December 2, 2025 • 33 mins
You’re about to get a never-before-seen look at country music history in the making. Join us backstage, in the studio, and behind the pen as Ashley Felton pulls back the curtain on her highly anticipated new track. This isn’t just about a song; it’s about the journey of an artist pushing boundaries and finding her next big sound.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey y' all, this is recording artist Ashley Felton and
you're listening to Grand Slam of Music, Sports and Entertainment.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Happy holidays to everybody out there in radio podcast land,
top search on iHeartRadio podcast and our friends of the
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your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And I told you guys we had a great show
coming into it today.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And of course out there I love Southern California, Orange
County out there between that Anaheim Angels Los Angeles Dodgers
rival where we can never hear enough about that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Too as well.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And speaking of Southern cal out there to emerging singer songwriter,
she's blending the heart of that nineties country little bit
of little edge influenced a lot by lea Ane Rhymes
out there too. We get a chance to talk to
her today on the show, Ashley felt into the backstage
past Ashley, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I have great, Thanks for having me, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's nice to have the holidays kind of around the
corner with us right now too, and everybody's kind of
getting in the festive mood for Christmas. We're probably spending
more money than we want to these days, but that
is November and December out there too, when you get
in your house ready for all the Christmas decorations, having
family over to What are you most looking forward to
with this downtime coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm just so excited to spend some time with family.
Just enjoy it. Enjoy it with friends and family. And
you know, it's been a wild year and I just
feel like the years keep flying by.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
So it's nice to have this time together.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And although it can be a little you know, pectic
if you will, and yeah, like you said, a little
money grabbing, it's it's so fun to focus on the
time with friends and family.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah it is too.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
We'll talk about yourself now being out there from southern Calumn,
know influence there at the top, you know, Leanne rhymes
and Faith Hill. I mean, obviously Jodie Messina, classic names
from the nineties country catalog of females that kind of
did their thing back then and just you know, kicking
ass and taking names. They knew their sound, they knew
what they wanted to accomplished. Talk about just growing up
and big influence, but artists like that to get you
(02:17):
and kind of this thing called the music business.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, it was a huge for me. I grew up
on nineties country music.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
My mom actually is a songwriter, and so when I
was a kid, she used to fly back and forth
to Nashville all the time and work with people like
the Dixie Chicks and Gretchen Wilson actually recorded on a
few of her demos, and so it's it's been really
cool to watch that, you know, as a kid and
being so influenced by that to where it's like I
just knew at such a young age that that's exactly
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what I wanted to do. And we were very involved
in you know, the fan clubs and everything for Timo
Graw and Faith Hill and Shania Twain, and we're very
involved in them.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I used to do interviews and I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
For Timmo graw and so and they would they would
be so nice to have me up on stage. And so,
just from such a young age, I knew that that's
exactly where I wanted to be. And yeah, it's it's
been such an amazing influence. They're they're amazing, amazing artists.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, talk about the connection you have with your fans.
That's so important.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
To connect with your audience and the style of music
that you put out, you know, knowing what type of
artists you want to be sticking to your sound. Talk
about that connection with you know, the audience. And you
do play a lot of live shows throughout the year.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I play a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We've played like over one hundred and seventy this year.
I just founded and was like, oh my goodness, But
it's that's so important. I do it because I love
the connection to other people. And honestly, that's where a
lot of my music comes from. Is just like my
own personal experiences and such that you know have have
resonated with people. And so to build those relationships with
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people that you know want to hear me come to
the shows consistently, Like it's been such a blessing. You know,
you have your friends and family that just naturally to
support to you. But to have people strangers that you know,
are hearing your music for the first time and become
fans of you and will follow you and you know,
want to be a part of that journey is like
the biggest blessing in the entire world.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
No, no, So you also do a lot of the
charitable work. I myself get into a lot of the
charitable work out there to help out different organizations. Relay
for Life is a big one out there too at
the same time, and also combat cancer. Important to give
back as a recording artist or just anybody in general
for that matter, no matter what career that you're into,
Why is it so important to you and those organizations
(04:34):
you're kind of drawn too?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, I, that's honestly.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's like one of my favorite things to do is
to give back to the community. And like, what a
gift to have this talent that God has given me
to give back in that way.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
That's very very important to me.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And so the fact that these organizations are, you know,
asking for me to be a part of it is
really great. We've done quite a few nonprofits and charity
events this year, specifically, like seven of them within the
past two months and it is It's just my favorite
way to just give back to to all these communities
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that are helping others in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I love it too and for more information out there
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check it out here. It is the backstage Pass and
we don't just talk about it. We play a lot
of music here on the brand here too. At the
same time, the latest single from Ashley called give Me That.
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Speaker 4 (05:48):
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Speaker 5 (05:50):
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Speaker 6 (06:01):
I've been treaming enough, but half fellies give me pray
for him every night.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Give me a man.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
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boy there turns into a man from some girls. You
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a longsome dance whispers be knocking's in my ear. Such
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Speaker 7 (06:40):
Give me the up.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I've been treading enough of housle fellies. Give me a man,
pray for him every night. Give that y a man
it's gonna tree here, upping doors, fixing hells.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The boy there.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
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me ark me the you me the neither, give.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
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Speaker 6 (07:18):
Goh mis others telling me that he don't exist. No,
in my heart, I'm just waiting for you. Give me
them an prey form every night. Give me a man
that's gonna treat me, opening doors, fixing the else. A
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boy there turns into men some girls down.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Give me the art and me ark give me the
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Speaker 6 (07:50):
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Speaker 3 (09:34):
And back here on the show again KYBN ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com and out there to
THWN dot org and now top search on iHeartRadio podcast
for the show. So Ashley Felton joining us here too.
I love this one because of that high octane energy.
You mentioned that blend of edgy kind of mixed with
(09:55):
nineties country a little bit. This really took me back,
and I'll mentioned to you when I go to feature
art here on the show Man sometimes it just takes
one song to hear from what the work and the
body of the catalog of songs that you put out.
And I heard that one, Ashley, it was so convinced
we had to have you here on the show. Give
us a little backstory on give me that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
So.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I've written quite a few songs over the past couple of.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Years, and so this one kind of came to me
because I really wanted that nineties kind of country feel
and it just it, it just came to me and
was like, you know, you have these other songs where
it's like, you know, you you want something more out
of life or more out of your relationship or whatever.
And you know, there's so many of my my single
(10:40):
friends that are like, man, I'm just like waiting for
that one, you know, I just like I want somebody
that's gonna give me all of these things.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
And I'm like, oh, okay, here we go. There's something there.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So I sat down and wrote this within like an hour,
and yeah, it's it's just such a fun, like catchy
song like who doesn't want that?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And a guy you know, no doubt having fun with
it too, and getting people out there on the dance
floor is what it's all about too. Talk to me
about little one. Take us back to twenty twenty three
when this came out. To love this song so much,
meant so much to a lot of people out there too.
Was fantastic too, And I love your your rendition of
this and how you delivered it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This one actually came from I'm a special education teacher
and a few years back my teaching partner had delivered
stillborn and so that was a really rough time for
us and our community at our school site, and so
a year later, she had asked me to sing at
a nonprofit organization called Forever Food Prints. They support grieving
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families that have lost a child, and so they needed
a musician to play for the walk, and so I
was like, Okay, yeah, of course I'll do it. She's
asked me to do it, of course I'll do it.
So but the organization I called and said, hey, can
you also have it like a special song to sing
at the opening ceremony following reading five hundred baby names,
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And so that was really heavy and a lot to process.
And so when I was trying to find a song
to cover at the time, there was there was no
songs that were really like about, you know, losing or
grieving a child. It was a lot about you know,
having a relationship with somebody that you've known for a
longer period of time. And so I was walking up
the stairs one day and just little One like kept
(12:24):
popping in my head. And so that afternoon I had
written Little One, the organization approved it for me to
sing it, I had played it at the walk, and
then a lot of the community was requesting it right away.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So we quickly recorded this song and put it out there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And so that was the very first song that I
had released, and you know, the the traction that had
come from it and how much it released to other
people was you know, shocking, and uh, I'm I'm glad
that I was.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Able to put that out.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But it's it's it's something that you know, you one
of those songs that you don't really want to resonate
with people. But I'm I'm grateful that people wanted to
hear it and appreciated it.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Being done well.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's a beautiful song, no doubt too. And that takes
me back to a twenty twenty four chance to listen
to those catalog of songs to girl Time. We all
need a little bit of that to guide time too.
I'm sure there's a country song called guy Time somewhere
too that my wife gives me some of those hall
passes that I get. But hey, girl Time, for all
females out there, this is a song they need to hear,
right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It is the ultimate girl anthem.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It was written about my best friend and how we
all need this little break from life sometimes. And it's
so funny that you say about guy time because the
amount of guys.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
That are like, what about guy time?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
You're going to write a song about guy time, and
I'm like, I don't think y'all want me to write
a song about guy time. I don't think you guys
want me to write a song about what I think
guy time might be.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So we stick with girl time for the shows.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Love that toode. Hey, it was pretty cool to see
the CMA Awards. You know, this is the fifty ninth
annual or fifty first annual. What is but one of
those fifty first annual?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Think it was?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I keep having a number of fifty nine in my head.
I'm not sure why I do that, but anyway, fifty
first say awards this week too, and I love these
You're seeing more of these collaborations actually when you get
a lot of people coming over there too. You know,
was that CR week and CRS this year for twenty
twenty five and this past May week in the summer,
we had a chance to talk to Acon and Gary
(14:16):
Levox on the show. They came together for a song
called Hold the Umbrella, which was another fantastic go version
of great music coming together and these collaborations. What are
your thoughts on different genres of music now crossing over
into country to put out some pretty cool tunes.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I think it is so cool.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I think that there's like I think that everybody that's
been doing it so far has done such a great job.
Like it's a it's a weird you know kind of
thaying to try to tackle and figure out what works
and whatnot. But you know, you had like Dua Lipa
that just did one with Chris Stapleton, and there's just
so many that have been so amazing over the past
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few years. It's been really fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You know, speaking of girl power, I mean she doesn't
just host shows, she wins awards too.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Out there.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Landy Wilson looking back at it too. At the same time,
Love the Fact Is had her on the show back
in December twenty twenty and I told her, I said,
made a prediction on here. I said, you're gonna blow
up in the next few years. She was like, Brandon,
it's all right, just being modest, don't say that, and
don't say that. I'm like, no, I really mean that
too as well. And look what happened as of two
or three years later. Now the kind of national spokesperson
for WAA Burger and she's doing so much out there
(15:22):
for females and country music. Give me some thoughts on
just what Laney has meant to you as an artist
and as you look up to her and what she's
doing right now for the females and country music.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, literally one of my biggest influences, I would say
right now in country music. I mean, she is just
she's amazing the things that she's doing. And it seems
like she's the type of person that doesn't really say
no to anything. And I find myself doing the same
exact thing, Like if you put every single ounce of
(15:54):
you into something and it doesn't work, then fine, you
can say that you've put everything into it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
And so she seems just.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Like such like a hard worker and go get her constantly,
And that's that's such a huge influence into into how
I operate in what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well, I love it too, and I love to two
step on the dance floor. I'm sure you're a big
a fan of two stepping out there on those hardwood floors.
So we get to play another one here, Ashley Felton
joining us here at the backstage pass. This one is
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Speaker 6 (16:47):
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Speaker 12 (16:56):
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Speaker 6 (17:11):
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or another long baby thought is just be gone out.
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stopping kids saying a crowding room spe serm up to
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Speaker 2 (19:29):
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Speaker 12 (19:33):
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Speaker 11 (20:35):
Hi, guys and gals, this is recording artists Jenlla Master
and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass with
Brandon Morel on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
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Speaker 3 (20:57):
And back here on the show again, Ashley Filter joining us.
You're the backstage Past KYB in ninety eight point one,
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the Sports Guys so podcast dot com. I know this
one had to be a lot of fun too, and
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the fact is I got a chance to listen to
this one came out as a single this year, and
I love the music video, the rendition of two Steps.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Thank you. Yeah, this one was so fun to do,
and the music video was not my idea. I had
a friend of mine that came to me and was like, Hey,
I really want to produce this song. I think there's
something there. I think it'd be so great, and I
was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and then he sends
over this whole this whole script about it, like all
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mapped out, and I.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Was like, Okay, I think we're doing the thing. And
so we did, and I'm so grateful that we did.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It was such a fun experience and a fun day
to film this, and the song is just fun, you
know it. It definitely gets you up and moving and
it's Yeah, it's just been such such a cool single
to release.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You mentioned performing a lot of those live shows out
there too, and it's always kind of cool to you
mentioned Laney Wilson, people you looked up to, you know,
growing up and kind of shape you as an artist
and just seeing them on fire out there too. You've
also had a chance to kind of open some shows
with Joe Nichols Clay Walker and what's it like to
kind of watch them, you know, go about their business,
you finish your act and everything and your show and
kind of watching them. People say sometimes it's like going
(22:29):
back to school learning different tricks and things on stage
and stage presence, things such as that nature, what have
you learned from artists like that that you've gotten to
open up for.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
A thousand percent? I mean honestly, the second that you
walk in for soundcheck and you're listening to them and
watching their team do what they do and everything, it's like,
it is so cool to be able to sit there.
And that's the perfect way to put it. Is just
like learning and watching you know, how how all of
these things are done, and just like the professionalism that
comes of it, you know, is so so fun to
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experience and and relate to and watching them, you know,
do this live. The way that they connect with the audience.
You know, you learn something every single time you see
anybody to play. But these professionals that I've been doing
this for a very long time, it is so cool
to see, you know, the eagerness and the energy.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That they had, just as when they were starting out.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You know, it doesn't stop and you just get such
like a thrill off off of the audience.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You know, I wanted to ask you a little bit
about AI too.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Like I said, I don't try to create a controversy here,
but you know, regardless of what people say, you know, Ashley,
it is here to stay, no doubt about it when
it comes down to how it affects the music industry
pros and cons, and of course I think in anything
out there, there's pros and cons out there too for it,
not just that's necessarily for the singer, songwriter, producer. But
again it's here to stay no matter what people kind
of feel about it too. I know I use it
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to kind of shape my shows for certain things that
we do, and things like that. Could be something as
simple as to kind of format a paragraph or choose
the right words for certain thing when you're writing a
caption or like that, to appear on a particular show
we put out, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Any way, it shapes what we do. It's not what
we're about.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
But I love chat, GPT and all the technology technology
things that are out there too to kind of get
your hands dirty and see what help you can get,
if any How do you feel about it as an
artist when it comes to uh, singer songwriter, producers, and
do you use it?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, okay, so that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I do use it of course, for especially for social
media stuff and things like that, not so much for writing.
Every once in a while I'll kind of pick its
brain on something and maybe a line or a verse
that I'm not really like loving and seeing if it
has maybe some other ideas on how to tweak it accordingly.
(24:44):
What I what I don't love is, you know, the
amount of independent artists that are really using these AI
generated songs and then literally putting them out and so
and that the traction that they're getting from it is like,
you know, pretty disappointing. But you know, to each his zone,
everybody's out there trying to do their thing, and if
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that's how they feel like they're mastering something in their life,
then fine, but it definitely messes up the algorithm for
for us independent artists that are truly you know, an
artist about it and trying to you know, do something
and push their music through. So yeah, it's been an
interesting territory, but I think it's a great tool. And
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you know, just like in anything like you kind of
have to have the expertise to a point to tweak
it accordingly and make it make it your own.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So yeah, and of course I think there's exceptions can
be made. I think that, you know, one of the
biggest ones that came to mind was the the stuff
out there too when you heard about the projects, or
at least I was out there on social media. How
it kind of helped, you know, bring back the voice
and recreate some remaster some songs such as Randy Travis obviously,
given the situation in special circumstances such as that, it's
just really cool to see how an icon and in
(25:55):
the industry can use technologies such as that to put
out music that we can enjoy with his vocals given
that situation out there too, so special circumstances can be
made things like that too, And how people use it
and how they go about their business is really for
them and if it kind of helps your career shape
it in most ways, I mean, technology is here to
stay around to enhance someone's brand. And of course you
(26:17):
mentioned social media. As busy as we all are today,
we have to choose the right words and sometimes we
always think about in our rollerdecks when it comes to
our brain. So definitely exceptions can be made when it
comes down to how AI can will be used because
it is, for lack of a better term, it's here
to stay, whether someone likes it or not.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Out there too. I want to ask you a best
it's not going anywhere. Yeah, no it's not. It's not.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I want to ask you about, you know, being from
California out there, Orange County. I love it so much
because I love the San Diego area, I love Los Angeles,
I love Rancho Cucamga. You mentioned Corona out there too,
So for you, is it a little bit of partial
to one team or do you follow and who out
there in college or pro sports? Do you follow out
there in southern Californias.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, so it's not maybe the most popular pick, but
we're actually Niners fans and so we h well, every
once in a while we'll go up to a game there,
go to the Rams Stadium here to go watch and play.
And then we're Angels fans of course because we're here. Yeah,
(27:20):
the boy I have two boys, ten and seven, and
so they they really love football and they love the Niners.
They're on slack football team the whole thing. And so
I feel like we dabble in more into football than.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Anything else, and of course having to watch it too.
I look, I'll say this, I'm a rock party. I'm
prone to that because he's all one of my fantasy
teams that is making me money right now. So I
love it the fact they can hopefully beat the Panthers.
They're at home tonight playing that, and then of course
looking back at it, you know over the next few
weeks some key games down the stretch for the forty
nine Ers too as well, so this is one of those.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You know, the Rams can be one of the hottest
teams in that division.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan, so I'm not afraid to say, Ashley,
we suck this year and have for the past a
few years too, So you kind of look at it
between Rams and forty nine Ers, it's kind of a
toss up.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But I tell you what, both teams are playing some
really good football right now.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
We got the opportunity to go to watch the Niners
and Cardinals game a couple of years ago, and the
stadium is awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But yeah, we definitely won that game, so.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I'll blame you.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You're gonna get wins over my Cardinals now too, until
we just have to strip it and rebuild everything. When
it comes down to it, Hey, when it comes to food,
do you enjoy a little bit of both? I guess
cooking at home of course. I know the holidays can
bring a lot of work and things like that. When
you do eat out, where do you guys like to
kind of go crash crash the place out there?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We are big Chick fil A fans for on the go,
it's like our go to and then if we want
to go eat out, we love wood Ranch. I don't
know if you're familiar with that, but it's a barbecue
place and it's amazing. If you have not had it,
everybody should have wood Ranch.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Check that out too. I'm not in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I've not been out there to catch the place out there,
but I've got to check that out now. I will
say when in Nashville, there's never a shortage of restaurants
there too. When it comes down to like a test
market for foods out there too. So I'm a big
pizza fan, and I found one over in Germantown called
three one two Pizza, which is in Nashville over there
by The sounds ballparks. So if you're ever back in
(29:17):
Nashville doing anything up there one of the events or
what have you've got to go check out three one
two Pizza noted.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You know when I went, I had the best chicken
tunders I've ever had in my life at Kung Fu
is like it was like in Midtown and it's like
an arcade bar.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It was the coolest thing ever. But the best chicken
tunders I've ever had in my life. I will never
forget them.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I love that, No, you gotta love That's one of
my pet peeves.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You mentioned Chick fil A too, probably eat there probably
three four or five times a month now too, so
they do get some of the morell household income there too.
What they do feed our bellies very well when Chick
fil A out there too. Hey, you know, one of
my my favorite things to do is to be able
to kind of do this from a broadcast standpoint and
put out a podcast. But I love being a special
at teacher. I think it's awesome working, you know with
(30:02):
kids that definitely just need that extra momentum to kind
of push them across the finish line. And look, both
do overlap in a lot of different ways. What's your
favorite part of being a special education teacher.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, I love my students.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I've been doing this for my eighth year teaching, and
I've taught RSP and SEC. There are two different types
of settings, and it is the best feeling in the
world to watch a student, you know, make the progress.
That's that's what I'm in it for, and so I
think I love that anywhere in life is like just
seeing where they're at. You know where they were and
(30:37):
where they're at now, and so that's very relatable to
what I'm doing. I look back and just a couple
of years ago, it's like where I was then and
where I'm at now is very It's all about the
work right and the consistency and that you put in,
and so that's what I love seeing with my students
so much.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Every little part is just that growth part.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I love it too, because, like you said, the littlest
things that sometimes we take for granted that can make
one special move out there too and you see that
progress and it just really puts everything else, you know,
behind the curtain there too, and it makes you kind
of feel proud to really kind of you know, raise
the torch and just see them, uh make those small
little gains out there too.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So I love it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Almost twenty years I've been doing it myself too, so
it's crazy to see it look back and uh see
the small growth and gains of all the districts I've
been with too, and to see the kids, Uh make
those little special growths out there too, because at some
point they have to join society in a very productive
ways for our goals to kind of you know, be
a scaffold and to help them as much as we
can make the littlest achievements of possible out there too. Well,
I'll tell you what, Yeah, it really is too and
(31:36):
I love it too, and I wouldn't have it any
other way too, And it gives me a chance to
also work on you know, the projects and put out
some great shows out there too. Ashley Felton music dot
Com and of course give me that is across all
those DSPs, and of course all this music out there
is available for uh streaming. She's a country music female
powerhouse out there too, making her name in southern California
and nationwide out there too. Make sure you guys check
(31:58):
her out across all those digital streaming platforms my friend.
Always good to connect and chat with you, and I
know there's going to be more great things you know,
we get to talk about here going into twenty twenty six.
Appreciate you being with us here on the show and
looking forward to many more great highlights in your career.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Same. Thank you so very much for having me.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Ashley Felton across all those DSPs out there, make sure
you guys go give her a follow, and Ashley felt
in music dot com and of course, so we're not
done over the next few weeks. Some more great shows
coming up over the next few weeks. TG Shepherd, Kelly
Lang and a whole lot more joining us here as
Christmas releases come out over the next few weeks. Here
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network,
(32:35):
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Speaker 2 (32:42):
We'll see you soon. God bless, take care from all
of us here at the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
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Speaker 13 (32:56):
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Hey y' all, this is recording artist Ashley Felton and
you're listening to Grand Slam of Music, Sports and Entertainment.
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And welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And I told you guys we had a great show
coming into it today.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And of course out there I love Southern California, Orange
County out there between that Anaheim Angels Los Angeles Dodgers
rival where we can never hear enough about that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Too as well.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And speaking of Southern cal out there to emerging singer songwriter,
she's blending the heart of that nineties country little bit
of little edge influenced a lot by lea Ane Rhymes
out there too. We get a chance to talk to
her today on the show, Ashley felt into the backstage
past Ashley, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I have great, Thanks for having me, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's nice to have the holidays kind of around the
corner with us right now too, and everybody's kind of
getting in the festive mood for Christmas. We're probably spending
more money than we want to these days, but that
is November and December out there too, when you get
in your house ready for all the Christmas decorations, having
family over to What are you most looking forward to
with this downtime coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm just so excited to spend some time with family.
Just enjoy it. Enjoy it with friends and family. And
you know, it's been a wild year and I just
feel like the years keep flying by.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
So it's nice to have this time together.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And although it can be a little you know, pectic
if you will, and yeah, like you said, a little
money grabbing, it's it's so fun to focus on the
time with friends and family.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah it is too.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
We'll talk about yourself now being out there from southern Calumn,
know influence there at the top, you know, Leanne rhymes
and Faith Hill. I mean, obviously Jodie Messina, classic names
from the nineties country catalog of females that kind of
did their thing back then and just you know, kicking
ass and taking names. They knew their sound, they knew
what they wanted to accomplished. Talk about just growing up
and big influence, but artists like that to get you
(02:17):
and kind of this thing called the music business.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, it was a huge for me. I grew up
on nineties country music.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
My mom actually is a songwriter, and so when I
was a kid, she used to fly back and forth
to Nashville all the time and work with people like
the Dixie Chicks and Gretchen Wilson actually recorded on a
few of her demos, and so it's it's been really
cool to watch that, you know, as a kid and
being so influenced by that to where it's like I
just knew at such a young age that that's exactly
(02:45):
what I wanted to do. And we were very involved
in you know, the fan clubs and everything for Timo
Graw and Faith Hill and Shania Twain, and we're very
involved in them.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I used to do interviews and I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
For Timmo graw and so and they would they would
be so nice to have me up on stage. And so,
just from such a young age, I knew that that's
exactly where I wanted to be. And yeah, it's it's
been such an amazing influence. They're they're amazing, amazing artists.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, talk about the connection you have with your fans.
That's so important.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
To connect with your audience and the style of music
that you put out, you know, knowing what type of
artists you want to be sticking to your sound. Talk
about that connection with you know, the audience. And you
do play a lot of live shows throughout the year.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I play a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We've played like over one hundred and seventy this year.
I just founded and was like, oh my goodness, But
it's that's so important. I do it because I love
the connection to other people. And honestly, that's where a
lot of my music comes from. Is just like my
own personal experiences and such that you know have have
resonated with people. And so to build those relationships with
(03:50):
people that you know want to hear me come to
the shows consistently, Like it's been such a blessing. You know,
you have your friends and family that just naturally to
support to you. But to have people strangers that you know,
are hearing your music for the first time and become
fans of you and will follow you and you know,
want to be a part of that journey is like
the biggest blessing in the entire world.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
No, no, So you also do a lot of the
charitable work. I myself get into a lot of the
charitable work out there to help out different organizations. Relay
for Life is a big one out there too at
the same time, and also combat cancer. Important to give
back as a recording artist or just anybody in general
for that matter, no matter what career that you're into,
Why is it so important to you and those organizations
(04:34):
you're kind of drawn too?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, I, that's honestly.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's like one of my favorite things to do is
to give back to the community. And like, what a
gift to have this talent that God has given me
to give back in that way.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
That's very very important to me.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And so the fact that these organizations are, you know,
asking for me to be a part of it is
really great. We've done quite a few nonprofits and charity
events this year, specifically, like seven of them within the
past two months and it is It's just my favorite
way to just give back to to all these communities
(05:10):
that are helping others in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
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And back here on the show again KYBN ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com and out there to
THWN dot org and now top search on iHeartRadio podcast
for the show. So Ashley Felton joining us here too.
I love this one because of that high octane energy.
You mentioned that blend of edgy kind of mixed with
(09:55):
nineties country a little bit. This really took me back,
and I'll mentioned to you when I go to feature
art here on the show Man sometimes it just takes
one song to hear from what the work and the
body of the catalog of songs that you put out.
And I heard that one, Ashley, it was so convinced
we had to have you here on the show. Give
us a little backstory on give me that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
So.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I've written quite a few songs over the past couple of.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Years, and so this one kind of came to me
because I really wanted that nineties kind of country feel
and it just it, it just came to me and
was like, you know, you have these other songs where
it's like, you know, you you want something more out
of life or more out of your relationship or whatever.
And you know, there's so many of my my single
(10:40):
friends that are like, man, I'm just like waiting for
that one, you know, I just like I want somebody
that's gonna give me all of these things.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
And I'm like, oh, okay, here we go. There's something there.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So I sat down and wrote this within like an hour,
and yeah, it's it's just such a fun, like catchy
song like who doesn't want that?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And a guy you know, no doubt having fun with
it too, and getting people out there on the dance
floor is what it's all about too. Talk to me
about little one. Take us back to twenty twenty three
when this came out. To love this song so much,
meant so much to a lot of people out there too.
Was fantastic too, And I love your your rendition of
this and how you delivered it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This one actually came from I'm a special education teacher
and a few years back my teaching partner had delivered
stillborn and so that was a really rough time for
us and our community at our school site, and so
a year later, she had asked me to sing at
a nonprofit organization called Forever Food Prints. They support grieving
(11:42):
families that have lost a child, and so they needed
a musician to play for the walk, and so I
was like, Okay, yeah, of course I'll do it. She's
asked me to do it, of course I'll do it.
So but the organization I called and said, hey, can
you also have it like a special song to sing
at the opening ceremony following reading five hundred baby names,
(12:02):
And so that was really heavy and a lot to process.
And so when I was trying to find a song
to cover at the time, there was there was no
songs that were really like about, you know, losing or
grieving a child. It was a lot about you know,
having a relationship with somebody that you've known for a
longer period of time. And so I was walking up
the stairs one day and just little One like kept
(12:24):
popping in my head. And so that afternoon I had
written Little One, the organization approved it for me to
sing it, I had played it at the walk, and
then a lot of the community was requesting it right away.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So we quickly recorded this song and put it out there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And so that was the very first song that I
had released, and you know, the the traction that had
come from it and how much it released to other
people was you know, shocking, and uh, I'm I'm glad
that I was.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Able to put that out.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But it's it's it's something that you know, you one
of those songs that you don't really want to resonate
with people. But I'm I'm grateful that people wanted to
hear it and appreciated it.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Being done well.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's a beautiful song, no doubt too. And that takes
me back to a twenty twenty four chance to listen
to those catalog of songs to girl Time. We all
need a little bit of that to guide time too.
I'm sure there's a country song called guy Time somewhere
too that my wife gives me some of those hall
passes that I get. But hey, girl Time, for all
females out there, this is a song they need to hear,
right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It is the ultimate girl anthem.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It was written about my best friend and how we
all need this little break from life sometimes. And it's
so funny that you say about guy time because the
amount of guys.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
That are like, what about guy time?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
You're going to write a song about guy time, and
I'm like, I don't think y'all want me to write
a song about guy time. I don't think you guys
want me to write a song about what I think
guy time might be.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So we stick with girl time for the shows.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Love that toode. Hey, it was pretty cool to see
the CMA Awards. You know, this is the fifty ninth
annual or fifty first annual. What is but one of
those fifty first annual?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Think it was?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I keep having a number of fifty nine in my head.
I'm not sure why I do that, but anyway, fifty
first say awards this week too, and I love these
You're seeing more of these collaborations actually when you get
a lot of people coming over there too. You know,
was that CR week and CRS this year for twenty
twenty five and this past May week in the summer,
we had a chance to talk to Acon and Gary
(14:16):
Levox on the show. They came together for a song
called Hold the Umbrella, which was another fantastic go version
of great music coming together and these collaborations. What are
your thoughts on different genres of music now crossing over
into country to put out some pretty cool tunes.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I think it is so cool.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I think that there's like I think that everybody that's
been doing it so far has done such a great job.
Like it's a it's a weird you know kind of
thaying to try to tackle and figure out what works
and whatnot. But you know, you had like Dua Lipa
that just did one with Chris Stapleton, and there's just
so many that have been so amazing over the past
(14:54):
few years. It's been really fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You know, speaking of girl power, I mean she doesn't
just host shows, she wins awards too.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Out there.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Landy Wilson looking back at it too. At the same time,
Love the Fact Is had her on the show back
in December twenty twenty and I told her, I said,
made a prediction on here. I said, you're gonna blow
up in the next few years. She was like, Brandon,
it's all right, just being modest, don't say that, and
don't say that. I'm like, no, I really mean that
too as well. And look what happened as of two
or three years later. Now the kind of national spokesperson
for WAA Burger and she's doing so much out there
(15:22):
for females and country music. Give me some thoughts on
just what Laney has meant to you as an artist
and as you look up to her and what she's
doing right now for the females and country music.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, literally one of my biggest influences, I would say
right now in country music. I mean, she is just
she's amazing the things that she's doing. And it seems
like she's the type of person that doesn't really say
no to anything. And I find myself doing the same
exact thing, Like if you put every single ounce of
(15:54):
you into something and it doesn't work, then fine, you
can say that you've put everything into it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
And so she seems just.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Like such like a hard worker and go get her constantly,
And that's that's such a huge influence into into how
I operate in what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well, I love it too, and I love to two
step on the dance floor. I'm sure you're a big
a fan of two stepping out there on those hardwood floors.
So we get to play another one here, Ashley Felton
joining us here at the backstage pass. This one is
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Speaker 6 (16:47):
You got talking feeling blue the center of our universal baby.
You know that's Julia familiar driving.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
A long country road. Recurrent thing stormy, there's this something beautiful.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
They ever sat in vain bout the smirk. It makes
me cool insane. You a lots of handle, but afore
then I can choose, I could send forever looking at you.
So it's toss to the bell, we all sitting me
very reason or that he this very tale bulle strong
(17:35):
or another long baby thought is just be gone out.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
The spire with the most baby A mob foll.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Have the range thing and made him needing a change.
My bulls are perfect shopping own a lord fother than
ten see whoase so nice and so mean? I can say,
knocking off on my feet soon it's too stick to
the bell. We all send me memory's on that log keeth.
(18:13):
It's very till ball we sorong and for another long
baby fall is just keep going that the spire with
the most bidding of my if the calc it t
(18:38):
headic dancing her hometown bar harmony, playing on a classic guitar,
stopping kids saying a crowding room spe serm up to
nor more soon it's too stick to the bill. Only
send me memorys on I'm long, either's very till, going
(19:02):
strong and boring? Another wrong Bbby falls, Just be gone
by the spire.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
With feeling online the juice to be on sending.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Me memor reason I'm long, either's very till, going strong
and boring? Nohing long bebby falls, Just be bongs out
the spire with the less feeling Aloe the sec.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Pusy time.
Speaker 12 (19:33):
Percy.
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Speaker 11 (20:35):
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Speaker 3 (20:57):
And back here on the show again, Ashley Filter joining us.
You're the backstage Past KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, and our friends out there
to THWN dot org for the Guitar Heel World Network,
and of course out there again our friends KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network powered by
the Sports Guys so podcast dot com. I know this
one had to be a lot of fun too, and
(21:19):
the fact is I got a chance to listen to
this one came out as a single this year, and
I love the music video, the rendition of two Steps.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Thank you. Yeah, this one was so fun to do,
and the music video was not my idea. I had
a friend of mine that came to me and was like, Hey,
I really want to produce this song. I think there's
something there. I think it'd be so great, and I
was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and then he sends
over this whole this whole script about it, like all
(21:47):
mapped out, and I.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Was like, Okay, I think we're doing the thing. And
so we did, and I'm so grateful that we did.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It was such a fun experience and a fun day
to film this, and the song is just fun, you
know it. It definitely gets you up and moving and
it's Yeah, it's just been such such a cool single
to release.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You mentioned performing a lot of those live shows out
there too, and it's always kind of cool to you
mentioned Laney Wilson, people you looked up to, you know,
growing up and kind of shape you as an artist
and just seeing them on fire out there too. You've
also had a chance to kind of open some shows
with Joe Nichols Clay Walker and what's it like to
kind of watch them, you know, go about their business,
you finish your act and everything and your show and
kind of watching them. People say sometimes it's like going
(22:29):
back to school learning different tricks and things on stage
and stage presence, things such as that nature, what have
you learned from artists like that that you've gotten to
open up for.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
A thousand percent? I mean honestly, the second that you
walk in for soundcheck and you're listening to them and
watching their team do what they do and everything, it's like,
it is so cool to be able to sit there.
And that's the perfect way to put it. Is just
like learning and watching you know, how how all of
these things are done, and just like the professionalism that
comes of it, you know, is so so fun to
(22:59):
experience and and relate to and watching them, you know,
do this live. The way that they connect with the audience.
You know, you learn something every single time you see
anybody to play. But these professionals that I've been doing
this for a very long time, it is so cool
to see, you know, the eagerness and the energy.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That they had, just as when they were starting out.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You know, it doesn't stop and you just get such
like a thrill off off of the audience.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You know, I wanted to ask you a little bit
about AI too.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Like I said, I don't try to create a controversy here,
but you know, regardless of what people say, you know, Ashley,
it is here to stay, no doubt about it when
it comes down to how it affects the music industry
pros and cons, and of course I think in anything
out there, there's pros and cons out there too for it,
not just that's necessarily for the singer, songwriter, producer. But
again it's here to stay no matter what people kind
of feel about it too. I know I use it
(23:49):
to kind of shape my shows for certain things that
we do, and things like that. Could be something as
simple as to kind of format a paragraph or choose
the right words for certain thing when you're writing a
caption or like that, to appear on a particular show
we put out, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Any way, it shapes what we do. It's not what
we're about.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
But I love chat, GPT and all the technology technology
things that are out there too to kind of get
your hands dirty and see what help you can get,
if any How do you feel about it as an
artist when it comes to uh, singer songwriter, producers, and
do you use it?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, okay, so that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I do use it of course, for especially for social
media stuff and things like that, not so much for writing.
Every once in a while I'll kind of pick its
brain on something and maybe a line or a verse
that I'm not really like loving and seeing if it
has maybe some other ideas on how to tweak it accordingly.
(24:44):
What I what I don't love is, you know, the
amount of independent artists that are really using these AI
generated songs and then literally putting them out and so
and that the traction that they're getting from it is like,
you know, pretty disappointing. But you know, to each his zone,
everybody's out there trying to do their thing, and if
(25:05):
that's how they feel like they're mastering something in their life,
then fine, but it definitely messes up the algorithm for
for us independent artists that are truly you know, an
artist about it and trying to you know, do something
and push their music through. So yeah, it's been an
interesting territory, but I think it's a great tool. And
(25:26):
you know, just like in anything like you kind of
have to have the expertise to a point to tweak
it accordingly and make it make it your own.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So yeah, and of course I think there's exceptions can
be made. I think that, you know, one of the
biggest ones that came to mind was the the stuff
out there too when you heard about the projects, or
at least I was out there on social media. How
it kind of helped, you know, bring back the voice
and recreate some remaster some songs such as Randy Travis obviously,
given the situation in special circumstances such as that, it's
just really cool to see how an icon and in
(25:55):
the industry can use technologies such as that to put
out music that we can enjoy with his vocals given
that situation out there too, so special circumstances can be
made things like that too, And how people use it
and how they go about their business is really for
them and if it kind of helps your career shape
it in most ways, I mean, technology is here to
stay around to enhance someone's brand. And of course you
(26:17):
mentioned social media. As busy as we all are today,
we have to choose the right words and sometimes we
always think about in our rollerdecks when it comes to
our brain. So definitely exceptions can be made when it
comes down to how AI can will be used because
it is, for lack of a better term, it's here
to stay, whether someone likes it or not.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Out there too. I want to ask you a best
it's not going anywhere. Yeah, no it's not. It's not.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I want to ask you about, you know, being from
California out there, Orange County. I love it so much
because I love the San Diego area, I love Los Angeles,
I love Rancho Cucamga. You mentioned Corona out there too,
So for you, is it a little bit of partial
to one team or do you follow and who out
there in college or pro sports? Do you follow out
there in southern Californias.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, so it's not maybe the most popular pick, but
we're actually Niners fans and so we h well, every
once in a while we'll go up to a game there,
go to the Rams Stadium here to go watch and play.
And then we're Angels fans of course because we're here. Yeah,
(27:20):
the boy I have two boys, ten and seven, and
so they they really love football and they love the Niners.
They're on slack football team the whole thing. And so
I feel like we dabble in more into football than.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Anything else, and of course having to watch it too.
I look, I'll say this, I'm a rock party. I'm
prone to that because he's all one of my fantasy
teams that is making me money right now. So I
love it the fact they can hopefully beat the Panthers.
They're at home tonight playing that, and then of course
looking back at it, you know over the next few
weeks some key games down the stretch for the forty
nine Ers too as well, so this is one of those.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You know, the Rams can be one of the hottest
teams in that division.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan, so I'm not afraid to say, Ashley,
we suck this year and have for the past a
few years too, So you kind of look at it
between Rams and forty nine Ers, it's kind of a
toss up.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But I tell you what, both teams are playing some
really good football right now.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
We got the opportunity to go to watch the Niners
and Cardinals game a couple of years ago, and the
stadium is awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But yeah, we definitely won that game, so.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I'll blame you.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You're gonna get wins over my Cardinals now too, until
we just have to strip it and rebuild everything. When
it comes down to it, Hey, when it comes to food,
do you enjoy a little bit of both? I guess
cooking at home of course. I know the holidays can
bring a lot of work and things like that. When
you do eat out, where do you guys like to
kind of go crash crash the place out there?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We are big Chick fil A fans for on the go,
it's like our go to and then if we want
to go eat out, we love wood Ranch. I don't
know if you're familiar with that, but it's a barbecue
place and it's amazing. If you have not had it,
everybody should have wood Ranch.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Check that out too. I'm not in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I've not been out there to catch the place out there,
but I've got to check that out now. I will
say when in Nashville, there's never a shortage of restaurants
there too. When it comes down to like a test
market for foods out there too. So I'm a big
pizza fan, and I found one over in Germantown called
three one two Pizza, which is in Nashville over there
by The sounds ballparks. So if you're ever back in
(29:17):
Nashville doing anything up there one of the events or
what have you've got to go check out three one
two Pizza noted.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You know when I went, I had the best chicken
tunders I've ever had in my life at Kung Fu
is like it was like in Midtown and it's like
an arcade bar.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It was the coolest thing ever. But the best chicken
tunders I've ever had in my life. I will never
forget them.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I love that, No, you gotta love That's one of
my pet peeves.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You mentioned Chick fil A too, probably eat there probably
three four or five times a month now too, so
they do get some of the morell household income there too.
What they do feed our bellies very well when Chick
fil A out there too. Hey, you know, one of
my my favorite things to do is to be able
to kind of do this from a broadcast standpoint and
put out a podcast. But I love being a special
at teacher. I think it's awesome working, you know with
(30:02):
kids that definitely just need that extra momentum to kind
of push them across the finish line. And look, both
do overlap in a lot of different ways. What's your
favorite part of being a special education teacher.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, I love my students.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I've been doing this for my eighth year teaching, and
I've taught RSP and SEC. There are two different types
of settings, and it is the best feeling in the
world to watch a student, you know, make the progress.
That's that's what I'm in it for, and so I
think I love that anywhere in life is like just
seeing where they're at. You know where they were and
(30:37):
where they're at now, and so that's very relatable to
what I'm doing. I look back and just a couple
of years ago, it's like where I was then and
where I'm at now is very It's all about the
work right and the consistency and that you put in,
and so that's what I love seeing with my students
so much.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Every little part is just that growth part.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I love it too, because, like you said, the littlest
things that sometimes we take for granted that can make
one special move out there too and you see that
progress and it just really puts everything else, you know,
behind the curtain there too, and it makes you kind
of feel proud to really kind of you know, raise
the torch and just see them, uh make those small
little gains out there too.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So I love it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Almost twenty years I've been doing it myself too, so
it's crazy to see it look back and uh see
the small growth and gains of all the districts I've
been with too, and to see the kids, Uh make
those little special growths out there too, because at some
point they have to join society in a very productive
ways for our goals to kind of you know, be
a scaffold and to help them as much as we
can make the littlest achievements of possible out there too. Well,
I'll tell you what, Yeah, it really is too and
(31:36):
I love it too, and I wouldn't have it any
other way too, And it gives me a chance to
also work on you know, the projects and put out
some great shows out there too. Ashley Felton music dot
Com and of course give me that is across all
those DSPs, and of course all this music out there
is available for uh streaming. She's a country music female
powerhouse out there too, making her name in southern California
and nationwide out there too. Make sure you guys check
(31:58):
her out across all those digital streaming platforms my friend.
Always good to connect and chat with you, and I
know there's going to be more great things you know,
we get to talk about here going into twenty twenty six.
Appreciate you being with us here on the show and
looking forward to many more great highlights in your career.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Same. Thank you so very much for having me.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Ashley Felton across all those DSPs out there, make sure
you guys go give her a follow, and Ashley felt
in music dot com and of course, so we're not
done over the next few weeks. Some more great shows
coming up over the next few weeks. TG Shepherd, Kelly
Lang and a whole lot more joining us here as
Christmas releases come out over the next few weeks. Here
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network,
(32:35):
and our friends THWN dot org and the Sports Guys
podcast dot com now top search on iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
We'll see you soon. God bless, take care from all
of us here at the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Hey everybody, this is Jared Ray Reddick and you're listening
to the award nominated Backstage Pass Podcast on KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay
Speaker 13 (32:56):
Area Broadcasting Network stream on the Sports podcast dot com
and on th h w N dot org and on
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