Dumb Blonde - Raelyn Nelson is Country Royalty

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

The incredibly talented and captivating Raelyn Nelson joins Bunnie this week. Raelyn opens up about her unique experience growing up as the granddaughter of country music legend Willie Nelson and how it influenced her decision to pursue a career in music from a young age.  Raelyn recounts her journey of forming her own band, the process of building a dedicated fan base through touring, and trying to balance motherhood through it all. They dive into the ups and downs of life's "bad trips" and Raelyn shares how her podcast "Music Is Funny" ties the art of comedy and music together. At the end of the episode, Raelyn unveils some exclusive news about her upcoming plans for summer 2023 and beyond!  Raelyn:  Music Is Funny Podcast | Website | IG  Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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sexy motherfuckers welcome to another episode of dumb blonde today i have royalty in my midst that's how i feel like i'm so excited to get you on ever since the first night i met her i was like i have got to get you on my podcast raylan nelson how are you doing thank you for having me i'm doing so well i'm so happy you're here so we met at uh daddy was doing something with josh wolf right yeah yeah and you were there that night too at zany's yep at zany's josh wolf was on the podcast too he is so fucking funny how is one human that fucking hilarious i don't know i don't know he's so funny and you know dude we've gone both of us have gone to several of his shows yeah even if you hear the same jokes i'm still laughing yeah no he sat here on our couch

while at our old studio and fucking i mean the the dude could just talk about his day and it's so funny the way that he explains it like his mind is beautiful yeah he has a beautiful mind how long have you known josh did you so we met in march oh okay awesome they just moved i know to vegas my hood are you guys gonna leave too no are you kidding me my husband is born and bred here he's he talks about leaving all the time like the other day he was like babe i just want to go retire somewhere on a beach and i'm like i love you honey but why don't we do a vacation home because i'm gonna get your ass somewhere and then fucking three months later you're gonna run back well honestly it's great here march through december and then yes january february amen too fucking

cold yeah no it's terrible oh of course yeah yeah no it's just fucking cold yeah so why not go to the vacation home for those two months you feel like you live there and then you miss home yeah come back i get i've never had depression and since i moved here two years oh well i've been here six years but two years ago I think I got what was called, what they call seasonal depression. And I have been trying to figure it out, man. I have tips on that because I have seasonal depression too,

but it's because my dad actually died on Christmas Eve. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. As soon as it gets cold here, which is pretty late in the year for us, especially now with global warming, I start to get that feeling of i would just rather just lay around and not get anything done yep just feeling really sad yeah but um okay here's the tips that uh i can give you that have helped yay wear sunscreen

wow because of the smell and it makes you feel like you're gonna be out in the sun all day and wow it makes you feel like you're on a beach out in the sun all day and it makes you feel like you're on a beach right no i'm i believe it yeah um listen to beachy songs okay beach boys is a good one to go to but any kind of islandy reggae is always a good one too yeah okay and then the third one is keep green plants around in the house i love that and you know what can i just i have to tell you i have tried to grow some plants in the house it's a succul know what can i just i have to tell you i have tried to grow some plants in the house it's a succulents it's a what's it which what is a succulent like the cactuses and stuff like that yeah yeah and you do there's some of them look kind of aloe vera

i thought a sunflower was going to be easy to take care of i've had three and they've all died and fucking like it's a joke it's a running joke in my house that i want to have plants so bad but i can't i just do not have a green thumb like everybody laughs i try raylan for people who don't know who you are okay my grandpa is the coolest grandpa in the world dude and it's funny you know i just i just texted him i text him all the time i'm like you're the fucking coolest look at this and um i i don't know if you ever heard of nikki glazer oh yeah i love her yeah she's coming on colin yep so um i love her too and on their podcast wall she of course has taylor swift and andrew had willie nelson up there oh so i you know i sent him a picture of it and i'm like zooming into his picture like you're the fucking coolest so

grandpa is willie nelson for everybody who does not know yeah i mean he's so humble he was just like i love you raylan you know he just he won't feed into the the hype ego at least not with me he doesn't my husband idolizes him like jelly jelly calls himself willie nelson like they uh him and his best friend struggle jennings is waylon jennings grandson yeah so they have these albums that they do called waylon and willie what's his real name struggles is it his real name uh well his name that he sings by is uh struggle jennings but his real name is will william harness i was just trying to figure out if i've met him because i don't think i have

maybe jesse coulter is his grandmother i believe Yeah, so that's how they're all tied in and like Shooter and all them. Yeah. So that's Jelly's best friend that he's grown up with. So they have a series of albums. They have all the way through four, one through four, and they're Waylon and Willie. I'll have to send them to you so you can hear them. But they've redone Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,

but they've done like an updated kind of like rap version of it. I would love to hear that. Oh, my God. Yeah,ay loves your grandfather like papa willie has heard i'll send it to him oh i will for sure he'll love that um jay jay would absolutely die if fucking willie nelson even knew he was because my grandpa's done stuff with snoop dog which i also think is the coolest oh my god if we could get a jelly roll willie nelson collab, that would be insane.

But yeah. Um, so grandpa's willing. What is it like growing up with him as your grandfather? Is it kind of a shadow that you can't like get out from underneath or do you appreciate it? And I only ask that because our daughter is going through a phase right now where,

you know, wanting to do music. Well, at first it was like my dad's jelly roll i can't stand it i don't want to have anything to do with it and now she's kind of embracing it more so does everybody go through that where it's 13 so now does does everybody go through that when they have like a you know a celebrity in their family where it's like you kind of like shun it at first and then you accept it or have

you just always accepted it and been like that's my grandpa and just owned it i think it's that because yeah and it might be different being the daughter versus the granddaughter right the generation removed he's just always been so i think i've never seen him mad at me you know what i mean yeah i don't he's never told me no right no he's he's the coolest and the best you know what I mean yeah he's never told me no right no he's he's the coolest and the best you know oh I love that so I think I've always accepted it yes it's a big shadow and people definitely expect something right about your music when you are Willie Nelson's granddaughter right um and my music is not like his music yeah let's get into that so you are a musician yourself yes okay and what type for people who don't know like what type of music do you sing

so it's kind of like country garage rock yeah and uh i love that yeah rolling stone country is the first who said that yeah i loved and i was like yes let's go with that yeah and every anytime i say that to someone they're like there's no such thing as that i'm like well well you can make it your own yeah and you kind of have to be different in this town everybody's amazing everybody's a fucking musician everybody's a great songwriter yeah that's how it is in la too yeah yeah and you so you have to be different in some way and i and i think that the garage rock definitely which i am the country i'm not necessarily the garage rock although i've learned to fucking love it yeah i dove into joan jett and the clash and runaways

and love joan the pretenders love the pretenders i mean just all this um really awesome like feminine pat benatar all them yes yes and got to meet some of the their band members too just living in nashville um and i got to meet joan jett here have you met her yet no i haven't i would probably die and i'm not a fan girl for like anybody but like older gen for some reason the older generation of women i just have so much respect for them you know like they literally ran so that we could walk you know just strong ass women. Stevie Nicks, fucking just all of them, dude. Even down to Carly Simon.

Everybody was just so... I want to be just like all of them. Me too. Me too. I love Stevie Nicks. I will fucking cry. Can we turn the heat off, Mimi? It is fucking toasty in here.

We're trying to find a balance in here because this is our new studio. So it's either really fucking cold or really muggy. We just can't find that happy medium yet. It's also Tennessee. It's either hot and cold or hot and cold. Bipolar for sure. So have you always been into music just because you were born into it? So did you wake up or were you born playing the guitar and just came out singing singing or was it something that you had to like acquire come out singing my mom said yeah

came out singing and uh i have memories of my grandpa singing jingle bells and on the road again with me it was one of the first songs that i knew and i remember that i would come up with melodies in my head but i didn't quite know that I was writing the song you know yeah you're just singing little things not even around the house I don't know if anybody else does that you're just singing oh yeah whatever you're doing yeah oh I'm going to the bathroom yeah I grew up with a studio in my house because my dad's a musician so I totally understand it I would literally write songs and put on concerts for the neighbors yes when I was growing up you still write songs no I don't that's never been really my passion like singing and stuff like that I do it now because I can and like it's just something to do for content for me but I'm more of like

an entertainer you know like let me show you my tits or something you know like I'd rather entertain people or make them laugh or like heal people that's what I love doing you know, like I'd rather entertain people or make them laugh or like heal people. That's what I love doing, you know? And whereas Jay, he's the, he's the artist in our relationship. He's the musician. He's the one that, you know, he heals people through his music. I like to heal people through just, you know, my podcast and stuff like that. Yeah. I love feeling sexy too. I think every, I think that's something that they help pave the way to yeah you know i never absolutely i think about them and i never feel bad about showing off my midriff or no yeah tits i have or whatever yeah my legs my mom told me and my mom's super holy roller yeah she told

me she's like you should always show a little leg oh yeah i love that you're on stage you have to yeah no for sure it's it's just like that feminine force in all of us that yep you have to feel sexy absolutely and you have to show confidence feminine energy just that feminine divine energy or however it's explained um so your music when did you start like really writing and like focusing on it and like saying like, okay, this is what I want to do. So I always took voice lessons or was in show choir and that sort of thing. And when I was real little, my mom kept me pretty sheltered, like I said, Holy Roller. So it was just old country or gospel Christian music. Me too. Oh my God, I love Amy Grant. Have you ever heard of the Christian singer Jennifer Knapp? I have not, but I was like into Crystal Lewis, DC Talk, all that.

I was raised in an extremely religious Pentecostal house. Okay, yeah, me too. Okay, good. Yeah, so I get it. Look at us now. We're just rebels. This is why nobody should grow up. Yeah, no, this is why.

I always talk about religious trauma. I'm huge about talking about religious trauma, but that's a whole other subject. And that's healing for all of us who went through that. Absolutely. Oh, yeah, not for sure. But anyway, she is the first LGBTQ Christian singer. She wasn't originally.

She didn't come out until way later into her career. She probably couldn't because back in... How old are you? 90s and stuff. I'm 37. Okay, so we're around... But I identify as hello baby i am on the internet eternally 26 but i'll be 42 in january so i get it yeah swear well well your spirit and you look do not look in your 40s i love you so much was all the drugs and alcohol that i did whenever i was younger that's what i

do too but But yeah, but her, but in our gen, back in our day, you couldn't just come out and be like, Hey, I'm a Christian singer and I'm a lesbian. They would never have allowed that. Whereas now it's more accepted.

Apparently. So not still doing Christian music and still, and I've, um, she does a 30 a songwriter festival and we do it every year too. We're going to do it. It's in the end of January in 38th, Florida. Oh, fun.

So I'm hoping to see her again because I grew up loving her. Yeah. That's really cool that you actually get to chill with one of your – was she like an idol growing up? Yes. Yeah, she was an idol. She inspired you. She was a Christian guitar player, singer, songwriter. And I had her songwriter book.

And, you know, mom got it for me. And my grandpa actually sent me my first guitar at 14 years old I decided I wanted to learn to play guitar yeah so that's when I actually started learning and uh didn't really start piecing together songs until after I had children and I was at stuck at home nursing babies and stuff I did not know you had kids how did I miss that the reach my boys are almost 15 holy moly you don't even like dude you're so hot like they're two they're twins yes you're like so tiny too so much that's crazy uh yeah i definitely worked hard to get back to the body after you're beautiful you don't you don't look really big you don't look like you have teenage boys it was 14 years ago though yeah

but still that you know like you just don't you just look so young to me doesn't she look young it's crazy like even when you told me you were 37 i was i was thinking that you were gonna say 27 like that's what i identified you know i get it trust me um and then i have a daughter too that's um 12 oh 12 yeah i'll pray for you. Yeah. Because I've got the 13-year-old. It's just now getting into where I'm like, are we still best friends? Oh, no.

You guys will be best friends one week. And then the next week, you guys will be at each other's throat. And then the next week, you guys will be best friends. The only thing I can advise, and I'm a stepmom. I'm not even a biological mom, is communication. If you feel like they're off a little bit, just be like, hey, man, why don't you write me a letter and tell me how you feel? Because with Bailey, she doesn't she's not good at communicating face to face, but she'll text. And I hate that. I

think texting is so emotionally separated. So I'm like, write me a letter. And then when she writes me the letter, I have her read it in front of me so that way she can get it all out and then we can talk about it i've learned that that's extremely important with little girls that is such a therapist thing i get yeah maybe i've read a lot of therapy books but i've just found that it works for us you know so you know whenever you guys do if you ever get to that point and you need to talk great idea that's just a little tidbit from and then you can check out their how their grammar situation yeah well I don't read it myself I just have her read it to me so so we can get through it so you started playing the guitar when you had

your babies and stuff like that and writing songs okay and then I was trying to find a place to record these songs and through the weed guy actually met my guitar player and music partner jb awesome and uh he's like i have a studio and um i'll only charge you 50 bucks you know so i go over there and uh by the end of it he i almost had to force him to take the money at the end of it he was like no let's get together and just write some more songs finish the ones you have arrange it we'll put together a combo and just from then on we started doing that and it took a few years to even figure out what we were doing we thought it was gonna be like stone cold country yeah just the first thing we did had

a washtub bass you know he was literally playing the washtub bass and it was just uh super super folk and old-timey country but then like bluegrass kind of but his thing is rock yeah everything he's done was rock and his bandmates were rock so when um my grandpa started sending himself we were doing he was like you need to get a band together about like the fourth or fifth time he's like do you have a band i was like jp we need to put a band together my grandpa's like you need a band you need a band grandpa is not playing so he grabbed his rock and roll buddies we start the band and um then put out an ep so that the first ep was 2014 and then we put out an album in november of 20 and we put a couple things out

like a another album out but um then our last album that we put out was in November of 2019, right before the pandemic hit. Awesome. So it just felt like it flopped because we couldn't really tour, do, promote it at all. Yeah, no, I feel like musicians took the biggest hit in 2020 because our livelihood, speaking for my husband and our family too, is getting out on the road, shaking hands, and kissing babies. That's what you guys got to do. What did you do whenever 2020 hit?

Were you able to just lock yourself away and just write music? Or did you use it as a creative outlet? I wrote songs based on what's going on. And I did not want to write anything about COVID. I want what's going on and i did not want to write anything about covid yeah no for sure i think luke combs is the only person who succeeded in that when he when he did six feet apart yeah yeah yeah uh i just remember where i worked on i was working on songs that i started beforehand yeah really only just in this year finished them yeah i don't know why it's a process it is and i don't i don't force songwriting you can't i'm someone pays me money right yeah but uh as far

as my stuff goes i i let it come to me yeah no that's how my husband is yeah yeah you can't force him yeah to get in the studio he has literally features just stacked up because it's like he'll get to him when he has that feeling to do it. Like he can't just go in and do something if he's not if his heart's not in it. Yeah. Yeah. You have to know it's time. And also maybe have to live a little bit of something to really know how to play out to figure out what the message of the song is. Yeah, for sure started it um and then other times i uh like my song brother i wrote about a tv show i was watching where her brothers were mad of this guy for cheating on her you know so the brother started

going after the guy that i cheated on her yeah i was like oh that would be a cute song i don't think there's a song about the brother going after the guy so and then you know sometimes it's like that what an awesome place to get inspiration from though yeah a tv show that I was just binge watching yeah in bed doing nothing but getting high and watching you know but uh and also those are fun okay so you know um titles of or the episodes sometimes they'll try to make them cheeky right of different tv shows those are fun song lyrics sometimes i'll just like if there's a good one i'll write it down i'll be like that might go in a song sometime yeah no i love that there's like little tools you can pull from our other art you know yeah oh absolutely and uh and write it or even like a conversation

in a movie yep something is said and you're like that that there's a song there i did that with jay the other night we were watching shameless and i forget what it was he could probably fucking remember but they said something and i was like dude oh um the alibi they go to the the bar that's called the alibi and i was like baby that's a song title and he was like hell yeah i was like you know the alibi he's like yeah i'll remember that but yeah no like they go to a bar called the alibi that would be cool yeah so did you ever i won't write it did you you can have it it's fine did you ever form the band and did you and if you did what is your guys's name so people can look you guys up oh yeah jonathan bright is my music partner everybody calls him jb

and preach rutherford is the bass player so those three have been with me since or those two have been with me since the beginning and paul simmons was the first drummer and we've literally had 13 drummers like we're the spinal tap and then when it comes it's hard to find people who actually want to work or fucking perform or like it's we've had we go through videographers like that yeah like just finding people to mesh with your energy and your your whole yeah vibe is just very hard so you don't want to force a fit that isn't you know jiving with all of you guys because then that just one bad apple can ruin a whole fucking situation. So you don't want to deal with that.

And you have to be in a close quarters with them in a van or a bus. Absolutely. Depending on what the situation is. And what's the name of your band? Raylan Nelson Band. Raylan Nelson Band, baby. So are you guys going on tour this year?

Yes. Okay, so Spin did this article on the band which was out of the blue and totally awesome and since then that's awesome really good for business yeah i know spin magazine's fucking like iconic i know and uh so that that's been really good i got an avalanche of cd i've literally was selling like maybe a cd once every six seven weeks you know maybe yeah you need to get on TikTok I'm on TikTok you are I'll have to follow you and we'll look at your formula what the fuck to do on there I think if people just follow you and watch what you're doing and I'll just oh don't follow me you

know I'm a bad fucking I am a bad example to follow I inspiration on there like what do you do are you doing the dancing thing no fuck no i am too old to be dancing on there i just tell my story of just my life and i don't know i'm just what do i what would you say mimi what do i do on there just anything that's trending but making it the most relatable for her story yeah and i kind of like make everything my own you know well i'll i'll go through it when we get off of here and i'll show you kind of like make everything my own you know well i'll i'll go through it when we get off of here and i'll show you kind of like some things that we do and if you need help of course me and mimi are always here to help you but i think people just hearing you talk and tell your story um plus us posting you too will also get some some uh inner you know flowing uh vibes flowing

your way but um i think people just hearing you talk you know maybe do some do you sing on there and like have your guitar and stuff yeah oh if you don't do that i mean do that some of your music on there get some of your music on there um you know of course let people know who your grandfather is stuff like that and just you know just your whole thing your whole vibe just your poppa willie songs on there all of it yeah talk about the girl the garage you know uh what do they say yeah country garage like people will love that tiktok is like it's the place now to go to blow up instagram is dying so literally tiktok is the place to market yourself now like doing so well i know right but dude i've had my fucking profile for

so long on instagram and my engagement is terrible on there because i'm always in trouble like i'm like a walking community guideline but we'll get you on tiktok let you do whatever you want i mean for the most part as long as it's not sexual so you know she's like well damn it but you know like you can do stuff you just have to like use code words and like stuff like that so there's like a whole thing around it but yeah i mean they'll they'll let you be who you want to be on there just you just have to kind of like yeah you just have to kind of like you know word things differently which i had to learn fucking two profiles and i got banned so many times before i was like okay i finally fucking get it um so when did you guys become such big fans of comedy because like my husband's always

been a fan of comedy so he literally jay i call him my muse of tragedy because jay is actually a very very sad soul he's very um you know when the curtain's down it's a different person but always so loving and so sweet but my husband battles severe depression he's got demons that he fights and so his way of escaping that is comedy so ever since i've got with my husband we could be on tour in the fucking bus he does not play music he playsies that's what we do yeah so that's his thing and he loves podcasts he loves comedy and so as he started blowing up in the industry a lot of comedians were becoming his fans which was crazy because you know he would like when we first got together he'd be like one day i'm gonna be on joe rogan and now that's being very possible

and yeah you know like burt kreischer he loves burt kreischer and burt will like tweet him and tom segura will tweet him and then him and josh uh you know crossed paths so it just it was my husband and then of course you know i always loved comedy but i never really like was kind of naturally a comedian me yeah oh i love you thank you so going on tour are you guys going to be touring you You did the spin magazine. Oh yeah. The spin article. And I wanted to tell you, so just relating to the comedy thing,

we started a podcast called music is funny podcast. Yes. I wanted to get into that. We were talking to comedians. Yes. Which is where I met Josh Wolf. Love that. And then you.

So it, it stemmed from that because when we're on the road, we don't listen to music. We just listen to stand-up comedy. I saw you just had Dane Cook on there. Yes. Crazy. How crazy is that?

That's wild. Honestly, thank God JB is, I have a co-host because I was just kind of starstruck and maybe said, maybe said 20 words to you the whole time. Yeah. And a couple of them were, you're the coolest. You're the best you know i mean it's dane cook so i don't blame you there's no way he thinks i'm funny or i'm sure he did his research before he came on oh i hope so he knew what he was getting into

but it was a good episode he he the best part about comedians is they love to talk oh yeah no and about themselves if you just ask them something i mean they'll just go oh yeah and well everybody loves to talk about themselves you know if you give them a microphone and ask them about themselves that who do you know best yourself you know so um so but anyway we've had a lot of cool people i just talked to d Doug Stanhope again yesterday. He did our Christmas. Oh, I love that. He goes, I hate Christmas because of my dad. What's the name of your podcast again, just so everybody can hear it? Music is Funny.

Music is Funny. Where did you get the concept for your podcast? We're just trying to figure out how to get them to talk to us. Oh, yeah. We'll just, how do we relate music and comedy together? Which they're very similar. Yeah, yeah, totally. What you have to do to get out there.

The comedy world is like a cult, like, but a good, in a good way, because literally you have this, this fan base that is so fanatic, you know, that once the,

when they fall in love with you, they are all about you. It's like sports. Getting into like, even like, I don't know. We were watching something. My husband watches these comedy um

documentaries and it was about mitzi polly shores um uh mom who runs the comedy star or used to run before she passed away rest in peace um the comedy store in la and even trying to get a spot in the comedy store was like you had to know somebody to know somebody and once you're in you're in but like if you're an outcast, you're an outcast. And they all stick together. Comedians will have each other's back like a motherfucker. Yeah. And to get a paid to get past there to get be a paid regular.

Yes. A really long time. Yeah. And then sometimes it doesn't. It's just very picky is what I. Yeah. Mitzi. Mitzi.

Mitzi. Mitzi Shore. I actually had the weirdest interaction with polly shore the other day no way tell me about this i love polly oh well on the phone i love polly the weasel you know love him i've always been a fan of polly since i was a fucking kid you know son-in-law stuff like that and i've actually met polly when i was a stripper he used to come into olympic gardens in vegas all the time okay um always very sweet very you know whatever but so you know my podcast is popping now and like i i have all walks of life

on the podcast and you know from instagram girls to comedians to fucking musicians whatever i just want people to come on and tell their story and be able to you know just talk tell people tell the world who they are and um so i reached out to Polly I was like hey Polly I haven't talked to you in forever I met you a long time ago at Olympic Gardens blah blah anyways I have a podcast not realizing he had a podcast too so I I don't know if he thought that I was like reaching out to like I don't know what he thought to be honest anyways so I can um would love to have you on the podcast blah blah he's like call me right and sends me his number so I'm like this is weird I text Mimi I'm like I'm about to talk to Pauly Shore so I thought he was just gonna set

a date with me of when he could come on or whatever yeah and I was like hey Pauly it's funny and he's like hey what's up and he's like so he's like so I met you at Olympic Gardens and I was like yeah you totally he's like oh hey that's cool and he's like um he's like so tell me about your podcast so I told him about it right and he's like yeah that's really awesome he's like I'm not really taking gigs right now but you know he's like I have a podcast too so you know just save my number and if you ever want to have a drink I was like I was like I was like all right but I was like well I was like, all right. But I was like, well, I'm big married Polly, but I'll definitely, if we're ever,

I was like, if we're ever in LA, my husband and I would love to meet up. So no, he was very respectful though. And like, it wasn't, you know,

weird or anything like that, but it was just so funny. And it's just crazy, you know, people that you like, um, I don't want to say idolize cause I didn't idolize Polly. Sure.

Um, but that you just love, you know, because you grew up with. You actually get to talk to them and then you realize that they're just really normal people. Yeah. You know, which is awesome, I think. So I thought it was so funny. And I really did just want to talk to all my favorite comedians. Yeah.

So how many episodes are you guys in? Is it brand new? How long have you been doing it? We just did number 42. Yay. And I want to get through one year and maybe. Wow. You guys have done 40, 42 and less than a year.

Yeah, we do it weekly. Wow. So it's been, I think one time we did greatest hits because we had an audio issue. Yeah. No, recording a podcast every week. If you, especially if you don't do them like how we do them like we stack them it's it's a job yeah so we are that goes off to you either gonna have to stack a whole bunch i would or we're going to maybe just slow down on like maybe every

other week because we need time to do music well Well, what I started. Now that things are happening again. Absolutely. Well, what I started doing, if I could give any advice, is do it in seasons. That's what I do. I have noticed you did that. Because I did what you did. The first season, I don't know how. I think we dropped probably at least 52 episodes that year, right? Or close. And I was tired.

And then we just immediately kept going the next year. So two years, I think it was two years in a row, we just nonstop dropped content. And this last third season, I was burnt out. I was like, it got to a point where I was just like, bro, do I even want to do this podcast anymore? I was like, I'm so burnt out. And so I got the idea where I was just like, you know what, let's end it here and let's start seasons. And like, let's, you know, it'll give me a month break to where I can just kind of recoup, take two weeks off and then boom, just go right back in and then start stacking the, um, the episodes because having to do one weekly is really exhausting and having to plan your whole life

around it. I don't know if that's how you like to operate. No. But just do what we do. We literally plan out two weeks of the month where I do nothing but nonstop podcasts. And then that gives you the whole season. You can film other content and you can work on your music. Yeah, that's what we're going to have to do or just slow down. But I like the idea of stockpiling.

There's a lot of people in January that are coming through, some A-listers that have already agreed.'m so excited so i don't want to can you tell it give us a sneaky peeky like um do you know jesse may peluso oh i love jesse mary yeah yeah totally through yeah heather mcmahon i i'll never say right heather mcmahon does she have her own no way she was just on that christmas movie uh where the guy catfish is the girl that was from vampire diary i'll have to yeah i'll have to google her um but no i love jessimae she's actually coming on dumb blonde too but we but because i do them in person i have i'm waiting until she comes oh yeah okay then yeah then yeah she's coming on in january last time

i talked to her yeah okay awesome so do you do over the do you also do i would rather do them in person but i have done zoom yeah i've done i did zooms a couple in covid and i just hated it because i want to feel you energy yeah like i want to touch you i want to see you i want to interact so and plus you're able to joke around a little more yeah feel your energy yeah and i just i hate i don't know just i think being in the sex industry my whole life i felt like i was doing like a webcam interview you know like it just didn't feel i was like no i don't like this this is a nice tease um that's awesome dude like i'm really proud of you guys are you guys on apple spotify like all the platforms and then you guys also film them yep okay they're all on youtube we do it at my grandpa's museum the willie nelson and

friends museum and showcase on music valley drive yeah they let us sneak in there and do it there so that's so cool patrons walking around the you know looking at everything what a cool concept though i love that for you yeah i didn't even ask my grandpa i just told him we were doing it he's just like whatever he never he doesn't care yeah he's 88 and right now in hawaii you know nice just living life living it up yeah not he does not tour when it's cold anymore oh it's warm is he still a real um avid weed smoker yeah well he mostly vapes now oh okay and then his wife annie makes these delicious edibles nice it's like chocolate and coconut. They're healthy.

All the healthy chocolate. All the healthy coconut. Yeah. It still tastes really good. Aw. And it's got the THC. She makes her own. It's called Annie's Remedy.

Annie's Chocolates. Annie's Chocolates. Do you eat them? Yeah, they're delicious. I can't. Okay. Okay. So last time

i had an edible i ended up calling which was fucking 10 years over 10 years ago now because it scared me so bad i ended up calling 9-1-1 and having them come to my house yeah it was some fucking butter that somebody made me and i ate it and i was watching a fucking scary movie and literally during the scary movie i jumped up and i could i felt like i couldn't breathe i started running around my backyard and i'm just like i can't breathe oh my god something's wrong with me fucking call 9-1-1 they come in the house hottest fucking uh firefighters by the way and i just look like a hot mess you know just high as shit fucking hair everywhere and fucking uh they come in and they're like what are you on and i was like i ate some weed butter they all started fucking laughing at me and packed up and they're like, what are you on? And I was like, I ate some weed butter.

They all started fucking laughing at me and packed up. And they were like, honey, you're fine. You're going to ride this one out. You'll be good. You don't need us. And I'm like, I'm dying. Take my fucking blood pressure. They're like, just go to bed.

You're going to be fine. So yeah, that's why I can't have edibles. Yeah, they they'll get you differently than just smoke. I would much rather smoke it. Yeah. I'd much rather smoke a joint any day. Yeah, for sure. But there was one time when I had a duo with a friend,

and we went out to Hemp Fest in Maine, Harmony, Maine. It's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. Okay? No stores around, and we did not plan any food situation oh no so the people at hemp fest had given us all of these weed edibles it was mostly weed okay it was called hemp fest but it was yeah it was weed because it's legal in maine oh i didn't know that so yes you can't sell it but you can have it okay and so all these weed people who make it or whatever were just giving us that i

mean weed bugles you know remember those things you would be on your fingers again yeah there were weed bugles weed cheetos uh so it was all this munchie food brownies of course cookies raisins i mean like chocolate covered raisins that were all of it right up you love weed this is right up her alley i mean it was delicious and we ate it all that night because we didn't have any food no we didn't have any food so it was the food we were eating and um and it didn't feel different that night we were like this isn't i mean we're taking videos for our instagram and everything and then the next day when we watch the videos we are moving five miles five miles an hour right yeah we feel fine oh my god you were fucking higher than a giraffe's ass yeah but

in the moment yeah didn't feel it we're like this feels fine i feel great god i would love to have an edible fucking story like that instead i felt like i couldn't breathe and was fucking i was verklempt i would do it again though because there was literally no food you know so i would just put myself in that position again and you know turn turn the tape on again i love that i love i think some of my funniest videos is when i'm fucked up i'm sober now six years but man i used to fucking do some funny shit when i don't do anything nothing well i did the older i got i just realized i tried to be a drug addict when i was younger because i wanted to rebel against my family so you know of course that got me a xanax addiction and a cocaine addiction um that i'd survived somehow but

drugs never made me feel good drugs always made me sick and i couldn't figure out why and come to find out i have like the mtf hr gene mutation and i have a couple gene mutations so anything i take just fucking my body has the opposite effect of it like everything it's so sensitive so i just got to a point where alcohol even the next day the hangover and just the depression was not worth not worth it going out and drinking so i was just like you know i just quit everything cold turkey and i've just i've been sober ever since so i would love to you know smoke weed and fucking drink but it's like i never know how my body's gonna react anymore so yeah well here i am dane dane cook he said that he's never drank or smoked or anything he's naturally like that so he never had and i was so i

pressed him a little bit i was like well what is your vice then because we all have one we all have one it's got to be their food or you know what is it yeah and he said that his vice is to create things yeah that's what he said i believe it my vice working. I work nonstop. Like I wake up working. I go to sleep working. My husband, it drives him crazy because now he's used to it. But when we first got together, he would be like, how do you, when do you turn it off? Yeah. Like when do you turn it off?

And I'm like, I just, I can't. Like I, if I'm not constantly. Do you like caffeine? Is that? Um, sometimes I'm actually gotten to a point where I can actually drink it now and it doesn't affect me. But before it was so bad, I have like we were in vegas this last time we went to vegas fucking a couple months ago and dutch brothers is my favorite coffee yeah i fucking

downed one of them thinking it was like starbucks and i was so cracked out it hurt like i was so caffeined out it hurt i was like this is terrible i don't know if i want to go to sleep or if i want to fucking hang myself off the balcony like i just fucking it was terrible so i'll get the shakes yeah no i don't really have a vice what would you think what would you say my advice is mimi yeah working just i guess what creating i mean your work is creating yeah that's probably what he meant by yeah things what's your advice what do you mean your work is creating yeah that's probably what he meant by yeah things what's your vice what do you think your vices do you have a vice well i definitely smoke weed yeah and i drink beer yeah yeah weed and beer are my biggest vices yeah you're normal

she's normal that's a good thing i wish i could fucking just drink a beer like there's so many times that i want that relief feeling of you know like numbing the pain well no i love being numb but no you know like okay so i used to drink vodka on the rocks whenever you have that first drink and you just feel all the tension in your body just relax i don't know if you ever get like that it's the beer i do i can't do liquor oh okay gotcha it does not do good with any kind of liquor or wine gotcha i'll just have a yeah i can't really bad i'll get sick yeah just gets it oh gotcha okay see i'm the opposite i love hard liquor so only vodka though yeah so that first drink you just like because i suffer from anxiety you just get that full like release you know i'm just like oh my god i don't give a fuck you know does that for me in the mornings? Oh, that's how she is. She's always like, can you just smoke weed again?

And I'm like, I might try. Maybe when we're in LA this next time, we'll go. Yeah. And because I mean, everybody thinks when you smoke weed, you're a stoner. No, I used to smoke weed. But like sometimes it I used to do bong rips and go to the gym yes and now i'm a pussy in my old age like like if i think i could if i did a bong rip i would probably fucking cry in a corner and rock back and forth you know makes me cough a lot yeah i don't

like to and it'll you know mess up your voice which when you sing you definitely want to protect your voice as much as you can you shouldn't't be smoking. Yeah. But I like a raspy voice, though. I love a woman with a raspy voice. I think it's different. Just something different. And also just just one hit in the morning. You don't need a whole lot. Yeah.

You know, just a little. Maybe I'll give it a little dose to the weed. Well, we we have been microdosing shrooms. Oh, perfect. Yeah. So we have been microdosing shrooms. Oh, perfect. Yeah. Perfect. So they've been working great for her. What do they do to you?

Because sometimes they're great for me and sometimes it's not so great. So they were great for me. And then if I can, I've also been on a calorie deficit working with my nutritionist. So, you know, a couple weeks ago, or actually last week, I had this really bad bout of depression that I hadn't gotten in a while. So it scared the fuck out of me and I thought it was the shrooms. So now I'm like eliminating everything and just on my vitamins. What are the shrooms do for you? Well, it depends on what you do, because if you just microdose, it's just a slight like.

Yeah, no, that's that's the feeling I get. Yes. All the green outside is greener am i right yes all the blues are bluer purples are purpler yeah uh nature you have to be in nature you don't want to be in a bar i can't be on my phone when i'm when i'm microdosing i don't want to touch my phone like this would if i were on streams right now i would be like can we please turn off the light yeah and a lot of people would be like i love the light that's more of a stone thing for me rather than a yeah i want all the lights off fire is perfect just stare at a fire or a candle putting candles it's more like uh it's spiritual it's definitely more spiritual do you have you ever had a bad trip yes or like but oh god and i think it was because i was around people

i didn't know oh yeah you definitely want to be comfortable with everyone around because and you want to i did it to get messed up that time right not with intention yes you always have to set intention even when i take my microdose i always set an intention like i'm doing this to heal my depression or i'm doing this to help myself so i can help other people like i always i just got goosebumps when you said that that's so important yeah doing shrooms or even weed or tobacco any dream mind altering thing set the intention why am I doing this? Why not make it a ceremony of some kind for you and great spirit, universe, God, whatever

you want to call it. Yeah. And honor your ancestors in some way. You can create it and make it spiritual. So shrooms definitely help you look at things that way. Oh, yeah. No, for sure. They totally do.

I know the first time I did them, I felt so great. So I don't I'm not ruling out shrooms altogether. I'm just kind of taking a break right now to make sure that that didn't set me off and send me on a spiral. Water, rain, dropping on water. You have a pool? No, but we're getting one built. Okay. Or a creek or something.

Anything like that. I used to have a pool. I don't anymore. I moved and now I have a creek in my backyard. So if you watch the rain hit the water, you could do it for two hours. Yeah. Shrooms. Oh, the coolest looking thing, you know?

Yeah. I've only done. Have you ever done DMT? No, I'm that. It scares me because I just I don't know why. But it's so quick. I think, you know know tell me your experience i need to hear it once and it was with todd snyder who is a singer-songwriter he did beer run i don't

know if you that's his biggest hit you know do you know todd snyder he's a real funny guy but uh he had it was a pen so it was a vape of dmt and it only lasts 8 to 15 minutes one hit of it wow so my experience we're sitting on his back porch and he is on the lake out in Hendersonville so his house is actually hit by the these last tornadoes that came through roof gone oh no yeah um but he'll get a new roof it'll be fine okay go Todd go he wasn't there he was on tour oh good and he's such a bachelor that everything he loves was with him on that bus oh good it's so empty in that house yeah if he's not there it's not a home it's a house sitting on that back porch with the lake out there and there was a tree that would all of a sudden just start dancing for me oh my god and uh so

that was the coolest thing and then i looked over to my right and god or whoever great spirit picks up the land and sets it down and he said to me see it's like chess and i don't know i just got goosebumps so and i don't i still don't know how to play chess i've tried it a few times yeah i get into learning it it's kind of i liked the um the gambit what the queen's gambit was great yeah uh but i i don't know i don't think i'm smart enough for to actually sit down i don't think i have patience enough to do it yeah like i was like i'd just rather play music i don't know so that's all that happened it wasn't like some out of this world crazy no like i was like i'd just rather play music i don't know so that's all that happened it wasn't like some out of this world crazy no like i've always thought that if you took dmt it like

blasted you off into like this other dimension and like that's salvia no okay yeah salvia don't ever do that yeah no i had a ex die from it actually die from it how um he smoked it right salvia is what yeah he smoked it and had a seizure yeah it's legal and had a heart attack i know yeah and people had a smoke shop are out for 40 unless you die people are out for 45 seconds but they feel like they're gone 30 years wow and i don't know if i'd want to do that to come back feeling old as fuck like just fucking yeah like you feel like you like you just lived 30 years and sometimes it's like you've lived 30 years as the paint on the side of a barn right so wow and you feel the

heat of the sun and the cold of the snow every minute every day for 30 years in this 45 second salvia trip no i don't want to do that i don't want to do that that doesn't sound fun that sounds like a fucking nightmare but the dmt sounded awesome yeah because jay loves dmt that's his jam too he loves hallucinogenics and dmt and stuff like that but i'm just now getting comfortable to where i'm dabbling in the hallucinogenics i did acid one time had a bad trip well i did it a couple times the first time i had a great trip and then the second time I had a bad trip. And then shrooms, the first time I did it, I started to have a bad trip and then pulled myself out of it and thought I was Little John in the snow. And Michael Jackson. I just had a blast.

And then she's been brought up twice today. My best friend that passed away, Grace, RIP, we were staying in this Airbnb that was old lady clothes in the closet, and we just tried on all her clothes and did a fashion show while we were on in like this Airbnb and that was like old lady clothes in the closet. And we just like tried on all her clothes and did like a fashion show while we were on shrooms. And it was like the funnest time of my life. So I'm just now getting comfortable with hallucinogenics. So maybe after I microdose and can actually macro dose shrooms, then maybe I'll move on to DMT. But I feel like hallucinogenics are so healing.

Mushrooms last way longer than the DMT thing, just so you know. Yeah, up to eight hours, right? Or six hours or something like that. Yeah, yeah. And then you feel, depending on how much you do, you feel some the next day. Yeah, I don't want to do that. Yeah, I definitely don't want to do that. Yeah, and I never do it when my kids are around.

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to. I smoke weed when they're around. Yeah. I mean, with them or anything yeah no that's fine i don't think there's anything wrong with weed um my when i was microdosing one time our kid came in and i was like listening to like spiritual music just zoned out on the bed just kind of relaxing trying to make sure because you know i suffer from anxiety so there's when i first take it i have to wait like an hour and make sure i don't hallucinate so i'm always like freaking out so

i'm just trying to like zen out and she comes in and that's where i did the the real i don't know if you saw whenever i had taken a little too much that that was the first time when i remember i could see the things on the back of my eyelids i said and um she came in and she's like she's like uh what are you doing she's like are you on shrooms right now and i was like yes and she came in, and she's like, what are you doing? She's like, are you on shrooms right now? And I was like, yes, and she's like, okay, I'll be back, but that's what inspired the TikTok that I did where she came in, and she said, how many did you take?

And I said, I took nine. I took nine, and it's the face. Have you seen the one that I did? Yeah, that's what inspired that because it legit happened. Now, so far, I love hallucinogenics like i said just taking a break from them right now because my body's just fucking wonky but yeah the one bad trip i had on this room when i was around people i didn't know i wanted to lay down on the floor and i didn't want to get up i felt it wasn't like i was pinned down but i was just

like i don't want to get up from here and it was your safe space but they all came and laid down there with me and like an hour later i was fine oh good yeah so it's like and it was cool because i didn't really know them but then after that i'm like i love those guys you know now they're close friends yeah they really pulled me out of that trip and all they did was just lay down on the floor but that's sweet because you could if you were with the wrong people then it could have like spun it into a bad situation so yeah but also mushrooms have a um that uppity thing yeah i haven't had the uppity thing like a or it has like that because do you notice this like that uh she takes more than me I've never done cocaine, but it gives you that caffeine feeling.

You can stay up later. Do you have that? I haven't felt that yet. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Wide awake. Well, shit balls. I have to be sure of how much I take. If it's even microdosing. Yeah. If it's not all night or all night long. Wide awake.

Wide awake. Well, shit balls. Best dreams of my life. Yeah, great dreams. Great shits. I love a good shit. Don't fucking threaten me with a good time. I can't ever poop, so.

Oh, that's a great way to get that going. Yeah. I've actually done it just to do that wow i love that she's like i've taken shrooms just a shit just a shit i'm telling you um because i love cheese and then sometimes yeah cheese and yeah i love that well what can we expect from raylan in 2022 i'm gonna um tour a lot so come see me i will let me know when your like show is and we're always traveling too so if you're out on the road and we're in the same city i would love to come see you okay and here i'm supposed to play uh the rhinestone stage the glenn dope campbell museum okay um in march and then basement east next september oh that's the only two in town so far yay i like

to get out of nashville and play around so yeah i'll be around and then we're gonna be releasing singles and um my next single is called free so i'll be looking for that when do we know when that's gonna drop um probably i'm thinking i'm hoping i think march is the best time right now at this point but it just depends because i'm putting together a music video that I want to make sure that happens. Awesome. To go with it. Yeah, totally. So if it means that I have to wait longer or it needs to happen sooner, then that's

what will happen. Yeah. Whenever it's meant to be, it'll happen. Yeah. Yeah. So you're going to be touring, releasing new music. Anything else you want to add to that list that we can look out podcasting music is funny podcast and um hopefully hanging out with

you guys doing shrimps dude i would love that that would be awesome at your beach house vacation yes yeah we'll go buy it right now no i've been trying to talk my husband into buying a fucking vacation home for six years i get the shit into the shingle on that every time but i think i'm gonna win soon eventually oh yes yes exactly huge on that put it in the air raylan tell everybody where they can find you at like your socials and raylan olsen band and um at music is funny on youtube that's where i am yay and the podcast you can find on youtube just google all the music is apple yeah apple spotify um my favorite way is the apple yeah i love apple too but spotify is actually getting big now too so i've been promoting spotify so you should promote spotify

too okay yeah spotify all the things yeah all the things well i can't wait to see i'm so glad we're friends thanks i know i love it yeah totally i can't wait to see what this next year. I'm so glad we're friends. Thanks for having me. I know. I love it. Yeah, totally. I can't wait to see what this next year brings for you. Yeah. I'm just so excited to watch you prosper and all that jazz. And we're going to bring you back. You got to come back. Okay. You have to be like a reoccurring guest.

We'll do a TikTok. We're all going to go viral on TikTok. Oh, honey, we've been going viral. We're going to bring you on the train with us. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.