Name: Lainey Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #430
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lainey Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #430' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-14. Transcript available.

Lainey Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #430

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And thank you for your support.
Today's guest, I mean, this lady's got that.
I mean, she's got the voice of just, I mean, you want to climb in her throat
and just start a family.
Or knit an American flag.
You just want to dang just Betsy Ross around her tonsils, baby.
She's just, I mean, she has a timeless voice.
It sounds like it just comes out of the core of the earth.
And just, I mean, it's just like a beautiful train just rolling through years.
She's got it.
She won the Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2022 Country Music Awards.
She's also an actress.
You may have seen her on the show Yellowstone.
Her new album, Bell Bottom Country, is out now.
And I'm just, I'm grateful to be spending some time with her, getting to know
her.
Today's guest is Lainey Wilson.
Shine that light on me
I'll sit and tell you my stories
Shine on me
And I will find a song
I'll be singing
Yeah, when things get busy, it's interesting how they get.
You don't know who you're talking to.
You don't know what you just did a liner for.
You don't know what's going on.
It's crazy.
And I always like thought people were kind of full of it
when they're like, I don't, I didn't know what city I was in.
I didn't know what day it was.
Yeah.
It's true.
Oh, sometimes I'll be halfway through the statement.
What's up?
And I will have to check in my head.
Do you know what this is?
There's times where I, all day long, I'm like, all right, I'm in Salt Lake.
I'm in Salt Lake.
I get up there and I'm like, where am I?
You know?
Yep.
Yeah, it's kind of, it definitely gets, it can be kind of challenging.
I think just because of how quick things, how quick things happen and how busy
you can get.
Can you move this a little bit in and down?
Yeah.
But you can also move it if you feel like, I want you to feel caged up.
Like if I want to, what?
Yeah.
Oh, look, if you want to let loose something.
I can unscrew it.
Oh, I love it.
I love your voice.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
It's really nice.
Thank you very much.
It's a gift, I feel like, to the whole world.
I'm sure a lot of people feel that way.
I feel like when you're singing, like, somebody's singing from like, I feel
like somebody's singing
from the past.
I mean, I feel like it's coming from like, yeah.
I just feel like there, it's like coming from another.
I'll take that.
Thank you.
Like plane or something.
I'm like, it's almost like.
Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, who knows what I was doing in a, in a previous life, but I, yeah, I've
kind of
have some weird feelings like that too, so.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Like, do you think of a time, like, do you feel like there's a time, like, do
you get
a sense of what is going on around you at that time?
If it was a past?
I mean.
I don't know what it was, but I do feel, I do feel like a little bit of an old
soul.
I don't know.
I don't know if it's, which I have some family members and stuff who I think
kind of feel
the same way.
So maybe it's just something like a little thing kind of passed down.
But yeah, I wonder who I was.
Who was I?
Yeah.
Who were you?
Who were you?
Oh, I know who you could have been.
You could have been like a train conductor, but before they had a whistle.
So you had to also be the whistle.
So you had to be like, like you had to really belt it out, you know, I'm just
trying to think
of something where you'd also have to be like real verbose and like, let them
know, you
know, toot, toot.
Yeah.
That's it.
And what if people would have come or what if somebody else was a conductor and
you just
were, you were the horn, like they didn't have the horn.
No, I was a caboose.
Don't even play.
I was, I was the caboose.
I have seen some videos on TikTok.
You were probably the caboose.
You were probably the caboose.
When I tell you, I can't even get on TikTok without.
People really coming for that romp, huh?
Coming for the romp.
I'm like, I've been in Nashville for 12 years trying to do music.
And here we are.
The butt goes viral.
I mean, they find the music through the butt and they plan on sticking around,
but it's
uh, I'm trying to embrace it.
Yeah.
Nothing will keep a man around like some butt.
That's right.
That's right.
I'm like, whatever, whatever makes them listen to the music.
Yeah.
Hey, look, sometimes they start with the bass section, you know, before they
get to the
treble, you know?
That's yeah.
That's exactly it.
I think that's all it is.
I think that's all it is too.
I mean, I didn't know how to feel about it in the beginning.
I was like, I thought it was going to be just this little, little tiny viral
thing.
And next thing I know, weeks later, I'm still seeing big old butts.
Yeah.
What was that?
Can you pull that up?
Uh, Ben, if you find that TikTok, I don't even know.
I just remember seeing that and it was like, um, some, yeah, it was like a side
angle of
you on a stage.
And then with the leopard pants.
Yeah.
Now that'll probably do it too.
That was like an optical illusion.
I don't think my butt's really that big.
I think it was the leopard.
I mean, maybe the leopard had a big butt.
Oh my God, that is, see, that was, that was a good day.
Also, this is a widescreen.
Let's be honest.
I mean, look, I'm just saying, y'all doing me dirty.
This is 16, nine, baby.
I think whatever that is, that thing is, uh, you got that silver screen rear.
Dang, that thing is, uh, it's out there.
Yeah.
That cheetah must've been strong.
What's weird is people are like, where'd you get that from?
And I say, I get the, the width from my mama and the depth from my daddy.
Really?
My daddy's got a, he got a little booty on him.
Does he?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
I used to date a girl actually, and she had her father's butt.
Oh my God.
Yep.
And it was always like, I don't know.
It was so hard for me sometimes to like want to mate with her sometimes.
Cause you're just thinking about her father's butt.
I wasn't thinking about her father, but it was like a very distinct looking buttocks,
you
know, I got to see this girl, but I mean, she was beautiful, but she had, she
had her father's
butt kind of, I think, I mean, I don't know.
I shouldn't even say that.
I don't know what was going on.
She listening to this too.
And she knows exactly.
She's like, yeah, he talking about me.
I hope you, I hope not.
Um, congratulations on, on your, uh, two top.
You have two songs in the top 10 right now, right?
Yes.
Which is crazy.
Both about trucks.
Yeah.
Both about trucks.
Wait in the truck, heart like a truck.
I know.
So, so, uh, yeah, I mean, it's just amazing.
And you're, I just want to start like, cause some, some audience might not know
you.
Right.
So I want to start, well, let's look at this Tik TOK.
Let's look at it real fast.
All right.
Cause I want to see it.
There's a bunch of them.
I want to see it again.
And who is that guy?
I don't know, but there's a lot of different versions.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
This was opening for Morgan this past summer.
I had been eating real good this summer, you know?
Hey, come on.
Yeah.
They look like frog legs almost right there with those pants in a way.
Kind of, you know what I'm saying?
Well, you look lovely.
That's awesome.
Oh my gosh.
That's the security guard down there in the corner.
He like.
Oh, he's still writing letters to you.
Oh yeah.
He's probably in a minimum security facility right now.
You're probably right.
You are originally, we're both from Louisiana.
I know.
That's cool.
Different parts of Louisiana, but.
Yeah.
You're up from, you're from.
I'm from Northeast.
So like about 30 miles South of Monroe.
Okay.
Little town called Baskin of like 200 people.
Oh wow.
You're from Covington area.
Yeah.
I'm from Covington.
So.
Okay.
And Baskin is that near.
Cause I used to work up near Natchez.
I worked on a farm outside of Natchez up near like Vidalia.
Not too far from Natchez.
And.
Vidalia.
And Faraday.
Yeah.
We had a good time over there.
Alexandria.
Yeah.
We go to like, where is it?
Okay.
There we go.
Baskin.
Dang.
That's it.
My God.
Yup.
Yup.
There it is.
You blink and miss it.
We have a, a caution light.
And what's the caution for is what is somebody, is there a miss, somebody who
misbehaves in
town?
It is a speed trap.
When I tell you, if you go through Baskin, you better slow down.
Oh God.
I got my first speeding ticket at 15 years old in Baskin.
I had to go to court.
Well, of course there's nothing for them to do.
They have to give you a ticket.
Like, well, we gotta do it.
We gotta, gotta pay the bills.
But yeah, I've been in Nashville for almost 12 years.
Um, got here August 1st, 2011 in a little camper trailer.
Did you?
Yup.
I lived in a camper the first three years I was here.
And, uh, I'm just too hard headed to leave.
Honestly, I don't know how to do anything else.
This is it.
Yeah.
Is singing.
Now, do you sing, do you also play, you play instruments?
Yeah.
I play the guitar.
I can play a little bit of piano by ear, but, um, yeah, I love it.
My daddy taught me a few chords on the guitar and wrote my first song at nine
years old.
I knew, I mean, my family took me on a trip when I was nine.
It was like a couple of weeks after I had written my first song.
And we were driving back home to Louisiana and we drove through Nashville.
I remember where I was on the interstate.
I was looking at the Batman building and I told my mom and daddy, I said, this
is home.
I just knew it.
Really?
I knew it.
I knew that I was going to be a part of, of this industry.
I just didn't know when or what that was going to look like.
And yeah, this is, has always been the plan.
Wow.
Um, and so when you're starting to, so you're a child and how do you get into
music?
I mean, obviously Louisiana, there's a lot of like music passing through there.
That's right.
You could have a, you know, a sip of, of, of a local hose and you, you know,
you, you might
have a couple of notes just get lodged in you.
It's definitely, it's in the world there.
What, uh, how did that kind of start for you?
I mean, did your mother, did your mother or father play?
Daddy played a little mama, bless her heart.
She can't carry a tune in a bucket.
I'm talking about like, she sings the loudest in church, but like even Jesus
getting mad
about that.
He's like looking down, like that's of the devil.
That's of the devil.
Um, but she loves music.
She loves to dance.
Um, on both sides of my family, I have people who play like musical instruments
and stuff,
but in Baskin, I mean, country music is more than just a genre.
It is truly a way of life.
And so growing up, you know, listening to a lot of nineties country, I just, we
eat,
sleep and breathe it.
Yeah.
We talk about music.
We sit around.
If I was riding the tractor with daddy, like that's what we were listening to.
And it was really a soundtrack to our lives.
And so I, I didn't even realize as a little girl, that country music was like a
genre of
music.
I thought it was just, you know, that's music.
That's just it.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's interesting.
And what about for you down there?
Well, what I'm trying to think of the first song I ever even heard, I think was
Bon Jovi.
Yeah.
And I was lit like a, this babysitter was giving me a ride to YMCA camp and she
played it.
And I'd never been like in a car, like with a woman before that wasn't my
mother.
Yeah.
And so I think it like, everything seems so like real.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So my memories were like very alive, you know?
And so I just remember being there and she let me put her seatbelt on her.
I remembe