#606 - Lainey Wilson

Summary

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Episode #606: Lainey Wilson

Release Date: August 28, 2025

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Overview

In this episode, Theo Von reunites with acclaimed country singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson, his “Louisiana sister,” to celebrate the release of her Whirlwind Deluxe album. Their conversation weaves through Lainey’s Louisiana upbringing, stories from the road, coping with burnout in music, relationships, small-town memories, internet scams, and her growing creative and entrepreneurial ventures. The episode is a warm, funny, and deeply southern reflection on roots, resilience, and what it means to find balance in a whirlwind career.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. Whirlwind Deluxe & Songwriting Process

Timestamps: [00:30], [31:40], [32:36]

• Lainey Wilson’s Whirlwind Deluxe has just dropped, including five new songs written in the aftermath of a busy, chaotic season.
• She is already working on her next record.
• The song “Peace, Love and Cowboys” is a standout favorite, described as “a bop.”

Lainey Wilson [32:39]: “It’s like when you’re writing the song, everybody in the room has that feeling. It’s like the Holy Spirit. You just kind of feel like the song’s gonna be around for a long time.”

2. Louisiana Childhood & Family Roots

Timestamps: [01:55], [05:01], [06:57], [16:49]

• Reminiscences on growing up rural: 4H, horses, show barns, and quirky southern stories.
• Importance of family check-ins for grounding amidst fame.
• Humor recalling “gifted” classes in Louisiana and tales of parade rituals, small-town Mardi Gras, and “barns taken down in a night by termites.”
• Both relate to the slower pace and “planting my feet on the ground” by connecting to home.

Lainey Wilson [07:00]: “It’s important for me to just call back and kind of...that’s what kind of plants my feet on the ground.”

3. On Burnout & Learning Balance in the Industry

Timestamps: [12:12], [13:13], [14:00]

• Lainey talks openly about reaching exhaustion after relentless touring and opportunity.
• She discusses learning to protect her peace while receiving a flood of career offers after years of struggling in Nashville.
• “Music” remains her anchor—even when it feels overwhelming—and helps her “navigate” life’s toughest patches.

Lainey Wilson [14:00]: “Your cup’s got to be full in order to keep pouring out, you know?... If you’re just pouring out from a half empty cup over and over, at some point in time, the damn thing’s gonna run dry.”

4. Quirky Small-Town Memories & Humor

Timestamps: [16:46], [19:23], [22:01], [22:34], [24:46]

• Barrel racing, singing the national anthem (and “messing up” the lyrics), parades featuring “tallest guy in town,” Mardi Gras rituals, and local festival “queens.”
• Lighthearted banter about Walmart “rotisserie warmers,” bad haircuts, dad’s discipline over rap CDs, and the logic of Louisiana street wisdom.
• Theo and Lainey share personal stories about childhood costumes, grocery store hacks, and the unique traits of different Louisiana regions.

Lainey Wilson [18:11]: “Did you hear Lainey Wilson mess up the national anthem? Send this to 10 people. Yes. So I’m like, guess what? You can’t hurt me. You know what I’m saying?”

5. Relationships, Personal Growth & Finding “The One”

Timestamps: [44:50], [48:52], [66:52]

• Reflecting on being “forced cool” by nephews, the realities of balancing relationships with a busy career, and her engagement story.
• Discussing how she and her fiancé make it work: “I have to have somebody that has their own dreams and goals.”
• Heartfelt exchange about making a list and being intentional before settling down—Lainey shares the importance of loyalty and self-worth.

Lainey Wilson [68:24]: “I took a few years to myself...those years were really important for me.”

Theo Von [67:01]: “Woman.” (on his type)

6. Music Business & Expanding Creative Ventures

Timestamps: [50:59], [91:25], [92:55]

• Career now is “80% business and 20% music.” Lainey never planned to become a businesswoman but is rising to the challenge.
• Partners with Wrangler for a bell-bottoms collection; just launched a boot line, Golden West.
• Loves the creative side of fashion collaborations.

Lainey Wilson [91:25]: “I actually have a partnership with Wrangler...We actually just launched a boot line, too, called Golden West...Another way for me to be creative.”

7. Scams, Social Media, and Celebrity Impersonators

Timestamps: [80:07], [80:18], [86:29]

• Both discuss the rise in online scams—people getting tricked by fake celebrity accounts, ticket scams, and even Lainey Wilson relationship impostors.
• Lainey confesses to having “ruined a couple marriages on accident”—strangers thinking they’re in an online romance with her.
• “The Lainey Wilson Experience” tribute performer in London—Lainey appreciates her dedication.

Lainey Wilson [80:32]: “My husband of 30 years believes he’s talking to you and this and that and whatever. Yes. And I’m like, oh, no.”

8. Acting, New Projects, and Future Plans

Timestamps: [71:30], [71:59], [72:35], [73:12], [88:03]

• Just wrapped filming on Reminders of Him, a Colleen Hoover adaptation—Lainey enjoyed “finding herself within the character.”
• Reflections on being part of Yellowstone and aspirations to do comedy or start a homegrown festival in the future.
• Visited her new Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit. Her mom’s keepsakes, including a “star was born” wreath, are on display.
• Importance of family support, recalling financial and emotional sacrifices made so she could pursue music.

Lainey Wilson [88:03]: “My mama kept everything...it said, a star was born today.”

9. Lainey & Theo's Signature Humor and Southern Banter

Timestamps: Throughout

• The episode is dotted with classic “Louisiana sibling” teasing, rural-isms, playful lyric parodies, stories about “biscuits and gravy night” at strip clubs, and inventive fake song titles (“Honky Tonk Hiccups,” “Twanging My Bones,” “Lasso My Latte”).
• Deep affection and mutual respect are apparent, with honest talk about struggles, faith, finding emotional wellness, and never shying away from poking fun at themselves.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On musical burnout:

  “I was tired. Mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, all of it. But I tell you what, Theo, I’m alright, and I am in a healthy, healthy place right now.” – Lainey Wilson [13:13]

• On childhood songwriting:

  “I was writing songs about tequila and cigarettes, you know...as a child.” – Lainey Wilson [15:20]

• On business vs. music:

  “This is like 80% business and 20% music. But I’m willing to do the 80% business so I can do the 20% music.” – Lainey Wilson [24:26]

• On protecting your peace:

  “It’s important to, like, protect your peace and...roll your sleeves up and get her done, too.” – Lainey Wilson [13:48]

• On family and perspective:

  “I just want them to, like, be outside and do the things that we grew up doing, you know?” – Lainey Wilson [49:53]

• On growing past heartbreak:

  “I went through some doozies...and then met somebody who just would never in a million years [treat me that way].” – Lainey Wilson [68:03]

• On creative momentum:

  “I keep like, shocking myself or, like, surprising myself and being like, we ain’t done...I really do feel like we’re really just getting started.” – Lainey Wilson [93:48]

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Highlighted Segments & Timestamps

• Lainey talks Whirlwind Deluxe & new music:
  [00:30], [31:40], [32:36]

• Childhood stories & small-town Louisiana:
  [01:55], [06:57], [16:49], [19:23]

• Coping with burnout & protecting peace:
  [12:12] to [15:17]

• Singing, rodeo pageants, and family support:
  [16:46], [42:39], [88:03]

• Business, boots, and bell bottoms:
  [91:25] to [93:02]

• Relationship wisdom & finding the “right one”:
  [66:52] to [70:44]

• Internet scams & fan confusion:
  [80:07] to [86:29]

• Acting, yellowstone, & festival dreams:
  [71:30], [71:59], [73:12]

• Comic gold: biscuits & gravy at the strip club:
  [36:38] – [38:29]

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Tone & Atmosphere

The conversation is heartfelt, irreverently funny, and rich in southern warmth—a blend of introspective wisdom and down-home storytelling. Theo and Lainey lean on self-deprecation, vivid imagery, and familial banter, delivering both laughs and reflective takeaways. The themes of gratitude, hard work, faith, and sticking to one’s roots stand out as constants throughout. This episode is an invitation to see the heart behind the headlines, the hustle behind the music, and relish a perspective rooted in kindness, humor, and home.

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For listeners seeking perspective on country stardom, small-town authenticity, and the ride between, this episode brings all the heart, humor, and humility you’ve come to expect from This Past Weekend.

Transcript

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[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Today's guest is a country singer and songwriter. She's my Louisiana sister. She just released the deluxe version of her latest album, Whirlwind. She's on tour now. She always is up to something. I'm so grateful to spend time again with Ms. Laney Wilson. Dang, girl, you got that Deluxe coming out, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Deluxe.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, how many songs are on it?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I mean, it's. It's five, but I'm already working on that next record. I'm already working on that. The record before the record's out. You know what I'm saying? Like, the next one.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah. I feel like you're just in. Working in the past and the future.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it. Nobody else. Hey.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oi.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Why does that sound like telling a ghost story?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Yeah, that was the best. That kid that got under there and told that ghost story. Really?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

With the flashlight?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. And then there was always the one kid, he couldn't control the flashlight. It was just like. He'd put it straight into your eyes, and you're like, God, it's a dang exorcism.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I just was thinking about it. Did you ever hear any stories from the myrtles in St. Francisville, Louisiana?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Like the plantation.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

The plantation. I mean, my mama took her gifted students down there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She did.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And she got some weird stuff in her pictures. I just. I just thought about Louisiana and.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah, no, that's some of the kind of stuff. I mean, they. I mean, first of all, being gifted in Louisiana, I was in. I was in some of those courses, and it was. Yeah. I mean, you just got the full Alphabet they gave you. I remember, like, regular ed. They were cutting kids off at, like, M. I'm like, what? You'd. You'd meet kids. They could only knew words that had the first half of the Alphabet in them. I was like, God, you gotta.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's some Louisiana stuff.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But then you get in that gifted class, and they had.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Dang, huh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

13 more letters in there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I was never in a gifted program.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Really?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, I was. I'm too adhd.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, you did have it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I mean, I'm like. I never really got, like, diagnosed with it, but I absolutely know that. I'm like, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel. You know, I was thinking about. I wasn't thinking about. Oh, you had spelling and reading and.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, you had four hdhd, I think. You know what I'm saying? That's.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I like that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's a real kind of rural version.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it. That's what I'm gonna call it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. You can't pay attention, but you'll pet something if it shows up. Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Me and my sister, we did show horses.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I bet there's a.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We'd walk out there like this. This is like you're holding, like, right there at the. You know, at the. At the bit.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Huh.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And then so you walk out like this, and then you have to, like, get all four of their feet lined up. And my horse half the time was a pain in the ass, but I think I got, like, first runner up, something like that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God. Yeah. They didn't have that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Were you in 4H?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, I was not.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You weren't?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I was not in it. I think they. Something happened in our area, got discontinued for a year or something. I think the barn sunk or wherever they were running it out of. They had a dang infestation over there or something. Or termites. I mean, a bad batch of termites came.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's some Covington stuff, huh?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, they took that thing down in a night, that barn. They left town.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

See ya.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, they were full. I was like, how'd you not see them leaving? They ate all that wood. They ate all that wood and just took off, you know? Gosh, it was that kind of thing. Show horses. I bet there's a. Because a lot of women put in extra hair. Do you ever have to do it or. No?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Put in extra hair on me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes. You think this is mine?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I can never tell.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Is that all yours?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It is.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it. You got that good hair.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, it's coming.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You still got all your hair.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's coming and going, honey. Something will happen.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm sure I'll probably lose mine before you lose yours. You know, that's just how it goes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

True. I bet there's a horse out there that is so happy. You are wearing a tear.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I hope so. I hope so.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I bet there is just a.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I have a horse who's turning 31 this year.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, you don't.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

31, Tex.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And how is he?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

He's good, but I think I just got the last ride on him. Oh, yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Was he in the. In your 4x4 video or.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, no, that wasn't him. No, he's in Louisiana.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Okay.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I don't know if any of these pictures right here are text. The one that looks the closest to him is that one right there. The, uh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, he's beautiful, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes, he is. I got him when I was 9 years old and taught me a lot. Did he taught me a lot. He did. I mean, how to stay in the saddle, you know? I mean, he was. He was not broke. That's him right there. That's in 2020 back in Louisiana.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He's 31.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

31.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And he's got to be getting a pension now, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

He better be. He better be. If not, we better talk.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. Old Tex.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And did your sister have a horse too, or no?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep, she did. Hollywood and their best buddies, and he's. I think he might be like a year or two younger than Tex, but they hang out in the pasture. I mean, they are like. You can't separate them.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God. Maybe they met online or what?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

They probably did.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I think. I think I would like to get a horse as soon as I get a family or something. Give me a little horse.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Okay. Okay. Where are you gonna put it?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's what I'm gonna do. Probably in the yard, I guess. I mean, I guess in the front yard.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, that's also some Louisiana fence. In the whole house.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, dude, you have a horse in the front yard. You live on a quarter acre, and you got a horse.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

At least you got a horse.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Oh, God, dude. Yeah. I do miss being in Louisiana a lot of times. It gets interesting as your life changes when you get outside, you know, do you notice it feels slower when you go back now?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, yes. 100%. Even just calling mama and daddy back at home. That's why I do call and facetime my family so much. I just kind of, you know, you think about the fast pace of all of this. I mean, it is like life is constantly changing every single day. It's probably the same way for you, but it's important for me to just call back and kind of. That's. That's what kind of plants my feet on the ground.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Facetime on my nephews who don't think I am cool at all. Yeah, I'm talking about the. The oldest one. He's 6 years old, and the teacher asked the other day. They were talking about, like, the farm and way of life and the country living Life and all that stuff. And somehow country music got brought up. And she was like, does anybody in here like country music? And Knox, he's in the back of class, and he's just like, you know, not raising his hand. And she's like, knox, you don't like country music? And he goes, not really. And then she goes, if you had to choose a favorite, who would it be? And he said, well, I guess my ain't Laney. Why are you a little asshole.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Forced to do it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Forced. There's nothing I could do that would make them think that I'm cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

A couple more number ones. I mean, I don't know what it takes for these kids, you know? I know I don't know what it takes. They're almost like the damn CMA voters or whatever.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's exactly how it feels. I'm like, what else can I do? Please vote for me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Kids are funny. My little nephews won't even answer my calls anymore. I'm like, dude, what are you.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I know. Leaving you on red.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. They just. It's different. They don't. I think it. That they just. They're locked in their own universe, you know? Have you guys. You're just getting married, you get. Are you married yet or.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, I ain't married yet.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Okay.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm making him wait. Oh, making him wait. He made me wait.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Is that your wedding ring on?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Let me see that thing. Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

When he opened up that box, I was like, yeah, I guess I do. Oh, I guess I do.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'd have been. Dang hell, I'd have considered it. And I prefer women, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I know.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, where did he get that out of a he?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, he designed Arkansas. He designed it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Did he really?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Nuh.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. Yeah. You see that? Huh?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Makes Superman sit down for a half hour.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it. That's it. We. We got engaged at George Jones old house.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I remember seeing the video, seeing something of it. Oh, there you go.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There he is.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Mr. Hodges right there. Good guy.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

He is a good boy. He's. He just lets me do my thing and he does his. And it's just. It just works.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Does it?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

My best buddy.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Wonder what errors people make in that type of thing. I guess. I mean, it's so hard because, like, people's schedules gets get so hectic.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, for sure.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Does he come on the road with you if you're out, or does he kind of pop in and out every.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Now and then like he. He's busy doing his own stuff and that's great. You know, like, I've always said, like, I have to have somebody that has their own dreams and goals and motivations and, you know, then we can. We things to talk about and come together and dream and I just didn't want to be the only one dreaming kind of thing. But, yeah, he's. He's awesome. He's. He's killing it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I gotta check in with. With Mr. Hodges and see what's going on.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You need to come out to the house. We had a crawfish bowl.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I think you almost y' all invited me to something.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I did. We were having a crawfish bowl. I think it was actually duck's birthday. Do you get crawfish a good fit?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I don't do it in Nashville very much.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We got it sent up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Was it good?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It was from south Mississippi, and it was. It was good.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I've heard it's good.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It was good.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God. I've heard it's good. Hey, I gotta come and have some. I gotta get some this year. I can't even believe I haven't done it that much.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We have some during the season at our bar downtown. Bell. Bottoms up. They got a truck out there, a crawfish truck.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, really? Hell, yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Kind of sounds dangerous, but. But good, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I mean, I'm surprised they don't get hijacked more by criminals and stuff, but I think that's just us from Louisiana. Prefer it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Look at that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God. That's it right there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that'll definitely my belly get that salt intake. Look at the beautiful color on it. I know sometimes you get the dark red one, the one that's been, like, to hell and back or whatever.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Is that the one that, like, died before?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

They say something that died and got brought back to life. I'm like, nobody's resuscitating these things.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I heard the one with, like, real flat tail.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Is the one that was, like, dead before they cooked it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I heard that one got around a lot in college, I heard. Yeah, there's definitely. Yeah. I mean, you hear a lot of myths about those, but there is always, like, the crawfish that's, like, way too dark. It's like it just like, at the color of weight. You're like, what is going on?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You just got to go around it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You just gotta set it to the side.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I feel you.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And there's one. Sometimes they're still blinking at you a little bit. You know, one of them still's got that Left turn signal going when you pull them out that pot, I'm like, some of these, you should. People should not be eating, you know? Congratulations on everything you're doing. Everything's going so great.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Thanks.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

How burnt out did you get last year? Were you really burnt out? Because I. I'm not joking. Every time I would talk to somebody, I'd be like, is Lainey okay? Because it seemed like you were just as busy as possible.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It was wild. I'll be honest with you. It was. It was wild. But, like, you know, I've been at this for a long time. I've been in Nashville now for 14 years.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah. I remember last time you were on. We talked about, you know, when you got there and living in your camper and.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You know, the shower breaking and you standing in there just doing a prayer circle by yourself. Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And I feel like the last two years at least, I felt like. Like all my dreams were really just coming true. Like, honestly, tenfold more than I could have ever even imagined. Like, I knew I wanted to write songs. I knew I wanted to tell stories. I knew I wanted to play shows. But it was a lot. And it was a lot of opportunity coming at once, and I wanted to. I wanted to say yes, because for so long, I didn't have opportunity, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And then. And then I said yes, and I was like, all right, I'm gonna do it. I was tired. Mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, all of it. But I tell you what, Theo, I'm all right, and I am in a healthy, healthy place right now. I feel like I've had a lot of balance this year, and I've just. I've learned a lot. You know, I've learned, like, what you say yes to now might not even come into effect until like, a year down the road. And so it's. It's important to, like, protect your peace and. But also, like, you know, roll your sleeves up and get her done, too.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, it's kind of tough because you feel like, I got it. You know, you want to take advantage of stuff, but at the same time, you're like, I don't even. Like, how do I even show up for this?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, that's the thing, too, is what I'm realizing is, like, how important it is to. I mean, your cup's got to be full in order to keep pouring out, you know? And then if you're just pouring out from a half empty cup over and over and over again at some point in time, the dang thing is going to run dry.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, you turn into a damn methadone clinic at that point.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Exactly. And you don't. That.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Nuh.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You don't want that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That sounds terrible.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. It's not preferred.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It's not preferred and. Yeah, but I'm. I've learned a lot. Like, I feel like. And especially we put out a record last year called Whirlwind. And I think it's just funny how even though, like, music was the. Is the thing that, like. How can I say it is the thing that, like, was about to make me lose my mind, you know, like, all of these opportunities, it was still the thing that I ran back to. It was a thing that, like, helped me kind of navigate that time of my life was writing more music and just like, putting pen to paper and picking up my guitar. That's like. That's what I do. When I was nine years old, coming home from school and I didn't know how to, you know, talk about what I wanted to talk about.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, because you've burning gifted courses. That's why you only had half the damn Alphabet.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I mean, I was. I was writing songs about tequila and cigarettes, you know.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Really?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

As a child.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

As a child. Are you worried? Look. That was a concerned look on your face.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I mean, I think I'm worried. I'm also kind of impressed.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm like, hey, dude, I had one that went like. My cigarette at 10 years old. My cigarette pack is empty. My tequila bottle is gone. Thinking how you and you gone. I keep looking for the future but it comes to the past. I don't have to think about you no more Freedom, no way.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Hell yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

People would pull up in the yard, like, coming to buy a horse from daddy, and he'd be like, hey, single, that song you just wrote last week, I'd get on the trampoline. That'd be my stage. I said, my cigarette pack is empty.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Just here, just. Just your fake tail just popping up out of the back every now and then. Wait till you're at that, like, crescendo, your jump to hit the high notes.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. You do your toe touch. Freedom at last, freedom at last.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's the best thing, man. That's the most American thing ever. That's the best song. Look at that. Is that a picture you in that red and white on top left?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes. And I don't know why, but during this one phase of my life, I was doing like, that's you. This underbite, that's you.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Were you a missing person?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It Looks I look like I need to be on a milk carton. Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, my God.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, that's me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Wow.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That was our rodeo shirt.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Dude, those road. The rodeo stuff's so great, isn't it? I love the rodeo.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I love the rodeo too. I feel at home with the rodeo.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's my favorite. I was just watching. Now I seem like a real creep, but I was just watching videos. There's some little girl. See if you can find it on my tick tock. I think I shared it yesterday or maybe I'd have saved it. It's this little girl who just. Man, she gets out there and barrel races. She must waiting £40 out there and looks like she has two jobs.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She's just a sad.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Knows how to do it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I really love that. Pretty impressive stuff. Yeah, I love the rodeo. I wish I could. If I had, like, that would be one thing. I would like to invest in a rodeo team if I could get enough money and then invest in like a rodeo team, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I like that. You let me know when you need some. Some more investors. Yeah, we'll do it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Dude, I love the frickin rodeo. Do you really love it or not?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, I do. I grew up doing it. My daddy is still the. The president of the rodeo committee back at home.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh. Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And so it's like. It's just. There's something about it. Even when you just roll up and you just smell it, you know, it's like, I love it. We used to barrel race and we were PRCA flag girls and. And all that. So I'd ride in with the flag and sing the national anthem and screw the lyrics up every single time. Every time.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Really?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes. There was a text message, you know, back when there used to be like, Forward this to 10 people. If you don't, you gonna die kind of thing.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There was a text message going around the arena that ended up making its way to my sister somehow that said, did you hear Lainey Wilson mess up the national anthem? Send this to 10 people. Yes. Yes. So I'm like, guess what? You can't hurt me. You know I'm saying you can't hurt me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, we've been there, dude. That's the dang gossip superhighway. That's when gossip just hit the dang HOV lane.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I can't believe that that's how it got.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Huh?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, this is her right here.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Let's go, girl. Look, she said get the hat off for me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She's not even playing, bro.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Look at Her.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's crazy. And she should do Doordash. How does she not work for them?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Dude, if she worked for doordash, we'd be getting our stuff quick, bro.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It'd be warm when it got there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It would be warm.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Even if it was a cold item, it would be warm. Look at her. Boy, that is incredible. Who is that?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I love that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Little cowgirl. Look at her.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Pretty cool. That's great. Yeah, I love. I mean, I just met, like, even just growing up in Louisiana, like, did y' all ever have a parade in Yalls Town or not?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We did our rodeo parade.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And we'd ride through the town and everybody come out and we'd throw candy. And it was good. It was. Remember those days? I mean, those were like the good.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Old days, picking the candy up off the street, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Did you do a lot of, like, Mardi Gras parades and stuff?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah, we did Mardi Gras parades. But the parade in our town, they had, like. Even the people in it would be, like, tallest guy in town or whatever, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. It would be like, kid who can walk backwards, like, the.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Was like, you are lying. Nah, that's some south Louisiana stuff. We don't do that kind of stuff in north Louisiana.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

First of all, they're not that different than each other. Okay. Well, I mean, they are, but we. These are like our heroes in the community or whatever, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, we had. I'm trying to think of who else we had.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And they would just walk through the parade or like, be in a car.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And wait a car and say on the side of it, newly single or whatever. Sometimes if you had a little bit of cash, you'd get your daughter out there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I like that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And that was. That was kind of a good. That was a neat thing, I thought, because it was kind of showcasing the goods of the area, you know. It's really not a bad idea.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Gotta shine a light on it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I mean, that was kind of the original only fans a little bit. Was just dropping some drive.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I mean, like, you know, kind of more of a Christian only fans version. But driving a decent woman buying an open convertible. Yeah. God.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Sitting up on the back of it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

With the signs down the side. That was decorated with the Christmas lights.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Ms. Rabies or whatever. They always have. I'm like, that shouldn't be. You guys should have picked it something else. That was always a little bit different.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, there is. So There are so many, like, different festivals in Louisiana. What I've realized. And I got to hang out with them some. It was like the duck queen, the duck festival queen. It was like the strawberry festival queen, the watermelon festival queen. It was like any kind of queen you could think of. Any kind of animal or fruit.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

The frog. Yeah, it exists in rain. They had the frog princess or whatever. Yeah, they have like, the mosquito queen.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Or whatever, the armadillo queen, the possum queen.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Some nervous. This thin girl just. Just standing on all fours, just shaking. Yeah, they had all. But. Yeah, there was all that in Louisiana. That was a lot of it. What do you notice, like, as your career gets busier, that, like, you have to spend so much more time doing the career part?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And it changes. Like, like. Like, is there stuff that you miss from, like, the earlier parts? Like, is even, like, little moments?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

For sure. I mean, there. Things are different, you know. I don't miss going to the grocery store, I'll tell you that. I don't. I ain't never like going to the grocery store.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, the one area gets so cold or whatever, you got to go in there to get the cold goods or whatever.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. And you got to run over to the other side just to warm up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. God. I'd be in there looking at something. I'd be like, I'll be right back to go over there and just go like this by the cereal boxes and then head back over there. Or I'd open up that little. That little chicken warmer thing they got.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

In the rotisserie thing.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Sometimes they don't lock it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You get up in there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, I'd be. Well, I wouldn't get in, but I put my hands in, like, you know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I do remember doing that, too.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I cracked it. Just kind of, you know, Walmart. Oh, yeah. Dude. I'm the guy. I'm always cold. I feel like I'll be the guy, like, at a Circle K who have his. Both of his hands in that, like, little hot dog spinner.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are lying. And I'm touching that. That right there is why nobody needs to be eating the hot dogs from the convenience stores. Because people like you.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'm not touching the Frank.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It don't matter.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'm just keeping my hands warm. Well, they should have a little warming section right above that for people that are.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

They should. They should.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But, yeah, life has changed. Life has changed.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And I mean, of course, there's things that I miss, but I also know, like, on a serious note, that, like, this. This is my calling.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You know, And I knew that at a very early age. And so I, I just think like with anything in life, there are times when there are things you just kind of have to like, give up. And, and so I'm okay with that because this is, this is what I feel like I was like born to do and made to do. And so.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It changes. Things change.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, they do.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I know it's kind of tough. It's tough sometimes because you want to be that. You want to be the same person, but also who you are changes and you grow up and things are different.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. And you know, like, I didn't really like sign up to be a businesswoman or whatever, but you kind of have to be. You have to like rise to the occasion and other opportunities have, have come my way and I'd be silly not to, you know, to hear what it's about and take that step. So. Yeah, so I thought when growing up, you know, when I was jumping on the trampoline and singing Freedom At Last, I thought that I was just going to be writing music and playing shows and bouncing around and that's not it at all. This is like 80% business and 20% music. But I'm willing to do the 80% business so I can do the 20% music.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Amen. You know, it really is. It changes in the beginning. It's just all. It's mostly all the music, I guess. Or actually I don't know if now maybe it hasn't merged more like you have to make your own flyers. I remember having to make my own flyers at home and like trying to, trying to figure them out on the computer and stuff.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And my granny used to make these little like CD covers and little stickers and.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Who did?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

My granny.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She would make, oh, make look like on the computer.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Like we'd burn the CDs where I recorded some songs.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh yeah, that CD burner, huh? Dude, I found a triple decker CD burner one time. That thing had three rows in it and I was like, God, baby, we're doing it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Look, my daddy found a burnt CD of ours that had Colt 45 on it. He popped in the CD player and listened to it. You remember that song Coat 45, 2 Zigzag Baby, that's all we need. We can go to the park after dark Smoke that Tom for weed yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Then I have heard this. Dude, unless somebody stole that beat from.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Them at the marijuana bar, we can take our turn singing them dirty rap songs. Stop to hit the bone like Chichen John sale taste from here to Hong Kong Let's Go. Roll, roll. Anyway, Daddy, put that into the.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I have to have heard this, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

CD player. And he about had a heart attack.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's Afroman.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It's Afroman.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Next time I see you, you better have learned every lyric to this song.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Okay, that's fair. I promise. Y' all will.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We need to play it at a show. You need to come up at a show. And we do Colt 45.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Okay, I'll do it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my God.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

As long as your dad will. Dang. Two step over there on the side.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my gosh. He gonna have a heart attack.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And we'll get the trampoline out there. I think, you know, I'll jump on it. Okay.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Dude, I love this. I saw Effort, man, at a frat party one time up in at University of Mississippi. And he was, like, so high or whatever on stage, he hit. He hit a note that just shook him a little. And he had just vomited in his own hat and just threw it. And some, like. Some freshman kid just was, like, excited. I think he thought it was just a hat. Not that I had. That had vomit in it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop. And he put it on.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, he just caught it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He put it on the guys. He's just waterboarding himself out there. But, yeah, Afro man, that's. That guy's played everywhere, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I guess so.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He's played everywhere. Colt 45. I don't remember it, but I believe that it happened because I got high. I remember that was, like, his big hit. I was gonna go to work.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Those are the jams.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, those were the jams, man. That was it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But my daddy, like, he, like, tore up the cd and, you know, he's like, yeah, you ain't gonna be singing stuff like this at this age. But it was okay for me to write about tequila and cigarettes, you know, and be like, hey, play that song.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I guess as long as you were, like, the person, right? And it made everything okay. You know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

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[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Whirlwind Deluxe.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And it's out right now.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And it's out right now.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And there's new songs on it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There's new songs on it. There is several new songs on it. So when I was writing Whirlwind, like I was saying earlier, it was like during that time of my life that was chaotic when you were asking if that was okay.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And then I felt like after the dust kind of settled, after I put that record out, I had a minute to really just kind of like, just get my stuff together. And these were the songs that I wrote. But I still felt like it was kind of connected to the tail end of the whirlwind, so felt like they were still in that family. And so I just wanted to, you know, add a little bit to the story. And so they're out. I'm so proud of them. One of my favorite songs I've ever written is on there. It's called Peace, Love, and Cowboys, and it's. It's a bop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

How do you. What made you feel like it was your favorite? Kind of like, did you just know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I don't know. It's just that. That feeling. It's like when you're writing the song, everybody in the room has. Has that feeling. It's like the holy spirit. It's like you just feel it, and you just kind of feel like the song's going to be around for a long time, even if that just means that, like, you're going to sing it 30, 50 years from now. And so that's how I felt about it. I was like, I'd be okay with singing this song for the rest of forever.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, you kind of have to, I guess. And you have Some truck songs already. You feel like you can't do any more vehicle songs?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I got a vehicle song on this deluxe. Don't you even play? Hey, I'm doing what I said I'd never do.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Shotgun, I'm riding with you, George.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

King James.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

King what?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

King Ranch. King George. King James.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

All right. God, I want some of that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I got a heart like a damn F150 hybrid. I think a hybrid breaks down a lot. Them will break down, dude, and they will actually.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my gosh. Heart like a Prius.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's a song. Yours? Hot Like a Prius.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Heart like a Prius.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, Heart like a priest. Oh, yeah. What about. Look up some Lainey Wilson's songs that she'd never. The titles of songs she's never done.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, shoot.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Use perplexity and see what they got. Pick up Whiskey on a Wednesday.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Look at twang in my bones.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Twanging my bones. That's good.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I got that twine in my bones.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I think you need an mri, bro.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

If you have a twangy moonlight. Daydreams. Is this what people think of me? Mason jar miracles.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Hey, those are some good peaches. Kiss by Kudzu to. Sounds like you need some damn calamine lotion. That's all that is.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

A kiss by your cousin.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, Kiss by your cousin. It's just some guy who has a kudzu rash on. He's so inflamed from the cudgel, you can't even tell if you're related or not. Kiss by my cousin. That's a good one. Make. See if they make them sillier if you look up goofier ones. There you go.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Honky tonk hiccups.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Honky tonk hiccups.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That is hilarious. Yeah, but it'd have to be Honky tonk hiccups.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Sand in Boots. They should have.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Dude, there. There has been a time where I thought I was about to have hiccups on stage. Oh, yeah?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And what do you have to do to. Oh, I think you're supposed to eat a bunch of sugar or something. Right?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I do that anyway.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So I ought to be clear, but no. And then there was one time where I was like, I don't know what's happening, but I feel like I'm about to burp. I'm feeling. I don't know. And it's just, like, you have to just get it off your. Like, somehow get it off your mind.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Just, like, start staring at somebody or you're about to Sneeze.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, the craziest. That feeling one guy came to get like, I was it. Somebody's introduced me to their. To their friend the other day, and the guy just kind of came in for. And as he's coming in for like a close, like, handshake thing, I was just going into a sneeze. I didn't know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You did not.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'd sneeze right into him. Sneeze right into the guy. Yeah. And I think that's like a mating call in some cultures. Whatever. I didn't mean it to be. I. But I. It just was like. I don't know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What did he do?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He just kind of went like that. I don't know. What would he do? He was. He wasn't stoked. He wasn't upset. He was. He was understanding. But it was, you know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Did you say, I'm sorry or just like, thank you?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I was like, well, what do you expect, you know? So then that's what I think about the government. That's what I said.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my gosh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

What are some of the goofier titles bringing back up?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my gosh. Lasso my Latte.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's what you're doing over there, right there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Latte boots.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Getting wi fi is pretty good.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop. Hold up. Gravy on my guitar. It just reminds me. Hardy took me and some of my crew to a strip club in Huntsville and they have biscuits and gravy night. Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's great, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

On Thursday nights.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And how much is it? Is it pricey over there?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, he gave me 100 ones and it was like, have fun. It was like my end of tour gift.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It was. And you're over there just buying biscuits.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, it wasn't biscuits and gravy night that night. We had just missed it. This was like a Friday night or something.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, got it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But, huh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I've seen them do bingo night at a strip club too, which is kind of cool because everybody will get right up there and be using their blotters and stuff. And some of the Christian women would even blot out their eyes so they don't see all the sexual stuff.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Uncle Buck's booby Bungalow. That's it, right?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Is that what it's called?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Uncle Buck's Booby Bungalow. And they got biscuits and gravy. What night is that on?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, we're gonna have to ride on down there. Oh, right on down there. Load up, load up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'll take text for one Last ride down there. God, I'm trying to think of what food goes good with a. With a good tit or whatever. Kind of.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I shouldn't even say, you know, anything. Yeah, well, supposedly. I don't know if this is true or not, but they were like, y' all gotta come back for biscuits and gravy night, blah, blah, blah. And I thought that that's nice, you know, sit around, eat some biscuits and gravy. No, they're rolling around in the gravy, and people are throwing the biscuits.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah. I don't want that. My mother loves biscuit biscuits and gravy. If I took her and you didn't get to eat it, she would be upset.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh. This is Uncle Buck's third annual biscuits and gravy wrestling.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, I love how they spelled wrestling.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, the recipe better be good, because I'll tell you this. If I'm even that close to biscuits and gravy. Yeah, I'm. Have a little.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm gonna have a little. I'm gonna have me a bite.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You telling me somebody ain't gonna whip something around fast enough or just something's gonna land in my mouth?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Honey, you dang right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, I just hope it's sausage gravy, too. I really like that. What about Halloween? What was Yalls Halloween like growing up? Do you remember that over there? I mean, we'd go trick or treat. Was it. Was there not enough folks?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We'd have to go to Monroe to trick or treat because that was, like, the biggest town. We just go to, like, random subdivisions and, you know.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You know, go to the rich subdivisions.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

People that had lights out in front of their house.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, yeah. I was like, oh, these people got money.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, dude, we.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

When I got a pumpkin, too, we.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Had electricity inside our house. Yeah. Like normal people.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But some people had a light right outside of their front door, and I was like, you gotta be effing.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Must be nice.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Must be nice to open your front door and see what's happening in the world at night. That kind of shit pissed me off, dude.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I know, I know. But we would, like some years, like, I lived on this one road that we just had a few neighbors. And so we'd go, like, see my granny, and we'd go see, you know, the Olive O's. And we'd go down the. The road and see the Graysons, and.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And would everybody dress up or. No.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I mean, my sister would.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. Did you dress up for Halloween?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I dressed up. I Had some kind of alternative. You or not. Like, like, our mom was always working, so we'd have to get dressed. Like, our dad was, like, in charge of getting us dressed up or whatever, and he was, like, 75 years old or whatever, so he didn't know what was going on. What was I. Oh, I remember one year I was a ghost, but I was, like, too scared to stand to the sheet or whatever.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, you were. You were, like, claustrophobic.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I was just like. I'd be like. But then I'd lift it up like, you know, I'm under here. It's me. Like, I would scare myself, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, I definitely remember that, dude. I was like, I cannot be a ghost anymore. When I was. I was a wheelchair one year, I had a little chair, like a kid's chair that we put, like, around a rope on my neck. And I carried two bike tires with me. It was pretty cute.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I swear.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You need to be in that parade. I was talking about that parade that went through your town. That's the parade.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You need to be tallest kid. Best list. He always got his own car in that parade.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Dang it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He's over there just trying to whistle at people.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We might have been from the same town.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I. Dude. Yeah, there's. There was something nice about that. Or somebody that had too many freckles. They'd put them in the parade sometimes. You know, there'd always be some girl named Abigail or something had too many dang freckles.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Dude, I'll tell you something that was amazing. Was I was in. I had a show in Winnipeg, Canada. After the show, they said, there's some people here that are actors in town that are doing a show here, and they wanted to come and say hello. And I got to meet the people from Little House on the Prairie. They're redoing it. Remember that show?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, they're reacting.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's cool. So when's that happening? Did they. Probably coming out.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And I got to go to set the next day, too.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What was that?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Like, awesome?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Was it just like. Even the. Like, the clothes and everything, just seeing it, like, from a different time, everything. Period pieces.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

There they are.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's going to be incredible.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And, yeah, the reboot.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You think you'd ever want to be in something like that?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I don't know. I met the man who's doing Charles Ingalls, and he's. I would have to be his brother that was in an accident or something, because he's really got the looks all locked up, you know, you ever meet somebody like that, they're so good. They keep all the good looks to themselves, you know? Yeah, they're over there just.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There's a lot of people like that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, they're over there looking at photos of themselves, and I'm just hiding from mirrors, you know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Exactly. I won't just turn the light out.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'm over there just buying 5 watt bulbs from my house, you know, Just trying to keep my own reflection away from me.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Amen.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Were you in pageants growing up? You were in pageants?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, I was in one pageant, and it was Farm Bureau pageant. My mama back in the day was the Farm Bureau queen, and so she was like, you know, I love for you to be in the Farm Bureau pageant. And so the onstage question was, what does agriculture mean to you? And I think I had one line, and I think it was what really sealed the deal. And I said, agriculture is the backbone of America. And then I think they just said, give it to her. Give it to her. Give it to her. Yeah, that's pretty much what I was right there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, my God. You won it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I won the Franklin Parish one.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's big, though.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's big, boy. But my sister, she went through a little phase where she was doing some pageants, and this is hilarious, but she was doing the watermelon pageant. I think that's in Ruston, Louisiana. And she gets up to the microphone, and she goes, I'm Jana Wilson, contestant number three. And then in the microphone, she goes, shit walks off. She definitely didn't win.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, but she won a lot of people's hearts. Oh, if he's a dank and casket, can't. We had beautiful.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

She was in another one, and they. It was a Junior Miss pageant, and they asked her, they said, what does going green mean to you? And she goes, don't pollute. She's off. Didn't win that one either.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Hey, dude, y' all needed. What y' all needed was like a. Like, kind of a question answer groomer or something. I know y' all didn't practice.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We needed. We needed a coach.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, y' all need a damn coat.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We just, like, had the bullet points, you know what I'm saying? Just one bullet point. Yep.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's awesome.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Did you get to the point?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, that's it, honey. We don't not waste anybody's time up here.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Don't pollute.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, we got to get these crops out of the ground. We do not have time to waste. Yeah. Did you, did you ever. Did you tune in with a lot of that JonBenet stuff? Do you ever tune in with it?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I've. You know what? Like, I remember being a kid. I remember a little something about all that. But is there a new, like, show or something that's out about it right now?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, I don't think so. I. There was one that came out like last year.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Was it?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And I watched it. Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of those weird things because like a, A little kid was like, just, you know, like. And so I started thinking about it, I think, and I know he's not going to be happy to hear me say this, and I'd love to have him come on the podcast and talk about it sometime. The dad did it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Really?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I shouldn't have said that or he might have come on.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Really. So did they. They did find her?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I don't think you did it, sir.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Did they find her?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, they found her. They found her. She wasn't alive when they found her. Some people think she's still alive, but. Yeah. Anyway, sorry to bring the buzz down. I just didn't know if that was.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So what year was that? It was like early 90s. 96.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, 96, baby.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Dang, that is so strange.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I know, strange. But did you get caught up like that? Was there people in there out there? Were you like, oh, this kid, you know, like, did you. Were you guys that deep in the trenches of it?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We like went to the consignment shop. Shop and bought, you know, bought the dress they had. That's the one I wore. You know what I'm saying?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. You guys were just kind of last minute pageant.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We're just like. Or double up like if for the Farm Bureau pageant. I was like, I'm gonna wear my prom dress for like, I'm gonna. We gotta get our money's worth, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So that's what I did.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I like that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's what I did.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I like that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Were you ever in pageants?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, we didn't have that. They did have a good. But I didn't have any direction as a child and I did get to dress myself for photo days and stuff like that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Did you? And like, what would you put on?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I do a tank top sometimes. I would do. Yeah, I did. One year I did a costume, like kind of thing like a.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

The wheelchair costume.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No skeleton. And then one year, one year I did do a nice outfit. It was kind of like a bow tie and stuff. Like that, maybe. See if you can search that up real quick so you can find me in a little boat.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Let's go. You're like, I'm gonna dress nice today.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, well, I'd seen somebody else dress nice and I was like, oh, I see what they're doing, huh? I see what these bastards are doing, huh? There's one. That's when I lived in Russia for a little while.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Different times right there. Yeah, let's go.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Look at that ear pierce, too.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Boy, that hair. I had glasses, too. I was blind. That's actually me. That's me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

What if they have picture for you? And I look the same.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We brother and sister, man.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, those are the days. That was fun.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Look at that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Being alive. Piercing your own ear. Did you do that?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Did you pierce your own ear?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I did.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What'd you pierce it with?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'm talking about I'm a man.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I. I did not. I went to the Claire's in the mall.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Y' all did. God.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I was just a little baby. My mama got my ears pierced when I was like a few months old. Really brought me home and my daddy was mad.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, dang, you got it looking like it is kind of crazy. Your kid can't even see that good. And you got. Dang, you know, you got earrings.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, like feather earrings.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You got some big hoops coming off or something.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Hi.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

What's the youngest you can get a child's ears pierced in America? There's got to be a two week.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I don't know, there's got to be.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Like a catch and release type of thing or something. But the youngest age appears to child.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Here it's two months.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

What is it?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Around two to four after that vaccine.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It says, because I guess that they put net metal or semi precious metal through year. You can't be allergic to things that are semi precious. So that's it. When. When you're torn, are you choosing places to go now or like, what's that like?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, it's kind of like mapped out to the point where it's like. And I don't know how it is for you. It's like we want to try to make sure that, you know, we're letting the demand build back up in that city and things like that, and then trying to make sure that we are going to different places, you know, kind of like popping in some of these little corners that we hadn't really got to hit just yet. So, yeah, it's like a. It's a team effort of just figuring out where we going? We're about to go back to Australia.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You've been to Australia?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

So good. Did you go to Bondi Beach?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I have not been to Bondi.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Bring it up real quick just so you don't forget to go. It's worth going. It's like, 18 minutes outside of Sydney.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Okay. And you just take a ferry?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No, you can drive right there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, really?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's the most beautiful beach I've seen. That's not, like, a super tropical place, if that makes any sense.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Got it. So it's kind of like a city on the beach.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, but it's.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Wow.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's a pretty.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Man. I'd love to do that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

If you have a family and stuff, do you think you'll raise them over there in Nashville or not? Do you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I will.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You will?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I will. I think Nashville is just a good spot. Like, even if, you know, music wasn't a thing, I think it's just. I think they got, like, good schools and. And I feel like you can go far out right now. You can go far out enough on any side and still feel like you're in the country, you know? I want to. I want to raise my kids like I did, like, playing in the dirt, and. I don't know, I just want them to, like, be outside and. And do the things that we grew up doing, you know what I'm saying? And, like, just enjoy those things, too, because you see these kids at these supper tables on their iPads and on cell phones. I'm like, oh, gosh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Grilling, like, digital meats and stuff on there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, we. We. Me and Doug took some kids that he coached last year to eat Mexican food not too long ago. And these two little boys across from us.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That'S like. It's kind of like. That's the Louisiana way of kind of saying, we're having a United nations meeting.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Exactly. That's what was happening.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Look, honey, look.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. These two boys sitting across from us, they were twins, and they were just, like, for 17 years old, like, carrying on great conversation, making eye contact like it was. You could just tell that they were, like, raised right. And then I realized they said they had never had social media, and I was like, that's why you can carry on a conversation. Dang. Dang.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, a lot of people are homeschooling their kids now, too, and keeping everything away from them, you know, Which I'm.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Not trying to, like, you know, keep everything away from them, because I think then you kind of mess up, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, they said there's pedophiles in the roadblocks. Now that's what I heard yesterday. You know, that's. And I. Yeah, I've heard it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Uh huh. They're everywhere.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, yeah, but I didn't think they were in the roadblocks, honey. You know, I know they're riding these streets. Roblox facing mounting lawsuits as parents across US Election company enables child predators.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

So I just want you to think I'm making that up.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Stop.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's how I feel, too. I discontinued my account. I just only had it for two weeks.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You have to be protecting and watching.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Like that's what I'm saying. You could do homeschooling.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I want you to homeschool my kids. I'd love for you, Uncle Theo. All right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Dude, that would be so great.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Terrible.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

What are you talking about, man?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You would teach them something. You would teach them. You would educate them.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You would educate them.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I teach them how to do cpr.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Huh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

With a unique style that a lot of people don't do.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Which is what?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

A lot of people breathe straight into the lungs. I kind of take a roundabout pattern.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What do you like, people's elbow on them or something?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I do different stuff.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Okay, but are you really certified?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Decent success rate? Yeah, I'm certified in cpr, honey.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Are you really? I need to see like a badge or something. I don't believe it. Hey, I'm deputized. Did you know that I could believe that? Look, I'm deputized.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Are you? Yes, just by somebody in town that was a sheriff.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Gave you one in Richland Parish. They asked my daddy to be a deputy. You better quit. And. And then daddy was like, I'll do it if Lainey can do it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I love that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Someone up there and got sworn in.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Did you? I love that. Dude. I was at a Vols game, like, probably a year and a half ago, and some guy up there, some. And I will say he was. I don't want to say he was an alcoholic, but he had drunk a lot, and he probably drunk most of his life. And you could tell because some of his kids didn't even talk to him or whatever. But anyway, what I was saying was he was like kind of. He was getting drunk. And I said, I'm gonna go downstairs and say to somebody. And he goes, well, look, man, if you have any trouble down there, he goes, I'm a sheriff, just flash my badge, you know? So this guy gave me a sheriff's badge, right? Swear. So I didn't know how they work or whatever. So I'm down there talking, and then something happened in this area where, like, some people started, like, we're kind of talking to each other and stuff. So I just break this thing out. Right. I swear.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

At the right for moon size. No, I didn't do that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'm not a cop. I'm a sheriff, dude. I'm just. Sheriff's just raised the badge.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. That's right. That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. And then they go get something to eat. Yes, but I flashed that thing and then a real cop, a female police officer, kind of like, pushed me up against the wall. And she's like, what's going on here? And they. She, like, was like, reprimanding me for having a fake identification or whatever. And I was like, the guy gave it to me, you know. But it was spooky for a minute. I thought they were gonna take you.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Thought you were really about to get in trouble.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, it was like.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

When was that?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Probably two years ago or maybe a year and a half. I think they were playing Georgia or something. And they got their. They got their tails kicked. Tennessee did. But. Yeah, but I remember, like, God, that guy's the worst sheriff. Whatever. Like, he didn't even. He didn't give me any. He's just like.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, like, he could have told you.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. If you got a piss somewhere or just whatever that gets heavy. You splash this and I flash that and I just.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right up against the wall. That lady had me. I was pretty nervous, but I respect her. She's doing her job right there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that doesn't look like me. That looks like a. First of all, that looks like a pretty decent looking woman in the town I'm from. I will say that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, I remember them haircuts. Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, God. Yeah. Well, we had. Our bus driver would cut everybody's hair.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Your bus driver cut people's hair?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, he caught his. He had a barbershop. I don't know if he had a barbershop, but.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, I thought you meant. As y' all were walking off the bus, he just.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He would pull over probably six times a year. He had his. He'd have those clippers going. He's get everybody in there cut up.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are lying.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

40 minutes. He cut everybody on that thing.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That is hilarious.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Walk right off that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Everybody be looking slick walking off there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Pretty slick enough with her ears lowered. And the best thing is if everybody looks the same, nobody looks better or worse.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You ever had, like, a real bad Haircut. I mean, like a real, real bad haircut.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I mean, yeah, I've had almost all of them. I think if you just look through pictures of me online, you'll see them.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You're right. You're right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I've had one. Yeah, I went to that Roberts beauty college or something that was in our town, and they were running a special. It was like 75 cents to get your haircut. And I was like, well, at that price, I gotta go open there 100.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You gotta see what it's about.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

They. It must just be a great deal. And so I got in there. I got in there, dude. And they were letting people that were just like. I don't even even know if they were haircuts. Some of them were just, like, recovering mechanics and stuff. They were letting anybody. Anybody who could keep their hands stable enough in that they put a pair of scissors in them. And, yeah, they did stuff to me, man. I can't. I still will never be the same. I walked out of there and I had to walk home about two and a half miles. And the whole time I was so disappointed, was depressed, and I kept trying to get a good reflection in my head and different things I was walking by.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Dude, a bad haircut. Like, a real bad haircut can. It can be painful.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, especially as a man, because it's like, you don't have. As a man, you're not going to grow breasts or you can't wear lipstick. So, like, you were down O2 in your chances of.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. And then you just got to wait for it to grow back.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. So you have one item going on. You know, maybe you can do eye drops, but otherwise it is a haircut.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It is a haircut. Duck dyed his hair bleach blonde as a joke. Just like.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

As a joke, was it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, I don't know, but I'm gonna tell you right now, I didn't think it was funny. I didn't think it was funny. I said, you better sleep with a ball cap on until that thing grows out. Now it's starting to look like frosted tips.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Really? We'll take him down to damn Panama City and let him make a little bit.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's where he did it as a joke. We were playing Panama City, and my mama and his mama and he, like, had this bright idea and they all got it done. No, they just did his. They just did his. And they videoed my reaction seeing it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

They did.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And it was like, let me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

If you can find it, pull that up.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I want to see that my mouth is wide open. I was like, nope, the wedding's off. Wedding's off, bro.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Weddings off, bro. Who's gonna play at your wedding? Do you have to play at your own wedding if you're, like, a really good musician?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, no, I. I don't. I don't want it to be about. I want it to be about what it's supposed to be about that day. You know what I'm saying?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah. Like, the love. The nuptials.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Now, I might, like, write him a song or something and like. Like, share it later on or whatever before. But, like, I don't know. I'm just like, yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I just didn't know if you have to play it your own. I never thought about that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm not. I want to have some kind of, like, jazz band or something like that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, Big X, the plug.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Big X, the plug. He could do it, which I loved. Yalls interview.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, he's great.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

He is great.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

We went and watched his show in Nashville when he was there. It was fun.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It was.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. The whole. Yeah, it's just, like. It's great energy, you know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Where was he playing?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He was playing over at.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Not Brooklyn Bowl. You're not. You're talking about Brooklyn Bowl?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yep. He's playing a Brooklyn Bowl.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Got it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, it was good. I saw red clays trades. Where'd I see them at?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

They are so good.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I saw a video. You guys singing, right? You and Brandon.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep. In Canada. Yeah. He's. He's the real deal.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I mean, they put on a hell of a show. I'm just a fan. I've.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I think that it's just, like, timeless. It's like they stepped out of another, like, time and really doing something so different. I don't know. I'm just a big old fan.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And their audiences. A lot of men, too, are their fans. I realized.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Let me see a little bit of that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Me. Oh, pass the hat. I'll put some money in that. I'll put my second born in that hat.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Huh?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's special, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, he's. He's cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Have you guys done a song together? No. Do you like to do a lot of collaborations like that, or do you not like it? Well, no, it seems to be really hot right now, too.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I love collaborations, but I was doing a bunch of collaborations there for a minute.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's right. You did. I know the one with Hardy that I loved.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Waiting a Truck.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I forgot that was in the truck, too.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Truck. Truck.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Look, sorry to say that I didn't. I. Look, I don't care how funny. God. I don't care if I just this. I don't care if you. Every one of your songs talks about it ain't carmax. I'm still gonna listen to them.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, I ain't gonna do that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Okay, okay.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I ain't gonna do that. I ain't gonna do that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I forgot about weight in the truck too.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But wait in the truck. 4 by 4 by you heart like a truck truck, truck. And we got one like I said coming. King Ranch, King George, King James.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I got a damn heart like a dang lord. 50cc motorcycle, honey. Yeah, I got a heart got a name outboard motor on it. Yeah, I got a heart.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh my gosh.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I got a heart that's got it. That's got damn training wheels on it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

My nephew just facetime me the other day. Did he not with no training with ledger. That's the four year old. He was like, oh, ain't whiny. So right when I think they don't love me, he says stuff like that to my sister. The tap end like call aunt whiny and show her. I'm like, oh, see y' all do love me.

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[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm gonna set your ass up. Let me, let me think of who I can set you up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You are.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm gonna set you up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah. Thanks.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What's your type?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Woman.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Just a full grown woman.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, obviously, but yeah, adult woman, positive attitude, warm eyes, wants to be a mom. Okay, what else? Hard worker.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Okay.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right. So a nurse, I think I would like, but I think I may just say that because of hard worker. Yeah, but okay, I gotta pray a little bit more about it too, and just help get my kind of sights lined up. You know, let the Lord kind of.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm gonna tell you right now, he can. Yeah, he can. He. I'll be praying for it too.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Thanks. Because I, I, you can meet people, but you gotta, like, you know, you just gotta meet the right one. And sometimes you just got to be patient, too.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. And he'll make it clear, right? He always does. And I always heard that wah, wah, wah about, you know, when, you know, and really stuff. But, like, I, I do believe it now.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Did you lock. Did you make like a little.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

List?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

List or altar or whatever?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

An altar or like a. Yeah, yeah, I made a list of, like, I went through some doozies. I'm talking about, like, stuff I'm, I'm embarrassed about now. You know what I'm saying? I'm sorry. God bless you, but embarrassed to think that I let somebody do me that way.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And then, and then met somebody who just would never in a million years. But I did. Like, I took a few years to myself. Didn't even go on a date, like, but also, nobody asked me out either. Like, wouldn't. Nobody asked me out. And. But those years were, like, really important for me. And I figured out I'm like, okay, like, no more playing around. Like, the next person I'm dating. Like, it's got to be. I'm not gonna spend a few years of my life with this person if it's not, like, going in the direction that, that it's supposed to. And so I was like, okay, yes, I want somebody who is, like, you just said, like, hard Working. And I hate to say that this is even a quality on my list, but loyal, you know, that should just be. I should just be.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You know, it shouldn't be a quality.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It is kind of true. We've gotten to a sad place. I know that I'm going to be their only spouse.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. I would love to be their only spouse. But. Yeah, I think, like write it down and.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I just have to be more intentional about it. You know, I've been. I've been. I've done some of that, but I want to do. I want to do even more of it because I want to see how fine tuned could you get that arrow, you know, if you really locked in with some intention. But I do notice myself not spending time, like a lot of times like. Like wasting it in areas, you know, or trying not to spend my time wasting in certain areas, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes. It's just kind of like cutting the crap.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. And I think that's a big step right there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right. Is you deciding. Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Is just being like, just no more.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I want something.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And then only. Only the real thing can find you at that point. Yeah, you go. You'll find somebody. She gonna be bad ass.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She better be. I'll tell you. I'm already pissed at her a little.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Are you?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. I'm mad at her too.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Thank you. I got a couple notes in my phone. I'm texting her right. Whenever I get her number.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Because I'm definitely.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

She's gonna have to be. I'm just trying to like, envision what this chick is gonna be like.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She better work out of town sometimes. I'm telling you that. Okay. Because I don't want her messing my house.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it. That's it. That's it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I think the big thing I realized I want kid. I want to be able to have kids that have like a comfort, a nice. Like a emotionally well upbringing. So that's what I need, like an emotionally well woman.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You know, a good girl. Like just.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well rounded.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, we'll find it. Maybe she has a couple animals or something. Or we could get some animals. Because sometimes you meet a woman, they already got too many animals. You could see they're trying to do their own little. A little zoo or something.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. Put that horse in the front yard.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

On the front porch.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You know, that's how.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's how y' all gonna live.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, that. That's how I. That was my old way to meet a woman. Just put that horse in the front yard, you know, But I'm not doing that now.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

The horse needs to go in the back.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. But I can't live like that anymore. What else? You have a movie that's coming up. Is that true?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. Reminders of him.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Reminders of him.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Reminders of him. Colleen Hoover. And I will say I'm very excited about it. It was an opportunity for me to kind of dip my toes a little bit into being something other than a musician, which was fun.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I know you've done in some Yellowstone, right? Was this more, like, extensive than that or, like, what was different about it?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

This. You know, it probably took me three or four days to, like, film my part. And I feel like with Yellowstone, because I was in, like, several different episodes, it was probably, like, a little bit more filming. But I had fun. I had fun. Like, I feel like I kind of, like, found myself within the character, you know? Like, I realized that, okay, maybe, like, I don't have to be playing music to feel like I can play the character.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Dang.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Which is cool. Like, I might. Who knows? Who knows? I want to do a comedy.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Do you? God, that would be good. You'd be so good at it. We should make one, then.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Let's do it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Me and David Spade wrote a movie. It's almost done. I can't talk about it anymore on the podcast because we've talked about it on too many episodes, but we're editing it right now.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But is that so fun?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It was. The editing itself's a nightmare, but it's fun.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Got it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

It's like a puzzle. You're, like, figuring out, okay, we got to move this here. How do we move this? What do we do?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So it's probably like putting a record together.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Yeah. It's been a big learning experience. It's been good, I think. But, yeah, you definitely start to see, like, oh, I could do more of these or figure out how to do it or create different ones, like, funny ideas.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Are you gonna start, like, a festival back at home or anything? Do you think you thought about that?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We've talked about it. I mean, we've.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Like, do you feel like you have to. I guess it becomes, like, a thing.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I definitely, like, would love to be able to do something specifically, like, for my community. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Just, you know, just to, like, bring in some. Some more people, some more fans. And, like, just. Even last year, we played a couple shows in Monroe back to back, and I heard, you know, that a lot of people had lots of Business that week. And that's important. I want people to flourish and. And do well. Like, these are. This is a community that believed in me before anybody did, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So I would love to do something like that at some point, but takes a lot of, like, I want to do it right, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It's got to be right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. You want to definitely have some crawfish trucks out front.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Crawfish trucks.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That'd be it. I wonder what your festival would be called if you had a festival over there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I don't know. What would it be called?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I don't know. You got to think. I mean, it's got to be like a neat critter. That's from the area, I guess, kind of. I mean, it could just be the Laney Wilson festival.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, there's something cooler.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, there's something probably a little more critter in it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, we definitely need a critter.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I mean, you have a decent amount of critter, it seems like. I'm not trying to uncritter you or whatever.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You kind of critter.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I didn't think I could. Dude, did you ever go on, like, I remember you told me that you went on this horrible date one time. It was like a Valentine's Day. Remember? We made a little cartoon about it. It.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, red violets are black. Why's your chest as flat as your back?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But, dude, it reminded me. So one time when I was a kid, I stole my mom's car. Barter, whatever you did, you know, you're like 13. And this girl down the street, dude, had. She was just looking pretty good, you know, and she was like, willing to sneak out of her house at night. Right. So I was like.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Was she the same age?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Age? Yeah, same age. So I was like, I'm gonna pick her up and we're gonna go out to this, like boat launch area that you can park the car out there and dance a little bit and put on some country music. Put on some top 40 or whatever, you know, they play some strawberry wine or maybe some. I'm trying to think of whatever else. Maybe some John Michael Montgomery.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Let's go.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You know, something that'll just. Dang. Just keep my eyes open, you know? So anyway, pick her up. And this girl always wore like a two piece bathing suit, like, because she was on the swim team at school. Right. Right. So anyway. But I don't even know why I said that, but anyway.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, I needed the visual.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Anyway, picked her up, we go out there, we're listening to some music. A. A car comes across the parking lot, Bounce goes into the water and starts to sink, right? We're the only people.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are lying.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Swear we're the only people out there. It goes right off the boat launch and then starts to sink. And the headlights are up towards the top of the water. The car sinks.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are live.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

No. And it's me and her. And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm out here. We still want. I can't call the lake. What do I even do? I'm going to get in trouble, right?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Jump in the water.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

We run right over there to the thing. And I was like, we gotta get. We gotta do something, you know, some. What if somebody's in there? Like we were the only people out there. And she's like, okay, on the count of three, we'll jump in. And I'm like, dude, you don't do the count of three. Dude, if somebody is drowning in a car, you know what I'm saying? Like, that is the.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

One, two.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, you don't. You don't waste people's time that are drowning if you can just jump in, right? So anyway, she goes. I was like, all right. She's like, no, we have to do it. I was like, all right. So she goes, 1, 2, 3. I jump. She doesn't even jump.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You are lying. And she's a swimmer.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She's a swimmer. And I'm not that great of a swim.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's a life lesson right there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's why you need to pick a woman who is willing to go that extra mile.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Because there's a lot of these fake ass swim team out there. But anyway, moving on one. Anyway, I reached out in the car, I get underwater, reach out in the car, and I feel like the car seat and stuff. And they had like one of those like covers on the car seat that was like that fur, you know. You know, they had the white fur seat cover. Sometimes it was like, I don't know, it wasn't like dalmatian. It was something nice, you know, or light something. It was fake probably.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But anyway, yeah, something like that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Wolf or something. And so I touch it and that scared me so much. I didn't know if it was somebody's skid. Just like, like. So I start kind of vomit, like underwater. I'm like getting sick. Get back up above the water now. I can't hold my breath to go down, right? Like the car's completely underwater. So get out. We run back to the car, drive to this bar that was close by. And we started just like. We ran inside, and we're like. This car went off into the water. There's like six people in this bar. They all clear out of there, and then they all run down to. They'll drive down or run down to this. To the dock, and people are jumping in the water saying some lady's name or something. Got in my mom's car. Left.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So you don't know what happened?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Left one.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There was somebody in there, wasn't it?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I don't know.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But how did the, like, news not come out in the town or anything?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I mean, we were kids. I don't think we would have heard it. Probably because it was, like. It was more adult stuff.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So did your mama ever know that you took the car?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She does now.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

She does. Sorry. Mama.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Almost saved that woman. Mama. And if you'd have let me borrow your freaking car without a freaking ass, I probably would have been able to save her. I wouldn't have sneak back home, but, yeah, I think that was something.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm still thinking about the girl not jumping with you.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, it's unbelievable.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You can't say on account of three and then not go.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And who has time to do. Count of three, Somebody's drowning. You're like, all right. One, two. You don't do that. I don't know whatever happened to her, dude. There was a beautiful girl in my town that kissed me one time by a fire. And then I never, ever, ever saw her again.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's how it goes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Huh. I wonder where she's at. You remember her?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I don't know. Yes, I remember her.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We need to get in touch with her.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Ain't she let me brush her hair for almost 15 minutes out there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You literally just had a brush and you were just combing her hair?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She brought it. I'm not. I'm not that creepy. Yeah, but I would. Yeah, I helped her out. That was my 4H.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That was your 4H? It was.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

What is this? Oh, do you see? Justin Bieber showed up. This fake one.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

What you talking about?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That a fake? Justin Bieber showed up the other night to where In Las Vegas. And everybody thought that it was him. I'm like, this does not even seem like him. No, it seems like Chet Hanks just had a long weekend.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Kind of long. What in the world?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But there were literally, I guess, like, thousands of people following.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Everyone get scammed is wild. So many people get Scammed nowadays.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I just saw the other day that we're one of the biggest scamming times. What are some of the biggest online scams? Have they had any. Have they had any Laney Wilson impostors?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Oh, my God. I mean, I don't know about, like, dressing up like that and whatever, but I'm just talking about, like. Like, online in general. Like, the amount of messages I get about.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, ticket scamming, all that stuff.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, just, like, people who think that they are, like, actually in a relationship with me and stuff, because, like, somebody's pretending to be me. And so it's. It's really bad. I've ruined a couple marriages on accident. Didn't even mean to.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You didn't.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes, I sure did, Laney. Yeah, they're like, my husband of 30 years believes he's talking to you and this and that and whatever. Yes. And I'm like, oh, no.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And what do you have to do then? You can't call.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There's literally nothing. Like, there's. There's nothing I can do. I'm just. Besides, like, telling y' all about it, you know?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. If you are not married to Lanny Wilson, you are not married to Lainey Wilson. So that's.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Well, you think it. Oh, it ought to be that simple. But I mean, I've heard. I've heard all kind of stuff. I was. I mean, one woman got scammed by a buddy of mine, and she showed up to the show, had her bag packed and everything, and was just waiting there, like, I'm going. I'm going with him. And they were like, no, ma'. Am. Like. But she had been communicating with somebody online and thought it was him and thought it was him.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

So it's getting that real. But I guess I would be shocked. How could you think it would go that real online?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You know, it's like a certain. What I've noticed is it's like a certain age group of. Is probably, like, lonely, lonely people.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Whether they're married or not, they're lonely. And. And I don't know. It's just like, they just find, like, the right person. They must try it to a million people to find the right person to actually convince. Yeah. You know, and. And they're asking for money, and they. They just give them lots of money. Lots of money. And it's sad. It is sad.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I just. I guess. I mean, like, I guess I'm trying to give. Somebody emailed me and said, I am. I'm trying to think of somebody that would really have Me just fired up. Probably can't even think of anybody off. Off top of my head. Probably like a night nurse or whatever. Like a ICU nurse, huh? No, that's not it. It'd have to be somebody faint, like, you know, publicly, probably, huh?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Somebody that you'd be like, I can't believe they're messaging me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, yeah. Who could that be?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Maybe Pamela Anderson.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. One of the Spice Girls or somebody.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Spice Girls for sure. Ginger or baby spice.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. Or marjoram or whatever. Isn't that one Sporty Spice. Oh, Scarlett Johnson. Who else? Johnny Depp. That's a man. I don't know. None of these people are doing it for me. Maybe Tom Hanks.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. If Tom. If Tom sent you an email.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

One of the best actors in the world.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But if he said, theo, I'm in a bind.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And I need $200,000 because that's some of the. That's the crazy amount. It's not just like, hey, I need 100 bucks.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

People are getting screwed, glued, and tattooed.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I would not say that. I would send him maybe 1200.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I am not say, God bless you, Tom.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. That much money's crazy. Yeah. I don't know what goes into the psychology of that. We should talk with somebody and learn about that. What is one of the biggest scams that's happened online with somebody? But, I mean, that one with Justin Bieber's crazy, people thinking that that's him.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Like, I remember, like, Kip Moore got scammed, and there was like, a Dr. Phil episode about it. Not Kit Moore, but somebody was getting scammed by somebody pretending to be Kit More. And it was just like, the girl really thought she was, you know, in a relationship. Like, for real. For real.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'll have friends that'll send me stuff. It's like, oh, is this you? And it's like a fake email or something. It's like, that would be insane if that was me. Like, if you read through this, you know, it had, like, recipes for things I like for dinner and something like, who you think I'm gonna send something like that? But I guess, yeah, people get caught up. Up. I mean, I've fallen for stuff when I was growing up. Ponzi schemes, stuff like that. So I guess we've all fallen for something.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I was trying to buy a French bulldog.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You were bit by a French bulldog?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No, I was trying to buy. I was trying to buy one.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

He's got good taste. It's an old French bulldog.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And I got scammed.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Nuh.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

This is probably about six years ago.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, that's. Now that is not cool. Because they're really cute and you see him and you just wanted them. And do you see pictures or. They also had videos of him.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It was just pictures. I mean, I'm a dumbass for thinking that. Like, I've learned a lot. That was definitely my thought.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Really thought it was. Jelly Roll. Ohio man says he was scammed by AI video of the singer. A Springfield, Ohio man said he lost money. I really thought it was Jelly Roll appeared to be from a celebrity that happens to be a fan of the message. Said he won $50,000 on a brand new car.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I want to see it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Then the account sent a video of the man, who appears to be singer, songwriter, Jelly Roll, asking him to cover shipping to get his prizes. Huh. They're not linking to the video, but this is the image from the AI generated video.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That is insane. That's the thing, Theo, like, used to. You had to be like, I gotta see it to believe it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But now you just gotta figure out yourself. You gotta have that wisdom and discernment, whether or not to you believe it or not. I mean, there's been stuff in the past month going on about like me and Duck having a baby, getting married. They gave me six fingers on one hand. Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, and you say you're cheating when you're doing your songs or whatever.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. And then, like, they put my daddy in a hospital bed picking his guitar. And I was. I was in a wedding dress in the hospital room because I had to go to him to get married. And then I showed my daddy the picture and. And he's like, not pissed about just AI making that rumor up. He's like, I got more hair than that. I'm like, really? That's what you gotta say? I got more hair than that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Hey, look, if you got it, you gotta keep it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's it. Dang. Yeah, I guess everything's getting weird out there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But have you met any actual impersonators of you?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There is. There's a girl in London that actually puts on. She teams up with this guy who I believe does Luke Combs. So it's like her and her name is Georgie. I believe they just like, put on these, like, co headlining shows together, which is really cool. It's like a. There she is right there.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's pretty cool.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Delaney Wilson experience. She's awesome. And she's got the dance moves and everything down. Like, she does Lainey Wilson better than me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

She does. That's got to be pretty fun.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'm, like, learning some stuff from her, you know what I'm saying? She's got the whole outfit and everything.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Wow.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Pretty cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's pretty cool.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Look, she does a cowgirl of night. She, like. She just got it going on. I'm. I'm proud for her that she's like. Like, you know, making a job out of it, like.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Seems like a fun job.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, that's pretty special right there.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. My niece's first show that we went to together was your show over there in Baton Rouge. I think it's probably two years ago.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We about to be back in Baton Rouge.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Y' all are.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, I'm about to have to come.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah. Come on.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I'd love it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We're gonna be there in September. Tell your family. Come on.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

God, I want that.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

My sister.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

My mom's down there now. She would come.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. I have an idea. I'll bring her.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Come on.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Thank you. I'll have to. Oh, I saw that they just opened up your exhibit at the Country Music hall of Fame.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Did you go see it yet?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I did go see it. It was wild. My mama kept everything. She kept my baby blanket. She kept this little, like, plastic star that went, like, on the wreath the day I was born, and it said, a star was born today.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You're lying.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

No.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

So they were betting on you.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

They were like, she gotta do it. Lord help us, God. Honey. Yes. It's so cool, because I really got to, like, kind of zoom out and, you know, it looked like a bunch of tiny little steps, like, everything I've done since I was just young. And then, like, me impersonate Hannah Montana, all that stuff. That's my journals. I wrote Tim McGraw a letter when I was 18 and was like, all I need is a shot and I can do the rest.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You did.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And I still have never met Tim McGraw. I think I need to send him the letter now.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Well, I think you guys will probably make a movie sometime soon.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I'd like that, but, yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Is that you right there?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's me. My God, that's me on a good day.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I thought it was your stunt double from England.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's Georgie.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah. That'd be so good. You start sending her to spend time with your family.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I mean, honestly, they might like her better than me.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Lainey, that's so cool.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It's cool.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

And that's in the Country Music hall of Fame?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yes. It's like everything I've like, ever done for me, like, being able to look at it with my parents. And, I mean, because they worked their butt off so I could do what I was doing. And they. When I tell you, Theo, they believed in me. They. They're. They're the kind of people who are. They're real realistic. You know what I'm saying?

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Right.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Like, people don't. Those kind of things, like, don't happen in our area, but for some crazy reason, they're like, no, this is. What's she gonna do? Like, this is like, we know it. And they help me do whatever. I mean, whether it was, like, helping me buy my camper trailer or if there was, like, a singing competition somewhere in another state or whatever, I was, like, wanting to sign up for it. And, like, mama would take me and Betty would pay for the gas, you know, like, it was just, like, a team effort. So it's cool just to see everything come from it, and it. It's just.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, well, parents just want to be proud of their children. Right? And so I think.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

You know, and parents get proud of their children if they see them do something small or big, I think. You know? And so I'm sure even just to have a. Like, to have something like that where so much of your child is kind of like.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Recorded and. And has some, you know, in a museum. That's. Damn.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I know. I said, I ain't never been more proud that my mama was a hoarder.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But she kept it.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, it's beautiful.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

They were trying to send this tractor tire swing that we, like, used to swing on. We were. I'm talking about this tractor tire swing was, like, this big around. They're like, no, we don't. We don't need that. My daddy's like, no, y' all take it on up there. They just try to clean out the house, you know? Yeah, yeah.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

There's this stack of your dad's old pants. You're like, what the hell?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Just take. Don't take them up there to Nashville.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

The exhibit just morphs into a garage sale. What? I know your bell bottom pants. I remember being at your show and seeing all these, like, girls and some men wearing different kind of Laney bottom style pants. Right. Do you have a brand that's pants now or, like, did that become, like, a thing?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

So I actually have a partnership with Wrangler, which is so much fun because we get to do, like, we have, like, our fall collections, and then we'll have some stuff for the winter and Then we do spring and summer. It's just fun. It's like, another way for me to be creative. But we actually just launched a boot line, too, called golden west, and really was inspired from really just, like, when I think of songwriting and how I've kind of learned how to write a song, I feel like I've been given the opportunity to write with such incredible writers. They've kind of taught me how to step into other people's shoes and, like, tell a story from their perspective.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, there we go.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

There they are. There's the Somewhere Over Laredo boots. Those top two right there are best sellers right now.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Really?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep. It's fun.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

People are wearing these little boots now. What is that called, that little booty?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

A shorty.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

That's a shorty.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Shoddy.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I've been seeing those.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We're gonna find you a nurse, and we're gonna get her a pair of boots. Yeah, we're gonna hook her up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

A couple Appaloosas right there, huh? Heck, yeah. And tell her she can take them boots on out of town if she.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Don'T keep it together, quit.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Never mind. She can come back at least once. Okay. That's what I'm saying.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

At least once.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Golden West. Oh, I like those.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yeah, Up.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

They got some. We're proud styles.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

We're excited, and it's doing really well already, and I'm just excited to, like, continue.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Are they only online, or people can get them in some stores, too?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Only online right now, so.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Okay.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep. And then we're just gonna continue, like, dropping. You know, dropping some and. And see what happens. But it's going in a great direction.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

How do you start to feel about your. That you have the possibility to think that your best songs are still ahead of you? You know, I know with comedians, you start to think, like, man, I'll never have a bit. That's as good as that, you know? How does that affect an artist? Like, what's that like for you in your world? I mean, because you've had some. You know, you have a lot of great music. You've had some that have. Have been bigger hits than others. That's just the way it goes. But do you. Does that, like, what is that? Like, do you have fears like that ever?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

You know, I mean, it's absolutely, like, crossed my mind, because I think just, like, being human in general, that probably crosses everybody's mind, you know, Even, like, getting out of a relationship, like, I'll never love anybody else as much as, you know.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But I think I keep like, shocking myself or, like, surprising myself and being like, we ain't done. We. It. I really do feel like we're really just getting started. Like, even the songs that I've been writing in the past six months for the next record, I feel like we keep leveling up, and I don't really know how that happens. By the grace of God. So he's delivering.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Amen.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Yep.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I believe it, I think. Yeah, it's those moments, because there's days where you'll feel like, okay, everything is being perfect. I'll feel this way. Everything's on the right path. And there's days where I feel like, man, I'm on a detour right now, you know? And I think just trying to, like. Like, tune. Like, almost like you're using a tuner for a radio dial. Just trying to tune my heart in, you know?

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's right. It's like positioning yourself. I'm learning that.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

It's like positioning yourself so you can be. And also, like, getting rid of the things in your mind that are, like, stopping you or preventing you from finding whatever that next, like, great joke is or great song. You know what I'm saying? Like, you got to get rid of those roadblocks in order to. To find them.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Sometimes the roadblocks are people. Sometimes it's just like. Of.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Sometimes it's. Yeah. A damn roadblock. It's an actual roadblock, literally.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

And you're just sitting there waiting for them to turn the sign around, you know, just.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

But no, you're right. Sometimes it's people. Sometimes it's a habit.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

A habit, dude. A habit.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

How many people have not had made certain amazing things happen because of a bad habit? Right. Probably.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

God, I know. It's. That's.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

I just want to get tuned in. Just the Lord fm, honey. That's what I need.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

That's it. The Lord FM just reset. Let me know when that's a station, because I'm. I'm going to tune in, too.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Reset my dial. Tell Mr. Hodges we said hello.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

I will.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Y. Appreciate it.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Come see us.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yeah, I'm going to try to come see you there down there in Baton Rouge again. That would be great. And, yeah, thanks for all the beautiful music. Congratulations. And thanks for coming and just chatting with me about Louisiana.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Thank you.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Yep.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

This was fun.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, yeah. Congratulations, Laney Wilson. Best of luck.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling Like these leaves I must be cornerstone.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Oh, but.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

When I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind. I found. I can feel it in my bones.

[Theo (Interviewer/Host)]

Out.

[Lainey Wilson (Guest, Country Singer-Songwriter)]

But it's gonna take a little.