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Jessie Jo Dillon (@JessieJoDillon) has penned songs recorded by some of the biggest names in today’s music, including Dan + Shay, Maren Morris, Old Dominion, Cole Swindell & many more. She's had 21 cuts since January 2023, and 32 in the last 12 months. She talks to Bobby about how some people were mean to her because her father, Dean Dillon, was a famous songwriter, and how she wasn't taken seriously in the beginning. Jessie Jo Dillon also shares what it was like getting her first major cut recorded by George Strait, and now having some of country's biggest artists record her songs. She'll also explain why even though she was the 2019 winner of Songwriter of The Year, she doesn't like to perform at writers rounds and why she once ran away from the idea of becoming a songwriter. Jessie also shares what needs to go into a song to make it a hit and more! 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
She was like, Hey, we got to go back to
my hotel. I want to play you something. I had
no idea that even.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Didn't tell you yet.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Cut the song.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Right, We're standing in this room Niche, Alex, Mike, and
Dan and he's like, guess who's on ten thousand hours
with us?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
And I was like who? He said, Justin Bieber. Who know.
It's like, shut up, that is ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome to episode three ninety five. Jesse Joe Dylan. This
past year has been insane for her. I had to
actually tell her how many cuts from other artists that
she's had.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Didn't even know. She was like, oh, wow, because that
doesn't feel good. You'll hear it. She's like, yeah, it
feels pretty good. I said, do you know?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
She's like really, see, that's how you know things are
hitting Jess right. But I liked her because even then,
you know, like everybody, regardless of how much success you
have or success you don't have, you kind of still
feel like what you felt like before. She's like, oh, really,
I know I don't really feel like but really cool conversation. Now,
let's talk about her notable releases. Ten thousand Hours. She

(01:03):
wrote this, Dan and Shay with Justin Bieber. We talked
about when a song was pop.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Because that song had so so so many streams, still
does Old Dominion Memory Lane, which.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is on the chart right now. It's number fifteen or so.
Cole Swindell Break Up in the.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
End, even though We break Up was Grammy nominated, ACM nominated.
Maren Morris Rich.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
In twenty ten, she got a Grammy nomination for her
very first cut, which is why it's like a okay,
rookie year. Let me just take away my home run
first bet bat. That's what rarely happens. So it was
a song that she wrote with her dad and Casey
Bethard called The Breath You Take That George Strait recorded.
The song was nominated as Best Country Song. At the
twenty eleven Awards ceremony. She had to be like, well

(01:59):
this is easy. Yeah, well this is all it takes
pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's her story.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
It's her born and raised in Nashville, moving off, trying
to avoid what's in Nashville as far as like the
music scene, and then going you know, I'm meant to
do it, and then she moved back. Her dad is
Dean Dylon, who a couple of years ago in the
Country's the Hall of Fame. Wildly famous and successful songwriter.
But man is a great talk really enjoyed the time

(02:26):
with her. Here she is Dun Dun du Jesse Joe
Dylan follow her at Jesse Joe Dillon.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
So I had the old dominion guys, we're rolling by
the way, We're okay, We're good. We had the old
dominion guys in my favorites.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
We were talking about their latest single, Memory Lane. Yeah,
and you'd come up even in that conversation. He'd come
up so many times with so many people. And then
Mike and I were talking. We was like, we should
just get her in here. She keeps coming up over
and over again. So with you and writing with the band.
When I interviewed the band, mans are difficult to interview

(03:01):
because if there's not just one main person, Yeah, you
got to like pay equal attention to everybody, right, And
it's like make sure everybody feels like they're when you
write with them.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Do you have to deal with that a little bit too?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
You know some bands, for sure, I'm thinking of some
those guys. I've known them so long, and you know
there is some dynamics in there, but they're all just
such great songwriters that we wrote two songs that day
and it was just kind of the volleyball. I mean,

(03:36):
it's like playing volleyball when I feel like everyone's really
on just that.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Do they feel like do they just jump into because
again they're individually they're all great songwriters yea in that group,
so they all feel comfortable where it's not the band
dynamic so much as it's just four really strong songwriters.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yes, more than it's.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Old Dominion and it's you and Old Dominion. It's you
and four equ like peers, yes for sure.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, and being pretty tight with all of them severally
and then together it just felt it's just one of
those great days where everybody just, I don't know, songs
just appear.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
It's weird.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Do you feel like you're the word's not peaking now,
but do you feel like you're in your prime prime?
Because everything right now from the outside looking at it
looks like you're just crushing it like data. And I'll
read this everybody, they already know I'm insane. But just
this year of twenty twenty three, you've had twenty one

(04:29):
cuts in the last twelve months, you've had thirty two.
So in the from January to now, you've had twenty
one cuts, but twelve months a full year, h like
may like last.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, you've had thirty two cuts.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
That's I don't think I knew that.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Does it crazy? It doesn't feel like it's just constantly
you know.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's funny you asked that because I was.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I was talking to my publisher yesterday and I was
just in Florida on a writing trip with Tyler Hubbard
and Jess Fisher and Gorley and some friends in Florida,
and I'm such an ere by nature that he's been
telling me like.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
We're getting there, we're going, We're going.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Alex my publisher, and this weekend. It's funny you bring
it up too. I'm like, maybe something's happening. Because I'm
feeling really good about my work and a lot of
new artists I really love and getting to work with them.
I feel excited, kind of like I did when I
first started.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Megan Maroney was in I love her. Yeah, and we've
been lucky enough to know her for a while too,
because she's blown up it's crazy, Yeah, and we were
lucky enough to be like, oh, man, she's good. So
we had her in last year and we were kind
of breaking.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh wow you yeah, you got in there.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
So what was cool was I already knew her and
I didn't feel like I'm just going to call somebody's
blown up. And because she's so I was like, Megan,
we won't talk to you again. She's like, great, she
comes in. She plays girl in the mirror.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes it.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
And I remember just talking to her about her being
just a real songwriter, not that there aren't real not
that people aren't reals, but you could tell she takes
it seriously. And I could tell she took it seriously
mita first time. But I said that song, I'm not
even a girl, and I like, a I feel that,
And she shouted you out too, in the same way.

(06:08):
But that song is really good, like to the point
where I'm jaded and I still get like little bumps
every once in a while, and that was one of them.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
That was the case.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Man, that means a lot to me. Come over, you
hear so many songs. She is a very real song in.
I mean she came. That was the first time we met,
and I think I feelks she's my little sister or something.
I think we're a similar person and relationships, and she
had that idea and I remember being just like damn

(06:37):
even and as the day went on, you know, it
was just she I just am so proud of her,
and like you said, she does take writing very seriously
and loves country music, and that song, I think we
both kind of bled into it a little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
You can see the blood, you can feel the blood.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, in the best, most vulnerable way where you're like,
I'm gonna say everything. It's going to be uncomfortable, but
then everybody goes, oh, you're so uncomfortable, it makes me
comfortable type thing.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Right, Yeah, I do think songs can do that. It's
crazy with her too.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think she gets a and I mean, this is
the best way.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
I think she gets a raw deal because she is pretty, yes,
and she has blonde hair, yes, and people are just like, well,
she must be just a polished product totally. But that's
why I was just so set on emphasizing to my
audience that she is such a songwriter.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh, she is the real deal and always comes in
we've written since then, always has ideas and is very
aware of her perspective and her fans.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
That's what I told her too, Like she knows who
she's talking to and why she's talking to them, all
what she wants to say to them.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yes, And a girlfriend of mine was just one of
her shows last weekend and she sent me a video
and it's pretty nuts.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I mean, I know.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Tennessee Orange and some songs and Girl in the Mirror
and then I'm Not Pretty, which also I'm a fan
of all her songs.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'm not on, Like I've listened to I'm.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Not Pretty probably one hundred times, right, But she had
the whole audience was singing every word and Shanna, my friend,
was like, man, I haven't seen this with a new
female in a long time.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
It was pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Just I'm just so happy for her because she is
such the real deal. You always want to see that
win and sometimes it doesn't, and I'm happy that it's
winning and I feel like it will continue to do it.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Not to stay on Megan, but I feel like you've
been such an instrumental part of her, of her being
a credible songwriter, because you can't get in with you
unless you who is so established, Like you're not just
gonna hop in a room with anybody, right. I think
that's a big deal for Megan to be, like for
you to write with her.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
But something about her.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
And I have another old menu question. But yeah, she
came in and she was sick and she was gonna perform.
I was like, you don't have to perform, Yeah, like, absolutely,
don't perform. If you're not feeling good, do not perform.
She's like no, She's like, I have to perform. I
can perform, and she freaking ripped out two songs. Cheat
dang go Megan, Yeah, whatent to a different key? Let's
go saying it? And it was great, but so like

(09:03):
almost like a professional, and it's been a professional for
a while.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, I got older than she is. She does is very.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Much and she was she a marketing major? Is that
what it is?

Speaker 4 (09:15):
When she was a she was she was something like that.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I feel like you can really see that in her too.
It's very very professional, very Okay, this is I see
where I'm going with this. Whether you guys want to
believe in me or not, like, this is where this
is the direct direction I see it going.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I love that she did it when she was sick.
I can see her doing that.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Yeah, she's fine to Earlier, you were talking about you
wrote two songs that day with Old Dominion, So uh and.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Did you did you write them both quick or did
you stay late?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
We actually wrote them both pretty quickly, which all days
or not like that, as you know too, having so
many writers in here.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
But it was and.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Both are obviously ones on the radio. The other song
I love a lot too. They it was just quick.
Everybody was in the zone that day. And I never
know what to attribute that.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
To, but if they were quick, I think some of
it were probably Looking at your dad, I have be
attributed to you, I mean, just by all the you
ever go in and you're just not you're just not clicking.
Because I have those days and I rely on people
to help me click.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
This makes me feel better say that I've had some
a lot recently actually.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
And then you know what killed there'll be a great
show and man, what a funny And I'm like, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Like I was there, but I really didn't. It wasn't me. Yeah,
that's yes, And so I get the credit just because
it's but.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
In reality, I wasn't clicking that much and everybody else
kind of carried the thing.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
That's so true because it you do, then for me,
I'll lean heavily on co writers and they would say
the same thing, like oh you were bad.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
It's like, don't lie to me.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Then I feel guilty that the credit and I'm like,
we don't understand. It was mostly bothers you for days.
Do you ever have you ever competed against yourself on
the chart?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
I feel like break up with You in Maybe and
Rich were out at the same time, but I don't
think they were near each other.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
If I remember, they weren't batting.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
I was not Morgan Wallen right now.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Two songs of yours that I thought should have been
number ones were Rich by Maren I had in my
second book, I wrote, I had a playlist that I'd
do before i'd go out, and a new stand up
so before I'd go out on the stage, and I'd
go in theater and be mister hello. I'm very introverted
until it's time to be extroverted, yes, and very one
very the other.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, I really always flower fly on the whatever they say.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, I noticed when I came in you were quiet.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I got nothing to say.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
I say stuff all the time, but when I got
nothing to say, I don't say anything, and so but
Rich and there was a snoop song, but Rich was
on my playlist of songs I would listen to because
it really it really pumped me up, like I loved it.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
And then I played it a bunch on the air.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yes, but I was so surprised that that song was
not and Brett's songs about you, that song hurt.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
That song is like an A plus song.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I love him so much best friends. Yes, he's told
me that he loves you so much. I mean obviously
you know, but.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
That one, thank you. I I just find out now
Brett love me too.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
He loves me too, thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Last time I saw him, he was talking about you. You
guys have just done something or Donner or something I
don't remember.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
He's kind of the only person to hang out with,
like Brett and I hang out twice a week at least.
I love that, right because he he's very introverted.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
He's very introverted, very particular, one of my favorite particular.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, we'll leave it to that, very particularly.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
What time are you going to bed tonight?

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, if you're listening, well, he will be when you
have these songs come out, And I mentioned some of them,
and I'm gonna get to a bunch more. Do you
ever feel like you want to release your own version
of it like Laurie McKenna will do occasionally?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know, No, I don't think I.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I've had a lot of people ask me weirdly, it's
also weird question keeps happening if I want to make
a record ever, and I've never really wanted to until
the past year. I went out to when Brandy Clark
was cutting her latest record that's coming out with Brandy
Carlo into Shangri Law in Malibu, and I was so

(13:18):
inspired by that place, and I thought, I wonder if
somebody I'd want to make just a project, even if
it's just for me, But I think I would want
to write, hunker down and write for it instead.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Of cuttings, taking songs that you've written.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, that either were released or even ones I love
that weren't. I don't know, but probably won't ever happen
with this.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
I was talking to Brandy I don't know where it was,
because she loves you too.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
She's awesome, I mean, yeah, she was. When it comes
to like folks like I love brand she feels awesome,
so I saw her. She was like, you know, you
just mentioned Brandy's producing the record, and so is that?
Is it really good? Yes?

Speaker 4 (13:54):
It's crazy because I said, don't. I don't want to
hear anything until it's all there.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Okay, you listen to the song's two songs.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
I won't listen because, okay, I usually don't listen to
music early anyway, unless I'm close to the person.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Right.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
However, I told her, I want to hear it, but
I want to hear it all because Brandy also is
someone who will go A to Z and it's all
in the package. Yes, And so I want to hear
the whole package from her because I like her.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yes? Is she?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
And maybe I should frame the question like this, who
are your close confidants in the industry that you can
lean on when you're sad or happy or suck or
killing it?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Brandy, for sure, she's like my sister, is my very,
very best friend.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I actually just told her. I was like, oh, I'm
going to do this. You's like want tobom me? I said, Hi,
but who else? My publisher for sure, Alex Settle.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Were you guys close before you started working?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah? We were friends and then it.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
The two deals that I had before this. I we're
kind of like, not the best deals, but I'm thankful
for them because I met Brandy, Shane Matt ultimating guys
for sure. And then when it was time for my
deal to come up, he had gone to Big Machine
and him and Mike were like, please come here. Ler
Velt's who I write a lot with. Chase mcguill. My dude,

(15:23):
he's like my brother.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
What about Chase to you? So cool?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
You know, we met a long time ago and we
both love country music, traditional music, but then we also
bonded over we love like old the Connor Overs, Susan
Bright Eyes, Brand New this like punk kind of singer
songwriter band. We just really bonded over music. And he's

(15:47):
such a good writer, such a cool dude.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
We kind of have like just always had a connection
like work like writing songs wise and friendship wise.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
When you mentioned Alex your publisher, and I asked about
that dynamic, like I am really close now to I
have two dual managers, Okay, and I don't think I
would have. But we're together or talking about something or
creating something or it's all well all the time. Yeah,
And it has made us very close. And I wonder

(16:21):
if the publisher relationship with the writer is like that,
if one you're doing awesome, and two if they believe
in you so much, and I mean it's just an
organic If you're doing well, he's doing well, and you
also like each other, does that just make you closer?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
It sounds like yours, And I think I mean you
talk to them so much, like I talked to him
every day without multiple times usually. And although I don't
know if you were friends with your managers outside of.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
That ever, I was not before I knew them, Okay,
but I wasn't friends with them.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Does it ever?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Because sometimes when I'm pissed off about something or he's
pissed off.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
In me about something you have, it's tough.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
It's like the people that work on my show there.
I brought him on my radio show because I was
great friends with them right but beforehand.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
But I also have to be the boss.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yes, and there's that professional relationship slash dynamic that at time,
and it's great now we've been doing it like sixteen
seventeen years, Like I took people from that are awesome.
I'm at a restaurant, and so we've been doing it
for so long. But yeah, it gets it gets difficult
because most other times it's so easy.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, exactly, and when it really We've had moments before
I've thought I should not have just said that, or
I wish I maybe you should have addressed this in
a different way, like because it's your friend, and I mean,
I feel like me and my whole family. Rudy's pretty
hot headed, so sometimes I have to check myself. But
I'm trying to get better than that therapy, I guess.

(17:53):
But yeah, it's an interesting thing. But I don't I
really don't know what i'd do about him. I have
to credit him for things even going so well, because
I mean, ever since I've come over there, he just
was like, I believe in you so much and I'm
going to make this happen and we can do it together.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
And yeah, how much of a factor is he in
your with you professionally?

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Like does it I.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
Know the answer to this, but I'm gonna ask it
really in an uneducated way.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Does it matter who your publisher is?

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I definitely think so.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think most more even than just the company, it
matters if you have a person this is I would
tell any new writer or a writer that's like, my
shit's not popping?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (18:40):
If you have a person that really believes in you,
I feel like at it. I mean everyone says ten
your town, and I do think that's true. But eventually,
if there's someone as your partner, it's gonna work if
you are talented, and I'm which anyone I feel like
that has a publishing deal is probably talented. So I

(19:02):
feel like, yeah, I mean he I mean, there's so
many people I wouldn't know if it weren't for him
who are good friends now, but like Dan and Shay.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I sort of knew Shay, but I.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Didn't know Dan and uh, Brett like getting me with Brett.
I mean Alex, who is now such such a dear friend.
There's so many artists. He's very good at at that.
He's uh, he's a Willing and Dylan kind of guy.
But he's sweet. So it never comes across as like
the business I'm always trying to do make some like

(19:36):
business move.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Like I you shoot guns, always say willing and.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Sam? Right, So it does matter.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yes, I think so that I was like, how did Yeah,
it does matter. I think if having a person that's
that really, whether it's a writer, manager, whether it's your
publisher or whatever, I think it's so important.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
I see that with artists too.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Where they'll get storry eyed about a big manager that
has big clients, and sometimes they are great for an artist,
but other times I'll think, gosh, I hope they have
someone over there in like a day to day that.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
They don't get lost. Right, it's easy to get lost.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yes, especially if they have someone so big that it's
a twenty four hour a day.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
That's who they're going to focus on.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Because the benefit is, let's just say I'm a new
artist and I get on with Luke Brian like Carrie's manager.
Luke and I go and I'm like, I'm a new artist,
and carries like I'd like to manage you. Well, the
benefit is you have a lot of leverage with Luke.
Heck yah, Luke's on new tours. Are going to be
on the tour. But what's tough is Luke twenty four
hours and you're probably not going to get that attention
unless Carrie goes, I've got this other day to day

(20:52):
that it's going to manage you and hopefully that relationship
is great and hopefully the other day to day.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well they got to make money, yeah, and making a
lot off you right away, right, So yeah, it's kind
of a sensitive situation.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
And yeah, I mean it's find your champion. It's like
a relationship or something. I find your person or whatever.
I think that's one of the biggest things for artists
and songwriters alike, because it's so symbiotic when it feels right,
because I spent years having it not be and so
when I found Alex and Michael Olnar, it just it definitely,

(21:28):
I feel like has changed my life.

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This is the Bobby Cast. Have you heard any of
the AI songs?

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, I mean a few of that.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
You know what I'm and writers I know right now
and if any of you end up listening to this, no,
I'm talking to you. Why are you even messing with
that as a joke. I'm like, yo, please stop missing
using that. It's gonna take our job.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I hope not.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
But like the Drake in the Weekend song.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, I haven't heard that, but I have already talked about.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's really good. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, it hits pretty hard.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
I wish you guys could please.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm sure you can find on the computer to get
or something. They pulled it down from everywhere they did.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, the Luke Bryan was pretty bad, and even Luke
admitted it was like bad bad.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Its good? Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I was thinking of that chat GPT thing that people
have been like, Oh, I type this thing in to
see if it could write a song.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Oh have you done it yet?

Speaker 3 (22:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Watch this.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
This me either, but I messed with it all the time.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
You too.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
But you can say to anything.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
For example, I'm gonna say, but yeah, you're right, this
is like super slippery.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And also who owns it? If you use it? Yeah?
Use it?

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Okay, I'm gonna go write me a rap about Bobby Bones.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Watch this. So let's see. Here we go. It's thinking,
it is thinking, y'all.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I got a story to tell about a radio host
that's known quite well. He's the king of country, the
man with the mic. You know who I'm talking. It's
Bobby Bones, right, he started out in.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Our It'll just do the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
This is crazy.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
King of country though? I mean, that's a pretty good line.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I did, I know rightly.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
I was like, dang, that's good.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
He's the king of country. Uh the ten thousand hours,
which is hours? You know.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
I know Dan and Shape rather well. We moved down
about the same time and friends a long time, and
you know that song by itself was going to be amazing. Anyway, Yes,
when you heard that Bieber was going to get on it.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
I mean sometimes I still can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
And the way that it happened is a memory I
just never will forget. I was in New York with Alex,
my publisher, doing a some kind of panel I don't
grammy panel maybe and Dan I like posted something on
my story and he responded to it and was like, Yo,

(24:19):
are you in New York? I really want to see
you today? And I was like, yeah, I'm with Alex.
Let's all meet up. So we ended up going to
this like sports bar some guys were watching games or something,
and then he was like, Hey, we got to go
back to my hotel. I want to play you something.
I had no idea that even cut the song. I'm

(24:40):
assuming at this point though, I'm like, oh, maybe they
cut ten thousand hours.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh my gosh, just Dan and Shay. Yes, got it.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
So we get to the hotel.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
We're standing in his room, Niche, Alex, Mike, and Dan
and he's like, guess who's on ten thousand hours with us?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
And I was like who, He's said.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Justin Bieber and it was like, shut up, that is ridiculous.
I was like, for real, though, I want to hear it,
and he was like, no, he's really on the song
and I was like, I was a dude, no, blah
blah blah. I did not believe him. And finally he
just put headphones on my head and it already sounds
so great from the top. I was like tearing up.
And then when he started singing, I mean I just cried.

(25:21):
I mean, there's like video of it wherever. We're all
freaking out, but it is like one of my favorite memories.
I still can't believe it, really, I don't think sometimes is.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
That like a different ballpark financially when it goes pop?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yes, for sure, and that song Like Hardy even texted
me when they were just in Australia and he was like, bro,
I'm in.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
This coffee shop and they're playing ten thousand hours.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
It's crazy just because it's like, actually I think it
is New Zealand. It wasn't even Australia because it's been
out a while now, but that and that's a difference.
I think too that having someone like Justin on a
song it becomes so international where country I mean maybe
some country stuff does that. I had never had country
stuff that did that, but it definitely is different money wise.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
If you get on a pop chart.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Is there a song that obviously another artist is known for.
They may have written with you, or you may have
written it and then it got to them, but it's
very personal to you. But it's just somebody else singing it.
Oh yeah, Meaning it's about your thoughts, not just because
you're so close to it because you wrote it how

(26:31):
you're feeling. But I mean, it's like if you were
singing a song, and that'd be the song you would
sing because it really represents who you are.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I think.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Actually, a Brandy you haven't heard it yet, but she
wrote a song just the two of us that's she
put out a month ago.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Maybe it's called Buried.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
We wrote it last year, I think in the spring,
just at her that is song. It's hard for me
to listen to that song because I had gone through
a really brutal breakup. Is completely gutting to me, and
it's still hard for me to She sounds amazing. I mean,

(27:16):
the way they recorded her vocals even was a really
cool thing that Brandy Carlile did. But it's that one's
really hard because it feels so personal.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
That it makes I don't know that one's hard.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
What do you do? You do the song right A rounds?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
I'm kind of like, I'm kind of shy, and I
even coming in here today, I was nervous, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Okay now though, yes, yeah I'm super warm, right yeah
you are, like yeah, yeh.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yes you are. But I get I get a rash.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
I might even have it right now when I get
hot or nervous. I remember when I was trying to
get a publishing deal back when I was like twenty one,
I had.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
I was sitting across from.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Frank Lydell songs on my guitar and I went into
the bathroom and it was so bad, like I was like,
he probably didn't hear anything.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
I just did.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
He watched this rash crawl up me like I'm the
Walking Dead or something like. She So I hate the
long story. Short rounds kind of scare me, but I don't.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Because I've never seen you play around and not that
I go to many of them now, but I've been
a few and I've played and if you do some
of my comedy stuff, yes, but I never played with
you or seen you play one.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I know. Maybe I need to make myself do.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Chase actually texted me the other day about doing private
stuff and he was like, dude, like, come on, let's
just go do it together like Jesse and Jr. And
we make money whatever, and it's really good to get over.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
I know, that's what he said.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
You have big songs. You have really big songs and
a lot of them. It's really good, easy money. Hard
to get those offers, right, it's really if.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's what he I know. And have you ever taken
beta blockers?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
No, you probably don't thought about it.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, me too for golf though, but because I can, Yeah,
you get two DUTs.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Really that's your nerve wracking.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Like I can walk out on stage do a bunch
of new comedy for two thousand people.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I know some of us gonna bomb. That's okay. I'm
not nervous. I can do radio, be on live TV.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
All good.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Because I've played it and I've failed so many times.
I know the worst case is going to happen. I
can get through it, no big deal.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I like, if I'm playing golf, Yeah, it sucks because
I'm like I'm shaky at crap. Yes, so I've thought
about that. Are you thinking about taking one for Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
For that, I've thought about it because it's it's not
like Xanax. Right, No, we were messes you up. Okay,
because I saw it literally on the Kardashians or something
I think, where they were like, just take a Bana
blocker and I was like, what is that? And then
I looked into it and now I'm like, maybe I
can do that to play more so I don't get.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
A rash or just go Xana go fulls.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Hands Fullanax, drink some whiskey.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Good scene.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, I'll be like my dad in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
I saw a TikTok he Dad that was so funny.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
By the way, I was talking about on the show
like two weeks ago, where he was talking about he
did a whole lead in about how he hates funny songs,
and then he goes out property.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, so so funny, such a.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Funny He's up there just you know, singing, playing and
then he's like, I hate funny songs, and George Strait
called and then here, well this song paid me a
lot of money, so I'm doing And so I just
thought it was so fun growing up in a house
where your dad that's I mean, he's celebrated for it.
And only does he do it, but he celebrated for it.
Did you always know that's what you wanted to do?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I think yes, but I didn't want to want to
do it. Yeah that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, Derek Walls, I don't know. You probably know Derek
guitar player. He amazing guitar player. He and I talked
about it a lot because we had a similar upbringing
that way, with his mom being a great singer, his
dad and step jobbing great guitar players. But I tried
so hard to not want to write, and eventually I just,

(30:58):
I mean actually moved to California for a year after
high school just to get away from where I was from.
Really and like yes, and I was working and I
met this lady that Kathleen Carrey. She was at Sony
TV at the time, and I would I would go
play her songs. And finally one day and I had

(31:20):
not talked to my dad about it at all, like
I don't think i'd played him any thing I'd done
at all at that point. And one day I was
in their meeting with her and she was looked at
me and was like, go home.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
I was like, dang, Kathleen, that's me.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Like about I was thinking like she didn't like song
or something, and She's like, no, I mean, you write
country songs and you're.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Good at it.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
I don't care who your dad is, I don't care
which complexes go try and figure it out.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
And so then I tried to do that.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
I guess I didn't think about the complex part of
it because that's heavy.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
No, yeah, it's still I mean there's still sometimes that
I don't know, it's weird. I think I'll think about
being like Sean Lennon or someone like that, Jacob Dillon.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
I don't even know what you do with that.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I really don't, you know, because I'm old enough now
where it's not really it's not really that. I'm so
proud of my dad, and.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
I don't even think about you dad. When I think
about you.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
That's so nice.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
And I don't know that I would have gotten over
to him. But you mentioned your dad in the eighties,
I was like, oh, yeah, I just watch a TikTok
by him. Yes, so that put me there. But I
don't think. I don't. I don't. I don't know that
I would or whatn't, But I don't. I don't think
about you and that being your dad when I think
about you. I don't know if that matters to you.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
It matters a lot to me, especially coming from me.
You know what I mean, it.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Does, I don't know it. To me, I know it,
but I don't associate those two.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
I think it would matter to him even too, because
he I know, he always was like, you've got to
stop when I was really young, because I had people
be shitty to me for what reason for being like
his kid and I really went existing well just that
they it was either the attitude of she's probably not
going to be good, she's only doing this because and

(33:03):
I went out of my way to not have my
dad be affiliated with me trying to get a deal,
or any guy just kind of tried I was so
conscious of him and what other people would think that,
so that was hurtful.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
And then I will never forget I had.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
To write with a guy I had idolized most of
my life early on in getting a deal, and he
was such a dick to me, and I couldn't figure
out during the first part of the rite what was
going on. And then he started saying things about my dad,
and I was saying, Oh, he has weird beef with
my dad, so I guess he's going to take it

(33:41):
out on me. And it was just such a bummer
of like the dometer heroes kind of moment. I'll still
have things certain times, not often, but I'll think with
some of the older cats, who are like a lot
of the people I respect the most, that I'll think,
I wonder if this has something to do with my
dad versus me.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
I don't know, Well, could be a different generation to
generation thing. I don't think about you and then think
about your dad, and when the people bring you up.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
I don't think about your dad.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
I wouldn't thought about your dad until you said my dad,
But yeah, that's gotta be.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
I talked to him this morning. I think is why
he's owned my brain.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
That's gotta be tough. Though.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Again, I mean I'm a therapy person, yes, and I
have my traumas for sure.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Actually the list is so long, it's like one of
those Santa Claus lists, you know, where aig on the spool.
But I definitely would Yeah, that would be that would
be a thing.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor.
Welcome back to the Bobby Cast.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
When you say don't meet your heroes, who have you met? Thought?
It was awesome? That was almost he wrote to you.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
I don't want to get emotional. I actually.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
He first was time thinking of his Keith Gaddis, who
he just passed away on Sunday, like unexpectedly. And he
was someone who I met him several years ago. And
I mean Keith was so cool, was just rated. Did
you ever meet him?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Just met him and didn't know him? Okay, what was
special about him?

Speaker 1 (35:22):
He just was the coolest he had. I don't it
sounds like whoo, but energetically, I mean the way he walked,
the way he talked. He was such a great songwriter
and such a great player. And I was so intimidated
when I first we first were meeting, I was like,

(35:43):
I want him to like me or whatever. And he
was someone who's always so great to me and was
a person who early on was like, hey, you're really
good at this.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Get over yourself.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
He gave me confidence, yes.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
And and he I think he he did that for
a lot of people, and he is. I mean else
Frito Place is a song I think any songwriter in
town probably is like, I would give my right arm
to have written that song and so many other songs
of his.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
But he was someone for me definitely.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
That was a good good meet your hero and became
a friend and another friend's husband and yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well I appreciate you sharing that. I know that's very
sensitive thing because he just passed away.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, but what about artists.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
You ever get in a room with somebody you're like,
this is awesome and then it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Oh let's see, I'm trying to think who.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
As you think I'll vamp and give you a couple
of mine? Oh yeah, you know for me meeting Dolly,
And there's no way Dolly can live up to what
Dolly always has, but she does. Somehow she does.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I can't imagine.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
And I've been able to do five six seven things
with her to the point where I can just see her.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
She's like Bobby.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
It's just like it's there's no way she can live
up to what I think Dolly is supposed to be
by all the interviews, TV shows, movie you go down,
But somehow right she does it. It's like when there's
no way Lebron was supposed to He couldn't have lived
up to the hype. Lebron could never live it up
to the hype when he was in high school. Plus
but he did. Yeah, Dolly's that it's unbelieved. Riba. You

(37:24):
meet Riba, you hang out with Riba. I've been lucky
enough to do some stuff with Riba, and you go.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Oh, I get it.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
Yeah, that's the thing that people want and you can't
build it, you can't create.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
But she has it. She also works hard and is
super talented. But the it, yes, Riba is amazing, amazing.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
So I'll ask you again, who have you got like
to write with or put in a room with? And
you're like, this is super cool and then they ended
up being super cool.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Gosh, I'm like thinking, my brain is thinking, there's so
many cool artists. I'll tell you someone who I mean
we're peers and now like friends. But it was I
will say it was a trip to me to get
to know and she's exactly what like I would have

(38:16):
is Miranda. I mean, she's such a g she's such
a great songwriter, she's so herself.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
I do. I love her a lot.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
I think that's a good one too, because Miranda and
I've been able to not get to know Miranda like
I have Reaba or Dolly, but I've spent some time
with Miranda, especially with animals, right, yes.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Like that's something we have in common.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
So that's something that we have done things together with
and about and Miranda. You have this image of Miranda
being like for real She's being like a for real person. Yes,
but sometimes, as you know, that ain't the reality here. Yes,
but it's super cool to know that that's how she exists.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yeah, I think she's just unabashedly herself, which I always
had loved her music so much, and so that was
really cool too. Like you're saying to know that, is
there anyone you haven't met that you would want to meet?

Speaker 4 (39:12):
It's a good question and this world, no, okay, but
there there are Like my hero is David Letterman never
got to meet him.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
I haven't got I mean, it's not dead. I've never
never got to meet him. So that one's we.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Got to make that happen. How can we make that happen?

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Here's the thing I have.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
He was the first person that I ever saw on
television that was goofy, a bit of reverent odd mm hmm,
didn't look like everybody else, And I was like, oh,
that that means I can do it. Yes, I mean
that literally watching this goofy tall white. But he's so cool, right,
And I am not cool.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
But if you are, you're yourself well, which is cool.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
If that's cool, then okay, I'm the coolest there.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
It is, I don't know, so that's to me, what's
what cool is.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
But he gave me the confidence to get it to go. Okay,
I can. I don't got to look like anybody else.
It does.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
But at the same time, I don't know if I
want to meet him because I don't want to be
let down because he's such a big part of all
that I do. So Letterman, I haven't met. I've only
met Adam Sandler on Zoom and that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Even that was really cool, right.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Okay, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
No way.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
So Adam Sandler to me was the comedy music and
you know I tour playing comedy music, and I was
just like, this is so funny. You can do stupid stuff. Yes,
and so I haven't met Sandler. Those are probably the
two big ones that I haven't met. You who have
you not met that you'd like to meet?

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Even here?

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, I can think of my number. John Henley would
be my number.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Which would be big Eagles fan.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yes, his writing too. I'm Boys of Summer is one
of my favorite songs of all time. And I and
now I'm scared to meet him.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I'll be scared. He was really nice to Brandy.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
But I hear some mixed mixed reviews there about don.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
I think I've heard mixed reviews of all the Eagles though,
but I think because they've just had their their seasons.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yes, I met Joe Walsh and the tood seasoning. Yes,
he kissed me on the cheek and said thanks baby,
because I was like, Joe, I'm such.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
A big fan.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
But I read his book and I was like, this
dude's got to be cool.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah, he was cool. It's exactly what he expected. He
was I mean, he was brief, but it was really cool.
I didn't wash my face for a week and.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
Yeah, hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back. Wow,
and we're back on the Bobby Cast.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
The Eagles? Are you a fan? Like listening? Like all
of it?

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Pretty much?

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I mean and their solo stuff, you know, and I
love them in his writing?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Do you know Vince at all?

Speaker 3 (41:54):
I've met Vince a few times.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I mean I asked because he's been goat he played.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
I went to that show here, did you? It was
pretty sick.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
It was awesome, and what I liked about it was
it was old, so they didn't scream the whole time.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
We just got to enjoy the show.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yes, and I loved watching all of the older people.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Like feel like they did. Yes, that was the best part.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
I saw, like people like making out.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
So I was like, it's in the seventies, man, But
it made me have so much joy.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
That's what I want to do in twenty years when
Creed's played, he can get up and dry hump my
wife and remember this. Yeah, yes, yeah, e Vince. And
also the kids, the son of which one that died
one of the Eagles was playing too.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Oh Glenn.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, that was It was such
an excellent show, so sick and so different than like
because I went to watch Morgan walland here nobody scream
the whole time. You can't hear anything. Yeah, the whole time.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
I know they had they recorded the whole thing on
their phone and they screamed the whole time.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
And it was like, yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
It's so good.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
It's so hard for me to enjoy the show because
I now that I'm not twenty two. I know, I know,
I just want to sit.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
I know.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
It's like ball games too though, so I'm like, you know,
I like going. I like watching them on TV now
too because I can get all the angles.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I'm completely with you in games, and I.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Feel like I because of that, because I've always been
like so, I just want to be there.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, but I'm with you. I don't think I don't
think we're it's you know what, I'm going to die
on the hill.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
It's better.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Sorry, it just says now I'm not going to commit
to better because I just don't want to get killed
on that hill. Keep me out of that can be
a hill. I'll put it. Diskuis on and go up
there with you hang out.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
What is your process as in I'm always thinking of
either show ideas or jokes or or funny song ideas
all the time in my phone.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yes, it doesn't ever shut off sometimes when you wanted to.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yes, you know when I'm like almost asleep.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Yes, and then then I then I have.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
To get up and write it in because if I
do the stupid thing where I go to sleep, I'm like,
I know I had an idea last night. Yeah, I
can't remember it.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yes, I had the worst feeling. And because you'll swear
this was the most this was the one one. Yeah,
and then or the ones you do write down, I
think it's the one you wake up, you go up
from your phone, like, get to it.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
This is trash, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
I've done too where I've woken up. I guess I
was kind of dreaming about it and I was like,
this would be so Funy'll joking out record a voice memo.
And so I listened back to it and I'm like,
this isn't this is never funny. That was ever funny.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Yes, I love in rights.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
When anybody, any of us, will hold turn it down,
hold it up to their own ear and it's.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Like play it for the class, let's hear how about
all the melody?

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Hear it? Yeah, it's just so they can know if
they want to actually share it.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Even with your.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Utmost homies, I feel like everyone's still like, like.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
You know, you have the notes, do what do you
put it? And you put in a notes app? Do
you put it in notes app? Yeah? Me too.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
I know. I'm like what's in here?

Speaker 2 (44:47):
And so?

Speaker 4 (44:48):
And mine's also you may be way more organized than
I am, probably, but I've got like for tiktoks I
want to do.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Oh, you're more organized than me.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, I'm pretty organized. I have to be. Yeah, I've
got song ideas.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I've got no not for you. These are stupid songs.
You can't have them.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
And if you saw it and you still want, I
will sue you. I have songs that I've written just
so I can be sure to play. So I've got
them all.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
You're really you are really organized. Mine is in the
middle of like stuff a grocery list and.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Then it's just all one here.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Or it's stuff that's done I haven't put in the
other Oh, I see those people and they freak me
out the most, like unter Felps.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Other day I think it was Hunter.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Sorry, oh no, it'll be like this is a song
that's done. But like his was an idea list where
it was all in the same document, like all these
song titles all just down the page, and I was like, bro,
you aren't even doing them like separate.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Oh you may, it's in one. He's got to scroll
to find it, search for it one.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Yeah. But then I kind of wanted to take it
from him and just scroll through it and be like,
what should we do.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
And what had he forgotten that he wrote that was
so good because it's lost in the new eyes could
probably go, yeah, it's great. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Are you a red dot person on your phone? Do
you keep text and emails or do you wipe them
off immediately?

Speaker 3 (46:05):
What is red I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
So your emails on the state light right here? Yeah,
since we've been talking, I've got three emails.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't keep that doing every one.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
No, I wipe them off me too. It means we're
done here. I will go through every text, yes, every email,
say I'm here.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Reply and if I can't reply, I know it's important,
I'll save it is unread.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Okay, you can do that now, which I would be
helpful for me and.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
I need to start doing.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
But then it drives me crazy until I get back
to it.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Yes, it's like, okay, I'm similar to you.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
I got the red dot people that when it's like
one thousands that freaks me out.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
I don't like, and then I feel like texting.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Sometimes if like someone posts a screenshot or something, I'm like,
is this a flex that You're like, I.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Have three hundred un read messages? You know what I mean?
I feel like maybe it is. Yeah, I definitely do.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
I rarely put my phone away, but when I do
for extended amount of time, I'll be like, I can't
wait to get back to my phone because I got
so many text messages.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
I'm so cool. And then it's like none.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
The worst feeling.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Nobody has text me like, I don't need to be reminded,
So that's why I keep my phone on.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Mostly I'll think it's not addicted to my phone. No,
I just don't like when I put my phone away,
but I'm.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Reminded of how big of a loser I am because
nobody text me it's the worst.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Do you think you could write a song? Let's say
my life depended on it.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
And I called you and I said hey, I said, look,
I'm already stressed. This guy's got a gun in my head,
and I need you right now. I need you to
write a song, a hit song for me in an hour.
You have one hour to do it. Can you write
a song? And it's got to go? You know, it's
got to be at least a top ten song on
the country chart. And if you don't, I'm gonna get
shot in the head. Do you think you could do
it in an hour?

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah? I would FaceTime Chase and be Bobby's going to
get shot. We have to do this.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
And what would you What are the elements that you
would put in a song that you know are are? Yes?

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Are so hard in the line? Like is it claps? Whistles?
Is it whiskey?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Like? What are the things it's like? Easily?

Speaker 4 (47:56):
I don't want to use the word generic, but I'm universal, Yes,
But with melody lyrics.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
You could make a hit. What are those keys?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Well? I definitely think it would be tempo. If I
was trying to get more guaranteed thematically, I feel like
we've gotten out of broke country and have moved into
like redneck country. So I would definitely like go into
that if it had to be.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Or if you're not done, I get shot too, Okay.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, and but you know what I say all that,
and I would look through my phone and if hopefully
I would have a great idea that had heart. I
still feel like songs. No, I mean, even if it
was tempo is maybe I till you can't vibe or something? Though, Yeah,

(48:47):
I think I could do it.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Do you did you write today?

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I did not.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
I just got back from that writing camp, and I
feel like there was one day we were I think
fire six songs. Yeah, I blame Ashley the Machine, Yes,
And I had told Alex I was like, dude, I
need a couple of days because I had done in
camp another retreat right before the one I just did,

(49:14):
and it was like we stayed up really late and
got a lot of songs too. So I've I've felt
a little fried. I'm still trying to figure out. That's
my biggest mountain I think is we would be curious
to ask you this actually taking figuring out how because
I kind of feel like I'm in a workaholics season,

(49:37):
but I feel myself starting to need to take some
time off. I haven't ever been able to figure out
yet what's my perfect you know, equation for how many
days a week I need to write?

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Or there's no such thing you think chasing it? Yeah,
there's And I say, this is someone who's not good
at it, But there's no such thing as that.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Not for you, no, not for me. No, But are you?

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Why do you think you want more balance or do
you just want to want more balance?

Speaker 1 (50:06):
I think I want to want more balance, yeah, because
I definitely am the person.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
I have other friends that are really good about it.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
If they get a call at the eleventh I're like, hey,
do you want to come do this, They'll be like, no,
I have to do X, Y Z.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
And I'm always the person's like, yes, I will.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I will at least in the season I've been in
lately for sure that it wants to go right.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Why do you think you want balance?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I don't know, I mean, but then maybe I don't.
I think I'm curious at the whole concept because I
do feel like songs are kind of just my life.
I don't know, I love I never get really sick
of working on songs.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
I feel the same way about work where but also
think I used work as a way to get away
from a traumatic past and it gave me a bridge.
I think I did that positive life. Yes, not in
the same place. So like I understand my relationship with
work and why it is so.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
But then I met my wife and.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
To her and she's got a master's degree and she's
got you know, she was she.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Is so smart and killed.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
But balance is so important to her because she has
a very healthy family life.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Like with her family, she had it growing up, it
was instilled, and I did not. I don't even have
a family.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
And so it's like two fists that punch each other,
not literally, but me trying to figure out what the
heck is his balance and her going how do you
not want to have some sort of balance?

Speaker 2 (51:37):
So it has been hard. It's been very hard for me.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
I know. I listening to you, I'm like, okay, this
makes a lot of sense to me now.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
That it's been very hard.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
But I listen, I could wake up at four open
the computer and then not go to bed until one
am and just then fold down the computer because but
I also love what I do.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Right, What time do you wake up every day?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
This morning? Probably three fifteen. It varies a little bit
depending on But what's hardest is when I'm doing shows
on weekends and I go back, Yeah, I'll go to
sleep at mid nine er one, and then I got
to flip back.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yeah, when you're having a normal day, what time do
you go to sleep?

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Do you have normal days?

Speaker 1 (52:14):
No?

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Okay, that's a hard question for answered. There is Yeah,
there's no normal No. I would say if I get.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
To bed bye, which is the beauty of it. Yes,
absolutely not complaining.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Yeah, if I get to bed by ten, wake up
about three or so, that's not healthy.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Have this or ring that's what Brett has. Well, that's
why I know about it.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Okay, Yeah, he told me about that. I was like,
I'm not getting that. I'll get anxiety from the ring.
Like from that ring.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I just watch it for sleep. It is a great
indicator of sleep.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
And so and I don't like jewelry, but yeah, Breadhead
of Forever and I was like my school and he's
like our cave.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Okay, and it's awesome. So you only look at the sleep,
yeah pretty much? Okay, Okay, that makes me I would
be curious how I'm sleeping, because I don't.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Think I sleep well.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
You don't know, why don't you?

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I think I don't know. Mine's always running.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
I feel like I shouldn't have my phone and I
will like messing with ideas or whatever.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
I think. Yeah, I feel like no one in my family.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Sleeps either, so I've started wondering if it's genetic. My
brother's reading some book about sleep. I think Brett has
read it too, actually, and he was telling me that
the day.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Well, this guy's in here talking.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
About if you're a night owl, that's just who you are, Like,
you can't it's really difficult to change.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
I thought it was kind of fascinating.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Probably my body clock.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
If I didn't have this morning show, I would go
to sleep about four thirty AM normally, and I would
wake up about twelve thirty or one pm.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
That would be me.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
That's me. Yeah, in my perfect world, it's just a
lot of stuff gets done before one pm that I
got to be a part of. Same, especially you. Yeah,
so that's what I would do.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Yeah, you feel like you're Do you feel like you're
successful now or do you feel like you're on your
way to being successful or do you think you'll ever
feel successful.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Knowing me?

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I don't know if I ever will. I would like to.
I feel like I'm feel proud. I guess good for
you of certain songs.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
What song you're proud of? What comes my first first song,
break up in Me good? I was gonna ask you
about that.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yes, I'm very proud of that song and I love
having it everything about I love that it's with Cole,
who's an old friend, and Chase and John. It's like
kind of one of those things everything Dana Shay actually
one of that songs, which is funny because Dan, when
we first became friends, we're talking about that.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
But it's definitely that song nominated for Grammy. I mean,
did you go yes? Pretty cool? It was?

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
That is?

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:39):
That that never. I mean, I would like to win sometime,
but we'll see.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
When you're there at a place like that. Do you
have imposter syndrome or do you feel like you belong?

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (54:46):
You do.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
I feel like I we have a I have it
really bad?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
But is it? But what's crazy? And I'll end with
this and I believe you. That's the thing. I believe you.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Yeah, because I see a lot of parallels and just
how we just consume out word in. But when you
say that and I read when we started this, twenty
one cuts since January first, in thirty two in the
last twelve months, that's just data you can't argue with, right,

(55:18):
That's I mean, that's how.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Can I still argue with it? I guess you do.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
So you'll never be satisfied until you learn how to
just live satisfied regardless.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Some My therapist tells.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
Me, Yeah, I don't know there, how do you?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
I was going to ask, I've listened to one of
your one of yours with Emily Wise Man. I remember
when you guys talked about it imposter sentamon. It was
the first time I'd ever heard the term. And so
it's kind of crazy you brought that up because I
was saying, I need to ask him about that.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
I love it how he's feeling. You're so still okay.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
And so my therapist constantly tells me, until you're you
don't feel imposter syndrome doing. I mean, you could fail
everything else and you still should not feel it. So
you're always going to feel it until you don't feel
it at all.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Ever.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Wow, And it's.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Like, oh, well, I'll just always feel it then, but
I know that's how I feel, so I'm just committed.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
There are certain people I wonder if they ever feel it.
I would like to ask Ashley that I should have
asked him that this weekend because I asked him a
lot of questions.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
But I would think so it's maybe not anymore. But again,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
They're something more successful confident people I've met that really
they question themselves constantly, wow, and they question if they're
worth it, and they question. But it makes me feel
good people admit to that because I don't feel so alone.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Same like to hear you say it makes me feel better.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I'm really happy for you.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
I mean, you're just you're you're annihilating the place, regardless
of how you feel about it. It's just so cool
to see if you've had massive success on different levels.
You have success that's bubbling now with the od stuff,
the the Brandy stuff I'm sure is going to be awesome,
but even you know, the Megan Maroney and the Jelly
Roll stuff, it's like, you're still.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
I'm excited about that. And Katie Auferman, who's new. I
love Katie, Okay her, you have to play it. I
think it's coming out in May. I just killed a
man our song. I'm really proud of that song.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Is that confession? I really like fession about you.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Would you kill?

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Who?

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Do I get right?

Speaker 1 (57:13):
I think that there's a lot of people guys I
can think of actually where I like out myself get arrested.
But you got to play that song because she's the
best deal.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Yeah, we play a lot of Katie. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Look what do your friends call you?

Speaker 1 (57:29):
By the way, Oh gosh, Jesse, jj jj D, Jesse, Joe,
j joe. I have a lot of nicknames, too many.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
You gave me too many options there.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I know, what do you want to call me? Jj J?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
I probably would have thought your friends would call you JJ.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
I get that and jj D.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
I get a lot I think, and I think, I
can't remember who really started that, but I do get
called that one most probably.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Well jj D. I feel like it's one too many syllables.
I really enjoyed this hour.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
I enjoyed it.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
Is so if you were nervous, you didn't act like it.
You didn't come off as nervous. Thanks for your generosity
and your stories and being vulnerable This is really cool.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
I love so just keep killing it. There she has you, guys,
follow her. Jesse Joe Dillon at Jesse Joe Dillon is
all you have, your name universally. Yes, good for you.
I know I did it somehow.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
Yeah yeah, Okay, that's it and until in another thirty
two cuts we'll do this again.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Yes, let's do it all right, all right bye

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
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