#545 - Bobby Has a ‘Bee In His Bonnet’ and Explains How Bots Manipulate Us + Bobby Answers Baby Questions + His Mount Rushmore of 90’s Songs + Would You Pay to See a Band Perform Without All Their Original Members?

Summary

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The Bobby Bones Show – Episode #545: Bee In My Bonnet, Baby Q&A, 90’s Songs, and Band Lineups

Podcast: The Bobbycast
Host: Bobby Bones (with Eddie & Brandon Ray)
Guests: Mike, Brandon Ray, Unknown Guests
Date: October 14, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Bobby Bones dives into a variety of thought-provoking and personal topics. He starts with a passionate segment, "There's a Bee in My Bonnet," discussing how bots and online manipulation fuel manufactured outrage around pop culture moments like Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. He then answers frequently-asked baby and personal life questions, lays out his Mount Rushmore of '90s songs, and, together with Eddie and Brandon Ray, debates whether fans should see bands with missing original members. The tone is candid, humorous, and occasionally deeply introspective.

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1. There’s a Bee in My Bonnet: Bots, Culture Wars & Bad Bunny ([00:45]–[19:15], [27:20]–[32:10])

Key Points

• Online Outrage is Often Fake: Bobby exposes how much outrage over issues like Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl Halftime show and the “Cracker Barrel controversy” is fueled by bots—often orchestrated by foreign adversaries aiming to stir division.
• Culture Wars are Manufactured: Most people are influenced, even unconsciously, by what they see on social media.
• The Role of Social Media Influencers: Influencers chase trends for engagement, further fanning the flames of controversy, often based on whatever gets the most traction—much of it bot-generated.
• Super Bowl Halftime Shows: Regardless of the artist, the halftime show inevitably gets hate, and nobody’s life is seriously diminished by 9 minutes of music.
• Nationality Arguments: Many who object to Bad Bunny for not being “American” don’t realize Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory; previous halftime performers from Rihanna to U2 were not U.S. citizens.

Notable Quotes

• "We are letting bots manipulate us so much." – Bobby ([00:56])
• "There's not one person that's actually been talking about hating on Bad Bunny that knows enough about Bad Bunny to hate on Bad Bunny." – Bobby ([03:24])
• "Don't let the Internet affect you. You're seeing these memes... But they're being affected by bots." – Bobby ([06:50])
• "It's nine minutes of your life. Would I have liked to have seen the Counting Crows do halftime? Absolutely." – Bobby ([09:29])

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2. Bobby’s Baby Q&A ([09:45]–[19:22])

Key Points

• Favorite Q's from Social Media: Bobby answers common questions about his upcoming fatherhood, addressing topics from sports team allegiance of his child to nursery decor.
• Sports Allegiance: Bobby struggles with the possibility of his baby being a Sooners fan due to his wife's family, while he hopes for a Razorbacks fan ([10:45]).
• Anticipation and Anxieties: Admits he doesn’t know what to look forward to as a father, recognizing that most advice he’s received centers on warnings rather than encouragement ([12:00]).
• Gender Reveal: Only a handful know the baby's sex; they're keeping it private ([13:30]).
• Due Date Secrecy: The couple is deliberately not sharing the due date, preferring privacy after witnessing public judgment toward pregnancy timelines and methods ([14:00]).
• Judgment Around Pregnancy: Bobby comments on intense scrutiny and presumptions online, particularly about fertility methods ([15:30]).
• Team Openings: Announces a digital/video production role open at the show ([16:20]).
• Nursery Preferences: Would love an all-Razorbacks nursery and jokes about only feeding the baby broccoli (“Never gonna touch sugar…Ask me again in a year.”) ([16:45]).

Notable Quotes

• "It's going to pain me to see that baby wearing anything Sooner related. Not because it's Sooner—because it's not Arkansas." – Bobby ([11:00])
• "Nobody really tells you all the good stuff that's coming. Everybody's like, 'Oh boy, you're not gonna sleep, there's gonna poop all over the place.' Lionel Richie told me the poop doesn't stink for the first year..." – Bobby ([12:20])
• "We have bought two car seats and a stroller, and they're still in the box right now." – Bobby ([17:13])

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3. What Makes People Successful ([18:21]–[19:22])

Key Points

• Success Traits: The number one trait Bobby sees in successful people: delusion—the belief you can do something extraordinary is essential.
• Consistency Over Inspiration: Consistency and discipline trump motivation and inspiration.
• Sacrifice: Success at any level, especially as a parent or in a career, involves sacrifice.

Notable Quotes

• "The most successful people that I've ever seen...are people that are delusional about their abilities." – Bobby ([18:38])
• “A lot of people have won. Everybody gets inspired. Most people get motivated. Few people stay disciplined. Fewer people are wildly successful.” – Bobby ([18:55])
• "The hardest part about being great is not the innate ability you have or being born with it, it’s just showing up over and over again." – Bobby ([19:00])

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4. Bobby’s Mount Rushmore of 90s Songs ([19:36]–[22:54])

Bobby’s Personal Top Four 90s Songs

1. Counting Crows – “Round Here”: Favorite track from a beloved album; “I love slow, sad music.” ([19:38])
2. Weezer – “My Name Is Jonas”: Personal impact due to Weezer’s ‘nerd cool’ influence. ([20:34])
3. Brooks & Dunn – “Neon Moon”: Sentimental favorite, even performed at Bobby’s wedding. ([21:22])
4. The Verve – “Bittersweet Symphony”: Described as “crushed” when included in a playlist with the others. ([22:13])

Notable Quotes

• “Those four songs in a row on a playlist. Boom. Crushed.” – Bobby ([22:13])

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5. Vegas, Life Obligations & Presence ([22:54]–[27:17])

Key Points

• Las Vegas Reflections: Bobby dislikes The Strip but likes real Vegas and locals. Jokes that leaving Vegas feels like dying—tired, full of regrets and good memories, dehydrated. ([22:54])
• Life Obligations:
  • Window-seat flyer etiquette: only use the bathroom once per flight ([24:00])
  • Presence for his wife: always puts the phone screen down and sound off to avoid distractions ([24:39])
  • Online memes about phone habits (“If your man does this, he’s cheating…”), Bobby clarifies it’s about focus, not shadiness ([25:56]).

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6. “Don’t Let Bots Affect Your Brain”—Phantom Barber Story ([29:18]–[32:10])

Key Points

• Cautionary Tale: Shares the true story of the “Phantom Barber”—a mysterious figure in 1940s Mississippi who’d sneak in and cut people’s hair, causing widespread panic despite never harming anyone.
• Lesson: Our fears (fueled by rumors and imagination) are often worse than the actual threat. Bobby relates this to letting bots and negative thoughts cause needless anxiety about life, money, and change.
• Moral: Don’t let external threats (real or digital) create monsters in your mind.

Notable Quotes

• “Sometimes, what we're worried about, that monster really isn’t a monster—it’s our brains and bots. You can control your brain. Don’t let the bots affect your brain.” – Bobby ([32:08])

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7. Would You See a Band Without Original Members? ([32:21]–[55:27])

Panel: Eddie, Bobby, Brandon Ray, Mike, Unknown Guests

Key Points & Debated Examples

• Key Principle: Most agree the lead singer’s presence is the dealbreaker; instrumentalists carry weight for some super-fans, but generally, as long as the vocals and signature style remain, the band “counts.”
• Rush touring without Neil Peart: Drummer was integral, but would fans still go?
• Examples Where Lead Singer is Essential: Counting Crows, The Fray, Pearl Jam, Metallica.
  • “If it’s only the lead singer and new musicians playing Metallica, I’d probably still go.” – Brandon Ray ([40:03])
• Cover Bands Using Old Names: Foreigner tours with no original members ([38:37]), J. Geils Band toured without J. Geils himself.
• Lead Singer Swaps: AC/DC (successful with new singer), Journey (new singer sounds almost identical), Queen (mixed opinions with Adam Lambert).
• Bands with Rotating Members: Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Smashing Pumpkins—opinion varies on whether lineup changes matter.
• Unique Situations: Three Days Grace now tours with both old and new lead singers.
• Nostalgia & Sound-alike Frontmen: For some, the ‘authenticity’ issue is softened by the new member’s vocal similarity.

Notable Quotes

• “If Counting Crows were like, we’re going back on tour and it was just Adam Duritz—cool. You could have seven people and just call them the new Crows.” – Eddie ([33:34])
• “They will tour now as Foreigner with no members of the original band at all.” – Eddie ([38:51])
• “If Don Henley wasn’t there [for the Eagles]… you couldn’t do the Eagles.” – Brandon Ray ([41:42])
• "Nobody really tells you all the good stuff that's coming [about being a parent]. Everybody's like, 'Oh boy, you're not gonna sleep, there's going to be poop all over the place.'" – Bobby ([12:20])

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8. Musical Trivia, Name That Tune, and Dance Music Tangent ([49:03]–End)

Fun Moments:

• The group attempts to recall and identify Rush songs—results are mixed, humorously highlighting the band’s characteristic “math rock” style ([49:03]).
• Brief forays into The Police, Fatboy Slim, LCD Soundsystem, and more 'name that tune', sparking nostalgia and laughter.

Notable Quotes

• "99% of the Rush fan base are nerds. Men, you know?" – Brandon Ray ([49:21])
• "I never was a Rush guy." – Eddie ([51:35])

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Noteworthy Closing Threads

• Future Segment: Bobby plans to introduce “Bee In My Bonnet” as a weekly feature ([27:17]).
• Tease for Next Guest: Clint Black is lined up for the next episode ([55:29]).

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Takeaways

• Social media controversies can be manufactured—critical thinking and media literacy are vital.
• Real life—especially parenting—brings unknowns, and vulnerability is normal.
• Authenticity in music is deeply personal but, for most, the voice makes the band.
• Humor and music remain at the heart of The Bobbycast, even as conversations pivot to introspective or societal commentary.

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For further listening: Next week features a conversation with country legend Clint Black.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Eddie]

Welcome to episode 545 of the Bobbycast, in which we will do a couple of things. I have a bee in my bonnet. We'll talk about that. It has to do with super bowl halftime show. Then I'll do some Q and A's. The questions I was asked the most in a Q and A on social media, I'll answer a lot of those.

[Bobby Bones]

All of those are baby questions, too.

[Eddie]

And then we will talk about bands that don't have their full original lineup. If they're still touring, would you even want to see them? And we give examples. And I'll be joined by Eddie and.

[Bobby Bones]

Brandon Ray for that.

[Eddie]

So we appreciate you being here. Let's get started with this week's Bobbycast.

[Bobby Bones]

I do want to start with something I'm going to call There's a Bee in My Bonnet before we get to the questions that I was asked this week. And the be in my bonnet is mostly about Bad Bunny. There's a lot of alliteration there. And so there's been a lot of controversy, a lot of manufactured controversy with Bad Bunny being the super bowl halftime show. And, you know, I've talked about it where I'm like, hey, you don't have to be upset about it just because other people online are upset about it. And it doesn't cost you anything. The Bad Bunny's performing. You're not even paying for a streaming service. And disagreeing with it, like, it's absolutely free for people to be upset is crazy. But. But the big story that came out, and this is why there's a bee in my bonnet, the big story that came out this week is that the Cracker Barrel controversy, which was also very manufactured, was so manufactured by foreign adversaries that 50% of the social media that happened about Cracker Barrel was by bots. And so the be in my bonnet this week is that we are letting bots manipulate us so much. Now, I do think there were a few people early on that said, I can't believe Cracker Barrel removed the old man from the art. And whomever these adversaries are, could be Russia, could be North Korea, could be China. We can go through the list of people that are really good, technology wise, they find a crack of division and invest in it so heavily that it becomes a culture war. And that's what happened with Cracker Barrel. It's what's happening with Bad Bunny. Nobody really cares. The super bowl halftime show does not affect anybody's life in the least. As A matter of fact, when it is somebody that everybody goes, okay, that's pretty cool. Everybody still hates on it. So there isn't a lot of positive that comes out of the super bowl halftime show according to the Internet. And so I do want to move this over to Bad Bunny, because I think that's what's happening now is that you have a lot of people that are upset about Bad Bunny only because they're taking a cue from the Internet to be upset about Bad Bunny. And that Internet is mostly bots that are bought by foreign adversaries. So, yes. Where a few people, like, I don't know, Bad Bunny, that sucks. Yep. And that would have happened with anybody. But because it's somebody who basically only sings in Spanish, we can use that as a culture war. And when you're Russia, what do you do? Let's invest a million bucks in bots and get America fighting with each other. There's not one person that's actually been talking about hating on Bad Bunny that knows enough about Bad Bunny to hate on Bad Bunny. I don't know anything about Bad Bunny. I'm too old. 45 years old. I wasn't a Bad Bunny. I don't know Spanish. I know some. I was the only white guy in my group in Texas. My friend group, only white guy. All Hispanics are Mexicans. Depending on what you asked them. They were. They were all Hispanics, but they're like, nope, I'm Mexican. Also, when people say we don't want or we want an American to do the halftime show, Bad Bunny's American. Did you know Puerto Rico is a US Territory? Do you know people that weren't American that did the halftime show? Rihanna, Barbados, Shakira, Columbia, Coldplay, UK. The who? I was at that one. UK. The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, U2, Bad Bunny, US Citizen. You guys weren't crying about that, were you? No. So two things I suggest before I let the bee out of my bonnet. Number one, don't let the Internet affect you. You're seeing something on social media. You're seeing these memes that are made, and you're going, I agree. Because the people that I follow are telling me to agree because I'm supposed to align with them on everything culturally. But they're being affected by bots. Because the people that are making money off social media, what they do is they lick their finger and they put it up and the wind blows it. And whichever way that wind blows, they go, oh, I should attach myself to this, because I'm going to get more Engagement. And if I get more engagement, I make more money. So they're creating culture war based over the money that they're making, which, by the way, is based on the money that's being spent on bots. With Cracker Barrel, with Bad Bunny. You don't care. You don't care. You literally don't care. How long is this a halftime show? Nine minutes. It's nine minutes of your life. Would I have liked to have seen the Counting Crows do halftime? Absolutely. Maybe I'll go buy some bots, get everybody pissed off. The County Crows aren't doing halftime round here. That's the halftime show I want to see and I'll be there. All right. I'll let the bee out of my bonnet. I got a bunch of questions and I'm going to answer them one by one. I'm going to do a little bit of baby talk here. Hello, everybody. It's Bobby. Baby. Not that kind of baby talk. I'm going to talk about having a baby. My wife and I, we're having a baby. Question number one that I got. Will the baby be a Sooner or a Razorbacks fan? The problem for me now is that college sports are dictated mostly by college football. And because of that, right now, Arkansas is not good. And so I think my wife is thinking that the baby will be a Sooners fan because they win more. What sucks for me is to think that it would be anything other than an Arkansas fan because I am 100%. I'm in all Arkansas all the time. But I also know a little bit of me is going to have to give and it is going to pain me to see that baby wearing anything sooner related. Not because it's sooner, because it's not Arkansas. So I don't have an answer to that right now. I really am praying there's some kind of agreement we can reach where it's 100% Arkansas. But I'm outnumbered because I'm the only one. And then all of her family, they're all hardcore Sooner fans. So, yeah, that's something I actually spend too much time thinking about. Next question. What are you looking forward to the most about the baby coming? I don't know. I do not know what to look forward to because I've never had a kid before. And also like my relationship with thinking about children comes from me being a kid. And like, it wasn't the greatest. So I don't know. I don't know the positives of having a kid. And also it. Nobody really tells you all the good stuff. That's coming. Everybody's like, oh, boy, you're not gonna sleep. There's gonna poop all over the place. Lionel Richie did tell me the poop doesn't stink for the first year because all they're drinking is breast milk. So what am I looking forward to? I don't know. I think I'm looking forward to maybe myself, maybe feeling things that I've yet to feel. But it's hard to look forward to something that you don't really know what you're looking forward to. So that is a question I get asked the most, like, what are you looking forward to? I don't know. Because everybody really only piles on all the hard things that are coming. Like, they're warning you, you need this, you got to pay for this. You're not going to sleep. I don't know what I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to figuring out what's going to be awesome about having a family. How about that? That's my answer for now. Number three, what is the sex of the baby? There are only five people that know the sex of our baby. Me, my wife, my wife's parents, Stanley the dog. We accidentally slipped in front of him. I didn't want to do the not know because I would be going crazy leading up to it. So I do know. But we have not shared it with anybody because we don't want it said or accidentally spread. We may tell a few people as we get closer to it, but right now we are not sharing the sex of the baby. So Razorback. That's the sex of it. It's Arkansas Razorback. My wife. I don't know if pregnancy, like, makes you think and act a little different. She's been acting a little different, and at times she says stuff that's kind of dumb, and she says, that's because you're in me now. Like, my DNA is in her, which makes her dumber. And I don't think that's very nice, if I'm being honest. Next question. When is Caitlyn due to. Also something that we are purposefully not sharing because of the judgment that comes with it. For example, we posted pictures of her and the whole pregnancy picture was kind of a weird thing to do for both of us because I had some funny ideas and she was like, well, we have to do it because I don't want to, like, hide and I want people taking pictures of me and posting and being like, I think she's pregnant, so let's just get ahead of it. But we definitely waited. We took the pictures and then we waited. We definitely didn't live post, meaning take them that day and post them. So there is a bit of a time difference from the pictures we took and then when we posted them. But what I have learned about people that are pregnant or trying to have kids, like, there's a lot of judgment that surrounds all of it. Like talking about trying to get pregnant, talking about conceiving, talking about the different methods that you go through. Like, people were online talking about, I know you had ivf, we didn't. And I hope if you are going through that, that process, that's very difficult and very expensive, and I hope you're able to, like, crush it and I hope it works for you. We didn't do that. But there's already judgment about what we supposedly did that we didn't do. That was weird. And so even with I can see someone in the public eye being pregnant and going, look, this is how pregnant I am. People are like, well, you don't. You look way bigger than a month and a half pregnant. Wow, you're way skinnier than eight months pregnant. You must not be feeding yourself right or doing something that is not good for the baby. Like, there's so much judgment from the Internet when it comes to that. My wife had the decision of, we're just not going to say. My original plan, if I'm being honest, was to say nothing about her even being pregnant and just present the baby as is. And maybe a year later, I thought that was the greatest bit ever. She gets pregnant, she has her pregnancy, we have the baby. We don't post any of it, even as we have the baby for six months. And then one day I come online and I'm like, here's the baby. And people will be like, what is this a bit? Like, that's the greatest bit to me, is when people have to wonder if it's a bit. So that's why we're not really sharing when she's due, because there's just odd judgment that comes from it. And my wife likes to have some stuff that's just hers, which is just ours. I think I would share because it's not me, it's not my body. So there is no answer to that. And some of this I'm answering so I can answer it, because people are asking it a lot. And my answer is, right now, we're not sharing when the baby's due. Next one up. And I get asked this question so many times, but I actually have a real Like a better answer to this one. How can I come and work for you and your team? We oddly have an opening, and so I need somebody who's great digitally that has editing skills. This is almost like I'm doing a job, I guess. Not an interview, but I'm just going to let you know it's open. If you can edit video and you can make great thumbnails, like you have a little editing experience, like pictures and video and low audio, like, I would hire you, like, if you're good and you're nice to be around. So we have a rare opening. Because we're doing so much work, we need somebody else. So that's how right now, something we need. If you got to pick your nursery decoration theme, what would it be? Well, it'd be a lot of razorback helmets. Be a lot of pigs on the wall. The idea of a nursery those a little odd to me because the baby doesn't know. So why can't we just put And I didn't know there was a difference in a crib and a bassinet. Why can't we just put the bassinet and then the crib in the room as is? Like, just take the vet out. Like, why do we need to make a nursery out of it? Out of anything? Baby doesn't know what the heck's going on. Also, baby doesn't know what sugar is. So it's all broccoli. Never gonna touch sugar. All broccoli. And if you don't know what sugar is, you don't want sugar. That's my theory. Ask me again in a year. We'll see if I feel the same way. But right now, all that I have done and all that we have done, because we do have a room that we are turning into. We're calling it the nursery. I don't know if my wife has any plans on having any decorating. Like baby decorating in there is. I've cleaned out a closet completely. We've removed a lot of the bedroom stuff, like a bed, and now I guess we're going to start filling it with baby stuff. We have bought two car seats and we bought a stroller, and they're still in the box right now. But I feel like, why make little clouds in the sky and why make little pink and little blue things if the baby doesn't even know what that is? Feels like a waste to me. But I'm not making a lot of the decisions here, and I'm okay with that. But if I got to pick the nursery Theme. It'd be all red and it'd be all Arkansas Razorbacks. What's the most common trait with successful people that you've seen? All right, we'll move off the baby stuff now. I think the most common trait with successful people I've seen is delusion. Kind of a weird answer, but the most successful people that I have ever seen that I've been able to be around are people that are delusional about their abilities. Because you have to be delusional to think that you can do something that most other people can't or won't do like you have. There has to be something inside of you that's a little crazy to think that you can do it better than what other people have done it. And maybe not even the greatest of all time. But I think you have to be delusional about either how good you are or how good you can be. I think another thing is consistency. You have to believe you can do it, but you also have to be so consistent in showing up at the right time every time. And I think that's the difference in inspiration, motivation, and discipline. And that I'm inspired to do crap all the time. The inspiration is the easy part. I can just lay in the bed and watch a TikTok, read a book and be so inspired. Inspiration takes almost no energy. Then I can be motivated to do something or I start it. Like a lot of people get motivated to get healthy and work out, and they do a day or two. Like, motivation is a little harder than inspiration because motivation takes a little bit of effort. But inspiration is easy. Motivation is pretty easy. But discipline is hard because that's you showing up all the time. That's you really not concerning yourself with the rewards of the goal, but just being there enough to make the goal happen. So the one thing that I see, that is a very common trait with highly successful people. People that are a bit delusional about how good they are and how good they can be. People that are very consistent and people that know the difference in inspiration, motivation, and discipline. A lot of people have won. Everybody gets inspired. Most people get motivated. Few people stay disciplined. Fewer people are wildly successful. And there's a reason, because it gets harder as you kind of climb up that ladder of those words. But I believe you can do it. I believe anybody can do it. Because the hardest part about being great is not the innate ability you have or being born with it. It's just showing up over and over again. It's just showing up and knowing that it Might not work out. And when it doesn't work out, you can kind of repack the bag and go, I'm going to pack this bag a little different because I've learned something and I'm going to start over that repacking the bag is the most important part about being successful. And then you have to start over and be consistent again. And that's the hardest part, consistency and discipline. It's the easiest part because you know that it's cliche, but cliches are for a reason. And if you want to be successful, and by the way, I don't just mean career, any sort of success, you're going to have to have a bit of sacrifice if you want to be a great parent, the absolute greatest parent. Do you know what? You're going to have to sacrifice your career or at least some of it. If you want to be the greatest at your career, you're going to have to sacrifice your personal life. And I think a lot of my life has been that up to this point. There is a happy medium where you can do a lot of sacrifice of your career to be a parent, you can be a really good parent. But to have anything, even to have perfect balance is sacrifice. To have anything great, to have anything really good, you're going to have to sacrifice something because you can't have it all. There's only so many hours in the day. And I think the most common trait is people that are disciplined and believe they can do it to a level that nobody else believes they can do it. And again, that is back to being delusional. I am very delusional. I've always been very delusional. I believe I can do anything. I believe the world is absolutely bendable. And now I've seen it enough times that I know it. But I believed it way before too. Like where I come from, nobody did anything in the arts. It was, you worked at the mill, you worked at somewhere near and you got a good job being like in the management part of it. That was it. Some people went to college and if they did, most of them went to Garland County Community College. And that was awesome. They got a two year degree and then they worked at like a, you know, a glass plant or the Walmart. And that was awesome. And you had a great life. And for some reason I was so delusional to think that I, with a limited Mountain pine education, could go to Hollywood and be a star, go to New York City, be a star. It definitely didn't happen in the way I thought it was, but I still was able to go to Hollywood and do stuff and go to New York and do stuff and, you know.

[Eddie]

Have.

[Bobby Bones]

A national radio show where millions of people listen and a podcast where millions of people listen. But, yeah, you got to have delusion.

[Eddie]

Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor and we're back on the Bobby cast.

[Bobby Bones]

Next question. What is your Mount Rushmore of 90s songs? Any genre. So I'm gonna do four songs from the 90s. Now, these aren't the 90s songs that I feel like made the 90s. These are songs that are most important to me, like my personal 90s Mount Rushmore number one. I referenced it earlier. Counting Crows around here, Round Here. Not as big of a song as Mr. Jones, but from the same album, August and everything after. I am a massive Counting Crows fans. Counting Crows fan. I guess I'm enough to be two fans. Thought about a long December. I don't think a long December came out to, like, later 97 or so, if I'm guessing. But I. I'm still going to go with round here because I love slow, sad music and I love that album, August and everything after. And I'm a massive Counting Crows fan. So I'm putting Counting Crows around here. Up there, I'm putting Weezer from the Blue album. My name is Jonas up there. Now, I could go Buddy Holly, but that's right down the middle. And that's a song I think most people know from Weezer, because that was their most popular song from the album that even hit the pop charts a little bit. The video was awesome. But I'm gonna go, my name's Jonas. I loved that song. I loved Weezer. It's part of the reason that my glasses are like this. Because Rivers Cuomo was a nerd, Buddy Holly was a nerd, and they were super cool to me. So I thought, man, if they can be cool as a nerd, then I'm going to do what they're doing without the talent or musical ability. I just wore the glasses, basically. There's a whole story about Rivers Cuomo from Weezer, the lead singer. And Weezer had been popular and they had started touring the world. And he was like, man, I've kind of had it for a while. And he wrote a letter to Harvard, an admissions letter, and his letter was all about how lonely it is on the road. And he's like, you get to a point where you're just bouncing around, you're just seeing the backs of buildings. You're In a tour bus. You're eating Fritos and going to the next place. I'm going crazy. I'm going insane. And so he stopped doing music, went to Harvard. Back to Harvard and got a degree. It's crazy. I'm putting Brooks and done Neon Moon. I think that's my favorite Brooks and D song of all time again. Also, I love slow songs that was sang at my wedding. Like, Ronnie Dunn sang that at my wedding, which was pretty crazy, for sure. But I'm gonna go Brooks and Dun. Neon Moon. And then I'm gonna go the Verve, Bittersweet Symphony.

[Eddie]

Cause it's a bit of sweet symphony.

[Bobby Bones]

Love this song. I'm not even a big Cruel Intentions guy. I just love that song. And the Verve is different from the Verve pipe, Although out at the same time, very confusing. The Verve pipe. When I was young and knew everything was because we were merely freshmen. That song. But I'm going the Verve, Bittersweet Symphony. Counting Crows. Around Here, Weezer, My Name is Jonas Brooks. And done Neon Moon. The Verve, Bittersweet Symphony. Those four songs in a row on a playlist. Boom. Crushed. Next question. You were just in Vegas. What did you think of Las Vegas? What do you think of our city? I hate Vegas.

[Eddie]

Vegas.

[Bobby Bones]

I like Las Vegas. I like the part where the people live. And I've done shows that are in, like, theaters off the Strip. I like that. I like the people that live in Vegas. The Strip is not for me anymore. One, I'm too old. It's too much cigarette smoke. It's too flashy. You got to walk too far to get to the next building. I don't ever want to leave my room. So it's not even so much about that. I don't like to gamble as much as I used to. But I was thinking when I was leaving the airport in Las Vegas that leaving the Las Vegas airport, to me, feels a lot like probably when you're dying. Because I imagine when I'm dying, I'm tired and you're exhausted when you're leaving Vegas. I don't care what you did there. You're exhausted, and you're thinking back, and there was. There was some good, there was some bad. Like if I lost some money, probably did some stuff you regret, but you had fun with your boys, can't wait to get home. Like, I feel like that's what you're doing when you're. When you're dying, too. Like, you think about the good times, man. Some stuff I regret. Wait to get home, get out of this body and, you know, get up. Get up there to the pearly gates. And the pearly gates is kind of like your bed in real life, when you're at the airport in Vegas. But I think when you're dying, you're glad you came because of the memories you made. And I feel that way about Vegas. I feel like you have regrets. I feel like you're a little dehydrated. I feel like when you're dying, you're probably a little dehydrated, too. Like, I live my life dehydrated. I leave Vegas, I am wildly dehydrated. So I think the feeling of leaving Las Vegas, headed back home, is the same feeling I'm going to have when I'm dying and heading back home. Happy about some stuff, regret a few things. Maybe I shouldn't have made that bet. Maybe I should have set the craps table for two hours longer than I should have overall. Happy with the experience, little dehydrated, can't wait to get home. That's what I think of Las Vegas. What do I feel like my obligations are in life now? That's the question. I have a couple. Number one, I feel like my obligation is when I fly, to sit. If I sit on the inside by the window, I only have one time I can go to the bathroom. Like, part of the role you take as the person on the inside is not to constantly get up. Especially if you're like, on a Southwest flight, and I'll do this on Southwest because you pick your seat. If I'm on a Southwest flight, I feel like it's my obligation as the flyer and I'm flying by the window to not make everybody stand up during the flight over and over again. I feel like that's an obligation. So I give myself one trip there. Other obligations. I feel like now I have an obligation to be present for my wife. I try to not be on my phone when we talk a lot of times. That's hard because I keep my phone in my hand all the time. And when my wife talks to me now, she's like, hey, let's talk about this. I try to put my phone down out of my hand and show that I'm doing that something else that I do. And I see online that people are like, no, this is shady. When a guy does this, I always have my phone turned upside down. When I'm with somebody that I care to talk to because I don't want to be bothered by the screen lighting up and me look down to go. I wonder what this text message is, because I'll do that naturally, without even thinking about it. Like somebody texts me or I get some sort of alert, I'll look down at my phone to see what it is. So my screen is always down. I am not cheating on anybody. I never have cheated on anybody, but my screen is always down. And so when I see those. If your man does this, he's cheating on you, or he wants to focus on you, but he's probably cheating on you.

[Eddie]

Like, seriously, I think I'm the rare one.

[Bobby Bones]

And he's probably cheating on you. That's all I'm going to say. He's probably cheating, but I'm not because I keep mine down. And I think a big part of me keeping it down, too, is from the radio show. Because if I look down at my phone every time I get an alert while I'm doing the radio show, I'll always be looking down on my phone. Also, the sound on my phone is never on. I don't know that my ringer has gone off for a phone call in five years because of that mostly, which is I don't want the ringer going off while I'm on the show. So I just leave it off. And those are the questions that I get asked the most. Yeah, I like to be in my bonnet thing. I'm upset about stuff mostly. I find reasons to be upset about things. And sometimes I think I've trained myself to do it for content reasons. Like, what can I. What can I really go in and go to town on? So I think I'm gonna do There's a bee in my bonnet every week. Is that even a real. That's a saying, right, Mike?

[Mike]

Yeah, that's a saying.

[Bobby Bones]

Should I wear a bonnet for that segment, though? Should I find a bonnet online and wear it?

[Mike]

You get the bonnet, I'll get the beef.

[Bobby Bones]

See, I don't think we need a real b. That's a problem. Is a bonnet, the thing that goes down with the straps on the side. Yeah, I gotta get a bonnet. And every week I gotta come and do There's a bee in my bonnet and put the bonnet on for there's a be in my bonnet segment. Because I. The bee in my bonnet now is people being upset that Bad Bunny's doing the super bowl. And they don't give a crap about the super bowl halftime performing anyway. Like they would. And they don't care. It. They don't care. And it's free. When do we get mad about free stuff? When do we get Mad about free stuff given to us that we feel like we deserve more because it's free. How many free things have we felt like I deserve more. It's free, and you didn't give me enough. Can you name one? And I think that's why I'm so irritated. I'm not even a Bad Bunny defender. I don't know enough about them. I would be defending anybody here. So what in my life has been presented as free? And I'm like, nah, I need more or I'm gonna be upset.

[Mike]

I guess when we all got that U2 album, we got that for free. That was forced upon us.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I was pretty mad about that. That was forced up in something I. I already owned.

[Mike]

That was more invasion than just here's yes, free.

[Bobby Bones]

You can change the channel from Bad Bunny. And you know what? I should be upset because I'm going.

[Eddie]

To be at the super bowl, and.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not going to know any of the songs to sing. I should be the one that's mad, but I'm an adult. And also, I'm not going to let the Internet divide me and anybody else, because that's what they're trying to do.

[Mike]

For the record, I love Bad Bunny, and this is for me. This is awesome. I'm going to understand every single word he says. Although even knowing Spanish, sometimes it's hard to understand Bad Buddy.

[Bobby Bones]

Even knowing English, it's hard to understand Dave Matthews Band.

[Mike]

Yeah. Ever listen to Pearl Jam? You know every single word he says?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

That's a.

[Bobby Bones]

That. That is perfect. All right. I think that's all we have for this. This edition. I can't wait to do There's a Bee In My Bonnet. Don't let stuff affect you, man. I was reading this story from the, like, the 1940s in Pascalula, Mississippi. And I know that town because there's a Ray Stevens song. The Day the Squirrel Went Berserk in the Old Town Baptist Church in that sleepy little town of Pascala. I think it's Pascala. Is it Pascagoula? Yeah. And so they had this guy there in the 40s called the Phantom Barber. And it feels like a superhero, but it's not a superhero, but it was a real person who would break into people's houses. And he wouldn't steal money, he wouldn't steal jewels. He would just cut a piece of their hair, like a lock of their hair while they were asleep. That's it. That's all he did, was cut a piece of their hair off. And so he crept in he would snip the hair and then he would leave. And so people would wake up the next morning and there'd be like a lock of their hair that was gone. And yeah, it's creepy to realize that some stranger was standing over you in the dark. I mean, scissors in hand too, because he's one move away from slashing your neck. Except that's not what he did. Yeah, I get it. I get nervous, I'm taking a nap and my dog is just staring at me when I wake up, much less thinking about somebody with scissors just standing over me. But this happened multiple times. Nothing was ever stolen, nobody was ever hurt. And he would clip a little lock of hair. The town went nuts over it. People panicked. They started buying extra locks, not of hair, but for their doors. They started locking up the doors in crazy ways. And this happened like 5 times total. This wasn't like 40 times, but enough to concern people. People started to create narratives. There were rumors going around. Some even claimed to see him when they probably didn't see him. And I think a lot of life is kind of like that, that sometimes it's not the actual danger that wrecks us because he never ended up stabbing anybody, but it's what we kind of form with our minds of what could the danger be? And so like that can actually affect you more than what the actual danger is. I mean, I feel like that if it's fears about money or if it's fears about life, if it's fears about being a dad, if it's fears about my career, which I always have, those fears always end up way bigger than actually what happens even worst case scenario, like. Cause I've really freaked out over stuff and been super stressed about stuff where I've said stuff that I'm like, well, I'm fired now. And to this point, a hundred times later, it's never been worst case scenario, but we always go worst case scenario with that. So maybe the lesson is that sometimes what we're worried about, that monster really isn't a monster, that our brains make us a monster and bots, it's our brains and bots. You can control your brain. Don't let the bots affect your brain.

[Eddie]

The Bobbycast.

[Brandon Ray]

We'll be right back.

[Eddie]

This is the bobbycast I do want to talk about musically. I think Rush is touring.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, Rush is touring. They announced their tour, but they're going to do it without Neil Peart. Obviously he's dead and I don't know anything about Rush, so. Neil Peart was a drummer and it's almost like Van Halen, where, like, yes, Rush is known for Geddy Lee, who's the lead singer and all that. But Neil Peart was a big part of the band because his drumming style was so extravagant, like, he was such a good drummer that he was kind of the star of the band.

[Eddie]

Okay, so what's your point?

[Unknown Guest]

So he's no longer with the band.

[Eddie]

Obviously, he's the drummer, is the star of the band.

[Unknown Guest]

No way, dude. Neil Per. I mean, Neil Per was.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm sure he's an instrumental part of.

[Eddie]

The sound, but there's no way he's.

[Bobby Bones]

A star of the man.

[Unknown Guest]

He was the double baser.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, you know what I mean?

[Eddie]

I want to look.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, I want to listen with my ears.

[Unknown Guest]

Go ahead, hear me out. So he's not touring because he's dead. So they go on tour without him. They've got a new drummer. I think it's a girl, which is cool, but it's not the original band. Is that okay with you? If your favorite band is touring again without a major member of the band, not the bassist, not anyone like that, a major member of the band, would you still want to go see them?

[Eddie]

I literally don't care as long as the lead singer is the same. That's all I care about. If Counting Crows were like, we're going back on tour, and it was just Adam Duritz, cool. You can have seven people and just call them the new Crows. Who cares?

[Unknown Guest]

You wouldn't know the difference.

[Eddie]

I wouldn't know the difference. Even if they change lead singers.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, we've talked about this.

[Eddie]

The Fray. You know how to Save a Life. Where did I go wrong? They have a new lead singer. It's not the bald white guy anymore. It's the guitar player who was always in the band, but now he sings.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't like that.

[Eddie]

I need the lead singer to be consistent.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, I get that.

[Eddie]

As long as it's the lead singer.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I'm good.

[Eddie]

Because that's what I associate the band with, are the songs and the lyrics and the vocals. So I don't think a drummer. If the Beatles were like, we're all together, we're still alive. But no Ringo. I don't care.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll go watch it.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Unknown Guest]

Poor Ringo.

[Eddie]

But that. Just an example.

[Bobby Bones]

Or.

[Eddie]

Or is like, we're all. No George Harrison, but it's all. It's Ringo, John and Paul.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I'm going to. That's the Beatles.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because the lead singers there. That's probably not fun to hear if you're a significant part of the band and you're a guitar player and songwriter, but really, all you need is a lead singer.

[Unknown Guest]

I use Van Halen as an example. What about them? I mean, Eddie Van Halen was the star of Van Halen Don't Care V.

[Eddie]

To me as long as. And we could. Not Gary Strong, but. Because for a while, wasn't he.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, he was like one of the. Maybe the third singer for a hot minute.

[Eddie]

David Lee Roth. I don't need anybody else. It can be David Lee Roth. You can lie to me and say it's the band. No way. I won't know the difference.

[Bobby Bones]

No way.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I need the. All I need is a lead singer. That's interesting and I think that's good enough for me.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Black Crows. It's not the full band. It's two people. It's the two brothers.

[Bobby Bones]

Sure. But they're not touring like half of the Black Crows. No, there's Black Crows.

[Unknown Guest]

Well, I got another example. What about Sublime with his son?

[Eddie]

Not the same. His son is a little. It's like 75. But when it was like Sublime with Rome.

[Bobby Bones]

Nah, for me, I'm not going to.

[Eddie]

That's not the same. If I'm going to go, it's not because I want to go see Sublime. It's because I'm going to go watch some songs kind of be sung like Sublime. But that's not the band. Yeah, that's not the band. To me.

[Bobby Bones]

It's.

[Eddie]

It's all lead singer based to me.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I think you're right about that. Because my. My go to is Pearl Jam. I mean, I would. If Eddie Vedder was not there, I would not go see Pearl Jam.

[Eddie]

But what if everybody was? What if Eddie was the only one, but there were other instrumentalists and they're like, it's Pearl Jam.

[Unknown Guest]

I've gone.

[Mike]

You.

[Unknown Guest]

I mean, they didn't label it as Pearl Jam, but I went anyway to go see Eddie Vedder.

[Eddie]

What if they said it's hey, on tour, Pearl Jam, but it was only Eddie Vedder with a bunch of other.

[Bobby Bones]

People playing the songs?

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, I'd go. I'd go, yeah, because it's still going to sound the same. Band members, guitarists. They can. They can make that sound.

[Eddie]

Is it controversial, though, that they're going.

[Bobby Bones]

On tour without the drummer?

[Unknown Guest]

I think it's just kind of a big deal. Like, because they thought that they would never tour again since Neil Peart died.

[Eddie]

I think it also matters that he's dead. If they were touring and he was alive and he was like, hey, guys, I'm over. Let me. Let me tour.

[Unknown Guest]

Well, that's like Journey, right?

[Eddie]

Yo. Yeah, he jumped out, and they went.

[Bobby Bones]

And found a new lead singer.

[Eddie]

The only thing that makes that almost real is the guy sounds exactly like him.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the hard part.

[Unknown Guest]

You got to find someone that sounds like the lead singer to somehow make it happen. First half of the people that want to go to that for some reason.

[Eddie]

I Googled this to see bands who toured without their full lineup type things. So the Jay Giles Band. Freeze Frame. Freeze Frame. I think that's Jile's van.

[Unknown Guest]

Jiles wears a hat backwards, plays bass.

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Man with dreads.

[Eddie]

We used to at Jay Giles. What song that is?

[Brandon Ray]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

In 2012, they went on tour without Jay Giles himself.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, see, that's weird, man.

[Eddie]

You're the J. Giles Band, but with no jaws. That's weird.

[Brandon Ray]

You can't interfold.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's what it is. The center fold.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Not Freeze Frame. Center fold. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Leonard Skynyrd.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Eddie]

It's what, one cousin or something, right?

[Brandon Ray]

Actually, Jiles band did do Freeze Frame, so you're right. And Centerfold.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, they did Freeze Frame. Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Ray]

Hey, you got it.

[Eddie]

I love being accidentally right when I'm not even sure.

[Unknown Guest]

And the center fold.

[Eddie]

Oh, they had two songs.

[Bobby Bones]

Good for them.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

It's weird, though. The J. Giles Band is touring without Jay Giles. That's like going, hey, we're going to go watch Dave Matthews Band. No, Dave.

[Brandon Ray]

Let him know.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't do that.

[Eddie]

That part you can't do. Of the name of the. But was he the lead singer? Because I just assumed. In A Hardy was.

[Brandon Ray]

Let's see.

[Eddie]

But Van Halen wasn't the lead singer.

[Unknown Guest]

He was not. I meant Zach Brown Band. Can you imagine?

[Eddie]

Just go, it's not Zach Brown Band if Zack Brown's not there.

[Unknown Guest]

Now, there are some bands.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, what do you see?

[Brandon Ray]

Jay Giles was the guitarist and namesake leader, not the lead singer. The lead singer was Peter Wolf.

[Mike]

But you know what?

[Eddie]

Here's the thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Then.

[Eddie]

If the lead singer is still there and he's J. Giles Band.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

I'm not gonna know the difference.

[Bobby Bones]

It's true.

[Unknown Guest]

I mean, that's why they did it.

[Bobby Bones]

And I love Freeze Frame and Centerfold.

[Eddie]

Mostly.

[Bobby Bones]

Freeze Frame. Freeze Frame. Freeze Frame.

[Eddie]

Skynyrd, Foreigner. Sometimes Foreigner tours with no original members.

[Unknown Guest]

Okay, we had. Didn't we have Foreigner Mm. And it was just one guy with a keyboard.

[Eddie]

He was the singer. I think he's the original singer.

[Unknown Guest]

Okay.

[Eddie]

But they will tour now as Foreigner with no.

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Eddie]

No members of the original band at all. It was like, I believe it was once they started to have new members come in. Like, let's say they got a new bassist and guitar player touring with a couple of the originals. Yeah, they toured with Foreigner for a while, then the other originals went out. So now it's just the two that kind of fell in late. So they added two more, and it's still Foreigner and it's no original members.

[Unknown Guest]

Wow.

[Brandon Ray]

Here's a question. What about, like, one of your favorite bands, like Weezer? Would it if. If Rivers was just there, would you be cool?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Brandon Ray]

Because I think about. I'm a big Metallica fan and I'm like, if.

[Unknown Guest]

Mars wasn't there, I mean, I've.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Lars kind of annoying, though, right?

[Brandon Ray]

He's so annoying.

[Eddie]

Don't you think he's kind of annoying as a person? Just making sure.

[Unknown Guest]

But he is a big part of the band.

[Brandon Ray]

He is.

[Eddie]

I think he's the one that formed the band.

[Bobby Bones]

Right? Yeah, go ahead. I didn't mean to interrupt you by going.

[Eddie]

Nobody.

[Brandon Ray]

It would be difficult for me to see, like, oh, they're not a. They're not a unit. It's like NSYNC going out without Justin.

[Unknown Guest]

But.

[Brandon Ray]

And he wasn't.

[Eddie]

But he's a lead singer.

[Brandon Ray]

But was he the main lead? Yes, yes, he was. That's true.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But if it was just James Hetfield, he's the lead singer. Metallica, right?

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

What would be weird?

[Eddie]

Yeah, if it was just James Hetfield and other guys rocking.

[Bobby Bones]

That'd be so.

[Brandon Ray]

It would be weird.

[Eddie]

You need.

[Unknown Guest]

You need all those dudes to be Metallica.

[Eddie]

I'm not saying it wouldn't be weird, but I'm saying Metallica on tour, James Hetfield, other guys that are equally as good instruments. Would you still go and watch Metallica?

[Brandon Ray]

Bubba from Nebraska would not care.

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Brandon Ray]

And.

[Eddie]

And that's 99, Brandon's cousin.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Would you go?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I don't.

[Unknown Guest]

I don't know. You got it. You got to make a decision.

[Brandon Ray]

No, you wouldn't go. I don't think I'd go.

[Eddie]

I'm not a big Metallica guy. But if it were like, hey, it doesn't make a difference to me if James Hadfield's there. Doesn't make a difference. But I'm also not a die hard Metallica. Fan.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah, I see what you're saying with others, but somebody, a band that I'm, like, really into and I've seen so many times I'm like, I don't know. That'd be kind of weird, but who cares, really?

[Eddie]

You know when they switch lead singers and they don't sound exactly the same. For example, like the Fray. That's weird to me.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And I get it. You've always been in the band. But to sing the same songs. Let's go to Genesis.

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Eddie]

Somebody we've talked about, like, Phil Collins was the drummer. He wasn't the singer. Peter Gabriel was the singer. Peter Gabriel leaves Phil Collins, then has his own hits, though.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

He has his own hits as the lead singer of Genesis. It's not like the guy in the Fray just singing all the hits of the guy that was the lead singer.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah, good point.

[Bobby Bones]

The Eagles do a good job, but.

[Eddie]

They pass it around so much, you don't even really know.

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Unknown Guest]

And they all sing different songs, so.

[Eddie]

They all can sing the other songs because your attention's all over the place anyway. I don't think you really even notice as much. Maybe, like Don Henley, those songs, probably. Because I think he has. He has the most distinct voice.

[Brandon Ray]

That's the thing. If Don Henley wasn't there. I don't.

[Unknown Guest]

You couldn't do the Eagles.

[Bobby Bones]

I, I.

[Unknown Guest]

Well, you're right, because. Because Glenn Fry. Glenn Fry, Is that his name?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

He's gone, so. Yeah. If you lost him and Don Henley, what would you have? What's his name?

[Bobby Bones]

Peter Tork.

[Eddie]

Darren, he's a monkey. I'm kidding.

[Bobby Bones]

Peter Tork.

[Unknown Guest]

Who's the guitar guy?

[Bobby Bones]

Joe Walsh.

[Eddie]

Joe Walsh has some good songs.

[Brandon Ray]

Joe Walsh is awesome. I'd see Joe Walsh if it.

[Eddie]

My Maserati.

[Unknown Guest]

But he can't do, like.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. He can only do one song.

[Unknown Guest]

Walsh doing Hotel California.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Mountain raining on a dock and there's a highway.

[Eddie]

That's a great point. ACDC switched lead singers.

[Unknown Guest]

They did.

[Bobby Bones]

And.

[Eddie]

And Brian Johnson does sing the Bon Scott songs. But to be fair, they did have hits with him as the singer. He wasn't just a replacement singer to sing the old songs.

[Brandon Ray]

Right.

[Eddie]

I think that gives you a little liberty, too, when you're the new lead singer and you have hits.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's okay to sing the.

[Eddie]

Old hits as part of the band.

[Unknown Guest]

Sure.

[Eddie]

I think it's weird if you don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Have new hits and you're just singing.

[Eddie]

Songs unless you sound exactly like them. Like, for example, what you mentioned earlier. When they get on YouTube and not foreigner.

[Bobby Bones]

Just a small town, a journey.

[Unknown Guest]

Thank you.

[Eddie]

Like that is such an outlier because they found a singer that is exactly like it. Linkin Park, Mike.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Eddie]

That's a tough one for me.

[Mike]

A tough one for a lot of people because he died.

[Unknown Guest]

What about Queen?

[Eddie]

Well, Linkin park, though, she doesn't sound anything like Chester, but she doesn't try to.

[Unknown Guest]

She doesn't try to.

[Eddie]

And they do have another one of the co lead singers because Mike Shinoda was definitely the rapper version.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Some people have a hard time with that. With her singing it. I've grown to like it a little more.

[Mike]

I would just accept it as it's a different band now. I don't think it ruins their legacy. But I could see if you're a Die Hard fan and don't want to see that band without them, how you would not want to go to their concert.

[Eddie]

They kept the name.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Brandon Ray]

Here's something interesting. I don't know if you guys know the band Three Days Grace.

[Eddie]

Of course.

[Bobby Bones]

I hate everything about you.

[Brandon Ray]

So that lead singer left two or three albums in. They got a new lead singer, they had some hits. Then the original lead singer joined the band and they're co lead singers now.

[Eddie]

There's two lead singers.

[Brandon Ray]

Two lead singers.

[Eddie]

They have two dads.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah, two dads.

[Unknown Guest]

Better than one.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Brandon Ray]

Two dads, two Christmases.

[Eddie]

How about that power dynamic. Like, I'm just curious as to what it is.

[Brandon Ray]

Well, they. They came together because they, you know, the original lead singer stayed friends with everybody and they. They worked together, they sing together, they write.

[Eddie]

But if I'm the new lead singer and we have hits, why do I want the old lead singer to come back and like take what I've just reworked and came into an awkward situation to. That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

Dysfunctional.

[Eddie]

Genesis. Queen.

[Mike]

Queen.

[Bobby Bones]

Not the same.

[Eddie]

I don't care to go watch Queen with Adam Lambert or anybody else.

[Bobby Bones]

I would not go to that. That. I mean, that's just a personal preference. He.

[Eddie]

I wouldn't go to Queen without him. Lambert's lead singer. Stone Table Pilots. They tried some crap.

[Unknown Guest]

Did they?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Scott Weiland died. It never worked.

[Unknown Guest]

Who sang in his place?

[Eddie]

Do you remember Freddie Mercury?

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Jay Giles.

[Brandon Ray]

Giles joined.

[Unknown Guest]

I don't remember that.

[Eddie]

What?

[Unknown Guest]

Them. Them trying to stone stp. Trying to go out without him.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Brandon Ray]

And same with Alison Chains.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, but Jerry Cantrell could actually.

[Brandon Ray]

Well, he can, but they like him. They had to bring Elaine Staley to Ish, like ish voice.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Fleetwood Mac. They switched out people. Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

They all kind of sang, right? Well, even the keyboard lady would sing sometimes.

[Eddie]

Mcv.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, I think it sounds right.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Eddie]

I think as long as.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm thinking.

[Eddie]

I would go watch Fleetwood Mac as long as Stevie Nicks was there. If Lindsey Buckingham's not there, that's okay. If I think of Christy McVeigh, that's a good point. I. Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

She's such a big part of it.

[Eddie]

To me.

[Bobby Bones]

She's the part.

[Eddie]

And I know I'm wrong. I'm sure the other people are so much a part of the band and the creation of it and the success of it and singing big songs. If she's not there, I don't want to go. If she's there with randoms, I still might go. If they're going. Yep.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Fleetwood Mac in concert, and it's only her and some randoms.

[Unknown Guest]

I'm like, sounds good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I still might go to that, man.

[Unknown Guest]

When we were at iheart and Sammy Hagar played with, like, Van Halen, he. He only played with the original bassist.

[Brandon Ray]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

And he sang, like, a Van Halen song, which I would think if you're gonna do that, you would. If you were to do a tour, you would do more Van Halen songs. But I didn't mind it. It was cool.

[Bobby Bones]

It.

[Unknown Guest]

Eddie wasn't there, but Joe Satriani was the guitarist, which is another amazing guitarist.

[Eddie]

Yeah. If they said Van Halen, it was.

[Bobby Bones]

Just those two with randoms, I would. I would go to that. I would, too.

[Eddie]

Smashing Pumpkins. So Billy Corgan always stayed, but they switched out the band members the whole time.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Nobody cared. Billy Corgan is the Smashing Pumpkins. Doobie brothers. Michael McDonald, you know, wasn't always the lead singer.

[Brandon Ray]

Right.

[Eddie]

So they switched lead singers.

[Bobby Bones]

The original Hootie.

[Eddie]

It wasn't Hootie.

[Unknown Guest]

It was Booty.

[Bobby Bones]

Guy named Booty.

[Eddie]

Booty.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Booty.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I don't know if there are any other ones. What about when Blink 182 change Mike? That kind of sucked.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Because Tom DeLong left. He was my favorite member. And they brought in Matt Skiba.

[Eddie]

What was he from Alkaline Trio.

[Mike]

And they had success with him.

[Brandon Ray]

They did pretty well.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

As a. I won't say casual, because I think I liked him a little more than casual, but not a hardcore. I wouldn't have gone to that.

[Mike]

Yeah. I didn't go see him then. Whenever Tom delong came back, I went to that show.

[Unknown Guest]

Would he sing Tom's parts?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And did he try to sing him like Tom?

[Mike]

No, he's singing like him.

[Eddie]

But did he naturally sound like Tom a little bit?

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Mike]

It kind of just felt like somebody covering a Blink 182 song.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I don't like that.

[Mike]

The benefit with them is Mark also sings a lot of their hits, too. So it's like, okay, you're still getting Mark Hoppus singing, like, what's my age again? And then you have Matt Skiba singing.

[Bobby Bones]

Where are you?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I want Mark Hoppus and Glenn Frey. Yes. We need that. I'm mixing them together. Yes. So in the end, I don't mind rushing doing this. I'd still go watch it as a full Rush. I think that's Rush, just the lead singer. Yeah, I think it's great.

[Brandon Ray]

And it's a. It's a. It's a girl in her 30s playing those parts that are, like, impossible.

[Unknown Guest]

They're so hard. I mean, he was such a good drummer.

[Brandon Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

There's another one I was trying to remember.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it was John Fogarty when he plays Credence. Now it's his sons. That's awesome.

[Brandon Ray]

That's really cool.

[Eddie]

Everybody's dead. Everybody's dead.

[Bobby Bones]

So, okay.

[Brandon Ray]

Oh, that's not.

[Mike]

But.

[Unknown Guest]

But he's the. No, that is not cool.

[Bobby Bones]

But he's the voice.

[Unknown Guest]

He's the voice of ccr, so. Yeah, that works.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I'm gonna look up Rush real quick before we jump.

[Unknown Guest]

Let's see how many. Before you look at it, how many songs do you think you know? I know you know one for sure.

[Eddie]

But even that, I don't know what that one is, but I would bet you I know 4. 4.

[Unknown Guest]

I don't know if I know four.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I don't know if I know one, but let's see. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Today's Tom saw you with the.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Spirit.

[Unknown Guest]

This.

[Eddie]

The spirit.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, I know that one.

[Eddie]

Spirit of Radio. Hold on. They all sound kind of the same, huh?

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, well, his voice is very distinct.

[Brandon Ray]

Whoa. It's like prog rock. Is that what it's called?

[Bobby Bones]

Math.

[Eddie]

Rock.

[Brandon Ray]

Math. That's a good one.

[Unknown Guest]

Because they're smart people.

[Brandon Ray]

Well, yeah. And it's like 99% of their fan base are nerds. Men, you know?

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, man.

[Eddie]

Ah. Closer to the Heart.

[Brandon Ray]

Nerds.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, you know this one? Closer to the Heart.

[Eddie]

Oh, I do know this one.

[Unknown Guest]

And Geddy Lee plays the bass while he sings, which is cool, too.

[Eddie]

I know this song. Closer to the Heart. Okay, there's two.

[Unknown Guest]

What's this called?

[Eddie]

Fly By Night.

[Brandon Ray]

You know this one?

[Eddie]

Fly by Night. Oh, man, I do know that.

[Unknown Guest]

Good job.

[Bobby Bones]

I do know that one.

[Eddie]

Yeah. That's three.

[Unknown Guest]

That's three.

[Eddie]

That's 3.

[Bobby Bones]

That's 3.

[Unknown Guest]

Come on, baby.

[Eddie]

Come on. Let me get one more out of this. Limelight. Limelight. I also love it.

[Bobby Bones]

And I mean this.

[Eddie]

When you guys go, you know this one before I even have a chance.

[Bobby Bones]

You know this one.

[Unknown Guest]

I think you know this one.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Limelight. I don't know this one.

[Brandon Ray]

I thought he would know it by the guitar riff.

[Eddie]

They all sound the same. They really do.

[Bobby Bones]

And I hate to be that guy.

[Eddie]

Because being in music a little bit myself, they.

[Bobby Bones]

They never.

[Eddie]

They don't sound the same, but the. The tone is exactly the same, so it feels like it's the same.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, but that's cool as a band, that you have a distinct sound. That's really cool.

[Eddie]

For sure.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, I don't know this one.

[Eddie]

Subdivisions.

[Unknown Guest]

Iron Man.

[Eddie]

Working Man Rush.

[Brandon Ray]

We are.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, we are the Working Man.

[Bobby Bones]

Do I know this one?

[Unknown Guest]

Come on, keep listening.

[Eddie]

I literally am skimming through it. It's all solo.

[Unknown Guest]

You know, there's more.

[Bobby Bones]

There's more.

[Unknown Guest]

They'll start singing here in a minute.

[Brandon Ray]

No, I'm more like three minutes. Was it the movie? I love you, man. That they were big, rough Rush bands.

[Unknown Guest]

I don't know.

[Brandon Ray]

You remember that?

[Unknown Guest]

He's going, oh, wait, don't give up on it.

[Eddie]

All the way through it twice. All I heard was this guitar song.

[Unknown Guest]

Drum solo.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that what Russia is known for? Proficiency in instruments?

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, they were all.

[Bobby Bones]

All.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Ray]

Three. It's a trio.

[Unknown Guest]

Trio.

[Eddie]

And all three are, like, super good. Like, great guitar.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Brandon Ray]

They can make this whole sound with just three people.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I gotta say, as much as I.

[Eddie]

Love music, I'm a nerd. I never was a Rush guy.

[Unknown Guest]

That was mostly my older brother. Yeah. He was listening to all of it. I never bought an album.

[Eddie]

I do. I didn't know Fly By Night.

[Unknown Guest]

Dude, they're still working, man.

[Brandon Ray]

I'm trying to listen.

[Eddie]

Like.

[Brandon Ray]

This is the only different one. That's like a different tempo.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And it feels like the tone feels a little dirtier too. I think I know this song by the Rush.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, and that's not Rush.

[Eddie]

You know what that is, though, from that?

[Mike]

Yeah. What is it?

[Unknown Guest]

Don't Stand so Close to me.

[Eddie]

No, just by that note.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, I gotta sing the whole song. Can you play that part again?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, hold on.

[Unknown Guest]

It's a race, Brandon.

[Eddie]

Well, I can't play it close to the mic or for long or we go to podcast jail. Here we go again.

[Unknown Guest]

Don't stand so close to me. Did I say that already?

[Brandon Ray]

Message in the battle.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, that could be.

[Eddie]

I think, though, because I know the song. But is this one that goes. There's a little black thousand. Yeah.

[Unknown Guest]

But the chorus is so different than that.

[Eddie]

King of Pain.

[Unknown Guest]

King of Pain. I would have never gotten that.

[Brandon Ray]

I was going to say Desert Rain.

[Eddie]

Desert.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Do you want one more?

[Unknown Guest]

That's another sting, though, right?

[Eddie]

Just a st. That's just Sting. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Just name that tune.

[Eddie]

I'll give you the first few seconds and then.

[Bobby Bones]

But I.

[Unknown Guest]

It's a race. Brando.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not going to be the police, though.

[Eddie]

I was just going through my stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, here. Here we go.

[Unknown Guest]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

Eddie.

[Unknown Guest]

That's a Fat Boy Slim. I'm gonna feel that we're together.

[Eddie]

I need a song.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, it's Treat me like you will, Ray.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I got it.

[Unknown Guest]

I got it.

[Brandon Ray]

I just know Fat Boy Slim. I don't know the name of the song. It's Praise you, praise you, Christopher Walken. Was he in that one or.

[Eddie]

No, he was in the.

[Unknown Guest]

What was the other one?

[Eddie]

Not the Fighter. The dude.

[Unknown Guest]

That's where he's walking.

[Brandon Ray]

Amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Hold on.

[Mike]

Weapon of choice.

[Bobby Bones]

That's it.

[Brandon Ray]

There you go.

[Eddie]

That's it.

[Unknown Guest]

Dude, Fat Boy Slim was awesome.

[Brandon Ray]

So good.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he had a couple.

[Unknown Guest]

I mean, that album right here, right now. Right here, right now.

[Eddie]

I always kind of liked.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm not really into dance music.

[Eddie]

Or electronic, but I. I kind of like the LCD sound system.

[Unknown Guest]

What do they have? I probably know without.

[Eddie]

I got so many songs in my head.

[Bobby Bones]

Let me go first.

[Eddie]

Let's clear it out.

[Bobby Bones]

Clear it out, clear it out, clear it out, clear it out. Hold on.

[Eddie]

I gotta clear everything else out.

[Bobby Bones]

At.

[Eddie]

My Daft Punk is playing at my house. My house. I can just pull it up, but.

[Bobby Bones]

It'S hard to remember that you don't know that song.

[Unknown Guest]

I don't know why, but I'm picturing the Prodigy guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Prodigy is smack.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, Prodigy is cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, let me do this real quick, then we'll get out of here.

[Eddie]

Is that not even one of his biggest songs? It's a seventh.

[Bobby Bones]

74 million, though.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, yeah, I remember this.

[Eddie]

Daft Punk is playing at my house. My house.

[Unknown Guest]

You ever see these guys live?

[Bobby Bones]

It's one guy.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, he's just a dj.

[Bobby Bones]

He may have people with him, but.

[Unknown Guest]

I think I saw him at hcl Fest.

[Eddie]

Dance yourself clean. What are you laughing at over there?

[Brandon Ray]

I was. I was trying to listen to. Dance yourself clean.

[Eddie]

All right, we're done.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie, thank you.

[Unknown Guest]

That was fun, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Brandon, thank you for being here.

[Eddie]

Everybody, thank you for listening. We got Clint Black next week, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yep.

[Eddie]

All right. Clint Black coming up Tuesday.

[Bobby Bones]

Goodbye, everybody.

[Eddie]

Thanks for listening to a Bobbykast production.

[Bobby Bones]

This is an iHeart podcast.