Speaker 1: Caroline. She's a queen of talking. She's getting really not
Speaker 1: afraid to feel. It's so so just let it flow.
Speaker 1: No one can do with c Carol sounds Carol. I'm
Speaker 1: here with no exaggeration and no why one of my
Speaker 1: might be one of my top three favorite people in
Speaker 1: the world. I have to say Michael and Sonny obviously
Speaker 1: in the top two with you, but then I got
Speaker 1: my family to you know, but besides, you are like
Speaker 1: one of my favorite people that has ever walked this earth.
Speaker 1: Skin Bishop. Okay, you're telling me that I'm right under
Speaker 1: Sonny and Michael. I mean, you're you're up there. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's really good about myself. Right now, I'm canceling my
Speaker 1: therapy appointment for the week. You just saved me a
Speaker 1: d bucks. Okay, what's your handle? Well for anyone's mom
Speaker 1: is at caroline hobby. Let's see how that goes. Wat
Speaker 1: you see what happens? Skip. Why don't you tell everyone
Speaker 1: how we began our love? Well, I will tell your first.
Speaker 1: I always had a crush on you since you were
Speaker 1: in you know, like you know, appeared in my life
Speaker 1: as a well. Actually we met at al Gore's house
Speaker 1: a great place to start. Yeah, that is we met
Speaker 1: at al Gore's house where uh I was there with
Speaker 1: uh Sony. When I was with Sony as opposed to Skip,
Speaker 1: was the head of promotions for Sony Records for years
Speaker 1: and years and years and years and years and years
Speaker 1: and years and years. He's broken all of your favorite singers,
Speaker 1: songs acts. He's like alleged end in the music. Come on,
Speaker 1: you are listen. When you've earned a legendary status, you
Speaker 1: might as well just claim it. Well, I think the
Speaker 1: legendary means that you're an elder statesman. And you know,
Speaker 1: even though my hair may be white, I actually put
Speaker 1: this color in. You know, this is this is not
Speaker 1: natural white hair. I have this. I pay for this.
Speaker 1: Oh I love it. And my hair is red and
Speaker 1: it's called it's called platinum Moonlight. Why do you go
Speaker 1: from red to frost? It gives me some credibility. I
Speaker 1: like it. I like it anyway, So, uh Stealing Angels,
Speaker 1: which in at the time, right, you guys were playing
Speaker 1: a set at al Gore's house and I was there.
Speaker 1: It was a fund raiser and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: these this band is just awesome and who is that girl,
Speaker 1: you know, like Marlo Thomas. You know Marlo. You don't
Speaker 1: know who Marlowe Thomas is Thomas, He's that girl. Check
Speaker 1: your history books, you child. It was a tremendous Marlo
Speaker 1: Thomas is the daughter of Danny Thomas, who had a
Speaker 1: who had a show called That Girl. It was a
Speaker 1: sitcom for years and called that girl. Marlow was that girl. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this night at our buddy else place, we're all hanging
Speaker 1: out with it with President Gore, who really won the election.
Speaker 1: But that's another conversation trouble because back then, like Taylor
Speaker 1: Jen and I who was in Stealing Angels, we were
Speaker 1: obsessed with like putting every recording everything, putting everything on
Speaker 1: social media or whatever social media existed back then. So
Speaker 1: we were like filming doing us. We got in big
Speaker 1: trouble of the Secret Service because we weren't allowed to
Speaker 1: do that. Huh. I kept coming and going, chatting up
Speaker 1: the kitchen staff. The kitchen staff was fun. A uh,
Speaker 1: look a couple of cooking tips and got a couple
Speaker 1: of three drinks out of the deal. U. I will
Speaker 1: tell you, okay, I can tell you this really fast.
Speaker 1: One thing Al Gore said that I have never forgotten
Speaker 1: from that performance was someone asked the question, how much
Speaker 1: how much information do the American people really know about
Speaker 1: what's going on in government? And he said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: can believe that. I gotta tell you he I got
Speaker 1: a moment or two to chat with him, and uh,
Speaker 1: he's a cool dude. Yeah, cool dude, he's smart, he's
Speaker 1: you know, lives in Nashville. That makes you even cooler. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, you go back in your you know,
Speaker 1: history books to that election and it was funky. You know,
Speaker 1: remember we didn't know who was the president for the
Speaker 1: longest time, and it was like Al Gore's every president.
Speaker 1: No he's not. Now it's George Bush. No, no, wait no,
Speaker 1: And and it was it was crazy days. I mean,
Speaker 1: of course we were compared to what now, it's completely bizarre. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So we're at OL's house. We're all at OL's house,
Speaker 1: hanging out, hanging out in the kitchen. You're taking pictures
Speaker 1: with your phone that you shouldn't take, you know, getting
Speaker 1: national security problems. And Steely Angels did a set and
Speaker 1: knocked it out of the park and I and I
Speaker 1: came up to you after the show and I introduced
Speaker 1: myself and said, you guys were absolutely fantastic, and we
Speaker 1: became friends on that day and we used to see
Speaker 1: each other around and I'd go, hey, you're Caroline and Thomas, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're that girl. And that's how we became buddies. And
Speaker 1: then years later after you like okay, you appeared on
Speaker 1: national television on the Amazing Race with uh with your lovely,
Speaker 1: lovely twin sister, Uh, Jennifer who it is just family
Speaker 1: too now. Uh. You guys came into my life because
Speaker 1: we were all working under the same little conglomerate and
Speaker 1: then we all worked for the same record company when
Speaker 1: oh they were the best. They were the best. I
Speaker 1: brought you over to the little label that we had
Speaker 1: called Hit Shop. You were already working on the publishing
Speaker 1: side as a writer, right, a song plugger. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: you were the song plugger. Jen was a writer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then you guys started calling, right, I come and say,
Speaker 1: do you know so and so, you know Johnny Chang
Speaker 1: and Houston. Oh yeah, I'll call Johnny And you'd call
Speaker 1: Johnny and he played the record for you and I thought, idea, well,
Speaker 1: it was incredible. You guys were the best to promotion
Speaker 1: people ever. And everyone listening. A promotion person is when
Speaker 1: you hear your your favorite artist on the radio playing
Speaker 1: and you're hearing your song that you love. There's a
Speaker 1: whole team of people on that artist label who go
Speaker 1: around to radio stations across the country and get that
Speaker 1: song added to radio stations. And so no matter what,
Speaker 1: no matter what I mean, it is like, it is
Speaker 1: a serious job. It is hard for and Skip it
Speaker 1: has been in charge of promotion staff for years and
Speaker 1: years and years. Like I said, he's legendary. And so
Speaker 1: I happened to fall into this amazing experience where I
Speaker 1: was working in a publishing company and you were running
Speaker 1: the label. And then Skip, because Jen and I had
Speaker 1: been artists together and stealing angels, we had all these
Speaker 1: radio connections and we had all this just this history
Speaker 1: with radio that was so positive that Skip had this
Speaker 1: brilliant idea. Well, you know, we let you guys work
Speaker 1: as one. It was well, it was a duo. It
Speaker 1: was like almost like being an artist duo. It was
Speaker 1: an artist duo. You guys would go out, travel together,
Speaker 1: put on events together, do all those things, and you
Speaker 1: would come back with buckets of airplay because really good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you walk in with those relationships, with your charm, with
Speaker 1: your smarts, with your persistence, and you guys, you were lethal.
Speaker 1: No one could no one could there there is no
Speaker 1: resistance allowed or possible when you guys went in. Well,
Speaker 1: I know that Jenne and I used to have it down.
Speaker 1: We'd be like we would just a corner. Someone like
Speaker 1: you could not escape us. We were going to get
Speaker 1: the ad. You know, I just googled your podcast. This
Speaker 1: is supposed to be about country music artist wives. I
Speaker 1: feature where many artists wives, which I think, what what
Speaker 1: what what? What? What? What? What? What I saw said
Speaker 1: the show is about interviewing country artists wives. That is
Speaker 1: a big part of this show. Yes, huh, I think
Speaker 1: you would make an excellent wife to country star. I
Speaker 1: mean the hair alone, there's a couple. Let's let's list
Speaker 1: a couple of issues, and and thank you for that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But the couple of issues number one,
Speaker 1: I'm married to too, to Diane for a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty eight years. I I'm the most boring guy in
Speaker 1: the world, as meaning that I'm white and straight. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just like boring your super avant garde. Okay, but
Speaker 1: taking on a country music husband is not really in
Speaker 1: my It's not really in my playbook because you know, again,
Speaker 1: the physical attractions not there. But I got a lot,
Speaker 1: but I do love a lot of them. Got a
Speaker 1: good looking country artists out there. If you had to
Speaker 1: be the wife to one of country music biggest star,
Speaker 1: which one? Who would you be married to? And why?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a tough, tough question. You know,
Speaker 1: you have an answer right on the tip of your tongue,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I mean, okay, because again I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not about the looks, because again, being a normal
Speaker 1: boring dude, you're not. So you've got to take boring
Speaker 1: out your father. Okay, all right, So I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I would say I would look for someone with artistic qualities,
Speaker 1: someone that you know, I like the granola type, So
Speaker 1: I would I don't know, you know, I find I
Speaker 1: like the complexity of Brad Paisley's writing and personality. Okay, okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I like complex people much. That's why I like you.
Speaker 1: I like the granola crunchiness of of Chris Stapleton, Yes
Speaker 1: a truth, yeah, but you know it's what about Jason
Speaker 1: Isbel's he a little too complex. No, it's no, it's
Speaker 1: way too cool. Yeah. Yeah, and I can walk down
Speaker 1: the aisle together. I feel like I feel like he's
Speaker 1: my wife. Across the room is saying, what about Chris Stofferson,
Speaker 1: he's a little old for me Christofferson, No, he is
Speaker 1: the one I wouldn't want to be Christo Chris Christofferson's wife. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I would two. As long as i'm all of
Speaker 1: these people, I'm up for it. As long as we
Speaker 1: don't have to kiss, well then I mean it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a really boring marriage, right, No, god, No, we
Speaker 1: can read books together, travel, cook, all those kind of things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no kissing. Okay, okay, okay, I mean it's a new
Speaker 1: spin on marriage. But hey, it could work. Okay, So
Speaker 1: if we had, if you had to do your front
Speaker 1: runner between Chris Stapleton, Chris Christofferson, um Brad Paisley, and
Speaker 1: Jason Isabelle, who would it be. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't really gone through the list. Yeah, it's hard to think.
Speaker 1: I've never thought about who what man I'm going to marry?
Speaker 1: But it is I'm a modern guy and I can
Speaker 1: have these thoughts. But again, you know, I'm sort of
Speaker 1: comfortable in my own you know, current sexuality. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to make that determination. Okay, Well, like,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who I like. Okay, I like Charles Kelly.
Speaker 1: Great choice. He's fun, it's nice, he's nice, he's creative.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, good dude, Good dude, he's good dude. It
Speaker 1: seems like he's a good dude. Family Ross Kelly beat
Speaker 1: all the other ones? Is he the number one? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: that's You're laying out quite a list here. I mean,
Speaker 1: it looks like you gotta a lot of favorite Can
Speaker 1: we talk about some babes? Okay? If you had to
Speaker 1: marry one country music artists, who would it be? Uh? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. For some reason, my wife,
Speaker 1: who was across the room is sharpening the knives. Okay
Speaker 1: about this, let's change this. Let's change this question. You've
Speaker 1: worked with many, many, many female country music artists. Who
Speaker 1: was your who was the most enjoyable experience working with?
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you want to marry her, but who
Speaker 1: did you love getting to know and working with and
Speaker 1: pushing their career into stardom? Um? That's got that's I
Speaker 1: will tell you I did really for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: Enjoy working with Miranda. Would you love about Miranda? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I loved her edginess, and I loved that she was
Speaker 1: very you know. We uh we went and ran New
Speaker 1: York and did some promo stuff with her and her
Speaker 1: fantastic manager, Marion, and I just came to really enjoy her,
Speaker 1: both of them. Their sense of humor there, uh, there
Speaker 1: the take no prisoner's attitude. Uh, it's fantastic. I really
Speaker 1: liked working with Carrie because Carrie, please she I have
Speaker 1: to tell you, she has her eyes on the prize.
Speaker 1: She was She was very focused. She knew exactly what
Speaker 1: she wanted to do. She is talented to to to
Speaker 1: be two for the entire planet to hear her voice
Speaker 1: and know how much talent she had. How did she
Speaker 1: go about doing that? Because I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of artists want to achieve that, but they don't get
Speaker 1: the level of Carrie. What did you do? I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what she did. She did, I'm gonna three words,
Speaker 1: work really hard. She would do whatever we asked her
Speaker 1: to do do in the early days and there I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm sure she still does That was her
Speaker 1: m o. But it was like, Okay, we are going
Speaker 1: to have to spend Saturday calling sixty radio stations and
Speaker 1: doing sixty interviews back to back. Okay, all right, you
Speaker 1: know and whatever. It was a we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: fly into this city and we're gonna have to go
Speaker 1: meet with these people and do that. Okay, whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: She was always there, and she was she was on
Speaker 1: point and smart and driven and focused. That's exactly who
Speaker 1: she was. And it was you know, it was just
Speaker 1: and that voice. Good God, I'm mighty. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people say Carrie Underwood is really shy, which like
Speaker 1: when you see her on TV, she doesn't seem shy,
Speaker 1: but like knowing her the way that you know her,
Speaker 1: is she shy? Yes, she definitely is. She's quiet, she's private. Uh,
Speaker 1: she is all those things. And I think shy is
Speaker 1: really a good thing. Some people missing misinterpreted as her
Speaker 1: being stuffy, but she's not. She's just you know, she's
Speaker 1: shock and she when but when the red light comes on,
Speaker 1: the stardom comes out, and you know, she knows what
Speaker 1: she wants and how she's gonna get there, and um,
Speaker 1: and she's just she's a she's a very private person,
Speaker 1: and and there's nothing wrong with that. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are it's you know, it's you know,
Speaker 1: tons of people are like that. She's if it was
Speaker 1: her choice, She's not gonna walk around and shake hands
Speaker 1: and kiss babies every everywhere. But when there's a job
Speaker 1: to be done and a commitment made, she never backs down.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Maybe I never made it as an artist
Speaker 1: because I am opposite of shy. Maybe I should be
Speaker 1: a little more shy, and that would your You know,
Speaker 1: your your person Your personality is you're doing what you
Speaker 1: should do. Your stage, your your your your, The entire
Speaker 1: world is yours. All you need is a stage to
Speaker 1: get out there and be the lovely, charm and hilarious,
Speaker 1: funny person that you are. I love that you think
Speaker 1: I'm funny because I always feel like I'm not funny.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like I'm a really good laugher at
Speaker 1: people who are funny, but I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: really have a sense of humor for myself. Well, you
Speaker 1: got you so fooled. You bring out my sense of humor.
Speaker 1: There's certain people in my life that make me laugh
Speaker 1: and make me funny, like you make me funny. Taylor Lynn,
Speaker 1: my old trio mate. Yeah, people make me funny. Hear
Speaker 1: one of those. Well, let me just give you an example.
Speaker 1: You asked me to be on an interview about country
Speaker 1: music wives and asked me what guy I'd like to
Speaker 1: be married to. That's pretty funny. Well, you're a funny skin. Uh.
Speaker 1: But we have been really important to talk about. Actually
Speaker 1: were funy things to talk about. But yes, I mean
Speaker 1: we're both involved. I'm recently newly involved in this incredible
Speaker 1: charity that's happening that is literally one of the biggest
Speaker 1: events for a lot of the now full community. Tons
Speaker 1: of artists participate. It raises so much money from Mecca
Speaker 1: School with the Little Yale Schoolhouse in Mexico. I need
Speaker 1: to hear details and you need to share because people
Speaker 1: who haven't heard about this need to hear about it. Well,
Speaker 1: the Island Time Music Fest has been going on now
Speaker 1: for twelve years and it's a remarkable and magical thing
Speaker 1: that happened organically that has turned into this major event.
Speaker 1: And what makes it so special is all the proceeds
Speaker 1: go to the school. There's it's a it's a volunteer
Speaker 1: based concert. Now you think about this, some of the
Speaker 1: biggest artists in Nashville give their time. They take a
Speaker 1: week off because it's a five night event. This year
Speaker 1: it's only four, but traditionally on the island of Eastleu
Speaker 1: Moharris it's five nights and they could be out touring
Speaker 1: making money. This is of course pre covid uh that
Speaker 1: has that they give up this time and they go
Speaker 1: down there and they play and raise all this money
Speaker 1: for the school. Now, the school is for special needs
Speaker 1: kids in Mexico. Now, a couple of things that you
Speaker 1: need to think about. Number One, the Mexican public school
Speaker 1: system does not have the infrastructure to educate kids at
Speaker 1: this level of disability, so they don't qualify for the
Speaker 1: public schools. Secondly, just as in the US, private schools
Speaker 1: who educate kids at this level are expensive, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of poverty down there as it is in
Speaker 1: the U s and the these kids really don't, you know,
Speaker 1: the private schools are out of reach, so they don't
Speaker 1: really have an option except to stay home. And the
Speaker 1: Little Yellow Schoolhouse was born from this and several people
Speaker 1: got together funded a six room classroom, six student classroom
Speaker 1: one room six students too, and brought in a teacher
Speaker 1: to educate these kids will. Now because of the festival,
Speaker 1: it's grown into half a block the school. There are
Speaker 1: there is a full staff of teachers. There are seventy
Speaker 1: two students. Now we have a seventy nine conversion rate
Speaker 1: of educating children too there at the level of being
Speaker 1: able to attend public schools. And if they still don't
Speaker 1: hit that level, they stay in the school so they
Speaker 1: do get quality education. And the thing, everything, every part
Speaker 1: of the school, the teachers, salaries, the building, the materials,
Speaker 1: and the insurance, everything is paid for by the Islandown
Speaker 1: Music Fest. For all of that, we raise enough money
Speaker 1: every year to fund the school for yet another year.
Speaker 1: So then it's crucial. Oh, it's crucial, and it's and
Speaker 1: it's beautiful and it's amazing. And every year the the
Speaker 1: artists that go down to the island will visit the
Speaker 1: school and it will put you in tears. They will.
Speaker 1: Every year we'll have an artist that will perform, uh
Speaker 1: and it's just incredible. They'll perform for the kids, and
Speaker 1: then the kids will perform for for the artist and
Speaker 1: it will it'll just bring you to tears. It's so sweet.
Speaker 1: And then and then at the end of the visit.
Speaker 1: We all dance, the kids dance with the artist, and
Speaker 1: we've got some footage of that which is beautifully heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: But we take over. Now, we take over the entire island.
Speaker 1: It used to be a couple of people in a
Speaker 1: bar and you know, and we'd sell some tickets and
Speaker 1: everything would be But now the entire island of East
Speaker 1: lou Maharis is booked. You can't get a hotel room
Speaker 1: there during the festival. You have to go to Cancoon
Speaker 1: to get a room. And people just flocked to the island.
Speaker 1: All the events are sold out and it's one of
Speaker 1: the most special things you'll ever see. So people who
Speaker 1: want to attend as um just participants and enjoying the
Speaker 1: concert like that's people fly there and have a vacation
Speaker 1: and then just go to this correct correct and they
Speaker 1: they buy like a four day pass, a five day
Speaker 1: pass that. So you know, people are thrown down hard money.
Speaker 1: They're paying for you know, a hotel for a week,
Speaker 1: they're paying for flights there um, and they're you know
Speaker 1: buying typically two tickets each, which you know is a
Speaker 1: is a chunk, but you make it a vacation, you
Speaker 1: make it a very special vacation for yourself, because not
Speaker 1: only you enjoy this amazing island, you're getting to interact
Speaker 1: with artists because they're just wandering around two and you're
Speaker 1: hearing them perform, and it's very laid back, amazing setting,
Speaker 1: and you are doing something that is so so so
Speaker 1: important by funding a little yellow schoolhouse. I mean, wow, Skip,
Speaker 1: this is amazing. And you are the chairman of this,
Speaker 1: like you really are, like the brains behind this. The
Speaker 1: mastermind can go quite that far. I have no brains left,
Speaker 1: but I am the I'm the co chairman. There's a
Speaker 1: fellow named Rob Goff who is really funny. We define
Speaker 1: music business. I'm music and he's business. He knows nothing
Speaker 1: about the music part and admits it, but he knows
Speaker 1: everything about you know. I'll say, oh, I got this
Speaker 1: great idea. We're gonna fly a hot air balloon and
Speaker 1: we're going to do this, and he's gonna go and
Speaker 1: and he gets out as a little calculator and goes
Speaker 1: they're not and we work well together. But he's he
Speaker 1: lives on the island most of the year. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: he lives in the Midwest in some place that starts
Speaker 1: with an m uh. Uh, and he's he you know,
Speaker 1: he too does the business part, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: do the talent and the promotion in the marketing and
Speaker 1: all those things I enjoy doing. But we'll tell you what, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you you know you I'm about to like take it
Speaker 1: on a different road. So you wrap up your thought
Speaker 1: and I have another question for you. Have my thoughts
Speaker 1: were wrapped up so long ago I have top the
Speaker 1: head with a hammer to get anything out of here. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: how has this changed and affected your life? Well, I
Speaker 1: will tell you it it has. It's sort of there's
Speaker 1: a spiritual connection. You realize that everybody's got these talents,
Speaker 1: you know that whatever they are. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: really think about you know, everybody has the talent. You know,
Speaker 1: the people at the grocery store that check you out,
Speaker 1: they have gifts. And when you find something that you
Speaker 1: can apply your whatever it is that you can do
Speaker 1: towards making the world better, it makes a the world better.
Speaker 1: It makes you a better person. And I have found
Speaker 1: a sense of humility and I found a sense of
Speaker 1: spirituality that I can get together with so many of
Speaker 1: my great friends, and I said, We're gonna all go
Speaker 1: down to Mexico and we're gonna make a difference. And
Speaker 1: these kids lives are changed because of musicians going in
Speaker 1: there and playing and giving their gifts, their their talent.
Speaker 1: They sing the songs they wrote, they performed for the crowds,
Speaker 1: and that's what they give and these kids have a
Speaker 1: chance at a normal life. Tangibly, you see it happening
Speaker 1: from the school to the stage to its to their
Speaker 1: life on the island, and you see that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they're lifted up and it's one of the
Speaker 1: most incredible feelings ever. It really aligns your priorities. That's amazing, Skip,
Speaker 1: that's really really true, amazing. I'm so sad that it
Speaker 1: can't happen in person this year, but it will not
Speaker 1: be stopped. This show must go on, and so it
Speaker 1: is going to be a virtual experience. And you're so
Speaker 1: kind to have me host a tiny bit of it
Speaker 1: and Michael and his Band of thousand Horses got to
Speaker 1: play for a little segment of it. So tell everyone
Speaker 1: how they can see it, what it's going to be
Speaker 1: this year, and how they can give money, because I
Speaker 1: know everyone listening is going to want to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: there's there's the easiest way is to right now, just
Speaker 1: go to Island Time Music Fest dot com Island Time
Speaker 1: Music Fest dot com. All the information is there. And
Speaker 1: we made a major decision just a few days ago
Speaker 1: that instead of selling tickets, we're going to open it
Speaker 1: up to the entire world. We're going to um allow
Speaker 1: anyone that wants to watch the show, watch the show
Speaker 1: and just make a donation. If your donation is five cents,
Speaker 1: we welcome it. If your donation is five thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: we welcome it. Whatever you want to give, give what
Speaker 1: you can give, what you what you want to give.
Speaker 1: And through the generosity of so many people, uh the
Speaker 1: Vinyl Lab that the new vinyl pressing plant here in
Speaker 1: Nashville has given us an extremely generous donation to to
Speaker 1: towards the school and the production of the show. Uh uh,
Speaker 1: Kicker Audio has given us an extremely generous donation towards
Speaker 1: the production of the show. Um, this was very big.
Speaker 1: Intercom Radio, which is one of the largest chains out there,
Speaker 1: is going to broadcast this show on their digital properties.
Speaker 1: And then they've asked for us to cut it down
Speaker 1: to one night's a four night show. We're gonna cut
Speaker 1: it down to one night and they're gonna rebroadcast it
Speaker 1: and ask for donations. Uh. One of the most exciting
Speaker 1: parts is the production itself is by Sean Silva's tackle
Speaker 1: Box Films that everyone knows from his history with with
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesney, with Luke Bryant, with Jason Alden with his
Speaker 1: mantle full of awards video director. Yes, he is the guy.
Speaker 1: He's the guy to go to. And he is directing
Speaker 1: the show. He's producing the show, his team is all
Speaker 1: and this the quality of the show, the sound, and
Speaker 1: the visuals will be as good as any awards show
Speaker 1: you've seen on television. And yeah, so it's open to
Speaker 1: the world. I mean you don't have to you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to buy a hundred and fifty dollar
Speaker 1: ticket to get in. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: go to Island Time Music Fest dot com. It will
Speaker 1: take you to NUGS TV and UH, and you can
Speaker 1: watch all four nights of the show and we encourage
Speaker 1: you to give what you can. And that's what Maybe
Speaker 1: when the world even opens back up, maybe this virtual
Speaker 1: part will still stay a part of it. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it will. I think it will because it's it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that just can't really jump
Speaker 1: up and go to the island for a week in February.
Speaker 1: They don't have the time off work. And it now
Speaker 1: gives everybody a chance to experience this incredible music event.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you, I mean, we've got Vin Skale
Speaker 1: this year, We've got thousand horrises. This year, we have Lee,
Speaker 1: Bryce Runaway, June Uh, Kelly Pickler and Kyle Jacobs always host.
Speaker 1: They are the king and the Queen of the show
Speaker 1: and they never stopped giving they every This is their
Speaker 1: seventh year of hosting and uh, they are incredible and
Speaker 1: their workforces all year long. They the festival would not
Speaker 1: happen without them. They work all year to encourage their
Speaker 1: artist buddies to go to come to the show. They
Speaker 1: you know they talk about the school. Yeah, they're just blessings.
Speaker 1: Blackbird Smokes on the show this year. Fine, I love them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lisa Loebe is on the show again. Here what I
Speaker 1: want with Dawes and her double pay attention to I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that whole song could anyway don't understand to
Speaker 1: be really carefully here negative no, no, no, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: they got darn good. Thanks. Lisa should call me. I
Speaker 1: can help her. Okay, well we'll put that together. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. It's gonna be great, and you
Speaker 1: can also read, uh read about it up in an
Speaker 1: upcoming edition of Monday Morning Intel. The magazine what's that?
Speaker 1: Because now you have a magazine Skip Skip Bishop everyone
Speaker 1: for everyone listening, you're probably gathering this Skip does everything.
Speaker 1: He has done it all, does it all, and continues
Speaker 1: to do it all. So you have a magazine as well.
Speaker 1: We do we uh we We partnered up with some
Speaker 1: really interesting people. Uh my business partner for the last
Speaker 1: thirty five years as a felon in which wi that
Speaker 1: everybody knows. We have a little company called Studio to
Speaker 1: the Entertainment, and we partnered up with a guy named
Speaker 1: Rich Meyer who invented a system called media Base, which
Speaker 1: is a research monitoring system. He partnered up with a
Speaker 1: guy named Steve Lahman who was the father of a
Speaker 1: company called Premier Radio, which is just a massive organization.
Speaker 1: And these guys are all about tech research. And we
Speaker 1: put together Monday Morning Intel, which is a there's a
Speaker 1: country version and a top forty version and the centerpiece
Speaker 1: is a new chart. And in that chart, it's not
Speaker 1: just an airplay chart. We take call out research. We
Speaker 1: take retention scores, which is a technical thing too. That
Speaker 1: sounds like nothing unless you're in the radio and mon
Speaker 1: a during business, but it tells how long people actually
Speaker 1: listen to a song, just like flipping through and skipping right.
Speaker 1: We take streaming numbers on the video, We take audio
Speaker 1: streaming numbers, We take airplay, and we put it all
Speaker 1: into a new configuration and rank records as performance, not
Speaker 1: just on airplane. Okay, where can people go to see this?
Speaker 1: Monday morning Intel dot com. Okay, So the two big
Speaker 1: websites that we need to remember for this podcast are
Speaker 1: Island Time Music dot com, Island Time Music Fest dot com,
Speaker 1: Island Time Music Fest dot com, and Monday Morning Intel
Speaker 1: dot com. And one more, one more, if you don't
Speaker 1: mind drop it, Island Time Auction dot com. Yes, tell
Speaker 1: me about that autograph guitars, all sorts of great artist
Speaker 1: memorabilia packages where you can win to fly out to
Speaker 1: Mexico and stay on the island of East Luma. Harris
Speaker 1: packages where you could you could come to Nashville for
Speaker 1: a star studded weekend. There's so many great things that
Speaker 1: are all donations from so many generous people that you
Speaker 1: could win. But you'll see you on the show. Almost
Speaker 1: every artist signs a guitar on camera, and those guitars
Speaker 1: are going to be available on Island time auction dot Com.
Speaker 1: Amazing skit, Bishop, you never see Amaze me. You're making
Speaker 1: the world such a magical, amazing better place with your
Speaker 1: existence in your incredible heart and how you bring people
Speaker 1: together and how you give to the world. It is
Speaker 1: truly an honor, a blessing to know you. You're one
Speaker 1: of my most favorite people. As I said, you are
Speaker 1: a magical unicorn in this world, and I feel so
Speaker 1: blessed to have you as a dear, dear friend. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. That's so nice, and I feel right
Speaker 1: back the same way, like I'm holding up a mirror
Speaker 1: and I love you that much as will. But but
Speaker 1: can I Can I stay married to Diane? Do I
Speaker 1: have to marry like Jason Isabel? Only if you tell
Speaker 1: me which one you'd pick for your number one husband
Speaker 1: and then you can stay with Diane. No, you have to.
Speaker 1: You have to pick one. You have to. I can't
Speaker 1: do it. I love them all different ways, but I'm sticking.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with my normal, old, boring self. I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of a white, straight guy. Okay, you're not normal,
Speaker 1: old or boring. But okay, if you just want to
Speaker 1: stay I've committed. I've committed for sixty eight years. I'm
Speaker 1: staying in this lane. Okay, just might as well. Who
Speaker 1: knows what happens in the future. I mean it's wide open.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll keep me updated. If you decided to,
Speaker 1: like go make a move on one of these guys,
Speaker 1: let me know. Okay, I'll talk to you soon. Always
Speaker 1: wrap with one question, which is leave your light. What
Speaker 1: do you want people to know that love is all
Speaker 1: that matters. There's nothing else. Possessions don't matter, property doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: status doesn't matter, money doesn't matter, mansions crumbled. Love is
Speaker 1: all that matters. Love is all that endures, Love is
Speaker 1: all that is eternal. A Men's good Bishop, everyone, I
Speaker 1: love you so much. Skip m by all right,