CMA Snubs and Surprises, Best Story in a Song, and Country Music News

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The question of the day whatsong tells the best story?
What song tells the best story?
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But there is an article I foundthat I would like us to review.
Okay, I'm in 2025 CMA Awardnominations.

Ooh, I'm ready to throw some shade.

Jay Franze (01:52):
Biggest snubs and surprises.

Ooh, I can't wait .
This feels like it's going tobe a juicy one.

Jay Franze (02:00):
I like the title, so I chose it, but I have not read
it.

I like to be as surprised as you are.

Jay Franze (02:06):
2025 CMA Award nominations biggest snubs and
surprises.
First one is a surprise.
I hope you're surprised.

I'm already surprised.

Jay Franze (02:19):
It is Morgan Wallen.

Oh, I am very surprised.

Jay Franze (02:25):
Because Morgan Wallen has signaled that awards
don't matter to him, but yet hestill won three CMA awards,
surprise.

You're winning, whether you want to or not.

Jay Franze (02:41):
Well, you know, hey, that's not bad.
I guess I can go with that one.

You know I'm sure that this crossed your mind,
but it did not cross my mind.
Somebody was talking about howmany songs go on a record.
It's like what?
10 to 13 or something right?
Does that feel fair?
That's fair okay, and thenmorgan wallen comes out with
this 36 song album and I waslike, oh yeah, because when we

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got it it was three vinylrecords.

Jay Franze (03:12):
So that's not an album.
No, that's a box set.

Right, you released a box set.
I think you thought it was analbum, but it's a box set.

Jay Franze (03:23):
They were limited to time, time and space.

Same thing, with.

Jay Franze (03:27):
CDs.
So everything was limited bythe amount of content you could
put on the physical medium.

And it averaged out to about 12 songs I always
like 10.

Jay Franze (03:39):
I thought 10 was a good number to have on a cd.

If I was a good number to have on an ep, 10 was
a good number to have on a cd orfull cd so there you go because
somebody was saying about howmany hits he's got off of there
and they're like well, yeah, ifyou're releasing that many songs
, of course.

Jay Franze (03:56):
One of them is bound to be a hit Right.
No, I mean his songs are good.

Yeah.

Jay Franze (04:04):
Next one is also a surprise.

Ooh, I can't wait .

Jay Franze (04:08):
Miranda Lambert.
We're never sad to see MirandaLambert among the CMA nominees.
Her Postcards from Texas albumis her first album in over five
years.
It looks like it has paid offSurprise.

Is she one of our artists that's no longer with a
label?

Jay Franze (04:26):
I don't think she's with a major label any longer.
I think she's been off a majorlabel for some time now.

Good.

Jay Franze (04:35):
All right, our first snub.

Uh-oh.

Jay Franze (04:39):
Are you ready, who?

did it.
Who done it?

Jay Franze (04:41):
Morgan Wallen.
Yep, morgan Wallen is a snub aswell as a surprise.
Country music's most streamedartist is also a radio favorite
with four number one songs Allright, going with another snub,
okay, okay low cash oh numberone hit should earn you a

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nomination.
So apparently he had a vocalduo that earned a number one hit
, so therefore he be nominated,and I'm guessing he wasn't and
he feels snubbed.
And therefore a little bit of asnub.

Mm-hmm.
Does it say what the song was?

Jay Franze (05:23):
Hometown Home.

Oh, that's a good one.

Jay Franze (05:28):
Went to number one we can make this hometown home.
Must have been really good.
Huh, yes, it's a good song.
We have a surprise folks.
Zach Topp, you know Zach Topp.

Yeah.

Jay Franze (05:42):
You know he was going to be nominated here at
the CMA nominations.

Yeah.

Jay Franze (05:47):
Fans in the industry .
Both love him.
He has delivered in every way,so if that's the case, is it
really a surprise?

No, no, I'm not surprised way.
So if that's the case, is itreally a surprise?

Jay Franze (05:58):
no, no, maybe it's a surprise, because he went with
the old school 90s style yeahsurprise.
No, I can't use the wordsurprise because that's part of
our category.
Um, get ready for this one.
It's not quite prepared to beshocked.
I'll work on it.

This one is a snub uh-oh post malone he got
snubbed or he is snubbing.

Jay Franze (06:27):
Let's find out, okay it's strange how everyone has
clamored to add post malone totheir collaboration list.
Everyone has clamored to addPost Malone to their
collaboration list.
No kidding, because he bringsattention to everybody he works
with.
Yet he was not recognized.

He was not recognized in a meaningful way.
Oh okay, I was listening to aninterview with teddy swims.
I did not realize that he hasface tats.
And then we have jelly rollwith face tats and we got post
malone with face tats and I amsaying face scared sounds so
wrong coming out of you uh, itis is scaring me that it's maybe

(07:18):
becoming a trend.
I don't want it to become atrend.

Jay Franze (07:20):
I think it's too late.

Really you think young kids are already starting
to tap their faces?

Jay Franze (07:25):
Oh, hell yeah.

Oh no.

Jay Franze (07:28):
Oh yeah, no, I see a lot of it.

A lot.
Oh Well, get ready for that andthe family photos.

Jay Franze (07:37):
Alright.
Next one is a surprise, stephenWilson Jr.
Should I hold?

on to my chair.

Jay Franze (07:44):
Stephen Wilson Jr.

I do not know his name.

Jay Franze (07:48):
Stephen Wilson Jr has offered duets with Hayley
Witters, hardy and DierksBentley, but not much of a solo
career.

I'm going to disclose some information that I
feel like I should not, but I'mgoing to air my dirty laundry.

Jay Franze (08:07):
Uh-oh.

This guy Hardy.

Jay Franze (08:09):
Hardy.

That's the problem.
I thought that everybody wasjust taking john party's name
and, like you know, shorteningit how is this airing your dirty
laundry?
Because it's like kind of adumb blonde thing, you know I
would think of it more of that.

Jay Franze (08:29):
This is a dumb blonde moment well, yes, so
whatever.

However, however, you want to deem my admission
Go ahead Continue.
So for the crew members outthere that did not know, hardy
is different than party For thecrew members out there that did
not know Tiffany's a blonde.
I was telling somebody theother day.

(08:55):
I'm like you would think it wasnatural, but no, I pay for it.

Jay Franze (09:04):
Next one is a snub.

Okay.

Jay Franze (09:07):
Parmalee.

Ooh.

Jay Franze (09:09):
Here we go again, waving the flag for Parmalee,
country music's leastappreciated group.

Okay, so therefore sn group.

Jay Franze (09:17):
Okay, so therefore snub.

Okay, snub, you're snubbed.
Because we say you're snubbed.

Jay Franze (09:25):
The next one is also a snub.

Oh no.

Jay Franze (09:30):
It is jelly roll.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, I don't wantanybody snubbing jelly roll who
pissed in jelly Roll's Cheerios.
After getting three nominationsin 2024, including Entertainer
of the Year, he's been shut outof the major categories in 2025.

Oh Well, it sounds like the nominee
committee are the people whopeed in his.
Cheerios.
Yeah, I think it's very obviouswho pissed in his Cheerios Nice
.

Jay Franze (10:05):
All right, well, sorry, jelly.

Well, dolly Parton and Zac Brown joined
forces on the new duet Butterfly, out on September 5th not an
upcoming date.
That is when it came out in thepast, on September 5th,
alongside a music video, dollypersonally picked the song,

(10:31):
calling it the one that gave Zacchills when she nailed it.
Their December residencies inVegas even spark hopes for a
live duet.
Surprise, I did not realizethat Dolly had a residency in
Vegas right now.

Jay Franze (10:41):
Yeah, that's exciting.
Yes, it is.
It's very cool.
When she finished singing thatsong, she went up to him and
says I think you have a hit onyour hands.
Ah, cool, it's pretty cool thatshe would say that.
Yeah, I know we talk aboutDolly and her success all the
time, but Zac say that though.
Yeah, I know we talk about dollyand her success all the time,
but zach brown, they startedlike everybody else they started

(11:02):
early and they started in a vanand they were playing 200 shows
a year oh, my driving in a van,so you got to give them props
for, for doing it and making itfor sure wow.

well, I told you I was listening to a podcast
today and they were interviewingLeanne Morgan.
She's a comedian and somebodywent to go reference and stopped
themselves saying somethingabout overnight success.
And they said we all know thatnobody gets overnight success.
And they said how long have youbeen doing standup?
And she said she's been doingit for 25 years, so you grind a
lot before you make it.

Jay Franze (11:36):
Yeah, nashville has that nickname of being the
10-year town.

Oh yeah.

Jay Franze (11:41):
So you don't get any form of success at all for the
first 10 years.

God, that's so long.
That's so long.
I remember thinking about thatwhen we were talking to Billie
Jo Jones and she said that she'dbeen performing for over 10
years and I thought the samething, like, oh, it's so long.
Like you know, you got to keepreminding yourself.
It's the game of consistencyjust keep showing up, keep being

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there, keep paving or poundingthe streets and knocking on the
doors and shaking the hands and,oh my gosh, how exhausting only
to, like you know, I mean ahandful of people actually get
to the big stage.

Jay Franze (12:16):
I mean you have to outside the box and come up with
different ways of making it,because you can say, okay, I'm
going to be a waiter and I'mjust going to work as a waiter
until I make it.
Or you can find some other way,like you can go work for a
publishing company and work at adesk.
You can work in a studio as anintern.
You can find all these otherways to work and make your money

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while you're trying to promoteyour craft, because that way at
least you can network and meetthe right people and get in the
right circles.

Now I told Preston the same thing when he
was wanting to do medical work.
I was like, don't go work atlike a restaurant, be a courier
for a blood supply company wherethey have to drive things back
and forth between the medicalfacilities or something.
I mean.
I think that's such solidadvice that at least be in the
industry and you don't know whoyou're going to bump into or
what conversation you're goingto have and you know right place

(13:09):
, right time.

Jay Franze (13:10):
I'm going to tell you the story about the intern
from my school.

No, Jay.
Do you have any stories aboutany of your interns?

Jay Franze (13:17):
I could give you a story.
Yes, I would love to do that.
Thank you for asking.

Okay, yeah.

Jay Franze (13:21):
When I was teaching at the college, we would send
our students out into the field.
We would find them internships.
So I had this one student whocame up to me and said I want an
internship.
I said, great, I'll make thearrangements for you.
And great, I'll make thearrangements for you.
And he says, no, I want one atthat studio.
And he pointed out the windowand there was a studio right
beneath the window and it'scalled Soundstage, which is one

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of the biggest studios inNashville, and he said he wanted
to work over there.
So I said okay, and I made afew phone calls, got him the
internship.
The very next day he comes back.
I said, well, how was it hegoes.
I don't think I want to go backand I was like why what
happened?
And he's like, well, they didn'tdo anything, they just sat
there and played video games allday long.
So I was like, well, what didyou do?
He goes, I just sat there andwatched them play video games.
I said, well, before you giveup on it, we give you a laptop

(14:11):
and we give you a Pro Toolssystem as part of your tuition
here at the school.
Why don't you go sit at thefront desk with that laptop and
you're working and you can beediting a school project for all
I care, just edit something,work on it.
Yeah, and that way, when peoplecome in and out, they'll think
of you as an engineer, theywon't think of you as an intern.
And if the phone rings, answerit, and if he can help out in

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another way, do it, so he saysokay and he comes back, he goes.
They're putting me on theovernight shift.
I'm not even going to seeanybody.
I said stick to the plan, Juststick to it.
Yes.

Tony Scott (14:46):
So he did.

Jay Franze (14:47):
And during the day they were repainting and
remodeling the studio.
So they were painting all thewalls and the painter got about
halfway down the wall and it was5 o'clock, so he went home for
the night and the intern decidedwell, you know, I'm here, I may
as well do something.
And he picked up the paintbrushand finished painting the wall.
When he was doing that, theowner of the studio which he did

(15:08):
not know who the owner of thestudio was walks by him.
Uh-huh uh-huh and just says, hi,have a good night.
And leaves.
He didn't think anything of it.
He left.
The next day the owner of thestudio comes in, says to the
manager of the studio hey, how'dyou get the painter to stay
here all night?
He goes what are you talkingabout?
The painter left before I did.
He goes the only person thatwas here overnight was the

(15:31):
intern.
The next day he goes in and hesays, hey, you're the intern,
right.
And he says yes, sir.
He says, well, hi, I'mso-and-so, I'm the owner of the
studio.
He goes did you stay here andpaint the wall last night?
He said, yes, sir.
He goes who asked you to dothat?
He goes oh, nobody.
He goes I just wanted to makesure I was being productive.

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He says well, I'll tell youwhat.
Why don't you come by thestudio and let's go ahead and
get you some experience?
So he did, and he did well inthe studio that day and he
became that person's assistant.

Ah, I love it.

Jay Franze (16:06):
All from just putting in a little bit of
effort and trying to stand out.
So I tell that story whenever Ican.
I think it's an important one.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Jay Franze (16:15):
All right.

Sorry all right, sorry, we can move on to your
next news item please, jeepers,you took up all my airtime I
know I'm taking it all up.

Jay Franze (16:23):
All right, we're done, let's move on now.
What's next?

and that's it, folks.
Okay.
Mtv vmas goes country.
So first ever best countrycategory debuts.
So we knew this was coming andfor the first time in the 40
year run, there's a best countryaward featuring heavy hitters
like Chris Stapleton.
Speaking of Chris Stapleton,did you see him on Thursday

(16:50):
Night Football?

Jay Franze (16:51):
I did not.

Okay, so we see Chris Stapleton saying in the
air tonight, and then Snooprapped something that had to do
with Thursday Night Football.
It was such an amazingcollaboration.
It sounded so good and I thinkChris Stapleton is losing weight
.

Jay Franze (17:10):
I did not see it, but now I have to look it up.

You will have to, because it was probably.
I mean, it was right up therewith the Carrie Underwood Sunday
Night Football.
It was right up there, okay,chris Stapleton, lainey Wilson,
morgan Wallen, megan Maroney,jelly Roll, cody Johnson and
Carrie Underwood.
The show also includes countryperformances from Jelly Roll and
Post Malone.
Oh weird, our two Snubs, no,our two Shoot.

Jay Franze (17:39):
Face tats.

What is it?
What is it when people arefrequent offenders?

Jay Franze (17:45):
Repeat offenders.

Repeat offenders.
It's our repeat collaboratorsJelly Roll and Post Malone.

Jay Franze (17:53):
Long way for that one, Sorry folks.

Yes, yes, okay, and post-Mulan Long way for that
one, sorry folks.
Yes, yes, okay.
Jason Aldean he's opening upabout his post-Vegas breakdown.
I was excited not like excited.
I was fondly reminded of aninterview I did where a lady was
talking about this Jason Aldeanconcert.
Well, the song that she chosefor my podcast.

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She remembers listening to thesong.
Gunshots were fired and thenyou know how they recovered from
that day.
So it was in a raw armchairexpert chat, which is the
podcast with Dax Shepard, and herevealed how the Route 91
tragedy in 2017 left him reelingwith survivor's guilt and he
didn't seek therapy.

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Instead, he leaned in on lovedones and found purpose in
healing through music.
I think he's not the only onewho has found healing through
music.
That's a pretty common theme,and I will now share my feelings
about number five, which iscountry sweetheart.
Devin Dawson welcomes babynumber two Devin Dawson and his

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wife, leah Sykes announced theyare expecting their second child
.
I don't like that.
It says in the headline thatthey welcomed their baby because
they did not, yet.
It is like who do you keepsaying has five kids?
Is it Thomas Rhett?

Jay Franze (19:17):
Yes.

Yes, and they are just pregnant with their fifth
child.

Jay Franze (19:21):
They didn't have a fifth child yet.
Well, she carries it aroundwith her every day.

She won't live home without it, not yet.
Eventually, devin's another one.
Oh my God, he was heavy metalbefore he went into country.

Jay Franze (19:35):
Oh's another one.
Oh my God, he was heavy metalbefore he went into country.

Oh, really, okay, yes, okay.
So they had a sweet familyphoto on the beach and it was
featuring his daughter, iris,and they could not hide their
joy.

Jay Franze (19:52):
We've got it hidden.
It's inside her belly.
What it should say is it cannotshow his joy, ew.

Here take a look, our next Off Color News topic
is going to be Nicole Kidman,proving she's a true country fan
.
During Keith Urban's opener inAustralia, she surprised the
opener, chase Matthew, bysprinting up behind the scenes
to high-five him.
He later admitted I did notrealize how big a star she was,

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but the gesture proved hergenuine love for the game.

Jay Franze (20:29):
Okay, I was going to say she better be a country
music fan.

She better be Well, she should be.

Jay Franze (20:34):
I mean to be fair.
My wife's not really thebiggest fan of me and we're
married so.
Or the things I do.
I mean, let's hope she's a fanof me.
I don't know, maybe if you'relistening, chime in put it in
the chat, but Nicole Kidman, shewas as nice as can be, super,
super nice, friendly.
They were great people now grantthey pulled up in a bentley and

(20:56):
all that fun stuff blacked outbentley.
It was awesome, an awesomevehicle, but she's so super nice
and I don't know if you're, ifyou know, but she can actually
sing I do know that they sang asong together.

Oh, what the heck was it there was.
It was COVID.
There was a video that came outwhere the two of them were
singing oh.

Jay Franze (21:21):
Yep, that one.

Oh, the words are like on the tip of my tongue.

Jay Franze (21:26):
Did she sing on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack?

Yes, she did, she did.
Oh, now I have to find it.

Jay Franze (21:33):
I mean, I wouldn't go as far as saying like she's a
.

She's not a recording artist.

Jay Franze (21:37):
No, but she can sing .

Oh, what was that song?
Oh, I'm going to look it upstill, okay, I'm going to look
it up, but I'm going to focusfor everybody, Not so much for
you, jay, but for the crew.
So here comes the next bit ofnews y'all, y'all, y'all k
michelle, she's finally gettingher country album.
So I guess this is an albumshe's wanted ever since she was

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a child and after years ofpushback in the studio, k
michelle is finally getting herlong overdue country album.

Jay Franze (22:09):
This feels I'm not gonna hold judgment.

I feel like she got a door opened by a very
famous Texas Hold'em singer.

Jay Franze (22:21):
I'm hoping it's not like that.
I'm going to hold judgment,though let's give her a chance.

Okay, I need drumroll.

Jay Franze (22:29):
Really.

I need drumroll.
The song they sang together wasthe Fighter I think I need a
thing too here.

Jay Franze (22:39):
Let me check.

Tiffany, you're fired.
Come on AI Trump.
Okay, and the last thing I'mgoing to report to you guys is
John Rich.

Jay Franze (22:54):
John.

Rich, john Rich.
He has dropped a new song.
He was on the Brian Kilmeadeshow.
He seems to be very tight withthe folks over there.
He was on the Brian Kilmeadeshow and he talked about his new
track, the Devil and the T-V-A.
Do you know what the T-V-A is,jay?

Jay Franze (23:13):
Tennessee Valley Association.

Oh okay.
No, I just made thatAssociation, oh okay.

Jay Franze (23:17):
No, I just made that up oh.
I don't want you to go onthinking that that was right.

I would, I could have let you go all night long,
but no.
I do not know what, the TV isOkay.
And then he also was speakingout against a planned methane
plant for Cheatham Cheatham.

Jay Franze (23:36):
That's how we cheat in Boston.

Cheatham.

Jay Franze (23:41):
How we cheat them now.

Showing that he's still using his voice for both
music and community.

Jay Franze (23:49):
He's such a swell guy.
Do you know that he was afounding member of Lone Star?

The country group or the steakhouse.

Jay Franze (24:00):
Is there a Lone Star steakhouse?

You guys don't have them.

Jay Franze (24:04):
We don't have them here, no, but I do think I've
seen one before.

Oh, I'm thinking Longhorn.

Tony Scott (24:10):
Tiffany, you're fired, goodbye no.

Same same.

Jay Franze (24:16):
Anyways, lone Star, the band.
He was a founding member ofLone Star.
Before going on to the big andrich stuff.

Oh, wow.

Jay Franze (24:27):
Question of the day what song tells the best story?
What song tells the best story?
Miss Tiffany, as always, I willgive you the opportunity to go
first or wait till the end.

Well, I'm going to bat that ball right back to
you, Jay, and tell you that Iwill hold my suggestion till the
end.

Jay Franze (24:49):
All right Now.
This does not say best.

Best.
It's our show.
We can do whatever we want todo.

Jay Franze (24:57):
Let's go ahead and rank them.

I think so.

Jay Franze (24:59):
It's our show, we can do whatever we want to do.

Let's go ahead and rank them I think so.

Jay Franze (25:03):
I like ranking things, me too, me too, alright,
sarah, sarah with an H.
Sarah with an H Because itmatters.
I like Sarah without the H.

I like Sarah with an H.
I'm pretty traditional, exceptfor we have Hannah, no H at the
end.

Jay Franze (25:17):
Well, I have Sarah Bella, which is no H.

Well, that would lend to that.
But Hannah, had we done that,had we given her the H at the
end, she would have had.
I think it's called apanindrome.
You know where you can spell itforward and backward.
Can't believe we took that awayfrom her, but I know All right.

Jay Franze (25:38):
Sarah with an H says Garth Brooks Thunder Rolls.

That's pretty good Thunder.

Jay Franze (25:40):
Rolls.
It is one of my favorite GarthBrooks songs.

It's on the list First one, right out of the gate
.

Jay Franze (25:46):
All right, David.
David says George Jones.
He stopped loving her today.

David says George Jones, he stopped loving her
today.
Are we going to go, DebbieDowners?
I mean we probably should.
It's what half of country musicis.

Jay Franze (25:58):
It's true, dogs and pickup trucks, kelly says Reba
McEntire.

Tony Scott (26:07):
The night, the lights went out in Georgia.

Jay Franze (26:09):
I'm counting on you to write things down tonight.

I'm doing it.

Jay Franze (26:14):
Michael says down tonight, I'm doing it.
Michael says Johnny Cash, a boynamed Sue.
Amanda says Martina McBride,concrete Angel, ooh, that's good
.
Chris says Alan Jackson,midnight in Montgomery.

Lisa says, Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.

Jay Franze (26:34):
Whiskey Lullaby.
Tom says Dolly Parton, Coat ofMany Colors.
Just writing as fast as I can.

I'm assuming you're only writing down ones
that matter.

Jay Franze (26:48):
Oh well you have to give me an indication if you
feel like they matter.
Well, to be fair, you are MissLy Larrick, but I will do my
best, Mark says.
Tracy Lawrence.

Time marches on.

Jay Franze (26:59):
Emily says Eric Church Lightning.
She says it puts you in theshoes of a man facing his final
moments on a death row.
That sounds depressing, briansays.

Tony Scott (27:22):
George Strait the chair.
Now, is that the chair?
That Emily's?

Jay Franze (27:24):
talking about Speaking of your daughter.

What did she write into this?
Hannah says Miranda.

Jay Franze (27:30):
Lambert and Hannah.
I'm sorry if you're tired ofhearing tiffany's daughter jokes
all the time.
Hannah says miranda, lambert,the house that built me.
That is a good one.

I like that one me too jason says tim, mcgraw,
don't take the girl I thought ofthat one that must be on our
mind when we're all together.

Jay Franze (27:54):
Olivia.
Olivia says Vince Gill, Atleast it's not Amy.
Olivia says Vince Gill, Go resthigh on the mountain.
Oh shit, oh, Olivia, you'refriends with Amy Friends.
You're Amy's friend.
If I see Amy on this list lateron, I know something's going on

(28:17):
.

That's awesome.

Jay Franze (28:21):
Oh, that's funny.
It's a farewell that feels likea prayer.
Okay, sounds like a prayer.
Oh, mercy me, paul, saysCharlie Daniels, the Devil Went
Down to Georgia.
That is awesome, one of thegreatest musical showdowns ever
told.

(28:41):
I'm with you, paul, that's agood one.
You write that one down.

It's in ink on the paper Paul wants to know.

Jay Franze (28:51):
Tiffany did you write it down.

I think Jay wants to know.
He's saying Tiffany, did youwrite it down?
I think Jay wants to know.

Jay Franze (28:55):
Katie says Randy Travis Three Wooden Crosses.

Oh God, that's a good song.

Jay Franze (29:01):
Steven says Patti Loveless, you'll Never Leave
Harlan Alive.
Jessica says Brooks and DunnRed Dirt Road.

The Red Dirt Road .

Jay Franze (29:13):
Oh, laura, you almost had me.
Laura says clint black killingtime.
I like clint black, like therain.
Sophie, sophie's back guesswho's back sophie's back.
Sophie says ch Chris Stapleton.
Daddy doesn't pray anymore.

(29:38):
She mentioned you too.
Of course she did.

Aaron says Tanya Tucker, Delta Dawn.

Jay Franze (29:50):
Delta Dawn Ethan.
Ethan says Zac Brown bandColder weather.
Oh, I like that song.
Oh, victoria's back, helloVictoria.
Victoria says little big town,girl crush.
I do like that one a lot.

I'm with you, I like that song a lot, but I
don't know if it tells a story.
I mean it tells a story, butit's more like she's jealous.
It's kind of like Jolene Don't.

Jay Franze (30:18):
Take my man, jolene's great.

It's a great song , but it's not telling a story.

Jay Franze (30:23):
All right, epic Roxy .

What's she got to say?

Jay Franze (30:27):
Carrie Underwood and Vince Gill.
How Great Thou Art.

How great thou art.
How great thou art, it's a,it's a, it's a hymn yeah, sounds
like it a fool for learning.

Jay Franze (30:42):
Aka joseph, and I won't read his last name okay,
okay he says gordon lightfoot,jordan Lightfoot, the wreck of
Edmund Fitzgerald.
Kurt 549 says Johnny.
Cash a boy named Sue.

A boy named Sue.

Jay Franze (31:02):
Kathy's in the house , she says, okay, there used to
be a Lone Star Steakhouse.
It went into bankruptcy in 2019.
Thank you, mom, I'm not losingit she says Dolly Parton, coat
of many colors and Reba fancy.
I like fancy, that one needs tobe on the list.

(31:25):
Thank you, miss Kathy, thankyou get some disappointing news
for you later, but don't worry,we're still good.
Allison says Craig Morgan,almost home.
Derek says Loretta Lynn, coalminer's daughter.

(31:46):
Molly says Brett Eldridge.
Raymond Holly says Rascal.
Flats skin?
I don't know that soundsdisturbing.

It does sound disturbing.
All right, but it's from RascalFlats, so it can't be that bad.
No.

Jay Franze (32:03):
Paul, paul, and I recognize your face.
Paul is married to my cousin.

Oh snap, there you go, paul, you've been
facially recognized.

Jay Franze (32:13):
Skinnered.
Give me skinnered, give methree steps give me three steps.

Give me three steps, master kathy says you're
welcome.

Jay Franze (32:24):
John says jd suther hearts against the wind and
these people are trying me thewind and these people are trying
me sound it out.
If you have to, jay, sound itout out loud, it's fine.

I know in previous episodes he says he
goes by jacob okay but jacobsays bob dylan hurricane I feel
like I should know this song,especially since I live in
Florida.

Jay Franze (33:02):
Home of the Hurricane.
Let's see Sarah.
This is Family Night.
Sarah with an H, this one, myMother-in-Law.
Oh, it is Family Night.
Family Night, she one, mymother-in-law.

Oh, it is family night.

Jay Franze (33:14):
Family night.
She says Angel from Montgomery.
I don't know if it's the best,but it certainly speaks volumes.
It doesn't tell me who sang it,though.

Who sang Angel from Montgomery, I will go for
it.

Jay Franze (33:30):
While you go, gal, I'm moving on.

Okay.

Jay Franze (33:33):
Kim says.

Bonnie Raitt sings your mother-in-law's song
Okay.

Jay Franze (33:39):
Kim says it's tie for me.

It's a tie.

Jay Franze (33:44):
She says it's T-I-E for me.

It's tie for me, it's time for me.

Jay Franze (33:51):
And she says both Elvis.

Oh, there's two songs it's a time for me and she
says both elvis.
Oh, there's two songs it's atie for me, uh-huh I get it, kim
, just call me special jayyou're fired do I have that
button?
It's here somewhere yes fireyourself jay, you're fired and
well deserved kim it's a tie foryou.

Jay Franze (34:17):
You say in the ghetto, or, if I can dream both
by elvis, and if I just scrolledover just a little bit, I would
have seen the song titles.
It says it's tie for me, dotdot dot.
I didn't bother looking afterthe dots.

(34:38):
Good time, kathy.
You still want to spend sometime here?
I'm just saying, all right,scotty Simpson.
Scotty Simpson, I'll use yourname because you are a previous
guest of the show.
You are the bass player for theOak Ridge Boys.
Thank you for being here.
He says the song remembers whenTrisha Herewood.

Oh, I would take that suggestion with a lot of
weight, because he's probablyheard it a lot of times or he's
very aware of the music.

Jay Franze (35:15):
He is definitely a smart man.
When it comes to music, supertalented he doesn't get the
credit he deserves for thetalent he has.
I mean, he's known as a bassplayer.

I mean, I just gave him a lot of credit.

Jay Franze (35:27):
You did.
You did the industry itself.
Okay, again, I just gave him alot of credit.
But yes, he's the bass playerfor the ogre boys.
Before that he was the bassplayer for travis strip.
Before that he was the bassplayer for patty loveless.
So he's known in the industryas being a bass player however

(35:49):
he's also had a solo album out.
He's a a great singer.
He writes some great songs, buthe is known for being a bass
player.
Scotty, thank you for beinghere.
You are the big spoon to me.

Yikes, what an honor, scotty.

Jay Franze (36:09):
See, we said last time that he would be the big
spoon.

Yeah, yeah.

Jay Franze (36:16):
Mark, thank you.
Says, hold On by Franzi.

Oh.

Jay Franze (36:21):
Mark's sucking up a little bit.

That was going to be.

Jay Franze (36:24):
Mine Was it, was it really I don't know if it's the
best story I've ever put into asong, but it is one of my
favorites.
So, thank you, mark, for thecompliment.
I don't think it's the bestever, one of my best.

Do you want me to put it on the list?

Jay Franze (36:45):
No, no, I do not.
It does not deserve to be onthe list.
It is a good song though I likeit, if I can say is a good song
though I like it, if I can saythat, if I can say I like one of
my own songs.

I think you can.

Jay Franze (36:57):
That's what I would like to do, mark Baralado.

Ooh, I love that name Baralado I got your book
and I was looking at the peoplethat you were crediting and that
was the second one.
I was like Baralado, remember Iwere crediting, and that was
the second one.
I was like bottleado.
Remember I told you I have tosay morgan woolen after my lady
says it, and I had to saybottleado multiple times when I
was reading that mark bottleadowell, mark bottleado says

(37:25):
paradise by the dashboard lightmeatloaf I don't know this song.

Jay Franze (37:30):
Oh, yes, you do.

Oh yikes.

Jay Franze (37:35):
There is no way in hell you do not, and it is
probably up there on the top ofour list for sure.

It's by Meatloaf.

Jay Franze (37:43):
It's up in the top five, I'm sure by Meatloaf yes.

Paradise, what Do you know who Meatloaf is?
Yeah, paradise, what Okay?

Jay Franze (37:50):
Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
All right, let me start cherrypicking.
Tony Lynn Starr I say her oldname because she's a future
guest of the show.

Hey, girl hey.

Jay Franze (38:04):
Hey, tony Lynn Starr , thank you for being here.
She says I'm a little partialto my stories and my songs.

Good for her.

Jay Franze (38:13):
Because I've lived them all.
I guess I just want to saythank you, Thank you for all you
do to get my songs out into theworld.

Aw.

Jay Franze (38:23):
Thank you, my pleasure.
We didn't really promote a songthere, but it is my pleasure.
Michael Michael is always hereevery week.
Thank you very much for beinghere.
He says I love Uncle Tom'sCabin by Warrant.
That is a great song Uh-huh.
Do you remember that song?

Yes, I do.

Jay Franze (38:46):
Okay, good, it is a good song, michael, thank you.
Thank you for being here eachand every week.

Being a repeat offender.
Danny being a repeat offender,Danny.

Jay Franze (38:56):
Yes repeat offender Danny says scenes from an
Italian restaurant.
That is a great song.
He doesn't have it here, butit's Billy Joel.
Okay, he said I would alsosecond the wreck of Edmund
Fitzgerald.

Okay.

Jay Franze (39:16):
And then Michael said oh wow, I forgot all about
that.
That is a great one as well.

Wow.

Jay Franze (39:25):
Dave says I would also agree it's got to be Gordon
Lightfoot wreck of EdmundFitzgerald.

Oh wow, I don't know.
We're getting a lot of votesfor it.
We're getting a lot of votesfor it.

Jay Franze (39:34):
We are getting a lot of votes for it and Dave is
also a professional musician.
It's Dave Gibbs.
Dave Gibbs I'm saying his lastname because I want him to be a
future guest on the show butDave Gibbs, he released an
amazing album of his own, but hesays it's got to be Gordon

(39:55):
Lightfoot.

I mean, I know the song, it's pretty good.

Jay Franze (40:01):
James.
James, who says he likes ourquestion of the day?
He says there's so many to name, but I'm going to go with
Copperhead Road.

Oh.

Jay Franze (40:14):
Scott says Red Brichetta by Rush.
Anthony says the Saga Begins byWeird Al.

Oh gosh.

Jay Franze (40:26):
Anthony, you are too funny and thank you for being
here week after week.
Tristan Marie, thank you forcoming back and I'm going to use
your last name because, again,I want you to be a future guest
of the show Tristan Marie says,I think if you just use their
last name, it will make themappear as a guest.

(40:47):
I'm hoping it will.

Interesting strategy.

Jay Franze (40:54):
However they are, they are people with albums out
in the public, so I don't thinkusing their name is a bad thing.

No, it's probably perfectly fine.
I just don't know how it getsthem on the show.
I'm just, what do you say?

Jay Franze (41:12):
I have asked her to come on the show.
She has said yes, it justhasn't happened, but I would
like to see her on the show.

I don't get to bust your cookies off.
She says the.

Jay Franze (41:20):
River by Bruce Springsteen.

The River.

Jay Franze (41:24):
She also says the Joke by Brandi Carlile.
She also says Fire and Rain byJames.

Taylor A few.

Jay Franze (41:32):
Oh man, she's got more.
I'll tell you what you come onthe show.
I'll read the rest of them.

Yeah.

Jay Franze (41:39):
Because I don't agree with them anyway.
A couple more just becausethey're here all the time.
Maya Project Music.
Oh yeah, selling England by thePound by the band Genesis.

Okay.

Jay Franze (41:52):
Logan says Randy Houser Like a Cowboy.
Brooke says Nitty Gritty DirtBand Fishing in the Dark.

Tiffany says Two Black Cadillacs.

Jay Franze (42:05):
Oh.

Mm-hmm.

Jay Franze (42:07):
Now you're making me think because, there's another
song called Black Cadillac byJeff Howell.
That's really good and kind offunny, mm-hmm.
Jeff Howell's got a few goodstory songs.

Just a few.

Jay Franze (42:21):
Yeah, he's good.
I've asked him to come on theshow too.
He said he couldn't because hewas on the road, but he didn't
call me back when he got off theroad saying hey, I'm ready.

Well, just remind him, Life gets busy Jay.

Jay Franze (42:37):
It does All.
Right Word about Harry Chapinyeah.

Previous guest of the show, not Harry Chapin,
yeah.

Jay Franze (42:47):
Previous guest of the show.
Not Harry, but his son.
That has got to be one of thebest songs ever.
Cats in the Cradle, oh yeah.

No, I think that's got to go.
It's got to be on the list.

Jay Franze (42:59):
Oh, I was going to say got to go.
Whoa man, you're being harsh.

No.

Jay Franze (43:02):
That is a great song .

Yeah, all man you're being harsh, no that is a
great song.

Jay Franze (43:05):
Yeah, all right, read down this list.
Let's go through it two at atime.

Okay, the River Thunder Rolls.

Jay Franze (43:12):
Thunder Rolls.

Okay, night Went the Light With.

Jay Franze (43:19):
Night, the Light Went On In Georgia.

Yep or Thunder Rolls.

Jay Franze (43:24):
Thunder Rolls.

Or should we keep them both for now?
Are we going to rank these?

Jay Franze (43:29):
Yeah, this is our ranking.
We're ranking.

This sounds like we're deleting some.

Jay Franze (43:35):
Are we just going for the best or are we going for
a ranking?

Let's keep five and we'll rank five.

Jay Franze (43:41):
Fine, okay, there you go.
Keep both of those.

Then we've got to keep Boy Named Sue, I think,
because we had multiple votesfor it.

Jay Franze (43:46):
No, did we?
I thought we only had one forthat we had two.

Two on the list of five.
Do you think it's going to maketop five?

Jay Franze (43:52):
Wouldn't make it to me no.

Okay, concrete Angel.
No, okay Midnight in Montgomery.

Jay Franze (44:00):
No.

Whiskey Lullaby.

Jay Franze (44:05):
No.

Okay, code of Many Colors.

Jay Franze (44:09):
Nope.

I mean your girl Kathy, threw that one out there.

Jay Franze (44:13):
Sorry Kathy, she wasn't the only one, a couple
people did.
Sorry, kathy, we've got otherthings to bond over.

Lightning.

Jay Franze (44:21):
Now, to be fair, she also said fancy, and if you
want to throw fancy there, Iwould take that one.

Added Lightning no the chair.

Jay Franze (44:33):
No.

The house that built me.

Jay Franze (44:36):
Yes.

Don't take the girl.
No, that's a pretty good story.
Devil went down to Georgia.
I already know.
Yes, three wooden crosses.
No, come on, they're on the bus, randy travis yes, I get it
great song.

Jay Franze (44:52):
But you got me thinking.
Now I gotta pick five, I gottabe selective okay, you'll never
leave harlan alive nope red dirtroad road no killing time no
delta dawn no two blackcadillacs no, I like it, but not
the best story ever are youkidding actually, you know what

(45:14):
it's got a pretty, pretty goodstory and the music is very like
yeah, mysterious, okay, um oh,colder weather, but I'm stuck in
colder weather girl crush.

I say Curious, okay, oh, colder Weather, but
I'm stuck in colder weather,girl Crush.
I say no, because it's not astory.
How?

Jay Franze (45:32):
Great Thou Art.
I love the song though.

I don't care.
No and no, I don't care.

Jay Franze (45:40):
Cats in the Cradle, Of course yes.

Take it easy.
Oh, you know what song I well?
It doesn't, it doesn't count,but sold was my other song sold
to the lady in the second rowshe's a nice, that's a great
song coal miner's daughter nopesong remembers when no the wreck

(46:04):
of Edmund Fitzgerald.

Jay Franze (46:07):
I can't place the song and we've had what 15
different people mentioned inthe night.

Mm-hmm, it's kind of a classic when I pulled it
up.

Jay Franze (46:16):
Okay, keep it for now Hurricane.
Nope.

Uncle Tom's Cabin .

Jay Franze (46:24):
Yes for now.

Scenes from Italian restaurants.

Jay Franze (46:29):
Yes, yes, yes.

I think that we're down to all of them, so
let me highlight here.

Jay Franze (46:33):
Okay, how many do we got?

We have one, two, three, four, five.
Oh wait, you said don't takethe girl.
You got rid of it, right, yes,or?

Tony Scott (46:43):
did you keep?

it Okay, I thought it was gone, okay.
Okay, well, crap.
One, two, three, four, five,six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Jay Franze (46:58):
This is the show where we watch Tiffany count.

Did you keep sold or not?
No, okay, so we have ten.
Okay, so we have 10.

Jay Franze (47:06):
Okay, 10 songs, we got to get rid of five.

Top 10.
Cats in the Cradle.
Thunder Rolls.
The Night the Lights Went Outin Georgia House.
That Built Me.
Wait, wait, wait.

Jay Franze (47:15):
You're just reading the 10 that we have.

Yeah.

Jay Franze (47:18):
Let's get rid of some, okay, so go ahead.

You want to get rid of the night.
The lights went out in Georgia.

Jay Franze (47:28):
Night, yeah House that built me.
No, keep it.

Devil went down to Georgia.
Keep it, fancy.
Keep it.
Two black Cadillacs Get rid ofit.
I gotta Uncle Tom's cabin.

Jay Franze (47:41):
This means if I say keep this one, that means we got
to go for another eliminationround.

Oh yeah.

Jay Franze (47:48):
Keep it.

Scenes from an Italian restaurant.

Jay Franze (47:51):
Oh, keep it.

This one's going to be tough.
The wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald.

Jay Franze (47:56):
Bye, I don't know it .

I can't keep it.
Okay, One, two, three, four,five six.

Jay Franze (48:02):
I'm sorry to the 15 people who said that song
tonight One, two, three, four,five, six.

I'm sorry to the 15 people who said that song
tonight One, two, three, four,five.
Okay, we have seven.
You have to get rid of twoSeven.

Jay Franze (48:08):
I've got to get rid of two of them.

Cats in the Cradle.

Jay Franze (48:11):
Just read them all, so I can see which ones.

Cats in the Cradle House that Built Me.
Fancy Devil Went Down toGeorgia, uncle Tom's Cabin.
Scenes from an ItalianRestaurant.

Jay Franze (48:38):
What was the second one?

House that Built Me.

Jay Franze (48:43):
Get rid of Fancy.

Really Okay.
Sorry, kathy.
Okay, we've got five Cats inthe Cradle House that Built Me
Double Went Down to Georgia,uncle Tom's Cabin.
Scenes from an ItalianRestaurant.

Jay Franze (48:56):
Now we've got to put these in an order.
Cats in the Cradle, number one.

Whoa okay.

Jay Franze (49:01):
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, number two.

Okay, then you've got House that Built Me.

Jay Franze (49:07):
Three.

Okay, three that means Scenes from an Italian
Restaurant is four.
Where's five Devil?

Jay Franze (49:16):
Went.

Down to Georgia.
Three Okay, then that bumpseverything.
Okay, if you stay where you are.
You have one is Cats in aCradle.
Two is Scenes from an ItalianRestaurant.
Three you have Tide.
You have one is Cats and Cradle.
Two is Seas from an ItalianRestaurant.

Jay Franze (49:28):
Three.
You have Tide, you have House,that Built Me, or.

Tell Me Not to Georgia.
No, I didn't have.

Jay Franze (49:32):
Tide, I bumped it.
Okay, what do you?

want.
I replaced it.
Okay, so, okay.
So, four and five do you wantit to be Uncle Tom's Cabin and
then House that Built Me, orHouse that Built Me and then
Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Jay Franze (49:42):
I like House that Built Me better.
Okay, all right, in our finalfive.

Counting down from number five.
Number five Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Number four the House thatBuilt Me.
Number three Devil Went Down toGeorgia.
Two Scenes from ItalianRestaurant and spot number one,
harry Chapin with Cats in theCradle All right, let's move on

(50:09):
to the countdowns.
Okay, number 10.
John Party, not Hardy.

Jay Franze (50:15):
Number 10.

Yeah, number 10?
.

Jay Franze (50:18):
I always go straight to number one.

Well, thank God, this is my segment.
We know somebody won't screw itup, okay All right, let's see
how the rest of this goes.
Fair enough.
Number nine Morgan Wallen I GotBetter.
Finally, I love this song.
All right.
Numero ocho Jay's favoritenumber.

(50:43):
It's got Luke Bryan one ofJay's favorite artists Country
song came on.
He slid a long ways, he spentsome time on the charts, he went
from one to eight.
So people are done with it.

Jay Franze (50:56):
He's been on the charts for a long time.
He should have been number onea lot sooner, yeah.

Okay, number seven is Jordan Davis Bar None,
and thank you to yourexplanation.
I'm a huge fan of this.

Jay Franze (51:07):
Now, it is a good song.

Yes, every time I hear the lyrics I'm like bar
comma none.
I have to laugh to myself Niceproblem.

Jay Franze (51:16):
I was listening to the radio today and I was
thinking to myself you know,they play the same ten songs
over and, over and over again,and they introduce a new song.
I'm like, oh, that one's goingto be on the charts next week.

Yeah, until then we'll have to go with this
week's jelly roll at number six,heart of Stone.
Yes, went from seven to spotsix, so he's climbing up there.

Jay Franze (51:38):
Scotty.
He's another one who feels likethere might have been a little
bit of a snubbing going on.

There might have been a little bit of a snubbing
going on.
I didn't see any of thenominations, but if he's not on
there I would agree with that.
But also Mr Jelly Roll is MrCollaborator.
So when you collaborate a wholebunch, I mean, do you get
nominated for that?

Jay Franze (51:55):
song Burnt Out.
Yeah, yes, absolutely.

Yes, you get Burnt Out.
Yes, yes, absolutely.

Tony Scott (52:03):
Spot number five is Scotty.

McCreary with Bottle Rockets.
I cannot believe.
This song is like making me soproud.
I went from spot number six tospot number five, still climbing
slowly but surely, making itsway to the top.
Number four is RussellDickerson.
Good old Russ.

Jay Franze (52:21):
Good old.
Russ.

Happened to me Where's.

Jay Franze (52:24):
Caden tonight, Caden you here.

He's going to be in St Augustine, which is just
south of me, about 20 minutes,at the St Augustine Amphitheater
in April.
I asked Hannah if she maybewanted to go.
They're calling it Russellmania.

Jay Franze (52:38):
Oh, I thought you were talking about Caden.

No, no, your guy Bailey Zimmerman.

Jay Franze (52:44):
My guy, your guy Bailey, he no your guy bailey
zimmerman.

My guy, your guy bailey bailey.
He's spot number three backupplan and he is also slowly
climbing up the ranks.
Shibuzi, this feels like a takeit back.

Jay Franze (52:58):
What number we on?

we are on number two.
Number two Because every spotnumber two gets a drum roll and
it is Shibusi with good news.

Jay Franze (53:12):
That is good news.

It is.

Jay Franze (53:15):
It is definitely good news.

Okay, and spot number one is Mr Thomas Rhett.

Jay Franze (53:30):
After all, the Bars Are Closed and once again
proving we are just absolutelyridiculous, shaboozy.
I was talking to one of mydaughter's friends the other day
Lucy's friend, so in theballpark of 10 to 11 years old,
and we were talking about music.
I asked her she liked countrymusic and she said yes, and she

(53:52):
started talking about Shibuzeebeing her favorite artist.
Okay, and she was able to nameall the songs.
I mean she was really into it.

Wow.

Jay Franze (53:58):
So that is also good news.

That is good news .
The youth knows who Shibuzee is.

Jay Franze (54:04):
The youth, real youth, I mean 10 and 11 years
old, that's pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, all right.
What about the indie charts?

Well, I'm glad you asked, because in spot 10,
we're going to start at 10.
In spot 10 is Country Boy byRandy Cobb.

Jay Franze (54:20):
Ah yes, and if anybody would like to listen to
these songs.
I Ah, yes.
And if anybody would like tolisten to these songs.
I know, when we talk about theindie charts, that you may not
recognize a lot of the songsthat we're talking about.
However, we have put together aplaylist, a Spotify playlist,
and I will go ahead and sharethat.
Put it in the show notes and itwill give you not only the top
10, but it'll also give you theindie top 10.
And then, of course, some ofour favorite featured guests

(54:42):
that have been on the show.

Love it.
Okay, another song you're goingto find on the playlist is
going to be spot number nine.
I Got Mexico by Soul CircusCowboys featuring Eddie Raven.

Jay Franze (54:55):
Again, another good one.
There are definitely some goodsongs.

Okay, jay's favorite spot, spot number eight
, I Don't Know how to SayGoodbye Bang.
Goodbye bang, bang, boom boomby dwight yokum and post malone
bang, bang boom it is a goodsong.

Jay Franze (55:13):
I gotta check it out if you like, dwight yokum at
all I do you'll like this song Ilike dwight yokum.

Okay, spot number seven she loves my country.

Jay Franze (55:22):
By lewis bryce it's always hard not to say lee bryce
I know it's very close butevery time I see it, that's what
I think yeah, me too.
Okay, spot number six, baptizedin it by the hay goods the hay
goods I just like the name oftheir band I was, I was just
gonna say, I just like saying itthe hay goods theods the

(55:44):
Haygoods.
Good choice picking the name ofyour band.

Yeah, people like saying it Rolls off the tongue.
Nice Spot number five Turn theNight On by Chris Kizia.
Oh, how did I say it last time?
Kizia, kizia, kizia, kizia,chris Kizia, let's see Hold on,
hold on that does not roll offthe tongue easy.
Kizia, kizia, kizia.
Okay, and Jay's favorite songright now Hide and Go Cheat by

(56:13):
Eric Lee Bedingfield.

Jay Franze (56:15):
I had somebody come up to me and ask me if I was
really going to do that, what?
Some lady came up to me in arestaurant and she says I'm
sorry, I like your show.
She goes, but are you reallygoing to cheat on your wife
Maybe?
What are you thinking about Ifyou're listening chime in

(56:38):
JayFranciecom?
Come on the show, we'll talkabout it.

See if you guys can make some plans.
Spot number three is the songRed by Jett Juergensmeyer.

Jay Franze (56:49):
Juergensmeyer.

I was mixing Red and Jett together.

Jay Franze (56:52):
Yes, I noticed.

Yeah, it's a talent of mine, right, okay,
spot number two holding steady,holding strong.
My Crazy by Ashley Ryan.
Yes, and I wish Caden was herebecause his boy is in spot
number one still.

Jay Franze (57:09):
Oh, don't skip Ashley.

Oh, tell me more.

Jay Franze (57:13):
She's a cute girl.

I'm glad you stopped the countdown for that I
think I mentioned that lasttime.

Jay Franze (57:20):
Just saying If you're the girl that stopped me
in the restaurant, please.

Is there any more breaking news?

Jay Franze (57:27):
Not a sponsor, but could be.

I don't think it was Zaxby's.
I like me some Zaxby's.

Jay Franze (57:34):
Zaxby's is pretty good they have a blue salad.

Zaxby's, reach out to us Like there's a salad.
I will tell you.

Jay Franze (57:39):
I am the biggest fan of boneless wings ever.
I eat them non-freaking-stop.
Zaxby's, you would be a greatsponsor.
What I like about Zaxby's isthey're not afraid to give you
true hot sauce yes.
It's still not hot hot.

Yeah.

Jay Franze (57:55):
But as far as a fast food place goes, it's 10 times
hotter than any other fast foodplace.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, I don't go that hot, I just get
buffalo, but they have a bluesalad oh, you are that hot.
Yeah, when you're as hot as me,you don't need extra hot sauce.
Okay, I bring the heat.
It's the blonde, okay.

Jay Franze (58:17):
Ashley's blonde as well.

Spot number one holding steady is Mr Cody Jinks
with the Others.

Jay Franze (58:29):
Holding steady Spot number one Is Mr Cody Jinks.
With the Others We've had twodrum rolls and two applause and
they kind of fell where I'd sayin the right spot.
But they're not in the rightspot.

It's where we think they belong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I thinkit was good.

Jay Franze (58:44):
All right, my friend , what do you have going on this
week?

Well, there's always a new episode of the Link
Up Lounge which is aboutnetworking.
I was leaving space for you toput your jabs in, but you're
being polite.
Tonight, Okay, and thentomorrow.
Tomorrow, yeah, tomorrow I havea new episode coming out on
Memories of the Beat.

(59:09):
We talked about the songForgiveness by Matthew West.
It is a Christian music song, aChristian song.
I thought it was going to belike this big traumatic story,
but more we dug into the lyricswhich you know, is my jam so I
was pretty pumped.
So we talked about lyrics todayand then my jam, so I was
pretty pumped, so we talkedabout lyrics today and then this
weekend.
I'm very excited.
Saturday night I'm going tothis thing called a boot, scoot

(59:30):
and bourbon.
There will be bourbon tastingsounds like a kentucky thing it
does sound like a kentucky thing, doesn't it?
it sounds like a uh, nashvillething.
I wish I was that gonna bethere.
I know bourbon because kentucky, but yeah boot scoots.

Jay Franze (59:43):
Because of Nashville Right, I got it Right, right
right.
It's like Nashville andKentucky had a kid.

And they came up with boot, scoot and bourbon.
I'm excited.
We're going to go out, we'regoing to watch a show.
So the first hour and a half isa show and you get to have all
kinds of barbecue and a littlebit of bourbon and then
afterwards line dancing.
So I'm very excited, I'm veryexcited.

Jay Franze (01:00:08):
I keep telling Lucy I'm going to take her line
dancing because Laurie'sRoadhouse has line dancing every
Tuesday night.
They do line dancing lessonsand Lucy's a big dancer, so I
figured that would be a goodthing to respond over that.

Tiffany Mason (01:00:23):
You would line dance Jay With Lucy, for sure no
, I used to be a good dancer.

Oh, my goodness, hidden talents.
I'm multi-talented.
I was able to slow dance andkeep both hands on.
Oh, no, whoa whoa whoa, whoawhoa anywho, I don't know if I
could handle dancing, but Iwould try it with lucy it's very
fun lucy, again my 11 year old,so she's got more energy than I

(01:00:56):
do, but I would give it a shotyeah, I think it'd be fun.

You should go a couple of nights without her,
like a couple of tuesdayswithout, and then all of a
sudden just be like, hey, youwant to go try it out, yeah and
then look like I know something.

Oh, that is a good idea.

I'm full of them.

Stick around me kid Every once in a while you come
up with one, I know All right.
Well, we did have a new episodeof our show here release today.
Yay, right, well, we did have anew episode of our show here
release today Yay.
That was what we went ahead andrecorded last week, which talks
about the 13 artists thatshould be playing at Taylor's
wedding.

Real earth shattering kind of stuff.

Yes, we shake the world with our stuff, and
speaking of my daughter Lucy,here's a good one.
Last week I took her to thefilming of a live podcast.

Okay.
The LOL podcast yes, I don'tknow if you've heard of this.

It's more for little kids, but it was fun.
I don't know if they trulyrecorded it.
It was more like a you know.
They sat down and chatted for afew minutes and then they just
started playing stupid gamesthrough the whole thing, but it
kept everybody involved andeverybody liked it.
I'm sure it's the sameconversation in the same stupid
games every place they go to, soI don't think it was recorded,

(01:02:17):
but it was obviously them liveand I got a good seat because I
know she really liked.

Yeah.

So, I got seats on the first level.
It was a theater, so it hadthree levels, and I got ours on
the first level, but it was inthe last row of the first level.
So it was good, it wasn't bad.

Wait, were the seats?
Were the seats like at a slope?

Yes, yes.

Okay.

Again, we were probably 20 feet from the stage,
uh-huh.
So it was not far, nope, andthey were throwing out t-shirts,
but because it was three levelswhenever they throw a t-shirt,
if they made it to our distanceit would get stopped by the
balcony.

Yes.

So we would not get the t-shirts.
And I told Lucy and her friendI took her friend with us.
I said why don't you guys godown there when they're throwing
stuff out?
They're too embarrassed.
No, we're not going down thereand all this stuff.
So they didn't want to do it.
Then they said can we stay hereat the end Because I heard
someone say they're going towalk up this aisle when they
leave.
I'm telling myself they're notwalking up the aisle when they
leave, they're backstage,they're not coming anywhere near

(01:03:22):
us.
So I was like we can stay here,that's fine.
So we're sitting there.
And I went to the restroom andwhile I was out there I went and
asked the lady if I could getsome VIP passes.
So she says, yeah, we got acouple left.
She goes, how many kids?
And I said, well, there's twoof them.
So she was very nice, very niceto me, and we worked out a deal

(01:03:46):
.
So Wow, we didn't hide, but wedidn't cheat and she gave me a
very good deal.
So thank you to the lady whogave me the good deal, so you
did hide and go cheat.
So like kind of.
I was out in the open, but wecheated the system and she was.
I think she was the mother ofone of the people that was on

(01:04:08):
stage.

Oh cool.

But she was very nice to me, so she gave me the
two tickets.
So I went back and I did nottell my kid, so I did not say
anything.
And I would think to myself howam I going to do this?

Tony Scott (01:04:20):
Yeah.

So I said all right, so at at the end.
They're all gathering up at thestage waiting for them to come
out.
So I told my daughter I saidlet's just go up front.
She, we can't, we don't havethe badges.
I said let's not worry aboutthat, let's just go up front.
I said, just act like you knowwhat you're doing.
Yeah, it'll be fine yeah she'slike I don't, I don't, I don't

(01:04:44):
want to do this, I don't want toget in trouble.
I'm like, just do it, let's go,come on.

Yeah.

I said just follow me.
I said if anything comes up,I'll just say, oh, I'm sorry, I
didn't know.
Yeah, so we go up there,Hundreds of people outside
waiting, oh, and security'scoming down checking badges and
stuff, and she's panicking.
She's like let's, let's get outof here, and I'm like no no,

(01:05:11):
don't worry about it Just stayhere and she's like freaking out
because security's gettingcloser and closer, checking the
badges and she's freaking out.
She goes we're leaving.
We're leaving, you can stayhere, but we're leaving.
I said no, no, no.
I said stay.
And at one point she said whatif we take a picture of a badge?
And just say, we forgot ours athome.
Yeah, I said that's a good idea.

(01:05:32):
I pulled a badge out.
I said here, just take apicture of the badge.
And I'm waiting to see if shenotices that at all.
And she's looking at me.
She goes where are we going toget a badge?
I said here, I said, just takea picture of this one.
And eventually it clicked andher and her friend freak out.
We got to go backstage and wegot to meet them and we took

(01:05:55):
pictures and those pictures areup on the Instagram page if
anybody would like to go checkthem out Again.

how do you get to become Jay Franzi's kid?

This had nothing to do with my connections.

I mean you pulled it off though.

I may have pulled it off, but it wasn't because of
my connections, it was becauseof some very nice woman who gave
me a very good deal.

Aw, that's pretty awesome.
You sent me a picture fromthere and I was like, oh, that's
so cool.
So I was like, well, if Jaylikes it, I'll probably like it.
So I went and followed it andthen the Today, I Think a New
episode released and I was likewhat is this?
What did I?

subscribe to.

I was like oh gosh, this is that thing that
Jay took Lucy to.

It's like listening to Screech.

Yeah.
I lasted literally threeminutes Literally.

One of the boys on the show sounds like Screech.
For sure I laugh, because hecame onto the stage riding a
toilet.

Okay.

Which I met Screech in person, and Screech came
riding a toilet.
Oh so Par for the course Idon't know if this is a
connection, but anyways.
So par for the course but,anyways these kids look like
they're all 12, but two of the.
There's three boys, three girls, and two of them are married.
Oh, two couples oh, wow so it'sweird to me that they look like

(01:07:19):
they're 12.
Yeah, can't sound like they're12.
Anyway, that's that.
That's enough of that.
Shall we land it Shall we crashit.
I like how we talk about landinga plane.
We talk about crashing, allright.
Well, we have done it.
We have reached the top of thehour, which does mean we have
reached the end of the show.
If you've enjoyed the show,please tell a friend and Miss

(01:07:41):
Tiffany.
If you have not till two tilltwo, why not?
you can also reach out to bothof us over at jayfranze.
com, where we will be happy tokeep the conversation going.
It does mean that you have tohead over there, it does mean
that you have to start aconversation, but we will be
happy to keep it going.
And you can also find thepictures and all the things we

(01:08:02):
talk about here on the show.
You can find them over there,and you can also find links to
the socials.
You can find it all over atjayfranze.
com.
Woo-hoo, all right, missTiffany, do you have any final
words for us tonight?

Always Our crew members.
You guys make every well.

Always, Jay.
I've always got them Ready togo at all times.

Tiffany you're fired , goodbye.

Oh, our crew members make this worth every
note.
So stay sharp, stay sharp.
You said we could crash it.
I'm just trying to crash it.

You're truly crashing it.

Mayday, mayday.
The left engine's on fire.
Okay, Crew members, you makethis worth every note.
Stay sharp, stay strong andwe'll see you soon.

And on that note, folks for listening to the Jay
franzy show.
Make sure you visit us atjayfranze.
com.
Follow, connect and say helloyou.

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