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Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation

Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation

By: Byron Kennedy
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On the road to realizing his standup comedy dream, Byron Kennedy found that being a funny guy kept landing him in gilded corporate traps. First from on-air radio talent to a lofty executive in the radio industry… then as a glitzy music executive. Now, he’s living the free-range dream night after night across the country.

In between being funny with his own unique brand of humor and dodging insults hurled from the audience he spends quality time interviewing other comedians, musicians, and interesting people on this podcast “Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation”... all while they chow down at his favorite hot chicken restaurant in Nashville, Party Fowl! Who can blame him? He’s Cage Free now!

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Episodes
  • Jelly Roll

    Jelly Roll
    May 3 2022

    On this episode of Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation, Byron Kennedy chats with his new friend and rapper, Jelly Roll over a delicious plate of hot chicken!

    • Mountain fairies, dime sacks and pizza
    • Taking those special kinda naps
    • A movie about Jelly Roll's life in the distant future
    • Going in and out of jail as a teen and young adult
    • Selling mix tapes out of his trunk
    • Plan A
    • Breaking out of the cycle and changing his future
    • The "art" of bombing on stage
    • Jelly Roll's emotional Opry debut
    • Crying in the shower
    • Plus... find out what kind of hot chicken Jelly Roll and Byron ate on this episode.

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    44 mins
  • Adam Craig and Jordan Walker

    Adam Craig and Jordan Walker
    Apr 12 2022

    On this episode of Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation, Byron Kennedy chats with his two friends and favorite songwriters in Nashville, Adam Craig and Jordan Walker!

    They talk about:

    • Making lucky bets -- the kind that wins you $20k+
    • Going on a West Coast radio bus tour with Byron
    • Moving from the band life to songwriting life
    • Working with Luke Combs
    • From onesies to undies on stage
    • Betty White -- "too soon."
    • Selling out at Zanies
    • Byron, Adam and Jordan wrote a song together!
    • Drugs
    • Comedians and country musicians
    • Sony revisiting their back catalogue
    • And a whole lot more very cage-free topics!

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    37 mins
  • Willie Barcena

    Willie Barcena
    Mar 22 2022

    On this episode of Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation, Byron Kennedy chats with his mentor, coach and comedian William Barcena. While they’re not sitting over a plate of hot chicken this time, the conversation is truly cage-free.

    They talk about:

    • Willie on the Tonight Show
    • Comedy Bits
    • Getting coached by Willie and dissecting the bad
    • Audience energy vs Comedian energy
    • Is Willie Barcena a comedy bully?!
    • Willie, Byron's morning show guy on the radio back in the day on KSFM in Sacramento
    • Building a studio in his house so Willie could work from home but the studio was "never working"
    • Byron firing Willie...
    • Willie encouraging Byron to do standup 20 years ago
    • Dentist visit or a porno?
    • And a whole lot more very cage-free topics

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    42 mins
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