#250 - Charlie Worsham on Changing His Home State Flag + Bobby and Kurt Bardella on Country Music + Racial Injustice + Super Easy Trivia Game Show with Dustin Lynch - Bobbycast

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Bobby cast to fifty fifty episodes. Only crap
made it every time we had one of these little milestones.
Pretty cool. We'll talk to Charlie Warsham, who just saw
again a couple of weeks ago at the Grand ol Opry,
said some real beautiful words love him as an artist
and a friend, and he's trying to get to a
certain flag changed, which I think is interesting. Later at

(00:24):
the very end of this podcast too, I'm gonna put
in the audio from Super Easy Trivia, and by I'm
going to, I mean Mike did. But it's the it's
the episode, and we'll see how it translates. We'll put
it at the very end because if you don't want
to hear it, you don't have to. The weird thing
is a couple of the question. The categories are picture categories,
so I'm gonna limit that for now on. But Dustin
Lynch and Chuck Wicks are the guests, and we we

(00:47):
shot this before all the protests happened. I didn't feel
it was appropriate to put it up in the middle
of all the protests. Instagram stories and and and pictures,
and you know, I was posting a few things as well,
so I just didn't feel it to fit the vibe.
But Chuck Wicks and it is talking about I have
some news. We'll talk about it soon. That news ended
up being that they're having a baby and they did
some fertility treatment, and I think it was he was

(01:11):
having issues. He's addressed that. So when he says he
has some news, the news is already out there. We
just taped us like a month ago. But let's get
to the music news this week. So Huey, who you
may not know as just the name Huey, but you'll
know this song right here. Maybe you will. I remember
it two thousand and six. He died at thirty one

(01:32):
years old. So this morning I sent over to Mike
and said, hey, we should abably mentioned this hip hop
musician Huey, famous for the song pop Lock and Drop It,
has died at age thirty one. He was killed in
a shooting in St. Louis. Wow Police say their investigation
found another person had also been injured during the shooting.
That person is expected to recover. Pop Lock and Drop

(01:55):
It peaked number six on the Hot one hundred. A
remix featuring Bow Wow and Tea Pain was also released.
Big hit for him. I remember sometimes they'd still play
it like the electric Cowboys of of today because it
was like a hip hop hit that crossed over, so
even country fans felt comfortable dancing to its. So, yeah,

(02:15):
that's a good song. It's a fun song back in
the day. Yeah, rest in peace, Huey. The Dixie Chicks
especially named the changed their name the Chicks. And you'll
hear Kurt Bartella coming up in a little bit talking
about the Lady a story. And when I taped that
with Kurt, it was pre Dixie Chicks changing their name
to Chicks. And so the Dixie Chicks have officially changed
their name to the Chicks. The group had long unofficially

(02:40):
been referred to as the Chicks by many fans. I
never heard that. I know that was part of the story,
but never in my life to hear anyone talk about
the Chicks. If they did to my girls. I saw
a funny tweet it was like, two thousand nineteen Chicks
is not acceptable, two thousand twenty Dixie is not a sceptible.

(03:02):
So they said, we want to meet this moment, hey,
and good for them. If they feel like they need
to do this, good for them. And I tell you.
Some people were like, well, what's the deal with removing Dixie.
It's just a part of the country. So I looked
up the history of Dixie and it actually is tied
directly to the Confederacy. Like it's we don't call a

(03:23):
part of America Dixie now, but it's those states and
what they were called during the Confederacy. If you google,
Mike and just read me the first block there, because
I'll make sure I'm right, Just google history of Dixie
and it'll bring up, you know, kind of a summary
of what Dixie is. And listen, I grew up in Arkansas, right,

(03:45):
and I never knew that Dixie was really associated with Confederacy.
I just, you know, I knew all the songs, but
apparently a lot of those songs that I knew the
Confederacy would sing as they marched in the Civil War.
Are you the trouble's Internet? We have a new Internet
putting over here something struggling. I'm not even connected to
the Internet. What does it say says Dixie the southern

(04:07):
U s States, especially those that belong to the Confederate
State to the America. So it has a direct connotation
to the Civil War and the South. You know, a
major part of their initiative was slavery. And so if
the Dixie Chicks want to drop it and they feel
like to them that they don't want maybe they were
just educated on it. I don't know what they know

(04:30):
and don't know, So I applaud anyone for trying to
make a change for the positive, even if it feels
weird and clunky. And because it is gonna be weird
to call him the chicks, Honna it is, it's gonna
be weird. And I'll struggle with that one because I've
never called him the chicks. Where Lady A was always
lady A to me because I was just lazy. I
just kind of get tired, I'd go, and you know,

(04:51):
my mouth just gets tired. So you know, I commend
to them. They definitely could have just laid low and
let it pass, but they didn't. Is it weird? Does
it feel clunky? Yes? Am I always a little proud,
a little moved, a little inspired by somebody who just
tries to do the right thing, even if they know

(05:12):
it's a bit uncomfortable. Yeah, of course, I think we
should all strive to do that. So what do you
think about that. I also think it's gonna be weird
to call them just the chicks, like I can't even
just say the chicks or chicks like I feel like
you're not going to associate that with their music. And
if you call them the d Chicks and the how
do you feel about them changing their name? Yeah, it's

(05:34):
just I'm not acting like, hey, two thumbs up and
everything's gonna be great. It's weird, but at least shows
they're trying. My only point to argue with people who
are yelling at them is it doesn't affect you. You
probably weren't even talking about the Dickon Chicks in the
last thirty days. And why about somebody's balls who's trying
to at least move a direction they feel better at.
If they feel like it's not right, they can always
change your name back. So not my life. So when

(05:57):
people in their lives try to go okay, I want
to try to. I just see all the Facebook comment
isn't get irritated. So yes, it's gonna be weird, very weird,
and I probably won't do it right. I'll probably call
them Dixie Chicks forever, not forever, but for a long time.
So do they like make it a point to correct
people when they call him Dixie Chicks. I don't know. Yeah,
I think it's so new. I don't know. Um here
are We usually do top five songs that I am

(06:22):
kind of excited about, or records I'm excited about for
the week. Um, so the Dick the Chicks. Well, then
when I try to stop like the Dick Chicks, the Dicks,
the Chicks put out another new song. I'm gonna put
this in number six. This one's called March March. I

(06:51):
can get down with this vibe. This is my kind
of vibe. Here, dark female vocals, a little scream of
fiddle in the background. Hey, that's pretty cool. I like it. Yeah,
me too. That's the new from the You know what
I think I should do on the show and just
play it and not tell people who it is. Oh yeah,

(07:12):
because if you just say Dixie Chicks even just bear
with me, because I'm gonna struggle calling them the chicks,
and I probably won't this podcast. I'm gonna get better
in life if I just said, hey, I'm gonna play
some Dixie Chicks. People get mad anyway from what they
said fifteen years ago. You know, um and now add
this to it, you're gonna have different little percentages feel
certain ways about it. I think if I just played

(07:34):
that song and said, hey, what do you think about this?
No matter who the artist is, I think people would
dig it. I like that. Here we go Top five
and number five. This week, Eric Church put out a
new song called stick that in your Country song. You're
sad your hands baby girl, and You'll never see stick

(07:58):
gad in your country song. The weird thing is Eric
Church didn't write this, which I thought was really wild.
You made Google and fact check me on that because
I don't want to get ten thousand emails. I think
I'm right on that. But yeah, Church didn't write this,
and you know, I thought when it would stick down
your country song, he was gonna be a little more demanding,

(08:21):
uh justice, social justice, fight for inequality. It's still good
and you know Church can do this, but I don't
think he wrote this song. Definitely feels like an Eric
Church first single though, where he doesn't care if it's
a radio song. I love the song though, like it's
catchiest crap. So it's one of my top five favorite

(08:43):
releases this week. I think I was expecting a little
bit more and like here he comes cannonball in the water.
I everybody, but I think people are doing pretty good
at putting a lot of that stuff in country songs now.
And then he went away and camped for a long
time in North Carolina and said, you know, they wrote
all these songs, so I thought that was probably one
of them. He wrote any luck. Yeah, I've written my
two different guys, Jeffrey Steele and Davis Yeah, not Church.

(09:08):
I really liked the song. So whenever you quote me
in your blog articles out there, I really liked the song.
I think it's uh cool message. I think it will
inspire other artists to look at other things to write about.
I think I just have unfair expectations of Eric Church.
I like your Church, and I think he's one of
the few people to kind of, you know, shake up,
chake up the bush um. I think I expected a

(09:31):
little more bush shaking though. That's number five at number four,
So Lauren Alena has a song called getting Good, but
it has been out for a little bit, but now
is to do it with. Tricia Getter would really like this.
Here you go plan. Maybe that's when love start good.

(09:52):
That's Tricia. That's Lauren. The song has been out. I
like she put Tricia on it. Think it's pretty co well.
I don't know if they're still trying a radio with that.
I don't know if it died or not. I think
it's it's still up there. And I look at radio
songs anymore, never look at a chart. I just we

(10:15):
I mean, honestly, we just kind of do our own thing.
For the most part. We played a few songs, were
supposed to play a few songs in the morning. Occasionally
we'll spike something we want. But now I'm just in
so many shows cut up? Are are so many stations
cut up our shows in different ways, nighttime shows, countdown shows,
international shows, morning shows. I just kind of hope to
do good content that our listeners like and agree or

(10:37):
disagree with. But you know, our our compelled by and
that's it. I play what I love. But yeah, I
don't look at the charts at all. So that's number
four at number three. Ryan Heard has a new EP.
You know I love Ryan Heard. So every Other Memory

(10:59):
is the whole name of the project. And here is
his version of Sunrise Sunburned Sunset, which he wrote for
Luke Brian Say exap Gene, little Back Sunny who knew
it was about to be so un Doesn't it sound

(11:23):
like when he does it, it's a little more beachy
and a little more of a love song. Yeah, it's
just the styles of their voices. And when Luke thinks that,
it's more like a party song, like let's go get
some burn and party the f out. You know. But
I love them both. They just sound different, same words,
different voice. So check out Ryan Herd's new EP called

(11:48):
Every of the Memory Uh at number two. I'm going
to put Brett Eldredge. He has a new song out
called Sunday Driven Wasting Time. It's my vibe too. I

(12:09):
love piano and slow. I got so much music this week,
never said we. The interesting thing about this song, I'm
almost positive, is that the Brett writes most of his stuff.

(12:29):
I think he found this song years and years and
years and years ago when he's working in the tape
room at Warner. Maybe he was working in a room
like a mail room and he was taking songs and
taking him to tape and making them digital. And I
believe he found this song. Then it was like, if
you ever get the chance to record it, I'm gonna
cut it. Isn't that cool about world? Always check his

(12:55):
instagram if you don't mind what I'm talking about. The
next one, I think that he may have put that
up there too. It's like to make sure I'm right
on this stuff. Number one and it's just a whole album,
just a lover her, lover her music, love her spirit
to Neil Towns. The Lemonade Stand is her her album. Now.
This is the first song on the record called holding

(13:17):
Out for the One. It's a little fasty and anthemic
for my tennial Towns that I like the most, but
most people like songs with some sort of rhythm and beat.
I'm just the weird and likes all the sad stuff.
But here you go. Here is holding Out for the One.

(13:40):
Holding I just love everything about her and I think
a lot of it too. As we toured together for
a long time and she opened for me. One of
the best and worst decisions I made ever as an opener,
because she would come out and she's so good. And
it wasn't that she was so good because I would
do comedy, she would do music, but she would basically
make everybody the audience cried because their songs are so

(14:01):
sad and touching, and I'd have to go out and
me people will laugh, and a lot of people have
got to get get him, Like Walker Hayes is a
great opening for me because he get a be a
good mood ready to go by to Nil would just
shut him down, cry until their their their shirts were wet,
and I'd have to go out and like pull them
from the hole. But she's so good. Um, that's that's
that's number one. Huh. Check out to Niels the Lemonade stand.

(14:25):
What is it? He says it was transferring CDs into
MP three's in a basement tape room at Universal. Pretty cool. Huh,
that's awesome and he found that song. Yeah, I I uh,
let's see it's some others notables. Landy Wilson has a
new song out called Sunday Best Runaway. June put out
a new version of We Were Rich. This is a

(14:46):
fantastic song. It's not a new song, but the version
is new because Natalie Stovall, who we have on a
previous episode is singing on it and playing fiddle on it.
Just a jam anyway. Bailey Brian has a song called
Play with Me and Russell Dickerson has a song called
Home Sweet, so check that out. As far as albums go,
ray La Montaigne has a mono vision him has Women

(15:08):
in Music Part three, which is a really great review
for that. I started listening to it's pretty good. I
like him. I do too, I'm not I'm never quite
sure I'm saying their name right. It is him? Yeah, yeah,
you know. I was introduced to them because Taylor Swift
was a hind fan back in the day. I guess.
I think that's when I first heard of the man.
But yeah, good Will Hoag tiny little movies. I like, well,

(15:30):
I'm gonna listen to this record. Um. And then Andy
Rally Ritchie who you may know as the British actor
Jacob Anderson who played gray Worm on Game of Thrones.
Too many names, but I do know him from gray Worm.
Uh yeah, there we go. That's that's the music. That's
what's up. There's a lot happening, man, and then you're

(15:51):
gonna hear a lot in this. This may be a
long one. Huh yeah, pretty long, All said and done.
Kurt Bardela first charge Worsham than Super Easy Trivia for
the first time in weeks I'm ready to listen to
new music between Brett to Neil will Hog. You know

(16:11):
whose music I was checking out this kind of we
should maybe have on is to do a little interview
with Is that Nick Wayne? Yeah? I think you put
out a new song to day too. Oh another new song?
I know he put out an EP I think recently
song on the list, and maybe it's just part of
that EP. But he has this song about calling his
wife and he's part of that. And if the world

(16:34):
was in the new bill over ay, here's an EP
called American Originals, which is I guess just three songs.
He's got a funny little song called hang on My
Wife's Calling, which the first time he's like in the
middle of a song, like, hey, what Wi's calling? Maybe
we get them off for a few minutes. Next episode.
I think today he put out one call I Love
You More? Really let me see by this, Nick Wayne

(16:57):
did oh yeah, there we get let's well, um, let's
see weird. When did you put out this American Originals June?
And then he put out more music I Love You
More single? Let's hear all right? I like it? All right?

(17:20):
So all I need to know. I'll check it out.
All right, check out check that out too. May try
to get him one next episode. All right, enjoyed today's podcast.
Appreciate you, guys. Check out Mike's podcast movie Mike's movie podcast.
I saw that you said, what's the best road trip movie?
I don't watch movies while driving, no movies about taking
road trips. I guess road trip makes is number one.

(17:42):
It's up there. It's a good one I've seen a
long time. It's funny. Yeah, all right, enjoy thanks guys,
appreciate you. Rate us highly if you don't mind, and uh,
we'll see you soon. Hey, Johnny oh Man, it's living
that life. Excided to talk with you. Yeah, I'm started

(18:04):
to talking with you too. I you know, we saw
each other at a distance from the Opery and you
know you've played the Opery a bunch of times. How
weird is it to play to an empty house? It's well,
if you've been to some of my solo shows the
last few years, that I got used to it. I'm kidding, um,
you know, you know it's, uh, it is strange, but

(18:24):
it's one of those rooms that's got a sacredness to it,
and so it's it's kind of like being in a
church by yourself, which is in a way comforting but
also strange at the same time. Is the day July
significant in your mind at all? Yes, that was the
first time I stood in the opery circle. Yeah, as

(18:45):
a kid. That was thanks to Mike Snyder, who's a
beloved Opery member and uh, you know you you kind
of share in his legacy, uh in that he not
only does he play music, but he's all areas comedian,
And it was thanks to him that I got to
stand on that stage for the first time. You were

(19:05):
twelve years old. Huh what was that? Did you drive
up from Mississippi and you know, stay there? Like? What
is the kid when you play the opera for the
first time? What's that whole experience? Like? You know, uh, gosh,
it was. It was my first taste of applause and

(19:26):
attention at that level. But it also was this thing
that had been a part of our family for so long.
I had a great grandfather. We actually have a piece
of furniture in our house here in Nashville that he
built with wood from his sawmill. Uh, specifically to hold
the radio and keep the cover off this old timey
radio and the tools handy so he could tweet the

(19:47):
signal and get the opera. He was such a fan.
And uh, I didn't go up to Nashville alone. About
half my my day hometown came up with me. We
all stayed at the Marriott out there by the airport,
and I don't know if it still has it, but
it had an indoor outdoor pool and that was also
a big like first city experience in an indoor outdoor pool,

(20:08):
you know, might as well have been Disney World. Yeah.
I remember the first time at church camp we went
to like a Hilton with an indoor pool, and I thought, wow,
this is like TV, Like this is like the rich
people on TV, because there was a pool underneath the roof. Right,
it's very Beverly hillbilly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, a
couple of things, A couple of reason I wanted to
have you on, specifically as I saw you posting about

(20:30):
the Mississippi flag, which I thought was interesting. Talk a
little bit about what your goal is with that message. Absolutely,
you know, my my goal is uh oh man, it's
it's emotional for me. You see, my dad in the
in the middle of eight sixties. I mean, he grew up.

(20:50):
Uh in the middle of that and Grenada. My hometown
was one of the cities. Dr Martin Luther King marsh
through my hometown actually with John Bayad. There are pictures
of them and the sidewalk they're marching down, Uh is
the sidewalk outside of the old high school. And when
my dad was a junior in high school, they integrated

(21:11):
schools there and when let out that first day, there
was a crowd of people waiting to beat the black
students and uh, they were pressed representative of the press there.
They were police there and they took the camera from
the press people. They smashed the camera on the ground

(21:32):
they beat. My dad is one this one black kid
that got a broken leg from how badly he was
hurt and had the limp a mile home and the
police didn't do And this is not a police statement
to today. I'm just saying that the climate at the
time was the police stood there and let it happen.
Nobody stood up for the black students, and the black

(21:53):
students were simply trying to get the same education and
and the school they had been relegated to to if
the school my mom actually taught in in her career
as a teacher, and it's it was dilapidated. There was
nothing in there, uh that was decent enough to get

(22:14):
a decent education. And and the thing about the Mississippi
flag is the people who are beating those students were
waiting that flag. And I'm the great great grandson of
a Confederate soldier. I could take you to his headstone.
It's a C. S. A headstone. I could show you
the letters he wrote from the battlefield. I think he
actually spent time in the war here in Tennessee. Uh.

(22:37):
But he hated the war. I mean, he hated everything
about war and about that conflict. And he wasn't a
wealthy man. He was a poor man. And we had
this history of poor people fighting rich people's worst sometimes
and um. And so the thing about that flag is,
you know, one if anybody should be complaining to keep

(22:57):
it would be the great great great grandson of Confederate soldier.
But from his letters all the way to my dad's
experience in high school, to the fact that, uh, I
really want to be I am proud of my home state.
There's so much in my home state to be proud of. Uh.
And you know, I've got friends from Texas and they
weighed that flag so proudly, and I want to be

(23:19):
able to do the same thing. I want to be
able to invite my friends to Mississippi and for those
of them who aren't uh well for really all of them,
but especially those of them who aren't white. Uh, that
flag is a is a scary thing. And so whatever
reasons for them might have to keep it, to me,
it just doesn't outweigh the fact that it really has

(23:41):
been a symbol of hate for a long time and
is it really that big of an inconvenience to let
it go. We have a Centis flag. It's called the
Cennis Flag. I forget the lady's name, but that's her
last name. She studied she's an artist and studied flag
design and designed this beautiful flag for Mississippi. And her
grandfather was a senator from Asissippi who was a segregationist.

(24:01):
So woven into that flag is this story of evolving
and changing. And uh, I think that, uh, you know,
it's starting to show that. I think I think we've
got a chance here to at the moment is now,
to really make the change. So have you heard anything
about any sort of movement with because the flag. Again.
If you if you look at a flag in a

(24:23):
normal flag shape, the you'll say the quarter the top
left corner is the Confederate flag and the rest is
I'm color blind here, but blue, white, and red. Right,
I'm assuming that's Blair. Okay. So have you heard anything
about any any sort of movement with this move I mean, yeah,
movement with this movement? Yes, uh, the uh. I'm terrible

(24:45):
remembering sports things, but I think SEC football. Don't quote
me on this, No, you're right, you're right, SEC, the
n C double A even I think the Mississippi Baptist Convention,
which is that one, really shocked people. It. All these
Mississippi organizations, all the community college and colleges of Mississippi,

(25:05):
they've all put out statements in solidarity for changing the flag.
And my dad today, uh, he's kind of semi retired
and his job is to work for tourism in my hometown.
And you know, he talks with all the folks who
look at data and stuff, and there's a case to
be made that Mississippi just simply in a financial sense,

(25:27):
you know, take away the emotions and the moral reasons
to change it. Financially speaking, Mississippi loses on a lot
of business because of that top left hand corner of
their flag. And if people want to read more about this,
I know you posted a link in your Instagram. Where
can they go or where can they sign? Or is it?
How do people actually help? Because you know, we had

(25:48):
a pretty good audience gonna hear this, absolutely, dude, and
I appreciate you given voice to this. Uh, I would
check out the Sinnis Flags website. Uh, let me look
it up real quick, look at up, look at While
you look it up, I'll play a clip of Uh.
Let's let's doll. We'll start it this first song? Could
it be back in two thousand thirteen, peaked at number third?

(26:09):
Here you go, why you look it up? Let me
know when you got to Charlie, we're just giving you
some whole music here of yourself. Okay, okay, let us know.
We got it. You want a guy hold music with

(26:33):
his own music. Now that's a new one. All right,
go ahead, Charlie, I got it. It's declare Mississippi, which
is d E C L A R E like you're
going to declare something. And then Mississippi, which hopefully everybody
knows the song am I S S wait am I
SSI S S p p I. There's a song declare

(26:56):
Mississippi dot com and just check it out. That's a
great used to start. I love that you're so passionate
about it, you know, and you know you're from missipianpo Market,
So a lot of similarities in the two and especially
with you know, our upbringings and the small towns we
come from, and when you use So you moved to
Boston to go to Berkeley College of Music in Boston,
what was it like being a Mississippi kid going to Boston?

(27:17):
Because I get to go there now on tour. But
I'm an adult and I'm a little more well traveled.
But as a kid, I would have been like fish
out of water completely for sure. You know, I'm lucky.
My mom raised me with a great uh, a whole
bunch of travel experiences. She believes in travel is education.
How do I and so I had a little experience

(27:40):
being out of my little Mississippi pond, you know, fish
out of water or whatever. But the thing about Boston
and Berkeley in particular was the incredibly beautiful culture. Shock
of it. I was in this city with so much
American history. It had its own little Italy. I could
go shop at the Italian market it uh, it had
tall all things. The tallest building in Grenado was a

(28:01):
four story hospital and uh and and best of all,
the student body at Berkeley is one of the most
international and diverse student bodies, UH you'll find in the country.
And there was something really beautiful about that because I
connected with people from all over the world through music

(28:21):
and learned about South American music and African music and UH,
people from Asia, people from just all over the planet,
and we had a chance to connect on something we
all loved that sort of felt like a universal language.
This is one of the best things I could have done.
You know, it's Boston such an interesting place. You bring
up a lot of points about and the school, but

(28:43):
also just that city. It is so multicultural and like
an extremely h inclusive, multi cultural place. So yeah, I
was thinking about what I was gonna talk to you
about it because we grew up a bit similar. You're
far more talented than I am, and and you're you're
you're better at as a kid, You're doing crazy things.
I was just lucky not to be the bed when

(29:04):
I was like nine you're getting close to playing the opree.
But you know, we played on on the radio show.
We played black and White, which is a song you
and Vince wrote for his album, because you played it
at the Opery. And when you played it, I was like,
I don't know this song. And I know every Charlie
Warson song. Some people will call me a Charlie Wassham
stand someone call me a Charlie Worsham stalker. Whatever it is.
I'm proud of that. I'm okay with that. But you

(29:26):
played this song and I thought, I don't know this,
like what did I miss? But I looked it up.
It was a Vents song. I came in and we
played it on the show. Got a great reaction. My
question is when you write this with Vince, do you
go all right? Who gets it? Or did you write
it four events? You know? The really cool thing about
that day riding with him? Uh. I have this question.

(29:50):
I learned to ask myself when I'm I'm not sure
of direction, and it's simply how's your heart? Because you know,
if you ask somebody how you're doing, they're always gonna
be like, oh, I'm fine. They might be going through
a divorce and Lord knows foot all else, but that's
just our programmed respond and you don't really get into

(30:11):
the heart of things. And uh, it must have been
a really rough news day or something. And and Then's
just such a thoughtful and compassionate guy. And so I
think I just sat down and asking, man, how's your heart?
And he just talked about he had that phrase, Man,
I've just been thinking about black and white. And I
think for him, someone who lived through the cities like

(30:32):
my dad did, he saw firsthand, uh, the hate, but
also the ability for a whole lot of people to
come together and in unity and work for positive change.
And I think we have this, uh, this tendency to
think that things were better back when. And I think

(30:53):
the reason for that is it's life is always a struggle.
Being being in a country and a community and society
is always going to be a struggle ups and down.
But over time the really nasty parts sort of fade
away and we remember and hold up the beautiful things.
And so that's that's part of what nostalgia is, I think.
And so I think for Vent, he just was asking

(31:15):
himself that question, are we what direction are we headed in?
There's a great old Merl haggardson that I think must
have been inspiring in as well. Are the good times
really over? For good? And that day for me, it
was really about following Vince's lead and just trying to
help document it as it as it happened. And it

(31:38):
just felt like a Vince song from from the minute
it's it's spilled onto the page and so it was
never a thing where we felt like fighting over it.
Uh and and lo and behold his record that that
song is on OKI is chock full of songs just
like that. It's I think it's where Vince's part and
head of Vince, I was just we lose them all

(32:00):
them back all right. By the way, we're all Charlie Worsham,
who you know because you're probably read in the podcast
thing there. You can follow him on Instagram at Charlie Worsham.
The guy is just one of the most sincere guys.
As you can hear he started crying. He didn't know
he was gonna ask about that. Also, just one of
the most talented musicians period in Nashville, and everybody says it,

(32:20):
and the session players are usually the the guys that
play music on albums are kind of the elite, but
even they kind of tipped their hat to Charlie Worsham.
So just know that he planned banjo um when he
was just a kid. Junior National Banjo Championship. There's a
whole long form about his career at earlier bobbycast. If
you like him, go check that out. We're gonna try
to get it back on right now, Mike is talking

(32:40):
with them. You can also check out Amy's podcast, Four
Things with Amy Brown. All Right, we're gonna put it
back on. As you can tell, we're not editing this
at all. All right, he's back here, is there? All right? There? Hey, Charlie.
So there never was that moment where you had to
declare whose song it was? There was I know that
happens a lot when you artists right together, but for

(33:04):
whatever reason, it just felt like it belonged to him,
and uh, I was totally cool with you you. Matt. I'm
gonna ask you a question that I was asked a
lot a couple of years ago. Now I kind of
lead this question, but do you ever think about going
back home and running for any sort of office to
actually make a change, or do you feel like your

(33:24):
music is your platform and that's how you're going to
do it. Well. First, let me say Bobby that I
loved that. That is something that you are keeping your
ear to the ground on. And I will support you
all the way because I just believe in in who
you are and your integrity character. I think for me,
it's too early to know. And and honestly, I don't

(33:47):
know that i'd want that job. I feel like the
people who do those jobs the best don't do them
because they really want the job. You know, I don't
know that I trust anybody that wants It's not an
easy job if you're doing it right what I'm trying
to say, and I definitely listen. I don't need to
be in politics one bit, Like I would actually make

(34:07):
a lot less money and have a lot more work
if I did it, um so, and anybody that wants
to be a career politician like not the kind of
person that I would want representing me. It's exactly what
you just said. So I don't want to be a politician.
I would actually love to be able to affect just
a bit of change. Because no one person goes in
and changes the whole system, right, I mean, it's culture

(34:29):
is changed through a slow rock being pushed over a
lot of time. I would like to have my shot
at shoving that big old boulder for a few minutes.
Like That's how I look at it, absolutely absolutely, And
I think for me, I'm I'm open to anything. I
don't see it at the moment, but that doesn't mean
I wouldn't the moment called for it, because I'm with you.

(34:51):
And the beautiful thing being that there are so many
ways to create change to you know, just simply voting
is such a powerful thing. And I would be so
excited to see America's percentage of voters who exercised there
there opportunity to vote go up. That would make me

(35:11):
so happy. And and registering voters, especially uh in my
home state, and and and right across the river in Arkansas,
you saw a lot of this two in the sixties. Uh,
the power of registering people to vote. And barely fifty
years ago that cost people their lives when you talk
about Mega Evers and Uh Mickey Scherner, Cheney and Goodman,

(35:31):
the three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Uh, there
was a guy named Vernon Damer. His house was firebombed
by the KKK because he was trying to register voters,
and the vote is a powerful thing. A lot of
people with sacrifice for that right. I'm gonna plug a
couple of Charlie things because I think if you're not
on it Charlie yet, you should be. YouTube dot Com

(35:54):
slash Charlie Worsham. He's doing a whole series. You're performing
on your bathroom floor your bathroom? Is it just sound
better and they're singing on the toilet or what? Well?
The funny thing is so much to the house was
taken over with music equipment that I felt like the
guest bathroom was a safe place in quarantine, that nobody

(36:15):
else would need that room for any other purpose, so
I could leave everything set up. And that's sort of
the accident that became Live from the lou He's a
part of the c m A Summer stayk on Wednesday,
July one at six five Central. You can tune into
seem A's YouTube and Facebook if you want to check
that out. Here is Charlie's latest single, I Hope I'm stoned.
When Jesus takes me home, and Jesus takes me home,

(36:42):
Fly through them clouds, don't have to ever come down.
I'm ruling up just to kiss to day and Jesus
takes me home. Let me ask you this, are you
gonna cut your hair? Is this the new thing you're
just gonna be? You know? Long haired, Charlie, now, long
hair for the foreseeable future. I'm sort of embracing it. Yeah,

(37:05):
let's good on you. Wish I could pull it off.
I would just not mind gets curly though. It looks
like I get a perm when I grow my hair out. Charlie,
yours looks good, long, well, well, thank you. I don't
know how long I'll be able to keep it, so
I'm gonna embrace it. I can check out his Instagram
at Charlie Worsham. Charlie, good to talk to you, my friend.
You know, if you ever need anything personal or professional,

(37:27):
just I'm a phone call away or or a letter away.
You like to write letters, so or a letter away
just may take a little longer for me to get
back to you if you write a letter. Alright, so much,
all right, Charlie, there is Charlie Warsham. Thanks Charlie. See
Bud see man right on now with Kurt Bardella, Hey, Kurt, Hey, Bobby,

(37:50):
how's it going? Hey, pretty good. I was. I wanted
to reach out to you because I read your article
in USA Today. That's a really interesting article. By the way,
how did you get to write in USA to Day? Like?
Who do you know? How did you work your way
up to that slot? So I have this completely dual
life where one end of me is to country music

(38:10):
side of me, and the other is I'm a political
commentator and I write through USA Today generally political facing
columns about things going on in the country. And it
just so happens that everything kind of came together and
both my world's merged and um my editor had seen
me talk about the Lady A thing on on the

(38:31):
news and thought there was more there to write, and
I asked if I wanted to depend something about it,
knowing my my interest in background and country music, and
I was very happy to have that opportunity. Well, let's
talk about Lady A for a second, because you definitely
talked about that in this article. Just give me your
thoughts on what used to be Lady Annabellum rebranding themselves

(38:52):
officially as Lady A. I thought that it was a
very brief and courageous and positive step for them to
take to go through that self reflection, self evaluation, talking
to different people in their own social circle about the
meaning of Antebellum and what that says. And I thought

(39:13):
what they put out was incredibly sincere and on is
taking responsibility for that, not making any excuses, just saying,
you know, we're making this change. And if anyone ever felt, uh,
you know, upset or hurt or felt distance from our
music because of our name, we're sorry and we want
to invite you, uh to to to take another look
at us uh. And I thought it was an extraordinary thing,

(39:34):
especially at the time. And you know this as well
as anybody. You know, your your name is your brand.
You know, it's who you are, it's your professional identity,
especially in entertainment. And to and to make a change
like that and do it in a very public facing way,
uh is I think an incredible thing and and something
that I wish more people would approach the world the

(39:55):
way that Lady A did. Be willing to change, being
willing to have that self as usman and self reflection,
and to to try to be a positive agent for change.
Two things that I can speak on a little bit
is one, I know that they had wanted to change
their name before this for for the same reason. But
before this instance of um large scale seeking of social justice, Like,

(40:22):
before this happened, they had already, according to my sources,
been talking about changing the name, and so it was
already on their mind. They didn't. I feel they didn't
just see something and make a super snap reaction. I
felt like it was something already weighing on them, and
it was finally the Hey, we just we've been talking

(40:44):
about it, we want to do it, let's just do it, right.
So I felt like that happened in that way. The
other thing is they could have easily just slowly said
we're just gonna go to Lady A, like, don't put
it anymore, you know, nothing official, We're just gonna be
lady A. But they didn't, and there was a real
bravery attached to bravery in the sense of you're talking

(41:04):
about brand, right, it's not like going to fight in war,
so don't hit me with those. But there's a real
bravery for their everyday life to go and post that
publicly and say why they were doing it when they
did it, What do you think about that? I think
you're right. I do think that just the way in
which they were able to talk about it. So I
think articulately and sincerely that told me that this wasn't

(41:28):
a snap judgment, a reaction solely the current events. I
think there was a lot of thought. Clearly they have
been thinking and talking about this long before, uh, the
incidents of the past few weeks. Just by the tone
intendor that they took, that's not something you can put
together in twenty four hours and just put out to
the world, um, you know, but the fact that they

(41:51):
were willing to do so publicly, the fact that the
recent events was a catalyst for them to pull the
trigger on this, UM. I thought spoke volumes about their
their character and anybody who spent time with them, uh,
you know, with Dave Charlton, Hillary will tell you they're
the most genuine and sincere and kind people that you
will ever come across. There is not a bone of

(42:14):
hate in their body. And I think that what they
did and how they went about doing that, you know,
like you said, it would have been so easy to
just suddenly make the change, do it over time, wait
for things to quiet down politically and in the world,
But they did it at the time where all eyes.
You know, we're we're going to be on what they
were doing where it was going to receive a tremendous

(42:34):
amount of attention, not knowing how this would be received,
and they were willing to do that anyway. And I
think that, like you said that, that you know, that
was that That's that's what leadership is, in my opinion.
It's not knowing how things are going to go down
in the court of public opinion, but doing what you
think is right and being true to yourself. Uh. And
you know, and I was very proud to be a
lady a fan that day. Yeah. And I'm pretty close

(42:55):
to a couple of them. Uh, Dave, Hey, what and
I are good buds and Hillary and I are pretty
close are We sat to both of them privately and
spoke with them a bit about that. I thought it
was real cool they took that step publicly when they
didn't have to um that it was them. Like, and
there was a lot of angry, hateful comments about them
changing their name. What do you think about that? You know,

(43:16):
as someone who oftentimes receives a lot of a lot
of hate mail for things that I'll say are right politically. Uh,
you know, I think that's all just noise. You know.
I think that by and large, if you're a fan
of Lady A, if if you connected to songs like
Hello World or or Run to You and and the
theme messages of those songs, you you will you will

(43:39):
be even prouder to be a fan of theirs based
on what they have done. You're not going to turn
your back on them or their music because their music
is all about love and sharing and having a better world.
And especially as you've seen you know, Lady A grow
as human beings and becoming parents and having families and
how that's impacted their outlook on life. Uh. If your

(43:59):
lady if that you celebrate what they did. And there's
always gonna be haters, uh, which again, you know you've
seen as much hate from from trolls throwing match or
the course of your career, and that's just I've always
thought that's just noise. If you have nothing better to
do in your day than to to tweet something or
instagram comments something that's negative and toxic, uh, then then

(44:21):
you really don't have a whole lot going for you.
And there's no reason why I shouldn't even care about
what you think. You know, and that's why I reached
out to them. It wasn't that I had some grand
knowledge of changing a name or fighting did the good
cause anymore than I have, you know, in my own
personal life. But it was, hey, I do every day
I deal with these folks that that they don't really care,

(44:42):
but they're just gonna take a little part of their
life to try to make a bigger dent into a
bigger part of yours. And man, that's what they do,
that's what they they come and you know that. The
rules that I kind of talked about my listeners. Role one,
is it hurting you or someone you know him close to?
If not, go to rule too. And then rule two
is is it hurting anybody period? If it's no, then

(45:04):
freak move on. There. Don't need to write about it.
They don't need to be negative. We could just move
on with your life. Did you ever watch a bad
TV show and then send a note to the to
the network going a that show sucks. No, you just
change the channel. You just go to the next channel.
You just click somewhere else. You don't have to listen
to lady As Music. If you don't love it, I'm
gonna tell you they didn't lose a single fan. You
may have seen people get upset they didn't lose a

(45:25):
single fan. They didn't. And then, you know, then there's
the whole instance where there was already a woman named
Lady A. And this was where it got interesting to
me because Lady A the band owned the trademark lady A.
So they easily and rightfully could have said, okay, you
were called lady A, but we own it, like we

(45:46):
own the intellectual name, property rights. We are lady A
because years ago we bought it. But they didn't. And
I thought that was pretty cool. And you know, I
know at first there was some weirdness about it, and
they got on a big zoom all because they posted
about it. Things seem to be going all right, Uh,
how do you feel like that whole thing should shake out?

(46:07):
You know? I think that again, always trying to turn
every situation into the most positive facing thing. Uh, they
can come up with it again, lady It could have
easily have just dismissed, Uh this this other this Lady
A blues jazz singer in Seattle, And instead they wanted
to be I wanted to have a conversation. They wanted

(46:28):
to to learn her perspective everything, and I actually think
out of this will come potentially some really cool fusion
of music from both of them. I think that, again,
this is going to be something that started out a
little rocky. There's a lot of uncertainty how this would go,
and out of that that was gonna come, I think
creativity and partnership and community and it's exactly what music

(46:49):
is supposed to be, you know. I mean it's again,
someone who came from a more political background. What made
me a country music fan was that feeling of community
and unity and positivity and energy. And you know, the
greatest part of my professional life over the last five
years have been in the country music space, UM and

(47:11):
seeing that firsthand. And I think that nothing unites people better. Uh.
You know, then music and song and and and music
allows us to express emotions that we don't know how
to as individuals in a collective way. That helps us heal,
That helps us express um, especially during times like this

(47:32):
where there's a lot of division and uncertainty and fear
going around. Uh, It's it's so important to have that.
And with what Lady A has done with this situation
is I think they're finding a way to create something
positive that all of us will be able to experience
in due time. Let's move off that for a second.
Talk about award shows coming up. You're a lover of

(47:53):
country music, as M I. The A c M s
are coming up to c M as we're talking about
the last quarter of the year. I mean, the odds
these shows happen with people in the stands are what
zero percent? Where do you put it, Kurt? I put
it at zero percent. Yeah, it's gonna be tough too. Now,
imagine because I and I think that the A c

(48:16):
M s have already announced how they're Okay, if I
we may have to beleeve this. Maybe I'm saying what
I already know. We'll see. Do you know about the
A c M is doing it from three different locations? Okay? Perfect?
So what's out there? Great? Great? Then I can talk
about it. Okay. So there it's going to be from
the Opery House, the Ryman, and the Bluebird, and they're

(48:37):
going to have three different places where the A c
ms are there. Now, let me ask you this. If
you're an artist and you're nominated, do you go and
sit alone possibly not to win? Uh? An A c
M Let's say you're uh Morgan Wallen and he's up
for I don't they haven't been announced yet, but he's
up for Best New Artists. Yes, whatever, do you go

(48:58):
and sit in an empty opery house US with like
fourteen other nominees or do you just sit at home
and see if you want? You know, I think that
in these circumstances, I think everyone has to make the
decision that they're most comfortable with for both their own health. Um.
You know, this is not an easy time, particularly in
a state like Tennessee that's seeing a rise in cases. Um,

(49:19):
who knows what the situation will look like when we
get to the fall. Uh you know, that will obviously
be something they have to take into account. Um you know,
but if if I'm an artist, I gotta tell you,
award shows seem so trivial right now, facing looking at
what we're facing, And I think there's a reason why
a lot of other shows, uh you know, Emmy's oscars
are are postponing to next year because it just doesn't

(49:40):
seem like the right time necessarily to do something like that. Um.
I hope that the a c m S and the
c m as find a way to to pull us off.
That's creative, that's positive. That's less about the actual awards, uh,
and more about creating an escape for for for people
like us fans, for for people in this country to

(50:03):
tune into and UH and experience music together. I loved
the A c M special that they did last month,
having all these artists you know, film their own performances
wherever they were and piecing that together. I thought that
was great. Um. You know, but I'll tell you, at
the time where no one can go anywhere and going
to any show, It's like, how do you award Entertainer
of the Year when no one can go out there

(50:24):
and entertain? Great pivot question, because that's my next question, Kurt.
I've talked about this a little bit. I'm curious because
they are going to award these awards, they are going
to have these shows. You know. I'm I'm lucky enough
to be connected to the networks and the producers of
both of them and even leaning in a little bit
to health. But they don't know which direction they're going
to go. They will have the awards. I'm asking you, Kurt,

(50:45):
who wins Entertainer of the Year and why? Well, Uh,
you know, I look at, especially during these times. You know,
what artists are able to do, um, to be creative,
to reach fans, to uh, you know, help us escape
what we're going through right now. Um. You know, thinking

(51:06):
about the c m AS because those you know, the A,
C and nominations were out before this ever happened, and
and and the voting for that already closed before we
were in the air of social distancing to a certain degree.
So you know that's gonna be what it's going to
be an estimy based on a lot of what we
saw last year. But for the c m AS, where
we don't know what the nominations are, I'd like them
to try to get innovative a little bit and maybe
maybe you have a category for this year that the

(51:27):
best live stream or the best uh you know, social
distancing show, or something that acknowledges what a lot of
these artists are doing. You know. I think about people
like Brad Paisley, who has you know, done a number
of interesting things, having looms and concerts and beaming into
Vanderbilt and he's about to do this drive through Live

(51:48):
Nation tour. Um. I think about Keith Urban, who played
an outdoor you know, parking Lot show for Vanderbilt. Uh,
you know, doctors and nurses. I think there's gotta be
a way that that we recognize what artists are doing
to try to make a difference and to try to
be entertaining during these unique times. But I'm still looking
for the Entertainer of the Year. I'm gonna give you

(52:09):
my answer. I hope. I think that's interesting. Yes, but man,
if they go all MTV movie Awards were like, okay,
best kissed during the pandemic, I'll be like, come on, guys,
come on, here's a I'm gonna say. I Entertainer of
the Year to me is never just a touring award.
It's never just a radio award. There's always that about it.

(52:30):
You don't you don't care define it, but you're just like, oh,
that makes sense. And I think it's again. The person
I'm gonna say is a person who already wins it,
so them winning it is not a surprise, but what
they're doing is different. And I'm gonna go Garth again.
The guy just sold out three drive in theaters, you know,

(52:50):
I think what and again is doing TV shows from home.
He did a Quarantine show Attricia. He played the opery.
But then Keith Urban was the first guy to a
well and play a drive in for the healthcare workers.
I think that's amazing. I think it's things like that
with radio success, with the streams. I think all of
that So I and I think you're a list is

(53:12):
is pretty right on um. But you know, I think
it's a Garth or an Urban type person who wins
it this year because of the things they were able
to do outside the box. I mean Luke Combs, even
you know, hasn't played a much shows, but did a
bunch of great online stuff. And let's not discredit the
fact that he takes unreleased songs just puts out brand
new videos of them with a song before he even
cuts them, which at this point his music is his currency.

(53:36):
You know, he's not a newer artist going, hey, here's
some more to see if you think you like me more.
He's not putting up demos going hey see, if you
like this, maybe you'll become a fan. He's going, I
got a lot of fans out of they want music.
I can make you wait, but I'm just gonna put
this this song called Cold went out or you know
six ft Apart, which wasn't going to be a song
that was cut, but because people loved it so much,

(53:58):
you want to cut it. So anyway. That's that's my
opinion on that. I think you always have to look
at a kind of the whole three six do you
want it comes to Entertainer of the Year, and you're right,
there is some some odd angles to look at this year,
you know, Yeah, I mean it's gonna again. I don't
envy the job that. You know, the people behind these
award shows, who produced these things have to try to
try to navigate. You know, there's obviously the A. C

(54:19):
M s you know, and talking with some people there
are trying to navigate how do they properly acknowledge what's
going on in this country and and promote UH artists,
people of color. You know, it's not an easy egil
thre There's always gonna people who are unhappy with whatever
you do. There's always gonna be those haters. You want
to be entertaining because this is an entertainment show. Do

(54:42):
you want to obviously support and acknowledge the artists who
have been successful uh, you know in the last year,
But you also don't want to look like you're not
in tune with the reality that we're all trying to
navigate at the same time. So it's it is not easy.
Uh and and again I applaud these people who are
trying to come out there and put out of product
second for two or three hours, help us escape what

(55:04):
we're facing right now. Yeah, I just can't take anymore
zoom shows as honestly at home shows. And I say
that as someone who was a part of one, you know,
American Idol. We we were the first network show to
go and set up home and do it from home,
and that was a struggle. I'm glad we're able to
do it. But man, the content that I'm watching, it's
all the same. It's just everybody's house. The late night shows,
which I love, it harked for me to watch them,

(55:24):
They're just from people's house. I'm just like, come on,
we gotta And what sucks is it covids about to
hit us again hard again, like fullback coming right through
the line Corona nineteen. It's gonna be tough man. Well,
you know, one of my favorite for this reason live
streams that was done was the one that Brad with
Lady A did that was backed by bud Light because

(55:45):
they basically took over an empty warehouse, built their entire
stage like you like they would on tour, and and
and played it with full production, full sound, audio, full band.
And it was the first time in all of this
it actually seeing someone do that, and and and and
it looked and felt like a regular show. Brad had
his massive video wall backdrop UM. And it was the

(56:08):
first time that I heard music the way I normally
would versus the live stream and the zoom and the
things that we've all become exhaustibly I think overkilled with UM.
But you know, it's like that type of innovative was
refreshing to see. I agree. And I thinking back to now,
as we've been in this for so long, Keith Urban
when he did his little warehouse before Brad did that,

(56:28):
you know, him and his wife were singing UM. But yes, yes, yes,
And that was cool back then, back then, like it
was some crazy yester year. It was three months ago.
Traffic feels like forever. Hey, So Carl, where are you
right now? Right now? I'm in Washington, D C. And
what's happenings Capital? Hey, Look, lots of elections happening right
right this second. Actually like we're still but this goes
up Friday. Second votes are being counted. Still, Yeah, who's

(56:51):
gonna who's taken home that? Uh that's on the Senate
side in Kentucky. Is it gonna be McGrath who's gonna
pull that one out? Yeah, it'll tell you. You know
mcgrathon Booker and Charles Booker, who came on strong at
the end. Uh has been an incredibly inspiring charismatic figure
who has a future in politics regardless of outcome. But
I think that he peaked too late. If he had peaked,

(57:12):
you know, three weeks before he did, I think he
actually would have won. But McGrath had such a head
start in fundraising, building an organization to run the campaign
name I d I just think that she'll end up
pulling it out only because you know, the runway just
ran out for for for Booker just wasn't in time.
I got a buddy who works on Bookers campaign, Matt Jones.
It was radio on Kentucky. So, uh, by the time

(57:35):
you hear this, they may already be out. So we'll
fact check you. We'll see if you were right. Kurt. Hey, listen,
everybody check out morning hangover dot com uh Kurt Is
He's also on Twitter ku r t that's the Kurt
part No see Ku r T b A r d
E l l A. So all right, Kurt, it was
good catching up with you. Uh. Check out Kurt's Twitter page.

(57:55):
You can see a link to that article we talked
about a little bit there, just the guy who knows
a lot of abou country music. It's always good to
your face when you're around, but you haven't been around
in a bit because nobody's really allowed to go around
anywhere anymore, you know, I hear you, man, Well, thanks
for having me. I gotta tell you, I would not
be in country music in any way if it weren't
for what you've done. Seeing how you place the trail
off for people outside to come on in and try

(58:16):
to make a little space for themselves in this format
was one of more inspiring things for me, being this
outside guy in DC, never worked in country music at all,
just a fan and wanted to start just this email
tip sheet thing and was shocked that it ever took off.
But you were one of the first people to encourage me,
to support me, to promote me, uh, you know, and

(58:36):
it means the world to me. I appreciate that You're
probably a little too kind, but Kurt, thank you, be safe.
Talk to you soon, right man, all right, See, you
know what's interesting, Mike is that I called it Corona nineteen.
In my mind, I was picturing a Corona fullback with
the number nineteen on its jersey. Okay, I thought you
were bleeding COVID nineteen. Well, I think I was. I
think I sometimes the words that come out don't quite

(58:59):
fully um represent the picture in my mind. Okay. And
so yeah, that's where Corona nineteen comes from. I'm got
start calling that, see if everybody calls me out. And
I also thought it was like a throwback to twenty nineteen,
like if there to come back Corona. Yeah, you know
why it's called COVID nineteen, right, just for the record, Yes,
because it came out in Okay, Yeah, that's why. Okay,
Kurts on the phone, Hey there is again. Alright, Kurt,

(59:20):
see you later one bye bye. What's funny is we
leave Kurt on and all of a sudden we're like,
what a sucky interview, which we wasn't. But they used
to having me back on my radio days where we'd uh,
I would always say, Okay, we're gonna interview somebody. Whenever
we're done with the interview, don't hang up. So one
time we were talking to Um Jordan's Night from New

(59:41):
Kids on the Block. I remember that was an intern
and we talked with the interview. They were doing a tour.
It's like yeah, great, and then he said, okay bye.
We didn't hang up, and then all of a sudden,
you hear him go all right, oh we do another one. Great.
And then she's like, okay, we're gonna connect you to Cleveland.
Here's Jimmy Joe and Jam Jams or whomever it was.
And he goes all right, And so I didn't know
what to do. I thought I was gonna hear Cleveland.
I never heard Cleveland. So I go, what's up, dude,

(01:00:03):
Jimmy Joe and like, hey man, I did a whole
interview as the guy from Cleveland on on our airwaves. Still, um,
that's a fun time. I remember the good old day,
all right. Thanks to Kurt, Welcome to another round super
Freezy tribute up. Thank you very much, and hello friends,
the game show, Go Hot and fresh out the kitchen,

(01:00:24):
The Pouladine d Me and asked me if you can
slab a stick of butter on it. That's right, my friends,
I'm your host, Bobby Bones. If you're here for the
first time, welcome. The game is simple. Get a question right,
move on to the next round. Be one step closer
to winning cold hard cash. Get a question wrong, I'll
send a swarm of murder hornets to your house. There
you go, Thank you very much. All right, So Chuck

(01:00:46):
Quicks is playing this week. Chuck Quicks is a radio
host musician. I got a big hit song called Stealing
Cinderella and it's a big old bed behind him. Not
gonna ask any more questions about what's happening over there. Uh,
nothing's happening right now. That's that's the key. Also, cut
music superstar Dustin Lynch is joining us this week. Dustin
has hit songs that you know like Riding Roads, small

(01:01:06):
Town Boy, Good Girl. Basically, you give this guy a
ball cap, a back road and a smoking hot girl,
he will hand you back at number one country song.
Dustin Lynch, how are you? But I'm moving awesome? Alright,
So here's what's happening. The celebrities are playing for five
hundred dollars to the charity of their choice. All us
regular folks, you're playing for one hundred dollars for your pockets.

(01:01:26):
That's right, question number one, all generic questions, get it right,
stay in the game. Hannah, how are you? I'm a
good And where do you live? Right now? And you Arizona?
All right? You have question number one. It's very easy.
What city is known as the Big Apple? New York City?
All right? Let's go over to my friend Steve, who's
also the executive producer of my radio show Scroom. Steve,

(01:01:48):
how are you pretty good? Man? How are you doing
pretty good? Your question is also pretty easy. Which singer
had her Awards show speech interrupted by Kanye West? That
would be Taylor Swift Swizzle? That is correct, Hey, listener, Christie,
where do you live? Harry cart in Florida? Alright, in Florida.
Your question is Baltimore is the capital of what state? Maryland?

(01:02:11):
That is correct. Let's go over to Chuck Wicks, our
first celebrity to get a question here. Hey, Chuck, what's
the main ingredient of an omelet? Hey? An egg? That
is right. Listener, Tom, your question is what type of
animal is Garfield? Pat? A cat? Is right? And Dustin Lynch,

(01:02:32):
over to you. Taste buds are located on what part
of the body the tongue? That is correct? I would
have also accepted Wiener. All right, there you go. You're
on a second round, everybody, Yeah, yeah, alright. So now
we're gonna play Name that classic cartoon. I will show
you a cartoon behind me. All you have to do
is tell me the classic cartoon. Hannah, you're up first.

(01:02:54):
Can you name this classic cartoon? That's Betty Mood? That
is Betty Boo? That is correct? Can you name this
classic cartoon? Scoop, Steve and many as correct? Christie, a
classic cartoon for you is bugs Bunny? Is right? Chuck
Wicks named that cartoon a dappy duck. Dappy duck is correct? Hey?

(01:03:20):
Tom named that one that's the flint Stones. The flint
Stones is correct? Hey, Dustin Lynch, can you name that one? Snoopy, Snoopy?
It is. You're all onto the next round, nic shop.
Everybody high fives, high fives all around. Let's put to
a Dustin Lynch burst, dustin fancy bedroom there? What do

(01:03:40):
you have going on there? Um? This will be an
awesome note. It's it's my basement. Now that's a base
maker and how many? How many bodies are are trapped
down in that thing? There will be a lot this weekend.
None right now, Dustin, what are you're working on right now?
Do you want people to go check out? I'm all
working on gush the music and honestly I'm probbing just

(01:04:01):
loving the outdoor, So go enjoy the summer. Also, Dustin's
got a video where everything's on fire called Mama's House.
You can check that out right now online. All right,
here we go. The next question are all about slogans,
So I will read you a slogan. All you have
to do is tell me the product that it's the
slogan for. Are you ready, Hannah? Yes? First one up

(01:04:24):
is they're great crossed Flakes. That is correct, Scuba Steve,
who slogan has Taste the Rainbow? That is Skittles? Correct? Listener, Christie,
can you hear me now? Is the slogan for food? Correct? Hey?

(01:04:45):
Chuck Woks, what are you doing down in Florida? Right now?
I am crashing at Al Dean's house. I'm using him
for everything. This is his bed behind me. Chuck Wicks
is married to Jason Aldean's sister. How's that going for you?
Pretty good? Hopefully we'll be having some news since so
we're we're happy. So we're good. Anything you want to

(01:05:06):
break here on the show? No? Can you imagine them
breaking news on this? Yeah? All right? All right? Chill
quicks whose slogan is good to the last drop? Oh,
I knew that. I knew this is not a good
subject for good to the last drop? Um, Dustin, do

(01:05:28):
you know this one? For some reason, I'm thinking Snapple?
But that's not right. Can I assume a friend? You can?
You can ask one person on the board for help,
but if you miss it, you're eliminated. Ask anybody on
the board. I'm looking at other faces. I'm wanting to
look there all Oh, Steve, all right, Steve, Steven the

(01:05:48):
last job? I was hoping you see me? Shake my head, no,
because I don't know it? Does anyone? Yes? Go ahead?
Would you like to help with Christie gets Folgers? Okay, Chuck,
you can go with Folgers or whatever Scuba said forward.
I don't know, and then or or you can pick
your own. I thought folders was folders good. I'm gonna

(01:06:14):
go with I'm gonna go with Yeah, I'm gonna go
with her. That is in it is maxwell house. However,
you're the first one out, so you get the first
safe question and the only question that can save you.
Are you ready? Yes? What's in your wallet is the
slogan for hoho. Well, why am I so mad at this?

(01:06:35):
What's in your wallet? What's in your wallet? Um, Chuck,
it's the master card. Everybody waved goodbye to Chuck. I'm sorry.
It is capital one and Chuck is the first one
to go. Chuck. Parting works for everyone. Chuck is frozen, right, Okay,
he just froze. Okay, well in my back, Chuck. Oh

(01:07:01):
we lost them all right, next one up. Let's go
over to you Tom like a good neighbor. Blank is
there save correct? Hey? Dustin Lynch. Breakfast of Champions is
a slogan for who Breakfast of Champions and slogan for
who oh sports? I don't know sports, think sports, think sports. Okay,

(01:07:29):
if you performed really well, you got on this. Yeah no,
and people are trying to tell you, Dustin, the Breakfast
of Champions is wheaties. Anything you'd like to say, Dustin, guys,

(01:07:49):
good luck and I love y'all. Have to give you
a Hugston in person. It was a quick's a quick
run for Dustin Lynch, but he's he's got to go
all right, there he goes. No celebrities are left. Wow,
that was quick. I gotta be honest. Uh, A little
disappointing this week with the celebrities not and how famous
they are, but it's how good they did, all right. Listener, Hannah,
we're gonna do one more round. Fingerlicking goods. Who FC

(01:08:14):
KFC is correct? Hey, Scuba Steve, I'm loving it. That
is McDonald's correct. Listener, Christie, have it your way. Burger
King is correct? Hey, Tom America runs on blank? Duncan
is correct? You all onto the next round, night shop, everybody.

(01:08:34):
I don't know if you made noise, Scuba Steve or not,
but it looked like you were screaming. I was, Okay,
here we go. Next up, we're gonna play named that
movie posters. So what I will show you is a
very famous movie poster without the movie on it. All
you have to do is name the movie. Here we
go question movie number one? Can you name that? Hannah

(01:08:55):
um Avengers Mangers is correct? I would accept Avengers. Okay,
here we go over to you Scooba, Steve, can you
name this one? E? E? T is correct? Can you
name this one? Christie? First come for scumb is correct?
Hey Tom? What's this one? Frozen? Correct? Hey Hannah? What's

(01:09:19):
this one? Greece? Correct? Hey Scooler Steve? What's this one?
Harry Potter? Harry Potter is correct? How about this one?
Christy Shahn's correct? Hey Tom? Can you hit me with
this one? The notebook? The notebook is correct? You're all

(01:09:39):
all right. You're all competing for one dollars in cash. Obviously,
as happens with the show most of the time, I
internet connection it's not perfect. So the first person I
think yelled their name is going to be that the winner.
Here with the buzzer, now we're doing head to head challenge. Okay,
I will ask you a question. The first person to
buzz in their name will win. The first two people

(01:10:01):
up our Hannah and Scoota Steve. You'll be playing each
other if you know the answer, yell your name. Okay,
here we go. Question one, which Disney princess has really
really long hair? Hannah Penzel Rapunzel is correct? Scota Steve,

(01:10:22):
here's a story about Scuba Steve. He was a livd
right after the loves there he goes, all right. Next up,
Christie and Tom in the battle head to head, yell
your name as the buzzer in which country would you
find Buckingham Palace, Tom, Tom England? England is correct? Christie,

(01:10:45):
so sad to see you go, love your glasses pleasant danger.
Loved having you on this week. Hopefully I'll see it
against soon. By Chris Day, we have two players left,
ladies and gentlemen. We're down to the final two for
the final round. It is true or false? Hannah, You're
a first True or false? A circle is three hundred

(01:11:06):
and sixty degrees true. True, That is correct, Hey Tom?
True or false. Easter Sunday is on the same date
every year, Paul. False, that is correct. What do you do,
Hannah for a job? Um, I work for the Military
Family Advisory Network? Oh nice? What does your sign say
behind you? Say hello Bobby? You always gain by giving left?

(01:11:30):
Nice or Hello Bobby. I'll take that as well. Both
answers are correct. All right, handed back over to you.
Chocolate is lethal to dogs? True or false? True? Hey Tom, Baby,
one more time? Was Britney Spears second number one song?
True or false. Oh, correct, it was her first Hannah.
Diamond is the hardest natural substance. True or false true correct,

(01:11:57):
Hey Tom, over to you. The zodiac sign represent and
by twins is Sagittarius. True or false. Paul, it is Gemini.
You're correct. Over to you, Hannah. Michael Phelps holds the
record for the most Olympic Gold medals. True or false? Hey, Tom,
silk fabric is made out of worms true or boss true? Correct.

(01:12:21):
You guys are amazing at this. I have the two
smartest people to ever. Grace my computer, Hannah. The Sahara
is the largest desert in the world. Correct, Hey Tom,
A common piece of paper is eight and a half
by ten inches. Paul, how do you know that? Did

(01:12:45):
you know that? To Hannah? Holy crap that we have
the two smartest people ever on this show. Okay, one
final question for each of you, Hannah. For you, a
sneeze is faster than an eye blink true or false? True? Tom.

(01:13:08):
R E. M stands for rapid eye moments. True or false.
Faull Correct. We're going to sudden death, folks. That's right,
So dude, Dad, So it is death, all right. In
sudden death, the person who performs the best chicken, we'll
win the competition. I have chickens in any props, will

(01:13:31):
we'll we'll be in the competition. Tom, you will go first,
give me your best chicken. I need ten seconds of chicken.
Go ahead, then the second. Okay, ready, pretty good. Judges

(01:13:51):
are giving you a seven point five. Gay's the solid
chicken dump. Alright, Hanna, you can win this with the
with the eight chicken or above, you win. Help me. Oh,
she's bringing in props. I like it. Bring him in.
All right, we're gonna do our chicken impression. Okay, steady, go.

(01:14:12):
You gotta suck your wings, you know. I gotta be honest.
They were both pretty good. I want to make you
both winners. You both. I can't hear him, Bobby, you
cut out? He cut out right. I didn't hear the thing.

(01:14:44):
It's not like he was very enthusiastic about it. We
quit hearing you. Can you hear me? Now? There you are?
What if I pushed the button and no one could
hear me because I pushed the off button? What could
you think? What could you not hear? You both won? Here?

(01:15:04):
We are really leave all this in because apparently I
hit the microphone in my excitement. Congratulations to you both.
I'll be in touch real soon for your cash. You
are the winners. Goodbye, everybody done dot done,

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