The Bobby Bones ShowMon Part 1: Ella Langley & Riley Green Are On! + Bobby Surprises A Listener
Ella Langley and Riley Green are on the show! They talk about their viral song "You Look Like You Love Me," share the story of how it happened and more! Plus, Bobby surprises rising country artist, Jayson Arendt, with exciting news and more!
Transmitting Welcome to Monday Show Morning Studio. It's always weird when I find out an actor on the show that I watch is not American, when in the whole show he's speaking like American English, and then you hear him in an interview he's like, I'm like, what the first time I think it happened was that damon guy who was in Homeland. I didn't watch Billions, but that guy he's doing like a award. He is like, I'll blow a lot to play wall. Wait, what you're not You're from New York And sometimes my wife can go they're not. She can like hear a little accent. Sometimes people are doing it and she's like, oh, they're not American. I I can't. The other guy is the Walking Dead guy, Andrew Lincoln, the guy from Walking Dead. He's like, Okay, we're gonna get and we're gonna fight the zombies.
He's from Georgia.
And then all of a sudden, it's like, uh, the latest one because I love the boys and the lead guy in that show he plays like a mixture of Captain American Superman. His name is Anthony Starr and he's from New Zealand and He's like, well, they wrote all my foreign accents are the same. In case you didn't want, she wondered, We're gonna play is it American? So because of this, I'm gonna give you a product or a person. You tell me if it's American, because we definitely enjoy and consume whatever this is in America. You tell me if it's actually American. Lunchbox, Amy, here we go, Coca Cola? Is it American Coca Cola? And then lunchbox that's American? Amy? Yes, yeah, coc Cola is created Atlanta, Georgia US.
A apple Pie it's no more American than apple pie than the saying American is apple pie a.
Lunchbox that is not American. Apple Pie has origins in Europe, particularly in England. Apple pie is not American. Don't worry. We've claimed it though, much like this land we stole. We stuck a flag of that America in that apple pie.
Is that we now own this baseball and go yep, I'm in. I mean yes, you answer yes, lunchbox a lot of American as American gets is American? Yeah, it's developed in the United States. Yes, the hot dog.
I'm in.
I'm in.
For the wind Lunchbox. Not American, Amy, No, the Frank Further. It's journal Frank Burder. Frank Furder, You're all right though, good job.
We'll do a couple more. We call it Frank for short. Huh, Frank Further. Yeah, the Statue of Liberty, that's a tough one. I'm in for the wind Lunchbox.
I mean by adoption American, but we were We're given to it as a gift, so I said, not an American.
Who do you think gave it to us? Probably the British? Okay, Amy, France gave it to us to us. Yeah, if you miss one, you're out. Okay, we'll go seting death from now on. Christian Bale the actors? Good for you? A dark Knight?
Why does he sound so weird?
In for you?
He does not sound like the Lucky John's Leprechaun. I can tell you that, whatever that is you have.
But does he have that accent?
I don't know. You tell me it's Christian Bale, American, you lunchbox? Unfortunately, I said in and I had the wrong act. What do you have? I had not American? But I have the wrong actor. What actor were you thinking? Hugh Jackman Wolverine. He is not American? Yeah, Amy, I have a yes. He's an American, so you have two yeses. I'm not American because I have Hugh Jackman. Well, but you the answer is This is where it gets so confusing. He's not American. You win the game, but you had no idea you win the game.
Where's he from?
He's an English actor from Wales. Wow, he had it the whole time. He knew it the whole time.
Sinba of a question to Ben.
Hello, Bobby Bones. When we were young and just dating, I was okay with my husband spending a lot of his free time playing video games, skateboarding or making music with his friends. We've been married for a decade. He has to kids now. When can I expect him to grow up and stop wasting all his time goofing off? I'm not unreasonable. He should spend some of his free time relaxing and doing things that he loves. But he has a family now and thinks that it's just he's gonna go to work on a paycheck and that's enough. It's not. How can I get him take his family responsibilities more seriously? Signed Mary to a kidult that's funny, Well, a little bit. He is who he is, and you let him be who he is for ten years and now it's becoming like a little bit. You've helped create this monster by not setting boundaries way earlier. If there are two kids, well, at one point there was one kid. Yeah, and you said nothing. So I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'll get to probably where we can manage this. But a little bit, this is a look in the mirror because both of you have allowed this situation to happen. You cannot expect him to grow up and stop wasting time goofing off if you just allow it, because he's going to continue to be who he is and what is allowed. He's showing you that there is a difficult conversation of hey, my needs are being met because I'm spending all this time doing ABC while you are doing these things that I feel in this household are not of equal value when it comes to the maturity level that we need to be parents, and you can't shut him down because that's gonna be met with complete anger. So you're gonna have to wean him off. How do you do that? So let's say I'm taking a pill, and it's a one thousand milligram pill. They make pills that big thousand milligrams. Sure, okay, let's say it's a I take a thousand milligram pill, and I take a thousand milligram pill every day for four years because I have itchy nos idis, and I become dependent, maybe even I don't want to say addicted, but I come become dependent on that pill.
Body's used to it.
If I just stop taking a cold turkey, my body's gonna go oh, I'm gonna get sick. I'm gonna have with draws, I'm gonna have a headache and vomiting. Who knows, And I'm using the nose itching pill? Could be any anything? Sure to wean yourself off would be you do your thousand day two, You break off a little bit, You do a nine to fifty, go back to one thousand and day three, nine to fifty, one thousand, nine fifty week two, one thousand, nine fifty nine fifty nine fifty one thousand. Eventually you're going down to five hundred three hundred. Then I understand the weaning, But what are we weaning down this? He normally no, no, no, yes. Eventually that you can get this. There's a lot of things he's doing it, but well you can do. If you shut any of it off, it's gonna be met probably in an aggressive way or passive aggressive way. That's not gonna be good for the relationship. So it's like, hey, I need a little more help. I don't I know you, but I need you to trim off twenty minutes, just twenty minutes of all this stuff you're doing a week to help me. And then all you have to do is you slowly turn twenty minutes into thirty into forty five, and you can get to a healthier, safer place. Because if you just stop taking that one thousand milligram pill, you can have with draws and it's gonna be miserable for everybody. But if you're able to taper down, wean yourself off of in him, of doing all of this all the time, it's much easier to get to that point. It's like boiling a frog. You know the story about boiling a frog. No, you how to boil a frog. You put in cold water, and while the frog's in the cold water, you slowly turn the temperature like this analogy, and the frog does not realize the frog is boiling because it's moving. The temperature is going up so warm it goes from cold water where it's comfortable, and the degrees of the temperature is rising just a little by a little by little. It doesn't realize until it's too late and it is now boiled. It's a fairy tales. No, this is a science. But you have to boil the frog here as well, because if you drop it in hotty trus Oh my god, I'm out of there. I'm not a fop. So that's why that's that. Okay, it's the anonymous. Uh, that's my answer. Good luck. You can fix it, but you will not fix it fully because that is not something to be fixed. It is something for you, guys, to have a little merital negotiation on. You both give a little. You're both still pretty happy. Nobody's a full winner, but not everyone's a loser.
Or figure out a way to ride your skateboard, play video games, and play music with your friends all at.
The same time.
That would be awesome. I'd want to do that three times as much, though you can play a show at the skateboard I got. That would be the greadest. That's what I want to do all right, close it up. So Bobby Bones Show Interviews in case you didn't now. A year ago or so, this guy named Jason called the show and he was like, I'm a brand new artist. Am I even any good? Get through with this? Yeah? And we were like, dang, you are kind of good. And so he's playing baseball in college. He starts playing little bars. We keep up with him. His name is Jason Aren't. We've tried to get him to change his name ten times. He's not going to, but we like him, like he's a very likable person. And I'm about to break the news to him that we're gonna play his song. He's not on a label or anything, that we're gonna play a song on the National Countdown Show, which is in many places. So let's go talk to him now. He does not know what's coming. This is Jason Aren't on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Jason, Jason, what's up, buddy? How are we doing pretty good? It's I have not seen this is so annoying. Jason comes on and he's like a former ball player, and we look at his Instagram and he's touring and we're like, man, he's an athlete, and he's good looking. Now he's on zoom and he's even better. This is so stupid. He's okay, Jason, how are you doing, man? How's the road been?
It's it's the road, man. It's busy. It's busy.
It's a lot of works, it's a lot of time, a little sleep, but we get through it.
Yeah, So you driving around a van or truck or what? How you torn around?
So I take my truck and I just took a trailer up to it and then we just we just hit the road and we go until we stopped going. Then we play, and then we go somewhere else until we stopped going to play.
And you're committed now, like this is your life. It's music, it's it's Plan A. And then if plan A doesn't work, it's still plan A. Right.
Yeah, So I was working. I was working construction a lot.
So I graduated this May, and up until that point, baseball was kind of the focal point.
And then I started working.
Construction during the week this summer Monday to Thursday before the show's really started picking up. And now that the shows have really started picking up, and we start going all over the place, it's it's kind of hard to do that. So I got rid of that and now we're just going full time music.
We'll just hit it hard.
What about your band, Like who's on the road with you?
So it kind of changes here and there because it's all local guys from North Carolina right now, and so with some of those guys have kids and jobs and that kind of stuff. So we try and keep it the same so that we put on the same show every time, but every once in a while you'll get a different guy here and there that it'll come in and give a different little flavor for my show, which is also really cool.
So Jason Aren't is on with us. I have his hat on. Look at this. I'm big supporter number one fan club. That's me. I paid the monthly dues and I get the stuff. It's pretty cool. Although I don't I don't think that's the case. He actually send it up here. I like it. So, Jason, here's why we actually have you on. So I do a show on the weekend. It's called The Country Top thirty. It's a national countdown show and it's Cinemerica. It's in other countries too, and we're going to actually play my July on the National Countdown Show, and we wanted to call and let you know that we were going to feature that sucker and let everybody hear all around the world.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much, And do you want to cry.
A little bit exactly?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So my jel like, tell me about the song, like, what's the song about?
So this song, I'll tell you the story of how it came about.
So I was sitting there, we were actually recording one of my other songs, like a small Town at the time, and my producer he kind of looked at me and he goes, hey, man, look I got this song that I kind of like, me and my buddy kind of pieced it together and I want to see what you think. And he played it and instantly like I could feel it. I was like, Okay, that one's really really cool. And so it was way different back in the and when I heard it, but I knew it had a lot of potentials. So we kind of that song went through so many different phases and stages, and we tweaked it so many times that we finally got it to where I liked it and where I felt like it could be something that I liked to play live, something that I figured my fans might like. And so that's when I felt comfortable to get ready to roll it out, and we recorded it and we cut it and it felt different, and so it was really cool to feel that.
Do you feel that the shows are growing a bit?
Oh?
Yeah, for sure.
Like I mean, when we first started, my first very first show this summer tour after baseball finished, when we got going, was in Wilmington, I'm pretty sure I played to like forty five people, and so since then that was second week of June, I believe by the time we got to the end of July early August, I mean, there's upwards of eight hundred to thousand.
Plus people at each show. Last weekend, we played in.
Charlotte on Saturday, and I think there was twelve fifteen hundred people there at that bar, which was really cool. And it's just it's been growing and it's so fun to see all that stuff happen. And the coolest part is when those people that are following you around they sing your songs back to you. That's the coolest feeling. With how fresh and how new all this stuff's been.
Are people singing My July back to you at all.
Absolutely, that's the most requested song I have. And that's a cool feeling too, is when you're playing some songs and someone will go, I want to.
Hear my July.
It's like wow, okay, like when I the way I felt in that room when we cut it is exactly how these people are feeling too.
That's that's what's so cool to me.
What if somebody says we want to hear Wonderwall.
Oh well that was tough.
Uh So this is Jason Aren't a r E N D T. We tried to get him to change his name for minds he's not doing He's not doing it, you know what. I I'm proud of him. He stood by it. It's impossible to say in the spell, but you know what, that's what makes him special. And we're gonna play this song My July on the National Countdown show and I hope people hear it and they start following him at it. It's but his name is also at Jason Aren't right? I mean with underscore at the end like he's made it. It's the most It's like a maze to be a fan, like if at Jason Aren't Underscore and you can't even spell, aren't You gotta remember the underscore Jason, defend yourself again. I need it.
It's tough, you know. I mean, I'm not sure I tried to.
I'm pretty sure I tried to go at Jason Aren't and it was taken and I'm like, oh.
Exactly, like keep that name, go ahead, even the j y. That's a great point.
Why n they are.
Taking underscore? Yeah, yeah, exactly what.
It had to beat me to it because there's no way somebody else has got that.
They're squatting on it. Could you buy it?
I don't know. I like the underscore though, it makes feel a little different.
You're right, buddy, it is Listen. We are rooting for you. We've you know, talked to you for months and months. Everybody go instagram at Jason Aren't Underscore with j A y? Abby? Do you keep going to the to the computer to see what he looks like? Abby? What's Abby's totally like he's in low? Are you no?
I just want to see what he looks like because I've talked to him on the phone.
Somebody You've walked over like three times to watch him. You have I've watched you walk over to look at him three times. Well, it wasn't one of the times I wanted to wait till it was up. Hey, Jason, Okay, so here's what I want to say. Jason has shows coming up in Conway, South Carolina, more Head City, North Carolina, Wilming in two shows Wilmington, North Carolina. Go watch Jason. We have been talking to Jason for weeks and weeks we never actually met him. And Jason, we're gonna play this on the National Countdown Show. And good luck, buddy, and I hope this is super cool for you, because it's super cool for me to be able to do it.
Thank y'all so much. It is so cool. It's awesome.
All Right, anything else from you guys? Have you anything else you want to come to? Get more? Pixie?
I thought, I just want to see his reaction.
Yeah, Gil doesn't see his reaction, all right, Jason. Hey, congratulations Buddy. And Hey, does anybody ever say, hey, are you the guy from the Hurds you of the Bybone Show.
I've had a lot of it on socials.
Actually, there have been people that will reach out and say that, which is really cool.
But nobody in person because they can't find you. They're like they can't find me exactly. Jason. Congratulations and hopefully we'll talk to you soon, buddy.
Thank you very much. Y'all are awesome, all right, see.
By it's time for the good news.
So this is like the movie Father of the Bride, like the wedding that takes place at the home there, but in real life. So this daughter really had this desire to get married at her childhood home, but the house just really wasn't equipped for that. The backyard, like nothing really would have worked. So her parents spent a year getting everything together, doing as much as they could, even on their own, like a mom was doing stuff inside, dad was doing work in the yard, and they got it totally ready, and she was able to have the wedding of her dreams right in her childhood home.
Minds me that home Depot commercial where the guy like secretly builds the daughter of the arts and all. Yeah, and then I also like wasn't married at the time, nor did I have a dad or a daughter, and there was no reason for me to be weepy, but I was because it's like the real personal stuff that's awesome and it may Now they have to stay together for a while though, because that year they dedicated to the backyard, you at least got to give five years of marriage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they can't go with your mom.
And the dad. That's correct a great story. That's that's a real family right there. That's what it's all about. That was telling me something good. They would go on the Bobby Bone Show. Now Langley, Yeah, I became a big fan. Just buy TikTok. I mean you pop it up an algorithm because obviously I have a lot of country music and algorithm and it's been really cool to watch it organically, like especially this song just become a monster.
Yeah.
What does that felt like to you? Is like more people recognizing you, more people come into when you're playing, Like, what's been happening?
Well, I've wanted to do this my whole entire life. This isn't something I just kind of stumbled upon and was like, yeah, I like playing guitar or I love singing, Like this is just like it's it's like a limb. It's just something I was always going to do this, and I've been working really hard at it for a minute. I moved here five years ago, and before that, I was going to school at Auburn and you went to sold really yeah, yeah I went for the two years when I went to school. Yeah, and then I dropped out and moved here. But yeah, I just play a lot of cover gigs. I started out restaurants. I mean literally every kind of gig you can play, I've done it. Whatever you can travel there in, I've done that too.
Like just traditional, someone moves to Nashville with a dream. You're playing anything you play to make money to survive so you can chase the bigger dream. But then this song hits so hard again, I would just start singing it forgetting where I would even ever have heard it, Yeah, because it would pop up and not just in your video as it would start to be used in other places too. I just wonder what that feels like when something starts to build wherever it starts to build, do you actually, day to day feel again more people pursuing like your music, or is it like, man, I know it's blowing up, but I'm really not seeing it yet.
Oh I'm seeing it. I'm seeing it.
It's this song is crazy, That's what I was saying. I've been doing this for so long, and it's been a slow climb, and I've put out single after single and kind of just organically grown fans. But this song, it's the things that's done. And we didn't even plan on this song was never supposed to leave my audio recordings on my phone. I wrote it as a joke with Aaron Raytier first, and then the label heard it and loved it, and then Riley asked us on tour, and him and I just kind of being from the same area, growing up on this same kind of music, and I was thinking maybe we could do it out in the road.
That's why I asked him to do it.
And I was like, hey, just kind of write the second verse how you would respond to a girl coming up to you in the bar like that.
What I like about it is it's so old school talkie singing, which very much happened in the forties fifties, Like it sounds super, super super traditional with people that aren't born in the forties in the fifties. Is that probably why it wasn't supposed to be more than a voice recording, because you thought, I don't know, well, anybody even think this is a legitimate song.
No, I think it's just kind of more I'm drunking. I'm really you know.
It's kind of silly, you know, But yeah, I guess it's a little bit of a risk, you know, just because it's not something. It's not the popular thing to do, you know, and traditional country is only just now kind of coming back.
So yeah, I don't know, but I grew up on it.
I love it, and I'm just kind of doing what I love to do and not what I think other people think they want me to do.
Did anybody suggest that you change some of when you recorded it, some of like the talking parts of the song. Yeah.
We went back and forth a lot on it, on singing, singing it, on all kinds of different things. I never wanted to sing. I never wanted a song. I'm never going to release the version where it's a song.
It's a song. I have yea that.
My argument to the label was every other song I've put out sings the verses, so can I not just have one that doesn't.
And that's why it sticks out so much though, right?
Yeah, well that I mean start a girl walking up to a guy in a bar, you know, it's like that's also not a common thing in country, well not over the past ten years.
Now recently it has been. But yeah, so I don't know.
It's kind of a risky thing to do, but it's it's crazy to see the reaction. It's I just started my first headlining tour and it's a little nerve racking to have such a viral song and wonder are they going to be here just for that? But I put out the my debut record, which is what You Look Like You Love Me came off of, and they're singing every word to every song. It's crazy. They're listening to the whole thing and it's just wild. It's like, just watch my dreams come true.
It's that one viral thing though they get them to even pay attention to the rest, right.
Yeah, Well it's also cool too, just a lot of these fans are not just the song, but you know, I saw you out with Randy Hawser that was my first tour three years ago, or I saw you John Party, or I saw your Riley or you know, it's a lot of these fans that we've grown through playing so many shows over the years and just working hard that way. But yeah, the it's wild to see when that song went.
We did it in Hyde Park too.
That was probably the wildest time thus far. It's fifty thousand people.
That's crazy.
We opened it for Morgan and it was just crazy.
That was.
Probably the first time I had seen a crowd a mat like a massive amount of people sing words that I had written, and for it to be fifty thousand people in the UK was It's just hard to I don't know, it's hard to put into words on my so I remember I had my ears in because when you're way way out there at the slap back was so bad, so it's like you can't keep up with a drum. You gotta keep ears in, so it's hard to hear the crowd. And I kind of remember walking back being like that was crazy, you know. I just like I don't know if I registered anything, and I was like walking back thinking like just a normal time of us singing the song and everyone that was like on both of our teams, I was like, was that crazy? And they showed me back the video and I mean and Riley both watched it and it was just like massive, So I think that's what when we both realized it was like the song is doing something ridiculous.
And also, I mean, Riley's a massive star and he's like perfect for the song as well. Yeah, like all the stars kind of aligned with him, going, y'all do the song. That's cool. And he's also a big star and it works with him. Yeah, what was the ad? How did you ask him? What would hey, you want to do this song? Well? Text of a version of it? Was it always a duet? No?
I mean, like I said, I wrote it just for fun. I mean, it wasn't like.
You didn't write it for fun, like another a duet.
No, no, no, no, I just I just I was just listening to it after we cut it. It was not going to be a duet right when we first cut it, but Riley asked us on tour right around the same time. So I don't know, I just I just thought of the idea. I was like, oh, what if we asked Riley to sing the second verse and then we could do it on the road. And obviously I didn't think it would just do what it's doing now. It's hard to expect something like this, But.
So did you have a second verse before he came in?
Yeah?
Yeah, and that's what I'm singing out on the Actually we wrote a lot of verses. When we wrote the song, we just kind of giggled and wrote as many verses as we had in this, and then we just picked our favorite ones. So I kind of throw those alt verses in the live show right now.
I usually start off with like before.
There was a main named Riley Green singing this song and then all the girls were like, and I'm like, ah, I was singing the second verse. Yeah.
I tried to really do a do it with me. He turned it down, so I was just jealous us. Yeah didn't.
Well really, my manager, Bradley Jordan, he's he's kind of the reason I met Riley and he's just help a lot of artists coming up. But he showed it to him, I say, and then uh, and then yeah, I think Actually I played a show with Riley and went on his bus and I said, I think My first line was Riley, uh, do you like making money? That was my first pick up. Well, that was my first line. And didn't know he was going to do anything from there, but so I started.
And now he now here it is he makes money does makes it makes it anyway, but they make max more. Now. It was always fun. I'm being told that Riley just arrived. Riley, Riley Green has entered the building. So why don't we take a break? Ella Langley's here? Is that true? Scuba is Riley here? He's in the green room. Okay, Riley Green has entered the building. Uh wow, they're there. They're underwear being thrown at him as he walks down. We don't even know there's nobody else in the whole building. Underwear still landing on his head. We'll be back in one second. We'll get Riley in studio. You guys are perform it? Yeah, all right, back in one second. Okay. So, Ella Langley's here. Riley Green has entered the room. Really good to see.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Thanks for coming up. And so I think what we'll do first, if you don't mind, why, I would love to hear the song live and then we can just talk a little more. You guys get with that, okay. So this is the song that I love. I've been playing on the show and I sometimes sing it and wonder where did I hear it, and then realize it was on like nine different videos from nine different people. And this is called you Look Like You Love Me. It's Ella Langley and Riley Green.
Oh.
I'm sorry we can't post a live performance on the podcast, but if you go to our YouTube page, you can watch it.
There or maybe listen live.
Okay, all right, now back to the podcast.
How many times do you think you guys to play that together? Now? First time? It's right?
Good?
Hey, I think we've done it the same time. Twice. It's the same way twice.
Yeah, no, over over fifty now at this point, can you like it? Because again, when you I'm not good with numbers, but I would say.
Tune okay, so well yeah, okay, see, I'm not good with it.
I don't know, I don't know. Probably like us together. Probably, like I'll say.
It's gotten louder every time we played it, which has been really fun to watch.
Why'd you say yes to the song?
Uh?
Well? I always like Della.
She's from Alabama, very very country, uh musically and in spiritually. Uh. And we just grew up the same way. Bradley Jordan, her her managers, a really good buddy of mine, and he kind of put me on tour. And I just like to see good folks do well. And and she was on tour with me. I thought it made a lot of sense. I thought the song was fun, had no clue it was a giant hit, you know. I thought Talking Versus was probably a little too old school, a little too traditional. But how cool is it that a song that's this country is doing this?
Well? You know, when did you start to notice, oh, crap, this is a this is a monster, Like did it randomly ever just come up or were your people just letting you.
Know, like, well, no, I mean I've never had any type of I guess what you would call is like viral, you know, and this song is really like viral. I mean, I can barely work TikTok. I don't really know how that works, but it's just everywhere. So you'd get your phone out and it was every scroll. Would you hear this song playing? So I guess that was kind of the eye opening thing about it. But certainly playing it at a show, I think maybe yeah. I mean some of the stuff I would just kind of randomly bring L up and we would do a couple of songs together, and we did this one of a couple of times and it just didn't take long.
That's crazy. That's so cool that because it organically happened right like you. Yeah, and any creator, any musician and the artist. You're always one really special piece of content away from having a real shot going viral. You never know what it can be. And there are people that it's a weird dynamic because you know, you're like, you don't want to give it too much power. But also if it's really good and nobody's given it a chance, sometimes the chance is right here, like it's a platform that is able to be used. And I think this is one of those examples of five hundred executives are going to hear that song and go like what you just said, Riley, it's maybe this a little too old school. We're probably not gonna invest any money. However, the people freaking loved it, and that's what makes all the difference in it.
Even now after you wrote it, you're like, I don't know that any video I'll ever hear this.
Well, yeah, I mean I just kind of like my whole goal for writing song was just to honestly, this is what I was still playing a lot of rounds in town, is to just have a song where like no one's listening, they're all talking to maybe they'd laugh a little bit because I'm talking in the verses, you know, but yeah, some of my hands. And she works on my on my team, and she heard it and she just was like, dude, you've got to You've got to send this in. And I just fought it for so long.
So this is the first time you put it up that people reacted to it or it take a few times.
No, No, it did not.
It just wasn't that hard. Like I just posted one. Uh, we were out on the roads, I think on the West Coast towards the end of the tour, and I just posted like a video of me doing the verse and that's it, and it just that's kind of what started it. And then I did one other video of just me singing the chorus, and that's the sound that everyone's been using. But then whenever we did red Rock and posted us that he's actually on the song. And then yeah, when we did it for the show the last day of the tour too.
So I'm a sports nerd and I was and I like sports memorabilia. This is gonna be a This is how I heard the song the first time. As I was watching this sports memorabilia being broken. The song's playing in the background. And I'm like, that sounds like Riley. I don't know who the girl is. What is that song? I hear it as a background sound when I'm watching them freaking break signed helmets, and so I've searched for a couple of things I heard. That's where I heard it. Then it was so ubiquitous, just existing everywhere. Then that's when I started to play it here. But like congratulations, like it's it's something that's so awkwardly awesome that it makes all the bit of sense, and it's why it resonates so much because it doesn't sound like everything else and it's good.
Well, I think it's also like kind of for this next record. I'm already work on it, but just like the creative freedom I have now, just just like there's literally no singing in the verses, and this songs on radio doing well right now in as wild, so I kind of feel like it's kind of ripping the structure out of my head a little bit and just doing what feels good.
I mean when I think about like Conway Loretta, because they were awesome and they did their music together. They do funny songs, they do talkie songs, they do singy songs. That's what it kind of feels like to me. It's here, yeah, so yeah, it's yeah, you know those songs a archa Yeah, Riley, I was talking about your own social media. I didn't know you're gonna be here, And at one point I was like, I want everybody to make sure that they know this is a compliment. But I was talking about how your everybody knows you're a star and you have a lot of hits, and but I don't think people understand the amount of megastar you are at shows. Meaning what I compared it to is you have a lot of number one songs, a lot, and you have a very successful career. But any other people that I know that have had that many number one songs, they don't have the crowds that you have. And I was talking, you know, the only other artist I've seen do it like this kind of low key megastar it is Kane Brown, who it took forever for people to understand the Caine had built this following that it was selling out arena's until people are like, oh, yeah, I can't, but that's you now. And I think what you're doing is on such a level and people don't even understand the level that's on right now, and I just want to congratulate you and celebrate you because you are You're killing it. So I was talking about you a little bit on it.
Well, I took it as a compliment regardless of how you meant it when I heard it, So I appreciate the kind words. And it's man, it's it's it's a wild time. I think it has to do with a lot of putting out a lot of music.
You know.
I've got a lot of songs that haven't been on the radio that people seem to know. And you know, the song with La is a great example of you just never know what somebody's gonna latch onto.
You know. I thought the.
Chorus was catchy, you know, in the in the song, and maybe it'd be a little bit of an earworm. But to see it be as big of a song it is, it's proved you never know, and uh, you know, writing from where you come from and hopefully people can relate to it. And I think that's what Ella does really well. And uh, it's working really well for us right now. So I'm blessed to be out here doing it.
Are you? Are you? On the road every weekend. Now, yeah, I thought I was on the road today, you are on the road. Wake up, wake up.
Now.
I had to come play a guitar gig today for.
Guitar players.
That's how big the song is.
I'm playing guitar for Ella Langley. And by the way, Ella's album is out. It's it's called Hungover. It came out in August. So hopefully you hear this song. And what it does is you go, oh, I like that. Let me go check out some other stuff. That's the great thing about something popping is that people check out the other stuff. If they playing Yeah and Riley Green, maybe you've heard of them a big deal.
So does the line work, though.
It depends what the depends of the girl looks like I dumped the guy is That's generally what I'm waiting.
To hear about, Like you know, you're that pickup line got us married?
Yes, I'm ready for that, or you just you see this kid right.
Here, except it's like here say this kid, we're not married, but thank you.
I said that.
Yeah, Ella, Riley, thank you guys for coming in. Appreciate congratulations, looking forward to LS and a whole lot more. Thank you, they are Ellen Riley, good job. Many times a week? Do you take a nap?
None?
None? Good? Yeah? I don't either. I might. I might get one in if it's like a really really early packed day and I get I sit on the couch and I'll set my alarm fifteen minutes and sometimes I wonder dead falsely, that's weird. I know that's weird, but I'm my Why do you How many do you get a week? Probably five every day? Huh No, not every day every workday. No, Sometimes I don't get on a work day. Sometimes it's on a Saturday or Sunday.
Average nap length of those five, oh, our hour fifteen?
I think that's awesome. That's good. Yeah, summer shorter, and it's like we're not even hating, but summer longer. Oh, summer longer. What's what's a long nap? Long nap is three hours? That's that's my sleep at nights. That leaves it sucks. That is awesome. Like sometimes on the weekends, like I'll take a nap and the kids will wake go from their nap where I do? Oh, your kids still nap and they just take care of themselves, feed themselves. There it's a jungle. You guys are all Mowgli and the forests of jungle buck and lunch. How long did you guys get out there? We've been watching a movie.
Uh.
Sixty five percent of people say they frequently want to nap before noon. Average person gets about a thirty minute nap a week in general, all days in so and Lunchbock's five days a week. Yeah, rocking it good for him A pile of stories.
So a hot topic right now is what type of friend you are? Are you Type A or are you Type B?
For The difference is.
Type A is the very responsible one. You plan and organize everything. You have a sense of urgency, and you make sure things like, you know, vacations.
Don't fall apart.
Type B Uh, you'd give someone the shirt off your back, but you need help to You're forgetful, you leave stuff behind, and your phone.
Is always dead. I'd like to assign these to I am Type A extremely knowingly, like, don't get me wrong, I get it. I'm a little over uh, and then all the rest of your hype very much.
Definitely, it's difficult to be both.
I've never felt more so.
Do you guys not feel like it's difficult to be a bee. It's hard to be a bee?
How is it great to be a bee?
Like? I naturally am an a, but sometimes I just am like too much of an a and I'm like myself because I'm just I'm not. No, I don't not annoyed with the bees so much. If that's what I know you for, and that's what I know you guys for, but you give me the shot off your back, that's what I else.
So, speaking of friendships, is it okay to lie to your friends about what time and events starts?
Yeah? How about why? Yes? Then too everybody. It's not just in general, it's people that you know are going to be chronically late. So you start, you just bumped the time. The problem is once they start to realize your bump at the time, then you got a double bump time. Then they just I had to be on time one time, and when you double bumped the time, and then you're there forty five minutes early, so then you never can bump it again. Right, I'm not from personal experience or anything.
I bring this up because of a viral TikTok video where this happened to a woman. If you're my best friends who just made a reservation for eight thirty and told.
Me eight, Uh, well played, because I just showed up at eight twenty two and was like to those systs, like this co for eight o'clock and she was.
Like three thirty.
She was like you're the first one here, and I was like, well played, well blued.
So type again and you got that hype?
Yeah, okay, h do you know what the O N O clock stands for?
Since we're talking about time.
I don't, I mean think about this four o clock four? Oh crap, you guys are late. I've been wait ninety for a while. I don't know, I have no idea.
Yeah.
Well, so when they would talk about time, be like, well of the clock, it'd be like that is oh of the of the clock?
Interesting?
And so the O is of the.
You know what cock stands for?
What you say?
Cop? Cop? What do you think? Yep?
Or obviously it's police because you can cop to something.
Good point amy cop is short for something no, yes, but no, but you know you know where it comes from.
It's not an acronym. No, we don't know.
I've never thought about it, meaning it deserves police copture. But then a cop copper.
I laugh because copture is funny, but it actually is like a foreign language, very French, to capture where it comes from. Oh to copture? No, not culture, that's not it. That is not it. I am going to capture. But I never thought about cop meaning something I didn't even know. Bad boys, bad boys? Thank you? Is that it? So? It's the word copper was the original word used in Britain to mean someone who captures, and copper is from the uh sigayer, which is a different word, but copper cop is from copper which means to capture, which is cigar. I never have just thought about that, but cop Anyway, my best membrain O brain on OCD. That was Amy's Pile of stories. It's time for the good news. Bobby Robert Kirk is a Walmart greader in Salt Lake City and he does this thing. He comes to them people like what what's up? Little jokes, old stuff, And so Cody Wilson and her family they would go into Walmart and Robert would talk to her and could tell Cody was struggling. There was a sudden shift in her mom's health, there was some financial issues and so again Robert Kirk, who by the way, Walmart greaders, they're not making six figures, right, they're showing up doing their job. He learned that she was living on Social Security, and so he was like, hey, first she went to the people at Walmart. Then he started a crowd fun campaign just to raise a little bit to get a little bit of financial relief, telling her story. He did all this on his own, and she came in and he gave her ten thousand bucks. Wow from it just from like hearing her story, working, working the people in and then throwing up a little crowdfund that didn't even go that viral. It wasn't like a ten million dollar crowdfund, but just the people in the area that he knew made ten thousand bucks and was able to help her get out of a pretty rough place financially while she dealt with other stuff. See now, Robert Kirk, the greeter needs either a rays hopefully raise, but two if they give him like military like stars or like Cracker Brow, you get more stars along. Yeah, you should get some extra flair. That's like boy scouts, Like you get a new something because you just changed somebody's life. Yeah, it's a great story. Robert Kirk shout out that story from KSLTV. That's what it's all about. That was telling me something good. And that is the end of the first half of the podcast. Is the end of the first half of the podcast. That the podcast. That is the end of the first time of the podcast. You can go to a podcast too, or you good wait so I guess you come out
