The Bobby Bones Show - Sunday Sampler - The Nashville Podcast Network (5-26-24)

Episode Date: May 26, 2024

In this episode, you'll hear highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- 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! Find them on Instagram: -The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast -4 Things- @4ThingsPodcast -Sore Losers- @soreloserspodcast -Movie Mike's Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro -Get Real- @GetRealCarolineHobbySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys, welcome to the Sunday sampler. went up in a few minutes. Caroline Hobby talks with Callie Hardy, who is the wife of Hardy, and talks about how he slid into her DMs. Fast forward. They're married now, obviously. So we're losers, Amy. A lot of clips here. This week on the Bobbycast, I sat down with one of my really good friends, Ben Rector. He shares why he doesn't think he'll ever win a Grammy, although he's really good. How he defines success, you know, he talks about getting to golf with his hero, which is super cool. So Ben Rector, that's what we're going to start with here on the

Bobbycast. Thanks for hanging out on the Sunday sampler. How you been? I'm good. I feel like it's nice to be done with the tour, but I'm also going through a little bit of the the first three days. You're like, this is incredible. And then you're like, oh my gosh, what am I doing? You have other, I mean, you're not retired from music all the way, right? Like, this is your announcement that you're done. No, I'm not. But I honestly, I feel like I, I mean, this is probably a conversation for real life.

I feel like I'm always trying to figure out what I want it to look like and this is, I have the symphony shows after this, but not, you know, it's not like, and my next huge tour. What do you mean look like? Like the perception of the artist,

Ben Rector? I'm sorry, I'm fixing this mic stand. I probably should be doing that. No, how I define success, what I want my life to look like, which is too big of a question. And Hillary at this point is so patient, but always like rolls dry.

She's just like, you do whatever you want to do. Did you know I didn't know this? You may have known this. Did you know sometimes our wives escaped to talk about us? That sounds exactly right. Did you know that? I mean, a little bit.

I don't know the extent, you know, I don't know. I only heard about it like the other day. Hillary's probably just like been so great. That's what she says, right? I think when they compare us, they compare how great we are. Who's better? Who can say? I literally didn't know that.

I know that my wife adores your wife. way more than I adore you, so their friendship is natural. But, that's really pretty funny. They had been, and my wife doesn't tell me anything because I'm sure whatever they say, they say for each other and that's more, but I think there's probably some neuro tendencies that we both have that they can talk about and the other person at least somewhat relates. Yeah, no, I think that's right. I mean, Hillary tells me everything, but I'm you know what, good. She doesn't. Good. She's mentioned, she's mentioned that they've connected.

on that and it's been good. I think it is good. You know, we're, I feel like we're both a little bit odd, you know, people. Yeah. By odd, you mean extremely good looking. It's just hot. Yeah. People are always telling me that, man. I would say it's a mixture. I'm going to speak for me and possibly you. I would say it's a mixture

of, for me, not understanding really where balance ever is. And then the line of extremely, and wildly insecure and not knowing where that ever is. Definitely. I think that's exactly right. I think also the spice of like it being a public job is sometimes lonely and probably

maybe I don't mean to be like it's unique, like special, but maybe more unique than a guy who's like, I'm a lawyer and I work too much. Like there's other stuff kind of like tangled up in it sometimes maybe. That like a solo identity, meaning you're the only Ben Rector. I don't know what I meant by that. I think there's weird stuff that comes along with it. There's like weird side dishes that maybe don't happen with other meals. I would agree.

I would say in the same way that my friends that are professional athletes that play solo sports are way nuttier than my friends who play on teams. Yeah, very fair. Very fair. One of my dearest friends, Andy Roddick, is a tennis player. One of the greatest guys out of his skull, right? Because everything's on him. Yeah.

And the kind of person that self-selects into that and then continues to self-sick into that is pretty specific. Yeah, he chose and continue to choose to grind away. Everything's good and bad. It's all on him, right? It's different than a buddy that plays in the NFL and has it one of 11, you know, that's back there. Yeah.

When you say you're coming off tour and you're figuring it out. So what is it? I still don't know what you meant, like how it's presented. I'd say to use a workout analogy, it feels like when you're doing a tour or making a record or whatever, you have like a trainer that's like, this is exactly what you do. You don't have to think about it.

And it's challenging, but there's not a lot of brainpower expended on like, what am I doing actually or like creatively what am I doing? And then when you're done with that, because when I'm on tour, I'm always like, man, I'm ready to take a break because it is. It is a grueling thing.

But there's a part of you, you know, that when you're done with that, it's sort of like, okay, now what do you want to do? And you have to make it all up. And I think, as you were saying a little earlier, like, I feel like I'm always like trying to find balance and my brain doesn't help me do that very well because like anytime I'm like, I'm going to find balance in this way. It's like you're being lazy. You're being whatever. And I think at this point, I'm like, oh, I'm not, you know, 21 anymore. And I want to see my kids and having some

semblance of a normal life. So like what I want to look, what I want that to look like? But that's a big, it's like a big math problem. I don't know how to like really try to solve it. Have you felt yourself modifying goals because you're not 21 anymore? Yes. And I, I'm a bad person to ask about this because I feel like I have such a complicated relationship with things like like a goal in like a my job sense. Because I don't know really what's possible as far as like, as much as I want to be like, I'm going to win a Grammy for album of the year. My real take is like, I don't know if that's really a possibility for me. I don't think that that's like a thing that is going to happen and I can feel the Instagram like hustle

people be like not with an attitude like that. It's not. So there's that. And then there's also the part of it that's like, as things have gone better and better, I haven't necessarily become happier and happier. And so I'm like, oh, I want to like round this out with some more balance. But I don't know how to like actually approach that. It's very difficult. And I think other, I envy people who don't have a complicated relationship with it, people that are just like, I want to drive the sickest car in the world. So people look at me and they're like, what a sick car that guy drives. And I'm like, well, I wouldn't want to drive that car because I wouldn't want people to think, you know, it's just a complex, I don't know. And I just probably think about everything a little too much.

But that's, that is a challenge for me. I don't know what is reasonable to aim for goal wise. And I don't actually know what I want goal wise. As clear, as I can say it, I want to do really good work and be proud of it. That's like the central theme. If they're on goalposts, how do you know where to kick it, though? That's the deal. And this, I mean, that's, this is hilarious we're talking about this right now because I feel like I'm literally trying to figure that out. And on every project, we're watching The Last Dance, finally. The basketball documentary from COVID? Yes. Oh, cool. There's a show called Love is Blind. You should check out too. Yeah. We finished the

Sopranos. We're going to do it live. We are the one, two, three, so are losers. What up, everybody. I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. So I give you the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius. Y'all, it's Sizzin.

I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville with Bayes or 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 sore losers. You had a kid that beat his dad with a baseball bat? Yeah, I think that was the case. How was his swing?

Not funny, coach. That happened 35 years. Was the good launch angle? I don't know. I think he had a loft or something. He said his dad was drunk, climbed up there, tried to... The kid was drunk or the dad was drunk? The dad? The kid was in seventh or eighth grade. You've got to give details.

I don't know. He could have been in high school. Kids drink in high school. Okay, so batters boxes, kids' dad's brother's son was in Houston. Sorry, my details weren't good. The kid had a baseball bat in the second loft of their house, and his dad was coming at him, and he hid him with it. And the kid went, the dad went to jail, and in the process, they lost the kid.

So, and my mom met him at church and said, well, instead of him going into the foster system, we'll just take him. And I guess it was allowed by law. I mean, there's no way he just came to our house. But he lived with us for a year, I think. Really? And then what happened to him? Oh, you can look him up.

He has got a rap sheet. And I guess my mom's sending money. My sister goes, yeah, he hit her up on Facebook and said he needed $500. And my mom's like the kindest woman ever and gave him $500. I'm like, mom, where do you think that went? Hold on. Hold on. Where do you think that money went?

I'll spell it to you. M-E-T-H. That's where the money went. You can look him up online. I mean, he's just got a rap sheet. So after the baseball swing, he never stopped, it sounds like. So you're telling me, he came into your house and you guys weren't able to turn his life around. You weren't one of it.

Oh, no, we turned his life around. My parents made him go to church four times a week. He had to study. One time my mom caught him out drinking. I mean, she was about to kill the kid, didn't he, not even her son. I mean, do. So wait, wait. So your mom caught him out drinking.

So when I asked who was drunk, you were like, oh my God, of course it was the dad. And you just proved my point. No, good point. I was a little overreactive. Sorry. But, I mean, my dad's sick, six, six. So he'd listen to my dad. My dad would have beat the crap out of him. But I mean, so he'd lived with us, though. Did he go to school with you? Yeah, we all went to same school together. But he, like, made fun of us, like, thought I was a loser. Like, dude, I'm like, I was like one of the coolest kids in school. And he comes in and he's like, hey, you guys, you guys know Ray, like how you guys think he's all cool. You should see him at his house. He's a worry war. And he does weird stuff. And I'm like, bro. Why would you out me?

that to all my friends. And then they all look at me, and I was like, not popular anymore then. The kid that we took the shirt off our back for started making fun of me at school. And he'd be like, you're a loser.

He'd see me in the hall and, like, call me a loser and stuff. It was the most bizarre thing ever. But he lived with us. Do you share a room with you? My point is this. Me and Beezer are going to have a foster kid for a year, and then we're going to send him on his way.

So he moves out, right? After a year or whatever? Yeah, because I think then his parents could get him back. They had, they, with the court system, or they proved

that their marriage was better, and they went to some counseling. And did you stay in contact with him? We did it, because we moved, though. So it was in,

yeah, it was around the same time within the next year. Then we moved to Michigan. So we just never saw our herd, but then because of Facebook, that's how we were able to keep in contact and I learned about him,

and I can look up his name. And I was like, oh, man, he looks the same. But he looks like he got involved with M-E-T-H. I am going to need the name. And I know we're not going to say the name on here, but I want to look.

And the charges, it was, what was one of? He was at a laundry mat. He would rob people and then he'd steal their cars. So stuff like that. But I think it was all drug-related. So he just couldn't get away from the sticky stuff. Sadly. But if that dude ever hits me up on Facebook,

hey man can I get $500 for M-E-T-H I'm going to say dude do you remember when you were an eighth grader and I was a seventh grader and I had these chicks that liked me and my friends were cool with me and then they weren't impressionable because you were 18 or he was eight we were maybe sixth they listened to everything he said and all he did was make fun of me football team made fun of me dude this could do showers for like 30 minutes how weird every little idiosyncrasy I have, he outed me to every person. It was the weirdest thing ever. And then I'd go home to the dude. And it gets even weirder. What was it like at home with him? Like did you got, were you guys cool? No, I mean, he taught us, taught, like we had never lifted weights, but we had a bench. We just never

lifted. And he's like, what do you? He's doing, man. Why aren't you guys lifting? So, dude, we'd come home at night and we'd start bench, we never did it before. We just had it sitting there. And we go, oh, really, you can do that? He goes, yeah, dude, you just. really clench your fence together and that's how you do a bench press. So he taught us how to bench press? He taught us how to chew. We're up in the upstairs attic, dude.

We're like doing a chew. Throwing up. Dude. It was the craziest year ever. In so many different ways. Your mom, your family dynamic is crazy, first of all. The fact that your mom just brings this kid home, like the blind side, but it didn't turn out like the blind side.

So you didn't get a movie. You didn't get a book deal. It was a poor version of the blind side. And it was the exact opposite. You know, the blind side, he turns his life around, he goes to NFL, he becomes this big success story. You guys bring this kid in, and he ends up in prison, in and out of prison, addicted to drugs. But his grades improved. We didn't, it wasn't a blindside type situation.

We weren't trying to make a Disney movie. My mom was just keeping him away from his parents so that they didn't get another attic fight with the baseball bat. I understand that. But then the fact that you had two foreign exchange students, I didn't. I've never known anybody. Bro, it gets crazier. One of the foreign exchange students paid a dude to do a drive-by shooting, and he shot at my family,

and we got not investigated, whatever it's called. We had to meet with cops when I was, like, in third grade and explained to cops that I was shot at, and I thought every time I was going to jail. But with that said, hey, with that said, where were the foreign exchange shooters from? Germany. Why?

They were from. In Germany. All right, and they tried to shoot at us. They were hot, though. What I remember is they were very attractive. But dude, wait, wait, adoption? There were chicks? They were chicks?

Yeah, they were both. The two chicks were foreign exchange students. Wait, the chick had people shoot at your house? Yes, because my parents were strict and would make her go to church. And so she told her friends in high school, you guys should shoot at this guy. Or in this family. He comes around with a gun, sawed off shotgun, and shoots out. us.

Dude, so with all that said... Do they shoot out some windows? Yeah, out the window, but we had three acres, so the road really never went right next to our house, and there was bullet holes in the ground. He was a bad shot, and we all ran inside. But with all that said, me and Beezer want to provide that same thing to a family

and do foster care or foreign exchange students. I have never known someone. After all of that, after this, we still want to open our doors, but only for one year. I am. And then get the hell out of my house and don't ever come back. But let me know how things go and don't ever end up on a jail website. Man, I have never known someone to, A, bring a foreign exchange student to their house.

Like, that is mind-blowing, baffling the craziest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. It doesn't happen as much anymore. Like where did you How did that happen where you grew up? I don't even know how that happens. Dude, my mom is just so smart. Like, there was no internet.

So my mom... Right, exactly. This is free internet. Bro, they would send you a book and you would get to pick the foreign exchange student that you wanted to come visit who you thought. They would say, no pets. And we had nothing but pets.

So we couldn't pick that person. We would pick out the foreign exchange student we wanted. So it was like a mail-ordered foreign exchange student? She bought it out of a magazine? Or was it through school? Was it through the church? It was never through the church. It was just a booklet they would send.

And you'd pick them out and then they'd come over to America. And were they there for like a year, two years? A year. It was always a year. The one chick, the second one, the first one I don't, Inga and Silky. I don't remember Silky as much. We were young, but Inga is the shooter that hired the dude to shoot at us. She took over the whole basement.

We used to go down there, play Nerf football, we'd play basketball, watch TV. Her room became the base. And so as kids, we go, mom, I understand Christianity being nice, but she just took our whole rec room. And Inga just be down there having sex, thongs everywhere. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th.

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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. 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. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, it's Mike D. And this week on Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, I talked about the most and least profitable

movies of the last year. And every single week, I give you a spoiler-free movie review. This past week, I talked about if, which did okay at the box office, even though it had a really big budget, had a natalist cast, I broke it down in the review and gave you my theory on what was lacking from this movie. So if you like spoiler-free reviews, be sure to subscribe to my podcast. But right now, here's just a little bit of my if review. Let's get into it now. A spoiler-free movie review of if from writer and director, John Krasinski, who you would know from the office. He's also directed movies like A Quiet Place. And this may surprise you,

but I am not a kid. And you're going to ask, why is this 32-year-old going on about a kid's movie, why is he so passionate about it? As a former kid, I hold these movies to a high regard. Anything in the family and kid category because it was the reason I fell in love with movies initially. So I don't want any movie to rob any kid of that experience. You can rip me off as an adult. You can sell me a bomb. I go watch a movie and I hate it. That's fine. I'm an adult. I can take it. But for a kid to go to a theater to experience something that they want to take them out of this world or to help them understand maybe something that they can't learn from their parents or they're struggling, maybe don't have a parent. A movie can do that and a movie can

be powerful in many ways. So that is why I hold these movies to such a high regard. I don't review these as a 32 year old me. I review them, me as a kid sitting in that theater, but also taking the cues and the emotions that I feel in the theater. So that is just my little preface here. But what the movie is actually about, you have this girl named B, who is going through a traumatic experience. She just lost her mom. And now her dad is in the hospital. And during these times as she is interpreting all these emotions, she's 12 years old, she starts seeing other kids imaginary friends. She has this ability to see them.

No one else can see them. So it is her mission now throughout the movie to pair up these imaginary friends who no longer have kids to play with and find new kids for them so they can continue to live. on. Kaylee Fleming plays B, who really dominated this movie, my favorite performance from a young actor, probably since Violet McGraw and Megan, who also carried that movie. I feel like we've gotten a little bit away from letting kids lead movies, and I feel like her performance in this surpass Ryan Reynolds, and even surpassed the AIS voice actors that were voicing all the characters in this movie. So what she is struggling with, even though she's 12 years old, she doesn't want to be called a kid because she's experienced life. She's experienced heart.

and loss, and she acts so much more mature than she actually is. Meanwhile, in this time, her dad, John Krasinski, who's in the hospital, is doing all these really playful things to keep the spirit really light, to kind of keep her mind off of why he is actually there. She's like, Dad, stop doing that. I'm not a kid. I don't need you to coddle me. For her to have that kind of emotion really reminded me of me as a kid, because as far back as when I was in elementary school, I remember my teacher telling my mom that, hey, this kid acts way more mature than he actually is. He doesn't really like all the more childish things. And I had a real hard time just being a kid because I was always more mature.

I had a brother and a sister who were seven, nine years older than me. So I think it was me always trying to be cool in their eyes that I didn't allow myself to be a kid probably past like eight or nine years old. I always wanted to be like them. So even at eight or nine, I was probably acting more like a late teenager. So that part of the movie really resonated with me because there are kids who have to grow up faster because of the things they experience in life. And I really haven't seen that represented in a movie yet. So I think kids now being able to identify with a character like that is really important. The other thing I identified with, which is more of what the movie focuses on, is having an imaginary friend because B is connecting with all these imaginary friends.

They all have different personalities. And I think seeing this as an adult reminded me of my imaginary friend. I created him because I was really lonely. I grew up in a trailer park and it was really hard for me to make friends. I had two really solid friends in the trailer park that I made on my own. I also had a cousin who was like a built-in best friend. And in the trailer park I lived in, everybody would eventually just move away and you would never see him again. Again, this was late 90s, early 2000s where internet wasn't as prevalent as it is now. Once somebody left the trailer park, they were gone. My first best friend moved away. and the ultimate move away from a trailer park is you get a house. That was the ultimate goal to go from living in a trailer park to having a brick house was the dream. So Zach was the first one to do that. My other friend Eric moved away, my cousin moved away, and it was just me by myself. It was hard for me to make new friends when more kids would move into the trailer park.

I always felt like they were younger than me. So it was hard for me to find kids my age. And I was also just really awkward and more mature. So I created an imaginary friend. I don't really remember a whole lot of details about him, probably because it was created at a trauma or something. But I remember the last time playing with my imaginary best friend. It was raining. We were sitting on some steps, and I think he just evaporated.

And that was me saying goodbye to my childhood, I guess. So I think watching this movie as an adult will transport you back into your childhood, especially if you had an imaginary friend. The big problem I had with if is it felt really unoriginal and it also took a really long time to get going. It was probably 45 minutes until anything really big happened. And that is hard to do in a kids movie. I felt the audience getting a little bit restless because you need those big fun moments that kids are going to get invested in.

And I think that was overall what this movie struggled with. It very much felt more like an adult telling the story to kids and thinking, oh, this is probably what kids like instead of what I like in kids and family movies. You forget that an adult is even involved in the process. It feels more like it's a kid at the helm, calling all the shots, and it feels like a kid movie being told from the perspective of a kid. I think that is when a movie like this truly shines. It reminds me of watching Nickelodeon as a kid,

and that channel very much felt like there was no adult influence. It felt like cartoons being made for kids, by kids, and all the adults were lame. A little bit of that memory has been tarnished with Quiet on the set now, but I'm choosing to remember just the animated shows and the really early Nickelodeon stuff. So overall, I felt like it was more of a movie made for adults. The overall message of the story was don't let yourself forget to be a kid.

Don't be afraid to be a kid. And it felt like it would resonate more with adults watching it than it would kids. So overall for if, I give it 3.5 out of five big purple monsters. Hey y'all, it's Caroline Hobby from Get Real with Caroline Hobby. And here is a clip from this week's episode. Okay, how did you and Michael meet speaking of romance? How did John meet? Was it love at first sight?

Yeah, speaking of romance, Michael slid in the DMs. He did? Yeah. How did he find you? So, biggest mystery to this day, we do not know. He slid in the DMs. And it was a pretty iconic DM. Okay, what did it say?

So he didn't say anything. He sent me a video of him. He was deer hunting and he was in, you know, his camo. You didn't know he existed. This is a random message just showing up in your inbox. So random. Just showing up in my inbox. And he just sent me a video of him and he was wearing all camo.

He was deer hunting and he just was drinking Evan Williams just out of the bottle. That's what he sent you? And I was like, that could honestly also freak you out. For sure. But like if you know me, it was perfect. That did not freak me out? I was like, hell yeah. Who is this?

He knows. Is he reading my mind? Because it could have gone one or two ways Well, no, I mean, so like, from California, but I was like, I need, like, I always was... Did he say anything? Or did he just take a sip? Did he say anything?

He just like, just video, just short little video. Now, he was just going to see if that hit. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. So what happened after that? So I immediately was like, yeah, like, what's up? So I texted him back and I was just like, I said some so, like, cringy and thirsty, embarrassing.

I was like, oh, like, save me some. Oh, God, I wish some. badly that I screenshot those like first few messages that we had together because maybe it's for the best but it probably is but yeah I mean I was just like who is this like country boy were you in Nashville I was no I was in college I was so I went to Ole Miss so I was in Mississippi so he oh okay we all got oh it was probably like a location like Mississippi like Mississippi like thing that just I don't know maybe he was somehow popped up he had his eye on some Mississippi girls probably but I mean no one compared to you but like he was looking for

Maybe Mississippi. Maybe, yeah, for sure, for sure. And I was at home for winter break and I was just like, okay. So yeah, that definitely caught my eye. We just started chit-chatting like nothing crazy. Just like he was, I think he was intrigued. He was like, I see her from California. Like, why are you down here?

And we just started talking. Very casual, very casual. Like nothing long conversations, nothing like that. I mean, I didn't, he told me he was a songwriter. I was like, what does that mean? Like, I, okay. And actually, funny, this is funny. I went to lurk his Instagram as one does when someone DMs you.

And he had a lot of pictures with Tyler and BK on the road from FGL. And he had these like passes on, which like, you know, we're just credentials. But I was like, oh my God. Because you were loving FGL. Yeah, but I was like, he's a super fan. He is an FGL super fan and that's fucking weird. And he's gotten in so tight that now he's like backstage. Like I was like cringe.

Like, ew. Like he's a super fan like following them around like because he had like pictures with them throughout and I was like I don't know about all this. Like this is too. That's weird. Yeah. I was like oh God. Like he is.

So I just didn't really say anything about that. And we just, you know, I was like the conversation was good. Like okay. Okay. I don't hold that against him. I need to dig into this, but we'll get there. Yeah. So.

basically we just kind of, I don't know, just like kept chit-chatting very casually like here and there. And then I was back at school and the lyric is the little music venue in town. And he had his buddy Jameson Rogers was playing a show with the lyric. And then his other buddy, Hunter Phillips, was opening up for Jameson. And he was supposed to be out on the road writing, but Jameson or Hunter's drummer got sick. And last minute asked Michael to fill in. Can he drum? So he can.

but even better. This wasn't the real drums. It was the cahone, like the box drum. So like my man is up there on stage. Is this the first time you met? Yeah. So he's coming to play a show at your college. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's probably like a big deal. It was, but like, so my friends and I were already going. So we were like, we're going. Are these shows? Do they like pack out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fun. Like all the, everyone goes. The tickets are like 20 bucks.

So this could not be a more perfect time to see how you're going to feel in person. Yes. Yes. And I was like so nervous. But I brought a couple of my friends. and I was like, you guys have to come. Like, you guys, we're going to this show, right? Like, you have to come with me because, like, this guy's going to be there now.

And so we went. Yeah. Oh, my God. And I didn't even know. Like, he's like, I'm going to be in the band. And I just see him up there, like, sitting on this little box. Like, hitting the box. Did that, did that fill the vibes up or down?

Honestly, I was having the time in my life. Like, I was laughing my ass off, like, at him with him. Just like, what is happening right now? And we wiggle our way to the front. And we were like, Michael. Like, trying to. to get his attention and he swears to this day that he never saw us. We were like, hey. You're like like, hey. I'm like two feet taller than everyone in this crowd. I'm like,

hey. Never saw me. Yeah. So and he was like, okay, like after the show like, like let's find up a spot to me and we'll just meet in there. And I was like, okay, yeah, yeah. So they finish the set and we go meet up up at the balcony, meet up. And we're just like, hi. And I saw him coming from a distance. And how do we feel? I just like chugged my drink. And I was like, oh my God. Like chugged my drink. Yeah, I was really excited. So the actual like laying the eyes on each other was like good. Because do you know when you talk to someone online for a long time?

You never know it's going to translate into the human form. For sure. But I was like what? Like who cares? Like why do you have to lose? Like okay. And I was with my friend and my friend ran up to him first and she was like, are you Callie's friend?

And he was like, yeah, yeah. And so I was like hi and we hugged. And it was. And his first thought was she's tall. Like, damn, this girl's tall. Like, God. And he said my voice was like deeper than he thought it was. would be. I was like, great. Off to a good start. I'm Shrek. Like, like, literally, it's

fabulous. Thank you. Appreciate it. Like, that is so him, too. If you know him, like, he will be be trying to give a compliment and then it's like, it just. Doesn't quite. I'm like, oh, you're always there. You were all in there. So close. Like, oh my God. Like, you should hear it. Like, when he tries to compliment my, like, award show dresses, like, he just says the most weird shit. And I'm like, give me an example. Like, I wore, I wore this one dress with, like, this big structured, like, silver ruffle on it. And he was like, you look like silver bacon, like a big silver bacon.

And I was like, yeah. Like, yes. So that just, like, sums it all up perfectly. Does he love bacon though? So that's great. I mean, yeah, like, whatever. You love like silver bacon. So that was like, that is like, like, we, the silver bacon dress is the silver

bacon dress. You guys can go find it. Like, there's a picture of it. And you will honestly. looking at it, it does look like a giant piece of ruffled little bacon. But that is a perfect example. So she

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brothers hooked on smoking some. It's like we all can have our things that we're using to mask what the real issue is. And so what you're saying is the last eight years you've been having to address and figure out what that is and work through it. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know if whoever gets to the bottom of it. Like I don't know if there's any answer. I just find a lot of peace and just going, okay, that's what we do. Like, Lainey and I, we're going to be married 20 years. And I have yet to wake up and love her not selflessly. That saddens me, but it also kind of frees me to go, oh, that's kind of what's wrong with humanity. That's people's downfall, you know, and it's good to analyze those motives and go, I'm sorry, Lenny, I want to love you. Not for myself, for just you, because you deserve, I love you, and I don't want anything in return.

I'm not doing the dishes tonight, so you'll make out with me later. I think if you step back and look at life, it's just nice to go, oh, we're kind of like, that's kind of what we do. You know, that's what's wrong with us. And so, yeah, to me, that's my, that's my therapy, being like, oh, man, it's so free to learn about humans and our tendencies and our downfalls and things like that that have been going on for a gazillion years. But you're right, you know, sometimes, like, I'll be seeing an AA or saying drunk,

and I'll see, I'll see somebody in the crowd, and I'll be like, I'm not judging. I'm just saying what it is. Like, if you, if you drink it out there, let's go. It's all good, you know. But that is an interesting moment that happened at my shit. Well, I think for you, there's probably been a lot of therapeutic moments in your songwriting, obviously. And for those of us that get to enjoy what amazing songwriters like you put out there, I mean, there's so much healing for us, like when we're listening to it.

And there, I bet through your vulnerability through your music, there are those, aha moments of people and they don't they don't feel judged by you they just feel like oh maybe there's this this connection they feel like i can't imagine that you haven't heard stories i don't know maybe from beer in a fridge has anybody reached out to you about after listening to that song and being like whoa whoa whoa that hit a little too close to home and it woke me up a little bit yeah i mean what a gift from god you know as a parent you're gonna i mean i'm gonna get emotional when i start talking about this because I'm in the thick of it with my kids, just on a few things that they're struggling with. And this isn't like, woe is me, but like I was a lonely kid, you know,

and lonely is dark. One of my least favorite places to be is in the house with Lainey, but very hateful and resentful is when you're lonely next to someone. That's the worst. I mean, oh my God, like nothing is as painful. It's loneliness. And so, you know, maybe that's why I am so vomit with my things is almost as if to say, hey, I got to tell you I struggle with this. Oh, my God. It's just carry me up inside because I'm lonely with it. And I just want you to know I struggle with this. And that has been such a relief to communicate with her, to communicate with my kids and go, hey, you know, you put that on this pedestal.

Let me tell you, son, I have trouble with what I love. look at on social. I have trouble with what I look at in the gym. I have trouble with where my eyes go. I need to share this with you because I don't want to be alone with this stuff because it's really tearing me up. I had coffee with the guy today that this dude, he read, glad you're here, and the loss of a kid kind of destroyed his marriage, but he honestly, I think he just won a friend. I don't think he cares whether I'm famous or not. He just got a glimpse of some stuff, you know, that's happened to me and was just like, shoot, maybe this dude would have coffee with me.

I need him as much as he needs me. It's definitely scary sometimes to be like, hey, I'm kind of an a-hole, and I kind of, and not good at this, and I kind of struggle with this. But I've never regretted just admitting it. and the blessings that come out of other people, you know, sharing with me and that, that unification that we share in this, and we need help. I need camaraderie. I don't want to be by myself with this. It's not the easiest thing, you know, to be like, hey, everyone, I am weak. As a dude, that's not like the funnest, most inviting place, you know, to be, but it's really what keeps my wife

I just kind of feeling like the Lord has us doing what we're doing for kind of a reason, if that makes any sort? Yeah, everything you've been through, it's like, well, you can filter it through what has this made possible for your family and your one-on-one connections with people that you don't even know. They live halfway around the world. Who knows? But there's that connection through the gifts and talents that you've been given.

and because you're willing to be vulnerable and admit things that other men might be like, what? I would never tell anybody that, but they see you doing it, and then it's a domino effect. Yeah, it's been magical, but it's also come from a lot of brokenness. But it's just everybody, every single person's fighting some battle you don't know about. And so, yeah, Lenny and I really felt always felt compelled to just fit it all out there and quit acting like everything's just hunky dory over here. Thanks for listening to this week's sampler.

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