Episode 23 - Eddie (11-22-16)

don't know anything, dude, Dude. I like the place. It's nice. I don't know my mailing address. Um uh yeah, it's it's a it's a nice place. Thanks. When I grew up, I want a place like this. It's like Mario Brothers because there are three levels, or it's a lot of climbing because there aren't stairs. It's all just ladders to get to the next floor. We were thinking though, because Dusty has to go up now stairs all the time, because he just runs up and down the three levels

of the house that we have. I have to find somebody to build ramps down every staircase, like carpeted ramps so he doesn't slide down them, and I think it's easier on his legs. He's thirteen now, so I don't falling down the stairs. No, but and he doesn't even not like him yet he gets tired going up and down them all the time. I thought having a backyard was gonna be crazy for him. But it's just the stairs.

He just gets tired. But again in the next year, as his body deteriorates as he is an old man, I'm going to have to have some some kind of stare thing built. Can you do that me? You can? Why because I built stuff? Because you can do build anything or break into or break into any dude, I can break into things. He goes, yeah, I can build things, break into things. I can fix my car. And he can take a credit card to get into any door. Not any door. I've never seen you not get into

a door with a credit card. It's weird, dude. My dad used to have this, uh Swiss army knife and he would be able to open our car doors with just that little knife. Is it because the car door was so old or because your dad was so gifted with Swiss army Because there are two because there are old cars that we had that I think a butter knife could have started the car. Yeah, and I think did start the car. Yeah. I mean this was back like in the nineties, so I mean I guess like

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Here's the big disconnect amongst our show is we come from a lot of places, but all of us met in Texas, all the main cast we've been together for years and years and years, and Texas as much as I love Austin, I was like a home to me and I still live there and they're building that's a crazy studio, which is awesome because and be there more like, please build a studio because I live there and I want to be there more. For like two years, they've

been promising and finally they're doing it. So but the thing is, Texas is not the South. There is a difference. Texas Texas, absolutely, and so whenever we say things like meals, that's my southern accent, that's Arkansas, yes, and Texas is a different accent. So it is Oklahoma the South, yeah, parts of it. Man, So it's just Texas, Texas, Texas, own Country, Texas and New Mexico, Arizona. It's kind of

like the Southwest. That's it's it's very much so. But Austin is different than all the rest of Texas too, because the rest of Texas is like Austin is its own, almost its own republican itself because nothing else is like Austin. And then you go down to San Antonio and it becomes more Mexico. You go to the east and it's like like Pine country, cowboys, oil builds. You go up north, Texas is well, it's so big though, it's huge, huge, and that's what I grew up in, like Texas being huge.

So traveling once we moved up here, it's like whoa, I can go to Kentucky and I can go to uh Yeah, Like that's crazy that we can drive to another state in less than like four hours. Another one of my points, as you're wearing a knit cap on your head, as you would call it a beanie. Now, I grew up calling it a toboggan. And when I moved to austin twenty one two, I was told, hey, stupid, that's not called a toboggan. It's called a beanie Texans.

So I when in Rome, started calling it a beanie, but never felt right really, so you changed, well because just because I didn't want to start. I don't want to have to explain myself, right, That's the way I am with people that say guacamole guac like it's not guaka's guaca. More like you guys say guests okay, so and it's gistl Like no, that's just like that's an accent. So that's a different not a different word point. It's not a whole. But in Arkansas we said cheese dip.

That's terrible that I agree with. But no, here's the difference, so too again, difference in Arkansas. Growing up, it literally was cheese dip. It was just melted cheese. It wasn't so you would get like craft slices and melted. My grandma would take velvita or we take government cheese. Come in the box and you have melted and then we just take chips. That literally was cheese dip. And that's what a lot of Arkansas had because it's not like there's a lot of great Mexican food there. And I

moved to Texas and it was Queso. So for me, it was just struggled knowing there was a difference. Listen, I changed, I fit in do you call do you called guacamo and guawk? Mm hmmm, I don't. I don't know. That's one of those you say that. I don't think I call it guacamole. It's just too many. I will have a side of guaco mooley, please, guango moley? Can I get some guaco? Yeah? Just because I really don't know. Another thing is that I would like my step dad

would say. I would say, hey, what's the state that looks like a boot? What's the state looks like a boot? The state in America looks like a boot? That was easy? Idaho, No, no, no, that's more like a sideways Bryan Pan you know a boot it's down below Arkansas. I'm just you know what it it's not a trivia question, No baton rouge. Louisiana Louisiana. Right, like my stead dad who's on the show quite often, does not call it. That called the Louisiana in Arkansas.

You called Louisiana Louisiana Saturday night. Right. And another thing is there's the state with all the s is in it Mississippi Mississippi. Right, That's not how we set it growing up. And does Mississippi Mississippi. It's like you cut a hole, it's off of it instead of Mississippi. It was Mississippi. Were gonna go down to We'll go to the boats and gamble like we go to you know, like Charles or that's in that's in Louisiana, Louisiana. Where

were the we're the boats in Mississippi? Uh? Where were the boat Missisippi? Yeah, but we wouldn't go that far. Where were the boats in Mississippi? Uh? Most of the time we would go to uh not because we go through southern Arkias. I've been so long as gamble, dude, remember you used to gamble so much. But we would go to Tree Reports. Where we go, Yeah, we go to the boats in Shreveport, and then let me go to Scotty that you can call Scotty now in that Shreeport, Louisiana. Okay, okay, Yeah,

we used to go to Cashata, Louisiana like Charles, Louisiana Treeport. Um, dude, Scotty and his family are big. They like to the boats. And you know what it knows about Scotty and your set down. They both say, um, do what do what? Do what? That's like, yeah, excuse me? Do what what? But that's okay. Hey, we're on the air recording something right now. So I just got a question for you. Uh, when you guys would go to the boats in Missisipi,

where would you guys go? Tunica? Tunica? Yeah, that's the way. But when we would go, we'd mostly go to Streport, Louisiana. Right. Scotty moved to Kansas City, by the way. What Yeah, he loves Scott didn't know that. That's Eddie by the way, yelling at you. Yeah all right, anyway, that's all all right. See that boy by Scotty a man of very few words, very few words. Scott is my neighbor going up. Scotty and I have state friends since Scott used to beat me up when as a kid. Really yeah, because it

for fun. Two years older than me when you're in high school, in elementary school, he was your bully. Hell yeah, yeah, yeah, for a long time. Yeah yeah, told me this story. No, he lived next door and he was two years older than me. And when you're in fourth grade, in sixth grade, that's a significant difference. So Scotty beat the crap out of me, right, But you guys are like best buds now, like, yeah, you grow into it. Wow. Yeah, and we had a lot of similarities. We go ahead and fish. And if

you fought today, who would win? I kill him. He's much bigger than I. I would kill him because I'm a good shape. I mean, he may get a couple of punches. But the reason I would win many fights with people in my age now is not because I'm a good fighter, but because I'm in a good shape and fighting takes a lot of energy. Yes, you've said that about me, I'll kill you. Yeah, I mean we should try something. You would probably, But here's the thing too,

I'm you're not even scraping. That would be on the golf course and he would say something. I'd be like, don't don't mind up. I would tackle you and I'm going to tackle Eddie like he was a freaking punching bag. You were just sitting up. Sometimes I would just kind of fall before you even know. We were out. This weekend we were playing we only have here's the thing with the raging Idiots. Eddie and I are pretty much

done after these last two shows. Depending on when you hear this, we have a couple of shows left, one in Vegas, one in Albuquerque, and I thought then we were going to retire and just calling it a day. But then Stage Coach. Stage Coach called and said, would you guys come play Stage Coach and they have this is the main stage where the big Axe play the huge acts, and they were like, you can play early in the day on the big stage, or you can

close out the small stage. And if we're gonna go, we might as well because we'll we'll never go to that again in our life, probably because it's just so far and we see all that anyway. Here, it'd be like traveling to Japan to watch an episode of friends on CAP I get to watch in our bedroom. Why would go to Japan to do it? So? Why would I fly out to California to watch all the country acts every day? But it is supposedly a cool experience. So we chose to play later in the day on

the smaller stage. But we planned to not playing your reging IDEO shows next year at all. Were gonna call. We were actually gonna wrap it up, and so we're doing that show. But now the people know, I'm getting requests that crazy to do him next year. Hey, the money is good, We'll do anything that's not. No, that's my slogan. That's my slogan for governor. I'll do any act for money. Dude, that's gonna that's gonna get you the governor. I have to raise money, I'll do I'll

do any act for money. I think it's crazy that the governor of Arkansas or by the way, I tweeted him and I thought it was a need. He tweeted me back. First of all, someone from like a press course something saw it. He's done pretty close to seven year old man. And I'm sure he's not reading he's not my Twitter. I don't know he's on Twitter. Probably not, but he's probably not reading my tweets, and so I

didn't even put him in the first tweet. I ended up putting them more later and somebody said, hey, Governor Hudson respond back, and he did, or someone in his team did, regardless. The next morning he called the request line the governor of Arkansas. That's crazy to me. To me, that's a big deal. I don't know if governors are big deals to other people. I don't know if growing up to the governor of to us, the governor was big because Bill Clinton was our governor, you know that

being the president. Mike huck could be was our governor and he ended up running for president and being a big national figure. So the governor was always a big deal of Arkansas. And so you know, I said, hey, I'm going to run. I really am serious about writing a political office. I know you are. I know I can see it in your eyes. You're serious. It's scary.

Are you messing with me? No? No, it's scary because I know how serious you are and it and it scares me because that means that you're gonna put all your attention on that when this time comes. And then it's probably and then that's it's it for me. No, no, no no, it's not that unless I've become the consultant of you how you can go and do digital stuff

and take pictures. Thanks, But I don't it. I don't know what I want to do it because I and I've talked on the podcast before, like I want to give the presidency a run, and so if I'm gonna do the governor thing, I probably need to do it in the next eight or nine years. And one thing you allway said about the presidency is that you kind of feel like you need to be young while you're

going to be the president. I think that there should be an age limit, not on the bottom side of the presidency, on the top side, because I think if you if you're over sixty five, you shouldn't be able to run president. Like, let's just go and cut that. You shouldn't be because because you're just not thinking straight. Two things. One, you're you're just too old. You're probably know and you're probably not in touch with and it's

not that you are. Right then, but let's stay in four years and then if you if you have a decent termament for you, you go eight years. So here you are, you're sixty five, you get in at sixty six or seventy four. A seventy four year old making a lot of decisions on everyday Americans. Most of them are way below seventy four. It's just weird because in history we look at the presidents and they look really

but that's the thing with our country. We get so stuck into these patterns, in these traditions that we think we have to stay with it forever. So instead of there being it being thirty five whatever the minimum age is ruin the president, there shouldn't be a We should just have a law in America that says you're an adult. That's it, period, and you get all the adult things,

all the adult options. So eighteen year old president, If you're eighteen and you want to run for president and you want to serve in war, and you want to buy alcohol and you want to buy a cigarettes and you want to gamble, if eighteen is the adult age, then it's just the adult age now. But we voted an eighteen year old and probably well we vote a seventy eight year old Hillary Clinton, and no, probably not

because she's too old. Um, I mean she didn't win at seventy probably probably either, but because in reality it's kind of the same thing. An eighteen year old and a seventy eight year old. Like absolutely that that was my point, and at least with an eighteen year old they can grow positively into it. Now, eighteen year old will never get elect it that we won't because they're

not smart. But what if one comes along that it is eleven year old to graduate college right, and they get to go to m I T because they at eleven are smarter than people at forty. What if someone comes along who's nine years old and they really are at a level then none of us were even close to a thirty I mean, should they not be a consideration? Do we have to wait until the thirty five? Again, it's point one percent, there's not even a chance. But I do hate that there's an age element on the

young side and not the old side. I just feel like me mentally, I'm never gonna be there, Like I'm never gonna look at an eighteen year old candidate or a nineteen year old candidate in bait and say, but did you ever think you look at a reality show host and go that president? No, that's my point. Until it happens, you don't know. You just don't know. And that's why I think that I don't think I can win the presidency, but I think I have a shot at it. I think if any anyone they can get

to that point of running is in the race. And the whole key to being governor or president. Just get in the race and then see what shakes out and happens. So you think if you make it too you know, the election, Like if you're a candidate, I think if our candidate in two years, in two years, you think that if you don't get the presidency, if you don't get it first governor, Like, how far will you have to get for you to think that you made it. I did enough, I got I tried hard enough. You

know I would have winning. Just keep you just keep going. Yeah, I don't think it's running and I probably won't win the first time. If I run in two and a half years, I probably don't think I'm gonna run do it half years, by the way, there's a chance I put it, not a high chance. But let's say I have two and half years on this contract left with my heart and I hope to god, I signed another one. I love it here, I love the show, I love

the listeners. But if they say, hey, listen, we're gonna go in a different direction instead of going over one of these other companies I want to hire me, I would probably just step out and go. That makes sense. I think I just want to run for politics and change my course of my life. And I don't say this jokingly. Um, and I don't have a party. I really don't have a party. And because I never felt I felt that, and I know you eventually you have

to get one if you want the money. That's the problem. Yes, to get donors and they want supporters and because that's all, and you have to have a platform. Yes, this has showed us that. Unfortunately it doesn't matter now there aren't any rules. Someone just broke all the rules. Love them or hate him what He just broke all the rules and has shown you that you can break the rules

and still win. Sure. Well, I'm just saying in past, like the Independent, you don't because but this Donald Trump is not a real Republican, right, He's debinitely not a Democrat. He used to be. He used to be a Democrat. He's had like three political parties. I think he just found the leads past path through resistance and design and went for it, and so's he and I don't either. And I'm on both sides with the different issues. Mostly on the social side, I would say, Eileen liberal, not all,

but most on the yes. Like if I have zero problem with gay rights, I think if you want to be gay, dan gay, kiss gay, gay gay gay, that's just gay it up. I love it. I can't get enough of it. I do think people should leve their lives. And who am I am I judging you gay away? You welcome, buddy, I'm looking at you want to um. And so that being said, uh, you know, I also have guns and think you people should be able to have guns, and I don't think they should have bulletproof vests.

But I just I'm not on one side on anything. And but but I say, uh, socially, I lean on the liberal side. Not all of me is liberal on the social side. But then on the fiscal side, like the money part of it. I grew up really poor and I've made to this point. I've been pretty successful by myself. And it's like man government. You know, I did a lot of work and I struggle for many years to get to why I'm down, and you're trying

to take like almost everything. So I also would be a Republican if you looked at me from how government comes into our lives and works in our paychecks. And so I don't have a party, I don't have anyone that I identify with. But at the same time, I'm still for programs to help because I was on those programs. If it wasn't for as we mentioned earlier, government cheese and that the joke people used, I had that if it wasn't for welfare, I had that someone like me

wouldn't anyway, I'm going to run for probits. I don't know when. And if they said, hey, you know, we're considering maybe not even having your show anymore, or we wanted to take a pack up, but like you know, I'm good. I'm just gonna go run for office, I could be completely content and happy with it. But if they do offer, you would love it. I love Yes, it's not a red new it would be a new contract. I love it here. I do not want to leave.

But if the option was this, and let me tell you, there have been other companies, other platforms that are come said, hey, when your contract, that would love to hire you. I don't think I'm gonna do that. I want to go and rump for office if I don't do this. This is my home. I've been with I Heart Radio. The company's changed the name, but since I was twenty one years old, fifteen years and through big changes, and I've always loved it. And people will give it a hard time,

but they've always been so great to me. And Bob Pittman, our CEO, has been the greatest to me, and Rod and Tom, all these guys have been I have nothing bad to say. At times it's so it's so rare, and at times it's so big that sometimes you get lost. The benefits of working for a big company are that if you're successful, you're really successful. But if you're not,

then you can get lost in the shuffle. And you know, when we first came over, and this will get back to a story about you and I, but we first came over to Nashville, a lot of people were upset with me because there had never been a nationally syndicated morning showing country in the format ever ever. So here I am this guy who people just go okay, here's this guy go, here's this guy coming from hip hop coming over to take the country. He but he ain't

even old enough to drup for president. He's trying to do and so they don't know. They don't anything about me, right that they really don't. They just know what's on the service. So here I come over here and what sucks was it's business. It's not me. I didn't go, Hey, I'd like to take over the jobs of a d people. But if morning germs weren't performing to a certain level and they were making too much money, or there are

a lot of these things. They had to make business decisions, and there's what's to find somebody and put them in the spot and whomever it was, because it wasn't me. I didn't even know the shop existed, by the way, until it was offered to me. I didn't know it existed really, And then I was like, of course I picked this after I knew because they gave me options. Do you wanna stay in graw syndication and taught fourty do you want to go and do alternative in l A.

Do you want to do? I was like, I want to go do comedy, move to national and New Country because that's where my long term future that's most comfortable. And so um yeah, if everybody man basically no, I do. I remember that start to when when that was happening, when you know, you would gain them, we would gain a market or whatever, and that we would find out that a show that already existed got moved or at first it was forty dude, I remember, you would struggle

with that. It feels terrible, man, like these guys they're not gonna have a job, or they got or they got moving afternoon afternoons or whatever. And that was okayish because they didn't get cut. And the company that I worked for now so much better about that. Back in the day, under a different regimen, they was like cut, good bye, piece out and you know what, that's still business. Sure it is in business about hugs and kisses. Um.

But now with the company, they really nourished talent. And if if they're you know, radio people to the hate I Heart Radio, it's because they don't work for I Radio. That's really that's true. Um. But now it's most of the time, a lot of the times, if it's a show that's been there for a while, they moved them to the afternoons, they still get to their full show. A matter of fact, I'd love to do afternoons. Oh dude, can you imagine coming in waking up a normal hour.

I'm gonna end updying early because the schedule, for sure, you've gotten ears taken off of It's like you've been doing this since you were what. Yeah, I compare myself to an NFL football player, which is hits to the head. You're gonna die early. You're just taking hits to the head. Know what you're doing. You're gonna have some fun right now, but you're gonna die early. Problem is, I'm not even having that much fun right now. Problem, but I hate it.

I hate waking Number three, am Are you still tired all the time? All the time? I'm all the time, And part of me doing like eighty jobs is that one. I just have to continue to prove I don't suck and to listen there, Uh, let me let me time shape this and let me person and shade this. I got a buddy of mine, Okay, he went to a concert. It's been like eight months ago, and I feel like you can tell the story now. And this concert is

up in the Northeast. He ran into a program director for another station that isn't an I Heeart radio station, and I'm on stations outside of my Heart Radio too, but that I'm not on the station and I'm not in the city. And he's like, hey, you know Bobby Bones right, and my friend is head but the other guy was drunk, really drunk. He's like, yeah, it's like one of my good buds in the programs I'll do. I'll do a LaunchBox voice as the as the program

d he was. I hate that guy. He's like, why he he just comes into our format, like like he knows everybody. I've been trying to be friends with Kenny Chesny for four years and he comes in and all of a sudden, him and Kenny your buddies, and he's like calling him and stuff that's horse blank and my buddy's like no, But I think if you knew him, you would understand one who he isn't when he comes from and two that really there isn't anyone that works

harder at having a diversified portfolio. And and he's like, I hate him. He's a real Nobody likes him. He's like, who else you say nobody who else. Yeah, Kenny probably just fights it so he can get it. I remember that. The thing about Eddie and I, we were Eddie was my TV producer for that's how we met. Yes, we met, And it wasn't even like we bumped into each other, like you were literally working in the TV station. Yeah, and they assigned us together because you were you're kind

of working on your intro to talent TV talent. Oh. I've done news for a bit out of college and I hated it. And I didn't college, but I didn't do it anywhere else. Yeah, and I would do local little thing for like Fox and the Local. But I was like, I want to do it every something every day. Yeah. And this was like a music station and and you had auditioned and they did and they picked you, and then they kind of teamed us up to work together and we did a music TV show we did every

day every day. We shot at eleven am on the roof top for after your morning show. I would labor adio and go over to the TV station and Eddie and I would work. And then from that we did a late night talk show for a while and um, then that ended. Eddie and I got fired, except Eddie got fired, I haven't. I still haven't been fired this day. They never still get money from no, no, no. The only way, the only way that I knew that I was not working anymore when Eddie calling goes, hey, I

got fired. I think they closed the station and I was like really, I was like, yeah, I'm gona on in front of the job and I was like what do I do? Goes, I don't know. I was like I don't know either. So no one ever called me from the TV station ever. It was a weird shutdown. They had just kind of called us in one day and was like, all right, we're setting down. That's it. It was like a network that was trying and didn't

make it. Yeah. They had a bunch of investors, and I remember they were like maybe seven or eight solid investors that were putting money into this this project, a lot of Dell money, a lot of Dell money, and and they had kind of showed signs of like slowly a couple of investors pulling out. So we kind of had an idea. But when the when that stuff happens, the day that it happens, and they come call you in and say, like that's what your job's done. Dude.

Well that's a crazy you feeling like what do you do? Like I did not prepare for this. I don't know what to do, and you you had a job. This is your side. That was your side, gig. So that was scary. And I had just I had just I guess Junior, my eight year old now was one. Then I remember Eddie coming out to me. We were on the rooftop and he goes, uh, my wat's pregnant. I was like, what the What I said to I was like, you can never have a kid. You're not going to

ever be a good dad. That's what I thought too. And I remember the drive home when she told me like, come home, I got something to tell you, and I knew what it was. Uh, And that drive home, it was like in my head like you know those movies where someone's drowning and they like start flashing back their

whole life. Yeah, it was like that. But I was looking forward, so I knew exactly what she was gonna tell me and so um, but it was like looking forward though, and I saw my life just like going from like you know, young dude, you think to like little League to like changing diapers to just my whole everything, to me pulling my pants up to my chest, going to home depot. So she called me and said, hey, so I I think you need to come home. I took a test. Oh so you she gave you the test.

So she basically told you she did without telling me. What if the testso was not, then we would go get some of the champagne. No, no, no, no no, I'm saying, like, what if it was like an AIDS test? Oh God, why would you say that. No, I'm just saying I don't think she can I took an AIDS test. Coming. But all I'm saying is if all she said was test, my brain works different than yours. Yes, you're you're a very positive person, and you're like I was like, come

and take a test and it for me. I'm like, no, it was no. No, she already talked about, you know, being late and all that stuff. I had an idea, alright, So I'm just telling you that's what's wrong with me. My brain it always goes to the bad part. If there's the crevice and negativity in my brain, it finds it. I've worked in the last year and a half, a change in that two years and really pointing it in

a positive direction the time. I can get that way, but sometimes I just go back and I wasn't that bad. But I mean dark spots. I go to a dark spots. So you thought that I was gonna be a bad dad as soon as you know, it was just you were just nuts. I was wasn't ready for that. Yeah, I mean, but who is no one? That's the thing from everybody that I talked to. Because I don't have kids,

You're not mentally ready, emotionally ready, financially ready, ever. So it's been it's been years and years for me to realize that. But I love it. Man, It's the best thing in the whole world. It's crazy. The Eddie Juniors eight about to be nine. I just remember the day you walked up to me and said, my wife's pregnantly, Like you gotta be kidding. Now I know you, And now you've got two kids. That's crazy. And one of them was in Austin born And then I was there

at the hospital. I forget the baby. I watched Junior and I and I came to deliver, came to deliver the baby. Yeah, I was in there when they rolled at his wife and with the new baby, and I asked if you wanted to hold him, and you're like, nope, I'm out. It's I'm gonna tell you why, the same reason I don't hold fine pieces of art or expensive watches because you want to buy them. Nope, Because what

if the one person chance I drop the thing? An that's true, I would kill you anywhere that like, I don't want to talk aunt, Like what am I gonna do? I'm like, oh, that's cute, and it really would be cute, but what if anything happens wrong? It's on me insurance purpose from the national anthem? Ye, the national anthem. It's a no win. Nobody remembered you saying it. And if you do good, okay, cool, get out of the way,

let's let the game start. Thank you for that. But if you do bad, it's all over the internet and it's like, this is the worst human number O win. So if they were asked us to do the national anthem, we say no, oh yeah, mostly because if we can't sing yes, that's like you're going to be bad. I wonder if we're the worst singers to ever turn it into quite the enterprise with the raging idiots. Probably it's

probably us in Chase Rice. Huh no, dang, Maybe. I mean that guy's fine, but he you know, he he's you know, good looking dude. You know, it's not like he's gonna be Vocalist of the Year and he plays cruise and everything's all right. Yeah, but he doesn't go up there and act like he's trying to be the best singer. Right Listen. What I've learned about any sort of performing is it's just confidence. And you know, now

I'm a confident person on stage anyway. But you know who I learned like musical confidence from and not worry messing up is Lindsay because she'd be like, who, nobody's paying attention anyway if you mess It's true. I remember at the beginning when we were playing, we'd mess up and we'd make a deal out like I'd look at you or you look at me, come on, man, And

it was just Eddie and I were playing restaurants. It's like a little awkward for people to watch that, but we would call each other out, like on stage on our two parodies that we and the rest of it. I remember we might Austin once, like we played for like three they wouldn't let us stop playing. They just didn't stop us. And it was and it's not that we knew. This is like three years ago and man first started and this isn't this is the first cardination

of the band. Now, I'm gonna say we're really good because we surround ourselves with fantastic people. If there's a raging idiot show, I would tell people now. And I asked, I tell our bosses, come come. You used to would be like stay away. Now it's like come because you're gonna be blown away because we know how to do a show now and neither one of us have. And by the way that I say, I don't have lead singer disease, I don't have to sing even have the song.

I don't care. As long as people having fun, I don't care. But Eddie was impossible to get him to sing, period. And you're the actual good singer. Well yes, but because I played guitar and I didn't want to sing. That was your job when it was just us. But I didn't care, but I would get it. I was like, Eddie, I have no issue. What do you sing? A matter of fact, please sing? No, I get it. But it just felt like if I was gonna sing and play guitar, then you were just gonna stand there. And I was good.

I was fine with that though. I felt like, to me, it's like the radio show. I don't have to be the person. All the stories are about a matter of fact. I like it. Whenever Amy's got great stuff, youve got great stuff I have. I don't have host disease where everything's got to be about me, because actually I like for someone else to have drama. Me just comment on it. That's kind of my favorite thing to do. So that's yeah,

that's the weird thing about the Raging Idiots. And we played Tampa this last weekend and three thousand people packed and it was a fantastic show. And the weirdest thing is, I know every show they're going to get on Instagram be like, m I don't know if that's worth the money, but they're like, that was the greatst show ever. And I'm stunned by it. Still me too, I really am. And I think it's so cool to hear people still that haven't seen the show say like, yeah, I wonder

what that's about. I just don't get it. I don't get what you guys do really, and then you listen to them after the show and they're just like, Okay, I get it. Or the husbands that come with the watch that's my favorite, and they're like, hey, I don't even want to be here. Look what people before the show would be like, I don't even want to be here. And you can tell she drugged the husband with her. Oh, Mike,

it's obvious. There's just like they're they're bitter, and by the end of it, he's a bigger fan than she was. That he's like, you'll tweet us, and I don't know who you guys were. I love never listen to the radio show. Loved it. Um that that's fun. It's been a fun run. Do you have Do you have fun? Not? Not so much anymore. Really, it's okay, I just am not. I will say this. I haven't proved the singer about for sure. It's just a It's like anything else. You

just practice. You're doing it over and over and over. You're gonna get better because at first I had no idea how to sing, and now I've hit the wall of how good I can sing. But I have more confidence and I kind of know spots where I'm good and when to back off and not going to hit it and what songs not to do and to give over to, you know, Lindsay or Natalie. Are you um? Yeah, it's fun. It's it's funny because we don't talk about this stuff like you and I never talked about like, hey,

how was that show? Like did you never do we don't. We just we just kind of do it and then we move on. Yeah, it's like okay, But but it's interesting because I, like, I've always wanted to know, like you're still having fun, You're still tired, You're tired, I'm over it over Yeah. I was excited about these last four shows because they were fun shows. I couldn't wait for that. This second leg of the Florida run, like the Tampa show was been, I knew it was gonna

be awesome. I can't wait too. Albuquerque. That's gonna be fun because it's so like crazy. It means the people that are passionate, and so that's gonna be fun. The Vegas is fun because people in Vegas they just turn out like crazy. They do. If the people are like if there's a ton of people that want to come, I'm pumped about it. If it's a struggle and there's

like people, boy, how jaded are we? There are artists that would kill people, I know, but we we just it's like a ball and it's been a weird snowball. It's been a weird snowball. And when it's when it gets smaller, you're just like, wait, what's happening. It's like, I didn't do this to be an artist. So if we're gonna go backward, I was gonna back out. But I've become tired and the whole and I like our band a lot, but it's just a lot of people. It is a lot of people, and I haven't to

manage a lot of people. Dude. It's just crazy because we've really just started with three of us, you, me and just just me and you was on the stage yeah yeah, I just mean on the road now, and then Justin would drive us around yeah, and honest to God, and went to Tampa. I looked at the amount of people that are with us the deep like an entourage fifteen because it was Eddie and I, Natalie Stove all in Nikita that's the front four, and Brandon Ray was

playing guitar and singing too. So there's five are drummer Matha Brown, our bassist Ryan Their seven our background singer a mod again, we're just our trainer is just everybody like these are all our friends who like, hey, come out on the road, let's make a show. There's eight. Just in the suit is nine Tim head of security is ten Y Forest, My manager is eleven. Zach who was doing video videography was twelve. Mike might signs again. Just a friend who lives in Dallas becomes It was thirteen.

Who else was there? I think that's it's we're forgetting people. Because there were fifteen people with us, Yes, because I counted them. I was like, we're filth. What you counted us too? I think soles. There were a lot of us, and so I think for me, it's like the sound checks for an hour long Yeah, you don't what Friday's. Fridays are hard. You wake up at three am, you don't get a bed to one and you don't recover, and Saturday night you're doing it too, and Sunday to

travel day and you're back on the air. I mean basically, it's like twenty eight days on in two days off. It's weird because I've always dreamt of this, Like, but you dremped up without doing a radio show all morning, correct, got treat of it, not having a full time job. It's been but but I'm not complaining because that's why we do it, why we're able to do it. And I love them both as much, like they're just love the radio show more you do. I love the radio

show the most. I love doing stand up a close second, and then yeah, but the raging idiot stuff, it was just something that came out of nowhere. I just got bigger, bigger, bigger. But what I love about raging Idiots is that on the radio show, we talk and people listen, but we

don't see them raging idiots. We get to meet and see the people that we talked to every morning, and to have them like come back and say, hey, you know, like I loved it when you said this, or I love it that you're always about this or whatever, like that's cool because I remember the first time that happened. I didn't even realize We're flying across the country to show and they're real people to listen to the show. That's been a really great part of it because again,

it put you. When you go back in the studio Monday morning, you know who you're doing, Realize it's it's real faces instead of just walking in out of the studio. I love that. That's been a big part of it. Yes, but yeah, I'm ready for a break. And that's why next year we were gonna, I say break as I go on a full stand up tour. Yeah, dude, you're about to get January through. But but then there's no sound check. I don't have a band, and I don't

have to you know, band members to pay. I mean, it's just so much less and I find more satisfaction in that because there's not a ceiling for me in stand up. I'm growing, I'm writing, I don't have to sing. I can tell jokes and come up with things, and that's what I'm much better at. So anyway, all that, I don't know how we get in that layer. But um, I can remember Eddie and I've been on the golf course in Austin. I was like, hey, dude, um, I'm

gonna move to Nashville. I'm gonna do a show, national show, and we're gonna go do country and Eddie and I what our thing was even before this, we would drive rapid on iHeart Radio or back then Pandora. People still live in to Pandora. I never hear I don't really anybody even talk about Pandora anymore. Um and if they're if listen to Pandora, shout out. But um, before I Heart was big, it was even Pandora, and we would

put it on the nineties country station. We played name that tune, all golf, all for four because that was our favorite kind of music, like the nineties and early two thousand country. And to be quite honest with you, that phase of like two thousand five to two thousand twelve, we were like, this kind of sucks. I just didn't know it. So we have you know, mostly we knew the good, good stuff and the huge stuff, but it just wasn't our cup of tea. And so like most people,

our age, our glory days was that nineties two thousand. Yeah, the Garden mcgrals even like the Sawyer Brown said that weren't as big, but had you know, a few big hits all of that. Right, So we read, you know, we're in the golf course one day and don't let's not say what song it is, what and I was like, I really want to do this because I feel like I can influence a format, and so we go. And growing up in Arkansas, that's what we had was country.

It was an alternative kid too, but and hip hop kid later on in my day, like high school day. But we were listening to the song and it was on the Big NINETYA in Nashville, and we're like, this song sucks. We can't move to Nashville and do this because the songs sucks so bad. I remember thinking like, how are how are you going to do that? I don't I didn't know, and for a minute I thought about not doing it because the song sucks so bad. It was played on radio and I was like, Eddie,

I don't know. I don't know right now. And to be fair, that song I don't hear no never never just never gets. But it is by a big artist. Now, yeah, it's a big artist that everyone knows. But this song and this artist now is it makes really good music, which is ironic. Yeah, it makes really good music. And you can guess we're not gonna answer you yes or no. I see your wills turning. Who would you think it was? That's by by saying that you don't have a guess

a song because you want to know the song. No, um, We're good to say no, but so you can't guess anymore because if it is yes, we're not gonna say. But there was a song and it was playing. We were listening to my heart. We were playing the University of Texas golf course. No no, no, we were in Yeah. We were great rock man. I used to play golf is crazy every day, so every day. I haven't played in years now, But that's when I had time back in the day. And if we didn't have time, we

made time. Eddie would leave work and live ab shooting news and be like, gotta go cover nine homicides, see you in four hours, come back. It was a non story, guess fake um. But we heard this song and we were like, this is terrible. I don't know if I can do it. And we talked about it for a bit and we were to listen, and it was like, let's just go and see if we can kind of be part of how the direction it's going while keeping

it somewhat the same. And because even I know and people that annoy me the most are the people they're like well that any country, just because it's said every single generation of music. And there are things that I don't understand. They're like money. I don't know anything about money, right, no, nothing anything. I grow poor, don't. I have people now that I just trust and they know what they're with with all money and so. But people also, you know,

they'll be talking about money. But but I'm making a comment like, well that's stupid. Really, I don't know anything. When someone goes out in country, I go, okay, well they're stupid about that. Like money, they don't understand that if it stayed the same, it would die because if it stayed exactly the same, if people were like, well I like my country, like Merle and I like my if it stayed exactly like that, it would be like the sawmill in my town. My town is dying because

the sawmill is dead. And eventually people age out of it, and people would age out of the format, and they would the same people like that nobody knew would come into would be very few. Nothing is regional anymore in music, and the reason the country was so regional in that southeast and the California side was because there wasn't the ability to get it out. And it's weird to me that older people struggle with this because I would think

that they would. They would have have experienced all the changes in music before and seen it like cash and cash, like all of the Beatles, even even the seventies stuff, the Zeppelin. Yes, everything had to evolve to become what it is today. We even had to experience hair metal as not even as as pop pop music for things to change, and grunge had to come in. And like, so when people go well that in country, I automatically think they're dumb about that subject. They may be brilliant

about something else. I only have money, and I'm like, well, that's stupid. I would you invest in that I have no idea talking about and something and someone I can look at me and go, Okay, you're really stupid about this. And maybe I don't think I am at the time, but I am right. And so when we will go with that in country, I go, Okay, you're just not intelligent on how popular cult your works. And if you want country music to die as a format, then it

will stay the same. I do know what they're saying, though they're the one that they don't enjoy the direction it's going. Correct, there are sometimes I don't enjoy the direction it's going, and I'm like, this sucks. Even on the air now, some of the stuff we play sucks. But I also understand that the market dictates the format, and that's just a business part of it. If you want to hear someone play an acoustic guitar in a

barn with the cowboy hat, you can find that. And if you want Willie Nelson, go listen to Willie Nelson. If you want Merle, there's a ton of Morral out there, you can have a download. Somebody told me I don't even remember who it was, but that we were talking about the raging idiots and I was talking about how bad we are and I don't know how we've got

this record deal? Were how we were, yeah, and and how we got the record deal and all that, And I remember them telling me specifically, that's the beauty of this format is that there is room for every thing. Like it's not about you think you're bad, but obviously you're good because people are listening. There's something that was something that resonates, right, And so they were just saying that's the beauty of it that like some people may not like it, but somebody does. And that's the beauty

of it. There's a room, so much room, and you don't think of it because then I think you made a comparison one time about like they're being room. Oh what I said, we're on the road. I said country

music is turning into Top forty. Not musically because Sophifortic changes to always soft, is always changing boy bands, hair metal, hip hop, head his top sometimes countries country big time, right, So what I said was country is turning into kind of a hits country format, meaning you're gonna have the top couple of traditional artists, You're gonna have the top couple new age. This sucks. That really is kind of catchy,

you know, pop sounding country music artists. You're gonna have the top kind of like bluesy country artists like this. And that's what The country format is going to be a bunch of sub formats and the main country format is going to be the winner of all the sub formats at the time. But there will be room for everything, yes, and they'll be breakouts and they'll be sub formats. You've are you already seeing that with these older formats like

Cumulus has Nash stations that are not old people. You know that we like the nineties people and they're old. Now we've even started stuff the icon, you know stuff, So you're seeing sub formats. But anytime you hear someone go without any country, just realize they're an idiot about music and they are really hoping the format dies because you know what, it's not the country maybe that you're used to. But just because you're not used to it

doesn't mean you're right. And if I had to understand it, but myself too, just because it doesn't mean it's not it doesn't mean it's a universal truth. Because I feel a way about That's how we started. That's changed thinking that way with country. Before we got here, we had oh yeah, we were like this sucks because we're had no idea. And now this this is not shando, We're out come on. Now I love it. Now I'm like choosing country music over other genres. Yeah, me too, six

the time. Some of it really sucks and some of the artists are really awful people. But but but only we know that that's true. But there are some really good people to but yeah, some of them are real dicks. Did I like this radio show. Oh the thing is, our bosses don't even listen to this. I can say whatever I want, like people, nobody listens. I mean our listeners listen. It is in my house, it is you shut that mouth, so sorry, but yeah, nobody especially I

want you to get like more than minutes. No Bostons. But that's the point where they just draw. They dropped it like eight or nine. But let's say that they're on a run or something, you know, let's do what are talking about the mother. Let me tell you about this guy. We were out we're playing in Tamba this last weekend and Brandon Ray, who's done one of these before. And let me tell you that guy can sing his butt off. He doesn't have a deal yet, and I think it's he's got to find kind of a song.

Everybody needs a song, and so he doesn't have a deal yet. But when it just comes to singing and playing, the dude's phenomenal. He's got, you know, taking on a crowd and like grabbing him and just getting him sing every word to a song. That's hard and he's good at that. He and you should listen back if you haven't listened to the Brandon Ray Bobby cast like he's really really good and so he's also someone I didn't think I would like. That's funny you say that, because

I didn't like him at all. For about thirty minutes. I was like, I'm never gonna like this guy with hair Jael and Jeane Jackets and and I was like, this is not the kind of guy I would Wow, I'm in love with you is He's one of my favorite people in the world. It's like text with I don't basically you Lindsay am Brandon Amy less and less um brand because she has she's always on like Haiti or some third world country health or um. But yeah,

so anyway, love Brandon. This is a story. So we're on stage and Brandon Ray's run this Alan Jackson T shirt last weekend. He was so proud like he was and I don't know why, but Brandon was like, Okay, everybody in the crowd, and remember there are three thousand people in this theater and there aren't screens. No, it's just the stage. It's just the stage. So if you're back but behind Road twenty, you're probably not gonna see

a shirt anyway. If you're in the upper deck, probably not seeing a shirt and he's he's doing a song and you introduced him. I was like, anyway, I wanna wanna one of my friends have been playing guitar. Here he has Brandon Ray, and Brandon Ray is kind of like the upper cut, like we've been killing them, right, We've having so much fun during the show that Brendan just kills them and sings his brains out right and he's like, do you like my Alan Jackson shirt? And

then cauds like yeah. It's like who looks Alan Jackson? And they're like yeah. And then he goes, I got lost, so aforia and then he hits it and all of a sudden, this starts to play and we're like why is bon Job playing? We're like what? And I'm like, Brandon, I said, you gotta stopped. Stopped at music for a second. Stopped. I was like, Brandon, stop playing for a second. It's like, give what's up? I said, you can't get people going by who loves Allen Jackson and then play bon Jobi. Yeah,

And he said, but they like it. Let's let him vote who they like more or like no, First of all, we don't want to crowd to vote for or against Alan Jackson's job. We just don't want that. What is there to have fun? So I say it, we're in Florida too. I'm like, they're tired of voting in Florida. You know. I feel like no one got that joke. You know, it was in the I got it. It wasn't even stand up comedy now, it wasn't. It was

just the show, right. And so he plays a song and he kills it and the crowd singing everywhere, and then at the end, I'm like, dude, you gotta play Allen Jackson now, just so people don't get angry. And so we played Chattahoochie. We try to play Chattahogie. We tried. We played Chattahoochie and like a really low key because we didn't We've never done that song before. So he starts singing. It's just like this is terrible and show. It was like, what's Alan Jackson? Yeah, there's a little

song by the Beatles. We're like, wait, what the you all see my shirt? Do you see it? Was like, row, I don't see it. This is Alan Jackson. Do you love him? Let me hear you say, yeah, all right, here's a little something now up in my favorite band Lit. That That that that that that Lit is awesome. Do you remember our long, our long argument over Lit? Yeah, over my head, I'm in over my head. Yeah, but you're singing some for you one. I'm singing Lit. Okay,

do you have it? Play it ten years from now. There's not something to settle. They both have a song called over my but the song I was singing was LIT about the song I was singing with some forty one and we're like, who sings over my Head? And we got a huge fight over it. I think we agreed to disagree on that one. But no, no, no, they both have a song. I know, I know. Do you do you argue a lot everyone? No? No, no, if people want me to, I do. I get paid

to argue, So I don't care. I got you. I don't. I can get nothing to say. Okay, and Lindsay and I talk a lot about music, and it's never argument though, it's just discussion. Yeah, because that was a long argument. That but there was my arguments. There is no argument because they both have a song called over my Head. My argument was I was right, no, because because I originally sang the LIT version and then you said, nice, dude, some forty one song. I'm like, no, it's lit. You

didn't sing it very well. Then I'm man over my head. Yeah, see no, still it sounds like lit to me. Here's let's screen. I don't need the screen. Turn that around. This is called over my head and this is a song that I know, and you're singing over my head. One thing that Eddie when we did it's the longest because of music too. We did that was how we fell in love. You're a favorite band, Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam my favorite band. Since let's do this. Let's do

non country in the country. Okay, favorite, let's go stay out of country. Don't put anybody County into your country. Top three artists non country go Pearl Jam Number one one, Pearl Jam. Okay, that's kind of a song that's not been in their songs. But but I mean, I'm not one of those guys that like says like, oh, I like Pearl Jam, and I only like the song that you don't know. I like them all like better Man is probably my favorite Pearl Jam song. That's my favorite program.

I'll see, that's why we dated. I mean better Man, it's awesome, dude. It was on Vertigo Hytology and Boggs was on by Bugs Bugs. Better Man funny story, Dude, dude, this is a dude. We're like, I love geeking out over this stuff and my kids hate it, my wife hates it, but this is what I do. Better Man was written by Eddie Eddie Vetter who's the lead singer of Pearl Jam in his first band, Temple Dog. No before then it was called bad Radio. Do you know

Temple Dog was Pearl Jam without Eddie Vetter? You don't know that. It's like Pearl Jam with the Chris Cornell and Sound Garden drummer. You know that? Yeah, you go ahead. Yeah. So it was a song that he had written way before Pearl Jam and three albums in which is Vitology. He's just like, I got this old song, like we could bring it back. This was the only one of Vitology that made any difference for people. They did win a Grammy though for last Exit, I think or dropped

the kneed. Is there a song called what's this song called? They they want a Grammy? It was like a pitty Grammy because of an album they put up before. Because oh they had put up like great albums like ten Versus with all these awesome songs in it. I mean last Exit was on It's not last anyway, it doesn't matter because the record as a whole wasn't that good. Spin the Black Circle and and everyone was just like,

what is that song? And that was their first and only Grammy and they were just like for a record that really wasn't anything. I love better Man Now Better Man is my favorite song. Alright, that's favorite. Um, I'll go Bob Dylan, what a thing to say? Why Bob Dylan sucks to you? Bob Dylan's Bob Dylan to me is Tupac, and you in Tupac sucks. Tupac culturally humongous, made such a difference culturally, uh Now, and I like Tupac's music better and Bob Dylan stuffs. I just Bob

Dylan mused sonically. I'm not into Bolved. I haven't read his book. I love Bob Dylan's story, and I love the fact that what Bob Dylan did the culture of music and how he changed and he went from unplugged to plug now. But he hated his gut So interesting to me, yes, all of it so in his music. I have National Skyline, like I have the record, the record, record record. To me, I just am not into the music A Bob Dyland. Yeah, I love that stuff, and I love his older stuff. This this folk stuff that

like he did like before. This is one of the stuff that I like. Like I like the hits these were Rolling Stone nil Zine, Like, I'm such a poser with Bob Dylan that this is what this is not even what you like, Like I like Na Na Knocking on Heavens do. Yeah, that's older. And also I like him acoustically doing like, don't think twice. It's all right, that's why you're cool. No, I'm not. That's just what I like. I say cool as a compliment. You're cool

because you I don't think. I don't think you call people cool as if you're a genuine Bob Dylan fan. You're cool as you know. I can the kind of delians. I do think that's cool because you you Bob Dylan's music. And I love the fact that I live in Nashville now and I you know, he spends so much time here and he changed the sound here. I'm not into it, all right, I get it. I get it, and I think a lot of people are gives Bob Dylan a bad name. A lot of people are posers, they give

Bob Dylan a bad name. Like I love Bob Dylan, and I'm like, hmmm, Nama song is not a hit, how about the times they are changing? Now? Still hit? So I respect that you're a Bob Dylan, a literal Bobdylon. Now I'm a fan of what Bob Dylan did culturally and again changed a lot everything Like, but I get his music. To me, this isn't that big of a deal. It's like Mozart, like awesome, Awesome does not suck. Change the game doesn't suck, just not into it. Understand the

importance Tupac. I likes music a little better than I do the other than the other guys. But Tupac culturally was a big deal and he changed the game. So um, Bob Dylan to me is Tupac. Okay, okay, what else? I'm gonna give you a number three? And that's Jimmy Buffett. Now. Now, now he could be considered country, but he because Margaritaville was kind of like a Nashville hit. But he's not country. But Jimmy Buffett, and these are all like change, these are all periods in my life too, Like this was

huge for me. Oh, just all Jimmy Buffett stuff because I lived kind of by the beach a little bit and that was like my beach phase. All the music. I love Water pave Water. Yeah that's fair, and but you love Buffett. But Eddie and I went. I took Eddie to watch Jimmy Bufet a charity event once and it was probably wander people there and Eddie to the top of the rod. I was like, I'm so bored, dude. I was like front row just jamming every song, and

I'm and here's the Jimmy Buffett story. So I've actually met and hung out with Jimmy Buffett. Like I don't like, I don't like this story on a personal level. I actually hate this story. And he's super kind, and I I don't justslike Jimmy Buffett. I don't just like Bob Dylan. But I'm saying, as far as like big fans go, I'm not if their music, Like I like he's Burgerdi Like that's fun to me, but I wouldn't rest it myself.

Come on, but I went and I met Bob Dylan. No, no, no, that would have been cool and super kind, and was wearing I see this hold on, this is like pulling the veil like, this is like revealing the veil behind. Yes, I don't like this. You don't run the wizard. You're ruining the wizard here. But it's just kind of something that you told me once. And I was like, I

didn't want to know that. So I went and Jimmy a friend and I and I a friend who knows Jimmy was like, let's go hang out a tear hanging out back and he was in his hotel and we hung out like an hour and just chit chatting. And he was wearing pretty much a suit and a button up shirt and nice shoes. And my buddy was like, I rarely see you like in these kind of clothes. He goes, Oh, we're the clothes all the time. I just put that stupid crap. I want to go on stage.

And Eddie hated at the story, was like what he wasn't wearing flip flops and I eat sponge cake. Sponge cake with Margarito, dude, that's so heartbreaking. He was really nice, yes, and that matter. He's really rich and stuff, and like I jimm buffet Networth, I get it, I get it. It's just Jimmy buff net Worth over under a hundred million, a hundred million, a hundred million, a hundred million over I think over to go over Jimmy Buffett Networth going

to Mike d R producer not too much, but over you. Oh, I say it is that close to half a billion? Just guessing that's a lot of money what he got Mike d Jimmy Buffett Networth on Google is right, he's almost at half a bill Yeah, not half a billion, not a bill a bi billion dude? That what? And god, that's crazy. He's got all those restaurants too, I guess, and beers and and probably stuff. We have no idea.

You're right about rich people. They investment. The most great people are rich because they're smart or because when their parents get much money, they also gave them people that were smart and so they had money all kinds of the Ashton cut. Your Airbnb story was interesting. He was talking about how he stayed an airbnb fright, But then you realize he's also on a huge investor of it. That's why he's talking about it right now, a trickery. Yeah,

he's smart. Smart guys. My top three artists Moti Country. Do you know my number one? John Mayor? Oh yeah, I mean it's not even close. It's just it's just John Mayer. It's just John may just John Mayor. And this Continuum album is my favorite. Just it's just John Mayor and anyone that goes you know what, my favorit John Mayor song is Your Body Is in Wonderland. I'm like, okay, you're not John Mayrathan, because no, real John Mayrathan. This is the jam turned this up. I'm not saying this

is not the jam. When I think John Mayer, I think this. Okay, So it's your Bob Dylan. We have guys. This is the first artist in my lifetime that I felt like was actually speaking to me through songs. Ever, I like, just no, not, no, not Your Body is in Wonderland. That's not stupid. I thought it was coming to came out, and that that's what. Never, it never touches my ears unless you're like pa, never, so you never listen to it alone. Never. Never. I'll put on

lots of stuff. But he's a couple of years older than I am, but he would like say things and I would be like, wow, like that's my that's me, that's what I say, that's my inner of voice talking. That was the first time music ever felt like me speaking ever, and it was weird. And that's why I stopped this train my favorite song. It's because it's like the whole song is about stop this training. I want to get off, like life's going too fast, you know, I don't want it to don't want to get any older.

He's like, I'm so scared of getting older. I'm only good at being young. And I was like, oh my god, that was me because forever, from twenty one to twenty eight, I was like this pheno. I'm radio guy who was doing things that people didn't do. And and again now I'm still younger than nine percent of people at this level. But still but I'm not I'm just kidding. Uh just no, I don't think so. The only weird thing is it's not weird for me. I can have kids to I'm

seventy and I'll have kids. But it's like if I get to be and I don't have any kids, right, but I'm like, you know, I want kids. I can't find a fifty year old female to have kids, so I guess I gotta go get a twenty two year old Yeah, and that's just what you have to do. Unfortunately, its yeah, but and again and hopefully by then, and I'm in a great relationship now hopefully it works out. And I'm not even scared of talking about it in that way. But um, that's the only thing that's weird

to me. And then if I'm the fifth year old guy with the twenty six year old girlfriend, then I'm a creeper. But all I want a baby, right, that's all you want. I mean, I'm just trying to have a baby, you know, it's all might right, Mike d Yes, all right. Uh. My second favorite artists not Country of all time. I'll go Food Fighters, although I've seen them more times than anybody else except for John here No. Yeah, kind of Grows, yeah for sure. Kind of Crows for sure,

for sure. And I have a mutual love for County Grows, except mind is just a little more mutual because I kept up with them while you quit. Oh yeah you did you know? You were stuff? Eddie and I went and we watched Count of Crows and for seventy of the show. We sing every word every song. We did that. Even their tour manager was like, guys, he was like, I've been watching you all. He was like, you really are,

because well, here's what happened. So the tour manager comes over and he says, hey, I was told because my manager knows it owns part of the County Crows management, right, And so it comes up and goes, hey, I stuff, you guys want to go meet the man? Be cool? You guys to go meet count of Crows afterwards? And I was like, I never want to meet my heroes. You never want to him too. I was like, I'm good, it wouldn't matter. I still want to want to meet him. Right,

And I met John Mayron. You know what I'm good like when the experience weren't pleasurable, and but I'm cool with that. I can separate them. I can absolutely separate weird. It's weird to meet people in their work environment. And it's also weird to meet people because you love them for something and you don't want to dislike them for something else because it makes you dislike over that too. So Eddie, now are it's kind of singing every song

and therebody. This is from my last record. I was like, I'm gonna get a beer and I said, they're just sing away. I know, you know, but kind of crowds. My second favorite. Ah, it's your third. Now food Fighters are probably four? Is it something close to Food Fighters? No? Not really, but I love food Fighters and Chili Peppers and that stage of my life. Um no, no, no, no no, um oh A SA Bass there it is all that I sold sign I opened up my side. All that makes me think it was Nikita. Are they

from Australia? I don't know. I have no idea how would know all that A SA Bass see where they're from the Netherlands are all? They're probably not from Australia. Dude, if you if you nail the Netherlands, that's crazy. I haven't thought about them forever. Yeah, I mean A seven bass. Yeah, but they're amazing. They remember when they came out, you know what ASA Bass got me into that. Remember when they would do those Columbia house by a t D for pennies and Bass was in that Sweden so close,

same area. Yeah, it's not going Nashville, but you mean to be fair, you covered a lot Australia or Australia. I just did that because Nikita, I would have guessed the Netherlands that like, if I was betting money, I'd went Netherlands because that was my I've read this book called Blank. It's about your gut and how smarter than your brain and what when you get a gut feeling and gut reaction. It's really all your brain and chemical all working really quickly. True all the books fantastic. Really

it's called gut. It's called blink. But it's about the feeling you get your gut and how most of the time stronger than your brain. And your gut reaction isn't something in your gut, it's your brain doing it quickly and precisely. Weird. Yeah, it's cool. Uh No, go ahead, okay, one, give me give me a hint a single person, and aside from Garth Brooks in studio, it's my second favorite live performance thing I've ever done in my whole life in a radio environment. What on earth, Billy Ray says,

give me another hint? Uh, known for an instrument, but not a guitar. What on earth do you know who it is? Mike? You do? I wonder where your mike's not working? Mike, do you know you on three? I have the push buttons? Oh you know four, I'll turned you down a long time ago. And he's been in our studio. Uh not not here, not here? Not here? Yeah, not here in Naturville. Oh ben Folds gott got it? Have you seen him here? Like have you met him? No?

And you know there was a funny bit. So ben Folds is my third favorite art and I love Ben Folds, and I mean I could play you a hundred been Fold songs that I just think are fantastic. Like you like ben Folds five or loved him? What did you like better? Uh? It's it's like what kid do you like? That's the real answer. I like ben Folds and obviously he was the main even in like the force behind it was different kind of music. Yeah, he takes it down a notch at times with ben Folds, and I

like that, like sad stuff. But ben Folds has been Folds, so I just think he was doing the same thing that Ben Folds five was, Like I'm trying to pay to other people for the same stuff. But if there were only three members, or was there three members of the Ben Folds five, so um, Ben Folds came into the studio and play whatever song I wanted that and I wasn't whatever about that. He said, I'll play for an hour. To him, I said, like, I got a cold, so I'll play like the first minute of any song

you want. And he didn't know how a super fan, so I was calling album track. It was like any weights and he was like, okay, what a song? You got it? All the dog freaked out. So anyways, anyways, anyways, so you have been fauld to start and if food Fighters I love Yeah, I love them so much. If you go to country country, now, are we doing it current for all time all time? Okay? Well, and that's hard to do a three of all time. I'll go

first because Garth Brooks is my favorite. Yes, I have said had a hundred thousand times and so um there's not even any Garth Brooks shore on my on my screen, but my favorite Garth Brooks songs. If tomorrow never comes, so Garth Brooks, boy, then it gets tough. It's really hard if you're doing all time, I mean, because that's including the greats, the legends and think about and it's such a poser thing to say Johnny Cash, it is, but if you truly like it, it's I'm not I'm

not gonna say it. I respect it and I have it all and I have records and be cuts and I have all of it because my grandma made me listen to it. Because he's from Arkansas. That's a big deal here from Arkansas. Other people from Arkansas are a big deal to you, John Daily, Johnny Cash, Brooks, Robinson. I can go through the people of Arkansas that got out and it's like that those are huge deals to us.

And so my grandma talking about Jhnny Cash being protested because he wasn't country and he was rock con roll and people were like that any country and and it was just crazy to her because even to her, I was like, yeah, that's kind of rock con roll. But he's from Arkansas, so he's obviously country. That being said,

I'm just not gonna put it there. So I'm gonna go Garth Brooks, and then I'm probably gonna go Randy Travis because of my grandma, because a lot of Randy Trap that was probably her favorite artist that wasn't Johnny Cash because it's from Arkansas. So it was digging up Bones. It was you know, Deeper in the Hall or Forever and ever. Amen, that's not I mean, they're talking about Grandma so much. I sit it on the table and

I talked to it too. Four I read some Oh my goodness, this is like, you know, you get that feeling. I read this book once it's called it's not it's not right, it's okay, or something like that. It's all right, it's okay. My therapist to me, I forgot the name

of it. But it's like whenever you hear something that trigger something as a kid, for that split second, it's the same exact emotion and feeling you had when you were a kid, because your brain works and it's that same put that the same chemical that did from that time. That's so cool to me. So when I hear digging at Bones, I think of sitting at my table learning pay around me with my grandma and she would play

Rainy Travis oh Man. Yeah and so yeah. And on the other hand, I mean all that, I love that. And sometimes I'll take nights and just do that with my with my player and listen to old songs just so I can have those memories again. Count the reason. Yeah, man, I could stay with you. Crazy. Ne reminds me of like my dad had jukebox that he bought when we were younger, and all these records were in there, and like I didn't know half the songs, but we just

pushed numbers and whatever played played. Oh it's crazy, man, makes me kind of like said my third favorite country artist and happy. My grandma raised me, so it was crazy to think about her. Um probably lindsay l get out, stop it, come on, what's wrong with it? Things change? Okay, you're going all time? Times break down in the middle of nowhere, another lots around? Man, all right, can't do my list? U one all time? Right? A man? When it gets to third, because I didn't, I didnt think

about sports, you're talking third. I love the Travis Trip. I got a bad taste in my mouth with the current Travis Trip. And people say he's a real dick too. We're not talking about them, I know. And that's why it's hard for me to say this, because notoriously he's apparently not a good person. I don't know that. I got in a fight with him on Twitter, a huge one. He saw that. I saw that crazy fight, and so I don't know. I don't have a good but people

are like, you know why. You know, he wasn't invited at the c m A fiftith anniversary. If you noticed he wasn't there, he had a huge deal. He mean, Travis Trip might be my third favorite country artists of all time. And I canceled him something. I talked about it here. I canceled him on our show after our Twitter fight. I just silently said, hey, I know you're coming in, but I'm gonna not have you in. That's awkward business, but it would have been awkward. And so

but you know what, probably Travis Trip at number three. Wow, that's dude. I think that's cool. That's separation of person and music because this is the music that we're talking about. And you know what, Travis Trip wasn't country back then. He wasn't rock and roll, was he really? He did songs with the Eagles, but when the Eagles weren't really considered country, take it easy when he did a whole yeah,

I mean he did. Uh, let's see Travis Trip. Well, obviously it's great to be a live as quarter called hibody, who guys, I mean truck to your country club? I mean all of that, but I'm gonna be Oh dude, I'm gonna be somebody one of these days. I'm going to break these chips. That was a jam to take it easy. Man, got so many big songs, um, but yeah, he was considered a little too rock and roll at the time. Interesting, which is crazy. I haven't heard I

haven't even thought about this song in a while. I'm the leaders guitar on the hard side of time. God, I'm gonna be somebody so good. I don't even know if I wrote these songs because now half of say

half the artist don't write their own songs. Yeah, I remember when I found out that like George Straight or a lot of garth stuff, he didn't write and and hardly any of George Straight steft did he right, I mean maybe like two songs where it was for me the moment that I realized that country artist didn't write their songs because you just expect people to write their songs was seeing Miranda Lambert on the c M as before we came to the format in the house that

built me one for Song of the Year, and she didn't go get the award and somebody else did. Sounds like wait, Miranda Lambert, it's about her house. How did she not write a song about her house? But she didn't write it, she had, I mean someone gave it. You know. That was definitely eye opening for me too, and like I drive your truck, Lee Bryce. When we first got over here, I was like, oh, because Lee Newson. It was like, no, not only the Lee not write it.

And I'm friends of the person who did write Jesse Alexander, one of the writers. She also wrote the Climb of Miley's IRUs, one of the A c M board together was the whole different subject, but um let he was. It was actually offered a Drek's first and Drek's turned it down. That's I can totally see him doing that

song too. Oh yeah, right, because it's almost got the same as as I Hold On And it was such a big song that it would have made Dark's a superstar faster and Dark is just not getting into superstar territory, and it made him a superstar a lot faster. Didn't quite work out for Lee because he doesn't have superstar

quality about him. It's hard to see Dirk's as like barely getting there because I feel like he's been grinding so for so long because he has sixteen years and he's got tons of number ones, but he doesn't have he hasn't he does now and now he's boy's on the cusp of that A A A when you're playing arenas like Bridge Stone and Nashville, that's it. And I like Dark's a lot and he's found his sound and his style. He found it. It's awesome because he's a good guy. But if Dark would had I drive your

truck like Lee doesn't. I don't mean he worries the hat backward. I mean he's like a chubby er at Church, just not as good man the chief. You're comparing him to the Chief, I said, not as good. Eric Church is really good and the only reason Eric Church can be quiet and be mysterious because he's so breaking good all the all. Was surprised to be doing the halftime show, and you'll probably here this after Thanksgiving. I didn't think

that was a little the Cowboys game. I thought it was a little hokey for him to do a halftime show, not for anybody else but Feric Church. Let's see how he does it, though I hope he does it in a box. You don't see him in the box. Yeah, because Eric Church is the guy puts out a does a whole concert tour, but no opener. Yeah. But he may be changing because now he's doing furniture commercials and stuff. He's got his own furniture line. That's true, you know

what I mean. It's cheaper, lazy boy. He's coming out of the box alright. Top three country artists of all time alright, Number one Garth for sure life change there yeah, and number two George really over Tim, Yeah over Tim, because well, George is just a big part of me growing up. Whether I liked it or not, it's just what everyone played and what everyone liked. Quintessential George Strait song for you, ocean front property. I got some ocean

front property zone. Yeah, that's a good one. I mean, George, there was just so much. And I remember my brother and I would work in like fields and stuff and like um the ranch, and my brother Wood just blaired George straight all day long, and it's like that's when you talk about memories. I was like George Straight bashing country radio a couple days ago and the news it was him and Jamie Johnson. They wrote a song together that was about given the finger to minute country radio.

It was like what Jamie Johnson does, right, Yeah, he's a nut um like he bashes. Yeah, he's his thing. Good for him, and he's a great artist as far as an artist, but you have to be a great artist, and you've got to either be smart yourself on how to strategize or have people that strategize for you to do both, like you have to do have it and

he's I don't, I don't. I think he lacks on the other side because he's great, saying a great artist, wonderful, right, I mean, he just it's not easy to be around from all the indicators and there are many of them, but don't know him personally. But George teamed up so they did a song together. Was not agether George put it out and I like, George has been super nice

to me. I met him him. But they were like, this is the middle finger to couch radio because they won't play us, And great if you feel that way, that's fine. Um. However, then I hear a commercial for George straight on count radio asking people to buy his record, and I'm like, wait, I thought got radio sucked, but now you gotta use it. To sell your record. Yeah, like anybody, let's let's stay on the same path here.

That is kind of weird. COUNTR Radio sucks and on our show was like, hey, it's George stryd to got a new double album out now, And I'm like, no, no, no, no, you just said it is sucked. So maybe there's a difference between what he has to do and what he really want. You need a team around you, and George is in his sixties now, his team can guide him and it. Yeah, and that's interesting because at his age,

you know, he's really not two hands on, is he. Um. I think when you're that successful, you just expect that regardless because you've been successful for so long. I think you saw this with Garth. Last record that nobody played was that. Garth was surprised. He's like, well, I can't just come back and people care. Nope, you can't. You're a legend to us and we will always love you for it, and you're gonna sell shows out and you are the man. You're a legend. You are Mickey Mantle, yes,

but but you're not Mike Trout. Wow, that hadn't been really hard for I think Sony came back and he knewed up his sound and knewed up a lot of things, not all things, because you're not Garth. It's a weird line to walk, but you know, George Star like radio middle Finger, but please, I'm gonna go on radio. Please buy my record. So the hypocrisy, there's a little something. But I enjoyed George straight as a person. He's always

been very kind to me. Uh and number three and then the still relevant legend Tim McGraw, which by the way, does not get the credit for being a legend. Nope, and relevant like he humbling kind, like that's such a strong song today today, and he's saying he didn't write it, but he's saying it and he's not. He doesn't lions he wrote it, like Laurie McKenna wrote, isn't who I've become great friends with that she wrote girl Crushed and is just a fantastic writer. But he can still put

out songs and they on today issues. You can do that one. I mean, we go back a few years to hot I don't care when he puts on the records. When we were kids, McGraw was huge, like Indian Outlaw, Don't take the Girl, I remember listening to the radio like sixth grade. But Chesney the same way. So we're gonna if we're gonna put them to Him and Chesney

are both legends that are still relevant. And that's a weird hard place that didn't Chesney's growing on me because I just wouldn't listen to a lot of Chesney growing up. His beach sound loses me a bit because I'm not a beach person, you know. And it's not a beach person. You're more of a treat person, you know. I'm more of a well now, more of a WiFi person, if I'm being honest. Yeah, it's a really different beach. Let's

just keep it. I just want to be on my computer, on my laptop on Twitter and but but that knew Pink and and Kenny's song is fantastic. I was talking to Kenny and the mics weren't on, and he was like, I said, hey, crazy, huh like the success of this song because it was going to Hot a C and still is, which is a contemporary radio um so. And I was like, congrat that's all they hit the top four you in Hot a C. And he was like, it's crazy because this song has given me another seven years.

They're like, what do you mean? He goes, well, because kids, now, what do they care about Kenny Cheseny? They goes, My contacts are aging out too, and you know the younger people there are thirty eight. He goes, however, because this song is so cool. You have twenty five year old listening and going, I love that song and then get into here, going back here some of the older stuff, and that song was so big. Give him eight years, eight more years of being relevant. So true, you don't

think about that stuff. And that's got to be hard for a lot of artists when they get to that point of their careers where they're not as relevant as they were. You just need good direction. You have to have good direction once you can't tell yourself anymore. Politicians have good direction, The good ones do, because do you think they know how to use Twitter on Instagram? And do you think Governor market I was really messaging me. No. We had a great person on his team that he hired,

that watched that saw and went back around anyway. It might be how long we end this will probably long, huh, but go another hour we probably could. It was your favor who's your favorite? Jazz artist Miles Davis. Yeah, that it was good. All right, we're gonna go. Uh, We're done. That was fun. Yeah, it's fun. Right, Can we do it again next week? Why don't I just be your feeling when people can't come? Like like, I was a

little bummed. Just I'm not to bring this up, you know, last minute or anything before we leave, but I was just a little hurt when you asked me to do it last time and then pass go ahead long ad to talk before you go over time, okay, and and and so you know you had invited me and then like not even thirty seconds later, you're like canceled. Sorry, that's not what I said. You did. I said, Eddie, do you want to do the Bobby Cast? Send past? Like I said, Hey, I'm in town kind of the

Bobby Cast. I'm not kidding you. I'm gonna say the word literally and I don't use the word literally within a minute. I got it, and it probably earlier than that, but literally within a minute past. Eric. It's because I want to come to the Boby Everybody wants to the Boby Cast now, and I'm just trying to hold some of them off, Like if Marion Moore's asked me three times to come on this yes, and I'm like, let's hold off a minute because Edie's got to come. Ed

He's gotta go first. Thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. Mostly it's because the superstars come on the radio show for now and the behind the scenes that is here and and that's what I want this to be. Well, I was going to say that I did listen to the past lay one and it's really really good. And Eddie listen. He goes running at night like a moral and then wonders why he's so tired in the morning running at ten pm. My wife thinks, I'm gonna get hit by a car. You are because you are I

have blinky lights. Okay, that doesn't mean they're not going to hit you. That's force Field. Eddie on all the Socials is at producer ready right everything, Um, Mike d is at Mike d stro d e E s t r oh, Mike d store at m d strow on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat. Thank you guys for hanging out. This is Bobby cast. This is gonna be a popular one, is it? Yeah? Because people like it. Whenever show people come in they're different kinds of likes and levels. Like they love the

Lindsay one. Oh yeah, I listened to that one. That was that was long because it's like this one, you just you just have so much talk about and but people love the Caitlin Smith one. Another good one. And again Caitlin I really know each other. But she was very interesting in her story was super interesting. But people love the Amy one. You know, it's just it's not whatever, who cares cares? What episode? This? Wow, that's it, Thank you for listening. Had a bunch of clips you already

put up. I never played any of them. Oh I had my uncle's songs. I like the guy that the winning songs, but I had oh same man. No no, no, I had another uncle that oh another okay boy, but all Eddie every city we go to to play Raging, and we go all around the country. We've been to

all corners and Eddie's always good uncle there. You all think I'm joking, But my mom had thirteen brothers and sisters, so yeah, like shout out Leroy, who was our last by who came to our show, and uh, a few weeks prior to that, it was like, oh my dear Louise, my uncle Louise and his son. I hadn't seen him in like twenty years. Like they go hard, they go hard, all right, Thank you guys for hanging up Eddie. Thanks man alright