WEBVTT - 8-22: Bobby Cast Ep. 3 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.520 All right, welcome to episode three of the Bobby Cast. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:14.840 That's Bobby joined by Dusty the Dog. Hey, everybody, Hey, 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.759 also producing the show, Mike Deed. Hey, Mikey. Well, let's 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.840 welcome to your host to the show. Here he is, Bobby. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.680 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you band. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.320 Thank you to the wonderful band who's here in the 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.879 bedroom every every time we do a Bobby Cast. We 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.440 did the show from room in my house, and my 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.200 dog is sitting right to my left in a chair. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.720 There's a microphone planet over his head, and if he 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.800 does start licking himself, that's what you're here. We will 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.200 start bringing guests in the in the room soon enough. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.080 We haven't been able to record in a while because 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.040 of my house. And I'll quickly talk about the flood 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.120 that was here, because this flood is nothing compared to 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.760 the real flood that's happening in Louisiana. And so there 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.320 was a water man that broke and everything was runned 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.520 and luckily is being fixed, Like I think the place 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.399 is actually gonna go up in value when they're done. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.840 What's just a good part. But the bad part is 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.480 I'm the only one able to live in my building 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.959 at this point because of the the water this happened. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.240 It's don't moved in yet, you know, no nobody. Okay, great, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:24.119 it feels very comfortable and warm here. But until like today, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.600 there's been all of these not only humongous fans that 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.640 blow heat into the floors, but these pads on the 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.640 ground that suck water out of the floors and holes 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.680 drilled all over my bedroom so they can see where 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.039 there's any sort of moisture. So we hadn't even been 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.160 able to do this because of the noises. So this 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.160 is the first time that we're back. I'm glad we're back. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:55.520 So guess who's back. It's us, Thank you very much. Yes, yes. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:05.560 Also there's a thing where for me it's weird as 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.640 I'm kind of transitioning, I guess my role and not 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.440 on purpose inside of the format, and this is the 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.760 place I feel like I can talk about things and 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.400 if you don't care to listen to it, because it 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.200 doesn't matter, it's podcast, you can just turn it off 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.320 and it doesn't affect me. I would never talk about 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.919 this on the radio. But for me, when I came 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:26.840 to this format, and I was very much an outsider, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.840 to everyone, even myself a bit. You know, coming into 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.120 this format, I was very much an outsider because I 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.120 didn't grow up in this format. I grew up in 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.360 lots of formats. I did Top forty, I did sports, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:43.640 I did alternative. Um. But again, I grew up listening 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.480 to a lot of country music, and not just country 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.639 music either. You know, I've never been dishonest about where 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.760 I come from. At all parts of my life there 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.560 has been country music, but not has at all parts 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.200 hasn't always been the biggest musical part of my life. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.359 I think I've always said that as a kid with 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.400 my grandmother from I'm gonna get to a point in 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.799 a second, but podcast so I can take it longer 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:11.000 than want. So from like zero to ten or eleven, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.760 that's all we listened to was either the radio, Kissing 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.400 ninety six and Lettle Rock or my grandma's records when 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:25.440 I live with just my grandma, and that was um 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.440 everything from you know, I'm from Arkansas, So in Arkansas, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.840 you love Johnny Cash. And that's such a cliche thing 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.240 to say, but in Arkansas, we don't have a lot 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.320 of famous people. So to have a Johnny Cash or 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.360 even a Brooks Robinson who played for the Orioles but 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.600 ce from Arkansas, and I played third base. There was 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.160 a big deal to us John Dailey, who played golf 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.040 the Razorbacks. Like when you grow up in a in 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.160 a small town, a small state, you really look up 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.120 to the people that are successful. So Johnny Cash was 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.480 like just this big, bigger than live music, and he was, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.240 you know, really all by the time I got to 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.480 be a kid, and so my GRANDMLI listen and Johnny 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.480 Cash all the time. A kids from Arkansas, and then 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.160 Andy Griffith and then a lot of the Ray Charles 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.160 Um even the comedy records like Jerry Clower. So there 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.960 was a very country influence in my life. I've been 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.400 told about eleven or twelve. And then I was like, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.880 you know what, I'm about to start doing my own 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.560 thing and started listening to a lot of the alternative 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.640 stuff and like the nineties, and I got really into 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.520 Nirvana and Pearl Jam just like everybody did in the nineties. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.080 And I was a casual fan um in the late nineties. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.400 I'm still on the radio a little bit, but I 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.640 was hardcore alternative and then I kind of, you know, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.440 I got into pop start of work in the top Fortyes, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:39.800 so other than when I was in my car a bit, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:41.839 I would just hear what was there. So at different 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.359 points in my life there was always some sort of 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.479 country music influence, but there were points where it was 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.120 much greater. That being said, I came to Nashville, I 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:53.440 can't do the show, and they wanted someone who knew 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.240 and love the format but also had outside influences as well, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.000 because they realized that people listening to the radio now 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.680 don't just listen to one kind of music. I don't 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.520 have one friend, I don't have one country music artist 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.719 friend that just has country music in this playlist. And 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.760 so when they wanted to put me here, and by 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.120 the way, I don't even know this job existed. And 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.799 I wrote this in my book, but I'll say it again, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.919 this wasn't a job. They had looked at other people 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.520 to come in and be the local morning show in 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.920 just Nashville, but this wasn't a national position and I 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.880 wasn't even in the thought process for it because the 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.400 job didn't exist, and there were a couple of openings, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.919 it didn't happen, and my contract was up, and it 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.680 was like, what are we gonna do. So they were like, well, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.680 Bobby loves country music, he loves other music too, which 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.240 is what we're looking for. We need someone to kind 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.000 of be progressive and change it up a bit, so 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.040 let's send him over. And then I moved to Nashville. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.279 Right now, as I say, there's a love where I 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.200 am like, holy cow, like this has been the most 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.440 fitting place for me period, but it wasn't for a while. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.479 And for some of you Gothern's three girds sating stuff 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.919 you've heard me say before read But I'm getting to 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.760 a point, so the whole type for a second. So 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:10.680 as I've always loved the music, and there have been 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.000 times and there have been cycles that I haven't loved 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.960 and country music like you always liked whenever you were, 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.240 you know, like for me like Timergirl, Garth Brooks, the 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.960 Sammy Kershaw, that that time period for me was like it. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:26.880 Then after that I kind of felt like it sucked 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.280 for a little bit. But that's okay. Uh, there are 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.800 parts of it now that I think suck a little bit. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.039 That's that's that's always fine. So I came over. I 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.920 was the outsider, and for the first year and a 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.479 half or so it was pretty miserable and I came 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.200 in and here was this guy who was unlike everybody else, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.600 and I knew that coming in. It was not something 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.400 that I was like, Wow, I can't believe no one's 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.159 accepting of me. I knew it. I just knew I 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:54.800 had to lower my head and get through it. And 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.520 so I came in with a chip, a huge chip, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.680 because I was the outsider. I here's the point that 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.200 I'm in too. I am no longer the outsider, and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.200 it's hard for me to accept no longer being the 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.359 outsider because I've always only been the outsider of my 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:14.320 entire life, in my life being amongst humans and at 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.040 my job, because regardless of when I was doing a 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.600 national sports show, I was the guy that never played 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.840 a professional sport. I was the guy that came on 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.920 and knew all about the oldsen Twins but could still 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:28.520 talk about, you know, the Cubs. So I've always been 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.800 the guy from the outside. As much as I still 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.040 try to maintain that, it's getting harder and harder for 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:39.240 me to do now, and I've almost embraced the fact 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.480 that I'm not just the crazy guy from outside the 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.000 format that just wants to beat everybody's door down because 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.200 I have an artist appreciation and for me, that's what's 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.200 the most important thing. And quite frankly, I think that's 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.440 what and how the format and I have kind of 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:00.200 created this marriage is that I have a wonderful company 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.840 I R Radio that hired me and let me do 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.240 what I'm good at and let's just be honest. And 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.000 I would much rather be honest than liked. Most of 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.360 the time, when you're honest, people like you for it. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.200 Sometimes when you're honest, people don't like you for it. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.040 And sometimes when you're honest, it's not even the truth. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.000 Like there are times when I being completely honest, it's nothing. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.800 It's not the truth because I'm just wrong, Like I 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.600 feel a certain way about something, but I'm still I'm 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.000 being as honest as I can. But I look back, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.800 I'm like, man, I was so wrong about that, but 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.080 I was being honest. So as long as people know 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.240 I'm being honest with them, I don't um. It's okay 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.080 to be wrong, and too it's okay not to be 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.880 light sidebar. For example, on Facebook, I had I was 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.440 reading some comments and a woman said, Hey, I would 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.839 you say you if in your preferred dating age you 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.640 when Dad an he want over thirty six your own age, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.400 I didn't give a preferred range, and I think it 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.280 was thirty six. And I will play back to her, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.400 and I said, I did say that. First of all, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.200 there are always things outside the areas, I mean, probably 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.679 on both sides. But I said, would you again, I 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.280 could have said, you know what, I could would just 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.199 date anyone if I found the right love. But again, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.040 I would rather be honest than liked. And I said 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.840 that in the message. It's up there. You can read 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.079 it on Facebook somewhere. I replied back to her, you know, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.640 I didn't say I would date a fifty three year 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.360 old because I don't feel like that's how I feel 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.280 in my heart. Now. If I met year old and 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.960 we hit it off, maybe I would maybe that that 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.440 honestly that I was isn't the truth. It's not always 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.520 the case. The honesty isn't always the truth. So I 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.360 told her, I just want to be honest, not liked. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.719 So again, as I moved forward in this conversation, there's 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.480 a whole reason I'm setting it up like this. I'm 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.240 starting to be part of the fabric of the format. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.000 Because I've been so anti rules that the format is 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.719 starting to kind of be anti rules, which means they 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.960 are the rules. So when everyone's against something, that means 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.280 everyone's for it in a weird way. So here's where 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.120 I come into this. One of my favorite things to do, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.720 and again, one of the things that my company has 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.840 a allowed me to do is to break new artists 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.080 and new songs and new music and projects and EPs 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.120 and LPs and o p ps and any kind of 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.840 peas they've been able to let me do. And I've 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.920 been extremely grateful because my Heart Radio did not have 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.360 to let me do that. As a matter of fact, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.160 I would not have let me do that because it 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.200 in the past has not been good for radio because 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.120 it gives bad ratings. However, the audience that listens to 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.240 me now that I'm not gonna call on the ear 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.920 and give them something that I don't think it's good, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.320 And that's the most important thing to me is that 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.280 you guys believe me. You don't have to agree with me, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.040 but as long as you believe I'm telling you the truth, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.160 we're good. Okay, Bob, On to my next point. So, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.480 as I've been doing this, you start to see other 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.720 people go whoa whoa, whoa whoa. First of all, as 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.480 I mentioned weeks ago, even months ago in the air, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.240 there's starting to be a lot of shows that are 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.720 created like ours now because we've been able to to 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.800 show that if you have a little more well rounded 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.760 nous in your morning show, that resonates with the listener. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.040 So you're seeing shows in Chicago, you're seeing shows in Nashville. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.440 Your sanchos come in that are basically like us and 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.120 not like us, and the fact that they're trying to 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.520 put someone exactly and like us, but they're going, hey, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.480 we'll take some much for another format and put them 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.080 in because they probably enjoy the country format and they 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.880 are well rounded like the listener. And I don't hate 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.560 it for it, Like I mean, you're three years behind 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.080 I heart radio, but I don't hate you for doing it. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.559 I think it's a smart thing to do. I think 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.400 business wise, if you don't, you're gonna get far so 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.360 left behind. So you know, shout out to you guys 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.640 doing it now. Finally, like there you go, good for you, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.360 pen a rose on your nose. Uh, that's happening. So 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.000 you're seeing the format evolved more of a normal person 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.680 format on the radio. Here's the part that irritates me. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.439 And everything that I say tends to get blown out 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.960 of proportion. If I tweet something, everybody reads it and 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.960 used to really be annoying and bother me. And I 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.600 say this now I know hope everybody hears it. So 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.480 something's gonna get blown over a portion. I hope it's this. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.480 And I'm only saying this as as the ambassador for 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.360 the format at this point in the format. I am 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.480 the ambassador for the format. I didn't choose to be. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.440 I did not want to be. It hurts me to 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.360 say that because I've always been the guy that's been 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:20.920 I'm against everything that is any sort of semblance of organization. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.679 But I am now the ambassador of the format. I 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.440 wear that patch, not proudly, but because I am, and 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.080 I'm here to do this and say this that. There 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.520 are groups and I'll just include myself too. Well just 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.679 I'll just so no one's getting picked out here. There 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:46.360 are groups of people that are penalizing artists, which penalize 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:51.120 the song writers because one group discovers the artist. Now 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:56.440 I came in. I love discovering artists, but other entities 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.080 are making me not want to do it anymore because 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.120 they're penalizing anyone that I pull up, and I know 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.079 of others, Like let's just you know, there's satellite, they're streaming, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.080 there's all of these different places. There's YouTube, there's v BO, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.640 there's all of this. So let's call them one, four, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:17.839 and five. If one discovers artists, A two goes you 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.120 know what, one discovered them, I'm not playing them. That 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.600 hurts the artist, That hurts the songwriters, That hurts the format, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.240 That does not give the listeners what they deserve. If 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.120 three discover something and goes, you know what, Uh, I 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.560 heard one did this, so I'm gonna go and chart. Yeah. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.960 My point is there is enough for everyone out there. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.640 And I subscribed to everything, by the way, like I'm 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.680 an I Heart Radio loyalist. I think it's the best 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.240 product out there. That being said, I will be dumb 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.240 and I will be lying. If I didn't say that 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.959 I didn't use streaming music services too, or if I 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.280 didn't watch YouTube videos and look for new artists, and 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.760 or if I didn't watch acoustic performances to see if 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.400 people would come out and tour, they'd literally be good 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.200 before I brought amount to play with the raging idiots, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.800 I would be a liar. So I don't want to 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.000 be a liar because I use these other services. But 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:11.400 if Satellite is gonna punish me or another streaming service 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.560 because they had them first, or if someone's gonna punch 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.320 Satellite because they discovered them first, you're hurting the format. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.200 So let's say I I find somebody on the side 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:21.800 of the road and I blow them up and I'm like, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.480 this is the greatest person ever. But one of the 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.960 services said, well, since Bobby discovered him, we're not gonna 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.280 play them. You're hurting the format, and you're hurting the songwriters, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.800 and you're hurting the artists, and then you're hurting the listeners. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.040 So I pledged to you first of all that I 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.640 will I will not do that. I don't care what 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.600 they're on. If Spotify break someone and I'm like, dang, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.120 I heard him, I'll put them on my show, Like 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.120 I have no problem with that. And so I come 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.240 as not just the I heart guy and say that 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.080 I come to you as the ambassador of the format. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.920 And I say that and so this is a really 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.920 inside message and it's been happening, and I don't want 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.600 to yell names, and I'm not gonna yell names right 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.000 now because I'm not really in a sassy mood. But 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.520 I will if I hear and it's not even involving me. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.280 Sometimes I hear like these other two like Group four 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.120 and five, fighting each other over who did what, and 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.440 they won't play this person because they discovered guys who cares, like, 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.040 for a minute, let the format actually be bigger than you, 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.360 just for a minute, and don't let the little things 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.400 serve your listeners. So that's all I will not do. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.800 If if you know, um, Apple Music has they find 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.000 an artist, I'm not going to keep them off my show. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.760 And I would hope that if I find someone, Spotify 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.640 is not gonna go you know what, since Bobby had 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.040 I'm we're not gonna put them on our service and 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.760 put them on a playlist. I hope that's not the case. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.600 So I say that to you guys that I'm not 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.840 going to do that, and I hope that you don't 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.840 do that anymore because it is hurting not just me, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.360 because really I don't care, like I'm an idiot. I'm 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.440 just gonna do what I do anyway. But you're hurting artists. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:04.920 You're hurting songwriters that help the artists. You're hurting the format. There, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.600 that's the whole point I was getting to. I'm coming 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.600 to you as the nice guy ambassador of the format 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.400 saying one, I'm not going to do it, and I 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.680 hope that you guys don't do it either, because I 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.880 know who you are and have I gotta come on 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.040 here and say your names. I will, all right, I'll 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.360 I'll say your names. I know ever a secret. I'm 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.720 like the secret keeper too. You guys act like I 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.520 don't know secrets about everything, like artist secrets, like crazy stuff, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.080 and I'm not saying that stuff. And I would never 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.840 put it out there like I just wouldn't. It's not 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:39.600 my thing. Um. And it is weird to come and say, hey, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.800 let's stick together for the format because I've always been 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.840 the guy that's beating on the door from the outside, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.520 going ah, look at me. But I'm not. I'm coming 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.560 and saying, hey, we we kind of have to stick 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.240 together in a way, and there's plenty of room for everyone. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.280 I think our goal as an industry of providing content 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.360 is to create and give the best to our consumers, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.639 the people that in this you know, it could be 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.400 super boring against podcast. I get to say whatever I want. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.320 It's from my house, so on the studio. Um, But 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.640 there there's that. Did all that makes sense? Are you sure? 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.280 I just I don't. I have a lot of friends 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.840 that are songwriters who it really hurts. I have a 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.680 lot of friends that are artists that it really hurts 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.119 whenever two won't put them in their list because three 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:35.520 discover them, or four won't use them because I found them. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.960 We should work together. We don't have to publicly work together, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.120 but let's not penalize the artist or the songwriters because 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.960 of that. That's the end, and I leave anything unclear 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.520 at all. If there's one thing I'm passionate about now, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:57.040 it's the music, and it's how the music is made. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.240 And I hope you forward this to every song writerer 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.320 in town and every artist in town, and every um 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.960 person that's running every outlet. Like I am an I 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:12.080 heart radio soldier, but I'm also someone inside the format 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.000 that cares about furthering the format, and so I hope 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.000 may we not work together in any capacity, even company 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.800 and company. That's fine, but let's not punish people who 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.800 have nothing to do with it. I'm not going to. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.440 If you guys decide you want to, that's fine. Don't 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.120 let me hear about it, because I've heard about it. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:38.879 I've heard about people fighting each other. Don't do that. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.919 Don't fight each other such an artist stuff. And to me, 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.280 in my mind, I don't get people to the radio 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:48.359 stations like the world is so full of nineties seven 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.120 million things to do. Like I'm just trying to win 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.600 to get people to listen to the radio. Listen I 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.800 how radio period, just to care Like I'm not like 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.960 I gotta beat this station or this show or may 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:04.000 and there's like YouTube and apps and Pokemon Go and 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.760 there's so many things that people like. I'm just trying 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.439 to provide content or music or information that will make 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.280 people come to me. And it's not the eighties anymore 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.120 where it's let's have a fight with the rival station. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.760 At least not in my mind. I don't care about 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.200 the rival station. I care about doing the best job 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.800 that I can do. Now I'm gonna get out of 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.639 the industry talk there. I'm done. How long was that 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.080 whole segment that was like minutes long? That was too long? 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:33.919 But that's that's that's that. Thank you. I pledge, and 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.000 I hope that we can all. We don't have to 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.760 get together and sing kumbay y'all, but let's at least 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.480 be fair to the artists, the songwriters and the format 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.080 in country music, because no other format is starting to 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:51.280 split itself up like this because of pettiness. So I 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.040 will not do it. And if I have listen, I 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:55.440 don't think I'm bena do it anyway. But if i 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.000 haven't do it, I'm not anymore because I'm conscious of 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.240 it now. So discover away everyone, and I hope it's 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.719 great because you bring me great people. I'll play on 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.800 my show too, and you can have all the credit 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.680 for being the first one. I don't care. I just 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.480 want to give my listeners something great. For example, I 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.400 didn't discover Drake White. I'll put Drake on again this week. 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.520 I think Drake's amazing. It's got an album called Spark. 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.080 Someone tweeting me, hey, what are you listening to? I 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.000 listened to drake Spark album a bit over the weekend. 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.199 I thought it was great. You know, we played this 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:33.200 song making Me look good again on our show. It's 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.720 so good he played curbs Ie Profit. But then he 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.400 played this from his album This is Drake White Here, 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.200 nineteen minute piano intro, by the way everybody They's done, 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:06.240 Welcome one and Haggard with it into a drook through 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:14.000 the key that back and don look shot and Rip 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:24.840