SUNDAY SAMPLER - The Nashville Podcast Network (11-10-24)

Published Nov 10, 2024, 6:03 AM

In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman, The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast and Get Real with Caroline Hobby.  You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts. 

You can find them on Instagram:

-The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast

-Take This Personally- @TakeThisPersonally

-4 Things with Amy Brown- @RadioAmy

-Sore Losers- @SoreLosersPodcast

-Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro

-Get Real: @GetRealCarolineHobby

Hey guys, time for the Sunday Sampler Lunch podcast in the Nashville Podcast Network. On the Bobbycast, I sat down with Madeline Rolo and we talked about Shania Twain, Keith Urban almost made her crash her car, how she was in My Little Pony as a voice. It's really good that's coming up. Also, take this personally with Morgan Hewlesman. She talked to flirt Coach Benjamin Cameras. I don't even know what that is, but you're gonna hear that. Four Things with Amy Brown. We're gonna start with that right here, So be sure if you like any of this, go and subscribe. It would help us. Maybe you find a podcast you like. We'll be back next week to sample some other stuff. But let's go now. Here is a clip from Four Things with Amy Brown.

Personality. What's loss.

So excited right now? I am joined by Benjamin Cameras, the flirt coach, which we all need a little more flirting in our lives, so this is exciting. Benjamin, how are you?

I am doing quite well, Morgan. Very excited to be here on the show today and connect with your listeners and talk about.

Flirting and more.

Naturally humans would like connection, right, but connection is also very scary, so it's hard. Yes, yeah, so you know, and everybody's asking the same question, right, everybody who's I should say, in the dating world specifically, is asking the same question. Where can I meet single partners? And how can I actually go up to them? What's the right things to say?

What do I do?

So?

What are those first steps you'd tell somebody, Hey, go here and give this a try kind of thing.

So I frame the flirt all around connection first and foremost, because I think that's a really natural and beautiful place for it to start.

And how I define.

The flirt is that flirting is the genuine expression of interest in the present moment, without expectations, and so that is where I think it really starts. You could also think about it, and I share that the flirt can also be an active service. Maybe it's putting a smile on someone's face, helping them have a better day, helping them just get into a better mood. Maybe it's a way for you to observe something around you. Maybe you learn something new about yourself, learn something new about someone that you're talking to. You're flirting with. So if the flirt can start from a place of connection, then I think it can evolve and become more layered from there if you want to spice it up, make it a little more juicy, if it's someone you're starting to date or even in a relationship with. But the flirt is not in my mind. And like, you see someone that you think is attractive out you're out one night at a party, let's just say, and you just walk over to them and be like, so, I think you're hot, want to go out? Like that's what That never actually works, does it? No? And that is not flirting. That is a very specific question that you are asking with one result in mind.

Yeah, not a flirt. Not a flirt. That's just a question.

A few of those come up, and I can really say they've never panned.

Out into anything.

No.

But if that started a little bit differently, maybe this person was making some eye contact from across the room, maybe that you saw them and you started to flirt with the eyes a little bit, some body language. You're sort of dancing around this space. They walk over to you, approaching you from the front right, not tapping you on the shoulder, catching you off guard, but approaching from the front. It's like, say, I noticed you from across the room. You really caught my eye. I wanted to come up and introduce myself.

My name's been how are you.

Oh?

I just got like little goosebumps as you did that. I was like, if somebody did that for me, I'd be flattered.

Oh my gosh, such a big difference.

Right, and then you're making so genuine expression of interest. It's just looking to Okay, let me learn this person's name, let me learn one or two things about them. Let me make some observations around this space. You're at the party, what music is happening, who else is there? What kind of food do they have?

What are we wearing? Right?

Starting to make that connection in the present moment, So feeling your way through the flirt rather than thinking your way through it. A lot of people tend to be in their head. They're analyzing what I'm going to say next. They're picking apart every little thing about Oh my god, the body language looks like this, or oh they just said this, or ooh you know, last time the flirt didn't go well for me, so maybe this time it's not either. Let's come back to the moment. Just feel our way through it, and then the lack of expectations piece. It's like, if you are coming up to talk to this person and solely because you think they're hot and want to go on a date, well, then your flirt is very much one dimensional and happening specifically because you want this one thing to happen. Your flirt may not be received that way and the other person may not want the same thing. So if you can let go of those expectations and just get to know a little bit about who this person is and let the flirt, let the flirt evolve from there, because the other person gets to receive the flirt how they want to flirt back or not, how they want to really respecting and honoring.

Who they are. It just it establishes that.

Point of connection first and foremost, which can who knows what could happen from there. Maybe it leads to a date, Maybe it leads to you know what, they're taken, but they've got a single friend. Or maybe you find you have a mutual friend in common, or you just have a really awesome conversation about a concert you both saw and you didn't know you were both there. Maybe that's the flirt and why can't that be enough? Sometimes you made a connecttion.

What prompted you to move to Nashville specifically?

I always wanted to. I visited Nashville I think at like fifteen or sixteen for the first time, as soon as I figured out there was like a magical land where people came and wrote songs for a living and yeah, and then I was pretty determined. But as a Canadian, it's hard. You need a visa. You can only stay for six months without once, so you kind of need a company to like sign off on you. It's expensive, there's like a lot of kind of hoops you got to jump through. So I just like worked and saved up money and had a career up in Canada and still do tour it a lot and had a lot of great experiences. But it was always like, as soon as I could move to Nashville, I was going.

To do it.

So did you need someone in the States to like co sign mm hmm, not even the term you use.

Kind of Yeah, I mean it's a process, right, they have to like basically vouch for you that like they'll send you back if needed, and they're like low key responsible for you and that they're going to supply you with work. And so when I moved to town, like I didn't really have that, and so you just started like harassing anyone that would like make eye contact with me and be like, listen to my song? Have you heard my song? It was like this clock that was counting down.

You moved here without that, Yeah, so you basically had six months. It was like the numbers, dud, dude, it's counting down.

Yeah.

I think it's like to play in the US, there's a visa call the P two, which will kind of like get you in for like one specific show. So I think I had one of those at the time, so didn't like raise any red flags. But that was done and the clock had started, and I was like, okay, I need to get a publishing deal essentially.

And how did you go by getting that? You moved here? What was your apartment like, I'm always curious that people's first Yeah, like the first like three months here, What was your apartment like? And what were your first couple of, you know, ventures out in the music world.

I lived in Midtown in one of like the little apartments there. I cried like every day. I had no friends and no, anybody, no roommate.

No.

I would listen to your guys show, actually, and I listened to a ton of Bobby Cast and I felt like you had the scoop on everything and I had no friends, and so you.

Guys were I was your friend.

I just you are that, yes, yeah, but honestly it was like anyone like you'd have one kind of friend. I actually remember Hannah Ellis, who was an artist. I had to write with her, and she invited me to a party, I remember, and I was so scared and I never forgot that she did that because I was like, literally knew nobody was petrified and just rolled up.

So how do you make friends with no? No, No, I've to do it.

It's hard to do.

I just wonder how you did it here and all your friends are probably also competing or trying for the same goals you have.

Yeah, I would say, I mean it's hard. I remember being like if you're at like a yoga class, you just like be like hi, Like, I mean, I'm awkward as it is, So I don't really know. I think through like song writing, and then you meet kind of one friend who introduces you to their friends and you kind of click with people. But I find that Nashville's pretty open. Like when I moved to Toronto, I made like one friend in like.

Two years, like I had the whole time you left one friend?

Yeah, like one friend I could call.

Did you do the n S A I? And I say, I deal on songwriters? Or how did you get your friend rights?

I like I had just known a couple people through Canada because I would come down here and write with a couple of people, Like I knew Phil Barton and knew like a few people. And then I went to be and my I went to ask cap and just was like please, like just set me up with rights and just started like compounding and then like can I jump up with you and sing at the listening room or can I do this? And just I felt like really did everything I could to meet anyone, like going out, if you were playing a show, I was gonna be there. I was just trying to talk to people, and yeah, I just needed to be able to stay.

Up.

Little food for yourself life. Oh it's pretty bad.

It's pretty beautiful, beautiful, laugh for.

A little more.

You're kicking it with four with Amy Brown.

What is your first core principle.

I think my first one is and this is going to sound like I hope it doesn't come across like I'm trying to be humble but making sure that I live a life and service to others. And I think that's certainly a core belief in my faith. Is a Christian is that it's not about me. But I just noticed that whenever I'm feeling most unhealthy, this is I'm being selfish, but like there's too much that's about me, too much, I'm worrying about myself. There's too much attention on just things that are centered around me. And I am happiest and I feel healthiest, and I feel like I am serving God's purpose for my life when I am every day finding a way to serve someone else big or small, like that could be in the simplest ways, whether it's serving someone on our team in like a random act of encouragement or kindness, or whether it's something bigger. I mean, I think not to celebrate ten years or however long we've been friends, but we were just saying it's been over a decade. I think where I've always appreciated you is, you know, the foundation of our relationship was on service and wanting to come together and do something for others, and I think that's what we're all called to do, you know. I think we kind of not to sound critical of all the tools and resources that are out there, but there's a lot of like self care, take care of yourself, for which I believe there's a lot of validity and value in that. And you can't pour into someone else if you've got an empty cup. But I do believe that we're meant to focus on others, and we're meant to focus on God's will for our life. And that's kind of how I start my day, is thinking how can I be a service of someone other than myself.

I think that times where I've been on calls with you and you've sounded just not your best are times when you know that you haven't been prioritizing service or others, and you eventually get there you're like, I don't know, just something's just off, and then we'll talk for a little bit and you're like, yeah, it's just I've got to figure out a way. Like right now, I'm just so focused on this, this and this, and I don't have time and it's just all about me and work and this and that and strategy and what's next, what's next, and you eventually have the awareness like, oh, I need to slow down and do something outside of this bubble that I'm in right now. And I do think, yes, there's absolutely something to putting your oxygen mask on first before you take care of others. We do need to do that. But I like that you brought that up, because when you take time to be of service to others, that could be your oxygen mask.

That could fill.

Up your tank a little bit. And you may not think that because it doesn't have anything to do with you. It has to do with others.

Yeah.

No, And I'm so grateful, like you have been a constant obviously in my life for many years. But I think again, over this past year, I've realized, you know, we've been building a business the last few years and I've never done that before. And we've had some some things go really right, which has been a blessing. But in that it's kind of like you feel like you're just trying to keep pushing things up the hill. And I think my priorities at times have not been always in the right spot. But it is every conversation I've had with you, there's always something that goes back to like, Man, I mean I even started the group chat with you and Walker because every time I'm around Walker, Walker Hayes like his spirit for just loving on other people. It is so genuine, sincere. You're like, hey, Walker, can we do this for someone? And He's like, yep, I'll be there, like I'm in and it just feeds my soul in such a way, especially when you get to do it alongside people you love, and then even more so bringing strangers into the fold and you know, serving together. It's just yeah, selfishly, it's amazing, and so I try to do a little bit more of it every day.

So fun fact, if you are new to the podcast, Walker Hayes is the singer of the theme song here, and we are cooking up something different for the podcast that is in the works And I'm even smiling as I say it, and I wish I could say more at the moment, but well, first of all, you and I need to revisit that text thread with Walker because we've got to figure out what we're doing. But also I need Walker to put together a new little song.

We'll just send him a link to this episode and he can kind of get the subliminal hint hint that he needs to get to work on that.

Hey, it's Mike d and this week a Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I did my Desert Island movie bracket. I took twelve movies and pitted them against each other to decide if I could only take one movie with me on a desert island, which movie would I want to have with me. It was really hard for me to do because the twelve I picked are all out classics. So you can hear me debate that. I'll play you just a clip of it now. We'll be sure to check out the full episode of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, starting with the first matchup, Goodfellas coming in at two hours in thirty two minutes versus Heavyweights coming in at one hour and thirty five minutes. Both nineties classics in their own regard, good Fellas is an all time classic, my favorite Martin Scorsese movie.

You get everything.

You get the rise and fall, you get, the drugs, you get, the betrayal, you get, murder, you get sex, you get all the things that make a movie great. So many iconic lines in This movie has my favorite opening line to a movie of all time. Rayleiota Rip gave his best performance in this movie, but then you have Robert de Niro, Joe Peshi. Even the movie poster itself is iconic. I would wear it on a T shirt, I'd throw it up on a poster in my wall. Has an amazing soundtrack and is one of the most influential movies of the nineties. And it's also at a really great runtime of two hours and twenty six minutes. It's a movie that, back to that example of earlier, you could jump around and catch it at any moment and be so intrigued and so engaged because there are so many different levels to storytelling and goodfellas. And on the other hand, the reason I decided to include Heavyweights on this list is because it is such a comforting movie. One of my favorite movies growing up, because I was a chunky kid and I loved seeing a story about other chunky kids and accepting just being yourself even though you're not the cool skinny kid. Because in Heavyweights, it's all the chunky kids that are the cool kids, and the skinny weirdos are the losers and why I decided to include Heavyweights is I believe, if I'm stuck on a desert island, I want something nostalgic. I want something that is going to ease the pain of hunger in my stomach, make me well. Even though they do eat a lot of food in this movie. Maybe I didn't think that all the way through, but I want something to distract me from that, and the power of nostalgia to put me back into my young mind and how I was when I first watched this movie. I think that is powerful. Whenever I need any kind of comfort, I just go to like mid nineties Nickelodeon, live action Disney movies from that time, Animated Disney movies from that time, anything in that genre is instantly going to put me into a good mood, back when life was still just fun again and you experience things and didn't realize how significant that was going to affect the rest of your life. So that is why I put Heavyweights on this list over any other animated or Disney movie. Heavyweights is the movie that does it for me. But we gotta look at this matchup here, good Fellas versus Heavyweights. I think I made that point about I'm gonna be hungry on a desert island. I'll probably be surviving off of fish and coconut and random plants and berries. And seeing the heavyweights kids eat Twinkies on their pizza, sneaking beef jerky, putting candy inside of hollowed out bedposts. I think that's gonna have an effect on me. And I also look at Good Fellas with that two hour and twenty six run time. That is a lot of movie. That's a lot of bang for your buck. It's a Martin Scorsese masterpiece. Moving on to round two is gonna be good Fellas, and sadly going up in Flames is gonna be heavyweights, all right. Next match up in round one, The Dark Night at two hours and thirty two minutes versus is TMNT Secret of the Ooze coming in at one hour and thirty minutes, A tight packed in ninety minutes. The Dark Knight has my favorite opening scene to any movie, has a lot of my favorite superhero quotes.

Ah.

That is a movie that just instantly sucks you in from that opening scene, and that's why I love that movie so much. And since two thousand and eight, out of any superhero movie. I think it's held up the most because it doesn't even feel.

Dated at all to me.

That movie is cemented in not even two thousand and eight, but just stands apart as being one of the best accomplishments from Christopher Nolan oh Man. That is a really tough one because on any given day, that could be my favorite movie of all time.

A couple movies.

Battled it out at one and two, and if you put a gun to my head, I think I would go Dark Knight over everything. But I have to think about the desert Island scenario. And I've already seen The Dark Knight so many times. I rewatch it at least once a year at this point, sometimes twice a year.

So it's a.

Movie that I feel does have a lot of rewatchability because I've proven it I've done it so many times. But do I need to continue to watch it based on the amount of times I've already seen it. That is a tough one because it is just so great, so perfect. Nothing bad I can say about that movie. He's ledger everything about it. On the other hand, you have kind of, like the earlier matchup, the complete opposite of that.

Secret of the Ooze, which is the.

Second TMNT movie ninety minutes of fun, incredibly nostalgic, my favorite iteration of the Turtles, where it's the perfect combination of comedy and then being the heroes that we need. But there are some elements now as I watch this more and more into my thirties, that I feel the movie starts to date itself. Even though this was my favorite TMNT movie growing up and it instantly puts me back into a good mood. It would take my mind away from anything going on in this desert island. I could watch when I wake up in the morning to the sounds of waves crashing, or it could.

Comfort me at night.

The movie really has it all.

Oh.

I love Shredder and Secret of the Ewes, but I think if I had to go up against the Dark Knight, it's really hard to beat it. And even though this is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, I don't think it could beat the Dark Knight. So the Dark Knight, We'll move on to round two, and sadly Secret of the Ooze will go up in flames.

Carral Line, She's a Queen of talking and it was a song.

She's getting really not afraid to face it's so soul. Just let it flow.

No one can do it quiet. Car Line. It's time for Caroline.

I'm just gonna keep making the good music and being me and hopefully it keeps working.

You know, we'll see.

So what were you like growing up?

Because you started pursuing your career at age sixteen and actually like doing it for real, which is way sooner than most kids and young adults do. Most people are like, you know, dicking off for a long time before they start like getting into something legit. But you were like focused, ready to go, like pursuing this career at such a young age.

What were you like as a kid, Like, how did you even start this path?

Yeah?

What's your family like? Do you have siblings?

Yeah?

I have three siblings. I got a little sister, little brother, and then our youngest sister.

You're the oldest, the oldest.

Yeah, And my family's cool. We're very tight knit family still to this day. They're my best friends. I mean they are, yeah, yeah, for sure.

My siblings are.

No.

My dad actually lives down in Alabama.

My mom's back home with my sisters, and we're all really tight unit. But I guess me growing up, I don't know, I'd say I was always kind of like.

Was your dad with you all growing up? Or did he leave?

He was?

He was with me early on in my career, So it was like within the last few years that that's all switched up. But which has been a transitional thing. I talked about that a little bit and a couple of songs on the album and thing.

Your parents got divorced?

Yeah, like twenty twenty.

Unfortunately, is that hard as an adult to go through that?

I think that that was one of the weird things is like, you know a lot of people that I know where their parents aren't together.

It's just been that way.

It was a weird thing for me to be like twenty years old and then you know my siblings have to go.

Through it too and have to be there for them.

So yeah, it was definitely not like the most typical way I feel like of that going down.

But were they like trying to wait for everyone to grow up and then do it.

No, No, I was kind of just out of nowhere thing like it just kind of you know, didn't work out, and oh that's.

Hard at any time no matter what, you know, I'm a parent now.

So, like I understand, I have friends who are going through divorces at the young age and stuff, and I understand how things don't work out. But it's like when you're the kid, no matter what your parents, whatever your parents do, no matter what age you are, it's always gonna Yeah.

I mean that's the thing too, is it just affects everybody all the way around the whole family in general.

You know you wrote about that. Yeah, yeah, I wrote a song about it.

What's the song.

It's called Daddy Drinks Whiskey. Oh man, Yeah, it's pretty deep. It's probably like the deepest song I ever put out.

So so it's about alcohol too.

Yeah.

Yeah, man, alcohol is a beast.

It is, and it's crazy because like it was never like that in our house, like and then it just kind of got out of hand.

A little bit.

Yeah, the dark monster fortunately for really.

Yeah, it's something that you always got your respect and and make sure you can control because it can, you know, it can mess things up pretty quickly, anything like that, any substance or anything.

You know, it's it's hard.

But what we were talking about, you have your family heard that song?

Has your dad heard it?

Oh? Yeah? Yeah, it's on the album.

I played it for all my family members before I even released it because I wanted to see it's their story too, you know, and I wanted to see how they They all cried and they all said, man, that's real, and you should put it out of you know, it's time for you to talk about it, because it's something. Even with the song, like, I wanted to share my story, but I also wanted you know, anybody else that goes to those difficult things and has a family member or a friend or you know, loved one that struggles with addiction or you know, alcoholism, substance abuse, anything. I wanted to, like, you know, share my story so people could feel okay to talk about theirs because it can be an embarrassing thing, can be something you want to yeah, you don't want to like address, and then holding that back really hurts sometimes. So to like put it out there, I hope that, you know, I would help everybody else who has similar.

Things and let them know they're not alone and they can talk about it too.

I love that.

Yeah, it's cool.

That's powerful of being so young to be able to hit that topic too and share that with your.

Age group mm hmm, definitely. I mean it's crazy. I've talked to a lot of people, even just on this tour because we just started playing it.

Oh you're playing it live.

In the set list.

Yeah, and it's like a pivotal moment of the set. I'd say it changes the whole vibe of the show.

In the room. And you know, we pick it back up pretty quick after that.

But those are those songs that let people know you as an artist exactly. You know, it's like, this is my.

Story, this is my life, and then people are like, dang, this is my life too, and thank you for sharing because it's very hard to talk about heart those kind of topics and somebody has to be the voice for it so others can relate.

Yeah, and that's what I'm proud of about that one.

I'm proud of you.

Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. But uh yeah, I played it for all them. They cried and they said, you know, your story to share too, if you're ready to talk about it. It was written for probably like a year and a half or so before we finally released it.

And and your dad said release it too.

Oh no, my dad didn't hear it until it came out.

Okay, So okay, have you all talked since?

No, we don't talk very much. That's that's the other part about it. It's just kind of like, you know, I'm ready to talk about it. Let people kind of hear about what's been going on in my life and have that relatability, you know, and understanding of, you know, what my last four years is entailed, you know, just personally. So that's another story, you know, that I was just waiting to share, and I'm finally glad that I did.

Thanks for listening to the Sunday Sampler. New episodes arount weekly. Go check them out. Have a great week, everybody,