Louie Bello Joins Jessica and Brandon to Chat About The Celtics Playoffs, Red Sox, His New Music and More!

Louie Bello Joins Jessica and Brandon to Chat About The Celtics Playoffs, Red Sox, His New Music and More! Louie is all set to release his new song "Zac Brown" on May 17th!

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, we are. We're rolling. How we start? We just roll
right? So what what is hisTikTok? Soon to like, I'll have
to play Oliver's huge. So LouieBella's with us, Brandon's in the studio.
What up, Louie. We'll haveto post your photo later. But
I love that. You know,we were about to sit down and chat
about sports and your music, andthen in walked a TikTok started jam in

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ninety four out of the studio.Yeah, I was like, please get
a picture. We saw you.You were like, hey, isn't it
funny how you get in front ofpeople that like like have some cloud things
going on and sometimes you kind ofget like, hey, oh I guys.
I actually got a video of youguys. I'll have to send it
later. So well, you weretaking about it. I did videos.
Who was your wh what artists haveyou met where you're like, wow,

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like like kind of been starstruck.Lionel Richie really airport in the airport at
l A X brobab me like fifteenyears ago. Wow, And he gave
me like the best advice ever.He was he was walking in Jessica Simpson
was walking in yep, which Iwas obviously first looking at Jessica and I
was like, oh my god.The airport says it was like, right
afterwards, you still looking really good, kind of like turned to I was

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like, no, I'm not gonnabe able to talk to her. But
then I saw Lionel Richie and Iwas like, okay, my my childhood
here. My dad had me listento the Commodorees on the kid Okay,
so like I knew how he wrote, you know, Kenny Rogers songs and
everything else. So I was likeI went over and just like, hey,
what's up man. I gave himmy CD like as if he was
gonna listen to it. But hetook it kindly, and I know he
probably couldn't know it's it's Lonel Richie. But I just walked with him for

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a second. I was a gettingthe advice, and he's like, don't
ever give up. That's what hesaid to me. He said, keep
doing what you love. And thenhe just kept walking and I was like,
yo, Lonel Richie just told we'dnever give up. His daughter's wedding
was beautiful, Yeah, all right, looked through everything on social media.
He's a funny guy to hang outwith. I bet that's number one most

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like, Wow, that's the guy. So how are you guys failing after
that Celtics scheme? All right,so I'm not going to give up hope
because the Bruins are gone, sowe have to lay them to rest,
and we have to lay the badusual to rest. So I think I
think some adjustments, adjustments. Watchthe game. We're gonna make a couple
of adjustments, kidding me, andwe're gonna be back. Oh, we're

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gonna take it to seven. Ofcourse we have well yeah, we have
no like come on, like canyou match like if like, well,
they have to write, so haveto you go to Game seven? But
two game sevens for Boston sports fanswithin a month. Yeah, people haven't
liked the Cardiac you know. Yeah, and it still just like I'm still

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I'm done. I give up.I thought I thought we had it.
Yeah, I'm done. I thinkthat overtime loss on Sunday that was I
mean, that was kind of agame. Whoever won that game? You
know what I mean? If youthink about it as a sports fan,
take on the fact that we're Bostonsports fans, but it's a sports fan
the Bruins series and the Celtics seriesis what sports is all about. Yea,
even though we didn't come on topof rats, the ultimate sports events

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coming down to the wire shot atthe buzzer, you know, over time
with the Bruins. Obviously wasn't acool thing that they lost. But you
know, I think, Um,I don't know. Did you hear the
Bruins fans booing the team last night? Not against the Philly team, they
were booing the Celtics. I heard, like heading into the fourth quarter,

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I'd be upset if I was theCeltics. No, I hope they get
upset. Jason Turnum actually made acomment about that. I'll pull it up.
Oh actually we heard it. Yeah, Well, like, how do
you even respond to that they weredown by sixteen going into the fourth,
which again they were. They hadno answers for anything I got. They
just won the MVP. You haveno answers for him? Of course you
gotta get booed. It's it's it'spart of playing in Boston. It's the

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passion. I want fans of apassion if I'm gonna Yeah, so what
is your Boston sports team? Like? Tea? Really? Yeah? Team
I asked Jessica. Last episode,we'll talk about the Bruns. Wait,
I found jessicause she got about theBruins for life. But wait, this
is new. We'll just say butwe've we've been in that position before and

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we didn't play well today. Youknow, fans could see if you guys
hard and we know that, Hey, he's honest, they have to win
tomorrow. They will listen. It'sgonna go seven games. I'm not predicting
that. Will you try to goto game seven or you way? I
forget you tell me your schedule.Yeah, I'll be everywhere. I'll be

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in Nashville. Yeah, I'll beNo. Game seven would be this Sunday
night. Oh no, I'll behere. So yeah, I try to
see if I can. There's actuallynothing worse than going though to a game
seven and then if your team losesand you witness that in person. Oh,
it's defeating I just that's happened tome with the Red Sox before.
It's just like got red. Butat least the Red Sox are winning right
now, so at least, yeah'shope this hope that like I think they'll

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we could enjoy some games. Ithink the Yankees are still below us,
which is kind of all I careabout. The Yankees come to town this
weekend, right, I should knowthat fairly soon. I think I think
take a price there, like Ishould, I should look that up.
But yeah, back to the Bruins. Like I was telling Brandon the other
day that this Bruins team that wejust witnessed, hands down, will be

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the best Bruins team will ever have. I was like, there's no way
there's going to be a team thatgood. It's the big choke in Boston,
thank you. So, how isthat the best team in sports?
Jessica, Well, they were thebest team. They were not anymore the
best team that never was. ButI just mean to like, chemistry wise,
Oh, no, we don't playthem? Looking up? Yeah,
watching, Why are we playing theYankees? Why did someone, I swear

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to God, someone said to meyesterday, Oh, we play the Yankees
this weekend. I'm sure you know. I'm like, looking at the schedule,
I don't see the Yankee Red Sox. Must they'll be here. They'll
be here in the summertime. Yeah, but um, yeah, the Bruins.
Um. I'll never talk bad aboutthe Bruins ever, ever, But
I mean, I just think likeI felt like I got dumped after watching

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Like that was like worse than someof my breakups. That was bad.
It was bad. So my motherback in the day, like back in
the seventies, she used to hangout with all the Bruins, like barbre
Esposito, all the old classic Bruinsgot pitches with Derek sand Is saying,
and they used to hear and agirlfriend. She used to go party with
them because this was the time whenthey would actually drink in the locker room
and then they would just go acrossthe street. The whole Bruins team would

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just drink at the bars out there. They would just be drinking. So
like if you were fans with themback in the day. And I feel
like hockey's like that still. I'mnot as like as open because of social
media, but I think hockey's themost touchable sport in the sense of like
you know players, yeah, becauseI don't know, it's just they just
seem like the working man's sport.So, but my mother used to hang

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out. So my mother is adie hard fan. So she's texting me,
you're in every game and where areyou are you in the same place
you were last week because they justscored a goal and going in your living
room and I'd be like, no, mom, I had to go to
the store. Well, don't gohome because they just scored a goal.
I love that. There was onetime a couple of years ago when I
was in viewing Tucca Um and itwas after so this was like twenty eighteen.

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I think it was twenty eighteen,so they it was before this season
started. It was like two daysbefore the season started. And I was
telling him too, I'm like,you know, I'm like, you know,
I don't want to jinx you guys. And he was like, you
can say whatever you want in theradio. He's like, you'll never jinx
us. You know. So theythey're not worried about like this. They're
not worried about the chin. Sowho jinks him this season? Then?

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You know, Tua played drums formme one night at Laurette's No. Yeah,
we shared that. We shared thatbefore you worked here. He played
trums. Yeah. Nice. He'sa country music fan. He goes to
so many shows. And my buddysaw me, who's a boxing coach and
he's trained like a lu chick.He's like trained everybody in the Bronze and
you know trained um tucca. Sothey were out seeing a show at I

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forget it was a country out hisplaying next door at the MGM and um
and they walked by and Tom he'slike, hey, tu play drums,
like tukul do whatever the hell hewanted my drums, you can play guitar.
I told so my drummer was afill in drummer and um, young
kid, really cool dude, right, but villains. So I was like,
I was like, um too,could just go on the drums.
You should have see my Druma's face. He looked over. He's like,

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dude, who's my drums? Anda hockey fan. I'm like, don't
worry, dude, he can doan out pay for whatever happens in the
drums. This is two And assoon as you go on, everybody was
like two goods. Oh my god, that's the sane. When did he
retire a couple of years ago nowright? Or does he is he retires?
Um? Yeah, well it waslast year he came back because remember
he was hurt and then he cameback and then I think around like May

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announced like recently, so yes,only been like a year a year.
Yeah, Okay, that's someone.But he's still here. His family still
lives here, and we'll run intohim at chows. Yeah, so he
usually he's had a good amount.That's all him and his wife. Yeah,
I love that. Their country musicfans. Yeah, they'll all be
at Zach Brown. That's the Bruinsshow. They all everywhere though. I
feel like they were the Celtics teama couple of nights ago. They go

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to every Boston event as yeah,which is really that's why they're the best.
But this team, like not onlywere they good, no, not
were they just great on the ice, That's what I mean. Like you
could tell that they're all teammates offlike they're just yeah, and you could
see that Pats are kind of thesame way. Yeah. Pretty cool.

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So a bunch of I saw thathe's a county. Hey he's a country
music fans too, Oh yeah countryYeah. Yeah. We actually like DMed
him a few times, throwing thebulls account and he responds invited show.
Yeah, no, we um whatdid we? Oh? We invited him
to a show, but he washe was in Texas, but he was
like, hey, next time I'min town, you know, I'll try

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to make it so show you shouldn't. Uh yes, speak into the patriots.
So their schedule gets released, it'stomorrow night because today's Wednesday, so
this this podcast will go up rightaway. But so tomorrow night is at
eight o'clock or what time do theyEveryone on social media is raven about.
It's huge and I hope people leakit. Well. Did you see the
playing they're playing in Germany? Yeah, I'm not going to go to that,

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not like love Ripe. First,first off, my passport is expired.
I don't know why I haven't.I need to make that weekend.
It just expired a couple of weeksago, and I don't know why I
haven't renewed. In the Jags areplaying in London, I would join.
I would rather go to London.Five hour flight, yeah, but for
two weeks, I believe. Yeah, yeah, I'd feel Yeah, I'd

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rather go to London. I've beento London before. I love London.
It's an easier flight, like honestly, it's like easier than going like to
Lend from here to go to London, like you said, it's like five
six hours. It's like quicker thangoing to Vegas like it is. It
is really, Yeah, Louis feelsback and it feels quicker too for some
reason. I don't know if it'slike I don't know anything. This could

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be because maybe I'm moved in thecountry streams or something like that. I
don't know. Listen, I wentto school for jet stream technology and if
you go to the left of thecountry, Yeah, I feel like it
is. It feels quicker. Yeah, I do. Um travel the Faroe
Islands off the coast of Iceland.We did a show cool and the population

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is seventy thousand goats and I'm noteven kidding you and like twenty thousand people.
Wow. And it's these it's reallythese really multi colored painted houses like
you see in a postcard. Andyou come in on the ship that we
came in on, and you comein and the like that. These mountains
the island is like these huge mountainslike just on either side. It was.
It was amazing. Did you seethe goats? Oh yeah, they
were all like I care about.As you came through, there was like

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I'll find pitchers too. There waslike just goats. I thought it was
a joke and it was just goatslining the walls of the mountain like literally
like like hundreds and hundreds of goatsas you came in and I was like,
yo, you're right, this reallyjust all goats and bradies walking around
in this right on the floor therethere. We gotta go in the studio.

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I gotta go here, Like that'scool. When was that? That
was the year before? Um yearbefore? It was two thousand and eighteen,
and the nineteen I was supposed togo play in um Jordan and Israel.
Wow, I'm so excited, andthen it got cancelers COVID. So
but I'll hopefully get back on theEuropean Tour circuit that's next year. Yeah.
Yeah, that's been a lot ofawesome places. Like I don't think

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I like formally introduced you, youknow, because we just started rolling.
So I'll have the intro in thelittle summary. But Louie Bellow is real
studio joining the Sports and East toshow because it's my favorite thing chatting sports
and country music. Um. Butlouis Boston native. So for anyone that's
like, who are you? Yougrow so you grow bost your whole life?

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Yeah, Hyde Park, Oh whatokay, I'm an HP kid.
Okay, life. Yeah, allright. I went to school in like
Milton. That's kind of close,right, that's how you could throw a
rock? Is that like sels?I think we did throw rocks. Okay,
that's so. Is that so sure? It's Boston, so it's okay,
yeah, it's not really, butwell, like where I wut to
school, it's considered so sure,like yeah all right, Quincy, yeah,

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Ark part of Boston, so it'slike Rhbury. Yeah okay, but
it is connected to like Dead Homeand then yes, and so it's like
in a weird spots to colol spotbecause the mayor used to live there for
twenty years. I mean you know, yeah, I lived like two streets
behind me, so no kidd itwas it was funny to see him.
That's cool. One of the best. He was by far the best mayor
in my lifetime. Really, nobodywill have a compared to I think I

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was like four years old and hewas may Yeah. Yeah, I feel
like this about age that. Butsometimes yeah, You'll make comments here and
there and I'm like, oh man, I'm so I'm older than Brandon like
like that. But other than that, I'm like i feel like he's like
my age sometimes. Other than random. Yeah body, sometimes some music I

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think I don't know who knows.I'm like, oh boy, we are
you? I forget? So youdid you do classes with Joey McIntyre at
one point or so his sister usedto babysit me. That's okay that I
was like, I knew there wasa connection to the new kids on the
bluff. Yeah, because because Iso I was originally I was born as
you make a plane, Yes,live there like nine years j before it
became really expensive. Um my old. So we lived in triple deckers like

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my whole life until I got myown place. But um our third floor.
I remember my grandfather sold it whenI was like tans. I don't
remember all the particulars, but Iremember when I was like twenty something going
back and looking up. It wasit was the guy was selling each floor
man, Like one floor was likelike a million dollars or something like that,
like you gotta be hidden me.I think he sold the place in
the eighties for like wow, probablylike sixty seventy thousand dollars. So I

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grew up in JP and UM andso like all those guys grew up there,
and so my babysitter when I wasa kid. Was Joey's sister,
older sisters, so cool, thatwas the connection. Yeah, Boston is
a small world if you think aboutit, Like everyone knows everyone. Yea,
you know the Wallberg, Yeah,everyone is. I ran into Donnie
Wahlberg one time. I don't knowif you remember that. You wouldn't remember
this because it's been closed once thatremember a state, Yes I do.

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It was what's the store before Macy? What was that called? Jordan Marsh
No, it's out with an f. Oh, come on, you guys
know what it was? Less likeI was like two years old. Jordy
Marsh that was the thing, rightor Marshalls around too. I have no
idea what that. No, thereused to be like a wicked cool spot
in Freeming him. It was calledshoppers World. Oh it's still there.

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Well it was different though, itwas like they had like a train that
could. Yeah, it was completelywas the old the old Shoppers World.
Okay, now it's like real hightech and I'm gonna send you a photo
leader of files. That's what itwas. So that was like, so
you ran into Donnie Wahlberg and it'sDonnie Wahlberg one time at a state and
um, there was a party goingon and I was like, yeo,

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what's up man. We started talkingfor a second and I said, oh,
Louis Beller because I know you man, what did you go me?
That? It was super cool becauseDonnie out of all those dudes, like
written the songs with Jordan night beforewe back in the day. But um,
but like Donnie is the coolest.That's how I feel, the most
level headed business person of that wholegroup. Like he's just the coolest to
approach, like he was always myfavorite. All the other guys like you

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can approach him, but you don'tget the same vibe Donnie. Donnie's like
open he no matter what he's doing, he could be with his family,
not with this, Like he's justlike, hey, what's up, dude,
how are you doing? Like that'shis personality. The other guys are
kind of like a little more likeI'm busy kind of thing. They do
their own They do their own things, so which I mean, if I
were that famous, maybe I wentto their show last summer at the TV
Garden. It was so much fun. My friend and I best friend from

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college went to the North End Atedrank. Then we hopped on one of
those bicycle things, like you knowthe guys like driving to the garden.
I don't know why I carried inthe back. Yeah, don't know why
I didn't walk because it's like amile and not even but we hopped on
that. We had the freaking timeof our life at New Kids on the
Block, like so much. AndI hadn't been of their cont I hadn't

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been to one of their shows andyears, and oh my god, we
had so much fun. Yeah,I mean, you can't take the fan
girl like I'm the ultimate, likein Sync or justin timber Lake. I
did love, I did love andsake. I loved you know, I
loved their harmonies, the way thatgroup was put together. Yea, the
harmonies were so tight. It's Idon't know that even actually. And the

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songwriting, I mean the songwriters,Max Martin, all those guys that wrote
songs back in the days. Forthose guys, it's like, it's just
it's amazing. So you got anew you're here because you know I'm here,
came in to do some TikTok videos. It's just fun. But you
got a new song coming out.Zach Brown I love it. It's insane.
I appreciate it, but love onInstagram is crazy. It's like,

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how do you like react to thatwhen you see that people are like loving
that before? Well, Zach Brown'saccount liked it the other day and his
key will play a kit Um commentedon the other day. So I was
like, that was like the pinnacle, Like all right, it's getting out
there. People have noticed and somebodysent it to him or something, so
um, it's cool. Man.Zach Brown was a song I came up
on an airplane on my way toNashville to work with these new producers,

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and I literally was thinking of likebeing a friend Way. I'd just gone
into a game, and I thoughtof the concert I went to the year
before, and I was like,Yo, it'd be dope to write about
how Zach Brown brings this energy outof every place he goes to and my
particular home places. Fenway and Istarted singing a little the hook to one
of the producers and they all justwere like, Yo, this is it.
Let's go yeah, and I justI wrote the rest of the song

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and all on the plane. Onthe plane when was this how many months
ago? So I wrote the songa year and a half ago, Oh
Wow mixed, it had ready togo and we just decided to wait.
Wow because I had ain't trying tobe a cowboy came out and then Yepikaya
came out and were just putting outthese vibe songs that were really getting traction,
and I said, let's wait tillthe summer. Yeah, yeah,

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it's a it's a summer hit forsure. As an artist, you think
of that stuff when you were leasedsongs like I want to release it at
this time of the year because thisis what's gonna be happening type of deal.
Yeah. He was just kind oflike, it's a vibe you kind
of get with your team and youkind of like, you know, you
just you play records. You're sittingin the room, you play the record
you have, and you feel like, what moves what? You know?
What kind of vibe does this giveoff? And some songs just give off

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for chilling at the beach that you'recooler on you're listening to. Can I
say radio, Do they listen toradios at the beach? Is it more
like your little baby, Oh mygod, a little beam box? So
you listen to your listening device,whatever you make, and you just kind
of figure like, like, whatwhat's the emotion that this kind of captures?

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And I feel like it's important,you know what I mean? Like,
you know, winter time, yougot your Christmas songs, and then
you have your your emotional songs inthe winter. You could drop emotional songs
in the summer too. I meanit works sometimes ballad, yeah, exact
exactly. Yeah, but a lotof times you're hearing those upbeat, all
those viby songs, and this wasjust that. You know what, I'm
driving with my Jeep and I'm drivingdown the Cape with the top down,

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I'm just bouncing. That's want tobe bounced by people like Jep driving Yes,
stuck in traffic, stuck in traffic, blasted it to everybody. Yeah,
I think you should do that.Wait, you make STU can traffic
on ninety three. That's a goodidea. That love was the one you
wrote down earlier. I already forgotit was like, oh something airplane,

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No, you wrote it down.What was it? It was? It
was something good. I forget whatit was. I don't know. Drunk
was in there, drunk? Drunk? Drunk, get drunk hooking up,
hooking, making out, ye,getting drunk, making out something, wearing
cowboy house something like that. Yeah, oh my god, oh no,

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but that's that song right now.It's key, Like you know, um
at its course, say is thatfor every songwriter does the stuff different,
but like that's that's how it starts, like an idea comes out. I
mean I used to read that MichaelJackson used to write songs on toilet paper
rolls, and obviously we know whathe was doing on the toilet paper rolls.
He wasn't bringing him in his bedroom. So like there's no place or
time that that it's been like specificto writing song. Like you know,

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I have twenty five hundred voicemail messageson my phone. They have just little
like hooks, like the voice memo. Yeah, I'll be on an elevator
and I don't even wait. I'mjust like in the corner. I'm like,
oh sorry, it's like nine peoplein the elevator when the Hexas guys
crazy dude. But but it's likeyou get that vibe and you get that
line or the melody hook, andthen you save it and you may not
finish it that day, but you'llgo to the studio and eventually you complete

(21:15):
this song and that's you know,so that songwriting one on one. Well,
I can't believe you've had You've hadthis, like you know, for
over a year. Yes, it'sbeen sitting. I've been waiting and I
wasn't going to release it. Ihad another song that I'll play you guys
off air that we were debating onreleasing because we're gonna do an EP in
June. So I have seven newsongs, including this one, and uh,

(21:37):
we were going to do that midtempo Balady one. It was in.
It was on the queue to getreleased and then we are like,
wait a second, Zach Brown.Yeah, so you had it in the
backburner for a while. Isn't inthe back burner because I just was trying
to figure out do I put iton an album? Don't release? So
when is it? It's officially outin a week, Yes, in a
week, seventeen seventeen, okay,and that is a Wednesday. That is

(21:59):
a wednes Okay, that's all right. So wow, and I'm doing this
big private party at um Dabios thatnight in Boston and um it's a big
tech company and so I'm gonna I'mgonna do an acoustic I'm totally playing the
actual track in the middle of dinner. That's gonna pop it on and be
like a Hi, guys, Iknow we're doing acoustic member switching up right
now a song about Zach Brown.Oh, I'm so happy for you.

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Yeah, I think this is agood one. It is. I can't
complete a good stuff big summer foryou. Yeah, I've had I've had
a long career. Do you getnervous when you ever you release projects like
the EP that's coming out, Like, is it kind of like a how
was the engagement? Like how arethe fans going to react? Up?
A deal? Like? Do youever got nervous about that? Absolutely all
the time, Really, I getI get nervous every time I post a
video. Really yeah, because youdo it Like for a long time I

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was doing like number chasing and youjust like look because this whole it's the
same mentality as before social media whenwe used to I mean I used to
so um, you know, CD'sout of the trunk of my car literally
in Boston. I can give themout at the mall. It's all your
applausea like to try to get peopleto be fans right, So you always
want like back then, you didn'tknow when you gave him a CD did
they actually like your song? Becauseyou wouldn't know if they showed up to

(23:07):
your show. You wouldn't know whoyou gave these things out too. It's
all about the grind. So nowit's still that grind, but you can
actually physically see, Okay, Iput this out, I have all these
followers yea? Or how come there'sonly two thousand views and I have all
these followers? Like wait a second, what am I doing wrong? So
you start like self doubting yourself andbeing like was it the right video?
Didn't have the right lighting? Thiswas it the right song? Sometimes it's
about like timing when you post tootiming. You learned that years ago and

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now I forget the times. No, they we did this whole thing.
Hopefully my boss was near. Theytold us, like some of the best
even on days like like oh it'sWednesday, Like you want to post like
at these three times. One wasearly like eight am or something, because
then people see it all day.Yeah, it's a weird concept. They
taught us this in college. Thinkyeah, like as our time, do

(23:52):
you feel like the post I've putup today, got a lot of like,
ye, thank you. Curry College, curryval father used to be the
assistance off coach. What my sister'snumbers retired there as they're really white?
Hold on, she played your sisterplayed a Curry. My sister played a
Curry. That's how I met mygirlfriend. I met my wife a Curry.
She's a Curry alum. What myex wife's a Curry alum? What

(24:14):
else I got? Like, Ihave like so many connections to Curry College.
Oh my gosh, Yes, Iwent to radio school there. I've
played on that radio station many timesback in the day. That's what a
small world it really is, reallylike that's how I feel. I do
feel like Boston is a small world. Oh it's crazy. Well, like
even here, like your whole teamhere was earlier, like people knew what

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everyone in the station. That's whatthey say. You're walking through everyone's like,
Louis, Louis, I'm hoping theyoffer us some food. I'm looking
over there right now at them,seriously, no kidding, I want them
to offer us some food. Ido have a question for you, Louis,
so like, do you see allthe food they have outside that window.
The donuts are like very for allyou people who can't see the phone.
Oh, I'm taking a donut forthat. I think that's like that's

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good food. Wherever they got isthat? Yeah, salad is not good
food. Jessica, Sorry, ifyou were too, If you were to
categorize your music as a whole,what would it be like? How would
you not not more so genre,but like what would when someone says,
Louis Bello, what type of musicare you playing? So I feel like
my music is country R and B. So it's a mixture, yeah,

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like that. It's my my backgroundin R and B is where I grew
up in. Yeah, and mylove of country that I grew you know,
over the last ten fifteen years tolove. And it's like it's a
melding of that. So yeah,like that, I think, Um,
yeah, I think if you listento myself, it's like a country R
and like no one else is literallyno one else in country music. Yeah,
And I don't know it's a badthing. That's the problems. That's
what works. That's that's the uniquenessof your sound, you know, because

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literally no one else is doing it. It's awesome. You know what when
I love Tennessee, Ah wrote Tennesseewith me. He's sitting in the room
right here, Vincent King. Listen. I'm just gonna play just the first
second because I don't think we're reallyallowed to during like podcast you can do
you do five seconds? Okay?This place you're doing great has been a

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house good old days many time.They got to look it up Tennessee because
yeah, Tennessee was one of myown I love. That was like the
first one I think we played fromyou on back Heard Country, I think.
And I was like, oh snap, because like I always need you
as like the R and B hiphop. Yeah, well you want it

(26:29):
as funny is that I'm going todo a show, um, you know,
the Coumbling Mountains in a couple ofweeks in Tennessee, Okay. And
the people that hired me to doit. It's a huge car show festival
for three days and I'm headlining it. And they were like, jelly Roll
used to do this show back beforehe made it, and also the stuff,
and I was like, oh,sign me up. It's hot rods
and you're gonna fly me outber heroesand heroes, the bikini contest was not

(26:55):
a bad cell on me either.But um but they said to me,
like, you going to play thatsong Tennessee, right, And I was
like, well I wasn't, butyeah, dude, that is one of
my favorites for real. It is, yeah too. But as you grow
as an artist and you play songso many times, I feel forget about
it because you're like, you justkeep making more songs and then you become

(27:15):
attached to the new songs. Well, one of my favorite things to ask
an artist, you know, especiallywhen that's been established for a while,
if you were to walk but youwere here, if you were to walk
into the Duncan Music Lounge that's setup right now, and introduce yourself to
every single person that is here today, which is a lot of people.
So if you were to play threethree of your hits from you know,

(27:37):
dating all that are already out yep, what three would you play to introduce
yourself to this brand new audience.Well, I would say Tennessee would be
one of them. Hell yeah,I would say Tennessee yep. The second
one would I would actually play thenew one, Zach Brown yep, because
I feel like that's where I'm goingyeah, and the middle song would be
if I had a drum roll,I would say the whole song, Wow,

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that's so hard. According to mysources, two percenter could be on
there. Yeah you know what,but you know what I would say,
Oh, yippy Kaya Okay, Yeah, because yippy Kaya is another one of
those that's just it's such a it'ssuch a jam. You got a mix
up everything. Yeah, and JoeyDeal, who's the producer who produced that,
is actually m Brett Young's production manager. And so Um actually went to

(28:23):
Brett Young show a couple weeks agoand that was awesome. Thing out with
Brittany the whole time, which isawesome. Britney's hilarious. Yeah, best
last name in the business, Iknow. She actually just came back from
Nashville and she got a cowboy hatMaine and it says Bane on it.
Oh my god, I love her. If you guys do not know Brittany

(28:44):
bang yeah, follow her on Instagram. Love her. She'll be at a
country show probably, remember she supportseveryone is the best. So Um,
but yeah, those are those areprobably my Yeah, Yippy Kaya, Zach
Zach Brown and then Tennessee because it'skind of like a it shows a progression
of what I've done over the lastyear as an artist. Yeah, you
know, but my career has beenlike twenty years. So if you really

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dive back to so many songs thatdon't quite mix with what I'm doing now,
but I would never it's a hardquestion just associate myself with those because
that's what builts. Yeah. Imean, look like we talked about Lionel
Richie. I mean, the dudeis an R and B superstar, but
he was actually a country head andhe wrote so many country hits, which
no, not a lot of peopleknow. Nobody knows that unless you really
dive into Lina Richie. You know, I bet you people that watch American

(29:27):
Idol just know him as Lina Richiethe American Ado. You'd probably never listened
to his movie. Yeah, exactly, and he's like one of the He's
just this stuff is dope. Yeah, it's crazy. So that's cool.
Yeah, that's been my go toquestion later because you got a great response.
Are you ready for mine? Realquick? Yeah, before before we
leave Mount Rushmore artists, what isit top three if you would put him
on mountin Rushmore? I know there'sfour in Mountain Ushmore. But if you

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had three wow, just the three, I know there's four people, so
Stevie wanted it has to go upthere. Wow, Okay, all time
great Wow, Frank Sinatra, Ohwow um. And then I would have
to say Zach Brown, dude,and George Washing. I'm gonna do you
know what I'm gonna say. AndI know people might not think this person

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is like the greatest, but SamHunt, hell oh he's incredible. But
you know, but you know whyI say it, because he, like
I say, he flies under theradar in the sense like I feel like
Morgan Wallen just took the world bystorm. But I think before Hunt.
I met Sam Hunt at the Spotifytent at south By Southwest, and he's
the reason why I really dived intocountry because I watched him and people are

(30:33):
like, this is the next bigcountry artists. And he was singing R
and B rap and I go,he's not singing country. And then I
heard his sound and I was like, wait a second, he's melding that
stuff and he's talking on a recordwith country guitars, and I'm like,
so he really inspired me. Isaw creatively how he's morphed his sound over
the years. So I would saynumber four. Yeah, I like that.
You know what the Bobby Bone Show, I believe it was Ray just

(30:56):
mentioned that the other day. Didthey really that? Um? That Sam
Hunt was like the level of MorganWallace and then he you know, Sam
just took a step back. Hedid he could have released a touch just
like you know, he's not lookingfor the crazy like Morgan Wallen, young
Morgan Walls just like let me saw, He's taking it all in exactly.
Guys like Luca. So where caneveryone connect with you throughout your social I

(31:19):
would say the best one Instagram LouieBellow, Um online for all my show
schedules, Louiebello dot com. Ye, my TikTok is Louie Bellow Boston,
So follow for some cool tiktoks.I know we're gonna be in one yes,
Oh, and you're gonna make thisgonna happen tonight. So but um,
all right, So what's the scoregoing to be for the Celtics?
Oh? I say, um,double overtime? What the heck? Um

(31:42):
overtime? I say, double overtime? Man injured already? I say,
Celtics ain't gonna give up. They'rejust gonna go double overtime. And I
say, it's like like one fortyone, one thirty nine Celtics win.
Oh my gosh, I'm never goingto you gonna be so stressed. I
don't even know it's over. Ilove the Celtics, don't get me wrong.

(32:05):
Season's over. Hate to say it. Calling it here. Listen,
they got time, they got doubleovertime. So you know, tomorrow night's
going to be interesting because the ACMAwards are on and the Celtics playoff game
is on, and so that rightthere is like middle child syndrome to me,
because this has been my whole lifebeing a middle child. It's like,
all right, you get to dothis or that. My parents would
be like, you can go tothe beach, or you can go shopping,

(32:29):
or you know, you can goto the Red Sox game, or
you can go you know, here'swhat you do. You do second half
Celtics. I know, That's whatI tell them all the time. I
usually sometimes with basketball, it's likethe last ten minutes of the game,
yeast part of the game. Yeah, you understand the entire game. In
basketball, the last like fifteen minutesright, Yeah, I understand like what
happened the rest of the game,because it's everything's on the line, especially

(32:52):
a playoff game, you know whatI mean? Where is hockey you have
to watch from the beginning because youjust never know what's going to happen.
So, who's winning hockey this year? And I know that's not well,
it's the Canes, It's for sure. Didn't be the Carolina Caroline. I
couldn't even tell you was their games. So their head right now in their
series. So if they win tomorrownight, they're going to move on to
the next round. But last night'sgame they scored six goals. Yeah,

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but I think the Panthers are stillcrushing it, right do they. Let's
look, I think the worst teamin the NHL or something. They're like,
they just waked into the playoffs.They're riding high. Yeah, but
so do you as a questionner?Yeah, as a team that got bounced
in the first round, yep,and you were projected to go all the
way? Oh yeah, do youwant the team that whipped you to win?

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So you feel vindicated that sometimes theywant everything every night of the week.
So yeah, if the Panthers wintonight, they're going to move on
to round three. They should winthe whole thing. If the Bruins are
losing to them, Yeah, Imean sometimes I do, honestly, Like
with all the Red Sox losses yearsago, I'd be like, all right,
well, at least you know theylost on the team that want it

(33:58):
all. Yeah, you know,but best championship you've ever not even seen
in person. But if someone waslike, what was your favorite Boston Championship
one that I've been at, itwas a twenty and eighteen World Series.
One of the games. So weplay a lot of and so we do
the shows on Jersey Street. Um, and it was raining Dodgers one time,

(34:22):
so we had to go underneath oneof the games. I think you
might have been there too, untilthey closed off the field. Those lightness,
those Dodger fans and Red Sox fans. It was like a thousand people
and we would just jamming and everybodywas going and of course they ended up
winning, so it was amazing.So that whole experience I have a personal
connection to that. Dude. Thatteam was special teams. Yeah, that

(34:42):
was a fun parade too. Thatwas so twenty I feel like the Red
Sox have had a lot of stuffs. The first one that will be honest,
because my grandfather was still alive andhe was a you know, he
died about like six months after that, and he was like one of those
old timers that they say waited forthe Red Sox curse to break, and
it broke and then he passed away. So that first one we watched,
that was my favorite. I thinkthat twenty two thousand and four, hands

(35:05):
down. Oh when the curse isbroken, no one's ever got to me.
That was my favorite champion. Iwasn't there in person, but yeah,
yeah, because of the heartbreak fromO three. Of course, you're
probably two years two years old,two years old, he was two years
old. You must probably had aI was like drinking corona in like literally

(35:30):
calling people. Its funny that Iwas. I know exactly was that I
was in Newton, on the streetsof Newton when we won. Yeah for
real, I literally know I wasin You guys know what we really did?
You know what we really did.So I don't know how this happened,
but someone, someone, somehow knewtheo Epstein's number. But by accident.
It was like by accident, likethey had called you actually know someone

(35:52):
because he had called called the Thiswas like before social media, so he
had called and then it was like, oh, this is THEO Epstein can't
make it to the call, likeyou know whatever, and he saved the
number. And then after the RedSox won the World Series, he like
literally posted everyone should leave THEO avoicemail and then and then it went on
like the news the next day thatTHEO had to change his number because there

(36:13):
was like his mailbox was full fromRed Sox fans calling. He was the
best name I've left. So likesomeone I was with had like called and
we were all like, we loveyou, thank you for you know how
we saved those voicemails. I know, like fans called me and left.
I know, but well, thankyou for being here. Thank you guys.
That fun. Yeah, let's goCeltics when we go to see you

(36:35):
next, when you come back uphere, Well he's here, he lives
here. Yeah, so he justtravels a lot. I'm just down in
Nashville and down south all the time. So people literally think I'll live in
Nashville yeah, and then um,down Nashville, they like, who are
you? A lot of mass choosesare in Nashville. Oh my god,
yeah, so many times. Ilove that. There's gonna be my I

(36:57):
really want to host like a bar, a bar in Nashville and just have
it like New only New England countryartists do it cool New England verse everyone
or I like that. Yeah,and well I know, like, yeah,
you guys have the connections, youcan find the bar, but it
should only be like just New Englandpeople. And then you know, I
convite some of my I heeart friendsfrom Nashville to like, yeah, good,

(37:21):
what's the best Broadway bar to play? Al Deane's And that's what I
heart studios. That's a good time. Yeah, that's right, it's a
great choice. Yeah. I likethat. Buddy Maferranti plays there all the
time. Really he's kind of blowingup. But you know what I saw
Chris Ferrara at the justin tiber LakeRestaurant cub. Holy crap, that please
Dirty club is like a cop Yeahthat is my style of this is my

(37:45):
style. Yeah of course, yeah, shout out. But it's like Copple
on steroids. Dude. It's like, look, it is so fancy and
the food is so good for Nashville. It's so different on the sheet.
Yeah, Everything's Hockey is on Broadway. Yeah, it's at the start of
Broadway before it's brand new. Itopened open during the owner. Yeah.

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The food is so good, priceybut good. But it you don't have
to, but people do. It'sfrowned upon definitely. Oh yeah, No,
you gotta like black tie, likeum my buddy Sonny, and they
all knew Ferrari see him, andthey all came. He's so good and
they made them stand up in theback. They would you stay in the
back Chris, Chris Ferrara crushes it. So he's there. He's got like

(38:30):
a residency there. He he's probablyone of the best ax Um live shows.
And and um he's so good.Yeah, I know. He gives
me justin Tiplake vibes, like,yeah, his stage show. His guys
are all coordinated with their dance moves. So no, it's Sacks players and
they're all dance and they do.We had so good. We had so
good at game talk. I waslike drinking wine, eating steak watching It

(38:53):
was so good. If you're like, hey, pick your perfect night besides
going to like a Bruins game,yeah, Red, but you also did.
I literally would be like, Iknow I did that Nashville. But
if you're like, hey, what'syour ideal night, it would be to
eat steak, drink wine, andwatch like that is an ideal night for
Jessica, I will ideal for you. Dress up in a nice black dress.

(39:14):
Mean, while'm a hoggy dog centraldown the street. That's what's great
about nash You do it all spectrum. Oh that was fun, but yeah,
great senior, Yeah, Louie Bellow. All right, guys,