March 2, 2025 • 48 mins
In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie (no episode this week), Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast and Get Real with Caroline Hobby. You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
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-Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey guys, back with the old sample or on the
podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We got a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Had Ringo on my podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're gonna start with that, so we'll hear from Ringo
Starr and then on take this personally with Morgan Hulesman.
Raymundo's wife Bee or Laura which is her real name,
came in to talk about her cancer journey. We're gonna
hear a lot of clips. If you hear anything you like,
go search out the show, subscribe. It would help us,
it would help them. So let's get going now with
Ringo star a beato. That's a bad accent at my house.
(00:45):
I want to ask you one more question about yourandparents
because that resonates with me so much.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Did they get to see your success?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
No, I was in the band then, and sort of.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I was in.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
And we were playing in Germany. I was with Rory
by then Rory's some of the Hurricanes, and I was
there when my granddad went, and I was doing the
gig in Germany when my grandma went, so I couldn't
come home because everyone would had to play. But no,
they didn't see it like unfolding. I mean, they knew
(01:26):
I played, but they never came to a gig and
we went big time.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
We were local bands.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What was your in your mind?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You're ceiling when you were starting out and you're playing clubs,
you're traveling around, like how big did you think?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
How far did you think you could go in music?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I don't remember like thinking that. One of my mom's
best friends, Annie Maguire, she would say, you know, I'd
be hitting them in the house. I can see you
on the London Palladium one day, son, and she gave spirits,
so a lot of people in Liverpool gave your spirit.
Anyway I played, I only could take the snare because
(02:08):
we were a skiffle group. And Eddie Clayton, the guy
next door, and he was in the factory. I was
in the factory and Roy the you know, it was
just a wooden box with a pole and that was
the base and I had a surle and that's how
we started. And we had no sense of timing. I
(02:31):
remember that once we played some sort of dance and oh, Maggie,
Maggie May, they are taking her away and each other dancing.
They're dancing cause you saw it down. So I'm amazed
because I have really great time. You know time, and
I'm good at that. I mean, it's just God given
(02:51):
gift that I can keep time.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What was your job in the factory.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
My job was to be an apprentice engineer. At first
I worked on the rail ways as a delivery kid boy.
I was sixteen. And then I was on the coastal boats,
like party boats, where like four or five hundred people
would go from Liverpool to Wales and all they did
(03:18):
was drink all the way and drink all the way back.
And I lasted five weeks on the railway, five weeks
on the boats, and then my mom you know, oh,
I've been fired, and by Monday she'd got me in
a new job, and she got me this job in
the factory. But while in that factory, that's when it
(03:39):
came I want to play. I want to play. And
then I joined this other group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes,
and we got this three month gig in a holiday
camp in England. So I decided I'm leaving the factory.
I was just twenty ish, and all of my family
(04:01):
came to our house to tell me it's all right
as a hobby sone, but they wanted me to keep
that job. You know, and I said no, no, I'm
going and you know that's why I changed my name. Also,
we went to this gig three months we were going
to be there in the Rock and Calypso Ballroom.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
And.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
I changed my name fully to Ringo then because in Liverpool,
if you do something, you know, if you're limping, that
you'd probably be called limpy. But I started wearing rings
that sort of a take on my mom. She loved
flashy stuff, and so some people were starting to say,
(04:46):
hey rings, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You know, like gang members, we'd be hey rings.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
And we got to Buttland's holiday camp and we all
changed on. The guitarist called himself Tyle Brian and Johnny
guitar was great, and uh, the.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Name was Johnny Guitar. His name, I assume you played
guitar Ny guitar.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Really, yeah, because he changed his names to that. Really
his name was Johnny, but it's you know, it was
another name, family name. And uh, I put like Ringo, Stocky,
that's not that Stocky doesn't look you know.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Didn't look right. So I put Ringo star.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Did you two rs the first time?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Two rs to make it star? And uh and it's
been that ever since. Ball of the family who called
me dad or granddad.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I've got two final questions for you.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, when you made the record and it was complete
and you're able to hear it all back, did you
like and do you like to listen to your own projects?
And what did you think about this one when it
was all the way done? Your own thoughts of your own.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Project when it was finished. I thought it was great. No,
I really loved it myself, and it was very to me.
I like to be The vocal was great, as I said,
it was it. They were all in my key and
it's like in a way though you know, we didn't
never live together. It was put together by a man
(06:18):
who knew me and and I think I'm tired of
thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
My final question something again we alluded to earlier, was
playing in the clubs and a lot of artists miss
out on that now and they kind of get famous
before they're ready.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Oh yeah, I think they.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
You know, they have a hit in January, like those
TV shows for the singing the singer who wins has
a number one in January, and you don't air from
him after May.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's all over and they're not really able to They
don't know how to deal.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, and they're not able to develop even as a performer,
right because they don't do the clubs.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
They're ong clubs.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They got so famous so fast. You know, the kind
of the legendary story about you guys. You'd be in
a club in Germany and play for like six hours
a night.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Is that actually do two bands? When I was there
with Rory and the Beatles were there. When we were
the two bands, we were on separate clubs at the beginning.
Then Koshma, the guy on the clubs, put us both
on one club and we would battle each other for
the audience, you know what I mean. It would stomp
in and stuff. But at weekends we did twelve hours
(07:27):
between us. Yeah, and you know, I love it because
we're in that book ten thousand hours, and they actually
mentioned we actually put in our ten thousand Now.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think that's where I first knew of the story
reading that book. You'd put in that whole time.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
We'd play anywhere and Saturday night in Liverpool whatever, the
gig was one of the clubs that have an all
night and they were so cheap they'd only ever hire
a trio to custom less and or all of us
were to these clubs and just play all night. Any
(08:03):
chance we had to play, we would play.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, now you can put your iPhone on a little
stand and read the lyrics. You didn't have iPhones back then.
You had to remember or guess.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Well, yeah, now I can't work without my little lyrics sheets.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's like, oh it is, well, I love the album.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh great, Well it's great being good talk, can't you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah? Yeah, really easy for thanks, real easy to talk
to you too.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You never know whenever Ringo star is coming over.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah you know, well they.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Did sit on that star, and now I know they
are more.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Well maybe because I've told these same stories since I've
been here nineteen times.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What story?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
What story off?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
What story did you tell here that?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Sorry I told that story.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, no, it's a good one.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Anybody ask you about your grandparents the whole time?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
No, only you, That's all I want. This has been
the best. You're saying that ever? No, I mean, look
me best ever. Don't say ever, because then I know
you're lying if you were to say really the best,
I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Ringo, It's been a pleasure, Thank you very much. The
records awesome.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
It caup little food for yourself life. Oh it's pretty bad,
(09:31):
it's pretty beautiful, beautiful that for a little more. It's exciting,
course said he can. You're kicking with four with Amy Brown.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
I think I'm excited about my brow rebrand.
Speaker 11 (09:46):
I too, Honestly, are really exactly we talked about this
coming up.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
I'll keep all.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Posted on the process. But I know so many people
that have listened have come to you for brows or
even their breast So I want you to touch on
and the passion side of your work. I know you're
passionate about both, but being able to give women confidence
back if they have lost their breasts because of breast cancer.
Just share a little bit of that, just in case
(10:12):
there's one person that needs to know your info, your number,
or they have a BFF or a sister that needs
to be calling you to be able to get that
confidence back.
Speaker 11 (10:21):
Yes, yes, oh I love it. That is where my
heart is. I love brows. I love it. But I'd
always seen the areolas and been like, oh, I'm going
to do that one day. You know, you just put
it in your back pocket and you think about it.
But I'm busy doing all my other things. You know,
that was the last thing that I thought I had
time for at the moment. My dad he did pass
away from colon cancer also, so I've had you know,
my dad and my mom both affected with cancer. And
(10:42):
it's just I know you have.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
Well in March's colon cancer awareness. Oh yeah, so we're
coming up on that, and I think I'm glad you
mentioned that because if you see any symptoms, book and appointment,
because early detection is everything with.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Colon cancer, and that that was what happened. Unfortunate with
my dad. He found out it was you know, stage four,
and he's that you know, he never went to the doctor,
never complained, you know, just little workhorse, just did his
own thing, and so he had little things that he saw,
but he just never never did it, never got colonoscopies
any of that stuff. And unfortunately he found out, Yeah,
we found out around New Year's one year and then
(11:20):
it was stage four and by the next April he
had passed. So he had two chemos and unfortunately his
body just was you know, too far gone.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Well, I feel like you sharing that now and then
with March being right around the corner, people are going
to start seeing more, which is great, but awareness is everything.
So in March, I hope that people are just inundated
with facts and information because your dad, being an older man,
that's who people used to think would just get it. Yeah,
it was just older men, but it is happening to younger, yes,
(11:50):
and younger and younger people and women.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Two, So I think I saw a stat that's like
one in twenty four people are going to be diagnosed
with calling cancer. So that's just one of those things
that if you can catch it early, if you have
any of the symptoms and maybe you're even being told
it could be something else like oh maybe it's a hemorrhoid,
or just get a second opinion or listen to your
gut and make sure that you advocate for yourself, because
(12:17):
this is one of those cancers that, yeah, if you
catch it early, your survival rate is very high. If
you don't, or if you ignore something or you go
too long, then that's when it gets deadly, which you
unfortunately had to walk through with your dad. So you
went through that with him, and then your mom had
breast cancer.
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Fast forward three years later.
Speaker 11 (12:36):
Yeah, my mom was diagnosed with a stage three breast cancer.
And she felt a lump, you know, as she checked
herself and felt it one day. And my mom's a nurse,
and yeah, it was crazy. My daughter was one and
you know, had my business and then my mom ended
up coming and living with me. So I kind of
was responsible for making sure that she had you know,
(12:56):
had her little friends on a chat list and would
make sure someone would check on her and do all
the things. And you know, we got her do all
of her appointments. But just personally seeing what someone goes through,
I mean, it's awful. It's it's brutal, and you always
think that, you know, you see people go through it,
or you hear people go through it, you know, through
the grapevine, but when it's actually your life, like seeing
my mom. And my mom is strong, you know, she
(13:17):
had six kids. She she did all the right things.
My mom never never drank, never smoked, you know, breastfed us,
all all the things that you know supposedly you know,
you're right, you know, odds of getting cancer less. But yeah,
she she got it and it was pretty brutal. But yeah,
seeing her come out on the other side was amazing
and I'll never forget. You know, she had kind of
(13:37):
would tell me that she she felt like Frankenstein. And
I helped her out with everything except for like the
like the drains and the stitches and that kind of part.
I get really woozy with you with that kind of stuff.
So I couldn't do much of that. So I hadn't
really seen her yet. And then one day my daughter
had run into the bathroom when she got out of
the shower, and it was the first time that I
had seen her, you know, without her breast and you know,
(13:57):
with with her stitches out and stuff, and you know,
it was it was hard, you know, that wasn't even
my body. And I mean I had to go upstairs
and cry just because I remember, like, you know, it's
hard seeing someone you think so strong, you know, look
like that. So I can't imagine what's going through her brain,
you know, looking and seeing herself like that every single day.
And so yeah, after that, I start I went up
(14:20):
I started researching all the trainings, and I was like,
you know what this is it, you know, it is time,
like mom is on the other side of her journey,
like I am ready to go and find training and
get certified. And it was like, you know, it was
totally you know, God or you know, whatever you believe in.
A training was going on that next month in Nashville,
you know, which there wasn't a lot of trainings around.
(14:41):
So this, uh, this girl from Texas was coming and
training people, and so I went and got trained and
it's just been a ongoing thing and it just I
feel like it's one of those things that brows. They
make me feel so happy, and you know, I feel fulfilled.
I love my job, like I I love doing all
(15:01):
aspects of my job, but when I get to do
Ariola's it truly it makes me feel like I am,
you know, impacting the world in such a positive way,
and like, you know, I'm helping fight for my mom
and my dad and you know all those things.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We're gonna do it live. We oh the one, two,
three sore losers?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
What up, everybody? I am lunchbox.
Speaker 13 (15:35):
I know the most about sports, so I'll give you
the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much
a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with Bayser,
my wife. We do have a farm it's beautiful. A
lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops hopefully
soon corn pumpkins, rye, I believe maybe a little fescue.
Oh to be to term and over to you, coach.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
And here's a clip from this week's episode of The
Sore Losers.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Guys to our guest.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I am Troy. I'm from Sydney, Australia, hanging out in
Nashville and Las Vegas this week, filling in for Arnold today.
Who've left him out there now? But and just I
feel like in a permanent state of hungover in Nashville.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Who are you with?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Just with a maid of mine?
Speaker 13 (16:24):
So you just you decided to come to Nashville in Vegas?
Is this your like once a year vacation or have
you ever been to America?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I don't know to America before once or twice. But
the Penrith Panthers, so they're a rugby league team. Yes,
they are opening the season in Las Vegas. So we've
we're branching out in Australia and opening the season in
Las Vegas. So that's the whole reason that I'm here
just to watch the Panthers. But I thought it'd come
to Nashville.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Holy hell.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
For a second, I thought the team's in Vegas. Why
are you here?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
They're in Vegas, but they play on Saturday, so I'll
be there by Saturday.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
So when did you get to Nashville?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Monday?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Okay, but you realize Nashville is nowhere near Vegas.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah, but I love country music, I love drinking, and
I love you guys.
Speaker 13 (17:07):
Okay, how did you find us?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I mean, yeah, there's not many Australians Saul Losers fans
in Australia.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
How do you find us? Is it because of the
big show?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Because of the big show? Yeah, music, big show in
country music, and then you know, navigated over to the
little show. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
We're huge in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Coast Reek and
now Australia. Sydney. I believe that's where we started saying
she's in us, the French Polynesian I believe. I believe
it's somewhere near Bally.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I have no idea.
Speaker 13 (17:42):
So the Peanuts Penrith Panthers, Penrith Panthers, are they like
really good or are they?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Well? So for most of my life not, but we've
actually won the last four premierships, so four pete last
year so before that, as growing up it was a
hard times but but yes, four championships in a row
so pretty epic.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Now clarify it. You said Premier League, but that's not
soccer and it's rugby the tush push.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It's rugby league, so it's similar to rugby, but it's
probably a little bit more structured, so probably closer to
the NFL than rugby union is. But yes, so rugby
league would be the number one sport in Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Tell me if I'm right or wrong here over unders.
I believe I bet this back in the day when
I had an addiction.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
That's the whole reason that they're coming to America because
they think there's a great window for people like Ray
at like three in the morning who want to bet
on sport in Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Is the over under typically what's the score of a game?
I would say fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Year probably like forty low forties. Okay, yea.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So it's just like NFL.
Speaker 13 (18:43):
What makes a good rugby team? Because I watched rugby
sometimes like with the Olympics, and I'm like, they all
look the same. They just throw the ball backwards I
don't know the rules. I don't really understand it. So
how do you get good? Like what is the difference
in rugby?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
So the difference is in terms of difference between say
the NFL, for example.
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Yeah, like what makes them so much like what makes
a good rugby teaven what makes a bad.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Defense is definitely the key. So you want to you
want to defend well, obviously I'm compared to say the NFL.
You you both defend an attack, you don't have sort
of two different teams. But yeah, defenses is absolutely key.
And you're half back, which is equivalent of your quarterback's key. So, uh,
the Panther's a lucky to play the best player in
the game in Nathan Cleary is half back and that's,
you know, a big reason why we won the last
four four championships.
Speaker 13 (19:26):
Do a lot of rugby players get injured and are
out for the year, Is it like they just play
through it?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, so no pads, no helmets, so they just like
run at each other basically, So plenty of plenty of injuries,
a lot of shoulders, pecks, knees, so yeah, yeah, pretty
pretty big injury list generally through the season.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Sometimes you got to go without the condom. I will
remove the headphones and just do it like that sometimes
because they'll throw me off. Maybe it's the same thing
with a helmet or something like that. Let me ask
this about Nashville. Ye, so you got here a win
did you on Monday? And you guys hit Broadway the bars?
Are you doing an educational thing?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
We did the educational thing. We did the museum and
I see, but we've mainly been at the bars, yes,
and just.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Are we did you research some you wanted to go
to the old ones?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
So last night I did do a lot of recess
before we got here, but last night we did the
old one, so tutsi's the stage those ones and the
night before kind of the biggest ones. We ended up
at Morgan Wall's bar, which I reckon was pretty awesome
on a Monday night, Okay, and of course we yea
it was. It was really good on a Monday night.
But we also, of course, pat tribute to the Sore
Losers Coaches Convention and went to Category ten and Chan
(20:29):
this last night and today we're going to the nash
Real Tractor, which I only found out about from Sore Losers,
so they should be aware of that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
That is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Let them know, please?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Did you does your mate know what this? Sore losers?
I'm saying, mate, you go to their friend know about
the podcast.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
He knows about it, but he doesn't listen yet.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
And he's like, you're wait, you're so. I'm hung over
at the hotel and.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
He's gone to a bar. He just sent me a message.
Is it a bar? At eleven? Am? Just im a drink? Again?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
That's the beautiful thing about Nashville. You can go to
the bars early. We did learn living downtown the hard
thing on Sundays. I don't think you can go before
eleven weekdays all game. But and you can actually drink
in the bar before you can buy alcohol at gas
stations and grocery stores on a Sunday it's noon.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
The good news is he won't be here on Sunday.
He'll be in Las Vegas because they play on set
the Peen Earth Peen Panthers Pinearth Panthers. That's tough to say.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So do you live in.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yes, Oh, my gosh, can you say it?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Perth?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
There is a new Rugby League franchise coming to Perth.
Do you live on the water or Inland. No, Inland, Yeah,
say forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Do you watch uh Love Island Australia?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
No?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
What what do you watch?
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Like?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
What?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
What is good in Australia?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Fancy talk him up?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Like, to be honest with you, we watched mainly American
TV eight like there is Australian made stuff, but all
the all the American shows that generally what what we
watch it? And literally just yesterday HBO Max announced coming to Australia.
We don't have HBO Max really no. So we're March
thirty one with the last of US season two. They're
they're launching.
Speaker 13 (22:06):
So that's pretty cool. Do you watch Okay, there's an
Australian show. I watch Colin from Account.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Yeah, that is all. That is fantastic. I actually know.
I'm Harriet Dyer, who's the lead girl. Really knew each
other a while ago.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
So what do you mean you knew each other a
while ago?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
That's very platonic, Okay, I assure you.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And there's a lot of sun in Australia.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yes, so I've just come from so we're just about
to finish summer in Australia. Over the last week, I was,
you know, thinking that we're coming to a snowstorm, but
it's actually pretty.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Warm here because your tan a little bit.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, I think I got sunburn on the weekend before
I got got it.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
So what do you do in Australia?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
So I run a or write for a local newspaper
in Penrith.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Oh the newspaper is still popular yeah in Penis so
like everywhere, of a bit of a change, but in Penrith, yeah,
still going strong. So what do you write about sports?
Do you just write about anything? I write about anything,
but yeah, big focus on sports and rugby.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
League geah, guard it lifestyle. So I think this is
a textroduction.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
This is a world trip because you're going to cover
the Panthers in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
That's what I'll be telling the text upontment.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, less sports, more lifestyle.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Yeah, what what are you going to do in Vegas?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Where are you staying? Or the Paris in Vegas?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Okay have you ever been to Vegas?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Yes? One, I'm a honeymoon to Vegas.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Okay, how long you've been married?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Ten years?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Okay, yeah, I would say Paris. That's where I slept
on Michael's couch. That is when we went on the
back party, the bachelor party was here. It is small
Ponzi scheme. See I was. I was heavily into gambling,
so I was gambling all this money. I didn't have
any money to pay for the hotel, so I told
all them to book at what was MGM MGM, but
I had no money to book.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
No, this is the true story. No, no, bro, this
is the true story.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
And so Michael, who I slept on his couch at Paris,
he hit me up and said, hey, do you want
to sleep on my couch at Paris? And I said, dude,
that's the best thing ever. That's exactly what I'll do.
So we get to the booth at MGM and Lunch
is checking in and I still hadn't told him that
I'm not staying at MGM. Everybody's got their bags and luggage,
and Lunch goes, yeah, it's me five other guys, and
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the lady goes, I only have rooms for four.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
I literally had everybody.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
No.
Speaker 13 (24:08):
No, here's the point. I said, hey, everybody, give me
your ID. She needs everybody's ID. And Ray still doesn't
have the balls to tell me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Is at the ticket counter.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
He doesn't have the balls to tell me, hey man,
I'm actually not staying here.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
So he hands me.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
His ID and so I put five IDs on the
counter so she can check all our rooms in at once.
And she goes, how they have four of these people
down for a room here, And I'm like, who, which
one's not?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
That's here?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Guys who isn't registered?
Speaker 13 (24:39):
And she picks up and she goes a Raymond, he
doesn't have a room here. And I turn around and
ray goes, oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm staying
at Paris with Michael.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Here's the best part.
Speaker 13 (24:52):
Here's the best part, Troy, I mean, here's the best part.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
When's the last time you talked to Michael?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sadly but not no. He kept in touch a little
while after that. It's been a minute, but he has
a family as kids. Sometimes he's in Mexico. I don't
think there's great service. You have to have WhatsApp. It's
been a minute. I get it, it was short lived. Had
a hell of a night at Paris with him.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now my question, do you
have kids?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
One daughter? Yes?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Hal four nice he's actually four turns four on this trip,
so it wasn't that popular that I made the decision
to go this week.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Okay and hold on.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
A sag it?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So you thirteen hour flight?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
How long was this? So? Actually it's a sixteen hour
fl lot to Houston and then two hours to nashually
eighteen hours. Eighteen hours?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Is your wife with your kids without them allowing you
to fly to Tokyo for a week by yourself with
a buddy.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
With a mate.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Probably not, dude, My chick ain't even letting me go
to south of Brentwood of Nashville with for a week
with a buddy.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Take this personally with Morgan feels Man.
Speaker 14 (26:11):
You guys may know her as Bay from the Bobby
Bone Show, Raymondo's wife.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
This is Laura, Laura, thanks for coming on. How are you?
I'm good, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
As you're going through this, are you angry because you're like,
I've been doing these.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Checkups for three to six months routinely.
Speaker 14 (26:29):
You've been doing everything that you needed to do and
then you find out that it's stage three.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
Yeah, just in that short amount of time.
Speaker 15 (26:36):
And it wasn't like it wasn't one of those super
aggressive ones.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
That's something that I.
Speaker 15 (26:40):
Still have to deal with mentally, I'm not gonna lie.
There's a few different things. I want to first say
that for some reason, I never asked why me, Like
I've never was like a why me person. I've asked that,
like when my parents, So she can get into later,
I've had cancer and I'm like why them? But I've
never was like why me. I do, though, struggle with
(27:04):
why did they not catch it sooner?
Speaker 12 (27:06):
When I was doing.
Speaker 15 (27:07):
Everything I was supposed to do, and when I after
I had surgeries, when they told me that was gonna
need chemo, and I remember going into my colleges and
she was like the first time I met her, she
was like I look through all the She's like, I
don't understand.
Speaker 12 (27:20):
I don't understand why, why?
Speaker 13 (27:24):
Why?
Speaker 12 (27:24):
This is this thick?
Speaker 15 (27:25):
And you are found out at stage three, so it's
a hard pill to swallow. But then I also look
at it as thank god that I went in that
day because I wasn't I didn't feel it.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
I felt it after she felt it.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
But me going every six months, I wasn't trying to
fill around as much as I should have.
Speaker 12 (27:44):
And so thank god she found it.
Speaker 15 (27:46):
So I go back and forth as in like a ugh, like,
how can I swallow this pill?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Up?
Speaker 15 (27:52):
I did everything I was supposed to do, but also
she saved my life, so you can't really get too
mad about that.
Speaker 13 (27:59):
Now.
Speaker 14 (27:59):
I want to get into more of your cancer journey
in the story, but before we start that, I would
love to hear you mention your family and the cancer
history that you have in your family, which I also
imagine it's just tough on multiple levels that you would
experience this as a family and then you were going
through it.
Speaker 15 (28:16):
So walk me through that side of this a little
bit with the breast cancer part of it. Come to
find out, like later, way later, I didn't realize. I
guess my great grandmother we think may have had breast cancer,
but we weren't. We still aren't one hundred percent sure
with that one. But my mom got diagnosed with breast
cancer a year before me, and hers was stage one,
(28:38):
and so they did what she's called a lump back tomy.
So it's like with me, I did a misectomy where
they took all the tissue and everything. With hers, they
just take the tissue and the surrounding of the cancer
and then they did a they did radiation, so that's
and then she's thank god, been maybe going on nine
years cancer free. But also that was also a weird
I don't want to say blessing, but we went to
(29:00):
the same doctor, so they did start being a little more, Okay,
we need to treat you a little bit better. And
they were telling me even then that maybe when I
turned thirty five, that we need to do an MRI
just to make sure that there's nothing in there since
my mom had it. So I think maybe that was
you know, maybe good at as far as helping them
be more concerned with them, just be like, oh, these
(29:20):
are five broadnomas or whatever. So that was the mom's side.
My dad ended up having melanoma, and his was again,
it wasn't during my treatment, it was right after I finished.
Speaker 12 (29:31):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 15 (29:31):
I just finished all of my treatment, so the chemo,
the radiation, and my dad my mom was like telling me.
Speaker 12 (29:38):
I was like, it was like the end of the year.
Speaker 15 (29:40):
I write, after Christmas, and my mom was like, your
dad has melanoma.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 15 (29:45):
Like I was supposed to be credy the end of
this and now my dad has melanoma. So it's different cancer.
But it's he's done really well with it. It came back,
but he got it taking care of again, and so
he's knock on wood, doing great now. But yeah, it's
like my brother, he's I'm just waiting for.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
This year to try what is happening? You know, he's
got to keep that shoe off.
Speaker 15 (30:08):
But yeah, So that's like the family history, and then
a few we could go back way further where it's
like my grandfather had died of cancer, my grandmother died
of cancer, but it wasn't My grandmother was lung cancer.
My grandfather I think it was a sophagal So, yeah,
we have cancer all in our family, but this was
definitely not so much breast cancer until a year before
I got diagnosed.
Speaker 14 (30:28):
There's so much with this, but I just have to
imagine that, in the hardest way possible, that it helped you.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Yeah, that your.
Speaker 14 (30:36):
Family had gone through it and you guys had really
been unfortunately adjusted.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
To that, especially my mom. I'll never forget. After I
had the biopsy, I went home, and I had it
on like a Thursday or Wednesday one those days. I
remember I went home and then I like, I do
not suggest this, don't do it I doctor would call
doctor Google, and I remember seeing from the sure in
my head of that ultrasound I was going through and
(31:03):
looking at every picture and of online like cancer not cancer,
and I could tell, okay, I knew that weekend that
I had cancer.
Speaker 12 (31:11):
My mom was like, no, you don't whatever.
Speaker 15 (31:13):
And I remember going in that Monday and be getting
found out and I was like, I told you I
had it, but I remember I just told Mom was
like I told her. I was like, I'm not strong
like you because she just went through it. And I'm like,
I'm not strong because I'd never felt strong. Every little
thing was such a huge thing to me. I definitely
deal with anxiety. So that was like up to the thousand.
(31:37):
I remember just being like, I don't I'm not strong.
And the reason I say that is because I'm stronger
than I ever knew.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
I'm stronger than It's.
Speaker 15 (31:47):
Just crazy what you can do and what you're like
mine makes you think that maybe you can't, maybe you're
not strong. And so for my reason to say this
is one thing I did want to say, come on here,
is that anyone that's going through this that's felling you're
not strong.
Speaker 12 (32:01):
Everyone's strong.
Speaker 15 (32:02):
You just have to feel, you have to be you
just have to be presented. Unfortunately, with something like this
to make you feel like, Wow, I got through this.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
I got through all of this. I'm on the other
side of this.
Speaker 16 (32:27):
Hey, it's Mike d and this week a movie Mike's
Movie Podcast, I broke down what I think are going
to be the best ten sequels of the year. I
know everybody says that everything is a sequel, everything is
a remake. Well, I wanted to dive into that and
let you know my thoughts on the state a cinema.
I also got into a spoiler free review of The
Monkey and what I think is going to be the
best comedy of the year. Check out this full episode,
(32:50):
but right now here are a couple of my picks
for the best sequels of twenty twenty five and number
two I have Happy Gilmore. It's coming out on Netflix.
The official date still isn't out. I've seen some early
images and stills from the movie. The only thing aside
from that that I feel it's a little bit cash
(33:11):
gravy is this movie is gonna be really heavy with
the cameos. First one wasn't like that. This has kind
of become Adam Sandler's marketing strategy and kind of how
he makes movies now is he includes a lot of
celebrities now to pop up throughout them, and I feel
like that takes away from the art of Adam Sandler,
(33:32):
which his early movies didn't rely on that. I think
it's kind of the model he created with the Grownups movies,
And I think it's because Adam Sandler is at a
point in his life where he just wants to create
fun sets. He wants people to come onto a set
and have a good time while making a movie, often
filmed in tropical locations, So I think that is why
(33:56):
he does this now. He's just trying to have a
good time, which I can't hate on him for. But
I think it's just the fact that it's Happy Gilmore
one of the best movies of his career. When you
talk about top three movies of Adam Sandler that he's
ever done, they all go back to the nineties. I
mean top two is easily Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
For me, those are the quintessential movies I think about
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when I think of Adam Sandler. Maybe it's because they
came out around each other. I also associate them with
having the two Pac DVD back in the day. I
feel like those are his two best movies, even though
I think on any given day, Big Daddy could also
be my favorite. But throwing all those reasons to the
when the fact that Travis Kelsey is in it, Bad
(34:38):
Bunny is in it, you have Shooter McGavin returning, Julie
Bowen is returning, it does have the pieces of the original,
I think to me, it's also just thinking of the
way that Netflix movies look now, where they don't really
look like movies anymore.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
They look really.
Speaker 16 (34:55):
Glossy and bright and colorful, and doesn't really have that
same warmth a movie from the nineties that I think
a sequel like this needs. So I feel like it's
a weird thing to complain about, but I think the
cinematography isn't going to match the tone of the humor
of Happy Gilmore. I hope that it does, but I'm
so excited just to see what the plot is and
(35:17):
to see how this plays out, and hoping that he
wasn't lying and saying we have a really good script,
that this movie is actually.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Going to be good.
Speaker 16 (35:27):
So I ranked it so high because my hopes are
so high. The last time, though, my hopes for this
high an anticipation for a legacy direct sequel like this
was back when they made Dumb and Dumber two and
I was so disappointed in that movie. Don't do me
like that, Adam Sandler. But my hopes are staying high.
At number eight. I have Happy Gilmore two coming out
(35:49):
on Netflix.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Later this year.
Speaker 16 (35:51):
How surprising that they're not going to put out this
movie in theaters? Is that another indicator? Because I think
if you had a really good movie on your hands, oh,
do you want to get that thing in theater? But
Netflix pays them so much money and that's gonna be
number one on Netflix for like two to three weeks,
so they're really paying for that. But at number one
coming out on November twenty.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
First, it is Wicked for good.
Speaker 16 (36:12):
We have Alfa Banow in full control of her power.
She has declared an enemy of the state and turns
into well a full out witch hunt. The thing I
love knowing going into this movie is the fact that
they already told us what happens to her character. At
the beginning of Wicked. It starts with her dying, and
if you've seen the original Wizard of Oz, you already
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knew what was going to happen to her character, regardless
to me, in my head, I just can't see it
getting there because I love the character of El Fabas
so much. Cynthia Riewo does an amazing job in the
first one vocally and through acting, say with Ariana Grande,
but in my head, I couldnt see her character getting
(36:57):
to that point. And I'm thinking to myself, like, maybe
they change something, maybe they rewrite history, maybe there's some
kind of magic that happens in between that that doesn't
happen to her character, because I'm so invested and I
love it so much that I don't want to see
that happen to her. But I also think that there's
gonna be some kind of a shift in Wicked for good.
(37:19):
And this is me have never seen Wicked. I've never
seen it. I've never experienced that. I for that reason,
have not looked up any spoilers on what happens in
the musical because I don't want to know. So this
is me pure speculation. What I like to do about
movies is figure out what they're gonna do. So you
might already know. This is just my theory, but I
(37:40):
think there's gonna be some real shift in her character
where you see that rapid decline and maybe we see
ourselves not rooting for her as much as we have been,
and we do see this wickedness come out in her,
where she really starts to change. People around her go
from defending her to being in fear of her. And
(38:02):
then we ultimately do see your demise and it makes
a little bit more sense, or we see the opposite
of her still being kind of a good person and
she sacrifices herself. Because this movie was also split into
two parts, it was originally going to be one movie,
and they had so much story to tell, so much content,
that they split it into two. I am glad that
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they are releasing it one year after the first one,
so we don't have to wait a whole lot. I
think it's also smart for them because if you missed
Wicked one in theaters, even though it's about to be
on Peacock on March twenty first, they could have those
double features sold out as well, where you show Wicked
one and then it rolls into Wicked two. Yeah, you're
gonna be at the theater for like five hours, but
(38:44):
I could see some people doing that. Then you're adding
some single along screenings as well, and that is great
for movie theaters and taking this thing full circle. It
is movies like that that create that experience that get
people into the theater and that allow theaters to keep
their doors open. And I will always be for that.
So I'm not anti sequel. I'm just anti wasting money
(39:08):
on things and wasting our time on things that feels
like they weren't really made with the same quality as
the original movies.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Carl Line, she's a queen talking and it was she's
getting really.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Not afraid to face its episode, so just let it flow.
Speaker 16 (39:37):
No one can do we quiet Carl Line, It's time
for carelu.
Speaker 17 (39:45):
And I will say that there are a lot of
touring things that I mean. I was out on the
road when we were filming Nashville. I was out every
weekend that well, every weekend, so we would film all
the way through during the week to the point where
like after the weekend, I would tour with Charles Eston
(40:05):
and Brandon started coming out with us as well, which
was wonderful, and six Wire, who are a fantastic band,
but we would be pulling onto the lot of where
we were filming in a real tour bus, getting off there,
going into hair and makeup, and then getting onto the
stunt tour bus like the you know, the.
Speaker 18 (40:26):
They were living a reality.
Speaker 17 (40:27):
Actually, Yeah, and I was absolutely exhausted, Like, you know,
your body is not the same after you've had cancer.
You know, people, especially at such a young developmental age,
there are lots of gifts that it gives you that
continue to give and being also very so just social
interactions sometimes are a little bit difficult for me. They're
(40:48):
much easier now, but there's so much that I wouldn't
have been able to do without Brandon. There the world
got so much more. I was able to see so
much more kindness in the world, and just the world
got softer.
Speaker 18 (41:06):
You were protected, you could just drop your guard.
Speaker 17 (41:08):
Yeah, when I met Brandon, and there's there's there's always
like the things that happen in life that they happened,
but just being able to interact with people and for
me to be able to turn to him and say,
I'm not sure if someone people tend to say things
that they they say one thing and they meet another
and I don't understand that, and to say to him
like I don't understand what that meant. What did they
(41:30):
and he can tell me it's it's weird. It's like,
you know, you just feel like an alien kind of thing.
But everything about the world got better, including my own
health and safety when Brandon showed up.
Speaker 18 (41:45):
Guys, how so having autism as a kid an adult,
I guess, but realizing it, when did you realize it?
And then how did you get into acting if being
around a bunch of people in this kind of situations,
like how did you navigate that and like go into
that field when you were kind of like when people
(42:06):
were kind of nerve wracking to the new room guessing?
How did you find it? And what did your autism?
What does it present as for you? Like how do
you work with it?
Speaker 17 (42:14):
For me, it's just it's like I don't even say
that I have I'm not correcting you in any way,
shape or form, because there are so many different ways
people talk about this. I am autistic, it's part of me.
I had cancer. Some people have cancer. I don't. I
don't consider myself to have autism. There's just a difference
between like the my autism is like I am autistic,
(42:37):
I have blonde, I'm like I'm a blonde. Yeah, yeah,
I'm an autistic blonde, Like you know what I mean. Yes,
it manifests as like I was saying earlier, like it's
very difficult for me to sit in a chair for
a very long time and stay still actually have ADHD
as well, which steered me to be able to hand
(43:01):
like high energy, high sort of like pressure situations because
I had a mission and the people who diagnosed me
said I probably wouldn't have had the capacity because of
the level of the level of autistic that I am.
I'm between a one and a two. It's like one, two, three,
three you need help with absolutely every element of your life.
(43:25):
Two you need some help, some assistance from somebody. One
you might get away with it on your own, but
you definitely still have some sort of challenges. But you
could go undetected, which is what happened with me. So
I sit between a one and a two. And I've
always needed a little bit of help, and some people
have been more understanding of that and some people haven't.
And a lot of that is just knowing, like knowledge
(43:47):
is power. So once I was diagnosed, which was three
or four years ago now, and it was a really
long process, and it was something that I was able
to do during the pandemic because it was all it's
not a fun process at all.
Speaker 7 (44:03):
Two years.
Speaker 12 (44:04):
What is the process?
Speaker 17 (44:05):
I mean, it's a very in depth, in depth psychiatric
medical like your entire medical history, your psychiatric history, the
psychology that you're living with, that you have lived with,
traits that you have as a child that have stayed.
Some may have stayed, some may have gone away. I
(44:28):
like I could sing before I could talk properly. I
was more I've always been more comfortable around animals than people.
There are certain like fluorescent lights are they always really
bothered me and I just I really thought I put
it all down to my my chemo and that like
I was never going to be I was never going
(44:50):
to have normal, regular health. There is no such thing
as normal. But I had no idea what neurodivergence was.
I I started suspecting that maybe I was on the
spectrum probably ten years ago, but never had the time
(45:11):
and didn't. There was just so much going on. I didn't.
I mean I used to.
Speaker 12 (45:16):
I had hyperlexia as.
Speaker 17 (45:18):
A child, which is like like I think I read
Silence of the Lambs when I was about seven probably
should have done that, but I really enjoyed it. It
was amazing. But for a seven year old to be
able to process that and not be freaked out by
it and understand what the story was about. Right, it's
the opposite of dyslexia. But okay, I have dyscalculia, so
I can't read analog clocks. It's very difficult to tell
(45:39):
left from right for me. So any director or director
of photography who works with me is just like you know,
and no one's ever given me any like heat about it,
and I really can't count very well. Like honestly, people
are like, oh cute, No, it's not cute. It's actually
like it. At school, I needed help and I didn't
(46:02):
have it because no one knew, and.
Speaker 18 (46:03):
So you just kind of had to survive, yeap, And
is that what made you want to start pursuing a
diagnosis for it?
Speaker 17 (46:11):
It was actually my dear friend Vivian, who has two
gorgeous little autistic boys. They were the catalyst for the
song Aurora, along with Sean McConnell's daughter Aby, and she
has a different set of challenges. But this song Aurora
is all about being yourself and and like I know,
(46:32):
I know you're different. I know that you don't feel
like you're being seen for who you are. I know
that I know that you don't understand what's going on.
I know you don't get the world around you. It's okay,
like you're beautiful. It's there's nothing wrong with you. That's
what Aurora is all about. And Viv, who has been
a friend of mine since we were eleven, she's known
me for a long time. Takes a really good friend
(46:53):
to call you and say I've been you know, she said,
I've been doing all of this research for the boys
to help protect them. She's such a wonderful parent, just
navigating their journey through life as to autistic children who
have different sets of needs that have to be meant
for them to thrive. And she said, you know, I've
(47:14):
discovered a few things about myself along the way, and
it honestly made me think of our childhood and it
made me think of you, and I think I think
you might be autistic. And it's sort of like a
shoe dropped. I was like, oh, that would explain okay.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
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Speaker 1 (47:55):
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Speaker 3 (48:02):
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Hey guys, back with the old sample or on the
podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We got a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Had Ringo on my podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're gonna start with that, so we'll hear from Ringo
Starr and then on take this personally with Morgan Hulesman.
Raymundo's wife Bee or Laura which is her real name,
came in to talk about her cancer journey. We're gonna
hear a lot of clips. If you hear anything you like,
go search out the show, subscribe. It would help us,
it would help them. So let's get going now with
Ringo star a beato. That's a bad accent at my house.
(00:45):
I want to ask you one more question about yourandparents
because that resonates with me so much.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Did they get to see your success?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
No, I was in the band then, and sort of.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I was in.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
And we were playing in Germany. I was with Rory
by then Rory's some of the Hurricanes, and I was
there when my granddad went, and I was doing the
gig in Germany when my grandma went, so I couldn't
come home because everyone would had to play. But no,
they didn't see it like unfolding. I mean, they knew
(01:26):
I played, but they never came to a gig and
we went big time.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
We were local bands.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What was your in your mind?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You're ceiling when you were starting out and you're playing clubs,
you're traveling around, like how big did you think?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
How far did you think you could go in music?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I don't remember like thinking that. One of my mom's
best friends, Annie Maguire, she would say, you know, I'd
be hitting them in the house. I can see you
on the London Palladium one day, son, and she gave spirits,
so a lot of people in Liverpool gave your spirit.
Anyway I played, I only could take the snare because
(02:08):
we were a skiffle group. And Eddie Clayton, the guy
next door, and he was in the factory. I was
in the factory and Roy the you know, it was
just a wooden box with a pole and that was
the base and I had a surle and that's how
we started. And we had no sense of timing. I
(02:31):
remember that once we played some sort of dance and oh, Maggie,
Maggie May, they are taking her away and each other dancing.
They're dancing cause you saw it down. So I'm amazed
because I have really great time. You know time, and
I'm good at that. I mean, it's just God given
(02:51):
gift that I can keep time.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What was your job in the factory.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
My job was to be an apprentice engineer. At first
I worked on the rail ways as a delivery kid boy.
I was sixteen. And then I was on the coastal boats,
like party boats, where like four or five hundred people
would go from Liverpool to Wales and all they did
(03:18):
was drink all the way and drink all the way back.
And I lasted five weeks on the railway, five weeks
on the boats, and then my mom you know, oh,
I've been fired, and by Monday she'd got me in
a new job, and she got me this job in
the factory. But while in that factory, that's when it
(03:39):
came I want to play. I want to play. And
then I joined this other group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes,
and we got this three month gig in a holiday
camp in England. So I decided I'm leaving the factory.
I was just twenty ish, and all of my family
(04:01):
came to our house to tell me it's all right
as a hobby sone, but they wanted me to keep
that job. You know, and I said no, no, I'm
going and you know that's why I changed my name. Also,
we went to this gig three months we were going
to be there in the Rock and Calypso Ballroom.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
And.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
I changed my name fully to Ringo then because in Liverpool,
if you do something, you know, if you're limping, that
you'd probably be called limpy. But I started wearing rings
that sort of a take on my mom. She loved
flashy stuff, and so some people were starting to say,
(04:46):
hey rings, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You know, like gang members, we'd be hey rings.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
And we got to Buttland's holiday camp and we all
changed on. The guitarist called himself Tyle Brian and Johnny
guitar was great, and uh, the.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Name was Johnny Guitar. His name, I assume you played
guitar Ny guitar.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Really, yeah, because he changed his names to that. Really
his name was Johnny, but it's you know, it was
another name, family name. And uh, I put like Ringo, Stocky,
that's not that Stocky doesn't look you know.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Didn't look right. So I put Ringo star.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Did you two rs the first time?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Two rs to make it star? And uh and it's
been that ever since. Ball of the family who called
me dad or granddad.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I've got two final questions for you.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, when you made the record and it was complete
and you're able to hear it all back, did you
like and do you like to listen to your own projects?
And what did you think about this one when it
was all the way done? Your own thoughts of your own.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Project when it was finished. I thought it was great. No,
I really loved it myself, and it was very to me.
I like to be The vocal was great, as I said,
it was it. They were all in my key and
it's like in a way though you know, we didn't
never live together. It was put together by a man
(06:18):
who knew me and and I think I'm tired of
thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
My final question something again we alluded to earlier, was
playing in the clubs and a lot of artists miss
out on that now and they kind of get famous
before they're ready.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Oh yeah, I think they.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
You know, they have a hit in January, like those
TV shows for the singing the singer who wins has
a number one in January, and you don't air from
him after May.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's all over and they're not really able to They
don't know how to deal.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, and they're not able to develop even as a performer,
right because they don't do the clubs.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
They're ong clubs.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They got so famous so fast. You know, the kind
of the legendary story about you guys. You'd be in
a club in Germany and play for like six hours
a night.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Is that actually do two bands? When I was there
with Rory and the Beatles were there. When we were
the two bands, we were on separate clubs at the beginning.
Then Koshma, the guy on the clubs, put us both
on one club and we would battle each other for
the audience, you know what I mean. It would stomp
in and stuff. But at weekends we did twelve hours
(07:27):
between us. Yeah, and you know, I love it because
we're in that book ten thousand hours, and they actually
mentioned we actually put in our ten thousand Now.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think that's where I first knew of the story
reading that book. You'd put in that whole time.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
We'd play anywhere and Saturday night in Liverpool whatever, the
gig was one of the clubs that have an all
night and they were so cheap they'd only ever hire
a trio to custom less and or all of us
were to these clubs and just play all night. Any
(08:03):
chance we had to play, we would play.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, now you can put your iPhone on a little
stand and read the lyrics. You didn't have iPhones back then.
You had to remember or guess.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Well, yeah, now I can't work without my little lyrics sheets.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's like, oh it is, well, I love the album.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh great, Well it's great being good talk, can't you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah? Yeah, really easy for thanks, real easy to talk
to you too.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You never know whenever Ringo star is coming over.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah you know, well they.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Did sit on that star, and now I know they
are more.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Well maybe because I've told these same stories since I've
been here nineteen times.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What story?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
What story off?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
What story did you tell here that?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Sorry I told that story.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, no, it's a good one.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Anybody ask you about your grandparents the whole time?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
No, only you, That's all I want. This has been
the best. You're saying that ever? No, I mean, look
me best ever. Don't say ever, because then I know
you're lying if you were to say really the best,
I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Ringo, It's been a pleasure, Thank you very much. The
records awesome.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
It caup little food for yourself life. Oh it's pretty bad,
(09:31):
it's pretty beautiful, beautiful that for a little more. It's exciting,
course said he can. You're kicking with four with Amy Brown.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
I think I'm excited about my brow rebrand.
Speaker 11 (09:46):
I too, Honestly, are really exactly we talked about this
coming up.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
I'll keep all.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Posted on the process. But I know so many people
that have listened have come to you for brows or
even their breast So I want you to touch on
and the passion side of your work. I know you're
passionate about both, but being able to give women confidence
back if they have lost their breasts because of breast cancer.
Just share a little bit of that, just in case
(10:12):
there's one person that needs to know your info, your number,
or they have a BFF or a sister that needs
to be calling you to be able to get that
confidence back.
Speaker 11 (10:21):
Yes, yes, oh I love it. That is where my
heart is. I love brows. I love it. But I'd
always seen the areolas and been like, oh, I'm going
to do that one day. You know, you just put
it in your back pocket and you think about it.
But I'm busy doing all my other things. You know,
that was the last thing that I thought I had
time for at the moment. My dad he did pass
away from colon cancer also, so I've had you know,
my dad and my mom both affected with cancer. And
(10:42):
it's just I know you have.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
Well in March's colon cancer awareness. Oh yeah, so we're
coming up on that, and I think I'm glad you
mentioned that because if you see any symptoms, book and appointment,
because early detection is everything with.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Colon cancer, and that that was what happened. Unfortunate with
my dad. He found out it was you know, stage four,
and he's that you know, he never went to the doctor,
never complained, you know, just little workhorse, just did his
own thing, and so he had little things that he saw,
but he just never never did it, never got colonoscopies
any of that stuff. And unfortunately he found out, Yeah,
we found out around New Year's one year and then
(11:20):
it was stage four and by the next April he
had passed. So he had two chemos and unfortunately his
body just was you know, too far gone.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Well, I feel like you sharing that now and then
with March being right around the corner, people are going
to start seeing more, which is great, but awareness is everything.
So in March, I hope that people are just inundated
with facts and information because your dad, being an older man,
that's who people used to think would just get it. Yeah,
it was just older men, but it is happening to younger, yes,
(11:50):
and younger and younger people and women.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Two, So I think I saw a stat that's like
one in twenty four people are going to be diagnosed
with calling cancer. So that's just one of those things
that if you can catch it early, if you have
any of the symptoms and maybe you're even being told
it could be something else like oh maybe it's a hemorrhoid,
or just get a second opinion or listen to your
gut and make sure that you advocate for yourself, because
(12:17):
this is one of those cancers that, yeah, if you
catch it early, your survival rate is very high. If
you don't, or if you ignore something or you go
too long, then that's when it gets deadly, which you
unfortunately had to walk through with your dad. So you
went through that with him, and then your mom had
breast cancer.
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Fast forward three years later.
Speaker 11 (12:36):
Yeah, my mom was diagnosed with a stage three breast cancer.
And she felt a lump, you know, as she checked
herself and felt it one day. And my mom's a nurse,
and yeah, it was crazy. My daughter was one and
you know, had my business and then my mom ended
up coming and living with me. So I kind of
was responsible for making sure that she had you know,
(12:56):
had her little friends on a chat list and would
make sure someone would check on her and do all
the things. And you know, we got her do all
of her appointments. But just personally seeing what someone goes through,
I mean, it's awful. It's it's brutal, and you always
think that, you know, you see people go through it,
or you hear people go through it, you know, through
the grapevine, but when it's actually your life, like seeing
my mom. And my mom is strong, you know, she
(13:17):
had six kids. She she did all the right things.
My mom never never drank, never smoked, you know, breastfed us,
all all the things that you know supposedly you know,
you're right, you know, odds of getting cancer less. But yeah,
she she got it and it was pretty brutal. But yeah,
seeing her come out on the other side was amazing
and I'll never forget. You know, she had kind of
(13:37):
would tell me that she she felt like Frankenstein. And
I helped her out with everything except for like the
like the drains and the stitches and that kind of part.
I get really woozy with you with that kind of stuff.
So I couldn't do much of that. So I hadn't
really seen her yet. And then one day my daughter
had run into the bathroom when she got out of
the shower, and it was the first time that I
had seen her, you know, without her breast and you know,
(13:57):
with with her stitches out and stuff, and you know,
it was it was hard, you know, that wasn't even
my body. And I mean I had to go upstairs
and cry just because I remember, like, you know, it's
hard seeing someone you think so strong, you know, look
like that. So I can't imagine what's going through her brain,
you know, looking and seeing herself like that every single day.
And so yeah, after that, I start I went up
(14:20):
I started researching all the trainings, and I was like,
you know what this is it, you know, it is time,
like mom is on the other side of her journey,
like I am ready to go and find training and
get certified. And it was like, you know, it was
totally you know, God or you know, whatever you believe in.
A training was going on that next month in Nashville,
you know, which there wasn't a lot of trainings around.
(14:41):
So this, uh, this girl from Texas was coming and
training people, and so I went and got trained and
it's just been a ongoing thing and it just I
feel like it's one of those things that brows. They
make me feel so happy, and you know, I feel fulfilled.
I love my job, like I I love doing all
(15:01):
aspects of my job, but when I get to do
Ariola's it truly it makes me feel like I am,
you know, impacting the world in such a positive way,
and like, you know, I'm helping fight for my mom
and my dad and you know all those things.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We're gonna do it live. We oh the one, two,
three sore losers?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
What up, everybody? I am lunchbox.
Speaker 13 (15:35):
I know the most about sports, so I'll give you
the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much
a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with Bayser,
my wife. We do have a farm it's beautiful. A
lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops hopefully
soon corn pumpkins, rye, I believe maybe a little fescue.
Oh to be to term and over to you, coach.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
And here's a clip from this week's episode of The
Sore Losers.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Guys to our guest.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I am Troy. I'm from Sydney, Australia, hanging out in
Nashville and Las Vegas this week, filling in for Arnold today.
Who've left him out there now? But and just I
feel like in a permanent state of hungover in Nashville.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Who are you with?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Just with a maid of mine?
Speaker 13 (16:24):
So you just you decided to come to Nashville in Vegas?
Is this your like once a year vacation or have
you ever been to America?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I don't know to America before once or twice. But
the Penrith Panthers, so they're a rugby league team. Yes,
they are opening the season in Las Vegas. So we've
we're branching out in Australia and opening the season in
Las Vegas. So that's the whole reason that I'm here
just to watch the Panthers. But I thought it'd come
to Nashville.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Holy hell.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
For a second, I thought the team's in Vegas. Why
are you here?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
They're in Vegas, but they play on Saturday, so I'll
be there by Saturday.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
So when did you get to Nashville?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Monday?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Okay, but you realize Nashville is nowhere near Vegas.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah, but I love country music, I love drinking, and
I love you guys.
Speaker 13 (17:07):
Okay, how did you find us?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I mean, yeah, there's not many Australians Saul Losers fans
in Australia.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
How do you find us? Is it because of the
big show?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Because of the big show? Yeah, music, big show in
country music, and then you know, navigated over to the
little show. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
We're huge in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Coast Reek and
now Australia. Sydney. I believe that's where we started saying
she's in us, the French Polynesian I believe. I believe
it's somewhere near Bally.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I have no idea.
Speaker 13 (17:42):
So the Peanuts Penrith Panthers, Penrith Panthers, are they like
really good or are they?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Well? So for most of my life not, but we've
actually won the last four premierships, so four pete last
year so before that, as growing up it was a
hard times but but yes, four championships in a row
so pretty epic.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Now clarify it. You said Premier League, but that's not
soccer and it's rugby the tush push.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It's rugby league, so it's similar to rugby, but it's
probably a little bit more structured, so probably closer to
the NFL than rugby union is. But yes, so rugby
league would be the number one sport in Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Tell me if I'm right or wrong here over unders.
I believe I bet this back in the day when
I had an addiction.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
That's the whole reason that they're coming to America because
they think there's a great window for people like Ray
at like three in the morning who want to bet
on sport in Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Is the over under typically what's the score of a game?
I would say fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Year probably like forty low forties. Okay, yea.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So it's just like NFL.
Speaker 13 (18:43):
What makes a good rugby team? Because I watched rugby
sometimes like with the Olympics, and I'm like, they all
look the same. They just throw the ball backwards I
don't know the rules. I don't really understand it. So
how do you get good? Like what is the difference
in rugby?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
So the difference is in terms of difference between say
the NFL, for example.
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Yeah, like what makes them so much like what makes
a good rugby teaven what makes a bad.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Defense is definitely the key. So you want to you
want to defend well, obviously I'm compared to say the NFL.
You you both defend an attack, you don't have sort
of two different teams. But yeah, defenses is absolutely key.
And you're half back, which is equivalent of your quarterback's key. So, uh,
the Panther's a lucky to play the best player in
the game in Nathan Cleary is half back and that's,
you know, a big reason why we won the last
four four championships.
Speaker 13 (19:26):
Do a lot of rugby players get injured and are
out for the year, Is it like they just play
through it?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, so no pads, no helmets, so they just like
run at each other basically, So plenty of plenty of injuries,
a lot of shoulders, pecks, knees, so yeah, yeah, pretty
pretty big injury list generally through the season.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Sometimes you got to go without the condom. I will
remove the headphones and just do it like that sometimes
because they'll throw me off. Maybe it's the same thing
with a helmet or something like that. Let me ask
this about Nashville. Ye, so you got here a win
did you on Monday? And you guys hit Broadway the bars?
Are you doing an educational thing?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
We did the educational thing. We did the museum and
I see, but we've mainly been at the bars, yes,
and just.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Are we did you research some you wanted to go
to the old ones?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
So last night I did do a lot of recess
before we got here, but last night we did the
old one, so tutsi's the stage those ones and the
night before kind of the biggest ones. We ended up
at Morgan Wall's bar, which I reckon was pretty awesome
on a Monday night, Okay, and of course we yea
it was. It was really good on a Monday night.
But we also, of course, pat tribute to the Sore
Losers Coaches Convention and went to Category ten and Chan
(20:29):
this last night and today we're going to the nash
Real Tractor, which I only found out about from Sore Losers,
so they should be aware of that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
That is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Let them know, please?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Did you does your mate know what this? Sore losers?
I'm saying, mate, you go to their friend know about
the podcast.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
He knows about it, but he doesn't listen yet.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
And he's like, you're wait, you're so. I'm hung over
at the hotel and.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
He's gone to a bar. He just sent me a message.
Is it a bar? At eleven? Am? Just im a drink? Again?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
That's the beautiful thing about Nashville. You can go to
the bars early. We did learn living downtown the hard
thing on Sundays. I don't think you can go before
eleven weekdays all game. But and you can actually drink
in the bar before you can buy alcohol at gas
stations and grocery stores on a Sunday it's noon.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
The good news is he won't be here on Sunday.
He'll be in Las Vegas because they play on set
the Peen Earth Peen Panthers Pinearth Panthers. That's tough to say.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So do you live in.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yes, Oh, my gosh, can you say it?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Perth?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
There is a new Rugby League franchise coming to Perth.
Do you live on the water or Inland. No, Inland, Yeah,
say forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Do you watch uh Love Island Australia?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
No?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
What what do you watch?
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Like?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
What?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
What is good in Australia?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Fancy talk him up?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Like, to be honest with you, we watched mainly American
TV eight like there is Australian made stuff, but all
the all the American shows that generally what what we
watch it? And literally just yesterday HBO Max announced coming to Australia.
We don't have HBO Max really no. So we're March
thirty one with the last of US season two. They're
they're launching.
Speaker 13 (22:06):
So that's pretty cool. Do you watch Okay, there's an
Australian show. I watch Colin from Account.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Yeah, that is all. That is fantastic. I actually know.
I'm Harriet Dyer, who's the lead girl. Really knew each
other a while ago.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
So what do you mean you knew each other a
while ago?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
That's very platonic, Okay, I assure you.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And there's a lot of sun in Australia.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yes, so I've just come from so we're just about
to finish summer in Australia. Over the last week, I was,
you know, thinking that we're coming to a snowstorm, but
it's actually pretty.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Warm here because your tan a little bit.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, I think I got sunburn on the weekend before
I got got it.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
So what do you do in Australia?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
So I run a or write for a local newspaper
in Penrith.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Oh the newspaper is still popular yeah in Penis so
like everywhere, of a bit of a change, but in Penrith, yeah,
still going strong. So what do you write about sports?
Do you just write about anything? I write about anything,
but yeah, big focus on sports and rugby.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
League geah, guard it lifestyle. So I think this is
a textroduction.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
This is a world trip because you're going to cover
the Panthers in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
That's what I'll be telling the text upontment.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, less sports, more lifestyle.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Yeah, what what are you going to do in Vegas?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Where are you staying? Or the Paris in Vegas?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Okay have you ever been to Vegas?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Yes? One, I'm a honeymoon to Vegas.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Okay, how long you've been married?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Ten years?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Okay, yeah, I would say Paris. That's where I slept
on Michael's couch. That is when we went on the
back party, the bachelor party was here. It is small
Ponzi scheme. See I was. I was heavily into gambling,
so I was gambling all this money. I didn't have
any money to pay for the hotel, so I told
all them to book at what was MGM MGM, but
I had no money to book.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
No, this is the true story. No, no, bro, this
is the true story.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
And so Michael, who I slept on his couch at Paris,
he hit me up and said, hey, do you want
to sleep on my couch at Paris? And I said, dude,
that's the best thing ever. That's exactly what I'll do.
So we get to the booth at MGM and Lunch
is checking in and I still hadn't told him that
I'm not staying at MGM. Everybody's got their bags and luggage,
and Lunch goes, yeah, it's me five other guys, and
(24:03):
the lady goes, I only have rooms for four.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
I literally had everybody.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
No.
Speaker 13 (24:08):
No, here's the point. I said, hey, everybody, give me
your ID. She needs everybody's ID. And Ray still doesn't
have the balls to tell me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Is at the ticket counter.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
He doesn't have the balls to tell me, hey man,
I'm actually not staying here.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
So he hands me.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
His ID and so I put five IDs on the
counter so she can check all our rooms in at once.
And she goes, how they have four of these people
down for a room here, And I'm like, who, which
one's not?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
That's here?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Guys who isn't registered?
Speaker 13 (24:39):
And she picks up and she goes a Raymond, he
doesn't have a room here. And I turn around and
ray goes, oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm staying
at Paris with Michael.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Here's the best part.
Speaker 13 (24:52):
Here's the best part, Troy, I mean, here's the best part.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
When's the last time you talked to Michael?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sadly but not no. He kept in touch a little
while after that. It's been a minute, but he has
a family as kids. Sometimes he's in Mexico. I don't
think there's great service. You have to have WhatsApp. It's
been a minute. I get it, it was short lived. Had
a hell of a night at Paris with him.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now my question, do you
have kids?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
One daughter? Yes?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Hal four nice he's actually four turns four on this trip,
so it wasn't that popular that I made the decision
to go this week.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Okay and hold on.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
A sag it?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So you thirteen hour flight?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
How long was this? So? Actually it's a sixteen hour
fl lot to Houston and then two hours to nashually
eighteen hours. Eighteen hours?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Is your wife with your kids without them allowing you
to fly to Tokyo for a week by yourself with
a buddy.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
With a mate.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Probably not, dude, My chick ain't even letting me go
to south of Brentwood of Nashville with for a week
with a buddy.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Take this personally with Morgan feels Man.
Speaker 14 (26:11):
You guys may know her as Bay from the Bobby
Bone Show, Raymondo's wife.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
This is Laura, Laura, thanks for coming on. How are you?
I'm good, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
As you're going through this, are you angry because you're like,
I've been doing these.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Checkups for three to six months routinely.
Speaker 14 (26:29):
You've been doing everything that you needed to do and
then you find out that it's stage three.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
Yeah, just in that short amount of time.
Speaker 15 (26:36):
And it wasn't like it wasn't one of those super
aggressive ones.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
That's something that I.
Speaker 15 (26:40):
Still have to deal with mentally, I'm not gonna lie.
There's a few different things. I want to first say
that for some reason, I never asked why me, Like
I've never was like a why me person. I've asked that,
like when my parents, So she can get into later,
I've had cancer and I'm like why them? But I've
never was like why me. I do, though, struggle with
(27:04):
why did they not catch it sooner?
Speaker 12 (27:06):
When I was doing.
Speaker 15 (27:07):
Everything I was supposed to do, and when I after
I had surgeries, when they told me that was gonna
need chemo, and I remember going into my colleges and
she was like the first time I met her, she
was like I look through all the She's like, I
don't understand.
Speaker 12 (27:20):
I don't understand why, why?
Speaker 13 (27:24):
Why?
Speaker 12 (27:24):
This is this thick?
Speaker 15 (27:25):
And you are found out at stage three, so it's
a hard pill to swallow. But then I also look
at it as thank god that I went in that
day because I wasn't I didn't feel it.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
I felt it after she felt it.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
But me going every six months, I wasn't trying to
fill around as much as I should have.
Speaker 12 (27:44):
And so thank god she found it.
Speaker 15 (27:46):
So I go back and forth as in like a ugh, like,
how can I swallow this pill?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Up?
Speaker 15 (27:52):
I did everything I was supposed to do, but also
she saved my life, so you can't really get too
mad about that.
Speaker 13 (27:59):
Now.
Speaker 14 (27:59):
I want to get into more of your cancer journey
in the story, but before we start that, I would
love to hear you mention your family and the cancer
history that you have in your family, which I also
imagine it's just tough on multiple levels that you would
experience this as a family and then you were going
through it.
Speaker 15 (28:16):
So walk me through that side of this a little
bit with the breast cancer part of it. Come to
find out, like later, way later, I didn't realize. I
guess my great grandmother we think may have had breast cancer,
but we weren't. We still aren't one hundred percent sure
with that one. But my mom got diagnosed with breast
cancer a year before me, and hers was stage one,
(28:38):
and so they did what she's called a lump back tomy.
So it's like with me, I did a misectomy where
they took all the tissue and everything. With hers, they
just take the tissue and the surrounding of the cancer
and then they did a they did radiation, so that's
and then she's thank god, been maybe going on nine
years cancer free. But also that was also a weird
I don't want to say blessing, but we went to
(29:00):
the same doctor, so they did start being a little more, Okay,
we need to treat you a little bit better. And
they were telling me even then that maybe when I
turned thirty five, that we need to do an MRI
just to make sure that there's nothing in there since
my mom had it. So I think maybe that was
you know, maybe good at as far as helping them
be more concerned with them, just be like, oh, these
(29:20):
are five broadnomas or whatever. So that was the mom's side.
My dad ended up having melanoma, and his was again,
it wasn't during my treatment, it was right after I finished.
Speaker 12 (29:31):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 15 (29:31):
I just finished all of my treatment, so the chemo,
the radiation, and my dad my mom was like telling me.
Speaker 12 (29:38):
I was like, it was like the end of the year.
Speaker 15 (29:40):
I write, after Christmas, and my mom was like, your
dad has melanoma.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 15 (29:45):
Like I was supposed to be credy the end of
this and now my dad has melanoma. So it's different cancer.
But it's he's done really well with it. It came back,
but he got it taking care of again, and so
he's knock on wood, doing great now. But yeah, it's
like my brother, he's I'm just waiting for.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
This year to try what is happening? You know, he's
got to keep that shoe off.
Speaker 15 (30:08):
But yeah, So that's like the family history, and then
a few we could go back way further where it's
like my grandfather had died of cancer, my grandmother died
of cancer, but it wasn't My grandmother was lung cancer.
My grandfather I think it was a sophagal So, yeah,
we have cancer all in our family, but this was
definitely not so much breast cancer until a year before
I got diagnosed.
Speaker 14 (30:28):
There's so much with this, but I just have to
imagine that, in the hardest way possible, that it helped you.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Yeah, that your.
Speaker 14 (30:36):
Family had gone through it and you guys had really
been unfortunately adjusted.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
To that, especially my mom. I'll never forget. After I
had the biopsy, I went home, and I had it
on like a Thursday or Wednesday one those days. I
remember I went home and then I like, I do
not suggest this, don't do it I doctor would call
doctor Google, and I remember seeing from the sure in
my head of that ultrasound I was going through and
(31:03):
looking at every picture and of online like cancer not cancer,
and I could tell, okay, I knew that weekend that
I had cancer.
Speaker 12 (31:11):
My mom was like, no, you don't whatever.
Speaker 15 (31:13):
And I remember going in that Monday and be getting
found out and I was like, I told you I
had it, but I remember I just told Mom was
like I told her. I was like, I'm not strong
like you because she just went through it. And I'm like,
I'm not strong because I'd never felt strong. Every little
thing was such a huge thing to me. I definitely
deal with anxiety. So that was like up to the thousand.
(31:37):
I remember just being like, I don't I'm not strong.
And the reason I say that is because I'm stronger
than I ever knew.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
I'm stronger than It's.
Speaker 15 (31:47):
Just crazy what you can do and what you're like
mine makes you think that maybe you can't, maybe you're
not strong. And so for my reason to say this
is one thing I did want to say, come on here,
is that anyone that's going through this that's felling you're
not strong.
Speaker 12 (32:01):
Everyone's strong.
Speaker 15 (32:02):
You just have to feel, you have to be you
just have to be presented. Unfortunately, with something like this
to make you feel like, Wow, I got through this.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
I got through all of this. I'm on the other
side of this.
Speaker 16 (32:27):
Hey, it's Mike d and this week a movie Mike's
Movie Podcast, I broke down what I think are going
to be the best ten sequels of the year. I
know everybody says that everything is a sequel, everything is
a remake. Well, I wanted to dive into that and
let you know my thoughts on the state a cinema.
I also got into a spoiler free review of The
Monkey and what I think is going to be the
best comedy of the year. Check out this full episode,
(32:50):
but right now here are a couple of my picks
for the best sequels of twenty twenty five and number
two I have Happy Gilmore. It's coming out on Netflix.
The official date still isn't out. I've seen some early
images and stills from the movie. The only thing aside
from that that I feel it's a little bit cash
(33:11):
gravy is this movie is gonna be really heavy with
the cameos. First one wasn't like that. This has kind
of become Adam Sandler's marketing strategy and kind of how
he makes movies now is he includes a lot of
celebrities now to pop up throughout them, and I feel
like that takes away from the art of Adam Sandler,
(33:32):
which his early movies didn't rely on that. I think
it's kind of the model he created with the Grownups movies,
And I think it's because Adam Sandler is at a
point in his life where he just wants to create
fun sets. He wants people to come onto a set
and have a good time while making a movie, often
filmed in tropical locations, So I think that is why
(33:56):
he does this now. He's just trying to have a
good time, which I can't hate on him for. But
I think it's just the fact that it's Happy Gilmore
one of the best movies of his career. When you
talk about top three movies of Adam Sandler that he's
ever done, they all go back to the nineties. I
mean top two is easily Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
For me, those are the quintessential movies I think about
(34:18):
when I think of Adam Sandler. Maybe it's because they
came out around each other. I also associate them with
having the two Pac DVD back in the day. I
feel like those are his two best movies, even though
I think on any given day, Big Daddy could also
be my favorite. But throwing all those reasons to the
when the fact that Travis Kelsey is in it, Bad
(34:38):
Bunny is in it, you have Shooter McGavin returning, Julie
Bowen is returning, it does have the pieces of the original,
I think to me, it's also just thinking of the
way that Netflix movies look now, where they don't really
look like movies anymore.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
They look really.
Speaker 16 (34:55):
Glossy and bright and colorful, and doesn't really have that
same warmth a movie from the nineties that I think
a sequel like this needs. So I feel like it's
a weird thing to complain about, but I think the
cinematography isn't going to match the tone of the humor
of Happy Gilmore. I hope that it does, but I'm
so excited just to see what the plot is and
(35:17):
to see how this plays out, and hoping that he
wasn't lying and saying we have a really good script,
that this movie is actually.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Going to be good.
Speaker 16 (35:27):
So I ranked it so high because my hopes are
so high. The last time, though, my hopes for this
high an anticipation for a legacy direct sequel like this
was back when they made Dumb and Dumber two and
I was so disappointed in that movie. Don't do me
like that, Adam Sandler. But my hopes are staying high.
At number eight. I have Happy Gilmore two coming out
(35:49):
on Netflix.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Later this year.
Speaker 16 (35:51):
How surprising that they're not going to put out this
movie in theaters? Is that another indicator? Because I think
if you had a really good movie on your hands, oh,
do you want to get that thing in theater? But
Netflix pays them so much money and that's gonna be
number one on Netflix for like two to three weeks,
so they're really paying for that. But at number one
coming out on November twenty.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
First, it is Wicked for good.
Speaker 16 (36:12):
We have Alfa Banow in full control of her power.
She has declared an enemy of the state and turns
into well a full out witch hunt. The thing I
love knowing going into this movie is the fact that
they already told us what happens to her character. At
the beginning of Wicked. It starts with her dying, and
if you've seen the original Wizard of Oz, you already
(36:34):
knew what was going to happen to her character, regardless
to me, in my head, I just can't see it
getting there because I love the character of El Fabas
so much. Cynthia Riewo does an amazing job in the
first one vocally and through acting, say with Ariana Grande,
but in my head, I couldnt see her character getting
(36:57):
to that point. And I'm thinking to myself, like, maybe
they change something, maybe they rewrite history, maybe there's some
kind of magic that happens in between that that doesn't
happen to her character, because I'm so invested and I
love it so much that I don't want to see
that happen to her. But I also think that there's
gonna be some kind of a shift in Wicked for good.
(37:19):
And this is me have never seen Wicked. I've never
seen it. I've never experienced that. I for that reason,
have not looked up any spoilers on what happens in
the musical because I don't want to know. So this
is me pure speculation. What I like to do about
movies is figure out what they're gonna do. So you
might already know. This is just my theory, but I
(37:40):
think there's gonna be some real shift in her character
where you see that rapid decline and maybe we see
ourselves not rooting for her as much as we have been,
and we do see this wickedness come out in her,
where she really starts to change. People around her go
from defending her to being in fear of her. And
(38:02):
then we ultimately do see your demise and it makes
a little bit more sense, or we see the opposite
of her still being kind of a good person and
she sacrifices herself. Because this movie was also split into
two parts, it was originally going to be one movie,
and they had so much story to tell, so much content,
that they split it into two. I am glad that
(38:24):
they are releasing it one year after the first one,
so we don't have to wait a whole lot. I
think it's also smart for them because if you missed
Wicked one in theaters, even though it's about to be
on Peacock on March twenty first, they could have those
double features sold out as well, where you show Wicked
one and then it rolls into Wicked two. Yeah, you're
gonna be at the theater for like five hours, but
(38:44):
I could see some people doing that. Then you're adding
some single along screenings as well, and that is great
for movie theaters and taking this thing full circle. It
is movies like that that create that experience that get
people into the theater and that allow theaters to keep
their doors open. And I will always be for that.
So I'm not anti sequel. I'm just anti wasting money
(39:08):
on things and wasting our time on things that feels
like they weren't really made with the same quality as
the original movies.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Carl Line, she's a queen talking and it was she's
getting really.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Not afraid to face its episode, so just let it flow.
Speaker 16 (39:37):
No one can do we quiet Carl Line, It's time
for carelu.
Speaker 17 (39:45):
And I will say that there are a lot of
touring things that I mean. I was out on the
road when we were filming Nashville. I was out every
weekend that well, every weekend, so we would film all
the way through during the week to the point where
like after the weekend, I would tour with Charles Eston
(40:05):
and Brandon started coming out with us as well, which
was wonderful, and six Wire, who are a fantastic band,
but we would be pulling onto the lot of where
we were filming in a real tour bus, getting off there,
going into hair and makeup, and then getting onto the
stunt tour bus like the you know, the.
Speaker 18 (40:26):
They were living a reality.
Speaker 17 (40:27):
Actually, Yeah, and I was absolutely exhausted, Like, you know,
your body is not the same after you've had cancer.
You know, people, especially at such a young developmental age,
there are lots of gifts that it gives you that
continue to give and being also very so just social
interactions sometimes are a little bit difficult for me. They're
(40:48):
much easier now, but there's so much that I wouldn't
have been able to do without Brandon. There the world
got so much more. I was able to see so
much more kindness in the world, and just the world
got softer.
Speaker 18 (41:06):
You were protected, you could just drop your guard.
Speaker 17 (41:08):
Yeah, when I met Brandon, and there's there's there's always
like the things that happen in life that they happened,
but just being able to interact with people and for
me to be able to turn to him and say,
I'm not sure if someone people tend to say things
that they they say one thing and they meet another
and I don't understand that, and to say to him
like I don't understand what that meant. What did they
(41:30):
and he can tell me it's it's weird. It's like,
you know, you just feel like an alien kind of thing.
But everything about the world got better, including my own
health and safety when Brandon showed up.
Speaker 18 (41:45):
Guys, how so having autism as a kid an adult,
I guess, but realizing it, when did you realize it?
And then how did you get into acting if being
around a bunch of people in this kind of situations,
like how did you navigate that and like go into
that field when you were kind of like when people
(42:06):
were kind of nerve wracking to the new room guessing?
How did you find it? And what did your autism?
What does it present as for you? Like how do
you work with it?
Speaker 17 (42:14):
For me, it's just it's like I don't even say
that I have I'm not correcting you in any way,
shape or form, because there are so many different ways
people talk about this. I am autistic, it's part of me.
I had cancer. Some people have cancer. I don't. I
don't consider myself to have autism. There's just a difference
between like the my autism is like I am autistic,
(42:37):
I have blonde, I'm like I'm a blonde. Yeah, yeah,
I'm an autistic blonde, Like you know what I mean. Yes,
it manifests as like I was saying earlier, like it's
very difficult for me to sit in a chair for
a very long time and stay still actually have ADHD
as well, which steered me to be able to hand
(43:01):
like high energy, high sort of like pressure situations because
I had a mission and the people who diagnosed me
said I probably wouldn't have had the capacity because of
the level of the level of autistic that I am.
I'm between a one and a two. It's like one, two, three,
three you need help with absolutely every element of your life.
(43:25):
Two you need some help, some assistance from somebody. One
you might get away with it on your own, but
you definitely still have some sort of challenges. But you
could go undetected, which is what happened with me. So
I sit between a one and a two. And I've
always needed a little bit of help, and some people
have been more understanding of that and some people haven't.
And a lot of that is just knowing, like knowledge
(43:47):
is power. So once I was diagnosed, which was three
or four years ago now, and it was a really
long process, and it was something that I was able
to do during the pandemic because it was all it's
not a fun process at all.
Speaker 7 (44:03):
Two years.
Speaker 12 (44:04):
What is the process?
Speaker 17 (44:05):
I mean, it's a very in depth, in depth psychiatric
medical like your entire medical history, your psychiatric history, the
psychology that you're living with, that you have lived with,
traits that you have as a child that have stayed.
Some may have stayed, some may have gone away. I
(44:28):
like I could sing before I could talk properly. I
was more I've always been more comfortable around animals than people.
There are certain like fluorescent lights are they always really
bothered me and I just I really thought I put
it all down to my my chemo and that like
I was never going to be I was never going
(44:50):
to have normal, regular health. There is no such thing
as normal. But I had no idea what neurodivergence was.
I I started suspecting that maybe I was on the
spectrum probably ten years ago, but never had the time
(45:11):
and didn't. There was just so much going on. I didn't.
I mean I used to.
Speaker 12 (45:16):
I had hyperlexia as.
Speaker 17 (45:18):
A child, which is like like I think I read
Silence of the Lambs when I was about seven probably
should have done that, but I really enjoyed it. It
was amazing. But for a seven year old to be
able to process that and not be freaked out by
it and understand what the story was about. Right, it's
the opposite of dyslexia. But okay, I have dyscalculia, so
I can't read analog clocks. It's very difficult to tell
(45:39):
left from right for me. So any director or director
of photography who works with me is just like you know,
and no one's ever given me any like heat about it,
and I really can't count very well. Like honestly, people
are like, oh cute, No, it's not cute. It's actually
like it. At school, I needed help and I didn't
(46:02):
have it because no one knew, and.
Speaker 18 (46:03):
So you just kind of had to survive, yeap, And
is that what made you want to start pursuing a
diagnosis for it?
Speaker 17 (46:11):
It was actually my dear friend Vivian, who has two
gorgeous little autistic boys. They were the catalyst for the
song Aurora, along with Sean McConnell's daughter Aby, and she
has a different set of challenges. But this song Aurora
is all about being yourself and and like I know,
(46:32):
I know you're different. I know that you don't feel
like you're being seen for who you are. I know
that I know that you don't understand what's going on.
I know you don't get the world around you. It's okay,
like you're beautiful. It's there's nothing wrong with you. That's
what Aurora is all about. And Viv, who has been
a friend of mine since we were eleven, she's known
me for a long time. Takes a really good friend
(46:53):
to call you and say I've been you know, she said,
I've been doing all of this research for the boys
to help protect them. She's such a wonderful parent, just
navigating their journey through life as to autistic children who
have different sets of needs that have to be meant
for them to thrive. And she said, you know, I've
(47:14):
discovered a few things about myself along the way, and
it honestly made me think of our childhood and it
made me think of you, and I think I think
you might be autistic. And it's sort of like a
shoe dropped. I was like, oh, that would explain okay.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
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Speaker 1 (47:45):
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That's it.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Have a good Sunday by everybody.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.