September 3, 2025 • 12 mins
Guitarist/Songwriter Jeremy Popoff with Lit rejoins the show to ask whether we can forget about the thing he said when he was drunk. He didn't mean to call me that. After we patch that up, we promote this Friday's appearance by the 'Clay & Buck Theme Song' band at the annual Shadow Ridge Music Festival.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Gordiez.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Friday night here in Omaha, You're going to hear some
of the great guitar riffs of the nineties live at
the shadow Ridge Music Festival. I'm talking about great guitar
riffs like this one from Bush that is an awesome
intro to a rock song, or this one from Bush
(00:26):
machine Head. You know, Bush is gonna do a lot
of great guitar riffs in addition to stuff like the
Chemicals between Us and Come Down Glisser and stuff like that.
But Bush is not the only band on the lineup
this year's shadow Ridge Music Festival, and at seventh year
also welcomes the Fray. One of my favorite nineties bands,
(00:47):
Fuel will be on stage and this is certainly one
of the best guitar riffs of the nineties. You hear
it three times a day here on eleven ten KFAB
as the start of each hour of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show here on Nebraska's news, weather and
Traffic station. This guitar is played by Jeremy pop Off
(01:10):
of Litt, who joins us now on eleven ten KFAB.
They are also coming to Omaha and back here on
the radio what's up.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Jeremy, Hey, good morning, brother, How are you good.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Let's talk about just the resurgence of that song here
being part of Clay and Buck show, because what Clay
hectored you into letting him use that for his show.
Is that what happened?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah? He Actually it's funny. We know, we've hung out
a bunch. We both live out here in the same
area in Franklin, Tennessee, and we got to know each
other over the years. And I was actually on tour
in the UK and got a call from Clay. It
was pretty late over there, but he had, you know,
(01:57):
mentioned that they were retiring the pretender song that Rush
used to use, and they were looking for a new
theme song and wanted to use that one, and of
course we were. We were very honored and and yeah, man,
it's been great love. I love the fact that that
it's becoming in that role, that sort of iconic bumper music.
(02:18):
You know, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, it's it's a great piece of bumper music. Let's
not sleep on the lyrics and the theme of the song,
the opening line, Can we forget about the things I
said when I was drunk? I didn't mean to call
you that. Where does this song My Own Worst Enemy
come from?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Man? It it was kind of a probably a result
of many many nights, many situations, but it the song
kind of just wrote itself and we were just lucky
to be in the room when it did. You know. Yeah,
it's been a crazy ride.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well the ride started. I mean, you guys started this
band lit or at least he started kind of playing
in bands like back in the late eighties that wouldn't
end up being a hit until the late nineties. So
what was that decade like where you were sticking with
this dream of being a rock star Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, I mean we started the band in high school
pretty much. Weren't that you know, we weren't really great
at sports and weren't that good in school, so we thought, well,
we could start a rock band and maybe be able
to get chicks that way.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, it was either radio or rock band. That's really
the divergent path there.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's right. Yeah, So, you know, it started out just
we thought it'd be cool, and then we fell in
love with what we were doing and we just kept
doing it, and the band was getting more and more
popular in southern California, and we just you know, we
got turned down by every record company on the planet,
but we believed in what we were doing and felt
(03:58):
a connection with the audience and the crowds were getting
bigger and bigger, and so we just we didn't really
have a backup plan or you know, a plan B
or any of that. We just kept we just kept
doing it. And then late ninety eight, once again, you know,
every every record company had bird my own, we're sending
(04:19):
me and said they didn't hear a single, and did
you know, kept saying no, and then all of a sudden,
one day we got the call and next thing you know,
we're out there on the road and the song is
on the radio and life changed forever. So it's pretty cool, man.
So it's cool. It's just it's it's a lot of
sticking to it and not taking note for an answer.
(04:40):
And then of course a lot of luck involved a
lot of timing and just being ready. And I think
we were ready after ten years of grinding and out
in the clubs, we were pretty much ready for whatever
they threw at us.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know, it's a tired it's a tired cliche to
compare litt to Billy Joel I know, everyone does it
all the time. You guys are probably sick of hearing it,
he said sarcastically. But I was just watching the Billy
Joel documentary where they played for all these record executives
the full album, the stranger and the executive. The executives
(05:13):
were like, we don't hear a single, and we don't
hear a hit album. It ended up having four or
five hit singles, classic Billy Joel songs. It was the
best selling album of the year. So when you guys
are sitting there with these these record execs going and
we're not hearing it, we don't hear a single here,
did you think like, hey, this is what bands here
before they make it really really big.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I you know, I always wondered kind of how half
of those people had jobs anyway, and nowadays I would
say ninety nine percent of them don't. So you know,
we're still doing what we've always done. And you know,
I don't know what half of those guys are doing now,
selling selling mattresses or you know whatever, but they if
(06:01):
you can't walk into a club or you know, a
place and see a band and a crowd connecting and
songs and people screaming and singing them back or whatever.
And that doesn't equates to you then yet you probably
should probably should find something else to do for a living.
And but for us, I mean, you know, it seemed
(06:24):
like a ten year grind, but we just were grateful
that it happened when it happened, because I don't know,
you know, if we had gotten a record deal a
year or two before that, maybe my own or senemy
wouldn't have been written. You know, maybe the just catching
that final wave of that like in late nineties, early
two thousands, MTV TRL, all that kind of stuff we
(06:45):
got to do. You know, everything happens for a reason,
and I just think timing is is kind of everything.
So we're very grateful. And you know, if we had
had the success we had in ninety nine or two thousand,
back in eighty nine or ninety we'd be we'd be
probably broken, homeless.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well before we get to that point in your career.
Let's get you to Omaha for this event. Jeremy pop
off from Litt with us.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
They're performing with Fuel, the Fray and Bush as part
of the Shadow Ridge Music Festival lineup this Friday night.
Visit Shadow Ridge Musicfestival dot Com and you can hear
the live version of My Own Worst Enemy and hear
five thousand people singing along about how their cars in
the front yard and they're sleeping with their clothes on.
(07:35):
Also great LIT songs like Miserable and Please Please. I
hope you guys play my new favorite LIT song, which
I heard for the first time when you guys were
here a few years ago for this event, and I
immediately bought it on iTunes. Kicked Off the Plane is
one of my new favorite songs of the last few years.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We will, we will definitely play that one for you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That is every bit as much fun and just as
rock and as My Own Worst Enemy.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I love Kicked Off the Plane.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Also, it's also a true story too, so much much
like my hour sent me. Well, we we did get
kicked off a planet. So yeah we uh yeah we
Every once in a while we just get to live
a live and experience, write a song about it, and
then and then have fun with it for another few years.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Wells as the name of the songs suggests that you
guys are kicked off a plane, but you also understand like, yeah,
we deserved it. No one else to blame.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, no, it's true. Well, the funniest part was, you know,
we then the they sent they sent this young attractive
girl over to sort of deal with us once we
got off the plane, and because we had it was
probably a five or six hour delayed layover. So we
just sat in the Admirals Club drinking and that was
(08:55):
why we were asked to not get on or get
off that plane. And when they came in sort of
intercepted us. They just walked us back into the Admirals Club,
sat us back down at the bar, upgraded us the
first class and we just had four more hours to wait,
and so we just drank for four more hours and
we're pressing our a lot, but you know, we got
home right.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I don't know that anyone should take that as a
tutorial on how to have a great day. That your
results may vary, as they say in radio advertisements, but.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, I recommending anybody try that method.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But yeah, I'm glad it worked out for you.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Guys. We're on probably six to eight flights a week,
and so we we know the people at the airports
and they know us, and we know that you know,
it's a little different when you do it as much
as we do, we kind of we kind of know
our limits. But yeah, not recommended.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, how much do you know the other guys coming
here for the shadow Ridge Music Festival on Friday night?
Have you played a lot with Fuel the Fray and
of course Gavin and Bush.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, we actually we've been on the road with Fuel
this year. We did we've been doing a co headline
where we take turns, you know, playing first or last
or whatever. And it's been great. Guys are awesome, great songs,
and and I think that tour, the lit Fuel it's
called Ignited. We stand that tour I think is now
(10:17):
going to go into twenty six just because it's been
going so well. And then you know, we've done shows
with Bush and the Fray over the years. We and
back in the old days, back in like two thousand,
two thousand and one, we toured with No Doubt, and
that was when Gavin and Glen were together, so we
bumped into him quite a bit back in those days.
(10:38):
And but yeah, man, it's I mean, what a great
night of what a great night of music. And we've
done we did shadow Ridge a couple of I don't
know what was it three years ago?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think it was about three years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, so great property, great great cloth over there, good food,
good good drinks, good people. This could be It's gonna
be fun. Were we were excited when they asked us back.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I was talking with Art from ever Clear a couple
of years ago, which was a few years after he'd
played this event, and I said, yeah, I saw you
guys at the shadow Ridge Music Festival and he's like,
the golf course people, man, that that thing is awesome.
We love playing that thing. So yeah, it's a it's
a really fun night, loud rock music booming across the
golf course parking lot there at shadow Ridge, And it's
(11:22):
going to be this Friday night, shadow Ridge Musicfestival dot com.
It's it's always a sellout. If there's still tickets available,
I encourage you to get them now at shadow Ridge
Musicfestival dot com. So many different food and and and
uh and porta potties out there. You're not gonna have
to wait in line real long for a beer, for
(11:42):
food or to use the bathroom. And you get a
chance to hear great songs like Hemorrhage in My Hands
by Fuel or My favorite Fuel song, Jesus or a Gun.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I hope they play that. How to Save a Life
by the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Fray Come Down by Bush is my favorite song them
and for you guys, Jeremy, it's either my own worst
enemy or kicked off the plane. I'm very excited to
hear Lint once again here in Omaha. We'll see you
on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Sounds good, brother, looking forward to it. Scott Boys Mornings
nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Gordiez.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Friday night here in Omaha, You're going to hear some
of the great guitar riffs of the nineties live at
the shadow Ridge Music Festival. I'm talking about great guitar
riffs like this one from Bush that is an awesome
intro to a rock song, or this one from Bush
(00:26):
machine Head. You know, Bush is gonna do a lot
of great guitar riffs in addition to stuff like the
Chemicals between Us and Come Down Glisser and stuff like that.
But Bush is not the only band on the lineup
this year's shadow Ridge Music Festival, and at seventh year
also welcomes the Fray. One of my favorite nineties bands,
(00:47):
Fuel will be on stage and this is certainly one
of the best guitar riffs of the nineties. You hear
it three times a day here on eleven ten KFAB
as the start of each hour of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show here on Nebraska's news, weather and
Traffic station. This guitar is played by Jeremy pop Off
(01:10):
of Litt, who joins us now on eleven ten KFAB.
They are also coming to Omaha and back here on
the radio what's up.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Jeremy, Hey, good morning, brother, How are you good.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Let's talk about just the resurgence of that song here
being part of Clay and Buck show, because what Clay
hectored you into letting him use that for his show.
Is that what happened?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah? He Actually it's funny. We know, we've hung out
a bunch. We both live out here in the same
area in Franklin, Tennessee, and we got to know each
other over the years. And I was actually on tour
in the UK and got a call from Clay. It
was pretty late over there, but he had, you know,
(01:57):
mentioned that they were retiring the pretender song that Rush
used to use, and they were looking for a new
theme song and wanted to use that one, and of
course we were. We were very honored and and yeah, man,
it's been great love. I love the fact that that
it's becoming in that role, that sort of iconic bumper music.
(02:18):
You know, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, it's it's a great piece of bumper music. Let's
not sleep on the lyrics and the theme of the song,
the opening line, Can we forget about the things I
said when I was drunk? I didn't mean to call
you that. Where does this song My Own Worst Enemy
come from?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Man? It it was kind of a probably a result
of many many nights, many situations, but it the song
kind of just wrote itself and we were just lucky
to be in the room when it did. You know. Yeah,
it's been a crazy ride.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well the ride started. I mean, you guys started this
band lit or at least he started kind of playing
in bands like back in the late eighties that wouldn't
end up being a hit until the late nineties. So
what was that decade like where you were sticking with
this dream of being a rock star Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, I mean we started the band in high school
pretty much. Weren't that you know, we weren't really great
at sports and weren't that good in school, so we thought, well,
we could start a rock band and maybe be able
to get chicks that way.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, it was either radio or rock band. That's really
the divergent path there.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's right. Yeah, So, you know, it started out just
we thought it'd be cool, and then we fell in
love with what we were doing and we just kept
doing it, and the band was getting more and more
popular in southern California, and we just you know, we
got turned down by every record company on the planet,
but we believed in what we were doing and felt
(03:58):
a connection with the audience and the crowds were getting
bigger and bigger, and so we just we didn't really
have a backup plan or you know, a plan B
or any of that. We just kept we just kept
doing it. And then late ninety eight, once again, you know,
every every record company had bird my own, we're sending
(04:19):
me and said they didn't hear a single, and did
you know, kept saying no, and then all of a sudden,
one day we got the call and next thing you know,
we're out there on the road and the song is
on the radio and life changed forever. So it's pretty cool, man.
So it's cool. It's just it's it's a lot of
sticking to it and not taking note for an answer.
(04:40):
And then of course a lot of luck involved a
lot of timing and just being ready. And I think
we were ready after ten years of grinding and out
in the clubs, we were pretty much ready for whatever
they threw at us.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know, it's a tired it's a tired cliche to
compare litt to Billy Joel I know, everyone does it
all the time. You guys are probably sick of hearing it,
he said sarcastically. But I was just watching the Billy
Joel documentary where they played for all these record executives
the full album, the stranger and the executive. The executives
(05:13):
were like, we don't hear a single, and we don't
hear a hit album. It ended up having four or
five hit singles, classic Billy Joel songs. It was the
best selling album of the year. So when you guys
are sitting there with these these record execs going and
we're not hearing it, we don't hear a single here,
did you think like, hey, this is what bands here
before they make it really really big.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I you know, I always wondered kind of how half
of those people had jobs anyway, and nowadays I would
say ninety nine percent of them don't. So you know,
we're still doing what we've always done. And you know,
I don't know what half of those guys are doing now,
selling selling mattresses or you know whatever, but they if
(06:01):
you can't walk into a club or you know, a
place and see a band and a crowd connecting and
songs and people screaming and singing them back or whatever.
And that doesn't equates to you then yet you probably
should probably should find something else to do for a living.
And but for us, I mean, you know, it seemed
(06:24):
like a ten year grind, but we just were grateful
that it happened when it happened, because I don't know,
you know, if we had gotten a record deal a
year or two before that, maybe my own or senemy
wouldn't have been written. You know, maybe the just catching
that final wave of that like in late nineties, early
two thousands, MTV TRL, all that kind of stuff we
(06:45):
got to do. You know, everything happens for a reason,
and I just think timing is is kind of everything.
So we're very grateful. And you know, if we had
had the success we had in ninety nine or two thousand,
back in eighty nine or ninety we'd be we'd be
probably broken, homeless.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well before we get to that point in your career.
Let's get you to Omaha for this event. Jeremy pop
off from Litt with us.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
They're performing with Fuel, the Fray and Bush as part
of the Shadow Ridge Music Festival lineup this Friday night.
Visit Shadow Ridge Musicfestival dot Com and you can hear
the live version of My Own Worst Enemy and hear
five thousand people singing along about how their cars in
the front yard and they're sleeping with their clothes on.
(07:35):
Also great LIT songs like Miserable and Please Please. I
hope you guys play my new favorite LIT song, which
I heard for the first time when you guys were
here a few years ago for this event, and I
immediately bought it on iTunes. Kicked Off the Plane is
one of my new favorite songs of the last few years.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We will, we will definitely play that one for you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That is every bit as much fun and just as
rock and as My Own Worst Enemy.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I love Kicked Off the Plane.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Also, it's also a true story too, so much much
like my hour sent me. Well, we we did get
kicked off a planet. So yeah we uh yeah we
Every once in a while we just get to live
a live and experience, write a song about it, and
then and then have fun with it for another few years.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Wells as the name of the songs suggests that you
guys are kicked off a plane, but you also understand like, yeah,
we deserved it. No one else to blame.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, no, it's true. Well, the funniest part was, you know,
we then the they sent they sent this young attractive
girl over to sort of deal with us once we
got off the plane, and because we had it was
probably a five or six hour delayed layover. So we
just sat in the Admirals Club drinking and that was
(08:55):
why we were asked to not get on or get
off that plane. And when they came in sort of
intercepted us. They just walked us back into the Admirals Club,
sat us back down at the bar, upgraded us the
first class and we just had four more hours to wait,
and so we just drank for four more hours and
we're pressing our a lot, but you know, we got
home right.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I don't know that anyone should take that as a
tutorial on how to have a great day. That your
results may vary, as they say in radio advertisements, but.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, I recommending anybody try that method.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But yeah, I'm glad it worked out for you.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Guys. We're on probably six to eight flights a week,
and so we we know the people at the airports
and they know us, and we know that you know,
it's a little different when you do it as much
as we do, we kind of we kind of know
our limits. But yeah, not recommended.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, how much do you know the other guys coming
here for the shadow Ridge Music Festival on Friday night?
Have you played a lot with Fuel the Fray and
of course Gavin and Bush.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, we actually we've been on the road with Fuel
this year. We did we've been doing a co headline
where we take turns, you know, playing first or last
or whatever. And it's been great. Guys are awesome, great songs,
and and I think that tour, the lit Fuel it's
called Ignited. We stand that tour I think is now
(10:17):
going to go into twenty six just because it's been
going so well. And then you know, we've done shows
with Bush and the Fray over the years. We and
back in the old days, back in like two thousand,
two thousand and one, we toured with No Doubt, and
that was when Gavin and Glen were together, so we
bumped into him quite a bit back in those days.
(10:38):
And but yeah, man, it's I mean, what a great
night of what a great night of music. And we've
done we did shadow Ridge a couple of I don't
know what was it three years ago?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think it was about three years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, so great property, great great cloth over there, good food,
good good drinks, good people. This could be It's gonna
be fun. Were we were excited when they asked us back.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I was talking with Art from ever Clear a couple
of years ago, which was a few years after he'd
played this event, and I said, yeah, I saw you
guys at the shadow Ridge Music Festival and he's like,
the golf course people, man, that that thing is awesome.
We love playing that thing. So yeah, it's a it's
a really fun night, loud rock music booming across the
golf course parking lot there at shadow Ridge, And it's
(11:22):
going to be this Friday night, shadow Ridge Musicfestival dot com.
It's it's always a sellout. If there's still tickets available,
I encourage you to get them now at shadow Ridge
Musicfestival dot com. So many different food and and and
uh and porta potties out there. You're not gonna have
to wait in line real long for a beer, for
(11:42):
food or to use the bathroom. And you get a
chance to hear great songs like Hemorrhage in My Hands
by Fuel or My favorite Fuel song, Jesus or a Gun.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I hope they play that. How to Save a Life
by the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Fray Come Down by Bush is my favorite song them
and for you guys, Jeremy, it's either my own worst
enemy or kicked off the plane. I'm very excited to
hear Lint once again here in Omaha. We'll see you
on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Sounds good, brother, looking forward to it. Scott Boys Mornings
nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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