#699 - Country Music Death Match: Morgan Wallen vs. Luke Combs

0:07 Welcome to another round of Country Music Deathmatch, where we pit two artists and their ten biggest songs against each other. Now, I don't pick the matchups, I just lay them out and say, give me the ten today Morgan Wallen songs. And then I say, give me the ten Luke Combs songs.

0:29 Wow.

0:30 So today will be Morgan Wallen versus Luke Combs. One song battling one song. And at the end, we'll have a winner. I should really do like 11 though, because we tie a bunch.

0:40 We do tie a bunch. And I'm thinking like, can we also do like if it was a real physical fight, who would win?

0:45 At the very end, we could do that.

0:46 I like that. That's cool.

0:48 Yeah.

0:49 Okay. So we have a singer, songwriter. We call him Mr. Sink. He's had so many things. And that he's produced good in television shows and TV commercials. It's Brandon Ray. My name is Bobby. Youngest member ever in the Radio Hall of Fame. Written two and a half bestsellers. It's been a pretty great career for me. And then also my friend Eddie.

1:12 Okay.

1:16 This makes me feel better and better every time, dude.

1:18 Yep.

1:19 It's good stuff.

1:20 All right. So Morgan Wallen versus Luke Combs. Ten rounds. One point each. No ties.

1:26 No ties.

1:27 And I'll try to sing them best I can if we need it. But after about two sings, I can't remember any song.

1:32 I think it's hard.

1:32 Melody anymore. Number one. Morgan Wallen, Whiskey Glasses. Luke Combs, Beer Never Broke My Heart. I'm gonna need some whiskey glasses.

1:49 And then Luke Combs is the long neck.

1:52 I stole beer, never broke my heart. All right, so Eddie, we'll start with you. Whiskey glasses or beer never broke my heart?

2:03 I do like whiskey glasses. I do. But the... The way beer never broke my heart starts... And then it's like, I had a large mouth, bears burst my life. Like, I love that song. I'm going to go with Luke Combs.

2:19 Brandon?

2:20 Eddie, this is not because you picked it. I'm going to make my own decision here. But Beer Never Broke My Heart, for sure.

2:27 Well, for you guys, it's not because you didn't pick it because Eddie picked it. I'm picking Beer Never.

2:32 Broke My Heart.

2:34 All right.

2:34 Good one.

2:35 Good one.

2:36 Yeah.

2:37 I like that song.

2:37 That's a great song.

2:39 Next up. Morgan Wallen, Love Somebody, Luke Combs, Hurricane.

2:45 Oh, man.

2:47 I Love Somebody is kind of a smooth.

2:48 Very smooth.

2:49 Smooth jam.

2:50 It's got like a classical guitar solo in there.

2:52 Almost like a 70s feel to it.

2:54 Yeah.

2:55 You know? I like that.

2:58 Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely a vibier of his songs. So Brandon, we'll start with you. Love Somebody or Hurricane?

3:05 Hurricane.

3:06 This is tough, but it being Luke Combs' very first breakout single, the first song I ever heard from him, everybody was freaking out about it. I'm going to go Hurricane.

3:16 This is Morgan's smoother sound, and I like that. Yeah. This is one of my favorite Morgan Wallen songs. Like, I'm not a massive Morgan Wallen guy. Like, I get it and I like it. But I really like this song. So, I'm going Love Somebody.

3:34 Wow.

3:36 Eddie.

3:36 Okay.

3:37 Well, I do like this Morgan song. Although, that's not my favorite Morgan version. Like, I don't like Smooth Morgan.

3:43 I like Smooth Morgan, though. That's the difference between me and you. I like Smooth Morgan, guys.

3:46 Mullet Morgan.

3:47 No, I like Smooth Morgan.

3:48 You know, I like that. But, dude, Hurricane was... The song. When she walked in with her hair without warning. Like, dude, Hurricane was his first big song. It's kind of what made him Luke Combs. So I'm going Hurricane.

4:03 Luke Combs, two. Morgan Wallen, zero. Dang. We are now to song number three from Morgan Wallen, You Proof, from Luke Combs, When It Rains, It Pours.

4:18 Oh, my gosh, dude.

4:20 Can you give us a little U-Proof?

4:22 Sure. I need something U-Proof.

4:24 J.M., nailed it. You kind of did a Morgan song as Luke Combs.

4:27 I know. And what's cool about that song is it's got the drum machine. I don't even know what they call that.

4:36 Casio.

4:37 Oh, is it a Casio? They hit the demo button? I don't know if people are going to understand that joke, but it's a solid joke. Thank you.

4:45 What are you picking?

4:48 Oh, dude. I mean.

4:49 You prove versus when it rains, it pours.

4:51 When it rains, it pours. Like, what I love about when it rains, it pours is the storytelling. Like, I picture him stopping at that store and getting some gas and beer and the lottery ticket. And, like, all of that going down, I just love the imagery of it. I'm going Luke Combs.

5:13 Brandon, over to you. You prove for when it rains, it pours.

5:15 Sunday morning... Yeah, I'm going when it rains, it pours.

5:21 Does he say scratch off? Yeah, I think it's a scratch off ticket. If you can fit that in a song.

5:25 That's pretty cool.

5:26 And it not feel hokey because it doesn't at all.

5:28 You're right.

5:29 I think any song that talks about a scratch off and it doesn't feel hokey wins. Yeah, I go when it rains, it pours.

5:35 And we have the advantage of living in Nashville that he mentions I-65 and the Shell Station. Anytime I see a Shell Station anywhere off I-65, I feel like that's the one.

5:46 That's the Combs. When he's over the girl, he's glad.

5:50 That's where it happened.

5:51 Yeah.

5:52 Next up, Morgan Wallen, Wasted On You. Luke Combs, She Got The Best Of Me.

5:58 Oh, my God. This is crazy.

6:00 Brandon, can you do Wasted On You?

6:01 Man, I know it. I'm just drawing a blank right now.

6:06 I can pull some up here.

6:08 Wasted On You. Is it like a 6-8?

6:11 No, he kind of yells that part, too. Like, Wasted On You.

6:17 Ooh, that's nice.

6:17 No, that's not pretty. Morgan Wallen.

6:23 That's Beck.

6:24 Wasted on you.

6:25 Okay, Morgan Wallen.

6:29 Yeah, it's like 6'8 type thing.

6:32 6'8.

6:32 No, 6'7.

6:33 6'7.

6:33 Okay. Oh, this is a jam.

6:39 It is a jam.

6:40 Wasted on you.

6:41 Oh, yeah.

6:42 Kind of sounds like Friends of Low Places in the beginning.

6:45 Tell it. That's a jam. Let me get to the.

6:51 Wasted on you.

6:55 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

6:58 Wasted on you. Okay, and then that's versus what? Luke Combs.

7:02 She Got the Best of Me.

7:04 She got the best of me. She broke my heart.

7:09 So this is pretty much the heartbreak round here.

7:12 Oh, it really is, isn't it?

7:13 Wasted on.

7:14 Yeah, it's good. I can't really hit that one, but I'll go first. I do like Wasted On You. I'm going to go Wasted On You. I like the guitar. It feels pretty simple. I like the simplicity of that song.

7:29 Were we right about the 6-8? Yeah. Okay.

7:32 He said it.

7:32 You said nothing. But I agreed with it.

7:34 But you didn't even hear it the first time.

7:38 You're up, buddy. Dude, I don't want to do this. To Morgan, because I'm a Morgan fan.

7:44 So far, you've picked no songs, but you shouldn't pick a song just because you're a fan of the artist. We're going song by song.

7:49 I know. And when you look at the matchup, I'm going to have to go. You got, is it She Got the Best of Me?

7:53 She Got the Best of Me.

7:53 She Got the Best of Me, Luke Combs.

7:55 Okay. Don't pick because of a score.

7:58 I'm not.

7:58 Don't pick because somebody's behind her head. Just pick every matchup. Brandon, you have Wasted on You versus She Got the Best of Me.

8:04 I've been thinking about this for a while since you mentioned it.

8:06 Thank you.

8:07 So like about a minute?

8:08 Yeah. Yeah.

8:10 Wasted on you, Morgan Wallen.

8:12 Wow. Why?

8:15 Hearing it and just, I don't know, like it feels so different than like the modern country sound and like hearing it again. I'm like, dude, that is a, that's a jam.

8:25 But you heard Bobby sing it. So could it be Bobby influencing?

8:29 Possibly the cover, the cover I did of Morgan Wallen.

8:31 Sometimes people's covers just like inspire you, you know?

8:35 Right now it is Luke Combs three, Morgan Wallen one. All right. What's song five? Morgan Wallen, More Than My Hometown, Luke Combs, Forever After All.

8:49 I think I'm going to need a couple versions of those songs.

8:52 We're getting to the part of the game where they all start to blend together.

8:54 I feel like I know them, but I'm going to need to hear them.

8:58 One down to the Pizza Hut.

8:59 Oh, okay. Okay. My hometown.

9:02 Give me my hometown.

9:05 A little church.

9:06 And then Luke Combs' Forever After All. Just imagine.

9:08 Oh. If they want to see forever, you're going down in life forever. I like both of those songs.

9:17 Yeah, that's the point. It's hard because all the songs are good.

9:22 It's not fair, but.

9:23 Brandon, you're first. Okay. More than my hometown or forever after all? Forever after all. I'm going to go forever after all. It's the wedding one. It's a video.

9:36 Is it them getting married? What's the wedding?

9:40 I think it's him and Nicole. I know that there's, I can remember the video of people getting married. I think he had like four or five of those songs where they got married. They got married a lot for those love songs. They had babies and stuff. So they start to blur together.

9:50 Yeah.

9:51 All right, go ahead.

9:51 Yeah, man.

9:52 Forever after all. Like that's such a good song.

9:56 Next up, number six, Morgan Wallen.

9:59 Chasing you like a dead whiskey that's a good one or luke combs loving on you Loving on you.

10:10 This is a tough one. They both sound the same. Same song, right?

10:17 That's like the newest song from Luke, right?

10:20 Sing it.

10:21 Oh, no.

10:21 That's Be By You.

10:22 Yeah.

10:23 It's 2019. Sorry.

10:25 Luke Combs, Loving On You.

10:27 Loving on you. Okay. And then it's going against Morgan Wallen, Chasing You.

10:35 Battle of the Yous.

10:37 It really is, isn't it?

10:39 I'll go first. It's Chasing You for me. Or if I do Chasing on You, it's Chasing on You.

10:44 It's like a hybrid baby.

10:45 I'm going to do Chasing You.

10:48 I'm going to go Morgan Wallen, Chasing You.

10:50 Okay.

10:50 Brandon, your vote doesn't matter, but what would you say?

10:52 It doesn't matter at all. Chasing You, Morgan Wallen.

10:54 Okay, good.

10:55 Morgan Wallen.

10:57 I thought you should know when I'm dead.

11:00 It's a good one, huh? I love that song. And then Luke Combs, Even Though I'm Leaving.

11:07 Oh, that's the one about his dad, right?

11:08 It's where he's the dad talking to the kid.

11:11 He's the dad, yeah.

11:12 And he's leaving the kid?

11:13 Even though I'm leaving.

11:14 It's like, even though I'm leaving, I'll be back. Just because you're leaving, and I don't leave, and I'm not dead. Yeah, yeah.

11:21 Dang, I didn't realize that. That's a jam.

11:23 He wrote that before he had kids, too. Really?

11:25 Oh.

11:27 So he was just maybe talking to other parents.

11:28 Yeah, I think there was someone in the room with them that he was writing with that had a kid.

11:33 Yeah.

11:34 So what we got here, we got. Thought You Should Know, Morgan Wallen, Even Though I'm Leavin' from Luke Combs. This is the family round.

11:43 The Thought You Should Know, that was like a song to his mom.

11:47 Yeah.

11:48 Written with Miranda Lambert and Nicole Gallion. Oh, really?

11:52 Yeah.

11:53 Is that like a 6'7, 6'8? Yeah. It's a 6'7. It's basically calling mom versus needing dad.

11:58 Yeah. And then he asked, is dad still up to his dumb shit? That line always stuck out, like, to me.

12:08 In what song?

12:09 In Morgan Wallen's.

12:10 Chasing You?

12:11 No, Thought You Should Know. Because he's like, he's like, mom, how's it going?

12:14 Whatever.

12:15 And like, how's dad doing? Is he still up to some dumb shit?

12:19 I don't know, man.

12:20 I like Morgan Wallen's Thought You Should Know.

12:22 Okay, Brandon?

12:25 I'm going to go just because I'm leaving.

12:27 Even though I'm leaving?

12:28 Even though I'm leaving.

12:29 Sorry.

12:29 We're all getting drunk on songs.

12:30 We're just getting party.

12:33 I'm going to go Thought You Should Know.

12:36 Yes.

12:36 Morgan Wallen. Just that melody. I thought you should know. Jefferson City.

12:46 I did meet a lady one time who said that she was from Jefferson City and she knows the girl that he was writing about.

12:53 I bet so many girls claim to be that girl at Jefferson City.

12:56 Well, this wasn't the girl. It was a girl that claimed to know the girl that that song's about.

12:59 But that girl that told the girl that told you, that's probably one of many that are claiming the song's about them.

13:05 Dude, people love to do that, don't they? Small towns, man.

13:07 That's about me. Yeah.

13:09 We have seven down.

13:10 Mike?

13:10 Luke is still up four to three. Luke's up four to three.

13:13 Morgan's making a comeback. It's getting close. All right.

13:16 Battle of the covers here. Morgan Wallen doing Cover Me Up from Jason Isbell, which a lot of people didn't know that was an Isbell song, that were just fans of Morgan. And this was early. Or Luke Combs doing a cover of Tracy Chapman, Fast Car.

13:32 Oh, I've never heard that one.

13:34 Yeah.

13:34 I only know the original. Brandon?

13:37 Brandon?

13:38 I really like that Luke Combs brought Tracy Chapman onto the award show and included her and all that and brought her back into the public eye. So I'm going to go Fast Car.

13:52 Interesting. What do you have?

13:54 Well, I didn't think it'd be possible for Luke to sing Tracy Chapman like Fast Car and make it sound cool because her version is so unique and it's just different. And he did it. And he did it successfully. And it sounds awesome. And yeah, when I first heard that, I was just like, dude, that's amazing. Amazing cover.

14:18 Not to be contrarian, but it's what I do. He purposefully changed nothing about that song.

14:23 That was cool too.

14:24 There's nothing different. We said it was totally different. There's nothing different except it's him singing it. I know.

14:28 It's like, I got a fast car. That's Tracy. I got a fast car.

14:31 All right.

14:32 But it's like a different version.

14:33 No.

14:34 It didn't change the song at all.

14:35 No lyrics. You can't think of how his raspy.

14:40 Country voice- Yeah, this is a different person singing it.

14:41 And I loved that. It worked.

14:43 You can still love it. I'm just saying there was no changing of the song.

14:47 His version- Was different and it worked.

14:50 His voice was different.

14:51 That's it. Because it was the same. He's a different human. You're right. You're right.

14:55 Because I remember talking to him and him saying, I changed nothing on it. Purposefully, I did nothing. I changed nothing about the song at all because I just, it's one of the most impactful songs to me ever. Not to me, to him.

15:03 He was saying that.

15:04 Yeah. I'm going to go Fast Car as well. Why? I love Tracy Chapman. And Luke's version was so different.

15:10 That- I knew it, dude.

15:12 I knew it.

15:13 It's so different, right?

15:14 Yeah. What a cool take, man.

15:17 Thanks.

15:17 I was really working on that one.

15:19 Yeah.

15:20 Okay. At number nine, Morgan Wallen, Sand In My Boots, Luke Combs, Better Together. Something about the way she kissed me down in Tennessee. You know that one?

15:37 I do know that one. Okay.

15:38 Sand In My Boots. And then the Luke Combs win. Which is Better Together goes... Better together. No, I'm just kidding. I almost said that.

15:48 I almost.

15:49 Yeah. It goes.

15:52 Better together.

15:53 That's it.

15:54 That's it. Like mosquitoes in the summertime.

16:02 Yeah.

16:03 Yeah.

16:03 You know what I mean.

16:04 Mosquitoes in the summertime.

16:06 Sand in my boots versus Better Together. Oh, man. Eddie?

16:09 Eddie?

16:10 Hmm.

16:10 It's a tough one. I do like Morgan Wallen on a piano before he throws it.

16:16 I think he played that at my house on our piano.

16:20 Just him.

16:21 Wow.

16:21 I have a video of that posted. It went semi-viral for a minute.

16:24 It was just you two?

16:25 Yeah.

16:25 He was at the house playing the piano and he just played it.

16:30 That's crazy.

16:31 That's really cool.

16:32 Like, I don't expect, so like if Elton John was at my piano, not comparing Morgan to Elton John, but if Elton John was at my, in my house and he's like, oh, a piano, I would expect for him to just kind of like fiddle and not play tiny dancer. That's crazy. Morgan played one of his songs on the piano instead of like, you know, let me do imagine.

16:50 Mike, did you come over when you did that?

16:52 Yeah, I was there.

16:52 It was us three. Wow.

16:53 And you guys just stood there and like took it in.

16:57 What am I supposed to do?

16:58 Dance?

16:59 Get on top of it and do one of those things?

17:00 You didn't jump in with harmonies or anything? Dude, that's amazing. That's a cool story. So for that reason, I'm picking that.

17:07 No, no, I don't want to convince you.

17:08 I'm just saying.

17:09 I'm picking sand in my boots.

17:10 Brandon?

17:11 I was at a wedding and I heard Randy Montana, the writer of Better Together, sing this song to the couple. And I was like, what is this song? Then like six months later, Luke Combs puts it out. It was just a special song, and I love Randy Montana, so I'm going to go Better Together.

17:30 I'm going to go Sand in My Boots.

17:33 Because?

17:33 Both are great songs. It's hard because those two are so great. I know all these songs are good.

17:37 I get it.

17:37 That's the whole point of it. Sand in My Boots, I just like the pure piano feel.

17:41 Yeah.

17:42 I'd forgotten he'd play that at my house.

17:45 Did he just play that song or did he play others?

17:47 Yeah, he didn't do a full concert.

17:48 He did a set.

17:49 Should we go to the clip?

17:51 That's amazing, dude.

17:51 Nice.

17:51 That sounded great, guys.

17:53 That's such a cool story.

17:54 Where's our last song? Mic score? Luke is up five to four. Five to four.

17:58 Wow.

17:59 We're down to it.

18:00 I think the fatigue is getting to Luke.

18:03 Oh, he started hard.

18:03 Yeah, he went hard.

18:04 He jumped the blocks so fast.

18:05 Bunch of haymakers.

18:07 Oh, you're doing boxing. I was literally doing like a sprint.

18:09 Oh, no, no, no. Because it's a fight. Oh, got it.

18:11 Ding, ding, ding. Yeah, you're right here. Last Night from Morgan Wallen.

18:15 Oh, I love that one.

18:16 Last night we let the Laker talk. Or from Luke Combs, beautiful, crazy.

18:25 Dude, you always leave the good, good, good ones for the end. Man, this is a tough one.

18:31 I'll go first. I've not had a lot of nights where I've had to let the liquor talk. Matter of fact, none. Being someone who's never actually had liquor, it's never really spoken. Quite a good song. Course solid. Don't relate. If there was a version of, last night we let the sleeping pills talk. Possibly there was a season in my life where I'd have been like, I felt that.

19:03 I felt that. I feel like that could be interchangeable.

19:07 A little too many syllables, but yeah, possibly. Last night we let the Ambien take control and run my evening and I drove off with a gas pump in my car. And I got home and I FaceTimed a bunch of people and I don't remember any of it. I just know we talked for 17 minutes. Oh my God. I hope I didn't show them my wiener. All of that, right?

19:25 That's so funny.

19:26 We got to write that.

19:27 Why didn't we write that song?

19:28 It's too personal.

19:32 Like Amazon boxes, you ordered all this stuff.

19:34 Yeah.

19:35 Don't remember any of it.

19:36 FaceTime a preacher. Hope he didn't see my wiener. Wiener. Oh, man. I'm going beautiful crazy.

19:44 Okay. After all that.

19:48 It's just amazing. an amazing love song. Beautiful crazy. Is anybody, are you picking?

19:59 You asked me what I'm picking?

20:00 Yeah, what are you picking?

20:01 Dude, the first time I heard, I never, the first time I heard last night, It wasn't Morgan. It was Theo Vaughn doing it last night. He was talking about how everybody loves that song. Even the Mexicans, man. And he started doing it. Last night we let the liquor talk. And I'm like, what song is he talking about? And I finally heard it. I'm picking Last Night. I love that song.

20:23 Okay.

20:24 Brandon, did you see Joe Montana do this one? Joe Montana, man.

20:30 Wow.

20:30 No, I do have a funny story about it. Like a couple of weeks ago, my son's in kindergarten now. And we went to this like kindergarten event where they bring him out to the football stadium and let him go on the field and the tunnel for the high school team and stuff. And they're playing like these Kidz Bop songs. And all of a sudden, Kidz Bop comes on with Last Night. And I'm like, how are they going to spin this one? It was like, last night we let the anger talk. And it was like, oh.

20:57 Hey.

20:58 And I was like, hmm. Never thought of it that way.

21:00 But I don't know.

21:01 When I first heard Last Night, like maybe it was like right when it first came out, I was like, this song is a jam.

21:10 I like that guitar riff, too.

21:11 Yeah, it's cool, man. I'm going to go Last Night.

21:15 So we're at a tie.

21:16 Oh my God, I didn't realize that.

21:18 We're at five to five and there are no rules. So we can settle it by A, picking the one greatest song of both of their libraries. We both, all three of us pick one and then whomever has the most votes. Or two, we can just pick who'd win a fight in a fight.

21:31 Oh, I like two. I like two. Two would be awesome.

21:38 Why don't we pick the number one song from all of this and whomever has the most votes. It can be different songs, but if two people have a Morgan Wallen song and one has a Luke Combs song or the opposite, that's who wins. Does that make sense? Yeah. Of all the songs, what's the number one best song?

21:55 And whichever artist gets the most votes wins.

21:57 This is hard.

21:59 Should I roll through them all just so you can hear them all again?

22:01 Yeah, that'd be great.

22:03 Whiskey glasses. This is Morgan Wallen. Whiskey glasses, love somebody, you proof. Wasted on you, more than my hometown, chasing you. Thought you should know. Cover me up. Sand in my boots. Last night. From Luke Combs. Beer never broke my heart. Hurricane. When it rains, it pours. She got the best of me.

22:22 Forever after all. Loving on you. Even though I'm leaving. Fast car. Better together. Beautiful crazy.

22:32 Wow.

22:32 Wow.

22:33 That's a lot of great songs. You can't change it.

22:39 So.

22:40 I need you to pick a song and everybody vow, because we're not writing it down, that you have your song and you're not going to change it depending on what somebody else has picked.

22:46 Yes, I swear.

22:47 Okay, thank you. That's all I needed to know.

22:49 Scout's honor.

22:49 Thank you.

22:52 Eddie, do you have your song? I do. Eddie, what is your song?

22:57 I'm going to have to go Luke Combs, When It Rains It Pours.

23:01 It's a scratch. It's hard. A scratch off. You can scratch off a song.

23:05 Yeah, scratch off, dude.

23:05 Yeah.

23:05 Brandon?

23:07 Brandon?

23:09 Oh, do I have to go now?

23:11 You do.

23:15 Luke Combs better together.

23:23 I'm going to go. Beautiful, crazy Luke Combs.

23:30 There you go.

23:31 We all picked a different Luke Combs song, but and that's the tiebreaker. Do you want to do who'd win a fight, though, just for fun?

23:38 Yeah, just for fun. Let's do that.

23:39 Let's go.

23:39 Who do you think would.

23:40 Win a real death match? Morgan Wallen versus Luke Combs.

23:43 Brandon.

23:44 Oh, my. Luke Combs is the general giant. But I bet he could throw down. But when you look at Morgan Wallen, that dude is insane. There's something in his eyes. You know what I'm saying? I would not want to be that piano that he threw.

23:58 There's more of a keyboard covered up in wood.

24:01 Correct. It wasn't a real piano.

24:03 That's true.

24:04 That's a good point. Luke Combs, man. He's the winner.

24:10 And they both were athletes. Yeah. So I would look back at their history, too. Like, athletically, I'm going Luke Combs.

24:17 Okay.

24:18 Like.

24:19 Why?

24:20 I think he just beat him up. Why else? I have to visualize it all. Why? I think in my head, if I see them at each other going, you want to fight? They start fighting and then Luke Combs would win. That's why.

24:29 Why do you think they're fighting?

24:30 Well, because we made them. We kept them both hostage and we said only one of you get to go home.

24:36 Oh, but you got to win.

24:37 Then we opened it like wrestling. They have the chamber match.

24:40 They open the chamber and.

24:41 Only one gets to go.

24:42 Okay.

24:43 I think it's close, but I think Luke Combs wins. Okay.

24:44 Okay.

24:45 And this is a real life situation.

24:47 Real life, real life. Guys, honestly, I don't think it'd be a real, like a long fight at all. I think Luke would come out with a couple of haymakers, just nail Morgan right in the jaw and it's over. Okay.

25:00 Morgan's a good athlete.

25:01 I know for sure.

25:02 Yeah.

25:03 If Morgan can survive that, he would win the whole thing. Okay. But he's got to survive some major hits at the beginning.

25:08 Okay.

25:09 Our winner and champion of this country music death match is Is Luke Combs. Congratulations, Luke Combs. We're going to send you your trophy. All right. That's all we have this week. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you next week. We'll do another one. Probably next. We'll put these up on every Wednesday or so. Yeah. We're just going to run out of artists at some point.

25:33 At some point, yeah.

25:34 Eventually, Stella Lefty's got to play Garth Brooks.

25:37 Oh, yeah.

25:38 And it's not, you know. Yeah, yeah. We're going to have artists with only one song.

25:42 Yeah, yeah. All right, thank you. We'll see you guys next time. Bye, everybody.

25:46 Hang tight.

25:47 The Bobbycast will be right back. And we're back on the Bobby cast.

26:03 Okay. Now we're going to go to a conversation with Gabby Barrett and she talks about meeting her future husband, receiving a Bible from him that led to a really important moment for them. This is from the upload with Brooke Taylor. That is a faith based podcast here on the podcast network that I would love for you to check out. If you like this segment, if you like this clip here, here is Gabby Barrett with Brooke Taylor from the upload.

26:28 Every time that I tell this story, it reminds me and gives me encouragement to know that God's doing things when we don't know, like, but you know, he's doing things behind the scenes, like there's things coming. So I had no clue that this was going to happen. So I had just left, um, high school, my physical high school.

26:46 And I was planning on doing the last two years or year and a half of, of, of high school online.

26:52 Yeah.

26:52 Um, in my home state in Pennsylvania.

26:55 Yeah.

26:55 And so I was doing online high school. I had went into the journey of American Idol. There was a producer that had reached out and asked if I wanted to be a part of the show and audition. I did a beforehand audition through the screen. And then I went and did an audition in front of the judges. And so got through to the competition. Later in the competition is when you really start noticing people. And it was about probably top 24 or so when I started noticing Cade, who is my husband, but at the time was just a contestant, another contestant. And so when the numbers start dwindling down of contestants, you start hearing about people, more personalities, right? Like you're picking up on all of

27:40 those social cues. And I remember hearing about him as like the Bible kid of.

27:48 the season.

27:49 Um, this was something that he was so passionate about and it was obvious to everybody. And so that was always really interesting to me. Um, and then of course I thought he was super cute. He went on and did like seventies rock. So he, you know, had the long curly hair, the green eyes, super confident on stage.

28:07 He looked like a vet, like he had been doing it for a long time. And that's not something that, you know, it is easy to portray. Yeah, no. And so, um, I was just impressed in a lot of different ways. And so I remember just approaching him. He was very reserved. I didn't think he liked me at all. I remember me going on so strong.

28:30 Oh, God.

28:31 I look back now. I'm like, oh.

28:33 But I just had approached him. We ended up hanging out. And we went in this little conference room in one of the hotels that the contestants were staying in for Idol. And we would play music together. And I was like, he does not. he does not like me. This guy does not like me. He's not like saying anything. But then come to find out he actually did. He's like, well, I wasn't saying anything because I actually did like you.

28:56 And I'm like, well, that's confusing.

28:57 That's misleading.

28:59 Yes.

29:00 Tell me you think I pray.

29:02 No.

29:04 So anyways, like fast forward a little bit. We started dating and kind of by the finale, he had officially asked me to be his girlfriend, all of those things. And so after the season ended, we had to figure out You know, he, he's originally from Texas. I was originally from Pennsylvania. So long distance dating. He was like my first for real boyfriend too. I was very picky in high school. I had like one boyfriend in high school and it was in ninth grade and it was just.

29:32 Like, yeah, the young love. It's just, yeah.

29:36 I don't want to be just picking anything either. You know, like I got high standards. you know, as you should. Um, so he gifted me a Bible and it's funny cause growing up in Catholic school, you would think, well, don't you, surely you have a Bible, right? And you're like, no, I have no recollection of having a Bible. And even, you know, that wasn't a practice that my family did was read from the Bible or anything like that. It was just kind of this interesting spot to sit in. Right.

30:05 And so I think this was God's way of pulling me towards his word and saying, you're mine.

30:11 Yeah.

30:11 And I want you to know that. And so he, he gave me this Bible and I remember he wrote in the very, you know, front of it and was just like, it was a nice prayer and, and that I hope that this, you know, does and changes you in deep ways. Um, like it has, And so I remember reading it, starting to read it. I can't tell you exactly what book it was. I'm almost positive, though.

30:36 It was Romans. And I remember as a kid, like anytime I'd listen to, you know, if I would be in mass and I would hear them talking about Bible verses or whatnot, it just wasn't, it didn't click for me. I didn't fully understand what they were saying. And it was so strange because I was upstairs in my bedroom in my childhood home and I started reading Romans and it was literally like somebody turned on a switch. I'm not even kidding you. It was like my eyes somehow understood what it was saying all of a sudden to where my heart felt so excited. Like it just wanted to jump out and I wanted to keep reading the pages, reading the pages. And so I knew that something was happening there. And from that moment forward, it was just

31:24 completely undeniable. It was like full renewal, full start of transformation, undeniable. Nobody could tell me different. Like this is what I knew was true.

31:34 I love how you're describing how it just kind of, you just all of a sudden, like you said, that switch flipped.

31:39 Yeah.

31:39 And how it's, you know, the Bible is described as the living word, right? And like when you fully start to understand it and maybe not even understand, because there's some times where I'm reading stuff and I'm like, wow.

31:50 What?

31:50 Oh, a hundred percent.

31:52 It's complex.

31:54 It is. But the second you start to like, you hear a story and you're like, Oh, okay, wait, I'm going through that right now. And then you keep reading and you're like, there's redemption or there's grace or there's something on the other side of it. It's so cool how those words just really do start to pop out at you. And you're just like, you do, you're invested.

32:11 You lean in and you're like, tell me more. I want to know more of this.

32:14 So I love that.

32:15 And so he gives you this Bible. You kind of start your walk with Christ and you start, um, leaning into the word. What is your relationship at that point? Like with Cade, is he kind of stewarding that relationship, kind of encouraging you to be, um, in church or in the word, or are you guys, what was your relationship like in the, I guess, in the faith aspect of it?

32:40 I think his intention was always because he believed in the message to be so true as well, you know? And when you know this amazing news, this amazing grace, you want to go run and tell other people about it to join you in it. I think that was always his intention and hope was that I would know Christ.

33:02 I would know the gospel message and that we would be able to live it together. Totally. And build a team off of that. And it was amazing. That's kind of what transpired. And I'm really thankful for that. God's just awesome.

33:16 Yeah.

33:17 Literally.

33:17 He's always working. He's so cool. God is cool with like the things that he does and how it was ordained before you guys were even a couple, like that you were going to be on American Idol together at the same time and meet each other. And then from across.

33:31 The United States.

33:32 Yeah. It's insane.

33:33 This random, this random guy from East Texas who, you know, lives in the middle of nowhere and met. And now we've been married for almost six years.

33:42 So three beautiful little babies.

33:44 I know three babies. A lot, you know, has gone on a lot of challenges, a lot of good times, a lot of figuring it out. Right. But God's been with us through it all.

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