April 30, 2025 • 25 mins
Actress, model and producer Brande Roderick joined us on the show to talk about her new movie she is working on called, Wineville! Tune in to hear more from the Baywatch actress as she talks about her story in entertainment and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey all, this is actress Brandy Rodrick and you're listening
to the Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight point one
and KKTC ninety nine point nine True Country.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ed Welcome inside the backstage Pass. Always a busy day here,
of course, the streaming on iHeartRadio and across the Sports
Guys podcast dot Com. Out there too, KYBA ninety eight
point one out there in the Bay Area in Kelly,
and of course out there KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine. And of course I always say, we have
great country artists that come here on the program and
promote their music all the time too. But you never
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know what's going to come in out there too as well.
And always great to talk to a lady who's done
it all in her career. When I say all, she's
had a lot of titles, actress, model, producer, she's done
a lot out there. Brandy Roderick joins us here on
the backstage Pass of Brandy, How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I am doing fantastic. Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You got it. Well, I'll tell you what. Let's talk
about the backstory for people that don't know Brandy Roderick
and you had all those titles too. Talk about how
you got connected back in the day. We talked about
the TV show Baywatch and things like that, but just
the connection to the entertainment industry or the introduction, if
you will, Was it always something you knew you wanted
to do to pursue a career.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is something I always wanted to do, but I
did not have any sort of connection. I hit the
right old age of twenty two or twenty three, I realized,
I'm not getting any younger. If I want to continue
in acting, I'm going to have to go to Hollywood.
So I sold my car, I packed up a U haul,
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and I headed to Los Angeles and started out just
sleeping on my friend's couch. So really started from the
bottom of working my way up the ladder for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
How long is that too? Because we talked to a
lot of you know, we know any industry is tough,
but especially the entertainment industry, the music industry. It all
kind of goes in kind of a twofold deal there,
but everybody knows it's the climb, and no reference of
the Miley Cyrus song out there. But I guess, if
you will, that's what it's about. But the climate itself
to get to where you want to go, and just
how hard it is to make a name for yourself
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in this industry. Talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's very hard. I mean, as most everyone knows. You know,
there's a lot of doors slammed in your face and
you grow a thick skin because you get so many
no's in the industry. But I grew up in a
household where my parents, well mainly my mom taught me.
You know, you can do anything that you set your
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mind to as long as you work hard enough. So
I've always had that instilled in me. So if a
door closes, I find a window to crawl through, you
know what I mean, Like I just I think outside
the box. I do things differently. I do all the
things that people will not do so that I can
set myself apart and get ahead. So it's something that
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you know, if it's your passion, it's your dream, you
have to go after it, and you can't take no
for an answer, and you have to keep going.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That is the ultimate true no doubt. Let's talk about,
of course, the time you spent there on just one
of the greatest shows of all time, At least I
thought so love the storylines to it. Baywatch out there too,
because you made a lot of great appearances on there too.
How you got involved with Baywatch, the time on there,
the storylines for what the show was about, and you
met some great people there too working with that particular
television show.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Right absolutely, you know. I actually didn't originally go into
audition for Playboy. Playboy, there's the other thing for Baywatch.
But I actually went in to audition for a TV show,
a new one. It was some volleyball beach volleyball show.
And when I was in there, the casting directors were like, Brandy,
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you have to come over and meet the producers of Baywatch.
We're casting right now. We're going to have a big
screen test tomorrow. Can you please come meet the producers.
So I went across the room, went to go meet
the producers on a cold reading. They gave me a
paper just to read write then and there they were like,
you're great, you come back for the screen test. So
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I prepared for it, went back for the screen test,
and I did not get the small role that I
was reading for, but in fact, they gave me, they
wrote a role for me because they wanted me on
the show. So much and they gave me the lead
role of the show. So I ended up from that
one audition in the volleyball show, ended up getting the
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lead role in Baywatch, which was very exciting, and it
was just the most amazing experience to be able to
work in Hawaii and all the people that we worked with,
I mean, Jason Momoa of course, you know, Aquaman, and
some of my best friends Stacy Kamano and Alicia Richter,
who were still great friends. You know, we were stuck
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in the silence. We all became this wonderful family and
it was just the best experience, best job anyone can have,
you know, just swimming in more motions in Hawaii, being
on the beaches and hanging out with beautiful people. It
was a dream come true for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Billy imagine too. It's been mentioned Hawaii there too, the
same time, those beautiful beaches over there too, in the
Great Warm Waters. Was there an episode on Baywatch, whether
it be like I said, the screenwriting, the actual episode itself,
the storyline, if you will, it really kind of stuck
out to you that was your favorite episode you got
to shoot? What would that be?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I loved them all. I don't know if this one
would be my favorite one I shot. But it's the
one that stands at out the most that I remember
is there was a scene where my one of my
love interests, Scott Plank, and I were out in the
water at night and we're doing the scene in the
water and there's all the water safety people around us
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there in the water. You know, we had water safety
people all the time, and we're doing the scene and
like okay, yeah, hurry up, you know, like brushing us along.
We finally got the shot and we come out and
I said, well, why are there's so many water safety guys.
I'm something like we're swimming and they said, oh, because
you were surrounded by sharks and they had all theirs
and they were ready to kill one. And I'm like,
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oh my gosh. But they wanted to get their shots
so bad that they let us stay in the water
was shark and fested water so they could get their shot.
But that's the one that I like, It always sticks
out in my head because here we are, you know,
when this water really sharks surrounding us. But you know,
all this I had so much fun. I mean, there's
so many fun episodes. I loved all the action ones.
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I loved action shots. There was even a scene where
I got to get ready, you know, where I was
gonna get married, and that was fun. And I mean
there was just there's so many, so many fun ones.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I love it, and the show just had so many
great storylines to it, and people love to watch it
too as well, which is just one of the greatest
entertainment pieces I ever saw put together. And you mentioned
something that was kind of key there too. I want
to touch on the lifelong relationships that you take with
you when you have other actors and actresses to the
go along with this and kind of buy into it.
That's their career, it's their livelihood too. But to work
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with a great cast and take those friendships with you.
Talking about that for me, well, I.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Mean, for example, I just spent Easter with Alicia Richter
now Piazza, and you know, we just spent with our kids.
Our kids are growing up together. We spent Easter together.
You know, it's just it's a great thing. And then
for example, Jason Momoa, we did an autograph signing together,
like I think it was like three years ago, and
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that was so cool because you know, I have young sons,
so I got to bring my young son with me,
so of course he got to meet Aquaman, so that
was cool. But yeah, I would say ninety ninety. No,
all the people, all the people that I was on
the show with, I'm still in contact with.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And of course, you know, after that that series wrapped
up to you kept busy. I mean other movies and
other different appearances, cameo appearances, things like that. Talk about that,
just getting off a big show like that too, and
then just trying to continue to build your path and
make those career decisions. And maybe that was tough in
a way. Maybe you know, nothing you mentioned the top three,
nothing comes easy, but also trying to direct that career
path in the right direction to still be in this
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entertainment industry. Talk about that when bay Watch ended.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
When bay Watching ended, it was sad because it was
the best job. But then it opened up doors for
amazing opportunities. You know. I got to be in huge
blockbuster films like Starsky and Hutch with Ben still orn
Owen Wilson. I got to be in The Nanny Diars
Diaries with Scarlett Johansson. I got to be the very
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first American actress to do a Bollywood film called Out
of Controls, which took me to Switzerland and India and
all these amazing places. So I mean, I had I've
had so many wonderful things that happened because of Baywatch.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No doubt. I love that Starsky Hutch lives on forever too.
A lot of great movie there. Yeah, stands out for
a lot of people. I'm sure you still get compliments
on that too, just having started that episode too, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Absolutely. And the thing about that is there was another role.
I don't know if you remember in the movie, Amy
Smart played the other cheerleader with Carmen Electra, and that
I remember the director telling me, he's like, you're gonna
want to do the Heather role, which is the one
I ended up doing. He said, this is going to
be the most funny scene in the movie, and it's true.
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It's the most memorable scene everybody. That's the only scene
everybody talks about is the scene that I was in.
So he was right. So I'm so glad that I
ended up getting that role because that was the most
memorable role in the movie.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No doubt. I know. We just passed the National Bunny
Day too. At the same time, I saw one of
your posts out there for Playboy two, which is always
you know, one of those things, hey those well world
renowned magazines that come out too as well, and just
celebrating you know, women out there too. It's very important
to do that too, because women are so powerful and
to me, they make this country run. I'm just gonna
go ahead and say it right now because I love it.
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And we interview a lot more female country artists here
the program then we do male artists. It's just the
way it happens to be. Talk about just how you
were approached with Playboy, the relationship that you had with them.
Of course play may of the Year back in those
early two thousands, and it had to be a wonderful
opportunity for you at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, you know, like you were just saying about what happened,
what opportunities Baywatch brought. I ended up getting Playmate of
the Year the same time that Baywatch was coming out.
Everything was around the same time. So I think that
being on the show actually helped me to get Playmate
of the Year because that was free publicity for them, right,
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But for me, Playboy was again just an amazing experience.
I was in Playboy in a time where it was fun.
We didn't have social media, we didn't have all the
proper rots, we didn't have camera phones. So when we
were going to the Playboy Mansion parties, it was fun.
Every celebrity you can imagine, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Jim Carrey,
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you know, Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone, Charlie's there. I mean everyone
was there, and everyone had a great time because they
knew that they could be free and just have fun
and don't have to worry about paparazzi. But now then
it's died around, you know, two thousand and four, two
thousand and five, because all these things came out, people
couldn't be themselves anymore. So the celebrities weren't going up
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there anymore. So I was lucky enough to be a
part of the era where it was so much fun,
and you know, just complete wonderful memories from.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That, no doubt too. And I see behind you there.
I love the cover for it, for the Wineville behind
that talk about the latest project and let people kind
of know they can find this movie. I can't wait
to stream this too. Where most of your common streams
are out there today. So it's really streaming has taken
over everything in music and of course television, in the
entertainment industry, the role itself, the cast, I mean, the
entire I can't wait to see this film. It really can't.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah. Wineville is a horror thriller that I produced, directed,
and starred in. And it is a nineteen seventy eight.
It's like a throwback to the nineteen you know, seventies
that was my favorite genre, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and
this movie does have that type of vibe. This Texas
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Chainsaw Massacre meets psycho. Let's say, it's about really messed
up serial killer family. And my character had a bunch
of horrific things happened to her when she was young,
so she ran away at fifteen, and then she gets
the call, you know, twenty some odd years later that
she has to come back to the family winery because
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her father passes away. But when she comes back, she's
coming back with her twelve year old son and finds
that things have only gotten worse and festered since she's
been gone, and now not only does she have to
escape herself, but she has to now save her son
and will they both survive and escape. I don't know,
you're gonna have to watch it, but it's you know,
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it's Wineville. It's my baby. I would love it, appreciate
it if everyone would watch it and review it after
they watch it. You can watch it on Amazon, Apple
to be, you know, everywhere that you normally would stream movies.
And uh yeah, it's it's a It's not for the
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faint at heart though, so you have to be ready
for some crazy, crazy, shocking s.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
H I t I love the classics. Halloween was one
of my favorites. With Michael Myers and all those Curtis episodes.
Were you fan? I mean I have DoD big fans
of that. You mentioned Texas Chainsaw Massacre, But yeah, Halloween
one of those classic series. What else? Friday the Thirteenth
and of course I love the Freddy Krueger Days, not
bre On Elm Street.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, every Halloween, my kids and I watch Halloween. It's
just it's a tradition. We always do it. For me.
My favorite horror film growing up as a teenager was
Nima on Elm Street. That that era and that you know,
I was like, I don't know, fourteen something like that.
But Yeah, that was that was That was a good
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But I love them all. I love them all, I
love Jason the Friday the thirteenth. They're all fun. And
then you go back to the seventies, Last House on
the Left, Spit I Spit on Your Grave, which was,
Oh my god, that's so good. If people haven't seen
that one, you have to see that one. It's a
total kick ass movie. But yeah, horror genre is my genre.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Good stuff there too, right there, the same thing, loving
those horror movies too. You mentioned Wineville too. Any other
interesting projects if I guess what you're allowed to talk
about here and revealed to the public too. For the
radio listeners out there that are streaming you're working on,
I'm sure a lot of different things out there besides
just Wineville for the rest of twenty twenty five. What
can you let us in on?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Well, I'm working. I will get started on my next
project very soon. But I am out there right now
trying to get Wineville. Eyeballs on Wineville. Once we get
that out then and people watching it, then I'll be
working on the next one, whether it's a film or
TV show. I've got my little book of scripts so
we'll be working on something very soon.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Have to come and talk about that too. You've got
to mention a celebrity apprentice, talk about this a wonderful
opportunity to come there and again gain those relationships, take
part in a very very tough show when it comes
to competition out there. Of course, to any apprentice, apprenticeship
is going to be a job in itself too. Experiences
life experiences at the time, I know, learning too from
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a lot of this and another reality TV show to
participate in. Tell the listeners about that.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, the celebrity print is that experience was wild. People
always would say, oh, did you have fun? And I
don't think fun is the right word, because you're working
so freaking hard. You're working like fifteen to eighteen hour days.
And you know, there I learned so much. I learned
that you can get done in two days what you
used to get done in two months. Like something you
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think would take a long time, you can actually get
it done a lot quicker if you just freaking do
it and don't take breaks and just really hustle. So
it did teach me a lot about that. And you
know one thing that I always say to my kids
that Trump actually taught me because I heard him say
this to somebody. Somebody said something like I deserve, you know,
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to be here, and Trump said to him, never say
that you deserve anything. He say, he said, you earned it,
So never say deserve. You always say earned. And that's
I say that to my kids all the time. And
I say to anybody that always says I deserve, like, no,
you don't. You either earned it or you didn't, but
you never deserve it. And I just thought that was
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such great advice that he gave and I still take
that with me to today.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I know you mentioned that story and that passion of
the grind, and that's a great point you made right
there too. You've earned it. You haven't deserved anything out there.
And I just became a father of myself to a
five year old, beautiful little girl too, and now she's
into all these things with sports. What's one of the
most important things, or I guess a couple of things
that you really strive to perfect in your children and
teach them. I mean, obviously said they learn your story
as they get older. You mentioned thirteen and fifteen year
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old boys too, and the work ethic and what you
have to instill in a child. What's most important to
you to teach your kids.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
For me, it's about honestly being a good person, being
a gentleman, being courteous to people. You know, when when
my kids go to someone's home, I want them to
call me and say, oh my gosh, you boys are
so good because for me, being respectful to your elders,
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all of that is what's so important to me. Even
if you know grades, even though they did like straight a's,
but even if they didn't like what's more important to
me is the teacher saying what a good person they are.
That to me is the most important. And learning the
value of a dollar. For example, so many people that
I know are giving their kids cars when they turn
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sixteen or you know whatever. I'm not doing that. I
am making my kid work and earn money. And he's
been saving up. He's known ever since he was very little.
He's saving up for his car. His dad and I
are going to pitch in, but it's his responsibility and
that's something that for me. I want them to understand
the value of a dollar because that's how I was
taught and it worked for me.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, the value of money, No doubt about it. Learn
that value of a dollar too as well. Any I
guess I'll talk about this sometimes with with with children
and artists here on the program. They're like, yeah, my
kid loves music. You never know when they hit a
certain age too, what career path they're going to take into.
What are the interest you're finding it in the boys
right now? As far as career paths or things that
they really kind of flock to, whether it be music
or sports or entertainment, becoming an actor, things like that,
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where do they want to go?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They only want to be NFL players. That's because their
dad is a two time Super Bowl champ, was in
the NFL for eleven years, and so they want to
be like dad. That's all. That's their only goal, which
is why I have so many practices to go to
all day every day, all about football. That's that's their goal.
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So that's that's there. They have a one track mine.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
NFL draft. We could see Roderick become a NFL It
just happened last weekend there for all those rounds, and
congrats to all the great players they got drafted. All right, Hey,
final segment here, we'll have a little fun with some
rapid fire questions, whatever comes to mind, just kind of
throw it out there too. Speaking of sports, you mentioned
that husband playing in the NFL for you, is there
kind of a I guess NFL college team I grew
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up in the household, somebody you rooted for. You were
passionate about, whether it be college football or NFL a
team that you rooted for growing up.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh, well, Niners all the way man records. That's it.
It's all about the Niners.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Love that too, all right. Food wise, I'm a foodie.
Love it on this show Get to Travel. One of
my favorite things to do is to check out the
local cuisine or get recommendations off Yelp or from the
locals out there to either go to the store and
buy the food, come back and have a place to
cook it, or probably more time than not, eat out
at the local different spots. Are you a foodie? What's
your favorite food to cook or to eat out?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh gosh, well, my favorite food is pizza. I love
to cook salmon. I cook salmon at least once a week.
But if I go out, like fancy go out, I'm
either ribbi or filet girl.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I like that. I like that And with you tim
more of the fish and the lean diet, the chicken,
all that good stuff out there. You know, it's becomes
we get so busy in our lifestyles. To me, I'll
tell you the last seven months for me, it's been
a journey. I've lost almost thirty pounds over the last
seven months. It just kind of chiseled up and really
actually shape. Of course, everybody can hire a personal trainer.
I get that, but it's amazing to see how important
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we have to take care of ourselves no matter how
busy we get in this life. Talk about that to
people because a lot of people know that any industry
you work in, health importance and self awareness is very key.
I know, fitness is a huge part of your life too.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right it is now absolutely I think that first and foremost,
food is the biggest factor. What people don't realize a
lot of times people think, oh, I got to get
to the gym and do this. That's really not going
to make the biggest impact. The biggest impact is going
to be from food. Is to limit you know, the
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bad foods, limit the you know, don't eat at past
six pm, make sure you have dinner at five thirty.
You know, eating healthy but also not depriving yourself. You
have to, let's say, like on the weekends, get let yourself,
you know, have a cheat day or whatever. And then
again just getting out and walking, like for me, I
walk five days a week, and actually I walk, yeah,
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five days a week, and I jog the other like
two of the days. But you know, just getting out
in nature is really important. And walking and if you
can't get out and walk, go get on a treadmill whatever.
But walking is just is a great way to stay
in shape and lose weight. And then of course as
we get older, we need to lift weights to keep
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that you know, that that muscle from being flabby. So
that's also you know important for me. I'm a girl,
so I do pilates and I do some dumbbells and
you know things like that, but nothing major. I don't
do any major like weightlifting or anything like that like
guys do.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Back in those younger days, we did do that. Now
it's a lot of body weight workouts, plyometrics you mentioned
a few dumbbells, and the body weight of push ups
and looking cooler things like that too, to keep us
in shape where we need to be to hitting those
fitness goals as well as what you put in your body,
no doubt about that. I already got to ask you.
Being a country music fan here and have interviewed all
these artists from the nineties, country, eighties, nineties till now
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and going to Nashville a couple of times a year,
which created this show and into a big time show
out there too, I got to ask you about country
music in general, and just are you a music fan
in general? What's your genre and if it is country
or your artist, who do you dig and who's on
your playlist?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I love country music. I grew up my first generation California.
Everyone else is from Texas, so grew up with all
the old you know albums, the Whaling Jennings, I mean,
just you know, anyone you could imagine, you know, That's
that's what I grew up on. And then now I
like it all. I like I even like, you know,
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the new guys like Morgan Wallin and you know all that.
But I also like just classic you know, Garth Brooks
and you know, nineties Ish country, because that's you know,
that was my era, was the nineties. So but I
love it all. I like the new stuff too, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, everything right there, and you're right there with me.
Nineties country often imitated, never duplicated, even though it's starting
to make a little bit of a comeback. I used
to collect Vinyl records. It was a big thing for
me too. I still have a stack in my garage
that my grandparents had left me too. Vinyl did for you?
Did you ever collect a few of those when I
was younger?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
When I was really young, we'd always I'd have tons
of forty five's, so yeah, and I would usually get
my parents old forty five's, like I would get the
old ones, and then I would get you know, my
very first record that I bought my myself, though, is
totally not country. It was Rat. If you remember the
hair band Rat. That was the very first record that
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I ever purchased. But one of my favorite ones that
I got for my parents before I got the Rat,
one that I listened to over and over and over
again was John Denver. That was my record that I
remember as a kid listening NonStop to those.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Songs live on and on for Infamous, which you're great
out you too, hey, Congratulations on everything out there too
that you've accomplished in your career. Definitely hard earned and
nothing was given to her too, from Baywatch to Playboy
and a Celebrity Apprentice to now this great movie Wineville,
which I'm going to check out and give a review
across all the platforms out there too, where you guys
can actually download stream at stream at stream it and
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give her some feedback there on social media. That one
the only Brandy Roderick here on the Backstage Pass. Hey,
I appreciate the time, thanks for being with us, and hey,
when the new projects come out, feel free to come
back anytime.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Thank you, absolutely will do. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Got it the one, the only Brandy Roderick out there too.
More great mem as it coming up here for our
affiliates KYBN ninety eight point one in the Bay Area,
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico,
and across iHeartRadio two as well. More great music coming up.
We'll see you soon in future episodes. Scot Blessed take care.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Hey everybody, this is Texas Country artist Josh Abbott and
you are listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon powered
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Hey all, this is actress Brandy Rodrick and you're listening
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ed Welcome inside the backstage Pass. Always a busy day here,
of course, the streaming on iHeartRadio and across the Sports
Guys podcast dot Com. Out there too, KYBA ninety eight
point one out there in the Bay Area in Kelly,
and of course out there KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine. And of course I always say, we have
great country artists that come here on the program and
promote their music all the time too. But you never
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know what's going to come in out there too as well.
And always great to talk to a lady who's done
it all in her career. When I say all, she's
had a lot of titles, actress, model, producer, she's done
a lot out there. Brandy Roderick joins us here on
the backstage Pass of Brandy, How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I am doing fantastic. Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You got it. Well, I'll tell you what. Let's talk
about the backstory for people that don't know Brandy Roderick
and you had all those titles too. Talk about how
you got connected back in the day. We talked about
the TV show Baywatch and things like that, but just
the connection to the entertainment industry or the introduction, if
you will, Was it always something you knew you wanted
to do to pursue a career.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is something I always wanted to do, but I
did not have any sort of connection. I hit the
right old age of twenty two or twenty three, I realized,
I'm not getting any younger. If I want to continue
in acting, I'm going to have to go to Hollywood.
So I sold my car, I packed up a U haul,
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and I headed to Los Angeles and started out just
sleeping on my friend's couch. So really started from the
bottom of working my way up the ladder for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
How long is that too? Because we talked to a
lot of you know, we know any industry is tough,
but especially the entertainment industry, the music industry. It all
kind of goes in kind of a twofold deal there,
but everybody knows it's the climb, and no reference of
the Miley Cyrus song out there. But I guess, if
you will, that's what it's about. But the climate itself
to get to where you want to go, and just
how hard it is to make a name for yourself
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in this industry. Talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's very hard. I mean, as most everyone knows. You know,
there's a lot of doors slammed in your face and
you grow a thick skin because you get so many
no's in the industry. But I grew up in a
household where my parents, well mainly my mom taught me.
You know, you can do anything that you set your
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mind to as long as you work hard enough. So
I've always had that instilled in me. So if a
door closes, I find a window to crawl through, you
know what I mean, Like I just I think outside
the box. I do things differently. I do all the
things that people will not do so that I can
set myself apart and get ahead. So it's something that
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you know, if it's your passion, it's your dream, you
have to go after it, and you can't take no
for an answer, and you have to keep going.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That is the ultimate true no doubt. Let's talk about,
of course, the time you spent there on just one
of the greatest shows of all time, At least I
thought so love the storylines to it. Baywatch out there too,
because you made a lot of great appearances on there too.
How you got involved with Baywatch, the time on there,
the storylines for what the show was about, and you
met some great people there too working with that particular
television show.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Right absolutely, you know. I actually didn't originally go into
audition for Playboy. Playboy, there's the other thing for Baywatch.
But I actually went in to audition for a TV show,
a new one. It was some volleyball beach volleyball show.
And when I was in there, the casting directors were like, Brandy,
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you have to come over and meet the producers of Baywatch.
We're casting right now. We're going to have a big
screen test tomorrow. Can you please come meet the producers.
So I went across the room, went to go meet
the producers on a cold reading. They gave me a
paper just to read write then and there they were like,
you're great, you come back for the screen test. So
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I prepared for it, went back for the screen test,
and I did not get the small role that I
was reading for, but in fact, they gave me, they
wrote a role for me because they wanted me on
the show. So much and they gave me the lead
role of the show. So I ended up from that
one audition in the volleyball show, ended up getting the
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lead role in Baywatch, which was very exciting, and it
was just the most amazing experience to be able to
work in Hawaii and all the people that we worked with,
I mean, Jason Momoa of course, you know, Aquaman, and
some of my best friends Stacy Kamano and Alicia Richter,
who were still great friends. You know, we were stuck
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in the silence. We all became this wonderful family and
it was just the best experience, best job anyone can have,
you know, just swimming in more motions in Hawaii, being
on the beaches and hanging out with beautiful people. It
was a dream come true for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Billy imagine too. It's been mentioned Hawaii there too, the
same time, those beautiful beaches over there too, in the
Great Warm Waters. Was there an episode on Baywatch, whether
it be like I said, the screenwriting, the actual episode itself,
the storyline, if you will, it really kind of stuck
out to you that was your favorite episode you got
to shoot? What would that be?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I loved them all. I don't know if this one
would be my favorite one I shot. But it's the
one that stands at out the most that I remember
is there was a scene where my one of my
love interests, Scott Plank, and I were out in the
water at night and we're doing the scene in the
water and there's all the water safety people around us
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there in the water. You know, we had water safety
people all the time, and we're doing the scene and
like okay, yeah, hurry up, you know, like brushing us along.
We finally got the shot and we come out and
I said, well, why are there's so many water safety guys.
I'm something like we're swimming and they said, oh, because
you were surrounded by sharks and they had all theirs
and they were ready to kill one. And I'm like,
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oh my gosh. But they wanted to get their shots
so bad that they let us stay in the water
was shark and fested water so they could get their shot.
But that's the one that I like, It always sticks
out in my head because here we are, you know,
when this water really sharks surrounding us. But you know,
all this I had so much fun. I mean, there's
so many fun episodes. I loved all the action ones.
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I loved action shots. There was even a scene where
I got to get ready, you know, where I was
gonna get married, and that was fun. And I mean
there was just there's so many, so many fun ones.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I love it, and the show just had so many
great storylines to it, and people love to watch it
too as well, which is just one of the greatest
entertainment pieces I ever saw put together. And you mentioned
something that was kind of key there too. I want
to touch on the lifelong relationships that you take with
you when you have other actors and actresses to the
go along with this and kind of buy into it.
That's their career, it's their livelihood too. But to work
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with a great cast and take those friendships with you.
Talking about that for me, well, I.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Mean, for example, I just spent Easter with Alicia Richter
now Piazza, and you know, we just spent with our kids.
Our kids are growing up together. We spent Easter together.
You know, it's just it's a great thing. And then
for example, Jason Momoa, we did an autograph signing together,
like I think it was like three years ago, and
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that was so cool because you know, I have young sons,
so I got to bring my young son with me,
so of course he got to meet Aquaman, so that
was cool. But yeah, I would say ninety ninety. No,
all the people, all the people that I was on
the show with, I'm still in contact with.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And of course, you know, after that that series wrapped
up to you kept busy. I mean other movies and
other different appearances, cameo appearances, things like that. Talk about that,
just getting off a big show like that too, and
then just trying to continue to build your path and
make those career decisions. And maybe that was tough in
a way. Maybe you know, nothing you mentioned the top three,
nothing comes easy, but also trying to direct that career
path in the right direction to still be in this
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entertainment industry. Talk about that when bay Watch ended.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
When bay Watching ended, it was sad because it was
the best job. But then it opened up doors for
amazing opportunities. You know. I got to be in huge
blockbuster films like Starsky and Hutch with Ben still orn
Owen Wilson. I got to be in The Nanny Diars
Diaries with Scarlett Johansson. I got to be the very
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first American actress to do a Bollywood film called Out
of Controls, which took me to Switzerland and India and
all these amazing places. So I mean, I had I've
had so many wonderful things that happened because of Baywatch.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No doubt. I love that Starsky Hutch lives on forever too.
A lot of great movie there. Yeah, stands out for
a lot of people. I'm sure you still get compliments
on that too, just having started that episode too, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Absolutely. And the thing about that is there was another role.
I don't know if you remember in the movie, Amy
Smart played the other cheerleader with Carmen Electra, and that
I remember the director telling me, he's like, you're gonna
want to do the Heather role, which is the one
I ended up doing. He said, this is going to
be the most funny scene in the movie, and it's true.
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It's the most memorable scene everybody. That's the only scene
everybody talks about is the scene that I was in.
So he was right. So I'm so glad that I
ended up getting that role because that was the most
memorable role in the movie.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No doubt. I know. We just passed the National Bunny
Day too. At the same time, I saw one of
your posts out there for Playboy two, which is always
you know, one of those things, hey those well world
renowned magazines that come out too as well, and just
celebrating you know, women out there too. It's very important
to do that too, because women are so powerful and
to me, they make this country run. I'm just gonna
go ahead and say it right now because I love it.
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And we interview a lot more female country artists here
the program then we do male artists. It's just the
way it happens to be. Talk about just how you
were approached with Playboy, the relationship that you had with them.
Of course play may of the Year back in those
early two thousands, and it had to be a wonderful
opportunity for you at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, you know, like you were just saying about what happened,
what opportunities Baywatch brought. I ended up getting Playmate of
the Year the same time that Baywatch was coming out.
Everything was around the same time. So I think that
being on the show actually helped me to get Playmate
of the Year because that was free publicity for them, right,
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But for me, Playboy was again just an amazing experience.
I was in Playboy in a time where it was fun.
We didn't have social media, we didn't have all the
proper rots, we didn't have camera phones. So when we
were going to the Playboy Mansion parties, it was fun.
Every celebrity you can imagine, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Jim Carrey,
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you know, Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone, Charlie's there. I mean everyone
was there, and everyone had a great time because they
knew that they could be free and just have fun
and don't have to worry about paparazzi. But now then
it's died around, you know, two thousand and four, two
thousand and five, because all these things came out, people
couldn't be themselves anymore. So the celebrities weren't going up
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there anymore. So I was lucky enough to be a
part of the era where it was so much fun,
and you know, just complete wonderful memories from.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That, no doubt too. And I see behind you there.
I love the cover for it, for the Wineville behind
that talk about the latest project and let people kind
of know they can find this movie. I can't wait
to stream this too. Where most of your common streams
are out there today. So it's really streaming has taken
over everything in music and of course television, in the
entertainment industry, the role itself, the cast, I mean, the
entire I can't wait to see this film. It really can't.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah. Wineville is a horror thriller that I produced, directed,
and starred in. And it is a nineteen seventy eight.
It's like a throwback to the nineteen you know, seventies
that was my favorite genre, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and
this movie does have that type of vibe. This Texas
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Chainsaw Massacre meets psycho. Let's say, it's about really messed
up serial killer family. And my character had a bunch
of horrific things happened to her when she was young,
so she ran away at fifteen, and then she gets
the call, you know, twenty some odd years later that
she has to come back to the family winery because
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her father passes away. But when she comes back, she's
coming back with her twelve year old son and finds
that things have only gotten worse and festered since she's
been gone, and now not only does she have to
escape herself, but she has to now save her son
and will they both survive and escape. I don't know,
you're gonna have to watch it, but it's you know,
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it's Wineville. It's my baby. I would love it, appreciate
it if everyone would watch it and review it after
they watch it. You can watch it on Amazon, Apple
to be, you know, everywhere that you normally would stream movies.
And uh yeah, it's it's a It's not for the
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faint at heart though, so you have to be ready
for some crazy, crazy, shocking s.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
H I t I love the classics. Halloween was one
of my favorites. With Michael Myers and all those Curtis episodes.
Were you fan? I mean I have DoD big fans
of that. You mentioned Texas Chainsaw Massacre, But yeah, Halloween
one of those classic series. What else? Friday the Thirteenth
and of course I love the Freddy Krueger Days, not
bre On Elm Street.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, every Halloween, my kids and I watch Halloween. It's
just it's a tradition. We always do it. For me.
My favorite horror film growing up as a teenager was
Nima on Elm Street. That that era and that you know,
I was like, I don't know, fourteen something like that.
But Yeah, that was that was That was a good
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But I love them all. I love them all, I
love Jason the Friday the thirteenth. They're all fun. And
then you go back to the seventies, Last House on
the Left, Spit I Spit on Your Grave, which was,
Oh my god, that's so good. If people haven't seen
that one, you have to see that one. It's a
total kick ass movie. But yeah, horror genre is my genre.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Good stuff there too, right there, the same thing, loving
those horror movies too. You mentioned Wineville too. Any other
interesting projects if I guess what you're allowed to talk
about here and revealed to the public too. For the
radio listeners out there that are streaming you're working on,
I'm sure a lot of different things out there besides
just Wineville for the rest of twenty twenty five. What
can you let us in on?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Well, I'm working. I will get started on my next
project very soon. But I am out there right now
trying to get Wineville. Eyeballs on Wineville. Once we get
that out then and people watching it, then I'll be
working on the next one, whether it's a film or
TV show. I've got my little book of scripts so
we'll be working on something very soon.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Have to come and talk about that too. You've got
to mention a celebrity apprentice, talk about this a wonderful
opportunity to come there and again gain those relationships, take
part in a very very tough show when it comes
to competition out there. Of course, to any apprentice, apprenticeship
is going to be a job in itself too. Experiences
life experiences at the time, I know, learning too from
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a lot of this and another reality TV show to
participate in. Tell the listeners about that.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, the celebrity print is that experience was wild. People
always would say, oh, did you have fun? And I
don't think fun is the right word, because you're working
so freaking hard. You're working like fifteen to eighteen hour days.
And you know, there I learned so much. I learned
that you can get done in two days what you
used to get done in two months. Like something you
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think would take a long time, you can actually get
it done a lot quicker if you just freaking do
it and don't take breaks and just really hustle. So
it did teach me a lot about that. And you
know one thing that I always say to my kids
that Trump actually taught me because I heard him say
this to somebody. Somebody said something like I deserve, you know,
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to be here, and Trump said to him, never say
that you deserve anything. He say, he said, you earned it,
So never say deserve. You always say earned. And that's
I say that to my kids all the time. And
I say to anybody that always says I deserve, like, no,
you don't. You either earned it or you didn't, but
you never deserve it. And I just thought that was
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such great advice that he gave and I still take
that with me to today.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I know you mentioned that story and that passion of
the grind, and that's a great point you made right
there too. You've earned it. You haven't deserved anything out there.
And I just became a father of myself to a
five year old, beautiful little girl too, and now she's
into all these things with sports. What's one of the
most important things, or I guess a couple of things
that you really strive to perfect in your children and
teach them. I mean, obviously said they learn your story
as they get older. You mentioned thirteen and fifteen year
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old boys too, and the work ethic and what you
have to instill in a child. What's most important to
you to teach your kids.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
For me, it's about honestly being a good person, being
a gentleman, being courteous to people. You know, when when
my kids go to someone's home, I want them to
call me and say, oh my gosh, you boys are
so good because for me, being respectful to your elders,
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all of that is what's so important to me. Even
if you know grades, even though they did like straight a's,
but even if they didn't like what's more important to
me is the teacher saying what a good person they are.
That to me is the most important. And learning the
value of a dollar. For example, so many people that
I know are giving their kids cars when they turn
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sixteen or you know whatever. I'm not doing that. I
am making my kid work and earn money. And he's
been saving up. He's known ever since he was very little.
He's saving up for his car. His dad and I
are going to pitch in, but it's his responsibility and
that's something that for me. I want them to understand
the value of a dollar because that's how I was
taught and it worked for me.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, the value of money, No doubt about it. Learn
that value of a dollar too as well. Any I
guess I'll talk about this sometimes with with with children
and artists here on the program. They're like, yeah, my
kid loves music. You never know when they hit a
certain age too, what career path they're going to take into.
What are the interest you're finding it in the boys
right now? As far as career paths or things that
they really kind of flock to, whether it be music
or sports or entertainment, becoming an actor, things like that,
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where do they want to go?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They only want to be NFL players. That's because their
dad is a two time Super Bowl champ, was in
the NFL for eleven years, and so they want to
be like dad. That's all. That's their only goal, which
is why I have so many practices to go to
all day every day, all about football. That's that's their goal.
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So that's that's there. They have a one track mine.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
NFL draft. We could see Roderick become a NFL It
just happened last weekend there for all those rounds, and
congrats to all the great players they got drafted. All right, Hey,
final segment here, we'll have a little fun with some
rapid fire questions, whatever comes to mind, just kind of
throw it out there too. Speaking of sports, you mentioned
that husband playing in the NFL for you, is there
kind of a I guess NFL college team I grew
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up in the household, somebody you rooted for. You were
passionate about, whether it be college football or NFL a
team that you rooted for growing up.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh, well, Niners all the way man records. That's it.
It's all about the Niners.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Love that too, all right. Food wise, I'm a foodie.
Love it on this show Get to Travel. One of
my favorite things to do is to check out the
local cuisine or get recommendations off Yelp or from the
locals out there to either go to the store and
buy the food, come back and have a place to
cook it, or probably more time than not, eat out
at the local different spots. Are you a foodie? What's
your favorite food to cook or to eat out?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh gosh, well, my favorite food is pizza. I love
to cook salmon. I cook salmon at least once a week.
But if I go out, like fancy go out, I'm
either ribbi or filet girl.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I like that. I like that And with you tim
more of the fish and the lean diet, the chicken,
all that good stuff out there. You know, it's becomes
we get so busy in our lifestyles. To me, I'll
tell you the last seven months for me, it's been
a journey. I've lost almost thirty pounds over the last
seven months. It just kind of chiseled up and really
actually shape. Of course, everybody can hire a personal trainer.
I get that, but it's amazing to see how important
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we have to take care of ourselves no matter how
busy we get in this life. Talk about that to
people because a lot of people know that any industry
you work in, health importance and self awareness is very key.
I know, fitness is a huge part of your life too.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right it is now absolutely I think that first and foremost,
food is the biggest factor. What people don't realize a
lot of times people think, oh, I got to get
to the gym and do this. That's really not going
to make the biggest impact. The biggest impact is going
to be from food. Is to limit you know, the
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bad foods, limit the you know, don't eat at past
six pm, make sure you have dinner at five thirty.
You know, eating healthy but also not depriving yourself. You
have to, let's say, like on the weekends, get let yourself,
you know, have a cheat day or whatever. And then
again just getting out and walking, like for me, I
walk five days a week, and actually I walk, yeah,
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five days a week, and I jog the other like
two of the days. But you know, just getting out
in nature is really important. And walking and if you
can't get out and walk, go get on a treadmill whatever.
But walking is just is a great way to stay
in shape and lose weight. And then of course as
we get older, we need to lift weights to keep
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that you know, that that muscle from being flabby. So
that's also you know important for me. I'm a girl,
so I do pilates and I do some dumbbells and
you know things like that, but nothing major. I don't
do any major like weightlifting or anything like that like
guys do.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Back in those younger days, we did do that. Now
it's a lot of body weight workouts, plyometrics you mentioned
a few dumbbells, and the body weight of push ups
and looking cooler things like that too, to keep us
in shape where we need to be to hitting those
fitness goals as well as what you put in your body,
no doubt about that. I already got to ask you.
Being a country music fan here and have interviewed all
these artists from the nineties, country, eighties, nineties till now
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and going to Nashville a couple of times a year,
which created this show and into a big time show
out there too, I got to ask you about country
music in general, and just are you a music fan
in general? What's your genre and if it is country
or your artist, who do you dig and who's on
your playlist?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I love country music. I grew up my first generation California.
Everyone else is from Texas, so grew up with all
the old you know albums, the Whaling Jennings, I mean,
just you know, anyone you could imagine, you know, That's
that's what I grew up on. And then now I
like it all. I like I even like, you know,
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the new guys like Morgan Wallin and you know all that.
But I also like just classic you know, Garth Brooks
and you know, nineties Ish country, because that's you know,
that was my era, was the nineties. So but I
love it all. I like the new stuff too, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, everything right there, and you're right there with me.
Nineties country often imitated, never duplicated, even though it's starting
to make a little bit of a comeback. I used
to collect Vinyl records. It was a big thing for
me too. I still have a stack in my garage
that my grandparents had left me too. Vinyl did for you?
Did you ever collect a few of those when I
was younger?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
When I was really young, we'd always I'd have tons
of forty five's, so yeah, and I would usually get
my parents old forty five's, like I would get the
old ones, and then I would get you know, my
very first record that I bought my myself, though, is
totally not country. It was Rat. If you remember the
hair band Rat. That was the very first record that
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I ever purchased. But one of my favorite ones that
I got for my parents before I got the Rat,
one that I listened to over and over and over
again was John Denver. That was my record that I
remember as a kid listening NonStop to those.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Songs live on and on for Infamous, which you're great
out you too, hey, Congratulations on everything out there too
that you've accomplished in your career. Definitely hard earned and
nothing was given to her too, from Baywatch to Playboy
and a Celebrity Apprentice to now this great movie Wineville,
which I'm going to check out and give a review
across all the platforms out there too, where you guys
can actually download stream at stream at stream it and
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give her some feedback there on social media. That one
the only Brandy Roderick here on the Backstage Pass. Hey,
I appreciate the time, thanks for being with us, and hey,
when the new projects come out, feel free to come
back anytime.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Thank you, absolutely will do. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Got it the one, the only Brandy Roderick out there too.
More great mem as it coming up here for our
affiliates KYBN ninety eight point one in the Bay Area,
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico,
and across iHeartRadio two as well. More great music coming up.
We'll see you soon in future episodes. Scot Blessed take care.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Hey everybody, this is Texas Country artist Josh Abbott and
you are listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon powered
by the Sports Guys podcast dot Com on KYBN ninety
eight point one your Bay area broadcasting network. Hey guys,
this is Nashville recording artist City Bass and you're listening
(25:34):
to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight
point one in KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
You can also catch the show on ki sw Country
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