Name: Lainey Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #606
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lainey Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #606' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-28. Transcript available.

Lainey Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #606

Today's guest is a country singer and songwriter.
She's my Louisiana sista.
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 Miss Lainey Wilson.
Dang, girl, you got that deluxe coming out, huh?
Deluxe.
God.
How many songs are on it?
I mean, it's five, but I'm already working on that next record.
I'm already working on the record before the record's out, you know what I'm
saying?
Like the next one.
Oh, yeah.
I feel like you're just working in the past and the future.
That's it.
What about this?
Hey.
Oi.
Why does that sound...
It's like telling a ghost story.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that was the best.
That kid that got under there and told that ghost story.
With the flashlight?
Yeah.
And then there was always the one kid, he couldn't control the flashlight.
It was just like...
He put it straight into your eyes and you were like, God, it's a dang exorcism.
I just was thinking about it.
Did you ever hear any stories from the Myrtles in St. Francisville, Louisiana?
Like the plantation?
The plantation.
I mean, my mama took her gifted students down there.
She did.
And she got some weird stuff in her pictures.
I just thought about Louisiana.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's some of the kind of stuff.
I mean, first of all, being gifted in Louisiana, I was in some of those courses.
Were you?
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 meet kids that could only knew words that had the first half of the
alphabet in them.
I was like, God, you got to...
That's some Louisiana stuff.
But then you'd get in that gifted class and they had, dang, 13 more letters in
there.
Dude, I was never in the gifted program.
Really?
No.
I'm too AHD.
Oh, you did have it on.
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 spelling and reading and...
No.
You had 4 HD HD, I think.
You know what I'm saying?
I like that.
That's a real kind of rural version.
That's it.
That's what I'm going to call it.
Yeah, you can't pay attention, but you'll pet something if it shows up.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Me and my sister, we did show horses.
I bet there's a...
We'd walk out there like this.
What is that?
This is like, you're holding, like, right there at the, you know, at the bit.
Uh-huh.
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.
God.
Yeah, they didn't have that.
Were you in 4-H?
No, I was not.
You weren't.
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.
Uh-huh.
Or termites.
I mean, a bad batch of termites came.
That's some Covington stuff, huh?
Oh.
They took that thing down in a night, that barn.
They left town.
See ya.
Yeah.
Those things were full.
I was like, how'd y'all not see them leaving?
They ate all that wood.
They ate all that wood and just took off, you know?
Oh, my gosh.
It was that kind of thing.
Show horses.
I bet there's a, um, because a lot of women put in extra hair.
Do you ever have to do it or no?
Put in extra hair?
Yeah.
On me?
Yeah.
Yes!
You think this is mine?
I can never tell.
Is that all yours?
It is.
That's it.
You got that good hair.
Well, it's coming and going.
You still got all your hair.
It's coming and going, honey.
Something will happen.
I'm sure.
I'll probably lose mine before you lose yours.
You know, that's just how it goes.
That is not true.
I bet there's a horse out there that is so happy you are wearing its hair.
I hope so.
I hope so.
I bet there is just a.
I have a horse who's turning 31 this year.
No, you don't.
31, Tex.
And how is he?
He's good, but I think I just got the last ride on him.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Was he in your 4x4 video or no?
No, that wasn't him.
No, he's in Louisiana.
Okay.
I don't know if any of these pictures right here are Tex.
The one that looks the closest to him is that one right there.
The.
God, he's beautiful, huh?
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 not broke.
That's him right there.
Oh.
That's in 2020 back in Louisiana.
He's 31?
31.
And.
My God, he's got to be getting a pension now, huh?
He better be.
He better be.
If not, we better talk about it.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Oh, Tex.
And did your sister have a horse too or no?
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.
God, maybe they met online or whatever.
They probably did.
Yeah, I think, I think I would like to get a horse.
As soon as I get a family or something, I'm going to give me a little horse.
Okay.
Okay.
Where are you going to put it?
Is that what I'm going to do?
Probably in the yard, I guess.
I mean, I guess.
In the front yard?
No.
That's also some Louisiana shit.
Fence in the whole house.
Yeah, dude.
You have a horse in the front yard.
You live on a quarter acre and you got a horse.
At least you got a horse.
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 of there.
You know, do you notice it feels slower when you go back now?
Oh, yes.
100%.
Even in 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 what kind of
plants my feet on the ground.
Yeah.
FaceTime on my nephews who don't think I am cool at all.
Yeah.
I'm talking about the oldest one.
He's six years old and the teacher asked the other day.
They were talking about like the farming 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 Aunt Lainey.
Why are you a little asshole?
Forced to do it.
Forced.
There's nothing I could do that would make them think that I'm cool.
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.
That's exactly how it feels.
I'm like, what else can I do?
Kids are funny.
My little nephews won't even answer my calls anymore.
I'm like, dude, what do you mean?
Leaving you on read.
Yeah, they just, it's different.
They don't, I think they just, they're locked in their own universe, you know?
Have you guys, you're just getting married.
Are you married yet or not?
I ain't married yet.
Okay.
I'm making him wait.
Making him wait.
He made me wait.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is that your wedding ring on?
Yeah, that's it.
Let me see that thing.
Yeah.
When he opened up that box, I was like, yeah, I guess I do.
I guess I do.
I'd have been dang, I'd have considered it, and I prefer women, you know?
I know.
God, where did he get that out of?
He, well, he designed it.
He designed it.
Did he really?
Yeah.
Nuh-uh.
Yeah.
Yeah, you see that?
Uh-huh.
Dang, it would make Superman sit down for a half hour.
That's it, that's it.
We got engaged at George Jones' old house.
I remember seeing the video, seeing something of it.
Oh, there you go.
There he is.
Mr. Hodges right there.
Good guy.
That's it.
He is a good boy.
He's, uh, he just lets me do my thing.
Does he?
And he does his.
And it's just, it just works.
Does it?
My best buddy.
Wonder what errors people make in that type of thing, I guess.
I mean, it's so hard because, like, people's schedules get so hectic.
Well, for sure.
Does he come on the road with you if you're out, or does he kind of pop in and
out?
Every now and then.
Like, 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 have things to talk
about and
come together and dream.
And I just didn't want to be the only one dreaming kind of thing.
Um, but yeah, he's, he's awesome.
He's, he's killing it.
Yeah.
I got to check in with, um, with Mr. Hodges and see what's going on.
You need to come out to the house.
We had a crawfish bowl.
I think we almost, y'all invited me to something.
I did.
We were having a crawfish bowl.
I think it was actually duck's birthday.
Do you get crawfish a good bit?
I don't do it in Nashville very much.
We got it sent up.
Was it good?
It was from South Mississippi, and it was, it was good.
I've heard it's good.
It was good.
God, I've heard it's good.
Yeah, I got to come and have some.
I got to get some this year.
I can't even believe I haven't done it that much.
We have some, um, during the season at our bar downtown, Bell Bottoms Up.
Mm-hmm.
They got a truck out there, a crawfish truck.
Oh, really?
Hell yeah.
Kind of sounds dangerous, but good, you know?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm surprised they don't get hijacked more by criminals and stuff, but
I
I think that's just us from Louisiana prefer it.
Look at that.
God, that's it right there.
That's it.
Oh, that'll definitely.
Get in my belly.
Get that salt intake.
Look at the beautiful color on those.
I know.
Sometimes you get the dark red one, the one that's been like to hell and back
or whatever.
Is that the one that like died before?
They say something that died and got brought back to life.
I'm like, nobody's resuscitating these things.
I heard the one with like real flat tail.
Yeah.
Is the one that was like dead before they cooked it.
Yeah.
I heard that one got around a lot in college too.
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 colored way you're like, what is going on?
And you just got to go around it.
Yeah.
You just got to sit it to the side.
Yeah.
I feel you.
And there's one, sometimes they're still blinking at you a little bit.
You know, one of them still has 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.
Thanks.
How burnt out did you get last year?
Were you really burnt out?
Because 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.
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.
Oh yeah.
I remember last time you were when we talked about, you know, when you got
there and living
in your camper and you know, the shower breaking and you standing in there just
doing a prayer
circle by yourself.
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 wan