Bobby talks to Creed Bratton who was on The Office and also is a solo recording artist. They talk about the popularity of the Office, who Creed is friends with from the cast and his new album. Bobby talks to Keb’ Mo about his 5 grammy wins, the security at the White House and writing the Mike and Molly theme song.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M h. Welcome to episode two fifty three. I just
drove in. We drove six hours to get back here today,
so we're gonna start with the five pieces of music
you need to know. That's why we do this on Friday.
That's why I had to get back tonight. We drove
from Arkansas back to Nashville. What to look at it
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a little cabin up there. I think we found one,
which is nice. Kind of in a part of the
of the state where I used to be a dishwasher,
so kind of full circle same like a mile from
where I used to wash dishes, one of my first jobs.
So we did that today. Um, listen to a bunch
of music on the way back. Listen to a lot
(00:41):
of podcasts. We kind of did the bear Brook You
hear that one bear Brook. The bear Brook podcast is
about a town called barrett Brook where there some bodies
found and some like barrels for and they didn't even
they couldn't find the killer because they didn't even know
who the bodies were. They just found four human bodies.
But eventually you kind of here and then it ends
(01:04):
all of a sudden. I thought it ended way too quick.
But they don't have a killer. I don't think I'm
spoiling it here. And then we've been catching up with
the updates, but they do have the killer. You'll have
to hear it, okay, but it's pretty interesting. I'm not
a big crime podcast guy, but if you're listening to this,
you obviously listen to podcasts. You know. Another one I'm
listening to before we get into the five pieces of
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music you need to know is the Presidential Wants called
It is called Presidential and the woman who I think
she works with the Washington Post. She did this podcast
I think four years ago, but it doesn't really matter
because it doesn't mean our current it did. She starts
with President one, which is George Washington, and does anywhere
from thirty to fifty minutes on each president, and it's
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how they grew up, what they wanted to do in office,
what did they do, what they do after office? You know,
one of the presidents went back and served in Congress
for sixteen years or eighteen years after he was the president.
So for me, I kind of nerd out about that.
But I tweeted her and said he enjoyed the podcast,
and she's like, oh, thanks, that's crazy. And then I said,
heyhe come on our podcast some point. We'll just talk
to you. And so maybe next week or the week
(02:07):
after that. Cool, we'll get her on. But she has
a people podcasts, but no, pretty pumped about that. I
listened to another one today in the car on the
long drive called conspiracy Theory. Now, there are a lot
of podcast called conspiracy theory, because I looked it up,
but the one it's the it's called Conspiracy Theories and
it's kind of got a yellow or orange just or
(02:29):
just I'm colored blind. What color is that yellow? Okay,
it's a yellow cover. It says conspiracy Theories. It's on
podcast Network. And the first they're all two pieces. The
first one it's kind of the history, like I listened
to one about Hitler and where he came from, how
he turned into the monster that he ended up being.
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But then the second one they go through the conspiracies
like did he actually not die in the bonk or
like a lot of people think. And then they go
and they're a conspiracy theorists at all, So they take
the data and then they raised it. You know, we'd
to give this one a two out of ten or
a seven out of ten. Yeah, pretty wild, and so
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there were some crazy ones about Hitler. One was aliens
one what you have to hear it if you want
to hear that one, that he was an alien, that
he had help. I don't want to spoil it. But
they didn't give it. They didn't get that one that
many stars. So there's that one. I listened to one
on the uh Shakespeare today where they don't think Shakespeare
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wrote all of his plays because he was kind of
he didn't have a great education. They go through who
they think wrote them was that this guy was, that
this guy was a group of people, that he stole
it from them, or they just like it was common.
First of all, back then there were no copyright laws.
So even if it was let's let's even if it
was William Shakespeare, the guther we know it as people
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did all the time. They took other people's work and
then just did a little stuff around it and changed it.
But are a couple of scenarios where they go, you know,
this person needed to fake his own death because he
got caught being a spy, and he may have used
someone's name who was an actor in William Shakespeare's We
Know Him, which just a dumb actor. They think. Now
we're talking about fifteen hundreds. So but it's interesting. I
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don't want to tell you what they think. But I
listened to that one two parts, and I listened Abraham
Lincoln his assassination. And you know, by now we've heard
a lot of the Lincoln stories about how he got
into office. You know, his whole team was rivals and
they all hated each other. But you know, he put
together a team to win, like he ran and Republicans
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then through Lincoln had a lot of the same sensibilities
as Democrats do. Now a lot of the parties have
changed around. But you know, um, but he but he
ran with a Democrat. He was a Republican who ran
with a Democrat. They ran on a unity ticket Andrew Johnson,
and they hated each other. But he was a very
pragmatic guy in that he was like, listen, let's represent
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his first election. He barely won the first election. He
only won the vote before people ran at the same time,
and he had the most because so most people didn't
like him when he he was never popular. Even when
he died, he was never popular. It was only after
he died that he became popular and while this sounds crazy,
and then they figure out who they think was behind
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Did Abraham Lincoln was Andrew Johnson who was vice president
and hated him? Was it his? So and so? Did
John Wilkes Booths fake his own death? Did John the
h This podcast is not on our network, have no
affiliation with him whatsoever. But I've been driving over the
past two days, I've drove, I've driven thirteen hours and
so I've had a lot of time to digest podcasts.
(05:42):
And then Caitlin has one that she loves called The
Morning Toast Take a Bite out of Your Morning or
something like that, and so podcast a game changers for
long drives. So that's what we've been doing driving and
I thought I'd recommend a few of those podcasts. What
You're doing today? I was just hanging out today listening
to some new music. Anything good on your list? Um
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on my list? One of my favorite punk bands put
on a new album. They have put it out in
six years, and listening to that pretty much. What's their name?
Lawrence Arms? So a popular punk band like Lawrence's Arms,
Lauren's Arms, Lauren's Arms, Lawrence Lawrence Arms. How many Instagram
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followers as a popular punk band like Laurence. I don't
know how many they have, maybe as many as, like
a little more than I would have. Let's see, how
do you spell it? L A Lawrence Laurence, the Lawrence
Arms they have. Okay, I just wonder about these punk
bands I've never heard of and the followings that they have.
(06:47):
Can they go to any major city and play a
decent sized club. Yeah, like here, they would probably play
a place called Marathon Music Works and sell that. They
could sell that out because Marathon hold over two thousands.
They could sell that place out. Play me some of this,
I'll pull it out I didn't put it, and then
I'll go through we'll look at you not being biased,
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and then I'll go to the five pieces of new
music you need to know or something we're just don't
working on what this is about. We'll talk to Creed
Bratton from the office coming up in a second. Who
played Creed Bratton and a talk with keV Mo, who's
a really great blues artist. I thought it'd be cool
talk to him for a few minutes. Maybe give me
something you can check out if you haven't checked it out.
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This is then, Okay, here's Lawrence Arms. It was ninth
grade and we went to class. We held hands, but
we went to Fast Sleep Slash The sad pretty good
and there's a bit of production. It sounds like they
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got in a real studio. Yeah, they went out to
like some remote studio in Texas and recorded it, turned
it up a little more. Sometimes you'll bring in these
people or it sounds like they just went into a
shed there was being sold at low. This actually has
some really good production on it. Yeah, no, yeah, that
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sounds good. All right, all right, um, we're just giving
a little plug here. Their name is Lawrence Arms. Arms.
What does that mean. It's like the name of the
apartment that lived in growing up, Lawrence Arms. All right,
let's do five songs and we'll do some music news
too before we get into these interviews. Number five Cam
has a new song called Classic Big Change for Cam,
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she changed labels. I'm not sure what happened, And I
don't know if for other label dropped her or or
if she said, hey, can I get out of this?
I don't like the direction we're going wing and they
because if you do that, that's that's always tough to
get out. It usually costs a lot of money. You know,
we had to I say we. I had to get
out of my record deal when Eddie and I were
um at No Broken Bow, Black Black River. Yeah, because
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I didn't want to put on albums. I wanted to
put out just comedy singles. And there's no money for
them to make with comedy singles because they're not selling anything.
They're streaming one song and and so I had to
go and I had to pay to get out of it,
and that would be nothing compared to if you're an
artist now. I say, now, it wasn't that long ago.
But I had to buy like three songs and get
out of it, and it cost me a little bit
of money. But I don't know what happened with camp.
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I just know she's on a new label. So it's
been a while. So we've seen her, said a baby.
I've seen her a couple of times, but she hasn't
been around a whole lot. I don't know if she's
been in Nashville or in California. Are aware, but good
to see her back. Number four A thousand Horses has
a new song called a Song to Remember. I need
a song. He did a drink fall again. I'm all right,
(10:21):
I like those guys. We did Bobby Cast with Mike. Yeah,
I just look back a few episodes. Really good. He's
we won't say who won't make you go check it out.
But he's related to another famous lead singer in a
rock band, someone that I loved and I geeked out
when they came to the studio. I've only ever met
him once, but you can check that out on the
Michael Hobby Bobby Cast. At number three, the guys from
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a Lanko. They have a new song out called Save Me.
I really like those guys too. There's a good one
of these. And now we're along with Brandon, the lead singer.
I think Brendon I had met a few times, but
then but we stayed after if you go back and
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listen to a Brandon Lancaster, we stayed after, hung out
and then we kind of became buds to the point
where we did Charlie Worsham Show together because he does
something every Friday for a while during maybe fall, and
we did a nineties throwback where I think I went
into Alan Jackson, he did Travis Trip. We stayed hung
out there, he played, they played the Million Dollar Show.
He came out and played because I was gonna be
(11:27):
or forever and you were gonna be and so uh yeah,
good dude, good band. They have a song called save
Me At number two. The Chicks put out their new
album called gas Lighter. It's their fifth album, their first
and fourteen years. Here's a new song called sleep at Night,
how do You Sleep? And night? You know. I tweeted
(12:03):
about them yesterday. I said, for as much as people
complain about the Chicks not getting on the radio, and
invited them on the show multiple times, even recently through
the label through Twitter, I've played their new stuff. Just
apparently they don't want to. It's not me not offering
or it's not me not being a fan. I think
we've talked about her here on this too, played them
on the radio show, play the old stuff on the
(12:23):
radio show, the new stuff. I just like them. But
the weird thing is they will talk about how they're
not getting respect or they won't get play, and I'm like,
come on, come over. You're saying nobody wants to hang
out with you. This this must be how people in
my personal life with me for years. You're like, you're
saying your loan, but we're inviting you to come out,
and I would be like, I just want to go out,
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and then the next to be like, who ever invites
me anywhere. That's me and the Nixy Chicks. Right now,
I literally have the biggest country music radio show in
the history of the format. I showed that as broken
artist careers, they don't need that. But my point is
we have a lot of people to listen, and I'm
not gonna be able to take a song that day
and take it to number one. But maybe some program
directors here, maybe the exhibited is the minutes. Maybe some
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listeners who knows it doesn't hurt to have millions of
people here. You I'm just a fan. I was. I
haven't did some interviews about them, but the Wall Street
Journal was like, Hey, would you mind talking about the chicks?
At first it was the Dixie Chicks before their name changed.
I was like, sure, I'd love to. I spend an
hour talking about the Dixie Chicks. They used three lines.
(13:26):
I talked to the girl that does the pr and
I was like, man, I did an hour and they
used three lines. She goes to just be like that sometimes. Uh,
but they have a record I haven't heard at all.
I shouldn't have listened to it during the road trip.
I really liked the Chicks. Number one is Keith Urban.
He dropped a new song. It's called Superman. It's his
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eleventh studio album, The Speed of Now Part one. Except
for release this is September eighteen. Is that still true?
Is it August believe? I'll tell you why I say that.
I was just at a house, and I would only
say this on this show. I wouldn't say it on
the radio show because I don't people think I think
I'm cool. But in the music world, I'm a bit
of a nerd, so me and other music nerds bond
(14:09):
over that. And Keith Herb and I are friends a
bit outside of the country music world. So I just
went to his house two days ago. I'll tell you
that story in a second. But this is a song
called Superman. Go ahead. Number one. Superman was scar Shot
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Sweet Stars song sing the video. I've seen a teaser
for it there. You know, you have to get creative
in Quarantine, and instead of just him doing something in
his house, they did a flip book of him playing.
It's pretty cool, colorful. Yeah. I don't know if the
videos out. Video videos out but I saw a clip
of it on Twitter. Yeah. Um, maybe the album's out
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sece very teeth that there's another thing if his coming
out in August. Okay, yeah, album is September. He's hosting
the a c m S, which he's now he's hosting
with nobody there because they're not doing the A c
MS with people, but they're doing it, and I think
I'm gonna be involved from three different locations. They're gonna
do the Opery House, They're going to do the Rhyman,
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and they're going to do the Blue Bird. I'm not
sure which one key is gonna be at, but I
think i'll I think I'm gonna be at one of
them unless for some reason they kicked me off the
show or now it's getting so close to the c
m A S because that's in November, and if you
do one in September October and then you don't want
to November. Sometimes they get awfully touchy about if you
do one show you can't not the artists, but the
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folks that are on this show. Because I've been up,
I've been in discussions because I was gonna host c
m A Fest this year, my first year to host
one of these big shows and then Corona got it.
But they were like, if you do that, you don't
need to go on the A, C M, two different networks.
You know, that's my number one song, Keith, I'm gonna
ropping that new song. So I guess. Keith called me
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a four or five days ago. I was like, Hey,
what's up. Are you taking Corona seriously? And I was like,
duh unless I have to see you, I don't see
you right now. And he's like, great, me too. He said,
I got new music, got the whole record done, Come over.
I want to play it for you now. I don't
like doing that, and I don't do that except with Keith,
who I think I've done it with three times at
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this point. But here's what he does. The only reason
I do this is because he makes the environment comfortable
for me, because, first of all, Corona wise, he was like, hey,
I want you to touch you. Like I know where
to go to his house, so Drew, I know how
to get to his house, I know where to walk
to this to his place and we do the deal. Um,
but he said, like ten feet away a new door
to go in, and he had sanitizer by the door.
He's also a jarmaphobe like myself. And then he goes,
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I know you want to sit anywhere close to this,
So he put a chair in the back of his
studio and I sat in the chair. He sat at
the big board, you know, you do the little flips
and knobs, and we listen to a bunch of song.
Now I don't like do I like to listen to songs,
but I don't listen to songs in front of people
because basically all they're doing is watching you nod your head,
and even if it sucks, you gotta be like, oh yeah,
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it's just a weird thing to have someone watch you
listen to their song, Like that's awkward. It's awkward, like
when someone pulls off their phone goes watches YouTube video
it's hilarious. And then you watch and you're like, it's fine.
I know you didn't get it, you didn't laugh, think
it's okay, And maybe I would have liked it without
all the pressure being told it's great and then having
(17:29):
you watch me. Why it's that kind of feeling. But
what he does is he turns around and looks at
the board as I'm listening to it. So I don't
have to do anything with my head or face. So
I listened to it and some of them I'm like,
that's cool, who'd write that with? Who wrote that? There's
one song that he wrote with Jarren from CAD like
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three who we just did one of these with, uh
freaking great. And so I text Jarren and I was like, dude,
this is the jam and He's like to Harman to
put down on the radio. So, but keeps a good guy.
Is you know why I like Keith is that he man.
He pushes the limits on fusion of different sounds and music.
I mean he is he can hear something and just rip,
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just play it, play a play a plate. So pretty cool.
But that's my number one song. Check it out. Keith
Urban's got a new song called Superman and new music
out today, No clips from Tucker. Bethard got a new
song I called Faithful Rust and Kelly has a new
song called Pressure. Chris Tomlin has a new song featuring
Brett Young and Cassidy Pope called Be the Moon. Laura
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McKenna Balladeer and Brent Cobb has a new song called
keep Them On They Toes. I wonder what that conversation
is like, all right, we spell it right, we put
keep it on their toes or day toes. So there
you go. Do we want to take a quick break
before we do music news or just do it now? Yeah?
I do a quick great, okay, al right a music news.
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The Beatles and BTS are the only groups to sell
more than a million albums so far this year. Crazy
that it's the Beatles, though, right still, I get to BTS, folks.
They're the biggest thing freaking Korea and in the States
are big two. But when on Twitter, when that thing
gets ten thousand retweets, it's a lot of Korean South Korea.
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The Korean pop group's new album, Map the Soul seven,
is the best selling physical album of the year and
the only one to sell over five dred thousand copies
in the United States, which is massive. You know, maybe
I'm not given enough of United States credit because they
are loved. They are loved and be loved, and I
don't know what they're saying. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I
hear something, but a little bit there's some catchiest crap
(19:41):
though sometimes well there's one of the y Yeah, just
a rapper. Yeah, more than doubling the sales of runner
up Kenny Chesney Map the Soul seven is the ninth
biggest overall album of the year. Uh ets a lot
of a lot of things, a lot of things. Only
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one of the group's managed sell one million album units
in the United States, and it's the Beatles we're talking about.
Fifty years after their breakup. They're still the biggest rock
band of it, says shifting one point zero nine four
million album equivalent units through the first six months of
the year. You know what I was reading about. We
just talked about this a few weeks ago. They're gonna
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stop counting album sales with bundles, ticket bundles, because like
Chesney did that, you said, you buy a concert ticket,
you get an album. They then they what they do
is they put a tour on sale the week of
the album comes out, and let's say they sell a
hundred thousand tickets. That's hundred thousand album full albums. Two.
People are really buying albums like you get it with
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the ticket, and it was manipulating the reality of what
people were going to do. So they finally shut that down.
Let's see, remember trapped, you play me a little heads Strong?
You this sounds hard. It was a big pop song
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as a as a rock song first, don't get me wrong,
but it gets so big and rock that cross over
to pop maybe the second or third hardest song that
crossed over. Papa Roach Last Resort was always to me
when it first went to pop, I was like, are
you kidding me? This thing is hard. But according to
Nielsen sound Scan, only six hundred copies of Traps album
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were sold in its release. You know, how could they
sell so few? Well, it was all The rollout was
a mess. The album released was a mess, by the way.
They're claiming they sold four thousand, but we're looking at
the actual Nielsen here. No proper promotional cycle, so you know,
but that's for everybody right now. Yeah. I was talking
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about Eldridge recently and he was like, man, I just
sat at home the whole time. Everybody feels like they
need to be back in Nashville to pro both the records.
But he's like, I couldn't do it anywhere because he
just said he lives in Nashville. But he's like, I
could have been anywhere and didn't done my album tour
um so and then July three date when they released it.
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It was released on Spotify and Apple Music. Um, it
was a July three release date of the album, but
it came out in June ninth or whatever. They are
different dates the things came out. It was all just
messed up. Give him a break, Did you have another
good song about that? Maroon five basis Mickey Madden is
taken a leave of absence after being arrested for domestic violence.
(22:32):
Quota happen things I need to deal with an address
right now, So I've decided to take leave of absence
from roon five. You know, as long as Adam Levine
is in the band, you wouldn't know the difference. You
can't really name another member of Maroon five now, just
one Mickey Madden. But yeah, they have to be so
(22:53):
pumped that Adam Levine still wants to be in the band,
you know. Rapper Logic announces retirement and final album. I
was looking at him on Twitter Today's Oldest Baby maybe
and his wife and he's like, I'm out. Yesterday, the
rapper revealed they'd be retiring after the release of No Pressure,
saying it's been a great decade, it's not gonna be
(23:15):
a great father. His sixth and final studio album is
out next week. It's a listen. He's not retired. He
may quit for a bit, but he's not retired a
real retirement. Does it come right before an album comes out,
because that's great promotional fodder. We're talking about it. I
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like Logic. Logic is married to fashion designer Brittany Noel.
They have a son. That was that song right titled online.
I like that guy. And anybody Eminem will do a
track with Eminem must think is good, and so Eminem
a song with him didn't. Yeah, I'm so cool. Atlantis
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Morrisett didn't even want Ironic on Jagged Little Pill Man.
This song. I remember where I was for a year
for this song. This song was that. I don't know
if it was the biggest hit, like in everybody else's mind.
And I'll read you some stuff here about her and this,
but holy crap, was this song man? This whole album
was massive Ironic it's your biggest streaming Yeah, is it
(24:28):
really ironic? One of the biggest hits. But if it
were up to her, we may have never heard. It's
just quote. I didn't want to put it on the record,
and I remember a lot of people saying please, please please.
I said, Okay, it wasn't that precious about it, And
they came to realize later that perhaps I should have been.
By the way, they're not all actually ironic. And I'm
not the guy who hates on this because I think
it's great works for me. I'm not so smart. I
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was like, that's not what the word ironic means, not literally.
If you wrote a song called literally and it wasn'
about literally, I'll probably get you with that. But they
point out that they're all not on it, they're just
what unfortunate? But isn't that ironic in itself that there's
a song called ironic not about irony that I've never heard.
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Uh soundtrack of Hamilton jumps to number two thanks to Disney. Plus,
I was asking Mike, because you watch this. I saw
it live. The struggle for me was I didn't know
it was gonna be all rapping, so I was kept
waiting for them to talk and catch up on everything
I didn't understand. They never do. Once I kind of
figured out what was going on, I got in the most.
(25:30):
So just know they're wrapping the whole time. I think,
if I watch it like that now, I will enjoy
it more. I don't have Disney Plus, but this could
get me over to it if I do decide to
watch it. What's that cost a month? I think it's
like seven nine nine a month. Well, I watch anything
else over there, though I don't feel like, well there's
the NATO stuff is on there. True, you can watch yourself. Well,
(25:55):
maybe my show is supposed to start. We're supposed to
start taping next week. That got delayed first episode. Now
it's three weeks and I hope we still get to
do it because I'm gonna go and do some female wrestling.
There's a a girl who I'm wrestling with. Her name
is Fraud. And then the whole let me set this up.
The whole idea of the show that we came up
(26:17):
with was about people that come from backgrounds like mine,
that also have interesting jobs like me, and then I
go and do their job with them a little bit.
And she's a female wrestler. And right now we're in
wrestling wardrobe. We're doing wardrobe, and they called. They were like, hey,
we need you to be a villain. You're gonna be
your taxiing partner. Her name is Frost. It's okay, and
I thought, well, we can do brain Freeze. I'll be
(26:38):
the Brain, Bobby the Brain. But there's Bobby the Brain heenan,
But I thought brain would be a funny tag team
good And then I was like, well, how about frost Bite?
And so now I'm Bobby the Biter. So apparently I
just gonna bite people. But I have to go. I'm
going to California to to do this. But our goal
is to have the show on by January, which is quick,
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and I don't think we're gonna be done shooting it
when it goes on. But now they're in kind of
a speed uh speed hustle because they gotta get some
content on because nobody's been shooting anything. But yeah, if
not Geo's on Disney Plus on for sure, we're probably
to get that. But Hamilton's number two now, the original
Broadway cast recording of Hamilton's An American Musical surges to
(27:22):
a new peak of number two on Billboard. The album
is basking in the glow of the July three, third
Disney streaming premiere. What was number one? It was another
rapper m a little baby one of the babies or
the small baby, A little baby, baby, Baby, Baby Baby. Hey,
but you liked Hamilton. I thought it was really good.
(27:43):
You let me rephrase you liked it watching it on
Disney Plus. Yeah, it was still. I just wondered how
much translate? You know? Yeah, I mean it feels like
watching a movie you can kind of follow along pretty well.
I kind of wish I would have put the subtitles
on so I could have caught everything. Yeah, that's what
I was gonna mention earlier. I may rewatch it again
with the subtitle over two hours. You know, I hate
two hour movie like two Have you talked on your
(28:05):
podcast about the Charlie's Throng movie? I haven't yet. Are
you gonna watch it? I've already watched you so on
my Netflix that pops up. But I was like, you
gotta watch this. It's pretty If you like action movies,
you like that. Is it good for a Netflix movie
or a good movie? There's a difference. It's a really
good Netflix movie. If it was in theaters, I would
have thought it was okay, because we're closing the gap though,
(28:26):
Netflix is getting closer. I'd say this is as close
as they've got in a while. What's the best Netflix movie? Period?
It's a bird box box. Yeah, that's the best one.
Did you watch the Will Smith one with the Aliens? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
that was terrible. Yeah, and that was like the first
one they spent like a lot of money on. And
I think they're gonna make a part too, but yeah,
that was very good. Did you watch the David Spade
(28:47):
one That's Doing Well Wrong? Miss Yeah? Yeah, that's pretty funny.
I mean it's very dumb. It's like kind of Adam
Sandler esque, but for a comedy on Netflix, pretty good.
I watched The Last American Crime, the Last Great American Crime,
because it was rated the worst movie on Netflix period,
which is why we did a stupid bed on the show.
The movie is two hours and forty minutes long, and
(29:10):
I watched it, and you know what, it got zero
percent for a long time. But I actually kind of
enjoyed it. I split it up in two parts. I
think maybe because my expectations were so low, you found
things inside and I just enjoyed it. But I really
love the concept, meaning at this certain time, the government
they're shutting off crime because everybody's got some a little
chip and planet in them, and so what they're trying
to do is commit a crime real quick before the government,
(29:30):
because but I like that the government's got control of us.
I like that stuff. I like the end of the world.
I like, you know, what would you do if the
world ended? How would you survive? So if our world
ended up going to my cabin, we just found if
I get it, go back, I'm out going back. What's
what's on your podcast this week? This week I have
underrated Disney songs, and then next week I have an
(29:51):
interview with the actor from the movie Twister, who Sean Whalen.
Is he one of your favorite actors? He's one of
my favorite movies and he's been on a lot of stuff.
So I talked to him about all the big movies
he was in the nineties, like a guy like Sean Whalen,
who I don't know who either? Sure? What if I
saw his face? Yeah, you wouldn't recognize his face? Is
he easy to get as a guest? Pretty easy? Yeah?
I just messaged him on Instagram? Yeah, that's cool Instagram
(30:14):
and I was like, hey, I got a podcast, Um,
I love your movie. You want to be on it?
He's like yeah, sure? Was he cold talk to It
was really cool to talk to, like all the behind
the scenes stuff with that movie, and he like told
me about the stuff in the nineties. But like Tom Hanks,
he wasn't in that thing you do, was he one
of the one of the guys had a small part
in it, but he got to like audition in front
of Tom Hanks. I'll say this in my final music piece.
(30:37):
I because I don't care, I'll drop names of my
friends on this show. I don't worry. But people are
judging me on this show, this podcast, more than I
did the radio show. Because if you're here, you'd like music.
But Dan from Danna Shay, him and Abby came over
and we had dinner a week or so ago. We
did it outside, so because they were like us, we
don't get close to anybody, but you can have an
outside dinner and not right we ordered food in no
(31:00):
Corona dinner and then he was like, going to hear
the new song. I'm not gonna say the name of
the song or anything. Is really good. Yeah, it was
so good that I texted him. I was like, wow,
I hate but i' let's say you did' maybe listened
in front of him because I wouldn't have. But they
have a new song. Soon. That's really good. But all
their craps good now, Dann, she didn't put out a
song down that's not monster, but it's yeah, it's like
(31:22):
the next level good. What reminded me was that just
gonna message from m um. But that's a that's it.
I can't wait for this Creed interview. I loved it.
I was glad he had music projects we could put
him in this podcast. We were the last one of
he was doing interviews that day, but we were the
last once we got talked to him a little longer
than everybody else did. But that's pretty cool. Check out
(31:43):
mm hmm, Who's podcast? Check out Velvet's Edge podcast. I
thought it'd be a good one for you. I think
right now I was seeing she was talking about is
it okay to be in your thirties and not be married?
Because she's not thinks she was having a little breakdown,
like the little emotional But if that's your jam, check
it out. It's called Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson. Lovely podcast.
(32:07):
All right, anything else that I need to promote? Anything Rocket,
I've been driving forever. I'm a little lupie. We're a
little late putting this up. But enjoy. We'll take a
little break, come back with Creed from the office. Creed, alright,
(32:27):
how are you man, I've got take it, take a minute,
chew it up. Yeah, we're on. Well, but we're recording
this for Friday when the record comes out. Yeah yeah,
So listen. I've done many of these long press tours
as the interviewees. So each your almonds will We're happy
(32:48):
to wait for a second. Oh no, no, I would
just starving and heavy. Get here. I'm ready for you, Bobby.
Is this the last one of the day for you? Well,
let me say first off, I'm a I'm a huge fan.
I uh, you know, obviously watched The Office from from
the beginning to end, and the very final song, which
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I don't think a lot of people realize that that
has played on the entire series, is your song. I'm
gonna actually play some of this real quick before we
get to the new record. You know that they have that,
So you're you're sitting in the office, you're playing that.
How do you get them to play an original Creed
Bratton song on the finale of the show. Was that?
(33:31):
Was that my version? It was your version? It was
that version? There was from you playing an acoustic like
on YouTube more than it was. But that's the song. Yeah,
that's that's um well, um. We were in the in
the finale the uh the ninth reason, Um, Dave, I
(33:52):
think I've been doing talking about my brooch. Dave, who
like Greg Daniels, invited me to the office and he
talked to all the actors saying, how do you think
you're your characters would leave the leave the show, and
I told him that I had written a song right
after I left the grass Mus called All the Faces.
I told him I thought it was one of my
firstal most spiritual songs about meeting people that you've you've
(34:15):
known in other lives, that their kindred spirits and you
recognize them right away, you steel comfortable with them, and
that's what the song is about, and I should be it. Uh,
what's the what's the name of the bar and tramp
that we always have on their own just matter, it
doesn't matter anyway. It was the bar that we'd always
go to after the show on the show, on the show,
(34:37):
and the cast would walk through in the bar singing
this song and we see their faces, all the faces.
So he gave me the opportunity. So he great dand
those arts of songs, enjoyed it and decided to put
have me sing it in the finale. And that I mean,
my guy, Bobby. That just opened up my my musical
(34:58):
career big time a it It allows me to be here,
allows me to still cut albums and to have a
fan base, not just because the office, but because of
the music. So it was win win in every aspect.
And that's how I knew that you were also a
professional musician. And that's how I tried back the grassroots stuff.
And you know, when you were playing with the grassroots,
(35:19):
you were singing, you were playing, you were writing, and
that was back in the sixties. And so I was thinking,
like when you started off your career, was it, Hey,
I want to be a musician, or hey, I want
to be an actor in comedy? What was it? What
was like sixteen year old Creed Bratton wanted to do
Crea bat had always played music. I remember I played
trumpets for years and years. By thirteen, I started learning guitar.
(35:41):
My grand parents had a semi professional band called the
Happy Timers. My mother played mandolin. I didn't know my dad,
but my stepdad played the drums, so we had we
had a family band. I played. I'm seventy seven, so
sixty years ago, around seventeen, I started working professionally but
a place called Bash late in the band Coktor Case.
(36:04):
So I've been doing this obviously for a long long time. Uh,
I know, dude, I never thought that it was something
that I could take a living at. I just love
playing music. When I started acting, it was because I
just thought I gravitated toward it. I loved being on stage.
I love the fear conquering, the fear that the strength
(36:27):
of you get from uh being good at something didn't
be able to deliver it, uh, because it's a lot
there's a lot of pressure on stage, and when you
learn to get comfortable that you you can handle a
lot of stuff in a lot of situations. And that's
that's been a good growth mechanism for me. And we'll
get back to some of the office stuff later. But
(36:47):
I was listening to some of the new stuff here,
the new album which this airs it will be out today,
So is out today. It is your ninth record. I'm
gonna play some of the first single here. This is
chance you Toad, Here you go all right, can you
hear that? Created? Yeah, okay, let's play a little more
right to what what's a chance you? Toad creed d
(37:20):
joad is a statue people put in the in their homes.
Chinese in origin, the three legged toad, red eyes. It
has a constellation and the big dipper down its back.
It has a coin in its mouth and it's there
two Uh protect your money from leaving the house and
(37:43):
also to draw money into your homes. Based upon a god,
god of immortality. His wife feels his a lecture of immortality,
and for her punishment, she's thrown down into a well.
And when Sohn He finds her, he releases her and
then she comes out. And then my song he used
(38:05):
the beautiful Oriental woman and I'm dating, but she's still
she's still a frog. Maybe she's a frank oriotal if
I'm not sure about that. But it's creat it's creat
Go figure what he's talked about. Here is another song
called the Ride. Check us out. This song is a
(38:34):
little one of my vibe, Like I can actually understand
this when I feel this one a little bit. Tell
me about this one. This is uh, this is one
I did with uh. The actors in the Canyon band
I had played. I had written lyrics for the office theme,
which I did in All My Lives goes to Michael
(38:55):
Scott played by Steve Carell and Ray Wilson, and he
played shrewd blah blah blah. So I recorded fans love this.
It's on the YouTube version of that. Uh, I went,
I recorded with Dave Way and Dylan O'Brien and Uh.
Then NBC says, no, we don't want you to do this,
and then there was they have their reasons because there's
(39:15):
everybody in the world has mentioned on that. We probably
have to give permission from everybody. So I tried the
right new lyrics to the track. That didn't work out,
but the new lyrics threw me into said, oh you
know what, let's just cut another complete other track, and
so then I started this is This's been a year
over a year recording this album. Uh. When I got tour,
(39:37):
I played the song live whistically the audience of Bobby
with instantly goes side by the whole you know, it
was like I was a big hit already. They they
were singing along and they loved the song. So I
called Dave from the road and said, you know what,
the ride it's so catchy. The people really picked up
(39:58):
on it's so hooking they get it away. So there
there's story behind that, and I'm really the way it
turned out. New records out today, everybody check it out.
It's for three originals that we've played here. And you
may not have known that the final song in the
office was actually an original Creed Bratton song. You know
when that show when it ended, were you more famous
(40:19):
as far as people seeing you on the streets then
or now because of the streaming success of the show now? Now?
It was popular then, but it seems like everybody now
it's still the most stream show. It's it's unprecedented, right
that show still be the most stream show on television.
(40:40):
It's ridiculous. But generations what the show then? They're younger
are sympicly now recognized me. So it's not only we
were popular then. We still have. The younger kids are
still and I've got a very young I do. They're like,
they're all in there. It's just big young audience. I
don't I can't get a date from my from my people.
(41:02):
I told him on stage, bring your grandmothers. They think
I'm joking, I'm not very serious. Was there a reason
that you went or got to use your real name
on the show instead of being given a even a
last name character name. Yeah. Greg Daniels was incorporated by
(41:23):
career as graft He wanted me, he wanted a rock star.
He wanted me there as as who I was Grafts
and uh, there's a deleted scene from the Boutish cruise
where I played guitar and showed grassroots. And they're scene
where a reporter like take my own guests recognized the
pred the grassroots. But those are deleted scenes, so they
(41:45):
were they weren't on the prime time easy until the
finale that they finally uh went public with that I
was uh in the grassroots. There there was a reason.
That was all planned at the beginning. That's great Daniel's plan.
Is there any evidence that you could have been the
Scranton strangler, Bobby, God damn, I listen. If I was
(42:07):
in the studio right now, I would strangle you. I
care you. Uh well, I let's think about let's think
about this way. Uh, I had blood all when when
people were nervous about me. If I had been the
scramping Stapfer. Sure I could see that, but the strangle
doesn't leave a lot of blood, So I don't know,
(42:29):
not that there has been people that I wanted to
strangle asking character. Um, but I can't see anybody else
being beside him, can you really? Because he was a dark,
defarious guy for sure. Yeah. Him, Gabe, I can see Gabe.
He was always Gabe, not around Yeah, no, he could
have done that Anthony Berkin's face and it strangles, so
(42:51):
absolutely yeah, I actually think that Zack, which could strangler?
Who won that show? And well and strangling strangling people
beause I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It doesn't give me any pleasure,
and there's life put out of it. Well maybe a little,
a little bit of pleasure, not much stuff. It feels
good that that cast, you know, it seems like you
(43:15):
guys are still relatively closely some of you. Who is
your your your closest friend in the cast. Oh it's
still Anzo kids. Uh, we're just you though, we're just
grew just very close. Um. I get along obviously well
with everybody. There's nobody that I don't get along with.
(43:35):
It's probably because we lived close to each other. But uh,
I talked to Oscar. I talked to Oscar, I talked
to Rain, and I see Steve Carell and we live
in the same area. I see him around it and
parties and stuff and a gracious, gracious, talented guy. That
was just an amazing past. Look what everybody did, It's
(43:58):
just astonishing. And that was lightning in a bottle of
that joke for sure. All right, Creed Bratton is here
with us now. The new album is slightly altered. It's
out today. We played you some tracks chopped on the
seven Team. Uh. Now we're airing this today. Don't forget.
We're saving this to air the day it's out. Yes see, Creedy,
(44:18):
that's right, I'm doing you a solid. We're holding it
till the day so people can hear this and immediately
go right over and start streaming the new Creed Bratton album.
See just just added out that, Hey, let me let
me end with this. Is it? Is it true? And
I'm gonna ask the whole question because it may be
a dumb question that you almost got let go on
(44:39):
season two of the Office for real, because what I
read was between you and another background character, but that
guy bowed out because he had just booked a play
in New York. Any truth to that? Yes, yes, and
uh obviously shot that all that that fix to have
page we've seen would be to give me the shot.
But he hadn't seen two and uh so they weren't
(45:02):
really sure. Uh but luckily I I made the cut
and thank god for that. It was wonderful way it
turned out. But that was that was that was the uh,
the rubicon that I had to cross that scene with
Keith Grill to prove my my my chop, my comedic chops.
And luckily I got through the audition six s as
(45:26):
as we let you go, My friend, what's the line
you're known most for? What's your favorite line of the
line that people quote back to you that you said
during the show. They screamed from the audience, especially when
I'm singing all the faces, all the space, I'm singing
this ship. You can hear a pin drop and the
back guy O party, Oh what hard feel like you
(45:49):
do a fucking start, willness, I'm singing this song, you
know well, Craive, thank you for the time. Congratulations on
another record. I'm big fan and I'll check it out today.
Remember today t O D A Y. The record comes
out even though we're taping this earlier. Uh it's called
slightly Alter from Creed bed and Hey, Creed, good to
(46:10):
talk to you. I hope you have a ton of
success and hopefully I'll see a live around Nashville or
some other place. I hope. So, Bobby, Hey, thanks for
having me. I appreciate it, buddy. All right, By Creed, Bye,
take care Bobby. By guys, how are you man? I'm
doing good man. Yeah, I missed you at the Opry.
I you know, I had to leave. Is the one
(46:31):
show I really want to I mean a lot of
those shows I want to see, but a lot of
those folks are my friends and I get to see
them all the time. But when you and Brad were playing,
I had to leave town and I was so disappointed
that I missed you. What was that like for you
playing an empty Opry room? Well, you know, we've gotten
the gun you used to play in earty places now,
so it's kind of normal. Isn't that weird? That's a
(46:53):
normality of Brobbly freak out. I'm gonna play up of
clips here. By the way, Kemo was on with us
five time Grammy Award winner First One Back in the
most recent Grammy Best American Album for Oklahoma'm gonna play
a song, uh this is Oklahoma right here, so you
can hear that with sunsheping through the phase Jesus stay away.
(47:30):
I'll ask you about winning a Grammy, like is it
cooler the first time you win it or the last
time you win it? The first time the first time
I won one, it was kind of like wow, you know,
you know, But the fifth one it was like, really,
holy crap. I was. I wouldn't expect him to get
(47:53):
that one at all. I meant one of you sit there,
you want it, but you can't expect it because you
get your feelings when they do the nominations. Are you
just chilling at the house and you get a call
and go, hey, cab, you were nominated for a Grammy?
Is that how you get You're told that no, no,
I go no, we suit up. No for nominations. No no,
(48:13):
not for the show. Yeah, like when whenever they announced
the nominations because the recent category was Best American Album
and they listened to all the albums, Like, how do
you find out you were actually nominated for a Grammy?
My wife killed me? How does she even know? Is
that is that on Twitter? Like they just throw it
up there or is there some secret call you get
between between my manager and her and I have. I
(48:37):
have a hard times a hard time with that. So
because I'm always working at the moment, my mom is
trying to come up be good enough to be a musician.
So at every time I need like, oh can you
blew it again? Man? Wow, I'm gonna play this song here.
This is one of my favorites. This is called this
is My Home. Tell me about this song, Kevin. That's
(49:15):
a song about immigrants, because we're all immigrants in this
It's about acceptance and it's about people's personal stories and
uh and just um, just tell a story that need
to take what you can take it, like the warning.
I was watching some of your Instagram stuff and it
(49:35):
just seems like there's a lot of guitar and a
lot of different guitars everywhere. I look like, oh, yeah, yeah,
how do you even keep track? How many guitars do
you have? Do you even if would you recognize your
own if someone put a few in front of you, Like,
how in the world do you keep all those going gus?
And so um um? But I just I use them all.
You know that the tools. It's like having a lot
(49:57):
of scoot drivers a lot of hammers. They're different to
do different things. But but you, man, I mean you,
you know what you know. I saw you on the
dance with the Start your dance with my my fa
Milo Milo. Man. I know Milo, Yeah, he should have
beat me. He been in second I know Milo, Well,
good kid, man, I know, dude born Yeah because with
(50:21):
the mom Yeah, I got to spend time with Cameron
too up there. And you know, there are some nice
people and what a cool folks to man. I gotta
say that you got some swagger. That's all I'm gonna say.
Did you vote against me? Did you vote for Milo?
I alright, alright, I like the outcome. No, no, I
like the outcome. I like to watch the outcome what
(50:41):
actually happened. And I'm going you know, my thought was
realised with you, like you know, you brought it something there.
You taught Milo a lesson, you know about bringing it. Well,
he was a much little better dancer. Great, he's a
great dancer. But but this is there's a certain little thing.
(51:08):
There's a lot of piano players, but some people in life.
I have this thing I call the thing you know,
you call it just swagger. You know, it's just a
certain a certain kind of gifts of communication of passion
that makes them rise above you know, not being good.
It's not enough. And that was the lesson that you
(51:31):
taught everybody. A enough about me. I appreciate that. Enough
about me, I got a lot. I'm not like I
told you, I'm done with me. I'm so over me.
Let me ask you this, Let me ask you this.
I was watching some clips on YouTube. It was probably
like two thousand twelve. You guys are all to White
House and it was it was a PBS special. I
(51:52):
was watching clips and I just wonder if you're like
the music star and you're performing, because it was you
bb King, Buddy Guy and Warren Haynes, You're all performing. Like,
what is secure any like for superstars when they go
into the White House? Is it the same as like
normal folks security? The superstar nobody cares about you. They
only care about the president. So you go through the
same everything, metal detectors, frisks. It's like going to the
airport with the background check. What was that like playing
(52:19):
in the White House? That was that pretty cool? It
was awesome. It's awesome because in the White House and
plan for the President first Lady and the Tigertarians being
in what they called the People's House. It's something I
didn't know about you because because I am a fan by,
something I didn't know is that you're the Mike and
Molly theme song. Guy. I had no idea. Yeah, that's
(52:40):
that's myself and Josh Kelly. I mean you had to
make some money off that, right, getting a big TV
show like that show made some serious like multiple seasons,
it's you every episode, like come come on, you get
the house on Mike, Michael Molly, Right, it's my my
guitar had Yeah, well listen, I hope everybody goes and
(53:04):
and if they don't know you yet, you know that
this was a reason for them to check it out.
Let me ask you this too, because I know you
run name is Kevin. The people call you Cab or
Kevin like you're close friends. But I've come to realize
that my real name is Cab ho Um because you know,
actually like you know, not to not to be I'm
(53:26):
accused of being too political. I'm not political. I'm just
very historical. And since you know that since you know,
Kevin Moore is not my name. That was the name
boy was given to me by slave owner, and so
that's not my name. Well, Kevin, I appreciate your time.
I'm a big fan. Hope everybody checks out the new stuff. Okay,
(53:48):
you're bad, I tell you. I saw you. Stop it,
stop it, enoughing enoughing you man. Kevin'm sorry I didn't
get to see you in person. Big fan, and now
hopefully I see around soon. Be safe. All right, thank
you for thank you for them. Thank you so much.
All right, yeat see man. H
M h. Welcome to episode two fifty three. I just
drove in. We drove six hours to get back here today,
so we're gonna start with the five pieces of music
you need to know. That's why we do this on Friday.
That's why I had to get back tonight. We drove
from Arkansas back to Nashville. What to look at it
(00:20):
a little cabin up there. I think we found one,
which is nice. Kind of in a part of the
of the state where I used to be a dishwasher,
so kind of full circle same like a mile from
where I used to wash dishes, one of my first jobs.
So we did that today. Um, listen to a bunch
of music on the way back. Listen to a lot
(00:41):
of podcasts. We kind of did the bear Brook You
hear that one bear Brook. The bear Brook podcast is
about a town called barrett Brook where there some bodies
found and some like barrels for and they didn't even
they couldn't find the killer because they didn't even know
who the bodies were. They just found four human bodies.
But eventually you kind of here and then it ends
(01:04):
all of a sudden. I thought it ended way too quick.
But they don't have a killer. I don't think I'm
spoiling it here. And then we've been catching up with
the updates, but they do have the killer. You'll have
to hear it, okay, but it's pretty interesting. I'm not
a big crime podcast guy, but if you're listening to this,
you obviously listen to podcasts. You know. Another one I'm
listening to before we get into the five pieces of
(01:24):
music you need to know is the Presidential Wants called
It is called Presidential and the woman who I think
she works with the Washington Post. She did this podcast
I think four years ago, but it doesn't really matter
because it doesn't mean our current it did. She starts
with President one, which is George Washington, and does anywhere
from thirty to fifty minutes on each president, and it's
(01:46):
how they grew up, what they wanted to do in office,
what did they do, what they do after office? You know,
one of the presidents went back and served in Congress
for sixteen years or eighteen years after he was the president.
So for me, I kind of nerd out about that.
But I tweeted her and said he enjoyed the podcast,
and she's like, oh, thanks, that's crazy. And then I said,
heyhe come on our podcast some point. We'll just talk
to you. And so maybe next week or the week
(02:07):
after that. Cool, we'll get her on. But she has
a people podcasts, but no, pretty pumped about that. I
listened to another one today in the car on the
long drive called conspiracy Theory. Now, there are a lot
of podcast called conspiracy theory, because I looked it up,
but the one it's the it's called Conspiracy Theories and
it's kind of got a yellow or orange just or
(02:29):
just I'm colored blind. What color is that yellow? Okay,
it's a yellow cover. It says conspiracy Theories. It's on
podcast Network. And the first they're all two pieces. The
first one it's kind of the history, like I listened
to one about Hitler and where he came from, how
he turned into the monster that he ended up being.
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But then the second one they go through the conspiracies
like did he actually not die in the bonk or
like a lot of people think. And then they go
and they're a conspiracy theorists at all, So they take
the data and then they raised it. You know, we'd
to give this one a two out of ten or
a seven out of ten. Yeah, pretty wild, and so
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there were some crazy ones about Hitler. One was aliens
one what you have to hear it if you want
to hear that one, that he was an alien, that
he had help. I don't want to spoil it. But
they didn't give it. They didn't get that one that
many stars. So there's that one. I listened to one
on the uh Shakespeare today where they don't think Shakespeare
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wrote all of his plays because he was kind of
he didn't have a great education. They go through who
they think wrote them was that this guy was, that
this guy was a group of people, that he stole
it from them, or they just like it was common.
First of all, back then there were no copyright laws.
So even if it was let's let's even if it
was William Shakespeare, the guther we know it as people
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did all the time. They took other people's work and
then just did a little stuff around it and changed it.
But are a couple of scenarios where they go, you know,
this person needed to fake his own death because he
got caught being a spy, and he may have used
someone's name who was an actor in William Shakespeare's We
Know Him, which just a dumb actor. They think. Now
we're talking about fifteen hundreds. So but it's interesting. I
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don't want to tell you what they think. But I
listened to that one two parts, and I listened Abraham
Lincoln his assassination. And you know, by now we've heard
a lot of the Lincoln stories about how he got
into office. You know, his whole team was rivals and
they all hated each other. But you know, he put
together a team to win, like he ran and Republicans
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then through Lincoln had a lot of the same sensibilities
as Democrats do. Now a lot of the parties have
changed around. But you know, um, but he but he
ran with a Democrat. He was a Republican who ran
with a Democrat. They ran on a unity ticket Andrew Johnson,
and they hated each other. But he was a very
pragmatic guy in that he was like, listen, let's represent
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his first election. He barely won the first election. He
only won the vote before people ran at the same time,
and he had the most because so most people didn't
like him when he he was never popular. Even when
he died, he was never popular. It was only after
he died that he became popular and while this sounds crazy,
and then they figure out who they think was behind
(05:21):
Did Abraham Lincoln was Andrew Johnson who was vice president
and hated him? Was it his? So and so? Did
John Wilkes Booths fake his own death? Did John the
h This podcast is not on our network, have no
affiliation with him whatsoever. But I've been driving over the
past two days, I've drove, I've driven thirteen hours and
so I've had a lot of time to digest podcasts.
(05:42):
And then Caitlin has one that she loves called The
Morning Toast Take a Bite out of Your Morning or
something like that, and so podcast a game changers for
long drives. So that's what we've been doing driving and
I thought I'd recommend a few of those podcasts. What
You're doing today? I was just hanging out today listening
to some new music. Anything good on your list? Um
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on my list? One of my favorite punk bands put
on a new album. They have put it out in
six years, and listening to that pretty much. What's their name?
Lawrence Arms? So a popular punk band like Lawrence's Arms,
Lauren's Arms, Lauren's Arms, Lawrence Lawrence Arms. How many Instagram
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followers as a popular punk band like Laurence. I don't
know how many they have, maybe as many as, like
a little more than I would have. Let's see, how
do you spell it? L A Lawrence Laurence, the Lawrence
Arms they have. Okay, I just wonder about these punk
bands I've never heard of and the followings that they have.
(06:47):
Can they go to any major city and play a
decent sized club. Yeah, like here, they would probably play
a place called Marathon Music Works and sell that. They
could sell that out because Marathon hold over two thousands.
They could sell that place out. Play me some of this,
I'll pull it out I didn't put it, and then
I'll go through we'll look at you not being biased,
(07:10):
and then I'll go to the five pieces of new
music you need to know or something we're just don't
working on what this is about. We'll talk to Creed
Bratton from the office coming up in a second. Who
played Creed Bratton and a talk with keV Mo, who's
a really great blues artist. I thought it'd be cool
talk to him for a few minutes. Maybe give me
something you can check out if you haven't checked it out.
(07:31):
This is then, Okay, here's Lawrence Arms. It was ninth
grade and we went to class. We held hands, but
we went to Fast Sleep Slash The sad pretty good
and there's a bit of production. It sounds like they
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got in a real studio. Yeah, they went out to
like some remote studio in Texas and recorded it, turned
it up a little more. Sometimes you'll bring in these
people or it sounds like they just went into a
shed there was being sold at low. This actually has
some really good production on it. Yeah, no, yeah, that
(08:14):
sounds good. All right, all right, um, we're just giving
a little plug here. Their name is Lawrence Arms. Arms.
What does that mean. It's like the name of the
apartment that lived in growing up, Lawrence Arms. All right,
let's do five songs and we'll do some music news
too before we get into these interviews. Number five Cam
has a new song called Classic Big Change for Cam,
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she changed labels. I'm not sure what happened, And I
don't know if for other label dropped her or or
if she said, hey, can I get out of this?
I don't like the direction we're going wing and they
because if you do that, that's that's always tough to
get out. It usually costs a lot of money. You know,
we had to I say we. I had to get
out of my record deal when Eddie and I were
um at No Broken Bow, Black Black River. Yeah, because
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I didn't want to put on albums. I wanted to
put out just comedy singles. And there's no money for
them to make with comedy singles because they're not selling anything.
They're streaming one song and and so I had to
go and I had to pay to get out of it,
and that would be nothing compared to if you're an
artist now. I say, now, it wasn't that long ago.
But I had to buy like three songs and get
out of it, and it cost me a little bit
of money. But I don't know what happened with camp.
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I just know she's on a new label. So it's
been a while. So we've seen her, said a baby.
I've seen her a couple of times, but she hasn't
been around a whole lot. I don't know if she's
been in Nashville or in California. Are aware, but good
to see her back. Number four A thousand Horses has
a new song called a Song to Remember. I need
a song. He did a drink fall again. I'm all right,
(10:21):
I like those guys. We did Bobby Cast with Mike. Yeah,
I just look back a few episodes. Really good. He's
we won't say who won't make you go check it out.
But he's related to another famous lead singer in a
rock band, someone that I loved and I geeked out
when they came to the studio. I've only ever met
him once, but you can check that out on the
Michael Hobby Bobby Cast. At number three, the guys from
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a Lanko. They have a new song out called Save Me.
I really like those guys too. There's a good one
of these. And now we're along with Brandon, the lead singer.
I think Brendon I had met a few times, but
then but we stayed after if you go back and
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listen to a Brandon Lancaster, we stayed after, hung out
and then we kind of became buds to the point
where we did Charlie Worsham Show together because he does
something every Friday for a while during maybe fall, and
we did a nineties throwback where I think I went
into Alan Jackson, he did Travis Trip. We stayed hung
out there, he played, they played the Million Dollar Show.
He came out and played because I was gonna be
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or forever and you were gonna be and so uh yeah,
good dude, good band. They have a song called save
Me At number two. The Chicks put out their new
album called gas Lighter. It's their fifth album, their first
and fourteen years. Here's a new song called sleep at Night,
how do You Sleep? And night? You know. I tweeted
(12:03):
about them yesterday. I said, for as much as people
complain about the Chicks not getting on the radio, and
invited them on the show multiple times, even recently through
the label through Twitter, I've played their new stuff. Just
apparently they don't want to. It's not me not offering
or it's not me not being a fan. I think
we've talked about her here on this too, played them
on the radio show, play the old stuff on the
(12:23):
radio show, the new stuff. I just like them. But
the weird thing is they will talk about how they're
not getting respect or they won't get play, and I'm like,
come on, come over. You're saying nobody wants to hang
out with you. This this must be how people in
my personal life with me for years. You're like, you're
saying your loan, but we're inviting you to come out,
and I would be like, I just want to go out,
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and then the next to be like, who ever invites
me anywhere. That's me and the Nixy Chicks. Right now,
I literally have the biggest country music radio show in
the history of the format. I showed that as broken
artist careers, they don't need that. But my point is
we have a lot of people to listen, and I'm
not gonna be able to take a song that day
and take it to number one. But maybe some program
directors here, maybe the exhibited is the minutes. Maybe some
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listeners who knows it doesn't hurt to have millions of
people here. You I'm just a fan. I was. I
haven't did some interviews about them, but the Wall Street
Journal was like, Hey, would you mind talking about the chicks?
At first it was the Dixie Chicks before their name changed.
I was like, sure, I'd love to. I spend an
hour talking about the Dixie Chicks. They used three lines.
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I talked to the girl that does the pr and
I was like, man, I did an hour and they
used three lines. She goes to just be like that sometimes. Uh,
but they have a record I haven't heard at all.
I shouldn't have listened to it during the road trip.
I really liked the Chicks. Number one is Keith Urban.
He dropped a new song. It's called Superman. It's his
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eleventh studio album, The Speed of Now Part one. Except
for release this is September eighteen. Is that still true?
Is it August believe? I'll tell you why I say that.
I was just at a house, and I would only
say this on this show. I wouldn't say it on
the radio show because I don't people think I think
I'm cool. But in the music world, I'm a bit
of a nerd, so me and other music nerds bond
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over that. And Keith Herb and I are friends a
bit outside of the country music world. So I just
went to his house two days ago. I'll tell you
that story in a second. But this is a song
called Superman. Go ahead. Number one. Superman was scar Shot
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Sweet Stars song sing the video. I've seen a teaser
for it there. You know, you have to get creative
in Quarantine, and instead of just him doing something in
his house, they did a flip book of him playing.
It's pretty cool, colorful. Yeah. I don't know if the
videos out. Video videos out but I saw a clip
of it on Twitter. Yeah. Um, maybe the album's out
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sece very teeth that there's another thing if his coming
out in August. Okay, yeah, album is September. He's hosting
the a c m S, which he's now he's hosting
with nobody there because they're not doing the A c
MS with people, but they're doing it, and I think
I'm gonna be involved from three different locations. They're gonna
do the Opery House, They're going to do the Rhyman,
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and they're going to do the Blue Bird. I'm not
sure which one key is gonna be at, but I
think i'll I think I'm gonna be at one of
them unless for some reason they kicked me off the
show or now it's getting so close to the c
m A S because that's in November, and if you
do one in September October and then you don't want
to November. Sometimes they get awfully touchy about if you
do one show you can't not the artists, but the
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folks that are on this show. Because I've been up,
I've been in discussions because I was gonna host c
m A Fest this year, my first year to host
one of these big shows and then Corona got it.
But they were like, if you do that, you don't
need to go on the A, C M, two different networks.
You know, that's my number one song, Keith, I'm gonna
ropping that new song. So I guess. Keith called me
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a four or five days ago. I was like, Hey,
what's up. Are you taking Corona seriously? And I was like,
duh unless I have to see you, I don't see
you right now. And he's like, great, me too. He said,
I got new music, got the whole record done, Come over.
I want to play it for you now. I don't
like doing that, and I don't do that except with Keith,
who I think I've done it with three times at
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this point. But here's what he does. The only reason
I do this is because he makes the environment comfortable
for me, because, first of all, Corona wise, he was like, hey,
I want you to touch you. Like I know where
to go to his house, so Drew, I know how
to get to his house, I know where to walk
to this to his place and we do the deal. Um,
but he said, like ten feet away a new door
to go in, and he had sanitizer by the door.
He's also a jarmaphobe like myself. And then he goes,
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I know you want to sit anywhere close to this,
So he put a chair in the back of his
studio and I sat in the chair. He sat at
the big board, you know, you do the little flips
and knobs, and we listen to a bunch of song.
Now I don't like do I like to listen to songs,
but I don't listen to songs in front of people
because basically all they're doing is watching you nod your head,
and even if it sucks, you gotta be like, oh yeah,
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it's just a weird thing to have someone watch you
listen to their song, Like that's awkward. It's awkward, like
when someone pulls off their phone goes watches YouTube video
it's hilarious. And then you watch and you're like, it's fine.
I know you didn't get it, you didn't laugh, think
it's okay, And maybe I would have liked it without
all the pressure being told it's great and then having
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you watch me. Why it's that kind of feeling. But
what he does is he turns around and looks at
the board as I'm listening to it. So I don't
have to do anything with my head or face. So
I listened to it and some of them I'm like,
that's cool, who'd write that with? Who wrote that? There's
one song that he wrote with Jarren from CAD like
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three who we just did one of these with, uh
freaking great. And so I text Jarren and I was like, dude,
this is the jam and He's like to Harman to
put down on the radio. So, but keeps a good guy.
Is you know why I like Keith is that he man.
He pushes the limits on fusion of different sounds and music.
I mean he is he can hear something and just rip,
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just play it, play a play a plate. So pretty cool.
But that's my number one song. Check it out. Keith
Urban's got a new song called Superman and new music
out today, No clips from Tucker. Bethard got a new
song I called Faithful Rust and Kelly has a new
song called Pressure. Chris Tomlin has a new song featuring
Brett Young and Cassidy Pope called Be the Moon. Laura
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McKenna Balladeer and Brent Cobb has a new song called
keep Them On They Toes. I wonder what that conversation
is like, all right, we spell it right, we put
keep it on their toes or day toes. So there
you go. Do we want to take a quick break
before we do music news or just do it now? Yeah?
I do a quick great, okay, al right a music news.
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The Beatles and BTS are the only groups to sell
more than a million albums so far this year. Crazy
that it's the Beatles, though, right still, I get to BTS, folks.
They're the biggest thing freaking Korea and in the States
are big two. But when on Twitter, when that thing
gets ten thousand retweets, it's a lot of Korean South Korea.
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The Korean pop group's new album, Map the Soul seven,
is the best selling physical album of the year and
the only one to sell over five dred thousand copies
in the United States, which is massive. You know, maybe
I'm not given enough of United States credit because they
are loved. They are loved and be loved, and I
don't know what they're saying. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I
hear something, but a little bit there's some catchiest crap
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though sometimes well there's one of the y Yeah, just
a rapper. Yeah, more than doubling the sales of runner
up Kenny Chesney Map the Soul seven is the ninth
biggest overall album of the year. Uh ets a lot
of a lot of things, a lot of things. Only
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one of the group's managed sell one million album units
in the United States, and it's the Beatles we're talking about.
Fifty years after their breakup. They're still the biggest rock
band of it, says shifting one point zero nine four
million album equivalent units through the first six months of
the year. You know what I was reading about. We
just talked about this a few weeks ago. They're gonna
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stop counting album sales with bundles, ticket bundles, because like
Chesney did that, you said, you buy a concert ticket,
you get an album. They then they what they do
is they put a tour on sale the week of
the album comes out, and let's say they sell a
hundred thousand tickets. That's hundred thousand album full albums. Two.
People are really buying albums like you get it with
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the ticket, and it was manipulating the reality of what
people were going to do. So they finally shut that down.
Let's see, remember trapped, you play me a little heads Strong?
You this sounds hard. It was a big pop song
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as a as a rock song first, don't get me wrong,
but it gets so big and rock that cross over
to pop maybe the second or third hardest song that
crossed over. Papa Roach Last Resort was always to me
when it first went to pop, I was like, are
you kidding me? This thing is hard. But according to
Nielsen sound Scan, only six hundred copies of Traps album
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were sold in its release. You know, how could they
sell so few? Well, it was all The rollout was
a mess. The album released was a mess, by the way.
They're claiming they sold four thousand, but we're looking at
the actual Nielsen here. No proper promotional cycle, so you know,
but that's for everybody right now. Yeah. I was talking
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about Eldridge recently and he was like, man, I just
sat at home the whole time. Everybody feels like they
need to be back in Nashville to pro both the records.
But he's like, I couldn't do it anywhere because he
just said he lives in Nashville. But he's like, I
could have been anywhere and didn't done my album tour
um so and then July three date when they released it.
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It was released on Spotify and Apple Music. Um, it
was a July three release date of the album, but
it came out in June ninth or whatever. They are
different dates the things came out. It was all just
messed up. Give him a break, Did you have another
good song about that? Maroon five basis Mickey Madden is
taken a leave of absence after being arrested for domestic violence.
(22:32):
Quota happen things I need to deal with an address
right now, So I've decided to take leave of absence
from roon five. You know, as long as Adam Levine
is in the band, you wouldn't know the difference. You
can't really name another member of Maroon five now, just
one Mickey Madden. But yeah, they have to be so
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pumped that Adam Levine still wants to be in the band,
you know. Rapper Logic announces retirement and final album. I
was looking at him on Twitter Today's Oldest Baby maybe
and his wife and he's like, I'm out. Yesterday, the
rapper revealed they'd be retiring after the release of No Pressure,
saying it's been a great decade, it's not gonna be
(23:15):
a great father. His sixth and final studio album is
out next week. It's a listen. He's not retired. He
may quit for a bit, but he's not retired a
real retirement. Does it come right before an album comes out,
because that's great promotional fodder. We're talking about it. I
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like Logic. Logic is married to fashion designer Brittany Noel.
They have a son. That was that song right titled online.
I like that guy. And anybody Eminem will do a
track with Eminem must think is good, and so Eminem
a song with him didn't. Yeah, I'm so cool. Atlantis
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Morrisett didn't even want Ironic on Jagged Little Pill Man.
This song. I remember where I was for a year
for this song. This song was that. I don't know
if it was the biggest hit, like in everybody else's mind.
And I'll read you some stuff here about her and this,
but holy crap, was this song man? This whole album
was massive Ironic it's your biggest streaming Yeah, is it
(24:28):
really ironic? One of the biggest hits. But if it
were up to her, we may have never heard. It's
just quote. I didn't want to put it on the record,
and I remember a lot of people saying please, please please.
I said, Okay, it wasn't that precious about it, And
they came to realize later that perhaps I should have been.
By the way, they're not all actually ironic. And I'm
not the guy who hates on this because I think
it's great works for me. I'm not so smart. I
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was like, that's not what the word ironic means, not literally.
If you wrote a song called literally and it wasn'
about literally, I'll probably get you with that. But they
point out that they're all not on it, they're just
what unfortunate? But isn't that ironic in itself that there's
a song called ironic not about irony that I've never heard.
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Uh soundtrack of Hamilton jumps to number two thanks to Disney. Plus,
I was asking Mike, because you watch this. I saw
it live. The struggle for me was I didn't know
it was gonna be all rapping, so I was kept
waiting for them to talk and catch up on everything
I didn't understand. They never do. Once I kind of
figured out what was going on, I got in the most.
(25:30):
So just know they're wrapping the whole time. I think,
if I watch it like that now, I will enjoy
it more. I don't have Disney Plus, but this could
get me over to it if I do decide to
watch it. What's that cost a month? I think it's
like seven nine nine a month. Well, I watch anything
else over there, though I don't feel like, well there's
the NATO stuff is on there. True, you can watch yourself. Well,
(25:55):
maybe my show is supposed to start. We're supposed to
start taping next week. That got delayed first episode. Now
it's three weeks and I hope we still get to
do it because I'm gonna go and do some female wrestling.
There's a a girl who I'm wrestling with. Her name
is Fraud. And then the whole let me set this up.
The whole idea of the show that we came up
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with was about people that come from backgrounds like mine,
that also have interesting jobs like me, and then I
go and do their job with them a little bit.
And she's a female wrestler. And right now we're in
wrestling wardrobe. We're doing wardrobe, and they called. They were like, hey,
we need you to be a villain. You're gonna be
your taxiing partner. Her name is Frost. It's okay, and
I thought, well, we can do brain Freeze. I'll be
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the Brain, Bobby the Brain. But there's Bobby the Brain heenan,
But I thought brain would be a funny tag team
good And then I was like, well, how about frost Bite?
And so now I'm Bobby the Biter. So apparently I
just gonna bite people. But I have to go. I'm
going to California to to do this. But our goal
is to have the show on by January, which is quick,
(27:00):
and I don't think we're gonna be done shooting it
when it goes on. But now they're in kind of
a speed uh speed hustle because they gotta get some
content on because nobody's been shooting anything. But yeah, if
not Geo's on Disney Plus on for sure, we're probably
to get that. But Hamilton's number two now, the original
Broadway cast recording of Hamilton's An American Musical surges to
(27:22):
a new peak of number two on Billboard. The album
is basking in the glow of the July three, third
Disney streaming premiere. What was number one? It was another
rapper m a little baby one of the babies or
the small baby, A little baby, baby, Baby, Baby Baby. Hey,
but you liked Hamilton. I thought it was really good.
(27:43):
You let me rephrase you liked it watching it on
Disney Plus. Yeah, it was still. I just wondered how
much translate? You know? Yeah, I mean it feels like
watching a movie you can kind of follow along pretty well.
I kind of wish I would have put the subtitles
on so I could have caught everything. Yeah, that's what
I was gonna mention earlier. I may rewatch it again
with the subtitle over two hours. You know, I hate
two hour movie like two Have you talked on your
(28:05):
podcast about the Charlie's Throng movie? I haven't yet. Are
you gonna watch it? I've already watched you so on
my Netflix that pops up. But I was like, you
gotta watch this. It's pretty If you like action movies,
you like that. Is it good for a Netflix movie
or a good movie? There's a difference. It's a really
good Netflix movie. If it was in theaters, I would
have thought it was okay, because we're closing the gap though,
(28:26):
Netflix is getting closer. I'd say this is as close
as they've got in a while. What's the best Netflix movie? Period?
It's a bird box box. Yeah, that's the best one.
Did you watch the Will Smith one with the Aliens? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
that was terrible. Yeah, and that was like the first
one they spent like a lot of money on. And
I think they're gonna make a part too, but yeah,
that was very good. Did you watch the David Spade
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one That's Doing Well Wrong? Miss Yeah? Yeah, that's pretty funny.
I mean it's very dumb. It's like kind of Adam
Sandler esque, but for a comedy on Netflix, pretty good.
I watched The Last American Crime, the Last Great American Crime,
because it was rated the worst movie on Netflix period,
which is why we did a stupid bed on the show.
The movie is two hours and forty minutes long, and
(29:10):
I watched it, and you know what, it got zero
percent for a long time. But I actually kind of
enjoyed it. I split it up in two parts. I
think maybe because my expectations were so low, you found
things inside and I just enjoyed it. But I really
love the concept, meaning at this certain time, the government
they're shutting off crime because everybody's got some a little
chip and planet in them, and so what they're trying
to do is commit a crime real quick before the government,
(29:30):
because but I like that the government's got control of us.
I like that stuff. I like the end of the world.
I like, you know, what would you do if the
world ended? How would you survive? So if our world
ended up going to my cabin, we just found if
I get it, go back, I'm out going back. What's
what's on your podcast this week? This week I have
underrated Disney songs, and then next week I have an
(29:51):
interview with the actor from the movie Twister, who Sean Whalen.
Is he one of your favorite actors? He's one of
my favorite movies and he's been on a lot of stuff.
So I talked to him about all the big movies
he was in the nineties, like a guy like Sean Whalen,
who I don't know who either? Sure? What if I
saw his face? Yeah, you wouldn't recognize his face? Is
he easy to get as a guest? Pretty easy? Yeah?
I just messaged him on Instagram? Yeah, that's cool Instagram
(30:14):
and I was like, hey, I got a podcast, Um,
I love your movie. You want to be on it?
He's like yeah, sure? Was he cold talk to It
was really cool to talk to, like all the behind
the scenes stuff with that movie, and he like told
me about the stuff in the nineties. But like Tom Hanks,
he wasn't in that thing you do, was he one
of the one of the guys had a small part
in it, but he got to like audition in front
of Tom Hanks. I'll say this in my final music piece.
(30:37):
I because I don't care, I'll drop names of my
friends on this show. I don't worry. But people are
judging me on this show, this podcast, more than I
did the radio show. Because if you're here, you'd like music.
But Dan from Danna Shay, him and Abby came over
and we had dinner a week or so ago. We
did it outside, so because they were like us, we
don't get close to anybody, but you can have an
outside dinner and not right we ordered food in no
(31:00):
Corona dinner and then he was like, going to hear
the new song. I'm not gonna say the name of
the song or anything. Is really good. Yeah, it was
so good that I texted him. I was like, wow,
I hate but i' let's say you did' maybe listened
in front of him because I wouldn't have. But they
have a new song. Soon. That's really good. But all
their craps good now, Dann, she didn't put out a
song down that's not monster, but it's yeah, it's like
(31:22):
the next level good. What reminded me was that just
gonna message from m um. But that's a that's it.
I can't wait for this Creed interview. I loved it.
I was glad he had music projects we could put
him in this podcast. We were the last one of
he was doing interviews that day, but we were the
last once we got talked to him a little longer
than everybody else did. But that's pretty cool. Check out
(31:43):
mm hmm, Who's podcast? Check out Velvet's Edge podcast. I
thought it'd be a good one for you. I think
right now I was seeing she was talking about is
it okay to be in your thirties and not be married?
Because she's not thinks she was having a little breakdown,
like the little emotional But if that's your jam, check
it out. It's called Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson. Lovely podcast.
(32:07):
All right, anything else that I need to promote? Anything Rocket,
I've been driving forever. I'm a little lupie. We're a
little late putting this up. But enjoy. We'll take a
little break, come back with Creed from the office. Creed, alright,
(32:27):
how are you man, I've got take it, take a minute,
chew it up. Yeah, we're on. Well, but we're recording
this for Friday when the record comes out. Yeah yeah,
So listen. I've done many of these long press tours
as the interviewees. So each your almonds will We're happy
(32:48):
to wait for a second. Oh no, no, I would
just starving and heavy. Get here. I'm ready for you, Bobby.
Is this the last one of the day for you? Well,
let me say first off, I'm a I'm a huge fan.
I uh, you know, obviously watched The Office from from
the beginning to end, and the very final song, which
(33:08):
I don't think a lot of people realize that that
has played on the entire series, is your song. I'm
gonna actually play some of this real quick before we
get to the new record. You know that they have that,
So you're you're sitting in the office, you're playing that.
How do you get them to play an original Creed
Bratton song on the finale of the show. Was that?
(33:31):
Was that my version? It was your version? It was
that version? There was from you playing an acoustic like
on YouTube more than it was. But that's the song. Yeah,
that's that's um well, um. We were in the in
the finale the uh the ninth reason, Um, Dave, I
(33:52):
think I've been doing talking about my brooch. Dave, who
like Greg Daniels, invited me to the office and he
talked to all the actors saying, how do you think
you're your characters would leave the leave the show, and
I told him that I had written a song right
after I left the grass Mus called All the Faces.
I told him I thought it was one of my
firstal most spiritual songs about meeting people that you've you've
(34:15):
known in other lives, that their kindred spirits and you
recognize them right away, you steel comfortable with them, and
that's what the song is about, and I should be it. Uh,
what's the what's the name of the bar and tramp
that we always have on their own just matter, it
doesn't matter anyway. It was the bar that we'd always
go to after the show on the show, on the show,
(34:37):
and the cast would walk through in the bar singing
this song and we see their faces, all the faces.
So he gave me the opportunity. So he great dand
those arts of songs, enjoyed it and decided to put
have me sing it in the finale. And that I mean,
my guy, Bobby. That just opened up my my musical
(34:58):
career big time a it It allows me to be here,
allows me to still cut albums and to have a
fan base, not just because the office, but because of
the music. So it was win win in every aspect.
And that's how I knew that you were also a
professional musician. And that's how I tried back the grassroots stuff.
And you know, when you were playing with the grassroots,
(35:19):
you were singing, you were playing, you were writing, and
that was back in the sixties. And so I was thinking,
like when you started off your career, was it, Hey,
I want to be a musician, or hey, I want
to be an actor in comedy? What was it? What
was like sixteen year old Creed Bratton wanted to do
Crea bat had always played music. I remember I played
trumpets for years and years. By thirteen, I started learning guitar.
(35:41):
My grand parents had a semi professional band called the
Happy Timers. My mother played mandolin. I didn't know my dad,
but my stepdad played the drums, so we had we
had a family band. I played. I'm seventy seven, so
sixty years ago, around seventeen, I started working professionally but
a place called Bash late in the band Coktor Case.
(36:04):
So I've been doing this obviously for a long long time. Uh,
I know, dude, I never thought that it was something
that I could take a living at. I just love
playing music. When I started acting, it was because I
just thought I gravitated toward it. I loved being on stage.
I love the fear conquering, the fear that the strength
(36:27):
of you get from uh being good at something didn't
be able to deliver it, uh, because it's a lot
there's a lot of pressure on stage, and when you
learn to get comfortable that you you can handle a
lot of stuff in a lot of situations. And that's
that's been a good growth mechanism for me. And we'll
get back to some of the office stuff later. But
(36:47):
I was listening to some of the new stuff here,
the new album which this airs it will be out today,
So is out today. It is your ninth record. I'm
gonna play some of the first single here. This is
chance you Toad, Here you go all right, can you
hear that? Created? Yeah, okay, let's play a little more
right to what what's a chance you? Toad creed d
(37:20):
joad is a statue people put in the in their homes.
Chinese in origin, the three legged toad, red eyes. It
has a constellation and the big dipper down its back.
It has a coin in its mouth and it's there
two Uh protect your money from leaving the house and
(37:43):
also to draw money into your homes. Based upon a god,
god of immortality. His wife feels his a lecture of immortality,
and for her punishment, she's thrown down into a well.
And when Sohn He finds her, he releases her and
then she comes out. And then my song he used
(38:05):
the beautiful Oriental woman and I'm dating, but she's still
she's still a frog. Maybe she's a frank oriotal if
I'm not sure about that. But it's creat it's creat
Go figure what he's talked about. Here is another song
called the Ride. Check us out. This song is a
(38:34):
little one of my vibe, Like I can actually understand
this when I feel this one a little bit. Tell
me about this one. This is uh, this is one
I did with uh. The actors in the Canyon band
I had played. I had written lyrics for the office theme,
which I did in All My Lives goes to Michael
(38:55):
Scott played by Steve Carell and Ray Wilson, and he
played shrewd blah blah blah. So I recorded fans love this.
It's on the YouTube version of that. Uh, I went,
I recorded with Dave Way and Dylan O'Brien and Uh.
Then NBC says, no, we don't want you to do this,
and then there was they have their reasons because there's
(39:15):
everybody in the world has mentioned on that. We probably
have to give permission from everybody. So I tried the
right new lyrics to the track. That didn't work out,
but the new lyrics threw me into said, oh you
know what, let's just cut another complete other track, and
so then I started this is This's been a year
over a year recording this album. Uh. When I got tour,
(39:37):
I played the song live whistically the audience of Bobby
with instantly goes side by the whole you know, it
was like I was a big hit already. They they
were singing along and they loved the song. So I
called Dave from the road and said, you know what,
the ride it's so catchy. The people really picked up
(39:58):
on it's so hooking they get it away. So there
there's story behind that, and I'm really the way it
turned out. New records out today, everybody check it out.
It's for three originals that we've played here. And you
may not have known that the final song in the
office was actually an original Creed Bratton song. You know
when that show when it ended, were you more famous
(40:19):
as far as people seeing you on the streets then
or now because of the streaming success of the show now? Now?
It was popular then, but it seems like everybody now
it's still the most stream show. It's it's unprecedented, right
that show still be the most stream show on television.
(40:40):
It's ridiculous. But generations what the show then? They're younger
are sympicly now recognized me. So it's not only we
were popular then. We still have. The younger kids are
still and I've got a very young I do. They're like,
they're all in there. It's just big young audience. I
don't I can't get a date from my from my people.
(41:02):
I told him on stage, bring your grandmothers. They think
I'm joking, I'm not very serious. Was there a reason
that you went or got to use your real name
on the show instead of being given a even a
last name character name. Yeah. Greg Daniels was incorporated by
(41:23):
career as graft He wanted me, he wanted a rock star.
He wanted me there as as who I was Grafts
and uh, there's a deleted scene from the Boutish cruise
where I played guitar and showed grassroots. And they're scene
where a reporter like take my own guests recognized the
pred the grassroots. But those are deleted scenes, so they
(41:45):
were they weren't on the prime time easy until the
finale that they finally uh went public with that I
was uh in the grassroots. There there was a reason.
That was all planned at the beginning. That's great Daniel's plan.
Is there any evidence that you could have been the
Scranton strangler, Bobby, God damn, I listen. If I was
(42:07):
in the studio right now, I would strangle you. I
care you. Uh well, I let's think about let's think
about this way. Uh, I had blood all when when
people were nervous about me. If I had been the
scramping Stapfer. Sure I could see that, but the strangle
doesn't leave a lot of blood, So I don't know,
(42:29):
not that there has been people that I wanted to
strangle asking character. Um, but I can't see anybody else
being beside him, can you really? Because he was a dark,
defarious guy for sure. Yeah. Him, Gabe, I can see Gabe.
He was always Gabe, not around Yeah, no, he could
have done that Anthony Berkin's face and it strangles, so
(42:51):
absolutely yeah, I actually think that Zack, which could strangler?
Who won that show? And well and strangling strangling people
beause I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It doesn't give me any pleasure,
and there's life put out of it. Well maybe a little,
a little bit of pleasure, not much stuff. It feels
good that that cast, you know, it seems like you
(43:15):
guys are still relatively closely some of you. Who is
your your your closest friend in the cast. Oh it's
still Anzo kids. Uh, we're just you though, we're just
grew just very close. Um. I get along obviously well
with everybody. There's nobody that I don't get along with.
(43:35):
It's probably because we lived close to each other. But uh,
I talked to Oscar. I talked to Oscar, I talked
to Rain, and I see Steve Carell and we live
in the same area. I see him around it and
parties and stuff and a gracious, gracious, talented guy. That
was just an amazing past. Look what everybody did, It's
(43:58):
just astonishing. And that was lightning in a bottle of
that joke for sure. All right, Creed Bratton is here
with us now. The new album is slightly altered. It's
out today. We played you some tracks chopped on the
seven Team. Uh. Now we're airing this today. Don't forget.
We're saving this to air the day it's out. Yes see, Creedy,
(44:18):
that's right, I'm doing you a solid. We're holding it
till the day so people can hear this and immediately
go right over and start streaming the new Creed Bratton album.
See just just added out that, Hey, let me let
me end with this. Is it? Is it true? And
I'm gonna ask the whole question because it may be
a dumb question that you almost got let go on
(44:39):
season two of the Office for real, because what I
read was between you and another background character, but that
guy bowed out because he had just booked a play
in New York. Any truth to that? Yes, yes, and
uh obviously shot that all that that fix to have
page we've seen would be to give me the shot.
But he hadn't seen two and uh so they weren't
(45:02):
really sure. Uh but luckily I I made the cut
and thank god for that. It was wonderful way it
turned out. But that was that was that was the uh,
the rubicon that I had to cross that scene with
Keith Grill to prove my my my chop, my comedic chops.
And luckily I got through the audition six s as
(45:26):
as we let you go, My friend, what's the line
you're known most for? What's your favorite line of the
line that people quote back to you that you said
during the show. They screamed from the audience, especially when
I'm singing all the faces, all the space, I'm singing
this ship. You can hear a pin drop and the
back guy O party, Oh what hard feel like you
(45:49):
do a fucking start, willness, I'm singing this song, you
know well, Craive, thank you for the time. Congratulations on
another record. I'm big fan and I'll check it out today.
Remember today t O D A Y. The record comes
out even though we're taping this earlier. Uh it's called
slightly Alter from Creed bed and Hey, Creed, good to
(46:10):
talk to you. I hope you have a ton of
success and hopefully I'll see a live around Nashville or
some other place. I hope. So, Bobby, Hey, thanks for
having me. I appreciate it, buddy. All right, By Creed, Bye,
take care Bobby. By guys, how are you man? I'm
doing good man. Yeah, I missed you at the Opry.
I you know, I had to leave. Is the one
(46:31):
show I really want to I mean a lot of
those shows I want to see, but a lot of
those folks are my friends and I get to see
them all the time. But when you and Brad were playing,
I had to leave town and I was so disappointed
that I missed you. What was that like for you
playing an empty Opry room? Well, you know, we've gotten
the gun you used to play in earty places now,
so it's kind of normal. Isn't that weird? That's a
(46:53):
normality of Brobbly freak out. I'm gonna play up of
clips here. By the way, Kemo was on with us
five time Grammy Award winner First One Back in the
most recent Grammy Best American Album for Oklahoma'm gonna play
a song, uh this is Oklahoma right here, so you
can hear that with sunsheping through the phase Jesus stay away.
(47:30):
I'll ask you about winning a Grammy, like is it
cooler the first time you win it or the last
time you win it? The first time the first time
I won one, it was kind of like wow, you know,
you know, But the fifth one it was like, really,
holy crap. I was. I wouldn't expect him to get
(47:53):
that one at all. I meant one of you sit there,
you want it, but you can't expect it because you
get your feelings when they do the nominations. Are you
just chilling at the house and you get a call
and go, hey, cab, you were nominated for a Grammy?
Is that how you get You're told that no, no,
I go no, we suit up. No for nominations. No no,
(48:13):
not for the show. Yeah, like when whenever they announced
the nominations because the recent category was Best American Album
and they listened to all the albums, Like, how do
you find out you were actually nominated for a Grammy?
My wife killed me? How does she even know? Is
that is that on Twitter? Like they just throw it
up there or is there some secret call you get
between between my manager and her and I have. I
(48:37):
have a hard times a hard time with that. So
because I'm always working at the moment, my mom is
trying to come up be good enough to be a musician.
So at every time I need like, oh can you
blew it again? Man? Wow, I'm gonna play this song here.
This is one of my favorites. This is called this
is My Home. Tell me about this song, Kevin. That's
(49:15):
a song about immigrants, because we're all immigrants in this
It's about acceptance and it's about people's personal stories and
uh and just um, just tell a story that need
to take what you can take it, like the warning.
I was watching some of your Instagram stuff and it
(49:35):
just seems like there's a lot of guitar and a
lot of different guitars everywhere. I look like, oh, yeah, yeah,
how do you even keep track? How many guitars do
you have? Do you even if would you recognize your
own if someone put a few in front of you, Like,
how in the world do you keep all those going gus?
And so um um? But I just I use them all.
You know that the tools. It's like having a lot
(49:57):
of scoot drivers a lot of hammers. They're different to
do different things. But but you, man, I mean you,
you know what you know. I saw you on the
dance with the Start your dance with my my fa
Milo Milo. Man. I know Milo, Yeah, he should have
beat me. He been in second I know Milo, Well,
good kid, man, I know, dude born Yeah because with
(50:21):
the mom Yeah, I got to spend time with Cameron
too up there. And you know, there are some nice
people and what a cool folks to man. I gotta
say that you got some swagger. That's all I'm gonna say.
Did you vote against me? Did you vote for Milo?
I alright, alright, I like the outcome. No, no, I
like the outcome. I like to watch the outcome what
(50:41):
actually happened. And I'm going you know, my thought was
realised with you, like you know, you brought it something there.
You taught Milo a lesson, you know about bringing it. Well,
he was a much little better dancer. Great, he's a
great dancer. But but this is there's a certain little thing.
(51:08):
There's a lot of piano players, but some people in life.
I have this thing I call the thing you know,
you call it just swagger. You know, it's just a
certain a certain kind of gifts of communication of passion
that makes them rise above you know, not being good.
It's not enough. And that was the lesson that you
(51:31):
taught everybody. A enough about me. I appreciate that. Enough
about me, I got a lot. I'm not like I
told you, I'm done with me. I'm so over me.
Let me ask you this, Let me ask you this.
I was watching some clips on YouTube. It was probably
like two thousand twelve. You guys are all to White
House and it was it was a PBS special. I
(51:52):
was watching clips and I just wonder if you're like
the music star and you're performing, because it was you
bb King, Buddy Guy and Warren Haynes, You're all performing. Like,
what is secure any like for superstars when they go
into the White House? Is it the same as like
normal folks security? The superstar nobody cares about you. They
only care about the president. So you go through the
same everything, metal detectors, frisks. It's like going to the
airport with the background check. What was that like playing
(52:19):
in the White House? That was that pretty cool? It
was awesome. It's awesome because in the White House and
plan for the President first Lady and the Tigertarians being
in what they called the People's House. It's something I
didn't know about you because because I am a fan by,
something I didn't know is that you're the Mike and
Molly theme song. Guy. I had no idea. Yeah, that's
(52:40):
that's myself and Josh Kelly. I mean you had to
make some money off that, right, getting a big TV
show like that show made some serious like multiple seasons,
it's you every episode, like come come on, you get
the house on Mike, Michael Molly, Right, it's my my
guitar had Yeah, well listen, I hope everybody goes and
(53:04):
and if they don't know you yet, you know that
this was a reason for them to check it out.
Let me ask you this too, because I know you
run name is Kevin. The people call you Cab or
Kevin like you're close friends. But I've come to realize
that my real name is Cab ho Um because you know,
actually like you know, not to not to be I'm
(53:26):
accused of being too political. I'm not political. I'm just
very historical. And since you know that since you know,
Kevin Moore is not my name. That was the name
boy was given to me by slave owner, and so
that's not my name. Well, Kevin, I appreciate your time.
I'm a big fan. Hope everybody checks out the new stuff. Okay,
(53:48):
you're bad, I tell you. I saw you. Stop it,
stop it, enoughing enoughing you man. Kevin'm sorry I didn't
get to see you in person. Big fan, and now
hopefully I see around soon. Be safe. All right, thank
you for thank you for them. Thank you so much.
All right, yeat see man. H
Host
Bobby Bones
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