are out here. Yeah. You know what I mean?

they're all making, making content and it's, and it's good content. And because people, people aren't as judgy if it's just me talking or you talking. Right, right, right. As they are singing. Right. You know what I'm saying? And if people are playing music, I'm sure they got way better sound system setups than they do if they're listening to a podcast on their iPhone. Exactly.

Yeah. So. All right, cool. Well, let's, let's like officially start this thing. So Marty, why don't you tell the audience a little bit about who you are and a little bit about your background? for people that don't know already. Well, I am just a man that God put here to sing and write songs and some people like them and some people don't. The ones that don't, I still love them.

I've been doing it. I came out of the womb singing. You know, when the doctor pulled me out, I was singing. Were you really? It was a weird situation. Yeah. You believe that? What song were you singing?

I think I was. Hank Williams? I think so. I think it was Hank Williams. There's a tear in my beard. No. Tear in your beard? In my beard?

In your beard. Yeah. That's what I thought. I had a beard when I was a baby. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Can you tell? I believe it.

Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. He had a solid beard. He thinks I'm serious about everything I say. He don't know me yet. He's like, man, this guy's had a life. This is a crazy life this guy's had.

Yeah. And Michael Jackson recorded on these mics that were using. This exact mic. That's insane, man. B&H took it. You bought it. That's crazy. But he really did record on SM7.

No, I'm just a. singer and I started writing songs when I was 12 years old, went through a phase where the people I looked up to in music and my family, they said I couldn't sing and stuff like that. So kind of helped me back for a long time. And it was on purpose, though, it was meant to be. So then fast forward to my 20s and I had discovered a little app called Garage Band. You ever heard of that? Oh, yeah, I used a lot of garage band before.

Yeah, so garage band came along with about 2005 on an Apple, MacBook, first one I ever had. Started recording myself. I said, I think this does sound pretty good to me. I don't know why they're saying that, so then I just made a video, put it out there for the world to see. And a lot of people seemed to like it. There were about 30,000 views on that video. And I thought, man, I'm famous now. I'm on my way, you know what I mean?

and the little that I know I really wasn't famous. But at that point, I thought this might be something. That kind of sparked it, you know, because then people were calling, I was a tow truck driver and a mechanic working for my dad. I know you can't look. I know you look at me and you think he must have came from a law family, right? No, tow truck driver, I thought that nails it pretty well, actually. Oh, really?

Well, most people don't say that. No, he's, so I was getting phone calls at my dad's shop, and they were like, hey, man, I love that song. When are you going to make an album? And I was like, I don't know. That's a good idea. I really should make an album. If you buy it, I'll make it. And these people were like, yeah, we'll buy it.

I was like, okay, well, I'm about to be rich. And so I ended up CJ Wilder here, who's sitting next to me. Yeah. We went to high school together. Okay. And he took, way before I took the leap into music, he was brave enough because he had a father that was very supportive. My dad was supportive, but he was like, if you're going to make a living in this world, it's going to be with these hands. They're going to be with his mind.

You know what I mean? He's like, that could be a dream. That could be something to hold on to in your head, but it's a pipe dream. You know what I mean? You ain't really going to ever. And then even if he would kind of give a little bit and say, I'd say, no, dad, I'd be. I'm going to be a star, you know, I'm going to be on top of the world. He's like, well, you know, I'll be dead before that happens if that happened.

And I'm like, golly, man, at least he gave me an inch. But CJ had a dad that told him, like, CJ went to college, right? And then tell him what you did quickly. I just, I was lucky to have supportive parents. I, you know, had a little bit of the real world and realized that music was all that I wanted to do. and felt like that's why I was here. So when I said, Dad, I want to go to Nashville. He, like, go for it.

I mean, you got nothing, nothing. Didn't you say, I think he went to his dad. He was like, Dad, I don't like college. I want to play music. Kind of like Mark Wahlberg is. Like, I want to dance. Remember that? Mark Wahlberg and the other guys.

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college daddy. I can't, I got to go to the music. He's like, no, you're not. I'm going to beat you if that's, if that happens. Yeah. On the other hand, his dad was like, if you ain't happy, that you better get after getting to Nashville and get after the music, you know. And he said, because if you're, if you're doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. That's awesome. That's what he said. So then his dad ended up supporting me, you know, later on. Really? Yeah. So like, his dad became my biggest. fan before I had any fans, before CJ was even a fan. You know what I mean?

CJ hated my music. His dad loved it. Oh, I couldn't stand it. Wow. No, I'm kidding. I'm joking. No, but I told that because he kind of inspired me, because what age were you? 18? When I came to Nashville, I was 21. 21 years old, and he just

took the leap, where most people were in Blivell, they don't take the leap. We're kind of trained and taught to dream within our city limits. So there's a steel mill there called New Corps Steel. and that's kind of what you're trained to say, you get a job here. That's how you're going to make a living.

That's because it's a good job, 100,000 plus a year. But is that kind of how you remember growing up? Exactly. Yeah. So even in like high school, you're kind of, everybody's kind of molded to think, hey, you got this industry out here. So that's what you get you, get you a degree that helps you get a job out there

and helps you go up the ranks. You're not really taught, hey, you're good at music, you're good at art, you're good at speaking, you're good at this or that. You need to go after that. No matter what it takes, you go after that. Not really taught that in Galsam, are you? Back then we weren't. A cool thing about going back is seeing a lot of people that I used to see before,

and you can tell there's a giant appreciation. Of course, COVID has changed everything. Everybody's starving for entertainment and starving for, you know, an outlet. But, yeah, back then it was. That was the thing. New Corps, Maverick, several steel meals right on the Mississippi River. So that's the goal. Get out there, get a good job, provide for your family, start your family.

And coming to Nashville, you know, put me on a different path. And then I was doing this jam session at the Fiddling Steel guitar bar in Printers Alley. And Marty said, hey, I'm going to come up. No, they ain't how that happened. I posted that video, that first video. I said I made and his dad clearly had to send it to him or something because we weren't even friends on Facebook at the time okay because he was he was he's younger me so he knew me in high school but I didn't really know him you know I mean yeah he was

like a child to me like how you're like what two years three years above by me yeah so but his dad took a liking to my my mute my my sound my voice immediately and I believe I don't I don't this, but I know, I believe his dad sent that to me because I got a message, or his dad sent that to him. I got a message from CJ. He said, hey, man, love that speckled bird you did. We do a jam session at Fiddle and Steel. You should come up and sing a couple sometime. And at this point, I had never sang a song in my life in front of people, except for my friends, you know, like playing around or whatever.

And, uh, terrified. Terrified. But I said, look, if he did it, if he, if he actually packed up, left and went after this music thing, then maybe I can too, you know. And so, because he was doing, he's done big things. I don't know if you're in the country music, but he, he's done things with Toby Keith. He was on tour with Toby Keith's daughter and they were on tour together and wrote songs with some really incredible people.

But when I came up there, I walk in and, and CJ goes, hey, man, he gives me a hug, you know. And he says, what do you want to do? And I'm like, y'all don't know, simple man. You know what I'm saying? You know Simple Man? You know a simple man? No. You don't know Leonard Skinner?

Oh, I know. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yes, yes, yes, I know that. Kind of, man. So I go on there, of course, they know this, right? They know this freaking song. Everybody knows this song, especially if you're playing bars. Right, right, right.

You know this song? Yep. And I'm walking in there like, I've been here before, you know? Like, I know what I'm doing. I'm like, yeah, y'all know simple man? He's like, yeah, yeah, I would know that one. And then I was like, what else? What else you want me saying?

You know? terrified, like a little child, but on the outside had this big... You couldn't tell, could you? No, he pulled it off well, man. I was like... Really? I was like, dang, Marty Ray coming over here. You know, we got to stick together being from the same place, you know, so it was

awesome to reconnect, because, yeah, I did know him in high school, and he actually almost beat up one, beat up me and my friend one time at a party. You don't remember that. He almost beat you up? I don't remember that. Almost. We were fast talkers and fast runners. Oh, shit.

So we got out of there. We got out of there. But, yeah, it's, Nashville is an amazing place for cultivating relationships. And, you know, this was just another one that, you know, Nashville was the field. And he was fertilizing his thing. It was so cool to watch all these viral videos just pop up, you know, and kind of take over the internet. It was, it was really, really cool. It's still happening.

It's really neat. Still happening. Yeah. It's just like I live video to video right now. Really? So what happened is after that video. It sounds like somebody has a fucking generator right outside the window. I love generators.

Me too. Yeah. So what happened was after I did that, I started making videos regularly. I said, I'm going to start being consistent here and try to not be a tow truck driver. So I wrote a song called tow truck driver, right? The first album I made was called Tooth Truck Driver, and I had four songs, and I said, I'm going to go after this. I'm going to go after this thing, full force. We'll see what God does with it because it's up to him, and it still is to this day.

So I get these four songs together. I get the last $3,000 I got in my bank account, I think it was, and I get with CJ. I say, hey, I want to record some songs, and he puts everything together. I bought my uncle's van. I sleep in the back of the van. When I drive down there, I'm on a parking lot, right? I sleep in the back of the van before the day we record. And then CJ meets me for breakfast at the place I was sleeping in the parking lot.

He's like, where you at? I'm like, I'm over here at Mama Jay's breakfast place. He goes, oh, yeah, I come over there. I'm like, all right, I'm here. And then when we're in there, I was like, man, it had been nice to be able to sleep in a bed or something last night. And he wouldn't let me. He said, you can't sleep in my mom. my house. Isn't that something? What a dick. He really is. I mean, I didn't want to say that. I'm glad you

said that. Yeah. Thank you. That's why I brought him here. Now you can leave. All right. Now you can leave. So, no, but I really did sleep in the van and we went in there. And that was another time when I was terrified because I'd never been in the studio. But I didn't show it. Like I said, I'm going to I'm going to make sure these people know that I'm going to get these songs done the way I want them done. And that's good. But like, you might. You did too. And you might not even know until this day that I was actually terrified. No, I mean, you can always tell there's a little bit of jitters, but it didn't take long. You know, he's a natural.

I mean, it's not hard to do what you do. The hard part is capturing it and making it, you know, making it what something you can make money on or use and market. The talent was there. It was like you were, you were already doing, you know, you already doing big things. It's just, you know, it's just like incorporating the, the discipline is the hard part. That is the hardest part. Like, you're right, because there's many people, some of the most talented people in the world,

you'll never hear from them or see from them because they're waiting tables or they're doing whatever they gave up. You know, the only difference in successful people and unsuccessful people is the ones that didn't give up. If you read any biography, you watch any biopic, you're going to see the only, they all had the same struggles. It might not be the same, but they all had the same moments, those same ticks to check off, right? And it was the ones that kept on going even though they got hard that made it.

Right. Sitting down, you're actually doing the work. That's right. You can't just make it to the promise land by having God-given talent. You have to fucking grind and put it in the work every day and make it a job. Exactly. So that's, and that's what I set out to do. I said, look, if you put me here to sing, if you gave me this talent, then you honor the effort. I'll put forth the effort and you honor it. And if you honor it, then I know this was what you put me here to do. So there was many times. So I took this album.

I had no fans at all. This is a crazy story. I told this the other day. This whole thing, I came down here just to do this podcast. This whole thing turned into this big media tour. I've been singing for three days straight, right? That's when my voice is gone. And I'm sitting there.

I told them on the way over. I said, I came down here just to do his podcast. And I can't even sing. So I can't even sing on his podcast. And I came down here just to be on your podcast. And I'm like, it turned in a day. to everything else. We did an event when we first got here. I've had hardly any sleep. We did an event we got here, sang at this little private entrepreneur group thing.

Then the next morning, we was on Mike Kaltes show. Were you really? Yeah. And then we did the show last night, which was almost three hours long. This show is way bigger than this show. So you did it right. I told him about your show and he followed you. Oh, really? Yeah, he said, I should know about this show. I said, yeah, you should. Oh, that's awesome. So he's probably going to, I know he said he was going to follow you. So I think he did. Anyway, you're welcome, by the way. Thank you. You don't owe me nothing.

The, what ended up happening after that album, nothing. That's what happened after that album. No, no, this is true. Listen, nothing happened. Like, I thought when I made this album, now I'm about to be rich. Like, I'm about to get Grammys. Because, you know what's funny? We were in the studio the first time, right?

The first song we recorded was Countryman. I'm a... Country man, right? And that's kind of how it goes. It's that kind of thing. But it sounds better when my voice isn't destroyed. And as we're doing it, what was his name, Sean? The engineer.

I don't know if he says this to everybody, but it made me feel good at the time. He goes, this is a Grammy, everybody. And I'm going, oh, remember that? He probably said that to everybody that came in. This is a Grammy. It's a great song. This is a great one. Probably makes you feel great.

Yeah, I was like, man, they got me winning Grammys already. So, you know, you leave there with this album. You're thinking, this is hot, this fire. This thing's flames. I can't even hold it. So then I go, I'm going, I'm taking this thing to every, every famous person, every famous artist that I can get in contact with, however I can do it through whatever meet and greets I buy or whatever I can do, I'm handing this album to them.

And I'm thinking, this is how I'm going to make it. This is my end. And I knew, I was fortunate enough to know the guy who booked entertainment at Goldstrike Casino. So I'm going to all these meet and greets that he's putting me involved, he's getting me involved with. It's really not good to drink carbonated beverages during radio, is it? Maybe it is for you, because you get to hear your, probably has a pretty impressive burps. Bow wow. Bow, wow, wio, you be a, bow, wow, ybio, you be a, bow wow, ybio, you be a.

Anyway, so I'm handing this album out. The first person was a guy named Tracy Lawrence, which I doubt you listen to country. Do you listen to country? I don't listen to, it's a long story. I have a friend who introduced me to Hank Williams III, so he's the only country person I listen to. He's definitely not country.

Hank 3. He's not country anymore. Well, he talks about like fuck that pop country bullshit. He might have went back to country. He's like punk rock country. Yeah, yeah. For a while, He was like real like out there.

He was out there. I love my favorite quote is he's like, Kid Rock, he's a yank. He ain't no son of Hank. He like, he hates on Kid Rock. Yeah. I thought that was funny. Yeah.

He has a lot of really funny quotes. Like I put the, I put the cunt in country. I put the dick in Dixie. Golly. He sounds a lot like, did you ever listen to Hank three? Yeah.

You have? There's an album that he has called Straight to Hill. Yeah. It's really good. I fucking love Hank three. Pretty country. And then there's also a, it's a two-disc set. And the second one is like all spooky, like a train.

It's like an hour-long track of a train. And if you just are sitting there listening, you're like, you hear the train off in the distance. And then all of a sudden, I mean, if it's on speakers and it's cranked, your house is going to shake. You know what I mean? It's like like a train is going through your house, but it's in your speakers. Yeah, sometimes it's like waking up in the morning and just fucking. If I'm up really early and have a long drive, I'll just blast Hank 3, like, super loud, and it just gets me fired up. That's your favorite artist, Hank 3?

That's my favorite country artist. Yeah. Is he country, though? He has done everything. Well, his dad's Hank Williams. I mean, he's got a... Yeah, I know that. But I think he came out.

Originally, he was country, but then he went to, like, rock. It was kind of rocky thing. Rockabilly, you know. It's not like, it's not like, let your hair down, my lifted truck, my pickup truck. No, but it's not like... But, yeah, it's not like... country music singers No no no

Always been a real close family That's his dad It's not like that either Yeah Right is it He's got like this high-pitched Like fucking meth addict hillbilly voice Yeah yeah

We'll listen to someone we leave Sounds like a weed eater Yeah it sounds like a weed eater kind of Yeah We'll play you some Honky Tonk heroes or whatever Yeah I get you on the

But anyways that's my That's my extent of country Well Tracy Lawrence is a country singer Okay I've heard of him A pretty big one He did a song called Uh

Um Hey be a Birmingham Sounded just like that Yeah No Have you heard a song called What's that big one On the first album he did

Sticks and Stones No There's a bit No he's not the first album Anyway He's one of the bigger acts From like the 90s Maybe before that

But anyway I hand this album to him This was the first time That I ever thought okay there's something here I handed it to him he didn't really respond much at all took a picture with him

and he leaves after the show and I hear nothing I still don't have heard nothing from him but he did at least go into his bus after that show and he listened to that album apparently because he got back off my buddy Neil

who I told you I was friends with the book the talent at the gold strike he got back off the bus real quick And he said, hey, Neil, he said, tell that kid he's got something like that. And then Neil told me that. He said, Tracy Lawrence got back off his bus and wanted me to tell you to keep at it. You got something.

So then at this point, I'm thinking, man, I'm on my way, right? So then that kind of keeps you going for a little while until it don't. And then you're like, still there's nothing happening here. Nothing happening. So then another show comes and you hand your CD to somebody like, because you're down, you know, you're about to give up. This is what I'm talking about in success. You get to these places where you get down. You're like, it ain't going to happen.

I thought it would happen soon. It ain't happening. I thought it would happen before here. It ain't happening, you know. And so if you'll wait a little bit and stay with it, something will come to spark you right back up, like that Tracy Lawrence thing. So then it goes like this. I was here.

I was going down Tracy Lawrence. It kept me up, right? And then I came back down and I met Charlie Daniels, You know Charlie Daniels is, I'm sure. Yes. The devil went down to Georgia. He was looking for his son to still. Right.

So I handed Charlie Daniels my album and he signed my guitar and very swell guy. We didn't really have an interaction that was like, oh man, he's going to love. We're going to do music together. Wasn't that. But he took it. He goes, thanks. Thanks, son. Took a picture.

And then about two months later, I get a tweet at Marty Ray Project. from Charlie Daniels official Twitter at Marty Ray Project listen to your music, it rocks like that. Wow. And so at this point you're thinking, man,

this is now public. This is bigger than the Tracy Lawrence thing because now Charlie Daniels went on record and said my music rocks. Right. So then I'm thinking, now this album's about to blow up. It didn't.

Still didn't do nothing. Absolutely nothing. But I'm here again. And now I'm kind of getting here. I'm living off that Charlie Daniel's eye. So then, little, by little you start going well maybe this ain't what i'm supposed to do and so then all of a sudden

i meet i go to a b b b b king show right and you know b b b binging is thank you i know who charlieb i know who b b binging is i'm like two for five so far you really are we're going to keep testing you i think we're going to get better and better as we go i also do the lern song i just didn't know the title i didn't know the name of it right i knew you knew that linders you've been in a bar before i have been in a bar before yeah you look like i've been a few dive bars It looks like it. I see you as a dive bar guy. Oh, total die bar guy.

No, but so BB King, I'm on the front row of BB King show. And I'm just sitting there like this. And before the show, BB comes out, and he's at this point, he's already an old man, you know, in a wheelchair. But he can walk enough to sit on a chair in the middle of the stage. And he's playing his first song. And as he plays, you know, the stage lights are in his eyes, and he's doing this, trying to see the people.

And he goes, he goes, turn the house lights up. up and they turn them up a little bit and he still can't see he's going to turn them all the way up so they turn them all the way up and he goes hey there's everybody like that and he starts looking around looking around plays a little while they start fading the house lights back down you know and as they're fading them down he plays another song he goes turn the house lights back up and they turn them up he goes thank you and he plays a couple more songs and then they they start fading the lights back down again and then And he stops after the next song.

He goes, can we just leave the house lights on? I want to see my people like that. He didn't want to play and not see the people that he was playing for. Because you can't see. They turn his light. This was like a theater setting at the Gold Tric. So it's like you're in an actual theater. And he's on stage.

So when the house lights are off and those cans are in your face, you can't see any. You can't see out there. You can't see nothing. Right. So it seems like you're singing to yourself. But he wanted to see everybody because he was a real thing. real king in music.

And so the house lights were on, and I say that because of what happens next, the reason he was able to see me jamming and vibing to his music. I'm sitting there doing this, you know, he's like, I'm doing this, you know, and I'm just grooving. And then he goes, in the middle of the show, he's got, we're talking about this is a full, this is the biggest band you've ever seen. We got trumpets over here, got the section of trumpets. We got the drummers, the percussion.

It's everything you can think of. It's not your typical blue show. Right. You know what I'm? Stevie Ray Vaughn's. Yeah, it's not your typical blue. This is like actual production, you know. But so he goes, he's playing and he's looking, apparently seeing me.

I don't know because of my eyes are closed and I'm just, you know, like this. And he goes, hold on everybody. Hold on. Like that. And you hear the drum go. And like everybody stops. And they're like, what no, he goes, hold on. Everybody, hold on.

He looks right at me. And he goes, as long as that man. having a good time. So am I. Thrill is gone away. You know, and I'm like, what the heck, man? Wow.

So everybody in this place is looking to me like, Who's that? Who's this guy? Yeah, who is this guy? He must be from a record label or something. Like, BB, that's why he be one of the house lights on, you know, for this guy, this big bearded fella. Not a typical record exec, you know.

A tow truck driver, as you categorized me as soon as I walked in the door. Trot truck driver or lawyer. Or lawyer. All right. You knew it was one of the other. Or wrestler. Yeah.

We did used to wrestle. We had a homemade ring in Blyvel. Really? Like backyard type wrestling? It was a lot like that. But I mean, I didn't do, I wasn't involved with the production, but I would get on this this ring that my buddies had built inside this nasty, crappy, rusty, tetanus shot-needing shed.

right and there was this if you jumped off the top rope you was banging your head on the ceiling type room Jesus but it was fun to get to slam each other on an actual mat you know what I didn't a lot of people couldn't lift me to slam me but I was slamming a lot of people you know what I mean yeah people like you I was slamming them oh yeah he was like that's up ah bah you know what I'm saying like that's what he was doing I was like now you do me and they're like I can't I don't think I can Marty. And so, you know, but let me, let me cry a little bit real quick because of how fat I am. Okay.

All right, back to the story. I'm good now. So, BB, this story gets crazy. It sounds like it's written, right? But it's not written. I've told this a lot of times. At the end of this show, BB wants all the fans to come to the front of the stage. And because I was on the front row the whole.

time, I let everybody else get in front of me, right? And so at the end, he takes his guitar picks out of his coat pocket, and he throws them like this, and they're so light, they just spread out in front of him, close to him. And these fans that were there, he was trying to give them these picks, and they're getting up there on the stage, getting these picks and getting off. They're not rushing Beebe or nothing. But the security guards are throwing the fans off the stage, and BB's getting mad. He said, stop doing that.

Stop doing that and they won't stop doing that. They said, we can't stop getting them off stage. It's our job. But BB was mad. So he goes, he pulls his gold bracelets off and his gold necklace off. And he throws some of the gold over here and some of the gold over here to these people that are on the front row. I mean, on the front of that stage. And I'm sitting there thinking, I said, got on the front of that stage, man.

Like, I'm sitting here trying to be a good guy. And I just missed out of some BV gold. You would see it right here on me today. If I, as I'm telling the story, like this came from BB King. He wore this. Mr. T. It's inscribed.

I bet it was inscribed in there. You know what I'm saying? Somebody has something that says BB King to be, you know, it's just crazy to think about that. But anyway, so then because I knew the guy that booked entertainment, I got to meet B.B. King. So we got to go backstage. So then everybody else left and there was about 50 people that were getting to meet him.

and I was the one that didn't necessarily pay to meet him. You know what I mean? All those people were paying. And they all had guitars, and I had my guitar. I just bought this Martin guitar. I had bought a lot of cheap guitars and never learned how to play. But this time I spent like $2,000 on a guitar because I thought this might force me to learn. But I still hadn't learned.

I still hadn't. I just would mess around and be like, I'm no good. And then put it up. And so I had that. and we're being led down the side of the stage, and it's very narrow. It's very narrow hallway, but it might be just because I'm fat, but it was very narrow to me, right? Very narrow to me.

And it was dark, so they're leading us with a flashlight, and the role of security guards sitting there like this as we're walking by, the entrance to the stage, you know, they're all blocking that. And you can't hardly see anything besides this flashlight. And you're walking, and then as I'm walking by, I'm the one in the last line. In between the security guards, this massive hand comes out and grabs my hand as I'm walking by and holds my hand like this and is pulling me towards the security guards.

And I'm being like this. I'm doing, you're doing this. And they go, they go, what are you doing? You got to move on. They're trying to shove them. I'm like, somebody's got to hold of my hand. Somebody's got my hand. And they part ways.

And there's such BB King in a wheelchair pulling me to him. Just like this. And he goes, I want you to know that I enjoy playing for you to know. night. I was like, you know what I'm saying? You can't even form words at this point. All I got is a guitar and that album was in my coat. And I had his actual record in my hand. And he goes, what you have there? And I hand it to him. And he's looking at it. He goes, boy, show was a lot prettier than. I said, you're still pretty to me, Mr. King. And he said, I love you. I said, I love you. You know what I mean?

And so he says, he says, give me a Sharpie. And he signs that and he said, I'll see you on back there like that, right? And at this point, you're thinking, why in the freak is this happening to me?

Like, I don't know BB King. I still don't know BB King other than this story. And I still don't, I mean, I know why. Like God did that,

this was the moments I'm talking about those moments that do this. Yeah. So God said, I'm going to give you a high that you'll never come down from. And that's what this story is. So then I go back there, I got my guitar, and I'm watching all these people be turned away that don't have Gibson guitars

because he was apparently contractually obligated to only sign Gibson guitars. Really? Because that's what Lucille was that he played. Lucille was Gibson. So I'm watching all these people leave after getting a picture with him in the green room and all this stuff. And they're leaving with their guitar unsigned if it wasn't Gibson. I have a Martin, and I'm thinking, shoot. I should have bought a Gibson.

You know what I mean? I spent $2,000. I could have bought a Gibson. Now I ain't going to get B.B. King on it. So all these people are in front of me. As I said, about 50 people. And I'm seeing Bibi's energy is just leaving. Got to do it all the like this.

You know, in between, you could, as I'm watching in the door, you can see Bibi, like, you know, kind of doing this every now and then because he's an old man, you know. And he's doing this. And then somebody comes. So he goes, hey, baby, and he does this, and he'll smile. He's just a genuinely nice dude, man. And so then I come in, his energy was almost gone.

It was almost like, man, if I don't quit soon, I'm going to pass out. I got to stop. I walk in and he goes, hey, my friend. Like, we had known each other our whole lives, right? And I'm thinking, my best friend. You're my best friend, B, B, B. I love you. Yeah, I love you.

Yeah, I love you, B, B, B, B. And then he comes up. I mean, I come up, he goes, and I hand him my guitar, and he goes, what's you got here? And I said, I'd love for you to sign that. And he looks up at the head of it and sees the Martin. And he does this, and he looks up with me, he goes, I'm going to sign it anyway. And he signed my guitar, B.B. King. And it could be the only non-Gybson guitar in the world signed by B.B. King, right?

No way. It could be. I don't know. I don't know if that's true. But it could be. But then so we, so then I. So then before we take a picture, I have that album. I told you about this album, this little video album I had.

I hand this album to BB, and he goes, well, well, well, like that. It's almost like he knew I was in music. It was almost like it was like a kindred spirit. Because when he saw that, he really lit up, he was like, well, well, well. And he looked up. And he said, who's got that Sharpie like that? And I said, no, no, I thought he wanted, he thought I wanted him to sign my album. That's what I thought.

he wanted. I was going to take it with me. But I said, no, no, that's for you. He goes, I know who this is for. And he said, who's got that sharp? They bring the sharp back to me. He said, I want you to sign this to Mr. B.B. King. I signed my first album ever to B.B. King. And he took it. We took a picture. It still hangs on my wall. This picture is still on my office. We took a picture. We're holding the album up. Took the picture. And he goes like this. He puts it in his pocket afterwards. He does this. I said, I love you. And I said, look in my eyes. I love you, Bibi. He goes, I love you too, son.

We'll see you down the road. I never seen him again, but I thought, man, when I get a little traction, me and Bibi might do something together. But I like to think that Bibi rode with that on his bus until the day he died, right? He was just sitting there. I don't know if you ever listened. I don't know any of that. But that moment is the actual moment.

His name being on my guitar is the reason I'm able to play guitar to this day. Like it made me, I said, I got to learn how to do something now. So I started really buckling down to play this thing that's B.B. King's on. He's on my guitar. That's amazing. And I'm still not that good, right? So maybe you'd still be disappointed in me. But I'm, I can at least play. You know, I can at least play and write songs. I'm nowhere near as good as C.J. And that's why I keep him with me. But it's all the reason. I don't care about him at all. Right. I just keep because he's good at guitar. That's obvious. Yeah. So anyway, that was kind of a long way to say, though getting on that high with B.B.

kind of made me say, okay, now I'm going to start making videos, and I'm going to start being consistent with this thing, because I had to learn guitar before I could make a video, because I was at the mercy of musicians. I couldn't just do Acapella videos, and I didn't know how to play the guitar, so I said, I can't,

so then I started buckling down learning, started posting a few videos that I would learn the chords on, and the people started liking them, and then lo and behold, this song came along called All About That Bass. You ever heard that? Oh, yeah. So I heard that song, and a buddy of mine, we were riding down the road.

And he goes, because, you know, she's talking about all about that base is a reference to being thick. Do you know that? You don't know that because you're tiny, right? You know, I shouldn't say tiny. It's a reference to being thick. Being thick. Like, you know, that's what she's talking about. Okay.

You know, I'm all about that base. About that base. No trouble. Because she's a thick girl. Oh, got you. You know what I mean? Megan Traynor. Or she was.

She might not be now. But that's what that's in reference to. Okay. Talking about being a thick girl. Right. And being proud of it. Right. I like thick girls.

Yeah. I know you. I can tell. I knew when I walked in, you kind of had that glare in your eye like, man, if you was a girl. You know what I mean? I was like, I feel like he's undressing me right now. I'm really uncomfortable.

Is this really a podcast studio? Oh, yeah. There's a projector up here. Oh, yeah. No, but, yeah, I see the couch over there, too, from the 1960. or something. It's a 1960s porn set. Yeah.

Isn't that something? It's amazing, isn't it? I think that what they did in here? A lot of people hate on it. Yeah. Got God and David over here on the wall. Exactly, yeah. Yeah.

Isn't that something? So anyway, before CJ gets excited, he's like, really? That's really where they did? What's your names? This is where they shot all about the bass music video.

This is it. So, because, Because that song's about being thick. My buddy looks over and he's a smaller guy, real small guy. He looks over and says, you're actually all about that base and beard like that. And I go, you know what, I am? I am thick and bearded. So I ended up writing a parody song called All About That Beard to that song.

And we reproduced the whole track. And I went and rented a camera. Didn't know anything about really making music videos, but I wanted to experiment. So I rented this camera. It was when the Black Magic Cinema camera first came. out. Oh, yeah, yeah. And that first came out, and I rented this camera and lens, cannon lens, whatever, and took this thing and just did the best I could. And I thought, well, this, I'll post this and it probably sucks. And it does suck. To this day, it sucks,

the video to me. But it literally got two million views in a day. What? Two million views in a day. Yeah, we were, my buddy and I were headed. He had an audition. At the time, I lived in Memphis. and my buddy, Brad Bill, Bill for councilman, Bill for Counselman. Bill. Yeah. Brad Bill was, he was an actor at the time. And we were driving to Nashville for him to do an audition for some commercial. And he asked what I go?

Wait, my see, I'll go with you, let's do it. And so out on the way, I had posted that that morning. And on the way there, he's getting a few texts and I saw that video you were in because he was in the video. So I saw that video you were in, hilarious. right and we're not thinking nothing though he's like all right on man appreciate it and he gets a few texts on the way there and he and he i'm not getting any texts but my people ain't seeing it you know what mean so but apparently his people are all seeing it but we did we didn't check the video it wasn't it wasn't in the days where i had a reason to keep going to my Facebook all the time like now

I'm answering every comment that comes in I'm doing all these things all the time making sure I stay on track because those are my people you know and so I didn't even have that at Facebook or YouTube Both. Okay. Well, at the time, like, I got, I got my start on Facebook on my personal profile. Oh, okay. Yeah, not YouTube.

I wasn't even really doing anything on YouTube or my Facebook page. It was just a personal profile at the time. And it was just, like, blowing up. And we didn't even know it. We were just driving. He got a few texts. He did his audition on the way back. He's still getting these texts.

As he was in his audition, there was like 15 to 20 texts from people saying, hilarious video man that was crazy it's crazy what's happening with his video like that and then he goes dude he said something something weird man he said like everybody that i know has seen this video so he pulls it up as i'm driving he goes bro this thing is at 1.5 million views i said excuse me and i said let me see this and i look at it and then jared this is the first thing jared and i did. He just did the, I don't want to say he did anything to the video other than he just put credits in it because I wanted credits in it. Yeah. And so I had Jared put the credits in. He's a little drunk. He got pretty tore up last night. You're still drunk, Jared? Really? Hey, hair the dog,

brother. I got some Jack Daniels right over there. Hair the dog, Jerry. No, but he, all he did was put credits at the end, like, you know, rolling credits. And, uh. He didn't shoot. the video for you? No, no. Couldn't afford him. And plus I was trying to learn. He's union. Yeah, he's union only. Only union. No, I was trying to learn how to do it myself anyway. So it was kind of a experimental thing. And anyway, by the end of the day, it had two million views. And I thought, now I really am famous, right? I was getting calls to do radio interviews and stuff like that in England. And everywhere all over the world, I was like, this is nuts. Megan Trainers is fixing to call me and we're going to be doing song together that never happened i don't know if she ever saw the video to this day and now it has

i don't know how he's got it's got a lot of views on facebook if you combine everything and on youtube and everywhere it's it's it's pretty good but uh so at that point i'm thinking now i really got i got to ride this wave yeah so i'm i'm uh posting consistently at this point and then but these but the other videos ain't getting two million views you know what i mean they're not doing it like the that one did yeah that's the worst right when you're like damn you hit so you hit so you hit so high on one and then like keep doing stuff and like fuck why can i do that again right and that's that's the that's the conundrum right that's the problem is people think that oh as soon as you get too many views everything you post is about to be that it's not the it's not the case it's all

because social media is fickle the algorithm's fickle it's like you you you which i didn't know this at the time you got to post at the right time you got a you got to uh you can't put too many letters on your, on your images on Facebook, you know, there's a lot that goes into it. Like, there's, these algorithms is the, the greatest enemy of an independent artist or independent anything. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I'm being consistent and then I'm not.

So then three weeks go by and I didn't post a video, didn't post a song. And so I'm thinking, shoot, man, I said I'd be consistent. And here I am letting Beebe down, you know. And even though I didn't, you know, didn't know BB, but I felt like I did. Here I am letting Beebe down. And so... You felt accountable. Like, you held accountable.

Yeah, it was kind of like God's way of saying, BB's going to hold you accountable. And so at 3 o'clock in the morning, three weeks of shadowing the fans, I say fans. I did have some fans at this time. There was definitely people commenting. And I answered every comment at that point.

And even up until like just a few years ago, every single comment was I answered. You don't matter how many came in. I answered them. Now, they're coming in on every video, and I don't even get notifications for these other videos. So I can't answer every comment anymore.

But, because, you know, if they don't notify me, I don't even know if they commented. So, but anyway, I still get most of the comments on the new videos. So three o'clock in the morning,

I'm sitting there. I'm like, I don't have, I hadn't posted in a while. I don't have nothing because when I would, when I would learn a song, it would take me a while to learn the song because I'm not a guitar player. You know, I would sit there to go over and over and over.

And at the time, there was no teleprompters. There was nothing like that. No kind of apps you could use, really, that would help you with lyrics even. So you just had to learn the song. You had to learn the lyrics and how to play it. And for me, that was real hard to do. Like, just to be able to memorize all the lyrics. Okay, okay, I got it.

You're talking about three or four takes. And then by the time you get done, with 10 takes, your voice is shot, and you can't even make the video. So it wasn't the easiest thing to do when you, if you don't already know all the words. Like if a new song comes out and you're trying to learn it real quick back then, now if the new song comes out, you can pull up the lyrics and put it on a little teleprompter thing that goes in front of your camera. Right.

And you look dead in the camera and nobody even knows, right? And then you're playing, all you've got to focus on that point is just the chord, which is still a struggle for me. I might miss a chord. I missed many last night. But I said, 3 o'clock in the morning, it's still my personal profile on my Facebook. And I said, I hadn't posted a video in a while.

I hope y'all liked this version of Ice Size Baby that I did acoustic. It was literally like that, a throwaway video. And the next morning, this thing had went wild. I mean, it went nuts. World Star Hip-Hop took it and posted it on their pages and their website. Bam Margera posted on his page and website and stuff. And this thing just, it got legs that never stopped.

And then my Facebook page started blowing up. Like people started liking it out of this world. YouTube, same thing. And this thing, like my whole real actual career in music began at that moment with that cover. That was a throwaway. It was just a throwaway video. And it still to this day, if you combine every person, that actually took the video, stole the video from mine, you know,

and then posted on their own platforms. You're talking 200 plus million views maybe, you know, all together. And there's several even on my page, because I've posted it a couple times too. And there's several on my pages. They have 30 plus million on just my own page of that one song. That's nuts. Can you monetize those videos when you do covers like that?

Yeah. Really? On YouTube. You can't? Well, you can't on Facebook now, too. So YouTube let you monetize those even though you're doing a cover? Well, the difference is, is I'm recreating it. Right, right.

I'm playing it. It's me playing. I own that sound recording. Okay. So I make money on the sound recording. They still get their money. But you don't have like, aren't you using like their acopel? Or their instrumentals?

No. Okay. I'm playing my own guitar. Oh, you're completely recreating it. Well, especially with Ice Ice Baby. Right. That's all me. Okay.

I got it. But even if I was just playing their exact chords, it's still me playing it. I'm not using an instrumental track. Isn't there a term for that? Like interpolate or interpolation or something like that? I don't know. You're smart.

I'm not a lawyer. I'm a tow truck driver. You said it yourself, right? Yeah, I guess you're right. Even if you are playing, just copying the chords and recreating it yourself, I guess they can't. If you recreate a track, you own that track you created. Okay. Like, that's your sound recording.

Okay. Now, what happens with YouTube is you get money for the sound recording part. they still claim their money for the song rights. Right. They still get part. Like, they still have claims on my, my channel.

But they can't, they could say, you know, we want you to take that down. They could do that if they wanted to, but why would they? They make money. You got a video ice ice baby getting 100 million views

and we're monetizing stuff like that. You know, they want that to happen. Because it's not, it's not just doing that. It's helping with album sales and things like that. Right, right. Album, record labels actually reach out to me.

a time now and when they got a new artist and they'll say you want to cover this artist's song this song ain't out yet we want to get people i'm like no i don't want to cover his song why would i cover that i was like i the only reason i cover songs some people hear my originals and i like if it's if i'm going to cover a song it's got to have some got to have some weight to it whereas what's the point right you know what i mean or it's just a song that i love right there's songs that i do that that i just mean something to me that's other people's songs but i'm not just out here trying to cover some random song, you know, because the goal is, as an independent artist, that's my vehicle to get people to hopefully check out the originals.

Right. That's all that is. So, lo and behold, I'm getting all these messages from people because of this Ice Ice Baby video. I'm still a tow truck driver, as you said, right? At this time, I'm a tow truck driver. You feel like you know me in my whole life. um so these people are messaging me and they're saying i'm best friends with vanilla ice give me your phone number and i'll have them reach out and i'm going yeah right but i'm a tow truck

driver right so they can get my number anyway glen race towing it's available everywhere and so i gave it to all these people it was probably i don't know probably 10 to 15 people said this and i gave him on my phone number and it it so happened that one of them wasn't lying one of them really was his best friend from way back before he was famous in Dallas you know he was his best friend and uh so I get this call randomly I think it was around I think it was I don't know how many months it was months after this video had come out and I'm horrible with timeframes I get this call and I go Glenn Ray's towing you know like like normal it's a phone call and he goes hey Marty Ray

like that and I said What's up? Glenn Ray's tone You know who it was? No, I didn't know it was I'm saying I thought it was just a customer

Like normal Okay And he goes He goes He says Man I love that ice ice Baby you did That's nice man

I said Appreciate that How can I help you You know what I mean And he was like Hey it's Rob It's Rob man I go

Right on man How can I help you you know what I'm saying? I didn't know. I hate to say this. You know, I hope Rob doesn't get offended, but I really didn't know his name was Rob at the time.

Yeah. So I'm thinking, okay, she's a customer that somehow found out that I did this song. And I'm like, I got your car. Do I have your car impounded? Like,

what is it? Like, how can I help you? Like, thank you for the compliment. I appreciate it. How can I help you? And he goes,

it's vanilla ice. I said, yeah, right, man. Like, of course, anybody, would you? As a boy growing up,

singing, all right, stop, collaborate and listen. We're all singing that growing up. Well, maybe not you because you like Hank, three. Yeah. But you were probably singing Green Day.

Yeah. I had the first Green Day album. Boom. Hit me with it. The Duky? Hit me with it. I can't sing it, bro. I'm not singing it.

Sing some, what's on Duky? Is it a... It's like, Do you have the time? That one. Yeah. Oh.

Who is it to be why? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the biggest song from that? Was it that one? That was the biggest one. It was called Basketcase. Now, I didn't listen to them back then, but I did like the holiday album. That's pretty new.

Yeah, I stopped listening to them after like the first three albums, I think. You're one of them punk pierced, aren't you? No. No, no, no, no, not at all. A lot of people that are punk fans. I don't listen to the old stuff. No, they say Green Day, they say, I'm a fan of punk, and I go, Oh, Green Day.

They go, Heen Day, they're pop punk. Yeah, they're pop punk. And I'm like, my bad, bro.

Another tiny part in the board stuck in the road. Was that on Duky? No, that's a newer one, right? That was the next album after Duky.

Yeah. Okay. You hear how bad my voice is freaking destroyed. Yeah, I was like 10 years old or something when Duky came. I was like super old.

How are you? I'm 33. How old do you think I am? easy. No, I'm kidding. No, no, you're lying. 35. You do not think that.

I'm guessing you're 35. But he's trying to be nice because you said easy. No, I'm joking. Tell him how old you really think he's. How old you really think I am? Like, give him the real... You won't hurt my feelings. 40?

Oh, well, I'm on 38, but most people think I'm like in my mid-40s. I was pretty close. You weren't pretty close. That's why I thought that you were lying. But anyway... I know. I'm used to, like, I look really young for my age, so I'm used to people being my age that look way older than me. So I kind of like shoot up a little bit when I guess people's ages. I thought you were on the cusp of 30. That's what I thought, yeah. But you

look like you've been in a dive bar too, though. Like a, like a, like a road hard and put up wet type 20, late 20s. Yeah? You know what I'm saying? Not specifically. Yeah. I was like, when I was younger, I always looked like super, like too young. Like I was got like, I, like, I always looked, I was in my 20s. Everyone's like, you're like 12. And I was like, fuck. When I hit 30, I'm just going to like fall off a cliff. And I'm not going to be able to enjoy it in like where it matters, like in the 30s and 40s.

I'm like when I hit 30, I would suck so bad if I just all of a sudden just started looking super old, like went bald. Yeah. Well, you got against bald people. Nothing. Good. Are you bald? 100%. Let's see it.

We'll see this. Bald is beautiful. Ooh. That's awesome. Keep the hat off. I'm going to get me a tattoo like a Boziac. Boziac. He's got the Illuminati triangle.

That's what I told him. You know, he was on my podcast. Was he really? Yeah. He was on my podcast. Just recently we just released that episode. He's an interesting fella, isn't he? Very interesting.

He's all in every conspiracy theory you've ever heard of. Oh, wow. Well, he didn't get into conspiracy theories. He's into it? Oh, man. We had a crazy talk last week about conspiracy theories for like two hours straight. I literally told him, I said, I said, now. Now, when did you join the Illuminati?

And because I said, now put your head down and he's got this big pyramid and the all-seeing eye on there, like on top of his head. And I'm sitting there. He don't go into conspiracy. I wish he would have went in conspiracy theories. I didn't know.

I thought he was just a guy who's embracing the whole. Oh, man. He's all full into like lizard people and everything. Yeah. Joe Rogan. Yeah. Shape shi. Oh, yeah.

He's listened. Like he, I think, consumes probably way too much. content. Like on YouTube he goes, he's one of those guys who probably sits on YouTube and just goes down rabbit holes for hours now. Well, YouTube is now, but you used to could do that with conspiracy theories and stuff a lot. Like, you could really be on there for. Oh, yeah. Days. And like, you're just sitting there. Oh, wow. And then you, you, you, somebody goes in like, hey, you, okay, we thought we were worried about you. Like, what? I've only been watching for three days. Holy fuck.

Did you know Elvis was a shapeshifter? And he's still alive. Did you know Elvis is the groundskeeper at Graceland? Now he's an interdimensional child molester. Oh, dang. Poor Elvis, man. I'm going to take that Elvis song I just did down, apparently. I just made that up.

I know. I know. Of course you made that up. John Boziac. My homie, I like you, though. He's really cool fella. He was in your studio. Yeah, I did.

Yeah. He used to his second podcast here last week. Really? Yeah. Did two. He's done two with us, yeah. Nice. So the second one was all about conspiracy.

The second one was all about conspiracy. The first one, he just told a story about his credit card, thought, fraud, and his whole life in and out of prison or whatever. And he's wild. He's wild. He's a wild motherfucker. Yeah, man. That's crazy.

You know what he said on our show? He said, I said, do you ever feel bad about stealing all this money? Like, you know, these. people you fraudulently took money from and he goes he goes well he said I didn't steal no money from them I ain't taking the money from them I was like who you're taking the money from then you know what I mean you're taking it's taking the money it's coming out of their bank right you know now of course the bank gives it back to them they get it back right but it is it's heavily an inconvenience oh yeah when you go and you're like wasting a lot of people's time yeah

you're swiping your card and it's like decline and you're like decline. Everybody's looking at you. Have you ever had a card decline? It shouldn't have declined? And you're sitting there and you feel like, listen, you're looking at the people in the line. You're like, I promise you that I am not broke. Like I promise you. Right.

And they're like, yeah. Ego gets involved in, you know, you're like, listen. I know what this looks like. And you're telling everybody there. You're like, listen, everybody. I am not broke. Right. I had this.

You're pulling up your bank account. Let me show you this. People in the back. You know a good way. You know a good way to circumvent that from happening and being embarrassed about it is just before you give them the card. Like, I hope that one works. I hope that one works.

I used to say that. I used to say that all the time. Yeah. Man, I hope this works. And then I would go, I would go, let's see which one of these ain't maxed out. And I would go through these credit cards. And these people are like, like, try this one. You know?

It works with fake IDs, too. like before, like, when I was, before I was old enough to drink, where I go to a bar, and they'd ask for my idea, like, I got my fake one and it really was the fake one. And they would, like, psych them out. You know what I mean? They'd be like, oh, ha, ha, ha, you're funny. Did that work? Yeah.

It's a son of a gun. It's an amazing what works, Matt. You are a little mind genius, aren't you? No, I'm not. I'm pretty stupid. I just copy other people, what I hear from other people. Oh, I see. Yeah.

I don't come up with the stuff on my own. I just, I just reuse other people's great ideas. You're a chameleon. Yeah, exactly. I like that. I like that. Shapeshifter. Has your voice always been that deep and like, or is that just because have you just like

developed that from singing so much? I don't know. I think my voice is always kind of lower toned it when I speak, isn't it? It is lower tone, but today it's like extra rasp. Does all that, like the amount of all the singing you do and all the shows you do, does that take a toll on your vocal cords? Of course. When you sing like me, it definitely does.

Not just like the next day, but I mean like overtime. I don't know. It hasn't taken it over time for. me because one thing I noticed was Miley Cyrus, her voice. Have you heard her talk normally? Yeah, it's really, but I think she has a crazy like deep voice. Yeah, it's like a heavy, like a heavy voice. I think that's just the way her voice is. Like early days, Hannah Montana, she

her voice was nothing like that. Well, I think that was before puberty though. Yeah, that's true. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but even even back then, which I know you're a big fan of Hannah Montana, I'm not. I don't think really about it, but I've seen a few clips. And her voice was still deep for a child, though, I think, wasn't it? I don't know. I don't think so. Go back to your DVD sets.

Yeah, I have to go back to the TV sets. Yeah, and pull those up. And did you meet? You should get Hannah Montana on this show. That would be amazing. She lives in Nashville, doesn't she? Does she? I think so.

I think everybody. Moving there. I'm pretty sure she's in Nashville. Yeah. She probably is. Everybody seems to be moving there now. Well, all the big country. singers came from Nashville, right?

Like, that's the hub of country, isn't it? A lot of big ones did, but not all of them. There's some Willie Nelson. Nashville's like the music fucking city. City of the United States, right? That's what they say. They call it. Music City, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that's actually true, but it's sure. A lot of music. A lot of music comes out of Nashville. There's a lot of music, not just country. It's not always great music, but there's a lot of music that comes out of Nashville. But there's a lot of music that came out of Memphis.

Like back in the day, Um, there's a documentary about blues music and BB King. There's BB King before he was actually, uh, famous. He finally got a gig on Bill Street in Memphis. And he was standing on Bill Street doing this, this old footage. And he goes, I finally made it. He said, all we ever want to do in blues music is play right here on Bill Street. And here I am playing.

And he was, he thought he'd made it at that point. And he had. Wow. Because that was it. You play Blues Music. You get to Bill Street. That would, because, And even Elvis, like, they all wanted to be in Memphis.

I don't know when Nashville became Music City, but that's definitely not been always the case. Memphis was definitely a place for blues. You know Jimmy Hart's from Memphis, Tennessee? Is he really? Well, that makes sense. He was on here. He told me the craziest fucking story about how him and his buddy,

his buddy was Elvis's, like, good friend and always went to Elvis's house and he was making a delivery to Elvis. Jimmy wouldn't tell me other details of what he was delivering. This lets me know that it's drugs. Yeah, it was some sort of pills. And Jimmy was with him. And he said it was just the fucking most insane story. Because Elvis came out all fucked up, blah, blah, blah.

And Jimmy Hart's sitting here and Elvis's mansion in Memphis. Jimmy's got some fucking wild stories. It was probably Red West. That was his friend, because that was his best friend and bodyguard. Red West? Red West. Red West. Never heard of him.

He's an actor. seen Roadhouse? No. You never see Roadhouse? Roadhouse. I don't think so. Patrick Swayze, Dalton. He's a bouncer.

I don't think I've seen it. It's the most masculine movie of all time. Is it really? Yeah. Never seen it. I need to watch it. You need to watch it. You need to watch it.

When did they come out? 80s? Late 80s? Roadhouse. Do you see Roadhouse? Next time you watch Family Guy, you're going to be like, wow. What's a roadhouse freak?

We got to be broke him. The Roadhouse. She's broke. Roadhouse. You ran out of battery. Roadhouse. Okay, you're done. No.

Peter. Roadhouse. What is this? Explain what this is. It's just a family guy joke. Yeah, but what's the joke? Peter is referencing Roadhouse. The movie?

He's jacked. Oh, okay. And every time they, you know, ask him something, it's his answer. Roadhouse. He's just. You've seen that, you've seen it, Jared, right? It's a pretty funny little. whole episode thing they do.

Give me one, real quick, one question they ask him that he responds to the roadhouse. I'm just going to totally make this up. Like, Peter, well, you go to the store and get some crabs. Quagmire is coming over later. And then Peter's like, Roadhouse. That's pretty great. I would start doing that. That's pretty fucking great.

When you see the episode, that's great. You should watch Roadhouse. I will watch it. It really is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm going to watch this weekend. Look for the part where you're going to watch it. he goes like this right here. You know what I mean?

Just keep this in mind. Okay. What's he doing? No, no. I'm not telling you. You just remember I did this. I did this. You almost died.

Remember that. Okay. This is near death. You know what I'm talking about? Mm-hmm. Don't you? Jared, have you seen Roadhouse? You remember this?

Yeah. Yeah, baby. This is crazy. This right here is crazy. I've been trying to do this ever since I watched that movie. What the fuck is it? You're going to find out. Hey, this guy back here knows, don't you?

You've seen Roadhouse, Austin? Austin? Austin. Austin, look through these computers. They got the most massive computers. You see, the screens. He's got like a thousand screens. I think Austin is actually playing some video games.

I think he's streaming Twitch back there. Austin, are you streaming Twitch? Austin's got a hot new girlfriend he brought over last night. Where is she? Yeah, where's your girlfriend today? She's, listen to this. Can we talk about her? She's fun.

She'll let us talk about her. She's a- Can you pull a picture of her up? She's a Catholic girl. As you're talking? Yeah, can we? Can we get a picture so I can show to him? She's a Catholic girl.

She went to Catholic school, and she met Pope Francis. So you know she's wild. Could be. She's wild. We went to dinner last night, and Austin ordered a Sprite. She ordered a beer. Austin. My man, I like Sprite.

I'm a Sprite guy, too. She was partying with us, and Austin was drinking Sprite eating salads. Austin, you got that picture? We're literally waiting. Yeah, we want to see a picture. This show. go on until we see a picture of your girlfriend. Marissa.

Marissa. Marissa. She's awesome. Man, one of the prettiest actors is named Marissa. Marissa Tomey. Marissa Tomey. Yeah. What movie's she in?

You see my cousin Vinny? No. Son of a gun. Does this kid, do you watch movies? I watch some movies, yeah. My cousin Vinny, Joe Pesci. One of the greatest movies of all time. You got a busy weekend ahead of you.

Yeah, you got some homework to do. Fuck, I got a lot of homework to do. The second time I'm on this podcast, whenever that is, if it ever happens. I want you to have a report of these movies. Okay. Roadhouse. I'm going to give you a list. My cousin Vinnie.

My cousin Vinny. What was, Marissa Tomey was. Titanic. No. What was a recent movie she was in, Jared? No. Awesome. Where's the picture?

Pull it up on your IMDB. Oh, we're talking. Here she is. Let's see. Okay. Okay. Nice little Southern Bell. Yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am. Marty, you're looking for a long time. Catholic Southern Bell? I was looking into her eyes. I swear. I really was. I really was. I was.

Babe, I was. We're going to get the Pope. She's going to get Pope Francis in here, hopefully soon. Yeah. I'm sure. That would blow up. That would blow up. That would blow up.

Yeah. Please ask him some real questions if you do get you. I'll get you in here as a guest. Please. We'll get you to be the guest host. will not. Marty Ray. Anytime you want me to guest toast, just let me know.

Okay. And we'll make it happen. We'll drink liquid death and be metal, man. Yeah. You don't like metal music? Really? There's only one music. It depends on what you.

I don't know what people call metal. What is metal? Death metal. Definitely not. But I think ACDC was called metal, too. Wasn't they? What about Metallica? That's a classic rock.

I like a few Metallica songs. But, you know, when you, you. When you, here's the problem with certain metal people and punk people is they say, uh, you like metal, bro. I'm like, man, I like Metallica. Like, it's not metal.

They used to be metal. And I'm like, they're like, you ever heard a death of a thousand stars by Metallica? And I'm like, no, but I've heard inner sand man. And they go,

psh, course. And I'm like, man, what do you want? Yeah. I'm not saying I'm the biggest. They're metal.

They're metal. Cheats, didn't you? They got chills. They're metal elitist. Right. My favorite, if it's a metal song, it don't sound like a metal song, but there's so many different kinds of metal now because there's like other subgenres of death metal

and then some like pop metal and, I don't know, cup metal, whatever, whatever the freak. You got all these names. Yeah. But the best, the best Metallica song is so close, no matter how far. Couldn't be much more from the heart. You know that one? Oh, yeah. Is that metal?

Because nothing else matter. That's it. Yeah. And I close my eyes. James Headfield's right here. Trust I see and I find in you. Why? Every day for something new.

Why? Open mine for a different view. Because nothing else matter. He's country He does like Hank the 3rd What about What about Creed? I did like Creed

Can you do That's not metal is it? No hell no Can you a Creed cover though? What was With arms right open Under the sunlight Yeah

I'm welcome to this place I'll show you Everything With arms right open under the candlelight Inside the curtains On an old porn couch With on the arms right,

I don't remember the words There you go And then there was a That's with a horrible Horrible voice I was looking beautiful Let me tell you I could really nail that impression

If my voice wasn't destroyed Because I sang that a lot That was pretty damn close Back in the day What's another one of creeds? Can you take me high Yeah

To a place Where a blind man see Bacca Bail wow I told you I brought my guitar Flair That was great That's really how he does

Really Yeah He don't actually play guitar He plays it with his lips Yeah Play a little something So he'd believe me Bum

Pian Pian Pha-Bau Bown Keep it going I Bavna Bap

Bavom Bown Bown Bows I don't know how you happen i don't know why you can't understand what's what freaking happened to the guitar bro godlie you lost your money oh no it's over you you lost your gig and i getting paid now all my guitar sounds calypso no he was like bam bam bam and i started saying it was gone because it's just a

kick drum there oh is it yeah i apologize yeah i apologize hey no it's okay you got your next time I forgot where I was in my story if it even matters. But, uh, metal. We're talking about metal. Metal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, metal.

We're talking about metal. Metallica. Metallica is metal. Yeah. Maybe not the new Metallica, but the old Metallica is definitely metal. Right. When you put the orchestra in,

same thing with Creed, like, arms wide open. You're like, oh, man, this guitar solo is going to be great. And then it's like, then all that they bring in the orchestra. What, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're like, Creed had an orchestra?

On that song, yeah. Big old symphony type. And the same thing with Metallica. You know, they did the No Leaf Clover. And they did nothing else matters with an orchestra. I didn't know that. I didn't know. It wasn't on the record, but they did it live, like for the MTV Grammys or.

Wow. Yeah. So I think when you put in the orchestra, the metal part. Whatever happened to that guy, the lead singer in Metallica? Is he still around? James Headfield, man. He's, oh, yeah. He's the guy who fucked up Napster, right?

No, that was Lars. That's the drummer. Hey guys, Lars Olrich here. Yeah. Is he still with the band? Yeah. Of course, it's his band. Him.

It's his band? It's his band? It's ultimately his band, yeah. Mm-hmm. It's large man. What do you mean by that? It means it's his band. If anything happens, then it's because of him.

Really? The only reason there is a metallic is because of him. Mm-hmm. I don't know that. That's the truth. It doesn't happen with many bands. Normally it's the front guy. Yeah.

Like Axel Rose or whatever, but in some bands, you know, like, a Fallout Boy, the bass player Pete, you know, the singer don't say much when they do interview. I didn't know that. Yeah, Pete's like the, this is my band. I'm not a big Fallout boy fan, but anyway. The battery right there. Pete is the Lars Ulrich of.

Oh, we're running, we're running over their time here. Uh-oh. No, we're not. You guys got a time limit? No, I thought he, he, I thought y'all might. Oh, no, no, he should. Austin, it's down there on the, on the outlet on the wall. See a little black thing?

Hey, y'all got a bed for Jared. A bed? Yeah, lay on the couch. Jared, you want to lay on his couch? He's the couch, man. It's comfy. I promise no one's had sex on that this week.

But wait until Austin brings his girlfriend back. We got all the cum off the couch. It's clean. They cleaned it. There's still a... Looks like some kind of apparatus to subdue or something there. It's like one of those zip ties. Oh, it's just cut.

Oh, fuck. Austin, you're supposed to get rid of that. He slipped up on it. Austin, what have you done? what have you and Sally been doing here? You're going to get us canceled. What's his name? What's her name, Sally?

Who? His girlfriend? Marissa. Marissa Tomey. Yeah, where's Marissa. Spider-Man, far from home. She's Aunt May. What?

Spider-Man, far from home. The movie. Yeah, what about it? Marissa Tomey. Oh, that's the actress you were talking about. Oh, okay. Is Tom Holland's Aunt May. She's hot.

That's right. Now watch my cousin. Vinnie. She won the Oscar for my cousin Minnie. Really? When did my cousin Minnie come out? 90s? 1990.

Okay. 1990. One of the best movies, man. One of the best movies. Okay. I gave you two dynamite movies. All right. And Austin?

Look to them computer screens. You too. Okay, buddy? Yeah. Yeah. Port back. You watch it with your girlfriend. You and Marissa?

You and Marissa. If you watch Roadhouse with Marissa, it does have a scene where Patrick Swayze shows his his hind parts. You might lose her. I'm just saying, if you can't compete, because he is real sexy in that movie. Is he not? Yeah, he was. That man's sexy.

You know what I mean? Patrick Swayze. You know who Patrick Swayze is? I know who Patrick Swayze is, yeah. Yes, sir. Patrick Swayze coming in hot. And he can dance. And he can fight.

It's a real good movie, man. He comes in. He's the cooler. You know what a cooler is in a bar? No, what's a cooler? The cooler is somebody who comes in. They're supposed to keep the piece. They're the lead of the bouncer, whatever.

All the bounce. They're the head where these bouncer might be like, I'm going to kill you inside of him. He's like, no. The cooler's like, no. He's always like, take it outside. If they want to fight, don't fight. If they hit you, whatever, all these things.

He says all these things. He says, get it out, take it out, make sure it's outside. Yeah. Get them outside. He's not, he don't want to fight, but he can. And when he does, it's lethal. Really? Bad, bad, dude.

It's lethal. Bad dude. Yeah. The claw. There you go. Oh, shit. You got it. You got it.

Is that some kind of like juggy. thing with the claw. Now you're feeling it. Okay. Now you're feeling it. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, watch that.

And, yeah, what was I saying about myself? Metal. Metal. Metal. I'm a metal artist. You don't like metal. You're not a fan of metal. Are you fan of hip-hop?

I do. I grew up listening. So I grew up listening to the gospel, like, like, Black Gospel. Mahalia Jackson, you don't know any of these people. Mahalia Jackson, Rance Allen, little Kirk Franklin, people like that. And then that morphed into R&B, boys to men, people like that. And then that kind of morphed into hip hop, which was Beastie Boys at the time. Oh, yeah.

Then Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog. I actually, the night before last, I was telling some people how when I did that Ice Ice Baby thing, I actually had two of those old hip-hop songs that just live rent-free in my head. the lyrics you never forget them like i have to look at lyrics i always have my ipad it shows and i'm looking at lyrics to make sure i don't forget them because it's the most embarrassing thing ever when you're sitting there singing you go play something cj you know what i and then uh so i have my lyrics all the time so i can always reference but with ice ice baby i never need lyrics for that song because i wrapped that so much in my head same way with

nothing but a g thing right so it was uh It was one of those two songs I was going to do. And I just recently, years later, just now posted the nothing but a G-thing version of those two songs. But it was like, one, two, three, and two the four. Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. Dre is at the door. Ready to make an entrance so back on up. You know we're about to wrap this up. Give me the microphone first so I can bust like a bubble.

Compton in Long Beach together. Now you know you in trouble. There ain't nothing but the G thing, baby. Too low doubt G's going crazy. It's like this and like that and like this and it's like that and like this and like that. And it's like this. And we ain't got no love for those. So just chill to the next episode.

You see what I'm saying? God damn. So I was doing a picking thing with that. And then I was also doing the more Hawaiian type thing with the ice ice baby. And I just so happened to choose the ice ice baby. and do that. But at this group that we first came in, we just got into town

and we went straight to this event at the Anderson House in Tampa or whatever. And I was telling them that story. And I played a little bit of that. And I was telling them that. But that kind of job with me. But see, those lyrics, you grow up rapping that

because I used to actually rap that at karaoke nights at like shooters in Memphis. You know what I'm saying? You know what karaoke is, right? No. What is it again? Marty. What is that?

I don't know that. Karaoke. Carrie who? You say Patrick Swayze? I don't know. Is that where I would know Miss Marissa Tomei from? No. Karaoke, no.

So we would go to these real cowboy, like, country bars, my friends and I. Because we were kind of like, we were kind of like troublemakers back in the day, you know. So we were always looking, if it was, like CJ said, that was actually true. back then I was actually a trollmaker you know back in those days so it was like when he I forgot you were it was something to do with my my best friend's little sister because their little sister was in the same grade as him something happened and I don't I don't even remember but he tells it like I think that's what you told me right yeah there was it was essentially a birthday party and somebody had told one of the girls that one either me or my buddy had said something

derogatory about the girls and we didn't we were just happy to be there like meeting new people and hanging out and we knew we knew them but there was other people there like marty and randall and the old the upperclassman you know so we were excited but uh yeah marty and and randol and then crushed that excitement yeah it wasn't even a big deal you know we got out of there fast like i said i can run faster scared than most people came mad so we got out of quick it wasn't that big deal yeah we got out we had to run out a street car mothers oh that wasn't that big a deal Yeah. No.

Eighty-nine Ford Festiva peeling out one tire. Do 75 miles an hour if you turn the air conditioner off. I definitely, I still don't remember that. I remember that party, but I don't remember you being at that party at all. But I remember that party. It was in the garage. Yeah. Right?

It could have been anybody, I think. Like, it could have been. It really could have been at that point. It wasn't. I didn't take it personal. We've done that a lot. Like Ronnie and Randall and me, a lot of times we would find people that had either said something wrong to her or whatever.

Yeah. I'm not to incriminate myself. We would beat them up, you know what I'm saying? Teach him a lesson. How dare you? You know, it was horrible. How dare you? How dare you talk to her like that?

But I'm not saying that's the way. You're just looking for reasons to beat the shit on people. We really were. And that's horrible. It's horrible way. I'm ashamed of that in my later years. But that was the case back then. So I say that, I preface it to let you know that when we went to this country place,

It was country bar. It was all, you know, if you got up to do karaoke, it was country music, like old-school country music, like a family tradition. Get on me, want to know, hang, why do you drink to get drunk? Hang, why do you roll smoke to get high? Oh, how must you live out the song that you wrote to get paid over and over. Everybody made my prediction If I get stoned And sing all night long

It's a family tradition So like you They want to hear this They want to hear all this So then I get up I tell the guy I'm like Y'all got nothing but a G thing He goes, really?

I said yeah Nothing but a G thing And I'm not talking about One two three and two the four I'm talking about Like that's what I'm talking. Like that's what I'm talking about. So then that starts playing.

Everybody's like, look at this. This is white dude up here. And like that one, we back, like, they're getting, they're not, they're a little edgy. Yeah, yeah. But we knew that's what we were, that's what was our intention. Right. Right? Because we were idiots.

So we really were. Just idiots. So he's like, let's see what kind of ruckus we can cause. And then, uh, So he gets up there and then I go one, two, three, and two, the foe. Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. Dre is at the dope, ready to make an entrance. So back on up, because you know we're about to rep this up. Giving a microphone first so I can bust like a bubble, Compton and Long Beach together.

Now you know you're in trouble. Ain't none but a G thing, baby. Two low-doubt G's going crazy. Death Row is the label that pays me unfaidedable, so please don't try to fade me. So then I'm doing this and I'm saying the whole thing. Next time I know, we're watching these people, and Ronnie and Randall are back there. They're back there in the back going, you know, because it's like, the intent is to cause a ruckus. Yeah.

And then you start seeing these, you start seeing these cowboys go, you know, and the next day you know, they're up dancing. And they got their, they're all doing this. They got their hats off. That's fucking great. And then they're doing this. And I was like, now this ain't going the way we are, but this is cool right here. Right. You know, this is cool, man.

So they wanted me to come back all the time. at this place. And ended up making friends where it was like a real, it was a moment where the reason I was, to be honest with you, my dad, when I was growing up, my brother. Now you got, you got siblings? Yeah. You got a brother?

I have a stepbrother and a half sister. Did you fight with your stepbrother? Yeah. Like fist fight? Yeah. Yeah. And actually not like a real fit, not like a real fist fight. We got, we never got into like a legitimate fight,

But we got into a lot of fights where it was like wrestling. Yeah, a lot of scuffling. A lot of scuffling. Well, me and my brother, we got in fist fights, like legit fist fights. And my dad, this is where this stems from, see, my dad instead of saying, did you ever getting fights with your brothers? No, more scuffles. Yeah.

What did your dad say to you? What was their advice to you? I mean, when my, I have a younger brother. So in times where we would get to scuffling around you, he'd be like, you know, you don't go outside and we would wrestle it out. you know, and then as the big brother, you're trying not to hurt your little brother, but you just want to show them who's boss.

Let them know, hey, that ain't cool. Marty's dad was like, well, he gave y'all gloves. Yeah, y'all put on the boxing gloves. Yeah, he literally said, yeah, y'all, okay, y'all going to fight, put on these boxing gloves. That's what my dad was like. Yeah, you want to fight, do this. So we, you know, we're boxing.

We're literally in there. That's how we think, this is how you hang your problems. Like, when me and my brother would get the argument, like, get them gloves, get the fucking gloves. It was like, pah, you know, we're just doing it.

This turned into a thing where we would box kids from school in our front yard. Like, it would be like events. My brother was very good. He was very, really.

Like, he became an actual, very talented actual boxer. He could have done it at one point. Because he was actually very skilled. I was just wild. Like, when he,

when we would box, he was always like, you know, standing back. He was taller than me. You know, he's like six two. Yeah.

And he would always stand back and try to be scientific. And I'm just like, I'm like a bull, like, sah, ha, shah! You know, and then eventually I'd just tackle him and try to take him down because I was bigger in size, but not at taller. Right. So then I could, because he would be popping me as I'm coming in, like, pop, like, pop like that. And I'm like, I get, I'm like getting mad, you know, I'm getting mad. So then I'm just tackle him. And I'm the man at this point.

Yeah. And then I'm winning because I can, because I'm heavy. You know, I'm a heavy boy. Stay down. You can't tell it. I hide it well. But I'm a heavy guy. Yeah, you can seal it well.

Yeah, I do. Thank you. Conceal it. I like that. That's one of them, one of them rich boy words. Rich boy words. Yeah. Like a pistol.

Yeah. No. So when you, I think as a child, it might not affect everybody because it was kind of the same with him and you, right? But to me, because of the way my dad reacted to that, I was thinking, that's just how you handle problems, right? You fight. If you got a problem, you just, you just fight it out. and it was years later I was like that ain't how you handle problems man that's dumb but anyway we made friends that night at shooters instead of enemies where we thought we was going to make

enemies it just comes for it really stemmed from boredom you know that type of thing just being stupid kids and being bored we had fake IDs just like you we weren't even supposed to be in there we were underage in that at that time really yeah we had fake IDs too to this day I still mess up my Social Security number because we had fake fake socios? I might be a little bit like John Bozziak.

I'm more like him than I thought. But all I did was change the last number so I would always remember my fake one. Yeah. To this day, sometimes I mess up my real one. That's hilarious. And I ask, I ask my wife, I say, what is my social? Is it a

two or a three at the end? What's the whole thing, though? Yeah. Hey, I got LifeLock. At least she's got it. At least she has the... She knows it. She knows it.

She knows it. So, anyway, um, Roadhouse. We should pipe some music in here and you should do, we should cover it as long as we don't get copyright striked. Like, like, pull it up, like play through the headphones. That's a good idea. What song should we do? I need to figure out how to white list your channel before you post it. When are you posting this?

I'll post it like next week. or I can wait if it takes you longer. Let just let me, I'll give you my number one leave here and you can text me kind of your time frame. I'm going to get on the horn and try to white list. We got this song. I really would love for you to play this song.

CJ, there was a tornado that came through Nashville. Okay. Last year. And this tornado destroyed his house and his cars and everything. He's inside the house. And his family's in a clock. it and he's holding the door shut right and his tornado is destroying taking the roof off his house yeah and uh and then we're all over there everybody's over there next day like we're we're trying to

help him get his whatever stuff remains we're trying to help him get it to a storage and it's just pandemonium over there traffic's back everybody's trying to get their stuff out of their house the cops are like you got to have ID to get in this neighborhood all this type of stuff just wild and um so as i'm driving back home this man this man melody comes to me because I'm thinking about man what that would have been like like I ain't never lived through no storm like that

but sitting there worried about my family and this thing's literally ripping the roof off and stuff and I'm sitting there holding the door shut and I'm thinking man that would be crazy like you'd never forget that and I go I'm just driving I got the phone up to me going I remember hearing all the noises

all the screams coming from the voice alarms went off and we all here my heart beat pounding out of my rear Look up to the sky and I pray for grace God please protect my family from an early grade Looking all around at the aftermath Holding on tight to the ones I add So I'm doing that in my phone

And I go man And that just came out just like that right immediately It was like God just put that on me Because I was just thinking about And I wonder what I don't know if it was the whole thing but whatever. Was that that whole part that I sent you the first time?

Yeah. I think it was like that whole first. That was the course. That came to me. I sent it to him. I go, man, I said, you need to write this song with me because he's a genius of music. And he says, man, yeah, I want to. Like now, let's do it now.

And so the next day I went to his house. He got on the piano and we wrote that song and that day. Really? It was that day, yeah. That's wild. It's called the storm. And it's off my new album. My new album's not out yet, but that song's out.

So I want you all to play that. Yeah, let's play it. But I want to make sure that you don't get a copyright strike. Yeah, we'll wait until we release it then. Yeah. What, um, how big was the tornado? It was a, what was the, uh, F3? F3, fuck.

It was, uh, it, it spanned over like 90 miles. It started in Nashville, went through East Nashville, uh, hopped and skipped and went along the interstate, interstate, interstate 40. and just kept going to east. So it was, we had people 15 miles away from our house that had our pictures, pictures from our house. Pictures that were in our shed of my wife when she was a kid. And they're like, does anybody know these people on Facebook? You know, that's 15 miles, like straight.

You know, we got extremely lucky to make it. How much damage did it actually do to your house? It took our roof off. We had a giant two-car garage behind our house that had all our stuff in it. And that went like across the street into my neighbor's yard. The whole building just kind of picked up and spun around and then parted. We had blocks on our foundation under our house that just pulverized, exploded. What happens in a tornado is your house gets racked and it's like this.

And the pressure of your, the pressure that's going on is shaking. in your house, you know, so like all our windows broke and a big chunk of our roof was off. We didn't really know on the inside. And my, she was two at the time. My youngest Caitlin said, Mommy, raining. They were in the closet. And so the water was coming in like the rain. So we got them out, went into the hallway, stayed on a mattress for about 20 minutes and

tried to gather up what we could. And then actually a neighbor, I met a neighbor. I went next door to check on an elderly couple. And there was a neighbor there who was a nurse. And she says, oh, my gosh, they said you have kids. Are you guys okay? Do you need somewhere to go? And I was like, let me talk to my wife.

So I went inside and asked her. And, you know, she agreed. We packed up a quick suitcase of what we could, pajamas and whatever. And we walk out the front door. And the girl, her name is Joanna Smith, the girl that I saw at the neighbor's house knew my wife. They had swimming lessons. Our kids took swimming lessons from the same place. And we didn't know it.

We just moved into this house like at Christmas. So we didn't know any of our neighbors. It was like, it was so wild. And now we know all of our neighbors. Now we're all like, we're all tight. It's amazing what a fucking catastrophe like that will bring people together. It's incredible. And not to mention, he had an old 70s house or something.

Yeah, right? Our house was built in 1969. 69. Which is probably a big reason why we made it. You know, they don't build houses like they used to unless you. really, really watch and make sure they do what they're supposed to. I don't think that was bearing it. Like if a tornado wants to take the house, it takes the house.

It don't matter if it's building, you know, 50, 60s. If that tornado would have, if God wouldn't have, if God wanted that house gone, is gone. And that's the thing with tornadoes, too, they're so, they're like not that big. Well, if it's an F5. An F5, I mean, what's the biggest of tornado gets? I guess F5. That's the, what's the widest it gets? It's F5, ain't it?

Well, the F5 correlates to the wind speed. So we had like 130, 140 mile winds. And I think they said that ours was 800 feet wide. 800 feet wide. So that's not that fucking wide. I mean, whatever that thing takes out, I mean, is got to be, you got to be really fucking unlucky to be right in the path of that thing. Well, I don't think, I think that it's not just being in the path of it.

It's also flowing stuff, you know. Oh, yeah. It'll pick up trucks and just. chunk them into your house. So it's not just, hey, I'm in the path of it. It's, hey, I was in the path of this cow. It threw on my house. And the scariest part is there's no, I mean, how much of a warning did you have for the tornado? Zero. Zero. You had no idea. We went to bed like any other night. My wife was in bed. It was like 1245. She hears something. There's a siren. She's like, why is there an ambulance in our neighborhood? And then she hears it again. And then she's like,

CJ get up and I got up and for some reason my shoes were there by the bed I put my shoes on and then our house alarm ADS security be be be meet meet meet meet is red as your curtains. It wouldn't normally you can like hit like okay I'm here or whatever it didn't do anything just beep beep beep beep beep so it was it was really really fast. What was that on the alarm? Was that a tornado warning? It said take cover now. Really? Oh my God. So that that that alarm company was like the go. hide, get, you know, and my wife, my wife was really upset and frantic. And I grew up, we grew up

in Arkansas. So, you know, we've- Tournado Alley. Yeah, we've hunkered in the, in the hallways, and I've watched a tornado, you know, two miles away. Like, it's not like, it's not a big deal, but you take way more precaution than you actually have a result. Right. And so. When you grow up doing it, too, like, so much. Yeah. Like, because you're always, like, there were so many tornado warnings in Arkansas where we grew up all the time. Every summer you got tornado warnings and there's like you hear the sirens.

Y'all have tornado sirens here? I don't think I've ever heard of tornado sirens. Yeah, well they used to test them. We have hurricanes here. Yeah, they used to test the tornado sirens every Friday. And you would hear this Oh, that's a tornado. Yeah, it's this massive.

It's like the Mayday siren. Yeah, yeah. The one you see in like the fucking Doomsday movies. It's what it felt like. Yeah. So then after you, when you hear that thing going off, if it ain't Friday, you should test it on Friday, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, they would test it.

So on Friday, you go, okay, they're just testing it. So heaven forbid a tornado come on Friday when they're just like, I have no big deal. They're just testing it. But when you heard that thing growing up as a boy, you're like, okay, it's time. We need to really take cover. So we'd either be at the lowest room in the house, the middle room in the house. And when you do this so much, over the, over time, you almost become numb to it.

Yeah. So you're like, nothing ever happens. You're like, my dad and I, we should be watching TV and the living room with a door wide open, watching the storm outside. You know, not even taking cover. We just be like, yeah, it's all tornadoes coming. Yeah. They ain't going to hit here. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Because you just, you've done it so much. But, and I'm sure that's how you were. 100%. I wanted to look out the window. I'm like walking to the back. we had a back door that went on a porch and my wife was just screaming like to get back and get away and and I mean it was like that I mean I just got back to the hallway and sat down and put my back against the

wall or my back against the door of the closet that they were in and I put my feet on the door frame or the bathroom across the hall and I just held it shut and I had a mattress over me and it was you know exactly what you would expect the loudest sound the loudest sound you've ever heard in your life And you had your kids with you too? My kids and my wife were in the closet. It was a little 69, so little closets, little bathrooms. It was a tiny space. Yeah.

We got them shoved in there. I can fit, you know, big boy. Fuck, man. But we made it. That's the craziest thing. We made it. You know, God has blessed us abundantly through this. I have a brand new house.

Brand new nice house. I mean, it's not. Insurance was a huge. Really? Huge, huge, huge. Isn't your payment the same, though, for this brand new house? The crazy thing is that it didn't affect our mortgage. That's amazing.

So the house that we bought, you know, we bought for a certain amount of money. And this house that we have now is worth a lot more than that. But our bank and everything is still the same. That's incredible. I don't hear those kind of stories very often. Yeah. You don't. It's really got.

Banks and insurance companies doing the right thing. Yeah. Yeah. That don't happen. We fought for it. You know, my wife, my wife used to work in insurance, so she knows, and she knows how to navigate the situation. And, I mean, you don't know how to navigate that situation,

but she had inside, you know, working in that industry, you figure out, like she knew exactly how much we were insured for, exactly how much we were, you know, supposed to be getting. Yeah. When they, when they did the foundation, the structural engineer came and inspected our foundation and found out that, you know, your house isn't okay to be built on. You know, the insurance company wants to save as much,

money. They want you to rebuild it. Rebuild it just like this. It's going to be cheaper. But when the foundation is compromised, you have no choice. And then you're dealing with the city that you live in and all their zoning stuff too. Right. So it's been a ride.

It's been a heck of a year. You know, I was just in a church last Sunday. And the preacher was talking about Noah and the flood. And he goes, there's life after the storm. Right? And I just thought about that because life after the storm is better. than it was before it. Because it wasn't just, here's the thing,

it wasn't just the fact that now he's got a brand new house. It also, that combined with COVID, really reset you. Because you were, he was literally on the road. He was always gone. Like, I mean,

always gone from his wife and children. Yeah. So all those things where most musicians look at is, it's the worst, man. Like, I'm this. He kind of said, man, I'm thankful that now I'm actually spending more time with my family than I ever was,

which that's the reason I never signed a record deal. Really? Because they want you to be on the road touring all the time. Right. Yeah. So I said, well, I'm not, I'm grown now. So that's when I said, at the beginning of the show, I said, my have family members that told me I couldn't sing, right?

So circling back, that that was the reason why. that would help me back and that was a good thing because I already had kids when I started actually getting a little support so when he now he he he knows he he's living the life that that I've always from when I first started this thing have always said that's what I'm what's what I'm going to I'm not going to I'm not I will I will quit music before I choose music over my family right right that won't happen no I'll work in a factory or whatever nothing against factory work because somebody's got to do that, you know what I mean?

That's fucking, I guess gotta fuck people up psychologically, especially from a young age, just always being on the road, just being around these fucking old manager, old people telling them what to do. You know what I mean? I hate old people. Yeah, me too. Especially, I mean, it's got to be so fucking weird

when you're like a little kid. I don't hate old people. I don't want to get canceled. I love old people. I have old people in my family. You're canceled. It's too late. He's like, he's going to cut it out.

That's going to be playing over and over. That's going to be the clip. He's going to put that as a stinger. Marty's saying, I hate old people. You're going to be right there next to Marilyn Manson, Kansas. Yeah, right there, man. I'm right up there with him. I was going to say, no, we get crazy fucking hurricanes over here.

Like, we had a couple years ago, one of the scariest hurricanes that I've experienced was Hurricane Irma. I don't know if you remember Hurricane Irma. It was a category five. It went right up through Puerto Rico and literally came shot. straight up the center of Florida. And it was the strongest hurricane, like the strongest it gets. And it came right at the center.

It was like literally headed right for this town, right over this building, basically. Was that the one that they said was coming in a weird direction? That there was one that came through, came to Florida that they said was going a different, flying, and blow in a different way than normal. Like it was,

they normally come from, the East Coast, right? They normally come from the, yeah, they come from, like, the Atlantic Ocean over by, like, Africa is where they form. Yeah, and then they said there was one that was coming, the opposite coming from the West Coast area. Like, not only the West Coast. No, this wasn't that. No, I know what you're talking. Some of them come from, like, the Yucatan.

No, this wasn't that one. Yeah. This one came from, like, the deep Atlantic. And it was, like, really, it was massive in scale. And it was also, like, the strongest hurricane we've had since, like, Andrew, which took it. I do remember this one. This is the one. that people were evacuating.

Oh, bro, it was like everybody. This place was a ghost town for like two weeks. Did you evacuate? No, hell no. I was like you guys. Exactly. Because I grew up here. Right.

I've been desensitized. I mean, my friends growing up in high school, whenever hurricanes come, the bridge is all shut down. We all hop on our surfboards and paddle across the inner coastal and go over to the beach so we could go out in the ocean and surf. You know what I mean? When the hurricane, when the waves are really bad. Wow. But meanwhile, because this town is so full of snowbirds and people moving down here from up north. half the

fucking population down here is on the highway trying to get out of Florida and it's literally it was like it was like something out of a fucking pandemonium yeah it was insane

and we were just like you were just out there surfing and then at the very end like the day before it's supposed to hit it's like this thing's not I'm like it'll calm down it's not gonna hit us it never hits us

it always weekends when it hits land and then it didn't it was still a category 5 and it was coming right out it's probably the most scared I've ever been for in a You were actually scared.

It was the first time I've ever been scared. You thought you're going to die? I thought our roof was going to blow off at the worst part. But luckily we had this big, I built this poured concrete countertop in the middle of my house and my kitchen. You got under that? So we were like, fuck. If it worst comes to worse, we could get underneath this concrete countertop. If the house blows away, this countertop's not moving.

So that's the only thing we had. Luckily, it didn't rip the roof. Did you get under it though? No, we didn't. Almost. It wasn't going to work very good for you. The last second, the hurricane went off to the right. the last second went through Orlando, like an hour east of here.

Wow. So we got lucky. But yeah. Hurricanes reach Orlando? Yeah, bro. Orlando's not by the beach. Orlando's in the middle of the state. I know.

Hurricanes, that would be more like a storm, wasn't it? Because we, that's where tornadoes come from. It's from the, you know, the fronts and the, sometimes the hurricanes, you know, they tropical storms, whatever, that's what causes, like, the storms we get, but it's not called a hurricane at that point. Yeah. They still call it a hurricane in Orlando? Yeah, the hurricane. Yeah.

I think the hurricane is defined by like the strength and the size of it. And it's, it can go. The hurricanes, usually they like fizzle out and die after they've been on land for hundreds of miles. Florida is like 200 miles wide or something like that. Yeah. So it could hurricane go right across Florida and hit the other coast and still be a hurricane. I didn't know that. I just, I thought that the hurricane, it was only called a hurricane when it hit land, right

where it hit land. So like right on the coastal regions, that's the hurricane. Then when it gets past that, it turns into storms. That's what I thought. No. But I mean, I don't know. I'm not a weatherman. Yeah.

You know what I said? No, I mean, I know you said that when I came in. He said, he's either a weatherman, a tow truck driver, or a lawyer. I remember you saying that. Yeah. Let's play the song. Let's play the song. Play the song.

Let's do it. Storm. The storm. Is this it right here? That's it. I remember hearing all the noise. All the screams coming from the voice. Yeah, too.

Alarms went off and we all hear. A heartbeat pounding out of my wrist. Look up to the sky and I pray for grace. God please protect my family from an early grade. Looking all around at the aftermath. Holding on tight to the ones I have. Holding on tight to the ones I have. I could think about it for a long time.

Ponder everything that could have happened in my mind But instead I'm looking Into my baby's eyes There's a lot of people It is, aftermath, yeah He and I wrote around I just filmed it I came through the night

When we were lost in dreams Pray for me Because things are not exactly how they seem I make videos now And they're a lot better than they're all about that base I'm saying they're the best But they're better All the screams coming from the

Boys and alarms went off and we all here. My heart beat pounding out of my wrist. Look up to the sky and I pray for grace. God peace protect my family from an early grave. Looking all around and on tight to the ones I end. Here we go again with another day. All these people show in love in a million ways. While all around the world they pray for self-games.

on my knees thankful for amazing grace i just know it could have turned out very differently as i did through all the rubble wreckage and debris pray for me because things are not exactly how they sing i'm trying to be strong and be a rock but in my head i scream i remember hearing all the noises all the screams coming from the voices alarms went off and we all hear my heart beat pounding out of my Look up to the sky And I pray for grace God please protect my family From an early grace

Looking all around at the aftermath Holding on tight to the ones I hate The storm makes a stronger Where did you guys shoot this? Nashville I mean where was the building you're in That's actually at the top of a bike Oh okay

Yeah They had a piano They had a grand piano on In time of the mate, for real. Yeah. I remember. Forever. Hell yeah.

That was fucking awesome, man. Thanks, brother. I appreciate that. Yeah, that's the new single that came out. There's that one in the picture. The song called Pictures. It's actually a hip-hop song. Really?

Yeah, on my new album. How many songs are on the album? I have about 25 songs that I want to put on it, but I want to probably narrow it down to about 14. That's why it's been supposed to come out two years ago. Really? Yeah. It was supposed to come out two years ago, but it's money.

Yeah. It takes money to get stuff recorded. Yeah. And then you end up spending a lot of money. I spent, I don't know, $300 on a drum track that I don't want to use now. On several different versions of a drum track that I'm not happy with, you know. And so I don't even want to use it. So I just, at this point, I probably won't use a drum track at all, but I still spent that money.

You know what I mean? So stuff like that happens, and you really eats into your budget. Right. You know? And because then you've got to figure out how to, because it does no good just to make an album. People think, well, man, you need to make an album. I got three albums. You know, you look up Marty Ray Project everywhere.

There's albums all over the place. Yeah. But you got to have a way to market it. You got to have money to market an album. Right. Yeah. So, and that's why, that's really one of the main reasons that I started my podcast again, because you know, how long you've been podcasting? About two years.

Two years? Yeah. I was podcasting in 2007. Fuck. Are you serious? Before Joe Rogan, before all those people. Yes, sir. I mean, I haven't been doing it this whole time, but back then my goal, I saw podcasting and I go, this right here is the wave of the future back then.

Podcasting got no respect back then. but there was very few podcasts. I would try to get these guests to come on the show, and I'd be like to have you my podcast. They'd be like, a pod what? What's that? What does that mean? It's a weird word, isn't it?

Yeah, a pod. The fuck did that come from? That's a good question. Like, where did that come from? Did it begin in a pod? That might be where it came from. With the iPod out there? I don't know.

Did the iPod come out in, in, before 07? Austin. When the iPod come out? Like, probably 2000. I bet it did come out. I bet that is what it came from. Probably, right? Yeah, surely.

Huh? 2001. 2001. I don't know when podcasting started 100%, but it wasn't long. It started just a shade before I started podcasting. Because back then, it was hard to find a podcast. If you wanted to hear a podcast, it was hard to find it. And we were doing the show, and it was kind of like the show we do now,

which is called the Marty Ray Project Chats. Yeah. And it's a lot like this. Okay. The same. Where do you post it? Everywhere. Everywhere.

Same way you do. Okay. You post yours everywhere, right? Yeah. Yeah. So we did that, but we did it back then, too. But there wasn't as many places. There was like, I think there was just like two or three places that you would post a podcast.

And Apple was the biggest place. The only, it still is. Right. And it's the only place you really cared about back then. So, but back then, anybody that posted a new podcast, they were put on, if you gave a good eight weeks, that you were put on the new and noteworthy for podcast back then. Right.

So I had, we had good success right out the gate because we were like some of the only people doing it back then. And actually had Darius Rucker on, that's very rude of you, the yawn like that. It's falling asleep. It's a long one. Sorry I'm boring you. Keep me up all night, Marty. Yeah. Anyway, we had Derris Rucker come on back then. I had to make him think. I was, when I was thinking about doing it at first, we were calling it something,

and then I changed it because I got tired of explaining to people what a podcast was. I was like, it's like radio, but it's not radio. And there we go, oh, it's radio. I'm like, no, it's not radio. There I go, I don't want to do that then. I only do radio shows. I'm like, oh, okay, whatever. So then I changed the name, and I called it Mim Nash Radio. That was the name of the podcast.

So it would fool people, and it did. It worked. People thought it was a radio station. That's pretty genius. And I was able to get guests like big time guests. Like Derriss Rucker. You know who Derrish Rucker is, I'm hoping. I know who Darrys Rucker.

Who do you and Blowfish? So I was able to get him on. I was actually the first concert I ever went to my whole life. Wow. Was you at college? No, I was like, probably like six years old. My dad brought me. Wow.

So you're still fan? I haven't, I haven't listened to him in a long time, but I'll always be a fan of him. who he would even blowfish. Nice. Yeah, I like Darius Rucker a lot. Had his number for a long time.

Used to text him randomly until he blocked me. What? Stop. That's true. That's true. I had his number in my phone for a long time. And because of that podcast years ago, I just had his number.

And he just lived there. I didn't text him a lot. But every now and I would bring it up like now. If I had his number right now, I'd text him. I'd say, I'd say, bro. And I would show you that.

Or I would call him like with Burke Chrysher. You know, Chrysler is. Yes. Yeah. So he was on my podcast. Really? Yeah.

And this is a hilarious story about how that came about. And it was because I'm very persistent. Yeah. If I want somebody on my show. So he ended up following me on Instagram. And so then I just kept on, at first I seen him one message. And I said, hey, man, I'm a big fan of your comedy. I'd love to have you on my podcast.

And now that's an OG podcaster. Right. Right. Right. So he goes, oh, I'd love to. And I said, all right. well how about this date right i gave him a date right and then didn't hear nothing i was like and then that went on for i was like question mark then i sent this emoji

yeah yeah sent this emoji right here then i sent another one yeah then this you know what i'm saying yeah and i'm sitting these these these these messages and then he he actually reads i said read some of those because this went on for a year a year i was sending these messages every month going this is the monthly Marty message. Monthly Marty. Monthly Marty. I said, we'd love to have you on. I still love you.

I know you're busy. He said, you'd be on. Please, please. Was he like reading them? You know, he could see if they read it? He was reading them. Oh, really? It's not responding.

He's just responding. And then he would respond occasionally. Like it would go three months. And then he would say, we're supposed to be. And he would say, it wasn't that he just wasn't interested. He actually was interested, but that's a busy dude, man. Like, that guy's got three Netflix specials, a Netflix show. He's got four podcasts, I believe he does.

Four podcasts? He's got Burt Bill, two bears, one cave, maybe three, and Burtcast. And I think there's one more, but I can't remember the last, maybe it's just three. Then he's got that big show now, a game show on TBS. Does he really? Yeah, called Go Big. So he's a busy dude. It's not like he's not busy.

And he was touring the country. And then one time he messaged me back, he goes, hey, we're coming to Memphis. We're going to be in Memphis. I was like, well, we need to, no. He didn't say we're coming to Memphis. I said, I see you're coming to Memphis. I'm from Memphis. Let's do the show while you're there.

Do the podcast while you're there. And didn't hear nothing back. So then eventually he says, I'm supposed to be playing at the Riemann in Nashville. I said, okay, let's do it. It's it. He goes, and then he says, in Asheville. I said, you mean Nashville? And he goes, and he didn't respond.

I said, you mean Nashville again? And I said, Nashville. Did you listen to it? No. You didn't hear that one? Wait, the story or the podcast? No, the podcast. The episode, yeah.

With Bert. So, Bert gets on, and this happened for a year. This was a whole year, and Bert finally got on. And I said, some of those messages. So he read through the messages he was dying. He said, I feel like I know you. He said, I feel like he said, you know what's like, it's like getting to know your neighbor. I said, can I adopt you as my cousin? And he said, 100% I'll do that. Right. And so it's just like, that's the, that's the thing is, uh, Bert's cool though. Yeah. Is he? He's very cool. Where's he

where's he live? He's from, I think he's from here. From Florida? From Tampa. Really? Yeah, I think so. I can't remember. Isn't he from Tampa? Yeah, he's from Tampa. Because him and Mike Calta, we're friends. What? Yeah. Holy shit. That's insane. Yeah, because we were talking about that on the show.

Matter of fact, Mike, Mike, when he vetted me, he, because I didn't know, that wasn't planned to be on that show. Right. That came. How did that get set up? This guy, the, I didn't know anything about the Mike Calta show. Right. Right.

It's a big famous show around here. Right. I know that now. But the club owner at Side Splitters is where we did the show. Yeah. apparently Mike was just going to his he needed a guest so he goes he gets a lot of the comedians from there because it's a comedy club right and he sees this bearded guy

sitting there with a guitar you know doing whatever and he goes I don't this is a I don't know if this is a comedian or what is this he looks me up and he goes he goes huh Marty Ray and then he sees where Bert Kreisher was on my my podcast yeah and he calls Bert or he texts Bert he texts Bert he says Hey Marty Ray Project

He said yada yada yada And then Bert said Burke called him immediately And he goes You'll love it You'll love it He said do it

He goes okay Okay okay So then I get a thing And the Brian from the club He says He says you're going to be on Mike Cauta show At 9 o'clock in the morning

The day of the show Which was yesterday And I was like okay I figured Be honestly I figured all here's a radio show, a little radio show. Hopefully I'll sell some tickets from it.

And then when I said it at the first event, I was supposed to be on some show called Mike Calta show or something. I didn't even know I'd say his name. And they were like, Mike Calta show or whatever. How do you say it? Calta. Calta. It's Calta.

It's like California. Yeah. So they said Mike Calta show. That's a huge show. That's what they said. Wow. Okay. So we go to the, you know, we go to his mansion.

And we do his show because he's doing it out of his house. Really? And I was like, I didn't know DJs made this. He's got a mansion? It's pretty big. Really? Pretty big house. On the water?

Not in on the water. It's not on the water. Might have his own lake back there behind it. He's got his own swimming pool, indoor swimming pool back there. What? Yeah. Yeah, radio. I didn't know radio guys still made that kind of money besides Howard Stern.

I didn't know that either. That's what I'm saying. Well, they got a podcast too. Everybody's got a podcast now. Everybody's got a fucking podcast. Now. Yeah. Right.

Back when I've started. The radio stations, they look down on podcasts. They still do probably. No, not now because they're all got their podcasts. Howard is the one who looks down on a podcast. He probably does. Howard fucking shits on podcast. You know, Howard Stern show, I'm not the biggest fan of Howard Stern,

but his show is the one that made me growing up. That's why it was actually one of my dreams growing up. I was like, I want to have a talk show like that. Really? Yeah, like I want to do that. I want to bring people in. and say, hey, play with something for me. Hey, how you doing?

Get to know people. Yeah. And they want to do that, and I get to do that for a living. That was, like, my dream more than music to do that. Interesting. Yeah, because of, I've seen that the, I think I watched private parks, the movie. Yeah.

After that, I was like, I want to do that, man. I want to, I want to do what he does. And I don't even listen to his show, even now. I didn't, I've listened to a few things on YouTube and stuff. But I do like the, I like how he's, I don't know, he's, he's very, he's very, shocking. Like he'll, it's like a shock moment. Yeah, he's very blunt about things. Yeah, and he

does. Like he won't, in that movie they talk about where he what was it about his wife? She had, she had like a miscarriage or something. Remember that? Yeah. Yeah. He goes on the air and just starts making light of it. And then I think you, I think they get a divorce after that? Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, man. I was like, this is crazy. I didn't want to do nothing like that. But I was like, it's crazy that what the links that he'll go to. for his show. Yeah. You know what I mean? But I wanted to always be able to, I've always wanted to be able to do that.

So that's why I fell in love with podcasting. Because I didn't have to go through the radio, terrestrial radio. I said, I can make a podcast right now. And before I did mine, Jared was actually podcasting before me. Really? Yeah, this guy right back here. Come here, Jared. Come on, Jared.

Come on here, tag in. Yeah, CJ's getting boring anyway. He's getting tired. He didn't get any sleep last night. He wants to answer these texts. There's a bunch of texts going on Yeah Jared's

I think you got over his hangover He just went out there and vomited I did really I did Yeah right right in your Walkway It's so nice that there's a ditch right here So I can just

I can do whatever I need Perfect This is a podcasting OG right here Really? Yeah He used to have How many podcasts you used to have I have?

I have been a part of At least six podcasts Six podcasts Yeah Yeah He's got two It's got two now You make films

And I'm also a filmmaker Yeah Really How'd you get into that I actually went to full sale down here. Did you really? I tried to get, it was too expensive for me.

It's like 80 grand for tuition. Yeah, I could have been a doctor for the person that I spent together. Did you pay that money back yet? No. Did you not? No, hell no. You still paying on that?

No, really. That's so fucked up. And I, you know, my parents did you graduate a lot. So, 2006. That's the year I graduated high school.

Oh, God. No. Golly, man. You still paying on that loan, bro? Yeah, man. How many years was that? And like, you know, he's talking to,

about that price, but then, you know, there's no dorms. So you pretty much have to, you know, get an apartment. And school is at really weird time, so it's really hard. No scholarships or nothing. No scholarships. Well, I wasn't smart enough to get a scholarship anyways. Did they give scholarships a full sell? I think so.

They probably do now, yeah. Now, do you know how much you still owe on the loan? I just try not to look at it. How much do you estimate it might be? That I still owe? Yeah. It's got to be in the $30,000 range. Golly.

And that was how many years ago? 2006, but I, like I said, I spent well over $100,000 because like I said, you had to get lodging and food and all that. And because the crazy schedule of the school, you couldn't really work, you know. And there's no way to be forgiven of that debt. Oh, no. No fucking way. That's bad, man. And then what's bad about that?

Because if you're a doctor, you know that there's a light coming at the end of the time. And some boy, you're like, hey, bring on the debt. Yeah. Let it be $300,000. I don't care. because I'm about to be making that in the year. Yeah. With him, you don't know.

You don't know what you're going to be making. No. You know what I'm saying? You go on that, you go on to that type of degree. You have no clue if you're going to, how much you're going to make, when you're going to make it, especially if you're doing it. Like, I'm independent. He's independent. He's doing it on his own.

So what's the name of your company? Flash Forward Films in Memphis, Tennessee. Flash Forward film. I think I've heard of that. Well, he just started the new one. You've got heard of his old one. Yeah. I did, which we're not going to talk about that one.

I'm not talking about the old one. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, I did a search, so I think I do own that name. I got the dot-com, so. Nice. So do you're all-independent stuff yourself, or do you work on? I'm a freelancer mostly. Oh, yeah.

But I'm trying to get my own projects up and going, but I'm a director of photography, so I, I shoot stuff, you know, so, and I also do color grading. But editing, and, I mean, of course, you have to know everything. Of course. It's such a small market that it's pretty much a lot of one-man band stuff. So I'll go out and just do set up and do sound and everything just for, like, corporate interviews. But our bread and butter is music videos.

You want to see the first big music video we did? Yeah. Pull up, All My Friends Are Bearded. All My Friends Are You Everard? Yeah. You ever heard of 21 Pilots? What's it called?

21 Pilots. You heard of that band? No. You heard the song, All my friends are heathens, you take it slow. I think I have heard that, yeah. Yeah, it's from Suicide School. Oh, yes, yes, yes.

So I changed it to all my friends are bearded. And we did that video. There was a lot of who was saying this is better than the than the original video. You get that a lot. Four million views on this. Yeah. Oh, fuck.

There we go. You shot this? Yeah, he shot this one and edited it. This is at the Missouri State Penitentiary, the deadliest 40 acres in the history of America. More people died in that prison from a... Death Row there? Yeah.

Well, there was a riot there, too. All my friends are bearded you should know All that writing on that wall He put in there See death roll That's death row That's death row But it's actually death row for beards

In my video He's an abandoned prison Yeah It's a museum Well it's a museum now And they were really cool man They just let us go They like you know

They gave us free rain They've asked us to come back That's fucking sick They've asked us to come back Several times They've asked me to come back Now this one If you play this one, you might have to just make them look this one up because this was tricky to get the, because this is actually a recreation of.

So this hits copyrighted? Well, I mean, I still make money on this because I recreated it from ground up. I'm not using their track. It's still my sound recording. Right. But I don't think you would get flagged, but there would be some monetization sharing. Sherry, right. Got you.

Wow, that's sick. I love that. That's a sick shot. Yeah. That one, too. The one where he's playing in front of everybody, sitting in the chairs. That's my little brother I'm choking out right there. Couldn't tell.

Our biz, old boss gets attention. Go to be a grand bell making ventions. Don't be telling us of the beardo sitting next to you. That's all digital. Those screens were blank. That took forever to do. Did the tape them blue or whatever? No, man.

We just rotoed it. Okay, that's a big square. Probably a bit easier. No, we just rotoed it. No, it was a little bit easier. a big deal. Quick roto job. No, we got this video

wrapped out in four days as far as like, you know, yeah. When you rap shooting to add a finish product, yeah, that's fucking nuts.

It was, it was. You jump out of tired fat boy right there, man. We were trying to reach the, no shave,

no shape. There's the dead beard grays. That's where all the dead ears. Those are all digital as well. Because they wouldn't let us get in the grass. Yeah,

we couldn't dig holes in their grass in some reason. You know what? It's a museum. I don't know why. Dude, this is a, fucking beautiful video.

Thank you. Yeah. He's super talented. And when he and I get together and work, it's magical. Because I know exactly what I want, and he knows how to achieve it. So do you direct it too? I'm kind of really directing my stuff, but he is a director. Okay.

Most of the time, but he does help as far as I go. He's more of a DP on my stuff. Right. And then I say, look, this is what I'm trying to achieve. And then he'll say, this is how we're going to do it. I like composing the scenes and coming up with interesting ways to shoot things. And the color is amazing, too. Thank you.

Yeah. And that was back when he, you know, he's actually grown in his ability to color now. That was a sick fucking video. Yeah. So that's what we do together, you know? When we're together, it's like the, it's a dream team. You know what I mean? Hell yeah.

What kind of other videos have you done? Like, who contracts you to do videos mainly? I do a lot of, like, indie artists. Okay. And I actually work with a, um, with a director. Hotkey Studios, Blake Heimbach, and he used to be in a band called One Less Reason. He's, like, tore it all over.

So he's got, he has incredible music contacts. So he's a music video director, and, you know, I'm his DP. So, wow. That's how I get a lot of my work. But then also, I really appreciate what I learned at full sale, and I value my time there. I mean, yeah, it's expensive, whatever,

but I think what it did was it cemented what I wanted to do. Because I was a musician before anything. I was playing on Bill Street and Memphis and stuff at 16 years old. But I, what was a, wanting to go to school for that and be working in a recording studio, which is funny. What I actually do a lot is in recording studios. Right.

But it kind of goes, it's full circle. Yeah. But basically I... It's full sale. Full sale. Fuck. 100 grand. I would have been cemented in what I was going to do too after that was funny.

Well, you have to, right? But the problem is, that's been like, what, 15 years-ish? And I just now, I'm starting to make a living. And I've had to learn a lot. So, like, I didn't learn to do what I do there, really. Like, I learned the basics of it. and found the love for it, you know, took the idea to the next step,

but it's taken 15 years to actually just figure out why a light should be where it should be. You know, the concept of what actually goes into doing it and making it look professional, and then now let's figure out. So I'm in the stage of like, okay, now I know how to do it,

let's play. Let's figure out what it's going to take to actually get to the next step. Yeah. Pull up something, some commercial you made. A commercial I made? Or whatever, whatever. Put me on the spot.

Yeah, pull up. We want to see what you got. Oh, man. See, I don't like, I'm not very good at, I mean, I know quite a bit. I've learned a lot about lighting and stuff from, like, working on movie sets. But I'm not a fan of doing, I like, I'm a fan of doing, like, natural. I love natural. Yeah.

You know, there's no, I mean, I like to take something that's natural and just put an edge on it. Or just, like, just fill it in, just a touch and just kind of work with what's there. And it just comes out. Styles now are more natural. There's a Chris Stapleton video that I saw the other day. I can't really name it. It blew me away just how natural the lighting felt. And I knew it was, I knew that it was lit, but everything just felt so raw.

Yeah. I want to show you a commercial that this one will get copyrighted. This is a commercial I did like probably 10 years ago for, I entered, before I got like any real like big commercial jobs or big work, I got a, I got, I didn't enter a contest, a commercial contest for Land Rover and I won it. Nice. Wow. And then they paid me and they paid me to actually do another real one. So like these executive. Landover flew down from New York.

No way. It was crazy. How much did they pay? They paid me $8,000. Nice. That's still good, dude. I was like 20 years old. That was your budget or that was your pay?

That was my pay. Congratulations. Yeah, they paid everything. They just paid me like, okay, you won. We'll pay you $8 to remake the commercial. And you got to tell them, so on top of the $8,000, that was, you got to say, this is what we need and they got it. Yeah, but it was really like, so I shot the thing on a 5D, the original one that

won the contest. And then so we're like, oh, we're going to pay your whole budget to do the, budget was like 30 grand and like pick everything you want so i'm like oh yeah i'm going to get a fucking red camera i'm going to get uh all these big lights i hired like a uh a grip company to come out and do all the stuff and it was a shit show i was trying to coordinate the grip people i was trying to coordinate the camera operator so you needed a producer and i was trying to recreate it and it just it fucking shit the bed wow it was not it was nowhere near as good as the original one were they not happy with it i don't know i wasn't happy with it i think they ended up using it but

But it was nowhere near as good as the original. You still got your 8 grand. Yep. It's cool that they let you go through that process, though, because in my head, I was thinking that they would bring out their people. It's like, great, we love what you did. Now we're going to do it, but you can kind of guide us. I think it would have been better if they would have said,

hey, here's the team we usually use. You just direct them. Yeah, you direct them. That would have been a better play for them. But I think that that's really cool that they allowed you to take those steps. Yeah, no, it was definitely a crazy learning experience. It was one of the most stressful things I've ever done, especially being so young, you know.

Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, now you're just an old man. Here it is. I'd be freaking out now. Brush your teeth in less than 10 seconds with this revolutionary toothbrush. Let them make their money, bro. It was created by... Yeah.

So it's to promote their certified pre-owned warranty. So it's to get people to buy their used cars. You got a good, good-looking dude. He looks like the dude from Supernatural. And Superman kind of had a baby. He slapped it. Spank me I'm going to lick you

It's not his car That's good, dude Yeah man That's good You killed him No man That's the commercial right there That's good

That's good The tagline was know who your car's been with I love that man You buy a used car Know who it's been with You guys aren't familiar Yeah, dude, good work on that, man. I thought that was Austin talking.

Yeah, I thought he was jumping in too. I thought the freak of Austin, shut your mouth back there. I'm going to show off one more to you real quick. Please. The last one, I swear to God. Please. This is one of my favorite commercials I ever did with Hulk Hogan. This is to promote his...

I think I saw that girl coming out of the hotel the other day. There's a bunch of girls that had looked like that here. This is to promote his beach bar restaurant in Tampa that he used to have. I noticed that girls around here let their bottom butt cheeks hang out. Nice buns. brother. Thanks. I got on a

Hogan feet. The best one's in town, baby. Was that really, from the behind that really wasn't Jimmy Hart,

I pray. Yeah, that was his real life. He's got a nice one. I'm very confused about things now. That was good, man.

I actually worked on his reality show when I was in full sense. Oh, did you really? Yeah, yeah. The W. W. No,

it was like the Hogan Legends. Oh, Hogan knows best. Yeah, it was like the reality show. No way. Yeah, man.

I work for Pink Sneaker's productions on that. Okay. Yeah, yeah, that. Yeah, yeah. That's fucking cool, man. He should get a reality show. That was like the peak of reality television. Yeah, no, that was like a legit reality show. Yeah. Yeah. He should get a new reality show called Hogan's Heroes. That's, that is something, isn't it? Yeah, but I'm saying, it's an old TV show. Yeah. But it wasn't about Hulk Hogan, you know. Right.

Anyway, so do you have you had Hulk Hogan in here? I haven't had him on the podcast yet. Are you still in connections with him? Yeah, I'm still in connection with it. I don't know if it'd be a good idea to the podcast or not. I mean, he's, I don't know, it's always, everything's always like a drama in his life. Yeah. Well, that's just good for you, man. It's good content. Yeah, yeah, it is. It would be great content. I don't think I've ever seen him on another podcast. I don't think I've ever seen him on a podcast either. I mean, everyone else has a podcast.

I mean, everyone else has a podcast. Everybody at this table has a podcast. Yeah. Everybody nowadays does have a podcast. Every single fucking. And it's harder. My dog has a podcast. It's harder now than it was back in the day.

It's harder to make it, like, get, like, viewers. It's hard to get downloads and whatnot now than it was back then because. at least back then there was a niche audience of podcast listeners and they didn't have much to choose from so they were finding podcasts and now it's just a I mean there's millions of millions of podcasts yeah it's insane how shit changes like when I first started when I first got introduced to the internet and videos and like videos like going viral or whatever it was always this like short skits you know what I mean like shorts like sketch comedy things like that or like YouTube like prank videos like you would try to come up with the next like funny thing like that

Remember, uh, Niga Higa? Yes. That's the first YouTuber I ever started watching. Yeah. He was like from the cut. He was on the very beginning, the, the inception of YouTube. You remember him? You talked about him, but I don't really, like, I've seen some things.

Whatever happened to him. I've been hounding him on Instagram, just like I did Bert Kreis. Really? Yeah, trying to get him on my podcast. Oh, that would be fucking amazed. He won't respond. I don't even know if he runs his account. You know, but I still, I leave a comment every time I see it.

A post. I go, love to have you on a podcast. you're the reason I'm on YouTube. You know what I mean? Like he was literally a boy. He was younger than me. He was a kid at the time. He's making these stupid videos in his, in his, in his parents' house.

Yeah. And I just would laugh at him. And I was like, man, we need to do this. We need to broadcast ourselves. That's what it was called YouTube, broadcast yourself. And before Google, it owned it, you know, and no ads. It was just people, anybody releasing whatever they thought was cool. Right.

They were broadcasting herself. So he kind of put that little spark in me a long time I was already a grown man And I was watching these kids on That sounds weird You actually just bring that up Yeah, it's weird It's weird that you started

Like you know, you jumping into something That's actually controlled mostly by younger people You know Yeah And he was the one that Made me go I'm gonna do this I gotta do this

You know And so I'd love to be on the show I don't know That would be amazing Maybe he listens to this Ryan if you're listening which camera

that's that camera I think Ryan if you're listening I'd love to have you on my show brother let's be brothers Ryan Ryan Ryan

where you go come on Ryan where the fuck are you Ryan just trying to grow your family just trying to adopt more cousins man will you be my cousin I'll be your cousin I'm really trying to figure out

we're having we can be kissing cousins if you want hey well I'm gonna lick you like you had that guy licked that Rland Rover oh you promise Yeah, well, it depends on where. Jared will take up my slack for other places.

This is a guy who'll eat anything. Will you eat anything? I won't eat anything. Really? What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten? The crazy thing I've ever eaten. I mean, the most nuts thing. Oh, fuck.

Probably a heart. You ate a heart. I ate a heart of a cow heart. Like a cobra heart? No, not cobra heart. I think it was a cow heart. I ate part of a cow heart. Yeah.

Was it? Not very good. I don't think it was that good. Was it raw? No, it wasn't raw. It was cooked. Where do they sell this at? You can get it at butcher shops.

Yeah, you can get it at butcher shops. Really? Yeah. Of course. There is this, you've ever heard of a copi-luic coffee? Copi-Luick? No. This is a coffee that, what happens is there's this weird cat out in the wild, and it eats coffee beans, and then it poops them out.

What? Then they take the turd. I've heard of this. And they get the beans out, and then they make coffee out of it. It balances the flavor. I have that coffee. We're doing that on our podcast. We're going to taste test this coffee, this poop coffee.

So excited to drink it. It's very expensive. It's the most expensive. I paid this little bitty pouch. I paid 60 bucks. This tiny pouch of coffee. How many cups do you get out of that? It looks like maybe, I don't know, two.

Because what if it's amazing and we just want to keep drinking it? Then fork over some money and get some more. What does it do to you? Does it get you like super fucking. jacked on caffeine. It's not even about that. It's about the flavor. It's supposed to be about the flavor. I don't know. And they just harvest cat shit. Yeah. I mean, who figured this out, right? Who goes out? Someone was like, crappy, ate all the coffee. No, no, the beans are still here. The beans are still here. How do you figure out that you can steal that this is going to taste good?

And why? Why does it taste different? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But anyway, we're trying it. Of course. So we're going to report back. I can't wait to see that. Where did you buy it from? Amazon. Silk Road. Oh. I'm sorry. No, it's not illegal. It's not illegal. Sounds illegal. It does. He thought it was black market stuff.

Let me tell you what people we found. What was that website you just called off, bro? Is that your black market website you started? No, man, that's where you can buy drugs and crazy shit on the airport. Not even, really? If you go there now, I think it says like seized by the FBI. You learned that from Boziac, didn't you? No, I actually knew about that before Boziac, but Boziac knew all about it.

I'm sure he did. I see you see who else does over here. Do you have to pay for that coffee with Bitcoin? No, it was a light coin Like coin Yeah No Paid for it with real money

Okay Amazon points Well I can't wait to fucking see you try that Pay for it with real money Amazon point How do you say it again The name of the coffee Copi Luak

Copi Luac Yeah Okay It's the one with the big cat on it Okay All right I'm gonna try that You gonna try it? I'm gonna try it

Man I wish you were closer You could come try it with us And on our show How far is it from Did you drive here? I drove here How long did take you? Ten hours

10 hours that's not that bad it's not that bad if you want to come up and i do want to come up there come up and be on we'll schedule that show because it's it's not it's like we'll have you as a guest and my friend shot a documentary uh in uh Tennessee I forget the name of the town but the name of the documentary it won tribeca film festival it's called oxyana have you heard of it I think that it's a town it's an old coal mining town where everyone's addicted to oxies everyone's addicted to heroin was the it was the movie poster like a neon pink on the front or no no no that ain't at the end there was a movie that came out of Memphis that was you know what I'm talking about okay never mind it don't matter he don't know movies yeah they don't get the same content you know what a movie is uh yeah I think so you've

ever heard of what I know what a podcast is yeah you should try to look up some movies all right let me know what you think about movies no next time we talk I don't want to take up the rest of your day here no I appreciate me I don't know how long we're about two and a half hours in. I don't know how long your podcast goes. I don't know how much longer you guys are staying in Florida, but I don't want to keep you here for the rest of the time. You ain't bothering us. I'm talking about you.

Your time is, we can talk forever, dude. I think we, uh, you got to cut us off. I think we did a pretty good, we covered a lot of shit. This was a great fucking podcast. Man, I enjoyed it. I always enjoy it. Because, you know, I like to hear myself talk. Yeah.

I like to hear you talk too. Do you? You need to send you some more. Serenade me. You may make your voice memo? Serenade me one more time. You mean to make your voice mail and say, Marissa, I love you. Hey, send this to your girlfriend, Austin.

Right? Remember that? Oh, yeah. You remember that from Howard Stern? Has you ever seen Howard? You ever seen the private parts often? You remember what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah. But he tells that girl to sit on the speaker?

Yeah, oh, yeah. Isn't that weird? And he's like, go ahead, settle the speaker. And he sits there. Yeah, he does exactly. She's like having an orgasm right there on the radio live. and that really happened in real life and you're like,

this is strange, man. Marissa would definitely do something like that. If we had a Sibian, Marissa would be on the Sibian. What's a Sibian? You don't know what a Sibian is? You don't know what Rodehouse is. Fair enough. You had that locked and loaded, didn't you?

I was waiting for C.J. Roadhouse. Roadhouse. You had that locked and fucking loaded. The Sibian's like a, it's like a saddle type thing with like little knobs on it that the girl. girls get naked and they sit on it and they have a remote control that makes it vibrate and they sit on it and they ride it like a saddle.

Why did you say it as if everybody knows what this is? I thought everybody is. I didn't know what it was, but I've seen it. You don't have a recipient in your house, bro? I didn't know the brand name. We all have them down here. He threw it out like, bro, you don't have a Peloton? It's like, it's like his most common thing ever.

It's like a couch in your house. He's like, hey, mom. Bob's like, hey, mom's, did you get the Sibian cleaned? Hey, go clean the Sibian. It's dirt. It's filthy. Marty, it's better if you don't clean it. All right.

I'll download Roadhouse and you go buy a Sibian, all right? When you come to the show, we're going to test out two things. Poop coffee and Sibians. Well, I'll bring Marissa. I'm going to bring Austin and Marissa with me, too. Yes. So we'll get her on the Sibian. We're also doing, on that show, we're doing.

Again, that's the Marty Ray Project Chats. We're also going to test out. My buddy, who's the co-host of it, Chris Wallen, he's actually a hit songwriter. Country songs you probably wouldn't know much about. We're actually, he thinks that you like White Castle? Or do y'all have a White Castle here? White Castle is all right.

Yeah. No, we don't have a White Castle here where you can buy them frozen. Okay, well, that's not. Are there crystal here? No, there's no crystal here. Wow. I've been to White Castle. You have no slider sandwiches here, huh?

No. No. But y'all got some good burgers. But I've had Crystal and White Castle on road trips up north before. Which one? Better. I don't remember. I was so young.

Yeah, you could care less probably. I know. Yeah, you're going off of a frozen box of White Castle. I like Bojangles. Okay. Chicken biscuit, bro. Okay. Sure, that's good.

I have good tea. I mean, you ain't going to give me to argue about any food. I like Bojangles too. But anyway, my buddy thinks that Crystal is better. You know, you say Crystal. so I repeated you, but we've always caught it crystals. I think White Castle is known to be better than Crystal. You know, that's the first fast food restaurant of all time.

Really? Yeah. I proved this to him. He didn't believe me a long time ago. And I don't know if you remember us, but he went and looked it up. He Googled me. And it's true. Google it, whoever's listening or watching.

That's the first one ever. And they're still, unless they just recently changed, family owned. They never franchised. That's why they've never been all over the place like McDonald's. Well, not in Florida. Right. And they're not even in Memphis. No.

Yeah. So I couldn't get White Castle. What hell are they? Nashville. Only Nashville. No, there are other places, but they're just speckled. Oh, okay. You know, they're not like, it's not even like Crystal.

And definitely not McDonald's. But anyway, we're doing, we're doing a blind taste test of that. That's going to be great. We're doing the, to see if I can tell, because it's really about me. Because I told them, I said, White Castle is superior to Crystal. So we're going to blind taste test it. We did that with the Whopper, the Impossible Whopper. you ever had this?

No. This piece of crap. Do you eat whoppers? I don't fuck with Burger King, bro. I don't like Burger King. What if you ever do, don't do the impossible wapper. Because it is not possible. They're right.

If you have a vegetarian friend that you hate, give that to them. We pull this thing out. And they're like, what it is is the producer, he gets plates and he puts A and B on them, right? So we don't know which burgers which. But immediately when I open A, I think it was A, was it A? When I opened A, I smell this chemical-type weird smell. I'm like, I can tell you right now, which one of these is a fake burger.

And without even taking a bite, it's this one. So I took a bite, and it was the most atrocious thing ever. Was it really? Yeah, and you have all these people saying, on making videos, you can't tell the difference. And I'm going, what kind of freaking meat are you eating? If you're a vegetarian and you haven't eaten meat in forever, I will say that the texture's pretty there.

It just tastes like chemically like liquid smoke, if you've ever put that in something. Anyways, but if you don't eat meat. here's what I think they did with it. It tastes like if a cat ate it. But it didn't make it better. And then they said, they picked it out.

Patti it out. Impossible Whopper. That's what it tastes like. That's fucking awful. You know, you know, with that coffee, Marty,

I just thought that we should, you know, because another one we wanted to do is if you could tell the difference between Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. Oh, yeah. I hate Starbucks. So,

I hate Starbucks. Oh, bro. So we need to do the cat. My man. He's a freaking fan girl of Starbucks. Really? I think that the I like actually

like you know mom and pop small like I'm so glad that I have somebody I think Starbucks gets closer to the to the flavor quality My favorite coffee I mean Duncan donuts is okay My favorite coffee fast food is

McDonald's coffee Really? Yeah I've never tried McDonald's coffee Really just I get large black coffee For McDonald's The cream and whatever you like in it But McDonald's the coffee

The flavor is so consistent It's never different Right And it's always good My favorite coffee is As far as getting it from a store? What's your favorite coffee

would get from a store? I like the stuff. I figure what it's called. It comes in the big yellow can. It's called, I can't remember the name of it right now. You buy it at a public city. It's a round yellow can, like a tin can.

Is it the espresso, like the instant coffee like that? No, no, no. He don't do ancient coffee. Look at this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just thinking of the yellow can. That's some kind of coffee thing. Yeah, I don't even pay attention to what the fucking brand is,

but I always buy the yellow container. Have you ever tried community? No. The big red pouch. You try community coffee? I love community coffee. I don't know why. Where do you get it?

I think you can get it anywhere. Really? It's not like a, it's not like a boozy brand or nothing. You should be able to get it at Albertsons. Yeah, but I love that coffee. Albertsons. What is that? You guys have Albertsons?

No, I just live here. He's from here. He's throwing out the language, you know, the language. If I didn't say Kroger, I don't know if they have Kroger here. No, there's no. There's no Albertsons here. Oh, are those gone? Those are gone.

Those been gone. Those been gone. I've been here. Yeah. Wow. Just went broke. Just went fucking all belly up. It's all publics now.

Wow. Why you got to say belly, dude? There's a bunch of belly on this side of the table, my friend. There's a lot of belly over here if you say belly. I learned that from a real estate guy who weighs like 400 pounds, a Jewish guy from New York. And he talks whenever he talks about anything goes out of business, he always says belly up. Belly up. Yeah.

Yeah. He would know. Yeah, he would know. He sleeps belly up. He's a fat fuck. Yeah. That's what I am too. Oh, man.

I'm at the end of my liquid death. All right, guys. How long does it take you to die? You don't die. What you do is you murder your thirst. I will say this. You killed, you murdered your thirst. I will say this about this liquid death.

I would have never tried this just because of the name. I actually thought this was an alcohol. Yeah, that's what it looks like. Everyone thinks it's alcohol. My buddy, who's also been on my podcast, you ever seen the show of? Burt drinks that shit. Does he? Yeah.

Have you ever seen the show on Netflix called Slobby's World? No. I forgot. You don't watch TV. All you do sit in here and do a podcast. I forget. When we're done, he's got somebody else coming. He's like, Gregelbex.

Anyway, he was on my podcast, too. His name's Robbie. And he must be sponsored by these people because he's always posing stuff about them as well. Yeah. And I saw it. And the whole time, I thought it was alcohol. When you pulled it out, I was like, that sounded weird, too, when he pulled it out.

Nobody, so whoever's just listening, I'm saying when he pulled out. When he whipped it out. The liquid. Liquid death. That company has the most genius marketing out of any company I've seen that I can remember. Their commercials are fucking fantastic. I'll tell you that. The most genius marketing was Starbucks.

That's why they're so nice. If you remember what did Starbucks do, like what did they do? Think about this. This is genius. What is their fucking logo anyways? It's like a mermaid. It's some kind of demon mermaid. Anyway, yeah, it is.

It's some kind of demon. sex god anyway the point is this here's the marketing though this is this is actually genius they said what we're going to do is we're going to first of all we're going to write your name on your cup whatever you say though we'll write so so how many people were saying we're going to say we're going to say we're going to say uh we're going to say uh stupid little whore we're going to say that and then we go okay stupid little whore and so then they would take pictures of that and post it all are like here's our Starbucks coffee and then that was people were doing that And they were taking period because it was funny.

So then what did that do? That brainwash people. So then you start seeing things that you don't really notice. Like, you remember the, I keep talking about movies. You don't know. You ever seen the movie Zoolander? The audience might have seen Zoolander, right? You remember the scene where the man models are in the dorm?

And then they go, what did they say? Duba, double-moka-fropichino. And then they, jitterbug. Jitterbug. and then they're going their energy. Jam, Jang, j got to my brain. That's a great montage. They're drinking Starbucks, right?

As they're driving. And they get to the gas station. This is crazy. They get to the gas station. It explodes. The last thing you see is this Starbucks cup going, bam, logo right in the center frame of the screen. People don't really notice it because it's so quick.

But I noticed it. I said, how much did they pay? He was intentional? 100% intentional. It's totally probably. Now go watch the scene at the end of it. When you go, you don't even know, you'll notice it now. But most people, it's just, you see that, that cup goes, that, that logo hits you dead center.

Right. There's no way that's not intentional. They had to make, that's digital. So they made that cup do that. Right. So then that, all that happened, then the celebrities, all, that was the celebrity coffee. That's really one of the reasons I hate it. Because I'm like, that you just like it because they told you to like it.

Like, that's the way people, that's the way, That's the way a lot of people are today. Because it's the cool place to get coffee. Right, right. All they're doing, he is right, though. They're just mimicking, trying to mimic local coffee shops. They're trying to act like they're a local coffee shop. Right.

So they kind of got that little atmosphere. And then they try to claim that they're the ones, they're the fathers of it, or queens of it or whatever. You know what I mean? Like, everybody else is copying them. But that's not the truth. They're just copying the local. that's how the feeling it was

is this not true? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I see what you're trying to say But I also just think that they're They're feeling he's getting a little heated I'm about to get really angry I'm about to knock the shit Yeah,

No, I just think their quality is better And the flavors I don't know Yeah, I don't know It's too complicated for me It's just too hard to get a coffee from there Like, I just like basic coffee Like whenever I have to go there

To get my wife a coffee It's there she has to send me like this two page long text of what it's called with this, this, this, substitute this for this. Right. Stupid. Then they can't just say large. Oh, no, you can't say large. Grande.

Yeah, what kind of dagon of satanic code are you having to read to order your coffee? It's like, I'll take a venti latte, blah, blah, and you're saying these weird words and they're like, I got him. There's an app with photos now, Marty. You just tap it. Is there? One thing I do fuck with at Starbucks, though, I now just thought of it is their hot chocolate. I like their hot chocolate.

I never had it. I'll go there for their hot chocolate. That's it. Never had that. The only thing I've ever had from there, my wife used to go there a lot back in the day, and the only thing I would ever get was the black tea, which was good.

But it wasn't like Southern Sweet Tea or nothing, but since she was there, I would get a black sweet tea and a scone. Scoan. Can't go wrong with a scone. Scone, bray. Cool, that's a great way to end this, fucker. Yeah, we just did three hours. Tell everyone where they can follow you and find all your music

and everything else. Oh, we're not done. Okay. Let's keep going. At Marty Ray Project, everywhere. Please listen to the original music. Give it a shot. I love all of you.

The Marty Ray Project Chats is the podcast. You can hear it wherever you hear a podcast. And please rate and review, like you hopefully are doing with this one. You ask people to rate and review your podcast? Yeah, will you rate and review this one? 100% will. What do you give it? This one that I'm on my show?

Yeah. A 13 star. Woo-hoo. You know what I mean? It's weird you went 13. Cha Ching. You know why I said 13? because most people are scared of 13.

I'm not superstitious, so I choose. Like, I really want to put 13 songs on my new album just to show people, I don't freaking give a, I don't care about that. And that's why all this Illuminati stuff's around and people are going to be thinking, Marty put that 13 on their business. I know, you know what's funny?

This is real quick, and I'll let you go. Like, I'm, like, he's my guest. You're my guest now. Real quick, I'll let you get out of here. I am your guest. The, the album, I was, I want to, call it three. I wanted to be titled three, right? Dale Earnhardt? No, because it's my third full album. Okay. I got three albums, but the first one's an

EP. So I wanted to call this one three. And the number three three is a number for completion, right? And that's even scriptural. That's even in the Bible. So I did the, on the album cover, I made this, this image where it's got this little stamp. And on a stamp, it says, T-H- 333 for three, right? And I posted this and I was like, what y'all think about this thing? They go, man, I was hoping you wouldn't join the Illuminati. I was like, what?

It was like, yeah, I was hoping you wouldn't become a Satanist. I was like, I'm the furthest thing from that. And I'm like, what the heck are you talking about? They're like, you got all these threes, man. I'm like, 666 is this number. Right. Yeah, and then somebody said, and then somebody said, that's half a 666, bro.

I was like, well, okay. Wow. What does that mean? What the fuck is 666, 6.6, half of? So what is 12, 12, 12, then? But anyway, so then I just said, you know what I'm taking that off. It's too confusing. So it's just going to be a self-titled album at this point.

Okay. Anyway. I love it. And I want Jared to be able to say he's got a podcast called Tor Stories. Yeah. What's it called? I can give you all my deeds if you want. Yeah, give us all, everything.

You can find me on Instagram at Check the Gate on Twitter at Jared B. Callin and both my podcast, Torr Stories, and the movie. crew on Apple Podcasts. And one more person, C.J. Wilder. He's a phenomenal artist. Here, here you go, buddy. Give us the deeds. You can find me on Instagram at the C.J. Wilder. You can find me on Facebook at B&A. C.J. Wilder.

And I think my Twitter is just C.J. Wilder. Please like and subscribe. You see how often he doesn't plug himself? He goes, I think my Twitter's something. You got to have it in the can, man. Marty, what's your only fans? Marty Ray does things.com. Onlyfans.com.

Is that how it goes? Yeah. Do you have an only fan? You look like a guy would have an old fan. You know what? You know Sandlot? Yeah. Do you ever get compared to anybody on Sandlot?

No, I get compared to Napoleon Dynamite and Michael Sarah. I don't see that. You see what I'm saying, though? Sandlot. You're talking about the main dude? No. Who are you talking about on Sandlot? Not the catcher, but the...

No, what's his name? I can't remember his name. He's the coolest character in the whole thing. What's his freaking name? Shoot. I don't know. That's a freaking name. It's the glasses.

Alphalfa? No. No, that's not. Have you seen Sandlot? Yes. Austin, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I know here you're talking about. What is his name?

It's not Smalls. It's. Benny? No, it's not Benny. What the fuck are we talking about? It's this kid right here. I don't know. There he is.

Oh, Squints. Squints. Squints. Squints. I have heard. that. Squints. You've heard that. I have heard that. Someone has called me squints before. There you go. I don't know if that's a compliment. Now that you know that I know who you're talking about, but, but he does have the best part. I didn't say it was a compliment.

He goes, I wasn't a compliment. I wasn't trying to tear him down. He's, he's better looking than squints. Forever. Yeah. That guy. He could call me whoever he wants to call me. Fat Albert, I don't give a freak. This guy's not sensitive. He's a podcast guy. He's not sensitive. I'm sure. I hope. Yeah, I don't. Thanks for the liquid death. You're welcome. Anytime, man. Thank you for coming down here all the way down here. We came out all the way just for you. I appreciate that, man. But it, you know, it turned into something really, really amazing.

It did. I think you for having us. We formed a really strong bond here. Yes, sir. I hope we can do it again. That was a weird hands check. We're going to do that again because you kind of, he shook my hand like this. He was too fast.

He goes like this. He grabs it. Let's go. Let's do it again. Get a meat. There we go. And look at these hands. Man, yeah.

You got some big old, some big hands. I got a little baby hands. It's a massive. I got a little typewriter. This man's got hands like a gorilla And he's a size of squints You've got meaty hands and he's got like bigger I got these big old

Sousage fingers. Sausage fingers, yeah, mine are, I got bony fingers. Yeah. Hey, before I go though, what is the We're trying to find some really good dessert. I thought you were going to say strip club. No, well, you just turn the corner, bro. Those are everywhere.

In Tampa, what's some good dessert? Good dessert? Yeah. You don't eat dessert. This man doesn't eat dessert. He doesn't watch me. What kind of dessert? What kind of dessert?

I don't give a freak. What kind of dessert you eat? Like an ice cream shop? Never mind on the dessert. What's the best? What's the best? I've never had anybody ask me, where's the best dessert? Do you eat dessert?

There's a place. There's a really fancy restaurant in Tampa that has like this crazy, extravagant, like, dessert room. See? See, now you're talking. Now we're talking. This is like a high class place. We don't care about that.

What are you saying? You guys don't look like you make reservations for steakhouse. He goes, you're a tow truck driver. You're not going to this place. If you want to go to like a fancy steakhouse that has a fucking dessert room, that looks like it's from a cabaret movie. It's called, uh... Oh, no.

Burns. Burns. Burns. Burns. Burns. You've been there? I've been there a couple times. Yeah, it's really...

Do you have to dress up to go there? Yeah, you got to dress up, I think. Son of a... Maybe not. Maybe not. Call them and ask them. Call them. I'm going to call them.

I don't open until five. Well, shit. But it's the best dessert place. That's like fancy dessert you're going to get in Tampa, I think. Okay. As far as I know. What about food-wise? What's your forte in food?

I like my favorite, one of my favorite food places. Do you guys like Cuban food? Do you guys like... I like Cuban sandwiches, but he likes... There's a place called La Terra Cita in Tampa. It's fucking... It's right around the corner from like strip club alley where like Ma's Venus and all those like famous strip clubs are.

Where a hotel is. Yeah. It's called the Teresita. It's like a little like diner, mom. and pop like back alley looking place and there's all run by no one speaks english in there and it's open 24-7 on the weekends and they have the best fucking like rice and beans and pork and cuban sandwiches and isn't cuban isn't a lot of that food hot though like spicy no no no no okay so cuban's your favorite and they have fuck i mean they have the best uh Cuban coffee they have uh you can get like

everything there's delicious I really highly recommend letera cita that was called let taracita Yeah, La Terra Cita. We might go eat there now. That place is great. I wish I could go there with you guys. Feel free. A place is fucking delicious. Come on.

I got too much shit to do. I can't. I forgot. You got another podcast for there. So far. Tampa's so fucking far. Yeah. You're the only person that says that.

Everybody else is like, oh, it's right down. Like Tyler, right? When he booked me here, I said, well, how far is that from Tampa? He goes, oh, it's right down the road. And I was like, really? Well, he's trying to convince you to come to do the podcast. It's nothing. It didn't matter.

I was like, it's been. then it comes out is like 45 minutes. Oh. It's fucking, it's a, it's a drive. It's out here. It is. Oh, yeah, we're out here. Yeah, out here.

On the beach. It takes longer in Florida to get to places than it does back in Tennessee. I know. It's so many people here, bro. It's insane. It's just like it takes like forever so much traffic here. It's crazy. It's like fucking L.A.

This is literally like L.A. traffic or Miami traffic here. Have you been to L.A.? Yeah. I hate L.A. I hate it too. I can't stand to L. I hate the traffic here. I don't hate this area.

I hate the traffic of all coastal cities. I hate the traffic and the architecture. I don't like it. You know, I'm more of a brick and mortar type thing. Yeah. That's what I like because I'm from Tennessee and Arkansas, that area. So all here in L.A., it's all stucco, like a lot of stucco stuff. And they're all wood frame houses.

It's crazy. All those fires over there and everything's made of wood. Yeah, right. Golly. I was just there like a couple weeks ago And we were driving Driving across through on the highway Like toward the beach

And uh And Santa Barbara And uh Whatever right by the airport Santa Monica And there's a fucking just Casual fire Burning on the side of the road

Like flaming up the side of the interstate like 10 feet high Wow A casual one Just a casual fire people cars just going around it And uh And and you can see like two blocks away There's all these apartment buildings being built Woodframe

Just all wood apartment buildings. I'm like, wow, that's crazy. Well, I mean, I don't know what else they're going to build it with. I mean, metal studs, but that's very expensive. Concrete block? I mean, I guess it's too expensive, but. Oh, you're talking about like cinder block buildings? Yeah, like block.

That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. I didn't think about that. It's cheaper to build it to frame them out with wood instead of cinder blocks. But even on the inside, you still got to frame it with wood. Right, right, right.

But when the whole structure's wood, I mean, I don't know, it seems like it could catch fire easily. You might be right. I don't know. Well, let's test it. it let's test it let's do building wing burn let's go build a house no there's plenty of houses already built you want to you want to set some buildings on fire yeah you know what man do you know what we're like forget about the stuff i got to do all right all right thanks guys all right brother adios cheers