#148 - The 2018 Year End Special

Bobby and Mike D recap all the biggest moments from 2018. Bobby talks about the biggest moments from his year doing American Idol, having his 2nd No. 1 New York Times Best-Seller and winning Dancing with the Stars. Bobby also gives his Top 10 Songs of the Year and recaps the biggest new stories.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome to episode of the Boby Cast, which let
me recommend that you check out some more other podcasts
here on the Nashville Podcast Network if you're a sports fan,
The Sore Losers which is Raymundo, Eddie and Lunchbox. They
have that show Amy Has Four Things with Amy Brown.
There's Velvet's Edge podcast. There's a lot. You can go

(00:24):
to ums that the Nashville Podcast Network dot com and
see all the shows. So we have a lot of
shows and next year we will be building out even more.
And so this episode one, it's the year end episode
where I called Mike today and I was like, Hey,
it's one of the last days we're gonna be in
town before we jump away. We're I mean, I'm officially

(00:46):
on vacation. What does say today? Monday? It is Monday.
I was in Birmingham, Alabama. Today is it's our one
day off on the Dancing with the Stars tour. And
I was in my hotel room and I was like,
I do not feel like sitting in a hotel for
twenty eight thirty hours when home is like two and
a half hours away. So I run into the car,

(01:07):
just drove home. And I've been so uto the weather,
mostly because I can't. I haven't been sleeping at all.
I mean basically in four months I got Dancing with
the Stars and started doing all that, and it was
so physically demanding, and I think it just finally caught
up with me. And then I've been on this Dancing
When the Stars Live tour and um after I did idle.

(01:28):
So I've just been sick. So I came home with
Land a bit. But that Dancing Starts Live tour has
been fun. I don't have to dance a lot, which
is awesome. What do you do that? What do you
do when you get out of here? So I do
a little dancing, but I purposefully said, hey, I would
like to dance as little as you can make me dance.
I get dance anxiety now because I just think about

(01:49):
dancing on that show and how nervous and anxious I
would get. And I just don't like dancing like that anymore.
Like I think I'm a better dancer four and I've
always had decent rhythm, but you can tell if you
watch the show. I wasn't the best ballroom dancer, and
so I was like, hey, let me not do as
many dances and so I do I host, right, So

(02:12):
I host, and usually the host just goes out and says,
here's what's happening and then leaves. And I was like,
he says, I'm not dancing as much. I'm just gonna
go out and do some comedy. So I go a
hated like four different parts of the show, and the
shows an hour and forty minutes, and I just do
stand up related to Dancing with the Stars and it's
pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. And they weren't expecting it,
and so um, I went out and rather than ask permission,

(02:38):
I thought I would go out and just ask for
forgiveness later. So I went out in the first you know,
you go at seconds what was written on my card
on the live show, and I was like, no, let's
just see what happens. So I go out and I
walked out and I tell three or four jokes and
the crowd was laughing pretty good, and then they danced,
and I was like, well, no one told me not
to do that anymore. So I went and again did
more jokes and so yeah, it's good, and that the

(03:00):
tour is really good, like those guys are such good dancers,
and I don't want to run the tour. It's so good.
So if the show does come by the live show
and now you can afford because tickets are pretty steep.
I think they're like six year seventy bucks. Um go
to that would recommend you go to the show. You
posted that picture and they're like perfectly sculpted human beings. Yeah,
it's nutty. How in shape and and they're also in

(03:24):
shape because they've been in shape for so long, Like
I I think they work out. I don't know, but
they danced so much. I don't know. They have so
many muscles up top it's insane. Sane. Uh, And they're
they're really. Like I've always said about that show, I
was never really loving the dancing part of it. I
was always enjoying the people part of it. And I
was always enjoying also the sociology of it, like trying

(03:45):
to figure out how to win something by not being
the best at the exact thing you're doing. And like
most things in life, it's it's never about let's you
have a job as an account and you're trying to
get a promotion. It's never about really just being the
best account it it's about can you be a really
good account and also be uh nice to people and

(04:06):
be pleasant for your boss is to be around and
be somebody who's trustworthy and be like, it's never really
about what you think, it's about a big part of
it is. And for me on that dancing show, I
did get to be a better dancer, but to me,
it was about all the other things in sociology with
the human part of it and so uh that being said,
the two things that I took away from that show

(04:27):
was that one the people on that show were great,
and I did that in that podcast you know what
you didn't know, the true untold story. And then too
for me it was I felt like if I could
want a dancing show, because I've always had aspirations to
be the governor of Arkansas, maybe be the president. One day,
I left that show going, oh, I can't for sure
do that, because I always wondered, because I've built a road,

(04:49):
I've built a highway. By the way, we're gonna go
back over all the ueer stuff. I don't need plan
to talk about this. I felt like I've built this road,
and I drive the car that I built down the
road that I built, and we have all of our
people that are all on the same highway with us,
they know what to expect. They know every day when
I come on the air, I come on the podcast,
or they read a book, what they're gonna get there.
They've kind of subscribed to me, and I've subscribed to them.

(05:11):
But I didn't know if you put me on a
highway that I didn't build, like Dancing with the Stars
because those people didn't know me, then if that would
still resonate. And it did, like like our message still resonated,
and so I felt like, man, I really can do this.
That show has inspired me to do you know, uh,
bigger things, you know. So I think I was talking

(05:31):
one of my friends who had been on the show
last night, and she was on the show and she
didn't win, but she didn't really well. And she was like,
you know, I just love to dance. I love to dance.
And she was like, do you love dance? Like no,
Like I don't. I don't. Actually I think I like
dancing less like the physical part of dancing. I think
I like it less than I did. And then she

(05:51):
was like, well, I don't feel like that you're taking
the show stairs. They said, oh, you're wrong. I took
something completely different away from that show than you did
to me. It was not about learning to dan. It
was about can you know what iron what we stand
for actually be shared with people that have no idea
who we are and they still embrace it. And it did.
It worked, And so I think she was irritated because

(06:15):
I won and she didn't win, and she really wanted
to win. I did too, but it wasn't about I
don't want to win because I was the best dancer.
She wanted to win because she was the best dancer.
So she's still irritated at me for winning. And that
was where the conversation. She was like, I just feel
like you're making light up and I was like, you're
out of your mind making light of it just because
I took something completely different away from it than you did.
I said, it changed my life. And it has nothing

(06:35):
to do with dance. I was talking to um Or Shot,
who won two or three seasons ago, and so, uh,
he's NFL running back and he went on and one
Dancing with the Stars and he loves dance because he's up.
I think he's hosting a set of touring shows after
I'm done loves Dance, has continued to dances, continue to learn,

(06:56):
and he's like, how have you continue your dancing? And
I was like, oh, I have it, and I'm not
like I was never good at it and I I
was only gonna get so much better. But it's just
funny how the people what people take away from it,
you know. And I've said before that always felt bad
for Sharna who And by the way, Sharnon, I've grown

(07:18):
much closer with humans since the show ended, because during
that show it was just bam bam, bam bam. You're
together all the time and you're trying to fit in
human time in between training time. But um I was
talking to uh him about how Sharna had to learn
to teach differently with me than any of her because
she had a bunch of athletes in a row, like
six I think six athletes in a row are five
athletes in a row, like professional athletes. And regardless of

(07:38):
you know how to dance or not, if you're a
professional athlete, you know how to use your body, you
know what works what doesn't work movements. So when she
got me was the first non athletic person she had
in a long time, and so I was like, yeah,
she hadn't learned because I'm here here at the piece
of paper and pin going three degrees, turned to the left,
four degrees, left knee, leftknee, and I was like, I
had to write it all down. And he was blown
away by that. But every is different, everybody learns different.

(08:01):
That was a big deal for me this last year.
I guess we could start with that for me, and
just because we came off of it, this is the
year end episode. Uh, the Dance with the Stars thing
was crazy for me. I really didn't know if I
was going on it. I knew that I had I've been.
So I started that year going out American Idol for
just a few episodes, and it was really just to

(08:24):
be honest, I was going on for one episode, I think,
and I went on and they paid me not nothing,
basically for free. I think I made a union, which
is the bare minimum that you can pay somebody that
you you can't have somebody work for you, which is
why we can't have interns on our show that are free,
because you can't legally have people work for you in
certain places and not compensate them with something. And so

(08:46):
I did American Idol. They pay me, and they pay
me the minimum, and I was okay with that because
I knew I could go on and hopefully do a
good job. They would ask me to come back, and
they did so I did the second episode. I got
paid minimum, and again it was never, never, never about
the money with that show. This is the first um,
because I don't want they're paying me now, um, And

(09:08):
so I go and then they asked me back. And
then even at the end when I was doing episodes,
they were paying me, but it was it was a
little bit more, but it was never anything substantial. But
I didn't need anything substantial to me, and that investment
was let me just get on the show and see
people like what I do and how I talk to
people and hopefully how I teach people and how I
interview people. And it was an investment. I probably lost

(09:29):
money going in American out all the first of the year, um,
But it's never about money with me. And so I
was just talking to a friend who's getting into hosting
and they were like, I have to lose money. I
was like, who cares, Like, go invest in yourself. Sometimes
it's about taking, you know, two full steps back to
be able to jump as hard as you can forward
and so I do, I don't. It was a big

(09:49):
look for me, and that's whenever I signed this deal
with ABC. It was right after that, and so they
were like, wow, you're cool and I was like, I'm
not really that cool, I'm just different. And they were like, okay,
you're right, you're not that cool, but you are different.
And so so I signed this deal with ABC for
a whole network deal and they said, okay, we're uh,

(10:12):
we want you to come to do Miss America. We're
gonna sign get this idle thing lined up if Idol
gets renewed. This is way or like right after Idol
last season um and then mentioned Dancing with Stars and
I was like, oh, it sounded to fun and theory
um and and I was like okay. So a couple
of months had gone by with this ABC deal because

(10:33):
it was a whole world that they want me to
like create shows for them too. I was like, okay, great,
so Idol goes by, which is a huge look for me,
and I was super pumped and just grateful they put
me on a show and I was well received and
I felt like they the team that was amazing they
edited me wonderfully, and so I come off that and
they're like, okay, uh, we're gonna work on a new
deal and get you this full time on Idol. It's okay, great,

(10:56):
this is like Mayor June of last year. They said, Okay,
come to miss and Mayor Ka and then from and
then after that, Man, Dance of the Stars would be perfect.
And I've been mentioned before, but I didn't know, and
I was like, man, because I knew I had to
like Mike when you're not talk. We had to move
out there, and that was a big deal because we
had to move out to Los Angeles, and I travel

(11:16):
and do the show sometimes from other places if I
do theater events, but to actually move somewhere and lips
somewhere in a different time zone without the crew for
months at a time, Uh, to me, I didn't know
if that was fair. Uh. So we talked about it,
and I was right in the middle of negotiating, uh,
for me, the most fulfilling radio deal in my career,
which I signed a five year deal this year, and

(11:37):
it was it's everything that I ever imagined I could
do in radio. I've always had aspirations of doing like
a talk show on television. But I've always wanted to radio.
I don't think I'll ever get out of radio, and
radio changes. Radio is gonna change. This is radio to
me right now. This is radio too, So I do
that idole. I put out a book, that second book,
and I was scared of death. That book was gonna bomb,

(11:57):
not because I wrote it any better or worse than
the first book, but because I thought, what if that
first book I was just lucky and I was like oh,
And I was so subconscious to put in that book
out and I was worried about myself. And I was like, oh,
I'm a look at idiot. If it if people read it,
and and it did, it did well. It was the
best seller, and I'm one best seller and I was

(12:17):
like wow, right off the idle stuff and I was like,
it's really we're like cooking here. I signed a new
radio deal and Dancing with the Stars was coming up,
and it was like a week before the annalyce and
we had we were still going back and forth because
I wanted to do the show. I decided in my
hard loner to the show, but because it overlapped Idol

(12:38):
for a big for like a month and I don't
wanted me to come on full time. And there's also
another show on another country music show that was on
a cable network. I believe it's it's over now, but
they wanted me to come on and host the show.
So for the first time in my life at all
these oftens. And there's another show on Fox with the
people singing the costumes that all those shows that come
at me and they were like, hey, we think you're

(12:59):
cool and out and I was like, oh, I've always
been the same, Like Idol is the one that gave
people the first look at me. I've I've i haven't
got any better or anything. The people that Idol just
took a chance on me first, so that all these
decisions to make, and so which is a fantastic place
to be. And so I'm stressing a bit because I've
never really had these opportunities and I'm going, Okay, I'm
gonna do Dancing with the Stars, and I'm gonna tape

(13:21):
Idol while I'm doing Dancing with the Stars. I didn't
know how hard Dancing with Stars would be, or I
didn't know that would be so bad, probably a combination
of the two. Because most people can juggle things while
they do that show. UM, so I'm like, okay, I'm
committed to Dancing with the Stars and I'm just gonna
do Idol in the last, you know, a few weeks
of Dancing with the Stars, or as I thought, after

(13:43):
I get kicked off, I'll go right to Idol, And
that's what ABC said to But when you can talk,
you go to Idol. Because nobody expected me to win.
Listen when the Vegas odds came out, I was last.
I wasn't even like middle. I was last. And so
I go on Dancing with the Stars, as you guys know.
And it's not that I danced wonderfully the first episode,

(14:03):
but I got through it and I fell down and
I made an impact. I just wanted people. There were
thirteen people. I think. I just want people to know
who I was. Um. And every week as I worked
at getting better to be a dancer, I worked at
how can I connect with people? It could be happy
or sad. It's like a radio show, like how can
I Connect with people? Funny? It didn't matter. I just

(14:24):
wanted to be different. In my whole life, I've been different,
and I always felt like that was a bad thing.
Because everybody tell you how weird you are, how different
you are, how stupid you are. But finally, in the
last few years, I've really figured out that man being
different is and being unique is really where the worth is.
Because we're all different and unique. We just we see
everything cool, We're like, oh, we want to be like that,

(14:44):
and then all of a sudden, we're one of a
million millions and nobody pays attention. And so I was like,
I wanna be gonna be different on this show. Um,
My poor partner had to figure out how to teach me.
I go to Dance with the Stars. There was a
point at Dancing with the Stars that I was supposed
to go do the American Idol auditions in the cities
we supposed to fly around in. All season, I've been
just killing myself relatively speaking, because I was doing the

(15:07):
radio show every day, I was flying around doing comedy dates.
I was training six, seven to sometimes thirteen hours a
day dancing because I was taking that show so seriously
and that I wanted to get as good as I
could for the competition part of it, not so much
to be a better dancing for the rest of my life,
but because I was in a competition, and so we're dancing,
and at one point they called and said, hey, ABC,

(15:28):
call and said, don't come to the Idle auditions because
you need to stay and keep you with Dancing with
the Start now that we're gonna take me off the
show where we're gonna there would two or three days
at a time. I couldn't train, and I couldn't afford
not to train even for one day. We never took
a day off during the show, and so I, um, okay,
I didn't really know what to think of that and

(15:49):
right now and I'm just speculating because they said don't
come to Idle and stay on Dancing with the Stars. Now,
my judge scores are always like sevens and eights, occasionally sixes.
I was like, man, either they know I'm going home
them this week, or I must be doing really well
in the voting and they can't have me be bad
on the show, like really bad and still survive. And

(16:09):
so it turns out, my what I think now is
we were doing and I think I have a pretty
good reason to think this, that Sharon and I were
doing so well in the voting that they were like,
you have a real chance to win this, you need
to stay and do this. So they took me off Idle.
So when they go to like Idaho and they're doing

(16:30):
all the Charleston wherever they are doing, I'm not there
and I'm supposed to be there in those episodes, but
they took me off those. But they still paid me
because I was under contract and I just gotta I
just got paychecks for all those A minute ago. I
looked at my bank account and I was like, huh,
what's this all for? Because I've only an Idol for
like week and a half at this point. And but yeah,

(16:51):
they still paid me for all those weeks because they
took me off of I didn't pull out, they took
me off the idol um. So I go to Dance
with Stars. We freaking win the show. Crazy. I'm just
gonna quick recap of my year before I get to
do the stuff. It's crazy. Uh, Sharon and I win.
She hasn't won ever and she's been in the finals
so many times. I was like the second worst dude
dancer on the show, maybe the fifth overall worst day

(17:14):
because there were people that were worst dancers than me.
I wasn't the second worst dancer I was the worst
in the finale. I was the worst after a while,
this controversy because good people kept getting kicked off. But
what people don't understand. People like, it's not a popularity contest.
Yes it is. Half of it's a freaking popularity contest.
And if anything, I think me and winning that show
and job getting late is great for the show because

(17:37):
I know people that they've asked to go on the
show before and they go, no way, because the only
people that can win that show are people that are
great dancers. So why would I go on that show
and embarrass myself. So now the people from dancing starts
to go. Look, Bobby one and Joe went to the
freaking semifinals, so come on, try hard, but you know,
really like put yourself out there and you have a

(17:57):
chance to go far. Um So as people keep going on,
the show got canceled because of Bobby. Know, the show
got cancel because I were doing three Dancing with the
Stars at the same time. Basically what they did athletes
and juniors and adults, and there was just a lot
and American. I took that first full spring spot. Anyway,
we talked about in the last episode, So I do that.
I go to American Idol, we shoot Hollywood Week. It's

(18:20):
absolutely insane. It's crazy, and I thought it was. I
didn't do Hollywood Week last week last year. I did
it this year. Stayed up every night, was sick. UH
fought through it. And here we are now today at
the end of my year and review. As far as
that goes, it's a crazy year. It's crazy. It's a
crazy year. I'm gonna say this though. It's it's a
year that has it sounds cool on paper because it

(18:40):
was freaky cool. Don't get me wrong. Um a year
have no balance though whatsoever. Nothing personally happened in I
mean nothing. It was all super professional, one thing after
the other, and I'm glad because I worked for that crap.

(19:01):
But as I finished now the year, I'm like, man,
I didn't get a girlfriend that year, and it sucks
to to have cool stuff and I don't mean actual
material things that have cool stuff and not be able
to share it with anybody. So in like one, I'm
really gonna try on this personal thing. I'm still committed
that I gotta I got a few more years of working.
I know I'm more a way too hard for uh.

(19:23):
I'm I'm milking this thing. Man, there's my window of
these opportunities that don't feel it's very big. It's not
like I have this really elite talent that I can
go I'm good. Let me turned down to I don't so,
uh yeah. Is pretty good for me on this on
the professional side. On the personal side not so much.
Is you know, a year of I mean you literally

(19:45):
for three months I did nothing except work. Just I
mean in the dancing was working and work. That's it,
and then and then go to sleep and then do
it again, and you know it's I'm back now for
Christmas Hall Days. And by the way, don't feel sorry
for me. I've I've chosen this life and I believe
to have something amazing in your life, you have to

(20:07):
sacrifice other things. Because I know people that have amazing
personal lives and they're like, man, I wish I would
have worked harder. I'm like, dude, it's just grass is
greener wherever you are, there's always something cool over there.
And so I have friends that have wonderful families and
I'm so jealous, and he's like, yeah, they're like, man,
I just wish I would have you know, stayed and
spent more hours doing this at work, and I'm like, yeah,

(20:28):
but then you wanted to have the family, Like, you
only have so many points, and it's like mad and
the football players, you know, they give you a hundred
points and you can put them in you know, twenty
two of them in speed and eighteen of them in
agility and twelve with them in strength. You only have
a hundred points put in different places, put all hundred
of them and professional and my football player has zero

(20:48):
points in his personal life. And so but you know,
I chose that I put the points there. It's a
fantastic here for me professionally, I would have been able
to do it without people that look like listen to
this podcast. I think part of my strength is I
come in numbers, and I know I represent a bunch
of people. And so that's why I say we so much.
I don't even mean just the radio show. I mean
like the people that listen, and I catch myself on

(21:09):
the air of talking about we, and yeah, it's a
it's a I come with numbers and for now, like,
I represent my people and they don't always have to
let me do that. So but I'm very grateful for that.
There are a lot of things that happen in UM.
I was looking back at some of the biggest news
stories and I always wish I would have kept a

(21:30):
journal every year. When the year ends, I go, you
know what, I should have kept a journal the whole year,
because then I could just really nail these end of
the year things. I never do, so I end up
googling what happened, and I have a bunch of stuff. Musically,
I'd like to start with this, and I've picked ten
songs for different reasons. It's not like just a top
ten songs, but I put them in top ten. Uh

(21:53):
and you hear why every single time at number ten
as I do my top ten of the year, here
is Jilly and Jack and Sad Girls. It's two day.

(22:16):
You don't have The reason I picked that is I'm
just a massive fan of Jillian as an artist. And
she put out a Side B which was second half
of Side A, and I'm just such a fan. I
just like going people that I really enjoy their music. Also,
I think Jillian is awesome as a person. I took
her out on tour for for a bit too. She

(22:37):
opened for my comedy shows, right or sheen bridging Idiots,
comedy shows, comedy shows. Yeah, so I put Jillian Jackline
at number ten because she came out and opened for
a bunch of my shows. And what's cool is when
you can take someone out and be a fan of
them at the same time. So she was at opening
shows for me and I was just a massive fan. Uh.
There's a two part podcast with her on this too

(22:59):
if you search it back, and I think it's only
two parts because we were like forty five minutes into it.
We were like, well, we're gonna talk for a lot
more time, so let's just split it up, right. Is
that whether like she came back Jillian Jacqueline Sad Girls
at number ten, at number nine my top ten of
the year, Scotty McCreary five more minutes. Now, why this

(23:22):
song not my favorite song? May I like the song,
but it's not like I'm picking this one of my
favorite songs. But what happened was is that Scotty had
sent me this song. He didn't have a record deal
and the song wasn't out, and it was one of
those that I was like, wow, that's really good. Let
me let my listeners decide. And so That's why I
say we it's it's such a numbers game with us.
And so I played this song and you couldn't even

(23:46):
download it yet, and I was like, yeah, like that.
Everybodys are tweeting we like that. I'm like, all right, cool.
I remember getting Scotty on the phone and him going,
I'll put we'll put that online. And now I can't
remember this wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not it.
So they put it up, plays it, it propels and
you know whatever on the streaming and digital charts. Then

(24:08):
he gets a record deal because of it. Then it
goes number one. It's the first ever number one. I
have a plaquet here, yeah from and I don't keep
many plaques in here unless it's something super personal to me,
because they throw those things out like candy if you're
in the business. But because that was one of those
songs that it wasn't even out yet heard, it was like, dude,
you gotta get that out. I was also like, dudes,
a little too long and get a short a little
it was like four minutes and um, but I put

(24:30):
that number nine because good for Scotty, good dude. I
love the song. When I heard it, and we made
it it, we gave it legs and then it made
itself a hit. But that's why I put at number nine.
It was a good, good story for us and Scotty
and just like the good guy winning one Um and
Scotty and number eight Marion Morris, I could use a

(24:51):
love song. This song came out in but it hit
number one in January, and it was her first ever
freaking number one after she had just crushed it in
My Church should have been a number one and people
were like, it's no researching, and I'm like, you're idiot,

(25:12):
and so my Church wasn't number one, and then after
it was dropped, it was like the highest testing song,
you know. And with all these radio I think these
radio people driving me crazy, obviously, But good for Maren.
It was her first number one song. And I'm a
big fan of Maren as a person and as an artist,
and you know, I had no Marin for a while,

(25:32):
and I put that at number eight because it's not
my favorite song on that album and that Hero album,
but it was her first number one, and I think
it was a big deal for country music and for
her and for females and for just that whole thing.
So number eight merimors. I could use the love song
top ten of at number seven Lindsay l Criminal mostly

(25:56):
well all the way because it was written about me.
There you go, let me say, and it was her.
It was her first top twenties song for her, it
was the biggest deal. But and talk about that while
it was out, did I know? I kind of shut
it down because we ended up having to break up
because it was just too much stress and pressure on
her because I remember she got kicked out of a

(26:18):
radio studio of another company because she was dating me,
and so that was the beginning of the end of
our romantic relationship, which sucks because it was actually pretty good.
That's really good sometimes, but that song was learned about me,
and so number seven, Yeah, listening to the words, that's right,

(26:38):
it's all about me, like Kells, that's funny. I considered
not putting that in the list, but I felt like
it wouldn't be honest because when I wrote these down,
I was just like, oh, when I put on this list,
but yeah, that's a lot of that record. I was

(26:59):
heavily an influence of go back and read all those lyrics,
not all as well I'm scared of her next record.
Get the opposite number six David Lee Murphy. Everything's gonna
be all right, just because it's a gym and because
Davidie Murphy is old school and new school at the
same time. And there's a good Bobby cast with Davidlee Murphy.

(27:21):
I liked the guy a live. I didn't know him really,
I met him and he still wrote a bunch of
songs on Nashville. But by the way he is, You're
gonna be a little dust on the bottle, big country
song if you listen to country music. UM, huge song
in like the nineties. But he came back. I think
he's maybe sixty six. I think so yeah, and good
for him, and everybody loves him in town. And I

(27:41):
met him at a Toby Keith concert. I was opening
up Eddie and I were opening up for Toby Keith.
He was watching on the side google his age and
that the first time I met him. And but the
first time I heard that song, I remember driving and
I was like, there's this guitar riff that goes and
I was like, I don't have those things song, but
that's a jam and uh, I just loved it so much,

(28:03):
and it was good to see him. He's not on
a major label, it's good to see him. Uh have
a number one song, Okay, so basically goo ahead, good
for him, number five. Just love this song. And I
think I told Brett when he was in here, like
this is one of those songs I listened to and go, Man,
that song speaking to me. It's Brett Eldridge the Long Way.

(28:26):
It's like sappy song where it's like, I can't wait
to meet you, can then take me the long way
around your town and tell me all about you. And
I was like, man, that song speaks to me because
that's what I'm looking for. And then uh, I put
that at five for a couple of reasons. One because
I loved that song. That's my favorite song of his ever.
And then I think I went number one. I'm not sure.
I'm not even sure if went number one. But also

(28:47):
Bright and I become friends. Casey Musgrave's the number four
with slow Burn, which has been my favorite album over
the year. I've kind of had to stop saying that
because it started to be the cool thing to say
once she won the CMA for Album of the Year

(29:08):
and had to be like when I was a Cubs.
I've been a Cubs fan my whole life, and when
they won the World Series, I had to stop saying
I was a Cubs fan because everybody became a kind
of fan all of a sudden, and I knew in
my heart I was a Cubs fan, so I didn't
even need to say it anymore like I was. I
am a true, die hard Cubs fan. So when when
it became cool to like the Cubs, I knew in
my heart I didn't need to share like the Cubs
anymore because everybody liked the Cubs. But I felt good

(29:30):
about it because I was a freaking Cubs fan from
the beginning. Same thing with I'm just a huge Casey
fan of all the like new newer artists in the
past twenty years, like Gartha Side, like Casey Musgrabs is
my favorite country artist. So yeah, slow Burn at number
four because that album was so good. Number three on
my Top ten Songs of the Year, The Middle from

(29:52):
Marion and z and all this just because holy crap,
this this was the jam of the year, possibly the biggest.
I don't know, I don't like a pop charts anymore,
maybe the biggest song of the year. It wasn't even
if not from charts. The Target commercials had this song launched.
You know, people are like, oh that sun, Like yeah,

(30:13):
they put millions of dollars into it at the very,
very very beginning, and it was on every Target commercial
maybe during the Super Bowl, if I'm thinking, were the
premiered and so what a massive look for her. Like
I told you earlier, I liked mare in a whole
lot and this song just the jam. I remember her
playing in the middle of her set at the I
R Country Festival again. She played all her songs and

(30:35):
then she plays the middle the freaking place exploded, and
I think it was the first time she'd ever played
that herself, like as a Marion Morris song without the
other guys, Like she didn't go up with Z and
changed the who are the other news else on it?
The traveling will Berrys whoever it is? And I remember
because I was talking to her before she performed and

(30:55):
she was like, it's the first time I want to
play it, and I recorded it. I went back and
talked to her after and I was like, oh, the
whole arena was athlete bonkers, because as an artist you
have these ears in and and it kind of cuts
off the sound to the outside, and you keep these
ears in so you can hear all the instruments playing.
Because if you're just playing in a loud arena, there's
a bunch of instruments playing around you, you can't really
hear anything. So that's why they keep those ears in

(31:16):
their ears, those ear monitors. And I was like, oh,
the whole place erupted. And she didn't need me to
tell her, but we've had that conversation, and I wanted
to show the video. But yeah, that song was that.
That's just a jam. Number two my favorite Keith Urban song,
and this ang was never a single at radio. I
do believe it was just nominated for a Grammy though oddly,
uh it's Keith Urban parallel line no Babe, Babe. This

(31:51):
is from his Graffiti You album, which I really liked,
and it was one of the few times and I
have a pretty good personal relationship with Keith, always stuper friendly.
Was always a good relationship. But I remember, and I
don't listen to music early with artists, um, but I

(32:12):
remember I went over to Keith's house and and he
has a whole studio in his house and he was like, bo,
listen to this Cassie Ashtion has on the Cassi Ashtion
on the album, and then I don't know, I kind
of a like I really liked the record unfairly, maybe
because I get to hear some stuff earlier. I don
remember why I was even over there. It's about something else,

(32:32):
but anyway, that song is my favorite song from that record,
and I really liked the record, so I put it
at number two, and that song is a jam and
number one of my top ten songs of the year.
Dan and Shay Tequila still just a com play game
changer for these guys who they just go, They grind

(32:55):
it out, they try all these different things. They get
there under a pre shaded in our format. But man,
what massive hit for them that song and meant to
be and meant me. It's probably a bigger song. I'm
not sure. I don't depending on what standards, but that's

(33:16):
my number one song, Tequila. But I just separated them,
and I was upset for them. They didn't win any
of the c m as. I didn't care which one
they won, because that's and listen, everybody who won the
cmas that they were up for was deserving of it.
I just thought they pulled at least one of the
three they were nominated for, but throughout for a couple
of Grammys too. But those are two dudes that Dan

(33:36):
and Shade. They're in like my class, meaning we started
at the same time. I came and started to do
my thing right when they joined together and started their thing.
And I remember the first time that they had that
song twenty three You and Me or nineteen You and
DNA testing Kid, and I remember they just put it
out and I was playing it and not it was

(33:59):
really good for into them separately and not I used
to do digital for us, And I was like, man,
this guy sound like like the country Savage Garden. They
really could have took that the wrong way or the
way that most people would have taken it. And they did,
and they were like that's funny. And they came up
and they did Savage Garden. I knew I loved you
and it was and I was like, Okay, these guys
are down, like it was just being cool and the

(34:23):
joke doesn't always have to be they can actually be
like if the joke's on me, as long as I'm
in on the joke, I'm cool. Like make fun of
me all you want um And they were like, yeah,
make fun of us, let's come perform. I did, and
we became friends. And that's the game changer for them.
And that's my number one song of the year. Dani
Sha had tequila there. It is all for different reasons there,

(34:48):
but that was It's a big, big, cool year for
those guys. That song, I think kind of crossed over
a little bit some the other things that happened in eighteen.
There was the uh and you do you think back,
how big is this big? This thing was for like
a week and how stupid it is now? But it
was the Yanny or Laurel and everybody would hear different things.
So here's the clip, now, laure what do you hear

(35:12):
ny And I think every clip, I don't know. I
hear Yanny. Now what did I used to hear? Do
you know I think Yanny. He's like a different version
of it. Okay, I hear Yanny all every time. Yeah,
maybe the show all heard Laurel and they all yelled
at me because I was stupid, But I really hear Yanny,
and you hear you hear Yanny. But yeah, a lot

(35:32):
of marriages broke up because of that sad time. On June,
those those Thaie boys at soccer team, they went hiking
in a cave and they got trapped and that was
and then we all just watched on the news hoping
that they would they would get out of there, and
tie Navy steals end up freeing all of them and

(35:52):
their coach after eighteen days. And I remember it. They
were like the rain's coming, what do we do? And
the and like Tesla, it was like and it was
like man um so that happened. I think one of
the thin Navy stills died too, right like early on
in that like one person died, but it was one
of the rescuers. Rita Franklin died. In August. Yes, the

(36:22):
Royal wedding happened, in which I actually kind of cared about,
not because I care about the Royals, but because I
watched The Crown on Netflix and the Crown is true
true because I Wikipedia and Wikipedia is ninety percent true,
and so I got really into the Royal family because

(36:44):
I just felt like I was watching another episode of
the Crown on Netflix, and so it's interesting to me.
And then also the dude in the Royal Nous what's
the name, Harold pre Terry. He married someone that had
been married before, was an American and was by racial
which I think was all new to that, Like here

(37:04):
in the in the States or here talking you and I,
that's that's just a normal person. But to that to
the royal family, I think they have these crazy rules
where they all that SIVI isn't supposed to happen listen.
I don't know. I just watched The Crown once on Netflix.
Thought it was good. It does a little boring at times,
but I still learned a lot. But yeah, that happened,
and um, Megan Markle and she was on I didn't

(37:27):
watch Suits. Watch That would be weird though, if I
would have been a big fan, because I could see
where fans of of that show would go, well, that's
weird with this character that I like, Like I think
about you know, if Maggie from The Walking Dead, you
know it was marrying a prince and it was I
would be like, that's the weirdest thing, that freaking zombie
killers marrying a prince. So the people that watched Suits
probably had to be weird that a little bit by

(37:47):
that A crazy thing was Bill Cosby just like what
an awful dude? Huh? And who knew forever? And that
I was watching on CNN they had this whole special
and clean comic watching the History of Comedy Ever. I
watched that. I was on the bus traveling with Dancing
with the Stars, and it was what it was a

(38:09):
whole like our unjus clean comics because they do this
series the History of Comedy, and they were talking about
Bill Cosby and how he was like the best clean
comic and the juxtaposition of how he's just the worst human.
On stage he was the cleanest and funniest, and off
stage he obviously just the worst. It was raping people
and so uh, this is the year where he was

(38:31):
convicted of aggravated indecent assault. I don't even know what
that means. I just know he's a rapist, right. He
sent us to thirty ten years in prison. I'm gonna
die in jail. Um yeah, I mean, like, go away,
Bill Cosby. He just said it for so long on
it was never caught and that sucks, but that was

(38:52):
a big deal. I mean, Bill, you can't even catch
the Cosby Show on TV anymore, you know. Was that's
such a good show. I remember Aimy talking about she
was annoyed because that show was so good that she
liked her and her kids would like it. And now,
of course you can't keep the Cosae show on the
freaking rapist. You can't have that so um and all

(39:12):
those people that worked on the Cosby show that we're
getting paid, Yeah they lost. Yeah, Macmiller died. Now I
think maybe you were a bigger mcmiller fan than I
wasc Miller. I really knew him mostly as Ariana Grande's boyfriend,
and I'm really not that much about Ariana Grandey, but
I know him most from that. But he was just
a white rapper, right, Yeah. I saw The first time

(39:34):
I saw him was with a little Wayne who did
a show in Austin. I want to go see him, Like,
was this guy? Oh you saw him live? Yeah, it's good. Yeah,
he was good. He died mm hmm. Oh. You know.
Because I'm looking at notes that freaking climbing raccoon, and
because it was like the climbing raccoon, I was like,
what does that even mean? In the summer of eighteen,

(39:55):
a raccoon climbed this skyscraper in Minnesota and we watched
it or like is he gonna fall and when we
would track it was he gonna fall off and dies.
He's gonna make it. That freaking raccoon climbed at the top.
He climbed the entire skyscraper. How about that, the climbing
even thought about the climbing raccoon. George H. W. Bush

(40:17):
just passing in his funeral that's pretty recent. Um on
November twenty, he passed away. Uh, that's that's sad. You know,
I thought you about that, the thing that came from that,
and I don't I'm not sure how old he was.
Nine lived a long life, right, I hope to live
to be ninety four years old. But I can tell

(40:39):
you for me, what I found the best about after
he passed was that both sides red and blue, Democrat,
Republican hobody just kind of got along for a minute
because he was just a good dude, meaning he did
he served in every capacity, and it was like, man, listen,

(41:02):
I don't know personally, I don't know. I got a
duty was every day. But to look at his credentials
as a public servant, he did it on all levels,
including serving in the freaking military and crashing up like
and so you saw both sides go like that sucks,
and because it sucks for both sides, it kind of
felt like both sides kind of were together. And so

(41:27):
as sad as that was for people who knew him,
to me, I didn't know him, it was almost like
a breath of fresh air afterward. Even at the funeral,
you were sad, but in a way of like there
was like a real beauty too. President Obama, George his son,
President Bush's son, Hillary Clinton, all of them there together,

(41:49):
anybody screaming each other in a little boxes on TV.
So yeah, rest in peace to him. Um. There was
speaking on you Gone day here and Pete David she
said what happened with them? Because he wrote on Instagram
and he was like the kill himself. And then I
see the machine gun Kelly Again, I don't even know
these people except for TMZ puts them up on my feed,

(42:10):
machine collized. The Rappers came after Eminem like flies in
against their boys, and then Pete davidsone on SNL like
three hours later. Yeah, but he only did the intro
to Miley Sires and that was it. But I guess
it was more of a hey, let's show people that
like we got him, we're under control, like he's surrounded
with good people. Right, m hm. That was I followed

(42:32):
that engagement a bit because why I think Pete pet
Davison's super funny. It's really funny. Didn't he get um
like clean, he got through like rehabbing it clean? Yeah,
but I think he started smoking again fairly recently. Well,
I think I started to like follow his story after
he got clean, and then like, here's a nerdy, funny

(42:53):
dude dating this super hot chick, and I'm like, all right,
I like this. So I started like and then all
you know, all this stuff happens, like where they get
tattoos and engaged, and I mean, but now it just
seems like getting engaged. I was like first base now
in Hollywood, alright, alright, but they get engaged. That's swipe left,

(43:15):
expect left or swipe right whatever. Um what else that
post Malone had It was up in an airplane, and
they were like, well, as tires exploded, we're not sure
if the plane's gonna end, and he might die, and
so we all, much like we watched the Raccoon, we
watched post Malone flying round up in the air and
so he was one of sixteen pastors on a private

(43:36):
jet and I mean, think about this for a second.
Upon takeoff, the tires blow out. So the whole time
you know that what's about to happen is dangerous. And
I was just like for then blow out, like right
before we land, so it's only like a minute. I
gotta worry. Like the whole time, they're worried that we

(43:58):
gotta get down. And so he was on his way
in England and performing a festival, and so I think
what they did is they burned off a bunch of
fuels flying around and flew around the whole time knowing
their tires were blown out. His manager was like posting
on into the story, is right. I guess I had
why find the plane? Come on, Um, there we go,

(44:19):
Thank you hit the wrong button. Lebron goes to the Lakers.
Roseanne bar tweets and they cancel freaking the biggest show
on TV. I sometimes smart people can be so dumb.
And I've done some really dumb things, not anything down

(44:40):
the same lines of that where people are like she's
tweeting racist things, um, which I thought she tweeted something racist.
I've done things like set off. Yeah, yes, and get
find a million dot like really dumb things. But just
the scale of she had the biggest show on all TV.
It was doing I'm not sure what it was doing

(45:01):
at one point because I don't the numbers are are
so low now in general because there's so many options,
But it was doing like tens of millions of viewers
and gone just like that. You know, we learned from
those kids freaking we are racist and if you are, well,
you need some need some help, then if you take help,

(45:23):
then shut up. Um who knows. I don't even know.
I just couldn't believe that a massive show like that,
And good for them for pulling it, because I think
it's set a precedent to like, don't we don't have
any room for racism here. So that's that was a
big story though, and they pulled it quick. It was
like ABC, you know, they got pulled to an emergency meeting.

(45:44):
They sat around like what do we do? And you know,
I applied them for making a decision. I got no
room for racism in my heart, and I was like,
well they just regardless of the reasons that they talked
about in the room, I don't know what they talked
about in the room wasn't in the room. But good
for him for setting that precedent, like you want to
be a racist or if you want to be like,

(46:04):
we don't have room for you here. And you know
that goes for a lot of a lot of the issts.
We have no room for John McCain died. I saw
that that sucked. That was another one of those this
year where you get where people kind of came together
a bit. Most people came together. And again what he

(46:25):
spent more than five years as a pow and they
were gonna let him out earlier because he had some
privilege and he said, nope, not leaving, Alma, dudes leave,
So he stayed for five years. He said in the
pow camp. I mean that's a hero. That d is
straight hero. Anthony Bourdine died. Isn't it crazy though? Too?

(46:48):
Now how fast news stories can come and go and
it's like onto the next you had a double check it.
That happened this year. That happened so fast, even if
it's a big thing, it's like all right, there it
is and like you go, huh, Like when anton A.
Boor Daine died, it was a big big, big, big deal.
Now it's not even really a thing unless you were
super close to him or really really watched the show.
The show is during another season. I think they're about

(47:09):
the show, so it'll kind of come back up. I
think a season he shot before he died. But um,
it's crazy how many things happen and just move uh.
In country music, Keith every one entertainer of the Year,
which was crazy. Um. And again I speak from a
bias place because I really like Keiths, but there are

(47:29):
a lot of It's weird for me because I had
the luxury being friends or at least friendly with a
lot of these people, and so I think Staple Tom
was up there, Al Dean was up there, Luke, Kenny
and Keith and Keith one and I don't think Keith
was expecting it. And so that was a really cool
moments at the c M. As Country Music carry Underwood's

(47:51):
face injury. We were the first show ever coming. We
were the first interview she did when she came back.
And I just think that was not because I'm some
stellar interviewer, which I am, by the way, don't get
me wrong, I'm the best. But I think it's that
she felt comfortable that I wasn't gonna take her somewhere
she didn't want to go and carry and I have
worked together and UM and even socially and even with

(48:13):
the American Idol we share people like agent people like
I just think that, Uh, there was a trust with that.
And she came in on the show and I know
that she was nervous about it, and it's up on
YouTube and and good for her because they listen. There
was some stuff that I didn't none of us knew,
but apparently it was so bad. She didn't know she'd
be able to sing against stitches like in her face,

(48:36):
and that's her tool for for work, Like she had
fifty stitches in her tool that she makes a living
off of, which is singing. And so that was the deal.
Nashville was canceled. Uh, sugar Land got back as a band,
which was cool for me because Christian Bush and Christian
and I are UM. He's hafter sugar Land. Christian and

(48:57):
I are super close, UM, and we wrote some songs
together and they got back together. So I was happy
to see that. I think that's most of the year. Um,
here are the highest rated TV events of the year.
Are they all sports. Sports is the only thing that's
going to keep people going in at set times to

(49:23):
watch television. Myself included, meaning I watched network TV shows.
I really I don't watch them when they come on
and and listen. I'm not going on alone by saying
this in anyway, because everyone sees it happening. But the
live and maybe maybe not just sports, but live events
are going to be really what keep people at networks

(49:44):
or at appointment television times. Otherwise we're just gonna watch
things want to watch them. There's no need to gather
around the TV set. Who and again, who's watching TV
on TV? All the time? I watched eight five percent.
I consume probably eighty five of my visual media through
my laptop on my phone. The only thing I watch
on TV is I'll turn it on if I'm going

(50:06):
to sleep to watch Friends or if Competential is playing
The Office over and over. I don't have to think
about it. I just keep it on. I don't really
watch TV anymore unless it's the Super Bowl number one,
the World Series number two, the NBA Finals number three,
the Winter Olympics number four, and the Stanley Cup Finals
number five. You have to watch those because if you don't.
One you wouldn't go back and watch it and replay anyway.

(50:26):
And two it's such a big story that it's all
out there on the internet. You can't get on the
internet that's seeing the end of it. Um. But even
some live shows, like I would say even like Dancing
with the Stars, I'll give that as an example, because
I'm on there like that shows live and there's something
to live shows. And that's gonna be what keeps, in
my opinion, people watching network television because you're seeing these

(50:48):
numbers go way down in and live consumption, because why
would you unless you just happen, there's no point to
ever go. Gotta get home back in the day, guy,
get home, freaking full House is gonna be on, And
if I'm not in my deal on the cow, I
don't get to see it. And it wasn't like anyone
knew how to record on their VCR when they weren't there.

(51:11):
The only way that we could figure out how to
record on the VCR was if you put the blank
tape in push record play and then record it. And
you were already there anyway. So yeah, there was no DVR.
There wasn't even really a boot like DVR back in
the day, unless you had a friend recorded for you
Like that was DVR, someone who was smart enough to
have a VCR and could put a blank tape in
for you and record it and then get you the

(51:32):
blank tape because you weren't putting a blank tape in
with a timer on a BCR. I couldnt even walk
the clock on a VCR, much less the timer. So, um,
that's the that's the deal for for networks live shows,
you know, even like American idolm on that. So I'll
speak on that, those live shows where you vote, that
would be something that keeps people watching the voice. What

(51:52):
else happening live now that you can watch and vote,
because if it then you fall off and you see
it on the internet and you go, yeah, But anyway, Uh,
there's that deal. But has been freaking crazy, man, for me,
it's been crazy. I had a lot of a lot
of new things happen, you know, career wise. I you know,
I've often said that I'm so lucky to be so

(52:14):
exhausted and man like, right now, I'm peat tired. It's
almost happened to be open. Like I drove home for
one day today just because I can lay on my bed.
I'm driving back to Birmingham in the morning to do
a show and then drive back from Birmingham tomorrow night. Um,
I'm so lucky to be so tired because I've worked
so hard to have these opportunities and has been been
nutty for me all around. I'm healthy, I mean I'm

(52:39):
not healthy right the second, because I have this this
I don't know what I have. I have some sort
of like mixture of like mad cow and the sniffles,
and they mix just right where they will not go away.
And I've taken every bit of medicine I can take.
But here's the problem is I haven't been sleeping still
because they're there, and that's that's where it all comes.

(53:00):
Your body just can't get better if you don't rest it.
So after I finished the show tomorrow night in Birmingham,
I'm just gonna sleep. I have no plans for the
holidays except to rest, and most time I go like,
oh why wait await, but I need the rest. One
and two, I didn't put in any work to cultivate
anything like relationship wise to have anything to do with
the holidays, So I don't know. I don't feel sorry

(53:21):
for myself. Some years I'm feel sorry for myself, and
then some of your I was just an idiot, Like
when Wendy now were dating, I didn't go to her
place for Christmas. I just was like, I don't want
to go to Canada because what does that mean in
my mayor right now, I gotta go spend family and
I don't like I have a TV in the bedroom
and I don't sleep. I can't sleep it up TV.
And then then and I freaked myself out. So I've
either been an idiot or sorry for myself. Or this

(53:42):
year it's like I put all my eggs into this
basket and so I we're never a big fan of
the holidays, but this year I'm actually pretty good because
I'm gonna take a break from from everything. Make it
on this app, on this Yeah. Well I've been on
this app a little bit, this dating app. I haven't
met anybody from it, but i've been on it, ray

(54:03):
familiar with it, I'm aware of it. Yeah, I got
back on it and then and there's really nothing everybody's
in Like other states, are you supposed to have a
dating thing. I'm not flying anywhere else. I have time
when I go to California to work, and I was like, oh,
you're in l all the time. Look got cool you are.
I'm like, when I'm in l A. As soon as
I land, I drive to work, or I drive right

(54:24):
to go to bed so I can work the next
day and then I have my real job, which is
the most important job to me. Twenty Team was also
a year that I think my company was testing me
a bit. We're like, okay, go and do your stuff,
but if raidings go down while you're doing it, we're
gonna bust your balls. And even like Dancing with the Stars,
and I think I even wonder, like what's gonna happen,
but I think and this was the first year that

(54:47):
actually brought someone into actually like look over things, and
Mike was that guy, and it was just like, all right,
let's end. The ratings went up, went far, significantly up,
So I appreciate that, and a lot of that was
new audience coming in from the TV show. But also
we kept the show a real priority. Um, even when
you know, we were out of our comfort zone and

(55:07):
you had to take on a lot more this year. Yeah,
we went hard man a lot more. A lot. I mean,
there would be times in the car and Mike would
be briefing me on things. I felt like the president
going to me and he's like, Okay, here's what I've
never worked more from the back of the car this year. Okay,
happening all right? Al didn't had to have the baby, right,
and he's feeling pretty good about it, and I'm yeah.

(55:27):
So when we would get there and I'd be in
the know, I'd be sweating and just disgusting, and the
show would have to deal with me being just so tired,
and if I was so tired as of the loopy
happy or just cranky. But we did it, man, we
did it, and we're here, and um yeah, I'm A
big takeaway from eighteen is that it's a jam packed
year and I have learned that hopefully what we do,

(55:53):
I can do on a bigger level and hopefully continue
to represent the people even better than that. I'll tell
you that dancing show and I say that it wasn't
a dumb show to me, and it's not dumb show
to them, but people that don't know about Dancing with
the Stars just the dumb dancing show. But that dumb
dancing show really shifted on the amount of like just

(56:13):
the amount of good that I feel like I can
do for other people, because I feel like people will
listen if they can just be exposed. And I just
want to keep a good message so people can hear it,
and so like that's my goal. Show me that I
shouldn't have won that show. I did win the show,
and you know what, I should have won the show
because because I did, I should have won it based
on past standards where just good dancers came in who

(56:35):
cares um, and we broke the show in a way
of they won't cast that show the same anymore, and
I think more people will be a part of it.
And I think, you know, um, even with the American Idol,
they brought me on because I wasn't famous and I
would talk to people like a normal human and on
Dancing with the Stars, I was a normal human. I
think it's the year the normal human, That's right. I

(56:57):
think the normal human one one this year. So we
won one, folks, the normal human one one this ship.
It was amazing. Chalk one up for the normal human
the just okay looking uh, nothing too fancy about him
talking with an accent. Uh. Normal humans got one score
ones for the little guy. All right, this has been
twenty what's been your takeaway from your mind? You have

(57:18):
something here. I mean, I think a big thing for
me this year was doing the comedy stuff like that
was kind of towards the beginning of the year where
you gave me that slot of opening for you. Yeah.
I was like, hey, man, you ever done you ever
thought about doing comedy? I know you like comedy and
you're right yeah. I was like, hey, what don't you
do a few minutes? Okay, all right? And then you

(57:41):
went out to open mic nights and just bombed over
and over again. Not so brutal, man, and not because
you weren't funny, but because the crowds were there to
watch like a tuba player someone do slam poetry, um.
And Yeah. You would go out and work on material,
and then you opened up all year on tour. Yeah,
learned about yourself, my little extra money, You got a girlfriend.

(58:03):
Did get a girlfriend for the first time in your life,
first time ever. Look at you like you well, thank
you all. This probably will be the last episode of
the year. Possibly not, I don't know. It depends on
if Mike and I are like, hey, your bored, uh?
I just wanted to get one on. Um, I gotta
go back. I go to bed and then I'm gonna

(58:25):
go dance tomorrow and then I'm gonna be done. Don't
forget check out what what should promote here? We have
their ears anything Amy? Check out again as people really
liking that four Things podcast. It's about four things. I
don't know what things they are. They're all different things.
Every time she breaks it up, it's four different things. Uh.
And good for her because it's gonna be a big one.

(58:45):
People love that. Amy. And then lunchbox, Eddie and Ray
have their sports Shelfie like sports. How is that thing going?
It's going good? Yeah? I like them. Yeah, they talk
about sports and they yell at each other. Uh. They
yell at each other for about ten minutes at the beginning,
then they talk about sports. They do. Yeah. I would
listen at first, and then I was like, I hear
this every day, Like I'm in the room with him

(59:06):
all the time. No, it's changed since just I'm like,
what has it's gone too? Like, all right, let's do
this first and then we'll get into it. Oh yeah, instructure.
Now we'll look at them. I'll also be checking that
out all right, thank you very much, Episode one The
Bobby Cast, Americ Christmas, Happy New Year. If I don't
uh see you before then or if you know hear
from me to appreciate you on Instagram, Mr Bobby Bones,

(59:29):
and have a good with everybody. By Burn