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September 19, 2025 48 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Hasting joined us on the show to talk about life in the music industry and lots more! Tune in! 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, farm Flops.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is recording artist Hasting and you're listening to the
best in music, sports, and entertainment. It's the Backstage Pass
with Brandon Morell on kyb N ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network. Stream the show anytime on
the Sports Guys podcast dot com and on THWN dot org.
You can also stream on iHeartRadio podcasts. You're gonna be

(00:23):
glad you did and.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Of course, it's a grand
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(00:47):
for safety features and consumer report over the last few years.
And of course here on the show today and thanks
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Gordon showcount today's best country mix. Well, speaking of the country,
we connected a few years ago, and I like to
kind of follow up with some of my former guests

(01:08):
out there too. And she's going by the artist name
of Hasting at the moment currently right now to the
new single out there across all the DSPs is one
of my favorite songs instantly became called truck Talk, and
we all need a little bit of truck talk here
on the backstage pass. Welcome Hasting to the show.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
How you doing, my friend, Howdy, it's been a while,
it's been a few years.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'd say that to a lot of guests because no one's.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
More surprised that I'm still around than me.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
So I'm glad, glad to see a familiar pace here,
familiar boys.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, it's it is good to hear that too.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
At the same time, because you often wonder, you know
people you put on your playlist before for different songs
we talked about in the past, Like I said, if
they're still out there doing the thing and enjoy it.
And then the creative arts business, because we were talking
before the show there too that this is a tough
business to be in. Talk about just your journey from
starting as a musician to currently where you are in

(02:04):
your career right now, what are big you know, what
have been some of the biggest challenges and some of
the biggest celebrations out there.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Talk about that for me, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's funny because I very recently actually, you know, there's
sort of been this weightlifted. I don't know what it is,
other than the thing that made me write was always
sort of just like.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Just a.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Loneliness, you know, that was really in me, no matter
how many people were in the room. A lot of
anxiety growing up. But I've always loved country music, and
it's always been sort of you know, it's been something
that's gotten me through. But specifically, you know, like alcohol
by Brad Paisley or Big.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
And Rich, I Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy I have.
I've never had a bad time listening to that song.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You know, I don't know that so much has happened
that had nothing to do with music, that highly impacted music. So,
you know, years back, I lost my father and my
mom was hurt during the accident, and I was telling
a friend the other day, I don't remember anything about

(03:27):
who I was before that. I truly don't remember the piece,
the the arrogance that must have like just gone on
in my body. To think that, you know, that can't
happen to me, or you know, I don't know. It
was a little bit delusional, and I think I took
a lot of things for granted. But then a second

(03:47):
taking for granted was believing, after getting you know, stopping
drinking and getting sober, that that was going to fix
my problems. And you know, I was really going to
figure out do I want to do music do.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I not want to?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And so there's just kind of been this half in,
half out for me, whether I've ever admitted it or not.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
This project that's coming out now has been a part
of me for a very long time. But it requires
a certain level of bravery and an unapologeticness, as Hardy called,
some creating that I just don't think I had in me.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And that's no one's fault but my own until now.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
And so for the first time in my life, I
think every part of this is hard. Life is hard
that you know, I talk to people back home and
certainly what they're doing seems harder than what I'm doing,
you know that. It just life is just difficult, no
matter what. And then coming into a business that was

(04:57):
pretty lucrative before.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Twenty twenty into a.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Pretty stagnant business that worked completely different, which such is
the way in the world, you know, along with some loss,
along with you know, stopping drinking. I wasn't really sure
where this went for me, because it was never a
make it at all costs.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
This was something I fell into.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I Like I've told you before, I am not the
most gifted songwriter, but my gosh, I'm lucky. I just
I end up in the right spots and and man,
I have been given grace and forgiveness in ways that
I don't even fully understand yet. I've seen people come
here and make one mistake and you know, the rest

(05:44):
is history, and I seem to be full of them publicly,
and this town has sort of just loved me through
the crazy, and I believe, as it stands right now,
I am, maybe for the first time in my life,
capable of creating what I've always known I was supposed

(06:05):
to create. And I don't know that that means. Uh,
It's certainly not gonna win any Grammys. But every time
you think there can't be another truck.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Song, I challenge you that there sure can.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
And the beauty about that here again with Hasting here
on the backstage passes. We get to play that song
called truck Talk right here too on the show right
now too again. You guys can check the show out
iHeartRadio podcast, the Sports Guys podcast dot com anytime there too,
and of course out there THWN dot org. It's truck
talk and we all need a good just truck song
in country music. Here it is from Hasting here the

(06:40):
backstage pass back in the flash.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Stay tuned.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
I bet he's got your parked out by the lane,
just like he did back then with me in that
midnight moonlight, same things said he mayor may, I mean,
baby's pulling up that metal clown sole.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
You're leaning back those lives seas you got your feet
on the dash.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
He he's making you lap with his hand on more
than your knee. I bet he made that truck talk
sounds so gooty.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Almost got your clothes.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, that guy, i''ll go in hoodies, pick up lines
and foward drafting and promises in the line whatever he.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
Says, that man, baby, that's.

Speaker 8 (07:24):
Your shut shop.

Speaker 9 (07:30):
Shut talk.

Speaker 8 (07:35):
I bet you're fell in love with his old bird
dog and say she was the youngly girl in his
life till you came along and you make a good dog.

Speaker 10 (07:44):
Bob.

Speaker 11 (07:45):
That boy came past a line. He'll have you hanging
on every line. I bet he made that shut talk
sounds so goooty. Almost got your clothes.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
Yeah, that guy, i''ll go in hoodies, pick up lines
and food drafting promise.

Speaker 9 (08:00):
Is in the last whatever he said.

Speaker 12 (08:02):
Yeah, that man, maybe that's just shru to.

Speaker 9 (08:10):
Shut tok.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
D that's three quick windows stick here of that says locally.

Speaker 9 (08:18):
He hated.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
There's a two boxes.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
A bet he picks a pillow and a black slag
everyoney and hang.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
On every word he's saying.

Speaker 9 (08:25):
But he don't fall in love.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
He just wants to.

Speaker 12 (08:33):
I bet he got your close.

Speaker 7 (08:39):
I bet he need that shut to central booty.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Almost got her close.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
Yeah, that guy will go includies, pick up lines and
poo rap from promises in the last whatever he said. Yeah,
that man, baby, that's just shout.

Speaker 9 (08:54):
Got better leaders in that father to shut tight.

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Speaker 3 (12:38):
And that was truck Talk there from hasting here on
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You know you mentioned that because I always love that
double kind of on Tandra there too. When you look
at double t there with truck Talk, you mentioned the

(13:01):
stories behind the song.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh you like that alliteration. There's no where that came from.
That's that's one of my chiefest tricks.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
But talk about you know where you were and kind
of the setting for us unveil that a little bit
as far as the idea for this particular tune when
it came out, the idea to write it, and just
shed some light on this. This is a great tune.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
You know the songs that I end up cutting, and
really this is sort of a brave New World kind
of just doing my own thing and really just uh
me deciding.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Not that I didn't decide it with Hasting and co.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
But I do feel, you know, somewhat guilty now because
I think this was always going to go this way
for me, this sort of throwback to where I came from.
You can take the uh girl out of Ohio, but
gosh darn, you can't take the Ohio out of the girl.
She just a little trashy and leaning into that and

(13:55):
leaning into like what I grew up around, and how
just apropos it is for country music. I just stopped
running from that and truck truck truck talk see alliteration's hard.
A lot of the songs that I've cut, they are
in my head for months or years. And I had
heard somebody talking about pillow talk, and I was like,

(14:17):
isn't that like a term from the nineteen eighties, and
they're like no, And then they explained to me, basically,
it means, you know, when you're messing around, or you're
intimate with someone, or you're in the heat of the moment,
maybe you say some things that you don't mean and
it doesn't you know, it doesn't mean as much there
as it does once you're not on the pillow.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
I guess in this case, I thought that sounds a
lot like the guys that I've dated at home.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know, never know, uh, what happens in the truck
might just be saying in the truck no matter what,
and you know that maybe on me too. So I
just kept thinking how funny that was. And it was
the last day of a writing treat. I was with
Sarah Jones, Drake Plants, Kimberly Atwood, and Elena Jones and uh,

(15:07):
Sarah's mom, So I don't know, she might have a
word in there somehow, but they had us, Sarah Sarah
Jones family had us to their cabin to write.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
And you know, I've been in a pretty.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Pretty what would we say, uh a paralyzed in a
paralysis of creating. But they were all kind enough to
all sit with me, which there's nothing a writer uh
fears more or is more uncomfortable with than bringing a
song into the entire room. I was thinking it was

(15:43):
something Sarah and I were going to knock out, but uh,
I don't know. Drake started playing something and it just
made sense. Sarah sometimes knows me better than I know myself.
She as a writer. She makes things in my head
that are very complicated seem very easy. And she's never
been fright by the crazy. In fact, I mean, you know,

(16:03):
she works for Priscilla, so I think she just sort
of embraces different and she that's that's what's made her
a great creative, is leaning into things that maybe aren't
exactly what you think. And so I said, you know,
let's start it out. I've always wanted to start a
song out with you know. I bet he's got you

(16:23):
parked out by the lake because that song I'm parked
out by the lake, you know, that was everywhere. I
was like, I want to put every cliche that we
can find in it because it's a truck song.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
And if one more person tells me, oh my.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Gosh, I heard you're a country writer, but I bet you're, Like,
I bet your stuff is good, like giving already giving
a disclaimer to I bet your stuff is good. You
probably write about more than just like trucks. No, actually
that's all I write about. In fact, I'm hoping to
do a double album because that is how I was raised.
And I think a lot of country music listeners it's

(17:03):
either true to how they were raised or it's something
that they can escape with.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
And so I'm just getting started. That's one truck song,
wait for the rest, and the.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Rest means she has to come back here on the
show keeps people like me in business, which is a
good thing I guess out there, and the sponsors too.
She can tell these stories to all the listeners out
there too, in over twenty seven countries worldwide, since we
got over a million streams and listeners.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Sorry what you say.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
On this second? Yeah, twenty seven countries.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
And that's a huge joke with my friends in twenty
seven countries, just spinning you.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
It's pretty cool. Well, that's a good thing that you
guys keeping me in business for these last six seven
years going on, and it's been a ride. And what's
cool is you guys. I love the story you talk about. Uh,
there too is perseverance because it becomes very important in
this industry that You're right, it's a tough town. People
say ten year town. We've seen artists come on here

(18:07):
and tell us is taking twelve, thirteen, fifteen or twenty
to get to work.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well, I would say ten at twenty twenty ten was
obsolete because there's now there is no strainer.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
The labels.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
You know, I came to appreciate labels in twenty twenty
because there is a certain amount of riff raff that
maybe should have be checked at the door, just maybe
just check it before we throw it out into the universe.
But at the same time, everybody can release now and
that's cool, so you know, but it is I think
definitely harder to make something stick.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, it is, and it's such you mentioned. It's kind
of what have you done for me lately? You know,
somebody can come out, as you mentioned, have instant success
with a few hits at the top, and then there's
some songs that maybe are not hits. But then to
prolong your career, it's always like, Okay, what's the next
big project we're working, you know, for the future, for
to know, gifts to somebody out there, so either like
I said, you can make money off that person too,

(19:05):
or put an investment in in someone too, because if
you're right, is very much a challenging and ever changing
business too, because you have to kind of dot your
eyes across your t's right.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, and I think something that is something I see
less of. That doesn't mean there is. I'm a house cat,
like I said before twenty twenty, talking to writers, especially
new writers in town versus writers now, they always ask like,
how did you find you know your crew, the people

(19:37):
that you write the best with. Well, it wasn't there
weren't seven thousand people to choose from. The cream was
rising to the top a little quick quicker. So we
were people that were very serious about it, were more
regularly in the same rooms, whereas now, you know, you
could go to five writers rounds a week and meet

(19:57):
and not know a single person laying. So there has
like that natural hierarchy has sort of gone by the wayside.
But the way to combat that is loyalty through you know,
create creating that space, so like creating your family here
that you see each other through some really hard times.

(20:20):
Because I mean it's ugly fame, it has a really
dark side, a really ugly side. There's a lot of
competitive people here that aren't even competitive necessarily with one another,
but you know, it comes off as that. You know,
there's just a lot of different human emotions that play
out really fast in a week here, and I think

(20:43):
I think that it's uh, it would be beneficial to
this town and myself included, to build that family of
people I believe in where it's just it's not it's
never for me just been songwriters or creators. Like if
I love a business, I'm obsessed with this business that
I'm you know, and I've never influenced unless it's like

(21:05):
here's a croc you know, but like crop wasn't part
of it.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Probably they were like, please please take that down. It
certainly wasn't a collab.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
But uh, I really want to partner with this business
because I think what they're doing is so different.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I think what you're doing is so cool.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Because it shows that side of something that I've lacked,
especially in uh, you know, like grief has been consistency,
but consistency, at the end of the day, I would say,
is the most important currency here. And then you want
to build a family around that. Consistency because ain't none

(21:45):
of us got our moms and dads here. Most of
them are mad that we're here. So you know, we
don't even have moms and dads anymore. So we got
to throw birthday parties for dogs, you know, because we
can't have kids on the road. We've got to find
reasons and ways to make normal and to support each
other so that we can have the best this world

(22:06):
has to offer if you choose art.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
And.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, I think I think it is just truly art
will not exist without building community, and that's something that Nashville,
I feel like, is still refiguring out after twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
You know, you.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Mentioned a keyword there, support and I had to have
it to keep this thing going any line of work
out there, but especially like you mentioned creative arts drinking
and how that was hard I gave it a father
to at the same time years ago. You know, it's
the same thing of making life choices things like that.

(22:45):
How key was that in to become sober in that,
But a support system in place to have that for
you to again rise to the top from you know
kind of where things were in adult trips talk about for.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Me, Yeah, I mean you know, it's like a it's
really hard to talk about being sober without mentioning Sarah Jones,
Priscilla Block, Josh Biel. And it still makes me cry because, uh,

(23:21):
you know, I've had trouble, I think sometimes with the
shame that I have because those people were so they
gave me so much grace to something that I you know,
unless you've experienced really hard, like a really hard problem

(23:41):
with alcohol, it's sometimes it's hard for me to relate, like, oh, yeah,
I just couldn't quit drinking, and that may be, but
the way that I experienced drinking was it was bigger
than me. And I've never had something that I couldn't
out regiment, outthink at work. And it just was an

(24:01):
evil and it was something that too. I mean, it's
very recent that I can feel it just coming slipping off.
But you know, people can say whatever they want, but
we had built this community that was we believed in
each other, and uh, you know, Sarah and Priscilla drove
me home to be with my mom times that I

(24:23):
was really sick. Josh feel my God, the things that
he did to keep me alive. It's hard to know
how many years I took off his life, but he
kept he kept a lot on mine, And uh, if
I didn't, if we didn't have that, or we hadn't
started to build that, would it really matter if anyone

(24:46):
in the group made it, if somebody didn't. So it's
you know, making it, Like you said we spoke earlier,
is what does that even mean?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
But we all know what not making it is.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
And you know that's to me, that's not being here.
And I don't mean Nashville like it was dire, And
I found that the best musicians to work with, the
writers I respect the most, the most powerful artists.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
They they're powerful.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
In everything that they do. Priscilla wasn't going to let
me die. Sarah wasn't gonna let me die. Josh wasn't
gonna let me die. And I wanted to, you know so,
and they believed in me enough that we just kept
it moving. And it's like any family, it's like your
chosen family or your given family. It's all gonna take

(25:43):
a lot of work because life never really ends up
looking exactly like you think it will.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
But I would.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Say, you know that's those same attributes are what make Priscilla,
my opinion, unstoppable and we have just seen the beginning
of Priscilla Block.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
That is a statement I will underline every day and
put in bold print because I saw her at Do
you agree, yes, absolutely for this next phase of women
of country music. And I was going to ask you
about that too, because put her right there in that category,
because I remember even having Sarah Jones on this very show,
who actually I.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Remember because we yeah, we did, And I said, you
got to meet Sarah.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah we did, and we had her on the show.
We talked to her.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
May have to have her again, back again, I said,
put in a good word force too, but such a
huge talent. And then I got saw Priscilla come up
from the ranks pay her dues ever since thick Thighs
came out, which I believe.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Sarah actually well you already know too.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was like a walking inflatable arm man for her,
Like I just didn't even really care what happened in
my career. It was like something made sense to me
for the future of country m She's just a walking star, she.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Is, and she put on a hell of the show.
I believe it was out there next to the Doug
Blind or somewhere out there. Riley Green's Bar right there
in Nashville. We went to this year saw her perform
and it was I think it was Losers I went
to in the parking lot out there and they just
had like walks up and a bunch of musicians and
it was fun. It was fun to get watch her
out there command the stage, audience sings songs back to her.

(27:21):
And they looked at me and they're like, well, Brandon,
have you had her? I was like, yeah, I've got
her on the radio show we have. We've had her
several times, and definitely at the main events where she's
always she's always at and it's just great to see
her career just blossom the way it has. What about
this next generation? You mentioned Priscilla, but you can put
you know, Laye, who's up?

Speaker 16 (27:37):
He is?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I think Sarah and I you know, we went to
Cracker Barrel despite their brief ree arrangement of their booths.
You know, I'd really hate to leave Cracker Barrel in
the dust, so I'm glad they fixed.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
That real quick.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
But we went to eat and have our like music
business conversations future of the world, you know, which is
to us only music business. Sarah loves it. The way
I love it and I love that, and you know,
we talked about some of the hard times, and she
said we discussed how I think when I didn't go

(28:14):
out on the road with them, and when I kind
of saw.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
I just, uh, I was gonna die. I mean just
bottom line, like music was.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Part of healing, but it certainly was going to take
healing before I could I could make music. And I'm
just never gonna want to make the music that everybody
else wants me to make. So I just felt like,
very what am I doing here? And so I had
this like all these cuts maybe are like my I
had a lot of things nobody will ever have in

(28:48):
this town because it's just you know, changing. So I
was at the highest of high career wise, and I
realized people aren't getting it yet, and it it didn't
I could not makes sense of that in my brain.
And I'm like, you know, we knew this. Like I
don't want to be a part of any project. I
don't want to believe in a project. I don't want

(29:09):
to be a wacky, inflatable arm man for a project
that's vanilla, because I think that everything in country music
that broadens the lane a little bit so that we
can all continue to create and still honor the roots.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Has been just a little.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Uncomfortable for people to embrace. And so what you see
is or what I saw is the generation below us.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
They get it.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
They know they're ready for a Priscilla Block that this
isn't too much for them. This is exactly right. She's
she's not just the funny girl. She's a great writer.
And I thought about Sam Hunt and how in the beginning,
I mean, you could not hear one good thing about him,

(29:58):
but the Grammys years later would look okay to me.
And you know, there, I think that things are uncomfortable
because they're new, but I think that it's really important
to remember when people like see new artists of the
year or something. You know, friends back home will be

(30:20):
like that person's been around forever, and it's like in
some ways, yeah, but music isn't linear, you know, the music,
the way to make it, especially for a woman my
I mean, you got to have like at least twenty
five rebrands, six hair colors.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
You know, there's just a lot going just a lot
that goes into it. And I am I'm still as
excited about her as I was the day we met,
I wasn't excited about her.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
The day we met, I think we were in a
little argument.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I think she told me that it smelled like my
my house smelled like my dog, which it did, but uh,
I just said, you know, I was used to be
to pushing around and here we go.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
I was like, Okay, this girl is serious. I think
that I think Ella Langley is just a breath of
fresh air.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
She's like hanging out with a dude too, So who
wouldn't like she's just all the best of everything. She
does not care and I know that she does, but
she's also she can roll with it, and that's very
I think that's very attractive in an artist. I think
that the art is it's there. I'd like to see

(31:35):
more out a Hunter girl. I think that she is
what a human And there's a picture of a bunch
of us when we were God, we were at a
CMA thing probably ten years ago, and we all look
just like what are we doing here? And so we

(31:56):
were kind of sending it around and I sent it
to her and I was like, nothing is change.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
We are still asking what are we doing here? Does
anyone know what we're supposed to be doing.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
But she uh, she is good. She's a good person too.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Great person too. Had her here on the show, got
to talk to her. Hunter Girl, one of my favorite
artists out there too. You mentioned that phrase, You've used
it several times, the whole my dog, my dog. So
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Speaker 8 (32:44):
Should have known when you pulled your car, and by
the way that he was barking, and how he only
let you halfway down the drive when you first cleaned
in to pet him, he just lifted up his leg
and st pissing on your brand new set of times. Well,

(33:05):
I guess I should listened to his canine into his shine.

Speaker 9 (33:13):
My dog was riding down you s Takeyoney card on
his song. D your cheating, You're running around the truth.
Oh you have a dog was riding down you?

Speaker 8 (33:35):
Do you remember all the drama when he tore up
your tony lobos.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
Yes, he gotta sit up where your busy been. And
the first time you stayed over the bar, dog slept
on the flooring good his head, just sleping on his.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Side of the man.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
Well it takes a dog, no dog.

Speaker 9 (34:00):
He likes gold and.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
You like.

Speaker 9 (34:05):
Do was riding out from day Wanny. Come on and
so your cheek you're running round the truth?

Speaker 7 (34:20):
Oh yeah, dog was rating back?

Speaker 12 (34:28):
Is another laugh is what you get?

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Hope you come on back.

Speaker 12 (34:32):
It's a little ship too from daywey come on and so.

Speaker 9 (34:47):
Your cheek you're running round the truth. Oh yeah, dog
was rating you.

Speaker 10 (34:56):
Oh yeah, my do was rat.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
Tell you.

Speaker 8 (35:03):
Boy.

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(40:08):
here with my good friend Kate Hasting here on the program.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
We love her.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
She's so special out there. She's been through a lot,
story is and a songwriting I love it. And you
guys just heard right there with my dog here on
the show.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
So my dog.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
You mentioned a lot of guys are really falling into
that trap here. I shouldn't use that to as well,
but for the saying is they love this song as
they as.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
They do the Hasting trap. It'll get you.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Talk about this before we Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Well wrote it with the U. The usual suspects, Sarah Jones,
Priscilla Block, Josh Biale. And what I've always really appreciated
about Josh is his ability to call something a win
before I can, before I'm sure of it, because sometimes
you're just too close to it. And he had said

(40:56):
with Brunch Drunk, you know the songs that have like
served us really well, he's known, and that was one
of them. And you know, I was really going through
it when we wrote that and they finished it, and
there were like some things here and there that I
was like, I don't know. And my whole life has
been about make it better, make it better, make it better.

(41:16):
And this season is about it's okay to have been
where we were that we wrote that six years ago.
That's still pretty good and everybody's lived that, you know.
So I thought, Okay, this is what people are messaging
me about.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
This is what they want to hear.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
That's the kind of, you know thing I want to
take into account when releasing. It's selfish in the way
of it's gonna be a fun album. I don't have
a lot of sad left in me, and I keep
saying this, but my god, I don't. It's just nobody
wants to hear it from me. There are singers, singers

(41:55):
like sangers that can do that. I'm just like out
here having a great time, trying to just hang out.
Maybe you make you laugh a little, and I love
the storytelling. I like taking you know, just that low
hanging fruit hook and putting enough substance behind it that
you're like, oh, yeah, I have experienced that. So I

(42:17):
thought that was a win with that song, and I
had hoped we would be planning it out so I
could get a dog and be like a whole promo thing.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Anyway, maybe you'll hear that song more on TikTok next summer.
I'll need it again.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Hey as we close, and you know, I'm gonna have
to have you back when the full length record comes
out with all these great songs, so we can play
some more and just try to get a few laughs,
like you said too, because that's all we try to
do here with the sports to music, the entertainment. I
found it kind of kind of cool. And this is
where I knew about you. And I know you've posted
this on the Instagram out there, which is really cool.
So for the people that don't know that don't follow,

(42:55):
give her a follow. Hasting and Co on Instagram out there.
But the cool thing is you are pro crocs, not
the reptile. The shoe and the I mean, the reptile.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Is fine, don't get me wrong.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
I just don't, you know, with only so many characters,
I didn't want people to get confused.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
And then I'm like you because I have to wrap
up in them in the winter. A car Heart collector
talk about that in what you have?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Oh man, I can really go down a rabbit hole
with that, which so you know, gosh, I just love
car Heart. It reminds me of my dad.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
And so it also fits like a box, which I'm
sort of like built like a box.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I also don't love like this and this is listened
to the beautiful women out there doing this on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Good for you, You're a boss.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Not my vibe showing skin and like just constantly posting
pictures of how hot I'm not.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
It's just not.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
It's never really made sense to me. So I have
to make it fun. And Carhart has like really evolved.
I didn't fit, but in that, you know, their mind's a.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Little bit more open. And then with the Whipline, the
work in progress, you know, which is sort of their
designer street line.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
You know, it's a full on chase. If you get
on eBay. There's like certain overalls, these cameo overalls.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
I have been trying to get those overalls for years,
and they launched them right before twenty twenty. Of course
it was a flop because everything was a flop except
for Priscilla.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
And they now they're rare, So you know, I love
the chase of it.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I love I love seeing the old stuffer, the old
John Deere like jackets, the windbreakers that my dad had.
I just want anything like that that sort of points
back to home, because it really was a tough decision
these last couple of years. Am I here or am
I am I going back home? And I think in

(44:57):
my mind, I've like created the best of both worlds
by creating like a Mister Rogers closet where it's like
the same outfit in different colors, just.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Except for this.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
I want someone to appreciate this shirt because I worked
so hard for this shirt. Nascar, you know that always
reminds me of my uncle, and who doesn't like Nascar?
I mean, I actually know a lot of people, but
my family did. And while we were more number three
than twenty four. You know what Jeff Gordon got right?

(45:31):
Primary colors. There is nothing that ages trashier than primary
colors on a T shirt like this. So I saw
somebody selling this at Buffalo Exchange and I saw the
brand and I was like, that's an like that's a
collector's shirt.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
And the lady's like hesitating on it because it has
some holes.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
I'm thinking like, oh, by, so I'm gonna go bite out
of this guy's bag. Afterwards, she's like, I'm not sure
if we can take it. Take it at least five
people get a hold of it before me, because there's
some people in there that know what's going on. The
guy sets it down to go in the fitting room.
I've never done this before. I shamelessly went up. I
was like, I've been here for an hour waiting on

(46:12):
that shirt.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
It's going home with me.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Well, I know that you and I have to hang
out and meet up next time I'm there.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
That's what they is. What you say.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
CRS or the cea week and just always people are like,
be careful what you say.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
I'm like, well, you know where to find me and
where to.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Find her bar lines is that where we find you.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
That's where we find yes because I hang out there
quite If it's not, go to bar Lines, go to
Bar Lines or the the Hettie Bees Chicken right there
on Broadway, because I love my hot chicken.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Well, I tell you what the key is.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
She persevered through everything, never gave up, and Uh, I'm
so happy to reconnect here on the show.

Speaker 12 (46:50):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
The backstage passing and powered by the Sports Guys podcast
dot Com Truck Talk a call across all those digital
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go check it out. The Hasting and Co On Instagram. Kate,
so good to see you here on the show. Congratulations
of all the new music, the perseverance never given up.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Actually went from releasing a song a year to maybe three,
So let's get it.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Let's get it, guys.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Hey appreciate you being with us, and hey, continue success
going forward. Come back anytime. We'd love to have you,
no doubt.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Yeah, and you come back down here for the first time.
See at bar Lines.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Well, see her at Barlines. Kate Hasty out there hasting
across all the DSPs. Again thanks to all the great
sponsors out there. Jksuberu at Jksuberu dot com four nine, seven, two,
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see you guys on the flip side. More great shows
of course, high school football going on out there over

(47:44):
the next few weeks with the Hampshire Fine Longhorns broadcasting
some football and the Houston Rockets coming up here. NBA
season coming up just around the corner. Will be over
there doing select Houston Rockets games here on the backstage
past your home for Houston Rockets basketball and double Down
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the next few weeks talking about Astros and Texans, Cowboys, Rockets, you,

(48:06):
you name it, We're gonna talk about it here on
some sports talk here. We'll see you guys on the
flip side. God bless take care. We will see you soon.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Hey y'all, this is ashland Craft and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight to one,
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