Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to episode of the Boby Cast, which let
Speaker 1: me recommend that you check out some more other podcasts
Speaker 1: here on the Nashville Podcast Network if you're a sports fan,
Speaker 1: The Sore Losers which is Raymundo, Eddie and Lunchbox. They
Speaker 1: have that show Amy Has Four Things with Amy Brown.
Speaker 1: There's Velvet's Edge podcast. There's a lot. You can go
Speaker 1: to ums that the Nashville Podcast Network dot com and
Speaker 1: see all the shows. So we have a lot of
Speaker 1: shows and next year we will be building out even more.
Speaker 1: And so this episode one, it's the year end episode
Speaker 1: where I called Mike today and I was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's one of the last days we're gonna be in
Speaker 1: town before we jump away. We're I mean, I'm officially
Speaker 1: on vacation. What does say today? Monday? It is Monday.
Speaker 1: I was in Birmingham, Alabama. Today is it's our one
Speaker 1: day off on the Dancing with the Stars tour. And
Speaker 1: I was in my hotel room and I was like,
Speaker 1: I do not feel like sitting in a hotel for
Speaker 1: twenty eight thirty hours when home is like two and
Speaker 1: a half hours away. So I run into the car,
Speaker 1: just drove home. And I've been so uto the weather,
Speaker 1: mostly because I can't. I haven't been sleeping at all.
Speaker 1: I mean basically in four months I got Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars and started doing all that, and it was
Speaker 1: so physically demanding, and I think it just finally caught
Speaker 1: up with me. And then I've been on this Dancing
Speaker 1: When the Stars Live tour and um after I did idle.
Speaker 1: So I've just been sick. So I came home with
Speaker 1: Land a bit. But that Dancing Starts Live tour has
Speaker 1: been fun. I don't have to dance a lot, which
Speaker 1: is awesome. What do you do that? What do you
Speaker 1: do when you get out of here? So I do
Speaker 1: a little dancing, but I purposefully said, hey, I would
Speaker 1: like to dance as little as you can make me dance.
Speaker 1: I get dance anxiety now because I just think about
Speaker 1: dancing on that show and how nervous and anxious I
Speaker 1: would get. And I just don't like dancing like that anymore.
Speaker 1: Like I think I'm a better dancer four and I've
Speaker 1: always had decent rhythm, but you can tell if you
Speaker 1: watch the show. I wasn't the best ballroom dancer, and
Speaker 1: so I was like, hey, let me not do as
Speaker 1: many dances and so I do I host, right, So
Speaker 1: I host, and usually the host just goes out and says,
Speaker 1: here's what's happening and then leaves. And I was like,
Speaker 1: he says, I'm not dancing as much. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go out and do some comedy. So I go a
Speaker 1: hated like four different parts of the show, and the
Speaker 1: shows an hour and forty minutes, and I just do
Speaker 1: stand up related to Dancing with the Stars and it's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. And they weren't expecting it,
Speaker 1: and so um, I went out and rather than ask permission,
Speaker 1: I thought I would go out and just ask for
Speaker 1: forgiveness later. So I went out in the first you know,
Speaker 1: you go at seconds what was written on my card
Speaker 1: on the live show, and I was like, no, let's
Speaker 1: just see what happens. So I go out and I
Speaker 1: walked out and I tell three or four jokes and
Speaker 1: the crowd was laughing pretty good, and then they danced,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, no one told me not
Speaker 1: to do that anymore. So I went and again did
Speaker 1: more jokes and so yeah, it's good, and that the
Speaker 1: tour is really good, like those guys are such good dancers,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to run the tour. It's so good.
Speaker 1: So if the show does come by the live show
Speaker 1: and now you can afford because tickets are pretty steep.
Speaker 1: I think they're like six year seventy bucks. Um go
Speaker 1: to that would recommend you go to the show. You
Speaker 1: posted that picture and they're like perfectly sculpted human beings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nutty. How in shape and and they're also in
Speaker 1: shape because they've been in shape for so long, Like
Speaker 1: I I think they work out. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: they danced so much. I don't know. They have so
Speaker 1: many muscles up top it's insane. Sane. Uh, And they're
Speaker 1: they're really. Like I've always said about that show, I
Speaker 1: was never really loving the dancing part of it. I
Speaker 1: was always enjoying the people part of it. And I
Speaker 1: was always enjoying also the sociology of it, like trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to win something by not being
Speaker 1: the best at the exact thing you're doing. And like
Speaker 1: most things in life, it's it's never about let's you
Speaker 1: have a job as an account and you're trying to
Speaker 1: get a promotion. It's never about really just being the
Speaker 1: best account it it's about can you be a really
Speaker 1: good account and also be uh nice to people and
Speaker 1: be pleasant for your boss is to be around and
Speaker 1: be somebody who's trustworthy and be like, it's never really
Speaker 1: about what you think, it's about a big part of
Speaker 1: it is. And for me on that dancing show, I
Speaker 1: did get to be a better dancer, but to me,
Speaker 1: it was about all the other things in sociology with
Speaker 1: the human part of it and so uh that being said,
Speaker 1: the two things that I took away from that show
Speaker 1: was that one the people on that show were great,
Speaker 1: and I did that in that podcast you know what
Speaker 1: you didn't know, the true untold story. And then too
Speaker 1: for me it was I felt like if I could
Speaker 1: want a dancing show, because I've always had aspirations to
Speaker 1: be the governor of Arkansas, maybe be the president. One day,
Speaker 1: I left that show going, oh, I can't for sure
Speaker 1: do that, because I always wondered, because I've built a road,
Speaker 1: I've built a highway. By the way, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: back over all the ueer stuff. I don't need plan
Speaker 1: to talk about this. I felt like I've built this road,
Speaker 1: and I drive the car that I built down the
Speaker 1: road that I built, and we have all of our
Speaker 1: people that are all on the same highway with us,
Speaker 1: they know what to expect. They know every day when
Speaker 1: I come on the air, I come on the podcast,
Speaker 1: or they read a book, what they're gonna get there.
Speaker 1: They've kind of subscribed to me, and I've subscribed to them.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know if you put me on a
Speaker 1: highway that I didn't build, like Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 1: because those people didn't know me, then if that would
Speaker 1: still resonate. And it did, like like our message still resonated,
Speaker 1: and so I felt like, man, I really can do this.
Speaker 1: That show has inspired me to do you know, uh,
Speaker 1: bigger things, you know. So I think I was talking
Speaker 1: one of my friends who had been on the show
Speaker 1: last night, and she was on the show and she
Speaker 1: didn't win, but she didn't really well. And she was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I just love to dance. I love to dance.
Speaker 1: And she was like, do you love dance? Like no,
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I don't. Actually I think I like
Speaker 1: dancing less like the physical part of dancing. I think
Speaker 1: I like it less than I did. And then she
Speaker 1: was like, well, I don't feel like that you're taking
Speaker 1: the show stairs. They said, oh, you're wrong. I took
Speaker 1: something completely different away from that show than you did
Speaker 1: to me. It was not about learning to dan. It
Speaker 1: was about can you know what iron what we stand
Speaker 1: for actually be shared with people that have no idea
Speaker 1: who we are and they still embrace it. And it did.
Speaker 1: It worked, And so I think she was irritated because
Speaker 1: I won and she didn't win, and she really wanted
Speaker 1: to win. I did too, but it wasn't about I
Speaker 1: don't want to win because I was the best dancer.
Speaker 1: She wanted to win because she was the best dancer.
Speaker 1: So she's still irritated at me for winning. And that
Speaker 1: was where the conversation. She was like, I just feel
Speaker 1: like you're making light up and I was like, you're
Speaker 1: out of your mind making light of it just because
Speaker 1: I took something completely different away from it than you did.
Speaker 1: I said, it changed my life. And it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with dance. I was talking to um Or Shot,
Speaker 1: who won two or three seasons ago, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: he's NFL running back and he went on and one
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars and he loves dance because he's up.
Speaker 1: I think he's hosting a set of touring shows after
Speaker 1: I'm done loves Dance, has continued to dances, continue to learn,
Speaker 1: and he's like, how have you continue your dancing? And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I have it, and I'm not
Speaker 1: like I was never good at it and I I
Speaker 1: was only gonna get so much better. But it's just
Speaker 1: funny how the people what people take away from it,
Speaker 1: you know. And I've said before that always felt bad
Speaker 1: for Sharna who And by the way, Sharnon, I've grown
Speaker 1: much closer with humans since the show ended, because during
Speaker 1: that show it was just bam bam, bam bam. You're
Speaker 1: together all the time and you're trying to fit in
Speaker 1: human time in between training time. But um I was
Speaker 1: talking to uh him about how Sharna had to learn
Speaker 1: to teach differently with me than any of her because
Speaker 1: she had a bunch of athletes in a row, like
Speaker 1: six I think six athletes in a row are five
Speaker 1: athletes in a row, like professional athletes. And regardless of
Speaker 1: you know how to dance or not, if you're a
Speaker 1: professional athlete, you know how to use your body, you
Speaker 1: know what works what doesn't work movements. So when she
Speaker 1: got me was the first non athletic person she had
Speaker 1: in a long time, and so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she hadn't learned because I'm here here at the piece
Speaker 1: of paper and pin going three degrees, turned to the left,
Speaker 1: four degrees, left knee, leftknee, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: had to write it all down. And he was blown
Speaker 1: away by that. But every is different, everybody learns different.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal for me this last year.
Speaker 1: I guess we could start with that for me, and
Speaker 1: just because we came off of it, this is the
Speaker 1: year end episode. Uh, the Dance with the Stars thing
Speaker 1: was crazy for me. I really didn't know if I
Speaker 1: was going on it. I knew that I had I've been.
Speaker 1: So I started that year going out American Idol for
Speaker 1: just a few episodes, and it was really just to
Speaker 1: be honest, I was going on for one episode, I think,
Speaker 1: and I went on and they paid me not nothing,
Speaker 1: basically for free. I think I made a union, which
Speaker 1: is the bare minimum that you can pay somebody that
Speaker 1: you you can't have somebody work for you, which is
Speaker 1: why we can't have interns on our show that are free,
Speaker 1: because you can't legally have people work for you in
Speaker 1: certain places and not compensate them with something. And so
Speaker 1: I did American Idol. They pay me, and they pay
Speaker 1: me the minimum, and I was okay with that because
Speaker 1: I knew I could go on and hopefully do a
Speaker 1: good job. They would ask me to come back, and
Speaker 1: they did so I did the second episode. I got
Speaker 1: paid minimum, and again it was never, never, never about
Speaker 1: the money with that show. This is the first um,
Speaker 1: because I don't want they're paying me now, um, And
Speaker 1: so I go and then they asked me back. And
Speaker 1: then even at the end when I was doing episodes,
Speaker 1: they were paying me, but it was it was a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but it was never anything substantial. But
Speaker 1: I didn't need anything substantial to me, and that investment
Speaker 1: was let me just get on the show and see
Speaker 1: people like what I do and how I talk to
Speaker 1: people and hopefully how I teach people and how I
Speaker 1: interview people. And it was an investment. I probably lost
Speaker 1: money going in American out all the first of the year, um,
Speaker 1: But it's never about money with me. And so I
Speaker 1: was just talking to a friend who's getting into hosting
Speaker 1: and they were like, I have to lose money. I
Speaker 1: was like, who cares, Like, go invest in yourself. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's about taking, you know, two full steps back to
Speaker 1: be able to jump as hard as you can forward
Speaker 1: and so I do, I don't. It was a big
Speaker 1: look for me, and that's whenever I signed this deal
Speaker 1: with ABC. It was right after that, and so they
Speaker 1: were like, wow, you're cool and I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not really that cool, I'm just different. And they were like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're not that cool, but you are different.
Speaker 1: And so so I signed this deal with ABC for
Speaker 1: a whole network deal and they said, okay, we're uh,
Speaker 1: we want you to come to do Miss America. We're
Speaker 1: gonna sign get this idle thing lined up if Idol
Speaker 1: gets renewed. This is way or like right after Idol
Speaker 1: last season um and then mentioned Dancing with Stars and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it sounded to fun and theory
Speaker 1: um and and I was like okay. So a couple
Speaker 1: of months had gone by with this ABC deal because
Speaker 1: it was a whole world that they want me to
Speaker 1: like create shows for them too. I was like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: so Idol goes by, which is a huge look for me,
Speaker 1: and I was super pumped and just grateful they put
Speaker 1: me on a show and I was well received and
Speaker 1: I felt like they the team that was amazing they
Speaker 1: edited me wonderfully, and so I come off that and
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, uh, we're gonna work on a new
Speaker 1: deal and get you this full time on Idol. It's okay, great,
Speaker 1: this is like Mayor June of last year. They said, Okay,
Speaker 1: come to miss and Mayor Ka and then from and
Speaker 1: then after that, Man, Dance of the Stars would be perfect.
Speaker 1: And I've been mentioned before, but I didn't know, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, because I knew I had to
Speaker 1: like Mike when you're not talk. We had to move
Speaker 1: out there, and that was a big deal because we
Speaker 1: had to move out to Los Angeles, and I travel
Speaker 1: and do the show sometimes from other places if I
Speaker 1: do theater events, but to actually move somewhere and lips
Speaker 1: somewhere in a different time zone without the crew for
Speaker 1: months at a time, Uh, to me, I didn't know
Speaker 1: if that was fair. Uh. So we talked about it,
Speaker 1: and I was right in the middle of negotiating, uh,
Speaker 1: for me, the most fulfilling radio deal in my career,
Speaker 1: which I signed a five year deal this year, and
Speaker 1: it was it's everything that I ever imagined I could
Speaker 1: do in radio. I've always had aspirations of doing like
Speaker 1: a talk show on television. But I've always wanted to radio.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever get out of radio, and
Speaker 1: radio changes. Radio is gonna change. This is radio to
Speaker 1: me right now. This is radio too, So I do
Speaker 1: that idole. I put out a book, that second book,
Speaker 1: and I was scared of death. That book was gonna bomb,
Speaker 1: not because I wrote it any better or worse than
Speaker 1: the first book, but because I thought, what if that
Speaker 1: first book I was just lucky and I was like oh,
Speaker 1: And I was so subconscious to put in that book
Speaker 1: out and I was worried about myself. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a look at idiot. If it if people read it,
Speaker 1: and and it did, it did well. It was the
Speaker 1: best seller, and I'm one best seller and I was
Speaker 1: like wow, right off the idle stuff and I was like,
Speaker 1: it's really we're like cooking here. I signed a new
Speaker 1: radio deal and Dancing with the Stars was coming up,
Speaker 1: and it was like a week before the annalyce and
Speaker 1: we had we were still going back and forth because
Speaker 1: I wanted to do the show. I decided in my
Speaker 1: hard loner to the show, but because it overlapped Idol
Speaker 1: for a big for like a month and I don't
Speaker 1: wanted me to come on full time. And there's also
Speaker 1: another show on another country music show that was on
Speaker 1: a cable network. I believe it's it's over now, but
Speaker 1: they wanted me to come on and host the show.
Speaker 1: So for the first time in my life at all
Speaker 1: these oftens. And there's another show on Fox with the
Speaker 1: people singing the costumes that all those shows that come
Speaker 1: at me and they were like, hey, we think you're
Speaker 1: cool and out and I was like, oh, I've always
Speaker 1: been the same, Like Idol is the one that gave
Speaker 1: people the first look at me. I've I've i haven't
Speaker 1: got any better or anything. The people that Idol just
Speaker 1: took a chance on me first, so that all these
Speaker 1: decisions to make, and so which is a fantastic place
Speaker 1: to be. And so I'm stressing a bit because I've
Speaker 1: never really had these opportunities and I'm going, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do Dancing with the Stars, and I'm gonna tape
Speaker 1: Idol while I'm doing Dancing with the Stars. I didn't
Speaker 1: know how hard Dancing with Stars would be, or I
Speaker 1: didn't know that would be so bad, probably a combination
Speaker 1: of the two. Because most people can juggle things while
Speaker 1: they do that show. UM, so I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: committed to Dancing with the Stars and I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: do Idol in the last, you know, a few weeks
Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars, or as I thought, after
Speaker 1: I get kicked off, I'll go right to Idol, And
Speaker 1: that's what ABC said to But when you can talk,
Speaker 1: you go to Idol. Because nobody expected me to win.
Speaker 1: Listen when the Vegas odds came out, I was last.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even like middle. I was last. And so
Speaker 1: I go on Dancing with the Stars, as you guys know.
Speaker 1: And it's not that I danced wonderfully the first episode,
Speaker 1: but I got through it and I fell down and
Speaker 1: I made an impact. I just wanted people. There were
Speaker 1: thirteen people. I think. I just want people to know
Speaker 1: who I was. Um. And every week as I worked
Speaker 1: at getting better to be a dancer, I worked at
Speaker 1: how can I connect with people? It could be happy
Speaker 1: or sad. It's like a radio show, like how can
Speaker 1: I Connect with people? Funny? It didn't matter. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to be different. In my whole life, I've been different,
Speaker 1: and I always felt like that was a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Because everybody tell you how weird you are, how different
Speaker 1: you are, how stupid you are. But finally, in the
Speaker 1: last few years, I've really figured out that man being
Speaker 1: different is and being unique is really where the worth is.
Speaker 1: Because we're all different and unique. We just we see
Speaker 1: everything cool, We're like, oh, we want to be like that,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, we're one of a
Speaker 1: million millions and nobody pays attention. And so I was like,
Speaker 1: I wanna be gonna be different on this show. Um,
Speaker 1: My poor partner had to figure out how to teach me.
Speaker 1: I go to Dance with the Stars. There was a
Speaker 1: point at Dancing with the Stars that I was supposed
Speaker 1: to go do the American Idol auditions in the cities
Speaker 1: we supposed to fly around in. All season, I've been
Speaker 1: just killing myself relatively speaking, because I was doing the
Speaker 1: radio show every day, I was flying around doing comedy dates.
Speaker 1: I was training six, seven to sometimes thirteen hours a
Speaker 1: day dancing because I was taking that show so seriously
Speaker 1: and that I wanted to get as good as I
Speaker 1: could for the competition part of it, not so much
Speaker 1: to be a better dancing for the rest of my life,
Speaker 1: but because I was in a competition, and so we're dancing,
Speaker 1: and at one point they called and said, hey, ABC,
Speaker 1: call and said, don't come to the Idle auditions because
Speaker 1: you need to stay and keep you with Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Start now that we're gonna take me off the
Speaker 1: show where we're gonna there would two or three days
Speaker 1: at a time. I couldn't train, and I couldn't afford
Speaker 1: not to train even for one day. We never took
Speaker 1: a day off during the show, and so I, um, okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't really know what to think of that and
Speaker 1: right now and I'm just speculating because they said don't
Speaker 1: come to Idle and stay on Dancing with the Stars. Now,
Speaker 1: my judge scores are always like sevens and eights, occasionally sixes.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, either they know I'm going home
Speaker 1: them this week, or I must be doing really well
Speaker 1: in the voting and they can't have me be bad
Speaker 1: on the show, like really bad and still survive. And
Speaker 1: so it turns out, my what I think now is
Speaker 1: we were doing and I think I have a pretty
Speaker 1: good reason to think this, that Sharon and I were
Speaker 1: doing so well in the voting that they were like,
Speaker 1: you have a real chance to win this, you need
Speaker 1: to stay and do this. So they took me off Idle.
Speaker 1: So when they go to like Idaho and they're doing
Speaker 1: all the Charleston wherever they are doing, I'm not there
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to be there in those episodes, but
Speaker 1: they took me off those. But they still paid me
Speaker 1: because I was under contract and I just gotta I
Speaker 1: just got paychecks for all those A minute ago. I
Speaker 1: looked at my bank account and I was like, huh,
Speaker 1: what's this all for? Because I've only an Idol for
Speaker 1: like week and a half at this point. And but yeah,
Speaker 1: they still paid me for all those weeks because they
Speaker 1: took me off of I didn't pull out, they took
Speaker 1: me off the idol um. So I go to Dance
Speaker 1: with Stars. We freaking win the show. Crazy. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna quick recap of my year before I get to
Speaker 1: do the stuff. It's crazy. Uh, Sharon and I win.
Speaker 1: She hasn't won ever and she's been in the finals
Speaker 1: so many times. I was like the second worst dude
Speaker 1: dancer on the show, maybe the fifth overall worst day
Speaker 1: because there were people that were worst dancers than me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't the second worst dancer I was the worst
Speaker 1: in the finale. I was the worst after a while,
Speaker 1: this controversy because good people kept getting kicked off. But
Speaker 1: what people don't understand. People like, it's not a popularity contest.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. Half of it's a freaking popularity contest.
Speaker 1: And if anything, I think me and winning that show
Speaker 1: and job getting late is great for the show because
Speaker 1: I know people that they've asked to go on the
Speaker 1: show before and they go, no way, because the only
Speaker 1: people that can win that show are people that are
Speaker 1: great dancers. So why would I go on that show
Speaker 1: and embarrass myself. So now the people from dancing starts
Speaker 1: to go. Look, Bobby one and Joe went to the
Speaker 1: freaking semifinals, so come on, try hard, but you know,
Speaker 1: really like put yourself out there and you have a
Speaker 1: chance to go far. Um So as people keep going on,
Speaker 1: the show got canceled because of Bobby. Know, the show
Speaker 1: got cancel because I were doing three Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars at the same time. Basically what they did athletes
Speaker 1: and juniors and adults, and there was just a lot
Speaker 1: and American. I took that first full spring spot. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we talked about in the last episode, So I do that.
Speaker 1: I go to American Idol, we shoot Hollywood Week. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. It's crazy, and I thought it was. I
Speaker 1: didn't do Hollywood Week last week last year. I did
Speaker 1: it this year. Stayed up every night, was sick. UH
Speaker 1: fought through it. And here we are now today at
Speaker 1: the end of my year and review. As far as
Speaker 1: that goes, it's a crazy year. It's crazy. It's a
Speaker 1: crazy year. I'm gonna say this though. It's it's a
Speaker 1: year that has it sounds cool on paper because it
Speaker 1: was freaky cool. Don't get me wrong. Um a year
Speaker 1: have no balance though whatsoever. Nothing personally happened in I
Speaker 1: mean nothing. It was all super professional, one thing after
Speaker 1: the other, and I'm glad because I worked for that crap.
Speaker 1: But as I finished now the year, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't get a girlfriend that year, and it sucks
Speaker 1: to to have cool stuff and I don't mean actual
Speaker 1: material things that have cool stuff and not be able
Speaker 1: to share it with anybody. So in like one, I'm
Speaker 1: really gonna try on this personal thing. I'm still committed
Speaker 1: that I gotta I got a few more years of working.
Speaker 1: I know I'm more a way too hard for uh.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm milking this thing. Man, there's my window of
Speaker 1: these opportunities that don't feel it's very big. It's not
Speaker 1: like I have this really elite talent that I can
Speaker 1: go I'm good. Let me turned down to I don't so,
Speaker 1: uh yeah. Is pretty good for me on this on
Speaker 1: the professional side. On the personal side not so much.
Speaker 1: Is you know, a year of I mean you literally
Speaker 1: for three months I did nothing except work. Just I
Speaker 1: mean in the dancing was working and work. That's it,
Speaker 1: and then and then go to sleep and then do
Speaker 1: it again, and you know it's I'm back now for
Speaker 1: Christmas Hall Days. And by the way, don't feel sorry
Speaker 1: for me. I've I've chosen this life and I believe
Speaker 1: to have something amazing in your life, you have to
Speaker 1: sacrifice other things. Because I know people that have amazing
Speaker 1: personal lives and they're like, man, I wish I would
Speaker 1: have worked harder. I'm like, dude, it's just grass is
Speaker 1: greener wherever you are, there's always something cool over there.
Speaker 1: And so I have friends that have wonderful families and
Speaker 1: I'm so jealous, and he's like, yeah, they're like, man,
Speaker 1: I just wish I would have you know, stayed and
Speaker 1: spent more hours doing this at work, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but then you wanted to have the family, Like, you
Speaker 1: only have so many points, and it's like mad and
Speaker 1: the football players, you know, they give you a hundred
Speaker 1: points and you can put them in you know, twenty
Speaker 1: two of them in speed and eighteen of them in
Speaker 1: agility and twelve with them in strength. You only have
Speaker 1: a hundred points put in different places, put all hundred
Speaker 1: of them and professional and my football player has zero
Speaker 1: points in his personal life. And so but you know,
Speaker 1: I chose that I put the points there. It's a
Speaker 1: fantastic here for me professionally, I would have been able
Speaker 1: to do it without people that look like listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast. I think part of my strength is I
Speaker 1: come in numbers, and I know I represent a bunch
Speaker 1: of people. And so that's why I say we so much.
Speaker 1: I don't even mean just the radio show. I mean
Speaker 1: like the people that listen, and I catch myself on
Speaker 1: the air of talking about we, and yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a I come with numbers and for now, like,
Speaker 1: I represent my people and they don't always have to
Speaker 1: let me do that. So but I'm very grateful for that.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that happen in UM.
Speaker 1: I was looking back at some of the biggest news
Speaker 1: stories and I always wish I would have kept a
Speaker 1: journal every year. When the year ends, I go, you
Speaker 1: know what, I should have kept a journal the whole year,
Speaker 1: because then I could just really nail these end of
Speaker 1: the year things. I never do, so I end up
Speaker 1: googling what happened, and I have a bunch of stuff. Musically,
Speaker 1: I'd like to start with this, and I've picked ten
Speaker 1: songs for different reasons. It's not like just a top
Speaker 1: ten songs, but I put them in top ten. Uh
Speaker 1: and you hear why every single time at number ten
Speaker 1: as I do my top ten of the year, here
Speaker 1: is Jilly and Jack and Sad Girls. It's two day.
Speaker 1: You don't have The reason I picked that is I'm
Speaker 1: just a massive fan of Jillian as an artist. And
Speaker 1: she put out a Side B which was second half
Speaker 1: of Side A, and I'm just such a fan. I
Speaker 1: just like going people that I really enjoy their music. Also,
Speaker 1: I think Jillian is awesome as a person. I took
Speaker 1: her out on tour for for a bit too. She
Speaker 1: opened for my comedy shows, right or sheen bridging Idiots,
Speaker 1: comedy shows, comedy shows. Yeah, so I put Jillian Jackline
Speaker 1: at number ten because she came out and opened for
Speaker 1: a bunch of my shows. And what's cool is when
Speaker 1: you can take someone out and be a fan of
Speaker 1: them at the same time. So she was at opening
Speaker 1: shows for me and I was just a massive fan. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a two part podcast with her on this too
Speaker 1: if you search it back, and I think it's only
Speaker 1: two parts because we were like forty five minutes into it.
Speaker 1: We were like, well, we're gonna talk for a lot
Speaker 1: more time, so let's just split it up, right. Is
Speaker 1: that whether like she came back Jillian Jacqueline Sad Girls
Speaker 1: at number ten, at number nine my top ten of
Speaker 1: the year, Scotty McCreary five more minutes. Now, why this
Speaker 1: song not my favorite song? May I like the song,
Speaker 1: but it's not like I'm picking this one of my
Speaker 1: favorite songs. But what happened was is that Scotty had
Speaker 1: sent me this song. He didn't have a record deal
Speaker 1: and the song wasn't out, and it was one of
Speaker 1: those that I was like, wow, that's really good. Let
Speaker 1: me let my listeners decide. And so That's why I
Speaker 1: say we it's it's such a numbers game with us.
Speaker 1: And so I played this song and you couldn't even
Speaker 1: download it yet, and I was like, yeah, like that.
Speaker 1: Everybodys are tweeting we like that. I'm like, all right, cool.
Speaker 1: I remember getting Scotty on the phone and him going,
Speaker 1: I'll put we'll put that online. And now I can't
Speaker 1: remember this wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not it.
Speaker 1: So they put it up, plays it, it propels and
Speaker 1: you know whatever on the streaming and digital charts. Then
Speaker 1: he gets a record deal because of it. Then it
Speaker 1: goes number one. It's the first ever number one. I
Speaker 1: have a plaquet here, yeah from and I don't keep
Speaker 1: many plaques in here unless it's something super personal to me,
Speaker 1: because they throw those things out like candy if you're
Speaker 1: in the business. But because that was one of those
Speaker 1: songs that it wasn't even out yet heard, it was like, dude,
Speaker 1: you gotta get that out. I was also like, dudes,
Speaker 1: a little too long and get a short a little
Speaker 1: it was like four minutes and um, but I put
Speaker 1: that number nine because good for Scotty, good dude. I
Speaker 1: love the song. When I heard it, and we made
Speaker 1: it it, we gave it legs and then it made
Speaker 1: itself a hit. But that's why I put at number nine.
Speaker 1: It was a good, good story for us and Scotty
Speaker 1: and just like the good guy winning one Um and
Speaker 1: Scotty and number eight Marion Morris, I could use a
Speaker 1: love song. This song came out in but it hit
Speaker 1: number one in January, and it was her first ever
Speaker 1: freaking number one after she had just crushed it in
Speaker 1: My Church should have been a number one and people
Speaker 1: were like, it's no researching, and I'm like, you're idiot,
Speaker 1: and so my Church wasn't number one, and then after
Speaker 1: it was dropped, it was like the highest testing song,
Speaker 1: you know. And with all these radio I think these
Speaker 1: radio people driving me crazy, obviously, But good for Maren.
Speaker 1: It was her first number one song. And I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of Maren as a person and as an artist,
Speaker 1: and you know, I had no Marin for a while,
Speaker 1: and I put that at number eight because it's not
Speaker 1: my favorite song on that album and that Hero album,
Speaker 1: but it was her first number one, and I think
Speaker 1: it was a big deal for country music and for
Speaker 1: her and for females and for just that whole thing.
Speaker 1: So number eight merimors. I could use the love song
Speaker 1: top ten of at number seven Lindsay l Criminal mostly
Speaker 1: well all the way because it was written about me.
Speaker 1: There you go, let me say, and it was her.
Speaker 1: It was her first top twenties song for her, it
Speaker 1: was the biggest deal. But and talk about that while
Speaker 1: it was out, did I know? I kind of shut
Speaker 1: it down because we ended up having to break up
Speaker 1: because it was just too much stress and pressure on
Speaker 1: her because I remember she got kicked out of a
Speaker 1: radio studio of another company because she was dating me,
Speaker 1: and so that was the beginning of the end of
Speaker 1: our romantic relationship, which sucks because it was actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's really good sometimes, but that song was learned about me,
Speaker 1: and so number seven, Yeah, listening to the words, that's right,
Speaker 1: it's all about me, like Kells, that's funny. I considered
Speaker 1: not putting that in the list, but I felt like
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be honest because when I wrote these down,
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, when I put on this list,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's a lot of that record. I was
Speaker 1: heavily an influence of go back and read all those lyrics,
Speaker 1: not all as well I'm scared of her next record.
Speaker 1: Get the opposite number six David Lee Murphy. Everything's gonna
Speaker 1: be all right, just because it's a gym and because
Speaker 1: Davidie Murphy is old school and new school at the
Speaker 1: same time. And there's a good Bobby cast with Davidlee Murphy.
Speaker 1: I liked the guy a live. I didn't know him really,
Speaker 1: I met him and he still wrote a bunch of
Speaker 1: songs on Nashville. But by the way he is, You're
Speaker 1: gonna be a little dust on the bottle, big country
Speaker 1: song if you listen to country music. UM, huge song
Speaker 1: in like the nineties. But he came back. I think
Speaker 1: he's maybe sixty six. I think so yeah, and good
Speaker 1: for him, and everybody loves him in town. And I
Speaker 1: met him at a Toby Keith concert. I was opening
Speaker 1: up Eddie and I were opening up for Toby Keith.
Speaker 1: He was watching on the side google his age and
Speaker 1: that the first time I met him. And but the
Speaker 1: first time I heard that song, I remember driving and
Speaker 1: I was like, there's this guitar riff that goes and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't have those things song, but
Speaker 1: that's a jam and uh, I just loved it so much,
Speaker 1: and it was good to see him. He's not on
Speaker 1: a major label, it's good to see him. Uh have
Speaker 1: a number one song, Okay, so basically goo ahead, good
Speaker 1: for him, number five. Just love this song. And I
Speaker 1: think I told Brett when he was in here, like
Speaker 1: this is one of those songs I listened to and go, Man,
Speaker 1: that song speaking to me. It's Brett Eldridge the Long Way.
Speaker 1: It's like sappy song where it's like, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to meet you, can then take me the long way
Speaker 1: around your town and tell me all about you. And
Speaker 1: I was like, man, that song speaks to me because
Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for. And then uh, I put
Speaker 1: that at five for a couple of reasons. One because
Speaker 1: I loved that song. That's my favorite song of his ever.
Speaker 1: And then I think I went number one. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if went number one. But also
Speaker 1: Bright and I become friends. Casey Musgrave's the number four
Speaker 1: with slow Burn, which has been my favorite album over
Speaker 1: the year. I've kind of had to stop saying that
Speaker 1: because it started to be the cool thing to say
Speaker 1: once she won the CMA for Album of the Year
Speaker 1: and had to be like when I was a Cubs.
Speaker 1: I've been a Cubs fan my whole life, and when
Speaker 1: they won the World Series, I had to stop saying
Speaker 1: I was a Cubs fan because everybody became a kind
Speaker 1: of fan all of a sudden, and I knew in
Speaker 1: my heart I was a Cubs fan, so I didn't
Speaker 1: even need to say it anymore like I was. I
Speaker 1: am a true, die hard Cubs fan. So when when
Speaker 1: it became cool to like the Cubs, I knew in
Speaker 1: my heart I didn't need to share like the Cubs
Speaker 1: anymore because everybody liked the Cubs. But I felt good
Speaker 1: about it because I was a freaking Cubs fan from
Speaker 1: the beginning. Same thing with I'm just a huge Casey
Speaker 1: fan of all the like new newer artists in the
Speaker 1: past twenty years, like Gartha Side, like Casey Musgrabs is
Speaker 1: my favorite country artist. So yeah, slow Burn at number
Speaker 1: four because that album was so good. Number three on
Speaker 1: my Top ten Songs of the Year, The Middle from
Speaker 1: Marion and z and all this just because holy crap,
Speaker 1: this this was the jam of the year, possibly the biggest.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't like a pop charts anymore,
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest song of the year. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: if not from charts. The Target commercials had this song launched.
Speaker 1: You know, people are like, oh that sun, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: they put millions of dollars into it at the very,
Speaker 1: very very beginning, and it was on every Target commercial
Speaker 1: maybe during the Super Bowl, if I'm thinking, were the
Speaker 1: premiered and so what a massive look for her. Like
Speaker 1: I told you earlier, I liked mare in a whole
Speaker 1: lot and this song just the jam. I remember her
Speaker 1: playing in the middle of her set at the I
Speaker 1: R Country Festival again. She played all her songs and
Speaker 1: then she plays the middle the freaking place exploded, and
Speaker 1: I think it was the first time she'd ever played
Speaker 1: that herself, like as a Marion Morris song without the
Speaker 1: other guys, Like she didn't go up with Z and
Speaker 1: changed the who are the other news else on it?
Speaker 1: The traveling will Berrys whoever it is? And I remember
Speaker 1: because I was talking to her before she performed and
Speaker 1: she was like, it's the first time I want to
Speaker 1: play it, and I recorded it. I went back and
Speaker 1: talked to her after and I was like, oh, the
Speaker 1: whole arena was athlete bonkers, because as an artist you
Speaker 1: have these ears in and and it kind of cuts
Speaker 1: off the sound to the outside, and you keep these
Speaker 1: ears in so you can hear all the instruments playing.
Speaker 1: Because if you're just playing in a loud arena, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of instruments playing around you, you can't really
Speaker 1: hear anything. So that's why they keep those ears in
Speaker 1: their ears, those ear monitors. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the whole place erupted. And she didn't need me to
Speaker 1: tell her, but we've had that conversation, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to show the video. But yeah, that song was that.
Speaker 1: That's just a jam. Number two my favorite Keith Urban song,
Speaker 1: and this ang was never a single at radio. I
Speaker 1: do believe it was just nominated for a Grammy though oddly,
Speaker 1: uh it's Keith Urban parallel line no Babe, Babe. This
Speaker 1: is from his Graffiti You album, which I really liked,
Speaker 1: and it was one of the few times and I
Speaker 1: have a pretty good personal relationship with Keith, always stuper friendly.
Speaker 1: Was always a good relationship. But I remember, and I
Speaker 1: don't listen to music early with artists, um, but I
Speaker 1: remember I went over to Keith's house and and he
Speaker 1: has a whole studio in his house and he was like, bo,
Speaker 1: listen to this Cassie Ashtion has on the Cassi Ashtion
Speaker 1: on the album, and then I don't know, I kind
Speaker 1: of a like I really liked the record unfairly, maybe
Speaker 1: because I get to hear some stuff earlier. I don
Speaker 1: remember why I was even over there. It's about something else,
Speaker 1: but anyway, that song is my favorite song from that record,
Speaker 1: and I really liked the record, so I put it
Speaker 1: at number two, and that song is a jam and
Speaker 1: number one of my top ten songs of the year.
Speaker 1: Dan and Shay Tequila still just a com play game
Speaker 1: changer for these guys who they just go, They grind
Speaker 1: it out, they try all these different things. They get
Speaker 1: there under a pre shaded in our format. But man,
Speaker 1: what massive hit for them that song and meant to
Speaker 1: be and meant me. It's probably a bigger song. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't depending on what standards, but that's
Speaker 1: my number one song, Tequila. But I just separated them,
Speaker 1: and I was upset for them. They didn't win any
Speaker 1: of the c m as. I didn't care which one
Speaker 1: they won, because that's and listen, everybody who won the
Speaker 1: cmas that they were up for was deserving of it.
Speaker 1: I just thought they pulled at least one of the
Speaker 1: three they were nominated for, but throughout for a couple
Speaker 1: of Grammys too. But those are two dudes that Dan
Speaker 1: and Shade. They're in like my class, meaning we started
Speaker 1: at the same time. I came and started to do
Speaker 1: my thing right when they joined together and started their thing.
Speaker 1: And I remember the first time that they had that
Speaker 1: song twenty three You and Me or nineteen You and
Speaker 1: DNA testing Kid, and I remember they just put it
Speaker 1: out and I was playing it and not it was
Speaker 1: really good for into them separately and not I used
Speaker 1: to do digital for us, And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this guy sound like like the country Savage Garden. They
Speaker 1: really could have took that the wrong way or the
Speaker 1: way that most people would have taken it. And they did,
Speaker 1: and they were like that's funny. And they came up
Speaker 1: and they did Savage Garden. I knew I loved you
Speaker 1: and it was and I was like, Okay, these guys
Speaker 1: are down, like it was just being cool and the
Speaker 1: joke doesn't always have to be they can actually be
Speaker 1: like if the joke's on me, as long as I'm
Speaker 1: in on the joke, I'm cool. Like make fun of
Speaker 1: me all you want um And they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: make fun of us, let's come perform. I did, and
Speaker 1: we became friends. And that's the game changer for them.
Speaker 1: And that's my number one song of the year. Dani
Speaker 1: Sha had tequila there. It is all for different reasons there,
Speaker 1: but that was It's a big, big, cool year for
Speaker 1: those guys. That song, I think kind of crossed over
Speaker 1: a little bit some the other things that happened in eighteen.
Speaker 1: There was the uh and you do you think back,
Speaker 1: how big is this big? This thing was for like
Speaker 1: a week and how stupid it is now? But it
Speaker 1: was the Yanny or Laurel and everybody would hear different things.
Speaker 1: So here's the clip, now, laure what do you hear
Speaker 1: ny And I think every clip, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: hear Yanny. Now what did I used to hear? Do
Speaker 1: you know I think Yanny. He's like a different version
Speaker 1: of it. Okay, I hear Yanny all every time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe the show all heard Laurel and they all yelled
Speaker 1: at me because I was stupid, But I really hear Yanny,
Speaker 1: and you hear you hear Yanny. But yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of marriages broke up because of that sad time. On June,
Speaker 1: those those Thaie boys at soccer team, they went hiking
Speaker 1: in a cave and they got trapped and that was
Speaker 1: and then we all just watched on the news hoping
Speaker 1: that they would they would get out of there, and
Speaker 1: tie Navy steals end up freeing all of them and
Speaker 1: their coach after eighteen days. And I remember it. They
Speaker 1: were like the rain's coming, what do we do? And
Speaker 1: the and like Tesla, it was like and it was
Speaker 1: like man um so that happened. I think one of
Speaker 1: the thin Navy stills died too, right like early on
Speaker 1: in that like one person died, but it was one
Speaker 1: of the rescuers. Rita Franklin died. In August. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Royal wedding happened, in which I actually kind of cared about,
Speaker 1: not because I care about the Royals, but because I
Speaker 1: watched The Crown on Netflix and the Crown is true
Speaker 1: true because I Wikipedia and Wikipedia is ninety percent true,
Speaker 1: and so I got really into the Royal family because
Speaker 1: I just felt like I was watching another episode of
Speaker 1: the Crown on Netflix, and so it's interesting to me.
Speaker 1: And then also the dude in the Royal Nous what's
Speaker 1: the name, Harold pre Terry. He married someone that had
Speaker 1: been married before, was an American and was by racial
Speaker 1: which I think was all new to that, Like here
Speaker 1: in the in the States or here talking you and I,
Speaker 1: that's that's just a normal person. But to that to
Speaker 1: the royal family, I think they have these crazy rules
Speaker 1: where they all that SIVI isn't supposed to happen listen.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just watched The Crown once on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Thought it was good. It does a little boring at times,
Speaker 1: but I still learned a lot. But yeah, that happened,
Speaker 1: and um, Megan Markle and she was on I didn't
Speaker 1: watch Suits. Watch That would be weird though, if I
Speaker 1: would have been a big fan, because I could see
Speaker 1: where fans of of that show would go, well, that's
Speaker 1: weird with this character that I like, Like I think
Speaker 1: about you know, if Maggie from The Walking Dead, you
Speaker 1: know it was marrying a prince and it was I
Speaker 1: would be like, that's the weirdest thing, that freaking zombie
Speaker 1: killers marrying a prince. So the people that watched Suits
Speaker 1: probably had to be weird that a little bit by
Speaker 1: that A crazy thing was Bill Cosby just like what
Speaker 1: an awful dude? Huh? And who knew forever? And that
Speaker 1: I was watching on CNN they had this whole special
Speaker 1: and clean comic watching the History of Comedy Ever. I
Speaker 1: watched that. I was on the bus traveling with Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars, and it was what it was a
Speaker 1: whole like our unjus clean comics because they do this
Speaker 1: series the History of Comedy, and they were talking about
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby and how he was like the best clean
Speaker 1: comic and the juxtaposition of how he's just the worst human.
Speaker 1: On stage he was the cleanest and funniest, and off
Speaker 1: stage he obviously just the worst. It was raping people
Speaker 1: and so uh, this is the year where he was
Speaker 1: convicted of aggravated indecent assault. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: that means. I just know he's a rapist, right. He
Speaker 1: sent us to thirty ten years in prison. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: die in jail. Um yeah, I mean, like, go away,
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby. He just said it for so long on
Speaker 1: it was never caught and that sucks, but that was
Speaker 1: a big deal. I mean, Bill, you can't even catch
Speaker 1: the Cosby Show on TV anymore, you know. Was that's
Speaker 1: such a good show. I remember Aimy talking about she
Speaker 1: was annoyed because that show was so good that she
Speaker 1: liked her and her kids would like it. And now,
Speaker 1: of course you can't keep the Cosae show on the
Speaker 1: freaking rapist. You can't have that so um and all
Speaker 1: those people that worked on the Cosby show that we're
Speaker 1: getting paid, Yeah they lost. Yeah, Macmiller died. Now I
Speaker 1: think maybe you were a bigger mcmiller fan than I
Speaker 1: wasc Miller. I really knew him mostly as Ariana Grande's boyfriend,
Speaker 1: and I'm really not that much about Ariana Grandey, but
Speaker 1: I know him most from that. But he was just
Speaker 1: a white rapper, right, Yeah. I saw The first time
Speaker 1: I saw him was with a little Wayne who did
Speaker 1: a show in Austin. I want to go see him, Like,
Speaker 1: was this guy? Oh you saw him live? Yeah, it's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was good. He died mm hmm. Oh. You know.
Speaker 1: Because I'm looking at notes that freaking climbing raccoon, and
Speaker 1: because it was like the climbing raccoon, I was like,
Speaker 1: what does that even mean? In the summer of eighteen,
Speaker 1: a raccoon climbed this skyscraper in Minnesota and we watched
Speaker 1: it or like is he gonna fall and when we
Speaker 1: would track it was he gonna fall off and dies.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make it. That freaking raccoon climbed at the top.
Speaker 1: He climbed the entire skyscraper. How about that, the climbing
Speaker 1: even thought about the climbing raccoon. George H. W. Bush
Speaker 1: just passing in his funeral that's pretty recent. Um on
Speaker 1: November twenty, he passed away. Uh, that's that's sad. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought you about that, the thing that came from that,
Speaker 1: and I don't I'm not sure how old he was.
Speaker 1: Nine lived a long life, right, I hope to live
Speaker 1: to be ninety four years old. But I can tell
Speaker 1: you for me, what I found the best about after
Speaker 1: he passed was that both sides red and blue, Democrat,
Speaker 1: Republican hobody just kind of got along for a minute
Speaker 1: because he was just a good dude, meaning he did
Speaker 1: he served in every capacity, and it was like, man, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't know personally, I don't know. I got a
Speaker 1: duty was every day. But to look at his credentials
Speaker 1: as a public servant, he did it on all levels,
Speaker 1: including serving in the freaking military and crashing up like
Speaker 1: and so you saw both sides go like that sucks,
Speaker 1: and because it sucks for both sides, it kind of
Speaker 1: felt like both sides kind of were together. And so
Speaker 1: as sad as that was for people who knew him,
Speaker 1: to me, I didn't know him, it was almost like
Speaker 1: a breath of fresh air afterward. Even at the funeral,
Speaker 1: you were sad, but in a way of like there
Speaker 1: was like a real beauty too. President Obama, George his son,
Speaker 1: President Bush's son, Hillary Clinton, all of them there together,
Speaker 1: anybody screaming each other in a little boxes on TV.
Speaker 1: So yeah, rest in peace to him. Um. There was
Speaker 1: speaking on you Gone day here and Pete David she
Speaker 1: said what happened with them? Because he wrote on Instagram
Speaker 1: and he was like the kill himself. And then I
Speaker 1: see the machine gun Kelly Again, I don't even know
Speaker 1: these people except for TMZ puts them up on my feed,
Speaker 1: machine collized. The Rappers came after Eminem like flies in
Speaker 1: against their boys, and then Pete davidsone on SNL like
Speaker 1: three hours later. Yeah, but he only did the intro
Speaker 1: to Miley Sires and that was it. But I guess
Speaker 1: it was more of a hey, let's show people that
Speaker 1: like we got him, we're under control, like he's surrounded
Speaker 1: with good people. Right, m hm. That was I followed
Speaker 1: that engagement a bit because why I think Pete pet
Speaker 1: Davison's super funny. It's really funny. Didn't he get um
Speaker 1: like clean, he got through like rehabbing it clean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think he started smoking again fairly recently. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I started to like follow his story after
Speaker 1: he got clean, and then like, here's a nerdy, funny
Speaker 1: dude dating this super hot chick, and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I like this. So I started like and then all
Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff happens, like where they get
Speaker 1: tattoos and engaged, and I mean, but now it just
Speaker 1: seems like getting engaged. I was like first base now
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, alright, alright, but they get engaged. That's swipe left,
Speaker 1: expect left or swipe right whatever. Um what else that
Speaker 1: post Malone had It was up in an airplane, and
Speaker 1: they were like, well, as tires exploded, we're not sure
Speaker 1: if the plane's gonna end, and he might die, and
Speaker 1: so we all, much like we watched the Raccoon, we
Speaker 1: watched post Malone flying round up in the air and
Speaker 1: so he was one of sixteen pastors on a private
Speaker 1: jet and I mean, think about this for a second.
Speaker 1: Upon takeoff, the tires blow out. So the whole time
Speaker 1: you know that what's about to happen is dangerous. And
Speaker 1: I was just like for then blow out, like right
Speaker 1: before we land, so it's only like a minute. I
Speaker 1: gotta worry. Like the whole time, they're worried that we
Speaker 1: gotta get down. And so he was on his way
Speaker 1: in England and performing a festival, and so I think
Speaker 1: what they did is they burned off a bunch of
Speaker 1: fuels flying around and flew around the whole time knowing
Speaker 1: their tires were blown out. His manager was like posting
Speaker 1: on into the story, is right. I guess I had
Speaker 1: why find the plane? Come on, Um, there we go,
Speaker 1: Thank you hit the wrong button. Lebron goes to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Roseanne bar tweets and they cancel freaking the biggest show
Speaker 1: on TV. I sometimes smart people can be so dumb.
Speaker 1: And I've done some really dumb things, not anything down
Speaker 1: the same lines of that where people are like she's
Speaker 1: tweeting racist things, um, which I thought she tweeted something racist.
Speaker 1: I've done things like set off. Yeah, yes, and get
Speaker 1: find a million dot like really dumb things. But just
Speaker 1: the scale of she had the biggest show on all TV.
Speaker 1: It was doing I'm not sure what it was doing
Speaker 1: at one point because I don't the numbers are are
Speaker 1: so low now in general because there's so many options,
Speaker 1: But it was doing like tens of millions of viewers
Speaker 1: and gone just like that. You know, we learned from
Speaker 1: those kids freaking we are racist and if you are, well,
Speaker 1: you need some need some help, then if you take help,
Speaker 1: then shut up. Um who knows. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe that a massive show like that,
Speaker 1: And good for them for pulling it, because I think
Speaker 1: it's set a precedent to like, don't we don't have
Speaker 1: any room for racism here. So that's that was a
Speaker 1: big story though, and they pulled it quick. It was
Speaker 1: like ABC, you know, they got pulled to an emergency meeting.
Speaker 1: They sat around like what do we do? And you know,
Speaker 1: I applied them for making a decision. I got no
Speaker 1: room for racism in my heart, and I was like,
Speaker 1: well they just regardless of the reasons that they talked
Speaker 1: about in the room, I don't know what they talked
Speaker 1: about in the room wasn't in the room. But good
Speaker 1: for him for setting that precedent, like you want to
Speaker 1: be a racist or if you want to be like,
Speaker 1: we don't have room for you here. And you know
Speaker 1: that goes for a lot of a lot of the issts.
Speaker 1: We have no room for John McCain died. I saw
Speaker 1: that that sucked. That was another one of those this
Speaker 1: year where you get where people kind of came together
Speaker 1: a bit. Most people came together. And again what he
Speaker 1: spent more than five years as a pow and they
Speaker 1: were gonna let him out earlier because he had some
Speaker 1: privilege and he said, nope, not leaving, Alma, dudes leave,
Speaker 1: So he stayed for five years. He said in the
Speaker 1: pow camp. I mean that's a hero. That d is
Speaker 1: straight hero. Anthony Bourdine died. Isn't it crazy though? Too?
Speaker 1: Now how fast news stories can come and go and
Speaker 1: it's like onto the next you had a double check it.
Speaker 1: That happened this year. That happened so fast, even if
Speaker 1: it's a big thing, it's like all right, there it
Speaker 1: is and like you go, huh, Like when anton A.
Speaker 1: Boor Daine died, it was a big big, big, big deal.
Speaker 1: Now it's not even really a thing unless you were
Speaker 1: super close to him or really really watched the show.
Speaker 1: The show is during another season. I think they're about
Speaker 1: the show, so it'll kind of come back up. I
Speaker 1: think a season he shot before he died. But um,
Speaker 1: it's crazy how many things happen and just move uh.
Speaker 1: In country music, Keith every one entertainer of the Year,
Speaker 1: which was crazy. Um. And again I speak from a
Speaker 1: bias place because I really like Keiths, but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of It's weird for me because I had
Speaker 1: the luxury being friends or at least friendly with a
Speaker 1: lot of these people, and so I think Staple Tom
Speaker 1: was up there, Al Dean was up there, Luke, Kenny
Speaker 1: and Keith and Keith one and I don't think Keith
Speaker 1: was expecting it. And so that was a really cool
Speaker 1: moments at the c M. As Country Music carry Underwood's
Speaker 1: face injury. We were the first show ever coming. We
Speaker 1: were the first interview she did when she came back.
Speaker 1: And I just think that was not because I'm some
Speaker 1: stellar interviewer, which I am, by the way, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm the best. But I think it's that
Speaker 1: she felt comfortable that I wasn't gonna take her somewhere
Speaker 1: she didn't want to go and carry and I have
Speaker 1: worked together and UM and even socially and even with
Speaker 1: the American Idol we share people like agent people like
Speaker 1: I just think that, Uh, there was a trust with that.
Speaker 1: And she came in on the show and I know
Speaker 1: that she was nervous about it, and it's up on
Speaker 1: YouTube and and good for her because they listen. There
Speaker 1: was some stuff that I didn't none of us knew,
Speaker 1: but apparently it was so bad. She didn't know she'd
Speaker 1: be able to sing against stitches like in her face,
Speaker 1: and that's her tool for for work, Like she had
Speaker 1: fifty stitches in her tool that she makes a living
Speaker 1: off of, which is singing. And so that was the deal.
Speaker 1: Nashville was canceled. Uh, sugar Land got back as a band,
Speaker 1: which was cool for me because Christian Bush and Christian
Speaker 1: and I are UM. He's hafter sugar Land. Christian and
Speaker 1: I are super close, UM, and we wrote some songs
Speaker 1: together and they got back together. So I was happy
Speaker 1: to see that. I think that's most of the year. Um,
Speaker 1: here are the highest rated TV events of the year.
Speaker 1: Are they all sports. Sports is the only thing that's
Speaker 1: going to keep people going in at set times to
Speaker 1: watch television. Myself included, meaning I watched network TV shows.
Speaker 1: I really I don't watch them when they come on
Speaker 1: and and listen. I'm not going on alone by saying
Speaker 1: this in anyway, because everyone sees it happening. But the
Speaker 1: live and maybe maybe not just sports, but live events
Speaker 1: are going to be really what keep people at networks
Speaker 1: or at appointment television times. Otherwise we're just gonna watch
Speaker 1: things want to watch them. There's no need to gather
Speaker 1: around the TV set. Who and again, who's watching TV
Speaker 1: on TV? All the time? I watched eight five percent.
Speaker 1: I consume probably eighty five of my visual media through
Speaker 1: my laptop on my phone. The only thing I watch
Speaker 1: on TV is I'll turn it on if I'm going
Speaker 1: to sleep to watch Friends or if Competential is playing
Speaker 1: The Office over and over. I don't have to think
Speaker 1: about it. I just keep it on. I don't really
Speaker 1: watch TV anymore unless it's the Super Bowl number one,
Speaker 1: the World Series number two, the NBA Finals number three,
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics number four, and the Stanley Cup Finals
Speaker 1: number five. You have to watch those because if you don't.
Speaker 1: One you wouldn't go back and watch it and replay anyway.
Speaker 1: And two it's such a big story that it's all
Speaker 1: out there on the internet. You can't get on the
Speaker 1: internet that's seeing the end of it. Um. But even
Speaker 1: some live shows, like I would say even like Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars, I'll give that as an example, because
Speaker 1: I'm on there like that shows live and there's something
Speaker 1: to live shows. And that's gonna be what keeps, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, people watching network television because you're seeing these
Speaker 1: numbers go way down in and live consumption, because why
Speaker 1: would you unless you just happen, there's no point to
Speaker 1: ever go. Gotta get home back in the day, guy,
Speaker 1: get home, freaking full House is gonna be on, And
Speaker 1: if I'm not in my deal on the cow, I
Speaker 1: don't get to see it. And it wasn't like anyone
Speaker 1: knew how to record on their VCR when they weren't there.
Speaker 1: The only way that we could figure out how to
Speaker 1: record on the VCR was if you put the blank
Speaker 1: tape in push record play and then record it. And
Speaker 1: you were already there anyway. So yeah, there was no DVR.
Speaker 1: There wasn't even really a boot like DVR back in
Speaker 1: the day, unless you had a friend recorded for you
Speaker 1: Like that was DVR, someone who was smart enough to
Speaker 1: have a VCR and could put a blank tape in
Speaker 1: for you and record it and then get you the
Speaker 1: blank tape because you weren't putting a blank tape in
Speaker 1: with a timer on a BCR. I couldnt even walk
Speaker 1: the clock on a VCR, much less the timer. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the deal for for networks live shows,
Speaker 1: you know, even like American idolm on that. So I'll
Speaker 1: speak on that, those live shows where you vote, that
Speaker 1: would be something that keeps people watching the voice. What
Speaker 1: else happening live now that you can watch and vote,
Speaker 1: because if it then you fall off and you see
Speaker 1: it on the internet and you go, yeah, But anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's that deal. But has been freaking crazy, man, for me,
Speaker 1: it's been crazy. I had a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of new things happen, you know, career wise. I you know,
Speaker 1: I've often said that I'm so lucky to be so
Speaker 1: exhausted and man like, right now, I'm peat tired. It's
Speaker 1: almost happened to be open. Like I drove home for
Speaker 1: one day today just because I can lay on my bed.
Speaker 1: I'm driving back to Birmingham in the morning to do
Speaker 1: a show and then drive back from Birmingham tomorrow night. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm so lucky to be so tired because I've worked
Speaker 1: so hard to have these opportunities and has been been
Speaker 1: nutty for me all around. I'm healthy, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: not healthy right the second, because I have this this
Speaker 1: I don't know what I have. I have some sort
Speaker 1: of like mixture of like mad cow and the sniffles,
Speaker 1: and they mix just right where they will not go away.
Speaker 1: And I've taken every bit of medicine I can take.
Speaker 1: But here's the problem is I haven't been sleeping still
Speaker 1: because they're there, and that's that's where it all comes.
Speaker 1: Your body just can't get better if you don't rest it.
Speaker 1: So after I finished the show tomorrow night in Birmingham,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sleep. I have no plans for the
Speaker 1: holidays except to rest, and most time I go like,
Speaker 1: oh why wait await, but I need the rest. One
Speaker 1: and two, I didn't put in any work to cultivate
Speaker 1: anything like relationship wise to have anything to do with
Speaker 1: the holidays, So I don't know. I don't feel sorry
Speaker 1: for myself. Some years I'm feel sorry for myself, and
Speaker 1: then some of your I was just an idiot, Like
Speaker 1: when Wendy now were dating, I didn't go to her
Speaker 1: place for Christmas. I just was like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go to Canada because what does that mean in
Speaker 1: my mayor right now, I gotta go spend family and
Speaker 1: I don't like I have a TV in the bedroom
Speaker 1: and I don't sleep. I can't sleep it up TV.
Speaker 1: And then then and I freaked myself out. So I've
Speaker 1: either been an idiot or sorry for myself. Or this
Speaker 1: year it's like I put all my eggs into this
Speaker 1: basket and so I we're never a big fan of
Speaker 1: the holidays, but this year I'm actually pretty good because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break from from everything. Make it
Speaker 1: on this app, on this Yeah. Well I've been on
Speaker 1: this app a little bit, this dating app. I haven't
Speaker 1: met anybody from it, but i've been on it, ray
Speaker 1: familiar with it, I'm aware of it. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: back on it and then and there's really nothing everybody's
Speaker 1: in Like other states, are you supposed to have a
Speaker 1: dating thing. I'm not flying anywhere else. I have time
Speaker 1: when I go to California to work, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're in l all the time. Look got cool you are.
Speaker 1: I'm like, when I'm in l A. As soon as
Speaker 1: I land, I drive to work, or I drive right
Speaker 1: to go to bed so I can work the next
Speaker 1: day and then I have my real job, which is
Speaker 1: the most important job to me. Twenty Team was also
Speaker 1: a year that I think my company was testing me
Speaker 1: a bit. We're like, okay, go and do your stuff,
Speaker 1: but if raidings go down while you're doing it, we're
Speaker 1: gonna bust your balls. And even like Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 1: and I think I even wonder, like what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but I think and this was the first year that
Speaker 1: actually brought someone into actually like look over things, and
Speaker 1: Mike was that guy, and it was just like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's end. The ratings went up, went far, significantly up,
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that, and a lot of that was
Speaker 1: new audience coming in from the TV show. But also
Speaker 1: we kept the show a real priority. Um, even when
Speaker 1: you know, we were out of our comfort zone and
Speaker 1: you had to take on a lot more this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we went hard man a lot more. A lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: there would be times in the car and Mike would
Speaker 1: be briefing me on things. I felt like the president
Speaker 1: going to me and he's like, Okay, here's what I've
Speaker 1: never worked more from the back of the car this year. Okay,
Speaker 1: happening all right? Al didn't had to have the baby, right,
Speaker 1: and he's feeling pretty good about it, and I'm yeah.
Speaker 1: So when we would get there and I'd be in
Speaker 1: the know, I'd be sweating and just disgusting, and the
Speaker 1: show would have to deal with me being just so tired,
Speaker 1: and if I was so tired as of the loopy
Speaker 1: happy or just cranky. But we did it, man, we
Speaker 1: did it, and we're here, and um yeah, I'm A
Speaker 1: big takeaway from eighteen is that it's a jam packed
Speaker 1: year and I have learned that hopefully what we do,
Speaker 1: I can do on a bigger level and hopefully continue
Speaker 1: to represent the people even better than that. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that dancing show and I say that it wasn't
Speaker 1: a dumb show to me, and it's not dumb show
Speaker 1: to them, but people that don't know about Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars just the dumb dancing show. But that dumb
Speaker 1: dancing show really shifted on the amount of like just
Speaker 1: the amount of good that I feel like I can
Speaker 1: do for other people, because I feel like people will
Speaker 1: listen if they can just be exposed. And I just
Speaker 1: want to keep a good message so people can hear it,
Speaker 1: and so like that's my goal. Show me that I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have won that show. I did win the show,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I should have won the show
Speaker 1: because because I did, I should have won it based
Speaker 1: on past standards where just good dancers came in who
Speaker 1: cares um, and we broke the show in a way
Speaker 1: of they won't cast that show the same anymore, and
Speaker 1: I think more people will be a part of it.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, um, even with the American Idol,
Speaker 1: they brought me on because I wasn't famous and I
Speaker 1: would talk to people like a normal human and on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars, I was a normal human. I
Speaker 1: think it's the year the normal human, That's right. I
Speaker 1: think the normal human one one this year. So we
Speaker 1: won one, folks, the normal human one one this ship.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Chalk one up for the normal human
Speaker 1: the just okay looking uh, nothing too fancy about him
Speaker 1: talking with an accent. Uh. Normal humans got one score
Speaker 1: ones for the little guy. All right, this has been
Speaker 1: twenty what's been your takeaway from your mind? You have
Speaker 1: something here. I mean, I think a big thing for
Speaker 1: me this year was doing the comedy stuff like that
Speaker 1: was kind of towards the beginning of the year where
Speaker 1: you gave me that slot of opening for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, man, you ever done you ever
Speaker 1: thought about doing comedy? I know you like comedy and
Speaker 1: you're right yeah. I was like, hey, what don't you
Speaker 1: do a few minutes? Okay, all right? And then you
Speaker 1: went out to open mic nights and just bombed over
Speaker 1: and over again. Not so brutal, man, and not because
Speaker 1: you weren't funny, but because the crowds were there to
Speaker 1: watch like a tuba player someone do slam poetry, um.
Speaker 1: And Yeah. You would go out and work on material,
Speaker 1: and then you opened up all year on tour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: learned about yourself, my little extra money, You got a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Did get a girlfriend for the first time in your life,
Speaker 1: first time ever. Look at you like you well, thank
Speaker 1: you all. This probably will be the last episode of
Speaker 1: the year. Possibly not, I don't know. It depends on
Speaker 1: if Mike and I are like, hey, your bored, uh?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to get one on. Um, I gotta
Speaker 1: go back. I go to bed and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go dance tomorrow and then I'm gonna be done. Don't
Speaker 1: forget check out what what should promote here? We have
Speaker 1: their ears anything Amy? Check out again as people really
Speaker 1: liking that four Things podcast. It's about four things. I
Speaker 1: don't know what things they are. They're all different things.
Speaker 1: Every time she breaks it up, it's four different things. Uh.
Speaker 1: And good for her because it's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 1: People love that. Amy. And then lunchbox, Eddie and Ray
Speaker 1: have their sports Shelfie like sports. How is that thing going?
Speaker 1: It's going good? Yeah? I like them. Yeah, they talk
Speaker 1: about sports and they yell at each other. Uh. They
Speaker 1: yell at each other for about ten minutes at the beginning,
Speaker 1: then they talk about sports. They do. Yeah. I would
Speaker 1: listen at first, and then I was like, I hear
Speaker 1: this every day, Like I'm in the room with him
Speaker 1: all the time. No, it's changed since just I'm like,
Speaker 1: what has it's gone too? Like, all right, let's do
Speaker 1: this first and then we'll get into it. Oh yeah, instructure.
Speaker 1: Now we'll look at them. I'll also be checking that
Speaker 1: out all right, thank you very much, Episode one The
Speaker 1: Bobby Cast, Americ Christmas, Happy New Year. If I don't
Speaker 1: uh see you before then or if you know hear
Speaker 1: from me to appreciate you on Instagram, Mr Bobby Bones,
Speaker 1: and have a good with everybody. By Burn