Nashville Vibes with Charles Esten
And That's What You REALLY Missed
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Country singer Deacon Claybourne is on the pod!
"Nashville's" leading man, Charles Esten, joins Jenna and Kevin to talk about his time on the hit show, but his journey to get there could be its own TV series! From doing stand-up comedy, being the house manager at The Groundlings, to playing Buddy Holly in London and performing in front of royalty and U.S. Presidents! Plus, his funny audition story for "Nashville" and why it pays to be nice, his first unexpected encounter with Hayden Panettiere, performing at the Grand Ole Opry and The Bluebird Cafe as Deacon and then as himself, and his Guinness World Record! Strap on your boots and get ready for one heck of an adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 0:14.0 | until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. |
| 0:20.9 | America, y'all better work the hell up. |
| 0:22.9 | Bad things happens to good people in small towns. |
| 0:32.5 | Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And to binge the |
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| 0:47.7 | And that's what you really missed with Jenna. And Kevin, an Iheart radio podcast. |
| 0:57.3 | Welcome to you and that's what you really miss podcast oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh we have Charles Esten here today from I mean I want to say |
| 1:07.0 | from Nashville but he's not from Nashville he's's from everything. He's from the industry. |
| 1:11.6 | Everything you've ever seen. From from stand-up comedy to who's on is in any way, improv to the |
| 1:19.2 | groundlings to Nashville to the world, Guinness World Book of Records, to the Grand Ole Opry, |
| 1:27.1 | to a Nashville family man |
| 1:28.9 | and outer banks I mean you name it he's done it so truly |
| 1:32.4 | I am the man doesn't need an introduction but |
| 1:36.0 | we have child doesn't hear today we hope you guys enjoy this |
| 1:38.6 | conversation we talked about it all |
| 1:40.3 | um share some Nashville insight with us his whole career has just been completely uh insane |
| 1:48.1 | oh buddy holly and on the west end i mean it's just and he's a lot of full circles so wild |
| 1:54.9 | he's tapped into something this story the amount of times i got goosebumps hearing his stories i know |
| 2:00.2 | i know but the hero from the man himself hey The amount of times I got goosebumps hearing his stories. I know. I know. |
| 2:01.4 | But hear from the man himself. |
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