#695 - Luke Bryan vs. Jason Aldean & Existential Music Questions

Okay, welcome to the show. This week we have two artists battling it out, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean. That's right. Last week, if you missed the episode, it was Brooks and Dunn and Alan Jackson. Fun fact about that one, my wife got a text from Ronnie's wife, Ronnie Dunn's wife, and she said, Ronnie was watching Bobby talk about him on Netflix today. He was watching the fight? So I guess he saw it on Instagram that we did it.

And then I saw him repost it in a story. And then I guess he went to Netflix to watch it. Dude, I would love to just be a fly on the wall watching him watch that. So, yeah, Ronnie's wife texted Caitlin and was like, I'm watching Ronnie. That's so cool. Watching them talk about that. So luckily they won. Yeah, luckily.

He throws something at the TV.

Sons of.

All right, so we have two artists that are going to battle it out, and here's exactly how this works. I do not match the songs up against each other. I literally search, give me the top 10 songs from each artist based on streams, based on sales, based on cultural significance, list them one through 10, and I do one versus one, two versus two, all the way down.

At the end, we see who wins. Past winners have been Garth Brooks over George Strait, barely. Brooks and Dunn over Alan Jackson, barely. Tim McGraw over Kenny Chesney. Barely.

Barely.

They've all been close. So let's go Luke Bryan v. Jason Aldean. Let's welcome everybody to the show here. Singer, songwriter, musician, producer. You've probably heard so many of his songs in even television commercials or Madden football or NCAA tournament championship. That's not you. It's Brandon Ray. Oh, okay. Right. Okay. Brandon. Also, Eddie's here. It's not funny. Yeah. And I'm Bobby. So you guys ready to go? Yeah. Number one, Luke Bryan, Drink a Beer, versus Jason Aldean, Dirt Road Anthem. Now, as always, Eddie, you'll go first. These two are stylistically so different. Very different. Luke Bryan, Drink a Beer, Jason Aldean, Dirt Road Anthem.

So when I think about Drink a Beer... Written by Chris Stapleton. Sung by Luke Bryan. Luke had just lost someone or had lost someone in his life around the time that came out. So there was all this like, that hits hard. Very emotional song about losing someone. But then Jason Aldean, man, he raps. about chilling on a dirt road. The boys in blue. I love that song.

A lot of people do.

I'm going to go Jason Aldean dirt road anthem.

You took us down like a sad Luke Bryan story and then just flipped it to Aldean. Because Aldean, dude, that song is so like, is that a... What's it?

It's Brantley Gilbert and Colt Ford. And Colt Ford, yeah.

They originally did it. That song's awesome. Jason did it and then Ludacris came out and did it with him a bit too. Maybe they recorded a version of it to try to go pop radio. Wow. And then I know Ludacris came out at an awards show and did it as well. Yeah, that's cool. Brandon?

As revolutionary as Dirt Road Anthem was, I'm going to go Drink a Beer.

Drink a Beer is a top three Luke Bryan song for me. Oh. Not even about The sad personal part of it. Because again, he didn't write it. But I just love drinking beer. So I'm going to pick that one. But you don't drink beers. The purpose of that is just finding a spot and just taking in life. Okay. And feeling whatever you're feeling. Yeah, I get it.

How often have you been driving down dirt road though?

A lot in high school. Exactly. Exactly. No smoke coming out the window, though. No beer on the console? Mm-mm. Okay, Luke Bryan, one. Jason Aldean, zero. Dang it. Next up, Luke Bryan, play it again. Play it again, play it again, play it again. Jason Aldean, you make it easy. Loving up on you. So play it again versus you make it easy. Brandon, you'll go first this time.

Ooh, this is a tough one. Do we have to pick one? I'm just kidding.

Yes, Brandon.

I'm joking.

Uh, how was I playing again? I think I'm going to go. You make it easy. Jason Aldean. What makes it easier for me is that they're both tempo. It's the same type of song. It's easier for me to pick one when they're similar type songs. Um, I'm going to go Jason Aldean, You Make It Easy. And maybe that's because I think I was in Nashville when that song came out and possibly Play It Again came out before we got here. I'm not sure.

If not before we got here, right around the time we got here.

So I'll go You Make It Easy. Let me look when that came out. Go ahead. So you're right. 2013, right when we got here. Yeah.

So you're right, though. That tempo is about the same kind of song, you know? Play It Again always kind of bothered me a little bit just because he's talking to the radio.

Play It Again, dude, just stream it. Well, 2013 streaming wasn't quite what it is. I know. You mean download it on iTunes? Something, man.

You can just hit back. Or call the radio station. And you're Luke Bryan. You probably know the guy playing the song. But mostly it's about life too. Like let's do this life moment together again.

I know.

But there was something about that song I was just never like just drawn to. And you take it easy. I never got to do this, but I figure like if you're at a bar and that song comes on and you've been trying to ask a girl to dance and you didn't know what the right time to, I always felt like that song was the perfect time to be like, would you like to dance with me?

You've thought about that? Yeah. Being a married man for that long? No, not that. It's just like. You're talking about dancing with women at a bar. But back in the day before I was married, dude, that was the best. But that song wasn't out then. I understand.

But that's every time I hear that song, I'm like, that's a good dance. You think about the good old days.

No, you're putting words in my mouth. Okay, so we got Aldine on that one.

Yeah.

One to one. Luke Bryan. Cause I'm a little drunk on you. And I own summertime. Drunk on you. Or Jason Aldine.

She's country.

Dude, this is crazy. Luke Bryan, drunk on you. Jason Aldean, she's country. You're first, right? Oh, it is me. It's tough. I think I'm going to go she's country.

Why?

I think it just hits harder. I think just... Which one are you doing? That's it, right? She's country?

Yeah.

That's how that one starts? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he says, Lunatic from Brunswick.

That's that one, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think I've played that one at the dance party so many times. She's a bad mamma jamma. From South Alabama? Is that that one? Yeah, dude. I'm going to go Jason Aldean's She's Country. That's the only reason. I don't know. I just am going by visceral reaction to thinking about those songs.

She's Country. I, too, am going She's Country. That song, those lyrics of the Lunatic from Brunswick. She's a bad mamma jamma.

Cheesy? You're easily impressed. Cheesy? Yes. Very cheesy.

But dude, I love it. It puts a smile on my face when I hear those lyrics.

Brandon?

Biggest thing about that song is the breakdown riff in the middle. That was awesome. That was shortly after I moved to Nashville when this song came out. And I'd be driving to the Cheesecake Factory to work. And that song would come on and be.

Like, woo, yeah. You work at Cheesecake Factory? Yeah. For how long? A whole year. Did you know that? I had no idea.

Me either.

You need to put that in the bio. For sure. You just want his bio to be less significant? Because, I mean, it's any job you have. I respect it. But he's talking music here, and you want other things that aren't music.

You could say Cheesecake Factory server.

She's a hot little number in a pickup truck. Let's go. Let's look at some lyrics here. Yeah. She's a hot little number in a pickup truck. Daddy sweet money done jacked it up. Come on. She's a party all nighter from South Carolina. A bad mamma jamma from down in Alabama. Okay, so I messed up. The other one's of Dierks Bentley. Hammer.

alabama 10 pound hammer yeah so i messed up messed up my alabama i get that reference uh she's a party all-nighter from south carolina a bad mama jama from down in alabama she's a raging cajun a lunatic from brunswick juicy georgia peach with a thick southern draw sexy swing and walk brother she's all country man you know they said gave high fives when they wrote that that's like blackbird Yes. Stairway to Heaven. Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California. Yeah.

All in the same. Lyrically magnificent. All right. I think Aldine takes the lead. Two to one.

Dude, what's crazy is I never thought I'd loved all these Aldine songs, but like.

So far, I've picked all Aldine. You've been three for three, Aldine? Yeah. Okay. Luke Bryan. Do I make no stop? Do I?

Baby, do I?

Hmm.

I didn't.

See that. Jason Aldine, The Truth. Okay, how's that one go? The Truth is, I think, my favorite Jason Aldean song.

Wow, yeah.

The Truth. Brandon, how's that one go?

It's like.

Because I don't think of the words The Truth when I think of this song.

Yeah, it's... Tell them.

That's it. Just don't tell them I've gone crazy. Hold on, I get it for you.

Just don't tell them all the truth.

That's it. Okay, yeah, yeah, that's good. Do you know that one? I mean, yeah, yeah. I've heard it. I think that might be my favorite. I think so.

Yeah. Really good.

Out of dirt road anthem and she's country. You pick dirt road anthem. Yeah. It's one of my favorite songs. It's like, just don't tell him I've gone crazy. I can't sing it like that, but yeah, that's good. Okay, and then the Luke one is what? Do I dig them all around when I do them, baby? Do I tell them that I tell them that I do them, baby? Baby, do I? Yeah. I feel like this is one where Luke really gets into it when he sings.

You know?

Do I? Shaking it. No, it's a slow song. Yeah, yeah. He does that when he sings it. Mostly he does it as a fast song. I think he does it the whole show, man. I don't know, man. Give me Luke. Do I? Do I. Brandon?

Well, this is tough. Do I is one of my favorite Luke Bryan songs. But The Truth is one of the best written songs I've heard in a while. This is tough. I'm going to go with The Truth.

Luke Bryan's Do I is my favorite Luke Bryan song. Oh, there we go. Yeah, it's my number one. So I'm going to go Do I over The Truth.

Okay, that's good.

But those were strong, and they were both at number four on their list. Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night to End. Oh, that's a good one. I don't want this night to end, right? Yeah. I don't know if that's the melody. I'm trying to think of it.

It's the morning when it comes.

The man in the rising sun.

No good for me.

Are you singing the animals? Did you hear it? There was a house in New Orleans. House of the Rising Sun? Yeah, I don't have it. We're doing so many songs here, it's hard for me to hit. The other one's Jason Aldean, My Kind of Party. My kind of party. Lunatic from Brunswick. My kind of party. Turn it. It's my kind of party.

I don't want this night to end. Can you try that one again, Brandon? I know the verse. Oh, that's good. That's good. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you got it.

You got your hands up. You're rocking in my truck. You got the radio on. You're singing every song.

Okay, we got that one. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to pick that one. We haven't hit the other one yet. The Aldine one is my kind of party. My... kind of party. Cause if we just get the lyrics, we can get, Oh, I wish I could hear these. Okay.

Well, she Georgia peach.

With, because we can't play them. I know we can kind of sing them. But since we're singing them so bad, is it? Yes, that's why.

That's great.

That's why we can do it. That's why we're singing bad, by the way. So, worked all week, cleaned up and clean cut and clean shaved. I got the cover off the 68. I fired up and let them horses sing. They're pretty lame. Ten-legged Georgia dream. She's rocking them holy jeans. Baby, what you got going on Saturday?

Here's the chorus.

Here it is. Cause baby, you can find me in the back of a jacked up tailgate, sitting around watching all these pretty things.

Get down in that Georgia clay.

Yeah, that's that one.

Jam, dude.

These are both really good. And the first one was like, oh, I can't go back. What was it called? You got your hands up. You got my man.

Yeah, I got to go, Luke Bryan. Dude, that sing-along we just did was epic.

Brandon?

I love the sing-along. Let's go, let's go. I don't want this night to end.

Are you picking it just off the sing-along?

I don't know.

Just hearing both those songs back to back, I was like, that's pretty good.

It really does help to sing them, you know?

I have to sing them to get up to hear them again. I know, but it kind of brings the feeling back of just like, oh, which one do I like better? I liked singing Luke better. Yeah, I go with the Luke one too. I just like that one better.

But see don't pick it off of us singing it I get it but it's still the song that's not the integrity of this competition is lost if you're just picking off of us singing how much fun we're having together I won't do that again because I know these artists watch these stupid videos and I don't want to piss because we just sang one better I get it I get it alright five down Mike what score? Luke is up 3-2 after five at halftime Luke's up 3-2 just so Jason knows I've picked him three times next up Luke Bryan That's my kind of night. And that would be, I got my real good, real good truck.

Up on the D, but I beat that, that, that, that.

Okay. Sitting on 35. Jason Aldean's is Hicktown. Yeah. Hicktown.

Little Jimmy Johnson.

Oh, that hits hard. That's a really strong beginning of that song. That really is. Oh, that's the jam at the beginning.

Yeah. In a Hicktown. That was like the first single.

Maybe so, yeah. Little Jimmy Jackson is jacking up his Bronco.

He's going to lay a.

Little rubber later on at the truck pool. You with me still on that? Oh, yeah, for sure. Then it's the chorus is, we let it rip.

We let it roll.

Yeah, and for sure there's fire. We get down in a hick town. It's a good one, too. That's My Kind of Night or Hicktown. Oh, dude. I got to go.

That's My Kind of Night. Like, when that song came on for the first time.

Ever, I got my big back. Like, dude, it's so good. That's Catfish Dinner. It is Catfish Dinner. Flint River. Comes up a little Catfish Dinner. I'm going Hicktown. I think that song hits harder. I like it. It does. It's also old. But Catfish Dinner came out when we first got here. Yeah. But Hicktown's even older. And I think I didn't know much about Dean before we moved to Nashville.

Cause there was like an eight or nine year period where I was totally checked out. I was just doing hip hop, you know? Yeah. I remember that dude. I'm going Hicktown. Brandon.

Hicktown.

What?

Yeah.

Little Jimmy Johnson. His God is. There you go. Okay. We tied. Tied up. Three, three, four to go. Luke Bryan. Crash my party. Come on, man. Can you do it?

Uh, Now I'm just thinking of Crash My Playa. How does it start? I didn't know how it starts.

Like this.

Baby, you can crash my party anytime. That's the line.

Yeah, I got it right here. I don't know how that goes. Let me see the chorus. If you want to call me, call me. Yeah, there you go. Do it.

If you want to call me, call me, call me. If you don't want to tell me, tell me, baby. You can call me up in the middle of the night. Maybe that's all right.

Okay. That one or Burning It Down. Burning it down. That's like. Burning it. Naked in my bed. Oh, yeah. Dude, that's a jam. That one's a little newer too. Burning it down.

Yeah. And unfairly, there's an unfair thing about that song to me.

We're just hanging around, burning it down, sipping on some cold Jack Daniels. Doing my thing. Jamming to some old Alabama. That one. You want me to go? Yeah.

There was something about laying naked in my bed, and I realize now he's talking about her.

I always thought it was him. I always thought it was him. Yeah, me too. I was like, no, I don't like that.

Yeah, me too.

I don't want to see Jason naked in his bed. Don't talk about that. Look at him. I like Jason. I don't want to see him naked in bed.

And so I never really liked that song for that reason. I think it's a great song because it's kind of a jam.

It is like a slow jam.

But Crash My Party, after singing it, and then, you know, I mean, that built his brand, didn't it? Like Crash My Playa. I'm sure he had a tour called Crash My whatever.

You don't know that.

I don't know that, but I'm assuming. So I'm going to go Crash My Party anytime.

Brandon?

I'm a go crash my party.

Yeah. I'll go crash my party as well. Did we, were we there for the, yeah, we were there for his video shoot. Do you remember that? I don't know that I was. Yeah. We went, you went to interview him to a Luke Bryan video shoot. Yeah.

So, so it was when we first got here, um, and they, they wanted you to interview Luke Bryan, but he was out of shoot. And so it was, we were in the house where they shot that video, crash my party. And we were somewhere in like in the attic or whatever. And we sat in this couch, there was a pool table there and we did an interview.

I got nothing. You don't remember any of that?

I drove by that house like a few months ago and I was like, wow, look, that's where they shot that video.

Crazy you don't remember any of that. I don't know that it was me. It was you. It was you, me, and Justin Cole. I don't remember one morsel of that story.

It was so cool to me because we walked in and there were all these production people and cameras and all this stuff and Luke's like, I'm upstairs.

And we just kept on walking upstairs. And that's where we ended up doing it. The interview. Not a morsel. That's crazy. All right. We are now at song number eight. Luke Bryan, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Don't remember it. Jason Aldean, Fly Over States. Oh, well, you hit that one hard.

Dude, Fly Over States is one of my favorite Jason Aldean songs ever. They never died.

On the home. Oh, that's that one? It's literally about flying over these states. The farm.

This farmland that people will never get to see because you just fly over and you don't think about it, but there are some really good people down there.

Yeah.

I love that song. Did you think we didn't know what that meant, flyover states? Just in case, because I didn't for a long time. I'm not a lyric guy, you know? Well, let me tell you about Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. It's about when the night's over.

Uh-huh. What do you do? Well, tomorrow's not going to happen because this is our last night, so you just kiss it goodbye.

Oh.

That's deep. Yeah. I don't know, but you know how, like, people say states? Sometimes it's like a state of mind. You know? Quaker state. I can't sing Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, though. Ain't gonna beg you to stay.

Ain't gonna ask you what's wrong.

Oh, yeah.

Ain't no reason.

Oh, yeah. And after something's already gone. Take off your leaving dress. Remember that? Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's it. And kiss tomorrow goodbye. That's a good one. Brandon, go ahead. Oh.

Um.

Do you want me to sing you flower singing? Yeah, please do, please do. You never, never fall in love. That's good. Huh. It's probably not that high. I went really high on that.

I went really high.

Answer?

I'm going to go kiss tomorrow goodbye.

Oh, wow. You want me to sing it for you again? I'm going to go kiss tomorrow goodbye.

Dude, I feel like you guys are just picking the opposite of me.

I don't care enough about you to pick the opposite of you. In this, I just pick what I want.

Okay.

Okay. I think you're putting too much value on yourself.

No, it's not that. It's just that my vote's never counting. Like, this is pretty much y'all's game. But you're not affecting us. Like, I pick a song and you guys are like, we'll pick the other one. I'll go first more.

Okay. Then I'm going to pick the opposite. But that's not the point of the game. Mike, what do we got? Four to four? Luke is up now. What score? Five to three. Five to three. Okay. Okay. Luke Bryan, rain is a good thing. Oh, that's a good one. What line comes to mind? Frisky.

Baby makes my baby get a little frisky.

Or Jason Aldean, big green tractor.

Oh, dang. This is a good matchup. So far, I think this is the best matchup. Brandon, which one do you have? Rain is a good thing or big green tractor?

I'm going to have to go Big Green Tractor.

Take a four-ride on Big Green Tractor. Man. You up? I'm going to go Big Green Tractor.

See?

You didn't give a vote yet. But you know I was going to go.

I don't know what you're going to do. You think we care.

We're a little frisker. You think we care.

What you're going to do?

We don't. Rain makes corn. It's a jam, though. Corn makes frisker. Dude, I was going to go. Rain is a good thing. You still can. I know, but it's not going to count now.

It counts.

You just didn't win this one. I don't think I've won one. Big rain tractor. It's not a game you're winning. I know, I know. You're not competing. I get it.

Okay.

Last one. And the score is... Luke is up five to four. He's taking off. Luke Bryan, Someone Else Calling You Baby. I know that one, but I can't sing that one. Jason Aldean, Amarillo Sky. So good. Can you sing a little bit of Someone Else Calling You Baby, Brandon?

Yeah, let me call Luke.

Let's see. Let me call Luke real quick. Okay. It's difficult because once you sing a lot of them, it's hard to get another one. And really, how many song titles do we know?

Someone else calling you baby.

I don't think that's it. I don't know that. Did you just make up a song with those lyrics?

No.

How does Amarillo Sky go?

Amarillo Sky.

There you go.

Yeah, that's a good one. Really good. All right, go ahead. You want to go? Well, Eddie, where would you like to go in this round? I would like to go first. Okay, go ahead. Jason Aldean, Amarillo Sky. Okay. You haven't really heard the other one yet. I know. Well, he's saying some of it and whatever he's saying. He's just saying the words.

I don't think I have it very down.

But you're still going Amarillo Sky? How are we going to be able to figure out the other one? I could probably pull it up. Okay. What's it called?

Someone else called on you, baby.

Someone else called on me. I know.

I know.

I know that one. Okay, here we go. Let's see if I can get this. I saw a truck back in your drive. You were sitting. That's it. You're so stupid. Sitting on 45. Sing it all like that's my kind of night. Yeah. I got nothing, man. I got too many songs in my head. I know. It's so hard. But it doesn't matter. If I can't think of it, in my mind, it can't win. But you have to pick something.

Yeah.

I'm going to go with Emerald Sky. Nice. Okay, and then who's left? Brandon, did you ever know?

Well, now that I know what Eddie picked.

It doesn't matter.

I'm going to go Amarillo Sky.

All right, unanimous. So I think we're 5-5. 5-5. Oh, my gosh. Why are these so close? So we have one tiebreaker. This is it. This is the haymaker. This is it. It's Luke Bryan Roller Coaster and Jason Aldean Night Train. Ooh, night trains are going. This is definitely a nostalgia matchup. I want to fairly get both these songs up. Come on, baby, won't you get me on a night train? Oh, yeah. I typed in just roller coaster.

And the roller coaster is newer, right? No, I brought up a roller coaster is an amusement ride that uses an elevated railway track to carry passengers through sharp turns. Hey, that sounds fun. Yeah. Okay. Here we go with roller coaster. Roller coaster. Luke Bryan.

We spent that week wide open.

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Which one's that?

Rollercoaster.

That's a good one. Yeah, that is a good one. Old Dominion guy wrote that one, right? That's a good one. Yeah, don't let that music play into the microphone.

Sorry, it's not.

Okay. It was because we heard it. My bad.

But the Night Train is, come on, baby, won't you listen to the night train?

Good one. Nailed that one, too. Coach Wendell wrote Rollercoaster. Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Cole did? Yeah. Okay. What would you like to do, Eddie? You want me to go first? It's up to you. I would like to go Jason Aldean, Night Train. Man, we spent that week wide open. Roller coaster is a freaking jam. I'm going roller coaster, Luke Bryan. Come on, Brandon. It's all you. You know, the winner depends on it.

The winner does?

Yeah, right here. Okay. Don't put the extra pressure on him because now people will pick based on who they want to win. You just got to be free. Okay. Hey, just be free.

My initial reaction when I like listen to both songs, rollercoaster. Oh, wow.

But now we'll never know. We'll never ever know. The tank has been polluted.

All right.

Well, so that, I mean, that makes Luke the winner. So five to five and then tiebreaker. Rollercoaster wins. First time we ever had a tie. Extra innings. Wow. Mike, is that right?

That is it.

Yeah, first time. So Luke Bryan is the winner. Congratulations, Luke. In the Luke Aldinoff in overtime, Luke Bryan wins with rollercoaster. Thank you, boys. Thank you, man. That was fun. We got to get better rules on this. Except there are no rules. Yeah. Anything we do, because Eddie started playing for himself. At some point in this competition, Eddie started going, I'm not winning. I wasn't playing. It's not about you.

And then I started to get frustrated at the process. I just want a legitimate, fair election. I understand that. But you know what? Life isn't fair. And then Brandon's going to get his copyrighted and play music through. Sorry, man. That's my bad. Thank you for watching, everybody. I think we just go no rules.

No rules.

If you want to win it for yourself, freaking win it for yourself. Let's go. I like that. That's stupid. Okay. Thank you. Congratulations to Luke Bryan. Your medal is in the mail. And thank you guys for watching. And we'll have another battle next week. Bye, everybody.

Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back.

And we're back on The Bobbycast. All right, going to take it back solo here for a second. As I record this, it is 4.27 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Thank you all for listening. And we were talking on the show about having a boat, and I never had an actual boat. I was part of a boat club, and I thought, I kind of get a boat. Don't have to pay for all the maintenance, and then I just go out when I want to and just... Getting a boat inside of a boat club is even a bit annoying because for me, I would go, all right, who wants to go out on the boat? I'm not a big boat guy anyway. Not a big water guy, as you probably know. And I'd have three or four friends be like, I'm in. And then the morning of, oh,

I can't go. I can't go. I can't go. So then it's just me going out to the boat or even worse. I'd invite three or four people and I'd invite like a new friend or I'd say, hey, you can invite a friend. So they'd invite a friend and everybody canceled with the one other person. And it's not even enough people to go and wakeboard. And it's just you and one. So the Getting in a boat club definitely sounded more fun than it ended up being. There are certain invitations that sound perfect when you first hear them. Like, come spend the day on the boat. And I'm talking about not even boat club. Occasionally, I get invited to come spend the day on the boat. Or another one is, let's all get together for dinner. Or another one is, oh,

we got VIP. We should go to this show or we should. Oh, that's a bad one too. All of these sound great and they can be great, but the way they sound when someone pitches them is usually a lot more appealing than the actual experience once you factor in all the details. And I'm not trying to be ball humbug here in late October or early November or whenever you hear this. Because what happens is you get the invitation and it gives you the highlight reel. It leaves out the planning, the waiting, the compromises. The logistics. For me, you probably guessed it. I like to have at least a little bit of control. It's why when I go to dinner with just my wife, like I like to control when I can leave the restaurant. So when we

order our food, I often say, hey, can we go ahead and get the check? Because then I can control when we leave. If I want to stay and keep talking after, we definitely can do that. There's nothing that rushes us out because we've paid the check. But I'm a little bit of a control freak. Now, if we talk about the boat day first, because that's how we started, and I'll forget the part where I said I was in a boat club, which is what kind of got me to this. Come spend the day out on the boat.

It sounds relaxing. You can picture the water, the sun, music playing, maybe a couple hours where nobody has to be anywhere. But then you start thinking about everything that has to happen before you're actually relaxing. All right, who's going to drive the boat? And for me, when I was having to drive the boat, you needed more than two people I'll go back to the one at a boat in a boat club. You need more than two people because you had to have one to drive. You needed one to be the looker and then one to be able to wakeboard or wake skate. Okay, let me stop talking about me. But you go out, who's going to drive the boat? Okay, where do you park? What time are we leaving? What should we bring? Are we

bringing food? Is there a bathroom? What happens if somebody gets cold or hungry or is tired of being out there? And once you're on the boat, you're on the boat. If somebody else is driving, Or at somebody else's boat, you're on their schedule. You may have thought you'd stay for a couple hours. But now the plan is to go to another spot and another spot. You're trying to make the most of the day so you don't say anything about it. You just sit there wondering when the relaxing part is going to start. I understand right now you're crawling into my brain and you are hearing me be a bit anxious and extremely neurotic about something that's supposed to be fun. But this is what happens to me all the time. Again, it can be a great day.

I'm not saying that boats are bad. I'm saying the sentence, come spend the day on the boat, skips over about 12 decisions and a few hours of preparation. The idea is simple. The actual day has a lot of moving parts. I'm not good at moving parts. I'm not good at moving parts. A big group dinner. That's another one. That's the worst. A big group dinner. That is dreadful. When someone says, let's all get together for dinner. That statement sounds nice. you, lots of folks, everybody catches up, possibly good food, easy conversation. But with a big group, getting to the dinner is its own event. Hopefully you have somebody taking control and just saying, we're going to go here because you got to decide where to go. Then

you got to pick a time that works for everybody. Hopefully you have somebody like me that says, okay, this is the place and this is the time we're starting. But then you got people showing up late. And I think mostly like if I'm planning a birthday party for somebody and we're doing a dinner birthday and people are rolling in and first you got to do all the drinks. Oh, don't get me started on drinks first and then appetizers.

And then it's going to be a whole four hour double feature here. You got the whole thing planned. Somebody can't make it on time. So then you move it by a little bit and that person ends up canceling and someone else doesn't like the restaurant. And then you get the person, if you're doing it on group text that goes, no, I'm good with whatever. So then nobody makes a decision. You finally get there. The group is large.

Who do you sit by?

You know, a lot of these people, a lot of these are your friends. So there's people at the other side of the table. They're basically having their own other dinner and dinner conversation. So you're trying to, Hear what's going on over there. Those are your friends too. But if you didn't sit in the right place, you're not knowing what's going on down there. Somebody's trying to tell a story from across the table. This is the kind of stuff that like makes me feel like spiders are crawling on my hands or wrists. Food comes out all different times. One person's finished before someone else has gotten their meal and the check arrives. Nobody really knows how to split it. Do we divide it evenly? Do people

pay exactly for what they ordered? Does the person who just had water still cover part of the appetizers? There's always going to be somebody who's upset about that. It needs to be stated ahead of time. I'll say that. It needs to be stated ahead of time how you're going to pay if you're doing a group dinner. At some point, a dinner that sounded like a few hours together has turned into a long evening, and the last hour is just people figuring out how to pay. There's nothing wrong with going out with a group. That's fun.

It just isn't always as effortless as the phrase makes it sound. Sometimes the best part is just seeing everybody. Sometimes you're glad you went, but it may take a while to get to the part that you imagined. And I can do VIP too. VIP is another word that people just throw around. And what does it even mean?

And that's happened before. Hey, don't worry. We got VIP like to a concert or something. I'm telling you now backstage is not a thing. Backstage, there may be a place for you to do a quick meet and greet. Backstage is only a thing if you're actually with the artist, because for the most part, backstage is actually on the bus, back, not even in the venue. Now, if you know the artist and you're just hanging out in the dressing room, that's different. I have friends that are artists and For the most part, they stay on their bus until it's time to go a bit into the backstage. And then you go backstage and you have your tea, your singer, and you go out. But backstage is not a thing. Now, VIP, you think that's going to be just a better experience.

Maybe you'll get in faster. Maybe you'll see more. Maybe you'll be closer to the action. Occasionally, that's true. But the label VIP really doesn't guarantee any of that. You can pay extra to still wait in line. You can get access to a separate area. And this happens a lot. That separate area may be closer, but has a worse view.

I've seen VIP sections where you pay more and you get the bracelet and maybe you get like a free drink or something and you're close to side stage, but side stage kind of blows because you can't really hear the speakers. Aren't really made for side stage listening. Also, you can end up standing behind people who also paid for the special experience. And you spend the whole time trying to make sure you're using the VIP access correctly instead of just enjoying the event. It can be worth it.

I will say it can be worth it. But VIP is a promise. But the details determine if it's a good one or not. What do you actually get? Really? VIP and backstage, and maybe you've heard me talk about this on the show, it sounds way more fun than it actually is unless you know what it actually is. So, I don't know why I just kind of was shot out of a cannon with this. But the experience, whatever it is, depends on all the little things that actually aren't in the title. The people matter. The timing matters.

The setup matters. How many decisions you have to make matters. Sometimes the thing that sounds fun only becomes fun after you get past the part that nobody mentioned when they invited you. I mean, the boat to me is dreadful. The boat is dreadful. The group dinner is dreadful. That doesn't mean you should turn everything down. Even I, who I do nothing. Don't turn everything down. It just means you can be honest about what the experience actually involves.

You can like the people and still not love a big group dinner. You can enjoy being on the water and still want to know when you're coming back. You can be excited about a group trip even. If you do those or with another family and you still want a little time to yourself while you're there. But I'll also say some things are worth doing even if Parts of those are inconvenient, but it's okay if you're like me and you are very vocal about the inconvenience, but I would never recommend a boat club. And I don't really go out on the boat unless I know the exact time we're coming in. And for the most part, and this is a luxury that I have, the luxury that I have is if we do a group dinner, I'm probably just going to pay for it all because

I don't want to wait for everybody to split the check. What I will do is I will walk to our waiter who is not by the table and I will say, hey, just put this on this card. Now, if it's a group dinner of over I'll say over eight, so nine or more. I'm not going to do that, but you rarely will hear or see me in a group dinner that big. But to be fair, if we're doing a group dinner for my wife's birthday or Eddie or someone like that, I'll pay for the whole thing. But oh my God, dreadful. The Bobbycast, we'll be right back. And we're back on The Bobbycast. What else is dreadful right now?

I have a crick in my neck that is killing me. It may be why I'm a little irritated. You know, I did a, in the weeds last week after I had a nail on my tire and I was a little irritated and I said some stuff and that in the weeds that I, it's not that I regret it in any way, but I probably wouldn't have been, as I said earlier, as shot out of a cannon, had I not had a nail on my tire right when I got to the studio to record. And it wasn't just a normal nail. It was a drywall nail. Nobody's doing drywall anywhere near where I live.

Or work.

And tires are expensive. They suck. So I went in a little irritated. Today, I think I'm a little irritable because I got two things. One, I got a crick in my neck and I can barely turn to the left. Man, to the right. Right now, I'm turning my neck to the right. Oh, man, look at that. Woo! Looks beautiful.

Look at all that. Perfect trees. Outside looks great. Let me go to the left. I can't. I can't turn at all to the left. I got nothing. All I can see is the head of me. I think I, I cricked it while sleeping because I just woke up. It's killing me. I think I talked about this in another episode where I tried to use my wife's neck massager and all it did was just grind itself into my neck. But so that's one thing. Two is I cannot get my butt bone better. I have a coccyx injury, like coccyx, the city, uh, coccyx city, uh, and so I don't know how it happened. All I know is that anytime I sit down, if I sit for a while, it starts to hurt very badly. To the point where it hurts so bad, I don't even want to get

up because it hurts getting up. Now, could I sit with a donut? Yes, that's on me because I have not invested in a donut. The only time I ever think about getting a donut is when I'm talking about my coccyxidia. And I'm like, I should get a donut. And then as soon as I don't talk about it anymore, I don't think about it anymore. So I don't get a donut. Also, I don't be walking around with a donut, but I would rather get rid of this and walk around with a donut than not get rid of it and not walk around with a donut. So I got to make a note. Get a donut. Sit on a donut until your butt bone is healed. I don't know what happened. I don't know why my butt bone is so sore. But it hurts so bad. I don't know

if anybody else has dealt with coccyxidia. I got all my glasses in. I had to get a prescription change. So I hadn't been to the eye doctor in probably three years. And when I was reading... the words were getting a little blurrier and I thought I must just be tired. And so I would read a bit earlier in the day and the words would be blurrier. And I would think I must just be tired earlier. And then my wife said, you should go and get your eyes rechecked. And so I did. I went to get my eyes rechecked here in town. And my doctor, I guess I've got two eye doctors. I've got one that's here, but her dad is also an eye doctor. So if I'm ever in Oklahoma near her hometown, I'll go to his office. But I guess my doctor's here. And so

I go and I get my eyes checked and she says, hey, I think you're about three prescriptions out of date here. So I only have one eye that works, which is my left eye. My right eye, if they actually tried to make a glass thick enough to fix that eye, it would look like I got a Coke bottle on one side and it still wouldn't fix it because that is in my brain. It's not an eye injury or nearsighted or farsightedness. I have a severe astigmatism that is a result of something being wrong with that part of my brain. But my left eye, it was good at one point. And now I think it's in my forties, it starts to slowly get worse. And so that's what happens when you get older. You get cricks in your neck, you get a butt bone that hurts, and you get

a left eye, your only good eye, that starts to get weaker. I am farsighted So I go, I get my prescription and order a couple pair of glasses. But I have many pair of glasses because it is definitely part of my aesthetic as well. Meaning if I'm on camera, first of all, I can't see if I don't have them on. Secondly, I need the exact same pair for continuity, consistency, because it is a part of my public persona, right?

I've known from forever when I got into this business that I am just a generic looking vanilla wafer feeling, a little bit goofy white guy. So I need to do something that makes me stand out a little bit. So I started to wear these big bowl glasses because I loved Weezer and loved Buddy Holly. Started when I was young, then I stopped wearing them for a long time.

And then once my career started to pop just a little bit, I started back with wearing the dark rim glasses. When I was young and I was wearing them, My left eye had no issues at all. My left eye was perfect. But my doctor always said, well, if your left eye that's good catches a rock, you don't have your right eye to rely on. So wear glasses just in case you get hit in your one good eye.

So that's what I did. But now I definitely need them. Here's the issue. I go and I probably have 10 pair of glasses, 10, one zero. So I go in and I get my eyes checked and I order two new pair of glasses and then I send the other eight pair that I have after those two come in. I send them off to get relensed. I got a sneeze.

Come on, come on. It went away. The sneeze went away. That sneeze stalked me. It followed me into a hole. And right when I was ready to accept that sneeze was gonna turn me into its prey, It danced off like a mom deer in the early morning. So I guess I'm not going to sneeze. So I sent all these glasses off, bought a couple new pair. All in all, it cost me like 3,800 bucks.

3,800 bucks.

Crazy.

Insurance doesn't pay for the glasses. It's crazy.

So I got a hurt neck. I got a sore butt bone. I had like 3,800 bucks in cash. I care happening. And then my bottom lower back tooth is starting to be sensitive when I eat on my right side. So I'm having to eat on my left side only because now I know I got to go to the dentist and I'll probably have a cavity. Although I think I've had that tooth filled before because I've had to have all my teeth filled at some point because I never went to the dentist growing up. I'm breaking down, folks.

I'm breaking down. But I'm also... really tired, but am I, or is my vision just bad? So that's what's happening. That's about 20 minutes of my life on this Tuesday afternoon. I didn't really lend you anything you can take out into the world. Maybe if anything, what I lent you was whenever you have one of these go on a boat type situations, big group dinner situations, VIP situations, other family going on vacation, if you're going to get other situations, take the lead. You be the one with the details.

Share it with everybody. Be the one in control. Make it happen. That's what I do. I don't do it as charity. I do it because I don't want to go bananas always wondering. My wife is exactly the opposite. She is so go with the flow. She is such a happy person just to be around people she likes. She's just good in her environment. Eddie's also like that.

He's just good in his environment. And what happens, happens. Eddie and I have a really great relationship because as you know, if you've spent any time listening to me over the years, even listening to me now, that I am an overly neurotic type A personality. And there's nothing wrong with that. I can see where it would be difficult to be around someone like that all the time, but Eddie could not be more of a type B and that's not a bad thing either. Eddie's always happy.

And for Eddie and I to be in the room together as much as we are, but that's not it. We would just go on the road together too for days at a time. We would leave the studio after working together for five days, six, seven hours a day, sitting right beside each other and get on a bus and go and do shows, tour together. I really haven't been on tour at all in a year and a half or so. I've done the occasional tour standup show or charity deal, but I kind of have taken that part of my life and put it on hold mostly because we're having a baby. But Eddie and I spent a, before it was a bus, it was a car and we would drive all around the country. But Eddie's like that.

He is just a great guy to be around because.

He's good just being around.

I wish I had more of that in me. I admire that about him. I admire that about my wife. Like they're able to just go and enjoy and not overthink and not lay out every situation or scenario that may happen that could be good but probably won't be. Otherwise, I don't think the Raging Idiots, Eddie and I's two-man comedy duo, it would have never made it. We'd have never gone multi-platinum. But I do admire that. If you're like them, That's great. I admire that. I think your brain's probably less tired or it gets to be tired about things that matter, not wasteful things like me getting all worked up as I'm talking to you about a group dinner that drives me crazy. Thank you everybody for listening.

I really had a different plan. I want to talk about this episode, but we did not get there. But next time. Thanks for listening to the Bobbycast.

Share this episode with a friend because they don't pay to advertise us.

#695 - Luke Bryan vs. Jason Aldean & Existential Music Questions

Kapitelklicken springt direkt hin

Shownotes

Transkriptvom Podcast bereitgestellt · Zeitmarken springen hin