Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Danae Hays | Prank Calling, Laughter, and Life Lessons!

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

#732. Join Kaitlyn Bristowe and the multi-talented Danae Hays on this uproarious episode of Off The Vine! From belly laughs that could power a city to insightful discussions on comedy and envy, this episode is packed with entertainment! Danae shares her experiences as a comedian, writer, and prankster, including a hilarious prank call to a taxidermist that went viral during the pandemic. The duo dives into the nuances of comedy, the importance of bringing humor to 2024, and the power of betting on yourself. With candid moments about coming out and finding love, this episode is both heartwarming and sidesplitting. And don't miss the epic prank call to Kaitlyn's sister Hailey! Tune in for an hour of pure joy and laughter as Kaitlyn and Danae remind us all to embrace our funny bones and bet on ourselves! If you’re LOVING this podcast, please follow and leave a rating and review below! PLUS, FOLLOW OUR PODCAST INSTAGRAM HERE! EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS (7:18): Danae as she shares the story behind her viral prank call to a taxidermist during the pandemic. (22:10): Delve into a heartfelt moment as Danae opens up about her journey of self-discovery, including her coming-out experience and the importance of authenticity. (36:04) : Experience a powerful message of self-belief as Danae encourages listeners to always bet on themselves. Discover why she believes in the power of pursuing your dreams and trusting in your abilities, no matter what challenges may arise! (49:14): Danae as she reflects on her experiences as a realtor saying, “Being a realtor in my small town gave me enough material for a decade.” (57:57): Prepare for more laughter as Kaitlyn and Danae team up for an epic prank call to Kaitlyn's sister, Hailey!! Thank you to...See 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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a singer, a bunch of different things. And she always brings a unique perspective to everything. I really enjoyed my conversation with her today. Do you know Cody Rigsby? Yes. Peloton. Yeah. He had a book tour and I was hosting it last night at City Winery. And like, I was reading his card for him to like get introed out there. Yeah. And I was just like, does this turn you on like he was like yeah i bet it does like everything i'm saying he's like yeah yeah i like him he's got such a fun person i'm mad i didn't go to that i love that guy oh i should have told you shame on you kately you know my bad yeah you do need to take responsibility i had guestless and i didn't tell you that's okay i do like him though he's nice in person as he is

yes he's lovely and he's totally a comedian like up on stage i was like oh he works the crowd Yeah, oh my God, I would assume so. He could probably do like a stand-up tour if he was over with Peloton. He totally could. He was very funny. And we played Smash or Pass with Disney characters. And I was like, this feels... What?

Is that so funny? It was. Like, Beast as a human or Beast as Beast? And everybody picked Beast as Beast. Yeah, I'm kind of feeling that too. Beast as a human had like an up-do, like a half-up, half-down, like red, wavy hair. Yeah, the mole. I think he brought that.

Oh, yeah. And it was like, he was almost too pretty in the face where Beast was like, kind of like, oh. I think Bell, smash Bell. I would smash Bell. I would also, okay, wait, I'm going to give you another one. Dumpy, you'd smash Dumpy is what you're going to say. Who's dumpy? One of the seven dwarfs.

Dumpy is one of the dwarfs. Right? It's dumpy. Isn't there a dumpy? I don't think there's a dumpy. Dumpy. Dumpy. Dumpy's got a dumpy.

Dumpy's got a dump truck. Okay, well, dumpy should be. There's a skit for you. Do a dumpy. Kayling, you go, you go dumpy. I was like, surely I would know if there was a dumpy in there. Got that big old booty on him in there. Wait, that'd be hilarious.

Also, okay, one more. Smash or Pass, Aladdin or Gaston? Probably Aladdin. I'm into that, you know, that ethnic, ethnic vibes. He reminds me too much of my ex. Oh. So I picked Gaston. He kind of gets on my nerves.

That's the... Well, same. But I feel like, okay, I was trying to explain this. You know when you watch porn? Totally, yeah. And then, like, your dogs in the room. And then when you're done, you, like, slam the laptop down. And you feel so much shame.

And you're like, don't look at me! I just saw... Oh, my God. That's so weird. You said that. I just saw this comedian, Emma... Her name's Willingham, maybe. Yeah.

She did an entire bit on stage about that, which is so... That must be, like, a universal... Interesting. Moment. But she's like, you know, when you're watching... porn and your dog's in the room he's like what the hell is mom doing yeah and then all of a sudden out of shame you just slam that laptop you're kidding she said that swear to god i'll have to send you the clip like are you writing for her are you her ghost writer i don't even know who she is wow

maybe i heard it in a bit somewhere years ago and it's just stuck in my head oh what if emma stole that from somebody else okay i have a question about that i feel like in like podcasting in the ticot world in the comedy world is there a lot of like stealing going on like i personally steal that a lot of material from like family guy or like stuff that like shows I used to watch all that are ingrained in my brain from my 20s. Yeah. And I recycle jokes all the time.

Is it offensive as a comedian or a form of flattery when people take your bits? Well, I think it depends on how much you take of it. You know, like if it's like a generalization, something that like we've all had a universal experience with like you just said with the porn situation. But I think if you're like literally taking their punch lines and you're hitting the same punchlines.

line. Yeah. Which is a big reason I can't watch a lot of comedy because if I'm, you see? Yeah. And if I see too much of it, then I get in my head that I'm taking somebody else's material. So I have a really hard time with like actually watching stand up and Netflix specials and stuff like that. Because I'm like, I have that same joke. But if I tell it, I don't want them to think that I stole their stuff. That's so interesting. Because I feel like that, well, even you're big on TikTok. Did that come from comedy? It all started with a prank phone call. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I heard that you do prank phone calls. It Prank phone calls make me so anxious.

I used to do them as a segment on my podcast. Did you? Like, you were the prank caller? Yes. Wow. And, like, I've done some crazy calls. And every time the adrenaline that goes through my body, like, I'm, like, tired after. See, I think that's why I like it.

I don't think I get off to prank phone call. I get too scared because I'm like, well, and then my audience started to tell me. You were being mean. You're being mean. Yeah. And you didn't tell them at that. I would just hang up and be like, ha-ha. I, you know.

Like, that's where a prank call me. I know. I still get that same message. I always look at it through the lens of like, I know this may sound bad to some people, but like if I'm calling a place of business, like at least I got to entertain them for five minutes. You know? And I'm never mean or ask them to do anything that would like

overwhelm them or anything like that. But also like let's bring a sense of humor back to 2024. Like let's stop being so hypercritical and so just looking for a reason to not laugh, you know? Why is that? Are we just all? I mean, you want my honest opinion? Yeah, I do.

I think we've gotten so far into the lane of, like, I don't want to use the word inclusive because that's a positive word, but we try so hard not to step on anybody's toes where sometimes there is funny in having a moment where we're kind of laughing at a certain situation, not in like a hostile way, but like we're trying to find the humor just to like make joy out of something. Like, why is that so bad? Yeah, and that's one thing that I have to work constantly on on social media is because I never want to hurt anybody's feelings. Yeah.

But I also love bringing joy to people, and a lot of people want to laugh, especially in a, you know, a rough day, so. I feel like that's probably why majority of people do follow you is because you make them laugh. And I feel like, do you get people that are like, that's not funny? Oh, yeah. What? Oh, my God.

Yeah, all the time. Like, not like in the sense of like it's overwhelming. But yeah, you get the people. Like I still loved a prank phone call. It's what originally grew my account. Yeah. And I genuinely love prank phone calling. And so anytime you post a prank phone call, you're like, you're laughing at their expense.

You're so mean. Grow up. Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, look, there's millions of people out there that got joy from prank phone calling back in the 90s when we were kids. So let's bring back some nostalgia. Yeah. You know? It is nostalgia.

Maybe that's what I like listening to prank calls. But when I am the one doing them, I'm like, oh, God. I don't know why I feel the adrenaline so high. What is the best prank call you've ever put on somebody? I think the one that got the most views, it was like $25 million in a couple of days. It went bananas. It was during the pandemic when everybody was at home.

And I had prank phone call to taxidermist. And for those of you that don't know what that is, it's where you stuff animals like beer and whatnot. And I called and I did my southern character named Sharon Jean. And I was like, yes, sir, I'm lucky. to get my dog stuffed and I was like you don't do that do you and he was like actually we do are you expecting that no it took me by surprise so I had to think of my feet and I was like oh my god I did not expect him to say yeah we do and he was like where's the dog at now and I was like

he's in my deep freezer and he was like great I'll come pick him up and I was like no I'll just put him on top of the car and bring him down there and he's frozen solid like a damn brick and he was like that's perfect you've done everything you need to do ma'am you've done it exactly right and I was like how many dogs is this guy stuffed like that was way too casual oh my gosh bring him down he's like what's what was his name I was like Pony so Poonie Poonie's going on some shirts we're doing some merch oh you have to Pony fan club one of my favorite things in life is when people make merch out of like like a villain on a reality show yeah is like hated for a quote and then they go and make merch off it I'm like yes get that coin yeah Pony Pony fan club I think that's what we're going

come out with wow yeah i'm in sweet little pony i'm in the fan club wait that's so i would i would like to do a prank call with you at the end of this podcast we've got to but you you have to pick the person we call i want to do my mom so bad but she's such a paranoid freak like i feel like we'd have to tell her immediately at the end oh yeah i'm like always scared i'm gonna give her a heart attack because she's just like so paranoid about everything that would be really bad uh you're on tour right now yeah so wait Do you live in Nashville? Yeah, full time. Full time.

Okay. And so where is your tour going? Where can people, tell me everything. Well, we just finished the first leg of the tour. It sold out pretty quick, which was. It sold out so fast. Shocked the hell out of me because this is my first time going on tour as a stand-up. Does that feel like?

Just feels like my childhood dream. Yeah. Yeah. It really does. I've always imagined myself in some form of being a entertainer. Yeah. I've just loved making people laugh. It's my favorite thing.

So you've been like that since you like came out of the womb. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I annoyed the hell out of my parents growing up. Do your parents have good senses of humor? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. My dad is like, he writes half my jokes and he doesn't even know he's writing. Like, yeah, he's just, yeah, him just living his life is, uh, is me writing content. Where did you grow up? I grew up a little north of Birmingham, Alabama. Okay. Yeah.

The way you do that southern accent is too good. Well, but you also have a bit of a southern accent. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that makes sense that that's where you're from. Okay, so you just are selling out tours from, like, it's crazy when you think about what a social media platform, like, sometimes I love the internet. Sometimes I hate it, but sometimes I love it when it feeds me the right thing.

And when people like you get those kinds of views, I'm like, yes, we're celebrating the right things in life. I appreciate you saying that. It's really crazy. But you, like, Zanies is, have you done your Zanis show yet? How was it? It was really fun. I love that. I won't lie. Zanies was out of all the shows. Zanies was the most intimidating because all of my friends and family and people that I work with and business partners, they were all there. And my wife thought it was the best idea to put them all at one table. And I was like, Manny, the room is the size of our living room. Why would we stick all 40 people that we know at one table? She's like, well, I just wanted us to be able to have a conversation and just like laugh together. And I'm like,

She's like, you never really made eye contact with us over there. I was like, yeah, because you stuck everybody right there. It's weird when you make eye contact with anyone during the show, let alone all of your people. Yeah, but it was a great show. I loved it. Zaney's like, that's been on the bucket list. Weirdly, I had a friend. I just found the text message the other day, but my friend, who's really big into energy work and manifesting.

And I'm starting to become, like, I am becoming a woo-woo girl, 100%. Oh, I am so there. Yes, it is like. It's real. it is energy is real when you realize that energy has just as much force as like you hitting a nail in the wall with a hammer yeah like i've been manifesting these moments yeah for years and i've been imagining them and like really cultivating this experience for so long so that's why i just it feels so weird i feel like i'm in synchronicity with like an incongruence with where i'm supposed to be at right now because i've like i've pictured these moments for years before the echo came, you know? It's so cool. I, too, have done the same things. Like, everyone that listens to this podcast are like, shut up, Caitlin, because I've told the story so many times. But I just, I do that and I've done it my whole life where I was like,

I knew I was somehow going to be on TV. Yes. I knew I was going to have my own radio show. It turns out to be a podcast. I knew I was going to rescue golden retrievers. I thought I would be with a country boy. We're still working on that. We're still working on it. It could happen. Like so many things I wrote out, I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I wanted to do something. something in the world of wine, like so many things. And it's not just like, okay, I wrote it down, but those are actually things that I could see myself doing. And I remember, like before scrolling and phones, I remember I would just lay in bed and

see myself doing all of those things. And I would dream about it and I'd wake up thinking about it. Yes. And that is like when it happens. 100% like, I don't know if you've ever heard of the app called My Human Design. Nope. It is my favorite app. Okay, tell me more.

So you put your birthday in. You put the city, you know, all the things that would give you your sign. You know, it's not a horoscope. It's not like going to tell you what your day. Is it like a birth chart? Yeah, it's like a birth chart. And it really tells you like your personality type and like how you feel things, how you manifest things. And like for me, the way that I manifest, this is a very weird thing.

And it's very niche. So bear with me on this. But when I close my eyes, I forgot what it's called. But I can't visually see anything. Oh, no way. Yeah. It's like a rare instance. But I can't, yeah, but I can't, when I close my eyes, like, I can't visually make you guys up, like, in my brain where most people can, like, visually close their eyes and, like, see what they want to imagine.

I have to, on, like, a physical level, I have to feel what it is I'm trying to imagine. So when I manifest, a lot of people are visualizers and their manifestations, they close their eyes and they visually see it. I have to close my eyes and feel on like a cellular, cellular level of what I'm trying to accomplish. So it's like this My Human Design app says that it's like supercharging your manifestation. So because you're feeling it while also like internally seeing it but not being able to see it through your eyes, which I know it sounds really weird. But that's that's how I manifest is like when I close my eyes, I imagine what it's like to be on the Bridgestone stage. And like, yeah. And like and like it's so supercharging.

And it like is like a dose of like caffeine. Like literally because I'll just sit there and I'll manifest. And then when I'm done, I'm just like, bro, like, I don't know when Bridgestone is happening. But I just saw it. I know it's happening. I just don't know how old I'll be when it happens. Yeah. But I can't wait for that moment to come.

So just, yeah, so going back to my human design, it's great app. That's so cool. I just wish everybody could do that. I feel like we all have so many numbing tools that we use. And it's so interesting because why is it the things that we want so bad are like the hardest to do? It's like you want that so bad. So you make a point to see. sit there and feel what that would feel like for you to be in these situations. And you've seen

it come to life now at Zanies and wherever you're going sold out tours, 25 million views on TikToks. Like you've, you like have sat there and like made that happen. And a lot of people will be like, I'm just going to like scroll instead or I'm going to put on a TV show or I'm going to drink or whatever they are doing to numb. I wonder why. I don't know. I don't think we've, even as like a baby as a kid, we're not taught to trust ourselves. We're not talking. We're not taught to trust our instincts. There's always, somebody else always has the answer. The doctor has the answer. My mom has the answer. My teacher has the answer. And I think at the end of the day, it's primal for us to trust ourselves. And a lot of times we don't get to that point until we get

older that something catastrophic happens and we're able to navigate our way through it because we trusted our instincts or we're able to keep ourselves from making a bad decision, whether it's in a relationship or a career move because we trust it ourselves. And I think the more you do that, you build confidence around that your intuition and the answer lies always within you. Yeah. And I think when you get back into the driver's seat that you, you are the driver to your life is when you start to trust manifesting and when you start to trust that your dreams aren't

too big, you know? Like not only does social media numb, but it gives you so many other people's opinions. Yeah. And it like, I feel like it makes you lose your vision. Like, do you spend a lot of time on social media? As of lately I have. And I, I've been in a funk lately with that, too. Just a lot of anxiety because I'm, you're always watching other people's lives unfold

instead of focusing on yourself. And it's funny, I know that I'm watching too much social media. Yeah, yeah, same. My screen time doesn't even need to tell me, like my body knows. And then I'm, I'm just like, I should really, I should really stop. But it's, it's an addiction. 100% is like it's so hard to stop going to check your phone you know like yeah what's on my home screen is somebody texted me yeah and yeah it's like it's like a ball and chain dude like it's crazy but everything's

on there I'm like my text messages my emails my work my play my everything like that I do is on the phone I know like I'll catch myself just like being in the moment of doing something like yesterday I was cleaning my garage out yeah and I was organizing it and I'm having a great time listening to some country music and I'm like I'm gonna go check my phone and after I did it I was like why did you go check your phone you didn't even hear a notification go off your phone's on loud but it's just like that it's like going to drink water and going to pee like you're like it's just going to check my phone it's such a thing I know we get so distracted by it instead of like staying in our lane and knowing what we believe and what we want we're like but what is it what are other people doing

what do they think about it like it's so crazy so I feel like in this day and age I always feel so old when I say that. It's even cooler that you can, you know, have those moments of knowing exactly where you want to be. A lot of people don't know where they want to go or where they want to be. I'm actually stuck in a funk right now of like where I want to go next or what I want to do next. And I'm like, I don't know. And I, it's cool to know. Yeah. I heard this saying the other day, I say the other day, it was like five years ago. But I did that. I do that all that. A southerners were like, yeah, the other day, my grandma. And it was like, that was seven years ago when your grandma told you that.

Your grandma's been dead For eight years Grandma told you that From the grave But this saying was Go where you're envious And whenever I heard that I was like bro

That's so true Like If you're envious If you're envious as somebody They're doing what you want to do Yeah So I have to check that with myself If I ever like get in a like place

of like envy Which I think envy is different than jealousy I think jealousy is wishing somebody falls Invious Being envious is like They're doing something you want to do and itches you, you know? But I was like, that's very interesting.

See, that confuses me because I'm like, do I want to have a baby? Because I see that sometimes, but then I see my sister with a teenager and I go, no, I don't. Right. Yeah, they grow up. Yeah, they sure do. They grow up. That's what I keep telling my wife. We're trying every night to have a baby, but nothing's happened yet. I don't know.

Something ain't working, but no, we are not trying to have a baby right now. Please do not let Mandy hear this because she is. She goes in waves of like, I'd love to have twins. Yeah. And then like the next day we're like, man, I think we could be happy without kids. Yeah.

You know? I go back and forth all the time too. I mean, yeah, that's another thing I find fascinating is watching other people talk about that because it's so controversial for some reason. Right. It's just so wild. How did you and Mandy meet? We met on Instagram.

Oh. Yeah, which is... How long ago? 2016. Oh, cute. Yeah. She hopped on an Instagram live. I had one person on the Instagram Live, and it was Mandy, which is bizarre.

Yeah, it's, dude, it was weird. No way. Instagram Live had just rolled out Instagram Live feature that day, and it was like one o'clock in the morning, and I was at the gym working out. And that's, okay, we're trying to get swole, Kayla. Holy shit. At 1 a.m. Yeah, girl, I was, I was a different animal back then. Wow, that's amazing.

Okay. Yeah. Now I'm, you know, Googling, like, cool sculpting and shit. But, yeah. So I was at the gym. I was like, well, let's see what Instagram Live is about. Well, she was on the West Coast, so she was at 11 p.m. And she follows.

She followed me. She followed you. Yeah, she followed me and I followed her. And there was this guy working out, and he had, like, Justin Bieber hair. And I got so nervous when I saw her name pop up on my live that I literally, I didn't know the guy. I literally turned the camera and I go, just me and Justin Bieber working out. And the guy looks at me, and he goes, what the hell, dude? And I went, anyways.

And so, Mandy sent like a crying emoji. And I was like, yes, I made her laugh, you know, even though I completely isolated that poor boy. Whatever. Yeah, I felt bad for that, dude. It was just awkward. He was like, what do I do to you? And I was like, it's a bit. Yeah, I was like, I don't even know what to say to you right now.

I'm so sorry. One in the morning. Oh my gosh. So wait, you two followed each other. So I followed her first. What made you follow her? She was hot. Okay, good.

Yeah. So I was like, she's really cute, but I was in the closet. So I was like, it's like a dog chasing a tire. You were in the closet in 2016? Girl, I am like fresh out of the closet as of 2018. So, yeah, I know. You would have thought, like, everybody around me was like, Deney, it's a glass closet. Like, we know, we know Deney.

And I was like, no. Wait, why was it so hard for you? Sum it up. Let's see. Just southern roots. Yeah, makes sense. Everything is. I'm so Canadian.

I'm like, why was it hard? You're like, why can you just have? I was like, it's so easy to be a lesbian. Being gay is the new thing today. Everybody's queer. That's like on my vision board. There we go. That's what I'm manifesting.

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Growing up in Alabama. I can't even imagine. I didn't even put that together because, yeah, it's... I wish more people were like you. Well, and I didn't mean to say it like, why is it so hard? I didn't take that word. I meant it more like, why for you personally was it? Well, it was really hard because I had told my parents when I was younger that I was

confused why I liked the girls and not the boys. And that didn't go well. Got it. At all. And that was when I was like nine. So, you know, when you're at such a formative age and they're already telling you that you're wrong. Yep.

So, but yeah, when I did finally come out, one of the first things that was said to me was that I was like an alcoholic. I was just addicted to my sexuality. And that, yeah, and then I could break that if I just gave it up to the Lord. Oh, God. So that was like another message.

It was like, oh, you can't be a Christian and also be gay. So that was very confusing. But, yeah, girl, we are out of that closet. it. Oh, good. And life is serendipitous. This is maybe too deep or maybe. It's okay. What is your relationship with religion now? It's definitely moved

from organized religion going to the, you know, church and worshiping in the, you know, that situation to more of a spiritual relationship with God. I let a lot of other people tell me how God loved me.

And a lot of times it was always like their hatred was always justified because of their religion. And a quote that stuck with me was you worship a condemning God, whereas I worship a loving God. Yeah, I heard that. I love that. And that really resonated with me because I was like,

we're allowing people to tell us how God loves us. Yep. And I choose to believe that God is a loving God. And so, yeah, so it's a lot of work to go through that. Well, because it's years of conditioning that you have to get rid of. But it must be so freeing to, like work towards like every year must get better yeah because you're probably what is mand is mandi like was she always mandy's very spiritual she comes from a family she's from california so her upbringing

upbringing was a little bit different um but like mandy's mom is really spiritual and very loving just loves jesus and doesn't let other people tell her how jesus loves her and her mother was very healing for me wow because i do think though that there was a time where where had Mandy's mom not come into play, I think there could have been a really easy moment to view religion as a very hateful community. Yeah. And I think I could have easily taken a detour

and went left and said, this religion has caused me so much pain and so much hurt. But I think I just chose to see it through a different perspective. I think that's so cool. I'm kind of on my own journey with that right now of like I've always been very spiritual,

but then I've met someone recently who very much talks about, like prayer and God and I've realized that there's it's all like very similar and it was just how I was viewing yeah because of online trolls to be honest with you because they were always the the Christians were always the nastiest the people with the Bible verses were always the meanest and I started getting angry at that and this person has kind of opened my eyes to like a new way of thinking and I think it's so cool yeah it really is because I don't know there's just you're right though I don't know why that is and obviously there's very loving Christians out there yeah

Oh, yeah. But yeah, some of the meanest messages I get regarding my relationship are Bible verses or people of a certain religious background. And I'm like, you realize you catch more bees with honey. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I always like there's a skit I do in my head.

In your head? In my head. Yeah. Lay it on us now. So whenever somebody sends me a hateful message and it's wrapped up in religion, I always have to giggle because this is how I imagine them getting the head. then they're at the pearly gates and they're like and god's like welcome to the kingdom my child and they're like thanks god it's so good to be here and he's like are you proud of the work you did on earth and they're like oh yeah no like i ostracized all of the gays like the gays you don't

have to worry about them they know they're wrong okay and then god looks at the child and is like you completely messed up the mission yeah you know like that's where i have to get in my head is like, do they really think that they're going to get more crowns in heaven or more jewels on their crown in heaven by making other people feel small? Right. You know, so. It does always fascinate me. I feel like there's got to be some sort of documentary that's to be made about people like that because it doesn't make sense. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a weird, I think it's almost like a weird form of like narcissism. Yeah. Yeah. But not again, like there's like Mandy's mom for instance. She's also a Christian, but she just is like, come all as you are. Let's love God

together. How it should be. That's, do you know who Becca Tilly is? Yes. She has such a beautiful way of saying kind of what you're saying as well. Like it feels the same way. Yeah. And she never felt, you know, comfortable. I'm not going to speak for her, but like never felt comfortable growing up with how she was feeling. Yeah. And she grew up in Louisiana, I believe. And, She kind of was so confused about her relationship with God. And then now she's kind of on that other side now. Or it's just like so much better. Yeah.

Wouldn't you want to live in a place of like non-judgment and love? Like because like at the end of the day, like if we're all living as our higher self, our better self, we're better people to other people. Yeah. I just don't believe you can have a heart full of hate and also be happy. No, you can't. Those two can't reside in the same vessel. So I like the way you talk, by the way. Appreciate that.

Yeah. Thanks, man. Because it's, you have good vocabulary. Oh, thank you. Wow. Damn. I do not and I notice it in other people all the time because I'm like, I wish I could talk like. I don't know if you give yourself enough credit.

Oh, I don't. We're going to have to talk about this. It's a whole thing. I went to therapy yesterday. I was there yesterday for two hours. I'm going tomorrow so we can go together. Imagine we had the same one and we didn't know. Say her name on three.

One, two, three. Melody. Who. Oh. Thank God. like I hope Melanie's got tight lips Lord I always think that's

One time I went to my therapist office And she had And this was like right after I came off the show She had gossip magazines Layed out on her table And it had my face on them like slut shaming me No Yes

In my therapist office And I walked in and I was like Uh oh I had to tell her about it I once went to a therapist And she didn't know I was gay And now anytime I start with a new therapist not that I'd do this all the time

but anytime I like move or whatever I have to ask do you have a problem with people being gay because I walked in and we're sitting there okay this is a really sidebar subject all right yeah I went to therapy when I was in college because I was dealing

with my sexuality but I was so ashamed of my sexuality that I didn't want to tell my therapist I was gay I just thought naturally we could get to that point if I went long enough okay so I'm sitting there and she's like so what brings you in today today and I'm like well I'm on the softball team here at the University of Alabama and I don't know, I just, I struggle with pure pressure.

And she goes, oh, no. Do your teammates, do they pressure you to be gay? Is that what it is? Is it wrapped up in that? Now, granted, it didn't happen just like that. We eventually got to that point. And I was like, they do and I don't want to be gay. So then I affirm her belief.

So then I went to this crazy lady for four weeks straight. so that we could talk about she was also a religious counselor but then we could talk about it that just goes to show you what a people pleaser I was back then is that I was paying this woman to tell me that being gay was strong when I paid her originally to help me not feel bad about being gay. That is like the definition of the people please are almost like a little more than that. Yeah like I thought about writing like eventually writing like some sort of sketch comedy around that. Like, I'm paying this woman to dig me deeper into the hole. You have to.

Oh, that was messed up. Oh, man. That just make, I want to go back and, like, give 2015 you a hug. Me too. Yeah. That's. Me too. Well, I also want to give this 2015, Caitlin, a hug.

Don't we all? Yeah. You should do a bit about that on your tour. I think I have to, yeah. Is, like, when you tour in places like the South, do you have some sort of therapeutic release being like, like I get to be on stage now and use this as a bit. I won't lie, it's like a very awesome feeling. Yeah.

Being in the South where I was told by, not to go into too much detail about this, but I was told by a family member growing up that if I were to come out, live my, like, live authentically as who I am, that it would hurt my career. I wouldn't find a spouse that was normal because people that are a part of the LGBTQ community are weirdos. I wouldn't make good money because people wouldn't hire a gay person. So I was told all these things. And I was, I was a listener. I was like, oh, okay. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You know, and so they thought that I needed this information. I was enjoying it. So I was continuing to be fed that. Yeah. So those were really self-limiting beliefs that I had to get over. Yeah. But when I just did

my hometown show in Birmingham at the start home, it was my biggest show yet. And I'm sitting there and I'm able to talk about funny stories about my wife and not even bad an eye or worry at all about using the word wife. Yeah. And like the crowd just was fully embracing it and it felt like a godwink. Yeah.

Like, I'll get emotional if I talk about too much, but it really was like a euphoric feeling. I mean, it just was amazing. That makes me so happy. Like that makes my eyes water and I'm not you. Like I'm just hearing the story and I'm like, wow. I love full circle moments. especially when they're like just so like the Godwink thing.

I love that thought. Like you got this. Yeah. I love that. That's what would you say is like the highlight of your first tour? I really enjoyed my first show in Greenville. Yeah. Just because it was an hour set and I've never done any more than a four minute open mic night at that point.

No way. I didn't talk about it beforehand because I didn't want people to put a lot of pressure on me. I wanted them to think that I had done stand up before. But I did an open mic night at a coffee shop. And I got a four minute time slot. And in that moment, I was like, it was rock and roll baby. Well, that was back in 2022.

And then I never did anything else again. And then I got signed by my agent. And they were like, what's your goal? And I was like, I want to go on tour. And they're like, well, have you ever done any stand-up before? And I remember telling my agent, I was like, oh, yeah. All the time. I was like, yeah.

I was like, I'm not lying because I did that four-minute open mic night. But I remember the Greenville show was a moment for me where it gave me so much confidence. because I was like, I wrote my entire show and I was able to go up there and have a great show and it went so well. And I was like, always bet on you, baby.

Yes. Like, bet on you. Because, like, if there's something you want bad enough and you know you can do it, bet on you. Yeah. So that was, I would say my first ever show in Greenville was the one where I was like, we're ready to rock and roll. That's a good way to start too. Yeah. I love that. I usually start with the low vibes and end on a high vibes, but

it up so what was the low vibe of the tour low vibe um i got really sick the morning of the uh national show no yeah i think i had done a meet and greet every show where i was hugging 50 people i think i caught something yeah um towards the end of the leg of the tour and so i had to go to uh the doctor the morning of the national show my bp was 90 over 60 oh no but i was like nope Can't cancel the hometown show Like we gotta just muster through it So this probably wasn't the best idea But I guzzled down a Celsius drink

And decided to just rock and roll That's how you go. What kind of sickness? I don't know. I don't know. I think it wasn't puking. I just felt very weak And my my blood pressure was just really low I felt very lethargic and tired So I was like good for you Putting Celsius in these veins and we're going for it That'll do it

But yeah that if you want to call that a low point We ended up rocking and rolling but I got a little nervous that day because I was like Andy, what do I do if I can't muster this up? She's like, you're mustering it up. She's like, smacks your butt and you get out there. She's like, put your big girl panties on. Let's go. Wait, I love that.

Wait, she sounds amazing. She's incredible. Wow. She's, yeah, she's incredible. And is she funny? She's hilarious, but she's, she's hilarious, but she's an incredible writer. So a lot of the stuff that, yeah, she's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, yeah, she's an incredible writer. There's times where I'll come to her

with a joke and then she'll go what if you just rearrange that a little bit? And I'm like, how do you know? Like, what? I love that. That's good. Because you also do music. Yeah. What the heck? I know, bro. I don't know. I say I don't know. I do know. Yeah, you know. Tell me about it. You do like parodies? Not

parodies. It's like it's country songs. But they're just funny. So they're not like weird Al Yankvic. You know, where it's like those old school. I used to love him. Yeah, me too. But yeah, I've always grown up listening to comedy, country music, and I just have gravitated towards the two worlds, because I am country and I do comedy, so, and I live in Nashville.

So I was like, let's start releasing some country comedy music. That's amazing. Let's blend the two together. So we've put out two songs, but we've written so many, and I'm itching to put out more music. Yeah. So more to come. So, like, tell me about a song that you, like the one about,

where you told your grandma it was about boating. Yeah. Tell me about this song. So that song, there's a say-in down south, and it's not meant to be crude. It's like actually talking about horses. Yeah. And it's called, like, they'll say, damn, that horse has been rode hard and put up wet. Because, like, a horse, like, sweats really bad.

And if you don't groom it after, you just say, yeah, it was rode hard and put up wet. My papa would always talk about his trucks like that. He'd say, yeah, I rode that truck hard and put it up wet. and it's in his mind he is not saying it in like a crude way they it's truly like a saying of like you showered down and rode hard you know but we were coming home from the mastercraft boating facility i did a campaign with them and as we were driving home i told mandy i was like babe i'm ready to release another song or to release my first song and i want it to be called rode hard and put up wet and i wanted to be about a woman mandy looked at me and she goes are you crazy she's like in this

climate it can't be about a woman she's like that is not going to be received well at all she's like even though i think it's funny yeah she goes let's make it about a boat and i was like girl how do you come up with this shit so did you make it about a boat but then have made it about a boat but all the words in there like very like like they're innuendos about a woman so it's like the booies were bouncing i was up and down and getting all i could get you know and it's like the second verse is like When I took her out again, she told me to bring a friend. Both of us would go motor boating. So it's like, it's all about a boat.

Genius. And you can't say otherwise, but, yeah, my grandmother was like, my sister Betty called me the other day and said you put a nasty song out. And I listened to it. And I called her back and I said, Betty, it's about a boat. And she goes, no, it's not Mary Jane. It's about a woman. And Mary Jane goes,

I'm telling you, Betty, it's about a boat, and you better watch out, because she's probably going to write one called bitching Betty if you keep after it. And I was like, that'd be a great song. I mean, there's really nothing better than an old Southern woman. Amen. They need their own TV show. She does. Or a bit.

Well, Sharon Jean, my alter ego gives Mary Jane plenty of airtime. Got it. Yeah. How many characters do you have? Hell, it's getting out of hand at this point. I think we got nosy neighbor Karen. We got Judy the Habi Horsa. What? Who does?

Judy's a German, French, Russian, sometimes Asian hobby hosa. She does a lot of hobby horsing where she teaches you how to have a horse. She just repeats hobby horsing constantly. Oh, God. Sharon Jean, the Southern woman. Yes. I remember her. She's obviously my favorite.

Yeah. We just have fun with it. Lipsby Linda's got a bad lift, but she's very lovable. I used to do that all the time. I used to create characters all the time when I was big on Snapchat because they have all the different faces. I used to sit for hours. I should go back to that.

I loved creating characters with different faces and different names. And one I did with my girlfriend called Kathy and Therisa. But you couldn't call her Teresa. She pronounced it Therisa. Therita. Yeah. And I'll find the video and send it to you. And then you can be dead honest with me.

And if you think it's funny, tell me. And if you're like, it's not that good. Do you have fun making it, though? Yes. Then post that stuff. I'm telling you, because when you're having fun, like, it'll just come naturally to you, and you'll find that rhythm.

I can tell you're itching. Like, you were itching to get back into, like, this form of, like, comedic space on your socials. Yes. Do it. Oh, my God. I was so funny on my tour for this podcast. Like, I was, like, in front of a crowd, I could just go.

You just work. Yeah. I just go. Seriously. It makes me so happy. Stars put us together today. That's true. And one of those reasons is so that you give yourself permission to go off and live your best life and do what you want to do on social media.

Do it. I needed that. Yeah. And there's no such thing as, like, there's literally no such thing as failure when you are enjoying what you're doing. This is such a big part of my therapy conversation yesterday. She said I'm so disconnected with what I think I should be doing compared to with what, when I just do what I want to do. And I'm like, I never thought I would be here. I've done 10 years plus of therapy

and I just continue to think I'm growing and then I get backwards a little bit and stuck and I go, how am I here again? Yeah, well, I want to say, I don't, I want to say like we've become so accustomed to look at how many likes something gets. Yeah. What the engagement looks like.

Yeah. That that's how we measure what we should be doing. It's true. Wait, do you have a podcast? I do. Tell me about it. So my wife and I, we started a podcast months ago. Right. I knew this. You started it with Mandy.

Yeah. Okay. Tell us, tell everybody what they will get if they listen to you both. So it's called The Refined and Routy Show. And it is just that. Yeah. We have the refined put together Mandy. Yeah. And then we have myself. And it's pretty much just like private conversations of Mandy and I discussing certain topics and me giving a rowdy perspective or opinion on it. Yeah. And Mandy giving her refined opinion about it. And most of the time we all, we come together at the end and we both agree and have the same point of view yeah but we just have two ways of of getting there yeah yesterday or tomorrow's episode is going to be like an episode of would you rather so it's just mandy and i asking each other would you rather questions and what my brain comes up with is like would you rather have sex with a ghost or man he's like would you

you rather not be able to sleep tonight come on dena that was a good one and i'm like that's my everyday life mandy so give me one of your best would you rather's i want to hear well mandy goes would you rather sleep with a homeless man or and i go well can we bathe first and she's like no as if like that was like the biggest punchline ever and i was like what's the next one she's like or do your entire tour butt naked and i'm like do my entire tour butt naked mandy like Like, I don't want to sexually assault a homeless man. And she's like, oh my God, I was not saying sexually assault. Like, it was consensual.

And I'm like, like, so stuff like that where you just get to see like both sides. But, yeah, the best I could come up with was, uh, would you rather rob a woman who has three children and she's working four jobs to make ends meet and you can never give her the money back? Or you have to hit someone with your car and you end his professional soccer career. And Mandy goes, you're so demented. So then I just looked like a complete, she like doesn't answer. So then I just look like I'm completely hung out to dry on the podcast. Like I have like just a sick, demented sense of humor. So it's like stuff like that.

That's, would you rather is meant to go as step as you possibly can. In my opinion. Sex with a ghost. I was going to say with a goat. Now, you know, that might get us taken off of Spotify. Oh. But I'd be willing to push those boundaries. Well, I, my would you rather was have sex with a goat.

Jesus. have nobody know about it or not have sex with a goat but everyone thinks you had sex with a goat 100% the second one like absolutely I wonder if I just butchered that I heard it somewhere and it was a lot harder than because I just said that out loud and went obviously you're like man is it sex with a ghost or ghost maybe it was ghost what if it was ghost wait also you said this earlier but you were like a star not soccer softball

softball player I didn't say that I think that was your research just to go back I did not call myself a star softball player you're right you're right you didn't

you did say that you were a softball player in university which is a big deal yeah which I know is very shocking to a lot of people that lesbians played softball

but yes I played softball at the University of Alabama do you think that like I always wondered this about people like the way you grew up being like softball player star in university you think softball forced me to be gay yes yeah did not

i'm just like that therapist did it make you be gay absolutely but like and you were a realtor and like you've done all do you think it like shapes your sense of humor and who you are being a realtor in my small town yeah gave me enough material for a decade yeah trigger warning on this story, because it is a little sensitive on the topic of losing life. Okay. So I was new to being a real estate agent, but I had just come off of playing softball at Alabama, and I was on ESPN. I was the shortstop.

So they were showing our games constantly because we were really good. We had won the national championship. So there's a lot of hype around the team. Yeah. And I'd gotten this message from this man, and he wanted to see a house. And the house didn't have electricity because it was vacant. And he was like, I want to see it at 7.30 p.m. or like seven and I was like well sir if we could get there before the sun goes down it doesn't have

electricity that way you can really see the house and he's like no I can only do it at night and I was like oh are you sure blah blah I was like yeah I'm sorry I can't see it another day and I need to see it when I get off work so I didn't feel comfortable showing this man yeah the house so I asked my mom to come who was also a real estate agent and we get to the house and I should have known the moment we pulled up and this man got out of this car with an airbrush t-shirt of a naked woman sitting on a Harley Davidson. No. That thinks we're getting weird.

Yeah, that's a true sign. And he never once mentioned anything about me playing softwood, Alabama. Okay. So we're walking into the house. And as we're walking in, he goes, wow, you look like you could be a gymnast. And I go, what? I was like, no, I'm like five foot nine. I was like, my toes would drag the ground if I was on those bars trying to make a joke, you know.

Doesn't laugh. And he goes, yeah, you look like a gymnast to me. And I was like, yeah, not me. anyways so we start walking through the house so we're about five minutes so uncompy oh it gets good oh god we're walking through the house and he says about five minutes in he goes you know my mom and i before she died we t-vote every single one of your games at alabama and i went oh so you knew you knew i played softball yeah no way you were a gymnast and i was like that's so weird but i was like okay he's just a super fan

so we're showing the house and he goes down to the basement so when he goes down to the basement he's like y'all come down here with me no no no no never go down to the basement with him I was like no I was like we're going to stay up here I was like you head on down there so while he's down in the basement I get my phone out

and I go to Facebook to see if this man's ever sent me any messages and I don't have any messages so I check my hidden request and I had over 150 messages from this guy just scrolling scrolling scrolling scrolling scrolling scrolling let me tell you what happens when you're a people pleaser i don't know what you do i go down to the basement i was just gonna say don't tell you we're down to the basement down to the basement i go he goes hey there's a bad mold problem down here

y'all might want to come check this out so i was like no it's okay trying to laugh it off he's No, I'm serious. Y'all need to come check this mold problem out. So my mom and I go down to the basement together, looking at this mold problem, there is a mold problem. I have a gun on me, okay? And I know that might be weird to a lot of people, but when you're in a real estate agent. I would too. And as a female, I always would, like, hide a gun on me.

And I had a concealed weapons license, but I had a jacket on. So you couldn't see it. Yeah. This guy goes just like this. Well, that's true. was easy to get y'all down to the basement my mom and i's heart just sank like it was in this moment where you see a movie and you're like this is where i die i don't want to offend the man by pulling a gun on him because i'm such a people my god i'm a different person now now

now it's oh okay um but back then i was a different person so i'm like in my mind i'm like okay i know i have this here he goes well that sure was easy to get you down to the basement And my mom and I just kind of went, uh-huh. And he goes, you know, I was on the rifle team in the Air Force. And I was like, I was like, uh, okay, huh? And he goes just like this, grab, like throws his shirt back, boom, takes a gun out immediately. And he's holding the gun out. And then he goes, I feel like this is a bit and you're about to prank me.

No, no, seriously. And my mom and I were just like, this is where we die. This is where we die. And then he just goes, boom, and pops the magazine out. And he goes, ah, you think I'm going to show you. shoot you? I just wanted to show you how easy it is to get two women down in the basement and you don't know if I've got a gun on me. He goes, go ahead, hold this magazine. You hold it so you know I'm not a creep. And I was like, I grabbed the magazine. I grabbed the magazine. And as I'm

holding it, I just throw my jacket back. And I go, well, I got one too. And you could see on his face, like, it didn't register that I would even have one of those. And he was just like, good girl. Ew. Ew. So then we go upstairs. I don't even walk. guy out i go get in the car he's parked behind me because i'm an idiot and parked in the driveway and let him block me in and then as up i know like the story just gets better start my car have the window roll down i'm like can you please let us out like go like we we need to leave i'm reporting you blah blah blah he goes in his car gets a three ring binder out that's like three inches thick brings it over to where we are in the car and starts flipping through all these listings of homes

he goes this is how many people i've got to see look at all these houses think of how many realtors i've i've been able to come in contact with so I immediately called the board of realtors put him on the no show list no shit and I didn't call the police because he freaked me out so much and I know this is like such a bad mindset now I would yeah yeah but I was like this guy knows my phone number no can pull up where I live this guy is obviously so obsessed with me that even after I'm done playing his favorite sport he sought me out and drove two and a half hours up to Birmingham I was just gonna ask if he's So I don't know what the, that was back in 2016, I believe.

So I don't know what the guy's up to now, but I'm telling you, dude, that was when I was like, wait, that is the scariest shit I've ever heard of my life. What if he comes to one of your shows? Well, now, I'll be ready for you. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Like, would you, afraid of God, that doesn't happen.

Would you know him if you saw him? Yeah. You should like have. I would probably just kick him. You should. have a photo. I'm just a little tap. Get out of here. You get out of here. Get out of here, boy. Pulling a gun on me today, my God. Put that gun away, Bobby. You need to print a photo of him and have it at every show and I give it to security. Like that's so scary. Yeah, he's a nutty, nutty man.

I hate him. I hate him so much. Like, what's crazy is like how much evolution can happen in someone's brain that that was okay like that's how i responded back then yeah and like how i would respond now would be totally different but when you're in like a people pleasing mindset you're just i get in those zones too and i'm like and then the next day i'm always like who are you kately right shame on you right you feel so bad yeah i'm like dude he pulled a gun on you and you had a gun and you were just like uh-huh like we're also probably in like a freeze mode of like yeah I've never had anyone pull a gun on me. I would die.

Well, I was like, this isn't going to be good for business if local real estate agent shoots, shoots man that didn't want to buy the house from her. You know, like, how are they going to spin this? Oh, that's so true. You know how PR works. God, you're amazing. I've really enjoyed my time with you today. Did you really?

I sound like an old, I've enjoyed my time with you today. I really enjoyed my time with you, too. I did. It was nice. It was really nice. You're a wonderful person, Caitlin. You really are. I'm so glad we got to meet. Okay, well, thank you. Thank you. We still have to prank call, though.

Oh, let's do it. Well, who should we call? Okay, let's try my sister. Yes, there we go. Let's keep it in the fam. Keep in the fam. What's like a funny idea you've done? Give me some like generalizations about her of like what she does or, oh God. She like lives in this very small town where I grew up and she prints sains on mugs. Like, don't talk to me until I've had my coffee.

Somebody tell me, you make these mugs. Okay. Say you want to, you were wondering if she could make a mug that says, that says big butts drive me nuts. You think she would pick up on it, or do you think? I don't know, weird people live in my small town. Let's try. Okay.

What's her first name? Haley. Thanks for calling days with Gray. Hey, can I speak to Haley? Who's calling, please? Sharon. Yes, you know, she's just with a customer right now. Can I have her give you a showback?

I actually have to go to work here really soon. Is there someone else I can talk to? It's an emergency. Oh, yeah, I can try and help you out. Great. Who is this that I'm talking to? This is Janelle. Hey, Janelle.

My name is Sharon. So good to meet you. Yeah, so my friend that lives down the street for me, I just recently moved to LaDucke from Louisiana. And I'm having a party. We do a lot of rodeos. Okay. Yeah. And so we have a group.

They are coming in from Vancouver, and we're doing a homosexual rodeo. We're going to have about 90 homosexuals. And I was wondering, a lot of them are gay men, and their favorite saying is big butts drive me nuts. Okay. And we want to put that on a pair of shorts, like on the seat of the shorts and embroider it, you know. Yep. And I was just wondering if that's something that you guys could do. Definitely it is.

So the one thing right off the hop, though, we don't offer embroidery. What we offer, like, it's called DTF. So it's like a film that we press onto shorts or whichever kind of material or what you're looking for. We don't typically offer shorts, but I can definitely order an sample for you. Okay. And Haley, the reason I originally asked for Haley is because Haley, she actually organized our last homosexuals. Rodeo. She's really big in the community. She does a lot. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. She doesn't, she doesn't talk about it a lot, but she does a lot of outreach on behalf of the, we do goat ropins,

homosexual goat ropins as well. Oh, okay. Yeah. And Haley's been a big help in that as well. Okay. Awesome. Can I talk to Haley real quick if she's by chance? Because Haley, she's still in the front right now. That's why I'm confused. I don't know. if it's the same Haley. Ah, no, she, well, Haley's, uh, the only reason I know it's Haley is because she's good friends with a friend of mine, Betsy, and, yeah, I think it is the same Haley because Haley loves the goat ropens over the rodeos.

That's her favorite. See, and that's why I'm wondering if it's the same Haley, but I will definitely, she might just be finishing up here. She is so funny. I'll tell you about Haley real quick. Haley, when I realized me and Haley were going to be good friends, is when at the goat rope in, Haley

wore a shirt that says, I have sex with goats. Oh, see, I don't know if it's the same Haley. I'm not sure if it is. Is she friends? Not friends. She's sisters with Caitlin. Yeah? Yep, that's it. Yep.

Okay. Well, then you've got it. Yeah, I can hear her just saying goodbye. So I'll I would be the ones that would be helping you with this project either way but I will let you chat with her now and then yeah if she wants to pass it back over okay great

okay one sec here shared you're sharing you know she's filling her in she's filling her in she's filling her in Caitlin's sister Yep that's her She's giving her

She's giving her the baller on down I bet you my sister's like Is this my sister prank calling me? My sister used to do the prank calls with me I'm That was I'm I'm sick of six ago

Haley's got nothing to do with a homosexual Yeah, right, my sister just had a drag show two days ago. She loves it. Hi, this is Haley. Hi, Haley. This is Sharon. Hi, Sharon. Hey, do you remember doing those? Oh, God, what did we have made? I think they were shorts. They were like swim trunks.

We never made swim trunks. No, okay. They must have been like little briefs or something, but they said big butts drive me nuts on them. Oh, I don't know that we didn't do those. No? No. No, it wasn't us. Oh.

Yeah, is that what you're looking for? Yeah. I'm going to start mimicking her accent. Are you sure? Yeah, and positive, because we've never done briefs or anything or swim trunks or anything like that. We only do shirts and drinking wear. Yeah, for real. Oh.

I don't know like No I wonder if you're looking Are you like Was it another maker from Ladoop? I think it was you Haley because we had talked about it Because you said you wanted to volunteer

For the homosexual go rope In that night Yeah Oh, my God, Helen is fucking up. Haile! Hey, she said, you want to volunteer. You said you wanted to volunteer for the homosexual go-ro? Wait, you can't tell who this is, Haley?

Oh, my God. Wait, wait, wait, Haley, could you tell she was switching her accent to try and match yours? Oh, I didn't know. I was just like this crazy bitch from Louisiana. Yes. I was like, surely Haley will be like, is this off the vine? ranking me because you've done a print call

me. I was, I had my professional voice on and I was like, oh, like I really don't think that was us. Oh my God. Please, please send it all written down here for me. She wrote up. Who was that she will go? And I'm like, I don't know Sharon from Louisiana.

Oh, my. Please, please send a picture of the notes. Please. Send a picture of the notes. Uh, I hope that. I hope that made your day a little bit better. It did. That was a good last.

Thank you. Chanel even wrote down 90 homosexuals. That is incredible. Wait, Haley, do you know who Dene Hayes is from TikTok? Yeah. That's who I'm with right now. Oh, no way. Hi.

Hi. That's Sharon. Oh, Sharon, you did a great job. Oh, thanks, hey. Thanks, hey. Amazing. Okay, I'll call you later. Okay, love you.

Love you, bye. Bye. She's so sweet. Because she was trying not to, like, seem disrespectful, like, no, what you're not, what you're wanting to do is not valid. No. No. Took me out.

I was like, Sarah Palin. I can see Russia from my backyard. clearly really I there's moose in Russia wait you guys your accent you must have lost it a little bit I did I did I've been I feel like I've been living in the States for eight years and I feel like I lost it

yeah but I never sounded as Canadian as she did I never did her and my dad listening to them talk back and forth she'll go oh I know A oh I know hey and I'm like Kate you almost sound like you're from like Duluth

like isn't that the place Yeah, but she also, there's, like, I've always said this, Canadians are the sweetest, kindest people. Truly. I've never met a mean Canadian. I know. And the fact that you guys always answer with an answer at the end, eh? Like, are you going to confirm that? Confirm that.

Yeah. We really do. I love it, though. She's very sweet. So shout out to Haley. That was everything, like, that was the best prank I've ever been a part of. Oh, wow. Man, I just put y'all in my back pocket and carry y'all home.

I would think we had to leave the room at one hour. Yeah, I was like, I'm out of here. I'm going to start out. Wow. Okay, that probably made their day. That made their day. That made my day. You made my day.

I'm so happy. I got to be on this podcast with you. I'm so happy. Tell everybody where they can find you and where they can find your podcast and your tour dates and all the things if you're doing another one. Yeah. So tour dates, Chattanooga, Knoxville in this month. And then Raleigh, North Carolina next month, and we're going to continue to add, add, ad. But you can find me on Instagram at Dene Hayes, D-A-N-A-E, H-A-S, TikTok, D-N-A-E-H-A-E-H-T-T-T-T-T-T. And then my podcast with my wife, Refined and Routy, is on Spotify and Apple Music.

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I mean, I would have thought so, and then I watched him play basketball, so no. Harsh, Kelly B. I feel like I just tell them what they can do better, you know? When you're tucking in these adorable little girls at night, I hope you're not reminding them that they have a very limited future. But, Hank, that's honesty, and that's me. Okay, so you're harsh. I'm definitely the sweet, the fluff, if you will. And if you listen to this podcast the morning after with you, Kelly Stafford and me, Hank Winchester.

Hold on, hold on. Fluff like marshmallow fluff. You get it, girl. You know, sweet, smooth. You spread it on a sandwich. Delicious. Well, then if you're that, what the hell am I? You are tough.

You are tough, old, rotten sourdough bread. Wow, Hank. Wow. Listen, I am just saying this podcast has some real hard truths. You're going to have to deal with it. But overall, we're pretty sweet and enjoyable too. So true. And let's face it, everyone from the outside looking in thinks I have my stuff together.

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