Speaker 1: Eggs and baky timed awakey, it's the Bobby Bones pre show.
Speaker 1: You should leave in the part where you go, am
Speaker 1: I doing the intro?
Speaker 2: Is that recorded? No?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's like Kobe Kellyan's everybody. We haven't started the
Speaker 3: show yet with thought, we give you a fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: By the way, this is a bit self serving for
Speaker 3: me as well, because I can actually warm up a
Speaker 3: little bit, because yeah.
Speaker 1: It's much like a pro athlete. People don't think that
Speaker 1: you gotta stretch. Yeah, I gotta get loose like even brain.
Speaker 2: Yeah you feel that Yeah, yeah, yeah, stretch that brain.
Speaker 1: I mean I we're just like doing commercials and countdown
Speaker 1: and it's a both of us thing, so it's not
Speaker 1: just an amy thing, and maybe more one of us
Speaker 1: than the other. I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, times I would say this week it's strong me
Speaker 4: and I don't know why I even I'm aware of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We have trouble reading early in the morning because things
Speaker 1: aren't firing.
Speaker 5: We're thinking, we're talking.
Speaker 1: There are times if I don't sleep, like I feel
Speaker 1: it in my gut that I can't say words back
Speaker 1: to back even in the middle of a cent. Let's
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna say the dog walk down the street.
Speaker 1: Like if I got no sleep and you think you
Speaker 1: just come and do the job, I'd be easy. You're
Speaker 1: just talking. But it's there are mornings where you just
Speaker 1: don't feel as good. And we try not to talk
Speaker 1: about that because I wouldn't care if I were listening
Speaker 1: to somebody the didn't feel as good. Just shut up
Speaker 1: and do your show. Yeah, but there are mornings where
Speaker 1: it happens, and I'll come in and like the dog
Speaker 1: walk down the street, or I just can't connect them
Speaker 1: because they didn't get sleep.
Speaker 2: You guys had some hard ones though, like More and
Speaker 2: Morland or who's.
Speaker 1: No Tucker wet Moore more and we're doing countdown, it's
Speaker 1: like Tucker web.
Speaker 2: More and more more. That's hard, not more so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rascal flats on Today's show, which you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: in the podcast if you didn't hear it on the
Speaker 1: live show. And I did not know two things about that.
Speaker 1: I did not know they hadn't all been in the
Speaker 1: same room together until this room here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty crazy, mind blown.
Speaker 4: I think right after they said it, I go today
Speaker 4: Yeah wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that, and I have a I
Speaker 1: would say very close relationship with Gary where we'll we'll
Speaker 1: just text as friends, not very closer than like a
Speaker 1: buddy see and you're like, good to see you again,
Speaker 1: Like Gary and I will text his friends. I know
Speaker 1: Jay a little bit, Joe don not as much. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I wish Gary would give me the heads up.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't though, because maybe I'll have treated it differently.
Speaker 1: But when they said that in the interview, they were like,
Speaker 1: this is the first time I'd been in the same
Speaker 1: room in five years.
Speaker 2: I was like, shocking, what.
Speaker 1: And I had a text from I'll just go full disclosure.
Speaker 1: My PR person is their PR person, and so she
Speaker 1: was like, they're really nervous, and I was like, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That means it matters to them.
Speaker 2: But you didn't know that they hadn't seen each other
Speaker 2: in five years.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't. I wasn't including on that at all.
Speaker 2: So it makes wouse that they were nervous. I'd be nervous.
Speaker 6: Too, how I mean, my question is how do you
Speaker 6: come up with this idea to get back together if
Speaker 6: you've never been in the same room.
Speaker 1: I don't think I know it's because it's we talked
Speaker 1: to them, right now ask them the questions. They answer
Speaker 1: the questions, I'll give you my opinion based on their
Speaker 1: answer and probably how I think it happened, which is
Speaker 1: mostly what they say. It was one of those rare
Speaker 1: situations that after the interview too, I left my desk,
Speaker 1: I went to the room where all the crew was.
Speaker 1: I never do that, not that I don't care about folks.
Speaker 1: As soon as they leave, we're on or I'm on
Speaker 1: to the next thing, because I got a stack of
Speaker 1: stuff to do.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 1: Anytime that we're here, we need to get the most
Speaker 1: out of it, so then you guys can go home
Speaker 1: and not worry about it. But I don't go and
Speaker 1: walk because then you have to do I don't like
Speaker 1: small talk for people I don't know, but I love
Speaker 1: their manager. He has been there for me early on
Speaker 1: in my career whenever things were going to crap. He's
Speaker 1: also Reba's Manager's name's Clarence Spaulding.
Speaker 2: He was in the hallway lunch bus. We walked gray
Speaker 2: hair guy.
Speaker 1: That will like punch in the face, give me a hug. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Clarence is also Brooks and done. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you specifically, Claire, but I think
Speaker 1: you know Darius for a while, maybe still Darius. So
Speaker 1: but Clarence and I used to go to dinner together,
Speaker 1: and again, I don't do that with anybody under the
Speaker 1: you guys, so let's him. So I wanted to go
Speaker 1: say hi to Clarence and the crew. And since I
Speaker 1: know Clarence and I know the Flats guys, I imagine
Speaker 1: if they would have split up and all three of
Speaker 1: them would have thrived in their individual efforts. This probably
Speaker 1: would have happened, but not so quick. And I think
Speaker 1: they were all starting to rebuild their efforts. And I
Speaker 1: think when you're so famous and so successful, you just think, Okay,
Speaker 1: if I go do something myself, it's going to be
Speaker 1: just famous and successful, without realizing it's the group dynamic,
Speaker 1: that it's a big part of it, right, And so
Speaker 1: you have and we'll start with Gary Lavox as the
Speaker 1: lead singer.
Speaker 2: He's doing club shows.
Speaker 1: He had to kind of start over and be Gary
Speaker 1: Lavaux of Rascal Flats and instead of playing to fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand people, it's a thousand and a club because he
Speaker 1: wants to sing and.
Speaker 2: He's putting out some new songs and.
Speaker 1: It still wasn't Rascal Flats, so he's starting over slowly
Speaker 1: building it, but not from scratch, but slowly building it.
Speaker 1: Jada Marcus Lunchbox, who was sitting on the left side.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know who they are.
Speaker 2: Okay you do? Yeah, good because you rarely do. That's
Speaker 2: cool you do.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have known Jay's name util you said it
Speaker 6: during the interview.
Speaker 1: Okay, but when I say that, though, you're so. Jay
Speaker 1: plays bass but is super utility, can play anything, produces.
Speaker 1: He started a record label, and I think I'm sure
Speaker 1: I knew a hard that was going to be.
Speaker 2: But that's really hard having a record labels. You have
Speaker 2: to have somebody.
Speaker 1: You have to have somebody just get super lucky and
Speaker 1: be able to finance the label or just your paying
Speaker 1: out of your butt forever. For example, like Morgan Wallen's label,
Speaker 1: and obviously Morgan's really good, but that hit so hard
Speaker 1: that funded their whole label for a long time to
Speaker 1: give them a shot to launch other artists like Lightning
Speaker 1: in a Bottle. Lighting in a Bottle that had happened
Speaker 1: quick with Morgan, but that's a rare independent label that
Speaker 1: blew up quickly, but they needed that to happen or
Speaker 1: it would have taken forever. So he started I think
Speaker 1: a risk called Red Street Records. Yeah, and it's artists
Speaker 1: Christian artists, and that they're starting to actually do a
Speaker 1: thing now. But it's taken five years to even have
Speaker 1: a shot. And then Joe Don's been going through a
Speaker 1: lot of his issues with alcoholism. You know, he's been
Speaker 1: sober now a while, so he's been dealing with that
Speaker 1: and he's clean now, which we talked about. And I
Speaker 1: think if they wouldn't have had the struggles, they could
Speaker 1: have probably I got like together for another few years.
Speaker 1: But I think they missed it. I think when that's
Speaker 1: your identity, when you're want of Rascal Flats and you
Speaker 1: love to play these and these shows are twenty thousand
Speaker 1: people and that was our life forever. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: every time they go anywhere as Rascal Flats, they are
Speaker 1: celebrated like crazy.
Speaker 2: Individually they're like, oh, look at that.
Speaker 1: That's one of the Rascal Flats. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And think about the other two.
Speaker 1: Their own lead singer probably even less because it's like
Speaker 1: you can't even sing the songs. All I do want
Speaker 1: to hear the singer sing this song so and then
Speaker 1: the money. And it's not that they need the money,
Speaker 1: but if you can have money coming in, then you
Speaker 1: don't feel a weird about spending money.
Speaker 4: We wondered about that, but then I googled they're not worse,
Speaker 4: and not that that's accurate, but.
Speaker 2: I would say I would say.
Speaker 1: That's so, it's just not that accurate. There's a bit
Speaker 1: of bait. It some gives you an idea.
Speaker 2: H oh, no, they're rich, they're rich. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: No one gets rich that wants to get rich and goes, well,
Speaker 1: I'm rich, I'm good. That's not a thing. It's like
Speaker 1: I won one super Bowl. You know what, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna play fooball anymore. I'm going to try less. No,
Speaker 1: you're driven to create, and you start to have hits,
Speaker 1: you want more hits. You're making a lot of money.
Speaker 1: You want to make more money, whatever it's for to
Speaker 1: buy stuff or to help people or whatever the case is.
Speaker 1: So I think it was a bit of all of that,
Speaker 1: and they probably all individually were kind of itching, but
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to make their call. And Clarence, I'm assuming,
Speaker 1: was like, I'm this part up because I know Claren said, Hey,
Speaker 1: mother efforts, jo Don's healthy, Gary wants to sing.
Speaker 2: Jay, what are you doing? You running a label? But
Speaker 2: you can go tour.
Speaker 1: You're doing it. Jay was doing like a radio a
Speaker 1: band of like a bunch of people from other bands.
Speaker 2: Supergroup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was called Sounds like the Radio or
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know what the group was.
Speaker 1: But he would sing like the Rascal flat songs that
Speaker 1: didn't count.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't sing.
Speaker 1: He's not a singer, right, And so I think it
Speaker 1: was a mixture of all that. And then it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, if you want to do it, you gotta
Speaker 1: be uncomfortable and whatever it is, it's keeping you guys apart.
Speaker 1: You got to get over it. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be friends forever. You have to be friends on this tour.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they're not because I don't know
Speaker 1: what their dynamic is right this second or what it's
Speaker 1: going to be. But you don't have to be friends.
Speaker 1: Just work together. But go make people happy, Go perform together.
Speaker 1: Muscle memory he has done a million times, right, go
Speaker 1: make your money. It's called the I thought it was
Speaker 1: called like Sounds Like the Radio or something.
Speaker 2: Huh. The Rise above.
Speaker 1: When you look at I think maybe he did another
Speaker 1: band too. It doesn't even matter. Sounds familiar, no, it's
Speaker 1: it's not familiar no, because they don't have any songs
Speaker 1: or anything.
Speaker 2: So who are the guys?
Speaker 1: Jay somebody from Journey?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh, the guy who's talking about what Mike some from
Speaker 1: But if you go to his instagram, Generation Radio that's
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 5: Jener.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think maybe they change the name Generation Radio because
Speaker 1: all those people who had songs when on the radio
Speaker 1: and like people would be.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, I wait to listen to the radio. Got it.
Speaker 1: So I'm very excited they're touring again because I do
Speaker 1: like them all, and I think their tour will sell
Speaker 1: really well.
Speaker 2: Even though it's only been.
Speaker 1: Five years, they've been a legacy group for like fifteen.
Speaker 1: Do you think they were offended when I said, guys,
Speaker 1: I said this on the radio, so I want to
Speaker 1: say it in front of you don't put out new music.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think they've knew that was the thing.
Speaker 2: They know what's up? I hope.
Speaker 4: So what if they were like, actually, we just did
Speaker 4: it well.
Speaker 1: And if they would have I would have been like, okay, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: good luck, I got it now.
Speaker 7: I feel like they were on the same page. I
Speaker 7: feel like they were like, yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: But they have been putting out and they've had a
Speaker 1: couple of number ones in their last couple of years
Speaker 1: ago they had a couple number ones. I forget which ones,
Speaker 1: but they had a couple numbers.
Speaker 7: Is it a rule, because it does seem like it's
Speaker 7: a rule. We're like, all right, you're hitting the road,
Speaker 7: you got to have new music.
Speaker 1: If you're someone who creates new music, unless you're touring
Speaker 1: just on nostalgia like Brooks and Done don't put out
Speaker 1: new songs. Yeah, they're tourn like Crazy Ronnie does. But
Speaker 1: Ronnie's songs are never Hey, I want to put this
Speaker 1: out and I hope it's a massive radio success. It's
Speaker 1: crazy to say this, Like Ronnie's a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: like a real life friend. Crazy, and so when he
Speaker 1: has a new song, he never asked me to play anything,
Speaker 1: but he's like, we made this, we cut it. I
Speaker 1: think he had a song with Garth Brooks, but it
Speaker 1: was a Garth Brooks song that he was just on
Speaker 1: because remember we were at dinner once with Ronnie and
Speaker 1: he was like Garth just called me and said, well,
Speaker 1: you come write the song with me, and I was
Speaker 1: like okay, And so they went and wrote. And even
Speaker 1: Ronnie saying that about Garth, he looks up to Garth.
Speaker 1: Ronnie and Kicks are as big as it gets. I'm
Speaker 1: very happy for Rascal Flats. I would like to see
Speaker 1: that tour they have there. It's a very fun catalog
Speaker 1: of songs, even though a lot of them are slow,
Speaker 1: it's very fun catalog of songs. Yeah. Yeah, it's called
Speaker 1: Rodeo Man. The duet with Ronnie Done. I wish surprised
Speaker 1: it was our first show or the first time together
Speaker 1: in five years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Even for me to know, I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: When I grab coffee before. Nope, come on.
Speaker 1: They just wanted to like rip the band aid off,
Speaker 1: and they felt comfortable doing it here with us, which
Speaker 1: is a compliment. But also, and I'll say this, it's
Speaker 1: harder for me to interview people that I know. Well,
Speaker 1: it's harder like when Ronnie comes in. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: You guys know this, it's just sit back and see
Speaker 1: what happens.
Speaker 2: It's a mess.
Speaker 1: Because it's not that Ronnie doesn't take it seriously, but
Speaker 1: it's like he's sitting next to his friend, relaxed and
Speaker 1: just barely like the microphone.
Speaker 2: It's not even nearest. It's a great point.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, move the mic towards your mouth,
Speaker 1: and he's just.
Speaker 2: Like why he feels like he's on the couch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And it's equally awesome but like hurting cats
Speaker 1: at the same time. But that's what he's like in person.
Speaker 1: And I like it that you can be comfortable saying
Speaker 1: with you like I know them and like I know
Speaker 1: some of the dynamic. But I know so much that
Speaker 1: I'm not going to use what I know on my
Speaker 1: private life to be like, hey, so I know this happened.
Speaker 1: Is that why you're not together? I can't There are
Speaker 1: things I know I can't say where if I didn't know,
Speaker 1: I could ask about it because I wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: understanding of what really happened, which is kind of a
Speaker 1: cheat when you know it's something that's not good. Or
Speaker 1: if I didn't know and I'm asking, it's just from
Speaker 1: a heart being curious, but.
Speaker 7: Could it also be a thing where you know, like
Speaker 7: it's a business right, like we were talking, it's a
Speaker 7: business so if any business was getting together, they're all
Speaker 7: not all going to get in a room before they
Speaker 7: go somewhere.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna say yeah. But they've been friends forever,
Speaker 1: Like there thing is friendship. They've been friends for twenty years.
Speaker 1: They write songs together, they've been touring part of their
Speaker 1: Even if you're not getting along, you're still it's like
Speaker 1: kind of like us, we mostly get we don't We
Speaker 1: don't travel al together because that would probably be a beast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Mike tells us where to be and we're like,
Speaker 7: oh yeah, Like you don't call everyone individually and be like, hey,
Speaker 7: let's get into a room before we go do this.
Speaker 1: No, But my point is there are times because just
Speaker 1: our group dynamic, we've been together twenty years and we've
Speaker 1: all been different levels of friends, and we've had different
Speaker 1: seasons where we've all been better levels of friends with
Speaker 1: each other, depending on what's happening in life. I mean,
Speaker 1: Lunchbox and I used to go to Vegas ever two
Speaker 1: times a month together. We just hold hands in flight
Speaker 1: to Vegas and that's cute. Life happens. And we definitely
Speaker 1: don't go to Vegas anymore. You know, we don't really
Speaker 1: as a group hang out anymore because again, families and different,
Speaker 1: the different dynamics happen and you start to have different interests.
Speaker 2: So like Amy hangs out.
Speaker 1: More than my with my wife, way more than me
Speaker 1: at this point, which kind of feel like she's like
Speaker 1: a conduit, a surrogate like her, like your friendship my
Speaker 1: wife is your friendship with me. I feel like like
Speaker 1: you spent time with her that counts for me, and
Speaker 1: I would spend not she don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in this tense, in this whatever, it's an area.
Speaker 1: Not for that purpose, because she likes to spend time
Speaker 1: with Amy. But I would say, my wife will go
Speaker 1: to Amy's house and I'll just look, we have find
Speaker 1: mine on the apps, and I'm like, oh, she's at
Speaker 1: Amy's house. I feel like, yeah, I feel like that
Speaker 1: counts for me. But dynamics change, and you hang out
Speaker 1: with people more, with people less. There are times that
Speaker 1: we get along more when we fight, but you're just
Speaker 1: together that long. That crap happens, and it's how you
Speaker 1: kind of work through it. I think Amy and I
Speaker 1: worked through DISA game is really well at this point,
Speaker 1: don't you. You don't have many now because I think
Speaker 1: we've kind.
Speaker 5: Of No, I mean that.
Speaker 4: I mean, never know when one might pop up, but
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5: Trying to think of the last one.
Speaker 4: I mean there's one that I know of where I
Speaker 4: had to be like you were going to just leave,
Speaker 4: and I was like.
Speaker 6: That was when you tell that bad morning corny.
Speaker 4: No, I think that that it's been a minute. I
Speaker 4: can't think of one in a while.
Speaker 1: But but I think that also shows that. And you're
Speaker 1: like we can kind of avoid them as well, like
Speaker 1: we know if they're coming, we can kind of you know,
Speaker 1: pop the pimple.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but also, yeah, I wasn't only just go to
Speaker 5: your car, Like we're talking about this.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it was. But don't mind
Speaker 1: get repissed off, you know that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, I know, like sometimes don't bring that negative you
Speaker 1: guys remind me of people. I'm having a few with
Speaker 1: it and I'll be like, oh, yeah, it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't it was normal, I know, But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying sometimes I forget and I'm reminded that I'm angry again.
Speaker 4: Okay, No, I was always sharing that's gross because I think.
Speaker 7: A million times trying to make so happy.
Speaker 5: I think young to me, would to let you just
Speaker 5: go to the car?
Speaker 2: It was that bad, they're going to take it. No,
Speaker 2: it's not that bad against his will. No, I was kidnapped.
Speaker 6: Oh no, it's not good. Are incriminating yourself?
Speaker 1: So I hope you guys let's into that on the podcast.
Speaker 1: You may have you already here. We're about to do
Speaker 1: today's show. And I like it that they came here first,
Speaker 1: made we're purposeful about that. That makes me feel good.
Speaker 1: And I hope you go see their tour. I'll probably
Speaker 1: go see their tour. I don't know if they're doing
Speaker 1: one here are they? So I probably won't go see
Speaker 1: their tour, but if it's close, there's a chance I
Speaker 1: would actually consider because I think that'd be a really
Speaker 1: fun show. And they have not they don't they don't talk.
Speaker 1: They haven't talked until today. Pretty crazy, pretty crazy. I
Speaker 1: can't wait till we don't talk for a long time
Speaker 1: they get back together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Okay, we got to go get on
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you guys, and we'll do the post
Speaker 1: show in just a little bit. It's time for the
Speaker 1: Bobby Bones Post Show. Here's your host, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We're all live on YouTube because Facebook's broken or Facebook.
Speaker 2: We on both. Yep, we go on BOTHO Rockin' dude.
Speaker 1: I do want to start with Luke Bryan talking about
Speaker 1: Beyonce CMA snub. He said a very similar thing that
Speaker 1: I said a couple of weeks ago, where it's like,
Speaker 1: if you're not in town, it's hard for you to
Speaker 1: you know, have have friends. Basically what it is, it's
Speaker 1: very it's political, and uh, you gotta get to have
Speaker 1: your friends vote for you. That's what it boils down to.
Speaker 1: So I'll read you what he said. Luke Bryan was
Speaker 1: asked why I thinks Beyonce didn't get nominated for a
Speaker 1: CMA Award.
Speaker 2: He said, everybody loves it.
Speaker 1: She made a country album, but maybe she hasn't stepped
Speaker 1: to the community enough. Quote coming to our world and
Speaker 1: be country with us a little bit now. When I
Speaker 1: was talking about this a few weeks ago, because I
Speaker 1: would get asked questions like why post Malone, why not Beyonce?
Speaker 1: Is it a race thing? Is it because he's white
Speaker 1: and she's black? And my answer was no, at least
Speaker 1: not with us. We actually played Beyonce's music before we
Speaker 1: played post Malones in accordance to when it was released.
Speaker 1: Like when post Malone stuff started, we waited a bit.
Speaker 1: As soon as Beyonce's came out, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: it's really different.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: We played it like the next day after the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: so that definitely wasn't a race thing. And what I
Speaker 1: said was, this town is very incestual, good and bad,
Speaker 1: and those awards are actually not given.
Speaker 2: To the best.
Speaker 1: It's to the most voted, and sometimes those are the same,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're not. And that anyone doesn't Beyonce, it could
Speaker 1: be anybody that's not in town cultivating relationships, working with writers.
Speaker 1: It's hard for them to get ahead in this industry
Speaker 1: with the industry based awards. So that's what he's saying. Basically,
Speaker 1: he's like, man, if she came and just like invested
Speaker 1: a little bit of time into where it was created,
Speaker 1: some of the people that are here that are creating,
Speaker 1: that are also voting on these would obviously vote for her.
Speaker 1: That's what post Malone did. Post Malone basically moved here.
Speaker 1: He's here, he's here all he tried to rent my house.
Speaker 1: I said that on this right, I think so so.
Speaker 2: And that was.
Speaker 1: Forever ago, and he's been here. He did My and
Speaker 1: Eddie's charity show at the Ryeman. He's doing even when
Speaker 1: he does stage coach, he's got Nashville people with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's the difference, Not even that one's
Speaker 1: better than the other, but I think this town would
Speaker 1: have done the same thing to post Malone had he
Speaker 1: not invested into this town and been here a bunch.
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying that's right. I'm not saying that's wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's how that system works. I've had
Speaker 1: my beefs with the system. Nobody cares. But there was
Speaker 1: a thing with Beyonce too recently that were like Beyonce
Speaker 1: was nominated for seventeen People's Choice Awards and didn't win one,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Okay, you guys are just trying to
Speaker 1: create a story. Those People's Choice Awards aren't real. It's like,
Speaker 1: if you come to the TV show, they give you
Speaker 1: an award, and she didn't come.
Speaker 2: To the TV show. That's the recent one that's in
Speaker 2: a real award.
Speaker 1: I mean it's an award. I don't know what data, Mike,
Speaker 1: we look into a data they use for that. I
Speaker 1: think it's just people giving an award on their choice.
Speaker 2: Who are the people. I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's not the people to vote.
Speaker 2: I don't know other people. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the process people. But if it
Speaker 1: was just the people and you opened it wide open,
Speaker 1: Beyonce the probably win some of the awards. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I saw them trying to make that a thing where
Speaker 1: it's like Beyonce can't even win a people's choice award,
Speaker 1: Like is that a race thing? And I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: not a real award. That's like people getting on the
Speaker 1: internet and just voting, and that's open to everybody. It's
Speaker 1: not an internal thing. And then also they probably have
Speaker 1: the right to not give an award if people aren't
Speaker 1: there for the TV show, because it's mostly a TV
Speaker 1: show that they build an award so they can have
Speaker 1: a TV show. But Beyonce. I liked Beyonce's Country. We
Speaker 1: played it, We played multiple songs from it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I got people were all my nuts about it, like
Speaker 1: why are you playing this? There's a space, you only
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of spaces and you're using on
Speaker 1: a Beyonce song. So but I do I'm glad Luke
Speaker 1: said that because I say stuff for hours a day,
Speaker 1: every day, and it just gets intertwined with all the
Speaker 1: other stuff I say. When Luke says that, it matters when
Speaker 1: I say it, it's like, Okay, Bobby's talking nonsense again.
Speaker 2: But I do feel like that's.
Speaker 1: Why I don't think there was any we're really gonna
Speaker 1: hold Beyonce back. We'll show her. I think it was
Speaker 1: the opposite. They didn't really think about her in these situations.
Speaker 1: People to vote on these because she's not here. But
Speaker 1: trust me, I've had my issues with these award shows.
Speaker 1: But now I understand it. I don't have to agree
Speaker 1: with it, but I understand it. And if you don't
Speaker 1: want to play the game, it's hard to win the game.
Speaker 1: And there are times I don't play the game so
Speaker 1: I can't get back when I don't win the game.
Speaker 1: There are times that we don't win the CMA Award
Speaker 1: and I'm like, are you guys crazy?
Speaker 2: No, this is just me talking.
Speaker 1: This is me, and I have to if I'm super
Speaker 1: confident about us and what we do and what we
Speaker 1: do in every way, if it's philanthropy, if it's content,
Speaker 1: if it's interviews, like no, but there isn't a show
Speaker 1: that does as much as we do in all areas
Speaker 1: human raising money. It doesn't matter. I could keep going,
Speaker 1: but there isn't. And in my mind, this is my mind,
Speaker 1: we should never not win the award.
Speaker 2: No, you can only win every other year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think, in my confident, slash cocky way,
Speaker 1: there are times we don't win because we get Bill
Speaker 1: belichicked or Angelina and Joe lead Belichick won the Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year every year they were like, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: won too much, no more, Angela, jolly, he's the hottest
Speaker 1: person on the earth eight years in a row. No more.
Speaker 1: Or there are times I'm not known as the warmest
Speaker 1: person to the the business, the system.
Speaker 2: I think I would be.
Speaker 1: Regarded as someone who is annoying to deal with by
Speaker 1: people in the industry that are like recordless, not humans,
Speaker 1: the humans. It's like Texas Longhorn that I hate the
Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns, but I like Texas Longhorned fans individually because
Speaker 1: usually they're just good people.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: It isn't if you're a long horn fan, that's great,
Speaker 1: I love you, But if you're the all the long
Speaker 1: horned fans, you guys can hugger root. So I'm a
Speaker 1: Razorback fan, like in general, and so you guys annoy me.
Speaker 1: Tennessee fans, you annoy me. It's mostly because we're jealous
Speaker 1: of the program Arkansas.
Speaker 2: We're little brother. We get beat up by big brother.
Speaker 1: But it's like Longhorn fans, I have no use for you. However,
Speaker 1: the individual Longhorn fans, I know a ton of them.
Speaker 1: I'm great friends with Longhorn fans. Same thing with the industry.
Speaker 1: I have no use for it. I'm no use for
Speaker 1: the machine. When we rebuilt our studio, I made it
Speaker 1: so record people could not come in the studio.
Speaker 2: That was one of the big things.
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to build it where there
Speaker 1: are no seats, where there no manager, record label published,
Speaker 1: that they cannot come in because they used to remember
Speaker 1: that hit a thing.
Speaker 2: And that was because that was what this job was
Speaker 2: supposed to.
Speaker 1: Allow, was anybody can come in and just sit with
Speaker 1: your artists and they'd be like, look like, don't have that. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna do. You're gonna be in
Speaker 1: a room over there. So I can actually feel like
Speaker 1: I can connect with the artists. Was not warmly welcomed.
Speaker 1: So I'm basically Beyonce I said it. I understand why
Speaker 1: people would feel that way because I felt that way.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely not a personal thing towards her, because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people did like the record.
Speaker 1: It's mostly there wasn't an investment into that community. Also
Speaker 1: by me, there's not an investment into the community sometimes
Speaker 1: in that way, like the industry part of it. I
Speaker 1: don't go to industry stuff mostly, I just I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's seven pm under the be in bed and then
Speaker 1: it says like, oh fake, I hate small talk. You
Speaker 1: know it's good at small talk, Eddie. You know who's
Speaker 1: bad as small talk? Me?
Speaker 2: I don't mind small talk. Yeah, I mean like you,
Speaker 2: you're good at it. I'd rather do small talk than
Speaker 2: the real Like, let's get.
Speaker 1: Serious, see me, I'll meet to me the first time,
Speaker 1: I'm like, give me cancer your family.
Speaker 2: It's like it goes way too quick, you know, like
Speaker 2: I go, It's.
Speaker 6: Like if not, like why are we even talking like it?
Speaker 2: Let's rather be like the time, this is a good
Speaker 2: win last week and I'd be like.
Speaker 1: So mental illness and abortion, how do you have about
Speaker 1: those two things?
Speaker 2: Like it was right off.
Speaker 1: So I agree with what Luke said, but I also
Speaker 1: agree that the system creates its victors, and if you
Speaker 1: don't cooperate with the system, you will not be a victor.
Speaker 1: And I've had to accept that about myself and us
Speaker 1: as well, because there are times we're not the victors.
Speaker 1: But there are times it's my fault because I don't
Speaker 1: cooperate with the system, even though we're setting records and
Speaker 1: all these things, even though Beyonce's record gets smashed and
Speaker 1: crushed and everything. But the people short thing made me
Speaker 1: laugh because I don't know that they gave any award
Speaker 1: anybody that wasn't there. And also I didn't watch Machine Gun.
Speaker 2: Kelly was here. He was there. Yes, I saw that
Speaker 2: on socials, which.
Speaker 1: Is another thing that I will say about me in
Speaker 1: this format. And I have always been the guy that
Speaker 1: gets into I don't really fight with people anymore about it,
Speaker 1: but I would be the one that goes. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're making something that's country and I believe like
Speaker 1: you kind of care, I'll give it a shot. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're Beyonce, it doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 1: Brett Michaels. It doesn't matter if you're coming from out
Speaker 1: of the format. Steven Tyler, Steven Tyler, Nelly like for
Speaker 1: all for I don't think he just made a country song.
Speaker 6: Yeah, over and over again and.
Speaker 1: Country of those and that was like the reman but
Speaker 1: they play. But yeah, I'm saying, when we're here, he's right.
Speaker 1: So I'm willing to give anybody a chance to see
Speaker 1: if it's what I feel like is authentic. What I
Speaker 1: like to have post Malone is he didn't go I'm
Speaker 1: now a country artist. He was like all of the
Speaker 1: country music I'm to a project or two. But he
Speaker 1: had also been showing for the past ten years that
Speaker 1: he was a fan of country country music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was no doubt to me.
Speaker 1: But he also he'd do Brad Paisley stuff, but he'd
Speaker 1: do Nirvana stuff, and he'd do hip hop stuff.
Speaker 2: He did a Hank Williams song on our show.
Speaker 1: So but then he was committed a country at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, even before we knew he was doing a
Speaker 1: country record. And so when people like Jelly Roll come
Speaker 1: in and I'm like, this is interesting, I wonder how
Speaker 1: I feel about him saying he's a country artist, and
Speaker 1: it had him in and you spend time with Jelly Roll,
Speaker 1: and he's easy to love, extremely vulnerable. You're just like, man,
Speaker 1: that's the nicest guy ever. And then he started writing
Speaker 1: with a lot of artists in town. And then you
Speaker 1: would people that you trusted would say, yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: in it, like he's committed.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, people I trust to give me
Speaker 1: advice about this, I'm gonna truy and you can tell
Speaker 1: he's committed. He also still does hip hop stuff and
Speaker 1: he still does rock stuff. But Jelly Roll, to me,
Speaker 1: didn't need to prove to me anything. But like I
Speaker 1: think he's proven to me and us and everyone just
Speaker 1: through the last couple of years. Like he's a country artist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he tells stories, he's vulnerable, but he still at times
Speaker 1: is not He does other things, but we accept him.
Speaker 1: Is that There was another recent one that I was
Speaker 1: thinking about. I have a post malone obviously, but my
Speaker 1: point was with the machine gun Kelly thing. The format
Speaker 1: has gotten so big now that I think people just
Speaker 1: see it as easy money. Now, there was a way,
Speaker 1: there was a path that I would not be a
Speaker 1: part of the path where it was somebody who they
Speaker 1: were super successful in other format and they were on
Speaker 1: the way down. They treated this format as they're dancing
Speaker 1: with the stars, and they were like, oh, I can
Speaker 1: get one final something and I can just go and
Speaker 1: act like I'm a country artist and make some money
Speaker 1: because I'm not working out a pop I like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that like I was on pop radio.
Speaker 2: We all were.
Speaker 1: I built my own s inducation company. I was on
Speaker 1: a trajectory moon high because I owned massive part of
Speaker 1: the show we had, and you know, I started by myself.
Speaker 1: Then it was a wee thing and I came here
Speaker 1: as I was on the way up, like I chose this.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like like Jelly Roll could have kept
Speaker 1: going in the hip hop space but chose this. But
Speaker 1: when artists are like, you know, I'm gonna go do country,
Speaker 1: but it's because they're failing in another format, I feel
Speaker 1: like I don't really react warmly to that. Anybody can
Speaker 1: come over and say what up. But if I feel
Speaker 1: like you're doing it because it's like a last resort,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's not true. And sincere now with
Speaker 1: like a Machine on Kelly, I feel like the format's
Speaker 1: just gotten so big. There's a bunch of easy money,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, I'm just gonna do some stuff
Speaker 1: and say country because I remember wh the first time
Speaker 1: I played Dixie Chicks song, I was like, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: But I know he's gonna do He's gonna come try
Speaker 1: to do some country stuff and try to make some
Speaker 1: money and spread his audience.
Speaker 2: Here trying to do an album. What's he doing, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I know he's a song with Jelly Roll. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they push in a country or not, you know, Mike,
Speaker 1: but he was at the People Shows Country Awards, so
Speaker 1: they're trying to do a concerted effort to make him
Speaker 1: be a little That to me is not believable. However,
Speaker 1: he's not on the way down pop punk, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's a different format pop punk and country is different.
Speaker 1: For pop punk is like there's not a group of
Speaker 1: people that have been in pop punk for one hundred years.
Speaker 1: There's not a city dedicated to pop punk, there's not
Speaker 1: an industry, there's not a billion dollar so not the same,
Speaker 1: but I understand. But it's also not going down. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be hypocritical and say he's an artist
Speaker 1: doing that, But I just don't. I don't believe that
Speaker 1: he's somebody who loved country music and is like, I'm
Speaker 1: really intrigued, I'm gonna try to do this. I think
Speaker 1: it's probably somebody's like man, I could probably spread an
Speaker 1: audience and make some money.
Speaker 6: Oh, he seemed pretty genuine when I hung out with
Speaker 6: cmafest and.
Speaker 2: By you hanging out with him, it's like you hanging
Speaker 2: out with Diddy got him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was over my shoulder and I like a
Speaker 6: video of him, and his security guard told me to stop.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that he's I don't anything about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's not a nice stud or not.
Speaker 1: But do you look at that and go like, well,
Speaker 1: that's legitimate.
Speaker 5: I felt like the Chicks thing was legit. Like I
Speaker 5: was like, oh that. I felt like it.
Speaker 1: Was a nostalgia song.
Speaker 4: For him, and he genuinely knew it and he liked
Speaker 4: it in country. That that one song had me thinking
Speaker 4: all those things.
Speaker 2: What does he sing like? What are some of his songs?
Speaker 1: He had a couple of like rock songs that were
Speaker 1: really good, like pop punk songs. Yeah, the pop punk stuff.
Speaker 2: Is really good.
Speaker 1: Even I don't know his his hip hop stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I would watch him. He's pretty good. He's know him
Speaker 1: from member one. Eminem annihilated him. That's what I know
Speaker 1: from that is when he switched, he went after Eminem
Speaker 1: once Eminem in the song he did back, not only
Speaker 1: did Eminem but then wrapped in his cadence and like
Speaker 1: annihilated it. Well, that's the guy you don't go after.
Speaker 1: And again, nobody has to a dang thing to me.
Speaker 1: But my feelings are like that doesn't feel legitimate that
Speaker 1: it's somebody like doing it for the sake of just
Speaker 1: loving country music.
Speaker 2: It's doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh kill Shot was a song Oh my God that
Speaker 1: so yeah, you just don't mess with them. And MM
Speaker 1: has a lot of those oh my gods when somebody
Speaker 1: goes in him and I'm like, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1: He could be seventy years old, and I'm like, don't
Speaker 1: do it. So yeah, I'm I guess I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: holding my thoughts on it. On the machine Gun Kelly stuff,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't feel if you were really honest, it
Speaker 1: came out and said, yeah, I just I don't want
Speaker 1: to current country music, but I want to do a
Speaker 1: few songs. I think it would be fun because I
Speaker 1: really like, I've really started to get into it and
Speaker 1: think it would be fun. Like I think that honesty
Speaker 1: would be cool and refreshing, and I think I would
Speaker 1: be into having him in and seeing what's up. Doesn't
Speaker 1: even need to come here, doesn't affect his car at all,
Speaker 1: doesn't defect mine. But it's when I feel like there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people now trying that because they
Speaker 1: know the format has never been bigger than right now,
Speaker 1: and that is mostly on the shoulders of Wallin Comb's
Speaker 1: Zach Bryan selling out football stadiums, young audience, those guys
Speaker 1: crossing over. So yeah, there just feel.
Speaker 2: Those guys back in the day Bob Dylan did that.
Speaker 7: He moved to Nashville and then Johnny Cash tried to
Speaker 7: help him, and like you know, these are introduced into people.
Speaker 2: Like Bob Dylan was was always a country artist though yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean he was a folk artist.
Speaker 1: He's from right, but like Americana to me is country music.
Speaker 1: I agree with that Americana is more country than country.
Speaker 1: They just had to change the name because country had
Speaker 1: moved to a different place. But the machine guns, Kelly
Speaker 1: stuff's interesting. I'm keeping an eye on it. I don't
Speaker 1: believe it that. It's like I'm a lifelong country fan.
Speaker 1: But if he's like, you know what, I just got
Speaker 1: into it like four months ago and it's good. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do a little bit of this guy, I would
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, I'm anxious to hear your story. I
Speaker 1: did like his pop punk stuff, though, better than his
Speaker 1: hip hop stuff. And I even like this hip hop stuff.
Speaker 1: It was very aggressive though, and he always had a
Speaker 1: shirt off, and I was jealous because he could like
Speaker 1: pull off tattoos all over his chest. Tatoo, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a I like that.
Speaker 2: Is he still Megan Fox?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For me, no, I can pull it off. But
Speaker 2: I wish I could pull it off.
Speaker 5: Oh I didn't know you were in tattoos on the chest.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: But for me, tattoos on the chest, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: But he pulled it off, and I was like, dang,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. He has a good story too, because I
Speaker 1: think he was working to like a fast food restaurant Ohio.
Speaker 1: That's cool, and like took a bunch of money he
Speaker 1: didn't have and like went to some sort of like
Speaker 1: uh seminar and met somebody and was like.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be at ma like.
Speaker 1: His story is actually pretty good that I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm just using him as an example because he's famous.
Speaker 1: Of people now they're trying to come over and just
Speaker 1: hopefully not make a quick buck.
Speaker 2: But I do.
Speaker 1: I do, Like I never met him. Lunchbox has kind
Speaker 1: of guys out.
Speaker 6: He was really nice. It was pretty chill, relax.
Speaker 2: What do he said? What do you guys talk about?
Speaker 6: Uh? Just talking about the night and how the crowd
Speaker 6: looked good.
Speaker 1: Did you talk at all?
Speaker 2: Actually no, I.
Speaker 6: Said, Oh, there's machine Gun.
Speaker 2: Kelly, missus Jean. He's like, I'm not miss Geen.
Speaker 6: No, And I think I got a high five or
Speaker 6: a DAP.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you made up the whole thing of talking about
Speaker 2: the crowd and everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Mitchell shot so pretty Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, are you listening to over do the podcast?
Speaker 6: I'm reading the lyrics because I mean, I don't know
Speaker 6: anything about machine Gun Kelly.
Speaker 1: But the crazy part is when everyone does it again,
Speaker 1: he does it in his own style, and then he
Speaker 1: goes into machine Gun Kelly's cadence and does it in
Speaker 1: that cadence too, And you're like, man, that's the dude.
Speaker 1: You don't mess with Like, if you're going to go
Speaker 1: after the king, you better cut off his head. And
Speaker 1: he didn't cut off his head, so the king came back.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago too. And also I made
Speaker 1: machine Gun Kelly more famous.
Speaker 2: So in the end, did he lose?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does not how you look at it. Brooks
Speaker 1: and Done said, everybody in country music hates each other.
Speaker 1: This is funny. I like talking about this for a second.
Speaker 1: So Brooks and Done, Kicks and Ronnie were on Theobond's podcast,
Speaker 1: which I think it's awesome. Theoband has country music artists
Speaker 1: on and so this is a clip from Theobond's podcast.
Speaker 1: As friendly as they say that that, you know, the
Speaker 1: world of country music is, it's it's so codarn competitive.
Speaker 6: You know, everybody hates one or brother. They act like
Speaker 6: they don't on TV.
Speaker 2: Do you think people are really competitive though?
Speaker 1: Oh, big time competitive. I stand by it too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: super competitive. I don't think I think he's a little
Speaker 1: hyperbole with everyone hates everyone, But a lot of people
Speaker 1: hate a lot of people, and sometimes and sometimes not
Speaker 1: even for reasons other than they're taking up part of
Speaker 1: the space and using some of the oxygen.
Speaker 2: They'd like to use in their career.
Speaker 1: There are artists, though, major artists that act like they
Speaker 1: like each other, like on TV and stuff, that freaking
Speaker 1: hate each other's guts. That's what's hilarious to me. Hate
Speaker 1: each other like almost have benefitst fights.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 7: There are cliques too, like there are clicks of like
Speaker 7: certain country artists that hang out with each other that
Speaker 7: don't like other ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and most of them though it's now kind of
Speaker 1: turned political, Yes it's. Yeah, it's now been a bit
Speaker 1: of political clique. But yes, it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: clique town. It's not a big city to have a
Speaker 1: massive industry, so it's gonna be clique like a high school.
Speaker 2: It feels like.
Speaker 1: High school a bit sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was almost I was almost at I was at
Speaker 1: the place, but they almost fistfight and there were two
Speaker 1: major stars and I want to pull my phone out.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't know because I was like part of
Speaker 1: the group.
Speaker 2: I don't know this story.
Speaker 5: I telled you afterward, like a more private event or
Speaker 5: public event, public.
Speaker 8: Event, but they were on a private part. That's crazy,
Speaker 8: and they almost fought with each other and I just
Speaker 8: kind of sat back I'm close with one of them
Speaker 8: medium with another, so I didn't want them to fight.
Speaker 8: But also I was like, man, if this happens, I'm pulling,
Speaker 8: I have to pull my phone out. It's like somebody
Speaker 8: going crazy on a plane, Like you can go stop
Speaker 8: on or you can just pull your phone out and
Speaker 8: hopefully somebody el stops them.
Speaker 1: That's how I felt there. But yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of jealousy insecurity that manifests itself with people not liking
Speaker 1: each other. But it's funny. Ronnie kicks it and they
Speaker 1: hate each other for a while. Yeah, and they were
Speaker 1: a group, they broke up. They want to kill each other.
Speaker 2: That's any, that's any.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, how does it go so wrong?
Speaker 2: It's you're just spending too much time with each other,
Speaker 2: a lot of time together.
Speaker 1: You're getting older, you're growing as people. You have new interests,
Speaker 1: different interests, different ideas about where the career should go,
Speaker 1: different ideas about what you can do your set.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of it.
Speaker 1: It's just a dynamic and human dynamic. It's like I
Speaker 1: would just cre to a marriage. How does it go wrong? Well,
Speaker 1: the two people grow in different ways, and if you
Speaker 1: don't work on finding the what can keep you together
Speaker 1: and things you have in common and why that's important.
Speaker 1: Then it can quickly that can dissipate and it just
Speaker 1: doesn't exist.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but if I'm kicksing running and I'm printing a hundred.
Speaker 1: Dollars need money. Another big reason is they were so
Speaker 1: rich it didn't matter. So it's not like they needed
Speaker 1: to keep going because they had to pay their mortgage.
Speaker 2: They had. They had a ton of money and that
Speaker 2: was that was their FU money. Is that the same
Speaker 2: with fgo?
Speaker 1: Yeah, lot of money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, a lot of money, so they don't.
Speaker 6: Really need it either.
Speaker 2: But I remember one of them living in a treehouse.
Speaker 5: No, it was they had a treehouse on their property.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought like times were tough. He living at
Speaker 2: a treehouse.
Speaker 5: No, think it was a beautiful house. Beautiful.
Speaker 2: I too, thought like dang, Jake's had hard. Jake just
Speaker 2: lived in tiny house for a while because they was building.
Speaker 2: I remember that it was tiny. It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Okay, So those two country stories I want to mention.
Speaker 2: M M. I have a lot of notes.
Speaker 1: Look at my scripts for this. I got lots of scripts.
Speaker 6: Oh scuba, scuba, Oh, oh, Scuba, still a liar.
Speaker 2: You come to the microphone, you idiot, a big idiot here?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 1: So yesterday, by idiot, I don't mean that really Scuba.
Speaker 2: His thought was.
Speaker 1: The engineers that aren't here that Scuba was complaining to
Speaker 1: about some technical things, they think he's in it. I
Speaker 1: tried to describe and explain to him that I don't
Speaker 1: think he's an idiot. They probably are just pressured and whatever.
Speaker 1: So we said yesterday on the podcast, if our station
Speaker 1: the radio goes off wherever you are and there's dead air,
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Speaker 1: us know. And we have technical issues all the time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the program we're running, the Scoop is an
Speaker 1: idiot about not really an idiot, but that was what
Speaker 1: was yesterday's podcast. Sometimes it's there aren't people to run
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Speaker 1: something happens here. We have the power go out. One
Speaker 1: day in the building, our power went out and we
Speaker 1: have a backup generator, and I'm like, hey, what can
Speaker 1: we do in scoop like, I don't know. We don't
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Speaker 1: things can go wrong. But we ask people, if it
Speaker 1: happens where you are on your local affiliate, please message
Speaker 1: us and let us know what time you were listening,
Speaker 1: what city you're listening, if you can, what station if
Speaker 1: you know. And so they started coming in here, lots
Speaker 1: of them. Well, it just I go over to my
Speaker 1: what's that box called it? Anybody can send to a
Speaker 1: dm Q box, not DMS, but no requested requested messages.
Speaker 1: Have your regular there's my regulars, there's the people that
Speaker 1: have already gotten through, and there's the thing that you
Speaker 1: go to click and it's like message requests, and so
Speaker 1: I go to that, and that's always there's always like
Speaker 1: two thousand of those, so I can't always see all them.
Speaker 1: I try to look at a lot of them. But
Speaker 1: I just clicked like ten yesterday and I get one.
Speaker 1: Just finished listening to today's podcast. We're in Fresno, but
Speaker 1: we were listening on the radio about eight fifty am,
Speaker 1: and I kid you not parentheses. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: the music is called. The intro music was playing for
Speaker 1: a good five minutes. Before you guys came back on
Speaker 1: the air five minutes. That was.
Speaker 9: That was the moment you saw to throw up my
Speaker 9: phone down because I heard that in the hallway. I'm like,
Speaker 9: are you efing kidding me?
Speaker 1: That was the deal that that's the thirty minute.
Speaker 2: It's after we did the podcast.
Speaker 1: I just started and I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: not go ont my messages today, So I've just started
Speaker 1: to collect these in a folder. Now they're talking about
Speaker 1: the yeah yeah, which we play it for us.
Speaker 2: Here's the hit, our greatest hit. Yes, that's our greatest
Speaker 2: five minutes of it and nothing. You're just listening to,
Speaker 2: going what's happening here?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: And as long as supposed to be there in case
Speaker 9: like because it does happen where it'll clip off in
Speaker 9: the front of the back for maybe one or two seconds.
Speaker 9: They rather that than dead air, but they didn't go
Speaker 9: to commercials, so across the nation, you know, all those
Speaker 9: spots didn't.
Speaker 1: Play yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 2: But the delay was fixed though I heard that today
Speaker 2: it's not as bad.
Speaker 1: Please let us know if anything happens, because we can
Speaker 1: actually hopefully make it better by knowing, and if we
Speaker 1: don't know, we can't make it better something else that
Speaker 1: you may hear a little bit like we're lucky enough
Speaker 1: that our sponsors want to be a part of segments sometimes,
Speaker 1: like we do scam Alert and a big LifeLock user
Speaker 1: was before they came on the show and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to sponsor scam Alert. I'm like, that's awesome
Speaker 1: because it makes sense. We at times like we don't
Speaker 1: control how long if you listen to the podcast, how
Speaker 1: long the commercial breaks are, but what we're able to
Speaker 1: do now hopefully the goal is to include some of
Speaker 1: these in breaks that make sense so that the commercial
Speaker 1: breaks aren't long. Like that's our goal, and that's what
Speaker 1: Scuba and I've been working on, and that's why you'll
Speaker 1: hear that, like we're doing the bit. It's about we
Speaker 1: didn't create the bit for the commercial, but if it
Speaker 1: makes sense, we can kind of put it in it
Speaker 1: for twenty five seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: And if we can slow, slowly not have these extremely
Speaker 1: long spot blocks, that helps everybody, including the advertiser, and
Speaker 1: that's who we want to really benefit because we get
Speaker 1: to stay on the air that way.
Speaker 2: So we're working on that.
Speaker 1: So if you hear that occasionally, just know that that
Speaker 1: is purposeful and the overall amount hopefully. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: it's weird. Two people messing me. We're like, I just
Speaker 1: heard a vaping commercial.
Speaker 2: No, and I'm like, what do you mean? Who did that? Well, no,
Speaker 2: it's not that.
Speaker 1: It's like depending on where you are, and vaping is
Speaker 1: not even a they're going to jail for anything. But
Speaker 1: like political ads, I don't want them on the show,
Speaker 1: right because I don't want anyone to think that we
Speaker 1: even though we may have our feelings and they may
Speaker 1: be very different and very the same, I don't want
Speaker 1: people thinking that our show has any sort of agenda
Speaker 1: in that world because nobody comes to us for that.
Speaker 1: And so when there's a political ad on our show,
Speaker 1: people will be like, oh I just heard this ad
Speaker 1: and you suck, regardless of what it is. And so,
Speaker 1: but what happens is not on our show. It's in
Speaker 1: the local either the local station or where you are.
Speaker 1: The digital will just grab vaping or political and target
Speaker 1: it to that area when we had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with it. One of them was like Dildo's or something
Speaker 1: over that.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was like lunchbox voice, then hey
Speaker 2: if something it wasn't that.
Speaker 1: But it's like a like a ex like an adult
Speaker 1: store or something. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was like, how many do you guys?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm lunchbox.
Speaker 6: You are right, hey, price right exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: Lunch is for sale?
Speaker 6: So are we all.
Speaker 5: For everything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna do those.
Speaker 6: Well, you guys are an exploratory.
Speaker 2: We I guess not, I guess in more ways.
Speaker 1: You are more ways than one exploratory.
Speaker 7: I thought the political stuff though, don't you have to
Speaker 7: do like one Yeah, like one side, you do the
Speaker 7: other one.
Speaker 1: Not if it's bought, No, because that would mean all
Speaker 1: the money.
Speaker 2: If it's in regular time, there are different rules.
Speaker 1: But oh, if it's not politicians by commercials, because it
Speaker 1: might not make sense if somebody has forty million, somebody
Speaker 1: has ten. But if they buy forty million commercials, like
Speaker 1: we got to give them extra thirty million, they didn't
Speaker 1: raise the money.
Speaker 6: Okay, Andy's crazy, how much money we waste on running
Speaker 6: for office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there should be a salary.
Speaker 6: It's so stupid.
Speaker 1: There should be a political salary cap. And you do
Speaker 1: the most you can do. You can sign DAK for
Speaker 1: eight hundred million dollars and so you get really good
Speaker 1: commercial cap that's going to get you, like near to
Speaker 1: win the election, but it's it probably going to crap
Speaker 1: out right on election day.
Speaker 5: A lot of the problems they want to solve they
Speaker 5: could use some money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 5: Is it? What is that rule though? Now I'm trying
Speaker 5: to think of it.
Speaker 4: Is it if you have if you interview one, you
Speaker 4: have to have the other one on?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, but that rule is not you know, for
Speaker 1: there are ways to get around that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we don't have to have you have to give
Speaker 6: them opportunity.
Speaker 5: Because they can say no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember talking about that in school.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's not still it's not the same anymore.
Speaker 6: Even talking about it in the school evolved.
Speaker 2: I guess it's like if you go on.
Speaker 1: Pick a show that's partisan for sure, like a Fox
Speaker 1: you go on, well they have Democrats on. But if
Speaker 1: you go on like Klay Travis's show and he has
Speaker 1: Trump on, You're not getting here Kamala over there. They're
Speaker 1: not going to reach out to Kamala, so they don't
Speaker 1: have to reach out. And I don't know if Kamala
Speaker 1: reaches out and goes I'd like to be on if
Speaker 1: they have to say yes, but they're not going to
Speaker 1: reach out and go well, due to fairness doctrine, we
Speaker 1: also want that's not gonna happen, but it's also it's private.
Speaker 2: I don't know by three deal does get one free?
Speaker 2: I'm lunch bar. Okay, I think we're just a.
Speaker 5: Really bad thought.
Speaker 1: Everybody has a price it.
Speaker 6: What do you think about over there.
Speaker 5: Lunch bars? You're thinking about lunch bars endorsing something.
Speaker 2: I can't say it got a whole comedy going that.
Speaker 2: She's also laughing at the we cannot experience.
Speaker 5: I mean, because I guess it is supposed show. I
Speaker 5: probably could say it. Let's just say it involves.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Well, I just we're gonna chase this one.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, We'll see tomorrow. On tomorrow's regular show,
Speaker 1: Luke Bryant is on all Right, bye Ready