Raelyn Nelson is Country Royalty
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That's how I feel. Like, I'm so excited to get you on. Ever since the first night I met her, I was like, I have got to get you on my podcast. Raelynn Nelson, how are you doing? Thank you for having me. I'm doing so well. I'm so happy you're here. So we met at, Daddy was doing something with Josh Wolfe, right? Yeah. Yeah, and you were there that night too. At Zany's. Yep, at Zany's. Josh Wolfe was on the podcast too. He is so fucking funny. How is one human that fucking hilarious? I don't know. I don't know.

He's so funny. And, you know, we've gone... Both of us have gone to several of his shows. Yeah. Even if you hear the same jokes, I'm still laughing. Yeah, no. He sat here on our couch while at our old studio and fucking...

I mean, the dude could just talk about his day. And it's so funny the way that he explains it. Like his mind is beautiful. Yeah. He has a beautiful mind. How long have you known Josh? Did you know him? So we met in March. Oh, okay. Awesome. They just moved. I know. To Vegas, my hood. Are you guys going to leave?

No, are you kidding me? My husband is born and bred here. He talks about leaving all the time. Like the other day, he was like, babe, I just want to go retire somewhere on a beach. And I'm like, I love you, honey, but why don't we do a vacation home? Because I'm going to get your ass somewhere. And then fucking three months later, you're going to run back. Well, honestly, it's great here March through December. And then January, February is just too fucking cold.

Yeah, no, it's terrible. Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's too fucking cold. Yeah. So why not go to the vacation home for those two months? You feel like you live there and then you miss home and come back. I get, I've never had depression. And since I moved here two years, oh, well, I've been here six years, but two years ago, I think I got what was called, they call seasonal depression. And I have been trying to figure it out, man. I have tips on that because I have seasonal depression too, but it's because my dad actually died.

on Christmas Eve. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. As soon as it gets cold here, which is pretty late in the year for us, especially now with global warming, I start to get that feeling of, I would just rather just lay around and not get anything done. Just feeling really sad. But okay, here's the tips that I can give you that have helped. Wear sunscreen because of the smell. Wow, because of the smell.

And it makes you feel like you're going to be out in the sun all day. Wow. It makes you feel like you're on a beach, right? No, I believe it. Yeah. Listen to beachy songs. Okay. The Beach Boys is a good one to go to. But any kind of island-y reggae is always a good one too. Yeah. Okay.

And then the third one is keep green plants around in the house. I love that. And you know what? Can I just, I have to tell you, I have tried to grow some plants in the house. It's a succulents. It's a, what's a, which, what is a succulent? Like the cactuses and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. And you do there. Some of them look kind of aloe vera. Yeah.

I thought a sunflower was going to be easy to take care of. I've had three, and they've all died. It's a joke. It's a running joke in my house that I want to have plants so bad, but I just do not have a green thumb. Everybody laughs. I try. Raelynn, for people who don't know who you are. Okay, my grandpa is the coolest grandpa in the world. Dude. And it's funny. You know, I just...

I just texted him. I text him all the time. I'm like, you're the fucking coolest. Look at this. And I don't know if you ever heard of Nikki Glaser. Oh, yeah. I love her. Yeah, she's coming on. Andrew Collin. Yep. So I love her too. And on their podcast wall, she, of course, has Taylor Swift and Andrew had Willie Nelson up there. So, you know, I sent him a picture of it and I'm like zooming into his picture. Like, you're the fucking cool.

coolest so grandpa is willie nelson for everybody who does not know yeah i mean he's so humble he was just like i love you raylan you know he just he won't feed into the the hype ego at least not with me he doesn't my husband idolizes him like jelly jelly calls himself willie nelson like they uh him and his best friend struggle jennings is waylon jennings grandson yeah so they have these albums that they do called waylon and willie what's his real name

Is it his real name? Well, his name that he sings by is Struggle Jennings, but his real name is William Harness. I was just trying to figure out if I've met him because I don't think I have. Maybe Jesse Coulter is his grandmother, I believe. So, yeah. So that's how they're all tied in and like Shooter and all them. Yeah. So that's Jelly's best friend that he's grown up with. So they have a series of albums. They have all the way through four, one through four, and they're

Waylon and Willie. I'll have to send them to you so you can hear them, but they've redone Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, but they've done like an updated kind of like rap version of it. I would love to hear that. Oh my God. Yeah, Jay loves your grandfather. I wonder if Papa Willie has heard. I'll send it to him. I will for sure. He'll love that. Jay would absolutely die if fucking Willie Nelson even knew he was a human being. Because my grandpa's done stuff with Snoop Dogg.

which I also think is the coolest. Oh my God. If we could get a jelly roll, Willie Nelson collab, that would be insane. But yeah. Um, so grandpa's willing, what is it like growing up with him as your grandfather? Is it kind of a shadow that you can't like get out from underneath or do you appreciate it? And I only ask that because our daughter is going through a phase right now where, you know, wanting to do music. Well, at first it was like, Oh,

my dad's jelly roll. I can't stand it. I don't want to have anything to do with it. And now she's kind of embracing it more. So does everybody go through that? She's 13. So now does, does everybody go through that when they have like a, you know, a celebrity in their family where it's like, you kind of like shun it at first and then you accept it or have you just always accepted it and been like, that's my grandpa and just owned it? I think it's that.

Because... And it might be different being the daughter versus the granddaughter. Right. The generation removed. He's just always been so... I've never seen him mad at me. No. You know what I mean? Yeah. He has never told me no. Right. You know? He's...

He's the coolest and the best, you know? Oh, I love that. So I think I've always accepted it. Yes, it's a big shadow and people definitely expect something about your music when you are Willie Nelson's granddaughter. Right. And my music is not like his music. Yeah, let's get into that. So you are a musician yourself. Yes. Okay. And what type, for people who don't know, like what type of music do you sing? So it's kind of like country garage rock. Yeah. Yeah.

and uh i love that yeah rolling stone country is the first who said that yeah which i loved and i was like yes let's go with that yeah and every anytime i say that to someone they're like there's no such thing as that i'm like well you know well you can make it your own yeah and you kind of have to be different in this town everybody's amazing everybody's a fucking musician everybody's a great songwriter yeah that's how it is in la too yeah it's

Yeah. And so you have to be different in some way. And I think that the garage rock definitely, which I am the country. I'm not necessarily the garage rock, although I've learned to fuck.

fucking love it yeah i dove into joan jett and the clash and runaways and love joan the pretenders love the pretenders i mean just all this um really awesome like feminine pat benatar all them yes yes and got to meet some of the their band members too just living in nashville

And I got to meet Joan Jett here. Have you met her yet? No, I haven't. I would probably die. And I'm not a fangirl for like anybody, but like older, for some reason, the older generation of women, I just have so much respect for them. You know, like they literally ran so that we could walk, you know, just strong ass women. Stevie Nicks, fucking just all of them, dude. Even down to like Carly Simon, like everybody was just so. I want to be just like all of them.

Me too. Me too. I love Stevie Nicks. Like, I will fucking cry. Can we turn the heat off, Mimi? It is fucking toasty in here. We're trying to find a balance in here, like, because this is our new studio. So it's either really fucking cold or really muggy. We just can't find that happy medium yet. It's also Tennessee.

Yeah. They're hot and cold and hot and cold. Bipolar for sure. So have you always been in to music like just because you were born into it? So did you wake up like or did you were you born like playing the guitar and just came out singing or was it something that you had to like acquire? I did come out singing. My mom said I came out singing and I have memories of my grandpa singing Jingle Bells and On the Road Again with me. It was one of the first songs.

that I knew. And I remember that I would come up with melodies in my head, but I didn't quite know that I was writing the song. You know, just singing little things, not even around the house. I don't know if anybody else does that. You're just singing about whatever you're doing. Yeah, for sure. Oh, I'm going to the bathroom. I don't know. I grew up with a studio in my house because my dad's a musician, so I totally understand it. I would literally write songs and put on concerts for the neighbors. Yes. Like when I was growing up. Do you still write songs? No.

No, I don't. That's never been really my passion, like singing and stuff like that. I do it now because I can and like it's just something to do for content for me. But I'm more of like an entertainer, you know, like let me show you my tits or something. Yeah.

You know, like I'd rather entertain people or make them laugh or like heal people. That's what I love doing, you know. And whereas Jay, he's the artist in our relationship. He's the musician. He's the one that, you know, he heals people through his music. I like to heal people through just, you know, my podcast and stuff like that. Yeah. I love feeling sexy too. I think that's something that they help pave the way to, you know. Absolutely. I think about them and I never feel bad about –

showing off my midriff or, you know, what little tits I have or whatever, you know, my legs. My mom told me, and my mom's super holy roller, but she told me, she's like, you should always show a little leg. Oh, yeah, I love that. So if you have to, you're on stage, you have to. Yeah, no, for sure. And it's just like...

That feminine force in all of us that you have to feel sexy. Absolutely. And you have to show confidence. Feminine energy, just that feminine divine energy or however it's explained. So your music, when did you start like really writing and like focusing on it and like saying like, okay, this is what I want to do. So I always took voice lessons or was in show choir and that sort of thing.

And when I was real little, my mom kept me pretty sheltered, like I said, Holy Roller. So it was just old country or gospel Christian music. Me too. Oh my God, I love Amy Grant. Have you ever heard of the Christian singer Jennifer Knapp?

I have not, but I was like into Crystal Lewis, DC talk, all that. I was raised in a extremely religious Pentecostal house. Okay. Yeah. So, okay, good. Yeah. So I get it. Look at us now. I'm just rebels. This is why nobody should grow up. Yeah, no, this is why I always talk about religious trauma. I'm huge about talking about religious trauma, but that's a whole nother subject. And that's healing for all of us who went through that. Absolutely. Oh yeah. No, for sure. Um,

But anyway, she is the first LGBTQ Christian singer. She wasn't originally. She didn't come out until way later into her career. She probably couldn't because back in... How old are you? 90s and stuff. I'm 37. But I identify as a 27-year-old.

- Hello, baby. I am on the internet eternally, 26, but I'll be 42 in January. So I get it. - No way. - Yeah, swear. - Well, your spirit and you look, do not look in your forties. - I love you so much. It was all the drugs and alcohol that I did whenever I was younger. - That's what I do too. - But yeah, but her, but in our gen, back in our day, you couldn't just come out and be like, hey, I'm a Christian singer and I'm a lesbian. They would never have allowed that. Whereas now it's more accepted.

Apparently so. Not. She's still doing Christian music. And still, and I've, she does a 30A Songwriter Festival and we do it every year too. We're going to do it. It's in the end of January in 30A Florida. Oh, fine. So I'm hoping to see her again because I grew up loving her. Yeah. That's really cool that you actually get to chill with like one of your, was she like an idol growing up? Yeah, she was an idol.

She inspired you. She was a Christian guitar player, singer, songwriter. And I had her songwriter book. Mom got it for me. And my grandpa actually sent me my first guitar at 14 years old. I decided I wanted to learn to play guitar. Yeah. So that's when I actually started learning and didn't really start piecing together songs until after I had children. And I was stuck at home nursing babies and stuff. I did not know you had kids. How did I miss that? My boys are almost 15. Holy moly.

Holy, you don't even like, dude, you're so hot. Like they're twins. Yes. You're like so tiny too. Thank you so much. That's crazy. Yeah. I definitely worked hard to get back to the body after the twins. You're beautiful. You don't, you don't look really big. You don't look like you have teenage boys. It was 14 years ago though. Yeah. But still that, you know, like you just don't, you just look so young to me. Doesn't she look young? Yeah.

It's crazy. Like even when you told me you were 37, I was thinking that you were going to say 27. Well, that's what I identified. No, I get it. Trust me. It's totally 27. And then I have a daughter too that's 12. Oh. I'll pray for you. Yeah. Because I've got the 13-year-old. It's just now getting into where I'm like, are we still best friends?

Oh, no. You guys will be best friends one week and then the next week you guys will be at each other's throat and then the next week you guys will be best friends. The only thing I can advise, and I'm a stepmom, I'm not even a biological mom, is communication. If you feel like they're off a little bit, just be like, hey, man, why don't you write me a letter and tell me how you feel? Because...

With Bailey, she doesn't she's not good at communicating face to face, but she'll text. And I hate that. I think texting is so emotionally separated. So I'm like, write me a letter. And then when she writes me the letter, I have her read it in front of me. So that way she can get it all out and then we can talk about it. I've learned that that's extremely important with little girls.

That is such a therapist thing to do. Yeah, maybe I've read a lot of therapy books, but I've just found that it works for us, you know, so, you know, whenever you guys do, if you ever get to that point and you need to talk. That's a great idea. That's just a little tidbit from. And then you can check out their, how their grammar situation. Yeah. Well, I don't,

read it myself. I just have her read it to me so that we can get through it. So you started playing the guitar when you had your babies and stuff like that. I started writing songs then. And then I was trying to find a place to record these songs. And through the weed guy, I actually met my guitar player and music partner, JB. Awesome. And he's like, I have a studio and I'll only charge you 50 bucks, you know? So I go over there and

By the end of it, I almost had to force him to take the money. By the end of it, he was like, no, let's get together and just write some songs, finish the ones you have, arrange it. We'll put together a combo. And just from then on, we started doing that. And it took a few years to even figure out what we were doing. We thought it was going to be like Stone Cold Country. The first thing we did had a washtub bass. He was literally playing the washtub bass. And it was just...

uh super super folk and old-timey country but then like bluegrass kind of but his thing is rock yeah everything he's done was rock and his bandmates were rock so when um my grandpa started sending him stuff we were doing he was like you need to get a band together

And by like the fourth or fifth time, he's like, do you have a band? I was like, JP, we need to put a band together. Grandpa's like, you need a band. You need a band. Grandpa is not playing. So he grabbed his rock and roll buddies. We start the band and then put out an EP. So that the first EP was 2014. Yeah.

And then we put out an album in November of 20. And we put a couple things out, like another album out. But then our last album that we put out was in November of 2019, right before the pandemic hit. Awesome. So it just felt like it flopped because we couldn't really tour and do. Yeah. Promote it at all.

Yeah. No, I feel like musicians took the biggest hit in 2020 because you're like, you know, our livelihood and speaking for my husband and our family too, is getting out on the road, shaking hands and kissing babies, you know, like that's what you guys got to do. Yeah.

What did you do whenever 2020 hit? Were you able to just like lock it, lock away, lock yourself away and just write music or like, did you use it as a creative outlet? Well, I write songs based on what's going on. And I did not want to write anything about COVID and what was going on. No, for sure. I think Luke Combs is the only person who succeeded in that when he did Six Feet Apart. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah.

I just remember where I worked on, I was working on songs that I had started beforehand. Yeah. Really only just in this year finished them. Yeah. I don't know why. It's a process. It is. And I don't, I don't force songwriting. You can't. I'm someone pays me money. Right. Yeah. But, uh, as far as my stuff goes, I, I,

I let it come to me. Yeah. No, that's how my husband is. Yeah? Yeah. Because you know it will. You can't force him, yeah, to get in the studio. He has literally features just stacked up because it's like he'll get to him when he has that feeling to do it. Like he can't just go in and do something if he's not, if his heart's not in it. Yeah. Yeah. You have to know it's,

time and also maybe have to live a little bit of something to really know how it'll play out to figure out what the message of the song is yeah for sure started it um and then other times I uh like my song brother I wrote about a tv show I was watching where her brothers were mad of this guy for cheating on her you know so the brother started going after the guy that cheated on her yeah I was like oh that'd be

cute song I don't think there's a song about the brother going after the guy so and then you know sometimes it's like that what an awesome place to get inspiration from though yeah a TV show that I was just binge watching yeah in bed doing nothing but getting high and watching you know but and also those are fun okay so you know um

titles of or the episodes sometimes they'll try to make them cheeky right of different tv shows those are fun song lyrics sometimes i'll just like if there's a good one i'll write it down i'm like that might go in a song sometime yeah no i love that there's like little tools you can pull from our other art yeah oh absolutely and uh and write it or even like a conversation in a movie yep

Something is said and you're like that there's a song there. I did that with Jay the other night. We were watching Shameless and I forget what it was. He could probably fucking remember, but they said something and I was like, dude, oh, the alibi. They go to the bar that's called the alibi. And I was like, baby, that's a song title. And he was like, hell yeah. I was like, you know, the alibi. He's like, yeah, I'll remember that. But yeah, no, they go to a bar called the alibi. Mm hmm.

that would be cool yeah so did you ever did you you can have it it's fine did you ever form the band and did you and if you did what is your guys's name so people can look you guys up oh yeah jonathan bright is my music partner everybody calls him jb and preach rutherford is the bass player so those three have been with me since or those two have been with me since the beginning and paul simmons was the first drummer and we've literally had 13 drummers like we're the spinal tap and one

when it comes to it's hard to find people who actually want to work or fucking perform or like it's we've had we go through videographers like that yeah like just finding people to mesh with your energy and your your whole yeah vibe is just very hard so you don't want to force a fit that isn't

you know, jiving with all of you guys because then that just one bad apple can ruin a whole fucking situation. So you don't want to deal with that. And you have to be in a close quarters with them in a van or a bus. Absolutely. Depending on what the situation is. And what's the name of your band? Raylan Nelson Band. Raylan Nelson Band, baby. So are you guys going on tour this year? Yes.

There's okay. So spin did this article on the band, which was out of the blue and totally awesome. And that's awesome. Good for business. Yeah, I know. Spin magazines fucking like iconic. I know. And so that that's been really good. I got an avalanche of CD. I literally was selling like maybe a CD once every six, seven weeks, you know, maybe. Yeah. You need to get on tick tock.

I'm on TikTok. You are? I'll have to follow you and we'll look at your formula. It's just so hard to figure out what the fuck to do on there. I think if people...

I just need to follow you and watch what you're doing and I'll just... Oh, don't follow me. You know, I'm a bad fucking... I am a bad example to follow. Who do you get inspiration on there? Like, what do you... Are you doing the dancing thing? No, fuck no. I am too old to be dancing on there. I just tell my story of just my life and I don't know. I'm just... What do I... What would you say, Mimi? What do I do on there? Just anything that's trending but making it the most relatable to her.

yeah and I kind of like make everything my own you know well I'll go through it when we get off of here and I'll show you kind of like some things that we do and if you need help of course me and Mimi are always here to help you but I think people just hearing you talk and tell your story um plus us posting you too will also get some some uh inner you know flowing uh vibes flowing your way but um

I think people just hearing you talk, you know, maybe do some, do you sing on there and like have your guitar and stuff? Yeah. Oh, if you don't do that, I mean, do that. Some of your music on there, get some of your music on there. Um, you know, of course let people know who your grandfather is, stuff like that. And just, you know, just,

Your whole thing, your whole vibe. Do Papa Willie songs on there. All of it. Yeah, talk about the garage. What do they say? Yeah, country garage. Country garage. People will love that. TikTok is like... It's the place now to go to blow up. Instagram is dying. So literally TikTok is the place to market yourself. I feel like I'm just now like...

Doing so well on Instagram. I know, right? Dude, I've had my fucking profile for so long on Instagram and my engagement is terrible on there because I'm always in trouble. Like, I'm like a walking community guideline. But we'll get you on TikTok. And TikTok lets you do whatever you want for the most part. I mean, as long as it's not sexual. So, you know...

She's like, well, damn it. But you know, like you can do stuff. You just have to like use code words and like stuff like that. So there's like a whole thing around it. But yeah, I mean, they'll, they'll let you be who you, who you want to be on there. Just, you just have to kind of like, yeah, you just have to kind of like, you know, word things differently, which I had to learn fucking two profiles. And I got banned so many times before I was like, okay, I finally fucking get it. Um, so when did you guys become such big fans of comedy? Um,

My husband's always been a fan of comedy. So he literally, Jay, I call him my muse of tragedy because Jay is actually a very, very sad soul. He's very, you know, when the curtain's down, it's a different person, but always so loving and so sweet. But my husband battles severe depression. He's got demons that he fights.

And so his way of escaping that is comedy. So ever since I got with my husband, we could be on tour in the fucking bus. He does not play music. He plays comedy. That's what we do. Yeah. So that's his thing. And he loves podcasts. He loves comedy. And so as he started blowing up in the industry, a lot of comedians were becoming his fans, which was crazy because, you know, he would like when we first got together, he'd be like, one day I'm going to be on Joe Rogan. And now that's gone.

very possible. And, you know, like Bert Kreischer, he loves Bert Kreischer and Bert will like tweet him and Tom Segura will tweet him and then him and Josh, you know, crossed paths. So it just, it was my husband. And then of course, you know, I always loved comedy, but I never really like was naturally a comedian. Me? Yeah.

Oh, I love you. Thank you. So going on tour, are you guys going to be touring? You did the spin magazine. Oh yeah. The spin article. And I wanted to tell you, so just relating to the comedy thing, we started a podcast called music is funny podcast. Yes. I wanted to get into that. We were talking to comedians. Yes. Which is where I met Josh Wolf. Love that. And then you. So it, it stemmed from that.

Because when we're on the road, we don't listen to music. We just listen to stand-up comedy. I saw you just had Dane Cook on there. Yes. Crazy. How crazy is that? That's wild. Honestly, thank God JB is... I have a co-host because I was just kind of starstruck and maybe said 20 words to him full time. And a couple of them were, you're the coolest. You're the best. You know? Yeah.

I mean, it's Dane Cook, so I don't blame you. There's no way he thinks I'm funny or cool at all. I'm sure he did his research before he came on. Oh, I hope so. So he knew what he was getting into. But it was a good episode. The best part about comedians is they love to talk. Oh, yeah. No. And about themselves, if you just ask them something, I mean, they'll just go. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, everybody loves to talk about themselves, you know? If you give them a microphone and ask them about themselves, who do you know best? Yourself, you know? So... But anyway, we've had a lot of cool people. I just talked to Doug Stanhope again yesterday. He did our Christmas. Oh, I love that. He goes, I hate Christmas because of my dad. Tell... What's the name of your podcast again? Just so everybody can hear it. Music is Funny. Music is Funny. But... Where did you get the concept for your podcast? We were just trying to figure out how to get them to talk to us. Oh, yeah. We'll just...

How do we relate music and comedy together? Which they're very similar. Yeah, yeah, totally. What you have to do to get out there. The comedy world is like a cult. But in a good way. Because literally you have this fan base that is so fanatic. You know, that when they fall in love with you, they are all about you. It's like sports. Getting into like even, like, I don't know. We were watching something. My husband watches these comedy documentaries. And it was about Mitzi Pauly Shore's...

uh, mom who runs the comedy star or used to run before she passed away. Rest in peace. Um, the comedy store in LA and even trying to get a spot in the comedy store was like, you had to know somebody to know somebody. And once you're in, you're in, but like, if you're an outcast, you're an outcast and they all stick together. Comedians will have each other's back like a motherfucker. Yeah. And to get a paid,

To get past there, to be a paid regular, takes a really long time. Yeah. And then sometimes it doesn't. It's just she was very, very...

Picky is what I hear. Yeah, Mitzi. Mitzi. Mitzi, yep. Mitzi Shore. I actually had the weirdest interaction with Pauly Shore the other day. No way. Tell me about this. I love Pauly. Well, on the phone. I love Pauly. The weasel, you know, love him. I've always been a fan of Pauly since I was a fucking kid, you know, son-in-law, stuff like that. And I've actually met Pauly when I was a stripper. He used to come into Olympic Gardens in Vegas all the time. Okay.

Always very sweet, very, you know, whatever. But so, you know, my podcast is popping now and like,

I have all walks of life on the podcast. And, you know, from Instagram girls to comedians to fucking musicians, whatever. I just want people to come on and tell their story and be able to, you know, just tell people, tell the world who they are. And so I reached out to Polly. I was like, hey, Polly, I haven't talked to you in forever. I met you a long time ago at Olympic Gardens, blah, blah, blah. Anyways, I have a podcast not realizing he had a podcast too. So I don't know if he thought that I was like reaching out to like, I don't know what he thought, to be honest. Anyways, so I can...

Would love to have you on the podcast, blah, blah, blah. He's like, call me, right? And sends me his number. So I'm like,

this is weird. I text Mimi. I'm like, I'm about to talk to Polly Shore. So I thought he was just going to set a date with me of when he could come on or whatever. And I was like, Hey, Polly, it's funny. And he's like, Hey, what's up? And he's like, so he's like, so I met you at Olympic gardens. And I was like, yeah, totally. And he's like, Oh, Hey, that's cool. And he's like, um, he's like, so tell me about your podcast. So I told him about it. Right. And he's like,

yeah, that's really awesome. He's like, I'm not really taking gigs right now, but you know, he's like, I have a podcast too. So, you know, just save my number. And if you ever want to have a drink, I was like, I was like, I was like, all right. But I was like, well, I'm big married Polly, but I'll definitely, if we're ever, uh,

I was like, if we're ever in L.A., my husband and I would love to meet up. So, no, he was very respectful, though, and, like, wasn't, you know, weird or anything like that. But it was just so funny. And it's just crazy, you know, people that you, like, I don't want to say idolize because I didn't idolize Pauly Shore, but that you just love, you know, because you grew up with. You actually get to talk to them and then you realize that they're just really normal people. Yeah. You know, which is awesome, I think. So I thought it was so funny. And I really did just want to talk to all my favorite comedians.

Yeah. So how many episodes are you guys in? Is it brand new? How long have you been doing it? We just did number 42. Yay. And I want to get through one year and make...

Wow. You guys have done 40, 42 and less than a year. Yeah, we do it weekly. Wow. So it's been, I think one time we did greatest hits because we had an audio issue. Yeah. No recording a podcast every week. If you, especially if you don't do them like how we do them, like we stack them. It's, it's,

It's a job. Yeah. So we are... That goes off to you. Either going to have to stack a whole bunch. I would. Or we're going to maybe just slow down on like maybe every other week because we need time to do music. Well, what I started... Now that things are happening...

absolutely well what i started doing if i could give any advice is do it in seasons that's what i do i've noticed you did that and because i i did what you did when we the first season i don't know how i think we dropped like probably at least 52 episodes that year right or close and i was tired and then we just immediately kept going the next year so two years i think it was two years in a row we just non-stop dropped content

And this last third season, I was burnt out. I was like, it got to a point where I was just like, bro, do I even want to do this podcast anymore? I was like, I'm so burnt out. And so I got the idea where I was just like, you know what? Let's end it here and let's start seasons. And like, let's, you know, it'll give me a month break to where I can just kind of recoup, take two weeks off and then boom, just go right back in and then start stacking the, um,

The episodes. Because having to do one weekly is really exhausting and having to plan your whole life around it. I don't know if that's how you like to operate. No. But...

just do what we do. We literally plan out two weeks of the month where I do nothing but nonstop podcasts. And then that gives you the whole season. You can film other content and you can work on your music. Yeah. That's what we're going to have to do or just slow down. But I like the idea of stack stockpiling. There's a lot of people in January that are coming through some A-listers that have already agreed. I'm so excited. So I don't want to end it. Can you tell, give us a sneaky peeky? Like, um, do you know Jesse May Peluso?

Oh, I love Justin Mary. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Through Heather McMahon. I never say right. Heather McMahon. Does she have her own? No way. She was just on that Christmas movie. Uh,

where the guy catfishes the girl that was from Vampire Diaries. I'll have to, yeah, I'll have to Google her. But no, I love Jessamay. She's actually coming on Dumb Blonde too, but we, but because I do them in person, I'm waiting until she comes. Oh yeah. Okay. Then yeah, then yeah, she's coming on in January. Last time I talked to her. Okay. Awesome. So do you do over the, do you also do? I would rather do them in person, but I have done Zoom.

Yeah, I've done. I did Zooms a couple in COVID and I just hated it because I want to feel you. Energy. Yeah. Like I want to touch you. I want to see you. I want to interact. So I'm able to joke around a little more. Yeah. Feel your energy. Yeah. And I just I hate. I don't know. Just I think being in the sex industry my whole life, I felt like I was doing like a webcam interview, you know, like I just didn't feel I was like, I don't like this is my steeze.

um that's awesome dude like i'm really proud of you guys are you guys on apple spotify like all the platforms and then you guys also film them yep okay they're all on youtube all on youtube at my grandpa's museum the willie nelson and friends museum and showcase yeah they let us sneak in there and do it there so there's so cool patrons walking around the you know looking at everything what a cool concept though i love that for you yeah i didn't even ask my grandpa i just told him we were

Aw, he's just like, whatever. He doesn't care. He's 88 and right now in Hawaii. Nice. Just living life. Living it up, yeah. He does not tour when it's cold anymore. Aw. It's warm. Is he still a real avid weed smoker? Yeah.

Yeah, well, he mostly vapes now. Oh, okay. And then his wife Annie makes these delicious edibles herself. It's like chocolate and coconut. They're healthy. All the healthy chocolate, all the healthy coconut. Yeah. It still tastes really good. Aw. And it's got the THC. She makes her own. It's called Annie's Remedy. Annie's. Or Willie's Remedy. Annie's.

Do you eat them? Yeah, they're delicious. I can't. Okay, so last time I had an edible, I ended up calling, which was fucking over 10 years ago now because it scared me so bad. I ended up calling 911 and having them come to my house. Yeah, it was some fucking butter that somebody made me and I ate it and I was watching a fucking scary movie and literally during the scary movie, I jumped up and I felt like I couldn't breathe. I started running around my backyard and I'm just like...

I can't breathe. Oh my God, something's wrong with me. Fucking call 911. They come in the house, hottest fucking firefighters, by the way. And I just look like a hot mess, you know, just high as shit, fucking hair everywhere. And fucking, they come in and they're like, what are you on? And I was like, I ate some weed butter. They all started fucking laughing at me and packed up. And they were like, honey, you're fine. You're going to ride this one out. You'll be good. You don't need us. And I'm like, I,

I'm dying. Take my fucking blood pressure. They're like, just go to bed. You're going to be fine. So yeah, that's why I can't have edibles. Yeah. They, uh, they'll get you differently than just smoke. I would much rather smoke it. Yeah. I'm much rather smoke a joint any day. Yeah, for sure. But, uh, there was one time when, um, I had a duo with a friend and we went out to, uh, hemp fest in Maine, Harmony, Maine. It's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. Okay. No stores around. Um,

and we did not plan any food situation oh no so the people at hemp fest had given us all of these weed edibles it was mostly weed okay it was called hemp fest but it was yeah it was weed because it was legal in maine oh i didn't know that so yes you can't sell it but you can have it okay and so all these weed people who

make it or whatever we're just given us that i mean weed bugles you know remember those things you would put on your fingers again yeah there were weed bugles weed cheetos uh so it was all this munchie food brownies of course cookies

I mean, like chocolate covered raisins that were, all of it was weed. - You love weed. This is right up her alley. - I mean, it was delicious. And we ate it all that night 'cause we didn't have any food. - Oh no. - We didn't have any food. So it was the food we were eating. And it didn't feel different that night. We were like, this isn't, I mean, we're taking videos for Instagram and everything. And then the next day when we watched the videos, we are moving five miles an hour, right?

we feel fine oh my god you were fucking higher than a giraffe's ass yeah but in the moment yeah didn't feel it we're like this feels fine i feel great god i would love to have an edible fucking story like that instead i felt like i couldn't breathe and was fucking i was for clamped i would do it again though because there was literally no food you know so i would just put myself in that position again and

you know, turn the tape on again. I love that. I think some of my funniest videos is when I'm fucked up. I'm sober now, six years, but man, I used to fucking do some funny shit when I would be. You don't do anything? Nothing. Well, I did. The older I got, I just realized, I tried to be a drug addict when I was younger because I wanted to rebel against my family. So, you know, of course that got me a Xanax addiction and a cocaine addiction that I'd fucking survived somehow. But,

drugs never made me feel good. Drugs always made me sick and I couldn't figure out why. And come to find out, I have like the MTF HR gene mutation and I have a couple gene mutations. So anything I take just fucking on my body has the opposite effect of it. Like everything. It's so sensitive. So I just got to a point where alcohol, even the next day, the hangover and just the depression was not worth. Not worth it.

going out and drinking so i was just like you know i just quit everything cold turkey and i've just i've been sober ever since so i would love to you know smoke weed and fucking drink but it's like i never know how my body's gonna react anymore so yeah well here i am dane dane cook he said that he's never drank or smoked or anything he's naturally like that so he never had and i was so i

pressed him a little bit I was like well what is your vice then because we all have one we all have one yeah it's gotta be their food or pussy you know what is it yeah and he said that his vice is to create things yeah

And that's what he said. I believe it. My vice is working. I work nonstop. Like I wake up working. I go to sleep working. My husband, it drives him crazy because now he's used to it. But when we first got together, he would be like, how do you, when do you turn it off? Yeah. Like when do you turn it off? And I'm like, I just, I can't. Like I, if I'm not constantly. Do you like caffeine? Is that?

Um, sometimes I'm actually gotten to a point where I can actually drink it now and it doesn't affect me. But before it was so bad, I would have like, we were in Vegas. This last time we went to Vegas fucking a couple months ago and Dutch brothers is my favorite coffee. I fucking downed one of them thinking it was like Starbucks and I was so cracked out. It hurt.

like I was so caffeined out it hurt I was like this is terrible I don't know if I want to go to sleep or if I want to fucking hang myself off the balcony like I just fucking it was terrible so I'll get the shakes yeah no I don't really have a vice what would you think what would you say my advice is Mimi

Yeah, working. Which I guess what creating, I mean, your work is creating. So that's probably what he meant by creating things. What's your vice? What do you think your vice is? Do you have a vice? Well, I definitely smoke weed. Yeah. And I drink beer.

Yeah. Yeah. Weed and beer are my biggest spices. Yeah. You're normal. She's normal. That's a good thing. I wish I could fucking just drink a beer. Like there's so many times that I want that relief feeling of, you know, like numbing the pain. Well, no, I love being numb, but no, you know, like, okay. So I used to drink vodka on the rocks. Whenever you have that first drink and you just feel all the tension in your body, just relax. Yeah.

I don't know if you ever get like that. It's the beer I do. I can't do liquor. Oh, okay. Gotcha. My body does not do good with any kind of liquor or wine. Gotcha. I'll just have a really bad... Yeah, I can't do wine. I'll get sick. Yeah. I'll just get sick. Oh, gotcha. Okay. See, I'm the opposite. I love hard liquor. So only vodka though. Yeah. So that first drink, you just like...

Because I suffer from anxiety. You just get that full like release, you know, of just like, oh my God, I don't give a fuck. You know, does that for me in the mornings? Oh, that's how she is. She's always like, can you just smoke weed again? And I'm like, I might try. Maybe one or not.

Maybe when we're in LA this next time, we'll go. Just one hit? Yeah. And because, I mean, everybody thinks when you smoke weed, you're a stoner. No, I used to smoke weed. But you do, like, sometimes it, I used to do bong rips and go to the gym. Yes. And now I'm a pussy in my old age. Like,

Like if I did a bong rip, I would probably fucking cry in a corner and rock back and forth. The bong makes me cough a lot. Yeah. And it'll mess up your voice, which when you sing, you definitely want to protect your voice as much as you can. You shouldn't be smoking. Yeah. I know that.

I like a raspy voice though. Right? I love a woman with a raspy voice. I think it's so hot. Just something different. And also just one hit in the morning. You don't need a whole lot. Yeah. You know, just a little. Maybe. I'll give it a whirl. Microdose through the weed. Well, we have been microdosing shrooms. Oh, okay.

Perfect. Yeah. So we had, and they've been working great for her. And what do they do to you? Cause sometimes they're great for me. And sometimes it's so they were great for me. Um, and then if I can, I've also been on a calorie deficit working with my nutritionist. So,

um, you know, a couple of weeks ago, or actually last week I had this really bad bout of depression that I hadn't gotten in a while. So, and it scared the fuck out of me and I thought it was the shrooms. So now I'm like eliminating everything and just on my vitamins. What are the shrooms do for you? Um,

Well, it depends on what you do. Cause if you just microdose, it's just a slight like, ah, yeah, no, that's, that's the feeling I get. Yes. Um, all the green outside is greener. Am I right? Yes. All the blues are bluer. Purples are purpler. Yeah. Uh,

You have to be in nature. You don't want to be in a bar with people. I can't be on my phone when I'm microdosing. I don't want to touch my phone. Like this would, if I were on streams right now, I would be like, can we please turn off the lights? Yeah. And a lot of people would be like, I love the lights.

that's more of a stone thing for me rather than a yeah I want all the lights off fire is perfect just stare at a fire or a candle putting candles it's more like it's spiritual it's definitely more spiritual do you have you ever had a bad trip yes or like but oh god I think it was because I was around people I didn't know oh yeah you definitely want to be comfortable with everyone around because and you want to I did it

To get messed up that time. Right. Not with intention. Yes. You always have to set intention. Even when I take my microdose, I always set an intention. Like I'm doing this to heal my depression or I'm doing this to help myself so I can help other people. Yeah. I always. I just got goosebumps when you said that. That's so important. Yeah. If you're doing shrooms or even weed or tobacco or drinking. Mind altering.

thing set the intention why am i doing this why not make it a ceremony of some kind for you and great spirit universe god whatever you want to call it yeah and um honor your ancestors in some way you can create it make it spiritual uh so shrooms definitely help you look at things that way oh yeah no for sure they totally do i know the first time i did them i felt so great so i don't i'm not ruling out shrooms altogether i'm just kind of taking a break right now to make sure that

that didn't like set me off and send me on a on a spiral yeah so water rain dropping on water um you have a pool no but we're getting one built okay or a creek or something yeah like that i used to have a pool i don't anymore i moved and now i have a creek in my backyard so if you watch the rain hit the water you could do it for two hours yeah shrooms oh the coolest looking thing you know yeah um i've only done have you ever done dmt

No, I'm, it scares me because I just, I don't know why. But it's so quick, I think, you know. Tell me your experience. I need to hear. I've only done it once and it was with Todd Snyder who is a singer-songwriter who did Beer Run. I don't know if you, that's his biggest hit. You know. Do you know Todd Snyder? He's a real funny guy. But he had, it was a pen, so it was a vape.

of DMT and it only lasts 8 to 15 minutes one hit of it wow so my experience we're sitting on his back porch and he is on the lake out in Hendersonville so his house is actually hit by the these last tornadoes that came through roof gone oh no yeah so

Um, but he'll get a new roof. It'll be fine. Okay. Go Todd. Go. He wasn't there. He was on tour. Oh, good. Okay. He's such a bachelor that everything he loves was with him on that bus. Oh, good. It's so empty in that house. Yeah. If he's not there, it's not a home, it's a house sitting on that back porch with the lake out there. And there was a tree that would all of a sudden just start dancing for me. Oh my God. And, uh, so that was the coolest thing. And then I looked over to my right and,

And God or whoever great spirit picks up the land and sets it down. And he said to me, see, it's like chess. No, I just got goosebumps. So, and I don't, I still don't know how to play chess. I've tried it a few times. I tried to get into learning it. It's kind of, I liked the, um, the gambit. What the queen's gambit was great. Yeah. Uh, but I,

I don't know. I don't think I'm smart enough to actually sit down and learn it. I don't think I have patience enough to do it. Yeah, the patience of it. I was like, I'd just rather play music. I don't know. So that's all that happened? It wasn't like some out of this world crazy? No. I've always thought that if you took DMT, it blasted you off into this other dimension. That's salvia. Okay. Yeah, salvia. Don't ever do that.

Yeah, no, I had an ex die from it, actually. Die from it? How? He smoked it, right? Salvia is what you, yeah, he smoked it and had a seizure. Yeah, it's legal. And had a heart attack. I know.

Yeah, and people are out for 40, unless you die, people are out for 45 seconds, but they feel like they're gone 30 years. Wow. And I don't know if I'd want to do that, to come back feeling old as fuck. Like, just fucking... Yeah, like you feel like you've lived... Like you just lived 30 years. But sometimes it's like you've lived 30 years

as the paint on the side of a barn. Right. Wow. And you feel the heat of the sun and the cold of the snow every minute, every day for 30 years in this 45 second salvia trip. No, I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that either. That doesn't sound fun. That sounds like a fucking nightmare. But the DMT sounded awesome. Yeah. Jay loves DMT. That's his jam too. He loves hallucinogenics and DMT and stuff like that. But I'm just now...

getting comfortable to where I'm dabbling in the hallucinogenics. I did acid one time, had a bad trip. Well, I did it a couple of times. The first time I had a great trip and then the second time I had a bad trip. And then shrooms, the first time I did it, I started to have a bad trip and then pulled myself out of it and thought I was little John in the snow.

And then Michael Jackson. I just had a blast. And then she's been brought up twice today. My best friend that passed away, Grace, RIP. We were staying in this Airbnb that was old lady clothes in the closet. And we just tried on all her clothes and did a fashion show while we were on shrooms. And it was the funnest time of my life. I'm just now getting comfortable with hallucinogenics.

Um, so maybe after I microdose and can actually macro dose shrooms, then maybe I'll move on to DMT. But I feel like hallucinogenics are so healing. Mushrooms last way longer than the DMT thing, just so you know. Yeah. Up to eight hours, right? Or six hours or something like that. Yeah. And then you feel, depending on how much you do, you feel some the next day. Yeah. I don't want to do that. Yeah. I definitely don't want to do that.

Yeah, and I never do it when my kids are around. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to. I smoke weed when they're around. Yeah. With them or anything. Yeah, no, that's fine. I don't think there's anything wrong with weed. When I was microdosing one time, our kid came in and I was like listening to like

spiritual music just zoned out on the bed, just kind of relaxing, trying to make sure. Cause you know, I suffer from anxiety. So there's, when I first take it, I have to wait like an hour and make sure I don't hallucinate. So I'm always like freaking out. So I'm just trying to like Zen out and she comes in and that's where I did the, the real, I don't know if you saw whenever I had taken a little too much that that was the first time when I remember I could see the things on the back of my eyelids, I said, and she came in and she's like, she's like,

what are you doing? She's like, are you on shrooms right now? And I was like, yes. And she's like, okay, I'll be back. But that's what inspired the TikTok that I did where she came in and she said, how many did you take? And I said, I took nine. I took nine and it's the face. Have you seen the one that I did? Yeah, that's what inspired that because it legit happened. So now I love, so far I love hallucinogenics, like I said, just taking a break from them right now because my body's just fucking wonky, but yeah.

yeah the one bad trip I had on this room when I was around people I didn't know I wanted to lay down on the floor and I didn't want to get up I felt it wasn't like I was pinned down but I was just like I don't want to get up from here and it was your safe space but they all came and laid down there with me and like an hour later I was fine oh good yeah so it's like

And it was cool because I didn't really know them. But then after that, I'm like, I love those guys. You know, now they're close friends. Yeah. They really pulled me out of that trip. And all they did was just lay down on the floor. But that's sweet because if you were with the wrong people, then it could have like spun it into a bad situation. So yeah. But also mushrooms have a that uppity thing.

Yeah, I haven't had the uppity thing. Like a or has like that. Because do you notice this like that? She takes more than me. I've never done cocaine, but I it gives you that caffeine feeling you can stay up later. Do you have that? I haven't felt that yet.

Yeah. Wide awake. Well, shit balls. Yeah, great dreams. Great shits. I love a good shit. Don't fucking threaten me with a good time. I can't ever poop, so...

Oh, that's a great way to get that going. Yeah. I've actually done it just to do that. Wow. I love that. She's like, I've taken shrooms just to shit. Just to shit. I'm telling you. Because I love cheese and then sometimes I eat cheese and yeah. I love that. Well, what can we expect from Raelynn in 2022? I'm

gonna um tour a lot so come see me i will let me know when your like show is and we're always traveling too so if you're out on the road and we're in the same city i would love to come see you okay and here i'm supposed to play uh the rhinestone stage the glenn dope campbell museum uh okay

in March and then basement East next September. Oh, that's the only two in town so far. Yay. I like to get out of Nashville and play around. So yeah, I'll be around and then we're going to be releasing singles, um,

And my next single is called Free. So I'll be looking for that. When do we know when that's going to drop? Probably, I'm hoping, I think March is the best time right now at this point. But it just depends because I'm putting together a music video that I want to make sure that happens. Awesome. To go with it. Yeah, totally. So if it means that I have to wait longer or it needs to happen sooner, then that's what I'll do. Yeah. Whenever it's meant to be, it'll happen. Yeah. Yeah.

So you're going to be touring, releasing new music. Anything else you want to add to that list that we can look out to? Podcasting. Music is funny podcast. And hopefully hanging out with you guys doing streams. Dude, I would love that. That would be awesome. At your beach house vacation. Yes. Yeah. We'll go buy it right now.

No, I've been trying to talk my husband into buying a fucking vacation home for six years. I get the shit into the shingle on that every time. But I think I'm going to win soon. Eventually. Oh, Raylan. Yes. Yes, exactly. Huge on that. Put it in the air. Raylan, tell everybody where they can find you at, like your socials. Yeah, at Raylan Olsen Band and at Music Is Funny on YouTube. That's where I am.

yay and then podcasts you can find on YouTube just Google all the music is Apple yeah Apple Spotify my favorite way is the Apple yeah I love Apple too but Spotify is actually getting big now too so I've been promoting Spotify so you should promote Spotify too okay yeah Spotify all the things yeah all the

things well I can't wait to see what's next year I'm so glad we're friends thanks for having me I know I love it yeah totally I can't wait to see what this next year brings for you and I'm just so excited to watch you prosper and all that jazz and we're gonna bring you back you gotta come back you have to be like a reoccurring guest we're all gonna go viral on TikTok oh honey we've been going viral we're gonna bring you on the train with us thank you guys so much for tuning in to another episode of dumb blonde I will see you guys next week bye

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