The Bobby Bones Show - SUNDAY SAMPLER - The Nashville Podcast Network (2-23-25)

Episode Date: February 23, 2025

In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie, Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman, The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast and Get Real with Caroline Hobby.  You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts.  You can find them on Instagram: -The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast -In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie- @DrJosieVet  -Take This Personally- @TakeThisPersonally -4 Things with Amy Brown- @RadioAmy -Sore Losers- @SoreLosersPodcast -Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro -Get Real: @GetRealCarolineHobbySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that.

There's a lot of luck. Listen to thanks, Dad, on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits.

my basketball and college football journey or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok.

Back with a Sunday sampler. Matt Stell in New Orleans. That's what you're here for me. We were at the Super Bowl, and he played against LeBron James in high school and his mom recorded over the video. And so we're going to play that coming up in a second, but you're going to hear clips of a bunch of podcasts here.

And if you like any of the stories, go check out that individual podcast. I would recommend Dr. Josie's podcast if you love animals and celebrities. And check out Morgan's new podcast as well, called Take This Personally. But I want to start with this. It's an episode from the Bobbycast this week

with Country Music Superstar, Matt Stell. I moved to Nashville, finally got a publishing deal, and about six months into that publishing deal, I think, I write,

prayed for you with a couple people in town. And my manager at the time, and Allison Velt, shout out Allison, the song's about her husband. And I wrote Pray for You, and I thought we had written

a good song that day, but I had no idea it was like going to be a life-changing hit song. And no idea. And so my publishing company were putting out an EP and they're like, we should put these songs and my publisher was like, man, you should put pray for you on there too. I was like, okay. Well, let me stop you for a second,

because if you write prayed for you, you three were just together generally writing, and then your publisher was just going to go and pitch the song. You aren't writing for anything specific. She didn't have anybody in mind. I think they were, I mean, I think we were kind of writing for, we were writing for me because, you know, the idea was like we're going to put an EP together. I get, you know, pitch to lay. We'll see if we get some traction. That's what I wanted to know.

Like, what was the purpose of the right? Yeah, to me, I was in there writing this song that is, like, I'm proud to say it's a good song. I'm really proud of that song. It's not the kind of music that I thought I would be making, you know, from what we just talked about. But I wrote that song and I was, you know, cool, awesome, wrote a good song. The day you finished, did you think it was good?

I thought it was good. Do you think it was for you? No. No. I didn't know. Oh, like I had never written a hit song before. Like, I wasn't one of these guys that just moved to town and, like, lightning hits in a bottle. Like, thematically, when you finished it, we were like, nothing says stelle, like, prayed for you.

Like, I just wonder, right, because it doesn't sound based on the things that you heard that didn't resonate with you. And this is the irony of it, is that you... Especially the music you wanted to make. You finished the song, and it's like, man, boom, stamp a stelle, just right there. Exactly. And, you know, to be honest with you, Bobby, I have tried to put... more and be more me in the music that I've made as an artist because I wasn't an artist at that like I wasn't a person on the radio then like we put that song out and that EP out and John

Marks was at Spotify at the time and my other manager emailed him they put that song on Spotify and it started it was like a million streams a week on without much at all playlisting and then it I mean it organically did it blew it went viral before the it was social media was viraling songs to deals. Yeah, for, yeah, it was, it went viral. Yeah, basically. Like, for me, music, my socials have always followed my music. They have not, like my George Burge, you know, one of my good friends.

He's a little bit the other way. You know, social media, he's really good at it, and he's also very good at music. But his socials are the, are the bell cow, you know, that gets all that great music to people. And me have always, my socials have always lagged behind whatever music I had. And, yeah, man, that happened. and then we shot at a single? Like was it in your mind? Because again, if you send it to Spotify

and John used to be the guy at Spotify, was it this, I guess single's a weird word if you're not actually. It was the single. It was the song, it was the one song we sent to the- Okay, so were you trying to service it to radio as well? Well, at that point, we were, you know,

I was going and playing some songs in some offices downtown, but I really, you know, hadn't nailed anything. You know, we had a little interest here and there, but I didn't have a record deal or anything. Did you feel like the song

where you're like, oh man, it's a good song, but I don't really want this to be the single. Even though the song was good, did part of you not want it to be the single

because it was love and... In my, you know, if I'm being honest, I wanted that song to be a multi-week number one for Blake Shelton or for whoever.

Like, I thought that's what I was doing. Because I thought we'd written a good song that day. But, man, you know, for me in this business and how hard it was,

and to get started and getting started late, you know, if you have an opportunity, I've never been one that was so confident in myself that I would be picky and choosing about opportunities. And so when that song hit like it did, we started getting calls from some labels, then we got a call and signed a deal and blah, blah, blah. You know, that led to, you know, whatever.

Did you have to have, like, an internal conversation of this is not exactly what I thought it would be, but this is awesome, so we're going to commit and just go. Yeah, well, I knew I just wanted to make music that matter to people. And I did struggle with this a little bit earlier, yeah, to answer your question. But, like, I had, I always wanted to make music that matter to people, but I never thought I was going to be as someone who wrote, like, one of the bigger wedding songs. I wasn't married.

I mean, like, I wasn't even engaged. time I don't think maybe I can't remember maybe I was those those timelines seem like they're parallel but they're different tracks of mine but uh yeah I had no idea and now you know now that I am married and found somebody that I that I think those things about that song makes even makes more sense to be now number one but number two it is really really humbling and special that people want to include that song get it on them.

Somebody has those lyrics on a headstone, like, that I, that there's no amount of like, oh, wow, I wish this, wish my famous song was about whiskey. You know, like, dude, I'm just glad to have made any music that matters to people. But, yeah, I mean, there was that. The questions you're asking were questions I asked myself, and these are the answers to those questions. Cast a row things, little food for your soul.

Life ain't always pretty, but hey, it's pretty beautiful things. Laugh for little more things. Tighten up your core thing. Said EK. You're kicking it with Amy Brown. All right, let's talk about why we put things off that we really want to do. Like, I want you to think about something that you really wanted to do but you put it off or that you currently really want to do, but you are putting it off at this exact moment,

even though you know it's something that you're going to totally enjoy and you want to do it. I have done this many times. Now, about a year and a half ago, I think it was, maybe even two years at this point. Time has been weird lately. I took an improv class and I absolutely loved it. I left it feeling energized and I told myself that I would sign up for another session soon. So they're eight-week courses. But guess what?

I totally put it off and put it off and put it off. I originally signed up for improv after I had that teeny tiny role in the Christmas movie Holiday Harmony. My scene was in the bathroom. Not sure if y'all saw it. My kids thought that my bathroom scene was hilarious. My debut in a movie and I had my lines in a bathroom. But I loved the entire experience. So after that, I decided to take improv lessons and acting lessons to, you know, hone in on my skills.

I obviously should have done that stuff before I filmed the movie, but I was playing myself and it was sort of a last minute thing that I got invited to do. And I was like, I don't have time to take any lessons. I'm just going to go for it. And I had no idea how much I was going to love the whole thing. So then I decided I would like to pursue more of these opportunities. So I'm going to do that. acting lessons. I'm going to do the improv. And I did all that and then just stopped. Stopped going, didn't pursue anything. And I really think it boiled down to that I feared the rejection. And I don't know why we do this to ourselves because I know better than that, I have heard from others. I've even shared on this podcast. I know that we have to just go for things. We can't fear the failure because even from the failure, obstacle is the way. We will. We will

learn from it. We will grow from it. We have the question that Donald Miller gave us. What does this make possible? So I know all the things. So why was I putting it off? Like, why did I quit? And then why did I just ignore it? Even though I've had it on my list for sure, the last six to eight months, sign up for another improv class. Sign up for another improv class. Like when we know we want something and then fear creeps in, ugh. It's the worst when the fear wins. And that's what happens. And that's what happens. to me. I feel like we easily convince ourselves that we don't really want it because that's easier than failing. And it's sort of what I started to tell myself. I'm like, well, I guess it's not something that I really wanted because if I wanted it, I would be signing up for it. Or we tell ourselves that we're

going to wait for the perfect time. Then the perfect time never comes. And we think about doing it so much that we exhaust ourselves before we even get started. And that's exactly what happened to me. However, I had a turning point today. I finally signed back up for the improv classes. Like before I hit record, I made myself go to the website. I signed up. I'm going to be taking classes starting in March. It'll be for eight weeks every Tuesday night, 630 to 930. I'm sure I'll run into some issues there, but I'm going to have to navigate around it. This is something that's important to me. So for the next eight weeks, that's where I'm going to be on Tuesday nights. You can't miss more than two or you have to start over. And I did level one a while back and I got to do level one again because so much

time has passed I would feel ridiculous going into level two. So I'm going to start level one. I'm going to see how it goes. And then if I still love it, I'm going to roll in to level two. But I'm proud of myself for finally signing up for the class. And I hope that that will encourage any of you right now. If there's something you've been putting off, maybe even pause this right now and go look up what it is you need to do. Go to the website. Can you sign up for it? Do you need to look at your calendar? What is it you need to do? Like if you've been putting off something, ask yourself why you're putting it off. Is it fear? Is it perfectionism? Is it lack of time? Whatever it is, acknowledge why you're putting it off and figure out a way to make it work. When we do that,

it will help get us out of the what-if cycle, which is what I need to get out of. I will just know, and I owe it to myself, to give it a try. And so do you. In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a paternity scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a year-lawful. long court battle to prove the truth. You doctored this particular test twice in so much. I doctored the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case.

I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for. Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant. They would uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg, a lesbian, Michael Marantini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trap.

Laura, Skylar. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Americopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.

And Rule 2, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends... Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care.

So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Everyone, I'm Ego Wodom. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice. ever. I went and had lunch with them one day and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up

through and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. it. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the fourth. You might have seen the skits, the reaction. my journey from basketball to college football or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment.

And the next, we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be.

Listen to The Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. We're going to do it live. We are the one, two, three. Losers! What up, everybody?

I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. I give you the sports facts. My sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius. Y'all, it's Sisson. I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville with Beazer, my wife.

We do have a farm. It's beautiful. A lot of acreage. No animals. A lot of crops, hopefully soon. Corn, pumpkins. Rye, I believe. Maybe a little fescue.

To be determined. Over to you, coach. And here's a clip from this week's episode of The Soar Losers. Jasmine with Nashville SC. Hi, I'm just letting you know I'm your new ticket rep. How's it going, Jazzy? And I'm like, okay. And she's like, I just wanted to call and see as a season ticket member,

if you're happy with everything that's going on, the process and everything. I said, well, I do have a few questions. Here we go. Do I have any comments? And she goes, are you just, are you looking forward? forward to this upcoming season. I was like, well, last season ended on a little bit of a rough note. You know, we were really piss poor towards the end of the year. What do you, like, in the midfield, like, what did we do to address the situation? And she's like, excuse me?

I'm like, how are we going to score more goals? It seems like it takes a lot of effort for us to score just one goal. When we go to the games, we don't really score a lot of goals and we get beat two to nothing, three to nothing. And if we score one goal, it's a, it's a miracle. What have done to improve that. Need somebody better than Mucktar. And she's like, oh sir, I'm just calling about your season tickets. That wasn't in her training class. And I'm

like, yeah, I know you're calling about my season tickets, but you said if I have any questions. And I said, and I saw that we let our backup goalie go. Do you know, was there a reason behind that? Oh, contract issues. And she's like, I didn't make that decision. I'm just your ticket rep.

Like, I'm just handling anything on your season ticket sales. like if you need any help with that. Dude, she's just trying to draw a check in the box by your name, bro. She has a list of people that she is supposed to call now that she has this job to introduce herself and like get the ball rolling like just so you know who she is. And she can say, yep, I did that. Yep, I did that. She reports to her boss.

I talked to all 30 people on my list and they are all happy. And I just start pestering her with questions. I said, you know, last year was the first year we didn't make the playoffs. Like, what's the, you know, mood around the office? Well, at the office, we always like to network on Fridays. She says, well, we're really looking forward to this season. And, you know, we're really glad that you're a season ticket member. Is there anything else I can do for you?

And I'm like, well, like, how are we going to handle the firepower of Messi and his boys when they come up from Miami? She's like, I went to a couple games with the girls and drank. She goes, if you do need me at a game, I will be there if you, you know, if you, you tell me beforehand, I can come down to your seats. And I'm like, well, how is that going to help us stop messy? And she's like, I don't, I don't know that. Sir, sir, I'm just trying to get you to renew at your rock bottom price of $40 for the season pass. I mean, I hit her with like 10 questions, dude.

Cut her on the phone for at least 15 minutes. It's got to improve her life and how you view your job if she does enjoy Ted Lassow. I should ask her. I said, hey, did Ted Lassow inspire you? you to apply for this? I should have had that one in my pocket. Because that does make it cooler that she's working at a stadium and then also can just go outside and watch the games. I wonder if her offices

are at the stadium. They have to be. Oh, that's a great question. Because then that makes me jealous that they have the Ted Lassel life, because that was pretty cool how the one lady, whoever, the owner of the team, how she'd always go into her office and she just over and her like the stadium. It was so great. That's a pretty dope office.

That was. I wonder, my friend Jenny works for Austin FC and I'll ask her if her office is at the stadium because that would be so... See, I would have asked questions like that instead you're being a dick and you're like, hey, so Hani Muktar and Zimmerman, they weren't very social when they would

lose a game and then you guys would have your meet and greets. Why didn't you do something constructive where you said, hey, it was really hard. The one cool time was when my kids played basketball with Muktar. There's been other times, though, where they get one hot dog and you guys run out. Why didn't you address that? I should address Meet the Team Day.

I'm like, hey, so two years ago. You hit her with Meet the Team. Team Day. Two years ago, we went to meet the team day and you, if you were a season ticket member, you got to go and you got to do all this stuff. But my kids didn't get to do anything because everything we did was, oh, you have to have a wristband for that. You have to have a wristband for this. You have to have this color wristband. And there were no damn wristbands, but no one said that on the copy. Like, how have we worked to improve that? That would have been a good question. That would have been a great question. Hang up and listen. She would have been like,

I didn't even know we have fan meet the fan day. This is only my second day on the job. Sir, you're going to hang up and listen? You're hanging up? So I'm sitting there laughing to myself and I get off the phone and my wife was like, who was that? I said, oh, that was our new season ticket rep with Nashville SCEA. It's Jasmine.

She goes, well, what the hell were you asking her all those questions for? And I said, oh, I thought I was being funny. She goes, that is so awkward. I'm like, I cracked myself up. She goes, she's not going to know the answer. that that poor girl is just trying to do her job. She has so many more people to call and you just took up 15 minutes of her time and I'm like, I laugh to myself. And my question is, is that

Jasmine girl when she gets off the phone with me, was she laughing or was she like, what the hell did I get myself into? What you did was funny. The nation will think what you did was funny. Her, that was part of her job so that you were probably a nuisance. But I will say, I love that you had fun with people on the phone. I do it a little too much. To the now the point, Bazer makes me go in the other room. Even if I'm ordering pizza, because I'll be like, hey, how's it going? What are you, what are you guys doing there at the old pizza joint? Yeah, we're just going to do two pizzas, going to try and eat them up and

stop up that beer, you know what I'm saying? She gets so secondhand cringe that she'll make me go in the other room and do it. My wife said, I was suffering from secondhand embarrassment. She goes, that makes me so uncomfortable. You just got to do it in the other room, guys. I've been there. You do it. You're on the patio.

you have a little fun with the local pizza joint, whether it's a kid that smoked a little too much or a guy that's a dead-in job. You can't just make these phone calls cut and dried. My last question to her was, Coach Callahan, like, what has he been doing around Nashville in the off-season? Is he getting it, because we hired him midway through the season? Like, has he put down roots here, and what's his attitude like?

And she was like, I haven't met the coach. That's surprising. Well, she's only been there for like a week. Oh, she really only had? Yeah, yeah. She was like, I'm your new ticket rep. I just started with National S.C. I'm just reaching out to let you know. Here's the list that this one man asked me. I need to know all of this stuff, apparently. I'm supposed to call him back by Wednesday. Dude, I didn't know they're going to give you personalized calls. I might need to become a season ticket member.

That's pretty hands-on. No, no. They only call you when they first start the job to introduce themselves. And if you need anything, do you have any questions? She said, do you have any questions? And so I had questions. How are we going to score more goals? goals. What did we do to improve our midfield? Why do we let our backup goalie go that blocks all the PKs? And I want to know what the coach has been up to. If a place did call you after you went to an event, a restaurant, or anything, would it annoy you or would it seem like they cared? The fact she's calling you seems like she cares, but you're saying it only happens once a year. And once a year. And it's like I get a new ticket rep every four months. They don't stay around very long. Is she trying to upsell you? I don't get how, is it a base pay I wonder?

If I was her, I'd try to upsell you. Why is she not trying to get you in a better seat? I'd have turned it on you. Well, I don't know. You want to be right next to coach and ask those questions? We can get you in our premium seating right on the first base line, which is also, that's I use baseball terminology. I'm not familiar with soccer.

But that's right along your visitor's dugout. Zone. The net pitch. So, dude, I'm going to try and hit you like that. Yeah, I don't think, like I said, they had the chance for upgrades a couple of, couple months ago. Like you could change your seats. You know what I mean? They already went through that. So she missed that part. Here's how I would have hit you. I would have hit you with. Sir, when you go to our

games, are you getting the party pack? Oh, no. I just get a hot dog and lemonade. Okay, well, are you the cheap skater of your group? What if you got some better seats? Is that going to help with clients, your family, your wife, your kids getting a better view of the players? Let's try and get you locked in today. See, I'm going to upsell your ass. It's not bad. Yep. Damn, I need to look into that. Do you want to see the coach come on and off the field where you can yell those questions? You need to move to the other side of the stadium. Where you're at, the coach will never even know you're in the stadium. Well, my seats are pretty high up.

Yeah, I mean, I do see him down there when I pull out my binoculars and I look and I can see him. And I got a problem with our seats. They're in the sun. Sir, if you do this upgrade today, I'm personally going to deliver a pair of Raybans to your office on Monday and you can wear those every time you come to the game. Coach, I need to be in sales. I'm in the wrong industry. Oh, man. That was my, I thought I was funny.

but I don't know if Jasmine enjoyed my jokes. My wife didn't. And so then I was like, man, does everybody go through this where they're in their own head? Like, this is so damn funny. Jasmine, what are you wearing? No, I didn't ask that. I didn't ask that. You're wearing the National S.C. uniform?

Hey, do you have that new jersey by chance? Can you send one over my way? Because, you know, I'm a season ticket member and I never got one. They used to send them to the station. Nothing. Jasmine, here at work, they don't let us wear sweatpants or hoodies anymore. What do you wear? Oh, what's the dress code over there at NSC?

Oh, just high heels and slacks and then sometimes skirts. Sometimes I wear some soccer shorts, you know what I mean? And I put a jersey on. Do you like that? Wonder how old Candace is doing over there? She don't work there anymore. I think you told me that. Erica, thank you so much for joining me.

How are you? Thank you. I'm good. I've been really excited to talk to you. What's super frustrating on dating apps? Because you get on there with great intentions. When the constant pimpauling happens, you get very frustrated. Why do you think it is that people find themselves in this kind of rotating pin pal type situation?

I think most people are generally clueless. They don't know how to, how or when to transition from that conversation to the date. And so if I can do anything to help people speed that up, I certainly will. I don't think people have, I don't think in general, I don't think people have some nefarious intention. to just waste your time on that. Some people do, sure. Some people are doing it for that validation. Oh, look at me.

I'm still desirable, but I never want to meet these people. Oh, I'm just out of a relationship. I don't actually want to date. I just want to make sure people still like me. Yeah, of course, there are some people out there like that. But on the whole, I think people generally do want to meet. And they really just don't, like no one taught this skill in school. It's a new skill.

And so people really just don't know. So I would say give the benefit of the doubt. that's why you're going to use your language to try to get it closer to a date or just ask yourself and then you know from their answer because they could either just not answer you in which case there's clearly no date they could ignore your suggestion of meeting in which case they either didn't understand or have no interest in meeting or they could grab it and run with it you win either way because you know exactly what your next step is it's the basic skill of communicating which it is but again maybe it's not basic maybe it's not common maybe it's not basic maybe it's not

basic. Yeah, you also have this step, which I love, and I've incorporated into my dating, and it's been super helpful to find who really is a good communicator, is the ask two questions and then make a statement. Oh, my God. Yes. So tell everyone about it in case they don't know. Well, I want you to tell them. You're the expert. You came up with it. I mean, you nailed it. So, okay, so let's have a mock conversation. So we are on a dating app. We match and send me a message. What would you ask me? And whatever. anything, I don't care. Hi, Erica. What are your favorite genres of food? I love Italian and Thai. Oh, that's really exciting. What's your favorite place in town to go to? There's this place called Regent Ty. I really like.

Oh, that's really good. We just did it. We did it. That was the exercise. So exactly what we did here. You're engaging me in conversation and I am shutting it down at every turn. by not asking you a question back. Even an and you, and you would be so, anything would be so easy. And so my recommendation, I call it two QS, two questions and a statement. So you ask question one, what type of food? I gave a statement, Italian and Thai. Question two, oh, do you have any favorite places? I gave a statement, Regent Thai.

And then you're not going to keep asking me questions. You're not my interviewer here. And but the reason I do have you answer that last, message in a statement is because I never ever want anyone to accuse you of ghosting them or not answering. And so we're simply closing out the conversation with a statement. Sounds great. Sounds delicious. Yum. I love pad tie. I don't care. So 90% of the time the conversation was done anyway and you're just sort of shutting the door. They already shut the door. You're just like putting the deadlock on it. Ten percent of the time

The other person will come back and ask you a question because they go back to the conversation, realize there's nothing to talk about, realize, aha, I didn't ask a question. Half of that 10% will be, how's it going, or how's your day? Which is a non-starter. In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a paternity scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth. You doctored this particular test twice in so-ins, correct?

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It's Will Farrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up-and-coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah.

He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that.

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Hey, it's Mike D. And this week on Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, I broke down what I believe to be the five most important superhero movies of all time. All throughout history, these are the ones that were most important to the success of the genre. I also gave my spoiler-free review of Captain America, Brave New World, that a lot of people disagreed with, but I had to say it. So here's just a little bit of my top five list. Be sure to go check out the full episode to hear my full review.

But right now, here's just a little bit of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. And number one is Batman 1989. Why I believe this is the first most important superhero film is it created a new public perception of Batman. And it legitimized the genre and took Batman from being a comedic character to a greedy character, even by 1980 standards. And this was a big deal. More so than Superman that came the decade before it. this is the one that I feel without its success would not have led to any other superhero movie being made. Before this, Batman hadn't been a gritty character.

And even if you look at 1989 now, it's not as gritty as what we know to be now as a gritty Batman. But at the time, it was revolutionary because everybody associated Batman with Adam West's depiction of him, which was great at the time, but that show was a comedy. It made him really zany. It made the fight scenes overly cheesy with the bam, zap, pal. It made Robin a very just one-dimensional character. And for the longest time, this movie was trying to be made in this way. Michael Yusan, who is somebody who was fighting for this,

he had the rights to Batman for a decade, maybe even longer than a decade. And he was fighting for the depiction of the character, that he knew was out there. He was a fan of Batman from when he was a kid, and he was the person. Whenever that TV show debuted, he was like, oh, no, this is wrong. This is bad. This is not the Batman I love.

So he bought the rights for such a little amount. He kept trying to find producers, kept trying to get a movie like this greenlit, and it wasn't until 1989's Batman that his love of Batman, his complete nerdum, actually came to life and he was able to do it. So he was this driving force, trying to bring this darker, more serious version of the character to life.

And then you combine that with Tim Burton. And we finally got it. And it changed the public perspective of not only what Batman could be, but what superhero movies could be as a whole. Now, even in 1989, these movies were still being geared towards kids with the idea being you put out a movie and then you sell a bunch of merchandise, which has always been the model. Star Wars was the one who really made that a thing.

Like, oh, you put out the movie, then you sell a buttload of toys. That was the model. So we weren't there quite yet. But it did show that you can make something for kids because it is a superhero movie, but also that would appeal to the older audience. If you look at this one, at times it doesn't feel like a kid's movie. This movie moved on to Batman Returns. And that one, you had a public outcry from parents saying,

this is not a kid's movie whatsoever. You have penguin biting at people's noses, causing them to be all bloody and there was a big problem with that but the reason i believe that this movie was so important is because it was the first movie to really usher in this new era of superhero film and say a movie like this can be made and you can change what everybody believes these characters to be and you're going to see this theme throughout my list because whenever you set a standard, everybody starts following that, and then it almost takes somebody else to break that mold yet again to re-revolutionize the genre. But this movie did that. It gave us not only the gritty hero,

but also the gritty villain. Jack Nicholson set the standard for creating a villain like this, made everybody who played the Joker after him have some really big shoes to fill. So at number one, I have Batman 1989. At number two, it would come almost 10 years. after this in 1998, my next most important superhero film of all time is Blade from 1998. Why this movie is so important. One, I feel it's underappreciated, it's underrated, and how revolutionary this movie was, and how important it was for Marvel's success. It proved that you can make a superhero movie, a comic book character, for adults,

because this movie is R-rated, it's bloody, it's violent, and it's cool. And at the time, Blade wasn't even a popular character in the comic books. Even after this movie came out, his comics still struggled and they re-adapted them to fit the movie character more. So he wasn't even a top-tier character, not even a second-string character. Even now, the character of Blade isn't as popular as all these other Marvel characters. And you look at their model now, and this is what later Marvel would bank on, because there had been

attempts to make other character movies before this be successful. You had pretty much made-for-TV movies with Captain America, Spider-Man, and those just never quite worked out. This was the first successful Marvel movie ever. It was the second one because before this, back in 1986, they made a Howard the Duck movie. I don't know why they decided to go with Howard the Duck first, but that movie was awful, terrible, and it was a long time until Marvel had success. So this movie was important not only for Marvel because without its success, it was right there at the brink of bankruptcy.

It had been fighting bankruptcy for so long because they just didn't have a successful movie. This was their first big hit, their first big taste of success. And it also inspired and was the stepping stone for a lot of R-rated movies to come. If there wasn't Blade, we would have never got Deadpool. We would have never got Logan. we would have never got other comic book movies outside of Marvel like Watchmen and Kickass or even Suicide Squad. All of those movie's success had to come from proving that you could make an R-rated superhero movie. Even more so that you could do it without a popular character.

Now at the time, Wesley Snipes was a very popular actor, so that brought in some fans. Vampires in the 90s were also hot as well, so that helped. And I believe this is what Marvel started to do. whenever they sold all the rights to their main characters to Sony and to Fox. And later when they're trying to build things, they decided, okay, well, we can't use our most popular characters. Let's build a team of all of our second string and third stringers and see if we can make something out of this.

And that proved to be successful. So it's working with what you have. And also ahead of its time because you had a black lead in this movie in a superhero film. He was the first successful. black superhero in mainstream cinema paved the way for Black Panther. And I know X-Men was already in development that would come out in the year 2000, but if it wasn't for the success of Blade, that wouldn't have set up the X-Men. And it made $131 million worldwide on a $45 million budget. And Wesley Snipes said it best in Deadpool and Wolverine. There will only be one

Blade. So hopefully they still bring this character back to life at number two from 1998. I have Blade. One thing I really do love to take is constructive criticism and encouragement from people that have went through things that I've went through. That's why I really feel like it's very important for artists in general to be behind one another, creative people in general, specifically women. And yeah, I like to get together with my female compadres in this industry. And I think those are the safest places other than true therapy to talk about all these things that may feel like first world problems and entitled problems to have. But when you have the load that you have on yourself as an artist and as a creative, it's nice to be able to go to others and go, I'm tired of getting glammed every day. And I've had four hours of sleep.

And I am living the dream, but it's much harder than I thought this was going to be. And just, you know, I think it's really nice to get those little stressors off your chest by talking about it in safe spaces. I am a big component of safe spaces. So do you feel like you have a safe space in life? Like, what do you feel like? How did you, this is a cool thing. I love to ask people. How did you build your village?

Like your people that you go to for anything in life, but that community. Well, okay. That's a great question. I started off, thank you for turning the tables on me. Oh, sorry. No, I love podcasts because it's really. This is coming back to you too. I'll do mine briefly, but then we're going, we really want to hear about your village, okay?

I'm from Waco, Texas, and I grew up in a great family. Like, my parents are great. They had great friends. So I started off with friends of my parents' friends, like the kids, who are still my best friends to this day. Love that. So I feel like I have, like, deep friendships. And then when I came to Nashville, it took me a long time to find a village. I was absolutely terrified when I came here.

I moved to her when I was 19 and I was just like super nervous, didn't know anyone. I was moved from my hometown of Waco, Texas to hear and was overwhelmed. I was also chasing the music industry and all of that. And just like super intimidated. And I didn't have a lot of self-worth back then. It's taken me a long time to get myself worth. I've had to like really develop it. I've still like pursued all my.

dreams despite the fact I did not feel worthy but I knew that they were my dreams and I was supposed to do it but I always felt like oh my gosh if people find out then I'm really a fraud and I'm really not worthy then it's all going to be uncovered or if they discover that you actually think you're good at something I was always if someone said something nice about you I have to put myself down oh I have to put myself down but see here's the thing with you that's different you were born with this voice so like a lot of people like myself I'll use myself as an example I have a lot of things I'm good at but like you and your voice are in a whole other stratosphere. Like you are just like that kind of singer.

Like you're like in the Celine Dion's of the world. Like you have like the voice that is like... The hand motions. But it can't be replicated, you know? Although I do hear a little Dolly part in your voice. Do you hear that on people? Oh, I love Dolly. It's just from being raised, don't know.

But like you have a voice though that like you can't learn to sing like you. Like yes, I'm sure you can take lessons and you can learn things and like whatever. But like your tone, your texture, the way it all comes. comes out like that is like a god-given gift that you have and so were people hard on you about that growing up like were people do they get jealous of that um no i do remember one girl in high school when i won the pageant the school pageant she uh i didn't know you know i didn't own a blackberry uh but i went to school the next day and they said did you see what she wrote and i guess blackberry had kind of like it's on facebook or whatever you could put statuses and uh anyways you can tell i was a flip phone girl

But so many of those Oh they're the best But the thing is I remember her saying like you know I didn't realize it was a talent show I thought it was a pageant And no there's really I don't know

I don't feel as if I Life was hard on me because of my voice I think I was harder on myself Than I ever really allowed life to be Okay explain that I think a lot of the turmoil that I have went through emotionally that has impacted me just as much as true tragedies in my life is because I was too hard on myself.

Really? So very much so. What are some of the things that you feel like you were too hard on yourself that caused you turmoil? Well, once people started to acknowledge my voice, you know, I kind of went from the odd kid out to all of a sudden people liked me, you know? and I had something that was interesting. And I just remember for so long as a young girl trying to be whatever I thought people would like

so that I could fit in and I could have friends and I could feel that connection that I always felt slightly like I was out on the outside and I couldn't understand it. And the minute that I started singing, I started to get accepted. And I know that sounds so bad, but then I started putting a pressure on myself.

that this is my personality. If this is what it is that gets people to like me and to listen to me and to hear me, I have to be the best then. There's no alternative. And then there's also that pressure of, I can't mess this up. What if I mess my voice up? And then the one thing that all these people have invested in me and believed in me for, I've lost it.

I've ruined it. Oh, my God. So you were stressed out about your voice. Oh, very much so. So also I have deafness that runs in my dad's side of the family. So I was always scared I would lose my hearing. I just was always panicked about it. Once I realized I had a gift.

I realized how sacred of a gift it was. And I was terrified to somehow mess it up. But I think a lot of my life, I have been terrified to mess up. And at 30 years old, I can finally look back and realize that I made things so much harder than they ever actually had to be. It gets to be easy. And I didn't realize that when I was younger. I didn't realize that I could forgive myself.

I didn't realize that I could mess up and forgive myself. I didn't realize that all the mistakes you make, they're great stories when you get older. It's the stuff you laugh about with your friends, you know? It's the stuff you write songs about and people connect. to and you can reach people that are going through those odd moments too it's I as a kid I remember the first biography we ever had written up and there was something in it that I had said in an interview and it definitely didn't come across the way I wanted but I had said something about um I had always

wanted a life that someone would write a book about because I loved books I was just obsessed with books from a young age and so um I wanted something that was exciting and riveting and would make you want to turn the page. And I don't think I really realized what I was signing up for by trying to manifest that and praying to God every night. Give me an interesting life. Really? Give me something fun. Give me. Was that your fair? Never let me get bored. Yes. Hey, thanks for listening to this week's Sunday sampler, the Bobbycast, Four Things with Amy Brown, sore losers. I mean, you heard all the shows. We'd love for you to go and check out an episode, subscribe to the feed if you like, or maybe just listen to the Sunday sampler every week and get a little piece.

Whatever it is, we appreciate it. We got an Instagram and a TikTok, and yeah, see you guys next week. In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins. But the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax. You doctored this particular test twice in so much, correct? I doctored the test ones. It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing.

Greg Gillespie and Michael Marantini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Listen to Love Trapped podcast

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves.

We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ego Wood. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever.

He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that.

There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the Fourth. You might have seen the skits.

my basketball and college football journey or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok.

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