#696 - Bobby & Eddie’s Most Personal Stories About Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & More

All right, welcome. We're going to have a picture shown to us, and we're going to tell our favorite or most notable story on the artist that's being shown to us. The thing is, we have no idea who Mike's going to put up on the screen. I promise you, I'm alive. I pinky promise. I promise to God. Back in the day, if you promised to God.

Oh, you couldn't lie. You go to hell. You go straight to hell.

You go straight to hell. I've learned that's not exactly true. That's not like a legal. Yeah. I would still suggest you not do it, but all those, uh, pinky cut my eye, whatever that is. Uh, okay. We do not know who these are. Let's go with our first artist up on the board. Wow.

You're going to start with that big artist.

Um, it is for those that are listening, we should, Tell them, because otherwise they're going to.

Should we make it like we describe it, but don't say what it is?

No, I'd be pissed if I were just listening and I didn't know. We have Garth Brooks up on the screen here. How do you favorite Garth Brooks story?

Gosh, man. When we first met Garth Brooks, I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't believe that Garth, the Garth. Dude, when I was in middle school, Garth Brooks was the biggest... most famous artist that I've ever known. And I wanted to be him. I would even buy all his shirts from the albums, look at myself in the bathroom mirror, pose like him. I've never told anyone that, but I used to do all that, dude. I was in the fan club.

That's cool.

I was legit a huge Garth Brooks fan. Never got to see him live. The first time I got to see him live was with you in Arkansas. It's the first time I ever got to see Garth Brooks live, which is crazy because That's all I ever wanted was to go see him in concert. But was he going to come to McAllen, Texas? Never. And so when we first met him, that was just crazy. But, dude, I've got to say the best story ever, if you're going to tell a Garth Brooks story, was when we got to open up for him in Arkansas. Like us, you, me, the Raging Indians got to open up for Garth freaking Brooks.

And we go out on stage and he's there with Trisha. And he's talking to us before, you know, like. While we're sound checking and just kind of giving us the rundown of the show. Dude, I had to pinch myself. That was a freaking dream come true. And I couldn't believe it.

That story started funny when I thought it was April Fool's prank, though. Because Garth texted me and said, hey, I want to call you. But it was from a number I didn't know. And so I had a number that was Garth's, but it wasn't that number.

He had a burner phone?

Or maybe he just changed his number.

Maybe.

But it was April Fool's Day.

And so.

The person texting me was saying they were Garth Brooks. And so I told my wife, hey, Garth's going to call me at 1230. Supposedly it's Garth.

So what was the text? Hey, Bobby, it's Garth. I'm going to call you at 1230.

No, it's hey, Bobby, it's Garth. Can you talk? I'd like for you to do a show with me on April Fool's Day.

That was the text.

Yes. But it was from a number I didn't have because I had a number.

It's Garth's number. Yeah.

And I said, hey, I'm on the air. Can you call me after the show? And he's like, sure, I'll call you at 130, whatever time it was. So great. I never believed it for one second that it was Garth Brooks because, again, it was freaking April Fool's Day. And so I go home and I said, hey, supposedly Garth Brooks is going to call. And so I had Caitlin come next to me. I'm a Perlin speaker. I thought it might be you. I didn't know who it was.

It's me. Hey, Bobby, it's Garth.

And so I had her recording because I was going to just call out whomever it was that was doing the prank. And he's like, hey, Bobby, it's Garth. How are you doing? I was like, man, that does sound like Garth. And so I pushed mute real quick while I was talking. I said, that sounds like Garth. She goes, I think that might be him. But it was April Fool's Day. Even she wasn't convinced.

Of course.

And he said, hey, we're going to play Fayetteville. I know that you're home. I'd love for you to come out and open the show. And at that point, I couldn't risk that it wasn't Garth. Because if I'm like, ah, yeah, right, click. The risk reward was not good.

Yeah, yeah.

So I said, man, I would absolutely love to do that. I said, that's so exciting. Like to play Fayetteville, Arkansas, like that's my home. That's so kind of you to call and invite me. I said, but you know, it's April Fool's Day. I'm not sure if this is even you. And he's like, ha, ha, ha. He said, it's me.

I said, okay.

But still there was no- Yeah, you still weren't 100%.

So, but I know his business manager. And so when we hung up, I called and said, I think Garth just invited me to open a show. And they said, let me check. And so they checked. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was really him.

It was really him. But so that whole day, if it wasn't April Fool's Day, I think the moment would have felt more special to me when he called me because I just didn't believe it the whole time until I got the confirmation that it was him. And then, yeah, I've told that story of us getting to play and him just being cool and like, hey, you don't have to go out until it gets dark, which was super cool of him because if you're the opener, a lot of times you go out when it's daylight. And we weren't the opener. We were the main support because they had somebody play before us. And so we're like the middle act. And he's like, don't go out until the lights can come on. And then he said, play as long as you want. And then Trish said, don't, don't

do that. And I said, got it.

Yeah. I remember us laughing and being like, play as long as we want. Yeah, right.

Yeah.

All right. We were planning on doing 25 songs. So let's do it.

And then he said, you can have the whole stage, like use the whole stage because it was around. And I thought that was really cool of him. Another one I wrote about in my second book was him showing up at our Million Dollar Show at the Ryman. And dropping off a couple million bucks.

That was cool.

And then luckily Brandon knew Friends in Low Places because we didn't know he was going to come by. And he was on stage. And so Brandon just hits that first chord. And Garth's like, what? The ultimate showman, obviously. He's like, what, me? And then he sang Friends in Low Places. And the whole rhyming was up on their feet the whole time.

That was amazing.

Yeah, it's cool. I have an episode of this coming out soon. Unless it's already come out, depending on when this airs. But Garth gave me his guitar that he played and signed it. And that's cool. It's just weird because it's Garth Brooks who we spent our whole life idolizing. He's literally the biggest American artist of all time. Top two or three in the world of all time. So it's... Cool, odd, absurd, amazing, that if I needed to actually call Garth, well, I think I have his number. Maybe I just called the number that he called me from. Because I never saved that one.

Yeah, which one is his number?

I didn't even know where he was calling from. But yeah, that's the Garth Brooks story. Garth has always been so nice to the point where you wonder, how can he be this nice every single time?

And another weird thing is every time I've met him, he's called me by my name. And I'm like, somebody... has told him my name because there is no way that Garth Brooks remembers me.

Well, Ray Mundo also had his wedding on Garth Brooks's property.

That was amazing.

Our producer. And so we did that. And then him and Tricia came over, talked to Caitlin and I for a long time because he's from Oklahoma. Caitlin's from Oklahoma. And so we just kind of hung out in like a normal setting, but we could do Garth's story. We could do a whole episode. I think of Garth's stories.

That's crazy.

But that's a, that's a good one to start with. We're big Garth guys. All right. That's number one. Luke Combs. What would I say is my favorite Luke Combs story? I remember the first time he sang in the studio, I was sonically shocked at how loud he was.

Like how loud he sang?

Like how powerful and loud he was. Because in the studio that we used to have, my microphone was much closer to the guest microphone. It was right on the side. It was where you sat. It was right on the side of me. I could lean over and touch it. Now that's not the case at all because our studio is definitely more angle built, like a television set. But the first time Luke Holmes ever came in, he played.

And I remember almost like feeling that wind just kind of sucked out of my gut.

Oh God, he goes hard.

Like he sings really hard and he sings so hard and he definitely looks like a guy from your town but he's like classically trained he was in the choir in college so he's a much better singer than i think people even realize because his songs and his look say one thing but his like his tone and his ability to control it says another so i just remember yeah from luke combs It just being how powerful his voice was. There are two people that have sang so loud that it kind of shocked me. And it was Luke Holmes and John Party, where they sing hard. Like, hard.

We remember John Party in the studio. Like, we were recording a song and he jumps in the studio.

Not our studio. You mean like a recording studio. It was a recording studio.

And I remember the sound engineer was like, we were all just in there in the booth being like, whoa, whoa, that's so loud. Because yes, power comes out of his voice.

Our Million Dollar Show at the Ryman, where I really felt it was he sang right next to me. And he's a little– he's probably 6'3, party. He's probably 6'3, 6'4. But I remember him just going so hard next to me. I was like, God dang. But Luke Combs is the most powerful singer that I think I've been close to.

I've also gotten to know Luke personally a bit over the years. But I think– because we don't know what the pictures are. We didn't have a good story prepared. I think that's what I go with first.

You have his number?

Oh, yeah. Okay.

The real one.

I think so. I mean, whomever I text about baseball cards with sometimes, if that ain't Luke Combs, it's somebody else.

It's a kid.

Yeah. What about you?

My memory of Luke Combs is we had a guy that we used to work with named Zach Massey, and he would just take pictures around our studio and he would come in once in a while while we were doing our show. And he, I remember one night he came or one day he came in and he looked all tired. He's like, man, last night I saw this artist named Luke Combs. he's going to be the biggest thing.

He's going to be the next Garth Brooks. And he said that. I remember being like, okay, buddy, like you were out on Broadway and you saw some guy singing and he's going to be the next big thing. And what's crazy about that is obviously Luke is a massive superstar now, which is, yeah, he's, he became that. And then Zach Massey works with him.

Yeah.

So that was kind of crazy. It's kind of just an odd story, but I always think about that when I think of Luke. All right.

Next up. Darius Rucker.

Ah, yes.

So Darius was my first ever interview in the history of me doing interviews. I was a teenager. My first interview ever was Hootie and the Blowfish at Magic Springs theme park. And I just went there and they said, you're going to get one of Hootie and the Blowfish. And I didn't know which one of, would I get Hootie or one of the Blowfish? I didn't know. And so I was super excited because I was a massive fan, but it was also the first ever interview I'd ever done.

And so I was kind of ready and you know, It could have been anybody, Dean, Mark, Sony.

Those are all the blowfishes?

I was hoping for Darius, obviously, but I didn't know. I didn't care. And I was so nervous. And I had my little recorder and Darius came out and I sat with him for like seven minutes and interviewed him. And he was so nice. I was so nervous. He knew I was nervous. He like took time to say, hey, kid, it's okay. You don't get me nervous. So he was my first ever interview interview. Darius and I probably text every week and a half or two weeks. So it's fun to have him as a friend now because it was my first ever. But he's also in Europe a lot, which is weird now.

He just visits Europe a lot?

I see him on the BBC sometimes. But my favorite story ever with Darius is we were doing a charity event for my friend Andy Roddick together. And I was doing some comedy at the beginning and Darius was playing music after I was done. And it was Darius' full band. But we were sitting up, we were watching a golf tournament up in a hotel room before the event started.

It was me, Darius, Andy, a couple of Andy's friends that I knew. And we were just talking about music. And I said, hey, man, I used to wear that hoodie tape out. Like I loved every song. I knew every song. But there was a song that was called Running From an Angel. And it would go... I said, that was my favorite song from that record. I said, it wasn't a single. I think that's why it was my favorite because I didn't feel like I was a real fan if I picked a single as my favorite song.

And he was like, man, I haven't thought about that song in forever. I said, that's the song. And I sang it back to him. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. And he thought it was so funny that I knew this random B-side song. And so we finish... And we have to go get dressed because we're both staying in that hotel. So we go get dressed and we go down and I'm down in my seat. I'd finished and Darius was playing with his band. And like seven or eight songs in, he was like, all right, Bobby, I got you. And I hear the guitarist go... And they played that song. And I talked to him after.

He said, we haven't played that song in 20 years.

That's so cool.

None of us have played that song in 20 years. He said, we learned it. He said, I had to remember the words. And they played it that night at that charity event. And that's my favorite Darius story.

I love that.

Because... He had to teach his whole band. He made his whole band learn to B-side from that album and he played it just kind of almost as an inside joke because nobody in that theater knew that song. That was only for me. That's my favorite Darius story.

That's really cool. Man, mine has to be when we were playing, I believe it was the Gorge in Washington. We were playing a festival out there and the Raging Idiots were playing and then we played earlier in the day and then we had like an hour to just hang out and Darius was closing that night and We kind of, me and a couple of band members, we're like, we're done. We got some beers. We watched the show, whatever.

And we watched Darius' show from like the front with the crowd. But then towards the end, I was like, I'm going to go backstage and kind of just see what that's like. And so I go backstage. He finishes his set. And he did something I'll never forget. I've never seen an artist do this. But he walks off the stage. Good night, everyone. He walks off stage. And as he's walking off stage, he says, hey, get me all the crew members together. He's talking to someone. And like all the roadies, like the guy comes down a ladder, comes out of the 18 wheeler and I'm in the middle of the group. And then I somehow get sucked in with all the roadies. And he's like, all right, is this everybody? Is this everybody?

Yeah.

Hey, I just want to personally thank all you guys. I know you guys don't know me. I'm Darius, but you guys set all this stuff up. Everyone sounded, everything sounded great. He literally took the time to tell everyone, thank you for setting up the stage and doing everything they do. And he goes down the road, starts shaking everyone's hand. And I'm like, screw it. I'm in it.

You took the roadie handshake? Yeah.

And he looks at me. He's like, dude, get the hell out of here. What are you doing here?

And he's doing Stolen Valor with the crew.

I was like, yeah, we sure did. We put all this together.

Jake Owen did a charity event in Florida. And it was a two-night event. And the first night was me doing stand-up in a theater. And I remember I had an opener. And I had started my. And Darius had said, because he was playing the second night, because it was a two-night overall thing. And Darius said, I'm going to come to your show. I'm going to watch you do stand-up. Because we rarely get to see, unless we happen to be at the same place, we rarely get to see each other perform. Because it's always weekends.

And so I never know if Darius got there. But I'm telling jokes, and I hear up in the upper area to the left, Darius had gotten there in time. Such a distinct laugh. Yeah, such a distinct laugh that I could hear him laughing up in the... Like to my left, the upper section. And then that next night, it was me, you, Caitlin, a couple other people. Darius was performing and we went up and sang background for maybe, was it Hold My Hand?

It was.

Only Want To Be With You.

Only Want To Be With You. No, I think it was. Yeah, it was Only Want To Be With You. I don't know why it was that song. Oh, Bobby, Ain't You So Cool?

Yeah. First of all, that ain't the lyric. Ain't Bobby so cool.

Okay, so I remember that because he looked at you like, ain't Bobby so cool? I only want to be with you.

I'm going to believe you because I won't commit to either. But I'll believe you it was that song. Either way, we went up and sang background for that song, which was super fun. And then on the way back, I said, hey, Darius, you can ride with us back. We can fly back with us. And it was him. Is he married or engaged now? Her, no. The first time we had met her.

And so I was like, you can just get on a plane with us. And so we're flying back and we had like storms. I was like, I'm killing Darius Rucker.

I know. And then we do what we always do. We play that game. Like if the plane goes down, who's going to.

Be named first? I was convinced that I not only killed Darius in a plane crash, but he was going to get the top line.

Yeah. Darius dies in a plane crash.

Yeah.

These guys are also on there. Yeah.

We're big Darius guys.

Okay.

That's our greatest Darius story. Dolly, you're up. Oh man.

Dolly. Like. I just think to me, Dolly was just every time she came to the studio, it was Dolly's here. It was always a special day because Dolly is just one of a kind and she just lit up the room, man. And I talked about this on one of the podcasts that we did or on the radio show about just kind of she always wore jewelry and like it was always so loud. And I remember one time she came in with like all these bracelets and it was just jingle jangling everywhere. And I remember worrying about like, oh man, like is the audio going to pick up? And even now when we play back some of those clips.

You can hear it.

You can hear it. So that was cool. And then another one too is when we went to, she has like a compound. I don't know. Did you ever go? You went there. Like Dolly's compound, like kind of a way. I don't even remember how to get there. But I remember we drove and it was like left, right, left, right, left, left.

And then we go to this big building and it was Dolly's compound, almost like her business headquarters.

Why did you go there?

With you? Yeah.

That's why I wondered why you asked if I'd have gone if you hadn't.

You set me up. Why else would I go there?

Do you think you went to Dolly's Compound without me?

You're right. No, I did go with you. But I think about that place all the time now too, because I have no idea where it is.

I also don't know where it is. It's like when they put a bag over their head on Lioness and they drive them somewhere.

It did kind of feel like that. But I remember parking and going there and being like, this is huge. And she had her desk where like She sat, it was like her office and production rooms and business people like, wow, this is where it all goes down. It's pretty cool.

The two stories that I have, one is everyone would always talk about that's Dolly's house where she lived in Brentwood. And it was known as Dolly's house and except Dolly never lived there and it wasn't Dolly's house. It was right on Concord.

But it was huge.

It was huge. And everybody always thought Dolly lived there.

Yes.

And for the first year and a half or so, because I lived right across from Dolly's house, I also thought Dolly lived there.

And we also told people that's where Dolly lived.

Because everybody told us that's where Dolly lived. It was never where Dolly lived.

Dude, what's crazy is, do you know where she lived? Yes.

Okay.

It's not far from that house. And it's not even close to being that big. Correct.

Correct.

Like, that's what's crazy about that.

And it was semi-accessible. Yeah. So that was not Dolly's house. But forever, I thought Dolly lived there because I was always told that. What I think about most with Dolly is whenever the wildfires happened in East Tennessee, and that's obviously her home, she was planning this big telethon-type show for the Smoky Mountains and the fires that affected that region.

And before the show, because she had asked me to be a part of it, Through someone, one of her people. And I said, sure. And so, but she wanted to meet with me before. And so I drive to.

The compound?

No, it was a different place.

Oh.

And so I, it was her house. Oh, okay. Yeah. And so I drive over there and she's in her office in her house. And she's like, oh, Bobby, let's talk about this. I'd really like to have your feedback. She never wants to ask for my feedback. She told me exactly what I was going to do. When I was going to do it.

I love that.

What she needed from me and was very thankful, but Like she owned the room. And when I walked in, I was just doing whatever she told me. And it was really cool. And there was no feedback needed.

Yeah. She knew what she wanted.

She knew what she wanted. And are you cool with this? Yep.

All right.

I'll see you in a couple of days. And then a couple of days later, went out to the TV studio and a lot of people were there. And I was a part of the broadcast team. But I just remember Dolly going, hey, I'm glad you're here. I'd like to have your feedback on this. I was never asked once for feedback. I was just told. And I was happy to be told. But she was a boss. No doubt about it. So that's my favorite Dolly story. Hang tight.

The Bobbycast will be right back.

And we're back on the bobby cast next up is keith urban oh dude.

You got to start with this you have so many i have yeah i mean the one you've told me that's crazy is that you spent christmas oh yeah dude that is crazy to me.

Okay i'll give you two quick so i'll do that one first Years ago, we were looking for a female to be a part of the Raging Idiots to sing background and to be on some of our songs. And so we had kind of auditioned a bunch of people. And one person auditioned on Zoom, and her name was Nikita, and she lived in Australia. And I said, you should come.

She was funny, and she was very– I thought the Australian thing was funny. And she ended up being a very close friend of ours, still is a close friend of mine. And so she moved here, and she was– Living here for many, many years. And I was just going places by myself. I would say around the world. But it really was around the world. I was just going to random.

You were like vacation trips.

Like little trips. Like during Christmas, I would just go places because I didn't want to be stuck at home.

Yeah.

By myself. So I'd rather at least go experience something by myself. But she said, you should come to Australia. I'd never been to Australia. So I got on an airplane. I flew to Australia.

It can't be that far, right?

Yeah. It was further than they get to Dolly's. Her real house from here. It was... Probably 16 or 17 hours.

That's nuts.

We had to stop in New Zealand for a second, me and all my friends on the plane. I didn't have a lay down seat though. That's my first ever experience getting a lay down seat, which are amazing, but they're so expensive.

Is it a seat that just starts straight up and then the button takes it all the way down?

Yeah, you have like a little big, a little, but it's bigger than a normal area cubby and then it lays all the way down to a bed. Dang. Yeah, but the plane ticket is like $ 13, 000. Could you like... No, because you can see in them.

Okay. So you wouldn't do that.

Yeah. Sometimes I see them on Instagram and there's like walls and people can go in a room. I've never been on one of those before.

That sounds dangerous.

So it was the first time I had a lay down seat, which was awesome. I go to Australia and I also didn't want to bother Nikita the whole time. But she was like, come to our house. And at Christmas in Australia, it's warm.

And where does she live? Sydney?

Sydney. Okay. So I fly to Sydney and they, prawns was a big part of their Christmases.

Oh, is that like a shrimp? Yeah. Like a big shrimp?

Yep. And so I have like a Christmassy type. Beach dinner with Nikita and her sisters and her mom and dad who were like in a rock band back in the day.

Yeah, they're cool.

So had this great time. But there were a couple of days that I was just out there by myself. And one of the times I went and walked up on top of that, the big, I think it's a Sydney Bridge or something. Yeah. And you can take the stair, you strap in and you clip yourself, but you get to walk up the stairs, but it's blowing hard the whole time.

So it's swinging.

And I had posted a picture of me doing that on Twitter. This is before Twitter was... Completely toxic and made you want to jump in a hole and die. And I posted a picture and I was like, I'm on top of the Sydney Bridge. And I get a text from Keith Urban going, are you in Australia? And I say, yeah. He's like, are you in Sydney?

I say, yeah.

He said, you should come over.

Shut up. That's crazy. He saw you on Twitter.

I said, are you here? He said, yeah. Nick and I are both here for Christmas. where are you staying? And staying in a hotel. You're like, yeah, basically. And he said, our, I think maybe called an apartment or a condo. He said, it's not far. Here's the address. We're having a dinner come over.

Dang.

And so, okay. So I put on a collared shirt and I get in an Uber and I go over to Keith Urban's and there's, it's a really nice building. Yeah. Yeah. And so the doorman takes me in. Oh yeah.

Wow.

I go up and, I go to Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman's house in Sydney. And as soon as I get there, Keith's like, but there's all these Australians.

It's like. Probably like celebrities, like big celebrities.

This is like cloned Keith Urban's everywhere.

They're all ripped long hair.

Yeah. So he's like showing me around. It's like, it was like a two story. It was really, really great. And then I just felt like I, after a while, like I normally do like, okay, they were really nice to me. I'm going to get out of their hair. So I was there for about an hour and a half.

Were they eating prawns too?

They had a big spread of everything. So yes, there were some prawns there.

Gosh, that's nuts.

But I remember being out on the- Balcony? On the balcony with Keith and we're talking about country music in Australia. And he said, for the most part, it's only basically on the AM band here, like country itself. How he gets played is he's considered pop in Australia. He's from Australia. His music is so big over here. He's like, but for the most part, country is like old traditional and it's on AM. I think since then, it's progressed a bit.

But yeah, going to Sydney because Nikita's like, don't be alone in America. And then Keith Urban just texted me going, are you in Sydney? And then me going to his house with him and Nicole Kidman. My other quick story is going to his house here and Nicole Kidman, they were still together at the time, FaceTiming him and him going, yeah, could you pick up some milk? And she was like, got it. She was going to the grocery store to get milk.

She was over at Kroger, just picking up some milk. Literally.

And that was bizarre to me.

Yeah, it is crazy.

Nicole Kidman, not a guy's wife, but Nicole Kidman FaceTimed Keith Urban and said, do you need me to get milk?

Like a normal married couple. That's bizarre.

I guess both of my stories involve going to Keith Urban's house.

Dude, that's amazing. That alone is just so freaking cool. I remember when you told me that you went to his house, I was just like, Which one, Australia or America? Australia. And I'm like, okay, you're just like picking up, picking a random Australian and saying you went to his house. No, you really did. I did not believe you. My story, I think the coolest thing for me is just that we were doing a bit, me and on the radio show, me and Lunchbox, we were doing a bit where like who could get the best gift for their wife for like Mother's Day maybe or anniversary. I don't remember what it was, but it was like who could outdo the other person in And I was just like, shot in the dark. Let me just see if Keith Urban would

see my wife and play a song to her in person. And so the record label was like, we can do it. Meet us here at this place. And we show up, me and my wife. And we had just had our second baby. So she had the baby like over her shoulder and out comes Keith Urban, man. And he, with the guitar, he's like, Hey, nice to meet you. I won't play too loud for the baby. You know? And he played for my wife.

That's a great story. That's a great story. I forgot about that one.

I think we have it on video, man. And it's just an amazing, like the fact that he did that. And my wife, of course, she'll never, ever forget that. And it was a break on me that he sang.

Man, what a crazy story.

Yeah.

I forgot about that one.

So cool.

That's a good one. All right, next up.

Oh, yes.

You can go first.

I mean, I've only met Lionel once, and that's when you were like, hey, come backstage at iHeart Festival. And I was like, I'm going to meet Lionel. And you're like, yeah, just stay with me. Stay with me. And I stayed with you, and out came Lionel. And it was just so cool to see Lionel in the flesh. And almost, I don't know what you're going to say about him, but I'm sure, like, Part of it has to do with him being just the nicest person ever because that's all I've ever heard. And sure enough, man, he was so nice and telling stories. And then you'd always done this impression of him. And I was like, ah, is this impression like really how he does it? And then he started talking. I'm like, oh, my gosh, Bobby's nailed

that impression because he did exactly what you've always made him sound like.

Yeah, he's such a kind guy and he's so warm. He was late a lot. Ah, yes.

So he can be. He's a rock star.

He can do whatever he wants. He's been famous since the 80s.

It's cool to be late.

So I love Lionel and he was so kind to me on American Idol so many times. I remember I was leaving the contiguous United States to fly to Hawaii for our Idol taping out there. And Lionel said, Bobby, you should come.

That's it. That's it. That's it.

You should come to my show. Because he was doing a show in Hawaii the night before we started taping. So I was going to leave. a day earlier just to go watch Lionel's show because I'd never seen him perform live. I only knew him from in person. I knew his music, obviously, from listening to it growing up.

And I got so sick on the plane that I laid in the bathroom and vomited the whole time.

Miserable.

I didn't go to the show.

Dang.

When I finally got off the plane, I was so sick. It is a rough one. I was so sick in the airplane that I was grabbing the paper towels.

In the bathroom?

In the bathroom. The little thing? Cleaning the bathroom while I was in there because I didn't want to lay in that gross bathroom. And I laid in there for three to four hours. And it's a 10-hour flight all through. And so the woman that was working was like, are you okay? Are you okay?

Are you okay?

And I was like, no, but I'm not dying. Am I okay to stay in here? Because there were maybe five bathrooms up in the front. So that isn't a fun story that I did. That was going to be the time that I saw him. The only time I've ever seen him play live was us in Vegas.

Yeah, in Vegas where he rocked. It was amazing.

And I remember going back there and I hadn't seen him in probably a year and a half. And, or maybe two years. And I remember thinking, I wonder if Lionel even remember me. What do you mean? Well, he's very famous. He knows a lot of people. And I didn't sit at the table with him and Katie and Luke.

Yeah. The idol table. Yeah.

I talked to him a lot, but I didn't sit at the table with them. And his manager said, Hey, you should come back. Come say hi to Lionel. That's when I grabbed you and Caitlin and immediately. Yeah. He was like, Bobby. And then he remembered stories. And then he started telling stories. And then his wife and my wife had also stayed friends on Instagram. Crazy. So, yeah, he's just the loveliest. He's the best.

I remember Bobby would always like, yeah, you talk about Idol. And he'd be like, dude, so we'd sit at this dinner table and Lionel just tells me stories. And he's just like, Bobby, the year was 1967. He would have stories about....

He would tell you a story about Aretha Franklin leaving him a voicemail. Like, we'd tell funny stories about our cousin doing that, but his stories involved Aretha Franklin. Famous people. He told a story at dinner once about he would usually fly private when he flew to Europe. But for some reason, something was wrong with the plane they were taking.

So they got a first class ticket and they were flying. And he was flying one of those lay down seats. And he said it was kind of weird because everybody would walk by and stare at him.

Oh, yeah.

And he wasn't used to that. And so... He woke up in the middle of the night and asked the flight attendant, hey, is there any chance you can make me like an acai smoothie? And she's like, we don't have acai smoothies.

Acai smoothie.

He was like, I wasn't used to not having my acai smoothie.

With kale, please.

Yeah, he's been famous for a long time. Eric Church.

Dude, I'll start. the craziest Eric Church story ever is we had probably moved to Nashville. We'd been here for about a year and some of the guys wanted to go out and we're like, yeah, let's go out. We went to like Midtown to some bar called Losers and it was jam packed. Like you could barely move. And it was just a regular night, nothing going on. Nobody was playing or anything, just a regular like Friday night or something. And behind the bar, I was like, God, that guy looks like Eric Church and he's not working.

He's just standing behind the bar and maybe watching the TV or something. Almost looked like he owned the bar or maybe worked there, but was taking a break. And I got closer and I'm like, guys, that's Eric Church. And they're like, no, it's not. And I walked up to him like, what's up, Eric? He's like, how you doing, man?

And said, hi. I'm like, all right, that's all I needed. Thank you, dude. I go back, guys, that's freaking Eric Church. And everyone in the bar is like, no, it's not. It's not Eric Church. You're crazy. And it was, dude. And he was just sitting there Like hanging out in the middle of everyone by himself.

Nuts.

And that's when I realized, like, dude, Nashville's crazy like this.

Nashville's different. I was playing in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am Tournament, and there was a day before the tournament where there was a par three challenge and all the people that were celebrities were we played in different groups, different packs. And if you won your heat, you'd go and you play in the championship. And it was like 130 yards out.

And there were like four celebrities, maybe five in our group. And whoever got closest to the pin won. And so I get up and I hit and I went our group closer to the pin. It was so funny. It was so funny to win something at golf, especially when Jim Nance was there talking and all these celebrities are watching.

And so I go and, since I'm one of the people that won my heat, I'm down on the bottom. And it was me and Will Arnett just sitting together and local news was there. And we did like a local news thing together.

You and Will?

Yeah. And so after that, they were like, they said, okay, everybody who's won, go to this area up here. I go up to this like a holding area. It was kind of like a deck that we were standing on. And this guy comes up and goes, Bobby, that's a good shot. And I was like, it was Eric in golf gear who just looks like your accountant.

That's the deal. Like, you'll never think it's him when he's not wearing sunglasses and dressed like that.

He was also playing in it. And I think he won his heat. And it was him and his wife. And we just sat around talking for like 15 minutes just about golf because he loved to play golf.

Yeah.

And- He was like, you get nervous when you do this? I was like, yeah, I get nervous when I do this. Yeah, me too, man. I can perform all night in front of 20,000 people, but he asked me to hit a nine iron. So it was just dudes talking about golf and it wasn't the chief. It was just Eric in a polo who was playing golf.

It's pretty amazing. And I don't know if it's all the time, but the few times I've seen Eric outside of or off the stage. He's not, he's wearing khakis and a polo. Like I remember I went to a baseball game where my son was playing and I guess his son was playing my son. And I'm like, oh my gosh, another moment. But this was years after the loser's bar moment where I'm like, oh my gosh, look, it's Eric Church. And dude, you would never, no one bothered him, not because they wanted to respect him, but no one recognized him because he's not dressed like that.

No leather, no shades.

No.

Yeah.

All right.

Chris Stapleton. I think my favorite Chris Stapleton moment is pre the first time I ever met him. This is before he had his moment on the CMAs and he had, you know, what are you listening to? Yeah. Is it a small town couple band? I said, man, this song is awesome. Sorry, I got to stop. home phone number, cell phone number. And I called him. I didn't know him, but he was a songwriter in town. It wasn't like I was calling the Chris Stapleton and I called him on the air and he was like, I'm in the shower.

Can I call you back? We were on the, I was like, yeah, sure. Why not? So he calls back and he's like, yeah, I'd love to come up. Cause he'd been writing songs in town for a long time. And he had He was a solo artist, but he'd also been in bands. And he just came up and he played. And he came up and he did the Josh Turner song, Your Man.

Yeah. Which he wrote, right?

That's Your Man, right?

Yeah, Your Man. Yeah.

And he wrote it. And it was amazing. And he did his songs and came up a couple of times. Well, then this moment happened where he was the Chris Stapleton. And the album was Traveler, right? And so it shot him into a new stratosphere. However... Since then, he has always been so cool and so generous. If I ever ask for anything, he says yes, because I was calling him before it happened.

Wow.

And it wasn't that I identified anything super. I was like, this guy's good. I just liked, honestly, I just liked his voice. And I liked that song and said, come up and play it. But he played our Million Dollar Show with us. He actually comes in and does interviews with us, which he almost never does.

He didn't need to.

So my favorite Stapleton stuff is before he hit because it's allowed so much to happen since he hit that I never even want to take advantage of it really. But he's never said no to anything I've ever asked of him.

Nothing?

No, he asked him for money. Yeah. And he babysat Billy last week.

Yeah.

Caitlin and I had to go. And so he's just sat at the house.

She's playing with his beard.

So that's my, my favorite Chris.

That's really cool. I mean, same, you know, like I don't, I haven't spent a lot of time with Chris outside the studio, but I mean, those studio moments were pretty amazing, especially the early ones when you didn't really know who he was or what he was made of. And like, God, dude, his voice was probably the best. voice that I've ever heard in person, especially when you're close up. You know, like we are in the studio. It's not like you're listening to them through a microphone on stage. It's like you're right there. It's awesome.

I give myself a pretty solid, hearty tally mark when I can make Stapleton laugh.

And you do more than I would think that anyone could make him laugh.

I think I get the laughs because I'm not afraid of him or intimidated by him. And he's not an intimidating person, like angry. But he's serious. He's got a big beard and you can't really see facial expressions and his music is intense. But again, I've been lucky enough to know him for a while that I'll go and just like bust his chops a little bit. Dude, his laugh.

When I can get staples and laughing, I love giving myself that little check of, you did good today.

You deserve that one because I do. And it's not a giggle. It's like the chair moves when he's laughing and you make him laugh. It's pretty impressive.

All right, let's get a couple more here.

Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back. And we're back on The Bobbycast.

Carrie Underwood, my most annoying moment with Carrie is one that you're going to have that I'm not. Okay. Do you know what it is?

Annoying? Yeah. Is it when she went into the recording studio?

I wasn't there for that either.

I know.

So the most annoying one, is she was coming up to do the show way early in like our Nashville life and I got sick. I almost never get sick. And if I do get sick, unless I've lost my voice completely, I kind of just fight through it. I don't deserve a medal. Stop with the applause.

But... Nobody was.

I rarely, I rarely miss. And I was so sick on a day she was coming in and she came in and it's when she's saying, I will always love you in studio. And there's a great YouTube old school of that. And I wasn't there in the studio for it.

I forgot that. I didn't realize that you weren't there for that, but I do remember all of us trying to like, okay, how are we going to do this? And did somebody else, did Amy do the interview or did somebody else do the interview?

It wasn't so much an interview as it was. She performed and just said a few things. That's it. But I was not there for that when she sang in that studio. I also, when she sang on a song that we had on one of our albums, I wasn't there for that either.

You weren't.

But I think I just get sick when Carrie's coming around. Because she came into the studio and sang her part, and I wasn't there for that.

Yeah, that's my story. Well, I don't have that story, so tell it. Because you were like, hey, Carrie's got to go in. I can't make it. Go in. Okay, wow. Okay, great. And it's me, the engineer, and Carrie. Like, that's it. And I knew the song. We'd written the song, you know, and like I knew how it went. And, you know, we kind of like ran it through like she's singing or whatever. And like, yeah, that's it. Nail it. Go record it. And she goes in there and does one take.

And I'm like, I think we got it. And the engineer's like, it's not how it works. She's got to keep singing more. And I remember maybe she sang it one more time. And even she was just like, is that it? And I'm like, it was so freaking good. Maybe because it was just Carrie Underwood. And I was so amazed by her voice that I was like, I think we got it. I think we got it. I think we got it. And I remember you two after everything was said and done and we told you, you're like, she just sang it twice and that was it. Like, yeah, dude, it was so good. She sang it twice and it worked out, but I had never done that before. And just to be in that control room or whatever you call it while carrie's recording a track dude when i

watch sunday night football it takes me back to that place.

And on that one she sang it twice and said i got it we're good i think we're good we got it yeah um the first time that she came out and she performed with us at the ryman and when we do our million dollar show an artist will come out and perform and a lot of times surprise the crowd. Sometimes we say who it is. Sometimes we don't.

She was a surprise artist and we were doing a song. I was singing, she was coming out and singing her part. And so she came out in the middle of the song and started singing. And I just remember in my ears when she started singing, it was so strong. Yeah. And so good. I was a little bit, I was like, well, we've been performing with really great people, but then there's another level.

There's a whole other level. And it's, it stands out so much because you've never heard something like that.

Yeah.

So you know when you hear it, you're like, wow, I've never heard anything like that.

I've not seen Carrie in a long time.

Me neither have I. Everything good with her, you think? No idea.

I don't think she should put out new music in a while.

She's living her life.

I haven't seen her at the Opry. I would see her at the Opry sometimes backstage. I just haven't seen her in a while. Okay, let's go. Lainey Wilson.

Dude, my Lainey story is the best because before Lainey became Lainey, She was going to do something with a company and like some Ram trucks or something. And, you know, she was just starting out and I'm nobody. So they're trying to pick a talent to do this Ram trucks thing with this new artist. And they picked me. So it was me and Lainey, dude. We're the stars of that show. We did a whole commercial deal. And I rode in a truck with her with cameras all around.

And me and Lainey hung out for like two hours doing a real photo shoot or video shoot. And now she's Lainey. And I can always say that, yeah, man, I've done a photo shoot.

Video shoot.

Yeah. Lainey?

Pure Lainey Wilson.

My friend. But really, dude, I mean, she's probably one of the few artists that we got to really know before they blew up. Like, I know you talked about Stapleton. I didn't really have a moment with Stapleton. Like I was just, you know, in the studio while you guys were doing your thing, but me and Laney, like we worked together. It was kind of cool. And now like, I mean, Laney's just a superstar.

So whenever Blanco Brown had gone viral for The get up, going to do the two-step and cowboy boogie. The video that went viral was him and this unknown at the time artist, Lanny Wilson, outside the record studio. And she was just dancing with him. I mean, he was unknown too.

They were both unknown.

And she was just doing the dance with him because they were both signed to that label. And it was starting to go viral. And so I had messaged Lanny and said, hey, will you teach me how to do this dance? Because I'm going to like jump on it and do it and see if it'll go viral. Lanny didn't even have a record. She had nothing. I just knew her from being in town and from doing the video with him. She was like, yeah. I said, we come over to the house, teach me how to do it because I'm going to record it. And she's like, cool.

And I remember Kaylee Hammock at the time was putting out music and Kaylee was like, I'll do it with you. And so Lainey taught us how to do it. And I said, hey, do you want to get in this video with us that you're teaching us how to do it? You're in the original. She's like, nobody wants me in this video. She's like, I don't want to like ruin your video by me. I'll teach it to you.

That's crazy.

And then just do this. But she stayed the whole time. She taught us to dance. Then she stayed the whole time.

But she wasn't in the video.

She wouldn't get in it because she thought, why put a no name in a video? And so that was my first real, because I had met her a couple of times and had her number, but I had not spent any time with her, but she came over and taught us how to do the dance. And then she was like, I'm not the star, so I'm not going to be in the video.

She was in my video.

Yeah, this is way pre-that, too. Way pre-that, yeah. Okay, let's go one more. Zach Brown.

Oh, dang, dang.

Zach Brown is up there.

I feel like... I mean, for me, I think the coolest memory I've had of Zach Brown is probably the first time I saw him live at Fenway. We just had access.

We had.

I don't even know what we were doing there. Were we doing something with a show or... Do you remember?

I remember going. No.

I feel like we just got invited.

Probably for the radio station.

Yeah.

Our affiliate up there. But because he was playing a show at the same time. Yeah.

And I'd never been to Fenway and I'd never seen him live before. It was an awesome night. Like, it was just a great night. He was nice to us. We stayed and watched the show and we were on the field. We were in locker rooms. We went out with his band afterwards.

By we, you don't mean me.

I went to bed.

Not you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when I tell these stories of going out and drinking.

Yeah, it's never me.

You were never there.

It's never me.

But to me, that takes me back. When I think about Zac Brown, it's taking me back to that night in Boston, which is just magical, man. Because the show is amazing, too. If you've never been to a Zac Brown band show, it's unbelievable. They sound so good. And then you realize, oh my gosh, I do know a lot of these songs.

I don't have a close relationship story with Zac Brown. An eccentric guy, for sure. But I think him and his... His ability to be weird is what's made his music also really great. I like Zach and he's always super kind and generous when he comes around, but we've never hung out. But I can appreciate that he's the boss.

He runs an organization. Yeah. And he's the boss.

What makes you say that?

How he talks about it. Uh-huh.

Like he knows.

It's his vision. He's got the vision. Everybody do it. Or you don't have to be a part of it.

You know, it's funny you say that because I've always thought about, you know, when someone like Dave Matthews calls themselves the Dave Matthews Band, does the band feel like, hey, man, like we're a band. Why don't we get part of the name? It's the Dave Matthews Band. But I've thought that too about Zach. But now that you say that, it makes sense because he is the boss of that band.

No doubt about it. So, yeah, I think my story of Zach Brown is, Great artist, wonderfully odd guy, but he rules. And with an iron fist.

Yeah. A man of few words.

Yeah. He doesn't say a lot.

He really doesn't.

It's a difficult interview sometimes. I shouldn't say difficult, full interview. And I think Mike would vouch here is that it takes a minute to get him going and loose.

Yeah.

But then once he gets on something, he goes hard. Really?

Yeah.

If you talk about spearfishing or something that he's really into- it's a Ted talk and he's great at it. You just got to get on places where he feels comfortable kind of letting himself go. So, uh, all right, good. That's, that's fun. Who would have been the next one? Mike, if we had done one more, let's see. Next one would have been jelly roll. Well, we'll start there next time.

All right.

Sounds good. I'll think of one in the meantime.

Interesting. I think we were the first real show to put jelly roll on.

Really?

Because he was, his mom was a fan.

Yeah. I mean, he's from Nashville.

Yeah. And so.

He'd listened to the show since he was younger.

When he came in, I remember just going so viral because he, this is before he had any hits. Yeah. That's what I remember. And he smelled so much like weed that when he left.

He did.

The room, there was no smoke.

No, no, no. I would even say a week later.

Yeah.

You can still smell the weed.

And it's not like that anymore. I don't know if he smokes weed anymore or not, but the first couple of times. Uh-huh. You could smell him before he got there and you could smell him after he left, but he was always so nice. And I just remember him coming in and going super viral in the podcast, doing massive numbers because. he'd never been on a country show before and they were just starting this version of his career and he was just such a good interview.

Now he's another guy that you can really make laugh too.

He was yeah he was so just open and uh yeah yeah yeah well i guess we did him no we'll talk about that next time Thank you guys for watching. We appreciate it. And to all the artists we talked about, I hope we were accurate with our facts, our feelings we do own.

Can't you just say like, at least that's what I remember. And that's a disclaimer.

How about this? This whole episode, allegedly.

That works.

All right.

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