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Rich O'Toole

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Rich O'Toole joins the podcast to discuss the hotly debated beans in chili, alcohol and its effect on mental health, coming up in the Texas country scene, authenticity in country music, the term "Americana," the comparisons between pro baseball and making music, living in New York City, gambling, and more.

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0:00.0

All right, long time coming with Richo's tool, Rich, I like your tweets.

0:17.8

I want to start with your tweets for your Texas guy, we just talked about, you moved

0:23.6

to, you're living in Houston, but you're, you're very active on Twitter, but not in

0:28.8

a bad way. You're not one of these, you're not pushing stuff on people. Mainly the beans

0:34.5

and the chili thing. Yeah, if anybody follows, Wes and I were talking about it a little

0:39.5

bit. How did that start? Cause just give people the background. I know what it's about,

0:44.2

but it really became like a point of emphasis for you on your Twitter, beans and chili,

0:49.5

which is a yes. Yeah, I know it's a, it's a north, my, my dad's from Minnesota, my mom's

0:55.1

from Washington state. They came down here in the 70s and I was born in Houston, Texas.

1:00.8

So I'm a Texan like through and through I've born here. I noticed that in Texas, man,

1:05.7

like, can you, can you cuss on this? Yeah, yeah, you can say fucking shit and ask. Yeah,

1:11.5

it takes some balls. You cannot fuck around with putting beans and chili. And like, my

1:15.9

shit is like, the chili I've always had had beans and I'm like, what the me too? Yeah.

1:19.8

I'm quite green at a certain, so like no beans and chili. I was at a festival and they

1:23.9

had like signs posted like if you turn in chili with beans, you will be fucking kicked

1:28.7

out. Like they're, they're so serious about it. Some me being like, I'm in the Texas

1:33.2

country scene. I'm in the scene. I've kind of always been a rebel. Like, I don't know

1:37.2

what it is, man. I've never really got along with, you know, some of the people down,

1:41.9

down here as well as never going to school in Nashville. So it was just a way for me

1:45.8

to like kind of poke the bear, you know? Like a fucking, you know, like really get people

1:51.2

around up and I, I said a couple of tweets out like a year ago and I was literally getting

1:55.7

death threats in my DM. Like, I'm not listening to your music ever again. You're fucking, I took

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