Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Riley Green | Singing About Breakups, Living on the Road... and Failing Spelling Tests! (REPEAT)

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

#931. REPEAT OUR GREATEST HIT EPISODES:Kaitlyn welcomes country music star Riley Green for a chat that reveals a whole new side of his mellow personality—this is Riley hyped up (his words, not ours)! He opens up about his love of naps, duck hunting, and why you’ll never catch him singing the national anthem (he knows his lane). They dive into his songwriting process, his current favorite song to perform, and the big question: has he really never been in love? Plus, Riley takes on a hilarious spelling bee, debates Alabama trivia, and bonds with Kaitlyn over Adam Sandler movie quotes. Oh, and he spills that he’s never done a podcast quite like this before—and he’s loving it! Don’t miss the laughs, stories, and charm in this unforgettable episode.If you’re LOVING this podcast, please follow and leave a rating and review below! PLUS, FOLLOW OUR PODCAST INSTAGRAM HERE!Thank you to our Sponsors! Check out these AMAZING deals!Bombas: Head over to Bombas.com/VINE and use code VINE for 20% off your first purchase.Merit: Right now, Merit Beauty is offering off the vine listeners their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at MERITbeauty.com.Macy’s: Spring represents a reset. And sometimes that starts with something as simple as what you wear. Shop in-store or online at macys.com!Figs: Right now, if you go to wearFIGS.com and use the code FIGSRX, you can get 15% off your first order. Progressive: Visit Progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: (10:53) – Riley shares what it’s like working with other country artists and why one song became an unexpected hit.(11:27) – Has Riley really never been in love? He reflects on love and his distraction-filled lifestyle.(26:34) – The hilarious moment Riley tries (and fails) to spell “scissors” in a playful spelling bee with Kaitlyn.(33:39) – Mustaches, Adam Sandler movie quotes, and the ultimate Alabama trivia showdown—you don’t want to miss this!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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you wouldn't be hearing this, can you hit the subscribe or follow button on whatever platform you're on? Please, that one simple thing helps more than you even realize it allows me to keep growing on this podcast and making these episodes the best they can possibly be. obviously for you. That's the only favorite I'm going to ever ask, okay? It truly means the world to me. Thank you. Now let's get into it. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Off the Vine. I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow. And today we have on Riley Green, who my 16-year-old niece was losing her noodle over him coming on this podcast. And I'm like, he has fans from 16 years old until like 80 years old.

He's just like a really good old country boy who makes good music. At first I was like, I think he hates me, but then I learned this is just his personality. And what did I do? I rolled with the punches. And I brought out the absolute best slash worst in him. You'll see what I mean. I've figured it out at this point. Men.

I figured men out. Between the two of us, we can probably figure him out. I feel like it's pretty, it's men are, men are simple. Yeah, I can attest it. I feel like girls overthink to the point where they think, I wonder if he's thinking about this or just thinking about that. and I'm thinking about like hunting where the turkey's in the field

behind my grandmother's house I dated this girl for a while and we'd be at dinner or something and I'd just be like staring off she'd go you think about turkeys aren't you know, blah yeah nailed it yeah that's what you're thinking about

turkeys what's your top three things that are on your brain most times of the day well turkeys is one of them got it I get through the day a lot of times about when I can take a nap

or like when I can go to sleep again when I wake up early in the morning I'm like going I'm like well just after this last thing I can go back to sleep. Wait, I think like that all the time and then I go, am I depressed? Because... Some people like sleep more than others. My dad hates sleep.

He hates when other people sleep. He hates when anybody's wasting their time, not doing stuff. And I don't look at his waste of time because I enjoy it. I enjoy it and it makes me a better person. When I quit going to college, I was like kind of working, kind of not playing in bars. And I used to sit an alarm for like 6 o'clock in the morning just so I could have the feeling of waking up and knowing I can go back to sleep. Because if you don't do that, you just start.

sleep till 11 or whatever. You don't get that. But the best feeling in the world is when you're tired. Yeah. And you're like, I can go to sleep. When I was on The Bachelor, I would nap all the time. If we had downtime, I was napping. I did not want to deal with the drama of the girls.

I come wake you up and tell you they need footage of you and need B-roll and make you go do stuff. And I'd be like, oh, and I got so used to sleeping with a mic pack on my back. It didn't even phase me anymore. I would just lay there in pain and fall asleep because I'm a good sleeper. And one of the girls came up to me and she went, and this is what got in my head. She goes, you nap a lot, are you depressed? And I was like, is that a real thing? But then people confirm that.

A little pack would get hot on you when you're sleeping too. See, I dealt with all that on teen mom too when I was on there. You're on teen, what? That's a joke. But I do know about reality stuff, see. Well, because you were on a couple reality shows. It was with Jesse James Decker. Who else?

Stone Cold Steva. Oh, yeah. Stone Cold Steve Austin. Legend. Oh, that's what, you want it, didn't you? Yeah. What was it? Tell me about this reality show.

to be proud of. Is that a Trace Ackinson? That's something to be proud. No. Doesn't matter. We'll get to it later. You're here to look stuff up whenever. Oh, yeah. No, I don't need you to, but I'm just like, to have a podcast now, you got to have somebody going to like, hey, check on that. No, it's my favorite thing to do is fact checked.

I wasn't asking you to look anything up. No, ask her. Because you got, yeah, you got all those computers over there. There you go. Wait, what is something to be proud of what? winning a reality show. I was being very sarcastic in a way. Wait, what was the reality show, though?

What did you win for? It was like a competition show, you know, but they still, it was like the real world road rules kind of thing where they did like stuff, but it was still all people in a house, and I couldn't figure out why they cast me for it. I was playing at a bar in Florida, and some guy comes up and said, hey, I'm a cast an agent for the show on CMT. And I thought if they mentioned that I played music, it might help a little bit. Right. And they put us in a hotel for a week and did all these psych evaluations and stress tests.

And the questions were so insane. It was like, my father's a good person, true or false. And like, the work of a librarian interests me, true or false. And it could have just been one question. I'm insane, true or false. But apparently I passed or whatever. And they just had all these people in the house that were supposed to like bump heads, you know, the personalities. And I was just boring.

I slept the whole time. The producer would constantly come wake me up and go, hey, we need footage of you. How long was filming? A month and a day. And what was the end prize? It was 100 grand. Me and a partner split it. So it was a guy, girl, teams, and everybody was against each other.

What was crazy, though, is like, I knew it was a competition show, so I thought, well, at least half the episode is going to be that. So it won't just be crazy drama in the house. But I didn't drink or anything while I was near like because it was very, very boring. But once it got towards the end, there was only like three teams left. It's still an hour-long episode. And there's only six people. Yeah. So to find a way to make that into a show was pretty tough for them, especially with how boring I was.

Why were you so boring? Because I just didn't do anything. But you weren't like, I'm here to make television. No, no, no, no, no. I had no, no, I had no interesting. You're like, I just want to win? Well, yeah, I want to win, but I just thought it might make, being CMT was, where the show aired, I thought they might look me up, you know, social media like it is and find out that played music and it might help my career.

I was nobody at the time, like, as far as touring or anything. So do you feel like TikTok blew up your career? What did it for you? TikTok wouldn't even around when I was playing. Well, I know you, like, have done stuff since 14, but what was, like, what was the moment for you? TikTok came around in 2014? No, you did. Oh, I was supposed to say.

I was like, I was late on that train anyway. No, no, no. It wasn't one thing. Like, I played for probably eight years, three nights a week in, you know, northeast Alabama. And then it would get to be, like, Athens, Georgia. Somebody called from this college or Tuscaloosa or, you know, Mississippi State or whatever. So I started to play a lot of, like, frat parties and stuff, and I wrote song to put music out, and eventually started selling a couple thousand tickets, like in the Southeast.

That's great. Went on tour with Brad Paisley after I signed a record deal. Then, you know, Jason Aldeen, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, Dirk's Bentley, and it just, you know, slowly got bigger. Who's your favorite? Who's the worst? I don't know. I mean, like, I would love to give you, like, something like, this dude was a jerk, but everybody's really nice. I don't really have a worse.

But that's something about country music that's different than other genres is they don't have a Nashville. Everybody's here. Everybody works with everybody. You kind of have to treat people respectfully in some sense. Dirk's was a lot of fun. I enjoyed him a lot. So one time my girlfriend had a bachelor at party in Scottsdale and he was there, he has like a bar there, I think. And he went, he was beside us at partying at a different table. And he looked like he was the best time. Yeah, he's fun. He's a funny dude. I enjoyed it hang on him. Do you feel like, what is your fan base? Would you say. I feel like it's everything from like teen girls to like grown men. Well, I think what has kept my career growing is that it does, it's become a lot younger,

you know. I mean, I'm 35 and almost 36. Yeah, this week. Or whenever this air is yesterday, whatever this is, whatever I'm supposed to be pretending. Yeah. Yeah, I'm mid-30s. And I have a lot of fans that are my age because I think I write from a place that I know, you know, and, you know, still like think of my dad in a certain way and my grandparents were in my life and those kind of things people that grew up like I did people that are much younger than me didn't grow up in a time where your phone didn't do everything it does now like I had a cell phone where it didn't you had snake and you could oh I loved snake yeah snake was and that was exciting then the fact that I I remember for Christmas I got one of those phones was Nokia or something and it was like ringing under the

Christmas tree and I was like oh my god and it was a see-through pink so you could like see the wires That's cool. Yeah. And then I spent like so much time playing snake. Yeah. I was so good. You know what's strange is I still remember like four or five of my best friends' parents' home phone numbers. Oh, same.

To get into my phone right now is my home phone number. A 20-something-year-old kid doesn't know anybody's phone number. No. Well, they don't even know how to write in cursive anymore. Do you know that? They probably don't know how to give anybody directions either. No. You're ready to follow somebody's handwritten directions.

I remember, yes. I used to print them out off the internet. The, what was that called? MapQuest. My buddy lived in a cabin so far out in this country side. Like, what am I talking about countryside? Farm, whatever. Sounds like a little house on the prairie poem or something in the countryside. Totally. That was what I was doing. It was the summertime. It's a song right there. But they would say, okay, when you get to, and I'm Canadian, so it was kilometers. When you, oh yeah. Three kilometers turn left, five kilometers, you got to turn right. Then there's this back road after 10.

And that's how I handwritten in the dark trying to read that to find his cabin. Yeah. It's crazy. If you hit the yellow house, you went too far. Yeah. But doesn't that freak you out with technology where you're like, if we've already come this far in like 20 years, what is 20 years going to look like? Nobody's going to have jobs anymore. AI is already writing songs for people.

I saw a thing the other day and it was like, it was like a picture of like 18 whatever. It was like a wagon and a horse. And then it was a picture of like 1912, and it was like still a wagon in a horse, you know? Oh. But then in the last like 50 years what's happened. Cars are driving themselves. Yeah. There's a car that drives itself in.

Good news is all this technology, it takes a lot longer to get to where I live in Alabama. Are you like living out in nowhere? There's one flashing light and one little gas station called Green Store. And that's really where you live? Yeah. My driveways a mile long. Wow. Yeah.

And you love it? It's great. Do you have animals? I got some goats and some miniature pigs and some dogs and fish and the lake. I got Carl, he's a little cowboy corgi. Corgi blue river mix. Oh, I love a corgi. And then I got Jazz as a lab.

He thinks he's her. Yeah. Carl morse into whatever animal he's around. Like when he's with the pigs, he like roots in the ground. Yeah. With the goats, he climbs on stuff and Jazzy swims in the lake. Funny. Yeah.

And are you living there by yourself? When I can, yeah. Okay. were you at the People's Choice Awards recently? Mm-mm. All the cool guys weren't there. I met Ella, who you did that song with that everybody knows. I'm obsessed with her talking voice.

Yeah, it's pretty country. Yeah, it's so country. I was with, do you know Carly Pierce? Mm-hmm. She's one of my best friends. And so she introduced me to Ella. And then my niece frees out. My niece is like a huge fan of yours too.

And she was like, did you meet Ella? I saw Carly did. And I was like, no. And she was like, yes, you did. You were with her. And then she shows me the song. And I was like, ah, yes, I did meet that girl. She's cool.

What was it like working with her? I was great. She was on tour this year. And I don't think either one of us knew that song was going to be as big of a hit. But she's done shows with me for years. She's from Alabama as well. Yeah. So she's doing really well.

She's got to having a whole moment. So. Yeah. She's cool. She's just, the word vibe is very overused, but she to me is a vibe. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah.

Go on. It's a nice lady. So I was thinking about this because somebody asked you on, I don't know if it was a radio show. I can't remember what we're doing our research. And you said you've never been in love before. True or false? I'm like into your psych test now. Well, it depends on what in the, I mean, it could have been true at the time, you know.

I don't know. I feel like I feel like I've been in love before. I just, I think that for the last probably six years, I've been easily distracted by, my lifestyle. As far as being on the road and all that, like, you know, most people have regular jobs and, and yeah, there's things, you can get promotions and you can have this happen or whatever,

but for the most part, you have a routine. There's no routine in what I'm doing. And, you know, you have, like, sign a record deal, have a number one song, go on tour with Brad Pays there, Luke Cohn's or Luke Bryan, and play the Grand Ole Opry, play the, you know, red rocks,

all these things that are distracting from what I would say is an actual real normal life. Yeah. Because what I'm doing is not reality. So it's hard to live a reality. hard to live a reality lifestyle relationship with somebody when you don't live in a reality. Yeah, I always think that way about, you know, like actors, musicians. I'm like, well, there's a lot of actors and you see getting divorced and remarried and divorced and remarried and yes, it's a tough

lifestyle. But I also feel like country has such pressure on it almost, like country, like, we're supposed to be wholesome. Yeah, you're supposed to be wholesome and like married forever and loving and like family and like country just has so much pressure I feel like on it for what you're supposed to be. Well, lyrically, it's a storytelling genre. So I think the storybook ending is kind of what fans look for. That's true. I feel like I've said this before.

If I just said what I was feeling on my Instagram story, people would be like, you're not well. And if I wrote it in a country song, they'd be like, relatable. Don't you feel that way? Yeah. I'd do both. Where does your songwriting, like inspiration come from? just like your life or? Yeah, I mean, I guess I have a fairly decent imagination to make stuff up, but a lot of it's

from at least some type of experience or something I saw that made me think a certain thing. So yeah, yeah, I write a lot about my actual life growing up and family and relationships. And do you think, because you were an athlete your whole life? Yeah, up until recently. Like when? How recently? I got old.

Yeah. Well, that happens. No, I played three sports in high school and a little football and college. college. And you have siblings that... Two older sisters. Also athletic, right? Just in the blood. We were just really into sports growing up. Well, when you work hard at something, but I feel like sports,

athletes are just so driven and motivated, and I feel like that could probably translate into being a musician as well. I think that the abstractness of your goals is what's similar. So you play sports, you can work as hard as you want or not as hard as you want. You can slip by by doing the bare minimum, whatever. Nobody can make you do anything. And you're not promised to have going to the next level. Yeah.

But, and it could end the next day. Yeah. That's how music is. That's so fair. So, I mean, it's like, I say all the time when I go back home, I complain to my buddies that do construction work I used to build houses with and they don't feel sorry for me. Yeah. You know, and I'm like, well, I can't really blame anybody because I have to say yes to everything I do. Yeah.

But it's just like how far do you want to go with it. What do you think your favorite song to perform is? It changes a lot. Right now it might be worse way, just because it's such a big song. Yeah. You know, it's cool to see a song take on a life of its own. Like it hasn't been on the radio, really. It's not a, it wasn't a single.

It's a song that I put out that really has just become a big hit. Yeah. I feel like, because your whole family was into music as well, right? Yeah. I mean, we always liked music. My granddaddy Buford was a big music guy, and we kind of sat around and played. But there was no, like, big musical talent. My sister Lindy was a good singer, but I certainly didn't think I got any of it, you know?

What do you mean? I mean, I feel like I can carry a tune. Like, people don't throw stuff at me, but I'm not like the best singer by any means. I'm not going to sing the national anthem anywhere. I sing like this, just like I talk. It may be interesting. You know, it might sound, you know, people, when you go up north, hear your voice, like, oh, I love your accent.

You know, like, maybe that's what it is. Do people, or does this annoy you if people ever compare you to Sam Hunt because he does the sing talk? It hasn't happened until just now. I like Sam. I think our music's a little different in a lot of ways, but we grew up really similar. Did you? Yeah. I don't have many favorite parts of the New Year, but I try and look for the little things

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Like, are you a big? Yeah. My Christmas tree's been up since last year. And it's on. Why? Do you ever go to Santa's pub? No. Oh, just kidding.

No. I just see, I don't know. I feel like you would enjoy it there. Have you heard of it? Yeah. Oh, you just don't go. I don't really spend a lot of time in Nashville. I've met like the Nashville stuff.

What is your favorite thing to do? Like if you're not at home and you're not doing music, what do you love to do? Where am I at? If I'm not at home and I'm not doing music. Like I'm space? I'm in transit. I guarantee you to somewhere. Really?

If I could go do anything, I get a place in Florida. I go to the beach. I like going down there. Do you like fishing? Yeah. Oh. I just, like, so to give a comparison, my farm is three hours from Nashville. I got 680 acres down there

My family lives all around there My dogs, I've got a lake And I've been there twice in the last five months So Do you need a dog sitter? Yeah, if you want to I do. Do they get along with golden retrievers?

Oh yeah, Cargis along with anybody. I'm obsessed. What do you think the hardest part of being a musician is? Be on the road. Yeah. Travel. Is there anyone out there that likes that, like finds it easy? Or does everybody struggle with that?

I'll tell you who, likes it, people that do about half of what I'm doing of it. If I could play 60 or 70 shows a year, I think I would enjoy it. Yeah, but does that mean you're doing better, though? It means I'm in a spot where I feel motivated to say yes to a lot of things. I would say I'm in a spot where fortunately people are coming to our shows and downloading our music, so we're valuable in the sense of people give us a lot of opportunities. I'm in a spot where I'm not quite big enough where I can say no a lot of that yet. Yeah, yeah. You know, the bigger your shows get, like if you're playing a stadium, you can't play within so many hundreds of miles of that stadium for so many months, so you play less

shows. Fair. What's with you in pickleball? You don't like it? Yeah, I never got into pickleball. I don't like, I don't like, I think my advantages in life or my height, maybe my quickness, and I feel like pickleball negates a lot of that. When I first heard the term pickleball, it was in like nursing homes or a planet. It is kind of an older sport. That's how it was introduced to me. It was like what they played in like nursing homes. Yeah. And now it's very popular now. I'm sure that's probably the most hate I've ever got it's for me saying I didn't

like pickleball because pickleballers are serious. Oh, the pickleball community is like the T-Swift community, they'll get you. The good news is pickleballers couldn't catch me anyway. So they're on that slow, tiny court. Ooh, he's fighting words again. Wait, what was I just going to say? No tell them. Why did they call you Duckman?

What's your Instagram handle again? Riley Duckman. Why did they call you Duckman? Did you say Duckman? You were going to say duckman? Dougman. I had somebody call me that. Yeah, it's not like a last name.

I just like the duck hunt when I, I guess, whenever Instagram came out, I don't remember when that was. Oh. Maybe Riley Green was taken, too. Maybe. I mean, I wasn't, like, famous then. I just like, I liked the duck hunting. I think I probably was posting pictures of me, duck hunting.

Like on Nintendo or like in real life? It's a great question, in real life. Okay, thank you. I used to love that game on Nintendo. I did too. Duck hunting? That was so fun. You have an album coming out, a new one.

October or what? 18. On your birthday? That's right. Oh, tell me about this new album. Don't mind if I do. No, yeah, that's it, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Tell me about it. Okay. It's great. You're going to love it. It's so good. I do. I love all your music.

No, it's great. It's got some songs on it that I recorded. I'd written several years ago. It's got some brand new songs. I'm excited about it getting out. What is your favorite song on the album? Probably Jesus saves. Okay.

Why? It makes me feel something. It's like, sad kind of positive song. Okay. I like it. I like that. Can you like tease what it's about?

Yeah, it's about a guy I saw on the side of the road in Nashville, Tennessee, and like his story. Yeah. What is it spirit overall of your new album? Is it like faith? Is it kind of a mixture of everything?

It's a lot of different types of songs. Mm-hmm. Girls? Yeah. There's some love songs on there. Mostly breakup songs. I think that's kind of where I live at. I always say I'm like the guy

that's sitting in a lawn chair. in his front yard with a cooler of cheap beer as the girl that rides off that was probably too good for him in the first place. Have you had a few of those? Surely. Really? Yeah.

Anyone I would know? I don't think so. Oh. I mean, I don't know. Oh, boring. I was just thinking Nashville's so small, but then I'm like, you're not really in Nashville, so I never know.

But you're also doing a tour in 2025, right? Mm-hmm. Are you going to go to Canada? Sure. Starting in Canada. Yeah. Nice. In Canada, have you toured there before?

I'm sure. What's your favorite? province? The providence of the rising sun? I don't know. What is a providence? I don't know. Oh my God. Americans. That's why it'd be different if you asked me that question in Canada. I didn't know. We're in Tennessee. Yeah, but if you tour in Canada. I'm 30, I'm 36 years old. I've never used province in my life. Well, you're not even seeing it right. It's province. See? You know what would have been really easy is if you would have said, hey, what's your favorite place that you played there? I don't like making it easy. I want to, I Like,

make... Well, like, that'd be like if I didn't speak English. Why do you think I have a spelling bee for you at the end of this podcast? I don't know. It feels that way now. Little do you know. Okay. In Canada, where's your favorite place to tour?

Calgary. Yeah. That's Cowtown. People love country music there. Yeah. Isn't that where Bamp is? Yeah. Very close.

So I grew up in Edmonton. Yeah. Is Edmonton? Is Edmonton closer? Banff is closer to Calgary. We did those shows back to back. Yeah. Edmonton is where I grew up.

And that's where my first. family still is. Calgary's like two hours north and BAMF is like a few hours from there. Okay. Yeah. It's BAMF is the best. I don't know about you, but February, I'm like, okay, hurry up. And then something flips in March. It just flips a switch for me. I start craving change in the smallest ways. Even if it's still technically cold mentally, I'm in spring mode already. I want things to just feel lighter. I want to open the windows. I want fresh air. I want clean everything and even just wear something that maybe makes me feel a little more, I don't know, alive again. And I've realized that over the years, you don't need to completely reinvent the wheel

with your wardrobe to get that feeling. Sometimes it's just finding one piece that makes you excited to get dressed again. That one thing that you reach for and immediately, it just feel more like yourself. So the other day I was browsing Macy's as I do, and it kind of reminded me how fun it is to discover brands again. You know when you stumble across something and you're like, wait, how did I not know about this? I found myself going down a full rabbit hole just clicking through different pieces and imagining outfits, which is one of my favorite things to do lately. So I've been really drawn to brands like Lioness lately. I feel like they had those pieces that feel current without feeling like you're trying too hard. It's kind of that effortless vibe where you could

wear it out to dinner or just, you know, during the day and still feel put together. Those are always, I feel like, the best finds because they actually fit into your real life. They're very practical. I actually had one of those moments recently where I tried something on and immediately I was like, can I wear this out of the store? I don't want to take it off. love that feeling and that's always how you know those are the pieces that end up becoming staples in your closet the ones that you reach for without even thinking it really reminded me that style isn't about having more it's about having pieces that make you feel more confident and comfortable at the same time so i've been thinking a lot about accessories too we know how i feel about accessories

especially going into spring coach you guys is having such a moment right now their pastel tabby bags so good there's just something about adding that soft pop of color that instantly instantly makes everything feel more intentional, even if you're just wearing, you know, simple jeans in a sweater. One accessory completely shifts how the whole outfit feels. So denim is another thing I always come back to this time of year. There's nothing better than finding a pair of jeans that fits right. It changes your posture. It changes everything. You guys, Macy's carries good American. That's one of my favorite gene brands because their denim is so flattering. And Levi's a freaking classic, always a staple. timeless but they still manage to evolve with new fits and washes that feel fresh.

So one thing I never skip when transitioning into spring is switching up my fragrance. Sounds small, but I feel like scent really kind of affects how you feel. You're breathing in all day. I always gravitate towards something lighter this time of year. You know, something clean and fresh. And Macy's carries by Redo, which has some of my absolute favorite scents. There's something about putting on a fragrance that makes you feel like your outfit is complete, even before you leave the house, even though it's not part of an outfit, but in my opinion, it is.

What I love is that Macy's has become this place where you can rediscover your style or even find something new that you didn't know you needed. It's not about following trends. It's just about finding pieces that make you feel good, that make you feel confident and excited for a new season. So shop in store or online at Macy's.com. So where can people find your tour dates if they want to go? Probably on my website. Yeah, Raleighgreenmusic.com. And what do people expect from your shows? The province of Raleigh Green music. Providence.

Are you like hype on stage? Do you like throw down? Are you chill? This is about it right here. What you see is what you get kind of thing? I'm actually extremely hype right now. Really? Yeah.

This is you hype. Otherwise you're pretty... Pretty mellow most of the time. Yeah. Really? No, there's definitely some high energy moments. I just don't do a lot of dancing around. You just are who you are.

Yeah. You're a country music artist and you're not. You're not performative. You just do what you like. Performative meaning like inauthentic. Like you're just going to show up and do what you're going to. Yeah. And you have other people to rely on.

I live in my wheelhouse. Yeah. I know what I've been successful at and I try to do that as often as I can. Fair enough. Try to create those moments. Do you get nervous on stage? No. Mostly just in interviews.

Really? Podcasts. People when they ask you like Canadian trivia? They ask me about Providences and stuff, yeah. Good, then my work here is done. Okay, spelling B. I heard you aren't a good speller. I just spell things like they sound. Well, then this game is going to be great.

Okay. I like to, with my guests, I like to get them to tell me a confession, something really embarrassing that's happened to them, or play a game. And for you, we're doing both. Okay. Okay. So not only do I not get a choice, but we'll get to play a game called How Dumber You at the end of the interview?

Absolutely. But the beauty is I'm a very nice person and I'm Canadian. And at the end, you're like, can you take that out? out, I will. I don't want you to take any of it out. Good. I feel like I'm going to ace this test. Okay. Are you ready? Mm-hmm. Spell restaurant. R-E-S-T-A-R. Are you going to the mall? No, that's wrong. Oh. A-U-U. Yeah. R-E-N-T? R-E-N-T? Yes. Yeah. I helped you a little bit, but not bad. I'd be really good if I could write it down. I got to see it. That's what it is. Well, that's what I always just do, like, with my

Yeah, my finger doesn't help. Okay. Would you like a pen? No, that's okay. I don't want to cheat. Spell disguise. D-I-S-G-U-I-S-E. Yeah.

Okay. Ceiling. C-E-L-I-N-G? Oh. C-E-I-L-I-G. Yeah. I'll tell you what the second guy is good. Use take two.

Anonymous. A-N-N-O-N. O M-O-U-S? No. I could see why you'd think that, though. So you ask how it sounds. It's A-N-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S. See, Y was there a Y-M-E-S?

If it makes you feel better, I thought I was a good speller, and I blew it with Anonymous. I thought it was two ends. You know the only way this game would be fair? What? Is if I got to come in with some words to ask you to spell to. Come right back at me. I don't have any. I wouldn't know how to spell them, so I can't tell if you're wrong or not.

That's what your phone's for. I left on the car. Huh? Kaki. K-A-K-K-K-H-A. That's dumb. It's Kahiki. Kahiki.

Have you ever heard of... I think I was going to spell kayak. Have you ever heard of the show, Trailer Park Boys? Mm-hmm. That's... He always calls them Kahiki pants. Okay, scissors. Yes.

I. No. It's Y. No. Yes. S-Z? I don't know. As many times you have said that word to me.

Scissors? Yeah. Oh, because, yeah. Why do you always need scissors? I don't. It's not me that needs the scissors. Who needs the scissors? Tell me.

This could lead into an embarrassing story that I need. It would not me. She had to get her on the mic. I don't have any stories. I always talk about her. It's because I'm a lesbian. So he asked you about scissoring? No, no.

I didn't ask like I'm curious. I'm just like, Laramie's got some stuff to do later, you know, like, whatever. I don't know. Or if I think a girl is cute, Laramie always likes the girls I like. So then it's like a... You ask me if I'm going to have a scissors fight later. A scissor fight, that's what I say.

I'm obsessed. That's our relationship. Wait, I like that, though. That's fun. Yeah. So spell it. But that doesn't mean I can spell it. It's SC.

It's probably spelled different when you do it, though, like, versus the real thing. Do they have a different spelling for you? I'm spelled the same. S-C-I-S-S-S-S-O-I. R-S. Okay. You know what? I don't care.

Let me tell you an embarrassing story or something. Tell me. They're going to get bored with this selling game. It was a spicy story. Spicy?

Like something? That's completely different than embarrassing. Okay. Embarrassing. That's what most people do on the pod. Embarrassing?

Embarrassing, yeah. Like something that you're kind of ashamed of. Or something that you don't want people to know, but now you're going to because you're on the podcast and that's what we do.

That's great. Yeah. So I was at the airport one time. Okay. And I was sitting in the front and this guy I kept the brother's guy on the plane, and he was blind.

Okay. So the guy was, they had like, obviously, a person, like, helping him, and he sat by me, and, you know, we didn't talk or anything. We land, and I get to the baggage claim waiting on my bag, and the guy brings the guy over and puts him right by the baggage claim where the little bags come out, and then he leaves. Okay. And I was like, he's not going to know when his bag comes out, you know?

Yeah. So I went over there, and I got this. this close to asking him what his bag looked like. Oh no. And I assume he would have just said, well, I would love to know asshole, but I've never seen it, you know. So I was trying to be a nice guy. I didn't say it. But I still felt the embarrassment. I walked

all the way over there and like... But how did he get his bag? Now I'm worried about him. I don't know. I left. I ran. As soon as I was so embarrassed I ran. Could still be there for all I know. You could have said, what does it feel like? What does it feel like? Yeah, what is your bag feeling? Then I'm going to have to feel every bag bag that comes out. That's a good idea. See, that's what I'm talking about.

She thought she solved the problem there. Hey, do you know what I always say? No. Well, I'm going to tell you. Okay. People, when I drink too much, they go, and I do something that go, you're going to regret that in the morning. And so I sleep till noon because I'm a problem solver. Nice.

Yeah. I don't know why I expected a better reaction out of you because you are very here. So I don't know why I thought you were going to laugh really hard at that. It was funny. It was like my dad made that show. It was good. Do you laugh hard ever? That was like, well, they said, you know why, they make sidewalks.

Why? Because the streets hand for everybody. That's what that reminded me of. That's good. But I've never used it in real life. But I gave you a chuckle. But that's what a podcast is for? What?

Is it says things like that? Have you never, is this your first podcast? Like one liners? This is my first one like this. No. What was busing with the boys? What was that one like? It was on a bus and it was a bunch of dudes talking about like dude stuff.

It was the, you've seen that. I have never seen the podcast. Okay, well, it was not like this. I did one this morning. It was like deer hunting. It was like I was in deer hunting 101 this morning. Yeah. Do you like this or is? I'm having a great time. You are? Okay. Because you can be honest with me too. I like honesty. You can be like this. It's hard to tell. What? If I'm being honest or not, but I'm having a great time. Okay. I know for a fact that lots of you off the vine listeners work in health care. So if you are a nurse, doctor, tech, clinic staff, listen up.

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You know? I can't tell you. You know what? If we did miss something, I'll just come back. Okay. Because you're very mysterious to me. It's probably the mustache. Mm. No, my dad has a mustache. Mustaches feel safe to me. Oh, that's nice.

Yeah. My dad's like the, he shaved his mustache once when I was 14 years old. And I cried my eyes out. And he has not ever shaved it since. And I like that mustaches are making a comeback. Like, it used to be like Mo Vamber and people would be like, oh, he's a little mustache. But now it's like,

It's cool. If you were a guy, wouldn't you have a mustache? 100% I would have a mustache. If I was a guy, I would hope to be a hockey player. I would have a mustache, and I would just quote movies all the time and nap. That would be my life. I'm really close on that one. Really?

Yeah. What is your favorite movie to quote? Well, probably what I quote the most like Happy Gilmore. Oh, God, same. My mom gets so annoyed at me every time we go golfing. She's like, it was funny five years ago. Yeah. Waterboy

A lot of Adam Sandler movies Yeah What do you feel about Happy Gilmore 2 coming out Well I mean It's all we're doing now Is remakes of classic movies I don't like that

At least it's cool that it was He's still in it Did you see the Bob Barker And him thing on SNL or whatever it was No Where they like fought Bob Barker was in the hospital bed No

It was really And you watch it on YouTube Okay I will No but the dumb No what was it dumb and dumberer When they did it It was still Jim Carrey And the other guy

They didn't watch the other one It was so Bad. Yeah. I was so disappointed. So that's why I'm scared for... That'd be a good podcast topic is to talk about movies. The second or third one was as good as the first one.

None of them are. Back in the futures are close. Okay. Fair. Part of the Caribbean's are close. Fair. I'll tell you another one's close. Rush Hour 3 is probably the best rush hour.

So that's right off top. I've never seen Rush Hour. Okay, well, then you don't know. Did Brett Ratner direct all of them? I'm not a scientist. I don't know who directed the movies. That's not science. I just enjoyed watching the movie.

That's not science. I gave her some information on movies she didn't know and she had asked me a question that she knew I didn't know than she did. She had the Tommy Topper me right there. Wait, that is so me. I just named three trilogies where the second ones and third ones were as good as the first one, you said, well, who directed it?

I'm like, what? See, that's the thing. I don't quote movies as much I used to say weird phrases like that a lot. I say, I see the weirdest. Anyone else you would like a saying? When people ask me questions about like a baseball game, I go, I don't know, I don't really keep up with hockey. Or like a football.

game or basketball or any sport at all. That's fair. Your humor is very dry. Oh, yeah. Okay. Sure. I like take it as a challenge. I think that's what I'm doing here.

Obsessed. You know what a Stanley Cup in 1981? 1980. Next question. 1984? Yeah. Yeah, the Oilers. The Houston Oilers?

No, the Edmonton Oilers. Houston Oilers is football. Wait. This is a good question. Okay. When you said the Edmonton Oilers, that's in Canada. Yeah. You're talking about in American hockey.

or are two different, are the same thing. Oh, Riley. So you don't like hockey here? Of course I do. Well, that's what I'm talking about. I like hockey. Houston Oilers, were they not football? They give the Stanley Cup to Canadian hockey teams?

Oh, my Lord Almighty. I thought it was like there's NFL that's in the U.S. And there's like Canadian football. I love that this is recorded and on Mike. This is, no, this is making me so happy. You literally think that Canada has a separate, because CFL and NFL? And baseball and basketball and all that.

Hockey's the same everywhere? What are the Toronto Raptors? What are the Toronto MAPEaves? Fictional teams, I assume. I have to guess. Sounds like you made them up. I'm sending you home with homework, and it's doing Canadian research on the sports.

So this is what's interesting about this podcast, is you ask me questions about things that I should know nothing about, and then spit off details that you know I know nothing about. I'm from Alabama. There's no ice there. You know how many hockey teams do you have in Alabama? Okay, ask me an Alabama question. Okay.

What's our biggest crop? Corn. No, there's no corn. It was cotton. That was my second guess. Yeah. Okay, ask me one more. Okay.

Who's the most famous singer from Alabama? Alan Jackson. No. It's from Georgia. Chattahoochee, way down yonder on the Chattahoochee. Kenny Chesney. I don't even know where. Can you from Tennessee?

Oh, just kidding. Okay, my last guest is George Strait. Texas. Okay, who? And this is a country music podcast we're doing here. Well, it's not, it only is because you're here. This is just a podcast about anything. You invited me.

Yeah. You got a sheet. I don't have any sheet on you in these fictional hockey teams you made up the whole time. What? Sam Hunt. No, he's from Georgia. Give me a hint. Well, he's here.

Yeah. Does he have a bar? No, probably. Probably Randy Owen. I don't even know who that is. Alabama? The group Alabama. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Probably got 50 number ones, I think. Oh, yeah. I didn't know the name. I know that band. Wait, you have a bar. What's it called? The Duck Blind. Oh, shocker.

Yeah. Okay, get out of here. Just, okay. I'm just kidding. What, did you have something else? What time is it in Alabama right now? Is this a trick question? It's,

it's same time as here. Five o'clock somewhere would have been a really good answer. That would have been good. Yeah, just go ahead. What was it? What was the question?

What time is it in Alabama? Five o'clock. That doesn't make sense. It's five o'clock somewhere. That's Alan Jackson. He's not from there. It would have been great. You're talking to my phone now.

You got me on here. Yeah. She's a lot. She's not that bad. She's not all. She's not all. She's not all. I only bought that hockey.

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