Rob Ricotta: A Creative Quadruple Threat for John Morgan! :: Ep 226 The Rich Redmond Show

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Rich, I am pushing you to do a comedy set at some

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point. He really wants me to go,telling you we're gonna either
do a Zanies night or we're goingto Atlanta. So Jim, if you want
to hop in the truck, sure we'redoing it, man. Because
guys, you know what you haven'tdone yet, some stand up. He
would crush. You know? He wouldcrush? Yeah, yeah.
This is the rich Redmond show.Have you

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seen Wolfgang Van Halen? Latestvideo? The music video? No. It's
like a reimagining of thrillerdirected by Robert Rodriguez,
whoa, and it's like zombies init, and he's getting attacked
and everything. Have you notseen this? No came out eight
days ago as of this recording,and he actually does a
reenactment. I want to say it'sin this video, a reenactment of

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his father's iconic table walkguitar solo from odd for
teacher. Oh yes, that isWolfgang. Well, I love Robert
Rodriguez, I know you do. That'swhy I'm telling you. I love
zombies. I know you do. That'swhy I'm telling you.
Salma Hayek was great in thatmovie. You
know, if I knew that about you,you love horror movies. I love
all
horror movies. This is ourguest, Rob ricotta. He's the

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best. He's He's a multi talent.Jim, I thought that you would
enjoy today, because Rob does somany things. You know what? I
mean? He's a hyphy, right? Likeyou and I are hyphys, like we're
juggling so many balls. It'slike balls. I can't even say
what it's like, because I'll getcanceled. But anyways, you know
today, you know, today's guestis a drummer. He's also an

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actor. He's a voice actor, he'sa model, he's a songwriter. You
know, we've been friends, seemslike a very, very long time, but
we're just kind of looking backat at our history here. We
originally met because he playswith a amazing recording artist
on John Jason aldeans label,John Morgan, and he was playing
with John, just he and John onour rock and roll cowboy tour in

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2022 and he was all done upevery night, just ready to do
the thing. He looked like amillion bucks. And he was doing
like a stand up, kind of like acocktail kit kind of a thing.
But instead of, like the theupward facing kick pedal on the
floor tom and that whole thing,it was like an SPDs X, and had
all the cool sounds, and hecould change the sounds for each
song, and he had the pedalgoing. And it was like hyper

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visual. And I was like, Oh, Ican get behind this kid. Who is
this kid, right? And I get tolearn more about him. And then
they come back for the seconditeration of that tour, in 2023
our rock and roll cowboy tour.But it's electric, and he's got
the full band going. And now Iget to see him, see him play
drums, and learn more about him.Like, oh, you're a voiceover
guys. Like, Well, man, I was,you know, I was like, I just was

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in LA for five years trying toget my sag card. I play a lot of
cops and detectives and so, youknow, we, you know, we became
fast friends, and I evenattended this young man's
wedding. Now,
not attended. You were agroomsmen.
You are so, right. So, like,here I am. It's like,
you forgot that you would, youstood up at his wedding. Well,

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there was
Yeah, but the thing is, is thathe didn't work me, like, right
John Hall, my drum tech, whosaid, can you be the MC, the DJ
and do the toast? And I waslike, Yes. I had, like, cue
cards. I had this huge PAsystem. I was doing the thing.
It was good for me, because,guys, I am going to be a DJ. I

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mean, I am going to be DJ.Redmond, that's that's your
thing. I'm going to charge$10,000 starting bid is going to
be $10,000 but, I mean, Rob'sfrom Franklin, North Carolina.
He's known John Morgan for many,many years. Fantastic drummer,
like I said, multi talent. Thisis our new friend, Rob Ricardo.
Thanks for being here, man.
Gosh, what an honor to be here.Thank you both. Bring that mic

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over. A little bit more for you.Absolutely. That's good. Okay,
great,
you know. And you know, I pridemyself on, you know, this at
this particular chapter of mylife, you know, having the full
package, you know, I want tohave like a you know, I want my
expensive haircut, and I want tolook like I'm ready for the gig
at all times. Jim's likeyesterday, Jim goes, you look
like you're ready to jump onstage at all times, even if you

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go to Publix but, but Rob takesit to another level, because I
think it's like the modelingthing. I mean, your beard is
like, you're the Marlboro Man. Imean, dude, you're so good
looking and so put together thatmy own fiance won't use me as a
model. She's using you as sheuses your bride as a model. It
was cool
to see you're a good lookingcouple. Bri, oh no, I appreciate
it so much. Yeah, it was cool tosee my bride the other day in

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one of her shoots. And honestly,she wears those T shirts all the
time now, which is great. Yeah,absolutely
nice green hills, but it's greenhills in the font and the logo
design of Beverly Hills, becauseLet's fake it, face it if you're
living in Greg and green hills,oh yes, you've done
okay. Exclusive pickleballcourts,

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cocktails, direct
access to Trader Joe's Nordsprouts,
no traffic. Oh
yeah, a horrible Hillsboroughroad. Hello, yeah. But
everywhere is Hillsborough road,and now we're in you. We are in
Spring Hill, Tennessee, whichhas been a community since the
late 1800s and it was probablyhorse and buggy two lane roads,

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and still is. There's nowhere tothere's no way to expand the
roads here. We're just going tobe dealing with like LA style
traffic in Spring Hill. But it'sgood. I'm loving the
lifestyle. Beautiful. Oh mygosh, it's beautiful out here.
It's very calm.
We have sidewalks in farmland aswell. Very nice, man. It's just
so cool to you know, we had somegood times and on those tours,
yeah, it was post COVID. Rightafter COVID, there was a

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few times I know you remember aswell, we'd show up. And there
was still some of the statesthat were so highly liked locked
that 99 crew of you guys. That'sa machine show up, and they're
like, What do we do? Do we askthese people to put mask on? Do
we not and it was kind of funnywatching it all go down, because

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we lived this for two, threeyears, and then we're like,
well, so this state, we'll seehow this state goes, and then
move on to the next one tomorrownight. But, yeah, it's
interesting time.
But dude, you're a showman, youknow, everything you do. I mean,
the way you were playing theSPD, SX, and, you know, now I'm
seeing you in music videos, andyou guys have been doing a lot
more press lately. I saw you.You guys did a thing on the
Kelly Clarkson show. You were onthat TV show, American song

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contest, you know. And you, youlet the hair down, like your
hair is up right now, and this,yeah, it's kind
of a weird how long is yourhair? And right now you want to
let it down rock and roll,Sunset Strip, yeah, it's down
here. Yeah, it's down here. It'skind of, you got, like, the
whole gamut going. It's, I don'tknow, man, I think it's half out
of proxy, all our guys. It'sactually one of those things

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we're going through as a bandright now. And it's like, we're
about to just call it haircountry or something, because
all our guys somehow just endedup with with longer hair. It
wasn't by I think it's justliving again. I mean, you guys
know that. What I
mean is that you got the actingthing, the voice over thing, the
modeling thing, the you haveyour hair, which still, which
some of us can't say,
he's not having to dig into thefinasteride just

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yet. Well, it's, it's strange.And I will say, like, do you
play sports, or are you aprofessional athlete? No, I
wish. I do love I played soccerall growing up, and still played
here and there, but we played somuch pickle on tour with these
guys. I don't play pickle loadsof fun, though.
Of course, you don't. They'retoo they're too competitive.
These guys, they take all thefun out of it.

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They don't anymore. I heardthough, are they done? Are they
still playing?
Yet to play a game ofpickleball, we'll find out. Have
you ever played a
game? We've been sitting aroundfor five months waiting to go.
So may 19, we jump intorehearsals for three days, and
we start our tour on May 22 inCincinnati, at the blossom.
Thank god. I can't wait to playthese 24 songs again with my
best friends. Hello. Are you?Did you ever play pickleball?

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Never tried it, buddy? BecauseI'm always like, doing my
stretching or my running orlifting weights or doing Yeah,
I'm more of like a man againsthimself, man against nature.
It. Listen, it's like watchingthe rocky montage when you do go
out on tour with rich, becauseit's true, like you get you're
like, 1130 to the like, rightbefore lunch kind of thing. He's

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soaking, dripping wet out there,just doing his thing. And he
puts all the younger guys toshame, because you're like, oh,
man, I just woke up and Rich isgetting after it. And so it kind
of makes you, like, pickyourself up a bit and be like,
Wow, I better not eat crappy.
Worry about it, because you gotyou, got you. No, it's not true,
man, I'm having to but yeah,yeah, me too. That's, you know,

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what Rich I will say it's weirdcoming from you to say you're a
showman Rob, because, as we knowlike it truthfully, is the
ultimate experience, thesuccinctness of you in a studio
and the succinctness of youlive. It's untouchable. So it's
weird to come from one a friend,but two, a fellow musician, and

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go, Hey, you're a showman.Because I that's like, the most
succinct thing about you as aplayer. Oh,
man, I appreciate it. But you'rejust totally coming into your
own in your drum career. You'vehad this voiceover career for 14
years, you know, which isamazing, and we'll get into
that. And because I, and becauseI, and I thought you'd be an
amazing guest, because you cando some kibitzing with Jim, you
know, because he's been a radiodoes the voice over, all that
kind of stuff. So you guys havea lot in common. But, you know,

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just watching you get yourendorsements together, you know,
your dream symbols. And, hey,I'm a drum dial artist, and I'm
playing collision sticks. Andyou know, you're doing the
thing, you know, and you're Ijust because I remember those
days, those years of that, thefirst couple of years of being
hungry, and, you know, you'rebuilding something. You're
getting all your allies and yourteam together, so exciting.

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And you've, man, it's been socool. Just the few times as
well, you've said, hey, lookbeyond Can I do anything for
you? You need to meet these guysat innovative or you need to
meet, you know, not just symbolpeople, but great people in the
industry that are long standing,that actually are major quality
in what they do. And now beingable to use some of those things

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on records, like littlepercussive things, have been so
cool, like, so I appreciate thatas well. And, yeah, I think.
Most of these people that we'vegotten the opportunity to build
relationship with, it's justthat you're like, Man, I hope
you're rounding in 10 yearswhile I'm doing this or
whatever.
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Now, this artist that you'replaying with, John Morgan, you
guys go way back back to highschool days, so fill us in on
that
history. Our bass player,
not unlike you guys, it was, itwas really cool to see and watch
your relationship with Kurt andTully and Jason and understand

(12:04):
that storyline, because it didmirror a lot of what just
knowing each other musically,and then knowing each other from
afar and going, man, what doesthis look like when we put it
together? Kind of a thing. Soour bass player and John and
myself actually the bass playerand John was a rival high school
to mine, so we grew up playingsports against each other in the
world where we come from, it'sbluegrass music, and so there's

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no drums. No, you have towashboard it. You know, do you
do the washboard thing? That'swhere, believe it or not, I
started on bongos and Congos wayback when. But, yeah, you had
to, like, learn
some risky Skaggs has got somedrums a little bit, you're
right. And
Union Station, sometimes, asidefrom mandolin, has like, a
little bit of a shaker orsomething,
really fast train beats. But

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nowadays it like, back, youknow, when it changed, they
went, it's an indoctrination ofour, you know, to put drums on
bluegrass. So that, at thattime, we were trying to do that.
And I think it was just like,No, no, don't do that. Yeah, but
yeah, we all were in bluegrassmusic of some kind. We played in
different bands and and I knewof John, and it was just a pass

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by in a studio that the engineersaid, You need to stay back and
listen to this guy's voice. SoI'd been writing that day with a
friend. We'd been doing asession in our small, little
studio, and he said, man, juststay back. And I heard John sing
for the first time, and it was,you know, like a movie. It's in
a little vocal booth, comes outof the vocal booth. And I said,

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Man, you know, did you writethat song? Kind of a thing? He
said, Yeah. I said, who'd youwrite it with? He said, I just
wrote about lonesome. And I, youknow, I suppose at that moment,
it really was like a magic thatjust I went, I'll do I think I'd
do anything for people to beable to hear that. I'll do
whatever it takes for people tohear that. And I'm looking at

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videos recently, especially himjust having a number one a week
ago. I looked back at the onesin the studio going like, Man,
I'm so glad that people justknow John Morgan now, yeah, you
know that is enough for me,almost for people, to kind of
take him as a household name, ifyou will.
He's becoming a household nameswiftly. And so did you move to

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Nashville first and then say,Hey, John, you really got
to get here six months? Yeah,I'd gone to enough writers
rounds like, I'm sure you guys,you know when you when you move
here, I think it's you. What'sweird about Nashville is, is, I
don't know if you agree withthis or not, but I've found that
Nashville, if you move here, youhave a seat at the table. It's
not, it's not necessarily likein New York LA, where it's like,

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man, you gotta just absolutelynot that you don't have to grind
here. But what I mean is, isthat people go, if you're here,
what's the first question? Doyou live in Nashville? Yeah. And
then it's like, yeah, we canwrite if you don't live in
Nashville, nah. I'm good. Youknow what? I mean, yeah. Gotta
be here. You gotta be here. Andso seeing enough rounds, there's
less gate gatekeepers here.Totally, yeah, totally. So yeah,

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it
moved here six months. And Ijust said, John, whenever you
get the chance. It's, you know,it's cool to work doing
maintenance or at a tire shop orwhatever, you can do whatever
you want. But I'll tell you, ifyou really want to do music, you
got to move where music is. Andso thankfully, took me my word
and and moved
here. Best advice ever. Andthen, I mean, he does have just

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such an amazing voice. He lookslike a young James Taylor. You
know what I mean, he reallydoes. He does, and he's had, you
know, since you know, thank Godyou can visit him to move to
town. He's earned cuts with Johnparty, Dustin Lynch, Thomas red,
16 tracks with Jason Aldean.Maybe it's even more now,
including the number one troublewith a heartache at the Grammy
nominated, which was Grammynominated ACM Single of the

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Year, if I didn't love you, withCarrie Underwood, the current,
our current single whiskeydrink, and you guys are
celebrating a number one withJason Aldean. Yeah, friends like
that. Friends like that. Yeah,amazing. Congratulations, crazy,
crazy. You're in the video. All,
yes, you know. But the best partis, where it started is you guys

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playing on all John's stuff, andthat's exactly what happened
with the first number one. IsAll You guys are on friends like
that. And it's really cool. It'sfull circle, because I feel like
Jason, taking a shot on John andyour whole team, taking us under
your wing on tour for two yearsin a row, which is unheard of,
in my opinion, in the industry,to just go and we're not only

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taking you one year, we're gonnabelieve in you again. You again.
And here's a full band thing. Itjust is so right, in my opinion,
to have the story be Hey, by theway, all the guys that took you
under and and lifted you ontheir shoulders are the ones
that got the number the firstnumber one on that artist. So
it's so cool to hear you firstone. Well,

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thank you, and you listening toyour drumming. Let's celebrate
you. You got this amazingrelationship with John going way
back. You know you've earned hisrespect. He trusts you, and he
invites the band to play on hislatest record, Carolina blue,
which dropped April 25 wasproduced by Brent Anderson. Guy
used to play in his demos, God,15 years ago, tell us about that

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process.
It the ruckus room in town,which I wasn't familiar with.
How many great records had beenmade there, over there in
Berryhill, in Berryhill, andit's kind of, again, off of, not
the main strip there in BerryHill, but it's like up on a
hill. Yep, a very unassumingplace. And, you know, big, wide
door, you Oh, you go through,but now it's farmland. Studios

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is operating out of thatbuilding, and it just has good
juju, if you will. Like, youwalk in and you're like, Man, I
just it feels like a verycomfortable space to make
records. It's one of the lastplaces like a sound in Portman
town. I think that's got thatmid grade studio feel like it's
obviously high end, but it'sstill what I mean is is
accessible to people like us whoare rookies and trying to cut

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our teeth in this industry.Yeah, so it feels like the
engineer is not going to be allover your butt the whole time
he's working with guys that aregreener. I think it's really so
sweet, if you will, to havesomebody in there who gives you
suggestions, and nobody has anego. You're just learning.
You're learning in there. And I,you know, it's a completely

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different experience for me,being in the studio. I've had
little hints of it, but being inthere and almost living there
for a week, you know, you go inthere and you have a limited
amount of time to do something.But I think that trying to get
gold, if you have people therethat are constantly saying, Man,
you know, I'd love to bring alittle bit of you, have more of
you on the instrument, ratherthan just the parts, yeah, I

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felt like that was such a weirdthing to be have the ability to
do.
Yeah, congratulations. I wish Ihad known man, you. I mean, all
of a sudden I realized, oh mygod, John's got a full length
record. He uses band. That'sgreat, because it just does.
It's happening more oftennowadays, but still pretty rare.
It's so easy for, you know, whenthere's money at stake and

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there's the stakes are so high,it's like, call the guys, call
the team. You know what? I mean,the guys that are got their
studio tans every day, becauseit does take a little bit more
work sometimes to get a bunch ofguys that don't do it all time
to create the product. But youhad a whole week awesome, and
it's easy to get good cateringin Berryhill, there's a lot of

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restaurants in rate,
and also not be that way.
Yeah, Brent Anderson was, wasreally great about this as well.
He did a lot of it, being ourkind of first time doing a full
length record in that way. Hedid a lot of pre production on
it for us. And so he rounded outthe experience of just going,
Hey, percussion, little loot,stuff like that. Let's not like,

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I'm not gonna have those. Whydon't you play those things too,
and it reminded me of you aswell, because there was so much
of that you listen to Jason'srecords over the years where all
that stuff, you're like, No, no.Like, rich played that that's
not just some random drum loopthat's playing on an spdx, or,
you know, shakers here, ortrying to seven different
tambourines. And you're like, Ithink this one will work. That's

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the. What? So that was so cool.He let us do that with symbols,
and we tried different snares.And
the future is so bright. It'scool. I mean, that is great.
Congratulations. Thank you.Thank you. Big, big. You
told me that was, I mean,honestly, was all coming, man,
yeah, I think it was. I textedyou the other day and I said,
Rich. It's crazy how you kind ofpredicted that a bit, but it was

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like, man, if you just you toldme, he said, Man, if you just
continue to show up, I reallybelieve that, especially the
recording bit, is in yourfuture. Yeah. And it was like,
you know, I didn't expect it tobe now, but it was kind of like
clockwork. I was like, Man, Iguess he was right, you know,
so Well, the thing is, is you'recoachable, you're teachable,
you're affable, you're all thebulls, you know, yeah, I mean,

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it's like, it's, you're just alikable guy, and and you're a
team player, and so, you know.And John just seems like a loyal
guy, you know, he's a groundeddude, you know, which is great.
So, Wow,
isn't that cool, Jim? That'scool. Super critical. Yeah, man.
Now, when this comes out, Jimwill probably have played his
gig at the city winery. Jim is adrummer. Get out of here. He

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kind of hasn't done it in publica lot for like, maybe, like, 18
years, but now he joined theHuey Lewis tribute band, and
they're playing the city wineryon May 28 Yes, and I'll be
there. I'll be I'll have myflatbread and my wine. I'll be
watching. It'll be great. AndJim, should I sit up nice and
close, or should I sit way inthe back? I
don't care where you sit.
That's a nice room, by the way,but I spent a lot of time. I

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really
want to look out and see youjust going
like this, taking notes I
can be transcribing. Yeah. Yeah.You
know you don't just go and playin a Huey Lewis tribute man, by
the way, you got to, like, knowthat he's got it. Like,
yeah, it's true. It's it's givenme a vast appreciation for Bill

(21:52):
Gibson, yeah, who we've had onthe show several months ago.
But, yeah, yeah, he's that guy'sa juggernaut. That's he doesn't
get enough recognition. Hedeserves a lot more. You know,
Bill
is a very shucks guy. He's notthe kind of like,
except when we asked him aboutthe mailbox money, he's like,
yeah, the walks to the mailboxare always fun.

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Well, yeah. I mean, lives in theBay Area, and that's not cheap.
Yeah. You know, Carolina blue,everyone. Check that out,
performed by the band. That'sincredible. And so you guys are
telling me about your recenttours, two tours for Al Dean,
tours for Ernest, Riley, green,Nate Smith, Jameson, Rogers,
what's coming up? Kane Brown,Old Dominion. But we were your

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favorite, right?
Undeniable enough to be like,Rich. Come on, where's the best
at my wedding? But
we also have like, scars, youknow, we had a good time out
there. Oh, my god, yeah. So
much. Your cigars every night,well, we drink
too much. Yeah? Most nightsenough for rich to go. Is this
gonna give me mouth cancer,right? 100%

(22:58):
does the tip of your tonguesupposed to touch it a little
bit, because that's what shesaid. He would always go, am
I inhaling this? Should I beinhaling? I'm like, No, you
don't inhale. You don't it's
not a cigarette. But now mychops are strong. Now we have
the most amazing cigar bar, Isay, in Middle Tennessee, in

(23:19):
Spring Hill. Get out themission. You know, tell me about
right there, like, right there.
We may be visiting this.
I'm listening to his baritone inhis voice, yeah, it's very, it's
a clear baritone that's going onthere, very and he sings and
does the whole deal. And right,of course, he does, yeah, just,
you just miss, I can't believe,you know, you just got the
professional athletic you gotta,like, become

(23:41):
a football player. Yeah, workout more now. Just learn how to
throw a football. There you go.Kick a foot. You're a soccer
player. Oh, that's true. Youcould be a public kicker,
thinking too old for pro sports.That'd be cool, though, because,
like, typically, actors want tobe be musicians, athletes.
Athletes want to be musicians.You know, everyone

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does that is weird. You got itall going
on. It's a grass is greenerthing, which is, like, is a
human condition.
But I don't know, is itreciprocal with musicians, with
being like, Oh, I'd love to beit. I think it's also sometimes
like, oh, musicians. Maybe Ifound this. Maybe you have as
well. But being in the actingworld as well, you feel like you
go, Oh, man, I'd love to be a,you know, six foot whatever,

(24:25):
tall actor or tall sportsperson. I feel, I feel that
sometimes I'm like, Man, oh,that guy's a stud. Love
to be tall, you know, you gotmore places to put your food.
And I'm Italian, I like to eat,you know. So you get you're
taller, that's right, you can,but the same time you require
more food if you're taller. Soit's all a balance. It's all
discipline, it's all discipline.It really, really is so. But how

(24:49):
did you originally get intomusic? Wasn't it a spiritual
thing? Aren't you like, a like?Weren't you involved in the
church? Well, my so my parentswere in ministry growing up,
kind of a thing. And. It,funnily enough, my parents were
in a, I mean, I had done littlegarage band kind of things with
friends and stuff that playedany type of music. But, yeah, my
parents were in a, I supposeyou'd call it, like a church,

(25:12):
worship or praise team kind ofthing. Yeah, that's very common.
The drummer got sick, drummers,yeah, and it was one of those
things. So he said I used toplay like, hilariously enough,
it was, it was still the early2000s or late 90s, I guess you
could say, and I was doingbongos and Congas right up
there, doing the thing likeMcConaughy, yeah, and the
drummer got sick one day, andthey just said, you can you jump

(25:33):
on a kit? And I said, I guess, Idon't know. I've watched him
every whatever, so that was partof it. But yeah, actually, it
really came out of my mothermade me learn piano. You've hear
this story a million times,right? Somebody's mom or someone
in the family makes them learnpiano. They hate piano, and
they're like, I don't want topractice. That was me. And so I
finally said, Mom, I'm lookingat drummers going that that is

(25:54):
what I want to do. I don't knowhow to get there, but that is
the instrument I want. Yeah. So,yeah, my dad, there was a donut
shop in town. I was 14 yearsold, and the donut shop owner
played jazz on the weekends.Coolest cat named Tony. Of
course it was. And he had thiscool jazz kit. And I think he
had another one in his house. Mydad brought it home one day and

(26:16):
said, I don't know how you'regonna play this. What a great
dad. He was a great he's a greatdad, yeah. And he absolutely,
yeah. He brought him home. Andmy mom was like, You're not
playing. You know, actually, itwas full circle a week ago. The
guy goes, the guy who, who soldme those drums. Goes, Do you

(26:37):
remember what I told you wayback when I said, No, but you
remind me? And he goes,remember, I said, and he gave
me, like, a playlisted album,and it had like all rock,
classic rock on it. And he said,Hey, we don't have many people
in this town that play music,but you can play with all these
bands if you put headphones on.And I just remember sitting down

(26:59):
in in the basement. Very much soaround like this jazz kit that's
not meant for rock and wailingon the drums going, this is
about as close as I'm gonna getto being in a band, right? So
that was, unfortunately I neverlearned I'm going backwards now
and learning, trying to learnthe actual chops and the things
that I need to learn, hands andthings that him and I have

(27:20):
spoken about, but back then, itwas just, yeah, yeah. It was
played with you play because noone's there. You don't. You have
4000 people in your town. You're
doing what you can. You're it'sa passion. You're putting the
headphones on, playing to theCD. That's exactly what I did,
yeah, but I didn't haveheadphones. I had a giant
speaker next to me, big monitor,not it was like it was my father
built it for my brothers. Mybrother's a piano player, yeah.

(27:43):
And when my brother graduatedonto other monitoring, he my
brother literally had like, anentire PA system in his bedroom,
so he'd play through that. Sothis thing that my father built
was relegated to thatdownstairs. I'm like, Well, hey,
I know how to connect a cassetteplayer, yeah. And I'd play off
of cassettes and lot of journey,I was gonna ask, what did you
play to journey? Anything thatwas on the local radio station

(28:04):
that, oddly enough, later on, Ibegan, I started working for,
oh, wow. So anything that cameon, so for me, like the testing
was, can you play the songs thatjust came one after another? It
was like, roulette, yeah. And Ijust learned how to play them by
and I remember hearing them samething with you. I saw the drums
and I knew I was naturallygravitated towards this my mom.

(28:25):
I told my mom, what would youknow? Because my brother played
piano, what do you want to play?You want to play an answer? Of
course, I do. What do you wantto play? The drums? Oh, the too
noisy. How about the saxophone?I've always loved the saxophone,
and you know. And so I wasprobably, you know, fourth
grade, and she got me asaxophone, and I squeaked, you

(28:48):
know, they don't freaking makenoise at all, you know. And
yeah, about three, six monthslater, I was done, yeah,
instrument your hearts intogetting, you know, point A to
point B. But still, the drumsare still, you know, the you
could play in so many differentmusical outlets as a drummer,

(29:09):
folk music, funk music, popmusic, country, country rock,
Southern rock, fusion. You couldplay on Broadway. You can play
tribute bands. You could play oncruise ships. It's like you
could play a mean backbeat,maybe read a little bit of
music, play some stylesversatile. You the drum set is
the most versatile thing as fordeveloping a career, way more

(29:32):
than a saxophone. You know whatI mean.
My first drum kit was at 11years old. Similar kind of
story, probably an old leftoverLudwig kit had the psychedelic
covering on it and stuff like itwas a green if you turn the
drum, the color moved and whoa,if you're tripping on acid,
yeah, and it was I played jumpfor the first time, first. How

(29:53):
did you know I want to know thisrich? How did you know you
wanted to take it to the utmostand go. I want to learn the all
the education of this, becausethere's one thing to go we're
drawn to an instrument right todevote not just the time and
practice, let's put that aside,but the actual education of like
going, I'm going to master thisinstrument. What was that like?

(30:16):
When was that for you?
Well, you know, I just had anatural affinity towards it. So
my dad got me drum lesson. Drumlessons when I was six years
old, and I had this blue sparklesnare drum, and I was reading
marches and learning rudimentsand how to play rock beats on
the drums and stuff. But I wasthat is so young. So then I had
a departure. Gave it up for alittle bit, got into Star Wars,
figures, banana bikes,skateboards, Star Wars, all the

(30:39):
stuff. And then, when I moved toEl Paso Texas and rejoined the
fifth grade band, I already knewhow to play a buttery smooth
press role and pause. You know,
he left out speed skating and
Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeonsand Dragons, Dungeon Master,
what Lord of the Rings. What agreat game. What a great use of
your brain, because you have tothis was strategy. You, not only

(31:00):
that, you it's an it's aboutimagination, which really, it
was just like when you playjazz, or even if you play,
you're a country rock sessionmusician. You have to have
imagination. You have to havecreativity. You're, you're ad
libbing, you know, you'reimprovising, you know. So this
stuff all kind of crosscorrelates, but the band that

(31:21):
really, you know, MTV, camealong, so I wanted to be in the
police. And you're such abeautiful gift giver. If you
guys are not watching this, Robcame bearing gifts today. He
brought me a some police vinyland some and a police double DVD
live concert.
Very thoughtful. You'll never beable to watch it, because there
are no DVDs. Any you

(31:42):
know what? I do have a DVDplayer hooked up to my upstairs
man cave. So I have a room. It'scalled My dog house room. So
when I'm in the doghouse, I goup there, and I have my Italian
leather couches, and I got mynice flat screen television with
a DVD player, and I could sit upthere, have some whiskey, watch
horror films, listen to DVDs.It's amazing. So you're always
trying to get back to the doghouse. That's for going. That's

(32:04):
where, sometimes I do things onpurpose just to go to the dog
wanna, yeah, yeah, amazing. Butno, you've always been so
thoughtful. And so you're,you're always so into fashion
and stuff. I was like, hey man,I need to up my game on my, you
know, necklaces and stuff.You're like, oh yeah, next day
you show up and you'd have anecklace for me. Or like, Hey
man, you know, I lost my lastwallet chain. Next thing I know,
wallet change. You're just avery thoughtful person.

(32:24):
Oh, bro. Well, I appreciate thatso, so much. Very nice. It's
easy when somebody's got, like,a really good taste for things,
because you're like, they'lllike this. I know they will. So
what you're saying is, I'm achallenge.
We were just talking about yourCarhartt collection before this.
I mean, Jim's wearing the mostcomfortable shoes in the room,
correct? ON CLOUD dad shoes,amazing. That's right, but

(32:46):
you're the ultimate dad bro,because they're not on camera,
huh? They're not on camera. It'strue. It's true. It's like doing
a Zoom meeting with only nopants, no pants
on so getting into the voiceoverworld,
yeah, yeah.
What was, what was the turningpoint for that? Because, oh,
something tells me that you werea little bit of a class clown,

(33:07):
and you were doing, gotta beimpersonations and such. And
then people were like, somebodyencouraged you that was like,
you know, that you can make aliving at this.
Enough detention. You know, myEnglish Lit teacher was at our
show in my hometown a week ago,and it was so cool to go give
her a big hug and a kiss,because I was like, That's cool,
you know, just going to her andsaying, Hey, I know is in
detention all the time, butthank you for kind of making a

(33:29):
problem, you know, a solution.She used to have me and this
other kid that cut up all thetime. We're still buds to this
day, I actually read to theclass. So you get To Kill a
Mockingbird, and she's like,you're going to take character,
and you're going to takecharacter, whatever, and you're
going to redo the class. Will ithush the class? And next thing
you know, everybody aced theirEnglish Lit Tet two months
later. Yeah. And so it wasreally cool to watch that

(33:52):
happen. But yeah, reallyvoiceover for me, didn't really
happen until college. Believe itor not, there was a band that
was going to tour the UnitedStates for the first time. Had a
buddy who worked for that band,and said, hey, just need a North
American voice, low Americanvoice. I'll buy you a burrito.
And I was like, college, youhave no money. Cool. You know,
great, awesome. And that waskind of what got me started. I

(34:15):
ended up in the room on a
mic, and that was for Taco Bell.
A Taco Bell burrito. It was anational ad.
So you're on the mic, and you'rerealizing that you have an
affinity for this thing,
yeah, and, and not unsimilar toJim, where it's like you
started, I remember, actuallythe I did, like, a radio

(34:37):
internship in in high school,and I, I still didn't think I
really had any kind of whateverI was doing radio programming,
like, hey, the kid who sit sitsin there and it does all the
dirty work kind of a thing. AndI think that's where I probably
was, like, having fun on a mic.But I had no idea that I had
anything to offer. Yeah, andthen it was in college, yeah,
they basically had me do thisthing and and exactly as real.

(34:59):
Said there was three guys in theroom. It's the beginning of Mrs.
Doubtfire, where they're allwith cigarettes, and they're all
All right, you know, be on themic kind of a thing. So you're
just trying to get something outof them. You can hear pin drop.
And so I'm telling them like,Okay, I've never done this
before, but I'll just go aheadand do it. So I do a bunch of
accents and dialog and just bestupid, and they're entertained.
And the one guy goes, Man, I'vebeen in TV for 17 years. If you

(35:22):
wanted to do this, you reallycould get a reel and do this.
And I was like, I'm inAustralia. I have an American
accent. Like, I'm not gonna getany work here, right? So it
wasn't until I moved back and itwas my first thing was a Berea
pasta sauce, AD,
not Barilla, yes, Berea. And itwas for
like an Italian over the topLady and the Tramp kind of

(35:45):
voice. I can't even do it tothis day. I can't remember what
I did, but that was my firstthing, was for master chef in
Australia.
So why you were able to do likean Italian accent once upon a
time, right? Not anymore.
Well, no, it's more just like, Idon't remember exactly what I
did for that, because it was solong ago, right? But then again,
like I, I thought I actually hada really crud Australian accent

(36:06):
when I lived there, but when Igot back, it just became, like
Immaculate Conception.
It's a tough accent. It's a veryit has to, you have, you have to
have a ring come out totally,
right? Yeah. So if
you had to do it on screenacting job with a Australian
accent, it probably wouldn't be,because I am these Australians
are fierce actors. They'rekilling it. Yeah, most actors

(36:29):
work like some really top notchactors in the United States are
British or Australian? Yeah? No,they would never, I know. It
blows me away. The
guys that we had on the wolfbrothers. Wolf brothers.
Would you guys like a soda?Guess when a soda?
I said, Give me an Americanaccent. And it's like, Okay,

(36:52):
now, give me an American accentfrom Manhattan. They did
it. They pulled it off. Yeah,you know who's losing some of
the Australian accent, I'mrealizing is, over time. Keith
Urban, you feel like he's beenhere so long, losing it, man,
you know. And it's funny,because he's married to an
Australian, right? Yeah, you'dthink it'd be around, you know?
Oh, well. So what I mean, whatdoes your Australian sound like?

(37:14):
Can you just pull it out ofabout, out of a hat,
you know? Give us some copy.Here we go.
A lot of Australians, they'llsay, This is for my Australian
friends out there. I lived inSydney for about four and a half
years for school. And when anAustralia, when Australian is is
frustrated with you, they'llalways go, Yeah, look, you know,
yeah. Look, mate, everyAustralian will do that for

(37:37):
whatever reason. That's like,their thing. Yeah.
Look, yeah, you have like, aHugo, Hugo, Hugh
Jackman. Hugh Jackman, yeah,there you go. Well, I mean, he's
a song and dance, man, that'sright. Well,
it's amazing to me becauseaccents I could certainly do in
New York, which is where I grewup, I could do so I could do a
good like, Clinton esque, raspySouthern Living here, I'm sure,

(38:01):
well, yeah, well, even, butaround here, you don't, you
don't really hear too manypeople. A lot of people
pronounce their uh, trailing,G's very hard. So trailing, you
know, you hear that a lot aroundhere, but I can really get the
rest going and kind of talk likethis. And if I really get down
to it and I start pointing withmy phone, yeah, the mechanic,
yeah. All right, all right,

(38:22):
yeah. You know, there's a, youknow, the thick accent is the
east Tennessee, yeah, big timecan be very thick. And the
Carolinas, big Earthhillbillies, Texas,
Texas has definitely
got a sump, yeah, yeah, forsure.
Y'all, I'm learning that moreand more, especially that.
But you have a you have a like,let's see. You've got a total

(38:44):
accents reel. Can we listen? Ican pull it up a little girl, if
you want to listen, if you ifyou want to listen, we got
headphones right there. Do youwant to listen to? It rich,
totally. All right, let's see,see if it comes through.
We're not here on this planet toclose our eyes to the world. We
are here to go out andexperience its many wonders,

(39:05):
because through our experiences,we grow
and change. Grow and change.
As Melbourne enters its secondCoronavirus lockdown, the city
streets are again empty.
We wear cowboy boots. Oh mygoodness, a little dance with
the best you need land. We'vegot

(39:29):
Texas amazing. That's a littleSam to
capture the soul of a place inEbola.
Which we're lucky. Is it downhere? He said there'd be food
and lots of it. Scottish,
yes. Let's drink and put allthat chaos behind us. New

(39:54):
Zealand accent, yes, yeah. Text
me on WhatsApp. I have all theinformation from Team Mobile.
Golden coconuts that grow in thepalm tree. No, that's great. Oh,
my God, the golden coconuts,dude, that's, yeah, that's, I
tried to do a British accentonce I was requested to do a,

(40:16):
like, a television commercialfor a local pool company in
Vegas. And I said, We love yourBritish. I'm, like, where did
you hear my British? Well, weheard you. It was like, you
know, on the one of the it was,I was more Scottish, but make it
British, okay? And literally, wein our house, we had a British
guy living with us, renting aroom, one of our friends. And
I'm, you know, took about 45minutes for me to go through the

(40:38):
copy. And I'm, I'm doing my bestimpersonation of Robin Leach.
You know, Robin leach lifestylesof the rich, and it's awful. It
is awful, and I knew it, butapparently they liked it. Yeah,
so I finish up, and I open thedoor, and he's standing right
there as open, like, nose tonose. He's like, What the hell

(40:59):
was that? Oh, my God, dude. Iknow deflating. What? No, I
agreed with them, but did theyaccept it and pay you? They paid
me. Amazing. So, but Rob, how doyou develop that and or maintain
it?
You guys are both lovers offilm, so you'll understand, as
far as just being able to on aconsistent basis, watch these

(41:20):
films, whether it beinternational films or national
films, that have all theseaccents. You know, what helped
me is being in an internationalschool. So, you know, four and a
half years of living inAustralia, I didn't just hear an
Australian accent every sixmonths. There was everybody from
everywhere. So you're in a roomand it's us three right here.
You're from Germany, you're fromFrance, I'm from America, or

(41:40):
where you're playing soccer or apickup game for something, or
you're playing, especiallymusic, you're in a band with
people, you would definitelyknow this like you're in Texas,
but it doesn't mean that yourband's, you know, one's from
here, one's from there, so inthe same way, you know, everyone
who I played in a band with wasfrom everywhere. So it was very
helpful to not just have a bunchof American friends, but to have

(42:04):
people from all over, you know,the world in your ear all the
time listening. You're just kindof gleaning from that. Yeah. So
yeah. And then obviously, had alot of Australian friends that
I'd learn a little bit of thethe regional where, like Perth,
has a different accent thanSydney, and a different accent
than and I never reallyunderstood. I mean, I'm from a

(42:25):
small, little rinky dink town,you know, in western North
Carolina, so it was very weirdto move to a place where I'm not
only exposed to Australians, butexposed to the world. I mean,
every like I said, six monthswas a brand new intake of
international people.
What a great education. What wasthat, that experience? It was,
it was college abroad.

(42:46):
Yep, college abroad. And,
you know, music focused in a lotof ways, it was a leadership
development kind of a thing. SoI learned a lot of business
practices for, like, actually,kind of starting your own
business, but from a leadershipaspect, which is cool in a
musical format, because you kindof understand, then a little bit

(43:07):
maybe, of how to like lead aband, which I'm still learning
every other day. You know? Howdo you there's one thing about
putting a band together. How doyou read the band leader, direct
it, yeah, now, which is crazyand you're just crushing it on
all fronts. Rob,
trying, man, trying.
So as a band leader, do you havelike, a hurrah before you go

(43:27):
out? You're like, Hey guys, makesure on the second verse we
talked about that. Let's have agreat time. Do you know that
kind of a thing? It's
like Italy, we got that textthread. There's one that's
strictly business, and thenthere's one that's strictly fine
business. Yeah, there's twothreads. There's two threads
strictly, strictly business andstrictly funny business. And the
one we've established now islike, if, if a text comes

(43:49):
through this one, you betterlike it that you know that you
know this is where we're going.This is what we're doing. You
told me, I'm gonna say, fouryears ago now, which is crazy,
but you had mentioned to me thatone of the biggest things a
drummer can do is is to be theperson where the rest of the

(44:09):
band goes. I don't have toquestion where I'm at in a song,
right? I don't have to questionwhere we're going, what we're
doing. You're that rock solidpiece that goes, and I've really
taken that to heart rich, whereit's like, I want to try to be
that, drive the band, to drivethe band, but to also kind of be
this, you know, if they, if theyare looking at me nervous, it's

(44:32):
like,
we're gonna be all right, yeah,you know, telegraph the sections
of the song totally,
and I'm still learning that.But, man, it's a, it's a heck of
a gig that way. Oh my
god. Well, I mean, geez, youguys are just going to keep
climbing and climbing and thevenues keep getting bigger and
bigger. You know, I love myinstruments so much I'll play
anywhere. But, you know, afteryou play an amphitheater or an

(44:52):
arena, it really is hard to goback and and play small venues,
you know, because you're justlike, where's. All the people in
the bras. You know, what do youmean bras? Well, they throw the
brows on the stage. You know,they still do that, I think so
occasionally. Yeah,
I'm sure Jack gets a bra. Whatabout to Jack bros

(45:14):
man's ears,
bloomers? But no, I love my Ilove my instrument. So, I mean,
I still, I still, I still play awedding, still play a bar
mitzvah, but it's, isn't it funto play big venues in a wedding
that might throw the bra you'rereaching a maximum number of
people at one time, and it'slike high energy, you know,
there is no, I mean, that, youknow, truthfully, I am learning
that there's such an intimateexperience about those smaller

(45:37):
venues where you can actuallysee all the faces, right? And
the lights aren't just there allthe time, but yeah, I mean,
what? Especially that seat, thebest seat in the house. You hit
that kick drum in an arena?Yeah, there's nothing like it.
And we all know that in thesense of, like, my gosh, like,
it's thunder, you know, it'slike thunders in town. Yeah,
your voice is foot right, whichis so crazy. And it helps when

(46:00):
you've introduced me to Porterand Davies, when you feel it,
did you get your one, getyourself one working on it. But
it's on my rider every time wego out. But
do you guys have you got thecontact number for the guy?
Yeah, it only gets so good. Imean, I don't think they're
given any to anyone. You got topay a little, oh yeah, because
there's two guys in a garage inLiverpool, and they're just like

(46:21):
Russia. I mean, you know, it's afamily business. There's that
they make the rectal evinrudes.The rectal Evinrude Yes, so
I want to learn this from youguys. But how, in the different
facets of life, how do you guysbalance what all that you do,
because drummer, drummer.
Because we all
actor, voice actor, actor, voiceactor, yeah, how do you there's

(46:42):
many different myriad I'mactually learning more right
now, when I first walked in,about more what Jim does, yeah,
and you're diversifying likecrazy. But how do you manage all
I mean, I find it very difficultto do that whilst touring, for
sure, I don't know. I mean, Iknow, in the thick of it, when
Rich was doing
he even said, whilst, whilst,whilst it's like,
how do you think? You know, Ireally do want to learn that,

(47:06):
especially at this stage, andnot just career, but life where,
like, I took on, you know, I gotmarried recently, and all those
kinds of things, and I'mlearning it never
gets you guys are probably goingto start soon, right?
Yeah, it's all part of it,really, yeah, well, Rob,
do you enjoy having hair?
Indeed, exactly, typically,
you know, when you get, youknow, you diversify, as you so

(47:29):
eloquently state and you start,you start pulling your hair out
because, you know, you getspread
thin. There are days where Jimis multitasking so much, 15
podcasts, voice over, work,running a company, Father,
just jumping from one project tothe next. Yeah, that's, I mean,
total. But I mean, if I, if Icould, you know, how did you get

(47:50):
some of the I'm seeing, some ofthe gigs you're getting, and I'm
like, this is the stuff I shouldhave been doing a long time ago.
I just never, either, you know,fell into it or pursued it as
much as I should have. And, youknow, for me, at this stage of
doing voiceover, let's say justfind somebody who can coach me.
Is a rare breed. You know, Icould do a lot of coaching for
other people, but Chuck Duran,you know, he is, he did my last

(48:13):
demo, and he actually coachedme. He could actually, I'm like,
Okay, I gotcha. You know, beinghumble enough after 25 some odd
years doing course, yeah, but Imy voice is and my approach is
the way it is. I'm just not surehow appealable it is. You know
what I mean? Or if there's a fitout there, or even if, you know
if AI is going to be replacingall of us at some point, oh, my

(48:36):
God, you know. And
you just got engaged, by theway, yeah, buddy. She's the slow
burn taught me exciting things,man, it's exciting. You know,
we're all evolving, you know,constantly. But you know, if you
know, I I love to fancy myselfan actor. I mean, I did study, I
did get my side card. In underfive years, I have been in
legitimate productions. Butlet's face it, it is the ice

(48:59):
thing on my cake. You know, it'sthe icing on my cake. I don't
have time to do 80 auditions ayear to try to get a sure
pharmaceutical commercial orsomething like that. So my plan
on doing that, and I do want tocontinue doing it, is trying to
develop relationships withpeople that thought, meet the
producer, meet the director,sure. So it is so difficult to

(49:20):
try to get the audition, get thecall back, then you might have
to do a chemistry and then whenthere, oh, here's the actual
shoot. Can't do the actual shootfor it to all actually line up
and happen is nearly impossiblewhile being a touring drummer
and on and I'll say this forrich, I've never realized how,
especially being on tour. Ilearned, right? I mean, like on

(49:42):
the concrete, they're going,where's rich going today? Yeah,
he's going and doing a clinic.He's educating at a university.
He's maximizing what he's got awhole nother realm of he's doing
a speaking engagement for theCEO of and his entire staff of
this thing. And I'm going, howdoes. Manage all this, like,
this is crazy, and run the band.And, you know,

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how do you do it? How do you doit when? Because if you guys are
out there, and you know, you'rein that part of your career
where you're like, out a lot,not coming home a lot, yes,
they're making it happen. Andyou got a voiceover job, you got
a mobile studio,
so the best, it's a sure SM, 88you can buy them on Amazon.

(50:25):
They're like, 100 and somedollars, I swear by them. And
they come with a free app. It'scalled automotive or something
like that,
and finding the place to do it,yeah?
Well, I mean, you know, it's ifyou can be humble enough in
hotel rooms or be humble enoughin a trailer, the guys
understand, I just go, Hey,look, I'm taking those pillows,
or I'm taking that mattress andI'm putting it up against the

(50:45):
corner of this thing. I need itquiet for 20 minutes. That's all
I need from you guys. And theylaugh, and I've moved around
their stuff in busses andtrailers and whatever, and just
made it work. And honestly, thebest thing in the world that has
been so helpful over the yearsis where we're at, and I'm sure
you guys have done this, butwhere we're at, if we're in a

(51:06):
city where I can get to astudio, I'll get in an Uber and
I'll go to a studio, do asession and make sure I'm back
in time, or wake up way earlier.And it's amazing how many
studios have been so hospitable
to Hey, can I crank this out?Man, I only need an hour. That's
it. And they've been so sweet.I'm on tour, I'm doing drums,
and they see this grind thatyou're, you know, much like what

(51:30):
Rich is doing, where he's, like,you just went and spent four and
a half hours and met everyone atyour clinic, yeah? And then you
came back and played for 95minutes, yeah, or longer,
whatever it is, or the amazingthing that I would see was, and
I still don't know to this day,how you do it. A lot of people
don't know. They do a VIP, yeah,so you're doing a show before

(51:51):
the show, before the show. Soit's kind of like a whole day
thing and working out. So I'vealways just, I'm trying to learn
that balance into my own life,and so it's just trying to do. I
think it's
great, dude. You're keeping itall happening, dude, I mean, and
that is amazing.
So you had mentioned thisbefore, doing a voice off. Oh,

(52:12):
wow. And in all of your inboxes,I sent a small copy, like a tag,
some copy.
Oh, my God, who wants to try itfirst? I'll tell you, my phone's
not on because I'm trying to bea good guest. No, no, no, turn
it on. That's fine. Let
me know when you get it.Everyone's looking
what are we trying to deliverhere? As far as like, however

(52:35):
you want to interpret, let mesee here. Get some copy coming.
You know, it's a verypersonalized, probably a regular
guy approach. We
should do this every week. Justsend each other copy,
you know, the audio message. Youknow,
that's fine, little group text.There's actually there was,
remember when, oh gosh, what wasit called clubhouse? Remember

(52:55):
when clubhouse was a thing andthere was voice over workout
groups that, like, three majorvoiceover artists would get
together, and everybody wouldchime in, and they'd actually
read copy and be critiqued andnice stuff. It was really cool
meetup groups. Yeah, so rich.Want to go,
I mean, without even reallythinking about it, I'm just

(53:16):
going to go off the cuff. Okay,I'm just a regular guy who wants
the same thing everyone elsedoes, food, family, shelter,
friends and plenty of ice coldBudweiser, just not necessarily
in that order.
I bet at all was Hey neighbor
motioning to me, yes, sir, herewe go. I just got it, by

(53:42):
the way. I yeah, I O, U, A, E, IO, U, I would probably need to I
Aquaman, red leather, yellowleather. I'm
just a regular guy who justwants the same thing everyone
else wants food, family,shelter, friends and plenty of
ice cold Budweiser, just notnecessarily in that order.

(54:06):
Nice is that too? Announcing,
no, not No. Actually, it wasvery genuine. Thank you. I'm
just a regular guy and wants thesame thing. Everyone else wants
food, family, shelter, friendsand plenty of ice cold
Budweiser.
It's not necessarily in thatorder,

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and that's why he gets that
has a lot of inflection andnaturalism,
just not
necessarily. I sent you anotherone. Oh, here's a I'll send it
to you. I don't think I said tothe year we
should make this a segment inRedmond show, and make every
guest do it voice offs. Couldyou imagine that's a thing? I

(54:47):
mean, it's only right. You guysare both voice actors. So
well, if somebody's not a voiceactor, it's, you know, that's
even better. Can you imagine theentertainment value? Totally
incredible.
It's a little bit longer one.Okay, I. See it refreshing.
Hello, ladies, look at your man.Now, back to me. Now, back at
your man. Now, back to me.Sadly, he isn't me, but if he

(55:10):
stopped using lady scented bodywash and switched to Old Spice,
he could smell like he's me.Look down, back up. Where are
you? You're in a boat with theman. Your man could smell like
what's in your hand. Packet me,I have it. It's an oyster with
two tickets to that thing youlove. Look again. The tickets

(55:31):
are now diamonds. Anything ispossible when your man smells
like old spice and not a lady.I'm on a horse.
What honestly,
Hello, ladies, did you bookthat? No,
I mean now, like, No, I wish Idid. They missed out.

(55:52):
I was like, He's done this? No,this is his gig.
First time I performed it. Thankyou, though, give me a break.
Who's next? My God,
it's a character, though. Imean, that's probably what
helped me read it all the waythrough. Hey, it's almost like
my I'm channeling my brother inlaw. Hey, ladies, look at your

(56:12):
man. Now, back to me. Now, backat
your man. It's confidence man,right? It's
almost like a superhero, oldschool announcer. I think
I remember this one. It's thethe guy on the horse. Yeah, on
the white horse. This was a goodcommercial. Oh, yeah. Very eye
catching. Yeah. He was like,shirtless.
I'm on a horse. So good. Who'snext? Geez,

(56:34):
Rich. So do you have to create acharacter, whatever? Just
go for, go for interpretation.What's your interpretation of
it?
Do it. Come on, jeez. Man, I'mall go.
We'll go into impressions next.
Man, who's the character? Yeah,who is character? Very

(56:54):
confident. It's very, it's thecopy is confusing. Man,
it is. It's very, you did itvery well to like, I felt like I
was watching the commercial inmy head all over again, because
I remember him. It was like,super cuts, right, right?
Everything was,
yeah, yeah. I might have beenjust impersonating the guy who
did it, but I'm
gonna stuff this one up. I feellike, because it is, it's, you

(57:15):
got a lot going on. It's reallygood, though. Also, I have just
realized that I am missing outon this QR code at the end of
how smart. Man,
that's attached to every emailjust immediately attaches. Jim,
I want to get something, butwait a minute. But if you have

(57:35):
the QR code and you're alreadyon your phone, it defeats the
purpose, because there's nothingto snap the QR code, but it's if
you're on
you have all the links on there.You can click the links in the
JM, VO demo.
You know, we got to do, I justrealized so I have a buddy who
we made a deal a decade ago,whoever, kind of whatever made,

(57:56):
made some traction in ourindustry. First, we take him out
to dinner, whatever he was ananimator, of course, he made it
right? Pretty crazy. So he gothired with Pixar. He now works
for Warner Brothers, doingstuff, but he will, it's the
most fun thing ever, and Ipromise we will do this. He'll
send characters that he's made,that he practices with. Well,

(58:17):
he'll go to coffee shops, orhe'll be in a studio working on
characters, right? Just thatkind of come out of his head.
Yeah. So I've always said thegreatest thing you could do
right as a voice actor is like,give him an animated figure and
go, what's, what's the voice ofthis character? So what we
should do, for sure is get threecharacters for him to do and
send me and Jim rich. That wouldbe fun,

(58:40):
isn't that's a major goal inyour life, is to do cartoon.
Yeah. I mean, you know, when youdo a lot of characters and
accents, I remember the bestthing I learned from a piano
teacher, believe it or not, orwho, I guess you could call her
like a dual teacher, because shewould do vocal and piano, which
is pretty typical, right intown, right? I don't know if

(59:01):
they've ever told you this, butthis blew my mind. And she was
just like, hey, what's yourrange in voiceover? And I was
like, Well, what do you mean bythat? And she's like, well,
what's your lowest note on apiano, what's your highest
probably 185 Yeah. And she goes,What's your lowest note on a
piano, what's your highest noteyou can hit and you may acid.
I'm not a singer. She goes, Idon't care if you're a singer.

(59:22):
What's the lowest note you canhit? What's the highest note you
can sit? So she did that, andthen she went, well, there's
your character range, yeah,there's your highest note. You
can take a character with allyour different palettes of
accents or dialects or aging,and there's your lowest note,
but a character you have toembody, right, right? Like even
like Cletus T Judd said this. Hesays, I can't sing, but I can

(59:45):
sing in the key of funny. Andhe's basically talking about a
character, yeah? And I get whathe's saying, because my, you
know, my most impersonatedcharacter is Christopher Walken,
always has been, yeah, but it'salways been somebody else doing
it. That I absorb. You know,sure, Morgan Freeman might be my
latest one I've been kind of,sort of working on, but it's

(01:00:05):
Frank Caliendo. Is MorganFreeman. He's good, he's
amazing. Oh my God, because he'sall, all, all. Morgan Freeman is
an old man, and he's got to kindof look, you know, lay out the
you want to drive a point home.You got to make sure you do it
like it's genuine man, yeah, Imean, and that's, how he is. You
know,
theater for the blind is what abuddy of mine said had gone

(01:00:27):
that's true. Yeah, theater ofthe mind, yeah.
You know, thinking back on this,I almost feel like with
VoiceOver, I'm a one trick pony,so I don't know if it's going to
be something that's going to beon my resume for the rest of my
life, or like even
you're capable of doing it, youknow, it's your your voiceover
is your character, of you interms of being an MC, a host and

(01:00:50):
announcer. So if you were to godown that road and they want,
you know a who's the guy? Ryanranci, Chris Ryan Seacrest,
yeah. Old Man brain. He doesn'texactly do voiceover, but he
does himself. You know, he canplay himself in somebody who
imagined, who imagines a Fordcommercial. Oh, we want a Ryan

(01:01:11):
Seacrest. He's gonna sound likeRyan Seacrest, yeah, you know
what I mean. But
on camera, you have all thediversity in the world. Because
I feel like people probably havesaid this to you so many times,
but your ethnicity could be somany things, right? Like, it
just works for camera so well,because it's like, Oh, my God,
he could be Greek, he could beItalian, he could be, you know,

(01:01:33):
Arabic, he could be Egyptian.You know, it doesn't matter.
It's like, where one actor is,like, you're the pale American,
all American boy,
technically ambiguous,
yeah, it's cool to have that, if
you had to be pigeonholed, yeah.Have you ever played like the
seemingly nice Hispanicgangster?

(01:01:55):
I have not played the gangsterI've played as of recent I
played the maintenance guy,Pablo, and I grew up my mustache
and did the whole it was for apilot of a television show,
nice. And it was the Hispanic,very like immigrant, kind of guy
looking at some of the picturesyou have on your website, like
the
cowboy Marlboro thing,incredibly. Well, there's a lot

(01:02:18):
I'm typecasted. Man, that's myapparently, that's the thing,
and I follow. And, you know,well, it's just like, I don't
know what it is, but I thinkit's, yeah, probably what I get
mostly booked for is kids,cowboy gigs,
really. And what's that actor?What's that actor that a lot of
people are comparing you
to? John Bernthal. John Burns islike an older bro, yeah, the

(01:02:39):
Punisher. Respect the heck outof hell. He's a great actor, Man
Walking
Dead and beyond.
It's like he's almost like astep away from a Frank Grillo
too. Oh, I love
him. And I mean, you go watchfury, you know him, and Shia
LaBeouf, and though that wholecrew, yeah, I don't know if
there's better acting just stuckin a tank like you're just
watching it go,

(01:03:00):
yeah, Frank Brillo did greatwith them. You know, lifelong
boxer fitness guy, later lifeactor.
Was he a boxer fitness guy? Andthat's, that's, oh, yes, whole
life a boxer. He played, Ibelieve I saw him for the first
time in a Marvel movie, in theCaptain America movies. He led
rumlow, that's
right, yeah, you wouldn't. Oneof my goals, truly is I get,

(01:03:23):
well, I gotta get a tan firstagain, but post summer, I wanna
do a project with rich, whetherhe plays my older brother, where
we just it'd be cool to do somesort of on camera thing, and
then the other like, kick thebucket thing is, he may not
remember this, but we made a PA,I said, Rich, I am pushing you
to do a comedy set. Yeah, atsome point he really wants me to

(01:03:45):
go to I'm telling you, we'regonna either do a Zanies night
or we're going to Atlanta. SoJim, if you want to hop in the
truck, sure we're doing it, man.Because
guys, you know what you haven'tdone yet, some stand up comedy.
He would crush. You know hewould crush? Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you gotta have
goodbye. I do. I'm part of agroup every week, and it's like,

(01:04:05):
I know I can be funny here andget laughs and stuff like that,
because I'm in my element. Yeah,it's long form. I can take my
time whenever I'm constrainedfor time, especially every week
I'm in a business networkinggroup. We get 30 seconds to talk
about a commercial of sorts, anda lot of people try to be funny,
and whenever I try to eye bomb
every Wait a minute. Wait aminute. BNI, you only have 30

(01:04:26):
seconds. Yeah, I thought thatwas 60 at least. Oh, well, that
in our group. So it's 30 secondsfor your hard pitch, for your
business,
but it's, it's, you're doing itevery week. It's like having a
billboard up Gotcha. So as longas you really can, you know,
make your messaging concise andto the point that's
not easy though, 30 seconds.
Actually, I prefer 15 because, Imean, in the radio world, it

(01:04:46):
forced somebody to think about,how do you say what you do and
say what problem you solve? Tipof the spear, type of offering
that gets the most conversationstarted in the smallest amount
of time. That. That's the most.That's the best thing a business
owner can do, in my opinion. Youknow,
hey, he's going to beat us atthis game. But I think we should

(01:05:08):
move on, because he's going towin. You just don't want to do
move right? Well, I just thinkthat the the average listener is
like, Yeah,
we're gonna win. We're now,we're they're probably like,
we're over it. Okay, so
let me ask you this to bringthis back to drumming. What was
the what is your drumming like?Who's your favorite couple of
drummers? Stewart Copeland,boom, right
there, right? I mean, of course,super definable. And what's

(01:05:30):
weird is, I like some of thecuts on, like, synchronicity
that I feel like a lot of peoplewould be like, Oh, you don't
like that or not. You don't likethat one. But that's weird, go
and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah.It's just like, some of the,
some of the choices you made aresuper cool, yeah, I of course,
just love the musicality of JohnBonham, sure. I think it's super
cool that he would just throwthe sticks out and then play

(01:05:52):
with his hands. And, you know,talk about a showman, you know,
like, super cool stuff likethat. And, I mean, you know,
it's hard not to modern wise,adore what you do and and I, you
know, I think so much of it, toois just, you know, of course,
it's, it's cool to see my wifeis an artist and a country

(01:06:12):
artist, and watching what McHughdoes in the studio is really
cool. And just watching hischoices and that kind of stuff,
as far as you know, modern guysthat are doing it. I have a
buddy right now, absolutely,just a powerhouse drummer. His
name's Garrett Tyler, and ifyou're not familiar with him,
please just go check him out. Heplays with a couple different

(01:06:33):
people, Mike zabilla for kingand country in the kind of more
Christian, Christian girl, buthe's, he's putting out records
with buddies, and he's just talkabout, I think he Modern
Drummer. Chose him recently andfor some sort of a cover story.
But talk about just somebody whoinspires you. I will say another
Modern Drummer that I absolutelylove, not to just go to

(01:06:54):
throwbacks, but modern guy isDan McMurray, another lesser
known guy, maybe in just thefull spectrum of things, but, my
goodness, an absolute machine,showman, everything else. So
it's just, I try to, like, tossit to people also, who are like,
now doing stuff that'sinspiring.
Why don't we know GarrettTyler's name? It's like, I

(01:07:15):
follow him on Instagram, or,sure, but what does he is he
play with man again, you know,Mike Seville has done some
international tours for Kingcountries, probably one of the
biggest things in Christianmusic, if not. You know, their
their Christmas tours, like a goand watch him Buble or
something. I mean, it'sunbelievable, the production
value of it, but Garrett's donequite a lot of session stuff.

(01:07:37):
But, man, I don't know. I justthink, other than Modern Drummer
and a lot of these otherentities that support drummers,
they're really keeping their eyeon him, just cool and humble as
can be, which is always, youknow, the greatest thing in the
world to just watch somebody bean absolute animal on stage, and
then you're like, and you'rehumble.
How about the Harry Myrie? He'slike, Oh, dude, doesn't he? But

(01:08:00):
the Jim Carrey thing is on. It'sscary,
yeah, he's we had him on viaZoom, zoom during, during the
pandemic, during the pandemic.And it's funny, because all the
girls we were in a differentbuilding, who is that? And it
was like, you know, over zoom,yeah. It's like, son, on. It's

(01:08:23):
Yeah, amazing. Talk aboutfeeling old.
Rob, what's your favorite color?Green, forest green. What's your
favorite food? I would have tosay Mexican food. Yeah, yeah.
Like, just a nice, solid. Howweird, as an Italian to say that
goes. I mean, who doesn't liketacos? But I love there's
something about a burrito. I hadto go the other day, especially
a breakfast burrito. You gottwo. Burrito. You got, you got

(01:08:43):
eggs, you got Pico, you gotguac. Maybe they put a little
sausage in there, chorizo, andit's all rolled up, and it's
portable, and it's so masculineyou grab this thing, and it's so
satisfying every time, it'samazing. Yeah, it doesn't
give you a gut bomb burrito.It's a little large. You know,
sometimes it it'll act like twomeals. Not caliborina, not

(01:09:06):
California burritos. Where I go,Cali burrito is a good place,
but what's the place up? BySimon Zoe's Baja burrito.
Baja burrito. Oh, my God, but Ido prefer California burrito
over here, by the public that'smy spot. I don't know how they
stay in business. Every time Igo in, it's a ghost town. Lot of
takeout. Lot of takeout. Yeah,no one sits in there. It's like
a little strange, but greatburrito, yeah? Breakfast

(01:09:27):
burritos, or the Californiaburrito, which is basically
chicken guac pico sample. Theydon't ruin it with a bunch of
cheese and sour cream and allthat American stuff. You know,
you'd mind. You know,
have you found the best burritoin town as of yet, you've been
here a minute. Well, California
burritos, I'll tell you there,yeah, okay. I mean, because all
the Mexican restaurants, withmaybe one or two exceptions, I

(01:09:49):
mean, we probably got like 13 ofthem, they're very chewy, right?
Well, I don't even, I'm not evensure if they're that good, you
know, I think they're. They'rejust kind of okay, you know, we
have the new one that opened inthe old car joke, ahead. Day,
and we went there for lunch, andit's like, okay, you know, get
it, it kind of, they kind of runtogether. I hear you. Nothing
really, Cali burritos,California Mexican. No,

(01:10:10):
yeah. What about your favoritedrink? It could be, you know,
boozy or not. Oh my gosh, you'rea coffee guy, right? We share a
lot of
coffee. I was gonna say I'mabsolutely addicted to coffee.
So, for sure, coffee, yeah, nodoubt. And particular kind
French press, man, I do like aFrench press I am. I'm a very
Italian kind of like espresso,just right to the veins kind of

(01:10:33):
a thing.
You know, who he'd get alongwith really well. Who's that?
Mercurio,
yeah, his name, yeah, it's like,Zorro, yeah. Mike
Mercurio, he'll be heretomorrow. It's really, it's
funny because, as we're kind oftalking, it's like, it's kind of
too bad you don't live aroundhere, because he'd be a good
hang at the cigar shop. Oh,yeah. Well, he'll make
the drive. Let me say this richbefore, since I get the honor of

(01:10:55):
being on the show, there's somany you know, you can walk into
any most bars in this town. AndI've learned with rich that you
walk in and there's probably agood three or four people that
are just going to come out ofnowhere and give Rich a hug,
yeah, not out of just even thepure music industry, but most of
the time they're drummers. And Iwill say it is the wildest

(01:11:19):
thing, and this is myselfincluded, over the years, to sit
back and literally go like whereyou should and most certainly
could, how take all the work inthe world from from you
literally prod all of us to begreater. And it's a weird thing

(01:11:39):
to know that you might not onthis side of things. Might not
be where you want to be withoutpeople like that in your life.
And you are one of those people,and I can say, for just doing
this record, staying with theartists, I have the loyalty in
that regard, coming to you atweird times in life, not knowing
exactly what to do, or you'vehad those phone calls I've had,

(01:12:01):
or texts like rich, what? Noteven, what would you do? What
would you just motion me to do?Yeah, and you have been so not,
you know, one sided on thingsgiven me a greater perspective.
And I think a lot of drummers inthis town benefit their entire
futures and their families onnot just education, but you
going, I'm gonna put you on myshoulders, man. So, oh, wow.

(01:12:24):
Like, truthfully, I want to saythat this, this podcast, should
kind of be a place for drummersto kind of go, man, let me put
the spotlight on you, man.Because, Oh man, that's I
wouldn't be here without you.So, oh, it's true, Rob, thanks
for being in my wedding. Iappreciate. I love you to
death. I really appreciate it.Was a serious honor. And have

(01:12:45):
you been listening to the recentepisodes by chance? So the the
Ben satterly
is a buddy of mine, and that wasso cool to see him on the show.
Like, I guess it was two orthree weeks
ago. He was a he was, yeah,probably, and he's
another guy that just givesaway. It's like he learns the
thing, like, how many people doyou
share, shares his value and justgives it away.

(01:13:06):
And very much, like, rich inthat way, where it's just like,
oh yeah, man, this program orthis app or this thing, you
know,
it's like, you got to give itaway if you want to keep it.
That's, that's the thing, youknow. And that's, that's the
beautiful thing is, andespecially in this, you know,
season of my life, I don't wantto be like, Oh my God, I need
your you know, I need Geritol.But it's just, you know, you get
to a point where you've requiredsome wisdom, and it's like, what
am I going to do? I want to giveit away, you know. And I'm not a

(01:13:29):
genius, but I just know that ifpeople have moved here, they
want to do the thing. If theyshow up with a smile and a firm
handshake, they're doing thebest they can at all times and
trying to exceed expectations.You could buy a house and have a
life. Man, you could be part ofthis music community. Man, we
have a great one. You know,

(01:13:49):
it's unreal. Go read Rich'sbook, by the way. Oh, thanks,
buddy. I can, honest to God sayI've read it twice and
making it a country music Yeah,thanks, buddy. Absolutely. It
should actually be requiredreading. It all college music
programs. But anyway, you just,I mean, you have to have
somebody working on your behalfall day long on a phone going,
you know, calling every library,every college, every prison in

(01:14:12):
the United States, going, do youhave a copy of this? You got to
do a book tour, right? You know.And does that really, you know,
help ROI or sales, I don't know.It's books are hard. You have it
available, though, clinics, youknow, here's my book, yeah,
yeah, it's awesome. We are goingto have a booth at the Music
City drum show, and the coauthor of my book Making a

(01:14:33):
country music, Jennifer de laSanna, hey, another Italian.
She's going to be there with JimMcCarthy at the booth. We're
going to have a nice step andrepeat. We're gonna have a lot
of my products. I won't be thereon the Saturday, but you can say
hi to Jim and Jen, and then I'llbe there on the Sunday.
I'll be fielding a lot ofquestions, like, where's rich?
But it's
cool. You can talk drums, andthen you get their email
address. We got an email listfor you guys. It's gonna be fun.

(01:14:55):
It
was funny, speaking of gettingrecognized, you know when you he
goes and you go with him play?Yeah, 34 so my brother comes to
town over this past weekend, andwe go to jbjs, and up there on
the top level, you can actuallylook down on the drummer and
watch him and stuff like that.So we're both just sitting here
having a drink, and they wantedto experience Nashville in that

(01:15:15):
realm. So, you know, theyfinished the song, and I start
clapping. The guy looks up atme, and he does double take, and
he goes, You're Jim McCarthy,
yeah. Okay.
That means somebody has tunedinto our program. Somebody's
actually watched the video. It'sreally amazing, hey, so we know
about his favorite colors,favorite drink, his favorite
food. Do you have some of thosedeep questions, or do you want

(01:15:38):
to go in with the
question? The the deep question.The deep question would be, if
you had to forego all things tobe played for the rest of your
life and only play one artist ina tribute band?
Oh, my God. What would thatartist be

(01:15:59):
like my till the day you die,you can't play anything else
over and over
and over again.
Okay? And it can't it only canbe yeah one, yeah. I Okay. They
were a duo, but I would yeah forforever play their music, log

(01:16:22):
ins and Messina. Wow. InterestAbsolutely. Yeah,
they have enough hits, though. Imean, your mama don't dance and
your daddy don't rock and
roll like vehavala That song,the that record, specifically
from a drummer's point of view,please. If you're a drummer or
percussionist, whatever, golisten to that record. And what

(01:16:43):
they did live in the studio,it's, it's a wonderment of fun.
And they went on trails of threeminutes after the song. You
don't get tired of it. Theyswitch time signatures, they
switch tempo. Was
that something coming up thatyour parents turned you onto or
something my dad?
Yeah. I mean, my dad was themusic. It was the tastemaker,
yeah, it was, like, it wasweird, because we grew up in

(01:17:05):
like, ministry, but at the sametime, he was the cool dad, who
was the hippie way back when,and was, like, knew all the good
music, yeah, and so on the waywe'd be on the way, he was the
principal of my school, so Igrew up. Wow, kid, yeah, which
is, well, I don't know if youknew that your dad is a
principal. He loves Rich Dad,Bob ricotta, very Italian. Hey,
cheese.
John Morgan's dad, nice cabinet.Drive the bus for you guys. You

(01:17:28):
know,
yeah, that's right, but yeah. Solog ins and Messina, I would
say, Wow.
You are an old soul, totally anold soul. Love it. So our friend
Jack Bruno has been playing forJim Messina, and they just
played a show over at theFranklin theater in Franklin,
Tennessee, and I missed it.Yeah, and
the sax player for his band willbe playing with me. Oh,
there you go. Yeah. See thisnext? Steve Nieves, what a

(01:17:51):
community, yeah, what anincredible community. What's the
best way for folks to get intouch with you guys? Get that
got a.com or something? Or
robertri.com, R, I, C, O, T, T,A, if you can't remember it,
it's the cheese in every Italiandish. Robert, ricotta.com. Nice.
That's easy. Easiest way to geta hold of me. That's amazing.
And then obviously, socials.It's wild worlds. How many

(01:18:12):
people? Yeah, well, that's
easy. Drums come from John
and I was because of the cheese,a friendship, you know,
conversation where he went,Look, man, you can't just post
all, like, my voice over andacting stuff, and I'm like, All
right, and he kind of gave me ahard time about it. And I said,
Yeah, you're right. You know,we're on the road the majority
of the time and and I said,Well, I'm gonna make a bit of a

(01:18:32):
fool of myself. I'm not a chopsguy, and my last name's a
cheese. Someone just call itcheesy drums, amazing. So that's
but our ricotta is Instagram,and that's that's also, as you
know, social media is like, theit's weird. You can message
people through there now, andit's okay.
Lot of people send me DMS likepeople, even though want to take
my drum drum lessons or our drum10s of it. And I was like, Hey,

(01:18:54):
man, here's my number. Yeah, Iprefer texting. I really do,
because I'll see it fit morethan agree. I don't have my
notifications on from thesocials. Otherwise the phone
would be like a Christmas
you're so good at getting rightback. I try to get back to
people
immediately. Immediately. I trythat. I try it's great. I really

(01:19:14):
do. You're good
at that. If you go to hiswebsite, you're gonna get finger
fatigue. Looking at the pages asbrands, in my voice just keeps
on going.
Now, didn't you do some high endcar brands like
Porsche? Claire just did yourIndian Motorcycle reached out,
and I've loved their brand for along time, just because they
literally their motorcycles gotus through the First World War,

(01:19:36):
which is crazy. So they're like110 year old parts of history,
and they re released theirmotorcycle that basically
started their brand way backwhen, and they said, Hey, would
you be the voice of our company?And I was like, Man, that's
crazy. So that's been a reallyfun one recently to work on with
them. Yeah, I've done some somecar stuff over the years, and I

(01:19:58):
always say, like, low. Voicesthat move you are always going
to sell chocolates and cars
to you, and there's jewelry,some some trailers like video
games,
yeah, just that's a World Man,like, you know, when you have
just goals for yourself, right?That's it's another thing I feel
like with to your point of AI,it's like we got to keep up with

(01:20:18):
the times of where things aregoing. And it's like video games
are truly cinematic. Now it'sjust unbelievable. They really
are. And so getting a part oftrailers for video games was a
goal of mine in the last yearand a half was to just really
pound that pavement and findpeople that I really aligned
with, and especially charactersand showing that side of what I
do. So thankfully enough, I'vebeen working a lot with a brand

(01:20:42):
called Counter Strike, but theydo a lot of competitions around
the world, and been doing alltheir trailers, which is cool,
and it allows me to
they kind of give me free reign.They don't,
they don't hire another actor.They go, we want you to do all
five voices in this trailer. Oh,it's really, really fun. Oh, my
God, switch on the spot and it'sfun. Yeah, have conversations

(01:21:05):
with yourself. Going, my wifethinks it's just the weirdest
thing ever, because, you know,I'll wake up audio books. It's,
well, it's strange, you know,you switch on the fly. People
think it's a session whereyou're like, Oh, I'll go, we'll
do that character tomorrow. Andit's like, no, you're doing them
like, in, you
know, yeah, holy cow. But thatisn't
credible. So it's, it's a wildworld that way, but it is fun.

(01:21:27):
It's a lot of fun, I bet.
Yeah, that's a goal.Congratulations on that. Thank
you being achieved. You know, Iwas talking to our friend Thomas
Lang about doing video games.And of course, you know, video
games as a as an economy, arelike, they are way above music.
Yeah,
above every I mean, video gamesare their own ecosystem. It is.

(01:21:47):
And he goes, you would notbelieve the budget to these
things. So he says, like armedsecurity guards will come to his
house with hard drives becausethat hard drive has all the
confirmation of the in the FBInever fell on the wrong so it
literally Brinks. Securitytrucks come with these guy,
muscle guys. They show up in thehouse. There's a guy at the door

(01:22:08):
they, he's like, Who's that?Well, that's my child. That's my
kid. You know, is he going to behere during and there's like, a
whole budget, and they've gotbudget for, like, you fill out
the budget, because they have tospend the money. So he's, like,
napkins, toilet paper, coffeecatering for the next several
days. That all shows up at thehouse, and then these guys are
there while he's tracking and,you know, he's playing on all

(01:22:31):
the like the, you know, that'sthe last beat stuff. I would
never get called for that stuff,I mean, but it'd be cool at some
point to do some sort of a videogame. That'd be neat 100% our
friend Tony Mora does all Moradoes a lot of those too. I
recorded Tony's house a lot. Hedoes a lot of those with the
fast feet and stuff.
So cool. Man, I feel like these.Another example, just the other

(01:22:51):
day, watching on a flight theGrand Theft Auto thing, you
know, coming up. Been going, youlook at it. You go, it. This is
absolute cinema quality, likethe storyline, everything and
you're going, this is wherewe're headed.
And then the actors, with thewith the things they put on,
they've got to do the motioncaptures and easy. What an
industry. Yes, some kid isliterally just becoming just a

(01:23:12):
schlep in his room, you know,not getting any exercise.
No, the joke is, right? They'remaking three times we make daily
in these competitions. Oh, yeah,rooms. I mean, you know,
games tournaments. Oh, andeSports, they do it on Twitch.
They're making that
right, you know, six figures amonth, and where they can get
you and we're over here, yeah,King Kong,

(01:23:33):
going, Wait a second. I'm like,Dude, I'm destroying my body.
Hey, Rob, the human body.Amazing. 25 days ago, I thought
my career was over. I waswashing the dishes, coffee mug
handle lacerated. My moneymaking finger where the fulcrum
or the stick sits right there,blood all over the wall,
spraying. I get up, Kara's outof town, Jim's busy. I Uber to

(01:23:55):
the Spring Hill. Er, I getthere, they put five stitches in
there. I'm going, oh my god,what am I? Am I gonna lose
nerves? Am I? Am I gonna havefeeling? Am I gonna my drumming
ever gonna be the same? Perfectrecovery. God, look at that.
Right there, right
there. And that is your, like,money hand to your snare hand.

(01:24:15):
So everyone was like, what'd youdo with your April? I pray to
God. I just watched this thingheal. Wow, didn't pick up a
stick, or that could have been
crazy. Could have been bad,could have been bad,
but it wasn't because of the bigG in the sky. Rob ricotta,
thanks for being here. Man, ohmy gosh. Man, wonderful to spend
this time. Good to meet you. I'mjust so glad maybe you guys can

(01:24:38):
do the thing. You can havesynergy. You can join voice over
groups together. You can havevoice battles, table readings,
yeah,
yeah, that's exactly. So I'venever done any of that kind of
stuff. I really need to get moreinto it. I just never had an
opportunity. It's really
fun where you're about to do it.And so people can contact you on
the socials, and they can seeyou on tour with John Morgan,

(01:24:58):
and they could see you playyour. New number one song,
friends like that. Awesome.Congratulations on playing on
the new record, Carolina blue.Appreciate it. Rob, love you
buddy. Thanks for the gifts. Ofcourse. Love you man. Let's get
social. Maybe we'll go smoke acigar right now. Done. Nice,
Jim. Thank you for all your timeand talent, of course, as
always. And to all the folks outthere, thank you so much for
listening to our show, watchingour show, be sure to subscribe,

(01:25:21):
share, rate and review andplease do leave us a nice five
star rating on Apple podcasts.It really helps people find the
show. We'll see you next time.Thanks, Rob, thanks, Jim,
thank you. Thank you.

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