BOBBYCAST - Tucker Wetmore on CMA Nerves + Why He Dropped Out of College to Pursue Music + A Complicated Family Story + Going From DoorDash Driver to a Nashville Pub Deal
The Bobby Bones Show
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4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Tucker Wetmore stops by and walks Bobby through the nerves leading up to his CMA performance. He describes what it felt like backstage, how he calmed himself down, and why he can be his own toughest critic even when everything goes right. Tucker also opens up about the moment he dropped out of college and finally told his mom he was going all-in on music, plus the family and faith background that shaped him growing up.Then it turns into a full timeline of the grind: moving to Nashville with what he could fit in a POD, working whatever jobs he could, DoorDashing for two years, and stretching meals while he tried to make songwriting and the right meetings happen. Tucker breaks down how posting covers on TikTok helped open doors, what changed once he started writing every day, and how that momentum turned into a Nashville publishing deal. Along the way, he shares a complicated family story involving his biological dad and what it was like reconnecting as an adult.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:11.0 | I moved back home, and then I remember sitting her down. |
| 0:14.5 | I was like, Mom, I think I want to do this music thing. |
| 0:16.4 | And she goes, I've been waiting for you to have this conversation with me. |
| 0:22.3 | Okay, we're going to hop into episode 564 with Tucker Wetmore, who had a number one with Wind Up missing you. |
| 0:29.4 | He's got his brunette world tour kicking off in February. |
| 0:33.0 | You get tickets at Tucker Wetmore.com. |
| 0:35.8 | I mean, so much to say about this guy, and I think we talk about |
| 0:37.8 | a lot of it here. Great athlete in high school and even college. His story about moving in |
| 0:42.6 | Nashville, just life now and how 2025 was a big year for him. So here we go. This is Tucker |
| 0:49.8 | Weptmore here on the Bobbycast. Tucker, good to see you? Good to see you. |
| 0:54.7 | We were just talking about the holidays before we started this and you asked me the question, how's Thanksgiving? And I was like, it's fine. It really was good. I don't want you to feel weird about that question. It really didn't give you a good answer. It was a very long pause. I've been injured. And I'm going to put my foot up. So this is out of respect. |
| 1:11.1 | You're a former athlete. You've been hurt worse than I've been. I tore my ankle and I just had surgery and I've just gone from cart to boot. This is like my first two days in actual shoe. How's it feeling? Sucks. Yeah. Yeah. I've been there. Yeah. You've been there far worse than me and I'm much older. But you had, what did you do on your legs? |
| 1:28.0 | So I blown this knee out |
| 1:28.9 | twice and then this ankle and like spiral fractured all the way up. My tibia, I think it's called. |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah, still bother you? When it's cold, my knees kind of do its thing, but most of the time it's |
| 1:42.0 | it's fine. They're so advanced with the surgeries now that it doesn't really bother me too much. |
| 1:46.6 | I went in and they took Hidabber cartilage, because I tore my cartilage, and they put it in, |
| 1:52.4 | glued it together, and they were like, do not turn your ankle for the next five weeks. |
| 1:57.6 | It will rip again. |
| 1:59.1 | And so Thanksgiving, I was on a boot the whole time. |
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