#673 - Picking the People We Want to See Win the CMAs with Bobby & Eddie

Bobby and Eddie go through this year’s CMA categories and make their picks for who they want to see win, while also breaking down the difference between the CMAs and ACMs. Bobby shares stories from his own award show experiences, including showing his CMA and ACM awards. The guys debate Entertainer of the Year, Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Female and Male Vocalist, Duo, Group, New Artist, and Musical Event of the Year, plus a few classic Bobby and Eddie side tangents along the way.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey everybody, welcome to this episode where we're going to
pick the CMA award winners and we're going to pick
our favorites instead of guessing. So if you were giving, yeah, yeah,
it makes it.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
A little more. So I get all the power to
pick the winner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is cool.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, yeah. Because we could always kind of do the
loser safe way and go, well, I think this person
will win. Sure.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But we have to pick the person we want to
see win.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Can you bet on this? Like, is there a sports book?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Is everything betting to you? Yes, dude. Is literally everything
betting to you?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
At this point in my life, yes, it is. Because
that would be cool to bet on this. Like, you
know how people go to certain sports experts for, like,
bet advice? They come to this to bet on the
CMA Awards.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
The problem is we're not giving who probably will win advice.
Because I think I can pick who probably will much
better than I do. then I'll do if I'm picking
who I'd like to see win. Okay. Also, it's these
type shows that get me in trouble. Why? If I'm
just going full opinion, because.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah. Because you're being honest.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
If, let's say, for example, and there's Entertainer of the Year,
Single of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, but
I'll do a category, Musician of the Year, for example, right?
And so, I don't know, a lot of these people,
this is not a category we talk about, but if
I were like, the guitar player, Tom Bukovac, Don't know Tom. Right.
And if I said, you know, I think based on

(01:31):
the statistics and I think Tom's probably going to win.
And then let's say Rob McNally, who plays guitar, comes
up and goes, hey, I heard you said that Tom was. Yeah,
but I was using data.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
You know who Rob McNally is? He played on our radio.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, he played on ours. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Like what's so cool about this Musician of the Year Award,
almost every year there's one musician that played on one
of our albums.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Not only that, like our friend Charlie Worsham is up.
as well. That's a real, but if I do the
cop out way of going, here's who I think. And
then one of them come up to me. I'm like, no, sorry.
I was just using some data.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
If I go, here's who I'd like to see win.
I can't get out of that.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
And that's what we're going to do.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
So just a little background here. It's the 60th CMA awards.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And there are two major award shows. There's the CMAs
that happened in November. There's the ACMs that happened a
bit more in the spring, late spring, summer. The difference is, well,
they're different letters.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, different organizations.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, they're different letters. One's CMA, one's ACM.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
They take place in different places.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, sometimes. They've had the ACMs in here before.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Where was the last one?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Vegas and Dallas. They did Vegas, but they've had it
in Nashville. But the ACMs were started in California. It's
a little younger.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
And CMAs are very Nashville-ish. It's a little older, a
little more prestigious.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
So early on, did Dwight Yoakam win all the awards?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Him and Bucky Owens, every award.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's like, that's how it started.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's all them. And also what happens a bit is
the ACMs, it's not this one. This is the CMAs.
The ACMs are known to be a bit more progressive
and a little younger. So you would see people like
in the past, like Thomas Rhett won Entertainer of the
Year a few years ago. Yeah. I know there were

(03:19):
a couple other examples of that, but I don't have
them right now. Didn't do that research. They'll come to
you later. But they're generally known to be a little
more progressive.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Where the CMAs, longstanding.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Traditional.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Very much so. Probably slightly more value to artists just
because they've been around a lot longer. But both are massive.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
But those are the two big ones. Different trophies too.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, they're different organizations.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah. One of them is glass and the other one
is metal.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, so the CMA, we actually have them both.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You do?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I have them here in the studio.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, that'd be cool. Props.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Hey, Morgan, would you grab me a CMA and an ACM?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Dude, have you noticed how cool the ACM trophies are?
At first, I thought it was like, okay, cool. It's
just a metal thing that sticks out.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's a cowboy hat.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's a cowboy hat.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh, you didn't know? No. Oh, my bad. I didn't
mean to yuck your yums there.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's okay. I just didn't realize.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I yucked your yums because that's bad. I should have
just let you enjoy that. I apologize.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes. Because I always look at it straight on, right?
And if you look at it straight on, it's just...
like a standing thing almost like a like an Emmy
but not hold anything I'm about to show yes and
then you look on top of it it's a freaking
cowboy hat yeah that's cool.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
So there's also here they come thank you there's also
the CMT awards right there's also there's all these awards
but the two biggest ones are the ACMs and the
CMAs and we're gonna do the CMAs so this is
my one of my.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
CMAs 2019 cool same every year same.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Shape But this is that for those that are watching.
It kind of looks like a rocket ship, a glass rocket.
You don't think it looks like a rocket? Yeah. You
ever have hemorrhoids?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's what a hemorrhoid looks like?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
No. But I had to put these white rockets up
my butt.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
What the? Dude, I thought a hemorrhoid is around.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You have to get the thing in your butt. Oh,
my gosh. It's like medicine. It's shaped like this. Yeah,
it's medicine. It's hard at first, but it turns into goo.
And so it looks kind of like this, but it's
fully white, and it has a tip, and you shove
it up your butt, and then it helps your butt.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's about that size, too.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's a little smaller than this.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you think that's where they got the inspiration of
making that trophy?

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah. But this is the CMA, and it is glass,
and it is extremely classy and amazing. And the award
show we're not talking about, but this is an ACM.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, look at it straight on. Straight on? It just
looks like a thing, you know, like a– It looked
like a statue standing up.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And then here's the- It's a freaking cowboy hat. Mike,
did you know the cowboy hat thing? I did. Yeah, okay.
I didn't mean to like pee in Eddie's Cheerios because
when he was freaking out, I thought that was just
something you knew we all knew.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
We also did that special where we did a bunch
of research on it. So I kind of knew the history.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Of the trophy. There you go. Yeah. What's the history
of that trophy?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
So they wanted to have something to commemorate country music,
so they made a trophy and they gave.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
It to people.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
All right. That's it. That does it.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Cowboy hat country.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Moving on.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
All righty then.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
So for those that are watching this on Netflix, you
saw the trophy.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
If you're listening to the podcast, you didn't, but you
can always go to Netflix and watch.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
So back to the CMAs, Nashville-based organization. It is the
slightly more prestigious, but a little stuffier, where the ACMs
are still extremely prestigious. A little more progressive.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
You're not talking about like the actual award show? I
am both. Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm talking about all of it together.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Because the award show is like you got to dress–
the CMA is very formal.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
And at the ACMs, I wore a bow tie, no shirt,
and a pair of cutoffs.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's what's up.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Okay. So there we are. We're at the CMAs. It's
going to be the 60th one. And for us, we
don't get to vote just because we have jobs in media.
You have to be a CMA member. So– There's some
sort of process. And if you have a job that
they value enough to actually have a vote, you pay
your dues. Do you still pay your dues?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I don't, but somebody pays them for me.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Somebody pays them for me too.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Who's paying that?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I think the company. Somebody in the company does.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I bet they don't even know where they just stopped.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Then let's not remind them. They don't even buy us
water anymore. Did you know what's funny about the membership?
You're right. The membership used to come with a card.
Do you have your membership card?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
No.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's metal.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I carry on my trophy.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's even better. Yeah. Dude, the metal card used to
go off on every metal detector I would go through,
and I had to just get rid of it. Because
it was in my wallet just to show people, like, look,
I'm a CMA member. But it's an actual metal card.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
The metal card set it off because my black card,
my black card American Express. Unlimited, you know, it's metal.
And it doesn't set anything off.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
What a flex. It doesn't... You got one of those?
Shut up. Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
So we're going to go through the categories and we're
going to pick who we think... Who we'd like to
see win, who deserves to win.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Based on whatever, right?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, I like this.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay. Let's go to the big one first. And we
can argue with each other.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't want to argue with you. Oh, do you
want me to?

Speaker 1 (08:16):
No, I'm just saying.
If I make a point you don't think is right,
please say so. Entertainer of the Year. Oh, I should
say this too. Whenever this is voted for, it's multiple rounds.
So first we get an email that says, log into this,
here's the number, and here is your password, whatever. So
we log into the portal, the password, and then they

(08:39):
basically just ask you, Who do you like for entertainer
of the year?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
And you can write it in.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
And there are no options.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
So it's always Engelbert Humperdinck, me. Like it's who I'm
writing in.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Bob Marley.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
The Wiggles. Yes. So then everybody that's a member has
written in all these people. And that second email comes
and you log in. And it's basically the top 15
that got submitted. From the top 15, they allow you
to pick four, maybe five, but whatever it is, four
or five. And then that's how this ballot happens that
you see on television.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's not a little board because some people think, oh,
it's four or five people making all the decisions. No,
it's literally 700 to 1,000 people in this world, this space.
You don't even have to live in Nashville. Like there
are people with music jobs that don't live here that vote.
People work in radio. So it's not even, well, the
classic Nashville system. People from all over the country, they submit.

(09:35):
They vote down to four or five. Those four or
five get voted on as to one, and that one
is announced on television.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
The question is, though, who counts the votes?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
So there is a company that we just trust.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's like a law firm because I used to present
on this show before I got banned from it. That's
another story. It's a whole other story. They wouldn't even
give me the card five minutes before I went up. Oh, wow.
Because what I could do is you can push it
and kind of open it because it's just taped and
see who's in there.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
And you can bet on it.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Everything's betting with you. But you could spoil it. Yeah.
And contractually, it has to be a secret until it's
read on television. Wow. And they do a great job
Of making sure nobody knows. So it is always a
law firm or company that does the tabulating. And then
they sit back there. It's two people basically acting like security,

(10:30):
but they also work for the firm. And they sit
there and they guard it all.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Dang.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
And you don't, they hand you the card. For me,
they would hand me the card a couple minutes before
I would go on. But they make sure you don't
look in it.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
So they're watching you.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, and you can't leave with it.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
So do you remember what you presented? I've presented like
seven times. So I can give you my most memorable couple.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Uh, presented with Don Felder. No, not Don Felder with, um.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
From the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Joe.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Uh, Joe. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Uh, Joe Cocker.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Joe Walsh. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I presented with Joe Walsh.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Dude, that was awesome.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
He's crazy. He's crazy. Joe Walsh crazy. He's like, ah, man.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
You're a rock and roll guy, man.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
I love that. And I knew going out there, cause
they put it all on a prompter.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I knew it wasn't going to go that way.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
You knew that he wasn't going to stick to the prompter?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I'm not sure he knew there was a prompter. Because
we were talking before he went on, and I'm like,
this is Joe Walsh. That's crazy. My Maserati. And I'm like,
I love the Eagles. He has a very distinct voice.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
And I thought it was super cool. And I knew
Arkansas Keith would think it was cool that I was
one of the Eagles. Of course. So we go out.
It's all on the prompter. and he's supposed to start.
We walk out, and he just stares and doesn't start.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
And he's supposed to.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
And he's supposed to start.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
What do they do?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Do they give you a, or is it a red light?
What is it?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
So what happens is on those shows, because they never
want you to start early, that you know where the
prompter is, and they say, you can start talking right
when we turn the words on. So it's not as
if the words are there, and then a red light
comes on. There are no words. There's a massive prompter.
And they try to make it as idiot proof as
possible for all of us that are standing up there

(12:13):
because we're getting so many directions, where to go, when
to go, how much time you have. As soon as
the words come on, that's when you start. Makes it
so easy. Okay. So we're up there and the words
come on.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
And it says, Joe, you first.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Says Joe. And he doesn't say anything. And this is
five seconds total, maybe three, but it feels like a year.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh, I bet on TV.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Because I'm going, should I jump in in my head?
And so I do. And I'm like, hey, we're here.
Joe Walsh. Everybody clap, clap, clap, clap. Oh, yeah. Then
he reads. And then he just keeps going. There's saying
stuff that's not on there.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And so I'm good on my feet. And so we
just did. It came off much better than it felt.
It only felt weird because we weren't doing what we
were told. So, yeah, that's probably my favorite.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
One year, Sharna and I, when I was on Dancing
with the Stars– We flew right back in just to
do this and flew back out. And that was an
exhausting one. But it was cool to bring her because
she knows nothing about country music. And then we presented
together like two weeks before the show was over.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
So that was like right in the middle of it all.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, I was dead.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Because on ABC, was it kind of like a cross-promotion
or something? Is that how that stuff works?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's exactly what it was. ABC, and this was on
ABC at the time. Is the show still on ABC? Yeah.
It is? So yeah, those are probably my two favorites.
And I remember coming back and I was dead tired.
And so I'm sitting there and Sharna's sitting next to
me and we're in the very front row because if
you're going to present, they put you up close so
your walk is much easier.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Quick on the stage.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
And so you could tell who like all of our
contemporaries are here in country music that watch Dancing with
the Stars because during the break, they would all come
and be like, They want to meet Sharna.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
This is crazy.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Will you just meet Sharna? Yeah, yeah. It'd be like
the people you wouldn't expect either. So those are probably
my favorite two. I think I've done it six or
seven times and then I was banned.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
And then?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's a different story. That's a different story. Okay. So
let's go through some awards here. Let's start with the
big one. By the way, the awards air on Wednesday,
November 18th. Entertainer of the Year. This is the biggest award.
This is the one. There really is nothing to define
what it means. It's what's a bit odd but also

(14:38):
fun about Entertainer of the Year. So it just means,
I don't know who's the biggest. And that can mean
whatever you want it to be.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's like overall, right? Overall the biggest.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
It can mean biggest songs, biggest tour. It can mean television.
They don't put any sort of parameters on it. Yeah.
Which doesn't help, but also makes it a little unpredictable.
So it can be whatever you want. The five people
nominated are Luke Combs, Cody Johnson.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Do you want me to sing like they do in
the award show? Oh, just a little.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hurricane.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The nominees are Luke Combs.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
You just did Hurricane.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Now you're doing that?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well, that's the newest single.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
What are the words?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
What are the words to that one?

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Just do Hurricane.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Get along, get along, you know.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Cody Johnson.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Ride.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
See? That's a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Ella Langley.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
He's from Texas, I can tell by the way.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Chris Stapleton.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
He was a lonesome cowboy. It's from the Toy Story.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I can do Tennessee Whiskey, too. I guess that'd be
the bigger one.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I don't know Lonesome Cowboy.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Oh, he does that one.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I started Toy Story 5. So our five-month-old does not
really get screen time. She's only able to watch the
Arkansas game.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
She loved that?

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, she was like, dang, that's crazy. I'm just watching
her watch the screen.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
All the colors.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
But I started Toy Story 5 with her to see
if she would watch it when Caitlin wasn't there. And
she's not that interested in watching for anything more than
a few minutes. But we've watched 10 minutes of Toy
Story 5 in two different trips.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Okay, what did you think?

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I've only seen 10 minutes of it.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, 10 minutes in.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, so at the very beginning, all the Buzz Lightyear's,
they're like, wow, they all come awake and there's all
of them. They've been put on that island.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah. This is not a spoiler. I've only seen 10
minutes of the movie.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's the very beginning.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
And then they make that boat, whatever, and they get
out of there. It's a really great first 10 minutes. Yeah.
So I did that. And then there's a little girl
with the toy and then she wants the neighbor kids
to come play, the twins. And they have their, she
goes to look and they have their iPads. I guess
she doesn't go look. One of the toys does. Jessie? Yeah.
Looks and she goes, what? All they're doing is sitting
on their screens. Their tablets. Yeah, yeah. That's all I am.

(16:57):
Don't ruin the rest for me.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
All right.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I've seen 10 minutes.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
You're going to love it.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah. And Lainey Wilson. So those are your five. It
is Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Ella Langley, Chris Stapleton, and
Lainey Wilson. Eddie, if you're the dictator of the CMAs,
who are you giving it to and why?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
And the winner for Entertainer of the Year is Ella Langley.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Why?

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Because I'm an Ella fella. I love Ella Langley. I
think she's awesome. I think the songs are great. I
think she's cool. She is who she is. I like
that she's true to herself. And, dude, she's killing it, man.
She's killing it right now. Country music is her world
right now.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I can agree that she is at a place I've
only ever seen a few artists be.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Counterpoint? Please.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
If you want to argue with me, argue with me.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I wouldn't say it's an argument. She's massive.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Massive.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
No doubt. And that song has done things that I've
not seen a song do, but it's really one song based.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, there's the other one too, the
Hurt So Bad, Hurt So Bad, I Want To Be
Hurt So Bad.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, Be Hurt, yeah. I'm familiar with the song. Yeah, yeah.
But I'm saying for her, she absolutely may win it
because I've not seen anything like this with that song.
It's just so based on really that song that's launched
everything else.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
That I'm not going to pick her because it is
so one song related.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I agree with that. I agree with that. And two,
a close second would be Lainey because Lainey to me—
We're not doing seconds.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, that's cop-outs. If Lainey comes up to you and
is like, Eddie, why didn't you pick me? You're like, well,
I picked you for second.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
We're not doing that. No, what I'm going to tell
her is I was about to say it, but Bobby
cut me off. Yes.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, for second.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
For second place. Yeah, dude, I think Ella's just killing it.
So let's give it to her. It's her year. She
is the entertainer of the year.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back. And we're
back on The Bobbycast.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
My winner for Entertainer of the Year is... Hello. Luke Combs.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
And here's why. It's a combination of things. One, it's
been multiple... Massive number one songs. None are as big
as Ella Langley's. I'll give you that. None are.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Right.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
There hasn't been a song as big as that since
I've lived in Nashville.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, it's huge.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's the biggest country song that I have experienced. Luke
Combs has had a bunch of number ones. He's also
doing football stadiums.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
There's only, right now, four artists, five artists that can
do football stadiums.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Kenny?

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yep. Luke?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Combs. Combs? Zach Bryant. Garth. Yep.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
You're missing the easiest one. It's funny that it comes
to your fifth. Yeah, Morgan Wall. I was just messing
with you.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah. So, Luke Combs is one of those five. Yeah.
He's doing massive football stadiums. He's had multiple number one songs.
I pick Luke Combs. Now, this doesn't count, but... Morgan
Wallen didn't make the list because Morgan and the award
shows don't have a great relationship.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
And they both have kind of done it to each other.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
But can we both agree that if Morgan was on.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
The list, he'd win? Yeah. I mean, we'd both easily
say Morgan Wallen should be Entertainer of the Year.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
He's not on the list.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
So back to what you were just saying about the
relationship between Morgan Wallen and the awards system, all that.
So when you look at that first level of... nominations
that we're talking about where you fill in the blank,
name whatever. Are people putting in just what your opinion?
Do you think people are putting in Morgan Wallen's name

(20:49):
on there? And then the organization is just taking it out?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't. I think the organization is doing it exactly
as is.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
So you think people.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
I don't think the organization is the bad guy. Okay.
I think it's the people that are voting understand he
ain't coming.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
So why waste that space and put his name there?

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Kind of. That would be me speculating because I think
the organization does a great job of being on the
up and up. So my belief would be, especially because
a massive part of this is Nashville, a massive part
is Nashville, not all, like I said, it's all over
the country, that there are labels and management companies and

(21:27):
they know Morgan's not going to be there and they're
voting for their own people anyway and they don't put
them in.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Because I don't remember in the process, because I voted
through all the processes to this point, but I don't
remember if his name was ever on there. I don't
think it was.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
I bet it was on the 15, but maybe not.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
You think at the very first 15?

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Maybe not.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Okay. So you have Ella. I have Luke Combs. A
single of the year. Now, single of the year.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, explain this.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Is how the song sounds sonically. So it's the singer. Okay.
It's the producer. It's that. Okay. So it's not the writer.
It's not a songwriter. Right.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
And so the producer is the person that takes the
whole song, has the vision for the whole song and
makes it all happen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mike, the exact definition, because this is often what people
get confused about, as do I. And I'm going to
assume my answer is right until Mike corrects me here.
Single of the year is the artist and like the producer.
And it really is how it sounds. What is the
official definition?

Speaker 3 (22:33):
This is the overall excellence of a specific single recorded
track jointly to the artist, producer, and mix engineer.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Got it. Okay, so you're right. The sound of it.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
So we have Be Her, Ella Langley. Yeah. Choose in Texas,
Ella Langley. Oh. I Knew It, I Knew You, Taylor Swift.
Somewhere Over Laredo, Lainey Wilson. And The Fall, Cody Johnson.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Why are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I mean, this one's easy, right?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
And the winner of single of the year is... Choosing Texas,
Ella Langley.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
It has to be.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
It has to be.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
If it isn't... We burn it down.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yes, burn the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
No, we burn our own places down.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Just to show. Of course, of course. We don't burn
them down. We burn our houses down.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, ours, because we won't get in trouble for that.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, yeah, but then they still get the message. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
No one gets in trouble.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Album of the year. This is tough. It's tough because
who listens to albums?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
No one.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
And that's not cool to say. Mm-mm. And... You listen
to the album of your absolute favorite artist, but you
don't really spend a lot of time with full albums
if they're not your favorite.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
That is a good point. Like if it's your band,
your artists that you love so much, you take the
time to buy that album, listen to it from head
to toe.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Who buys an album? Stream, Papaw. Do you not have an.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Stream the album.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I have not bought an album in a long time.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Drive down to the record store.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, you're right. But if it's just like someone that
you like to listen to on the radio, like, yeah,
you're not. You're not listening to the whole album?

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, and it may lead you to the discovery of
other songs. But when a new album comes out and
it's not your favorite artist, you don't chase it down
and listen to it all. So it's a little bit
of an antiquated category.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
And I don't even know how to judge it because
I can't tell you that, like honestly tell you that
I've listened to the whole albums of any of these artists.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
I only have one, one of these. That you listen
from top to bottom? Yeah, but I love the artist. Oh, okay.
And like the week that it came out, I listened
all the way through. a couple of times. Number one,
Album of the Year nominees are Zach Topp, Ain't In
It For My Health, Ella Langley, Dandelion, Casey Musgraves, Middle
of Nowhere, Parker McCollum, Parker McCollum, Luke Combs, The Way

(24:44):
I Am.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Wow. You know what I'm going to go with here?
Because I just like the sound of all of his songs. Like,
it doesn't matter what song it is. If I pick him,
if I'm streaming him and I play a song, I
automatically like it. It's probably the tone of his voice,
how he sings or what. But I'm going to go
Parker McCollum. Parker McCollum.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's also funny when someone does a self-titled album after
they already have a bunch of other albums. Because mostly
that's the first album somebody puts out.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, this is his, what, third, fourth?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
And with all of his Texas stuff, probably more than that.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's pretty funny. But I don't know, man.
There's something about Parker that I just love playing Parker
in the background of while I'm doing anything. I love it.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
So you've given him Album of the Year?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
So I'm going to give him Album of the Year
because I'd probably like it if I was cooking and
I turned the whole album on.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
You know who mine is, right?

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
It is.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Casey Musgraves. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere, Album of the Year, congratulations.
Come get your award and please ride in on your
testicle disco balls.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
And she just rides them on in.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
She's just sitting on top.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
She just hangs out. I think Ella Langley wins.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
You think so?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
I think it's just too big to deny. Yeah. Unless
everybody starts to feel like it's too big to deny.
And there's the anti-vote that's not voting against her, Ella,
but it's going, well, she's probably going to get a
ton of votes.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
What if the whole theory that you had on your
argument on Entertainment of the Year comes in for Luke
Combs because of all of those hits?

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Well, I don't think that's going to happen with Luke
because he's not a slam dunk. Because I think even–
maybe even at the ACMs, I get them confused too
of what happened. I think Cody Johnson won Entertainer of
the Year. He did. And he thanked Luke Combs. So
I think all of those, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Ella Stapleton,
and Laney, they all have a reason to win. And

(26:35):
Laney won multiple years.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
So I don't think there's something that should win an
Entertainer of the Year. Like, easily. You go, well, that
should win.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Everyone has a good argument.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Where Album of the Year, like, Dandelion should win.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Because of how well that music's done. But I'm picking
Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
And you're picking Parker McCollum, Parker McCollum, Parker McCollum.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Parker McCollum.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Parker McCollum. Song of the Year. Now, this is a
Songwriter Award.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yes. This is cool.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
So you could, in theory... have a song, it wins
song of the year and you're the artist, but you
don't get the award. I'm almost positive that's true because
if you didn't write it, because a lot of artists,
let's say Kenny Chesney has a song called My Boat's
Leaking Oil.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
And he didn't write it.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
And My Boat's Leaking Oil wins song of the year.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
We wrote it.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah. We go up and we get the award. Kenny
may come up with us, but it's not his award.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Okay, that's what I was going to ask. Does he
come up with us? It's cool if he does, right?

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Why not? Kenny, come up, man.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's ours.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
You're just supporting us.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
You cut it. Good job, buddy. Love it. Appreciate that.
Can I get some free merch? Let's come on up
with this.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
So, yeah, this is Songwriter Award. This is Song of
the Year. Mike, was I correct in that? That's it, yeah. Oh,
my God. Thank God.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
So, when you do this, are you going to read
all the songwriters? Involved?

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I think they deserve that respect.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
That's why I stay and watch the credits after every movie.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, you don't.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't. I don't. I don't have that much respect
to get. You should though, because what's cool is you
get to- Shut up.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Look, man, it's awesome to see like whenever you watch
it and you're just like, wow, look at all the
different crews from the different places they shot. They shot
some in South Carolina. They shot that in Australia. That's
kind of cool. That's my favorite part of it.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's not your favorite part of it. And you're stupid.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Okay. All right. Moving on.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
But sometimes, though, I say if I think there's going
to be something at the end, like another scene.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh, the Easter egg.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
And what's hilarious is, because I'm buckled up.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
I'm ready to catch that scene. And it ends, and
that scene doesn't come on. And there is no scene.
The lights come up, and I wasted 12 minutes watching
to see if it was shot in South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
And then all the kids with the brooms waiting for you.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
There's no extra scene. There's no extra.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Song of the year.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Be Here, artist Ella Langley, written by Smith Anquist Michael Hardy,
which is Hardy.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Ella Langley and Jordan Schmidt. So she was one of
the writers of her own song.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Dude, that's crazy. I didn't know his name was Michael.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Michael Hardy?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah. Hardy? I thought his name was just Hardy. Hardy something.
Hardy Hardington? Hardy Hardington.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Hardy Har?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
But that's Be Her, right? Yeah, Be Her. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
It's a little title here.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Okay, so wow, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Beautiful Things, Megan Maroney. Written by Jesse Alexander, Jesse Joe Dillon,
Connie Harrington, and Megan Maroney.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Choose in Texas, Ella Langley. written by Luke Dick, Ella Langley,
Miranda Lambert, and Joy Beth Taylor. Dry Spell, Casey Musgraves,
written by Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, Casey Musgraves, and Josh Osborne.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Heavy hitters.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
And Gary, written by Stephen Wilson Jr.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Solo writer.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
By himself.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I love that. By himself, yeah. Man, I might just
give the award to Gary because he wrote it by himself.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
It's only one trophy they have to give out.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Save money on trophies. Save money on glass. Yeah, save
money on trophies. Yep.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I think I might do that. I think Gary is
such a great song. I think it's awesome that Stephen
Wilson Jr. is even nominated to be, I think, Best.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
New Artist, too. I think he might have been nominated
last year, too.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, I think it's so cool that as a songwriter,
I'm going to give him the award for Gary. I
think that's so awesome.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Although, I think that you know, choosing Texas, we'll probably win,
but we're not doing this. I'm just saying we're not
doing this. What's the rule we just had about doing
this crap. We don't have seconds.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
We don't have sex.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
No, no, no, no. Seconds.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Oh, seconds. I was like, that's not, can't be the rule.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Can't do that.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
No, we have an appointment. Okay. So you're giving the
award to Gary, to Gary, to save on glass. I
get it.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
One award.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Times are tough. Inflation, the Strait of Hormuz. I get it.
Everything costs more. I'm going to give it to Megan Moroney,
Beautiful Things.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh, okay. That's just five writers.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I'm a Moroney boner.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
That's not it.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's not what they're called.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
There's LFLs and Moroner boners.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Moroner boners.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I mean, that would make sense.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
For you, for sure. Yeah. Bones, get it?

Speaker 1 (30:48):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
It's one, two, three, four. Okay, four writers. You're good there.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
It's four trophies.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, it's not bad.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah. I think Megan Maroney, to me, I'm going to
say the best, but to me, I feel like she
is the best newer generation artist songwriter right now. So
I'm talking about people with success, people that have hits
and they're also killing it as an artist. I think

(31:16):
she's the best. That doesn't mean that Ella Langley is
not good and doesn't have a song bigger than Megan's,
but I think If I were drafting artists that are
writing their own songs for the rest of their life,
Marona boner me up. I think Megan Maroney is A +.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
A +.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Okay, so I'm giving it to Megan Maroney and you're giving.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
It to Stephen Wilson Jr.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
All right. Female Vocalist of the Year. Our nominees are
Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, Megan Maroney, Kacey Musgraves, and Lainey Wilson. Dang.
I want to say something here before you give your pick.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
This is not always true. But rarely does the person
who is male or female vocalist also win Entertainer of
the Year.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Oh, that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
So a lot of times it ends up being... I
hate to say second best.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
I know, consolation prize.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
But second, yeah. Because in the category, what's weird about
it is it is vocalist of the year, but it's
really not about who's the best singer.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
See, that's what I thought a lot. When I first
watched the awards, I thought it was like, oh, best singer.
So Keith Urban's going to win this, all of them.
Or Chris Stapleton's going to win all of them. But
it's not. So can you win both? Can you win?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
You can win both. It rarely happens because people, when
they vote... If they vote for one for one thing,
this is the human nature part of it. Yeah. They
don't vote them for the same thing up in Entertainer
of the Year. So it's almost like you're the captain
of the JV team.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
You won an award. It's not the biggest, but you're
still that.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Are you going to follow that rule when you pick
right now, or are you just going to? Pick what
you like.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Pick what you like.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I'm going to follow the rules.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Pick Stephen Wilson Jr.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Oh, that'd be cool.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's only one trophy.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Well, this is one trophy anyway. Man, this is a
tough one.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Because?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Because of that. I think because of what you said.
I think that I would give it to Ella Langley,
but I mean, she's Entertainer of the Year. She's Song
of the Year.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
You can do that if you want.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
But I feel like this is the point where I'm
going to give someone else an award. You're right. I'm
going to give it to Megan Maroney.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I'm going to give it to Megan Maroney, the female
vocalist of the year.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
I'm going to give it.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh, man. You can't give it to Stevie Wonder Jr.
I know.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I've wanted to. So here's my problem. I didn't pick
Ella Langley for entertainer of the year. Oh. Because I
picked Luke Cohen.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
So now you're going to.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
So I definitely could. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, you don't have to. But... I have a card.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
This is my Marona Boner card that if I carry
it everywhere with me that I go.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Your fan club. Boner Maroner.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
No, Maroner. Maroner Boner. Whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
So stupid.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
I'm going Megan Maroney as well. Wow. If I'm picking
for me.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Let's go. Yeah. So then hopefully she does win this one.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah. It could be a Ella Langley sweep though. But yeah,
I'm going Megan Maroney. Dude, that'd be crazy. I have that.
It has happened five times in history. In the history.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
In the 60 years?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Of 60 years.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
For females.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Really?

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Do you have who the five are?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
1972, Loretta Lynn.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
86. Hold on, don't go, oh, yeah, like you knew
he was going to say that.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
I knew that when he said 76. Shut up.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
1986, who do you think, Eddie?

Speaker 2 (34:28):
86 would have been.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
I'll guess too.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Okay, 86 would have been Reba.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Olivia Newton-John. Reba.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I knew it. All right, 2009.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
09?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Miranda.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
I'm going to go 09. Man, Miranda, as to I
would have guessed, but just for the sake of this,
I'm not going to guess Miranda.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Oh, not now.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Oh, nine. I'm going to go Miranda. Taylor Swift. Oh,
she won both.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
That's three. Okay.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
That makes sense. 2023.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Oh, it just happened. Yeah. 23. That's gotta be Lainey then.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Lainey.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Lainey. Lainey.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
That was a big night for her.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
And then 2025. Lainey. Yep. Wow. Five times in 60 years.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
We haven't given her an award yet, have we?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
No.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
And I think, A little bit of the reason is-
Is because of that, everything you just said.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Is Lainey fatigue. Not that people don't love her. Yes.
But they're like, she's already won. So human nature goes, well,
let's start to give it to somebody else.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Although I feel like growing up, Garth was just collecting
them like.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
You couldn't deny that.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Cards.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
You couldn't deny. Or Brooks and Dunn winning duo.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
That too, yeah. Or Old Dominion.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Winning what?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Band of the year. Was it group of the year?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did they win all of them all the time? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
The Old Dominion was- No one else could win for
I don't know how many years, eight years, nine years.
I bet you it was eight.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
You could be right.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I remember for a long period of time, and I
think they just lost it for the first time this
past year.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, to maybe Red Clay Strays? Yeah. How many Old Dominions?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Seven years in a row. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Pretty strong. You missed it, though.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
You're off by one.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Sorry, dude.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
It was eight for ACMs. They won eight years in
a row for ACMs? Wow. Okay. Male vocalist of the year.
Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Zach Topp, and Stephen
Wilson Jr.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, screw the whole idea that it's not about singing.
I want to do it that it is about singing.
It is about their voice, and I'm going to give
it to Luke Combs because his freaking voice is awesome.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
That's not where I expected you to go.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
You thought I was going Stapleton.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
I did. When you led with that, I thought it
was going to be Stapleton for you.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Here's the thing about– Stapleton's got an amazing voice. But
the thing about Luke is that he sounds like he's
just not a singer. His voice is raspy. It's low,
but he can control.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
He's classically trained.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
He can control that. It's almost rock and roll-ish style
of voice, but control it perfectly. So to me, he's
got one of the greatest voices in country music.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
You nail something that I think people see him and
hear his songs and hear him sing and think, man,
that guy just wakes up in the morning and that's
all natural. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Takes a shot of whiskey and all right, I'm gonna sing.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
He's a choir kid. He's trained. And he's such a
great singer, and then he's also just a really good singer. Yes.
Which you'd think would be the same, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's not the same.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
I'm going to go.
Man. This Stapleton is such the easy vote. Male Vocalist
of the Year, I'm going to give it to Chris Stapleton.
I have to.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Is it based on because he's a great singer, too?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
You know, he just has this thing. He goes... And,
you know, you hear him and you just think, that
guy just wakes up. He really does, though. That's exactly
what you said.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
He's kind of the same.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah, he's a little more nontraditional all the way around.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Like, I'm surprised he doesn't blow stuff out.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Gosh, because there's so much power behind it.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back. We'll be
right back. And we're back on the Bobbycast. Vocal group
of the year. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Let's go Old Dominion. You don't even read them.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Lady A, Little Big Town, Midland, Old Dominion, or Red
Clay Strays. Man. You get to pick.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
I know. I'm thinking. I'll go first.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'll go Little Big Town. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
I just love them.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Just because they're so nice.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
I just love them.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
And they're great people.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
And they're good.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah. Oh, of course they're good.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, but. I would like to see them win. Yeah.
I just love them. Vocal duo of the year. Brooks
and Dunn, Brothers Osborne, Dan and Shay, Masked Eye and Bloodline,
and Thelma and James.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
You ready? Three, two, one. Together. I'll count again since
you didn't understand. You ready?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Well, this would go.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
You know it.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
I don't think you know what I'm going to do.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yes, I do. brooks and dunn let's give it to them.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Let's give it so you're going brooks and dunn yes
did they win last year i feel like because i
feel like they won one of them recently and i
text ronnie and i was like and he's like i
can't like we haven't put out a dang new song
and it.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Doesn't matter man yeah they won two years in a
row wow it doesn't matter to me it's nostalgic to
me because growing up, who was winning duo of the year?

Speaker 1 (39:31):
They had more than anybody else.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Brooks and Dunn were. They were winning all of them
back then. Let's run it back. Do it again.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Okay, I'm going Maddie and Tay. Oh, interesting. They're not nominated.
They're not even a group anymore.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I thought you'd write them in there. You know what?
Screw it. Maddie and Tay.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah. I'll do Brooks and Dunn.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah, that's what I thought.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I presented this category once and Brothers Osborne won.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
You know what was interesting about when they won? I
remember the first time they won, they came in the
studio and they talked about how it changed their life.
Like that night changed their life. Like their career was
never the same after that night.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
They were just getting paid more too because they could
say that when touring. It was one of their accolades
that lifted their guarantee.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
That's my question. So, okay, so you answered it. Because
I'm like, why does a CMA award all of a
sudden just– Launch you up.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
So there isn't a real right answer to that question
because maybe it doesn't always. But to someone like Brothers
Osborne who they have a couple of hits. They have
a ton of critic appeal and praise. And they're known.
But again, their music doesn't easily fit on what would

(40:42):
be considered like traditional radio. Sure. And look, sometimes people
will hate on me. Look at radio. I have nothing
to do with the music that's played on the radio. Yeah.
I sometimes, I don't hear a single song anywhere in
my life in four days, work or at home. And
right now it's a lot of Rainbow Connection by Kermit
the Frog.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
If I'm being honest. You have a baby at home.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
The lovers, the dreamers and me.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
He's got a banjo and he's singing.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
On the rainbow. But for a band like that, that
was right on the threshold of, they were building a
massive fan base on their own touring. They had a
couple of hits. They had records that were critically acclaimed.
They now, whenever they're, launching a tour and they're talking
with promoters, they get to– or festivals. Oh, yeah. They
get to go– CMA award winner. And so when they

(41:24):
were making $ 200, 000 to play a festival, that CMA award
really lifts it to probably $ 250, 000 in a slightly bigger slot.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
And also being on television in those primetime spots makes
people then go stream your music. They didn't know you. Oh,
they won. Let me see what they're about. Maybe they
like them. So yes, that happens.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
That is life-changing.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Okay. Yeah. Why are there so many songs about rainbows?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Love that.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
New Artist of the Year. Avery Anna, Carter Faith, Emily
Ann Roberts, Tucker Wetmore, and Stephen Wilson Jr. Would you
mind seeing if Stephen Wilson Jr. was nominated last year
and 1973? If all three of those years he was nominated?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
How old is Stephen Wilson Jr.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
To you? Our age, I think. Three, I think.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Okay, so he's younger than us.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
That's all right. Anything like... 42 to 48. Cause we're
not that old or that. Yeah. I think that's our age.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I think that's just so cool.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Oh, that's, that's my age. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
So I'm a lot younger, but he's older than you. Okay.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Uh, that's so cool to me that like, he's just
still doing it at 47.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Unfair. Okay.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I'll rephrase how I said it, that he's getting recognized.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Medium, medium, medium, fair.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Okay, let me rephrase. I don't have anything else.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I think for him, it is not the story because
we have a really great Bobby cast where I learned
a lot about him. So I have an advantage in
this conversation because I spent time like learning and asking questions.
Always been a musician, but kind of checked out for
many years. He was a scientist. Like he was still
playing music, but he dedicated a bunch of years to
a normal smart guy job.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
What did he.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
He invented like the bone, like the toothbrush bone.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, that's Amazing.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Greenies? Is that the one specifically? Was it Dentistix? I
think it was Dentistix.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Dentistix, sorry. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yeah. So it's fair to say, oh, it's cool. He's
just now getting recognized. But he hasn't been grinding all
those years because he kind of went into the private
sector with a normal job for a long time.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
And I understand that. But it's so rare for someone
47 years old to go compete with all of these
younger people that– I mean, unless you started young and
then you finally got your break old. That's different to me.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Dennis Dix. Yeah, Dennis Dix. And he was nominated last year.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
He was.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
And was he nominated in 1973 by any chance? In
1973 as well. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Dang, so he was nominated but didn't win last year?

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah, Zach Topp won.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Stephen Wilson Jr. does not have what you would call
a hit, though.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
But to be fair— Gary's known but not a hit.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
To be fair, except for Tucker Wetmore, none of them do.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Got you.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
So again, it's Avery Anna, Carter Faith, Emily Ann Roberts,
Tucker Wetmore, who has a couple number ones now, and
Stephen Wilson Jr.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
I want to give it to— I think Carter Faith
is so awesome. But because Stephen Wilson Jr. is 47
years old, and I think it's such a cool story,
and I think that he deserves it to finally be
the new artist of the year. Yeah, I'll go Stephen
Wilson Jr.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
He's the Rodney Dangerfield of country music.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
There gets no respect.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
No, he's old when he gets started.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
There's no respect around here.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
I think Rodney Dangerfield was older when he finally– Was he? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
So like Steve Martin, was he older or did he
just always look old?

Speaker 1 (44:48):
He always looked great. He's Andy Scouper of– Got it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
But Rodney Dangerfield, he was older when he got his
big break?

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
He got his first big break at 45 years old.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Wow. He is the Rodney Dangerfield.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I think Steve Martin Jr. gets a lot of respect actually.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I was just doing Rodney Dangerfield.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
That was that comparison.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Okay, cool.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
So.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Man, who are you? I'm interested to see what you
go with.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
There's two that I love here. It's Avery Anna and
Carter Faith for different reasons. I think they're both absurdly
original creatively. And I love that. It's so hard because

(45:36):
they're both.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yeah, that is hard.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
And I really liked them both as people.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Have you spent time with Ariana? Have you?

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yes, here. I tracked her down. That sounds creepy.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I really did. It really did.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Her TikToks would come across my algorithm and I would
see her doing no more tears. And then not, then
her other music would be fed to me. And then
I would, she does like a, another character as well. And,
I just enjoyed how she approached creating. Content's the easy
thing to say, but all together, music, content, like what

(46:13):
her brand was. So, yes. Carter Faith came out and
opened for me and was so good live.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yeah, a few shows.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
And then she is so unapologetically F you, man. And
I don't feel like she's ever going to be something
that someone wants her to be only because they want
her to be. That's cool. I don't feel like she
ever was going to do that. And she's also such
a juxtaposition of what people expect when they see like,
you know, a pretty blonde that you would think traditionally

(46:44):
is just a good vocalist who minds her P's and Q's. Yes.
And then she just lifts up her middle finger and
it's like, no, F off. For those two reasons, like
I'm a fan of both of them. Carter Faith was
nominated at one of the other award shows recently, maybe
for like album of the year or something, but I'm
going to go, I'm going to go Abrianna.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
But that was hard for you.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yeah, it was hard. I can't say anything else because
that's our rule.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, you can't do a second place.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah, I can't do a second place.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Even though we both kind of did.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
One more category. Musical event of the year.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Oh, we're not doing the musicians?

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Well, we kind of did. And we gave Tom Bukovac
and Rob McNally and Charlie Worsham.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Musical event of the year. Now, this is always a
song with two people on it. Yes. Like two different
artists and they do a collab type song. So we
have a song to sing, Miranda Lambert with Chris Stapleton.
Horses and Divorces, Casey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert. I Can't
Love You Anymore, Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen. If You
Don't Leave, I'm Gonna Stay, Carly Pearson and Riley Green.

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And MacArthur by Hardy Eric Church, Morgan Wallen and Tim McGraw.
What's odd is none of those songs are big hits. No. No.
And a lot of times big hits that have collabs
are the ones that win this.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
And I would say like two stick out. I think
MacArthur sticks out.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Can you sing that song? No. It sticks out because
it has nine people on it? Can you imagine the
trophies they got to give out for that one?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
No, because I've heard of it. I've heard of MacArthur.
And I Can't Love You Anymore. I can't love you anymore. Right?
Is that how it goes?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Oh, yeah. That's number one. Oh, it is. Good point.
Great point. I stand corrected.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
And since that's the only one I can sing back
to you, I'm going to pick that one.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Yeah, I'm humiliated because I messed that up and it
wasn't number one. No, I'm humiliated.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
No, no, you're fine.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
And now I must commit Harry Carey. What is that?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Well, I hope it wasn't racist, first of all.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
You've got to do some research.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yeah, let me do some research here because we'll bleep
that out if it was. Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
I've heard people say that, but I've never understood what
that means.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Don't tell me, Mike. Don't tell me. I'm going to say,
what does it mean if I say I must?

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Commit Harry Caray.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Because sometimes you hear stuff or you say stuff your
whole life and then you hear that it's actually rooted
in something racist.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yes, of course.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Like. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
A lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Is it an Indian style?

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Oh, right.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
What does it mean?

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I think I'm okay. It says... But are you borderline?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
It sounds like you.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Kind of. Well, hold on. It says, when you say
I must commit Harry Carey, because to me, Harry Carey
is also the Cubs announcer that I grew up loving.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
That's who I think you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
No.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
You're not talking about Harry Carey, the take me out
to the ballgame.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
No, that'd be me being drunk doing a ballgame. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
She was like, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 1 (49:41):
When you say I must commit harakiri, you're using a humorous,
mispronounced slang term that means I am incredibly embarrassed, frustrated,
or stressed out, and I want to disappear. It's a
dramatic way of saying I can't handle this right now.
The origin of the phrase, the actual Japanese concept, harakiri,
this is a westernized mispronunciation, which was the historical ritual
suicide by disembowelment practiced by Japanese samurais to restore honor

(50:04):
after a massive failure or defeat. Whoa. There was also
the baseball legend harakiri. Right, right. People today use it
as figurative dark humor, which is what I was doing,
to express hyperbolic frustration. So I'm going to say, is
it racist to say for me a white man? Is
it racist for me to say as a white man?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
I think, well.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Let's see what it says.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
No. Who said that? And are they white?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
It's AI. I ask AI, are you white? No, it
is inherently not racist. It is considered outdated and a
bit cringy.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
It's cringy because it's a mispronunciation. Like the fact that
it was a mispronunciation and they kept saying it, even
though they knew they weren't saying it right. That's a little.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
It is outdated slang and it says better alternatives. So
I could have said this instead. Oh man, I'm embarrassed.
I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
No, that sounds stupid.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Okay. I'm so stressed. I really wanted to pull my
hair out because I missed that.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Better.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Okay. Oh, man, I'm so embarrassed. I can't take this anymore.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Whoa. But then you'd follow that up with– I must
commit Harry Caray. Yeah, that's crazy. That's cool. We learned something.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Yeah. That is kind of what I thought it was.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Dude, that's nuts. I always thought it was Harry Caray
from the Cubs.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
I think I'm saying it wrong, but yes.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
But a part of me too was like it must
mean like kill yourself somehow because it's like commit– Do.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
You ever watch that show on Amazon about when... Samurai.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Whenever... No. Wait, let me finish my sentence. Yeah, go ahead.
That show on Amazon where World War II was lost
by the Americans and Japan and Germany owned the country
and it was split.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Never saw it. I remember seeing the picture of it.
It's called Castle something?

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Yeah, The Man on High Castle.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Man on High Castle.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Really great first season.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Great concept.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
The concept's A +.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
I learned about that through that show. Because they would
do that in the Western part of the United States.
If somebody embarrassed themselves, they would do that. And that's
what I wanted to do whenever I forgot that Ella
Langley and Morgan Wallen was a number one. So I'm
not going to pick that one.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
What are you going with? All that to say.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
No, no, just that I forgot.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Just I forgot. That's on me.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I forgot. So are you going to go with MacArthur?

Speaker 1 (52:31):
No, because, man. That song is not a slam dunk.
It's crazy. You know when they all put that down
with Hardy and Church and Wallenberg? They're like, this is
going to be number one in a week.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
They thought it was going to be We Are the World,
part two. For sure. Come in. Quincy Jones is producing.
Michael Jackson's leading it.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yeah, I think probably. And it just hasn't done that.
I'm going to go with Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert,
Horses and Divorces, because... It was a big feud between
those two until this song.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Oh, right.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
And they got together on Casey's record and did this song.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
And I'm glad. I'm glad they got over it.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
I'm so glad they get musical event of the year.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
So much they get an award.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
That's it. Okay. Now, those aren't our predictions, but those
are who we'd like to see win.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
But what if those all won? Well, we couldn't because
we had different ones.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Unless they were ties. All the ones we weren't, they
all tied.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
That'd be crazy.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Okay. That was our... Not predicting CMA special. Our CMA
special of people we want to see win.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
There you go. For different reasons.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Can that be the title? But we'd be like predicting
the awards, but....

Speaker 2 (53:49):
When you title, is there a maximum number of characters?
70 characters?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
75.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Oh, that's tough.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Yeah. Oh, dude, Mike and I are sitting here sometimes
when we're trying to edit. This is... And we're removing
like A and D and putting an ampersand. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Will it work without a space?

Speaker 1 (54:01):
I know. Yes.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Did you have fun?

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I had a blast.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
That's all that matters.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
That was a lot of fun, man.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
That's all that matters.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Thank you guys for listening and watching. And the CMAs,
they're a thing. And here's my trophy.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Congratulations on that, by the way.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Thank you. And we'll see you guys next time. All right. Bye, everybody.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
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