Name: Parker McCollum | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #397
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Parker McCollum | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #397' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-15. Transcript available.

Parker McCollum | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #397

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today's it's hot as hate it's hot as heck in here i don't know why it is just
it's hot outside and um the acs or something you know coils or whatever um yeah
i mean it's like
somebody just damn put a bunch of heat in here like somebody just damn back the
damn truck of
sunlight up into this bitch today's guest uh fortunately he rolls with the
punches
because hey boy because we in here um i'm i'm grateful to have him he has uh
hit singles in
country music he's a music man and he has hit singles uh pretty heart and to be
loved by you
uh i think if you if you like if you like this podcast i believe you'll like
some of his tunes
um yeah i'm grateful that he's here uh he was just voted best new um male
country male and that's
i mean that's you know that's unbelievable so um he is extremely talented he's
out of texas
uh and um yeah i don't know why i'm rambling but uh i i think i i need i needed
him to be here today
and so i'm very grateful uh enjoy the episode with mr parker mccollum
i'll sit and tell you my stories shine on me and i will find a song i'll be
singing just
it's time to sweat i know dude it's time to sweat it's sweaty in here today isn't
it it is sweaty
do you feel like it's sweaty in here not yet i don't really sweat a whole lot
really yeah it's
oh dang do you think you might have uh because i guess you're from kind of a
desert area is that
right no not at all oh really from like the sprawling metropolis of north houston
oh really yeah man i mean i grew up you know out in the country but very very
close to
a lot of shit okay very humid very hot is it i think i'm just immune to it dang
yeah you might be
man built up an immunity um because you grew up out in uh i know you're in in
texas and is that west
texas considered no no i grew up in southeast texas just north of houston um
and then i lived in
austin 10 days after i graduated high school i moved to austin and i was like i'm
gonna be a
fucking country singer really yeah sorry man i got in late last night that's
good though did you have
a good time no man i did not i had a i think well i mean i don't know if i did
or not parker mccallum
ladies and gentlemen uh thanks for being here man man thanks for having me i
appreciate it yeah it's
nice to get to meet you um yeah i had i had my we had to go do an intervention
on a family member
yesterday so it was like damn you know have you you know shane gillis is yeah
yeah have you seen
his live in austin stand up um is that his special yeah where he talks about
taking his sister that was
doing heroin intervention they took her to six flags i haven't seen that part
uh-uh it's rich
gold dude then that's what we should have done yeah because we took her yeah we
just wanted one flag
it was like the flag of surrender and she didn't and you know and um and we
didn't see it so it was
just a long day man you had a better day than me you played nissan stadium
yesterday i did yeah last
night that was crazy man yeah it was good dude it was uh um my mom was there so
i think that's kind
of cool you know when i so she probably didn't i probably didn't look like the
most promising prospect
10 years ago to play country music successfully so i think that's probably
helps her sleep a little
bit at night to see it going well like that oh really do you think that so 10
years ago you think
she didn't have probably as much confidence in you no i mean i just i don't
think i was you know if
you look at it from like a scout evaluating a ball player you say all right we
got this guy he's never
gonna make it you know and then he makes it to the league so um did it feel
like that last night coming
out there like that i'm making it to the league i mean that must have felt like
something unique i mean
not many people get to play a stadium uh no matter how well they're doing man
it it was cool i was so
tired and so hungry um that i was really excited to get done with it and go
home yeah but it was dope
certainly a lot of people when was it the kind of the thing where i am i'm on
dang drugs yeah but it's
kind of shining it looks good the lights it's bouncing it's good come get it
yeah if there's anybody out
there with dry skin old spice commercial coming in come give me a hug honey i'll
definitely moisten
you up um yeah did it feel like so you're walking out in front of that many
people uh can you feel
does your body start to not because i mean i have feelings i'll walk out in
front of a few thousand
and there's moments where like i think especially the first time where it's
like okay are my legs
still moving forward like it's almost you disconnect a little bit from yourself
man that's that's only
happened to me one time when we played the houston rodeo at the beginning of
this year it's like the
only time that i was like gummy worm legs out there you know i'd had like i
tried to have a couple
cocktails take the edge off of 71 000 people sold out the houston texan stadium
we were headlining
and and the stage is rotating and i was the whole like 60 minute show i'm out
there and i was just
it was just like a mess dude like i ate shit on stage i've never fallen on
stage really i fell
it was great oh you were just yeah dude it was the full the full experience and
when you were saying
do you feel like as you were singing that you also like had control over what
you were saying because
i would i'm trying to wonder if because physically i could understand maybe it's
like oh man just
overwhelming right it's like usually if i if i'm nervous like one or two songs
in you're back to
it's probably the same thing with doing stand-up like you know even if you are
nervous like once
you get into your jokes you're rolling right you've done it a thousand times
but that was like the one
night that i was like the whole entire show i was just like googly eyed up
there like could not
gather myself wow yeah so last night when i walked out there i was just i just
i don't know you're
kind of just normal you've done it yeah yeah dang it isn't it kind of
interesting how things that
would seem like a dream start to feel kind of normal yeah well that that like
kind of messes
with me with crowds man when we go somewhere we'll only sell like three or four
thousand tickets which
is a lot of people it's a lot that used to be like huge for us and now when we
only sell three or
four thousand i'm like have we peaked right over and the next night we'll sell
ten thousand but it's
like it's that perspective thing man you get it's crazy what you can get used
to yeah very quickly
yeah yeah how quick it happens yeah that's really what's wild um so you started
out i know you started
out over there in texas man and uh tell me a little bit about like do you
remember like the first like
song or anything you ever heard do you remember anything like that yeah the
first like song i ever
fell in love with was amarillo by morning by george oh yeah yeah yeah which was
a good one yeah
yeah i didn't even know what amarillo was man and i remember i just played
there on saturday night
wow yeah i called it their national anthem on stage and i got a real good
reaction they liked that a lot
um yeah i remember hearing i'm trying to think of the first oh i heard bon jovi
was the first song
that i ever heard they're gonna be a big deal yeah yeah the first time i
remember hearing a song
bon jovi and i was with like a babysitter i've told the story before but i was
with a babysitter and
so i think like there was also like a woman there my mom wasn't there was she
hot yeah uh i mean she
was yeah i feel like all babysitters are hot when you're the baby they're
sitting dude yeah you know
oh i was like dang yeah i wanted her to sit close kendra scott actually used to
be my babysitter
really yeah true story kendra scott who is it bring her bring her up trevin she
was the she was dating
my uncle back in the day kendra scott she's like the big jewelry maker all the
girls wear all her stuff
let's get an image of her and now you should be your babysitter huh yeah she
used to watch me when
i was a little kid and now she's like a billionaire oh she is dang she's done
very well and uh do you
have any recollections of the babysitting going no dude i don't remember it at
all i would not have
known had my mom not told me she's like oh yeah she used to date your uncle and
she used to watch
you guys dang and your uncle must have really he what happened with him he
couldn't he couldn't hang on
huh dude i think i don't know i never really heard the full story but he uh it's
my uncle chris my
dad's little brother and he was just like a future hall of famer in the game of
life was a true og oh
is he and it does not surprise me that he was pulling that back in the day wow
he's been he's
a real aficionado when it comes to the gals there is no question dang yes i
think i said i didn't get
that part of that that gene in the family you didn't no i don't think so dude i'm
sure you i mean you
kind of feel like you kind of look like i mean you look like you play like you
would play center on like uh
on justin bieber's like fan on fantasy basketball team i feel like i feel like
if are you if he had
a fan league basketball team you'd play center i think you're you seem like you're
doing fine i
would love to play center on justin bieber's family basketball team i may have
missed my calling
um but you're locked down i know you recently got engaged you or you recently
got married yeah yeah i got
married like two months in was it uh and what does that feel like does it feel
different being married
does it feel no i've been home like three nights since we got married so it's
uh there's no different
at all dang other than now when i come off stage i just get on my bus and go to
bed yeah so that's
about the only thing that's changed yeah so take me out of then so take me
where you start music you
start the first song you hear or that you remember hearing is george straight
amarillo by morning that's
the first song you remember hearing yeah the first one i can remember being
like i like that that sounds
good yeah i want to do that um and i was probably like i don't know seven maybe
six years old something
like that but my older brother tyler he's like phenomenal songwriter he was the
one that when i was a kid
you know he's big brother i just wanted to do whatever like he could have been
fucking ice skating and i would probably be professional ice skater right now
like whatever
big brother was doing is what i wanted to do but he happened to play guitar and
want to write songs and
i was like all right i'm gonna do that so that's so do you have no doubt that
that's kind of where
your where your passion for it came from no question no and i just i don't know
i remember being like a little kid and and i would
hear that song or any song and i would sing it and all the time but i don't
think anybody ever thought
thought that i would sing it for or be singing 20 years later so and at what
point did it start to
turn into kind of a job for you because i are even like a like how did it
evolve then into a hobby did
somebody get an instrument did you like were you like dialed in at school and
music no i was like
sweating so bad dude i think i think it's good for a run i was just i just went
for a run so the lights
look so good on the sweat dude i would just own it i'm owning it but i just i
think it's sharp dude
i think it's kind of setting the vibe setting the time like it there's no
question with the time of
year that we did this interview yeah there's no doubt about that yeah it's
fucking summer time the
good thing is summer's almost over though so not a whole lot of heat left you
know only about four
months well at least two months of her sitting righ