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October 23, 2025 44 mins
You know Janet Devlin’s captivating sound, but do you know the hidden stories behind its creation? From soulful ballads to indie anthems, her musical DNA is a fascinating blend of unexpected inspirations. Prepare to have your mind blown as we uncover the surprising artists who secretly influenced her, leading to the artistry you love today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Past powered by the
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, guys and gals, this is recording artists jadat Devlin
and you're listening to a grand slam of music, sports
and entertainment. It's the award nominated Backstage Past Podcast on
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Tune into the show on iHeartRadio podcast at the Sports
Guys Podcast dot com.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past. Of course, always a
busy day featuring new artist and cannot believe it's almost
Halloween here on the show. It's crazy how time ends
up flying no matter what part of the country that
you're in. Out there too, Brandon Morel here KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, and our
friends out there THHWN dot org and also the Sports
Guys Podcast dot com and of course out there too

(00:52):
iHeartRadio Podcast. She's got a brand new record out there too,
and I've got to listen to this from cover to cover.
Not my first emotional Rodeo Relux edition across all the DSPs.
Love her Scottish, the Accident, the whole nine Yards her
as an artist. Janet deb look here to the program, Janet,
how you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Hi, I'm good, thank you. How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's good man. You know, like I said, it's kind
of funny. We're talking about Halloween coming up for parts
of the country. I mean, everybody out there too for
October thirty first, and then we're like a few days
out from Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Isn't it crazy?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean like.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, it's it's crazy enough.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Like we just feel like we started twenty twenty five
and now we're talking about the fourth quarter and ending
twenty twenty five. It's just amazing how time flies out
there too, for you guys as musicians and for us
as just regular listeners out there.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You know, like I haven't taken a holiday and about
three years, so it's just bumper to bumper bumper every year.
It's just like, oh God, we're there.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
A read, no doubt, no doubt. Tell us a little
bit about yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
We get a chance to play the music videos and
of course get to know you a little bit better
here too. As an artist, talk about the connection to music,
whether it be any genre, growing up and especially in
that country, since you've got this great country record out
there across all the DSPs. Talk to me about just
the connection there, artists you were following, and just the
love and kind of why you chose this career.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I mean, I think a lot of people don't know,
but country music is the biggest genre in Ireland. I
think that shocks a lot of people. But when you
really think about Irish people, and especially where I'm from.
I'm from county called County s Throne and very fondly
known as Farmers County. So you know, it's just people

(02:33):
listen to music so that they can hear themselves in
the lyrics. Because we're all selfish listeners, we want to
turn it forward and make it about us. So when
you've got country singers singing about farm and fish and
horses like that, you know, and we obviously were mostly
quite a religious kind of people, and there's gotten music
and I think that's why a lot of us love country.

(02:55):
I grew up on it country music and trid Irish music.
I joined a killy band at the age of five.
I learned the top a lot at about four and
joined the killie band, and then I learned how to
play the fiddle and played that there too. And then
I got into singing the wee bit. My nan kind

(03:17):
of forced me because I was very shy kid, and
I started drumming and wanted to buy drum kit, so
I started earning I started doing singing competitions to earn
money to buy my own kit, and then accidentally ended
up at the front of the stage and not behind
the kit like I had originally planned, which is but

(03:38):
for me, what I've always resonated with with music, no
matter the genre, is always and it is the storytelling.
I love a good yarn and a song. And on
this de looks I'd made sure to put the cover
of The Gambler in it, and I held that song.
I haven't covered it on purpose one I didn't want

(03:58):
to ruin it, and who if I was ever going
to ruin it. I wanted to say it for a sacuation.
So I remember listening to that song when I was
about five years old, and at that age you're used
to people reading these stories and tell you stories and whatever,
and I vividly remember the pictures that that song painted
in my little kiddie brain, and I just thought, better

(04:21):
than any storybooks I've ever heard, and that fondness of
that track, and that image of that track has always
remained the same. So that's that's what I like about music.
I like, and specifically about country music. I think is
that I'm not very serious. I can't make myself very seriously,
and I love joking and I love I love playing

(04:41):
more words, and I love yeah, a good punchline. So
on on this record, I guess like you have all
the shades of me as a person, Like you have
these low lows, deep heavy ballads, but you also have
me just being a silly goose and you know, with
things a country singer and daddy all the rest of it.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Hey, give me some thoughts on the female category right now,
especially over here in Nashville. Of course I'm in Texas,
but travel there are a lot too to really do
a lot of coverage for the female artists. And you
see what Landy Wilson is kind of like the Queen Bee,
and then you've got all these great females coming behind her,
and I know there's a great following over there, you know,
Scotland and Ireland for so many great artists that are

(05:23):
doing their thing. But I'm sure you guys keep an
eye on what goes on here in the States and
you know who's you know, kind of making kicking some ass,
making headlines, and then of course how that motivate and
feels you guys to continue doing what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Right, Yeah, I mean absolutely. I think for me, it
doesn't matter where somebody's from, it doesn't matter what genre
they're doing. I think I'm just inspired by people taking
the risk and not even the rest of doing music.
I think it's taking the rest of it, just actually
putting yourself out there and putting yourself art to be

(05:58):
judged and criticized. And obviously when you're writing songs, you're
writing about a lot of things that are going on
in your life, and you're putting your life out there
to get judged. So I don't care if you're death metal,
if your country, if you're a pop if you're putting
yourself out there, I respect it. I respected a lot.
And I mean the Nashville Girlies are insane, just the artistry.

(06:19):
I like Leni because she's similar to myself, grown up
in the absolute middle of nowhere and with Horse and
so we're forsters that grew up in the arts anywhere,
and I I kind of resonate with that, but there's
i mean, one of the absolute icons, Gretcham Wilson. Yep,
like my kind of I like, I like my I

(06:42):
like I like I like country rock, and I like
I like girls being silly.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, which is good out there. Yeah, the girls were.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Being very serious and I like that we're in this
sphere and eye of the girls are also being a
bit silly, and I think that that's the best time.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
You know, And I'll tell you one right now that
you're talking about too that brings to mind. And she's
been playing a lot of shows down here in Texas
where I'm from is Ellen Langley. She's like killing it
right now with her writing and just some of the
things she's putting out is so authentic and amazing, true
to the core.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Right not look at her, she's too she's too like
ready and perfect, and I'm just like, she seems so
sweet and so nice, beautiful and so talented. I'm like,
I want to hit you, but you're so But there's
so many like I'm going blank with names, but I'm

(07:36):
gonna be kicking myself later. Who sang Tulsa, Yeah it's okay, okay, Yep, Like,
I I like a girl he's not afraid to be
a bit of a brick with herself as then like
going and just she's not she's not mold, and she's

(07:58):
not abandoned. She's just her and mine or a woman
or anything else. Like if you're going into a room
and you're just yourself. Love it well.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I love this record. Not my first emotional radio across
all the DSPs. We got to play some music because
we're going to a lot of talking when we come
back from this break here too, and of course KYB
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(08:29):
we all know too well. Down here where I'm from
in Texas, this is called Houston. Here it is Channet
Devlin on the backstage pass, stay tuned, coming back from.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
More a wake up in the morning when the whole
stupo adding Stixon on.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Is unknown China and a go in blow in my booms.
It's in my boom. I never been lost in these oki,
got no time but time.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
The kid.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Living in the landlord lifestansted have my food a empty threat,
no needfu faying, I'm saying you said I got so
many problems.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm gonna say, scout a.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Little bit too, father, And I said you stay, I'm.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Gonna get so many problems.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Meet myself on the anacom, myself fanned I only singing
to natured come like my living.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
I'm hard to read.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Got nobody here but them me.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Blow the red sky with the river on's deep.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Don't just see.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
I am free the need or say them yea saying
you say I got so many problems, I'm just based outing.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
And little bit your problem. And I said you stay,
and I got so.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Many problems me myself on the anacoon, my self fanned out,
only singing the major time. So they pup in the
morning in the rooster crow, adding the sticks, adding the sticks,

(10:48):
and oh you.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I got so many problems.

Speaker 8 (10:53):
I'ms based gathering a little bit your problem, and.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
I say you.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
Stay so many.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
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Speaker 1 (14:33):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Past, powered by the
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
And back her Jennet Devlin on the show. Not my
first emotional rodeo.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
The current record we're talking about there too, just came
out September the twenty sixth. I maankes you guys go
check it out across all the DSPs if you have
not already. So let's dive into this one. My friend Houston,
how did this come about?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh? I had a friend Chris Marky, who's also from home.
What we were writing over in London and then I
write as I go, like this one came to me
in the shower like I just was washing my hair
as you do, and I was like, heston, I got
so many problems and I thought, oh, that's funny. I
could write a song with that. Put it in my notes,

(15:23):
move on with my life. And then a couple of
weeks later, Chris walks into the writing room and he's like,
I have I want to I want to write a
song about Houston, Texas. And I was like, the look
because I actually have a line. So I went through
my notes, pulled it out, and off we popped. We
just went and I was written and about gosh, Max

(15:46):
and are really.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wow that quick coming together too well. I love your
leadoff song too, as well as cigarette sweets. Tell us
a little bit more about this one.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, So this one couldn't even written if I wasn't
in the circumstance that I was in at the time.
So I was on tour in Australia. I was supporting
Russell Crowe on his tour, and on that tour, like
your needs are being met. It's like being a kid.
It's like, right, you get on the bus at this
time and you're gonna be staying here and be back
on the bus at this time, so you're automatically straight

(16:18):
into like your needs are met, You've not to worry about.
You know where you're going. And we had a day
off on tour, so we were back at his ranch
and me and my guitar plaar Angus was like, do
you want to write a song? I wuy a song.
So I had an idea this on a big piece
of paper. I had loads of things from childhood written
on it and I was going through the list and
I said cigarette sweets and He's like, no, the whole

(16:39):
song should be cigarette sweets. Like we can write a
whole song about that. So like, I'm hooked on my
stupid little USB flavored stick I smoke. I don't smoke anymore.
And then it was funny because like at the four
shows and doing interviews and press and stuff, there was
one day where like me and Russell were sat on
the steps of the venue. He's having a cigarette, I'm

(17:01):
having a VP and we're just chatting away, and it
just was like, Yeah, we could totally write a whole
song by cigarettes swats. It's that whole concept of like,
you know, the whole time when you're a kid, you're
trying so hard to be grown up and trying so
hard to be taken seriously, and you just wish your
childhood away, and you know, Cigarettespeaks is one of those songs.

(17:23):
If I hadn't wrote it, I would have wished. I'd
betten I love it that much. And the boys Nashville
just get in and his teleoplane like unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, I love your addition of one here. I called
it double pe Here plastic pistol. Let's get a little
backstory on this one too. It's a great song.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh God, this is the one I kicked my dad
out of the room for when I'm doing shows. Yeah.
So I had this idea, right because when I was
when you listen to like old old timey Western tracks,
it's always about some dude and how quick at the
draw he was, and there's always some serious man, and
I was like, oh, come on, we'll have to write
one about the ladies. Like so, I was so excited

(18:05):
that I didn't even take it into a session. I
just went upstairs, grabbed the guitar, wrote it myself and
was like, come on, there's got to be a whole
bunch of metaphors in here for a impressive woman in
more ways than one. So there's a million double entendres
in the track. Yeah, a specific impressively day. So I'll

(18:29):
leave it at that.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Everybody else can check it across all the DSP's out there,
Go purchase the record across wherever you stream music out
there too. At the same time, Well, time for another
one here, Janet Devlin on the backstage Pass, best life.
Those are two words we live, I guess during our
time here too. At least you hope you're living your
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Say a fine shoot a rise from.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
A small.

Speaker 15 (19:29):
But the flames don't come no matter how much shoot, don't.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
You can find joy in the dark, Guest Times, just
got along, load it, turn on the light. Lives were living.

Speaker 16 (19:49):
If you're living in songs, were singing. If you're singing
it your best life.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
When you're living.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
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Speaker 11 (19:59):
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Speaker 16 (20:00):
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Speaker 2 (20:06):
When the adventures only the great end.

Speaker 15 (20:15):
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Speaker 5 (20:26):
And you feeling that for the shirt.

Speaker 15 (20:32):
I can promise one day the wheel.

Speaker 16 (20:39):
If you can find joy in the darkest times.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
It just got to remember.

Speaker 14 (20:46):
The light.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Lives.

Speaker 16 (20:51):
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in songs are singing. If you're singing it, live your
best life when you're living shirts on neah the boat,

(21:11):
what you didn't do it's always dark for the.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Dawn you are right for you belong. I know you're
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Speaker 16 (21:22):
But live you're fight and for song, and it's always
dark before the door you are.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I hard.

Speaker 16 (21:33):
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Speaker 8 (21:38):
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Past powered by the
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Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'll admit I love that song. I loved all these
songs off here not my first emotional rodeo from Janet Devlin.
Here on the Backstage Pass again KYB A ninety eight
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the same time, Well, you put two words together that
really personified country music, and I'll say best Life couldn't

(25:45):
be a better title for a country song, right, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
I mean, it's a funny one. I tend to run
a mile away from sentimentality, like to being sentimental. I
am not very like you'll it's hard. You'd be hard
pressed to find a sentimental track in my back catalog.
But I wrote it with a good friend of mine,
Ian Barder, and we'd already written a song that day,

(26:11):
so I was like, screw it. I'm in such a
good place in my life right now. I have gone
through hell and back, but at this current moment, I'm
living the dream. I'm living the dream and I'm having
a good time and I'm so grateful. And one of
my videos was doing really well online and it was
me talking about at one point in my life being

(26:32):
in a really dark place and trying to not be
here anymore, but how grateful I was that that didn't
work out and that I am here. And it feels
so like cheesy to say about, Like people were reaching
out to me and talking about what they were going through,
and I just wanted to bottle up this feeling of

(26:53):
like it gets better, trust me, hold on, it's going
to suck for it would be a long time, but
I promise you, like it gets better. And unfortunately, you
can't just give that to somebody, You can't give them
the gift of that feeling. So I just wrote about
it and I I was afraid of the song for

(27:16):
a while because I was like, oh God, like people
might hear this, not know my story and just think
it's super cheesy. But I played it for I did
like a private gig to my fans. I was like
thirty people and I played it to them. And when
I got up on stage and I explained the song,
I started crying. They started crying. I haven't even sang
a note yet. And when I started singing it like,

(27:38):
there were so many ones that were upset too, because
they've seen me grow, I've seen them grow because I've
been doing this fourteen years. I've known some of these
people fourteen years. And it was this beautiful moment and
I was like, no, this has to go on an album.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Like I said, you can't promise anything like that either.
When it comes down to it's one of those things
that when you look back at it too, you just
have those gestures to say things are going to get better,
and it will get better, have to get better, and
what a way to express that in music? And I
love this because you get a lot of country songs
out there that we're on this record too. And I
love this title Whiskey on my Breath. Let's let's dive

(28:11):
into this one too. I love the song.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, alcoholism and country music. I can say that by
the way. I'm I'm in recovery, sober in January Congression,
I'm allowed to laugh about it. But yeah, you know what,
I didn't expect to write about my past with alcohol
in this record. I got that all out in Confessional,

(28:37):
the last album. But this just came from an honest place.
I was writing it in my manager's house where I
used to go to the corner shop, and that's where
I would get my whiskey and my cigarettes and all
of it's true, Like the guy only knew my name
literally because I was in there getting my daily effects.

(28:58):
I was broke as a joke. I was living on
like twenty five points a week, which is probably about
thirty five dollars, but nine percent of that went to
cheap whiskey and cigarettes and yeah, and it was this place.
It's like the sad place of despair. I didn't put

(29:19):
any false hope in the song because I felt hopeless
at the time. It's just very factual, like, you know,
your your friends have kind of stopped coming to see
you because they know what they're getting. Your parents disappointing
because you had so much potential, and you've sadly made

(29:40):
peace with the fact that this is going to be
the rest of your life. It's just getting up, getting drunk,
go to bed. And that's why I brought the end
of the song back to the first chorus or the
first verse, or it's straight back to cashier, straight back
to the whiskey, and you know the cycle continue.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, you see me have fun too with your music videos,
because I've got a chance to see a bunch of those,
not just for Houston's Best Life, but for other ones
you put out in previous releases. Talk about just having
fun with your music videos, and you can kind of
think outside the box a little bit because I think
it's really cool, like the setting and like your ideas

(30:23):
and things like that, because you do some really cool
things that are different than other people I know who
may have had music videos. But it really makes a
song come to life, didn't it.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, it's such a luxury these days doing a music video,
you know, so I think the first music video for
this album we did was Emotional Rodeo, the title track,
and I just thought too of my mites, two of
my best girlfriends and we hired a mechanical bull barn

(30:54):
of this mansion. It was super cheap to rent, and yeah,
I managed to convinced them to actually like let let
three of us on the bull at one time, which
was pretty funny because it turned out that the guy
that was doing mechanical bull was a fan of mine
m so he was like, I'm not gonna I didn't
see anything. But honestly that video was just me with

(31:14):
my girlfriends getting ready and then getting on a mechanical
bull and two of us do horse riding. So it
was like a case of like, let's see how long
we can hail over and just have a good time.
So that was good crack. And then country singer was
I put on my Patreon where like you know, my
like dedicated, lovely supportive fans are and I was like, hey, guys,

(31:37):
anyone free for a music video in two days and
because the purpose was as well, I got this really
peculiar bar a town near where I am in London,
and my manager went in and convinced him to let
us shoose it as long as he could do a
laser show. And I was like, okay, cool. And then

(31:58):
some of my fans came and some friends came, and
I just basically gave it the performance of a lifetime
to an audience that did not care. Oh and then
one of my good good friends who is also a fan,
his name's Gareth, and he's in a wheelchair, and it
was like, it's not if I just like, get on

(32:19):
your lap? Is it okay? Okay? Thanks? Yeah, I know.
So it was just it was just the way we
have to do things because we're on a shoestring. Budget
is writing concept after concept after concept for a music video,
all with budget and brain, and I pitch it to
like friends, team members and I'm like, what do we

(32:41):
think is the strongest idea here? And I'll reach out
normally to some videographer friend and be like, how do
you feel about winging it and seeing what we can do?
And honestly, that's it.

Speaker 14 (32:54):
It's just.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
There's a concept, there's no money, and we just go
and we try our bath And with the last one
we did was Houston, and I went all the way
out to the desert and kind of it's called England's
Only Desert. That's where we went. And it was bonkers.
It was bizarre, and I put myself in this weird space,

(33:18):
this whole it's like mesh body fuit covered in demonte's
and was running up in my underwear at one point.
But it made sense actually actually and I went to
our space. I don't know that one's about bonkers. I
feel like you actually have to watch that one. It

(33:39):
was goodful because I got to be silly. I didn't
have to be silly on camera.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, it's it really reflects it to it. I actually
watched it a few weeks back. The Houston one is
definitely telling that story. And you mentioned the Houston, Texas
kind of situation and it made me feel right at
home too because I'm right next door to it about
an hour and twenty minutes down the road. So definitely
that was that one came to life. It really made
that song accentuate very well. Not My first emotional rodeo

(34:04):
is the record from Janet Devil and check out Janet
devilin dot com. D E V l I N you
guys get a chance to do it all right, ast
we wrap up here, talk about what you enjoy doing
kind of hobbies and you know, creative things that come
to mind besides just writing and music. We're not doing
those two things outdoors, fish and hunting, fitness. What do
you get into hobby hobbies?

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Wives?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Horses? So I just bought my niece a pony, all right,
so she's got her first pony. I grew up horse
riding and got my first horse at ten. My niece
got her first horse at ten. I was a competitive
show jumper for five years.

Speaker 14 (34:43):
I was.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
That was when I was well eleven until sixteen or so.

Speaker 14 (34:49):
Did that.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
I used to also be a cross test on my
because I didn't hit my growth spurt till quite lit.
So I was the one that would get on freshly
broken ponies a crash test dummy. So yeah, like that
was good crack. So now since I got my license

(35:11):
over in England and I got my car. The minute
I got that, I was like, okay, cool, I'm gonna
go ride other people's horses for them. So that's the
deal I get. So I either at one stage I'm
either retraining a badly behaved pony for somebody with good
fun for me, I'm walked two foot off the ground.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
So I'll have ponies Irish dancing in the road trying
to throw me off. And there's the closest thing to
the rodeo you can get in an English saddle, I
would say. Or I'm at the minute. Well, just before
a couple of weeks ago, I was riding a ex
international show jumper who's still in a competition world. So

(35:55):
it was my job to keep him in ship and
just keep him jumping, take them and let them have fun.
Or I had big fat heavy Shire horses for the crack,
wetch it up like a toddler because I did that.
I used to gym a lot. I used to do
that CrossFit my sadness, and it turned out that I

(36:18):
just had ads and I'm still sack. Joe Rogan led
to me, So I basically do all my exercise not
on the horses instead.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
You gotta find time the ballance you mentioned, between work
and a little bit of the personal life to have
that downtime, no doubt. All right, let's talk about sports,
because I know it's it's different states wise to the
UK and Ireland.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Things like that.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Do you have your favorite sports teams or friends? Do
you kind of go over and maybe have like I
said in backyard cookout things like that you guys throw
on the big screen, kind of watch to soccer. What
do you do sports wise? What teams do you root for?

Speaker 11 (36:56):
All?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Right, so there's two for me really, so naturally Ireland
Rugby are actually freaking good, Like we're actually sick, right.
I feel like rugby could have ended the troubles, right
because you have people on both sides of the border
on the one time, right, So that's that's how we're

(37:18):
actually a good team. We're not split down the middle
of that sport. So it's nice. It brings every community together.
It's fun to kick England's ass. I admit not of
a guys. I love you guys. I've lived there for
fourteen years. But it brings me great joy, so that's
very important. And then we have the Gaa, which is
Gaelic football. So if you're a cross between like yeah,

(37:41):
American football, rugby soccer but with no gear, and like
we take that really seriously. Trom the team that I support.
We've won the All Ireland a few times. I've got
to sing All Ireland, which is like singing at the
halftime show in America. I was like, this day, that

(38:02):
was pretty cool. But the thing about that sport that
I think is very admirable is that they don't get paid. Wow, Okay,
you do it for love of county and love of
contrary and it's so fun. Your teacher in primary school
or secondary school could be on a team playing, so

(38:23):
your hero can be your teacher, your hero can be
your veat it's mental. So I think, like in the
world of everything being so monopolized and everything money, I
love in some ways that like that sport is truly
about the love of the sport and represent them your team.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
That's the beauty part, and like you said, it means
so much more to them.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
I think over there when you look at it, and
I'm not trying to take shots here too, but like
we all know American athletes when it comes to any
at least the four major professional sports, and they're overpaid.

Speaker 14 (38:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
It's it's just again, we love it. Sports is a
drug no matter what it is, and we're going to
continue to root for it. But I love the fact
that you said their second grade teacher could be playing
on a team like that, which is pretty pretty dope.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
You know, I love that, you know.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Do you know what though you can't you can't be
too mad at the at the American guys in the
American football because you're risking your dome. You know, you
can get to see your brands can get scrambled, you
know quickly, Yes, some people do. What The saddest thing
about it for me personally as an etetter, as an eightseetter,
is that college athletes who are unreal they dedicate themselves

(39:35):
tip and then the last season or whatever, bad head
injury done, I can't do it. That breaks my goddamn heart.
I'm well, it upsets me, but like I know, overpaid
all this kind of stuff. But hey, they're risking their dome,
I think fair enough.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
I could guess It's become a real issue there too,
no doubt. All right.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
When it comes to food, what do you kind of
get into as far as uh, you know, cook or
just eating out. What's the Irish food or Scottish food
or just European food of choice?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
What do you like?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I'm the worst because I'm not a food eye. When
it comes to food, I have the diet of like
a thirteen year old boy. So I will have a
monster for breakfast. I'll have a microwave meal for dinner.
They're different in the UK. I will say, like, they're healthy,
they're all balanced, and so I have that for dinner.
I don't cook anymore. I used to cook when I

(40:29):
did all the gym stuff, and everybody said, oh, but like,
no one tastes better than like making a meal yourself.

Speaker 14 (40:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
No, there's a lot of things that taste better me
not make it. Okay, that tastes way better. Oh I'm
not food in that way, but I eat like literally
any any person I've ever dated. The last one was
funny because they were a professional sports constrictionist for international
like cycling teams and boxer and we lived together for

(40:57):
six months and they turned to me and they goes
a woman that's supposed to get fat, and I was like, Bro,
you shouldn't be trying to keep up with high much
shit I eat. I eat too much, and I can
do it. I'm sorry, that's not my problem. So when
it comes to jong food, chocolate sweets, yeah, yeah, I'm

(41:17):
a thirteen year old boy, but Irish dish. I love
a good shoe, I love a good stew.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Ooh, and you make me hungry ticket.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
They always do that at these little festivals they have
down here too, which is like I think one of
them is the Renaissance festival they have and planners pulled
down here in Texas, which each year you go there
and you get like some authentic food they make from
country to country, and it's very much like a themed park.
And then of course you can stretch out there and
you know, find the festival. So I'm like, you good
goolas year a good stew is like where it's at.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I Oh, next time I'm in the States, I really
want to go to medieval times.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
That's a cool place.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
You don't have that here.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
You don't have there.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
No, I want to watch Bottle to the death while
I eat a fot leg of checking leg.

Speaker 14 (42:07):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Are you talking a bar? That's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
You'll have to go to Florida because that's where they Orlando,
Florida is where they originate. We saw them down there
years many moons ago when I had started. When I
was little, my parents took me to all those things.
So like Orlando, Florida is that particular area where they
actually put on the show, and it may have expanded
now past outside of Florida, but that's kind of where
I think it got started. But it's it's a hell

(42:34):
of a show, and it's really a cool thing because
I love the Renaissance every year, the jousting and like
I said, trying different foods and dressing up in a
costume and kind of walking around. You know, it's like
an old park that they have there. It's so just
kind of antique, and it's so many different axes and
swords and helmets, and I mean you've got your plates
and stuff like that you can put on and just

(42:55):
really feel that Renaissance time. So if you're ever in
Texas well, I.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Also rodeo, But even when I was in Nashville, I
said to my team, I was like, do not let
me walk these streets alone because I back married two
song colleboy. Okay, like there always don't really do horses,
they don't, they don't care horses whatever. If I see
if I see a man on a horse that knows

(43:20):
what he's doing, I'm like this fingers is free, bro free.
Don't even buy me your ring, buy me a horse.
I'm there. It's one of the rodeo, but I also
would probably come back married.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
So come back married from Nashville, Tennessee. Well, I'll tell
you what.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
We're going to push this interview into Nashville, Tennessee, all
over the country and all over the world. Not my
first emotional rodeo the current record Janetdevilin dot com. Such
a pleasure to have you here on the backstage past
kyb in ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting
Network t HWN dot org, and the Sports Guys podcast
dot com now top search. iHeartRadio podcast. We appreciate the time.

(44:00):
Best of luck with this record. I love it so much.
It is fantastic. You're very unique and the confidence I
love it so much in this industry, and I love
it because artists have diversity. You're one of those and
the music really it shows through the record and all
the songs you put out there. Hey, we appreciate you
being with us and looking forward to doing this again.
My friend.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Hope you had a good time.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Hell yeah, thank you so much, dude, thank you for
your time. I appreciate it so much.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
One of the only Janet Devilin back and four great
shows coming up over the next few weeks.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Take care, God bless we will see you soon.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Hey y'all, this is Paulin Hannah McClure of Bethel Music.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah, and you're listening to the Backstage Pass on KYBN
ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network, and
on the Sports Guys podcast dot com and on THWN
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