Randy Houser (@RandyHouser) sat down with Bobby Bones to share updates on his career. He reflected on the time he got dropped from his first record deal and was scared for the future of his career. Then, shares the moment he knew his first big song, "How Country Feels" would be a hit and game changer for him. Plus, he reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi and the family issues he dealt with. Randy also shared how he got into acting and what Leonardo DiCaprio said to him while on the set of 'Killers Of The Flower Moon.' He also shares what his current relationship with alcohol is and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
One of the things that I did when I moved
to Nashville is I didn't play live with a band
here for like four or five years. I just refused
because I was so scared that I would end up
in another cover band here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Episode four twenty five with Randy Hauser. I've known Randy
for ten years, but I haven't, like, no, known Randy
like he's always been and we've done some stuff together.
He's played charity shows for me very kindly. He's been
on the show a bunch, but I don't, at least
I haven't known known him like. We've never spent any
time together socially. That being said, I feel like this
(00:41):
is one of those times where I feel like I
got to know him a little bit. You guys are
oddly similar. Yeah, and I didn't know that. I didn't know.
I knew kind of a story and growing up Misissippi,
and but it's like he left and I was like, dang,
I like that guy, and I've always liked the guy.
But I felt like I would like to be that
guy's friend. So only two and you're too late, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Friend just now Randy Hauser at Randy Hauser he's got
four hundred and thirty three thousand followers, so he's got
a pretty big following on Instagram. If you you guys
want to go over and follow him, that's cool. But
here's the thing. He's got a new song called Cancel
that's out right now.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm a godfian man.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's got a role in The Killers of the Flower Moon,
which you saw has scene there, which is pretty cool.
He's also in a movie with Dennis Quaid. He just
wrapped up touring with Cody Johnson. He's got a tour
coming out in twenty twenty four. But let's go through
some songs real quick. Running out of Moonlight, Me and
you running out of a movie. This is a big,
old fat number one. I mean, this song reminds me
(01:38):
of us moving to town. It played all the time
when we first moved here. A good Night Kiss started
with a good like a cowboy on a sunny day,
and we went chails chosing. So that was four number
(02:01):
one from Randy Hauser. He's got an album, Note to
Self that's available now, and he wrote on every one
of the songs, You're gonna hear a lot of this stuff.
I mean, something we didn't talk about was and I
just felt like people probably always talk about it and
we were in a good spot. I didn't bring up
Honky Tonk, butdonkadonk oh yeah, and I don't I don't
know that he doesn't like talking about it, but it
(02:23):
was like I felt like we were on some real,
like sincere stuff. Hey what about that Honk talk? And
you know, just kind of felt weird to bring up.
But he co wrote that with Jamie Johnson and Dallas Davids,
and that was his first hit of the songwriter, at
least one of them. Randy Hauser, Here we go, you
guys again, follow him, go watch him. He's such a
powerful vocalist. Afterward, he texted me, and this has always happened.
(02:43):
He texted me, was like, hey, man, I just want
to say I think he kind of felt like I did.
It was like, oh, man, I think we like each other. Well,
we always liked each other. It's like I think we
like I don't know, want to hug and didn't. All Right,
here we go Randy Hawser, Randy Hawser, good to see you.
I did not know you were a golfer. Uh yeah,
(03:06):
I know, because you were in the hat, Yeah, which
is all hickory. I didn't is that? Uh? When did
you start playing golf at all?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I started probably twelve years ago, only because I was
so sick of sitting on my bus. I was just
fed up. Like everybody would go out golfing, and you know,
I didn't. I grew up in Mississippi where I grew
up there. You know, unless you had money, you didn't golf,
you know, so I sort of like in an odd way,
had like a affinity like just kind of was like,
(03:37):
I don't know people at golfer. I'm not in that.
But then I and then I then I went out
and just gave up, said all right, I'm gonna go
you guys, and boom, I was devastatingly hooked.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah for me, similar you know in Arkansas, you didn't.
I actually worked on a golf course. They never let
us play because I did maintenance. Yeah, and if you
were like one of the rich kids and your parent
was a member, you you got carts as your job,
but you got to play. Yeah, we never got to play.
And so then I had this guilt of playing golf
when I got older. Even saying I played golf, I
(04:12):
did too because I was like, I don't want to
seem like I'm rich. I don't either, because I was
embarrassed about it. Same and but.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Then I figured out the joy of it is is
that it's competition with yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Dude. That's it. I tell my wife too, is you
know we have whatever our our our personal needs are,
whatever cups we need to have filled, you know, whatever
terms you use, mine's I need my competition cup, Like
I have to have something that I'm striving to get
better at that isn't work, that isn't like my career.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, yeah, we spent so much time trying to be
the best at what we what we actually have made
a living do. And I think it's a great outlet
for people that have that do that and have done that,
which everybody does. But and I think that's wild. Golf
is so attractive people. I didn't know it then, but
it's it's yeah, had me for years.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Were you an athlete in high school? Yeah? To what extent?
What sports? And how were you using a high school athlete?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I was pretty good. I was a football player and
a baseball player, pretty decent at both.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, what did you play like linebacker?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, I was well through like the ninth grade. I
was a quarterback because I was a little skinny, little
you know, and then I just sprouted, Like when I
got my driver's license, I was five four, one hundred
and thirty five pains at sixteen or five four fifteen.
We got our license at fifteen back then got it?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Then you acting like it was eighteen hundreds. We're the
same age, I think probably, Yeah, so okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But did y'all have to wait till sixteen?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Then we could get a hardship at fourteen? Yeah, and
you could get a permit at fourteen. That's what it
turned into.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
A likenth a month a month of permit and yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And I think Arkansas Misissippi were a little bit alike
because we both were broken hopeful, so they were just like,
give the kids a license.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Let them get them out of here.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, so you're a fifty or five five and fifteen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I was five four, one hundred and thirty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's wild because you're a tall dude. Now, what are
you six six ' to one?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And so I see I would to put it like
a safety of linebacker.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, then I played tackle in football, and then I
was a picture catcher. I could play anywhere on baseball field.
But now it's so weird after not playing baseball for
like twenty something thirty years. Almost I pick up a
baseball and it feels like I'm throwing a rock. It
feels so tiny. Yeah, I can't. I can't get the
feel of it anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Did you ever play softball after your baseball, like in
your adult life at all?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I tried. I tried to play in the celebrity things here,
and I thought, dude, I'll crush this and I can't.
I mean, that ball, the arc of the ball coming
in is so completely different than a baseball coming at you.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You never like jump in the league like a recreation
Tuesday night league or anything.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, I think that, Like, you know, the funny thing
about me, I grew up playing sports, but I know
jack about sports anymore. I just can't. I think I
once I decided I wasn't going to be a pro
baseball player. You know, it was a kid. I was
like I was always into music, you know, just even
as a child. But then it was like I was
(07:22):
so immersed myself into making music that I that I
just kind of went, you know, put blinders on to
everything as far as I am.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If I'm making assumptions about you, and please tell me
I'm wrong. But growing up in Mississippi, grew up in Arkansas,
like not only was country music prevalent in my life,
but like classic rock was current rock. Oh yeah, I
mean that was as that was his every day, as
if it were being created that day. So all the
bands from the late sixties and seventies, was that how
it wasn Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Absolutely still is, yeah, I think you know, I mean,
you know, as far as country, everything that's country at
current country is what it's either that or thin Lizzie,
you know, or Leonard skinnerd and you know, bad Company,
and that's what I think. It's a lot still that way. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We hit my stepdad my mom remarried as a teenager,
and that's what we would listen to the classic rock
station and he would just always quiz me on what
was playing, like in the first five seconds. And so
I never had a dad, so I thought it was
kind of cool that somebody cared. And so I would
just study songs so I can impress them. Yeah, and
so I should play that game. And so like the Hollys,
(08:32):
like long long, cool woman in a black dress, and
so I would learn all of those songs just because
I wanted to like bond with him. And so that
became that sixties and seventies, all that classic rock and
even even later early early eighties became what bonded us
because I was trying to like apply that tape, that
(08:54):
that double sided sticky tape to us, and so that, that,
to me, is my classic rock relationationship.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You said you had the well, you know, it's so funny.
Like my mom. You know, I will see my mom
and dad divorced when I was like six, and then
he moved to the coast, which is like one hundred
and fifty miles from us, and I barely saw him South. Yeah,
yeah too, like Biloxi and I. Uh. And then my
(09:20):
mom remarried, But I never had a bonding experience as
much at all with she married twice, but I never
you know, it was more like a ever not really No,
it was kind of sad. It was kind of sad,
but they just always made us feel like we were
in the way.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, did did you do? You have a relationship with them? Now,
either one of them, they're both dead, they are so
you have a relationship of remembering them. My stepdad now
he's you know, my mom died and my girl. Pretty
much everybody that raised me died except my stepdad, who
was in just like the teenage years of my life.
But I'm closer to him than anybody what else, Yeah,
(10:00):
that I'm related to. I got very fortunate in that
he didn't hop in and think he had to be
my dad. Yeah, but he definitely didn't make it a
point that he's not my dad. Yeah, and that was
a big.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Factor for me. That's pretty strong.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
What was your mom like?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
My mom? She's still she's you know, so funny. She's
been very very full circle. She's had you know, she's
had a lot of issues over the years and and
things that we've all had to fight with her to overcome.
And and so my stepfather died three years ago and
(10:38):
she had he was probably he was he was almost
twenty years older than her, and she spent a lot
of years last last year's taking care of him. And
then she reconnected recently over the last two years with
a high school boyfriend and they just got married. And
(11:00):
he's a Baptist preacher.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Facebook. Bro, Yeah, I'm just assuming.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Crazy so they they and you know it's like she'd
gone through.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
A lot, you know, a lot, like it's like addiction stuff. Yeah,
that's my mom. That's what she died of.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well, my mama, I don't I don't know how much
I should share about all that, but my mom went
through got very close and uh, and decided one day
after almost being done.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, that she would wanted to live. And she hid bottom.
You got to hit bottom to try to climb.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Up, and man she did. I'm so so happy with
what Guy's done in her life. And and uh, she's like,
now this lady that I grew up with, that was
you know, because so many years after her my dad
split up, when it was just me and her and
my sister. Uh, I just a lot of those years
(11:52):
I remember her being such a go getter, you know,
like having to take care of her babies and stuff,
and she did she she did the best she could.
And then and then it got these years she was
just an unhappy person and but you know, no love lost.
But it was just a tough tough time for everybody.
But you know, I'm very very proud of I'm greatful.
(12:13):
My dad died when I was twenty one as.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well your your biological father. Yeah, I'm grateful for you
that your mom hit rock bottom and got out because
I just have dealing with addiction in many ways through
my life. Yeah, my mom had to hit rock bottom.
But she didn't live, but she had to hit rock bottom. Yeah,
you have to hit that point where you're going, Okay,
this is not good. I got a change. So that's
that's like, I love that for you guys.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, I hate that that didn't work out for you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You know, yeah, me too, and that part sucks, but
you know for some people. And my mom went to
rehabit to you know, I've talked about it a lot,
but I've learned a lot from it, and I know
that I would I would struggle with that. I've never
had a drink of alcohol, yeah, because I would love it.
God dang.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well see yeah, and one thing I did learn from
you know, when I'll drink, but I've had oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah without without like drinking.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
A whole lot. No, I'm one of those people that
can pull the plug, like because I saw killed my dad.
You know, it's his liver and kidney.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Shut down, so it physically got him.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And so I'm almost. You know, I can, I can easily.
He'll billy slip on, you know if I start feeling
like I'm not in control or you know, I just
I can feel it and that just makes me uncomfortable.
I like enough just to make me go all right,
you know. But some people don't have those abilities.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't. I wouldn't. I don't. I mean, it excites
me just talking about it. Yeah, just like I go.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I've had friends that have you know, that were heavy,
heavy drinkers that have made it out of it and
completely different people know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And Charles is somebody. I mean, I've been with Charles
and Jake. I've been both those guys when they've been
in both sides of it.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Jamie Johnson, that was one.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Like I used to tell Jake. I'd be like, like,
when I moved to town, Jake was the first person
I knew because we had a mutual friend. One of
my best friends is he used to by Tennis Andy Roddick.
He was like, hey, I know Jake because and so
I moved here. He was like his name was, his
name is Josh. I don't know why he goes by Jake,
so like he knew him like that yeah, yeah, and so, uh,
(14:20):
but Jake would go hard and he was just very inconsistent.
There would be some days he'd want to fight me.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So some days he want to love me.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I've seen Charles and Jake almost getting fun.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, and so it was just really inconsistent with me.
So I was like, I can't. But now that he
doesn't drink at least like consistently, like we have a
great relationship now because even if we don't get along,
we know consistently it's it's completely changed who who who
Jake is.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I've seen that in it and I love to see
that because it's, uh, you're there's never a question mark
who you're gonna get anymore, you know, And I love that.
But I'm to me, though, if I have a couple
of drinks, I just get giggles. That would be awesome.
I don't. I don't get one of those. I don't
get get mean. I get very protective of my friends now,
(15:03):
Like if you fIF somebody's trying to mess around, I'm
never I don't think I've ever been like an altercation
that I that I was actually the one that was
in the thing. It was always me taking up.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
For someone, So you don't you never got drunken which
wanted to go fight somebody. Hell, oh man, I'm afraid
I would do that. I would take sleeping pills.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And I was always look for excuse.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't even want to. I can't imagine I would
take sleeping pills. I had some issues, and so my
doctor we tried all this stuff. It was like, you
need to try sleeping pills. I just wouldn't remember what
I did, and I stopped. Because you talk about the
control thing. I just was afraid I would fly so
much to be traveling again. I told my friends, I'm
afraid I would be waking up in handcuffs arrested because
I was like pooping or whacking off in the airplane
(15:47):
in front of everybody and not remember it and not
having Yeah, that happened, but that sounds fun too, especially
We'll just try it. That's the problem. If I do,
I'm gonna go as hard as.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I can, just try it without it and see if
it's fun.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well, no, no, I don't want to do it without it.
You have brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I have two. I have a half sisters, younger and
an older sister.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
When did you live with them growing up?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Were close to them, Yeah, especially my older sister, my
half sisters thirteen years younger than I, and we're still
all very close. Yeah, but they still Mississippi. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Do you still have a like Mississippi pride to you?
Like when I don't know what part it is that,
but like do you still do you root for it
to do good things?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Absolutely? Yeah, we're uh. I mean, you know, I think
there's there's always a lot of even as undignified as
the way I grew up, probably you two, there's still
a lot of Uh, there's still so much of who
we became that comes from that, and you know, the client,
(16:50):
the struggle to not necessarily get out, but just to
sometimes you know, it was the only way to to
make something myself was to you know, to go. But
there's still a lot of pride, and there's you know,
you know, there's a lot of amazing, amazing people from
where we're from and and that taught us so much.
You know, there's like and the one thing I'll say
(17:12):
there was there was a lot of even without having
a dad around, there was all these other dads that
stepped up. Never was a stepdad, but I had like
ten dads, so that was that was incredible. That's one
of the things that I always like try to strive
to if I see that and a kid like, you know,
(17:32):
I just lost one of my buddies here in April,
and uh, you know, try to step up for his kids,
and like, you know, somebody's as much as I can
try to help fill that role, you know, because people
did that for me.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's funny you bring that up. It's such a big
part of my life. Like my youth director at church saying,
high school football.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Coach saying, like they'll talk to him twice a week.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Really, yeah, that's awesome. Coach like would step in and
do things that they didn't have to do, right, but
they're men, But yeah, it was. It was kind of
the the in innate part of them where they were
like I should and I will, and I still I can.
I appreciate that so much even now more now than ever.
Actually I do too. How did that affect you as
(18:15):
a dad? Now?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I think that they were example the only examples I
knew of what a dad was supposed to be. And
you know, and it's still like a I mean, I
still like struggle with him, I'm doing the right thing,
you know, you know, I don't, you know, it's just uh,
but to see people like that, that that raised good kids.
(18:37):
And I was in a lot of those kids. I
was being raised with them, you know, with those with
their dads. But it definitely impacted me, you know, it
made me I don't know, it made me want just
it was a role model. It made me strive to
be what they are. And so had they not stepped up,
there's no telling what kind of piece of crap i'd be.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, I think too. For me, it showed me consistency, yeah,
because I didn't have much consistency. Yeah, just to see
consistency consistently, yes, but even yeah, just to see it though,
even if it wasn't in my circle, but to see
that it was kind of reachable. What wasn't really reachable
for me was well this honestly, but like leaving because
(19:18):
nobody left? How what?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
What is your leaving story?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, that's a funny one, I think, the well leaving story.
I Uh, one of my dads, He's he was, he's
he is a radio person in Mississippi and he was
on the air for thirty something years. Still it still
does occasionally. His name is Ken Rainey, but he and
(19:43):
his family, he's he is like one of my dads, but.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So not one of your stepdads. No, nobody who stepped it. Yes, sir,
got it dad, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And and he'll tell you right now that I'm one
of his sons. You know. I had, you know, I
so I got out of high school. I started playing
bars and stuff like that, and I played around through Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
all that stuff for probably ten years. I had this
band called ten Pound Biscuit and I so Ken was
(20:14):
on the radio there, and uh, and he and I
struck a friendship when I was in high school, you know,
and he just sort of he just said, well, if
you're going to do anything, you got to get out
of here. And so he sort of brought me to
Nashville and kind of introduced me to a few songwriter
(20:34):
friends he knew at the time and and sort of
just kind of like put me on my way. I
had like fifteen hundred bucks in my pocket, and he
gave me old like a nineteen ninety one Mercury Cougar
because I didn't have a call. I gave you a car. Yeah,
and it broke down week two. I was here, you know,
(20:55):
but you know, but it was I was. I was
also very very fortunate that when I got here, I
had met, well, I had sort of known Derek George.
I don't know if you know Derek George. Derek produced
like the records like that How Country Feels and Running
out of the Moonlight, those records. But he grew up
in Philadelphia, Misissippi, which is like twenty miles from me,
(21:18):
twenty five miles. And when I got here, I went
to meet with Derek, and he took me into this
publisher on music Row called wind Swept, and it was
these guys. So I got very look And also I
had met a girl that was here that had known
(21:40):
me for Mississippi, that from playing clubs, and she said, Hey,
would you ever be interested in like singing demos or
anything like that? And I was like, sure, I'll do anything.
I was about to just just going to get go,
get it whatever job. And so she had these guys,
Randy Boudreau, who was he's moved back to Louis but
(22:01):
he had written like Broken Heartsville and some you know,
like a lot of big songs and they asked me
to gave me a shot at singing a demo for him.
And this was like week one, and I sang one
song for him, and they gave me like fifty bucks,
and I was like, holy crap, you just got paid
for singing in a studious Yeah, and like I'd never
really been in a real studio. And so the next
(22:24):
week they gave me like ten of them. He's like,
so I just immediately kind of went work, and then
the publisher like a month later signed in my first
publishing deal. So I was really lucky. I mean, I
had just spent a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You spent a lot of time touring and doing tenpound biscuits,
So it's not like you were seventeen and move to town.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
In twenty six when I moved here.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Really that's like a grandpa, I know. I mean considering
when people move here.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And I'm forty eight now, so I yeah, it's crazy
how it's flown by.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What was tempound Biscuit about?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It was more like, I mean, we played a lot
of country, but it was also like we would take
like old Robert Johnson songs and speed them up and
play them like we call it Mississippi rock and.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Roll too, so all blue songs that kind of contemporary
make them a bit contemporary, soounting.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, when there was a lot of that stuff going
on at that time, you know, like Normsissippi All Stars
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you think about those days when it was a
struggle as also being freaking awesome? Now it's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It is awesome. I mean every time I think, damn,
things are not going my way, I just it doesn't
take me but just a minute to think back and go,
this is pretty badass.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yep, it is, And I still have a real appreciation
for Like when I was twenty one, twenty broke, but
I bought a PlayStation two and I you know, I know,
but I never had money, So it wasn't that I
was in this whole world of not having money. I
lived there, so wasn't that big of a deal. Yeah,
I'm not scared to right, So the struggle was just
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surviving and having to pay all moment bills and stuff.
But I would go home, but every dream was still
in front of me. Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, there's still do you still have that sense about
you that there's still things like Oh yeah, it's a constant.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, but does that get in your way to is
that ever unhealthy for you?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Never? Really for me?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It is?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Is it? Yeah? Just for me? You don't make me
analyze must Well I.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Try to put you in a bad place, but yeah,
I mean I do. I'm still like, there's still so
why am I not here? What there is? Yes, I
start to get in trouble a little bit. Well you're
kind of at the top of what you do. But
and I would say the same thing about you. I
would not Okay, right, I'm not even going to the wards,
but that's what I would say about me, Like I
am not. And so it's just funny how the perception
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when we're ten thousand feet up looking at the forest
is different than if we're sitting in the woods. Like
I at times felt like a massive failure. Like most
of the time, most of the time, well, I have.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
To say that there are those those times that you know,
it's just like all I can do is like create
something that means something to me at the time and
hope that it means something to someone else. You know,
I can't I can't go into creating just to think
I'm gonna go make some money, you know that order
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to be famous. You know, I just you know, I
I think I went through a little phase of that
and it didn't make me happy. I was just like
near so you know, I'm I'm definitely you know, I
wouldn't say that I'm happy with I'm very happy with
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what I achieved so far, but I always got to
keep keep going, you know, challenge just like golf, competing
with myself.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
What do you enjoy doing? Just that's very open, vague question.
Take golf out and take playing music out. What do
you enjoy doing? What do you enjoy going? I asked
this was in my therapist office yesterday, that their mental
health big deal for me because I never even knew
it was a real thing until I realized mine wasn't good.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Kind of one of those things.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And then he's like, where do you go? Like when
you want to relax? What do you And I'm like,
I have no idea, Yeah, what is it for you?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So? Okay, About fifteen years ago, I went on a
trip with my buddy songwriter buddy Rob Hatch to Bahamas,
where we're going, and and for me, it was the
craziest thing because I'd never seen anything like this, didn't
know anything like this existed. But I went with he
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and his family to the Bahamash and I saw the
water there, and it was the most beautiful thing I'd
ever seen, you know that, just the color and being
being able to get on a boat and go sort
of like lake life but looking at an island over
here and getting on a boat and just go do it.
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So I do that a lot, and I it's so
funny because I had no idea about boats, or I
grew up in the middle of the state. There's no
there's no water, and.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Or if there are, their flat bottoms, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah. So literally like three months later, I went back
down there by myself and rented my own boat, really yeah,
and rented a house and I started now, and I like,
I screwed up so many of those people's boats, just
hitting rocks and stuff like that, you know. But I
eventually learned the water down there, and so that's like
literally when I get off the plane there and get
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on a boat, I throw my bags on the boat,
I go and it's just kind of like everything kind
of just it's like a it's a weird baptism in
a way. It's like a washes me clean. I don't
have to think about anything else. My phones go off,
don't have any service until I get to the house
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of Wi Fi and then But it's just like for
me that that was my thing that I found. That
was like my escape, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And what age was music? You're escape? Oh god, well,
like what as a kid? And he can even be listening,
like finding music to listen to before you played it,
Like when did you when did you kind of love music?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Well, because my dad was a musician, he would, you know,
he would every night, never failed even you know, you know,
he would sit on the side of my bed and
play songs and I'd sing with him as a little boy,
you know, So that that was you know, I can't
remember not having that until he was gone. What kind
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of songs he would play, like anything, Like he'd play
like Jimmy Buffett songs or Dan Fogelberg and he was
he was really into singer songwriter music, and you know,
but he would, you know, he'd play country stuff too,
but it was more singer songwriter stuff than than probably
like George Jones.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
You know what was his dream as a musician or
an artist or did he have one?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I think so yeah, but he he kind of I mean,
you know, he grew up. He was kind of like
extremely chied, like I could play anything, you know. He'd
play piano and oregon on all these like old blue
stuff and like, and he would played in bands and
stuff like that. So I remember, I even remember like
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the first time I went and saw him play with
a band, and I was probably four.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You remember this, you remember something of four, four.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Or five, It couldn't been much older, but it had
impact on me. And I remember hit him. I remember
thinking about him sitting on the side of my bed
and playing with just him and singing songs and me
singing with him. And then I saw him play at
this playing playing with this band at this bar called
and I remember the band the bar was called Willa Watson's.
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I remember that too, and and I and I recognized
that there were like five people on stage, all doing
something different, but it was coming out of these speakers
is one thing. And it just impacted me. I was like, oh,
I know what I'm going to do. I just knew.
And so as soon as I could. As soon as
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I could learn how to play guitar, like I mean,
as soon as I could. He was teaching me.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You know what age is that six seven were playing
like a small acoustic guitar. He'd have me just a
little something, you know, man, that's those those got to
be the best memories.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
They were when you know. And the great thing about
him was and I do. And this is one thing
I took from him with my kids is like, my
kids don't go thirty minutes without me telling them how
much I love them. And he was like that to me.
So I never felt this that kind of deficiency. I
knew that my daddy loved me. But and I And
(30:59):
that's one thing I give to my kids. I'm like
a me and Teddy I don't were talking about that
last night. It was like one of our goals is
for our kids to never not hear that. You know,
how old is your oldest kid? Eleven?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So you had your first kid at thirty thirty eight,
so thirty six, we're just now starting to talk about
having kids. Yeah, I've been scared forever. Didn't have models
as parents, think I'd be a terrible parent. I was
afraid to not be able to afford to be so
all these irrational fears that are there for a reason.
Obviously I experienced them, but they feel they're rational.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, well you know what, I had the same thing. Ye,
but I think that in eight Park kicks in.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I hear you, but manate, I don't trust in ad
in me.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You'd kill it if you because you actually care that
you the fact that you actually are scared, you would
do a crappy job at it, You'll kill it.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I'm also scared I do a crappy job like telling jokes,
as I suck at that too. So what what's what's
the What's what's having kids about?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I don't know. I think it's for me. It is
it was if I every ounce of ego that you
might have, they'll kick that ship right down the stairs.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because because you were old, thirty thirty whatever you said,
thirty five seven, that's older to have your dad, I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be freaking grandpa.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well I got a one year old too, and I'm
forty eight. So dude, but I'm like, I think I'm
about to go.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah. For those that don't know, he meant chopping the
tube that would send the sperm and out through his penis.
So when do you start not the penis actually, no,
that tube that would send the sperm ount through the penis,
not the penis off. Hilarious, you go in for the
wrong surgery. When did you start to play music with
other people either your age or like older men that
knew how to play instruments.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, so probably fourth grade I started playing with There
was a there was one guy his name was Jason
Shirley that that lived in a town probably seven miles
from me, that played guitar and his dad was a musicians.
So we started doing that playing and then it became
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you know, everybody else quit, you know, doing that. So
and then like I played and started literally probably tenth grade,
really playing out, you know. Uh. And then right at
the end of high school, I ended up playing in
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bands with everybody was twenty five years older than me.
And so that was cool. It was it was like
a college for me. You know. It was uh crazy,
you know, it was. It was really great experience I had,
and and and the people that I played with were
so much better than they were ever giving credit for.
(33:55):
You know, one of one of the guys that I
played with, was in one of the bands was he
was one of the original Burrito Brothers. His name was
Chris Etheridge, and he he played on the road with
Willie for several years too, and come back home to
Mississippi and and and he and he sort of kind
of like schooled me on charts and all the stuff,
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you know, and you know, always pushed me to get
out of there and moved to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Like he cared.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, he was a good guy.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Sounds like he cared you when you moved to Nashville.
Just hearing your story about you guys playing and you
touring all over the Southeast. Now, did you develop a
following enough as a band or as a to make
you think I have to go and take the next
step or why like why stop that and come here?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, I think that at the end of the day,
I was the only one that took it as serious
as as it needed to be taken. You know, everybody
else had something to fall back on or you know,
just I don't know. I just think I was more
serious about it.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And you you knew, not that you be success, you
knew that that's what you had to do. Yeah, That's
how I feel about this. You know, all the stuff
that I do, and I tell people, Man, if you
think there's a chance you could do something else, go
do it. Because yeah, I agree, this sucks and it's awesome,
but it sucks mostly. Yeah, but it's awesome. There's there's
a there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There's something awesome and something that sucks. But there's always
a yang to the end. I mean, it's just just
the way it is. But you know, you're still the
weight of the weight of the good definitely has outweighed
you know, anything was bad from what.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
When you're hearing you're singing, you're doing demos, Are you
hoping that somebody hears you singing demos? Yeah, like it's
secretly like somebody that's that's you know, trying to listen
to songs.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, of course absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I mean, how were you going to be discovered? In
your mind?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I had no idea. You know. One of the things
one of the things that I did when I moved
to Nashville is I didn't play live with a band
here for like four or five years. I just refused
because I was so scared that I would end up
And I don't mean this in a bad way. But
I always was scared that I would end up in
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another cover band here, and that would be I'd be downtown,
you know, every night, you know, doing that, and that's
not what I came. I'd done that for ten years
before I moved here, So my focus was to get
here and learn and learn how to really write songs
(36:39):
and learn you know, I had, you know, I always
written songs, but there's a different level of songwriters obviously
in this town that know how to craft a song,
you know, And sometimes I feel like some of the
innocence of my songwriting got booted because of learning the
process of how everybody writes here. So I think that
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I lost some of the raggedness, you know, which I
sort of regret sometimes. But I wouldn't play live because
I didn't want to didn't want to be in a
cover band. And then when I felt like I had
written enough songs to really go start playing, I.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Did, Where do you play when you're ready to start playing?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Back? Then it would be like third and Lensley.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Twelfth and Porter and how do you get a shot
to see Elis Corner? Do you have to do? You
know something you've been in town? For a few years. Now,
do you know somebody do you go and just call
and say can I get Like? How do you do that?
At that point, well.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I had been playing like writers' nights, just acoustic, and
so some of the club owners will be like, are
you ever going to put a band together and go
and go? We'd love to have you play. And finally
I did.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
When you would play these writers' nights, these rounds, would
people react to you singing in a way that would
make you think, I crave this and obviously I'm good
at it. When did that start happening for you? Did
you have such a distinct strong voice? And I don't
think that just happened like three years ago.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No, that was you know, I, like I said, I'd
been doing that for so long, it was I mean
that part was like, that's just innate to me. You know.
I don't mean that in like a boasting way. It's
just like you get on the radio and you talk
and somehow you keep the thing, keep the ball rolling,
and you just know how.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's instinct right right, And that's how I guess. It's
a combination of the things I listened to growing up
a combination of being in the bed singing with my
dad at four years old and learn how to learn
how to use the muscles to make my voice do
the things that I hear in my head.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Like a like a picture, throwing a cab a muscle
memory and learning what works And when did you When
did you realize you were a good singer?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I don't know if you I still sometimes I don't know, uh,
I you know, I hear people that that that I
still hear people that I go, man, I wish I
had that kind of voice.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
But like.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
If you're singing and you're being rewarded by applause or
people going, oh you're great, it maybe that's when did
that fourteen fifteen or was it later?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
It was probably them, Yeah, yeah, it may have been.
I mean, you know, I sing in church as a kid,
and I would, you know, uh, always end up with
one of the like if I was in a Bible
school player or something, I'd always have the part that
would sing and stuff like that. So I was always
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always like I was aware that I could do it,
but I think it, you know, it's still I mean,
I go back and listen to old work tapes and
things like that, and I hear how how the times,
you know, how my voice has changed, and how my
style has changed, and and I don't know if I
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don't know if I'm where I'm supposed to be as
a singer even now, you know, because every every one
of those stages I thought I was. But you know,
I also realized listening back that that stylistically and the
tone of my voice has changed. And this I guess
that just happens as you get older. And but I
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don't know. I you know, I always kind of knew
I could sing, you know, but could but you can
sing so good.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
And I'm you know, I'm not just take your weasels
right now, but it's like I'm about to get a clip. Yeah,
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
So you moved to Nashville, and I think I would
just be a bit intimidated, regardless of how good I was,
because again, you could be the best, but there were
other people to sing different and seemed great.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
I'm telling you, this town is full of it, you know.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
And but here you are singing demos and people are
paying you. That's got to give you confidence if you're like.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Oh, it was amazing. It was like I was. I
was so thankful, you know. It was like and some
of those some of those people that gave me that
work early on are still like great friends of mine,
you know, and I have really just believed in me
it since day one, and you know, been really just
encouraging from day one. And so there's a lot of
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credit goes do to like Kent Blaze, a guy like that,
and and some of these guys that gave me work
all the time consistently believed in me is enough of
a singer to try to go picture their songs that
they work their ass off to right to these to
these guys and but have always believed in me to
put my stamp on their song to try to make
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it something that somebody wouldn't want to hear, you know.
So that there's a lot of credit that goes to
those people for giving me a an outlet to grow.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
When did you get that first opportunity, that first look
where it's like, I know you wanted to sink obviously
you're you're waiting. You didn't want to be in a
cover band, you wanted to be your own artist. Yeah,
when did that first serious look come from somebody? It
may not even worked out, but they're like, all right, Randy,
we think it's pretty good. Let's give you a look.
Do you have like a.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Like a showcase?
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yeah, that would be the word the show. You have
any showcase or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah? I had. I mean I had a kind of
like a bunch of those kind of things happen, you know.
I mean as whenever I started playing live around town,
there was kind of always somebody coming out. You know,
it was like, well there's a lot. It was like
I remember like at twelfth Importer one year, it was
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like the highest like I had the like the highest
grossing alcohol sales for their year, you know on nights,
because I would do it like once or twice a
month and they would average out who was selling there.
But I had a lot of people who would come.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Do you feel the building.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
That was great? I mean it would just be slammed
and it was and and it was you know when
you're in those those like those you come to Nashville
and you like from being from Mississippi and not really
having a lot of people that do what I do
to come up with when I came here to find
my group of guys was my family, you know, and
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and so it was always, you know, it was a
place to be when we to go out and play,
and it was just everybody that we knew came out.
You know. It was like one of those It was
a scene back in the day, and it was when
you get your record deal. Deal, you're My first record
deal was I guess probably two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Then I'm assuming your first record deal. I did not
end in a way that you would want it to end.
It's like it's like going when somebody goes my first wife,
my first you know. So the first record deal then,
I guess, was not good for you.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, long term, it was an interesting story. It was
Allison Jones that's now at Big Machine signed me. James
Stroud and her signed me to m c A. And
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so James took me and my band to Bahamas and
we cut a record cut the first record.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
They take you there because they knew you wanted and
you look.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
They just said, here's there's a lot of backstory to well.
The story is basically that I didn't know it at
the time, and I'm not sure. I don't know if
James knew it at the time, but but he got
blown out right after we cut that record. I don't
know if he was just like, let's go, and I
don't know if that was the way funny. So yeah,
(44:59):
we went to Compass Point where let like you know,
back in Black record, a lot of that stuff was
cut and we went down there. I took my band,
we had a blast, started recording and stuff came back,
got ruffs almost done. He gets blown out and then
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uh so Luke Lewis took over mc A. Him and
James were the heads of it and basically I was out.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
When the people that don't bring you in. I mean
I had a I talked show pilot once and it
was awesome. I loved it, and we did that. We
shot the pilot, felt so good about it, and then
like two weeks after we shot it, the President that
okay greenlit it. It's blown out because it doesn't matter
how good it is. It's like new athletic director coming
(45:49):
in and I had football coach. It's like the first
chance that it's not great, They're going to get their
own person.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Absolutely you're not their kids.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
So you felt that there. So how do you kind
of bounce back, what do you do for a while.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
So, uh, the the saving grace out of that was
is that Universal South came came along right at that time.
They were a part of that whole group, the mc
A group, you know. So Mark Wright took over Universal South,
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and uh and in my deal, there was almost out there.
I was history and Mark said, wait a minute, y'all
aren't gonna keep him. And so Mark sign me over
Universal South. And that's that's when I had like the
first like success I had, you know, like anything goes
and boots on, so.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
You got to put out music over there, different music.
But yeah, when you have success like boots On for example,
and that was that wasn't even what it later became.
I mean, it was it, this is awesome, top of
the world, I'm a huge star. No, it wasn't that
at all.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Oh hell no, I was still getting I felt like
I was getting my teeth kicked in all the time.
You know.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
It was like being on the road away.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
No, I just it was just uh, well yeah, part partly,
I mean, I just don't think. I don't think there's
ever been an I've arrived moment for me because just
goes back to what we were talking about earlier is Okay,
we're here, how do we get there? How do we
You know that we're never going to be satisfied.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Even with How Country Feels, which was a monster. Yeah,
they didn't give you that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well, I remember feeling because well, I remember how I
when I knew that How Country Feels was a hit?
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Just ahead, let's not let's not make it lower a monster?
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah it was. It was crazy, yeah, but it but
I never but all I'm all I'm thinking at that
point is oh shit, how do I do this again?
Because and I've seen it. I've seen so many ways
and in the in this business that I'm not scared
of it. But I remember that first time feeling of
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realizing it was a hit, and I was. I remember
distinctly how it happened. I was we were in Saint
Louis and it was it was a station that Steve
Stewart was the pdat and he put on this thing.
It was in the fall. It was about that it
was just at Halloween and he decided he was going
to do this thing called Concerts in the Corn and uh,
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and so it was cold, as shit and we go.
We're out in this cornfield on a flatbed and I
got gloves on, and we get there, like, you know,
five hours earlier, and I'm thinking, this place is twenty
five miles out of town and nobody knows me. And
I'm like, there's nobody coming to this and and literally
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that song had just like hit like top fifteen, top
here or something like that, and and these cars started
coming in, and they came in. We had to push
a show like an hour because they were not ready
for what was what was coming, and I wasn't. It
was freaky, but it was like that. But that was
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the first time and it wasn't like, you know, I
was opening for somebody. It was my show. So I
was like, oh my god, these people actually came to
see me.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Isn't it weird how that can happen. You can be
in it so much you're not even like, I'm educating
yourself on what your art is doing. Yeah, because at
that you know, you're promoting a song. You're out working,
and you're right, you're going station to station, You're doing
every freaking show, and you're not really feeling it because
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you're working so hard. And then all of a sudden
when there is It took probably them delaying that show
and you freezing your balls off to go by dang,
this thing is yeah, it is creating some response.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
That was the first time time I knew that that
song was as big as it was. It was. It
was that was nuts, but it was a I remember
I remember a very short pat on my own back,
you know, and then going okay, uh, guess what I
got to be at another radio station at eight am,
and and uh and a you know, at a lunch table.
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There's nothing glamorous.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
You know, it's like just realking conference room with like
some dude and his it doesn't even want to watch,
doesn't want to be there. Yeah, that's tough, but that's
you know what.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
I also appreciate that stuff so much because it I
never felt like I didn't work for anything.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
You know, your song canceled, You wrote that, right, Tell
me about that song, not so much about the song,
but why, Like what what were what were you thinking
whenever you're writing that song? Like what did it start as?
What did to end up?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
As? I guess for me, it was just, you know,
I think I've just been watching too much news at
the time, and uh and starting to also was starting
to feel like misrepresented in a way. I feel like
that I feel like I was being made to feel
(51:18):
like because I'm a straight male dad in a family
that people resent me for that that that people some
people look at me and go, you got it all.
You have no deficiencies. You know that that that in
some way that that's almost looked down upon by some people.
(51:45):
And I think that, you know, that's everything that I
always always knew to strive to be. And and and
then there's a certain group of people that that feel
like that that I feel like I've been made to
feel like that, that's you know what I mean, snarky.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
But so you write the song? Was it a feeling
you had? Or we're gonna chase this song? Was it
a few words? Was it a like a melt a hook?
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Like?
Speaker 2 (52:15):
How did the song start?
Speaker 1 (52:16):
It started just the first line, I gotta see I
don't like with this world's headed just don't get it,
don't get it. That's how the song came along. And
it was you know, the song is written from from
my standpoint. The song is about not judging people. You know,
(52:37):
I felt like I was being judged for who I am.
But at the same time, I don't judge other people
for who they are, and I don't you know, yes,
I'm a conservative, male, dad, heterold man, but I don't
give a shit what you do in your bedroom. Don't
your decisions and what your life has led you to,
(52:58):
or that's your you're cross to bear. I don't. I
have no play into that, and I'm not going to
tell you're right or wrong. You know. It's just like,
but I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be made
to feel And I know that sounds a little but
there have been times when I was made to feel
that I should feel bad for what I was born,
(53:21):
and I don't want other people to feel that way
about how they live.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
And I think that's the difference in that you are
having something, regardless what the situations happened to you, that
you're not doing to other people. So it doesn't feel
like right, this is fair.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Well, I feel like that if you're privilege, well.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
If you were screaming hey, you can't you shouldn't be
gay loudly, no, I think I would probably understand if
people were yelling at you, oh you're but but you're saying,
you're you're just living.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Your life, right, and I think that's what everybody should do. Right.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
So this what's been the feedback on the song, Uh, you.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
Know, mixed. You know, you get some people that think
that that I'm bashing you know other you know, choices
that people make, and that's not the case. You know,
It's just about be who you are, be proud of
who you are, love who you want to love, do
what you want to do. That's at the end of
(54:18):
the day. I'm not your judge. You're in my opinion,
because I am a Christian that you're gonna have to
deal with that. So later on by somebody that's way
got more. You know, I'm not the judge. That's that's
somebody else's gig me.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
I'm a judge. I'll be the greatest king of the world,
of the world. I'm not even king of America. I'll
be the greatest king of the world. And I do
not know why they don't just an absolutely. So I
do want to talk about the movie for a second,
which I don't go to the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
I take that back. My wife makes me sometimes, I really.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
You know, I did I haven't either a long time,
but I did.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
These watch this too, Mike. Mike d loved Killers of
the Flower movie. My wife read the book and so
we're waiting, Yeah, well did you read.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
It before I read it when I got cast.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
So we're waiting for it because it's an Apple Apple movie, right, Mike, yep.
So we're waiting for it to come. And she's from Oklahoma.
My wife is, oh, yeah, yeah, like very much. What
part of Oklahoma from like near ish Tulsa.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, so that's where.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Yes, So she knows a lot about it through like
three and four generations that would talk about it, right,
And like she's moved by the story because she has
personal relationships with people that had personal relationships. So, Mike,
I'm gonna let you ask the first couple questions. I
know you've seen it, I know the story, but you're
way more educated on the actual movie.
Speaker 5 (55:44):
The senior have is with Leonardo DiCaprio, and one of
my other favorite movies he did with Scorsese was Wolf
of Wall Street. And I've seen like a behind the
scenes clip of him like totally in the zone, like
doesn't even look like he's there, and then right when
the camera goes on, he instantly goes into that character.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Does he do that?
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Yeah, I mean one of the like, uh, one of
the things that was noticeable by well, he's he's also
when he doesn't look like he's working his mind. Like
one of the strangest things would happen was like between
like between like takes, if we had like downtime, changing
out film stuff like that, just hanging out talking I did,
(56:22):
I'd notice that he would like we'd just kind of
shoot the shoot the ship. You know, I don't know
if I can say that long a but and then
you know, like the next day he would come back
to the set and we'd be talking and he would
repeat things that I said to him, just like me,
(56:42):
like he would download my accent and stuff like that,
which is crazy and uh, but no, he would, you know,
he like there would be time we'd just be throwing
a ball or something out out in the yard and
then you know it would be time to go back in.
You know, like he very normal, very normal guy, but
also freaking amazing whenever whenever they would yell action how
(57:07):
he would just freaking go at it. You know. It
was just kind of like stepping on the Grand ole
operat and them saying your turn and like doing what
I do, you kind of have to. Just one of
the things that was so cool about it to me
and I enjoyed about the whole process is that I was,
first of all, was scared of death, you know, like
(57:31):
I'd never done this. I was like, I don't know
what the hell I'm doing here. And but the same
is even now, before I go on stage, I'm a
little anxious and like these people are gonna hate me whatever.
But when it came time to go to the set
from you know, the actors a little where we're staged
(57:53):
to go to the actual getting cameras, the same the
same gear was shifted in my being that that is
when I'm walking to the stage to go play music
and that and it became it fed me like to
go do it rather than you know, all the every
(58:14):
fear was gone. It was just go time. Really, so
I seek I could see that in him as well.
Speaker 2 (58:21):
Man, that is awesome that you're just weren't so self conscious.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
Oh I was, But but I was able to like
that blocking mechanism that that happens with going to make music.
It totally was the same thing.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
Was it like watching a different kind of artist. For example,
go to a major League baseball game. Never bet it
didn't go until I was older, but I would see
like a real athlete, Like, oh god, I thought i'd
seen a real athlete until I saw oh, freaking real athlete.
Speaker 1 (58:46):
That's what it was, absolute, damnolutely it was. It was
like and first of all, I'd never seen this whole
process at all, you know, and so it it was
strange that it was and I'd never really done and
i'd never done it. The first first scene I shot
(59:07):
was the scene that actually made the film. There's a
lot of scenes that got cut, you know, they had
hundreds of hours of stuff, but they uh, the first
scene that I shot was the scene that actually made
the film. And it was like four hours of like
(59:27):
going back because they shoot it, you know, from every angle.
Everybody's in the scene has to do their thing. But
and I remember just being like totally like, what the hell,
where's Martins? Of course, saying you're up there, and and
he's coming over to me, and he's standing over my
shoulder right here, and I'm sitting at that this desk.
(59:47):
You know, it's like that bigger than that thing. But
like old school, and I'm sitting there and he's explaining
what he wants out of me and talking to me,
and I'm like, literally in law light land, what the hell?
And so he shoot my angle like I don't know,
four times, and Marty, he's over there in this other
room where their viewing what's going on. He comes out,
(01:00:08):
all right, we got it, and I went because I'd
seen a guy the day before I got there, and
I stayed on set all day dressed ready to go
to shoot. This scene didn't happen, but I'd seen a
guy and another and another scene that that didn't make it. Uh,
(01:00:28):
they shot his this thing like I don't know, it
must have been twenty something times because they couldn't get it,
didn't get it, and you could sense the you could
sense the air leaking out of the room and wasting
time and money, and so I was just like went
back to my bus out and I was like, please, God,
don't let me be that guy I study studies. Well,
(01:00:48):
So then he comes up and he goes, he goes.
Marty comes out, Okay, Randy, we got it. I was like,
we do, and he's like, yeah, we got it, And
I was like, are you sure. He's like yeah, uh
and and he said what And so Leo looks same
and says, what do you mean sure? I was like,
I've never really done this. He said, what do you
(01:01:09):
mean You've never really done this? I was like, I've
never done this. He said, we wouldn't You wouldn't know, you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Know, would I would know what I would do? I
would spiral so bad and go, well, I must have
been so bad. They know there's no hope, So so
we're just gonna do it a few times because they
know we might as well just move on.
Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Welcome back to the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Had to feel watching yourself back?
Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
It was weird? Yeah, it was. It was. I went
to were I was in, oh, somewhere in Texas a
few weeks ago, maybe Dallas or somewhere, and we went
to one of those mega me and some of my
band was during the middle of the day, went to
one of those megaplex things and it was just the
(01:02:04):
gigantic scream, you know. And actually my buddy sent me
video of me watching it while we were sitting there.
But it was like, it's emotional as well, you know,
it was like, I don't know, it was strange.
Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Did you feel the need to in any little bit
of acting that I've done, I've done it. I did
a movie with Vanessa Hudgins once, and I did I
played myself on Nashville where actually had lines later and
so I did some stuff, but I never to that level.
But I felt like I had to fake like I belonged. Yeah,
because I so didn't feel like I did. Like I
(01:02:40):
did not feel like I was one of them. But
I knew I had to be professional and I was
expected to show up and be just as good as
they were. I wasn't gonna be as good as they were,
but to show up, do your job, make sure we
don't slow production down to the Did you have that
pressure that you put on yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Well, I didn't feel like I had to be one
of them. I think that one of the coolest things
I had done enough, uh, well before I saw this. Okay,
that was the first one I shot. I shot another
one that came out. Yeah, So the one that we're
talking about now, I think that I was so far.
One of the things I got to say is there
were so many people that weren't actors in that movie. Musicians,
(01:03:19):
songwriters and things like that. That that I kind of
felt like, and I'd heard this that that Scorsese likes
to get real people in his movies, just to create
that atmosphere of realism, you know, and that aren't actors,
and just you know, you know, I'm not an actor,
but if you want somebody that talks like this to
(01:03:39):
say that I can do it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
When you did The Hill with Dennis Quaid, you are.
But that was your That's a lot of acting.
Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Yeah, that was a bigger role, a bit definitely a
bigger a lot more to chew own.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Were you excited because you'd had a taste.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Yeah, And now I want to do it more because
that it was It was you know. Now I'll look
at I've only I've only seen Killers of the Flyman
once and I was in that like for like ten seconds,
you know. But I did a lot. I did a
lot of stuff in it, but it just that half
of it didn't make it. But there was with the
(01:04:17):
one with Dennis Quaid, The Hill, which I love that movie.
It's it was I look at it and go damn,
because I you know, I have my own studio home
where I can sit and play the guitar parts. Many
times I want and do all those things and I
look at that and I'm going, damn, I want to
do that again. I want to Oh man, I could
have done that so much better had I know, you know,
(01:04:39):
there's not there's none that opportunity to do that like that.
But it did leave me wanting to. Uh, you know what.
For me, it was just creatively to be able to
explore some other thing and challenge myself was a lot
of fun. Find fulfillment in it. I did. It was like, uh,
but it was all so that thing of like a
(01:05:03):
healthy balance of beating myself up, you know what I mean,
because it's not I don't really when I go out
and I grab my guitar, I go play, I know
what I'm doing. It was something that was almost like
standing on the edge of a tall building.
Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
That's how I felt would stand up when I've really
started pursuing it be because it's just that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
I can't imagine, Oh my god, like.
Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
There's a performance aspect to it, which.
Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
You do and you get the timing.
Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Sure, but then it's there's a big part of it
where you're just vulnerable again.
Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Oh man, and that vulnerability is scary. Yeah, it's a
it's a it's a drug in a way. It's like that.
Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
And when you do it right, you're right.
Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
I feel you feel that too. You chase it.
Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
I need alcohol now, guys, we're back to that. I
need a beer right now. So I know you're twenty
twenty four to where you're gonna announce that soon you're
doing a bunch of dates.
Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Yeah, I'm think I'm gonna do a lot less than
I did this year. I can't. My kids are like,
it's just harder and harder to leave home. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
If this is too much, let me know. I don't
know how public you are about it. But Johnny Gilacky,
he was with you when I saw you, I didn't
even see you. Scare the crap out of me walking
up to the I'm in my car, we're about to leave.
You're like, Bobby, I see a dude with a beard
coming at me from the left.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Oh what have I done?
Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
And then I was like, oh god, I didn't steal anything.
I swear to god. It was you. And are you
got How did you guys get to know each other?
Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
We met uh on Taddy I'm and I when we
got married. We met on our honeymoon on a Lutherra
and he was on break from shooting Big Bang. I'd
never seen Big Bang, you know, and and we we
ended up, you know, out back smoking cigarettes and just
(01:06:50):
ended up talking and sort of figured out what each
other did. And but we just hit it off and
then it was it was you know, it was sort
of like an instant friendship.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
And and I, uh, you know, he wasn't living here then,
was he in l A?
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
He was in l A. Yeah, And we stayed in touch,
and we ended up doing putting on a benefit uh
for uh Poso Saloon as a place out in northern
California that uh I think it's shut down now, but
(01:07:28):
the one of the owners was had a cancer battle
and they weren't making any money out there. So we
went and raised a bunch of money and he and
I put this thing on for them, and so we
just became friends and we would figure out, you know,
he would come to Nashville some hang stay with us,
and I'd go stay with his place and hang out,
(01:07:50):
and we just we could kind of it was it
was weird because we're completely two different worlds. It was
kind of like you know, it was. It was strange
because completely different backgrounds, completely different views a lot of
ways politically, and but somehow have always been able to
(01:08:12):
find our spot and never get mad. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
That's a that's a difference in one on one and
human to human then pack and pack.
Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Yeah, No, that's absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Because if it almost doesn't matter if you let's just
say you're having a situation, your car's broken down, or
you're in a parking lot and somebody's going to help you. Yeah,
Now would a group of one side help a group
of another side. Probably not if it's PACKMNTAC, which is sad, yes,
But when it comes to human human, yeah, like that
stuff is secondary in life. Absolutely, we've made it a
(01:08:46):
little more forward than we should. We've let it really
define us more than I say, it's just us as
an American culture. Yeah, but I know when it comes
to person to person, I've never had an issue with
helping anybody, anybody helping me because of any sort of
affiliation I have with anything.
Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Yeah, I think sometimes I think we have it so
good and our and today in these times that that
we have had to create ship to fight about. We're bored.
Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
We're just like the smart kid in school get in
trouble because.
Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
We're all gonna eat. Well, we're all gonna you know
what I mean, dude. And the other thing that I
find was that I h that most uh, most people
are you know, you have media outlets that want to
you know, they make money off pulling people further and
further these sides, and and really everybody's not that far.
Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
It's ninety eight percent of the same. The focus is
on the two to three percent we're not. They make
money everybody they made by selling commercials because it's sensational.
Every side the news. The news is not the news.
The news is entertainment, right, every every part of it.
And the same thing with politicians, like they want to
divide us so they can have us and that's section
votes and you just build your section up big.
Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Yeah it's wild.
Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Yeah, but okay, look, let's end. The song is canceled,
The Randy the Dennis.
Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
Question songs canceled.
Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Yeah, the song, the Dennis Quad movie The Hill, which
you do more acting, which you know I think now
people are like, you know, Randy's and Killers of the
Flower Moon, and you are but there's definitely there's definitely
more of you. Yeah as well, it's you know, a
seasoned actor in the hill.
Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Well there's you know, to even get a part in
the Scorsese film was like crazy, right, you know. I
was like even watching I was like, I'm almost in there.
But like and then then I have friends that are
actors that are like, dude, we've been trying to get
in a Scorsese film for twenty five years. That's awesome.
So that was cool.
Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
You're playing golf this week?
Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
I am? Yeah, hopefully, I definitely am. Uh next week?
Why definitely next week because we're going to uh, we're
going on our trip Bahamas.
Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Oh you're playing out there?
Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Yeah, what's your handy? Goat?
Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Okay, I'm eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
We should go.
Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
We should go. Let me Yeah, let's because listen, most
of my friends have real jobs. Yeah, so it's like
I can play golf a like noon, yeah, because I
work early in the morning. Yeah, so yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
We go there's there's I mean, I go to the
I'll go to Old Hickory something.
Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
I never played ol Hickory. We went up there and
looked because my course was shut down for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
It's fun. Yeah, it's uh, I mean, it's just fun.
Let's put that way. I like to you know, there's.
Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Why I put it that way. Somebody get murdered on
the course.
Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
No, it's just like right now it's freaking no brown
or ye, no member. Yeah, but yeah, it's a blast
out there.
Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
I just took read and we went and I tell
you up in Monterey. Yeah, Yeah, it was awesome. It's elite.
It's it's like doing stuff that I never thought i'd
get to do. But also you have to be a member,
and we're not members obviously, so it's like somebody calls
and finds a member. Then you go on like a
blind date with an old man.
Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Yeah, and you're like, that's like this place where I'm
going to next week, the Abaco Club, freaking heaven on Earth.
You know, it's kind of down by the same area
as the other one, and it's just like, I can't.
It's like Ron White when he's talking about he's rolling
that place and he's like, nobody's stopping me.
Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
You guys. Follow Randy at Randy Hauser on Instagram and Twitter.
Same thing at Randy Hauser and then Randyheuser dot com.
We'll be waiting for the tour announcement and the song
is canceled, and we love talking with you. We've just
been an hour with each other. I could do another
hour pretty easily, so let's do it. Okay, So it's
the next step. Randy, good to talk to you, Buddy,
you
Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Too, Thanks, Bob, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast
production
One of the things that I did when I moved
to Nashville is I didn't play live with a band
here for like four or five years. I just refused
because I was so scared that I would end up
in another cover band here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Episode four twenty five with Randy Hauser. I've known Randy
for ten years, but I haven't, like, no, known Randy
like he's always been and we've done some stuff together.
He's played charity shows for me very kindly. He's been
on the show a bunch, but I don't, at least
I haven't known known him like. We've never spent any
time together socially. That being said, I feel like this
(00:41):
is one of those times where I feel like I
got to know him a little bit. You guys are
oddly similar. Yeah, and I didn't know that. I didn't know.
I knew kind of a story and growing up Misissippi,
and but it's like he left and I was like, dang,
I like that guy, and I've always liked the guy.
But I felt like I would like to be that
guy's friend. So only two and you're too late, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Friend just now Randy Hauser at Randy Hauser he's got
four hundred and thirty three thousand followers, so he's got
a pretty big following on Instagram. If you you guys
want to go over and follow him, that's cool. But
here's the thing. He's got a new song called Cancel
that's out right now.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm a godfian man.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's got a role in The Killers of the Flower Moon,
which you saw has scene there, which is pretty cool.
He's also in a movie with Dennis Quaid. He just
wrapped up touring with Cody Johnson. He's got a tour
coming out in twenty twenty four. But let's go through
some songs real quick. Running out of Moonlight, Me and
you running out of a movie. This is a big,
old fat number one. I mean, this song reminds me
(01:38):
of us moving to town. It played all the time
when we first moved here. A good Night Kiss started
with a good like a cowboy on a sunny day,
and we went chails chosing. So that was four number
(02:01):
one from Randy Hauser. He's got an album, Note to
Self that's available now, and he wrote on every one
of the songs, You're gonna hear a lot of this stuff.
I mean, something we didn't talk about was and I
just felt like people probably always talk about it and
we were in a good spot. I didn't bring up
Honky Tonk, butdonkadonk oh yeah, and I don't I don't
know that he doesn't like talking about it, but it
(02:23):
was like I felt like we were on some real,
like sincere stuff. Hey what about that Honk talk? And
you know, just kind of felt weird to bring up.
But he co wrote that with Jamie Johnson and Dallas Davids,
and that was his first hit of the songwriter, at
least one of them. Randy Hauser, Here we go, you
guys again, follow him, go watch him. He's such a
powerful vocalist. Afterward, he texted me, and this has always happened.
(02:43):
He texted me, was like, hey, man, I just want
to say I think he kind of felt like I did.
It was like, oh, man, I think we like each other. Well,
we always liked each other. It's like I think we
like I don't know, want to hug and didn't. All Right,
here we go Randy Hawser, Randy Hawser, good to see you.
I did not know you were a golfer. Uh yeah,
(03:06):
I know, because you were in the hat, Yeah, which
is all hickory. I didn't is that? Uh? When did
you start playing golf at all?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I started probably twelve years ago, only because I was
so sick of sitting on my bus. I was just
fed up. Like everybody would go out golfing, and you know,
I didn't. I grew up in Mississippi where I grew
up there. You know, unless you had money, you didn't golf,
you know, so I sort of like in an odd way,
had like a affinity like just kind of was like,
(03:37):
I don't know people at golfer. I'm not in that.
But then I and then I then I went out
and just gave up, said all right, I'm gonna go
you guys, and boom, I was devastatingly hooked.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah for me, similar you know in Arkansas, you didn't.
I actually worked on a golf course. They never let
us play because I did maintenance. Yeah, and if you
were like one of the rich kids and your parent
was a member, you you got carts as your job,
but you got to play. Yeah, we never got to play.
And so then I had this guilt of playing golf
when I got older. Even saying I played golf, I
(04:12):
did too because I was like, I don't want to
seem like I'm rich. I don't either, because I was
embarrassed about it. Same and but.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Then I figured out the joy of it is is
that it's competition with yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Dude. That's it. I tell my wife too, is you
know we have whatever our our our personal needs are,
whatever cups we need to have filled, you know, whatever
terms you use, mine's I need my competition cup, Like
I have to have something that I'm striving to get
better at that isn't work, that isn't like my career.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, yeah, we spent so much time trying to be
the best at what we what we actually have made
a living do. And I think it's a great outlet
for people that have that do that and have done that,
which everybody does. But and I think that's wild. Golf
is so attractive people. I didn't know it then, but
it's it's yeah, had me for years.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Were you an athlete in high school? Yeah? To what extent?
What sports? And how were you using a high school athlete?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I was pretty good. I was a football player and
a baseball player, pretty decent at both.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, what did you play like linebacker?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, I was well through like the ninth grade. I
was a quarterback because I was a little skinny, little
you know, and then I just sprouted, Like when I
got my driver's license, I was five four, one hundred
and thirty five pains at sixteen or five four fifteen.
We got our license at fifteen back then got it?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Then you acting like it was eighteen hundreds. We're the
same age, I think probably, Yeah, so okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But did y'all have to wait till sixteen?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Then we could get a hardship at fourteen? Yeah, and
you could get a permit at fourteen. That's what it
turned into.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
A likenth a month a month of permit and yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And I think Arkansas Misissippi were a little bit alike
because we both were broken hopeful, so they were just like,
give the kids a license.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Let them get them out of here.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, so you're a fifty or five five and fifteen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I was five four, one hundred and thirty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's wild because you're a tall dude. Now, what are
you six six ' to one?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And so I see I would to put it like
a safety of linebacker.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, then I played tackle in football, and then I
was a picture catcher. I could play anywhere on baseball field.
But now it's so weird after not playing baseball for
like twenty something thirty years. Almost I pick up a
baseball and it feels like I'm throwing a rock. It
feels so tiny. Yeah, I can't. I can't get the
feel of it anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Did you ever play softball after your baseball, like in
your adult life at all?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I tried. I tried to play in the celebrity things here,
and I thought, dude, I'll crush this and I can't.
I mean, that ball, the arc of the ball coming
in is so completely different than a baseball coming at you.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You never like jump in the league like a recreation
Tuesday night league or anything.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, I think that, Like, you know, the funny thing
about me, I grew up playing sports, but I know
jack about sports anymore. I just can't. I think I
once I decided I wasn't going to be a pro
baseball player. You know, it was a kid. I was
like I was always into music, you know, just even
as a child. But then it was like I was
(07:22):
so immersed myself into making music that I that I
just kind of went, you know, put blinders on to
everything as far as I am.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If I'm making assumptions about you, and please tell me
I'm wrong. But growing up in Mississippi, grew up in Arkansas,
like not only was country music prevalent in my life,
but like classic rock was current rock. Oh yeah, I
mean that was as that was his every day, as
if it were being created that day. So all the
bands from the late sixties and seventies, was that how
it wasn Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Absolutely still is, yeah, I think you know, I mean,
you know, as far as country, everything that's country at
current country is what it's either that or thin Lizzie,
you know, or Leonard skinnerd and you know, bad Company,
and that's what I think. It's a lot still that way. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We hit my stepdad my mom remarried as a teenager,
and that's what we would listen to the classic rock
station and he would just always quiz me on what
was playing, like in the first five seconds. And so
I never had a dad, so I thought it was
kind of cool that somebody cared. And so I would
just study songs so I can impress them. Yeah, and
so I should play that game. And so like the Hollys,
(08:32):
like long long, cool woman in a black dress, and
so I would learn all of those songs just because
I wanted to like bond with him. And so that
became that sixties and seventies, all that classic rock and
even even later early early eighties became what bonded us
because I was trying to like apply that tape, that
(08:54):
that double sided sticky tape to us, and so that, that,
to me, is my classic rock relationationship.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You said you had the well, you know, it's so funny.
Like my mom. You know, I will see my mom
and dad divorced when I was like six, and then
he moved to the coast, which is like one hundred
and fifty miles from us, and I barely saw him South. Yeah,
yeah too, like Biloxi and I. Uh. And then my
(09:20):
mom remarried, But I never had a bonding experience as
much at all with she married twice, but I never
you know, it was more like a ever not really No,
it was kind of sad. It was kind of sad,
but they just always made us feel like we were
in the way.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, did did you do? You have a relationship with them? Now,
either one of them, they're both dead, they are so
you have a relationship of remembering them. My stepdad now
he's you know, my mom died and my girl. Pretty
much everybody that raised me died except my stepdad, who
was in just like the teenage years of my life.
But I'm closer to him than anybody what else, Yeah,
(10:00):
that I'm related to. I got very fortunate in that
he didn't hop in and think he had to be
my dad. Yeah, but he definitely didn't make it a
point that he's not my dad. Yeah, and that was
a big.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Factor for me. That's pretty strong.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
What was your mom like?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
My mom? She's still she's you know, so funny. She's
been very very full circle. She's had you know, she's
had a lot of issues over the years and and
things that we've all had to fight with her to overcome.
And and so my stepfather died three years ago and
(10:38):
she had he was probably he was he was almost
twenty years older than her, and she spent a lot
of years last last year's taking care of him. And
then she reconnected recently over the last two years with
a high school boyfriend and they just got married. And
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he's a Baptist preacher.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Facebook. Bro, Yeah, I'm just assuming.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Crazy so they they and you know it's like she'd
gone through.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
A lot, you know, a lot, like it's like addiction stuff. Yeah,
that's my mom. That's what she died of.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well, my mama, I don't I don't know how much
I should share about all that, but my mom went
through got very close and uh, and decided one day
after almost being done.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, that she would wanted to live. And she hid bottom.
You got to hit bottom to try to climb.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Up, and man she did. I'm so so happy with
what Guy's done in her life. And and uh, she's like,
now this lady that I grew up with, that was
you know, because so many years after her my dad
split up, when it was just me and her and
my sister. Uh, I just a lot of those years
(11:52):
I remember her being such a go getter, you know,
like having to take care of her babies and stuff,
and she did she she did the best she could.
And then and then it got these years she was
just an unhappy person and but you know, no love lost.
But it was just a tough tough time for everybody.
But you know, I'm very very proud of I'm greatful.
(12:13):
My dad died when I was twenty one as.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well your your biological father. Yeah, I'm grateful for you
that your mom hit rock bottom and got out because
I just have dealing with addiction in many ways through
my life. Yeah, my mom had to hit rock bottom.
But she didn't live, but she had to hit rock bottom. Yeah,
you have to hit that point where you're going, Okay,
this is not good. I got a change. So that's
that's like, I love that for you guys.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, I hate that that didn't work out for you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You know, yeah, me too, and that part sucks, but
you know for some people. And my mom went to
rehabit to you know, I've talked about it a lot,
but I've learned a lot from it, and I know
that I would I would struggle with that. I've never
had a drink of alcohol, yeah, because I would love it.
God dang.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well see yeah, and one thing I did learn from
you know, when I'll drink, but I've had oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah without without like drinking.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
A whole lot. No, I'm one of those people that
can pull the plug, like because I saw killed my dad.
You know, it's his liver and kidney.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Shut down, so it physically got him.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And so I'm almost. You know, I can, I can easily.
He'll billy slip on, you know if I start feeling
like I'm not in control or you know, I just
I can feel it and that just makes me uncomfortable.
I like enough just to make me go all right,
you know. But some people don't have those abilities.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't. I wouldn't. I don't. I mean, it excites
me just talking about it. Yeah, just like I go.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I've had friends that have you know, that were heavy,
heavy drinkers that have made it out of it and
completely different people know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And Charles is somebody. I mean, I've been with Charles
and Jake. I've been both those guys when they've been
in both sides of it.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Jamie Johnson, that was one.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Like I used to tell Jake. I'd be like, like,
when I moved to town, Jake was the first person
I knew because we had a mutual friend. One of
my best friends is he used to by Tennis Andy Roddick.
He was like, hey, I know Jake because and so
I moved here. He was like his name was, his
name is Josh. I don't know why he goes by Jake,
so like he knew him like that yeah, yeah, and so, uh,
(14:20):
but Jake would go hard and he was just very inconsistent.
There would be some days he'd want to fight me.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So some days he want to love me.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I've seen Charles and Jake almost getting fun.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, and so it was just really inconsistent with me.
So I was like, I can't. But now that he
doesn't drink at least like consistently, like we have a
great relationship now because even if we don't get along,
we know consistently it's it's completely changed who who who
Jake is.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I've seen that in it and I love to see
that because it's, uh, you're there's never a question mark
who you're gonna get anymore, you know, And I love that.
But I'm to me, though, if I have a couple
of drinks, I just get giggles. That would be awesome.
I don't. I don't get one of those. I don't
get get mean. I get very protective of my friends now,
(15:03):
Like if you fIF somebody's trying to mess around, I'm
never I don't think I've ever been like an altercation
that I that I was actually the one that was
in the thing. It was always me taking up.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
For someone, So you don't you never got drunken which
wanted to go fight somebody. Hell, oh man, I'm afraid
I would do that. I would take sleeping pills.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And I was always look for excuse.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't even want to. I can't imagine I would
take sleeping pills. I had some issues, and so my
doctor we tried all this stuff. It was like, you
need to try sleeping pills. I just wouldn't remember what
I did, and I stopped. Because you talk about the
control thing. I just was afraid I would fly so
much to be traveling again. I told my friends, I'm
afraid I would be waking up in handcuffs arrested because
I was like pooping or whacking off in the airplane
(15:47):
in front of everybody and not remember it and not
having Yeah, that happened, but that sounds fun too, especially
We'll just try it. That's the problem. If I do,
I'm gonna go as hard as.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I can, just try it without it and see if
it's fun.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well, no, no, I don't want to do it without it.
You have brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I have two. I have a half sisters, younger and
an older sister.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
When did you live with them growing up?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Were close to them, Yeah, especially my older sister, my
half sisters thirteen years younger than I, and we're still
all very close. Yeah, but they still Mississippi. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Do you still have a like Mississippi pride to you?
Like when I don't know what part it is that,
but like do you still do you root for it
to do good things?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Absolutely? Yeah, we're uh. I mean, you know, I think
there's there's always a lot of even as undignified as
the way I grew up, probably you two, there's still
a lot of Uh, there's still so much of who
we became that comes from that, and you know, the client,
(16:50):
the struggle to not necessarily get out, but just to
sometimes you know, it was the only way to to
make something myself was to you know, to go. But
there's still a lot of pride, and there's you know,
you know, there's a lot of amazing, amazing people from
where we're from and and that taught us so much.
You know, there's like and the one thing I'll say
(17:12):
there was there was a lot of even without having
a dad around, there was all these other dads that
stepped up. Never was a stepdad, but I had like
ten dads, so that was that was incredible. That's one
of the things that I always like try to strive
to if I see that and a kid like, you know,
(17:32):
I just lost one of my buddies here in April,
and uh, you know, try to step up for his kids,
and like, you know, somebody's as much as I can
try to help fill that role, you know, because people
did that for me.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's funny you bring that up. It's such a big
part of my life. Like my youth director at church saying,
high school football.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Coach saying, like they'll talk to him twice a week.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Really, yeah, that's awesome. Coach like would step in and
do things that they didn't have to do, right, but
they're men, But yeah, it was. It was kind of
the the in innate part of them where they were
like I should and I will, and I still I can.
I appreciate that so much even now more now than ever.
Actually I do too. How did that affect you as
(18:15):
a dad? Now?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I think that they were example the only examples I
knew of what a dad was supposed to be. And
you know, and it's still like a I mean, I
still like struggle with him, I'm doing the right thing,
you know, you know, I don't, you know, it's just uh,
but to see people like that, that that raised good kids.
(18:37):
And I was in a lot of those kids. I
was being raised with them, you know, with those with
their dads. But it definitely impacted me, you know, it
made me I don't know, it made me want just
it was a role model. It made me strive to
be what they are. And so had they not stepped up,
there's no telling what kind of piece of crap i'd be.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, I think too. For me, it showed me consistency, yeah,
because I didn't have much consistency. Yeah, just to see
consistency consistently, yes, but even yeah, just to see it though,
even if it wasn't in my circle, but to see
that it was kind of reachable. What wasn't really reachable
for me was well this honestly, but like leaving because
(19:18):
nobody left? How what?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
What is your leaving story?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, that's a funny one, I think, the well leaving story.
I Uh, one of my dads, He's he was, he's
he is a radio person in Mississippi and he was
on the air for thirty something years. Still it still
does occasionally. His name is Ken Rainey, but he and
(19:43):
his family, he's he is like one of my dads, but.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So not one of your stepdads. No, nobody who stepped it. Yes, sir,
got it dad, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And and he'll tell you right now that I'm one
of his sons. You know. I had, you know, I
so I got out of high school. I started playing
bars and stuff like that, and I played around through Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
all that stuff for probably ten years. I had this
band called ten Pound Biscuit and I so Ken was
(20:14):
on the radio there, and uh, and he and I
struck a friendship when I was in high school, you know,
and he just sort of he just said, well, if
you're going to do anything, you got to get out
of here. And so he sort of brought me to
Nashville and kind of introduced me to a few songwriter
(20:34):
friends he knew at the time and and sort of
just kind of like put me on my way. I
had like fifteen hundred bucks in my pocket, and he
gave me old like a nineteen ninety one Mercury Cougar
because I didn't have a call. I gave you a car. Yeah,
and it broke down week two. I was here, you know,
(20:55):
but you know, but it was I was. I was
also very very fortunate that when I got here, I
had met, well, I had sort of known Derek George.
I don't know if you know Derek George. Derek produced
like the records like that How Country Feels and Running
out of the Moonlight, those records. But he grew up
in Philadelphia, Misissippi, which is like twenty miles from me,
(21:18):
twenty five miles. And when I got here, I went
to meet with Derek, and he took me into this
publisher on music Row called wind Swept, and it was
these guys. So I got very look And also I
had met a girl that was here that had known
(21:40):
me for Mississippi, that from playing clubs, and she said, Hey,
would you ever be interested in like singing demos or
anything like that? And I was like, sure, I'll do anything.
I was about to just just going to get go,
get it whatever job. And so she had these guys,
Randy Boudreau, who was he's moved back to Louis but
(22:01):
he had written like Broken Heartsville and some you know,
like a lot of big songs and they asked me
to gave me a shot at singing a demo for him.
And this was like week one, and I sang one
song for him, and they gave me like fifty bucks,
and I was like, holy crap, you just got paid
for singing in a studious Yeah, and like I'd never
really been in a real studio. And so the next
(22:24):
week they gave me like ten of them. He's like,
so I just immediately kind of went work, and then
the publisher like a month later signed in my first
publishing deal. So I was really lucky. I mean, I
had just spent a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You spent a lot of time touring and doing tenpound biscuits,
So it's not like you were seventeen and move to town.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
In twenty six when I moved here.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Really that's like a grandpa, I know. I mean considering
when people move here.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And I'm forty eight now, so I yeah, it's crazy
how it's flown by.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What was tempound Biscuit about?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It was more like, I mean, we played a lot
of country, but it was also like we would take
like old Robert Johnson songs and speed them up and
play them like we call it Mississippi rock and.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Roll too, so all blue songs that kind of contemporary
make them a bit contemporary, soounting.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, when there was a lot of that stuff going
on at that time, you know, like Normsissippi All Stars
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you think about those days when it was a
struggle as also being freaking awesome? Now it's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It is awesome. I mean every time I think, damn,
things are not going my way, I just it doesn't
take me but just a minute to think back and go,
this is pretty badass.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yep, it is, And I still have a real appreciation
for Like when I was twenty one, twenty broke, but
I bought a PlayStation two and I you know, I know,
but I never had money, So it wasn't that I
was in this whole world of not having money. I
lived there, so wasn't that big of a deal. Yeah,
I'm not scared to right, So the struggle was just
(24:01):
surviving and having to pay all moment bills and stuff.
But I would go home, but every dream was still
in front of me. Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, there's still do you still have that sense about
you that there's still things like Oh yeah, it's a constant.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, but does that get in your way to is
that ever unhealthy for you?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Never? Really for me?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It is?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Is it? Yeah? Just for me? You don't make me
analyze must Well I.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Try to put you in a bad place, but yeah,
I mean I do. I'm still like, there's still so
why am I not here? What there is? Yes, I
start to get in trouble a little bit. Well you're
kind of at the top of what you do. But
and I would say the same thing about you. I
would not Okay, right, I'm not even going to the wards,
but that's what I would say about me, Like I
am not. And so it's just funny how the perception
(24:47):
when we're ten thousand feet up looking at the forest
is different than if we're sitting in the woods. Like
I at times felt like a massive failure. Like most
of the time, most of the time, well, I have.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
To say that there are those those times that you know,
it's just like all I can do is like create
something that means something to me at the time and
hope that it means something to someone else. You know,
I can't I can't go into creating just to think
I'm gonna go make some money, you know that order
(25:17):
to be famous. You know, I just you know, I
I think I went through a little phase of that
and it didn't make me happy. I was just like
near so you know, I'm I'm definitely you know, I
wouldn't say that I'm happy with I'm very happy with
(25:37):
what I achieved so far, but I always got to
keep keep going, you know, challenge just like golf, competing
with myself.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
What do you enjoy doing? Just that's very open, vague question.
Take golf out and take playing music out. What do
you enjoy doing? What do you enjoy going? I asked
this was in my therapist office yesterday, that their mental
health big deal for me because I never even knew
it was a real thing until I realized mine wasn't good.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Kind of one of those things.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And then he's like, where do you go? Like when
you want to relax? What do you And I'm like,
I have no idea, Yeah, what is it for you?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So? Okay, About fifteen years ago, I went on a
trip with my buddy songwriter buddy Rob Hatch to Bahamas,
where we're going, and and for me, it was the
craziest thing because I'd never seen anything like this, didn't
know anything like this existed. But I went with he
(26:42):
and his family to the Bahamash and I saw the
water there, and it was the most beautiful thing I'd
ever seen, you know that, just the color and being
being able to get on a boat and go sort
of like lake life but looking at an island over
here and getting on a boat and just go do it.
(27:03):
So I do that a lot, and I it's so
funny because I had no idea about boats, or I
grew up in the middle of the state. There's no
there's no water, and.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Or if there are, their flat bottoms, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah. So literally like three months later, I went back
down there by myself and rented my own boat, really yeah,
and rented a house and I started now, and I like,
I screwed up so many of those people's boats, just
hitting rocks and stuff like that, you know. But I
eventually learned the water down there, and so that's like
literally when I get off the plane there and get
(27:38):
on a boat, I throw my bags on the boat,
I go and it's just kind of like everything kind
of just it's like a it's a weird baptism in
a way. It's like a washes me clean. I don't
have to think about anything else. My phones go off,
don't have any service until I get to the house
(27:58):
of Wi Fi and then But it's just like for
me that that was my thing that I found. That
was like my escape, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And what age was music? You're escape? Oh god, well,
like what as a kid? And he can even be listening,
like finding music to listen to before you played it,
Like when did you when did you kind of love music?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Well, because my dad was a musician, he would, you know,
he would every night, never failed even you know, you know,
he would sit on the side of my bed and
play songs and I'd sing with him as a little boy,
you know, So that that was you know, I can't
remember not having that until he was gone. What kind
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of songs he would play, like anything, Like he'd play
like Jimmy Buffett songs or Dan Fogelberg and he was
he was really into singer songwriter music, and you know,
but he would, you know, he'd play country stuff too,
but it was more singer songwriter stuff than than probably
like George Jones.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
You know what was his dream as a musician or
an artist or did he have one?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I think so yeah, but he he kind of I mean,
you know, he grew up. He was kind of like
extremely chied, like I could play anything, you know. He'd
play piano and oregon on all these like old blue
stuff and like, and he would played in bands and
stuff like that. So I remember, I even remember like
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the first time I went and saw him play with
a band, and I was probably four.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You remember this, you remember something of four, four.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Or five, It couldn't been much older, but it had
impact on me. And I remember hit him. I remember
thinking about him sitting on the side of my bed
and playing with just him and singing songs and me
singing with him. And then I saw him play at
this playing playing with this band at this bar called
and I remember the band the bar was called Willa Watson's.
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I remember that too, and and I and I recognized
that there were like five people on stage, all doing
something different, but it was coming out of these speakers
is one thing. And it just impacted me. I was like, oh,
I know what I'm going to do. I just knew.
And so as soon as I could. As soon as
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I could learn how to play guitar, like I mean,
as soon as I could. He was teaching me.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You know what age is that six seven were playing
like a small acoustic guitar. He'd have me just a
little something, you know, man, that's those those got to
be the best memories.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
They were when you know. And the great thing about
him was and I do. And this is one thing
I took from him with my kids is like, my
kids don't go thirty minutes without me telling them how
much I love them. And he was like that to me.
So I never felt this that kind of deficiency. I
knew that my daddy loved me. But and I And
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that's one thing I give to my kids. I'm like
a me and Teddy I don't were talking about that
last night. It was like one of our goals is
for our kids to never not hear that. You know,
how old is your oldest kid? Eleven?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So you had your first kid at thirty thirty eight,
so thirty six, we're just now starting to talk about
having kids. Yeah, I've been scared forever. Didn't have models
as parents, think I'd be a terrible parent. I was
afraid to not be able to afford to be so
all these irrational fears that are there for a reason.
Obviously I experienced them, but they feel they're rational.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, well you know what, I had the same thing. Ye,
but I think that in eight Park kicks in.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I hear you, but manate, I don't trust in ad
in me.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You'd kill it if you because you actually care that
you the fact that you actually are scared, you would
do a crappy job at it, You'll kill it.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I'm also scared I do a crappy job like telling jokes,
as I suck at that too. So what what's what's
the What's what's having kids about?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I don't know. I think it's for me. It is
it was if I every ounce of ego that you
might have, they'll kick that ship right down the stairs.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because because you were old, thirty thirty whatever you said,
thirty five seven, that's older to have your dad, I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be freaking grandpa.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well I got a one year old too, and I'm
forty eight. So dude, but I'm like, I think I'm
about to go.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah. For those that don't know, he meant chopping the
tube that would send the sperm and out through his penis.
So when do you start not the penis actually, no,
that tube that would send the sperm ount through the penis,
not the penis off. Hilarious, you go in for the
wrong surgery. When did you start to play music with
other people either your age or like older men that
knew how to play instruments.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, so probably fourth grade I started playing with There
was a there was one guy his name was Jason
Shirley that that lived in a town probably seven miles
from me, that played guitar and his dad was a musicians.
So we started doing that playing and then it became
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you know, everybody else quit, you know, doing that. So
and then like I played and started literally probably tenth grade,
really playing out, you know. Uh. And then right at
the end of high school, I ended up playing in
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bands with everybody was twenty five years older than me.
And so that was cool. It was it was like
a college for me. You know. It was uh crazy,
you know, it was. It was really great experience I had,
and and and the people that I played with were
so much better than they were ever giving credit for.
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You know, one of one of the guys that I
played with, was in one of the bands was he
was one of the original Burrito Brothers. His name was
Chris Etheridge, and he he played on the road with
Willie for several years too, and come back home to
Mississippi and and and he and he sort of kind
of like schooled me on charts and all the stuff,
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you know, and you know, always pushed me to get
out of there and moved to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Like he cared.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, he was a good guy.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Sounds like he cared you when you moved to Nashville.
Just hearing your story about you guys playing and you
touring all over the Southeast. Now, did you develop a
following enough as a band or as a to make
you think I have to go and take the next
step or why like why stop that and come here?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, I think that at the end of the day,
I was the only one that took it as serious
as as it needed to be taken. You know, everybody
else had something to fall back on or you know,
just I don't know. I just think I was more
serious about it.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And you you knew, not that you be success, you
knew that that's what you had to do. Yeah, That's
how I feel about this. You know, all the stuff
that I do, and I tell people, Man, if you
think there's a chance you could do something else, go
do it. Because yeah, I agree, this sucks and it's awesome,
but it sucks mostly. Yeah, but it's awesome. There's there's
a there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There's something awesome and something that sucks. But there's always
a yang to the end. I mean, it's just just
the way it is. But you know, you're still the
weight of the weight of the good definitely has outweighed
you know, anything was bad from what.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
When you're hearing you're singing, you're doing demos, Are you
hoping that somebody hears you singing demos? Yeah, like it's
secretly like somebody that's that's you know, trying to listen
to songs.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, of course absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I mean, how were you going to be discovered? In
your mind?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I had no idea. You know. One of the things
one of the things that I did when I moved
to Nashville is I didn't play live with a band
here for like four or five years. I just refused
because I was so scared that I would end up
And I don't mean this in a bad way. But
I always was scared that I would end up in
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another cover band here, and that would be I'd be downtown,
you know, every night, you know, doing that, and that's
not what I came. I'd done that for ten years
before I moved here, So my focus was to get
here and learn and learn how to really write songs
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and learn you know, I had, you know, I always
written songs, but there's a different level of songwriters obviously
in this town that know how to craft a song,
you know, And sometimes I feel like some of the
innocence of my songwriting got booted because of learning the
process of how everybody writes here. So I think that
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I lost some of the raggedness, you know, which I
sort of regret sometimes. But I wouldn't play live because
I didn't want to didn't want to be in a
cover band. And then when I felt like I had
written enough songs to really go start playing, I.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Did, Where do you play when you're ready to start playing?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Back? Then it would be like third and Lensley.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Twelfth and Porter and how do you get a shot
to see Elis Corner? Do you have to do? You
know something you've been in town? For a few years. Now,
do you know somebody do you go and just call
and say can I get Like? How do you do that?
At that point, well.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I had been playing like writers' nights, just acoustic, and
so some of the club owners will be like, are
you ever going to put a band together and go
and go? We'd love to have you play. And finally
I did.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
When you would play these writers' nights, these rounds, would
people react to you singing in a way that would
make you think, I crave this and obviously I'm good
at it. When did that start happening for you? Did
you have such a distinct strong voice? And I don't
think that just happened like three years ago.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No, that was you know, I, like I said, I'd
been doing that for so long, it was I mean
that part was like, that's just innate to me. You know.
I don't mean that in like a boasting way. It's
just like you get on the radio and you talk
and somehow you keep the thing, keep the ball rolling,
and you just know how.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's instinct right right, And that's how I guess. It's
a combination of the things I listened to growing up
a combination of being in the bed singing with my
dad at four years old and learn how to learn
how to use the muscles to make my voice do
the things that I hear in my head.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Like a like a picture, throwing a cab a muscle
memory and learning what works And when did you When
did you realize you were a good singer?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I don't know if you I still sometimes I don't know, uh,
I you know, I hear people that that that I
still hear people that I go, man, I wish I
had that kind of voice.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
But like.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
If you're singing and you're being rewarded by applause or
people going, oh you're great, it maybe that's when did
that fourteen fifteen or was it later?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
It was probably them, Yeah, yeah, it may have been.
I mean, you know, I sing in church as a kid,
and I would, you know, uh, always end up with
one of the like if I was in a Bible
school player or something, I'd always have the part that
would sing and stuff like that. So I was always
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always like I was aware that I could do it,
but I think it, you know, it's still I mean,
I go back and listen to old work tapes and
things like that, and I hear how how the times,
you know, how my voice has changed, and how my
style has changed, and and I don't know if I
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don't know if I'm where I'm supposed to be as
a singer even now, you know, because every every one
of those stages I thought I was. But you know,
I also realized listening back that that stylistically and the
tone of my voice has changed. And this I guess
that just happens as you get older. And but I
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don't know. I you know, I always kind of knew
I could sing, you know, but could but you can
sing so good.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
And I'm you know, I'm not just take your weasels
right now, but it's like I'm about to get a clip. Yeah,
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
So you moved to Nashville, and I think I would
just be a bit intimidated, regardless of how good I was,
because again, you could be the best, but there were
other people to sing different and seemed great.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
I'm telling you, this town is full of it, you know.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
And but here you are singing demos and people are
paying you. That's got to give you confidence if you're like.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Oh, it was amazing. It was like I was. I
was so thankful, you know. It was like and some
of those some of those people that gave me that
work early on are still like great friends of mine,
you know, and I have really just believed in me
it since day one, and you know, been really just
encouraging from day one. And so there's a lot of
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credit goes do to like Kent Blaze, a guy like that,
and and some of these guys that gave me work
all the time consistently believed in me is enough of
a singer to try to go picture their songs that
they work their ass off to right to these to
these guys and but have always believed in me to
put my stamp on their song to try to make
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it something that somebody wouldn't want to hear, you know.
So that there's a lot of credit that goes to
those people for giving me a an outlet to grow.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
When did you get that first opportunity, that first look
where it's like, I know you wanted to sink obviously
you're you're waiting. You didn't want to be in a
cover band, you wanted to be your own artist. Yeah,
when did that first serious look come from somebody? It
may not even worked out, but they're like, all right, Randy,
we think it's pretty good. Let's give you a look.
Do you have like a.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Like a showcase?
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yeah, that would be the word the show. You have
any showcase or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah? I had. I mean I had a kind of
like a bunch of those kind of things happen, you know.
I mean as whenever I started playing live around town,
there was kind of always somebody coming out. You know,
it was like, well there's a lot. It was like
I remember like at twelfth Importer one year, it was
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like the highest like I had the like the highest
grossing alcohol sales for their year, you know on nights,
because I would do it like once or twice a
month and they would average out who was selling there.
But I had a lot of people who would come.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Do you feel the building.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
That was great? I mean it would just be slammed
and it was and and it was you know when
you're in those those like those you come to Nashville
and you like from being from Mississippi and not really
having a lot of people that do what I do
to come up with when I came here to find
my group of guys was my family, you know, and
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and so it was always, you know, it was a
place to be when we to go out and play,
and it was just everybody that we knew came out.
You know. It was like one of those It was
a scene back in the day, and it was when
you get your record deal. Deal, you're My first record
deal was I guess probably two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Then I'm assuming your first record deal. I did not
end in a way that you would want it to end.
It's like it's like going when somebody goes my first wife,
my first you know. So the first record deal then,
I guess, was not good for you.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, long term, it was an interesting story. It was
Allison Jones that's now at Big Machine signed me. James
Stroud and her signed me to m c A. And
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so James took me and my band to Bahamas and
we cut a record cut the first record.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
They take you there because they knew you wanted and
you look.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
They just said, here's there's a lot of backstory to well.
The story is basically that I didn't know it at
the time, and I'm not sure. I don't know if
James knew it at the time, but but he got
blown out right after we cut that record. I don't
know if he was just like, let's go, and I
don't know if that was the way funny. So yeah,
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we went to Compass Point where let like you know,
back in Black record, a lot of that stuff was
cut and we went down there. I took my band,
we had a blast, started recording and stuff came back,
got ruffs almost done. He gets blown out and then
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uh so Luke Lewis took over mc A. Him and
James were the heads of it and basically I was out.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
When the people that don't bring you in. I mean
I had a I talked show pilot once and it
was awesome. I loved it, and we did that. We
shot the pilot, felt so good about it, and then
like two weeks after we shot it, the President that
okay greenlit it. It's blown out because it doesn't matter
how good it is. It's like new athletic director coming
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in and I had football coach. It's like the first
chance that it's not great, They're going to get their
own person.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Absolutely you're not their kids.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
So you felt that there. So how do you kind
of bounce back, what do you do for a while.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
So, uh, the the saving grace out of that was
is that Universal South came came along right at that time.
They were a part of that whole group, the mc
A group, you know. So Mark Wright took over Universal South,
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and uh and in my deal, there was almost out there.
I was history and Mark said, wait a minute, y'all
aren't gonna keep him. And so Mark sign me over
Universal South. And that's that's when I had like the
first like success I had, you know, like anything goes
and boots on, so.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
You got to put out music over there, different music.
But yeah, when you have success like boots On for example,
and that was that wasn't even what it later became.
I mean, it was it, this is awesome, top of
the world, I'm a huge star. No, it wasn't that
at all.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Oh hell no, I was still getting I felt like
I was getting my teeth kicked in all the time.
You know.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
It was like being on the road away.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
No, I just it was just uh, well yeah, part partly,
I mean, I just don't think. I don't think there's
ever been an I've arrived moment for me because just
goes back to what we were talking about earlier is Okay,
we're here, how do we get there? How do we
You know that we're never going to be satisfied.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Even with How Country Feels, which was a monster. Yeah,
they didn't give you that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well, I remember feeling because well, I remember how I
when I knew that How Country Feels was a hit?
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Just ahead, let's not let's not make it lower a monster?
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah it was. It was crazy, yeah, but it but
I never but all I'm all I'm thinking at that
point is oh shit, how do I do this again?
Because and I've seen it. I've seen so many ways
and in the in this business that I'm not scared
of it. But I remember that first time feeling of
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realizing it was a hit, and I was. I remember
distinctly how it happened. I was we were in Saint
Louis and it was it was a station that Steve
Stewart was the pdat and he put on this thing.
It was in the fall. It was about that it
was just at Halloween and he decided he was going
to do this thing called Concerts in the Corn and uh,
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and so it was cold, as shit and we go.
We're out in this cornfield on a flatbed and I
got gloves on, and we get there, like, you know,
five hours earlier, and I'm thinking, this place is twenty
five miles out of town and nobody knows me. And
I'm like, there's nobody coming to this and and literally
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that song had just like hit like top fifteen, top
here or something like that, and and these cars started
coming in, and they came in. We had to push
a show like an hour because they were not ready
for what was what was coming, and I wasn't. It
was freaky, but it was like that. But that was
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the first time and it wasn't like, you know, I
was opening for somebody. It was my show. So I
was like, oh my god, these people actually came to
see me.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Isn't it weird how that can happen. You can be
in it so much you're not even like, I'm educating
yourself on what your art is doing. Yeah, because at
that you know, you're promoting a song. You're out working,
and you're right, you're going station to station, You're doing
every freaking show, and you're not really feeling it because
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you're working so hard. And then all of a sudden
when there is It took probably them delaying that show
and you freezing your balls off to go by dang,
this thing is yeah, it is creating some response.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
That was the first time time I knew that that
song was as big as it was. It was. It
was that was nuts, but it was a I remember
I remember a very short pat on my own back,
you know, and then going okay, uh, guess what I
got to be at another radio station at eight am,
and and uh and a you know, at a lunch table.
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There's nothing glamorous.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
You know, it's like just realking conference room with like
some dude and his it doesn't even want to watch,
doesn't want to be there. Yeah, that's tough, but that's
you know what.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
I also appreciate that stuff so much because it I
never felt like I didn't work for anything.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
You know, your song canceled, You wrote that, right, Tell
me about that song, not so much about the song,
but why, Like what what were what were you thinking
whenever you're writing that song? Like what did it start as?
What did to end up?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
As? I guess for me, it was just, you know,
I think I've just been watching too much news at
the time, and uh and starting to also was starting
to feel like misrepresented in a way. I feel like
that I feel like I was being made to feel
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like because I'm a straight male dad in a family
that people resent me for that that that people some
people look at me and go, you got it all.
You have no deficiencies. You know that that that in
some way that that's almost looked down upon by some people.
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And I think that, you know, that's everything that I
always always knew to strive to be. And and and
then there's a certain group of people that that feel
like that that I feel like I've been made to
feel like that, that's you know what I mean, snarky.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
But so you write the song? Was it a feeling
you had? Or we're gonna chase this song? Was it
a few words? Was it a like a melt a hook?
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Like?
Speaker 2 (52:15):
How did the song start?
Speaker 1 (52:16):
It started just the first line, I gotta see I
don't like with this world's headed just don't get it,
don't get it. That's how the song came along. And
it was you know, the song is written from from
my standpoint. The song is about not judging people. You know,
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I felt like I was being judged for who I am.
But at the same time, I don't judge other people
for who they are, and I don't you know, yes,
I'm a conservative, male, dad, heterold man, but I don't
give a shit what you do in your bedroom. Don't
your decisions and what your life has led you to,
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or that's your you're cross to bear. I don't. I
have no play into that, and I'm not going to
tell you're right or wrong. You know. It's just like,
but I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be made
to feel And I know that sounds a little but
there have been times when I was made to feel
that I should feel bad for what I was born,
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and I don't want other people to feel that way
about how they live.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
And I think that's the difference in that you are
having something, regardless what the situations happened to you, that
you're not doing to other people. So it doesn't feel
like right, this is fair.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Well, I feel like that if you're privilege, well.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
If you were screaming hey, you can't you shouldn't be
gay loudly, no, I think I would probably understand if
people were yelling at you, oh you're but but you're saying,
you're you're just living.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Your life, right, and I think that's what everybody should do. Right.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
So this what's been the feedback on the song, Uh, you.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
Know, mixed. You know, you get some people that think
that that I'm bashing you know other you know, choices
that people make, and that's not the case. You know,
It's just about be who you are, be proud of
who you are, love who you want to love, do
what you want to do. That's at the end of
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the day. I'm not your judge. You're in my opinion,
because I am a Christian that you're gonna have to
deal with that. So later on by somebody that's way
got more. You know, I'm not the judge. That's that's
somebody else's gig me.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
I'm a judge. I'll be the greatest king of the world,
of the world. I'm not even king of America. I'll
be the greatest king of the world. And I do
not know why they don't just an absolutely. So I
do want to talk about the movie for a second,
which I don't go to the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
I take that back. My wife makes me sometimes, I really.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
You know, I did I haven't either a long time,
but I did.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
These watch this too, Mike. Mike d loved Killers of
the Flower movie. My wife read the book and so
we're waiting, Yeah, well did you read.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
It before I read it when I got cast.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
So we're waiting for it because it's an Apple Apple movie, right, Mike, yep.
So we're waiting for it to come. And she's from Oklahoma.
My wife is, oh, yeah, yeah, like very much. What
part of Oklahoma from like near ish Tulsa.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, so that's where.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Yes, So she knows a lot about it through like
three and four generations that would talk about it, right,
And like she's moved by the story because she has
personal relationships with people that had personal relationships. So, Mike,
I'm gonna let you ask the first couple questions. I
know you've seen it, I know the story, but you're
way more educated on the actual movie.
Speaker 5 (55:44):
The senior have is with Leonardo DiCaprio, and one of
my other favorite movies he did with Scorsese was Wolf
of Wall Street. And I've seen like a behind the
scenes clip of him like totally in the zone, like
doesn't even look like he's there, and then right when
the camera goes on, he instantly goes into that character.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Does he do that?
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Yeah, I mean one of the like, uh, one of
the things that was noticeable by well, he's he's also
when he doesn't look like he's working his mind. Like
one of the strangest things would happen was like between
like between like takes, if we had like downtime, changing
out film stuff like that, just hanging out talking I did,
(56:22):
I'd notice that he would like we'd just kind of
shoot the shoot the ship. You know, I don't know
if I can say that long a but and then
you know, like the next day he would come back
to the set and we'd be talking and he would
repeat things that I said to him, just like me,
(56:42):
like he would download my accent and stuff like that,
which is crazy and uh, but no, he would, you know,
he like there would be time we'd just be throwing
a ball or something out out in the yard and
then you know it would be time to go back in.
You know, like he very normal, very normal guy, but
also freaking amazing whenever whenever they would yell action how
(57:07):
he would just freaking go at it. You know. It
was just kind of like stepping on the Grand ole
operat and them saying your turn and like doing what
I do, you kind of have to. Just one of
the things that was so cool about it to me
and I enjoyed about the whole process is that I was,
first of all, was scared of death, you know, like
(57:31):
I'd never done this. I was like, I don't know
what the hell I'm doing here. And but the same
is even now, before I go on stage, I'm a
little anxious and like these people are gonna hate me whatever.
But when it came time to go to the set
from you know, the actors a little where we're staged
(57:53):
to go to the actual getting cameras, the same the
same gear was shifted in my being that that is
when I'm walking to the stage to go play music
and that and it became it fed me like to
go do it rather than you know, all the every
(58:14):
fear was gone. It was just go time. Really, so
I seek I could see that in him as well.
Speaker 2 (58:21):
Man, that is awesome that you're just weren't so self conscious.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
Oh I was, But but I was able to like
that blocking mechanism that that happens with going to make music.
It totally was the same thing.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
Was it like watching a different kind of artist. For example,
go to a major League baseball game. Never bet it
didn't go until I was older, but I would see
like a real athlete, Like, oh god, I thought i'd
seen a real athlete until I saw oh, freaking real athlete.
Speaker 1 (58:46):
That's what it was, absolute, damnolutely it was. It was
like and first of all, I'd never seen this whole
process at all, you know, and so it it was
strange that it was and I'd never really done and
i'd never done it. The first first scene I shot
(59:07):
was the scene that actually made the film. There's a
lot of scenes that got cut, you know, they had
hundreds of hours of stuff, but they uh, the first
scene that I shot was the scene that actually made
the film. And it was like four hours of like
(59:27):
going back because they shoot it, you know, from every angle.
Everybody's in the scene has to do their thing. But
and I remember just being like totally like, what the hell,
where's Martins? Of course, saying you're up there, and and
he's coming over to me, and he's standing over my
shoulder right here, and I'm sitting at that this desk.
(59:47):
You know, it's like that bigger than that thing. But
like old school, and I'm sitting there and he's explaining
what he wants out of me and talking to me,
and I'm like, literally in law light land, what the hell?
And so he shoot my angle like I don't know,
four times, and Marty, he's over there in this other
room where their viewing what's going on. He comes out,
(01:00:08):
all right, we got it, and I went because I'd
seen a guy the day before I got there, and
I stayed on set all day dressed ready to go
to shoot. This scene didn't happen, but I'd seen a
guy and another and another scene that that didn't make it. Uh,
(01:00:28):
they shot his this thing like I don't know, it
must have been twenty something times because they couldn't get it,
didn't get it, and you could sense the you could
sense the air leaking out of the room and wasting
time and money, and so I was just like went
back to my bus out and I was like, please, God,
don't let me be that guy I study studies. Well,
(01:00:48):
So then he comes up and he goes, he goes.
Marty comes out, Okay, Randy, we got it. I was like,
we do, and he's like, yeah, we got it, And
I was like, are you sure. He's like yeah, uh
and and he said what And so Leo looks same
and says, what do you mean sure? I was like,
I've never really done this. He said, what do you
(01:01:09):
mean You've never really done this? I was like, I've
never done this. He said, we wouldn't You wouldn't know, you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Know, would I would know what I would do? I
would spiral so bad and go, well, I must have
been so bad. They know there's no hope, So so
we're just gonna do it a few times because they
know we might as well just move on.
Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Welcome back to the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Had to feel watching yourself back?
Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
It was weird? Yeah, it was. It was. I went
to were I was in, oh, somewhere in Texas a
few weeks ago, maybe Dallas or somewhere, and we went
to one of those mega me and some of my
band was during the middle of the day, went to
one of those megaplex things and it was just the
(01:02:04):
gigantic scream, you know. And actually my buddy sent me
video of me watching it while we were sitting there.
But it was like, it's emotional as well, you know,
it was like, I don't know, it was strange.
Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Did you feel the need to in any little bit
of acting that I've done, I've done it. I did
a movie with Vanessa Hudgins once, and I did I
played myself on Nashville where actually had lines later and
so I did some stuff, but I never to that level.
But I felt like I had to fake like I belonged. Yeah,
because I so didn't feel like I did. Like I
(01:02:40):
did not feel like I was one of them. But
I knew I had to be professional and I was
expected to show up and be just as good as
they were. I wasn't gonna be as good as they were,
but to show up, do your job, make sure we
don't slow production down to the Did you have that
pressure that you put on yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Well, I didn't feel like I had to be one
of them. I think that one of the coolest things
I had done enough, uh, well before I saw this. Okay,
that was the first one I shot. I shot another
one that came out. Yeah, So the one that we're
talking about now, I think that I was so far.
One of the things I got to say is there
were so many people that weren't actors in that movie. Musicians,
(01:03:19):
songwriters and things like that. That that I kind of
felt like, and I'd heard this that that Scorsese likes
to get real people in his movies, just to create
that atmosphere of realism, you know, and that aren't actors,
and just you know, you know, I'm not an actor,
but if you want somebody that talks like this to
(01:03:39):
say that I can do it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
When you did The Hill with Dennis Quaid, you are.
But that was your That's a lot of acting.
Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Yeah, that was a bigger role, a bit definitely a
bigger a lot more to chew own.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Were you excited because you'd had a taste.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Yeah, And now I want to do it more because
that it was It was you know. Now I'll look
at I've only I've only seen Killers of the Flyman
once and I was in that like for like ten seconds,
you know. But I did a lot. I did a
lot of stuff in it, but it just that half
of it didn't make it. But there was with the
(01:04:17):
one with Dennis Quaid, The Hill, which I love that movie.
It's it was I look at it and go damn,
because I you know, I have my own studio home
where I can sit and play the guitar parts. Many
times I want and do all those things and I
look at that and I'm going, damn, I want to
do that again. I want to Oh man, I could
have done that so much better had I know, you know,
(01:04:39):
there's not there's none that opportunity to do that like that.
But it did leave me wanting to. Uh, you know what.
For me, it was just creatively to be able to
explore some other thing and challenge myself was a lot
of fun. Find fulfillment in it. I did. It was like, uh,
but it was all so that thing of like a
(01:05:03):
healthy balance of beating myself up, you know what I mean,
because it's not I don't really when I go out
and I grab my guitar, I go play, I know
what I'm doing. It was something that was almost like
standing on the edge of a tall building.
Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
That's how I felt would stand up when I've really
started pursuing it be because it's just that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
I can't imagine, Oh my god, like.
Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
There's a performance aspect to it, which.
Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
You do and you get the timing.
Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Sure, but then it's there's a big part of it
where you're just vulnerable again.
Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Oh man, and that vulnerability is scary. Yeah, it's a
it's a it's a drug in a way. It's like that.
Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
And when you do it right, you're right.
Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
I feel you feel that too. You chase it.
Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
I need alcohol now, guys, we're back to that. I
need a beer right now. So I know you're twenty
twenty four to where you're gonna announce that soon you're
doing a bunch of dates.
Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Yeah, I'm think I'm gonna do a lot less than
I did this year. I can't. My kids are like,
it's just harder and harder to leave home. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
If this is too much, let me know. I don't
know how public you are about it. But Johnny Gilacky,
he was with you when I saw you, I didn't
even see you. Scare the crap out of me walking
up to the I'm in my car, we're about to leave.
You're like, Bobby, I see a dude with a beard
coming at me from the left.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Oh what have I done?
Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
And then I was like, oh god, I didn't steal anything.
I swear to god. It was you. And are you
got How did you guys get to know each other?
Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
We met uh on Taddy I'm and I when we
got married. We met on our honeymoon on a Lutherra
and he was on break from shooting Big Bang. I'd
never seen Big Bang, you know, and and we we
ended up, you know, out back smoking cigarettes and just
(01:06:50):
ended up talking and sort of figured out what each
other did. And but we just hit it off and
then it was it was you know, it was sort
of like an instant friendship.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
And and I, uh, you know, he wasn't living here then,
was he in l A?
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
He was in l A. Yeah, And we stayed in touch,
and we ended up doing putting on a benefit uh
for uh Poso Saloon as a place out in northern
California that uh I think it's shut down now, but
(01:07:28):
the one of the owners was had a cancer battle
and they weren't making any money out there. So we
went and raised a bunch of money and he and
I put this thing on for them, and so we
just became friends and we would figure out, you know,
he would come to Nashville some hang stay with us,
and I'd go stay with his place and hang out,
(01:07:50):
and we just we could kind of it was it
was weird because we're completely two different worlds. It was
kind of like you know, it was. It was strange
because completely different backgrounds, completely different views a lot of
ways politically, and but somehow have always been able to
(01:08:12):
find our spot and never get mad. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
That's a that's a difference in one on one and
human to human then pack and pack.
Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Yeah, No, that's absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Because if it almost doesn't matter if you let's just
say you're having a situation, your car's broken down, or
you're in a parking lot and somebody's going to help you. Yeah,
Now would a group of one side help a group
of another side. Probably not if it's PACKMNTAC, which is sad, yes,
But when it comes to human human, yeah, like that
stuff is secondary in life. Absolutely, we've made it a
(01:08:46):
little more forward than we should. We've let it really
define us more than I say, it's just us as
an American culture. Yeah, but I know when it comes
to person to person, I've never had an issue with
helping anybody, anybody helping me because of any sort of
affiliation I have with anything.
Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Yeah, I think sometimes I think we have it so
good and our and today in these times that that
we have had to create ship to fight about. We're bored.
Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
We're just like the smart kid in school get in
trouble because.
Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
We're all gonna eat. Well, we're all gonna you know
what I mean, dude. And the other thing that I
find was that I h that most uh, most people
are you know, you have media outlets that want to
you know, they make money off pulling people further and
further these sides, and and really everybody's not that far.
Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
It's ninety eight percent of the same. The focus is
on the two to three percent we're not. They make
money everybody they made by selling commercials because it's sensational.
Every side the news. The news is not the news.
The news is entertainment, right, every every part of it.
And the same thing with politicians, like they want to
divide us so they can have us and that's section
votes and you just build your section up big.
Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Yeah it's wild.
Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Yeah, but okay, look, let's end. The song is canceled,
The Randy the Dennis.
Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
Question songs canceled.
Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Yeah, the song, the Dennis Quad movie The Hill, which
you do more acting, which you know I think now
people are like, you know, Randy's and Killers of the
Flower Moon, and you are but there's definitely there's definitely
more of you. Yeah as well, it's you know, a
seasoned actor in the hill.
Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Well there's you know, to even get a part in
the Scorsese film was like crazy, right, you know. I
was like even watching I was like, I'm almost in there.
But like and then then I have friends that are
actors that are like, dude, we've been trying to get
in a Scorsese film for twenty five years. That's awesome.
So that was cool.
Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
You're playing golf this week?
Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
I am? Yeah, hopefully, I definitely am. Uh next week?
Why definitely next week because we're going to uh, we're
going on our trip Bahamas.
Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Oh you're playing out there?
Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Yeah, what's your handy? Goat?
Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Okay, I'm eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
We should go.
Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
We should go. Let me Yeah, let's because listen, most
of my friends have real jobs. Yeah, so it's like
I can play golf a like noon, yeah, because I
work early in the morning. Yeah, so yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
We go there's there's I mean, I go to the
I'll go to Old Hickory something.
Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
I never played ol Hickory. We went up there and
looked because my course was shut down for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
It's fun. Yeah, it's uh, I mean, it's just fun.
Let's put that way. I like to you know, there's.
Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Why I put it that way. Somebody get murdered on
the course.
Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
No, it's just like right now it's freaking no brown
or ye, no member. Yeah, but yeah, it's a blast
out there.
Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
I just took read and we went and I tell
you up in Monterey. Yeah, Yeah, it was awesome. It's elite.
It's it's like doing stuff that I never thought i'd
get to do. But also you have to be a member,
and we're not members obviously, so it's like somebody calls
and finds a member. Then you go on like a
blind date with an old man.
Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Yeah, and you're like, that's like this place where I'm
going to next week, the Abaco Club, freaking heaven on Earth.
You know, it's kind of down by the same area
as the other one, and it's just like, I can't.
It's like Ron White when he's talking about he's rolling
that place and he's like, nobody's stopping me.
Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
You guys. Follow Randy at Randy Hauser on Instagram and Twitter.
Same thing at Randy Hauser and then Randyheuser dot com.
We'll be waiting for the tour announcement and the song
is canceled, and we love talking with you. We've just
been an hour with each other. I could do another
hour pretty easily, so let's do it. Okay, So it's
the next step. Randy, good to talk to you, Buddy,
you
Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Too, Thanks, Bob, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast
production
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