April 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Razz, The Roaming Hillbilly joins us on the show as we chat about his role as a perfomer and entertainer and lots more! Tune in!
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the Roaming Hillbilly. I just love his names, Reynolds joining
us here on the show What's Upras.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm like excited, I'm gonna pop out of my chair.
I'm so excited to be on with you, Brandon. I
really appreciate you having me on, man, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's great, hey man, a pleasure to have you here too.
Let's get your backstory because I mentioned the Roaming hill Billy.
I just love that title from your name, raz too.
Let's talk about your background, the connect to music, and
when this whole thing kind of started to become a
performer at rodeos.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Talk about this, yeah, So I'll start by just letting
everybody know what I do, so the Roman Hillbeildy. I
do two things with my life. I'm a traveling musical entertainer,
primarily entertaining at rodeos. And I lived on my hillbelly
truck camper traveling in too and from those those rodeos,
and that kind of least. The second thing I do
with my life, which I'm on online content creator, Western
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lifestyle influencer, and so I capture all the moments of
living on the road going to and from them rodeo,
so all across this great country of ours, and then
all the moments at the rodeo and it all ends
up on my Hillbelly YouTube channel or Instagram whatnot. So
that's what I do, boy, And how I got into it.
It's a bit of a story, but I've always played music.
(01:47):
I started playing when I was a kid. I played
trombone from elementary school. All the way up to college,
did rock band rock music in my twenties, took a
break in the middle third of my life and had
a family. I got two beautiful twenty something children, not
married anymore, but that's okay, and now here I am
in the back. I caught the back through of my life.
(02:08):
I got back into playing music through a buddy of mine.
We raised our kids together. He was from North Carolina
and he said, thus, jam and I'm like, brother, I
will jam with you. What kind of music would you
like to play? And he said, how about bluegrass? And
I said bluegrass. I said, I hadn't listened to bluegrass before.
I mean, listened to all these different styles of music,
(02:28):
but I listened to it Brandon, and I fell in
love with bluegrass music. I just it touched my heart,
touched my soul. I couldn't get enough of it. And
the next thing you know, we started a bluegrass band.
He sang and played the guitar like I did. So
we sang this cool two part harmony. We were pretty
good at it, learned twenty twenty five songs, and then
we started hiring pickers, fiddle players and ban Joe's and
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dobro and all those things, and I was able to
get us gigs as the bluegrass band the Edgewood Mountain Boys.
As a matter of fact, Bran, Yeah, I'm sure you've
heard of them from West Union, California. And there's a
funny story there. But so that led to then in
twenty sixteen, I booked our bluegrass band at a little
junior rodeo on fourth of July on Woodside, California, and
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I had as a performer, I had always liked roaming
out into the crowd anyway when I was playing the
bars back in the day and being up close with
people and just getting connected like that. And so I
asked the guy the rodeo, that little junior road I says, hey,
I says, can I just roam around the merch area
before my band plays and after just sing songs. He goes, yeah,
I do whatever you want, brother, and Brandon, that's it.
(03:36):
The rest is history. And now I'm in my ninth
year tour and as the Roman Hill Building, I'd do
it full time. I'm at twenty to twenty five rodeos
annually and I'm just humbly blessed grateful to be able
to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know, ain't the cool You mentioned that too, because
we just did the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo out there
too and went to see a few performers and the concerts,
and it just really embeds everything from an entertainment standpoint,
because if you look at it, it's not just a concert,
it's also people going there too that go to the
rodeo to watch the events or stay home watching on television.
But I think there's one thing for watching it on
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TV and another thing ras being there in person to
catch the events live and then to kind of have
those pauses where they have some intermission and they have
some entertainment, but from the clowns, from the like I said,
Chuck Wagon races, to all the events that they do,
and the hell of the clowns because they make you
laugh at the same time, do I mean barrel racing everything.
It just really wraps it in a nutshell that the
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rodeo is one of the places to be, like it's
like an escape for people, right it is, you know
it is?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And so just so folks, And by the way, I
want to give a shout out to all my hoebellies
that follow me that are watching right now because I
made a big puss. I says, y'all got to come
on here and support Brandon and support the show. And
by the way, see your old your favorite hillbellies. So
they're all out there. But what I do at the
Rodeo specifically, and you nailed it as far as all
the different high energy entertainment that we're blessed to have
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it at the Rodeo, I what I do is a
little different, though. I wrote around the vendor merch area,
like I mentioned before, where they sell hats and shirts
and beer and food, and so people come out and
they get they buy all that stuff, go to bath
and whatever. And I'm out there singing a song with
my acoustic guitar. I just roam around the Rodeo ground,
you know, singing I call given personal concerts, Brandon. I
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get to get connect with people up close. We take
my guitar, it says, it says, let's take a selfie.
So we take a selfies and I get to meet
all these people and see them every year. And so yeah,
and listen, Rodeo. Rodeo is all about community. I think
that's kind of where you were going with that, too.
Is like Rodeo is it is, it's happening, and it's
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community and you know, it's just a beautiful thing. It's
a beautiful experience. So for people that don't know about rodeo,
you know, just check it out, just try it out,
and I'm sure you will be hooked.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, I can't wait for that too. And like I said,
we're gonna talk a little bit about more of that too.
And you got a big one coming up, the Red
Bluff Roundup, which is a three day Rodeo America's large
just right there too. Looking forward to talking about that too.
But I got gotta throw it to you here because
with that big event coming up for the Red Bluff
round Up there too, you got a little something for us.
And you got the guitar on standby right now, So
grab that guitar, and I want you to play a
(06:12):
little Yeah, play a little something for the people out
there too, because I think we're interesting to see. Like
you said, you go around, you kind of do those
little personal concert things, and let's take a selfie you
mentioned there on the guitar, I want to hear a
little something about Raz the Roaming Hillbilly, which I'm sure
the audience has come to expect.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So my friend, you want me to play it live?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I do, Yes, I do yes. Can you hear it?
You can hear it coming through it very well? Yes,
all right, I'll play it first and I'll talk about
this is for Red Bluff Panther. Well'ch you fancy it's gone?
You come up, brother, then me tell you it's a
big The truck Cup turn the two is a bit
(06:54):
of kit you ask you, the Red Love Rando.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Great love, that bootstop and energy again that three day
Rodeo or the Red Bluff Roundup coming up this weekend
in fact too, and the live I put a jingle
together too at the same time in this song.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's a high energy type of tune. Man, that really
just brings it to this particular event. Talk about this
because I know it's coming up this week too.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah. So, so a couple of things that the Red
Bluff Roundup is one of the largest rodeos, I would
say in the country, but certainly in California. And by
the way, for all your viewers and listeners, you know,
people think of California and they think whatever they think
about it, but they don't think rodeo usually and we
are so big here in California and rodeo as far
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as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association goes, we have our
own circuit. You know, there's different circuits across the country
for pro rodeo, and mostly like in the Midwest and
not there's like three or four states that make up
one circuit. California has so many pro rodeos that we're
our own circus, so big, big rodeo place, believe or not.
And the Red Bluff Round Up. This is one hundred
(08:11):
and fourth annual Red Bluff Round Up, so they've been around.
They're one of the biggest. And one of the things
they're the fans really like the rodeo fans is they
do this thing called a wild ride Brandon. So basically
what happens is they have a contest for all the cowboys,
the Bronc riders specifically, and on one of the days
they do the wild ride, and the Bronc riders all
dress up in these funny costumes, wigs and you know,
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look like women or whatever you want to look like,
and they ride those Bronc horses. So you know, you
don't just get on one of those horses and trot
out of the arena. I mean, those broncs are bucket, right.
So these cowboys are on there and and it's a contest.
Whoever stays on has the funniest outfit, they win extra money.
So that's, you know, one of many things that happens,
(08:55):
you know, at the Red Bluff round Up. Now, that
song right there, I wrote that with the Cowboy, a
cowboy I ad met back in twenty eighteen at a
different rodeo called the Motherload Roundup. And their rodeo is
coming up in mayet I'll be there next month, so
shout out to them. But with Blast Grimshaw was the
cowboys Dame. He's still a round young man, thirty something
and he's a he was a steer wrestler and I
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met him and we just decided to sit down one
day before Red buff and we were like, we love
that rodeo. He goes, let's write a song. And he
was a songwriter a little bit, and I played the
guitar and so we just put that together and the
rest is history. Now I gotta finish it actually recorded at.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Some point, but you're finishing touches on that too. If
record the rest of that too and put it out
there for the fans on all the different digital streaming platforms.
Out there again rez the Roaming Hill Billy Again, We're
gonna talk about it, a little bit of docuseries called
Born to Rome, capturing that wild and free life on
the radio road too. At the same time, he's got
some episodes up on his YouTube channel, He'll Billy Adventures.
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as many as we can out there. So you know,
we talked about this too, the events and how the
rodeo is so much community oriented, which I love out
there too. At the same time, for the favorite events
out there, there's something about the bull riding that captures
my just my heart, my soul, everything into it. At
a friend that was in bull riding for PBR for
a lot of years too, especially the one in Houston
and the one in San Antonio. That our two main
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rodeos here in Texas that I go to. But for you,
what event captures you as a fan?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, I certainly love the I certainly love the bull riding,
but I have to be honest with you, my favorite
is barrel racing. I love those barrel because those girls
get out there and they whip around those barrels so fast,
and then they come down that main stretch after the
third barrel back to the gate there, and that's to me,
that's super exciting, and you know, the times are so close,
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you know, and so I'd probably barrel racing. I'm a
big fan of barrel racing.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
To good with to they race, but say those girls
get out, those calgirls that do their thing out there,
and you're right to touch a barrel just to make
sure you don't get knocked over, but just trying to
get a glance and keep those things upright. And the
tricks they do with those horses. Man, Like I said,
how hard that is to work with an animal, to
be able to train an animal to do those type
of things, have those type of turns, and it's almost
just one of those that's got to be in sync, right, it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Does, it does, you know, And and for folks that
aren't that don't know much about rodeo, you know, they're
the rodeo livestock is very well taken care of, and
they're they're they are they're bred to do what they do.
And but part of it is genetics, so you know,
you'll find people the best, the best horses come from
a line of best the best horses, and there's people
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that raise and take care of those horses. So you're
at yeah, you're absolutely right that part of it is
definitely genetics. But they're athletes too. You know, when you
go to the rodeo and you watch these events, not
arrol raising, but bull riding and bronc writing, the animals
get judged and the cowboy writer gets judged. That everybody
starts with one hundred points and the judges go down
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from there. There's three judges, and so you're here scores
like seventy five or seventy four or eighty, which is
a really good score. And it's a combination of starting
with fifty points for the lifestock and fifty points for
the cowboy or calgirl. So it's they're both athletes and
they both get judged as you know athletes and combined
and makes a score. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Before we talk about this docu series two which is
out there too, Born to Rome Capturing that wild and
free life too on the Rodeo Road out there too again,
Rats joining us here at Roman Hip Billy on the
backstage pass. So want you get your opinion out there
on just some of the matters in country music right
here too. I love the fact that one thing here,
Vinyl records are making a comeback. Were you a big
fan of those vinyl records growing up?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm looking over here at my Hillbilly music ranch house
and there's my turntable and there's Johnny Cash Get Rhythm
Baby LP shit right there. So yeah, yeah, absolutely, And
I'm old enough that you know. I mentioned I played
trombone starting out in my musical career, and I studied
jazz trombone in college, and so I'd go down to
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the local, you know, used record store and I bought
every jazz trombone LP there was, because that's how you
learn that music, is you just study all who came
before you. So yeah, absolutely, love and I got the
vinyl still sitting here at the ranch house.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, it talks to a lot of artists here and there.
Actually you know what, Hey, they're putting it out in
the streaming and all the DSPs and how that's changed
it now. But man, vinyl something you hold in your hand,
you feel authentic and you look on the back of
lyrically they put all the lyrics in there too, and
it's one of those things. It really touches fans in
a certain way. Second part of that again, I gotta
go to is man this female movement right now? A
lot of these girls I've had these ladies that should
say I've had here on the program, from Ashley McBride
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to Carly Pearce to Lanny Wilson. Just I mean just
eating up out there with tremendous songwriting. Give me your
take on ellis actually cooked this female empowerment if you will,
for female country artists right now?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, you know, I think it's bad ass, you know,
A pardon the expression. Hopefully that doesn't get censors, but
it is. It is that way, you know, because they
you know, and like Lanny's a the you know, epitome
of it. It's like you know, just out there doing
the work, doing the work, showing up and just killing
it and and is and and is on fire as
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a style. You know what I'm saying. I mean, it's
powerful stuff and I love that and I love that
it it. They're having some such success in country music specifically,
so yeah, it's it's, it's I love it. I love
it for sure. Now I'm down here in Beaumont, Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You've probably heard that little town down here too, because
I just had Nancy Jones, the wife of the late
great George Jones, on with me a few weeks ago.
We got to talk about a great, great program, and
of course the new album The Lost Confessions out there
too that Reid remastered, remade some of the songs from
back in the day and all those great songs that
George put out.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It was a top career. I want to ask you too.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Because a lot of these shows now, in reality singing shows,
American Idol, The Voice AGT, America's Got Talent, things like
that are coming up with this and the selection of
artists that they're putting on. It seems like I mentioned
about Vinyl making a comeback, but I think those old
songs and I say, old songs, classic country will never
be forgotten. And I'm hearing a lot of Conway Twitty
right now. Is that surprising to you?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's not because if you I mean, you know, as
soon as you said that, I was like, I gotta
go listen, listen to me some more Conway Twitty because
I always come around to him at some point, you know,
and rock star and you know I I need to
learn a Conway twoty song too. So I know like
one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty songs. And my
whole craft is I take other people's music and I
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make it my own. I call it hillbilly it up.
And so I need to learn a Conway Twitty song.
I mean, also badass, I mean this country music. You
know for sure? I didn't for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Hey, I'll throw it out there. Well, I want you
to learn to come back and play for us here
on the air. Goodbye time.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
All right? Well do or the hello darling?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You know one of those. Hell, I know that's a
perfect son to deal.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You're right, all right, Let's talk for me to next
time out here. Let's talk a little bit about this
particular for this born to Rome. This docu series a huge,
huge impact out there to the YouTube channel for that.
I love this one too, the episodes out there and
loved eighty two daily episodes of Life on the Road
talk about this and how this really got started, the
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meat potatoes of this docu series.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, so it's on the Hillbelly YouTube channel. And so
as I mentioned, you know, I traveled to and from
these rodeos living in my Hillbelly truck campers. So, for instance,
last year, I went to my first rodeo in Montana,
the Livingston Round Them and then I went down to
Wyoming my first roadeo Wyoming, which was the Cody Night Rodeo,
which is a historic rodeo there. And I'm I'm on
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the West Coast, and so I low roll my travel Brandon.
I don't travel more than four or five hours max
of the day. And then I find gorgeous campsites a
stay at you know, where there's crieks and lakes and
rivers and mountains, and I've seek those out. And my
life is my everything that I do in my life,
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I basically share my Hillbelly life online and so all
those moments of living on the road you get to
come with me, and so that's the basis. That's basically
what that docu series is. So it's eighty two days
of me on the road last year on my twenty
twenty four Born to Rome tour, and it's all the
different places I went, all the rodeos. It also captures
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all the moments, like I said, people taking selfies and
videos and clips of us together at the rodeos. So
it captures all the rodeos do. And so if you
want to immerse yourself in the roman hillbelly vibe, go
watch that on my YouTube channel and you will walk
away going, I know the roman Hillbilly and that's a
pretty cool life he gets to live. And I am
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humblie blessed grace to be able to live it and
share the joy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Hey man, it's all about joy too, Like I said,
the world sometimes it's too negative out there too not
to enjoy the funny things.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I showed you look right there. So I asked my
life emotion, joy. Baby, you gotta share joy. That's it.
That's a big thing.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I make every moment count out there too, and make
those members again the roman Hillbilly dot Com out there too,
you guys give him a follow out there, and you
mentioned that YouTube channel go check that out too, and saying,
of course Red Bluff roundup coming up this weekend two
and you mentioned that joy you get out of this too,
because everybody would love to be in your shoes. I
know I'd be one of them too. I can't play
the guitar, but nor can I sing, but we can
entertain from a podcast radio Stam.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You do great at what you do well.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We try no doubt about it. We'll take our final
time out here again, Raz the Roman Hill Billy. Make
sure you give him a follow the Roman Hillbilly dot com.
We just love the name there too. We'll come back
and talk about how he came up with that name
out there too, and a whole lot more here too.
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Speaker 2 (20:44):
And of course at America's largest three day rodeo coming
up there too, coming up the Red Bluff Round up
back here with Raz the Roaming Hill Billy too as well.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Schedule to take place April.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Eighteenth to twentieth in California up there too, you guys,
make sure you guys get out there watching Rome, watch
him have fun with this, take heelfie with him on
the guitar as they you know, tell those life stories
out there and then impact that for that docu series
out here. Appreciate him being with us here the Backstage
Past powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot com. Hey,
when it comes to fun out there too, when you're
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not traveling and doing these things and roaming out there,
I want to ask you, what do you like to
do for fun. You know, my sanctuary is the gym,
and I stay in that very hard.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah okay, so I so we're aligned there. So fitness
is my number two passion behind music. In fact, in
twenty six I told you the story about twenty sixteen
when I got started as the Roman Hill Belly. I
was seriously brandon. I actually went and competed in a
physique competition, got the board, shorts on, got up on stage.
(21:44):
I'm an old guy, but I did it anyway because
I was I was. I love fitness. I got this
hashtag fitness for life, hashtag let's be fit right, So
fitness is a part of my life and I still
enjoy doing that. But what I was gonna say is
I at twenty six I because I did that phazy competition,
I thought about, like really pursuing that full time or music,
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and I got went back to music, and I'm glad
I did because here I am. But yeah, so fitness.
But but what brings me the most joy when I'm
not at the rodeos is still roaming but with my
girlfriend and our sweet little dog, our six year old dog,
Indy Boo, and my gal, Miss q Whizzle, Miss Holly,
and she's back coming to the ranch here after the
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Red Bluff round up. She's a merch vendor out there.
So shout out to Holly and the dog, and I'll
see you red Bluff. Maybe I love it, but we
we travel a lot in that camper, up and down
the coast and through the mountains, and the dog travels
with us and we so, you know, I get to
do it. I get to do it, you know, in
my life as the hillbeallet. But I also I just
I do it because I enjoy this country, this great land,
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the geography and everything. So that's I really enjoyed doing that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We really do live in the best place out there,
the United States of America, no doubt anybody that says differently, Hey,
you've not been out your fen door, and it's the
time you get out the front door.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I got me one of those campers too.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
We travel in it when we get a chance, thirty
eight foot of legro Bay Tiffin motor Home. And I
love it because you get up down the road, my
friend and I love the RV lifestyle and just the
KA campgrounds. I became a member of that years ago
and still today I love to go plug it up
and just have that camper life.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
There's nothing like it. Yeah, yeah, there's a you know,
a shot shout out to So my my camper is
made by four Wheel pop Up Campers. So it's a
truck camper. It pops up two feet above the cab
basically when you've set it up, but otherwise it is
down low about cab height. And so that's my four
Wheel pop Up Campers. They sponsored my tour a couple
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of years ago, so I'd like to shout out to them.
And then hip Camp. So for you all you r
v a r VARs, there's this it's like the Airbnb
for r veers and people have property and you can
go to hip Camp and I use it a lot.
In fact, I'm going tomorrow when I head up the
Red Bluff, I'm staying at a hip Camp location. And
all it is is is private people people with their
private property open ended up to r V ers all
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across the country. And the app is just like Airbnb
called Hipcamp, and you can find cool places to stay
wherever you go like Airbnb, and it's that easy to
use basically, So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Sure is the lifestyle is for you or it's not.
But for those who have those man motor homes at
campers and fifth wheels out there, it's always fun to
get out there and explore the great old us of
all the You got a rom you gotta roll, no doubt,
rock Yell didn't have a question here. I love this
because you and I have been there, obviously you more
than me. But I love going to and when it
comes to rodeo, she says, what can I expect at
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my first rodeo? She's never been. She's gonna go May
second in northern California. Yes, Racall said that, right, Yeah,
so I've gotta I'll chime in with my two cents,
but I want you to go first. What can she
expected her first rodeo?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, a big party. I mean, listen, I mean, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna kid you. I mean, you know,
it's excitement, It's it's inertainment. It's it's a professional sport.
Granted it's a professional sport. Are these cowboys you know,
the top of the top of the scale. Cowboys are
making millions of dollars doing this thing, not all of them,
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but that is that much money to be made. But
at the end of the day, the rodeo experience is
I mean it's it's community, but it's also as a
party and we just have a good time and it's uh,
don't take this the wrong way. There really aren't stupid
people at the rodeo either. You know, people don't get
crazy and there's no I've never seen a fight at
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a rodeo. I mean this is my ninth year doing it,
you know, So it's a cool place to go. It's
a family oriented place, that's probably why. But we drink
our share of course and course light and we have
so that would be That's what my Raquel, she's gonna
come to my hometown rodeo. I'm gonna take her to
her first rodeo, and I think that's what she's gonna
walk away, you know, feeling. But you know, teaches, what
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about you? What were you go?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What your echo those sentiments wholeheartedly? Because energy passion, Because
those pbr are those performers out there with bull riders
to every of those cowgirls and barrel racing to mutt
and busting, which kids love them. Trying to get my
daughter involved in that coming up next year too, which
sign up and win those belt buckles, two to saddle
brock riding to anything that you want. You mentioned family
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friendly atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Those are the three words I can say because we
just took took my family of a wife and my
daughter to the Houston Rodeo down here too, which brings
in millions of people every single year. Plus it's not
just the concerts. And now they're trying to blow that
one up a little bit bigger next year for twenty
twenty six, for like a super concert coming up there,
like on the final day to really just you know,
cap off a great, you know, twenty five day event.
(26:43):
San Antonio's got one out there, San Antonio stock showing
rodeo that's awesome down there too. So she can expect
a lot of things that really bring the energy, bring
the passion, because those passion evans you talk about, they're
very literate when it comes to knowing their events and
knowing their scores of the different events.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and listen, I gotta I gotta say
this while I'm thinking I'm gonna put out of the
universe right now. Because I'm a big believer in manifestation.
I need to be entertaining at the Houston Rodeo. I
need to be entertaining, Santo. Listen, I haven't been to
Texas yet, baby, I need to go to Texas. And
everybody tells me, and I'm sure you will reiterate this
once I do rodeo in Texas, there's like Hillbilly. Once
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you get to Texas and do rodeos in Texas and
you're not leaving because there's so many rodeos in Texas
to go out and entertain. Is that right? Is that sure?
You're accurate? Yes you are, because once you're down here too,
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We just had a guy inducted into the want to say,
one of the hall of Fames, a rodeo Hall of
Famer for Houston, a guy you've probably heard of two
as well, and he was always one of those great guys,
the clown and of course he stayed in the barrel
when it came to bull riding too, and he was
a bullfighter.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Leon Coffee, you've heard that name, right, Yep, absolutely great.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He's just one of those world famous guys. Just got
into the Hall of Fame for the Houston Rodeo. Down here,
love Leon. In the fact that he was a bullfighter
out there too, because you didn't want those cowboys getting
stepped on and poked by horns. And it's it's a
rough and tough game out there. Broken bones, land on
your back the wrong way, land on your face the
wrong way, and you have fractures and things like that,
and it could kill you. I mean, these events are
one of the things that out there, especially bull riding.
(28:11):
In an instant snap of a finger, my friend. You know,
it's one of those things where you've got to have
good people because it takes a whole team to make
this thing work.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean, and we will, we will send prayers and
thoughts because we just lost a bull rider two weeks ago,
and I wish I could say his name. I don't
remember it, but it is to your point, it's it's
a dangerous, dangerous sport and people people do god doing it.
So in fact, I will say not to make light
of that, but you know, I went to his birthday party,
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cowboy birthday party, and the guy was going to get
some steers and just have his friends, not necessarily cowboys,
get on and try your luck at you know, see
if you can stay on. I'm like, dude, I'm not
going to get on one of those things. I'm not
going to get on one of those things because what
will happen is, Brandon, here's what will happened. I'm an
old hillbilly. I will fall off, and I won't off
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hurt myself. I won't be on to get up and
run and that guy help me, you know what I'm saying,
So no, thank you. I tell the cowboys they're always
trying it. The broad is, they're always trying to get
me to do something on the horse or whatever. I'm like,
you know, no, you guys, do what you do. I
will sing the song. We'll just keep it like that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You've got the other form of entertainment. Let them do
their thing thing out there too. I'm not getting on
a bull either any time soon. I'd rather actually go
out there and shark dive and storkled with sharks in
a cage. And I wouldn't actually put my hand on
a rope around a bull. And you know the rest
of that story. So upset where that rope goes, which
we're not going to talk about here on this program.
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But at the same time, hey, if somebody was tugging
on you at the same time, they want to kick
you off too, because that is very impatient when it
comes to those bulls and those ropes around the waist too.
For those cowboys are good at what they do and
that's why they stick to it and they stay in
uh their lanes. All right, let's have a little fun
as we close the show. Of course, we're gonna have
to have you back after Red Bluff round Up and
all these rodeos happen over the next few weeks there too,
(30:02):
and play some more jingles and songs out there too.
At the same time, when it comes to food, I'm
a foodie just like the next person too. We love
the gym, but we love to eat too at the
same time, do you enjoy cooking eating out? A little
bit of both, and tell me what you like to
cook and what you like to eat out.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I am not much of a cooker, and God bless
Miss Holly my gal, because she's Italian and she's a
great cook. So I'm not much of a cooker. But
you know, some of my favorite foods are I absolutely
I'm on the West coast, California. I love Mexican food.
In fact, it's my tradition after every Rodeo and I
do twenty twenty five years. The day after I start
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my rest day, I always find puebos rancheros and Bloody
Mary in whatever town I'm in. I seek it out.
I seek it out. So A big fan of Mexican food.
Quabos Ranchero's. When I come back to the ranch from
the Rodeo, there's my little Mexican place where I get
my super State burrito, So I love that as well.
So yeah, a big fan of Mexican food. I don't cook.
(30:57):
I don't eat out alot though, either, because to the
fitness thing. And you know, I do this thing all
I'm on tour nine months out of the year, I'm
drinking beer, eating rodeo food. And then in my off season,
I do what I call get my sexy back Brandon.
I work, I go, I don't drink in November. I
pretty much don't drink in January, and I go to
the gym a lot more and I get back on
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that diet and I try to lose I call I
called the Rodeo coooch. I try to lose the beer pooch,
you know, for the Rodeos. So it's all about health,
eating as you know, right.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Which is tough to do these days, my friend, with
all the different fast lifestyles that were involved in out
there too, all right, When it comes to stay with
the food category, pizza, it was one of the ones
I had to give up because I love carbs. I mean,
who doesn't love carbons when it comes out there? But
I was a meat guy. The more meat you could
throw on it, the better it would be. And then,
of course, you know medical conditions, you can't eat that anymore.
You can't do this, but you're not gonna put it
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away entirely. What topics go on the Roaming Hill Billy pizza?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh well, I learned. I hope Holly's watching this because
you appreciate you can't put pineapple and you can't put
all these exotic So we're pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, and that's
the way to eat it. She cooks a meme pizza pie,
and I hope I get some of the next two
weeks when she comes to the ranch house. So keep
it simple, babe. You got to keep a simple, nothing exotic,
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nothing crazy, right there.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I have tried the whole Hawaiian pizza thing with the
pineapple and the ham and I'll say, Okay, Lukewarm, I'm
kind of iffy about it, but I'm with you on
the whole. Either you do it all veggie all the way,
or you go meat, or you put some kind of
veggies with meats. And that's the only three combinations that
I've ever known. Out there too as well, Hey, all
these great rodeos coming up over the next here twenty
twenty five. Talk about just some of the goals and
(32:40):
things that you want to accomplish. Obviously, the tour schedule
is always busy, but you mentioned about recording some music
out there too and putting it out there to the fans.
But personally some goals and the next step is we
get ready to the ladder part now of twenty twenty
five or the middle part here. What would you personally
like to accomplish in your tour?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Well, I so the interesting thing is that this hillbilly
life I'm living, it's it's it's who I am. I
do it full time, and it's me living as my
true self. There's a whole spiritual aspect of my life
as the Roman hillbilly. So I guess I say that
because what I do as the Roman Hillbilly is kind
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of is my personal that's what I do, you know,
and so my goal this year I brought on one
of the best pr gals in the business, mister Raquel,
and she's gonna help me expand the Hillbilly brand. And
that's why I appreciate everybody going out and subscribing to
the Hillbilly YouTube channel. We want to make a docu series.
I want to get somebody to fund me Living on
(33:39):
the Road and so everything you see on the Born
to Rome docuseries, we want to produce that high quality
and get it on Netflix and get it on Hulu. Uh,
just get the day in the life with the Roman
Hillbilly on the road. Let's get a docuseries professionally put together,
get it funded, and you know, next time, you know,
(34:00):
a year or two down the road. Brand. I would
love for you sitting at the house taking a break,
scroll and figuring out what you're going to watch on
the streaming services and you're like, oh, look, there's Rogan
Field Billy docu series on Netflix. That's a goal. That's
a goal. I love it. Herey Rocky el job.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
And then she goes a big ass publicity campaign and we
all want that when it comes down to it, so
I can wholeheartedly understand where he's coming from to and
I'd love to see that docu series out there on
one of the main streaming channels.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Out there too as well. All right, if you.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Were not the roaming hillbilly, what other career path would
you have taken as an occupation?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
That's a great question and hillbilly fun fact. So in
the middle third of my life sometime I lower my
voice when I say is I was a cybersecurity guide
at and T for twenty years? Wow? Okay, marinate on that.
You wouldn't have guessed that, would you have? Brandon? No?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Not with the the way the job is right now,
taking you on the roads all the rodeo's Anthony Hillbilly
out that y'all never would have known that.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
No, Nope, nope. But I you know what, God bless
at and T. You can think what you want about them,
but they I came into the company right when they
were phasing out the old school pensions. Nobody does pensions anymore,
and I didn't think much about it at the time
when I started with them. But I'll tell you what,
when this whole hillbilly thing started taking off, and I
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made a decision back in well, probably twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
after my first couple of years of hillbell and I'm like,
this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my life.
So I retired from that corporate gig in twenty twenty
because I could, because I got that hill billy pension,
that's what I call now. AT and T gave it
to me. Thank you, AT and T. But it's the
hillbilly pension, baby, So I get to do the hillbilly
(35:46):
full time, you know, in part because of you know,
AT and T. You hadn't given me that opportunity. I
put my time in, I did my dudes there twenty
five years, so I earned everything I got. But you know,
I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today if I
hadn't got that.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
If that makes sense, I love it too. It makes
a lot of sense, all right, last one we'll touch on.
We can definitely have you, have you back here on
the show. Love the entertainment piece of it too. I've
never forgotten a tattoo on my body. I have always
been scared of needles. But I will say this my
brother's trying to get me to go get one right now.
And of course it's got to be meaningful. It's got
to be something there where I can put my two
cents with it. Probably gonna put my daughter's name and
(36:19):
birthday on the certain part of the upper arm here
on the bicep or something like that, you, I should say,
on the tricep bearer right there on the shoulder. For you,
what's been your favorite tattoo to get is the Roman Hillbilly.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Look this now, this is brand new Hillbelly swag. Like that,
that's a hill Belly tattoo. I just got these made.
And if you you got to ask me for one
of these, I don't. I give away at the rodeos.
I give away my beer fridge magnets. It's a magnet.
I'll send you one brand. It's for your it's for
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your beer fridge, your truck, or your toolbox. I give
away stickers at the rodeos to the kids. Love these,
the Hillbelly sticker. But this, I'm glad you asked, is
the brand new Hillbelly tattoo, Limited quantities, limited edition. You've
got to seek me out at the rodeo and say
the code word hill Billy. I want I need the
hell Belly tattoo. So there you go. Of course I
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have this on the hand. That had to hurt right now. Yeah,
now people are yeah, people are like, why is it? Like,
I mean, when you're playing your guitar, you know, why
didn't you put it the other way around so people
could read it. I'm like, I got this because when
I started out, it was to remind me who I am.
(37:38):
I'm the Hillbelly and that's why I have that there
from day almost from day one, that was on there
because I wanted to I look down there, I'm a
big I'm a big you know, you know, manifestation guy.
You got to write it out, put it up on
the wall, and it will happen, right, But you got
to you gotta put it out there. So there you go,
(37:59):
and it's here. I I'm the Roman hill Belly.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Got to see it to believe it, no doubt about it.
In the same time and believe it to see it
come true for those goals and aspirations out there too
as well. The Roaming hill Belly dot Com and of
course Catching Red Bluff round up coming up this weekend
April eighteenth, to twentieth there in California, the great state
of California too, and all the great rodeos coming up
this year and giving you a follow across all the
(38:23):
social media and that website, the Roaming Hillbilly dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Ras Reynolds out there.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Ra's been a fun time to catch up here on
the backstage past, my friend, and looking forward to doing
this again and hopefully if you ever come to Texas
for some of these big rodeos, we definitely have to
meet up, havingus a glass of whiskey or whatever we
can find wine not a beer drinker, but at the
same time, we'd love to meet you in person, my friend.
Appreciate the time and being on the show today. We
appreciate it all right, brother.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Brand, appreciate you. God bless you keep doing what you do. Man,
thanks a lot, appreciate you. You got it, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
A few more shows to go this week, and of
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Award nominated a brand new album. We'll be talking to
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dot com. And please to welcome in. I mentioned entertainment,
the Roaming Hillbilly. I just love his names, Reynolds joining
us here on the show What's Upras.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm like excited, I'm gonna pop out of my chair.
I'm so excited to be on with you, Brandon. I
really appreciate you having me on, man, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's great, hey man, a pleasure to have you here too.
Let's get your backstory because I mentioned the Roaming hill Billy.
I just love that title from your name, raz too.
Let's talk about your background, the connect to music, and
when this whole thing kind of started to become a
performer at rodeos.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Talk about this, yeah, So I'll start by just letting
everybody know what I do, so the Roman Hillbeildy. I
do two things with my life. I'm a traveling musical entertainer,
primarily entertaining at rodeos. And I lived on my hillbelly
truck camper traveling in too and from those those rodeos,
and that kind of least. The second thing I do
with my life, which I'm on online content creator, Western
(01:26):
lifestyle influencer, and so I capture all the moments of
living on the road going to and from them rodeo,
so all across this great country of ours, and then
all the moments at the rodeo and it all ends
up on my Hillbelly YouTube channel or Instagram whatnot. So
that's what I do, boy, And how I got into it.
It's a bit of a story, but I've always played music.
(01:47):
I started playing when I was a kid. I played
trombone from elementary school. All the way up to college,
did rock band rock music in my twenties, took a
break in the middle third of my life and had
a family. I got two beautiful twenty something children, not
married anymore, but that's okay, and now here I am
in the back. I caught the back through of my life.
(02:08):
I got back into playing music through a buddy of mine.
We raised our kids together. He was from North Carolina
and he said, thus, jam and I'm like, brother, I
will jam with you. What kind of music would you
like to play? And he said, how about bluegrass? And
I said bluegrass. I said, I hadn't listened to bluegrass before.
I mean, listened to all these different styles of music,
(02:28):
but I listened to it Brandon, and I fell in
love with bluegrass music. I just it touched my heart,
touched my soul. I couldn't get enough of it. And
the next thing you know, we started a bluegrass band.
He sang and played the guitar like I did. So
we sang this cool two part harmony. We were pretty
good at it, learned twenty twenty five songs, and then
we started hiring pickers, fiddle players and ban Joe's and
(02:49):
dobro and all those things, and I was able to
get us gigs as the bluegrass band the Edgewood Mountain Boys.
As a matter of fact, Bran, Yeah, I'm sure you've
heard of them from West Union, California. And there's a
funny story there. But so that led to then in
twenty sixteen, I booked our bluegrass band at a little
junior rodeo on fourth of July on Woodside, California, and
(03:14):
I had as a performer, I had always liked roaming
out into the crowd anyway when I was playing the
bars back in the day and being up close with
people and just getting connected like that. And so I
asked the guy the rodeo, that little junior road I says, hey,
I says, can I just roam around the merch area
before my band plays and after just sing songs. He goes, yeah,
I do whatever you want, brother, and Brandon, that's it.
(03:36):
The rest is history. And now I'm in my ninth
year tour and as the Roman Hill Building, I'd do
it full time. I'm at twenty to twenty five rodeos
annually and I'm just humbly blessed grateful to be able
to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know, ain't the cool You mentioned that too, because
we just did the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo out there
too and went to see a few performers and the concerts,
and it just really embeds everything from an entertainment standpoint,
because if you look at it, it's not just a concert,
it's also people going there too that go to the
rodeo to watch the events or stay home watching on television.
But I think there's one thing for watching it on
(04:08):
TV and another thing ras being there in person to
catch the events live and then to kind of have
those pauses where they have some intermission and they have
some entertainment, but from the clowns, from the like I said,
Chuck Wagon races, to all the events that they do,
and the hell of the clowns because they make you
laugh at the same time, do I mean barrel racing everything.
It just really wraps it in a nutshell that the
(04:28):
rodeo is one of the places to be, like it's
like an escape for people, right it is, you know
it is?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And so just so folks, And by the way, I
want to give a shout out to all my hoebellies
that follow me that are watching right now because I
made a big puss. I says, y'all got to come
on here and support Brandon and support the show. And
by the way, see your old your favorite hillbellies. So
they're all out there. But what I do at the
Rodeo specifically, and you nailed it as far as all
the different high energy entertainment that we're blessed to have
(04:56):
it at the Rodeo, I what I do is a
little different, though. I wrote around the vendor merch area,
like I mentioned before, where they sell hats and shirts
and beer and food, and so people come out and
they get they buy all that stuff, go to bath
and whatever. And I'm out there singing a song with
my acoustic guitar. I just roam around the Rodeo ground,
you know, singing I call given personal concerts, Brandon. I
(05:19):
get to get connect with people up close. We take
my guitar, it says, it says, let's take a selfie.
So we take a selfies and I get to meet
all these people and see them every year. And so yeah,
and listen, Rodeo. Rodeo is all about community. I think
that's kind of where you were going with that, too.
Is like Rodeo is it is, it's happening, and it's
(05:40):
community and you know, it's just a beautiful thing. It's
a beautiful experience. So for people that don't know about rodeo,
you know, just check it out, just try it out,
and I'm sure you will be hooked.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, I can't wait for that too. And like I said,
we're gonna talk a little bit about more of that too.
And you got a big one coming up, the Red
Bluff Roundup, which is a three day Rodeo America's large
just right there too. Looking forward to talking about that too.
But I got gotta throw it to you here because
with that big event coming up for the Red Bluff
round Up there too, you got a little something for us.
And you got the guitar on standby right now, So
grab that guitar, and I want you to play a
(06:12):
little Yeah, play a little something for the people out
there too, because I think we're interesting to see. Like
you said, you go around, you kind of do those
little personal concert things, and let's take a selfie you
mentioned there on the guitar, I want to hear a
little something about Raz the Roaming Hillbilly, which I'm sure
the audience has come to expect.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So my friend, you want me to play it live?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I do, Yes, I do yes. Can you hear it?
You can hear it coming through it very well? Yes,
all right, I'll play it first and I'll talk about
this is for Red Bluff Panther. Well'ch you fancy it's gone?
You come up, brother, then me tell you it's a
big The truck Cup turn the two is a bit
(06:54):
of kit you ask you, the Red Love Rando.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Great love, that bootstop and energy again that three day
Rodeo or the Red Bluff Roundup coming up this weekend
in fact too, and the live I put a jingle
together too at the same time in this song.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's a high energy type of tune. Man, that really
just brings it to this particular event. Talk about this
because I know it's coming up this week too.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah. So, so a couple of things that the Red
Bluff Roundup is one of the largest rodeos, I would
say in the country, but certainly in California. And by
the way, for all your viewers and listeners, you know,
people think of California and they think whatever they think
about it, but they don't think rodeo usually and we
are so big here in California and rodeo as far
(07:50):
as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association goes, we have our
own circuit. You know, there's different circuits across the country
for pro rodeo, and mostly like in the Midwest and
not there's like three or four states that make up
one circuit. California has so many pro rodeos that we're
our own circus, so big, big rodeo place, believe or not.
And the Red Bluff Round Up. This is one hundred
(08:11):
and fourth annual Red Bluff Round Up, so they've been around.
They're one of the biggest. And one of the things
they're the fans really like the rodeo fans is they
do this thing called a wild ride Brandon. So basically
what happens is they have a contest for all the cowboys,
the Bronc riders specifically, and on one of the days
they do the wild ride, and the Bronc riders all
dress up in these funny costumes, wigs and you know,
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look like women or whatever you want to look like,
and they ride those Bronc horses. So you know, you
don't just get on one of those horses and trot
out of the arena. I mean, those broncs are bucket, right.
So these cowboys are on there and and it's a contest.
Whoever stays on has the funniest outfit, they win extra money.
So that's, you know, one of many things that happens,
(08:55):
you know, at the Red Bluff round Up. Now, that
song right there, I wrote that with the Cowboy, a
cowboy I ad met back in twenty eighteen at a
different rodeo called the Motherload Roundup. And their rodeo is
coming up in mayet I'll be there next month, so
shout out to them. But with Blast Grimshaw was the
cowboys Dame. He's still a round young man, thirty something
and he's a he was a steer wrestler and I
(09:15):
met him and we just decided to sit down one
day before Red buff and we were like, we love
that rodeo. He goes, let's write a song. And he
was a songwriter a little bit, and I played the
guitar and so we just put that together and the
rest is history. Now I gotta finish it actually recorded at.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Some point, but you're finishing touches on that too. If
record the rest of that too and put it out
there for the fans on all the different digital streaming platforms.
Out there again rez the Roaming Hill Billy Again, We're
gonna talk about it, a little bit of docuseries called
Born to Rome, capturing that wild and free life on
the radio road too. At the same time, he's got
some episodes up on his YouTube channel, He'll Billy Adventures.
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as many as we can out there. So you know,
we talked about this too, the events and how the
rodeo is so much community oriented, which I love out
there too. At the same time, for the favorite events
out there, there's something about the bull riding that captures
my just my heart, my soul, everything into it. At
a friend that was in bull riding for PBR for
a lot of years too, especially the one in Houston
and the one in San Antonio. That our two main
(11:30):
rodeos here in Texas that I go to. But for you,
what event captures you as a fan?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, I certainly love the I certainly love the bull riding,
but I have to be honest with you, my favorite
is barrel racing. I love those barrel because those girls
get out there and they whip around those barrels so fast,
and then they come down that main stretch after the
third barrel back to the gate there, and that's to me,
that's super exciting, and you know, the times are so close,
(12:01):
you know, and so I'd probably barrel racing. I'm a
big fan of barrel racing.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
To good with to they race, but say those girls
get out, those calgirls that do their thing out there,
and you're right to touch a barrel just to make
sure you don't get knocked over, but just trying to
get a glance and keep those things upright. And the
tricks they do with those horses. Man, Like I said,
how hard that is to work with an animal, to
be able to train an animal to do those type
of things, have those type of turns, and it's almost
just one of those that's got to be in sync, right, it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Does, it does, you know, And and for folks that
aren't that don't know much about rodeo, you know, they're
the rodeo livestock is very well taken care of, and
they're they're they are they're bred to do what they do.
And but part of it is genetics, so you know,
you'll find people the best, the best horses come from
a line of best the best horses, and there's people
(12:49):
that raise and take care of those horses. So you're
at yeah, you're absolutely right that part of it is
definitely genetics. But they're athletes too. You know, when you
go to the rodeo and you watch these events, not
arrol raising, but bull riding and bronc writing, the animals
get judged and the cowboy writer gets judged. That everybody
starts with one hundred points and the judges go down
(13:10):
from there. There's three judges, and so you're here scores
like seventy five or seventy four or eighty, which is
a really good score. And it's a combination of starting
with fifty points for the lifestock and fifty points for
the cowboy or calgirl. So it's they're both athletes and
they both get judged as you know athletes and combined
and makes a score. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Before we talk about this docu series two which is
out there too, Born to Rome Capturing that wild and
free life too on the Rodeo Road out there too again,
Rats joining us here at Roman Hip Billy on the
backstage pass. So want you get your opinion out there
on just some of the matters in country music right
here too. I love the fact that one thing here,
Vinyl records are making a comeback. Were you a big
fan of those vinyl records growing up?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm looking over here at my Hillbilly music ranch house
and there's my turntable and there's Johnny Cash Get Rhythm
Baby LP shit right there. So yeah, yeah, absolutely, And
I'm old enough that you know. I mentioned I played
trombone starting out in my musical career, and I studied
jazz trombone in college, and so I'd go down to
(14:14):
the local, you know, used record store and I bought
every jazz trombone LP there was, because that's how you
learn that music, is you just study all who came
before you. So yeah, absolutely, love and I got the
vinyl still sitting here at the ranch house.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, it talks to a lot of artists here and there.
Actually you know what, Hey, they're putting it out in
the streaming and all the DSPs and how that's changed
it now. But man, vinyl something you hold in your hand,
you feel authentic and you look on the back of
lyrically they put all the lyrics in there too, and
it's one of those things. It really touches fans in
a certain way. Second part of that again, I gotta
go to is man this female movement right now? A
lot of these girls I've had these ladies that should
say I've had here on the program, from Ashley McBride
(14:52):
to Carly Pearce to Lanny Wilson. Just I mean just
eating up out there with tremendous songwriting. Give me your
take on ellis actually cooked this female empowerment if you will,
for female country artists right now?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, you know, I think it's bad ass, you know,
A pardon the expression. Hopefully that doesn't get censors, but
it is. It is that way, you know, because they
you know, and like Lanny's a the you know, epitome
of it. It's like you know, just out there doing
the work, doing the work, showing up and just killing
it and and is and and is on fire as
(15:26):
a style. You know what I'm saying. I mean, it's
powerful stuff and I love that and I love that
it it. They're having some such success in country music specifically,
so yeah, it's it's, it's I love it. I love
it for sure. Now I'm down here in Beaumont, Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You've probably heard that little town down here too, because
I just had Nancy Jones, the wife of the late
great George Jones, on with me a few weeks ago.
We got to talk about a great, great program, and
of course the new album The Lost Confessions out there
too that Reid remastered, remade some of the songs from
back in the day and all those great songs that
George put out.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It was a top career. I want to ask you too.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Because a lot of these shows now, in reality singing shows,
American Idol, The Voice AGT, America's Got Talent, things like
that are coming up with this and the selection of
artists that they're putting on. It seems like I mentioned
about Vinyl making a comeback, but I think those old
songs and I say, old songs, classic country will never
be forgotten. And I'm hearing a lot of Conway Twitty
right now. Is that surprising to you?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's not because if you I mean, you know, as
soon as you said that, I was like, I gotta
go listen, listen to me some more Conway Twitty because
I always come around to him at some point, you know,
and rock star and you know I I need to
learn a Conway twoty song too. So I know like
one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty songs. And my
whole craft is I take other people's music and I
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make it my own. I call it hillbilly it up.
And so I need to learn a Conway Twitty song.
I mean, also badass, I mean this country music. You
know for sure? I didn't for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Hey, I'll throw it out there. Well, I want you
to learn to come back and play for us here
on the air. Goodbye time.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
All right? Well do or the hello darling?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You know one of those. Hell, I know that's a
perfect son to deal.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You're right, all right, Let's talk for me to next
time out here. Let's talk a little bit about this
particular for this born to Rome. This docu series a huge,
huge impact out there to the YouTube channel for that.
I love this one too, the episodes out there and
loved eighty two daily episodes of Life on the Road
talk about this and how this really got started, the
(17:34):
meat potatoes of this docu series.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, so it's on the Hillbelly YouTube channel. And so
as I mentioned, you know, I traveled to and from
these rodeos living in my Hillbelly truck campers. So, for instance,
last year, I went to my first rodeo in Montana,
the Livingston Round Them and then I went down to
Wyoming my first roadeo Wyoming, which was the Cody Night Rodeo,
which is a historic rodeo there. And I'm I'm on
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the West Coast, and so I low roll my travel Brandon.
I don't travel more than four or five hours max
of the day. And then I find gorgeous campsites a
stay at you know, where there's crieks and lakes and
rivers and mountains, and I've seek those out. And my
life is my everything that I do in my life,
(18:19):
I basically share my Hillbelly life online and so all
those moments of living on the road you get to
come with me, and so that's the basis. That's basically
what that docu series is. So it's eighty two days
of me on the road last year on my twenty
twenty four Born to Rome tour, and it's all the
different places I went, all the rodeos. It also captures
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all the moments, like I said, people taking selfies and
videos and clips of us together at the rodeos. So
it captures all the rodeos do. And so if you
want to immerse yourself in the roman hillbelly vibe, go
watch that on my YouTube channel and you will walk
away going, I know the roman Hillbilly and that's a
pretty cool life he gets to live. And I am
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humblie blessed grace to be able to live it and
share the joy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Hey man, it's all about joy too, Like I said,
the world sometimes it's too negative out there too not
to enjoy the funny things.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I showed you look right there. So I asked my
life emotion, joy. Baby, you gotta share joy. That's it.
That's a big thing.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I make every moment count out there too, and make
those members again the roman Hillbilly dot Com out there too,
you guys give him a follow out there, and you
mentioned that YouTube channel go check that out too, and saying,
of course Red Bluff roundup coming up this weekend two
and you mentioned that joy you get out of this too,
because everybody would love to be in your shoes. I
know I'd be one of them too. I can't play
the guitar, but nor can I sing, but we can
entertain from a podcast radio Stam.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You do great at what you do well.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We try no doubt about it. We'll take our final
time out here again, Raz the Roman Hill Billy. Make
sure you give him a follow the Roman Hillbilly dot com.
We just love the name there too. We'll come back
and talk about how he came up with that name
out there too, and a whole lot more here too.
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Speaker 2 (20:44):
And of course at America's largest three day rodeo coming
up there too, coming up the Red Bluff Round up
back here with Raz the Roaming Hill Billy too as well.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Schedule to take place April.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Eighteenth to twentieth in California up there too, you guys,
make sure you guys get out there watching Rome, watch
him have fun with this, take heelfie with him on
the guitar as they you know, tell those life stories
out there and then impact that for that docu series
out here. Appreciate him being with us here the Backstage
Past powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot com. Hey,
when it comes to fun out there too, when you're
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not traveling and doing these things and roaming out there,
I want to ask you, what do you like to
do for fun. You know, my sanctuary is the gym,
and I stay in that very hard.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah okay, so I so we're aligned there. So fitness
is my number two passion behind music. In fact, in
twenty six I told you the story about twenty sixteen
when I got started as the Roman Hill Belly. I
was seriously brandon. I actually went and competed in a
physique competition, got the board, shorts on, got up on stage.
(21:44):
I'm an old guy, but I did it anyway because
I was I was. I love fitness. I got this
hashtag fitness for life, hashtag let's be fit right, So
fitness is a part of my life and I still
enjoy doing that. But what I was gonna say is
I at twenty six I because I did that phazy competition,
I thought about, like really pursuing that full time or music,
(22:07):
and I got went back to music, and I'm glad
I did because here I am. But yeah, so fitness.
But but what brings me the most joy when I'm
not at the rodeos is still roaming but with my
girlfriend and our sweet little dog, our six year old dog,
Indy Boo, and my gal, Miss q Whizzle, Miss Holly,
and she's back coming to the ranch here after the
(22:27):
Red Bluff round up. She's a merch vendor out there.
So shout out to Holly and the dog, and I'll
see you red Bluff. Maybe I love it, but we
we travel a lot in that camper, up and down
the coast and through the mountains, and the dog travels
with us and we so, you know, I get to
do it. I get to do it, you know, in
my life as the hillbeallet. But I also I just
I do it because I enjoy this country, this great land,
(22:50):
the geography and everything. So that's I really enjoyed doing that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We really do live in the best place out there,
the United States of America, no doubt anybody that says differently, Hey,
you've not been out your fen door, and it's the
time you get out the front door.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I got me one of those campers too.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
We travel in it when we get a chance, thirty
eight foot of legro Bay Tiffin motor Home. And I
love it because you get up down the road, my
friend and I love the RV lifestyle and just the
KA campgrounds. I became a member of that years ago
and still today I love to go plug it up
and just have that camper life.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
There's nothing like it. Yeah, yeah, there's a you know,
a shot shout out to So my my camper is
made by four Wheel pop Up Campers. So it's a
truck camper. It pops up two feet above the cab
basically when you've set it up, but otherwise it is
down low about cab height. And so that's my four
Wheel pop Up Campers. They sponsored my tour a couple
(23:39):
of years ago, so I'd like to shout out to them.
And then hip Camp. So for you all you r
v a r VARs, there's this it's like the Airbnb
for r veers and people have property and you can
go to hip Camp and I use it a lot.
In fact, I'm going tomorrow when I head up the
Red Bluff, I'm staying at a hip Camp location. And
all it is is is private people people with their
private property open ended up to r V ers all
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across the country. And the app is just like Airbnb
called Hipcamp, and you can find cool places to stay
wherever you go like Airbnb, and it's that easy to
use basically, So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Sure is the lifestyle is for you or it's not.
But for those who have those man motor homes at
campers and fifth wheels out there, it's always fun to
get out there and explore the great old us of
all the You got a rom you gotta roll, no doubt,
rock Yell didn't have a question here. I love this
because you and I have been there, obviously you more
than me. But I love going to and when it
comes to rodeo, she says, what can I expect at
(24:36):
my first rodeo? She's never been. She's gonna go May
second in northern California. Yes, Racall said that, right, Yeah,
so I've gotta I'll chime in with my two cents,
but I want you to go first. What can she
expected her first rodeo?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, a big party. I mean, listen, I mean, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna kid you. I mean, you know,
it's excitement, It's it's inertainment. It's it's a professional sport.
Granted it's a professional sport. Are these cowboys you know,
the top of the top of the scale. Cowboys are
making millions of dollars doing this thing, not all of them,
(25:11):
but that is that much money to be made. But
at the end of the day, the rodeo experience is
I mean it's it's community, but it's also as a
party and we just have a good time and it's uh,
don't take this the wrong way. There really aren't stupid
people at the rodeo either. You know, people don't get
crazy and there's no I've never seen a fight at
(25:33):
a rodeo. I mean this is my ninth year doing it,
you know, So it's a cool place to go. It's
a family oriented place, that's probably why. But we drink
our share of course and course light and we have
so that would be That's what my Raquel, she's gonna
come to my hometown rodeo. I'm gonna take her to
her first rodeo, and I think that's what she's gonna
walk away, you know, feeling. But you know, teaches, what
(25:55):
about you? What were you go?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What your echo those sentiments wholeheartedly? Because energy passion, Because
those pbr are those performers out there with bull riders
to every of those cowgirls and barrel racing to mutt
and busting, which kids love them. Trying to get my
daughter involved in that coming up next year too, which
sign up and win those belt buckles, two to saddle
brock riding to anything that you want. You mentioned family
(26:18):
friendly atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Those are the three words I can say because we
just took took my family of a wife and my
daughter to the Houston Rodeo down here too, which brings
in millions of people every single year. Plus it's not
just the concerts. And now they're trying to blow that
one up a little bit bigger next year for twenty
twenty six, for like a super concert coming up there,
like on the final day to really just you know,
cap off a great, you know, twenty five day event.
(26:43):
San Antonio's got one out there, San Antonio stock showing
rodeo that's awesome down there too. So she can expect
a lot of things that really bring the energy, bring
the passion, because those passion evans you talk about, they're
very literate when it comes to knowing their events and
knowing their scores of the different events.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and listen, I gotta I gotta say
this while I'm thinking I'm gonna put out of the
universe right now. Because I'm a big believer in manifestation.
I need to be entertaining at the Houston Rodeo. I
need to be entertaining, Santo. Listen, I haven't been to
Texas yet, baby, I need to go to Texas. And
everybody tells me, and I'm sure you will reiterate this
once I do rodeo in Texas, there's like Hillbilly. Once
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you get to Texas and do rodeos in Texas and
you're not leaving because there's so many rodeos in Texas
to go out and entertain. Is that right? Is that sure?
You're accurate? Yes you are, because once you're down here too,
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We just had a guy inducted into the want to say,
one of the hall of Fames, a rodeo Hall of
Famer for Houston, a guy you've probably heard of two
as well, and he was always one of those great guys,
the clown and of course he stayed in the barrel
when it came to bull riding too, and he was
a bullfighter.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Leon Coffee, you've heard that name, right, Yep, absolutely great.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He's just one of those world famous guys. Just got
into the Hall of Fame for the Houston Rodeo. Down here,
love Leon. In the fact that he was a bullfighter
out there too, because you didn't want those cowboys getting
stepped on and poked by horns. And it's it's a
rough and tough game out there. Broken bones, land on
your back the wrong way, land on your face the
wrong way, and you have fractures and things like that,
and it could kill you. I mean, these events are
one of the things that out there, especially bull riding.
(28:11):
In an instant snap of a finger, my friend. You know,
it's one of those things where you've got to have
good people because it takes a whole team to make
this thing work.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean, and we will, we will send prayers and
thoughts because we just lost a bull rider two weeks ago,
and I wish I could say his name. I don't
remember it, but it is to your point, it's it's
a dangerous, dangerous sport and people people do god doing it.
So in fact, I will say not to make light
of that, but you know, I went to his birthday party,
(28:40):
cowboy birthday party, and the guy was going to get
some steers and just have his friends, not necessarily cowboys,
get on and try your luck at you know, see
if you can stay on. I'm like, dude, I'm not
going to get on one of those things. I'm not
going to get on one of those things because what
will happen is, Brandon, here's what will happened. I'm an
old hillbilly. I will fall off, and I won't off
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hurt myself. I won't be on to get up and
run and that guy help me, you know what I'm saying,
So no, thank you. I tell the cowboys they're always
trying it. The broad is, they're always trying to get
me to do something on the horse or whatever. I'm like,
you know, no, you guys, do what you do. I
will sing the song. We'll just keep it like that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You've got the other form of entertainment. Let them do
their thing thing out there too. I'm not getting on
a bull either any time soon. I'd rather actually go
out there and shark dive and storkled with sharks in
a cage. And I wouldn't actually put my hand on
a rope around a bull. And you know the rest
of that story. So upset where that rope goes, which
we're not going to talk about here on this program.
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But at the same time, hey, if somebody was tugging
on you at the same time, they want to kick
you off too, because that is very impatient when it
comes to those bulls and those ropes around the waist too.
For those cowboys are good at what they do and
that's why they stick to it and they stay in
uh their lanes. All right, let's have a little fun
as we close the show. Of course, we're gonna have
to have you back after Red Bluff round Up and
all these rodeos happen over the next few weeks there too,
(30:02):
and play some more jingles and songs out there too.
At the same time, when it comes to food, I'm
a foodie just like the next person too. We love
the gym, but we love to eat too at the
same time, do you enjoy cooking eating out? A little
bit of both, and tell me what you like to
cook and what you like to eat out.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I am not much of a cooker, and God bless
Miss Holly my gal, because she's Italian and she's a
great cook. So I'm not much of a cooker. But
you know, some of my favorite foods are I absolutely
I'm on the West coast, California. I love Mexican food.
In fact, it's my tradition after every Rodeo and I
do twenty twenty five years. The day after I start
(30:37):
my rest day, I always find puebos rancheros and Bloody
Mary in whatever town I'm in. I seek it out.
I seek it out. So A big fan of Mexican food.
Quabos Ranchero's. When I come back to the ranch from
the Rodeo, there's my little Mexican place where I get
my super State burrito, So I love that as well.
So yeah, a big fan of Mexican food. I don't cook.
(30:57):
I don't eat out alot though, either, because to the
fitness thing. And you know, I do this thing all
I'm on tour nine months out of the year, I'm
drinking beer, eating rodeo food. And then in my off season,
I do what I call get my sexy back Brandon.
I work, I go, I don't drink in November. I
pretty much don't drink in January, and I go to
the gym a lot more and I get back on
(31:18):
that diet and I try to lose I call I
called the Rodeo coooch. I try to lose the beer pooch,
you know, for the Rodeos. So it's all about health,
eating as you know, right.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Which is tough to do these days, my friend, with
all the different fast lifestyles that were involved in out
there too, all right, When it comes to stay with
the food category, pizza, it was one of the ones
I had to give up because I love carbs. I mean,
who doesn't love carbons when it comes out there? But
I was a meat guy. The more meat you could
throw on it, the better it would be. And then,
of course, you know medical conditions, you can't eat that anymore.
You can't do this, but you're not gonna put it
(31:50):
away entirely. What topics go on the Roaming Hill Billy pizza?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh well, I learned. I hope Holly's watching this because
you appreciate you can't put pineapple and you can't put
all these exotic So we're pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, and that's
the way to eat it. She cooks a meme pizza pie,
and I hope I get some of the next two
weeks when she comes to the ranch house. So keep
it simple, babe. You got to keep a simple, nothing exotic,
(32:17):
nothing crazy, right there.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I have tried the whole Hawaiian pizza thing with the
pineapple and the ham and I'll say, Okay, Lukewarm, I'm
kind of iffy about it, but I'm with you on
the whole. Either you do it all veggie all the way,
or you go meat, or you put some kind of
veggies with meats. And that's the only three combinations that
I've ever known. Out there too as well, Hey, all
these great rodeos coming up over the next here twenty
twenty five. Talk about just some of the goals and
(32:40):
things that you want to accomplish. Obviously, the tour schedule
is always busy, but you mentioned about recording some music
out there too and putting it out there to the fans.
But personally some goals and the next step is we
get ready to the ladder part now of twenty twenty
five or the middle part here. What would you personally
like to accomplish in your tour?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Well, I so the interesting thing is that this hillbilly
life I'm living, it's it's it's who I am. I
do it full time, and it's me living as my
true self. There's a whole spiritual aspect of my life
as the Roman hillbilly. So I guess I say that
because what I do as the Roman Hillbilly is kind
(33:17):
of is my personal that's what I do, you know,
and so my goal this year I brought on one
of the best pr gals in the business, mister Raquel,
and she's gonna help me expand the Hillbilly brand. And
that's why I appreciate everybody going out and subscribing to
the Hillbilly YouTube channel. We want to make a docu series.
I want to get somebody to fund me Living on
(33:39):
the Road and so everything you see on the Born
to Rome docuseries, we want to produce that high quality
and get it on Netflix and get it on Hulu. Uh,
just get the day in the life with the Roman
Hillbilly on the road. Let's get a docuseries professionally put together,
get it funded, and you know, next time, you know,
(34:00):
a year or two down the road. Brand. I would
love for you sitting at the house taking a break,
scroll and figuring out what you're going to watch on
the streaming services and you're like, oh, look, there's Rogan
Field Billy docu series on Netflix. That's a goal. That's
a goal. I love it. Herey Rocky el job.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
And then she goes a big ass publicity campaign and we
all want that when it comes down to it, so
I can wholeheartedly understand where he's coming from to and
I'd love to see that docu series out there on
one of the main streaming channels.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Out there too as well. All right, if you.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Were not the roaming hillbilly, what other career path would
you have taken as an occupation?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
That's a great question and hillbilly fun fact. So in
the middle third of my life sometime I lower my
voice when I say is I was a cybersecurity guide
at and T for twenty years? Wow? Okay, marinate on that.
You wouldn't have guessed that, would you have? Brandon? No?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Not with the the way the job is right now,
taking you on the roads all the rodeo's Anthony Hillbilly
out that y'all never would have known that.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
No, Nope, nope. But I you know what, God bless
at and T. You can think what you want about them,
but they I came into the company right when they
were phasing out the old school pensions. Nobody does pensions anymore,
and I didn't think much about it at the time
when I started with them. But I'll tell you what,
when this whole hillbilly thing started taking off, and I
(35:24):
made a decision back in well, probably twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
after my first couple of years of hillbell and I'm like,
this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my life.
So I retired from that corporate gig in twenty twenty
because I could, because I got that hill billy pension,
that's what I call now. AT and T gave it
to me. Thank you, AT and T. But it's the
hillbilly pension, baby, So I get to do the hillbilly
(35:46):
full time, you know, in part because of you know,
AT and T. You hadn't given me that opportunity. I
put my time in, I did my dudes there twenty
five years, so I earned everything I got. But you know,
I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today if I
hadn't got that.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
If that makes sense, I love it too. It makes
a lot of sense, all right, last one we'll touch on.
We can definitely have you, have you back here on
the show. Love the entertainment piece of it too. I've
never forgotten a tattoo on my body. I have always
been scared of needles. But I will say this my
brother's trying to get me to go get one right now.
And of course it's got to be meaningful. It's got
to be something there where I can put my two
cents with it. Probably gonna put my daughter's name and
(36:19):
birthday on the certain part of the upper arm here
on the bicep or something like that, you, I should say,
on the tricep bearer right there on the shoulder. For you,
what's been your favorite tattoo to get is the Roman Hillbilly.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Look this now, this is brand new Hillbelly swag. Like that,
that's a hill Belly tattoo. I just got these made.
And if you you got to ask me for one
of these, I don't. I give away at the rodeos.
I give away my beer fridge magnets. It's a magnet.
I'll send you one brand. It's for your it's for
(36:52):
your beer fridge, your truck, or your toolbox. I give
away stickers at the rodeos to the kids. Love these,
the Hillbelly sticker. But this, I'm glad you asked, is
the brand new Hillbelly tattoo, Limited quantities, limited edition. You've
got to seek me out at the rodeo and say
the code word hill Billy. I want I need the
hell Belly tattoo. So there you go. Of course I
(37:17):
have this on the hand. That had to hurt right now. Yeah,
now people are yeah, people are like, why is it? Like,
I mean, when you're playing your guitar, you know, why
didn't you put it the other way around so people
could read it. I'm like, I got this because when
I started out, it was to remind me who I am.
(37:38):
I'm the Hillbelly and that's why I have that there
from day almost from day one, that was on there
because I wanted to I look down there, I'm a
big I'm a big you know, you know, manifestation guy.
You got to write it out, put it up on
the wall, and it will happen, right, But you got
to you gotta put it out there. So there you go,
(37:59):
and it's here. I I'm the Roman hill Belly.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Got to see it to believe it, no doubt about it.
In the same time and believe it to see it
come true for those goals and aspirations out there too
as well. The Roaming hill Belly dot Com and of
course Catching Red Bluff round up coming up this weekend
April eighteenth, to twentieth there in California, the great state
of California too, and all the great rodeos coming up
this year and giving you a follow across all the
(38:23):
social media and that website, the Roaming Hillbilly dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Ras Reynolds out there.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Ra's been a fun time to catch up here on
the backstage past, my friend, and looking forward to doing
this again and hopefully if you ever come to Texas
for some of these big rodeos, we definitely have to
meet up, havingus a glass of whiskey or whatever we
can find wine not a beer drinker, but at the
same time, we'd love to meet you in person, my friend.
Appreciate the time and being on the show today. We
appreciate it all right, brother.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Brand, appreciate you. God bless you keep doing what you do. Man,
thanks a lot, appreciate you. You got it, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
A few more shows to go this week, and of
course next week Grammy Award winners, and of course Grammy
Award nominated a brand new album. We'll be talking to
the great Bobby Rush and any Wayne Shepard here on
the backstage pass and of course a lot of great
shows coming up over the next few weeks, the Ras Reynolds,
the Roman Hillbilly and the Backstage Pass. Appreciate all the
work there affiliates do KYBN ninety eight point one, KKTC
(39:12):
True Country ninety nine point nine, and of course Tarheel
Worldnetwork dot Org out there too, KISW Country and of
course you can hear the show coming up over the weekend,
coming up to promote that Red Bluff round up there
across all those affiliates out there. If you missed our
video interview over the past a few thirty minutes or so,
out there too, We'll talk to you guys on the
other side. God bless, Take care, We'll see you soon.
(39:32):
It is the Backstage Pass powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Take care, We'll see soon.
Speaker 7 (39:39):
Hey all, this is Texas Country artist Josh Abbott and
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