Episode 842: Rob Metcalf: New Album “The Road Trip”

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

My friend Rob Metalf (married father of two, age 33) joins us to share his journey with his mental health (OCD/anxiety) and his physical health (Ankylosing spondylitis—or AS). Rob (guitar player and songwriter) has formed a band (TOWN!) and is releasing an album (The Road Trip) that captures many of his life experiences. The first song (Forever—see show notes) is a song about his anxiety. In the podcast, Rob talks about other songs that on the album talking about important and sensitive subjects (suicide, relationship with the Church, Alzheimer's). In the podcast, Rob shares his journey with AS (undiagnosed for a long time) and how it took him from an avid outdoorsman to—on his worse days—bedridden. Rob talks about his journey to find a diagnosis and the right medication to get him in a better spot—and all the people that helped him along the way. Rob is honest about feeling angry/abandon by God and how we can better support people with long-term health challenges. Rob is one of my heroes. He is a survivor and now using his gifts to help others through sharing his story and his music. I encourage you to listen to and share this podcast and his music. Thank you, Rob, for being on the podcast. You are a good man. Links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5B6F6RaBY79SLmTIZvOzLs?si=495f1a71eacd480e&nd=1&dlsi=cc0b82d21bb24d6e Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/forever/1826704391?i=1826704454 Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abandcalledtown/

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.2	My guest on today's podcast, I'm in our home.
0:12.6	This is not a Zoom podcast.
0:14.2	Sitting across the table is my long-term friend Rob Metcalf.
0:17.5	Welcome to the podcast, Rob.
0:18.9	Hey, Richard.
0:23.5	How's it going? Thanks for having me on.
0:29.2	It is good. It's great to have you on. And it's good to be here. Rob and I go way back because Rob's parents are dear friends of ours. They've since left our ward, but we're in our ward,
0:34.9	and we raised our families together. And so I've known you for a long time, Rob.
0:40.9	Currently, Rob is 33.
0:42.5	He's a married father of two.
0:45.6	Two.
0:46.4	And he is professionally a designer, and we'll link to his design side in the show notes, but that's
0:52.9	not why he's here on the podcast.
0:55.8	Rob is going to talk about really complicated mental health and physical health things that he's, it's not theoretical for Rob, because Rob has walked a really difficult road for a long time with his mental health and also recently with his physical health.
1:10.6	And part of his healing process is to produce music.
1:14.5	And he's come out with an album called The Road Trip.
1:17.9	The name of the group is Town that he founded with his friend Kyson.
1:21.9	And they have released a song and will release about 10 or 12 songs as part of this album.
1:27.8	So whenever you listen to this podcast, some of these songs may be out, some may not.
1:31.5	And in the show notes, you can check out where to find the songs.
1:35.2	The songs are really powerful and talk about his journey.
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