#570 - Bobby and Eddie Rank Their Top 10 Country Artists Right Now + Bobby's Thoughts on FGL Getting Back Together + Are The Raging Idiots Broken Up? + Reaction to Maren Morris' Criticism of Country Music

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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode five seventy. This is more of a in the headlines in the news Bobby cast country music, and so Eddie and I have not shared our results with each other, but just like college football, we're going to do a rankings. Yeah, okay, today's January sixteenth. So as of January sixteenth, twenty twenty six, top ten artists in country music.

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Speaker 2: Current artists and country music.

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Speaker 1: And I was for sure to say you don't list Johnny Cash.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no all times.

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Speaker 1: And also I'm not going to argue with you because there are no rules.

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Speaker 2: Man, it was tough to put to rank them. You can go first, Okay, you want to start at ten, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Go ten to one. So at number ten on your rankings, I think.

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Speaker 2: Ten was probably the hardest because I was going to leave some people off. So ten. You're not gonna like this, but I'm going with Chris Stapleton.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we need to go to the ops? I'm thinking about how we if we should go the opposite way. Yeah, because I think the last five I agree. So I'm gonna act like I didn't hear Tennischristableton. I'm gonna be surprised. You know what, scratch that, scratch that, and we're probably gonna share a lot of the same artists. I'm just gonna be ranked deaf. Yes, okay, you can go number one.

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Speaker 2: Number one. This is I had to think hard about this because I think because of his weight loss, he moved everything to number one is jelly Roll. He's been in the news a lot, he's still making music, he's still playing shows. He's on the top. He is in the top of the world right now, and he's lost a lot of weight, which puts him on magazine.

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Speaker 1: Covers, the Men's I think Men's Health, Men's Health. They followed him for a year. That's that's a really cool thing. They keep rolling out social media on it is really cool. Okay, you have jelly Roll at one.

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Speaker 2: Jelly Roll number two, Morgan wah which I think without jelly Roll doing all that stuff, I think Morganwaan would have been number one for sure. Okay, top he's top, number three, number three, Lady Wilson. Every time I go to the grocery store, you know who's I see? Oh, you see Laney Wilson everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I thought maybe it was hearing it over the top. You that's more of the Fray and the Wallflowers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But you see Landy's face on what kind of products.

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Speaker 2: All kinds of products did wine Hamburger buns of anything? Like Laney, there's a cutout board Landy Wilson's standing in there trying to sell me something.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: At number four, Megan Maroney killing it, killing it. I think the kids love her, the girls love her. I think she's doing really big things right now. Five man Luke Combs. Luke Combs from the other class, you know, from like the little older class of country artists, still keeping up because I mean he what sells out stadiums. Still okay. Six as much as I hate to admit it, Zach Bryan. Zach Bryan's at number six. People know him, people love his music. He's in the news all the time, getting married, fighting all of it. Seven Ella Langley. I don't know why Ella Langley. You think eight number eight because of Ella Langley, Riley Green because of Ella. I think once they did their duo together, they both kind of just got to the same level.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it definitely did help both of them.

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Speaker 2: That's why I feel okay. And then number nine Cody Johnson, good one doing big things. Collabing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like those terms. Clabbing with people, collabs.

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Speaker 2: This is tough. You're never gonna guess.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Chris Stapleton, and I feel like I wanted to put him higher, but I just don't see him a lot. I don't really other than money Nett football when he's watching TV and he's singing Bill Collins. Yeah, so Chris Stapleton's ten. He's still up there though.

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Speaker 1: Top ten, there's I guess we have only one. Okay, I'll go on my list. I know that's gonna be clips, so I'm gonna start over at the beginning. Okay. These are my top ten artists right now, is of January twenty twenty six, just like we're ranking college football.

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Speaker 2: Come on Baby.

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Speaker 1: At number one Morgan Wallen, and it's one song after another that's number one. But it's also one football stadium after sometimes two football stadiums in the same city, two nights in a row. They open up merch stands days before just to sell merch because people want Morgan Wallen is the biggest thing in country music right now. So number one, Number two Megan Maroni. She has a new album coming out. I think she is the best young artist songwriter out there now. A lot of our music doesn't resonate with me because I'm not a woman. Yeah, but I can still appreciate it, and I find her to be an excellent writer and her social media a plus. I put Megan Maroney at number two right now, number three Ella Langley Wow, and as close between Morony and Ella, because they're right there. They're both killing it, and she's got big song, same thing. You just look at a single video of her social media. Its's one hundred thousand, Yeah, likes it, kills that song. Choosing Texas is a monster.

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Speaker 3: It's number five on the Hot one hundred and that stuffs all happened.

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Speaker 1: That's all genre. Number four a Zach Bryan because he sells like crazy. He sold out the Michigan Football Stadium. I think it's the biggest concert ever, like outside hard ticket, specific seat concert ever. Number five, jelly Roll number one after number one. Also with that all Over Television had documentary about him, Lost a bunch of weight. Obviously, that's my top five right now, and number six have lou Coombs and Luke's been a bit purposefully absent, which I think is a very smart thing to do for artists sometimes because you can be over exposed. And now he is launching back with a new record that comes out. He's got a new song that just came out. He's only at six because I think he's purposefully stepped away for a bit. Otherwise he's up there selling out football stadiums as well. Number seven. Lanny Wilson Entertainer of the Year, after Entertainer of the Year, number one after number one, I put her at seven. Stapleton's at eight. Stapleton has Laney opening for him coming up. I didn't realize stadiums, yep, didn't realize that. And I think that's just Lanny respecting Chris Leanny could definitely go out and sell her own massive show. She obviously does, but I think she respects and loves Chris so much that it's, yeah, I'll come do that with you. So I've got Stapleton at eight, I've got Riley Green at nine. He is slowly becoming one of the big head liners in country music. And at ten, I have Kenny Chesney.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Chesney's still doing it.

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Speaker 1: Possibly the oldest person on this list. So it's hard to stay extremely relevant for decades and Chesney's doing that not only with songs, but also look at his Sphere residency. He's going back for part two. So Chesney at ten. That number ten was a hard one there.

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Speaker 2: It was tough.

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Speaker 1: McGraw's up there, he's doing the residency now in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: I'd Kane Brown Caine is up somewhere around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but if we're ranking them, that's that's where we put him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's interesting. We did have the same people up there for the most part, except Kenny.

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Speaker 1: We only had one that wasn't the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good job, buddy, that's fun.

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Speaker 1: I had to put Morgan though he was easily one from now. I'm not saying you're wrong, no, I know.

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Speaker 2: And I struggled with that a little bit because, I I mean, as soon as you think about it, the automatic thought is like, oh, Morgan won is the biggest thing in country music. But I was like, Jilla rolls everywhere.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to be cliche.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that was a little bit of it. I want to be a little different.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to put Ohio State or Alabama Ohio's day. Okay, Well, that's a fun little exercise that'll probably get us a bunch of hate online. So sure, yeah, we have that all right. So different stuff happening in country music, Mike, give me one of the headlines.

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Speaker 4: Country music headlines. There are rumors at Florida Georgia Line are getting back together. They posted a selfie from the CMA's BK said that him and Tyler went on a walk, went on a hike. Do you think they'll get back together?

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Speaker 2: Is that real? They went on a hike?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 1: BK did that meme of John Hamm and the meme was like, he's in the club. Have you did? Do you watch Friends and Neighbors?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, what's the meme?

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Speaker 1: Club? And he's kind of I think he's on drugs feeling it said.

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Speaker 2: All he turns, oh yeah, yeah, yah, I remember, yes, yes, yes, I'm pretty sure that was the post.

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Speaker 1: It was okay. Uh. The question is will they reunite eventually? I don't think they should now. I think they officially broke up in like twenty two or something like that. They haven't been broken up long enough. When they broke up, they were a bit of a punchline because they were corny for two reasons. One, when you get so successful, you just get corny because again there's an oversaturation. And then two they were also corny.

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Speaker 2: They were the godfathers of broke country.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but they were successful so long they did a full switch up, meaning when they started one of them had long hair and more vest and by the time they ended, the other one had the long hair.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, dude, that's so true. They switched day. I didn't. I didn't realize that.

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Speaker 1: They just got bored, right, so they just switch morphed into each other. Yes, So I think if they wait another three to five years, people will actually like the nostalgia of it. I don't think there's nostalgia of it right now. I think there's BK probably want money. Yeah, Tyler Hubbard is putting out songs, but he he's not selling shows like FGL did because unless you say Tyler Hubbard from Florida, Georgia line, you don't really know who that is. If you're a casual or a little more than a casual, you have to actually be a fan to know who that is. And I only know that from people being like, who's Tyler Hubbard when I'm talking about songs? So will they yes? Would they even now for a show or two. Sure, if it's a money grab, but if it's long term, I wouldn't do it for another three or four years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was gonna be a follow up question. Do you think they would get together for an album?

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Speaker 1: No, because that's a relaunch. Yes, even an album's a relaunch. I wouldn't even do a song. I would do a couple of shows, a private event or a television show if it was a like if they're reuniting for an awards show to do something. If you do it now, it's not gonna be a big deal when they do it then, Like Rascal Flats waited the right amount of time, like six years or something, and then people are like, wow, I haven't had anything from them forever. And so they got together. It sold out like crazy.

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Speaker 2: You know what it would have been cool is if they would have videoed the hike and just like them talking and them finding it out and like, yeah, dude, but you pissed me off when you did this.

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently they never got in a fight. It wasn't political all. That's absolute bull crap, right, And they're just trying to reframe it, and I get it. I try to reframe it too for money and to go, oh, it's not really working, Like if our BK, I'd be like, no, man, we find them for cupcakes.

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Speaker 3: But isn't that what Tyler's doing right now?

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Speaker 5: Like he's saying it wasn't political and all that kind of stuff, which is surprising.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because why do they need it out there? They fought at all, right, like eliminate that narrative because you don't hate each other now there obviously they took that selfie together at the award show. There, they're doing walks. There's no need for that to exist. Trust falls exactly.

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Speaker 4: If they came back this year, would.

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Speaker 2: You interview them?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: But I don't like them. I mean I think that's the difference. I don't mind, don't I don't don't like them. No, No, I don't like them.

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Speaker 2: Oh you don't like I don't mind Tyler so much.

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Speaker 1: But but whenever I was talking to BK when he called, he was like, you need to have interview me. He's like, Tyler's the one that started all that crap with you and us, and he's like throwing Tyler under the bus at me. But I'm just I'm not not had good experience. I don't mind Tyler. His wife's really nice.

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Speaker 2: Which is the one that did a painting for you.

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Speaker 1: I think it was kay, yeah, no beef. He was like, that's why I painted that for you.

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Speaker 2: What was the painting?

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Speaker 1: No beef?

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Speaker 2: It just said no beef on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. I never saw it again. I don't know where it is, somewhere in Vegas. Yeah, but he said Tyler was the reason that any of that feud happened. He's like, Tyler's always the one that wanted to come at you. And BK was like, yeah, it was political. He was like, I had a Trump banner and Tyler hated it. He told me he was on the phone telling me all this stuff. So I don't even care if the're reframing it. What do I care? Like reframe it. I think it's good for that group to reframe it now. So when they do get back together, people don't go, why are you back together? I thought it was political and like, no, we've said that. It's not.

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Speaker 3: No, it's like that's the plan.

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Speaker 1: It's a smart plan.

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Speaker 2: They had some good music, yeah baby, yeah, baby.

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Speaker 1: They got so big it got corny, and then they got corny.

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Speaker 2: Dude hammering and nail so good stacking them bail.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they could write song. Tyler can write songs, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Like catchy, good feeling songs.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, there's number one.

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Speaker 4: Next up, Netflix rebooted Star Search. Jelly roll is one of the judges on there. Will people watch this show?

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Speaker 1: Have you guys seen.

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Speaker 2: That I've seen, yeah, teasers or whatever. I think it looks awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Anthony Anderson is the host, jelly rolls one of the judges, Chrissy Teagan's one of the judges, and somebody else I think an actress of some sort. I don't have the note, but and they're doing it live, and I think that we'll bring attention because it's rare that Netflix does anything live. They are wrestling live occasionally to do a comedy special live that Mike Tyson fight Jack Paul, Mikey Sarah, Michelle Geller's do I yes, I think people will watch it because of the platform that it's on. I think if they released it on to b it have a little struggle, yes, or on crunchy roll that's all me.

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Speaker 3: But it's it's gonna be on Netflix. Big things coming to Netflix soon, including this podcast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you watch star Search as a kid? That was kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: I mean that was they never highlighted the judges. It's different now. The initial Star Search was Ed McMahon and a bunch of judges. You didn't see their face, didn't matter. It was Ed McMahon and mystery judges in the crowd and they'd be like four and a half stars. Now because American Idol and these judging shows, the judges are such a part of it. They've a bit implemented that style into what they did originally. But there are a lot of really famous people that did star Search. I mean Sawya Brown justin Timberlake, a lot of Dave Chappelle he did star Search. Yeah, I was a teenager.

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Speaker 2: So so it's all kinds of things, not just singing. You do comedy to singing.

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Speaker 1: They have specific categories. From what I remember the old Star Search, I don't think it's like America's Got Talent where you can come out. I watched this woman I'm not sure what country it was, but she goes, okay, if I can have the room, quiet, please, And she takes a feather and she puts it on and balances on a stick, and the judges and it's got to be a different country because I didn't recognize the judges.

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Speaker 2: They were like, yep, probably had to be a different country.

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Speaker 1: And then from that, there's a stick with a feather on it, and the stick's like three feet long. She takes that stick with a feather on it and balances on another stick. And then she takes that stick that's balance on that with a feather on it, balances on another stick and by the end it's this human everything is balanced.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Wow, how long to take?

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Speaker 1: It's like a six minute video. Watch the whole thing. Got talent? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Italy?

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Speaker 1: Now I remember they were like pasta adio. I watched the whole six minutes of the video. My mind was blown. Now, I don't know how you put that into an act. Yeah, but it was a really cool video. That being said, I don't think star Search has those type of categories.

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Speaker 4: They have music, dance, comedy, variety, magic and then kids magic.

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Speaker 2: Magic's cool.

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Speaker 1: Do I think people will watch? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did too.

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Speaker 1: Do I think it'll be some mass cultural show. No, because you don't have those anymore.

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Speaker 3: Good point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I do think it'll be big. I got called for that show, meaning they wanted I was one of the people you're gonna magic to know, not to be performed, to be one of the judges. They always look for, like somebody in from the South or country music, like a white guy. And I guess that Jelly Roll end up getting that, which he should be, he's extremely famous. But I did get a call when they were rebooting it at the very very beginning, going, hey, they're talking to people about being a judge on Star Stars or a host.

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Speaker 2: So that's cool.

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Speaker 1: That was like two years ago.

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Speaker 2: If you had said yes or gone through the who No, I did the so I just didn't get it, okay, But should you have to like audition.

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Speaker 1: No that you just talked to producers, and then it's kind of who's available, who's famous and available, who's famous available and can do it? And they just weigh it all and and then also it's like you want to mix it up. You want to have somebody from music, somebody acting, somebody white, somebody black, somebody you know, all.

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Speaker 2: That tattoos on the face.

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Speaker 1: No, tattoos on the face. Yeah, I think people will watch again. I don't think that anything will be the cultural phenomenon that shows were twelve fifteen years ago, so to compare them to that is unfair. Yeah, but yeah, I think it's cool, all right. Next up, the.

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Speaker 4: Chris Lei's were just revealed as of the croissants on the Mass Singer after being freed and pardoned from prison. Do you have an issue with them being on the show.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't have an issue because I don't care that stairs just generally, even if I'm talking about it. Sometimes I have talked about it and amplify my care. I don't care about them being on that show. I did see they were on it once. They were eliminated because they're performing, and it was like this canceled couple. I just think it's weird that they never we were never told they didn't do it, like they committed the crimes.

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Speaker 2: And they served the time.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: No, they were pardoned because their daughter worked for Trump.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, refresh memory. So they got they went to jail, yes, served a little bit, and.

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Speaker 1: Then because their daughter was on him, Trump said they're famous, so they.

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Speaker 2: Got and that's Savannah.

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Speaker 1: But people are like, oh, that's awesome. They got parted. But if it were you or you or you or you, you wouldn't get partoned. They only got partoned because they were famous.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you'd be sitting in there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: But do I care they're on the show. No, But they did not do it right. I like those stories where people they go in, you find out they didn't do it, they come out, they get a redemption story like I never did it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, they did it.

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Speaker 1: They were guilty.

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Speaker 4: I thought the clip was weird to see, like everybody clapping for them, and I just think they just got out of prison.

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Speaker 2: This feels weird to me.

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Speaker 1: I think you're just conditioned to clap there, or they edit clapping.

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Speaker 2: In or don't they have that plod sign where you have to that thing goes off, you have to.

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Speaker 4: They're just so excited to see them, And I was like, that's weird.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a conditioning there. Whomever pulls it off. Anybody just claps, But do I care? No? And Todd Chrisley was nice to me. But they did it. They stole money, they were found guilty. They only got clear because They're famous, that's it. And so when people are like all celebrating that, I'm like, you wouldn't get that, you wouldn't get cleared. But no, I don't care. I literally give me, I give, I give no crash. Yes.

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Speaker 4: Next up, Megan Roney has a new album coming out. There's a song called Wish I Didn't? Is it about Riley Green?

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Speaker 1: This is another one of those things I don't really care about, but I will say there are references in this song. There's even a part of it where she there's a lyric that's the same title as a Riley Green song. So probably, but even if not smart to make it feel like it is.

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Speaker 2: To get people talking and thinking, because.

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Speaker 1: I think there's another song on the album too that's possibly about Riley Green. And the thing with them was it's not just a rumor that they were together. There are pictures of them at the airport together, right, And I'm speaking in nothing that I know, just things that I've seen that everybody else has seen. So if they dated for a little bit, all good, But there are pictures that exist of them. I'm just so surprised they'd walk together at the airport in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy talk in Nashville, where everyone knows who you are. I love songs that have stories, though, I mean I love songs that you know just about nothing. But to have a song where you like the one you talked about with name and goo goo dolls like, I love that to have a backstory.

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Speaker 1: So when this one is not a good song though.

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Speaker 2: Right, But when people say like, oh, this song is secretly about this, I like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why even if it's not, it's smart to make it seem like it could be, because it gets people talking about it. Like us.

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Speaker 4: Riley Green has a song called make It Rain, and then her lyric on the song is I can also make it rain.

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Probably.

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Speaker 4: Next up, who from the country music world would you want to see on the next season of Dancing with the Stars.

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Speaker 1: That's a good question, and usually they take someone you know that category. I was just telling you guys about south or country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they need that person.

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Speaker 1: They usually get someone even if it's not from country music. They get someone that kind of represents that. And I don't think they had one last year. I fully expect them to try to get someone from country music this year.

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Speaker 2: You know who I think would be great at that.

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Speaker 1: I have someone in mind too, And also this show is massive again. Yeah, so they don't need to convince anyone to be on the show. If you get asked now, you say yes immediately and you run to it because the ratings are massive again and that thing has gone up and down, up and down. Brandon, who do you think.

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Speaker 3: Neil McCoy.

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Speaker 7: He loss in his own own literally the first person that came to mind, just because at him dance answer, Okay, that was kind of a joke, come back to me.

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Speaker 2: And he still does the day for like a decade and why that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Eddie.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's smart for his career because he's so busy right now and he's kind of rising.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's fine now because that show is so big. Bailey Zimmerman, I think he'd be great on it.

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Speaker 2: I think America would love him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the schedule might be tough, but even me and I'm not that status, but I'm worried when I went on the show, like do I want to go on this because it seems like a bunch of losers? And I called Charlemagne the God and I said, hey, what do you think, and he goes, dude, don't think that because Kim Kardashian did it. Michael Strahan did it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good point.

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Speaker 1: What's the actress Mike from the HBO show Zindeya did it.

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Speaker 2: They're a lot.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Dmilio did it. There are a lot of people that went up to do it. We just only remember or some of them that didn't.

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Speaker 2: And the older ones too, like Emmitt Smith. You know.

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Speaker 1: So I thought that was good advice, but but now that show is so big, you do it. I think Russell Dickerson would be good.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. He's got the personality, the moves, and the athletic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'd go Russell Dickerson. Anybody else, Brandon.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not not kidding anymore, Brandon, you don't.

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Speaker 1: Have to pick anybody if you don't have anybody. I was thinking somebody like Jordan Davis doesn't have a big personality.

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Speaker 3: That's true. Maybe Thomas Rhett, but he's got so many kids, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't get away from the kids. All right, Mike, give me the other one, all right? Last one.

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Speaker 4: Maren Morris has said that in country music, there's in the country music atmosphere, no one is friendly to her, which caused her to break away from the format.

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Speaker 1: Is she correct? I think that she publicly got into a fight with Brittany al Dean. She's been outspoken about her political beliefs. It doesn't matter what side you're out spoke about their people going to push back against you. I think there was probably a lot of negativity brought on to her because she spoke out for what she believed and it didn't match with a lot of what the format believes. But you know that before you do that, like you kind of understand what's happening. But I don't think that it's fair to say that the country music atmosphere wasn't very friendly to her because when she was really going through it, I reached out because I think she was promoting a kid's book and I said, hey, you should come on the show, and they were like, nah, nah, nah, we don't do it. And I'm like, well, I'm trying. I'm being friendly to you. You're acting like no one's being nice to I'm being friendly to you. I'm embracing you. And they were like, now we're good. We don't want to do it. So the fact that all of country music wasn't friendly. I feel like that's incorrect and unfair because I reached out multiple times it got nothing back except no, and maybe that was what she wanted to present. Then I'm anti everything, but I'm kind of anti some.

00:24:48
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:24:48
Speaker 1: Plus I don't give a crap about what the industry does. It's a good thing and a bad thing about what we do. So I can understand why she would feel that way, because I'm sure you open up your social media years getting pounded. But I don't think it's fair to say, just as an example, like I reached out multiple times and receive nothing back. And also we were friendly. So I took that a little personally, but not all the way personally because I knew she was probably going through it. But I feel like it's unfair to say that no one was no one was friendly to her. Yeah.

00:25:21
Speaker 2: Those From what I learned in my marriage is those blanket statements don't hold true a lot of times. I don't always say always or everyone.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: Stuff like that. That's a big one. But I can understand why she would feel that way. Sure, because she was saying political things I'm sure she believed and great that's awesome, say what you believe, stand for what you believe in. But they're in this environment, there's going to just be so much toxicity thrown at you. It's going to feel like it's everyone.

00:25:44
Speaker 2: So is she Is she off to a different genre? Is she no longer Nashville country?

00:25:51
Speaker 1: No? I would say that's an interesting question. I would say even she said she still makes country music. But I think she found the system. I think she found going to award shows. I heard her say that, like going to a ward shows was tough. Nobody's not. But it's just hard because I know there are people that like her and are nice to her, but there's a lot there that aren't. But if you are somebody who's polarizing, and you're outwardly polarizing, you have to expect the polarization as well. When I've had to learn that, like I say a bunch of crap, and there are times to say crap about people and have to go and like be face to face with them, I don't expect them to give me a big hug. If I've said things that aren't positive or that don't shine a positive light on them, I don't expect them to shine a positive light back on me. So that's what I'd say, What you think, what do you think of? What where do you think Marin is right now? Just from being on the outside.

00:26:38
Speaker 2: I was driving a couple of days ago and her song came on, you know, and I really was wondering, I'm like, where is Maren?

00:26:45
Speaker 1: Like I still still here? I mean physically still here.

00:26:47
Speaker 2: Now I wouldn't mean that, like I don't really know where. Even when she did live here, I never knew where she was. But I was just thinking of, you know, where, what's she doing? Like where's what's she working on? Where? Like is she going pop music? Is she doing pop music? Is she writing with other people? Or she's still here in Nashville writing with people. I don't know what she was doing. So that's a legit, legit question of mine two days ago, and it's she's.

00:27:09
Speaker 5: Like on the fringes, you know, she's she doesn't want to work here, so she goes to LA to write and record her records and stuff. But it's still pitched in the country music space and more so the pop music space as well. But I think her feeling about Nashville and the country music has distanced her, but she's still trying to do the same thing, which is probably the the thing that's distancing you from her.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: I don't see her.

00:27:39
Speaker 2: What would you like say if say that was the case, right, Like, say that was the case, I still want to do country music. I still want to be part of this community. Like, what would you say to an artist like that? If what if like you want that and you've already made it clear of where you stand with certain things or who you fleet feudal, well.

00:27:57
Speaker 1: Just keep making it then, I mean, like Marco, I would just say, who cares exactly? She's like, but but Margot Price has and she's been on our show before, and you know, I follow on socials. But she's like, screw the system. But if you screw the system, you're not gonna get the benefits of the system, right, which is them for the most part, mass appeal.

00:28:18
Speaker 2: Sure, it's a harder road, right, little little bumpier road.

00:28:23
Speaker 1: No, I'd say it's extreme. It's it's not the same road at all. I mean, because there are artists that are looked at as critical darlings with massive, diehard fan bases that aren't as big because they're not hitting that populist level, yeah, because you kind of have to have either a general message or not talk against what's not the general message. But I think another one's Tyler Childers, Like he's awesome.

00:28:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really good, but he.

00:28:47
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't I'm not dealing with the system, and his views are probably different than that of a bunch of country artists, and so those artists have a they have to go down a whole different path.

00:28:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I felt a little bit with that with Casey Musgrave is early on, no, it's still now, yeah, But I mean she's created her own audience and her own group of people that love her, which is like awesome.

00:29:08
Speaker 1: And she was what was traditional for a while and was able to use that to get initial fans, like she had hits and there was controversy, but she did the traditional we'll go to radio, we'll have a radio, we'll do this, and then she's like screw up. But she already had that base kind of like Marin did. We're like a Tyler Childers never had that. He was just like, I'm doing my own thing the whole time. I'm just going to stay independent ish and play shows, build that way, make great music never going to be traditional radio that type thing. But what I say, I don't know. It depends what you want. Do you want money and fame? If you do, if that's really what you want, then I wouldn't push back so much against what that's the standard. But if you want to have your voice heard, man, sometimes it hurts to hear back people that don't agree with you out that they're right. But if you want to have your voice heard, keep freaking saying what you're saying, keep making your music. You're just not going to be met at that populous level with money with tickets as you would otherwise. But it's like what's important to you. That's why I would say, I'm gonna have to deal with that sometimes, like what's important. Sometimes whatever's happening in the industry is not important to me, so I don't embrace it. And it does affect me at times, especially in this town, but other times I kind of don't care.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: I'll take the money, yeah, give me the money sometimes.

00:30:33
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes just give me the money. Give me what did they say? Give me my money? So okay, that's what's up. The Bobby cast will be right back. M M. This is the Bobby cast Mike's that it. That's it? Anything going on with you?

00:31:04
Speaker 2: Uh No, I just wanted to tell you that if we ever fight about anything or break up or don't talk, I kind of like the idea of going for a walk and a little hike or something if you ever want to kind of talk about things.

00:31:17
Speaker 1: I think we're on a hiatus. We just haven't announced it. We haven't done the Chase Rice or Chase Rice said I'm done, I'm tired. I'm not gonna go on your road.

00:31:25
Speaker 7: God.

00:31:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:31:26
Speaker 1: I like announcing it though, because had he not announced it, no one would have right. I'm not gonna say cared because that sounds mean, but nobody would have cared enough to be like, why aren't you on the road, because there are artists that come off throad all the time for six nine months at a time. Well, it was like, if you announced it, it makes the news. That's I liked it. I would have done that.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: Robert O'Kean did the same too, Like a couple of years ago, he said I'm done, I'm a done touring and then like you get on TikTok and he's doing all these shows.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: George Straight, Cowboy rides away, you keep riding away. Howboy just got different horse. But if you announce it, it becomes a store.

00:32:00
Speaker 2: Sorry, it really does.

00:32:00
Speaker 1: So Chase Rice like, I'm out, Chase Rice will be back. But if Chase Rice hadn't announced he was out, no one would have known he was out. They thought he'sn't writing a record, living at home, not on tour.

00:32:09
Speaker 5: Maybe sorry, That's how Chase Rice talks about himself, isn't it whatever Chase.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: Rice needs to do?

00:32:14
Speaker 2: Man, Oh does he do third person?

00:32:16
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:32:16
Speaker 3: No, I'm just kidding.

00:32:17
Speaker 1: I wish I could do third person. That sounds and it not sound like a joke.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: Just try it, just try it.

00:32:21
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, Hey, Bobby had a good time doing this podcast today.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: That'd be so weird. Like, I don't know if I could take you seriously.

00:32:29
Speaker 1: It's like the Seinfeld episode where the guy is talking in third person at the gym, but they don't know. He doesn't know like Elaine, maybe Jimmy. Yeah, it doesn't know if Jimmy's talking about himself or his name is even Jimmy.

00:32:39
Speaker 2: Jimmy likes that Joe, that's all right, And.

00:32:42
Speaker 1: Then she's like, is that Jimmy or is it about Jimmy. I just watched that the other day. But we have an announced on hiatus. We should we haven't played in a while.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: No, we should.

00:32:52
Speaker 3: Can you video the walk?

00:32:53
Speaker 2: Can't we say we took a walk when we come back.

00:32:56
Speaker 1: Well we could parody their video us in the Eddie and I took a walk, and we really decided we have the same thoughts on Venezuela.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: It's like us walk in talking, laugh and then cut away, come back and it's us wrestling on the ground.

00:33:12
Speaker 1: And then we also announced but we're gonna take a hiatus. We do both. So we haven't had guests on this podcast in the past couple of weeks, and the reason is we're getting ready to launch our show on Netflix, so we've been doing more so like I had my wife on an episode last week, Eddie and I have done and Brandon have done some music stuff talking. But we definitely expect to be back. And by the way, on this feed will be exactly the same, so nothing is changing. If you're listening to the audio version of this, you're gonna still get the audio version. It's gonna fall on your feed just like it always does. The only difference is the show is coming off of YouTube. Clips are still gonna be on YouTube and large clips, but the whole episodes will be on Netflix. So we have some really great episodes coming up. But that's why we haven't had guests because we've been recording. It's a bit of a different process with Netflix because we have to have them edited and loaded up way ahead of time, different standards more so, we were just loading up on YouTube, so it's a.

00:34:09
Speaker 2: Little different dealing with a bigger platform, I guess.

00:34:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's what's up if you want to. We took a hiatus from guests, although I bet you nobody noticed. It's just popping up the feet and they're going, Oh, I enjoy this or I don't. We've announced we've taken a hiatus from guests, although I think next week is our last week without guests. Is that correct, Mike?

00:34:30
Speaker 2: That is correct?

00:34:31
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say who our first guests are going to be yet because who I think is going to be our first guest and I think I may have said this with Kaitlin, who is we haven't recorded it yet so they could get sick.

00:34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you don't want to say so I don't.

00:34:45
Speaker 1: Want to say it. I think they'll they'll be in eventually.

00:34:46
Speaker 2: But yeah, does the podcast go up before the Netflix or how does that work? Like do podcast listeners get a sneak peek of who it is before you can watch it? The whole world can watch on Netflix?

00:34:57
Speaker 1: Do you mean they can listen to it first, the whole thing?

00:35:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, can you is it released first by listening to.

00:35:02
Speaker 1: Both's going to be on the same day, like Tuesday?

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Okay, so both it all comes out the same.

00:35:08
Speaker 1: I think so, right, Mike, like twelve oh one whatever. Yeah, I don't know, dude, probably sounds very complicated.

00:35:15
Speaker 3: Good question.

00:35:17
Speaker 2: Oh, I just thought maybe like ooh, I can hear who it is first and then watch on Netflix later.

00:35:21
Speaker 1: Well, you can hear who it is probably because I'll post a picture going this person's gonna be a guest coming out. It makes sense more so that all right, Uh, we're done, Thank you guys. Check out the episode from earlier in the week with my wife Caitlin. We'll have another one or two next week, and then we launch back with all the guests the week after that. Maybe you like the once with that guest. I don't know. What you like, all right, that's it. Thank you. We will see you guys next week.

00:35:45
Speaker 6: By Everyboddy, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production