BONUS: Bobby’s Top 3 Interviews Of All-Time

A listener called in and asked Bobby what his Top 3 interviews were from the show. We dug through the archive and pulled all 3 in full which include Jake Owen, John Mayer and Garth Brooks.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we talked about this on the show this week
when a caller called up and said, Hey, Bobby, what
were your favorite interviews ever? So we wanted to make
a special little podcast here of it. And so these
are what I told her, And we thought we'd put
these all here if you wanted to hear them back,
because they're from all different years. So we dug into
the archive and we pulled the audio from what I
would consider three of my favorite interviews of all time.

(00:21):
We'll start at number three. This is September seventh, twenty eighteen.
So a couple of years ago. Jake Owen had been
on the show a bunch of times. Always a great guest.
But Jake Owen, he brought donuts, He talked about what
song he doesn't like to perform. He mentions this song
made for You, which right now in current time, that's
his big single. And so he's the best guest we've

(00:42):
ever had, pound per pound, and so here we go.
Check it out. Here is the Friday Morning Conversation with
Jake Owen from two eighteen. The Friday Morning Conversation. All right,
Jake Owen's I think standing outside the door and bring on,
bring him on, in here. There he is, Jay going
everybody there, he's got some donuts in it. Come on,
we're on the air. I was supposed to bring food
in here, but we allow it if they're hot. I

(01:05):
mean they are perfect fucking'll mess up that old as board,
bringing donna. I saw you take a shot on my
board on Instagram too, Yeah I saw that. Yeah, we're
on the air, by the way, Okay, that's cool to
see what I'm here for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I saw you. Listen. I've been complaining about my equipment
for years. I know. I was just trying to throw
you a bone. Man. I thought maybe if somebody saw
that thing, they might say, uh yeah, Jake, don't even

(01:27):
other people notice that it's that you are. I'm getting
a whole new studio that When I signed my last deal,
one of the deals was one a new board. Yeah,
just a board that was a parking spot on a board.
That's all I wanted. What's up? Yeah, everybody looks good.
Mc fdic over there. I'd like to see that going on.
Amy said, how did Jake? Hey, Amy, Jake, can you

(01:50):
see you? You too? Let me I mean I can't
really see you, but there he is there, he is high,
Ammy's on a screen and Jake is that, Hey, let's
let's listen to this one. Who star walk with my name,
my hometown man down to the hockey babies after me

(02:16):
and I knocking down in history. But I mean when
you played it in the first time live in here,
you got a girl, you played, you played this before
you released it. You can't play the whole concert, and
we were like, that's the jam. Thanks many people. You know,
I've released a lot of songs, and um, you always
hope that they're going to do well because you believe

(02:38):
in them when you release them. But you always know
a song is going to do well when you start
getting random text messages from people. And this song, out
of all songs I've released, I've had more fellow artists
in the format like I never hear from that text me.
They're like, good song man. It's almost like it's almost
like I've done the same thing. You hear someone's song

(02:58):
and you've text somewhere you're kind of like, why didn't I,
Why didn't I get that one? But I was pretty
fortunate to come across this song. And I've always been
a big fan of great country songs, and I think
this is like the perfect mixture of a classic sounding
song with kind of a modern flare to it. So
it's it's cool to have it out. Thanks for playing it, man,

(03:19):
video's cool too. How you guys did that downtown? Yeah,
that was a long video night we started filming at
It was a Friday night. We started filming at seven
pm and didn't finish still seven am. They kind of
do the overnight thing so they can shut down Broadway
down there. Why does a video take so long to shoot?
Twelve hours a long time. There's a lot of people
involved in making a video happen. I mean everything from

(03:41):
you know, the people actually shooting the video obviously, to
people making sure that people that are shooting the video
are in the right place. I mean, it's just it's
like anything in life, you gotta have you gotta have
a bunch of team players doing the right things and
making it happen. How many times you have to sing
that through doing a video you think, I don't know,
twenty thirty times, just kind of and have the same
energy every time. Yeah, But I mean it's kind of

(04:01):
you know, we're entertainers and in this video will live forever,
So it's kind of for me. It's kind of like
you better be ready to do it. You can't just
dial it in the Friday morning conversation. So Jake's here,
I want to run through some of your songs. We
just come off down to the hockey tongue. So your
last number one, I think I was this conversation with

(04:22):
this song reminds me because I was shooting American Idol
and you texted me the song. And I don't listen
to music early. I don't regardless of who send to
me stuff you like Doude listen to the song anyway.
And I was like, I'm not gonna listen, but the
day it comes out, I'm gonna listen. But then I
cheated and listened anyway. And I was like, dude, that's
really good. And I was nervous because that's as classic
you had to be nervous. I was really I was
really nervous. I mean, I wasn't nervous at the fact

(04:43):
that I've always had a strong intuition on the songs
that I feel like will be they'll connect with an audience,
and I knew it would. But at the same time, too,
I've always I respect the integrity and artistry of a
guy like John Mellencamp, and my main thought process was,
I just hope this doesn't offend him. And when we
got his approval on it, and he said that he
loved it and thought it was a great idea and

(05:04):
it really is an ode to him and his music
and that song, it was pretty validating. So and now
to know that it's a number one song even validates
it more. Although I haven't heard from him, you know,
I wonder that's one thing. I wondered, if he'd reached
out to you after I went number one, if he
even knew. No, No, I'm sure he knows. But I
actually watched there's a Netflix documentary on John Mellencamp, and he,

(05:29):
I mean self. He admits that he's not like a
very outgoing, talkative person. He talks about when he first
got big, he was living in New York City and
he said he walked outside of his apartment and there
were people out there waiting on him, and he thought
to himself, I don't know if this is for me,
because he said he always made music just for himself,
and and it's one thing to just to be that

(05:52):
way and kind of not be talkative to people and
kind of converse with him. But it's another thing to
actually admit it, and I respect that if you're that
kind of person and you admit that you're just not
comfortable being around fans are talking to people. Um, I
kind of at least you know he's not he's not
holding back. I wonder if you would have said, nah,
I don't like it that much, would you still put

(06:12):
it out? No? You wouldn't have No, No, I really again,
I mean I respect anybody's artistry and the integrity for
their own music, not even just the artist songwriters. You know,
sometimes a songwriter write a song and somebody gets ahold
of it and someone to put this out. But if
the song I was like, I don't really know if
I went in my song going to that person to

(06:34):
one tough one, right, tough one. Well there's that one. Okay, Okay,
it's just another one. How about boy? This one here
man made for you. This is my favorite song I've
ever recorded. I love this song. I've told you that
I posted on my own I mean, I love you.
It was like your song of the day, like song
on my life. I want to be able to like
sing this as somebody. Yes, I've gone through some like

(06:57):
we all have. You know, we've gone through ups and
downs in the level of love is not easy. But
when you can find the person you're made for and
you absolutely know that positively, there's no better feeling. And
uh and I'm I'm I feel like I'm on my
way there. But I also see that in my parents.
My grandparents are still married after seventy five years. And um,
I think we all it's not a fairy tale. It's

(07:18):
out there. It's just a matter of finding it. Let
me hear this again because I love this song made
for you from Jaco and sand for you. Yeah, you
can sing a love song because my other song like
this one here I love Anyway with You and it's
a little more on tempo, but I still feel it. Yeah.

(07:40):
Well that's the interesting thing about love songs, um, is Uh,
they're all over the map. I mean, you love songs
like he stopped loving her Today all the way to
songs like I like it, I love it. I want
some more of it. I mean, love songs, uh kind
of encompass all different feelings. That's what love is. It's
it's it can pull your heart around. Here's a love song,

(08:01):
a contry. Yeah, there's another one. We're just going up,
We're going up. You know what's kind of cool stimes.
I say this very humbly because I'm so thankful to
have all these songs. Um, and I've been working at
this for a long time. But there's nights during my
show where I remember the days where I was like
counting down to a song on my set list, where

(08:23):
I was like, thank God, people are gonna know this one,
and now I'll beat in the middle of my set list.
I'm like, damn, I got some hits now, man. But
it's like it's fun to go down your set list
and go like, whoa, I'm not I'm not going so
many songs in between songs that people actually don't know,
and um, it makes it makes the show a lot
more fun. This one here's this is your your legendary

(08:44):
jam that you have to play your whole life. It
is this one. Oh yeah, your whole life, this whole life.
There's nothing you can do that we'll get you away
from the mega of this song. Yeah, but I'm proud
of it. I mean that song changed my speaking of
my life, it changed my life I'd had a record
deal for seven years. Um and Uh. That song was
my first number one song and had four in a

(09:04):
row off that album. Um and Uh. I kind of
spawned a whole new life for me and a whole
a whole new perception of what who I am, what
I what I do and um and I'll always be
proud of that song. I still love this song. Like
when it comes on, we'll play in the dance party,
or we'll play it or you know, watch a youth play. Still,
I go, I love it, yeah, like we do like
us girls do at the club. Yeah, and we run

(09:25):
a DJ play there and I'm like, I love it yah, yeah, yeah, Yeah,
that's it. I've never gone see we have any more
up here. I want to this one. I just want
to make you feel I love that song too. I mean,
it's I don't I'll tell you if I. I mean,
I'm always pretty honest about anything and everything, and I
don't have any songs that I don't enjoy it. Actually,
I take that back. Okay, now we're talking. I take

(09:46):
what song do you not like to play? It's not
that I don't like to play it. It's just interesting
to me that I saw okay eight second ride, Oh
my favorite. Oh come on on, yeah, give me that song.
Put that song out because we played it one morning
and Jake text me is like, what are you doing? Yeah, well,
well I wrote that. My brother, my twin brother, we
just had a birthday two days ago and I was

(10:07):
nineteen in college, and he was so mad at me
speaking of love songs, because I tend to always I
would write those because it seemed like it was just easy.
It was. It was a way for me to express
my feelings towards the female gender in a way that
I couldn't say it just specifically out of my mouth.
I had to use a guitar and a melody to
tell us three minute story. And my brother is like, man, stop,

(10:27):
He's like, write something for me and my friends that
we can turn up in our trucks. And my brother
used to spit dip all the time, and every time
I get in his truck, he would have that dip
cup sitting there with a little like a napkin in
the bottom of it where he'd spit in it, and
there was just like this two inches of just saliva.
It was disgusting, and he would always say, watch out man,
watch out from my cup right there, it'll knock it over.

(10:48):
So in that song it says, climb on up, but honey,
watched the cup. I've been spitting my dip inside. And
it's ever love that. Do you see? That's on live
every night and it's one of the biggest song. It's
one of the big songs I play every single night.
People love this song. This, this isn't. I have a
hard time sometimes because it's not necessarily my persona, like
I'm not I don't hush, come on, yeah. Do you

(11:13):
know how many times it's like in the studio I
was like, all right, give me that again. Hear that again.
It's like, come on, you did a bunch. Yeah, I
love it. Three to four. I always think though, And
I wrote about it's a jam, trap, It's a jam,
and I wrote it about the last book. If you're
not somewhat going, oh, I don't know how I feel
about the older stuff that I did, then you're not
growing in a different direction totally. If you're still like

(11:35):
feeling what you did at nineteen, then you're still kind
of nineteen. Yeah, And that's part of life. You gotta grow,
You gotta look back on what you did. And uh,
you know, dropping names. It's not something that I that
I like three but I do think whoa name you're
gonna do that? Go ahead? Uh, But it wasn't like
I'm just using his name as a name drop. Not

(11:56):
that he said this specifically to me. I heard him
say an interview one time that Vince Kill said, Um,
when you record music, it's it's a very powerful thing
that lives forever. So when you record a song, you
better be prepared for that thing to live forever and
play it forever and be okay with the fact that
people are gonna either accept it or not accept it.
And I need's true. That's a very true statement. Jaco

(12:18):
And is here. We're gonna come back because I want
to know about this new TV show you're doing. I
want to know about you and Shania, how that friendship's
manifesting itself. So you hang out for a bit. Yeh yeah,
all right, Jaco w And is here. Jakeoen's eating donuts
as we're copping on the air. He just asked permission
to eat. I've never been so happy like the last
two to three months, for like, for like the last
three years. All I've done is like they try to
eat healthy. You look good though you look thin? Are

(12:40):
you thin? I think, so? Yeah, you do well? What well?
So now I have Now I have a question about
the donut and the need for the donut, Like, well,
I don't I've been on that healthy track. What's up? Like, well,
I think it's all everything you have to you have
to balance it, right, Like for the last two to
three years, I thought the only way to really get
in great shape was to just like worry about everything
I eat and go go hardcore or everything. And now

(13:01):
it's kind of like I just to treat myself to
whatever I want. But then I get back to eating.
I don't worry about it so much, and it makes
me mentally happier. You know. There were days where I'd
just like look at someone next to me driving in
their car eating like a McDonald's french fry or something,
and I thought to myself, I want one of those
so bad. I'm just trying to look good right now.
And then now I just run through McDonald's if I

(13:23):
want to, you know what I mean. And now if
I appreciate that method, if you can control I can't
control it because if I have one donut. I have
the whole box. I'm like ad one. I brought a
whole box, but I don't eat. I can't touch it
because I'll eat it all. You probably have a moderation
gene in you, not really do I I don't really know.
I'm just I feel like if I don't know. In

(13:44):
the minute I started enjoying myself doing the things that
I enjoyed doing, things just seem to life seems to
be better. I can't just always like beat yourself up,
you know. But you can look at me, for example,
but you look good, man, see exactly. No thanks, I'm
just kidding. Jaco went here. Hey, I want to ask
about this show. So you're doing the show USA called
Real Country. Just kind of tell me what that's about.

(14:04):
It's a real country. He's in a donut no studio
and here our boss is in here. By the way,
say time about our studio to him? Uh Rod, this
board is pretty sweet, man, like punched me in the face.
Don't you love how clean they keep it in here? Too?
So isn't this place a dump? No? Man, I mean's no,

(14:26):
it's not. I it's not it's not a dump. I
can't say that they trolled me on Instagram Amy because
of the studio is so old. He tried, I just
heard you. I heard you drop that this. You're like,
can I get a board in here that works? Oh? Bah?
So I just figured I'll come come to the rescue
the legendary Jerry House use this exact board. Yes, And
you're right, He's a legend. And I was in the
same studio back in the day talking talking to the

(14:47):
same board, on that same board. But if it makes
you feel any better, I mean I was listening all
the way down here and every time. I mean, your shows,
that's why you're doing you guys are doing what you're doing. Man,
it sounds good. Let's just leave it there. Well, listen,
enough about this board. Talk about Real Country on USA,
this show. When does it come on? What does it mean?
What to do? I believe that Real Country is gonna
air November first, I think November thirteenth. But it's been

(15:09):
an amazing experience so far. Here's what I'm excited about.
Let me start by telling you Real Country is a
television show that will be on the USA network that
is not a singing contest. The contestants have all been
um uh, they put in their their what's the word
I'm thinking of now, Like they auditioned I guess by

(15:31):
sending in videotapes and then we kind of narrowed them
down to each one of us who we liked, right.
Each one of us has about six different contestants, myself,
Travis Tritch, and I Twain, and it's a showcase. They
we're just giving them the opportunity to step on stage
and sell themselves here in Nashville as any one of
us artists throughout the years. When it was when we
got our record deal, we were trying to get a

(15:52):
record deal, we'd go to I remember going a twelfth
comporter here in Nashville and it was time for me
to do a showcase that night, and publishers would show up,
Other record laels show up, radio people who show up,
and it's at that moment it's your if you have
the people there, it's at your point to sell yourself.
And that's what these kids are doing and guys and girls,
and we're just kind of panelists giving them our advice
on what we think they should do. The great part

(16:13):
about the show is is that it's strictly focusing on
country music November on USA. It's called Real Country jacoens here.
I like look at my playlist sometimes and see what
song of people's I've played the most. What I'm gonna
as I pull up your list? What is your favorite
song of yours that you've ever that you've ever recorded,
and you're like, man, this is this is my favorite one? Uh?
Made for you? It's not out yet, but hopefully one

(16:34):
day it will be. You just played it well. Made
for You exists, which had been a single. Yeah, it's
been a single for the masses to hear. But it's
interesting when songs that haven't been singles are already coming
back to me through the fans as songs that that
they are gravitating towards and they love the most. Yeah, man,
that's I mean, that's one of my favorites. So Alone
with You is my most played song of yours. Wow. Yeah,

(16:56):
that's a that's another great, great song. That's a jam. Um.
I I've got a lot. I released a single speaking
I mean, sometimes releasing a single doesn't always make it
a big well known song. Or released a song called
we All Want What we Aint Got. It was shortly
after ts Meadows, shortly after I was divorced. Yeah, And
I remember just listening to that song thinking of myself.

(17:16):
Is I remember kind of over analyzing why perhaps I
might have been going through a divorce at the time
and my little girl living in Florida, and thinking, is
my passion for this business and working so hard is
it also negative for the fact that it's taken me
away from my real life? And so I talked to
my management and stuff about this all the time. As
hard as we work on our business and our life

(17:38):
going forward in this industry, we need to also pay
just as much close attention to our own personal lives
and put that much emphasis on it as well, because
if you're happy and personal life, you can be happy
and and your business. In anyways, that song kind of
tells the story of no matter where you are in life,
it's we always want more, and it sometimes you just
got to look around because there's a line in there
it says I wanted the world until my whole world stopped.

(18:02):
And I think all of us have kind of felt
that way at a time or two did a great
job with that song. Thanks. Yeah, I remember were playing
on piano. We were we were in Dallas, maybe ACMs
or something and you came out in a full suit
and played on the piano in front of rain crowd.
We waited like four hours because I kept writing us out.
I did yeah, and you came out and crushed it. Yeah,
it was good. That's it, man, you really did that song. Great.
Jake Owen's here, anything else we haven't met. The podcast

(18:24):
has been going great. Thanks for that. By the way,
your podcast has been going yeah, yeah, yeah, you'd been
felling it well. I hope so, I mean, I hope
it's shown that people are listening. But I'm just from
my perspective being able to kind of talk to fans
and people out there that are listening on a totally
different level than just through music. Tell me about the podcasting, dowload,
tell the name of it. So I have a podcast

(18:46):
called Good Company with Jake, and it's really I have
so many random friends and people that I enjoy talking to,
but I really enjoy the act of positivity. I like
promoting positive things. And I've talked to everybody from my
grand parents on this podcast that have been married for
seventy five years, talking to them about how they did it.
I've talked to my trainer at the Jim that used

(19:07):
to be. He tells you he was a fat kid
growing up, and he was embarrassed and he was bullied,
and now he's just just in super great shape and
that's what inspired him to do what he's doing. And
then the other day I was supposed to talk to
a friend of mine. He and his wife found out
they were pregnant um sixteen weeks ago. I was so
excited for them. They're gonna be the greatest parents. And

(19:28):
then two weeks into their pregnancy, she found out she's
got breast cancer. She's thirty years old, and they're dealing
with that right now. And so I'm talking to all
kinds of different people about their their life experiences and
how they look at life more positively, and I try
to do the same. And not only do I enjoy
talking to that and giving it to the mass public,
I also like it for myself. It's almost therapy for me.

(19:51):
So I've really enjoyed it. It's great. Check it out. Yeah,
it's called a Good Company with Jake Owen. We usually
play some of it on our show too. We'll find
clips and play it because it's cool. A really good
job that thing. Thanks. The other day, when they couldn't
do it. My friends, um Ted and Joscelyn, I'm gonna
I'm gonna talk to them soon. I didn't know who
I was going to talk to that that day, so
I talked to myself. I just saw that I did.

(20:13):
I had to do it all the time, and I'm nuts.
You're not that as nuts as I am. But I didn't.
I didn't realize how long I could talk to myself for.
And um, it's one of the few podcasts that I've
really seen a big response to where people said I
really enjoyed hearing that because you were really vulnerable and
to hear that side of you as a is, UM,
pretty cool. Look at you look, Y'll let me mention

(20:34):
this Jake coming up, So let's see September seventh, Champaign,
Illinois at the State Farm Center. September fourteenth, All Friends
in Sacramento, Railey filled Fresno, Our Friends and Fresno Number fifteenth,
Colorado Springs, Spber twenty first and Ogden Utah. Dude. I'm
happy for you. Thanks man. Appreciate ejaculations. Yeah, it's lots
of things are rolling. Appreciate you guys helping me, helping

(20:54):
me get there anything for Jake, O and Amy before
he leaves anything on your mind. I think I love
how he's feeling about his podcasts, like I definitely need
to add that to listen to more. And now I
want to go check out the one where he just
talked to himself. That's not easy to do and I'm
sure it's awesome. And then yeah, I just I'm adding
it to my podcast list. You sold, you sold me,
Solder Danks, Amy, good to see you, my friend, Jaco

(21:17):
and everybody. Next up in My favorite interview is at
number two. This is August eighth of twenty seventeen. When
John Mayer came in. This was twenty seventeen. He was
talking about, you know, he was in Nashville. He was
gonna stop by for like ten or fifteen minutes, but
it obviously went a lot longer than that, which is great.
I think both of us really enjoyed this interview. He

(21:38):
talks about the one song he's tired of playing, his
dog and how he sees colors when he plays music.
He also talked about the inspiration behind Amy's favorite song
of John Mayer still Feel like Your Man, and that
famous shampoo line. So here you go. My number two
favorite interview John Mayer. All right, John Mayer in studio. Hey, dude,
how are you? Dude? Thanks for coming to I appreciate that.
Thank you for supporting this record in the song and

(22:02):
giving me an opportunity to come in. You know, I
guess we can start this. We were talking yesterday. The
last concert that I paid money to go to was
your show. I saw you in Minneapolis and we went
up and watched that show, and I can't go tonight
and night You're like three blocks down the road. Well
you can't afford it. I can't I spend money I'm doing.
I'm at the Opera tonight, so yeah, I can't count Listen,

(22:25):
there's always a cool reason not to come to my
show because someone has a show of their own. We're
having the debate in this room before you came in,
and you may not want to answer this. Which song
are you just tired of playing? Um? I'm tired of
playing waiting on the world to change Boom? Why did
I say, hey, why that I would have one or
that it would be waiting on them? It would be

(22:45):
that one? Really? Yeah? Yeah, why do you think it is?
I have a whole different reason. Why do you think
it is? I have a reason. I'm tired of hearing it.
Why do you think, oh that's funny, let's go, let's
bug it, let's bog it. Here we go. I'm leaning
into this ahead. Now why do you why are you
tired of playing it? Um, it's it's honest to god,
It's just a tactile thing. It's just after a while, like,
by the way, you're gonna be like, oh, well, I
hated the message. I was like, I just didn't like

(23:07):
the way I felt in my hand. Um, it's right
outside of my range. Like when I had vocal surgery
that I had a procedure and like it it costs
me like two or three notes, and I needed those
notes for winning on the world to change. So I
kind of kind of have to sneak around it. So
it's not exactly it never really wasn't the most comfortable
thing to sing, so weirdly enough, like all the songs
that became very popular are very difficult to sing for me. Meanwhile,

(23:29):
all I wanted to do is like have a hit
with like who says a kay guess, don't just wake
up at five in the morning be able to do it,
and so I'm weird when it comes to hits, man, Like,
I don't know what makes a song of mine a hit.
I have a feeling it's like there's something in like
you do stand up, you know, like your middle funny

(23:50):
joke to you is your funniest joke to the crowd.
I don't. I never know what joke's gonna be the funniest.
It's the one that you're the least excited about, Like
it's your throwaway they if the accidental throw it. Yeah,
because you're interested in the upper ranges of your mind,
like how can I be more clever? How can I
be more interesting? And then somewhere in your in your middle,
is where the crowd kind of grabs onto what you're saying,

(24:12):
Like the crowd probably applauds, and you go, You're like,
oh that, oh you like that okay, because that really
didn't feel like anything coming out of my head. It's
the same thing with music. It's like all the stuff
where I'm like, oh my god, this is so complex
and interesting and people are gonna love it, like they
kind of don't. It's the stuff that for me, I
feel like it's a little bit um it bores me

(24:33):
just the slightest bit. It becomes like whatever I find
boring in it, people find accessible. And here's the joke
I'm thinking about the opera tonight. You tell me it's funny. Yeah, okay,
I haven't used it yet. Yeah, we'll have to bleep
it out. Okay, you said the guy that got caught
pledging himself with the movies to the emoji. Yes, this
is good. That's not that good. No, I mean it's

(24:55):
a good it's a good right. Everyone is freaking out
about the guy doing that to himself, and I'm just
wondering which emoji he thought was super hot. Okay, So
so that's a setup. That's not that's not a punchline yet,
it's still a setup. Right, So then you break it down?
Is that the Sauca lady? There you go? Then I
go through the thing, and then at the end I

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end up with the purpose. Yeah, there's a lot of
places plants? Is it the poop emoji? Right? But I
don't think people are that's funny. As I start rolling
through emoji's like, I think that's funny. It's funny if
you can break it out, and I hate that I'm
on your radio show telling you how to be funny.
It's okay because I'm telling you what songs I think
a very good. So we're all good. We're in a

(25:36):
good place. Where's your dog, by the way, because I'll
watch on social media? Is kidding? No, that is that's
a real question. Does your dog stay in Montana? My
dog does not stay in Montana. This this is what happened.
I got a dog. Why doed to have a dog
on the road? Road? Dog? Uh? A dear friend of
mine happens to be an incredible dog trainer. She took

(26:00):
my dog trained, My dog turned into a perfect beast.
And then I was like, okay, I'm taking my dog
on the road. Dog hates music. Hates music. He thinks
it's like thunder like thunderstor so he's trembling in the
dressing room first night. I think Red Rocks was like
the first place we were like, okay, well, I got

(26:22):
a dog, let's do this cowering in the corner. Also,
like when he's home with me, if I pick up
a guitar and plug it and start playing it, he
does the funniest thing, like he doesn't want to offend me,
but he like slowly SLINKs his two paws front paws
off the couch and just waddles out of the room
playing music. So it wasn't gonna work. But it turned
out that my dog trainer, she loved him so much,

(26:44):
and she said, well, he's a part of our family too,
so I'll be the mommy. And I thought that's awesome.
So my dog lives a better life than I do.
He lives in Brentwood, California, and I pick him up.
It's like doggy daycare, but it's months long. How about this,
the fact that you see colors when you play. I
don't have synesthesia, and people, okay, that's that's where people

(27:07):
now people somebody, Um, why would someone fake that too
about you? Then? Well, people misinterpret my metaphors a lot,
which is easily done. And I don't have synesthesia. I
have probably some interpretive form of synesthesis. Synesthesia, by the way,
is some people have a clinical I don't know if
i'd call it a disorder. It's a gift of sorts

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whereby words and sounds actually are interpreted as colors in
their brain. I have it, but not visually. I'm pretty
close to I have relative synesthesia. What are you seeing
when you're playing a solo? What are you seeing in
your head? How are your numbers? Colors, muscle memory? What
is it? Shapes? Colors, geometry? That's actually, man, you're a

(27:50):
very good interviewer, Like you're asking really interesting, untrodden on
questions that are exciting to answer. Uh, the way that
I do it is tons and tons and tons of
streams of possibilities of shapes, What's where? Where does it go?
And I've done it for so long now that a

(28:10):
lot of that data has sort of dissolved and it's
all feeling now. I just know where it is. I
just it's very Jedi now, like I just know where
it is, and it's sometimes I don't know how I
know it'll be different every single night, but I found
some weird confluence of what I know and what I
don't know. But what I'm pretty sure is going to
be there. And it's more fun than ever to play

(28:32):
guitar because I'm not playing it like a student of
guitar anymore. John Mayer's here now. So I'm buds with
the guys from the Zach Brown Band and Clay Cook,
yeah and so, and I know the story. But you
and Clay were Berkeley together and Clay was like, you know,
let's move down to Atlanta. And you and Clay kind
of had a duo together from you right, Yep, that's
how we started. That's how I started right out of college,

(28:54):
was playing in an acoustic duo. And so you move
down to Atlanta, and so why Atlanta of all play?
He had Clay had family in Atlanta and said I
think we can do and he said there was a
great music scene down there, which he was absolutely right.
He did have family and he was wasn't long about
either family and a music scene. So we moved down
there and just started doing open mic nights and writing,

(29:15):
and you know, he that's how I got my start
in music, was following him down to Atlanta. We lived
in Snellville, Georgia. Are you on the radio in Snailville, Georgia?
Where everybody's somebody that's the name, that's the catchphrase for
snail like the snail, the bug or snell but it's
pronounced Snailville, but it's Snellville, s e L. So you

(29:37):
guys moved to Atlanta and you ride a lot of
things together. Yeah, we wrote, we had we had written
you know, five or six songs at that point, we're
still trying to put it all together. So you guys
decide to go your own different way. Is that big
decision for you too? Yes? Yeah, well no one's ever
cared about this. Yeah. Uh falling out. We had a

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falling out creatively, did you part of it? That was
part of it? Uh? The part that I can attest to, um,
he said, I have pretty pretty big feet, pretty strong head.
I don't think anybody could have been in a duo
with me at that time. That's the part that I

(30:21):
can take responsibility for, is that I probably wasn't extremely collaborative.
I was. Uh, yeah, I don't think. I don't think
I was a strong group worker. Well were your roles
in that duo? Because everybody's got the role inside of
a team. He was, um and still is, hyper musical,

(30:43):
incredible musical mind. Um, and we were also, by the way,
completely we're really good friends now, I mean we are.
I'm assuming now you guys are pure closeness. There's these
are two kids who are the stars of their town,
the musical stars of their town, coming together obviously seeing
something in one another that they identify with making music

(31:04):
together but never having really given over to someone else.
It probably shouldn't have two really strong solo kind of
mindsets coming together to collaborate, and where I think if
you're if you're still going well, it doesn't add up.
Put me in his life as a guest, and it

(31:24):
gets a little strange. It's like two people sharing a birthday,
you know. It's like he was I entered his entire
social life, you know, and I think there was an
identity thing of like, wait, what's mine and what's yours?
And again taking responsibility for it. I have very big shoes.
I'm not necessarily subtle, especially at that age. He didn't

(31:46):
want to mess around with young John. You don't want
to mess around nineteen year old John Mayor who just
figured out that the world is bendable and he's out
to just destroy it. You know. But this is my
new record, the project, that's Lindsay L record. Now, so
can we get a shout of them new record? The project?
Part of it was because you know, they didn't really
recognize me on the cover, but this is who I

(32:06):
this is my new record. I went by Lindsay L
and U can we play cut off that? Sure? So? Yeah?
So there it is this this is a great recording.
You're asking me, like, seriously, Yeah, it's a great it's
a great recording. What's the difference Wade recording? I just
hear a song the way the way it was engineered.

(32:28):
It's set, it's it's gorgeous. It's the best. That's the
gravity is the best record. Like you know, it's a
difference between Song of the Year, Record of the Year
of the Grammy's like, that's this isn't this is a
quite a record. This is how spare it is. If
I stopped talking, well now I'm just gonna keep going
because we're so really key into the record, especially the vocals.
This is gravity from Continuum checking out Gravity when I

(32:54):
want to when I want to show Minneapolis, he didn't
play it. I was said, and I know you get
that every show you can't play everything. Well no, but
you saw me in the beginning of this tour where
I was like, I'm gonna just play whatever I want
and the crowd was adamant that I played Gravity, So
we added Gravity back in every name. That's cool. Look,
it's cool to be that artist where you know there

(33:15):
are things that people identify with you, so so much
that you have to play them. I dig it and
I'll play Gravity every night for the rest of my life.
Like that's a song I'll never get tired of. Andy,
what's your favorite song off the new record? Oh, well,
you know I have the one about She doesn't know
any words to it, she just knows the parts of ahead. No,
I know about how. I just think it's really really
clever about how you keep the shampoo in the shower

(33:38):
in case and romantic, like I think every girl sort
of would would want a guy to sing that for her.
Sticky hands man, it's hard, hard, getting hard getting out.
For me, it's it's good, but I mean this song.
No dude wants to have to write this song though, Yeah,

(33:58):
but he's both being gone wrong songs. Sorry, enjoy it.
No one knew what to do with it for listening,
because what do you get this song to? Like? And
this leads in the in the blood conversation, Like if
you're a station that's like a triple A station, you
played John mar music and all of a sudden, Columbia
is like, hey, here's the next John merrisonle like it

(34:19):
doesn't fit anyone's radio station, But does it have to
fit because I'm fit radio. I think nothing has to
fit radio. I'm with you, man, I mean, maybe that's
why we're still filling the places up with people's because
I'm not following this sort of format rule, you know,
like I put mixtapes out. I feel like that though.
And you're here for a reason because you have a song.

(34:40):
And I remember I went to the show and I
was talking and by the way, Lee Levesner is your
you want to explain who he is? Lee Livesner, uh
died in nineteen forty one, and it's come back as
a ghost to set things straight. Is that correct? Yeah?
I don't know. Sorry, I just pitched movie ideas now, Leah.

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For thirteen years or so, like Lee has been in
one way or another with you, champion, my champion of
the stuff that I make. There are times he probably
doesn't see where a song could work and promptly stuffs
that thought deep deep deep down inside him and returns
back with the thought that this song can be huge
and goes out and fights for it. I mean, there's

(35:23):
a guy who I've the funniest thing you ever said
in his life was about still feel like your man,
because I thought that it could change stuff, like I
always believe that a song can change a format, a
song can change people's thinking. And we're backstage at Madison
Square Garden. Columbia is there and this is right before
Still Feel Like Your band comes out, and I looked

(35:44):
at him. We had just finished a hug, but now
we've got hands on each other's shoulders, and I said,
I really believe and still feel like you're man, and
he said, and we know that you do. And I
thought that was just absolutely the funniest thing that I
record company, like, the funniest if it was if there
was a Curb Enthusiasm style show about my life, I

(36:06):
would write that in and that would be in the trailer.
It's hilarious, and we know that you do. That's a
guy who can't lie. Man. It was amazing. But listen
to the three Days I lost my mind and I
was only thinking about this song three days and a trance,
because what are you doing a trance? You're only about

(36:28):
bringing the song to life. I was in a therapist
office and I said, I still feel like her. I
still feel like her Mania and I went, oh, no,
here we go. I got in the car, I wrote
down still I still feel like You're Man. And I
looked at that title and I went, if we play
our cards right, that is a major song I had
felt like, and I immediately googled the title I still

(36:51):
feel like You're Man, because I thought someone must have
had this idea. Whenever I have a good idea, I'm
not even excited about it. I get immediately frightened that
someone else has already had that good idea. So I
google that good idea, no search results. That's when I
got even more excited. I went, Okay, I'm actually getting
right now, like excited. My heart is racing as I

(37:13):
talk about this, because this is about how you sneak
up at an on an idea, like trying to catch
a greasy pig, and you're just like, okay, there it is.
Let's not sing it too soon. Let's not just throw
some BS cliche stuff on this idea. And for a
whole day I didn't sing still feel like You're Man.
I didn't make a note with it because I knew

(37:34):
that whatever I sang, I was gonna start getting attached
to and I don't want to get attached to a
dumb idea for still feeling that man, so now I
just have sheets of paper and I'm typing all different
ideas about still feel like you're man, and I don't
just think. And then I was in the shower and
I was like, could I do it like a Prince ballad?
I still feel lack you man? You know no, that's
gonna be shallow. Okay, don't don't even sing it. Don't
even sing it. And then I'd already had written this idea,

(37:57):
this chord changes, and then one day I went in
the studio and it was the greatest luck in the
world that this one idea that I'd written musically locked
in would just still feel like your man thing. And
it became this like were I called it ancient Japanese
R and B. If you listen to it, it's like
super staccato and clean. Didn't do like I've never heard

(38:18):
anything like it come from me. And so for the
next three days I did nothing but enter like this.
It's hard to explain, but it's true. If you can
feel it, you're a little bit not on earth. You're
like half of you is in another place. And for
three days I did nothing but bring this song into
my life, and I listened to a lot of Marvin Gay.

(38:39):
There's definitely like some Marvin Gay thing happening in the
tune that I didn't want to block. And when I
was done with it, now this really interesting jam that's
like hopeful but also like has the saddest line I've
ever written. I literally cried when I wrote I still
keep your shampoo in my shower and you want to

(39:00):
wash your hair. That's the saddest lyric I've ever written
in my life. Think of how much desperation is in
that line. She's not coming to wash her hair at
your house. It's over. But the idea of keeping the
torch lit, where you say, well, I'm keeping it there,
It's like, you know, there's like his dog in Japan,

(39:21):
and dog had an owner. The owner would go to
the train every day, and the dog would follow the
owner to the train and then be there at the
exact time the owner came back from work off the train.
The dog would be waiting on the train platform. Then
one day the owner died, and the dog still waited
at that platform for his owner for years until the

(39:44):
dog passed away. I love that story. It is true.
There's a statue of the dog where the dog once
stood himself and I very much in breakups feel like
the statue of that dog, not even the dog, I
feel like the statue of the dog. It's a fantastic story.

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Thank you. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad this all
worked out to where he could come in the day
I came back from the show, I was like, man,
you know, some of this record sounds like music that
we would play, you know, in this format. And I
went and listen. I'm not always the most popular guy
traditionally in this format, just because I do things all
outside of the box, but I was like, man, some
of this record. There a couple of songs on there

(40:28):
in the Blood they're rolling on, rolling on home for sure. Yeah.
I was like, this is exactly what it is, and
it's even more traditional than some of the things being
played now. And so I was like, hey, why aren't
we playing it? And so I played it and get
screamed at, and you know, it the whole thing. But
now here we come full circle and you've had a
little time and some other stations and other people have

(40:51):
played it, and I think it's been embraced really well
by people outside and with you to thank for it.
Let me ask you a question. If you had played
that song in the Blood without telling people that it
was me, would they have objected? Now? Right? But this
is the truth thing. I can handle it. No, No,
almost nobody. I say almost, man, Almost nobody objected that

(41:13):
listen anyway. The only people that objected or radio people
got it. No listeners are like, this song's not country,
this song is not anything. They were like, wow, that's
a fantastic song, or wow, I love John Marry, but
we don't play John Marry. That's what they're saying. That's
what it was, just the thing from the inside. Sure
it wasn't people that wouldn't embrace it, that listen, that
consume it. And that's the weird part. I try to

(41:35):
be a person of the people more so than a
person of the industry. I get you and that well,
that's why I feel so good. Like you said, outside
of the box to give a sense of how different
the world is. I haven't heard the phrase outside of
the box, no offense to you. I haven't heard the
phrase outside of the box in ten years. Everything's outside
of the box every possible, Like there's no box anymore,
you know. And I think what you're saying, is there's

(41:57):
the box here, Well, there's a box. Here's the box here,
and and you know, people have vested interest in keeping
the box taped up shut, you know, and I think
it's very interesting to say the least, that you're looking
at it going well, why do you have to keep
the box closed? Because everyone else listens to music differently.
I have friends who listening I put the Highway on.
You know. Highway has become like a pop station for

(42:19):
in the sense that like I work it, it's in
my presets, like there are times I love here in it,
you know, And that just goes to show there's there's
like once the last time someone asked you what's on
your iPod? Once the last time someone said like, what
genre of music do you like? It's all completely disassembled,
and you know, thank you for being a champion of

(42:39):
stuff that's cool and fits and saying like, well, whatever
your notion is of it, you know, let's try not
putting that, you know, as a barrier in front of
the song. You know, we're gonna play it. We're playing
the Blood now, appreciate you coming by. I think it's
not not country, It's true, you know what I mean,

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I'm in Livingston, Montana. I live in Livingston, Montana. That's
pretty country. That's pretty western. That's pretty western. There's a
body in my backyard. Hey, do you want to Amy
gave me this picture in like two thousand and an
old six shooter buried in the ground for my birthday.
Amy painted this for me a long time ago. Hey,

(43:22):
like twelve or thirteen years ago. When did you only
have like one tattoo here? A long time ago? And
then I started doing silly stuff and it says, say
this is you don't get to keep it. No, I'm
a fan of Yeah, she painted it for me, So
if you wouldn't mind signing that, I would love too.
And I put it back in my room where it
has been. It's just a gift from her. Yeah. Yeah.

(43:43):
It was like a blah blah saying what do you think,
um like as an artist? As an artist, I think
it's I could tell it was me. Yeah, yeah, I
want that haircut bag. We're gonna play in the blood bus.

(44:04):
Appreciate you coming by. I'll help show goes awesome tonight.
Thank you and yours too. Than I want to know
how the emoji joke works. I don't think I'm gonna
do that at the operation giving you my cell phone number,
and I want you to I'm not going to have
a home number. I'm gonna give you my home office
and cell phone number. I'm giving you my cell phone
telephone number, and i want you to tell me how
the emoji joke goes, and you can use emojis for it.

(44:26):
I will not do that at the opera. But I'm
a California doing two shows to California this weekend. Where
you gonna be in California and plug it, plug it? Well,
trust me, I do enough. But I'll be in mone
a modesto both. But like a lot of a lot
of TV bookers are coming out to watch because I'm
rarely on the West Coast and booking for what for later?
Lots of shows, Yeah, night slots or would you would

(44:47):
you bail on this dump to be on a sitcom?
Is this what you're saying? I would not bail, But
they are coming out. It is kind of a dumpy studio.
All right. They're gonna give you cones, They're gonna give
you a reserved spot. You're gonna lease Porsche Cayenne. You're
gonna You're gonna live in Studio City. This is gonna
be great for you. Wow, you're a shop at Whole Foods. Wow. Oh,

(45:08):
I see. They're gonna live a life parked right next
to Johnny Galecky. You're gonna be on it. You're gonna
be on a lot. You're gonna run into Mario Lopez
every damn day and forget about all these losers, aren't you.
That's the goal? All right? John Mayre, Thank you, John.
I good to see you about it. Thank you. Have
you enjoyed this? This? This was You're great, This was great,

(45:30):
This is great. This like I No, I don't do that.
I wouldn't do that. Um, this is like we we
had a dinner and were already on dessert and I'm like, oh,
we didn't even really get to it. I agree, we
could have spent when next time you come to town,
or I'll go over, I'll come up to Montanna. I
would love hanging out with the dog, would love to
all right, here we go, John may everybody at number one,

(45:51):
February twenty third to twenty fifteen. This was the first
time Garth Brooks came. Afterward, but you won't hear on
this the guitar had a guitar with him and he
was like, I don't feel like carrying this around all day.
Do you want it? And I was like, well, I'm
I was about to say I'm left handed, no, but
then I went to yep, sure do so he said
here are you gonna have it? And then he signed
it and handed it to me and I still have

(46:12):
it at the house. He was doing the world towards
Trusha Yearwood. You're gonna like it. It was also when
his album Mann Against the Machine came out, so we
also get into how he still plays the hits even
when he has new music out. So here it is
at number one the first time Garth Brooks was in studio,
all right in the studio with us, and this is

(46:33):
the coolest interview I've ever done. And we haven't even
started yet because to me, and now here's the thing,
you become jaded over time, and everyone in the Note
show knows I'm nervous, a little nervous. I'm never nervous.
To me, you're the greatest of all time, Garth Brooks
is here. You are what I have called Endlesslie the Goat,
which is the greatest of all time, and my mind,

(46:54):
that's who you are. So very sweet dude. I'm on
he's leaving. He put us had funs down out that
to me and still that was the best interview I've
ever done. Right there, out of here, He's coming back
for both of us. Yes, how are you fantastic? You
give me I'm mister Yearwood, It's fantastic. Are you tired,

(47:19):
because it always seems like you're always somewhere doing fifty
shows in a row in a city you know you're
selling about constantly. That are you tired? No, I've been
you know. I love my babies, Love my babies. Greatest
thing in the world's being a dad. I've waited a
long time for this. I'm not gonna be tired for
a while. I'm enjoying it. I get for me. I
wonder when you go Let's say, for example, you go

(47:40):
to Boston. You did five shows whatever in Boston. Do
you stay in Boston all five of those nights? Yeah?
We usually do. Um you know we have we have
pro camps there too, also for the kids and stuff.
So you get involved in the city, get involved how
it works. Find the greatest place to eat, take the
crew there, We went to the movie the other night
in uh Pittsburgh, Whole Bandit Crew which American Sniper. Fabulous movie.

(48:01):
But uh, we do everything together, so we're kind of
like a family. Did you like rent out the whole theater? Yeah?
Well it was. What was cool was in the mall.
So I've never been in a mall. You read it
out the whole mall. That's what I'm talking about. That's
why he's the greatest. You read of the whole mall.
It was. It was weird walking through there and everything
was just dark. And then clothes I've never been there,
but they were cool enough stay open after the show,
and they were very sweet. So I saw you in

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Little Rock, and Arkansas's home for me. It's where I
grew up, born and raised. And so I thought, Okay,
I'm gonna go back to Little Rock, I'm gonna watch Garth.
And you did something I've never seen in the show before,
and it was to me, it was the coolest thing
I've ever seen at any concert period. You started if
Tomorrow Never Comes, You took the guitar off, you didn't
play guitar. Then you stopped singing and you just stood there.

(48:46):
You didn't play you didn't sing, and the entire arenas
saying if tomorrow never comes, that was the most amazing
thing I've ever seen before. I'm telling you, I've said it.
It's not out of humbleness, man, it's it's not out
of you know whatever, it's it's the truth. I don't
think I need to show up at one of these shows.
These people come, they are ready, and they're they're gonna
They're gonna party with you or without you, man, so

(49:07):
you might as well just hang on. But yeah, that's
the Arkansas, especially if you saw The Last Night in Arkansas,
That's that's why you get into this whole dream there.
That was phenomenal. Now was that because I was the
Last Night in Arkansas? Was that a really good show?
Where do you think about everywhere? No? No No, no, well,
you know we had a Thursday, Friday Saturday and felt
lucky for the Thursday Friday. It was fantastic. They were great,
and then Saturday came along, and then there's just that

(49:28):
that thing that you go, oh my god, this is
this is what A laid awake and dreamed about when
I was in college, you know, because these things come
few and far between. This is a great way to
end the year and just fabi us and we hadn't
been there in twenty three years, you know, so it
was it was good to see those people again, see
some of the faces that you remember, but see a
lot of young kids too. Do you hear me? Yellen?

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He was loud, I was crazy. Yeah, I thought you
were girls first two or three years. That was definitely.
Garth Brooks is in with us. You're doing the world tour,
which Trusia. So is that too much time together? Do you? No? No,
forever's not long enough with that one. Dang, look at
that song she is. She's the bomb. She's everything you

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want her to be and more and uh school because
you know, the people ask what's the difference between touring
now and touring? Then a little difference is Trisha Yearwood,
because then you try to find something to do with
the other twenty hours of your day, you know, But
now with your with your best friend the other twenty
hours of your day, every every moment's like being on
stage together. So it's good. So the album Man Against
the Machine, you know, you can come out and I've

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been to the show, so for those that haven't been,
you should go because it's freaking awesome. And I will
say this, and we say this on the airline, is
you don't play the entire new album. And I think
that's cool of you, because you know, the people want
to hear the hits you do. You'd play a couple
of new songs. It was. It was great when we
were there, you played Mom Yeah. But so you you know,
it's it's like anything else. When No Fences came out,

(50:54):
you know, we had one album which was you know,
the original Garth Brooks, So we played most of that
and we'd play one or two off No Fences. And
then when Ropin come out, you play one or two
off the end, you play all of No Fences, and
and so it just keeps going. And so nothing's any
different now on your song selection than it was then.
It just h I'm I'm the guy that goes to
concert still. I still go see the King, I still

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go see James Taylor, see these guys. And when I
go there, I want to hear their old stuff. That's
that's what I paid my ticket for. So to go
in and have somebody dump a whole new album that
I don't know yet on me, it's just not my
concert thing. So we we put in the time to
make sure we bring all the old stuff, and I
people want to hear the new stuff. They'll bring their
signs and you you'll play off that which happened at
that show. Someone brought a sign and you were like,

(51:36):
all right, cool, I'm gonna play it. So if someone's
listening down, they haven't downloaded the album from your website, Like,
give me a couple of the new songs that you're like, Okay,
these are new Garth Brooks songs that I would love
for everyone to hear if you had to pay a
couple of new ones. Oh man, I gotta tell you.
There's a there's a song called All American Comeback Kid
on here that kills me. Like I said, we just
went and saw American Sniper and All American Comeback Kid

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is the theme track from that thing. It's fabius, So
enjoy that. Um other songs, Uh, shoot, there's there's a
lot of stuff on there. They're liking it. All varies
so much, but she's tired of boys cold like that,
things like that. Just there's there's a lot to pick
from on this album, very very varied album because it's
a Nashville's album Garth Brooks is here with us. You're

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up for a seventh nomination for Entertainer of the Year,
which no one's ever done before. And if the ACM's
coming up, and you know, I have a reputation for
not being completely politically correct, and they always say, don't
pick favorites whenever you do this, and don't don't pick
who you think is going to win. And you're not
gonna say it because you're a humble guy. But if
you don't win, it is a travesty. And here's why
you don't have to comment at all. No one's ever

(52:41):
done what you're doing right now touring wise, in the
history of country music in my life time, I've never
seen someone go and sell out continuous cities in the
same place like you're doing. And if that's not Entertainer
of the Year, I don't know why they would even
have the award. So that's all. He's keeping his mouth
and you should. But that's how I feel about it.
And as soon as they announced it, I was on

(53:02):
the air and I said it that morning. I'm not
saying it because you're in front of my face. I'm
saying it because I've never seen in my lifetime of
seeing people tour and do shows and you know, put
out music. I've never seen what you're doing now happen
anywhere else ever. Well, and not only is he selling out,
but your energy, Like that's what I can't get over
is we were there, yeah, the last night of Arkansas,

(53:22):
so you've already played there, right, but then you are
running around that stage like owning it and there's all
kinds of stuff like you. I'm like, where does he
get this energy? I don't get it, Like I need
whatever you have, like I need it. Okay, I'm gonna
try me here and tell you there is something that
we are the best at. We're the best of anybody
that's ever done it. Rock pop doesn't matter who having fun.
Oh and that's another thing that I will say about

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your people when you're saying wheat and I love that,
like collectively. I love when you went around and you
were like, you know what, each person on that stage
with you, You're like, he's been with me for twenty years.
He's been with me because yeah, they're great guys. So
the Rookie and the group's been with us. We just
celebrated twenty years last. That's the yeah, I mean, that's
the guy go with you the least twenty. These guys

(54:05):
are great, man, and there, and they are so entertaining
and they have a ball and it's it's nothing because
you know, we play an arena. We play it all
the way around, and you can't be two places at once.
You can on the video screen, I guess, but you
depend on these guys like your right arm and left
arm to take care of one side of arena. What
you got one and then you switch or you do

(54:26):
it together. And these guys are these guys are really
having fun. And and I believe I'm grateful. I believe
in the nineties I didn't take anything for granted. I
really do. But I gotta tell you all a thousand
times more grateful for this run, just to get to
do it again. So you talk about the nineties, and
we meet a lot of new artists to come in
and we get to hear them. What was like to

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come up for you? And was there any like, oh man,
this guy, this is not good for country music when
you came in because you were different, Like did you
get a lot of that too when you first started? Sure,
it's weird to kind of become the traditionalist. I mean,
that's that's really strange that you're the guy with steals
fiddles when when you started out you were the you know,
the you were the the guy that wasn't the traditionalist

(55:08):
sou Country music changes. All music changes, and it keeps
going through its phases, all of it good. Because if
we don't have change, man, it's gonna get stagnant. And
the truth is, I'm sure Haggard Jones, which are my
guys which I worship and love, said, oh Garth Brooks,
what a punk? You know, That's just that's just how
it is. Did you hear, man, Garth Brooks is running
country music. Did you ever hear that when you were

(55:29):
young guys starting out and you got so big? Yeah?
From my band most Yeah, no, no, but yeah you
heard it. You heard everything. You you you hear all
the good, all the bad, and so you know the
thing about this, especially now with social media, Twitter stuff,
you see all the good all the bad, and you, uh,
you you're thankful for the good and the bad stuff.

(55:49):
You you you take it like a grain of salt
and go. Do they have a point? If not, let
it roll up Garth Brooks is here. So we're gonna
hang out, hit a break. We're gonna come back more
in a second, a hanging out back to more guard
that to this, Bobby, I don't mind me missitting here chatting.

(56:16):
You're commercial right with Garth Brooks, don't mind me? All
all right? Talk about college. Garth brook is here, by
the way. All right, So before you moved to Nashville, Like,
what was your plan in life before you became like
the great? My plan in life was to somehow get
to do this for a little. It was always You're
always going to be some sort of writer. Before I'm

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always no, no no, no, I want to be a professional athlete.
And the only thing that stopped me was my athletic
ability or lack of I guess so that that stopped me.
How good were you in until a point? Um? Never good?
I was great in shorts, that was great today before
the games? But like in what football, baseball, everything town?
So you're in everything. You're in baseball, basketball, track, football.

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When you go to Padres camp, it's I'm a huge fans,
so I'm gonna geek out on you. First sec. When
you go to Padre's camp, was it like, uh, crazy
to stand in with those professional athletes and see just
how good they are. They had you, they had you
so well coached. It wasn't the fact whether you get
hit it or not. It was where you were going
to hit it where they weren't. And that that's the
toughest part of baseball. Making contact. You can do that,

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you know pretty much. You know. Of course I never
got to face to Johnson's or anything, but you know,
my first first pitch I saw it was over ninety
five miles an hour, and you're ready for it. But
it's hitting at where it's not, where they're not. It's
the toughest part. So you were able to hit ninety
five mile part festiball, Yeah, I'm not very hard, but yeah,
and just the fact to touch it, yeah, they were.

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They were sweet to me. So I I think I
carried my back back myself about three times in my
whole time with the Padres. So I was proud of that.
But getting on a base was tough. I'm have been
my speed or lack of it that kept me from
that too. When you get thrown at a first from
the outfield. Here a refrigerator, you know. Garth Brooks in
with us right now. What do you do You're on

(58:04):
the road, you know all day long. What do you
do for fun in the daytime? Um, I hang out
with hang out with the guys. When I get back here,
I do things to try and kill myself. Chainsaw, tractor,
all that stuff. I love that stuff. So get out
and just pull fence or just cut roads, run a
doze or all that stuff that's fun to do. And
then getting to write again. Just starting to trust your

(58:25):
pen again. I didn't do that very much on this
first album. But starting to get to write again, starting
to get to see Kent Blaisie's face every day, starting
to get to see these younger kids faces every day
and see the dream in their face like when I
first got here. That's that's infectious. So this is something
that I haven't done myself in years because I felt
like it's very unprofessional. It's super unprofessional. But would you

(58:47):
sign a guitar for me? Make it out to me? Well? Sure? Now?
Is it? Am I stepping over the line of being cool?
I don't know, man, You've been very sweet to me.
If you want the you know, we've we've got them
all in serious, I don't want the one I played
in Arkansas. Theyre not you were there. I'll get that.
Stop it, stop stop it, like I seriously just got

(59:08):
you know how the person walks in the house after
a home makeover and they're like, oh my goodness, my
house has been made over. That's the feeling I just
got inside my bones, like I had goosebumps inside my body.
I felt the goosebumps from yes, from you. Now, you
wouldn't make that up right and just go buy one
real quick and go. I'm kidding, I wouldn't know where
that guitar. Wait thing, Okay, I'm so like emotionally confused.

(59:34):
Right now? Do we need to go to break? So
if I bring one in, would you? Would you make
it out to me? I'll be happy to you, but
I'd rather give you one that I play. Well, I
don't understand, I don't understand, I don't know what I
don't know by that one. So you're really gonna give
me one that you play? Or is this another joke? No?
No, no no, no, no, I'll get you one. I'll get

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you one that okay, if you want, I would I'm
doing another show and you'll see that one and I'll
give it to you during the show. Oh that way,
you'll know that way, there's no one. I believe you two.
I did my heart hurt. I don't. It's confused on
what's happening? Are you really pull the mask off of
this guy? Kill it back? Let me break it down.

(01:00:17):
You are going to get a guitar signed by Garth
and played by Garth. We just don't know for sure.
Unprofessional that I asked, I'm asking you no, I don't
think so, because honestly, you have a collection of your
it is condo. He's got a collection of guitars hanging
on the wall that are signed by all your favorite people,
John Mayer, Cheryl Crowe, Dirk Extantly, like a lot of things.
So I think adding guarths to the collection is perfect.

(01:00:39):
Now I'm taking them hold down and just putting guards up.
How big it's just now. Sometimes I'll get it as
a gift for someone, Someone will give me with all
the lyrics written on it. Whatever. Anyway you go, here's
the thing. Would you mind, because I know you're here
a lot coming back. We do this thing called Joy Week,
and it's all about spreading joy. Would you mind coming
back in a couple of weeks and playing a couple

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of songs for us. Then yeah, man, you can't spread
enough joy, so good for you for doing that. We
need good news, we need to believe in ourselves, and
that's that's a great I'll do whatever you want for that,
so that's a yeah. So you'll come back, all right,
Garth Brooks. We'll be back. Everybody, clip your hands, send
them out now. But we'll see him again in two
weeks or a week, next week into next week. Yeah,
it's not far okay, first week. Hey, thank you, it's

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been it's been awesome for me. This is this has
been really a great experience. I'm gonna hit this button
here and we'll go. You can do it, all right, good,
thank you, all right back in a second.