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A Southern Storyteller Turns Heartbreak Into Anthems You’ll Want To Replay

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SPEAKER_03:

And we're gonna do this. Here we go. Hello everybody! How are you? Good at you. Uh it's Skip Clark. Welcome back to Skip Happens. Tonight we're talking with a true Southern storyteller. I love this guy. Uh singers songwriter Randy Cobb. He's got his roots in Pensacola and Lower Alabama. We're talking about Alabama. We'll talk about that here in a minute. He's a big uh Alabama football fan. And uh to his powerful comeback with songs like he had Country Boy. Not on Me. He's got a brand new one out. Uh we're gonna talk about that here in just a little bit. Uh but Randy's journey is all heart grit and real life country, and let's get into it. It's my good friend Randy Cobb. Randy, what's up, dude? It's so good to see you. Man, it's good to see you, man.

SPEAKER_00:

You look great, Stuart. No doubt.

SPEAKER_03:

You look great. You look great. No, I haven't. You've been on a diet. What you doing?

SPEAKER_00:

I'm on a try. I don't know about no diet now. Hey, I think I was on I had a I had a meeting with the uh some PR people this uh this afternoon, and we were in the dad uh showed me a picture of some donuts, and I made a comment like this you better be careful, them things will make your genes shrink, and we just laughed about that, you know, which is facts, you know, they will 100%.

SPEAKER_03:

No, I know they will, but I I I try to stay away from them now. I don't know, did you divulge in a donut?

SPEAKER_00:

I didn't well I did not. It was kind of over a picture that was shared with me. It was a picture, but I I'll tell you what, I I'm not a huge donut fan. I like some of them, but you know, I kind of stay away. But I love fried chicken, and let me tell you, fried chicken uh will will uh will make it easier too. Usually when I put my jeans on, they say, one at a time, boy, one at a time.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, it all well, fried chicken all depends uh what you're frying it in, right? I mean, uh the breadcrumbs and all that. I don't know, I know there's different seasoning and all that. I um I'm not a cook, I'm not a chef. Um, my work handles all that, but still, uh, you know, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, my you know what? Uh I mean, I can, you know, I most Southern boy, I can throw down the kitchen myself and fry stuff. I like to put stuff on the grill mainly, but I can fry some good chicken. But you can't beat a good old Popeyes bird, man. Popeye's chicken, you know, chicken breast. Oh, Pope.

SPEAKER_03:

We have a Popeye's.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you can't beat that, man. I mean, that's some of the best chicken around. I love it. I mean, I could eat that three days three days a week easily, man.

SPEAKER_03:

I love that. I love that. Randy, it's so good to see you, like I just said. But uh, you know, the truth is we've known each other for almost a year now. Um maybe just a little bit less, but uh we met in Nashville. We hung out, we kind of went to the parties together. We went to the you know but we got to know each other pretty good, and I think uh, you know, I totally respect what you're doing. And and uh, you know, seeing you grow just from that time that we got to know each other to where you are today and following you on the socials, and now I see your website and everything's come so far, and now you're on another single that's being dropped to country radio. I mean, you're going from, and it's not an unusual story. I've talked to other artists that have other things going. As a matter of fact, they've been truck drivers as well, and uh and and that's what you were doing, but you don't do that anymore, right?

SPEAKER_00:

No, sir, I don't. No, sir. We're uh we're forward full-time pushing the music for sure. I love that. Blessed to be able to do that, man.

SPEAKER_03:

So uh I love this. You know, Randy, they say your style is described as uh raw and heartfelt heartfelt. See now I'm all flustered. Uh and I think that really comes through in like not on me. And when you sit down to write, what are you uh drawing more from personal stories, or do you like to observe and write about others' experiences too? How does that work for you?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, man, you know, most things that I write are personal stories. You know, I had a production deal with Nora Wilson uh, you know, years ago, man, and he pitched me a whole bunch of songs. I don't know if you're familiar with Nora or not, but um, one of the songs he pitched me was called uh Live Those Songs Again. I think uh Chesting ended up cutting that song. That's really what it was about, man. It's about writing songs that you live, man, and that's pretty much what I do. You know, what I do is I write from personal experiences, and most everything that I've written, man, is something I'm living in or lived, you know, for sure.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, that's that's what it's all about, right? That's the country genre. That's uh that's the music that artists like you are giving us to play on the radio. And we, you know, when I hear it, I go, holy crap, that's about me. Holy crap, that's what happened to me last week.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that's what we're hoping for, you know. Hopefully, relate to, you know, and put put my life experiences in a three, three and a half minute story and hope that you know people understand what you're saying. That's what that's what the goal is for sure, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so you've um, you know, catching up a little bit on your background even before we got to know each other, but you've been doing music for quite a while, even when you were doing the other thing, uh, hauling cars around. By the way, you still you were gonna show me how to load and unload a car off a off one of those trailers. We never got around to that. It's probably a good thing, but uh you know, uh you spent years sharing stages across the southeast. I mean, you played the fairs and the clubs and the festivals. What's uh been one of those you'll never forget this one? Live show memories. Do you have any? I imagine you would have a few of those.

SPEAKER_00:

I do, but I I can tell you it's funny. When I was talking to the PR people today, man, um that kind of come up, man. And it's it wasn't it wasn't a planned show. It wasn't something that was scheduled. And I've played in front of 25,000, 30,000 people, and that's a great rush, it's unreal feeling. But um this this you know, the lady was talking about Murfreesboro, and I had told her that I had some experience in Murfreesboro. One of the guys I write with is lives in Murphy'sboro, but also probably 15 years ago, I was I was visiting a uh retirement home there, and the lady that was there, uh I was with her grandmother was there, and uh, I guess it got into her ear that uh you know I was a singer-songwriter. And this this lady that lived there, you know, she was probably up in her 80s. She had a lot of grip, man. I mean, you could just tell she was spunky. And she said, Randy, she said, I hear that you write, do you uh write and play country music? And I said, Yes, ma'am, I do. She says, You got that guitar with you? I said, Yes, ma'am, I do. It's out in the truck. She said, You're gonna go get that guitar. You're gonna go get that guitar and you're gonna come here and play us some songs. And I went, Okay, I could probably do that. And uh, she said, I want you to get that guitar right now. So, man, uh, I went, you know, it's a long walk. So, you know, that I guess the uh the cafeteria was in the cafeteria and it may have been halfway full or something. And it was a good walk together, got my guitar and come back. When I got back in there, they had filled that place up, they had brought everybody out of their rooms for me to play. And um, you know, I had written a lot about life experiences and all and things that went that went on. And uh man, the the uh the energy or the aura in that room uh when I got into some stuff and was able to calm down, man. I mean, it's almost like there wasn't a dry eye in there. I could hear them weeping and sobbing, man. And I just those people got exactly what I was saying, man. I mean, I had them in the palm of my hands. They knew what was happening, they knew what I'd been through. They they lived it too. And I guess I never will forget that experience, man. That just it's always stuck with me, you know. It's just it was an awesome experience, man, to be able to touch those people that way with your stories, you know, your songs.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, exactly. That's what it's about. Now, I you said, you know, you're not driving anymore like you used to, but did that help when it came to writing songs when you were alone in the cab of a truck going from point A to point B and maybe just letting your mind wander a little bit? Um, I've talked to others that have, like I mentioned a moment ago, pretty much in the same situation, and they're like, you know what? That's my time, and I can think. And when I stop to either, you know, at a rest area or I have to do this or that, you know, I'll stop and I'll just think for a little bit and say, all right, now I got a little uh maybe I've got some lyrics here to a song, or you make notes. Sure. Yeah, that must have helped you.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely 100%. I mean, you have a lot of alone time in the truck. I mean, I've said this a million times and I'll continue to say this. America is beautiful. We are in one of the the most prettiest countries in the world, man. I mean, I have been um lucky enough to see uh all the lower 48. I have seen, well, I take that back, about 46. I hadn't been into Maine yet, and uh I'm not sure. I've been in Connecticut, uh Vermont, maybe I haven't. I know there's a couple there that in that northeast area that I hadn't seen, but man, seeing those sunrises and those valleys and those mountains and all those things, man, I absolutely they they penetrate your soul, man. So sure I've wrote I've wrote uh some stuff around that. Absolutely, man. Get inspired by that. I mean, you know, it's the uh the work of the of the man above for sure.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely, just in awe of and just I'm I'm blessed to have been able to experience a lot of those things.

SPEAKER_03:

Randy, I know for a fact now over the you know a short period of time that uh you've been turning heads in Nashville, and that's where you are right now. You're in Nashville. Um I think last time I talked to you, you might have been in Alabama or Pensacola or one of those places. I don't know, but uh you were yeah, you know, so Pensacola's home, right?

SPEAKER_00:

No, Alabama's home. Pensacola is where I'm where I grew up. Oh god. I think you and I talked, it was like right after the the big blizzard we had there. We had nine inches of snow.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh my goodness, that's a lot wrong.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, for us, it was like ginormous. It was like, oh my god. Now the roads did like freeze up for a while, and people were sliding all over the place.

SPEAKER_03:

I remember that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but uh that was a big ordeal for us, man. I mean, we believe me, we liked it, but we was over it about two days. We read that to leave, man. No, I might my redneck self was out there hunting and that stuff. I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_03:

We're gonna talk about that here in a little bit too. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah. I love that. I love that. But you know what? Nine inches, nine inches around here when it comes to snow, it's like just another day. Uh, because you know, as you know, we're in the northeast, we're in central New York. Um, I live in Syracuse, and that's where the studio is. So um, but that's where we are. So for us, nine inches is like it's just another day. You hear the buses go by in the morning, uh, and the men and women that you know, we have the equipment, we have the men and women that take care of all that and they keep us moving, and they do a very good job. And by the way, Dave Williams is saying, Happy birthday, Randy.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, man, I love Dave, man. He's awesome, man.

SPEAKER_03:

Let's see. There it is, right there. Got him on the screen. Dave's a good guy. Yep.

SPEAKER_00:

He's a great guy, man.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, we've met uh you and I both. I mean, my uh relationship with the radio business and that side of things, and you as uh an independent artist, we've met so many together, uh, so many great people on both sides. You know what I mean? We're doing what you do as an artist, me, uh what I do as a radio guy and a podcast host. Um, there's just so many good people. And Dave is one of those, so it's pretty cool. He is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh, I mean, uh, as soon as I we started conversating, I knew he was, you know, he was a down down. You I'd be down with that guy. He was a down home guy, man, humble. And uh, enjoyed his coming. I think Mark and I think Mark was there with me, man. And uh, I don't know, we played for a while, had a great conversation. I mean, just one of those guys you always will remember. He's a lifelong friend for sure, man.

SPEAKER_03:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like what we are now.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely, man.

SPEAKER_03:

I don't know. Again, you probably walked up to me, you know, it was that night at the Omni Hotel where I don't know, all the artists were there, and radio fee was like, all right, who's this guy? All right, he looks a little lonely. I'll go talk to him. No, no, no, but uh definitely good stuff. How does uh, you know, you are turning the heads of some labels in Nashville. Um, and that experience, how has that shaped your mindset though? You know, knowing they're looking at you as an independent artist.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, you know, it's those things have you know have gone on for a long time with me. I mean, there's been both, you know, opportunities in the past. And you know, for me, I just I just continue to do what I do, you know. I mean, until you sign on the dotted line, man, nothing's really gonna change. I mean, you just you know, I just keep on doing what I'm doing. I keep making music. Um obviously that inspires you even more when you know that you're shaking the trees, as they say. You know, I mean that's a a positive thing, man. But that's something that gets in your soul and stirs you up. It's like I wrote, you know, I write every day, if not every day, every other day.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Something. That don't mean I write a song every day, but I'm always writing something. Um, I never come to my producer until I know that I have something that's worthy of spending some time on. And it's in the last two or three weeks, man, I've had two or three just fall out of my soul, man. And I love it when it comes that way because there's no effort, you know, and it's because you're inspired, it's because what's going on in your world, man. And it's it's really a great feeling, man, to be in that position. No, absolutely grateful for that.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, absolutely. If that makes sense, no, it makes a lot of sense. I totally get it. I totally get that. Uh, of course, he had Country Boy uh before. Now you're dropping the sand. But uh tell us a little bit uh the single Country Boy. What was the story behind that and where did that song come from? And then we're gonna talk about uh the most recent, the sand. But go ahead.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, so you know, Country Boy, man, I was at a place called Pirates Cove, man, like uh but down in um Alberta, Alabama. And one of the guys that I love to write, and I've done played gobs and you know, little little get-togethers with him, you know, little gigs and stuff, John Joyner. Um, he was playing there, and I was there to to kind of just come, you know, to come hang out. I love watching him pick and play, man. He's a dear friend of mine. And uh Pirates Co. is right on uh uh Perdita Bay. And uh and uh so I was just out on the back back deck or whatever, and I I you know it's kind of it's kind of rural there as well. And uh I don't know, just being around John because I really um I kind of look up, he's like a mentor to me as well, and uh somebody I looked up to, and just you know, him inviting me. I mean, it's just it's just it was just the situation at the time, man. And and uh that thing hit me just right there on the deck. And all those things are what we do that I wrote about are things that we do, but to be able for it to come together with a melody and all right there, man, was just really, really, really cool, man. So, you know, and uh just kind of how it happened to me. It was just a matter of minutes, man. It just kind of fell out of me. So that's where it came from. I would just remember, look up Pirates Cove, y'all. You'll see, man. That's where the song was written.

SPEAKER_03:

That's cool. That's cool. Absolutely, and uh, you were doing a radio show, it was a cat country in uh Pensacola, yeah. And uh yeah, I think that was one of the songs that uh that's one of the reasons you were there was to promote that song, but also being, you know, you know uh Florida, Pensacola really well. But still, though it's a great radio station, by the way.

SPEAKER_00:

And uh absolutely, yeah. They spin my stuff if you call and request, they definitely will spend it, man. I'm grateful for that. So yeah, I get I hear from people, hey, I call and request your song, they play it.

SPEAKER_03:

And I'm like, that's what they do. You know, I'm gonna say something here from my from my angle on all this, because Cat Country is uh a locally owned, operated radio station in Pensacola, Florida, if I'm not mistaken. Uh 98.7. And right, they can make those decisions themselves, what they're gonna play and what they're not gonna play. And stations like that, like here in Syracuse, when I I worked, I work at the Wolf, we are W O L F F M. Those are our call letters, so how lucky are we? But um, you know, here, even with me, we can make those decisions in-house. I can say, I'm gonna play this or I'm not gonna play this, so which that's an advantage to a lot of the independent artists, such as you, because you know how that works. I mean, there's a lot of a lot of great artists. I'm not downplaying anybody, but a lot of the independents get looked over, and a lot of these independents can be as good, if not better, than some of the majors. It's amazing.

unknown:

True.

SPEAKER_03:

And so at a radio station like you know, the cat country or here in the Qs, we can look at the look at everything separately and say, you know what, this song needs to be heard, and we're gonna play it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, that's that's that's what I believe in. That's what I believe in. So now let's talk about the sand. It just dropped, right?

SPEAKER_00:

It's out, it's out on your digital markets right now, and then uh it goes to radio, I think, on the 17th, I think, of uh November. Pretty quick 17th, I believe. Yeah, it'll be on us pretty quick. Um, you know, it's just uh the sand I started writing that song 11 years ago. I wrote The Bridge 11 years ago, and it's you know, I learned over the years, man, that if if it you know, do not push it. I knew the bridge was special when I wrote it, man. And then uh I tried to write around that thing three or four times with melodies and all. I had all this stuff going on, and but I just like, man, that's not it, man. That's not it. I like you know, it's I it's not it. And I just, you know, whatever the things I come up with, I just threw them away and I just kept the bridge. Well, there again, man, I'm inspired. What's going on with you know, you know, my music, and you know, it's catching on. Like I said, I'm bringing it again a little bit of ground here or there, and uh, you know, it's the wheels are rolling some. And then, you know, I was hanging with, you know, with this lady friend of mine, and uh, that's just you know, she was just an awesome kind of person, man. And she really believed in my songwriting and um, you know, just my artistic side. She just loved it and just was uh really behind me a lot on that. So I think all those things coming together, man, is what you know where a lot of songs come from. And I sat down one one evening, man, and came up with a melody, and and then the rest of it just like fell out of me. Um you know, and then uh I got with my producer, Jeff King, and uh he he changed some melody stuff that I had written. We was in, we were slated to go in the studio the very next day. I was in Nashville here, you know, at the studio and slated to go in this into the studio the very next morning, and I thought I had it done. And he's like, Man, I think we need this and this in here, uh, you know, about uh Cronkite and the Vietnam War, which it all fit, you know. And uh and he wrote the melody and all on it, and I was like, I got it, brother. So uh man, we got I got we woke up at like 4 30 the next morning, it was on my soul, and I spit that line out there, and then we went in there and cut it, man. So it was it's awesome, man. I just uh and I you know, a lot of those things in there, I remember all of those things. I remember I tried I was the channel changer when I was a kid, you know, turning the knobs to see all the different things.

SPEAKER_03:

No, I think we all do it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Man, I mean, you know, just uh and seeing people, you know, they talk about I'll give you a little uh inside a little, you know, it's kind of hidden stuff in there. I talk about John G being on the front porch, you know, with his Henry and a hound dog whistling while he works. Well, a Henry is if you remember, uh Uncle Henry is a knife, and you remember in the old in the movies, man, they sit there and whistle, they're whittling, they're whittling with the knife sitting on the porch, a rocking chair, and there's always a hound dog beside them. So that's where that come from. I was like, you know, with Henry and a hound dog whistling while he works. So that's where that comes from, man. So I thought it was cool, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

That is very cool, yeah. That is very cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Some of my guys, some of the guys I hunt would still have those old uh Uncle Henry knives, and I'm not sure if they if they still make those. I'm not, I'm not sure, but I I remember them. I remember them being having a very, very good sharp being able to hold a blade very, very well, at least you know, skin gear and all of them things.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I was gonna say if you're hunting and you know, you definitely gotta have a knife that yeah, it's gotta be sharp. So that's how that works. Randy, I'd like to talk a little bit about life loss and resilience. Um I know you're not doing this anymore, but at one time you took a little time away from music to focus on family at the time, build your trucking business and all that, which says a lot about your work ethic, by the way. Uh, how did that chapter change your outlook on life and your approach to your music?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, you know, uh I had come off a high there, you know. Um, you know, I'd uh they had walked me into you know, majority of the major labels here in town, and uh may sound funny, but I had passed on one or two there that just wasn't what we really wanted, and and then I kind of settled over at uh the Warner Brothers with Miss Lacey, and she's just a fabulous human being. And uh, you know, we s I started you know pitching songs to her left and right, and and she asked, you know, from uh she said, I want you to create a CD for us at your best stuff. So that's what we did. You know, River of Blends is the name of a CD. It's on all your you know, digital outlets right now and uh on all the DSPs, yeah. Yeah, that's right, that's right. But uh, and I thought it, you know, I in my opinion, it was great. I mean, she I talked to Chris after we got it done, and she thought it was great. And I'm like, well, sign me to the deal. I can't.

unknown:

Why?

SPEAKER_00:

You know, I was just like, ah, you know, I mean, you know, you fight so hard to get there, man. And then when they snatch the rug out from under you, man, it's just like, oh it's like the worst ever, you know. So it's just, you know, and I I had to swap gears. I had a beautiful daughter that's about to graduate high school, going into college. You know, and I had responsibilities, man, and I had to do I had to do what I had to do for my family. Yeah, you know, and my mom and uh, you know, my mom and I were extremely close, and I know she needed me uh as well coming up, and uh, you know, I just had to do what I had to do, man. And I jumped into trucks and I man, I didn't look back. I I mean I music was always there. I always was writing. I I still would go sit in and play some here and there, some other play just to keep my chops up, you know, because I just cause I love to do it. I I love to sit in and uh play, you know, play my songs with my guys, man. I yeah, yeah. So it's a great feeling, man. I love that, you know. But um, you know, it did what we did, you know. We uh I mean I I turned over a million miles, man, by myself in my trucks. I had a had I had three at one time, and uh uh you know, good stuff went on. Um I was very blessed. I landed some huge contracts, and um man, I worked a lot of hours and uh you know it just burnt burnt the old blacktop up. But you know, I think we know what happened with the COVID thing. Um, like you said, I I was hauling some heavy equipment and all on the front end, and then uh I swapped into um car hauling pretty quick because it paid well. And then I landed some huge contracts with Avis Budget, and you know, which was really the guy's name was Mike Sims, man, and and he was the regional manager, and he's still one of my very best friends.

SPEAKER_03:

Very cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Messes me up because he changed my life.

SPEAKER_03:

I get it, man. I get it.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what you know there's guys like that, man, that are game changers, you know, and that come around and uh I'm forever in Yeah, I got you, man.

SPEAKER_03:

I yeah, you know, it says a lot about you, Randy. It says a lot about you that you did what you had to do for the right reasons. It says a lot about you.

SPEAKER_01:

Wow, man.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh and uh actually Dave Williams, he just chimed in. I don't know if you can see this or not. Hang on, here we go. Let's see if I bring it up. There's the song title, Burn Up the Black Top.

SPEAKER_00:

I've never heard that, but uh burn up the black out.

SPEAKER_03:

No, no, I mean telling you there's the song title. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, oh, oh, I hey, that may work, man. You know, I've got a I've got a lot of stuff, man, that um that I wrote when I was burning that black top up, man. Talking about think about that rubber, big rubber turning and watching the sun, and you know, all those things, man, that you see, man, and just uh, you know, rolling coal and all you know, all those lines they come up with. Man, I got a lot of that stuff, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

Never yeah, see, that's a lot about life, and it says a lot about you. All right, you're real human, you're doing what you love now. You you've turned the corner, you've got some good things going down, but you you know, it's been a rough road to get there. You did what you had to do with the job, uh, but you've also been through a lot of loss. I know your mom, I'm reading, I guess your brother, uh, and of course, you know, the business during COVID, which you just mentioned, yet you are creating again and finding new purpose. And uh what gave you the spark to pick the guitar back up?

SPEAKER_00:

You know, uh exactly what you just said, man. You know, like I said, I was a COVID hit, I was a car hauler. At that time, I had two trucks running and uh went from making just incredible money to making nothing because when COVID hit, they they demanded us to stay home. You know, it affected the car market greatly. And uh that all trickled down to us little guys, man, and uh we just couldn't keep, you know, you're paying, you know,$90,000 a year in fuel, you know,$40,000 a year in insurance,$50,000 a year in maintenance. Oh my gosh. You know, it's just it's cost a lot of money to run those trucks, and it you know, it just trickled down and you know it shut a lot of us down. And then but in those times, man, you know, they're uh telling us we had to stay at home and we couldn't work, we couldn't provide for our families, you know, and our businesses are shutting down. We couldn't provide for our families, and then the uh the uh you know, like I said, uh like you just said it, you know, it got on my brother, and uh I put him in the car and I never got to talk to him again. I knew he was sick, we didn't know what he had. We've always been a real healthy family, so whatever we had, we always beat it. I mean, we never went go to doctors, very seldom, you know. I've been with his back injury, of course, but I mean, like if you get sick, you know, dude, ailments or whatever, we didn't go to no doctor.

SPEAKER_03:

We're guys, we don't we don't care.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, man, everything is fine.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like they go to the doctor. No, I don't need to.

SPEAKER_00:

A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_03:

And uh well, we should be going to the doctors, so I'm just saying, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But uh exactly I I knew he was sick, man, and uh we knew we had to get him some help, and I put him in the car. I never got to see him again, and then almost four months of the day, almost four months of the day, man. I lost my mama to that stuff too, man. I I had to shut the machine off on her, man, and that was like oh, it's like man, I still haunts me. Uh I'm just now probably not able to talk about that without just dying inside. It's still a very hurtful thing, but all those things ignited not on me, man. That's where that song comes from. It's not fair, it's not right for you to tell us we can't provide for our families, man, while you're ushering thousands of people over the border.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

And you and you pay for those people, you're paying for them to come here, and you're giving them all these uh these benefits, and it's I was like, man, this ain't fair. This ain't for working, man. You know, I heard it, I can't tell you how many times I heard when I was promoting not on me that man, this is a this is the anthem for blue-collar America, and it is, man. It's exactly what that is, man. It's you know, resilience of blue-collar American people just getting out there making it by the sweat of their brow and not their hands out, and that's what that was about, man.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, all that, uh, you know, the life loss, resilience, all that is uh it goes back, it's made you who you are today. And every, you know, I mean, your heart's been broken, you've put it back together, you've learned to go on, uh, just doing everything. Now you're living your dream, your passion. And I know from the time that we did spend together in Nashville, how passionate you are and how much you love what you're doing. And you know, we went to those different events and hung out together. It was I could just tell that you know what? You're real.

SPEAKER_00:

This got it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, the fire was burning.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. The fire is in my is is burning bright in my soul, man. I still I love to do, I still love, I love the the aspect of writing stories, man, and performing them and people getting them. I I love all that. I love people. I mean, this past year when we were promoting uh Country Boy, we uh we turned 22,000 miles with Mark Dooley and I, and uh we hit 64 radio stations across America. I mean, we've seen a lot of beautiful places, man. And uh I couldn't walk Carly because I had a herniated disc in my back. Luckily, I had somebody there driving me a lot, man. But uh what a what an awesome experience, man, being able to uh meet new friends and push that song and just everything about the music, man. It was just just an awesome time to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, um one thing I really like about you is the fact that you express how you really feel. Um so many artists are out there, and I don't mean here again. I'm not but everybody I I think it's how we look at them to think, oh, they're fine, they got a lot of money, they got a family. But you know what? Just like you and I. That's right. We have you know, everybody has their ups and downs, maybe problems at home, or maybe problems in the workplace, or whatever.

SPEAKER_02:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03:

You know what? It's all real, it's all real, and nobody should ever take it for granted that everything is fine. Absolutely. Because as you know, you and I are chatting here, and you're real, you're real, and you're taking your real emotions and putting it to music.

SPEAKER_00:

100%. That's another thing I'd always say, man, is hey, you know, in these pop, you know, when I was, you know, meet the program directors, whatever pushing a song is hey man, I'm just an everyday person, everyday person like everybody else. I put my boots on the same as anybody else does.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, hey, I have the same struggles as everyone else. I'm just God put something on my soul, man, you know, that I'm able to do, and I'm grateful for that, you know, to be able to put uh, you know, words and songs out there about my life, you know. So I'm hoping if I can touch one person or help them to understand they're not alone in their situation, man. I think that I've done a great service for for you know, for the people, you know, by that. Just put if I if I help this one person, hey man, I've been here, I know exactly how you feel, you know. Here it is, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so um being an independent artist means you're doing it pretty much on your own. You do have uh, you know, you've got some press people. I know you're signed with grassroots, which by the way, as I said before, they are the best. They are girls. I just, you know, I these people are great. Nancy and the whole gang, uh, just just really great. Uh it's well worth every every little bit. Uh, but being a being on the independent side, it's all about connection. How do you keep that relationship going with the fans, especially in the smaller towns or even some of the local shows?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, a lot of us through social medias, man, that's what we do. And of course, if you're out doing shows, you do that as well. But I haven't been able to do a lot of live stuff because of my injury, but I am on the downhill side of that. Thank you, Jesus. And uh, I mean, for for six and a half months there, man, I could hardly walk. So, you know, um now I feel like uh, you know, I'm feeling like a uh just a human being again. I'm able to walk without much pain and discomfort, and uh I'm looking forward to connecting with more fans. I'm able to do that. I've been able to do some acoustic stuff here and there, and that's fun. But social media is the biggest thing for me to stay connected with people, you know. That's what I for sure. I don't meet strangers, of course. You know that, I'm sure you know that. I'll talk to anyone. Hey man, I could go right out.

SPEAKER_03:

Except for this little skinny guy that was well, I wasn't skinny guy, maybe now, but uh hanging out, then uh it's like, hey, dude, let's go.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_03:

Let's do it, you know. Hey, um, so you're an outdoorsman. So when you're out in the woods, I know I can tell already from the hat too. I like that's right.

SPEAKER_00:

So uh those down sense. They're a they're a sponsor of mine. Man, you need to check those down there.

SPEAKER_03:

Now, isn't that now? Um I am not a hunter, but everybody else in my family is my brother-in-law's, and they all hunt. They talk about the urines, the scent of urine, deer urine. Isn't that what that company does different?

SPEAKER_00:

And it they they absolutely they have their own line of uh of cover scents, you know, that dough and estrus, and you know, but that bucks and all that stuff, and they have all that, you know, they have calls and they got a full line of hunting apparel. I think now they even got some cooking barbecue stuff, and it's got Jason Caldwell out of Tennessee, South Tennessee. There, man, he is great, man. You check these guys out. Nose down sense, man. Y'all know.

SPEAKER_03:

Nose down sense. Nose down sense.

SPEAKER_00:

And you know what? He's built this thing the ground up. I I visited his facility there, he does everything right there at his house. He's built his, I mean, he's got his whole family works together. It's a great process to see them what they're doing, man. And he's a true old trucker too, man. See, it's what he you know, that's what he was doing, man. He was you know burning up the old blacktop as well. And uh, you know, he decided to jump out of the truck and he jumped into this right here, and he's done very well, but he's works his tail off. Did I? Yeah, nobody's getting it, but yeah, man, he works his tail. I'm glad you know I I love to see those stories when people really go after it, man, and they prosper. I just think that is awesome.

SPEAKER_03:

Did I ever tell you that I used to drive truck?

SPEAKER_00:

No, you didn't.

SPEAKER_03:

I I didn't not not truck trailer combo, but I had a CDL and I drove 10 wheeler. Oh, yeah? A 10 wheeler, okay.

SPEAKER_00:

I remember you wanting me to do it.

SPEAKER_03:

And an ET two-speed rear end. I remember all this. Um, one of the trucks was a Brockway. Um, then I drove what it was an FWD, which was um that was a big ass truck, and I was a little guy at the time. But uh yeah, so that I mean I'm going way back, way back. Oh, yeah. That went to school for radio and TV, and now here I am. Uh, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I'm I'm gonna find out what kind of man you are to your truck driver. I'm gonna put you, I'm gonna get you one of them car haulers, and we're gonna go one up there.

SPEAKER_03:

That number you know what else? You know what? It's funny. I I mean, I want to get back to talking about your hunting and and all that, but you know, I bet you could never guess what else I used to do. And it had a lot to do with driving.

SPEAKER_01:

What's that?

SPEAKER_03:

I was a Zamboni operator. Do you know what a Zamboni is?

SPEAKER_00:

I do not.

SPEAKER_03:

Have you been to a hockey game?

SPEAKER_00:

I have been. Well, I've been to a fight one time and a hockey game broke out.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, that too. So you know, in between periods, the machine comes out onto the ice and resurfaces. Oh, that's a Zamboni. Okay. Now they have Olympians. I mean, there's other makes out there, but the Zamboni was created by a man by the name of Frank J. Zamboni, and it's on a Jeep chassis and uh Volkswagen motor. And that was back in the day. That's a Zamboni. Now they're propane operated, but still. Uh, so I did that. I resurfaced ice while I was going to school for radio and TV.

SPEAKER_00:

That is cool, man. Is it cold up there on those things?

SPEAKER_03:

You freeze your you know what's off. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I bet I bet your feet really get out of here.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, well, it's not too bad down there because it's protected, but where you're sitting up, I mean, with it blowing in your face, you know, and the rink I worked at was indoors, but it's still it wasn't heated. So in the winter, when it was 20 below here in the northeast, it was 20 below in that rink.

SPEAKER_00:

So just saying, man, but I've that 20 below ain't no joke, is it?

SPEAKER_03:

No, it's no joke. What's the cut? So you go out and you hunt. What's the coldest you've been out in?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I can tell you that I've I've hunted in like one degree temperatures, and I can yeah, but dude, I that get you, you know, down here there's a lot of moisture in the air, you know, and uh and I'll you know, lower Alabama and all that, where I'm we're hunting, man. So I've been up in the Midwest and done a bunch of hunting there and been in Nebraska and stuff, and you know, 18, 15 degrees there, I can walk around in a sweatshirt and sweatpants, and I'm okay. But man, you get you get around you know 35, 40 degrees down here in the south where all this humidity's at, buddy. You better bring your whole whole wardrobe because you are freezing it's to the bone, man.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like, oh yeah, you being a musician, independent artist, writing songs, putting out uh soon to be hits. Um, are you the kind of guy who's humming like a melody as you're walking through the uh the woods, or when it comes time to unplug, maybe you're just humming some sort of metal melody?

SPEAKER_00:

Always have a melody in my head. There's always a melody. Yeah. Something, man. There's something in there, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh I love that. If you um, Randy, if you could um pick any dream collaboration, living or gone, who would you love to write or record with?

SPEAKER_00:

Um you mean living or gone, you say.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, it could be it could be anybody.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, if my I think my favorite all-time artist that I would have loved to have done a song would be Keith Whitley, honestly. I love Whitley, man. I love his stuff, man, for sure. Um, writing, I mean, who wouldn't want to write with Dean Dillon? You know? You know, I know. I mean, yeah, no, I guess I'd love to write with that cat, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

So tell me, what's it like, Randy? You walk into a room with other writers. What's that feeling like?

SPEAKER_00:

Um that that's a cool vibe, man, to uh to walk in there, you know, and that aura you get when you walk in a room with people, man, to write with. I mean, that's it's pretty awesome to me. I I love that. Knowing you're about to create something, you know, together for sure. I write a lot alone, man, but there's been, you know, like I said, there's several guys, man, I write with, and you can't write with everyone. Um, I've try you know, you try, but man, you you know, sometimes you just it just don't work. You can't write with everyone. So I run to the people I know I can write with, you know, especially if I have an idea, I'm like, hey man, we let's you know, and then we we get on it, you know, and get after it. But for sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I I would imagine that sometimes you just want to be by yourself.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh yeah. I think majority a lot of my songs I have uh written along, you know. I write up like I said, I write at least every day, sometimes every other day, maybe, but I'm always alone. Something hits me, you know, whatever that is. I sit around playing my guitar for hours. And look, I'm not a I'm not a lead guitar player, I'm not a you know, like they call a picker, but I'm a solid rhythm player. So I sit around and just play different chord progressions for hours a day, man. And and a lot of times I've just come, something just grabs me. I'm like, man, that's cool right there. And then I can uh uh a lyrical hit me in that moment, or maybe I could go pick, grab something up from my writing somewhere and say, Man, this right here really fit. I mean, it's it happens differ you know different ways.

SPEAKER_03:

Do you uh do you remember the very first song you ever wrote?

SPEAKER_00:

You know, I don't exactly remember the very first song. I had a book of those things, and this old uh I dated this chick one time and she got mad and uh she threw the book away at me. I was like, oh man, that's awful. I mean, I think I had left and uh and then I had left the book there on accident, and I had a whole bunch of that stuff. So I really don't recall the very first one that I written, and I I really don't, but I had I do have stacks and stacks and stacks of things. Oh, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_03:

You got a lot in the closet, just in case.

SPEAKER_00:

I do have a lot, you know what I mean. I have some I have some good ones in the closet for sure, man. I I'm blessed to have that, man, for sure.

SPEAKER_03:

You have a lot in the closet and you have a lot in the freezer. Because you know, I mean, uh you you're doing that hunting. What do what do you go out and um moose? What do you hunt? No, I'm never a bear. I've never hunted moose.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm never just I'm mainly a deer hunter, man. I like to hunt deer.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I like to hunt deer. Now, you know, when I was younger, I was mad at them. So I you know, I shot a lot of them. I'm not so mad at them anymore, man. I enjoy the ass, I enjoy, you know, planting my fields and those things and getting them to come in and watch, and I enjoy watching them. I mean, it's really, really cool to sit in a in a shooting house or in a tree stand or whatever, and you have 15 or 20 deer in front of you. A lot of them run around like dogs. Honestly, they're just really cool little creatures.

SPEAKER_03:

So let me ask you this. The only reason I'm asking is uh we went on a little uh day trip over the weekend and coming back, I was on this back road, and there were all these deer. All of a sudden they were I came around a corner. I wasn't a good thing. I wasn't flying. I was taking my time. I was in an area that I really didn't know. I was following my map thingy, the GPS. And uh there were deer, and my wife goes, deer are stupid. I go, What do you mean? She goes, Look, it they're just standing in the middle of the road. I said, I don't think deer are really stupid. She goes, Yeah, they run out and they run into your car. I said, No, no, I don't think deer are stupid.

SPEAKER_00:

So, you know, they're pretty smart, they're very resilient, they are very smart. I mean, you know, they're they they've got that survival thing down, man. I mean, we really have to get in there after them a lot of times. You know, the does are more a lot more lack relaxed than you know a mature buck. A mature buck, man, oh that thing right there, they they know some things, I promise you they do to stay alive, you know. They know they know.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, they have to do what they have to do. Yes, I get it.

SPEAKER_00:

Not only humans, but there's other predators around that like to eat them as well. I love to eat them, but you know, there's other predators like to eat them as well. So I mean they they have adapted on how to stay alive for sure.

SPEAKER_03:

Randy, where can we um I want to jump on and get some of your music? Let's say we got somebody watching this, somebody listening to this, and then say, you know what? I want I want to hear this guy. Where are we gonna go?

SPEAKER_00:

Man, you know, you know, I do got a website, like you mentioned earlier, it's randycobbmusic.com, and you know, you can click on there and uh you know it'll take you right into all your there's there's some um icons there, I guess, to click on for your uh all your digital services, you know, your Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify, we're on all those.

SPEAKER_01:

Cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, Randy Cobb music as well for your YouTube man tribe or any of those things. You like what you hear? We have a bunch of you know, short videos and things of that matter on there. I'm being silly or being, you know, some hunting stuff on there as you talked about, some fishing stuff on there as well. Cool. And then also on your Instagram, it's the same thing, Randy Cobb Music, Facebook, Randy Cobb Music. So if you're Randy Cobb Music, it'll take you to all those, you know, all those sites to to find my music or for my social medias for sure.

SPEAKER_03:

All right. I have to ask Um, there's a pickup truck in uh God, it was the picture of you in a pickup truck. I'm trying to think. I love that truck, and I keep thinking I want to go and invest in an old older truck. I don't it could be you could be on the column shift, it could be a stick shift. I mean, I learned to drive on a standard, so right, yeah. Uh, I'm just like, you know what? I really want, yeah, I've got a nice Chevy Colorado now, but I'm I'm just saying I want to have an older vehicle like that. And every time I look at that and I see you standing there, I go, So lucky. Look at that. Is that your truck?

SPEAKER_00:

Which truck are you speaking on?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't have it here in front of me.

SPEAKER_00:

What color is it? Uh is it the red and white one? I think it might be.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I was gonna say probably a red and white one.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yes, that's my truck. That's a that's a 93 RAM truck. I've got two of them. Yeah. I've got that's a two-wheel drive model. It's in a couple of my it's in one of my videos, but it's in a lot of my short stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, and then I have that's a two-wheel drive model, then I have a four-wheel drive model too. That's kind of a part to be uh restored right now, but I have two of those. That's the last year they made those. Cool. I've always been a Mopar guy, which is which is weird because um when I started this radio tour, I need my my 2500 has miles on it, and I need I kind of didn't want to trust it going across the country. So I bought a Cadillac Escalation. Oh, nice. And it's the first GM. And it was older. I mean, it's not new, it's like nine years old, but it only had like 90 something thousand miles on it, really taken care of very well, and I love that thing. I mean, I put all my gear in it in the back, and you know, comfortable, and I can stretch out and thing rides good, great gas milder. So I'm uh I was I'm I'm impressed with it to be honest with you. So uh I I'm not I used to always talk about uh Chevrolet or the bow ties, not a big fan, but hey man, it's uh it's a it's a nice vehicle. I I'd probably have another one.

SPEAKER_03:

I totally, totally get it. If I was to jump in that vehicle and turn the radio on, what would be uh what would I be listening to?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, you know, in my playlist, my personal playlist, man, uh Earl Thomas Conley, you know, John Conley, uh Keith Whitley, of course. You know, I love like Steve Warner, stuff like that. Yeah, I love those guys. Hey, I'm a huge Morgan Wallen fan. I love that guy, man. I listen to the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_03:

He's appealing to a lot of different demographics. He really is.

SPEAKER_00:

He is. I like what he's doing, man. I can't say what I don't know.

SPEAKER_03:

Have you ever thrown a chair off the roof of a bar? Uh I don't think I'm gonna do that. And almost hitting a police officer. I mean, and I mean that's what it is. So it was not a good move, Morgan, at the time. Or never. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, I guess in the in the in the moment, I guess is what he felt like he needed to do. But hey, no, I don't think I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03:

Then then he called Eric Church to help him get out of it because I I I don't know if it was at Eric's bar or or whatever, but it was like, I don't know, there's not it's a long story, never mind. I just I just you know, I I sit back now and I read some of that stuff and I have to chuckle a little bit as long as nobody got hurt, nothing like that. And yeah, it was a foolish move. I get it. I mean, alcohol does weird things to people, I get it. But still, I have to laugh a little bit now when I start reading. He did what? Well, I'm thinking about what was I doing when I was that age? So we won't talk about it.

SPEAKER_00:

He dodged a bullet.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's cool. Um, so uh for people that are just discovering you, Randy Cobb, uh, what do you hope they take away from your songs?

SPEAKER_00:

I think a lot of what you said, man, that I'm just a I'm just a real guy. I'm just an everyday guy, man. You know, I just that's what I that's important to me that I am who you see. You know, I'm not a perfect human being by no means. I'm a believer in the Lord above, and I wouldn't be here without that. And that uh, you know, I have the same old struggles as they do, man. I'm just able to put it on uh on paper and make music with life experience. You know, I'm just I want them to know that I'm as approachable as anyone else, man. I'm just a that's a regular dude, man. Just a dude. I'm just I'm just me, man. You know, I found out nobody. I just want I just want to be me, and that's all I want to be, man. That's it.

SPEAKER_03:

Um that's it. What's um I just a few questions I always ask. What's your um biggest pet peeve?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man, I don't know. I think I probably got a few. Probably did uh probably somebody smacking at the dinner table. God, I I can't stand it, man.

SPEAKER_03:

Really?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Like like the chewing, like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. Mouth open.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a big one for sure, man.

SPEAKER_03:

No, no, I hear you. I hear you. I I couldn't agree more.

SPEAKER_00:

Um or maybe kids yelling in the grocery store or mom, you know, yelling at their mom in the grocery store or something.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, with the disrespect.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, the disrespect, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like you just want to say, but you can't, and you want to, and but you can't. Yeah. What's one thing, Randy, that's on your bucket list uh you still want to cross off?

SPEAKER_00:

Whew. Um, that's a hard one to to think about.

SPEAKER_03:

I know.

SPEAKER_00:

Honestly, in life, you know what? Probably to get signed to a uh a label. That's probably something that's uh it's been a huge goal of mine, man. I think through hard times and whatever that is coming up, you know, I've been resilient and uh, you know, just kind of been a survivor and I've pretty much accomplished everything in my I mean I built houses with my own two hands, I've owned 250-acre farm. I mean, I've done a I've been blessed in a lot of ways, man. You know, and uh pretty much anything I ever wanted, man, I've made it happen, except getting the deal, man. And I've tried real hard. I've you know, it's the the drive is the you know, the want-to is still there. I still want it, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, you get you know uh what what do they say? Just let it happen. Don't force it.

SPEAKER_00:

Sure.

SPEAKER_03:

Let it happen.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, and it will, it will happen. You get just gotta let it happen because you know you're talented, you know you've got it going. You've got a good team behind you right now, and they've done a lot to get you out there.

SPEAKER_00:

I have a great team behind me. I'm so grateful for all of them. They are so all that whole deal, man, is just I I couldn't really ask for a better team, man. It's really neat, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

So um, if your friends could describe you in three words, what would they say? Three words.

SPEAKER_00:

He's a redneck.

SPEAKER_03:

But a good one.

unknown:

I love it.

SPEAKER_03:

I love it. I love it. Oh, Randy, Randy, Randy. It's been so good to see you. Um hanging with you for a little bit. Um, you look great, my friend, and I'm proud to call you a friend. I know we've we've kept in touch since Nashville last February. I hope to see you again soon. Uh Michelle Elizabeth, do you know who that is? It says ha ha ha. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. So Michelle, Michelle Elizabeth is is there. Oh, Jeff Gaucko says, Hi, buddy. Uh yeah, and uh Michelle Elizabeth. Yes. All right, wait a minute. I gotta find the right one here. This is like, I don't know. I don't know. Do you know who Michelle is?

SPEAKER_00:

I do, yes. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Awesome, awesome. I love it. I love it. Hello, Michelle. Thanks for checking us out. Make sure you subscribe to Escape Happens. So if I talk to this character again, you you won't miss it.

SPEAKER_00:

So he's such a good guy. Um she is the young lady that I've been telling you about that inspired a lot of my songs lately. She is she has uh been very, very supportive, man, around me and all. And I, you know, those things are priceless to have someone that gets behind you and believes in you, man. I I can't thank her enough for those things. I'm grateful for that for sure, man.

SPEAKER_03:

She does say he didn't know hockey. No, I don't. And then she goes, he's a redneck. 100%. You know, but that's good. I do. I love it too. I love it too. And Michelle, thank you for chiming in. Uh, you know, definitely good stuff. But Randy, I want to thank you for taking the time to you know get together tonight. And I know I look forward to seeing you in person again. We'll go out, we'll hang, we'll get some cold ones, we'll have a good time. We had a good time last year, and uh, we'll do it again. I hope, I hope you got plans to be there.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm gonna be there.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay. 100% I'll be there. I'll come and get you. I'll come and get you. I'll come out and get you redneck ass and burn it down to the Omni, huh?

SPEAKER_00:

I'm gonna find a car hauler. I'm gonna I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna teach you how to load one up.

SPEAKER_03:

Forget it. That that's all the past now. That's the past. You know, I'll go back there. So, you know, you're doing the right thing. Uh, you got music coming out. I want everybody that's uh viewing this or listening to this to at least give them, you know, give them a listen. Uh Randy Cobb music and uh you do that search, you're gonna you're gonna see them pop up just about everywhere. Check out the new song, Sand. It is just phenomenal. And I may attach a little bit, a little clip of that to this afterwards.

SPEAKER_00:

So that's awesome, man. Thank you for saying that, Skip. That means a lot, man. Thank you, man. I am a lot of proud of that song, man.

SPEAKER_03:

You should be 100%. You should be. And I'm very proud of you, and I'm proud to know you. So um, you know, just so people know, this this pot, you know, we did meet last year as we talked about, and we've known each other for you know since then, and we text and we we stay in touch, and you know, when times got tough, I was there, and vice versa. So it's uh it's all good. Randy, thanks for coming on. Uh it's called Skip Happens. That's right. Yeah, because it does. Uh, but uh definitely a good time. We get a chance to talk to all the uh independents and all the major artists. We do it all here on Skip Happens, so just subscribe if you uh oh I only go to CRS to party with Skip. Who's saying? Oh, Jeff. Jeff Golko. You know Jeff?

SPEAKER_00:

Um Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh no, no. He's a media guy, though. He's a media guy. While he's not radio, he's um oppressed. Um oh no, I just lost train of thought. But yeah, he he promotes a lot of artists and uh he does a lot of other things too. So, anyways, Randy, I want to say thank you for coming out again tonight. Thank you for watching, everybody. Thank you for viewing, uh, listening, uh, whatever. Check the music out. You will not be disappointed. It's Randy Cobb, independent artist, and uh make sure you do it. And uh I know you're gonna wait. Whoa, whoa, I didn't ask. What about an album?

SPEAKER_00:

You know, I think we're uh we're looking at a maybe uh maybe just doing like a five-pack EPK, you know.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I think that we've been talking about doing that. I mean, I've got stuff ready to go for sure. You know, we just uh we're trying to build up to that spot, you know. It's uh so definitely that's in the works for sure, man.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, absolutely. Uh Jeff said publicist. That was the word I was looking for. Oh, okay. Jeff the publicist. Okay, I can't. Yes, yes. It's like, uh, you know what? I don't know if that happens to you, but it just kind of like forgot what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, they call it they call it brain fart, right?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, it's a brain fart. Skip happens.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, 100%. Or what is it? Uh uh it's also uh CRS. Can't remember stuff about skip.

SPEAKER_03:

Can't remember skip.

unknown:

That's right.

SPEAKER_03:

It is Randy. You're awesome. I love you, brother. You stay right there. We're gonna say goodnight to everybody. Thank you for watching. Subscribe to Skip Happens on YouTube, and uh peace out, everybody. Just have a great night. Thank you. You can watch this, you can share it, do whatever you need to do it. Love you, Randy. Stay right there. Thank you. All right, thank you.

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