#214 - Bobby on Eddie on the Top 20 Music Moments of the Decade + Hunter Hayes On Playing ‘Somebody’s Heartbreak’ at the Bluebird before it was Recorded + Being in People’s Sexist Man Alive Issue + New Music

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to episode to fourteen of the Bobby Cast. It is me and Eddie. I was Thanksgiving. It was great. It was good. A little fool still yeah, me too, like grossful, like gross grossful for sure. And my parents came in town. They brought more food and more sweets. It's almost like they brought Christmas sweets when it's just Thanksgiving. So yeah, I don't feel good. Yeah. I I had texted my stylist for American Idol because she puts me in clothes and I'm gonna leave as soon as we finished this. I fly to Los Angeles for the last week of taping of this year, and I must stress. Said, hey, uh gotta hit it a little too hard with the food, so I'm not really wanting to put anything tight on. And she hit me back and she was like, better get too fasting Zee. It works, but in reality, in reality, you probably didn't gain a lot of weight. You just gross. I don't know. I add one meal today for lunch. I probably want eat again. Are you still eating like turkey and stuff? Did you get I went to UM, I had lunch, yeah, at a restaurant. Yeah, because I still a lot of turkey leftover you once at the house A lots tons. Well, glad everybody's here. Uh something I do want to say that since our last podycast, I've been listening to the coal Play record a lot. Yeah. It's good, really good. It's different. It's different, me too. I listened to it the day after we talked about it, and it's definitely different. But I I love it, Yeah, me too. And I like slow Coalplay. Some people like fast Coalplay, like Coldplay that likes the anthems. I like slow, sad Coldplay. That's my favorite versday of Coldplay. And so I've been listening to mikedar. If you listen to cold Play, it's pretty good. Yeah, and I think we all have kind of different Coldplay tastes as well, but still it's it's really great. I've been flying with it a lot. Also, just speaking of music, because that's mostly what this podcast is. I was on my Instagram story yesterday and I was about to shoot something. They have a Luke Coombs Instagram filter. Did you guys see that? I have seen that. That's how you know you freaking made it when Luke Coombs when you have your own filter on Instagram. Now, I don't know if that's for just the entire country or the world that has Instagram. Gotta be country right where they customize it for like you, since you're such a big fan. Because I haven't seen that, Mike be pull it up now. So if you see it, I'm looking, I see Billie Eilish. So maybe they customized to what you're listen. Really yeah, I'm gonna pull my mine back up. Pickause last night and again they could have pulled it down since last night, but they had a Luke Coombs Instagram filter and I was like, that's crazy. Good for him. Um, it's still up here, Luke Coombs Instagram filter. So is that like on yours stories? It's like one of the filters on your Instagram story. So what does it give you? Like a camo hat gives me a cameo hat and it's a beard. That's really funny. You guys don't have Luke Combs, huh. So maybe it is built to what we're listening to or the pictures that we like. Because I also have a Will Smith one. I only have a Louke Combs. That's wild, not that them pinpointing us based on our preferences. Wild but that I don't have a Will Smith one because I like fresh friends. Do you follow Will Smith? No? I do follow Luke Holmbs Smith and Billie Eilish, So maybe it's like based on who you follow interesting? Do you follow Luke Combs Eddie, do you have a lu Kombs? No? I don't follow any of those guys. I don't have a special filter at all. Eddie has a Dak Prescott the Californys. Yeah, I got nothing. Um okay, Well a bit like that takes it down the cool factor, but still it's pretty cool to have Instagram make a filter of you. Still cool. So those are my music notes from the last Bobby cast. I did see this story about the most important music moments of the decade and I kind of wanted to roll through them and just kind of give our thoughts to it as well. So Rolling Stone put out a list of the fifty more important music moments of the past decade, and it's a list of happenings, changes in the industry, viral sensations. Want to say, viral sensation, Eddie, what do you think of? Um that? What's his name? Gungham style? Oh a great great one side didn't think about that, I would have thought immediately old Town Road, Oh that's a good one too, because that's a TikTok viral song. And when that song came out too, and I'll get to the list in a second, I didn't quite understand what that meant for a TikTok song to go viral. But then once you get on TikTok, you do get it because people use the same song over and over again, and you're here in fifteen seconds a song over and over again, and then you go and stream it, and then so many people do it that it starts to get a bunch streams and starts to make play list. Next thing, you know, open bad. But I didn't know what that meant because old Town Road is a TikTok song, blew up from there. But yeah, Mike, what's a viral for you? What do you think? I mean? Now I think of TikTok. It's weird hearing songs on there and then hearing him on the radio and you recognize that from TikTok. That yeah, that right? I mean on poverstations all the time. Now I hear roxon you know how to do to me on a good and so that's the song that they used on TikTok. I used it as a dance with Sharnat a month ago. So yeah, because like I listened to the the Y two K one that we used for the um, I don't know whatever the stance we were doing, that yoga thing we were doing. Yeah, and that that that that that that that I've never heard that. I forget the melody how's it go? Yeah? Yeah? And so now now I listened that song every day. Um okay number twenty July to present. This is a brand new one. Taylor Swift's public fight with Scooter Braun and her old label boss over her master recording. That's a one. It is a big one and one that I've not really jumped into because I don't have a dog in this fight or race, whichever term you'd like for me to use. I like the dog. Um well, it's either some people don't like dog in this fight because you're they think you're condoning saying people say it all the time. Yeah. Um. There's justification to both of their points, and there needs to be there has to be some middle ground med except there doesn't have to be. They can just hold on Taylor can go make her records on secondly and redo the records, which never turns out the way they want them to. And then secondly they can just hold on and everybody wins by their contract. Taylor did sign a deal. The deal that she signed did allow her to become a hundred millionaire. The deal that she signed, they put her in the position she did. But then she did write all the songs and she did sign the deal at fifteen am. By doing that, she lost her not lost, gave her right and her dad was in on the deal when it's her dad's on the board right now the record companies. There's just a lot with anything polar in life, the answer is always somewhere in the middle ish and with this there are some concessions that have to be made by both sides. But it's not the Taylor's side. That's like, she give her no because the label built her the lifestyle and teamed her up with the people and the producers and paid for but she also was fifteen and did all. It's just somewhere in the middle, And so if you don't pick a side, it's almost like why even jump in? Yeah, but I do love that Taylor made the fight public and now we're all I I hate that she did that, really because she all she did was sent her She just bullying on social media, right, But we would have never known the fight. But I don't care if it's not a fight for us to know she's sending all of her fans over to beat on people like that's just bullying. But then again again, I'm just on I'm not on both sides. It's just there's a sense of It's like in politics, there's just a sensible place to go. That doesn't mean you're far right or far left. There's just a sensible place. But that's not the invoked thing to be noticed for is being sensible. So almost said over here to be sensible, but that isn't number twenty Mike, what's your thoughts on that? I mean, I did see a scooter header post like a thing on Instagram like death threats to my wife. That's what he had to say. That's pretty bad. It's like s and his wife on social media. And that's my points. Yeah, it's it's your point. Is their business and whatever they agreed on, that's their problem, not ours. I get that it's not even a problem they're all you're telling you're talking about super millionaires fighting it out, and although they're justified to fight it out, it's like, all right, I got other things to worry about. Then two super millionaires finding have any airplanes? Are gonna have a number nineteen. The biggest events of the last ten years, Old Town Road goes viral. Here you go March this song. I remember waking up one day and hit the chart and was classified as country, and I was in New York and Good Morning America calls and goes, hey, will you come on talking about this song? And I tell you I don't know much about song, but I just had the feeling that I have regardless of whatever the song is, that the market kind of deems what it always has, not now and not ten years ago, but for fifty sixty years. The people determine what goes where and how successful things are. And so they're like, this country's a night country. I'm always going to go into the camp of you know what, if the person says it's country, I'm not gonna say it's not. What does even country mean? You tell a good story, you say it authentically, it's fun. I'm not gonna say instrumentation is a weird thing because when you watch the country music documentary, when they started using a still pedal with an amp, people were like, what the are you doing? That's not country? Now, that's country today. That's the most country thing today. When they start using electric guitars, that's not country. What the eff are you doing today? It's just you just see it time and time again. So when I see people go to something's not country, I roll my eyes and go, you're what's been happening every generation that people have to keep proving it wrong. So do you hear it and go as an immediately country? You don't. But I'm never going to hop into a battle and go that's absolutely not country. Let me see what's in the heart of the person. What's I don't know now where you see a little nozas going now, do you see it as like, Okay, this wasn't country, or a song is still country? But him as an artist is not of the race. Virus is on it. I don't think you always have to. I think bon Jovi has been in the country song he's not country? Who says can't go? I mean that's big, it's a big country song. But Darius wasn't country a good one. So I'm just saying I don't think it's at all or nothing type thing where it's like you're only country nothing else of course not what does it even mean? Nowadays? I think the person listening can feel like their country. I feel like I am, for the most part, something. He's not something, he's alternative something. Did you think that song was going to be as big as it was as it is? I think anybody ever thinks no, but no. But I don't think any song that goes like that, anyone ever sees it doing that. It's like a viral video. Something just kind of sweeps the world and you're like, oh god, dang, I don't know that. The thing unabrad teen the biggest moments of the decade, and this year TikTok had one billion downloads. It's my favorite app, by the way, and it has been now for months. Love it. It's just the best as far as funny content, music, discovery. It's young. But everything starts young Facebook, which is for college kids. At one point Instagram was just for young kids putting pictures out right. I didn't get Instagram really every first time. Everything nothing starts with forty year olds. There's nothing that a bunch and if it is not even cool still, there's really nothing cool that a bunch of adult men sit around and go this is cool, and the kids go, you, you know what, Uncle John's right, this is cool. Never how it works. Cardi b in July the first female rapper to score two number one hits, Bodak Yellow and I like it. So here's Here's Yellow, Here's I like it. Come on, I like baby, I like it like Bamber sixteen. Future unseats his own number one album with another number one album. It's March seventeen. I don't know a lot about Future, I mean honest with you. I know that he was Russell Wilson's wife's ex husband. Oh look at this song. The gym though a lot, I got no individual songs. But and I met meet Mill over the week on to next game, met meet Mill Dang, who's m rapper from Philly, was in jail. It was a whole like social justice thing. Beef with Drake for a while, a lot big rapper. But yeah, you'll have a conversation and just like it was, I just touched him. Desposito at number fifteen. Come on without a word of English. Huge Dude Bieber came on later, but January Boito HiT's that number fourteen in the Grammy's vote to include stream only albums, which is big for someone like Chance, the rapper who his first record was nothing but streaming, no physical copies, so he couldn't get in, So he didn't win a Grammy for that, didn't get nominated. Couldn't because it's it's almost like, um, the Oscars, before they allowed things like streaming, had to be in theaters and the Irishman is dealing with that. Now they put in theaters for a minute. Huh. But it's on Netflix, did you Yeah, it's three hours. Yeah, here's me. Well, the Irishman's three hours. Don't have time for that. Nine episodes of The Office later time for it? Number thirteen on the list. The death of Prince happens in the Shock and it was a shot because he wasn't old. Oh I mean it's older and like normal adult, but he wasn't. But it was a drug right, it was fit over Yeah. Yeah. July July album releases moved to Fridays instead of Tuesdays. James Gordon and does the very first Call car point karaoke with who do you think it was personal with um Adele right carry that was the first one that kind of launched really his late night career. Like that was a viral thing and then a show go not even a show because not a lot of people watched the show live, but people watch it on YouTube more than they watch it live. I watched some of it live the other night. I mean, I'm probably only ever seen a live four times, and it was kind of weird to watch it not on YouTube because I usually watch it on YouTube. You know what other show I watched with that show on NBC the she has a late night show, my d She was the YouTube girl that's now doing late night TV. He's the late night show. Yeah, it's like the third show now. She was a youtubeer. She hasn't all late night. She was like where Carson Daily used to go. I think I'm not sure who that is. Yeah, show is not very good. It's new Year one, but it just was pretty brutal. Uh. Let's see here. Top top ten things now most important music moments of the decade. March Robin Thick ripped off, Marvin Gate Gotta give It Up and the jury said, okay, you all some tons of money now, like almost eight million dollars probably probably all the money he made on that song. This blurred line song was so big. Remember when it came all the naked girls in the video, they had to cover them up for like the real video. Number nine on the list is Taylor Swift pulling her entire catalog from Spotify. She did that in this before all the mess. Well yeah, this is the other message that it's like four months ago. Why did you do Why did you do this? The pay tier you get a free tier. YouTube at number eight gives half a billion people unsolicited downloads of songs of innocence when you had dry phone and Youto was just on there with all that stupid songs and everyone was so mad and it wasn't even good. Yeah I like you too, And I was like, you know what, I'm not even gonna hate. It's free. What am I gonna do? Because iTunes days, early days, I would download that free song even if it sucked. They'd be like, here's your free download the week every week. But when they put all these songs and let me and then it sucked, I got angrier. Like this song Shawan Mendez gets half a billion views on Vine with six second covers of Justin Bieber and ed Shearon songs. That's how he blew up Shawn Mendez in two thousand fourteen, half a billion views on Buying with Bieber and Sharon songs. Because we're lucky to have Sean Mendez. Yes he's so good. Y Frozen crushes it at number six and wins the Oscar for this song. Here let it Go, and now we are into the top five songs of the decade is according to Rolling Stone. SI Gangnam Style two thousand twelve. There U Yeah, It's a big one. Two thousand twelve. Tupac performs at Coachella as a hologram Number four. Are they going to do this with anyone else? I know they were talking about have it just hasn't been such a man I've seen right, Mikey hasn't really caught onto. They were supposed to do like tours with people weird Spotify hits in July um and number two Rebecca Black Friday jam funny this is number two and I haven't thought about this? Do you ever meet her? No? Thirteen year od Rebecca Black releases Friday. They made fun of hers so hard. That's all this was was making fun of. But the song was pretty good though it wasn't It's only catchy because you know it. It definitely was turned it up on that Do you take back here? The song was pretty good. No, I don't. Then the music video was kind of fun too, episode like cheesy and cheap. That's why I really making fun of it. She's this is two thousand eleven and now it's eight years old or pretty pretty cute? Now? Is she's still making music? Yeah? She ha the YouTube channel did you pretty gute? Yeah? Is she not? Am I thinking of the Rebecca Romaine stay Mode? Rebecca and I thought about that forever, I know. Uh and number one on the list of the biggest fifty music moments of the decade. The Beatles finally put their music on iTunes November let it be Remember. I remember going up even on threemy services. I guess at the time it was Spotify, and I was just like, dang, pretty cool and listen all the Beatles stuff. Now it's kind of hard to It was hard to listen to the Beatles when it wasn't on there. You have to buy their albums and that was kind of like, we're not gonna do all that, yeah, or listen to hit makers. Let it be. That's right. A bunch of people would cover beetles. There you go that. What's your biggest music moment? I mean I had this, I was I was on the whole road with Taylor. I think that was a big deal. Um recently, Um was what the last stuff? Yeah? The last stuff? How do you feel it? What do you think? That's just it was just kind of a good eye opening thing with the music business. I think I don't think a lot of people realize how all that works or how important it is, you know, with like keeping masters and ownership of songs and stuff like that. I I don't think people gets that in their first many deals. Now, I think people are smarter now and if they do get it, they're lucky. To get it. You have to go with a bunch of leverage. Yeah, you have to. You have to be worth because again, a record company has to spend a lot of money on you. They spent a lot of money on her to let her, to put her in spot to be successful. Because I get I get to like the how the hard part it is for an artist to get get rid of the stuff that they own, like they've created that they don't own it. Really, they've created it under the money of someone else. I get it. It's just got to be internally hard for them. But it's like be like me demanding I get to keep every show that I've ever done in radio, that I've created. Somewhere deep inside, you'd probably want to understand the money of it. My Heart's given me a studio, they've allowed a platform, They've promoted it. Like I understand why I don't get it what I like it. Sure everybody wants all the candy they can get, but I don't know. I signed the deal that they have created an environment for me where I can thrive to create. Now, if at my next deal I want to own the tapes, I have to negotiate that, and if they don't think I'm worth that, then I don't do that. Yeah, but same thing. I've created all this content. But I hear radio has built the atmosphere for me to thrive in and given me the opportunities to meet people, to make to hire people too. So I definitely don't fall on Taylor's side. But also it's also I opening to go maybe there should be some concessions here for for people that are writing, and they they should have a shot to win some of it back. And they did give her a shot and make a record you get it back. I don't then, I don't know that was the right thing. But I'm definitely on the business side of it to understand why otherwise business would go broke and they wouldn't be able to fund people to create to create things. Mine's probably um singing with Carrie Underwood. You you singing with Carrie Unwood? Huge musical musical events. Yeah, it's huge. That was pretty cool though, right Like she was saying so loud in my ears and I was like, holy crap. You were like arms linked from her. We said, were that's pretty special, not special, just like she was, Holy craps. The girl can sing um. Okay, cool, there you go. That's a let's let's do that. We'll take a brain and come back talk to hunt her Hays. How many people do you know they get excited about luggage? I do. I travel all the time, and away suitcases are known as lifestyle luggage because they help you get more out of your travel time in ways you never think about until you're actually away Listen. 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Hey Hunter, Hey, how you doing? Bud I'm doing great. How are you. I'm good. I was reading your Twitter a bit ago and I think you tweeted out that you were being noticed by some people in a pub and you were like, all right, just play cool, just play cool. And then you realize when you got up that you're actually sitting underneath the game and everyone was watching the screen. Yeah, it was a very humbling moment for good. It was a good lesson. Where were you when this happened. I'm I'm on a riding trip in uh in London right now, and I was just kind of exploring how the day off and was just kind of adjusting to the time change, you know, wandering around and I love walking around here. It's just I love the architecture and everything. But yeah, I just donld them at the same this far that I have been to a couple of times, puff that I've been to a couple of times, and uh, I was just sitting there. I was like, Wow, there's a couple of people being kind of creepy and they're just like to keep looking at me unapologetically, like they won't look away when I look at them. And I was just like, am I in some kind of movie? Or something, and then I realized, you know that I was sitting underneath the football game. So good times. That's fun. What's what's been happening with you lately? Man, I'm seeing you in a couple of months. Yeah, well, we um. I put out part one of my three parts here, put out Wild Blue Part one in August, and I've been working on Part two. So it's it's it's been a life changing experience. This whole album is very different from anything I've ever done, and especially the three parts. The way we're kind of putting it out and the way that I'm going to be creative with it has been. Um, I'll say this, it's been really it's been life changing and in multiple ways of musically, it's been just God, it's been good for the soul. I'm gonna play some a Wild Blue in just a minute here, but tell me about Wild Blue because we featured that on our account down so like, just give me a little bit about that. Yeah. Well, Wild Blue was kind of like it was it's the first of this kind for me in that for a while, like my debut record I made, you know, when I moved to town, I got to write with a bunch of brilliant writers. And I've learned a lot about songwriting, learned a lot about how to I guess I've started learning how to be an artist. And by that I mean like how to find a way to tell my story and and and but opened the door not just present my story, here's my story, here's my life. Would rather write music that hopefully everybody can really grasp and make their own. I mean, once the album's out, it's there is it's not mine anymore. And with you know, I had for several albums slash projects that we did. It was a lot of turning in music and hundreds of songs um and just kind of not really getting to love and me trying to just reshape what I was doing to make it fit and make it work. And bab Blue was me just kind of. It was run after a breakup. It was run after some massive business changes. I mean I I had gone through every almost every form of change that I could have possibly gone through at that time in my life, and and I just decided, you know what, I'm just gonna make it very this good for me, and if nobody hears it, that's fine. Like if I if I never put it out. That's that's fine. I just want to make this for me and um, and if nobody understands it, you know, if my team doesn't rally around this, like like I feel like it's it's you know. I didn't know what it was going to be at the beginning of the year. It was the top of two thousand and eighteen. Um, and I just I picked the title. I picked the theme. The theme being wab Blue like was about kind of the flying dreams. You know. I've heard so many of my friends and so many of you let to talk to, like talk about these flying dreams and how that happens when they feel free and and and I wanted this album to be that for me. I wanted this album to dive into things that I hadn't dove into topically. Musically, it sort of touched up some things that I haven't really allowed myself to because I was self editing, and um, I've just removed a lot of the filters. And it's only the beginning, right because like, once you start removing filters, like it takes me a minute to get comfortable in my own skin. If I'm being honest and diving into some of these things. So it was the beginning of of of a brilliant God, just an incredible adventure of of self discovery and and I'm yeah, it's just it. It It shaped itself very quickly. The songs that I thought no one would connect with, a lot of people connected with and they totally caught me off guard. Uh, songs like Wild Blue, Madness and Dear God and One Good Reason Night and Day became sort of banned favorites, And that's that's the opposite direction of the album that I thought would be. The fan favorites was really encouraging because those are tums that like, you know, and you just you you you don't write Dear God for to be accepted if you don't write you know, wild Blue, um for for for any reason, but you just need to put cut out into the world. And those are the songs that people really started connecting with immediately. So it's very encouraging and and very eye opening too. You know that that my fan base is going through you know a lot of the same same things. I even hate the word fan base. Let's just remove that was the people that listen to my music that come through our shows. Um, yeah, we're all, we're going through similar experiences regardless of our you know, our job and all that stuff. You know, our our our lives and all of our details. There are a lot of common threads and I think that's I think that's what encourages me because I feel like, um, it makes me feel like I'm not alone, and hopefully that it does the same album does the same thing. Yeah, everybody checked it any and you're working on part two right now, which is pretty great. Um. I do want to talk because I brought you on a lot too because of your in the Bluebird documentary. M Yeah, I made it. You made it. And you know the first time that I heard you played Dear God, that I heard we were actually playing it together. I was playing dopey comedy songs and you were sitting to my left and you just came in with with keys and and our and and this is like my my honest feeling, which we were sitting there and You're like, I'm just gonna play new stuff, and I was like all right, But then you started playing all those new stuff and I was like, oh my god, it's all so good. I remember talking to you afterwards, going, man, this stuff is next level. And one of those songs that you played at the Bluebird that I can still remember vividly was was Dear God And just hearing you play that right next to me, and um and just I don't know, feeling something that I felt like I hadn't felt from from you in a while, Like tell me, tell me about playing something so personal like Dear God in the Bluebird where it's just such a such an intimate venue. Well, dude, I mean my favorite topics right, because I feel like as as a songwriter, you know, I'm I'm. When someone asked me, like, if you had to pick right being a being an artist or you know, being a performers or writing songs, Um, that's an impossible question to answer because I feel like both feed my soul in such a big way and i'm i'm, I'm I find purpose in both. But but as a songwriter, I feel like, you know, as a performer, there's a lot of moments that sort of validate you know, your efforts and the time spent and the dreams you put in and the and the work you put into something. As a songwriter, Um, you know, sometimes that's that's sort of I wouldn't say overlooked, right because you had you don't have those moments of people saying your song back to you on stage, but but also like to just be a human and to say no, i'm, i'm, I'm. This is my only way of explaining my my my humanness is through song. I feel like, UM, the Bluebird has always been the place. First of all, the first time I got to play the first couple times I got to play a Bluebird, I was another songwriter pulled me up and invited me had to play one of their songs, and and the good luck of that was, you know, both of the songs that I ended up playing were ended up being singles and big songs. But when I got to play the Bluebird, UM, I noticed when I got there that there were a lot of long time fans. And also I remember my experiences from the Bluebird going as a fan. UM, I saw a lot of I saw a lot of new new material that I ended up hearing later on in life. And I will never forget the first time I heard them at the Bluebird. And for me as as somebody who loves writing, knowing that I had a lot of fans and then who have been a lot of shows. Um, it was it was kind of like I've looked up and I was like, well, you guys want to hear the same stuffs you've heard. You want to hear something new and and they all said something new, and so it kind of became a new tradition. It's like, okay, well, anytime I played the Bluebird, like I have to prove every song has to prove itself in that room because there's no there's there's no way around it. There's no trickery, there's no production you know, b as, there's no there's nothing to hide behind. Uh. The song has to prove itself and the performance has to be real. You can't like, you know, overdo it. You can't you can't you know, try to show off on anything or try anything, like I said, any trickery. So that became my policy for new music is it has to pass the Bluebird cast, right um. And and I still play like some of the some of the older tunes as well because I feel like it's expected of me. But it's it's one of my favorite things in the years when I get to play the Bluebird. And also just as a songwriter, it's just like, um, I feel like you're just being in that room is like getting handed a trophy, you know, as a songwriter. I don't. I think it's just because I've I've seen so many like legendary writers there, and I've experienced so many like life changing rounds. Are songs that totally just yeah, either blew my mind or change my perspective, or change the ways that worked or really inspired me when I first moved down. I mean that I could say a million things about The Bluebird, and I mean, you bring up the documentary, which I love. I I don't I don't not cry in movies, but I don't cry very often. I don't, you know, but God, the documentary, The Bluebird documentary absolutely made me emotional because it's a special freaking place. I mean that, I feel like it's such a um just a secret, a magical place in Nashville. Not a secret necessarily, but you know what I mean, very um a very important piece of Nashville. It's out wide release December three, and you can get it anywhere iTunes, Amazon, A, T and T directive, anywhere you can buyron Rent movies. A big part of it. I'm in it too, talking about it a bit and I just remember, you know, the maybe two times ago is when you and I were there together and you played Dear God, and I was like, holy moldy like that that song was. And again we both you know, you mean, we hear a lot of songs from a lot of different places writing them here, but I was just that would touch me, man, that would touch me. And so they were like, hey, we're doing the documentaries, I want to get Hunter on because I just want to remind him again and how powerful his stuff is in that area, in that place, like the Bluebird. M Man, I really appreciate you saying that. Thank you. That's high praise. Hey, tell me quite real quick, tell me about the first time you played the Bluebird. You said you got brought up. Yeah, it was one of the first times um Andrew Dorf was playing the Bluebird and and he looked to come up and play uh, Somebody's Heartbreak. And that was at a time where, like I remember, I pitched it as a single. This was like before we even started recording the first album. I just felt like the song was special. And I don't claim to know singles or call singles. I just sometimes, you know, sometimes you just have an instinct, gut feeling and you gotta follow it. Um. And at the time, no one of my things thought it was going to be a single, and I was like, now I really feel good about this to man, so um. I think that's one of the things that made it so special is because again, like it was in the Blooper that you know, the song just yeah, I just felt honest, it felt real. There was no big band behind it. But obviously the most important part about that looking back, now, what was my first time playing the Bluebird? I got to sit in with, you know, with Andrew Dorff, one of one of my all time favorite songwriters, and somebody we don't have nearly enough music from. You were in People Magazine Sexiest Man Issue or Sexiest Man Alive. Come on, I did. I did not see that coming. Come on, you didn't know there was no tip off like about to be Sexiest Man Alive. Well, I mean there was a photo shoot. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like you had Do you just think people showed up to take pictures for no reason? Like what's the deal? Well, yeah, but the invite, the whole thing, it's just it's nuts. I'm I'm happy though that like I'm happy. I don't know, it's it's not something I used to put it that way. I don't think it's other than that. I'll I'll get used to but um, but it's a it's a fun fact to talk about, you know. I don't know that I'll talk about it around the table it's at Christmas. But you know, it's fun fact. It's increat Honestly, it's it's what I love is the part of it. You know that's it's not it's not just you know, it's talking more about animal adoption, which I'm a big fan of that I'm a real big champion of and and I love I love dance. Piece to his quote after it came out, was really beautiful. It's so moving. Um so yeah, I love what the focus was for for our season. It wasn't I don't know. I wasn't trying to be cool. I got to talk about something that I truly am passionate about and something that I kind of a little bit about. Well, listen, I'm proud of you. Let me let me say a couple of things here. First of all, with Hunter, you can check out Wild Blue Part one. It's out now, it's working on Wild Blue Part two, and then also the Bluebar documentary is out and uh yeah, by the time you hear this, it'll be out. So check it out wherever. Hunters a big part of it. There are a lot of live performances Taylor Garth Mayor and Vince Gill, j sinisbel t Nil towns Um again, Hunters in it. If you listen, my dope faces in it talking about a little bit too. So you can check it out. And Hunter, I'm I'm thankful that you you hopped on with us a little bit from London, and I'll see you back around town soon after, probably after Christmas. All right, looking forward to man, there is the Hunter Hayes right here is I said, we placed some of it. Here's Wild Blue from Hunter, welcome to Well he can't find you start that you can. Here's here's a little bit more Dear God, because why is my life after so much? Why I can't find pizza? And fear God? Are you sure that you don't that you don't? All right? There you go. Well, well, well, um, I think that's gonna gonna wrap it up for for this episode. I had a good time with Eddie. Check out Eddie on the Let's Bring Eddie Back Up Eddie and the Sore Loser's Podcast. So I check out Eddie and those guys talking about sports over there. Um, you can also check out Eddie mostly most Important on the Bobby Bones Show. Yeah, but hopefully you're listening to that anyway, hopefully hopefully. Um, Mikedy, thank you anything I missed, Mike, I think that's it thanks to Hunter Hayes. Check out the documentary. I haven't seen it yet. From all that talk, it sounded it's like it's really good. I remember doing an interview for like nine months ago. I went into like two hours of talk because I think I played the Blue Were six or seven times and they were like, hey, come talk about it because I was talking about it from two different respective one from artists to get to go through the come on my show, and then too being able to play it a bunch of times. Um. But I think the last time I played it was with Party because I'll just go here's the night, like dude, bring your friends. It's me and Party and Dustin Lynch and maybe like Brandon Ray. It's a good line. It's a good Yeah, it was fun just once it like Planet I'm from from your side of it, and how many people are in there, Well, not many, and everybody's sitting right on top of you. It's crazy. Yeah, it's a It's one of the most intimidating venues because you're playing and there are people sitting behind you. It's like you're just sitting in the middle of a dinner having dinner. And it's not fancy, it's just something you do. And it's in this strip mall and and you and you're playing and no one else, just you by yourself. What happens is it's like around though where you're playing, and then other people are proficient at their instruments are singing and they jump in. But for me, I'm not proficient enough for even for them to jump in. So they start coming in and they're like doing backgrounds and you know, hopping in playing keys like Hunter would start to play keys during and that stuffing like you can't do that, man, I know it sounds like I know that you think I should be able to stay with what they can't do that because Hunter, which is on a keyboard, I'd start playing it like I would do Chick fil A. I play late and he would go, I'll play the keys to this. I didn't like. I stopped me, like, Hunter, you can't do that. Man, You're exactly right, and that's gonna mess me up though. But it's really cool to see somebody big sitting there with forty people. That's cool. Pretty cool. Um, all right, that's it, Thank you very much. Episode fourteen, tag us on it's a story if you post this, thank you, goodbye, everybody,