September 29, 2025 • 17 mins
We recorded a bonus podcast backstage at our iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas inside the T-Mobile Arena. Bobby sat down with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman to discuss how music unites us, their collaboration “Ashes,” how that all came together and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, hey guys, Bobby here backstage Las Vegas for
our iHeart Radio Music Festival, and we're about to talk
with Bailey Zimmerman and Diplo and it is with Hyundai
and hope you get a chance to go over and
watch the video. We just shot a really fun video
where it's basically I'm supposed to drive them around the city,
but then I'm really early and they're also kind of late,
and then we get in the Hundai.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
But watch it all.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You'll be able to see it up on the socials.
But we're going to go over to them now. Bailey, Zimmerman,
Diplo backstage before their performance at the iHeart Radio Music Festival.
Bone he it's Bobby Bones backstage at the iHeart Radio
Music Festival. And this whole festival is known for its
once in a lifetime collaborations. So how did ashes come together?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Diplo?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at
Morgan's show, one of them, and I think he's just
a guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell, and I
had a new kind of sound that wanted to do.
I think he's the one guy that could carry it
and I came to his house. I had a show.
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave
on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus.
And we had like three hours play the record for him.
(01:10):
We kind of like got a scratch, and then he
handled on his own on the road.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, it was really cool. He literally just like randomly
showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo,
what are you doing. He's like, I have a song.
Did I want to show you? And I was like okay.
And then now we're here playing it live.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And so you record you say, like a scratch like
the first version at the house.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Did you use any of that in the actual track?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We changed the key a little bit, changed the tempo,
kind of like out out how he liked it, and
then he made it his own.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Do you just pull people's houses randomly, just be like
I got music. I do that actually a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It works sometimes though they don't answer the door. But
he had a big ass truck in his yard. I
knew it was his house, so.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, that's how you know it's Bailey's. Yeah, big trucks,
big rims, flashy.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, you know to me honestly seeing Diplo just like
park and get out and be like, hey, it's like, dude,
imagine that listening right now. You walk outside of your
house and Diplow is just standing in your driveway and
he has basically he just was there with a boombox.
He was like, listen to this song.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
He was like, that's that's it, Bailey, I'll go to
you on this one, all right? Who would you want
to see duet together? If you could, you can magically
match two people, one dead, one alive, let's do it like.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That, Okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Or you can pick a dead person with you, but
it has to be dead person. I'm gonna go okay,
all right, it's gotta be a dead person only, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
If if if I could make a song with anybody
that isn't alive right now, I probably can't.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Pick Jesus then that's the cop out here. But he
wants to make a song with Jesus, got it?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Got it? Honestly?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Probably probably Chester Bennington, Lincoln Park, Yeah, Lincoln Park, Yeah, yeah,
big fan. Either that or Kirk Cobin. That would all
be also crazy, same vibe.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh yeah, shoot, I know it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Next, but there's nobody else. Who would you do with
Bobby uh? Jesus?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
No, I was gonna go back to Jesus with Jesus.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay? If I were gonna Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh, like a like a spoken word album, yeah, like
funny spoken Kurt's a good one. I think. I think
David Bowie for me. He was such a legend and
did kind of every genre and did whatever he wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Diplog go to you on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
When you record music, do you go in knowing you
want to make a song that sparked a certain emotion
or at times do you have a song and you
feel but then you find because you're recording it, it sparks
a different kind of emotions.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You alter that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I just go with the blankest slate you can imagine,
like I don't have any idea what I'm doing, Like
it could be like a reggae record, country record, metal.
I just kind of go in, like what is the
weirdest thing I can make and how can I make
it make sense? You know? And then the emotions comes later.
That's when the songwriting comes and everything kind of fits in.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You know, what about you Bailey.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is there ever a song that you write and it
feels it's an up tempo or a ballad, you which
it like you change it and you go, what if
we shift this because it feels different?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I feel like that's always later in the process, Like
I'll write it like the same thing, just blake blank
slate acoustic guitar, and then you start just writing off
of like immediate emotion, like what are those what does
that tracker chords make you feel? And then it's usually
my producer Austin that'll be like, we should change this
because this will feel a little better here, and then
we should up this tempo here and do this. So yeah,
(04:26):
it usually comes later for me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, when do you feel driven to listen to music?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Like when you're just listening for listening's sake, Like what's
what's the time when you turn it on just to
listen to old, old stuff that makes you feel good.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's my car, man, like just kind of like driving
the best sound system. You just kind of like roll
and then I like to listen to new music too,
but like the classics, you know, put on like Fleetwood
Mac or something. But I always like to listen to
something I never heard to kind of like.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hear, what's going on? You know, what's your comfort music?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Bailey, Ah, there's this again. I'm not even gonna Lie
might get grilled for this, but I go. I found
awesome playlist and it's called massage music that's not boring
and it actually makes me sos in when I'm trying
to chill and trying to just like just like feel myself,
(05:13):
you know. So I listened to that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How did you come across that to begin with? Like,
let's get into this.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So we talk about never having things in life, and
one of the things I had never experienced was a massage.
And I'd been torn so much and I'm like, you
know what, I'm gonna get a massage, I think. So
when I was looking for music to put on, I
was like, well, I don't want to be boring, so
I was like, massage music that's not boring, and then
it just came up, and then from then on, I
(05:41):
just find myself going back to that playlist, like this
is nice.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Massage in yourself, like rubbing your own shoulders.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, either that or I've been on I've been on
Scizza's like twenty fourteen album. So yeah, I guess that too.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Speaking of massages with my dad's birth day yesterday and
I got him at massuse to come to his house
okay near Daytona.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I know a great playlist to play.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah I knew.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, he had never really gotten as.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Solved before either. Really yeah? Yeah what he said? What
did he say about his first massage? Did he hit
you up after?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I gotta hit him up position, So I'm gonna have
to remind him in the playlist we can have for
next time.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Final question, do you have a cool memory that stands
out for how music has connected fans together or an
event you've been at where you've seen fans really come
together And Bailey, I'll go to you first.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I would say every show of mine is like it
reminds me why I do music and hearing we were
talking about earlier today, just the stories that come from
how far this music has reached in the world and
just like what it's got them through and why they're
at the show and hearing those stories. Oh yeah, it's
(06:50):
it's like, yeah, it's like connection on a whole different level.
You're like I know this person and they know me,
and they feel like like all the way the world.
They've connected with me some about through music.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It's crazy, Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What about when you play a festival and it's like
people that are there for kind of everybody and nobody
at the same time, but they come together as one.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Do you see that from up on stage?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Every festival is different. Because I'm a DJ, I kind
of look at the crowd and be like, what's gonna work.
What's gonna like change their attitude or make them feel
something they never felt before. So I always try to
think of that. It's like a DJ's job is to
You can always play like great set, but if you
really make people go like I didn't know, I'd like that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That feels like a real skill set that I'd love
to do. But I travel all over the world, so
going places like Pakistan, you know, like my first time
was like who people party here? And then I was
like they do the songs from YouTube and places where
like the music is contraband you know, when you play
records with them, they're like, it's just like the world
is so united, you know, we don't know about music
is the one thing that everybody shares in common.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I appreciate the time guys, congratulations on the new song.
Looking forward to seeing a live performance tonight. Good luck, guys,
have good yoh, thank you, thanks.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Awesome to hear from those guys.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
My first time ever meeting Diplo, and he doesn't remember,
and he shouldn't remember, because I'm sure they meet like
ten thousand people.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I was doing the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
For the Grammys for e He had hired me to
come out and be on the red carpet for a
TV show and there's a clip of I asked Diplo
the question, does he ever hear sounds like random sounds,
like when you open the door at the gas station
and it goes ding dong, Like has he ever made
a song after? Something like that? And I think he
(08:30):
made a song after with that idea, That's all I'm saying.
I think I inspired that idea because I had never
heard the idea and it was a joke question, and
then I think he did that. But a really cool
guy and obviously Bailey super cool. Crazy to see someone
like Bailey or even Jelly Roll explode in the past
couple of years, I mean, thinking about Bailey, that's so interesting.
If you don't know Bailey's story, and sometimes it's hard
(08:52):
to know the story that come up once they get
so big. But Bailey was basically working for a pine
and really didn't sing much like he's saying at home,
and had sang one time and had put it on
social media, and I did it the first ever interview
he ever did, Like he came over to my house
(09:13):
because I thought his story was so wild because he
wasn't like on the radio or anything. He had this
crazy streaming success and I was so interested in it.
And the first interview he ever did, he came and
he set for an hour with me, and he said
that he went to bed, put one video up.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It had like three million views.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
The next day he called his job and he quit
working on the pipeline. And this is all during COVID
as well. He didn't know what a manager was, and
you really wouldn't unless you've been in this industry, like
you wouldn't know what a manager does. He didn't know
about fees, you know, the difference in managers and agents,
and he had to learn all of that kind of
himself because he was driving down. He was from the
(09:52):
Midwest and he would drive down all the time every
week during COVID and take these meetings. And he talked
about how he had a meeting with an agent once
in a record label and he didn't know the difference.
He had no idea what they were trying to get
him to do, but he signed a deal. Obviously, he's
massive now and you know for him just talking with
him a lot and get to know him a little
(10:13):
bit too.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's the Morgan wall On tour.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When Morgan called him to ask him to open, I
know that was super significant in his life. Bailey's also
a kid, and I say kid because he's quite a
bit younger than I am. But when he started to
make it, we grew up very similarly, like I never
had a bedroom going up, grew up very poor. Same
thing with Bailey, and Bailey was one of those kids.
I was like, hey, dude, here are the things you
(10:36):
don't want it and I kind of walked them through the
things you can get in trouble doing and not be canceled,
and the things that you can't do because you will
get canceled. And I was like, if you ever have
to go to jail, you can call me at any time.
And thank god, he's never had to go to jail.
We appreciate that about Bailey, but he's a great, great kid,
and he's it's crazy to see how how fast he's
blown up, and like in the country music critical mass,
(10:58):
but even outside of country music, because again with Big
exa Plug and with Diplo.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I think both are tonight, which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I was with Jelly Roll earlier at the festival, and
that's another guy that's been pretty amazing to see, Like
Jelly Roll stories super just professionally, like he was like
with three six Mafia back in the day. Like he
was a hip hop artist, like a full hip hop artist.
And I would see Jelly Roll on the golf course
in Nashville. When I first moved to town, I lived
(11:28):
on in this gated community. I'd never lived in a
gated community, but I was starting to make money and
I had been like jumped. I'd been attacked, I got
pistol whipped at atm once. I got jumped at work
outside of work going in and so when I moved
to Nashville, they made me move somewhere that either had
security or had gates. It was kind of part of
(11:49):
the deal. And so I moved into this gated community.
It was kind of crazy because like Rascal Flats Leet
Singer lived there, Carrie lived there. I moved there, and
there's a golf course, and I would see Jelly Roll
on the golf course, except I didn't know him from
anything other than people would say he's a very face
tatted rapper. But he was also on the golf course
(12:10):
and he's in a country club, and I thought the
juxaposition of that was crazy. So that's how I knew
jelly Roll to begin with. He played golf with like
Steve Hodges, who was like a record guy, and so
I would see Jelly Roll and wouldn't know much about
him until later he got into the country music space.
Now he was a fan of our show, and we
were probably his first ever country interview that he did,
(12:30):
and he came in for like forty five to fifty minutes.
That interview has been streamed millions of times at this point,
But even then you could tell the guy was super
appreciative for all the new things that had happened to him.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Now he's got a.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Really great come up story as well, like spend a
lot of time in prison, like cut a lot of
his creative teeth in prison and now goes back to
prisons a lot and works with inmates and has built
recording studios in prisons, just so these guys and women
know that there's when you do get out, like there
is a way to actually be successful. But Jelly Roll
(13:05):
has been that guy, and he was here today. He's
lost two hundred pounds, which is crazy to see. He's
like almost half, you know, of what he used to be.
He had a wrestling shirt on, which is you know,
there's nothing more Jelly Roll than Jelly Roll wearing a
wrestling shirt.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Another thing about Jelly that was super cool is what he.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
He was a wrestler like raw and he wrestled Logan
Paul and like for a guy that came up growing
up in the South that loved wrestling, actually got to
go and wrestle like on a pay per view like
a super cool And to be able to see him
here tonight, and I hadn't seen him in probably like
three months. But the cool thing about Jelly Roll is
(13:43):
that he remembers everybody's name. And if you were like,
I don't want to use the word loyal, because I
wouldn't say I was loyal but he was.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
A fan of the show.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
His mom was a fan of my show, And as
soon as he sees you, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like, what a big hug.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
In this situation too, I would expect you kind of
know what you walking into with interviews. But I saw
jelly Roll the last time before this. I was in
New Orleans for the Super Bowl and I was on
Fox and I was doing I was giving away an
award for the NFL Honors, and jelly Roll was a
part of one of the sketches. And again, there are
much more, much cooler people there than me at this event,
(14:17):
but jelly Roll's in the second row. And as soon
as the lights go down and they go off of
the television to commercial, first person yelling Bobby from the
crowd was jelly Roll. So that's just one of those
guys that as soon as you see him and he's
so nice and kind, you're like, is that real? For sure?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Is real?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We were walking in we saw Yellow col Jay. He's
a big dude, like still a big dude, full long
leather like still puts on a super energetic, like sweaty show.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But that was super cool. Brian Adams rumor is he
had everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Clear of the room earlier when he was going into
the room, and I thought, well, that's interesting Brian Adams,
because that's like got my first reels, and you know,
some people don't want people like staring at him.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But then wh I saw him walk by, he had
like one person with them. Usually it's people that have
like twenty people inside their entourage. So I don't really
know if that story is even true that he didn't
want people looking at him. But saw Brian Adams pretty crazy.
See somebody you've only seen on television, saw Maroon five, dude,
Adam Durrett's no Adam Adam Levine. Yeah, Dirrets is kind
of cross, thank you, full of tattoos. I was talking
to a guy a few minutes ago and I was like, Hey,
(15:26):
who do you want to see? And this guy's probably
like sixty five or so, and I thought maybe he'd
say Sammy Haygark is Samy Hagar's playing tonight And he said, uh,
Tate McCrae, And I said.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
What about that? Look at you like, He's like, I
bet she's a great performer. I was like, I bet that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So it's an interesting night tonight. This is always the
coolest festival. Big thanks to Hyundai as well, because one
they give me a car and it's my favorite car.
It's awesome. And I was caught on Mike earlier. I'll
give you one other behind the scenes thing. We were
doing this video shoot with Bailey and Diplo and I
was like an hour before. So I have this mic
(16:02):
on the whole time, and the Hyundai people have headphones
because they want to hear the shoot. I forget that
I'm wearing a mic because you don't see the mic.
It's taped to my chest. And Bailey comes up and
he's like, do you like this car? And I'm like, dude,
if I didn't have this car given to me, I
would buy the car. And he was like, are you serious.
I said, I me and my brother in law buy
this car. And so it's a fantastic car like I
(16:24):
have right now. I have the Santa Fe, but we're
doing the Santa Fe the palis Ade Hybrid, which is awesome,
so check it out. Check out Hyundai if you haven't
like the elite cars. And they sponsored the end the
House of Music in front of the arena, which was
super cool. So that's what we got from here. Thank
you guys for listening to this again. Thanks to Diplo
and Bailey Zimmerman, all of our guests at iHeartRadio Music
(16:48):
Festival twenty twenty five. Fantastic. I'm watching the screen now
and I think I saw my uncle. Nope, it's Sammy Hagar.
It's Sammy Hagar on the stage right now. And Uncle
Sammy is going hard right now. Just pulled him out
of the Hey won't you get up there and do
a couple of songs And he's doing them so super cool.
Thank you guys for listening. And by the way, you
can watch the show. I know they're going to do
(17:09):
a replay on Hulu. We'll give you more details on
the show, but if you want to watch the iHeartRadio
Music Festival, we'll give you all those as well. All Right,
you guys, have a good day, See you later. Being
so away, don't need to clap
Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, hey guys, Bobby here backstage Las Vegas for
our iHeart Radio Music Festival, and we're about to talk
with Bailey Zimmerman and Diplo and it is with Hyundai
and hope you get a chance to go over and
watch the video. We just shot a really fun video
where it's basically I'm supposed to drive them around the city,
but then I'm really early and they're also kind of late,
and then we get in the Hundai.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
But watch it all.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You'll be able to see it up on the socials.
But we're going to go over to them now. Bailey, Zimmerman,
Diplo backstage before their performance at the iHeart Radio Music Festival.
Bone he it's Bobby Bones backstage at the iHeart Radio
Music Festival. And this whole festival is known for its
once in a lifetime collaborations. So how did ashes come together?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Diplo?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at
Morgan's show, one of them, and I think he's just
a guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell, and I
had a new kind of sound that wanted to do.
I think he's the one guy that could carry it
and I came to his house. I had a show.
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave
on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus.
And we had like three hours play the record for him.
(01:10):
We kind of like got a scratch, and then he
handled on his own on the road.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, it was really cool. He literally just like randomly
showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo,
what are you doing. He's like, I have a song.
Did I want to show you? And I was like okay.
And then now we're here playing it live.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And so you record you say, like a scratch like
the first version at the house.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Did you use any of that in the actual track?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We changed the key a little bit, changed the tempo,
kind of like out out how he liked it, and
then he made it his own.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Do you just pull people's houses randomly, just be like
I got music. I do that actually a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It works sometimes though they don't answer the door. But
he had a big ass truck in his yard. I
knew it was his house, so.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, that's how you know it's Bailey's. Yeah, big trucks,
big rims, flashy.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, you know to me honestly seeing Diplo just like
park and get out and be like, hey, it's like, dude,
imagine that listening right now. You walk outside of your
house and Diplow is just standing in your driveway and
he has basically he just was there with a boombox.
He was like, listen to this song.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
He was like, that's that's it, Bailey, I'll go to
you on this one, all right? Who would you want
to see duet together? If you could, you can magically
match two people, one dead, one alive, let's do it like.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That, Okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Or you can pick a dead person with you, but
it has to be dead person. I'm gonna go okay,
all right, it's gotta be a dead person only, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
If if if I could make a song with anybody
that isn't alive right now, I probably can't.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Pick Jesus then that's the cop out here. But he
wants to make a song with Jesus, got it?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Got it? Honestly?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Probably probably Chester Bennington, Lincoln Park, Yeah, Lincoln Park, Yeah, yeah,
big fan. Either that or Kirk Cobin. That would all
be also crazy, same vibe.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh yeah, shoot, I know it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Next, but there's nobody else. Who would you do with
Bobby uh? Jesus?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
No, I was gonna go back to Jesus with Jesus.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay? If I were gonna Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh, like a like a spoken word album, yeah, like
funny spoken Kurt's a good one. I think. I think
David Bowie for me. He was such a legend and
did kind of every genre and did whatever he wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Diplog go to you on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
When you record music, do you go in knowing you
want to make a song that sparked a certain emotion
or at times do you have a song and you
feel but then you find because you're recording it, it sparks
a different kind of emotions.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You alter that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I just go with the blankest slate you can imagine,
like I don't have any idea what I'm doing, Like
it could be like a reggae record, country record, metal.
I just kind of go in, like what is the
weirdest thing I can make and how can I make
it make sense? You know? And then the emotions comes later.
That's when the songwriting comes and everything kind of fits in.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You know, what about you Bailey.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is there ever a song that you write and it
feels it's an up tempo or a ballad, you which
it like you change it and you go, what if
we shift this because it feels different?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I feel like that's always later in the process, Like
I'll write it like the same thing, just blake blank
slate acoustic guitar, and then you start just writing off
of like immediate emotion, like what are those what does
that tracker chords make you feel? And then it's usually
my producer Austin that'll be like, we should change this
because this will feel a little better here, and then
we should up this tempo here and do this. So yeah,
(04:26):
it usually comes later for me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, when do you feel driven to listen to music?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Like when you're just listening for listening's sake, Like what's
what's the time when you turn it on just to
listen to old, old stuff that makes you feel good.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's my car, man, like just kind of like driving
the best sound system. You just kind of like roll
and then I like to listen to new music too,
but like the classics, you know, put on like Fleetwood
Mac or something. But I always like to listen to
something I never heard to kind of like.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hear, what's going on? You know, what's your comfort music?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Bailey, Ah, there's this again. I'm not even gonna Lie
might get grilled for this, but I go. I found
awesome playlist and it's called massage music that's not boring
and it actually makes me sos in when I'm trying
to chill and trying to just like just like feel myself,
(05:13):
you know. So I listened to that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How did you come across that to begin with? Like,
let's get into this.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So we talk about never having things in life, and
one of the things I had never experienced was a massage.
And I'd been torn so much and I'm like, you
know what, I'm gonna get a massage, I think. So
when I was looking for music to put on, I
was like, well, I don't want to be boring, so
I was like, massage music that's not boring, and then
it just came up, and then from then on, I
(05:41):
just find myself going back to that playlist, like this
is nice.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Massage in yourself, like rubbing your own shoulders.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, either that or I've been on I've been on
Scizza's like twenty fourteen album. So yeah, I guess that too.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Speaking of massages with my dad's birth day yesterday and
I got him at massuse to come to his house
okay near Daytona.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I know a great playlist to play.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah I knew.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, he had never really gotten as.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Solved before either. Really yeah? Yeah what he said? What
did he say about his first massage? Did he hit
you up after?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I gotta hit him up position, So I'm gonna have
to remind him in the playlist we can have for
next time.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Final question, do you have a cool memory that stands
out for how music has connected fans together or an
event you've been at where you've seen fans really come
together And Bailey, I'll go to you first.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I would say every show of mine is like it
reminds me why I do music and hearing we were
talking about earlier today, just the stories that come from
how far this music has reached in the world and
just like what it's got them through and why they're
at the show and hearing those stories. Oh yeah, it's
(06:50):
it's like, yeah, it's like connection on a whole different level.
You're like I know this person and they know me,
and they feel like like all the way the world.
They've connected with me some about through music.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It's crazy, Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What about when you play a festival and it's like
people that are there for kind of everybody and nobody
at the same time, but they come together as one.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Do you see that from up on stage?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Every festival is different. Because I'm a DJ, I kind
of look at the crowd and be like, what's gonna work.
What's gonna like change their attitude or make them feel
something they never felt before. So I always try to
think of that. It's like a DJ's job is to
You can always play like great set, but if you
really make people go like I didn't know, I'd like that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That feels like a real skill set that I'd love
to do. But I travel all over the world, so
going places like Pakistan, you know, like my first time
was like who people party here? And then I was
like they do the songs from YouTube and places where
like the music is contraband you know, when you play
records with them, they're like, it's just like the world
is so united, you know, we don't know about music
is the one thing that everybody shares in common.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I appreciate the time guys, congratulations on the new song.
Looking forward to seeing a live performance tonight. Good luck, guys,
have good yoh, thank you, thanks.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Awesome to hear from those guys.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
My first time ever meeting Diplo, and he doesn't remember,
and he shouldn't remember, because I'm sure they meet like
ten thousand people.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I was doing the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
For the Grammys for e He had hired me to
come out and be on the red carpet for a
TV show and there's a clip of I asked Diplo
the question, does he ever hear sounds like random sounds,
like when you open the door at the gas station
and it goes ding dong, Like has he ever made
a song after? Something like that? And I think he
(08:30):
made a song after with that idea, That's all I'm saying.
I think I inspired that idea because I had never
heard the idea and it was a joke question, and
then I think he did that. But a really cool
guy and obviously Bailey super cool. Crazy to see someone
like Bailey or even Jelly Roll explode in the past
couple of years, I mean, thinking about Bailey, that's so interesting.
If you don't know Bailey's story, and sometimes it's hard
(08:52):
to know the story that come up once they get
so big. But Bailey was basically working for a pine
and really didn't sing much like he's saying at home,
and had sang one time and had put it on
social media, and I did it the first ever interview
he ever did, Like he came over to my house
(09:13):
because I thought his story was so wild because he
wasn't like on the radio or anything. He had this
crazy streaming success and I was so interested in it.
And the first interview he ever did, he came and
he set for an hour with me, and he said
that he went to bed, put one video up.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It had like three million views.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
The next day he called his job and he quit
working on the pipeline. And this is all during COVID
as well. He didn't know what a manager was, and
you really wouldn't unless you've been in this industry, like
you wouldn't know what a manager does. He didn't know
about fees, you know, the difference in managers and agents,
and he had to learn all of that kind of
himself because he was driving down. He was from the
(09:52):
Midwest and he would drive down all the time every
week during COVID and take these meetings. And he talked
about how he had a meeting with an agent once
in a record label and he didn't know the difference.
He had no idea what they were trying to get
him to do, but he signed a deal. Obviously, he's
massive now and you know for him just talking with
him a lot and get to know him a little
(10:13):
bit too.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's the Morgan wall On tour.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When Morgan called him to ask him to open, I
know that was super significant in his life. Bailey's also
a kid, and I say kid because he's quite a
bit younger than I am. But when he started to
make it, we grew up very similarly, like I never
had a bedroom going up, grew up very poor. Same
thing with Bailey, and Bailey was one of those kids.
I was like, hey, dude, here are the things you
(10:36):
don't want it and I kind of walked them through the
things you can get in trouble doing and not be canceled,
and the things that you can't do because you will
get canceled. And I was like, if you ever have
to go to jail, you can call me at any time.
And thank god, he's never had to go to jail.
We appreciate that about Bailey, but he's a great, great kid,
and he's it's crazy to see how how fast he's
blown up, and like in the country music critical mass,
(10:58):
but even outside of country music, because again with Big
exa Plug and with Diplo.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I think both are tonight, which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I was with Jelly Roll earlier at the festival, and
that's another guy that's been pretty amazing to see, Like
Jelly Roll stories super just professionally, like he was like
with three six Mafia back in the day. Like he
was a hip hop artist, like a full hip hop artist.
And I would see Jelly Roll on the golf course
in Nashville. When I first moved to town, I lived
(11:28):
on in this gated community. I'd never lived in a
gated community, but I was starting to make money and
I had been like jumped. I'd been attacked, I got
pistol whipped at atm once. I got jumped at work
outside of work going in and so when I moved
to Nashville, they made me move somewhere that either had
security or had gates. It was kind of part of
(11:49):
the deal. And so I moved into this gated community.
It was kind of crazy because like Rascal Flats Leet
Singer lived there, Carrie lived there. I moved there, and
there's a golf course, and I would see Jelly Roll
on the golf course, except I didn't know him from
anything other than people would say he's a very face
tatted rapper. But he was also on the golf course
(12:10):
and he's in a country club, and I thought the
juxaposition of that was crazy. So that's how I knew
jelly Roll to begin with. He played golf with like
Steve Hodges, who was like a record guy, and so
I would see Jelly Roll and wouldn't know much about
him until later he got into the country music space.
Now he was a fan of our show, and we
were probably his first ever country interview that he did,
(12:30):
and he came in for like forty five to fifty minutes.
That interview has been streamed millions of times at this point,
But even then you could tell the guy was super
appreciative for all the new things that had happened to him.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Now he's got a.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Really great come up story as well, like spend a
lot of time in prison, like cut a lot of
his creative teeth in prison and now goes back to
prisons a lot and works with inmates and has built
recording studios in prisons, just so these guys and women
know that there's when you do get out, like there
is a way to actually be successful. But Jelly Roll
(13:05):
has been that guy, and he was here today. He's
lost two hundred pounds, which is crazy to see. He's
like almost half, you know, of what he used to be.
He had a wrestling shirt on, which is you know,
there's nothing more Jelly Roll than Jelly Roll wearing a
wrestling shirt.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Another thing about Jelly that was super cool is what he.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
He was a wrestler like raw and he wrestled Logan
Paul and like for a guy that came up growing
up in the South that loved wrestling, actually got to
go and wrestle like on a pay per view like
a super cool And to be able to see him
here tonight, and I hadn't seen him in probably like
three months. But the cool thing about Jelly Roll is
(13:43):
that he remembers everybody's name. And if you were like,
I don't want to use the word loyal, because I
wouldn't say I was loyal but he was.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
A fan of the show.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
His mom was a fan of my show, And as
soon as he sees you, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like, what a big hug.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
In this situation too, I would expect you kind of
know what you walking into with interviews. But I saw
jelly Roll the last time before this. I was in
New Orleans for the Super Bowl and I was on
Fox and I was doing I was giving away an
award for the NFL Honors, and jelly Roll was a
part of one of the sketches. And again, there are
much more, much cooler people there than me at this event,
(14:17):
but jelly Roll's in the second row. And as soon
as the lights go down and they go off of
the television to commercial, first person yelling Bobby from the
crowd was jelly Roll. So that's just one of those
guys that as soon as you see him and he's
so nice and kind, you're like, is that real? For sure?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Is real?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We were walking in we saw Yellow col Jay. He's
a big dude, like still a big dude, full long
leather like still puts on a super energetic, like sweaty show.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But that was super cool. Brian Adams rumor is he
had everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Clear of the room earlier when he was going into
the room, and I thought, well, that's interesting Brian Adams,
because that's like got my first reels, and you know,
some people don't want people like staring at him.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But then wh I saw him walk by, he had
like one person with them. Usually it's people that have
like twenty people inside their entourage. So I don't really
know if that story is even true that he didn't
want people looking at him. But saw Brian Adams pretty crazy.
See somebody you've only seen on television, saw Maroon five, dude,
Adam Durrett's no Adam Adam Levine. Yeah, Dirrets is kind
of cross, thank you, full of tattoos. I was talking
to a guy a few minutes ago and I was like, Hey,
(15:26):
who do you want to see? And this guy's probably
like sixty five or so, and I thought maybe he'd
say Sammy Haygark is Samy Hagar's playing tonight And he said, uh,
Tate McCrae, And I said.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
What about that? Look at you like, He's like, I
bet she's a great performer. I was like, I bet that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So it's an interesting night tonight. This is always the
coolest festival. Big thanks to Hyundai as well, because one
they give me a car and it's my favorite car.
It's awesome. And I was caught on Mike earlier. I'll
give you one other behind the scenes thing. We were
doing this video shoot with Bailey and Diplo and I
was like an hour before. So I have this mic
(16:02):
on the whole time, and the Hyundai people have headphones
because they want to hear the shoot. I forget that
I'm wearing a mic because you don't see the mic.
It's taped to my chest. And Bailey comes up and
he's like, do you like this car? And I'm like, dude,
if I didn't have this car given to me, I
would buy the car. And he was like, are you serious.
I said, I me and my brother in law buy
this car. And so it's a fantastic car like I
(16:24):
have right now. I have the Santa Fe, but we're
doing the Santa Fe the palis Ade Hybrid, which is awesome,
so check it out. Check out Hyundai if you haven't
like the elite cars. And they sponsored the end the
House of Music in front of the arena, which was
super cool. So that's what we got from here. Thank
you guys for listening to this again. Thanks to Diplo
and Bailey Zimmerman, all of our guests at iHeartRadio Music
(16:48):
Festival twenty twenty five. Fantastic. I'm watching the screen now
and I think I saw my uncle. Nope, it's Sammy Hagar.
It's Sammy Hagar on the stage right now. And Uncle
Sammy is going hard right now. Just pulled him out
of the Hey won't you get up there and do
a couple of songs And he's doing them so super cool.
Thank you guys for listening. And by the way, you
can watch the show. I know they're going to do
(17:09):
a replay on Hulu. We'll give you more details on
the show, but if you want to watch the iHeartRadio
Music Festival, we'll give you all those as well. All Right,
you guys, have a good day, See you later. Being
so away, don't need to clap
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