BOBBYCAST - #571 - We Time Travel to 2016 + Top Music and Pop Culture Moments from 10 Years Ago

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobbycast #571

Episode Title: We Time Travel to 2016 + Top Music and Pop Culture Moments from 10 Years Ago
Release Date: January 23, 2026
Host: Bobby Bones
Guests: Eddie Montgomery, Richie McDonald, Jacob Goldstein

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Overview

In this playful, nostalgic episode of The Bobbycast, Bobby Bones and his co-hosts "time travel" back to 2016. The team discusses top music, pop culture moments, technology, and political events from a decade ago, reminiscing about the trends, artists, and stories that shaped the year. The episode mixes light banter, personal memories, and tongue-in-cheek predictions with a look at how the world, and their own lives, have changed.

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Main Themes & Format

• Time Capsule Concept:
  Bobby pretends the group is in 2016, reacting to events as if they’re happening “in the moment” before returning to present-day reflections.
• Pop Culture & Music Deep Dive:
  Conversation centers on big breakouts, artist ascents, album drops, and major celebrity passings.
• Social & Political Reflection:
  The team discusses the unique energy of the 2016 election, misinformation’s rise, and tech trends.
• Personal Stories:
  Anecdotes about touring, childhood photos, and attending historic events weave throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Jumping on Social Media Trends

[02:11 – 04:26]

• Bobby discusses his reluctance to hop on late social media trends, noting he skipped the “post your 2016 photo” challenge. Instead, he just posted an old childhood fishing pic.
• The group teases Bobby for the photo, comparing him to "Joe Dirt’s little brother."
• Introduction of the "Tank" Trend:
  Bobby describes being early to a new video meme involving singing in a tank, “fighting World War III”—emphasizing his joy at being ahead of trends for once.

“I like doing trends so I didn’t do one of those 2016 trends where it was post pictures from 10 years ago... So I just posted a picture. I was like, 2016 went hard. In reality, it was 2004.” —Bobby Bones [02:11]

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2. Setting the "Time Machine"—Welcome to 2016

[05:21 – 06:45]

• The group gets into character, agreeing to "be in 2016" for the main segment.
• They commit to discussing the year's events as though they're current.

“This podcast, the concept is we’re in 2016, and I have all the things that were happening. ... We’re in a time machine. Everybody strapped in?” —Bobby Bones [05:21]

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3. Musical Landscape & Artist Moments

Chris Stapleton’s Breakout and Staying Power
[06:14 – 08:29]

• Reflection on Stapleton’s rise following his 2015 CMA Awards performance with Justin Timberlake.
• Praise for Stapleton’s authenticity and impact—his album Traveler is noted for long-lasting success, still “selling, streaming, and winning awards” a year after release.

“It’s kind of crazy because he didn’t just have a big year. He’s pretty much doing something that we don’t see anymore.” —Bobby Bones [06:40]

• Discussion about how Stapleton doesn’t chase trends or pop crossovers.
• Factoid: Stapleton was previously the lead singer for The Steeldrivers.

Luke Combs' Early Days and Disruptive Path
[08:29 – 10:12]

• The group discusses Luke Combs as a promising unsigned artist with the viral single “Hurricane.”
• Acknowledgement of Combs' DIY rise—he didn’t have a major radio launch.
• Teasing predictions about his future: “I expect big things.”
• Light banter about Columbia Records (the label and the fishing shirts), plus a tongue-in-cheek Crocs collaboration.

“Luke Combs did not come up the normal way. No massive radio launch, no big award show push. ... I expect big things.” —Bobby Bones [09:09]

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4. “Tomato-gate” and Gender in Country Music

[10:33 – 12:48]

• The co-hosts revisit the infamous 2016 industry controversy, where a country radio consultant said women artists are “tomatoes on the salad,” leading to “Tomato-gate.”
• They discuss the fallout: less radio play for women, growing backlash and meme-ification of the concept.

“He advocated the stations not play songs by women artists back to back, and drew an analogy to salad: male artists as lettuce, and female artists as tomatoes.” —Bobby Bones [12:22]

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5. 2016’s Disruptive Pop Moments

Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Drop & Industry Implications
[12:50 – 13:44]

• The team reflects on Beyoncé dropping Lemonade without warning, upending traditional album rollout strategies.
• They debate if streaming and surprise drops will last, with split opinions on permanence.

“No radio warm up, no months of promo, no lead single strategy. Just, here it is.” —Bobby Bones [13:23]

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6. The Streaming Era vs. Downloads

[13:52 – 14:22]

• The guests argue over streaming vs. owning music—some committed to “buying songs off iTunes forever.”
• Bobby counters that streaming is poised to dominate.

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7. The “Stranger Things” Phenomenon

[14:58 – 15:57]

• Early reactions to the premiere of Stranger Things on Netflix: 80s nostalgia, synths, “kids on bikes.”
• The group playfully doubts the show will last beyond 2 seasons.

“So two seasons by 2018, this show is probably long gone, you know?” —Bobby Bones [15:52]

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8. Election Turmoil & Misinformation’s Dawn

[15:57 – 17:19]

• Citing the harsh, hostile, and extremely online atmosphere of the 2016 election.
• Jokes about Trump being “the Apprentice guy,” and near certainty that Hillary Clinton would win.
• The team discusses how angry, personal, and different the election feels.

“Even if you want to avoid politics, you can’t avoid this. The 2016 election. ... It’s way more online.” —Bobby Bones [16:35]

Misinformation, AI, and Social Media Dynamics
[31:05 – 34:25]

• The group looks back at how 2016 accelerated the spread of fake news online, driven largely by the election.
• Bobby outlines how engagement-driven algorithms favor anger and misinformation, and speculates about AI’s potential to “stomp out” bad information if tech companies want to.
• They note the foreign interference via bot farms and the realization, in hindsight, of outside actors manipulating media.

“We didn’t know what that was then but they were doing that against us.” —Bobby Bones [33:49]

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9. Major Cultural Events and Personal Recollections

Celebrity Deaths and Musical Tributes
[21:45 – 28:07]

• Reflection on the impact of:
  • Prince: Group names top songs (“Purple Rain,” “Raspberry Beret,” “Kiss”)
  • David Bowie: “Under Pressure,” “Let’s Dance”
  • George Michael: “Careless Whisper,” “Faith,” “Freedom”
  • Leonard Cohen: “Suzanne,” but especially the enduring popularity of “Hallelujah” in Jeff Buckley’s version

Olympic Breakouts: Phelps & Biles
[28:07 – 28:23]

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Cubs Win the World Series
[28:23 – 30:16]

• Bobby shares his Chicago Cubs fan story, missing his first network TV spot to see Game 7.
• Describes the scene in Wrigleyville after a 108-year championship drought.

“I stayed home and I watched Game 7 and the Cubs were losing and rain delay hit. Then the Cubs won. ... I skipped out on my first network television [appearance].” —Bobby Bones [29:19]

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Pokémon Go Craze
[30:33 – 31:12]

• The team laughs about their time spent wandering for Pokémon—commiserating over how ridiculous it felt, and joking about the dangers.

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10. Health & Science, Sports and Other Notables

• The Zika virus scare (and anxiety for pregnant women) [34:34]
• Peyton Manning retires after Super Bowl win [34:58]
• The beginning of the Bobbycast podcast in 2016 [35:12]

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11. 2016 Music Highlights and Tour Life

[38:14 – 40:40]

• Adele’s album “25”: The group notes her tradition of album titles matching her age at recording.
• Big 2016 albums:
  • Drake: “Views,”
  • Beyoncé: “Lemonade,”
  • Kanye West: “The Life of Pablo”
  • Chris Stapleton: “Traveller” (again)
  • Sturgill Simpson: “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” (Grammy Album of the Year)
  • Maren Morris’ crossover with “My Church”
• Reflections on beloved or small club gigs, State Fair anecdotes, and longing for their band’s van days.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “You act like you knew... I forgot what year it was.” —Richie McDonald on the time travel gag [11:30]
• “Those things [Crocs] will never come back.” —Bobby Bones, ironically [09:54]
• “I like doing trends so I didn’t do one of those 2016 trends where it was post pictures from 10 years ago... So I just posted a picture. I was like, 2016 went hard. In reality, it was 2004.” —Bobby Bones [02:11]
• “It’s only good because Jeff Buckley made it good.” —Bobby Bones (on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”) [27:54]
• “Pokémon Go takes over the world... How stupid were we?” —Eddie Montgomery [30:44]
• “I literally am [a diehard Cubs fan]. Sometimes people go like, you’re not a real Cubs fan. ... Like, bro, you don’t even know.” —Bobby Bones [29:43]
• “You can look at Cambridge Analytica, there’s a whole documentary on that. And that’s exactly what was happening.” —Bobby Bones [33:49]

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• [02:11] — Discussing the 2016 photo trend & Bobby’s old photo
• [05:21] — Introduction of the “time machine” format
• [06:14] — Chris Stapleton's enduring impact
• [08:29] — Luke Combs’ DIY career launch
• [10:33] — “Tomato-gate” and women in country music
• [12:50] — Beyoncé's “Lemonade” surprise drop and streaming discussion
• [14:58] — Reaction to Stranger Things premiering
• [15:57] — The 2016 Election feels different
• [21:45] — 2016 cultural events, celebrity deaths
• [28:23] — Cubs’ World Series win story
• [30:33] — Pokémon Go craze
• [31:05] — Misinformation, fake news, and social media
• [34:34] — Zika virus scare
• [35:12] — Start of the Bobbycast podcast in 2016
• [38:14] — Adele’s “25,” year’s top albums, country releases

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, playful, and full of friendly ribbing
• Mix of light nostalgia and serious reflection—funny “predictions” about which trends/artists will last, juxtaposed with emotion over loss and change
• Self-aware, irreverent, at times meta (“Did we have a van in 2016?”)

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Final Thoughts

The episode is a tapestry of collective memory, balancing music nerd-out moments, pop culture flashbacks, and wry, self-effacing humor. The “time machine” conceit highlights both what’s changed and what’s cyclical in trends, chart toppers, and the industry. For listeners, it's both a trip down memory lane and a playful lesson in how quickly the culture—musically, technologically, politically—can shift.

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End of summary.

Transcript

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[Bobby Bones]

Welcome to episode 571 of the Bobbycast. I posted a picture on my instagram and I'm not a big do a trend guy if I missed the trend. So if everybody's been doing it for two or three weeks I'm not gonna hop on because then I just feel like I look lame cuz I'm jumping on late. I like doing trends so I didn't do one of those 2016 trends where it was post pictures from 10 years ago I would have because that's fun and honestly I went through my phone and tried to find 2016 pictures. I couldn't find any. And then I was gonna have to go through my Instagram and I was like, I quit. So I gave up. Didn't I got tagged into People's, but I never did one. I found a picture of me with a. It's a fish. Look like a bass. And I was probably 12, dude.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I LOL'd.

[Bobby Bones]

And so I do. Oh, thank you. And so I. I just posted a picture. I was like, 2016 went hard. In reality, you're 2000. 2004.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. You were a kid. Cubs jersey, shorts too.

[Bobby Bones]

Hardcore kid. And so I just posted that. And everybody in the comments, like, there's no way there's a 2016. Because I was like, 12.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay.

[Richie McDonald]

Do you like Jo, Joe Dirt's little brother or something?

[Bobby Bones]

I did have a bit of a mullet.

[Richie McDonald]

A little bit.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So I didn't hop on the trend. Although the new trend that's about to happen that I did get on early was the Tank.

[Richie McDonald]

Saw that.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Richie McDonald]

That's funny.

[Eddie Montgomery]

The what?

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you. Oh, dude, tell me the Tank trend. So I've only seen two people do it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, I did. I saw yours.

[Richie McDonald]

Got it where it's like butts in you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Point of view. World War iii. But I got my aux cord, my phone, Bluetooth hooked up.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Your face was great on that.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's just. You're just singing one of your favorite songs, but you're fighting World War iii. And I thought it'd be funny to do Chicken in China. The chines Chicken.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That's funny.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a trend I got in on early because I think a lot of people are going to do that one. Although I had to research how to do that one because I didn't see that filter anywhere. I looked on Instagram, didn't see it. So I say research. Then I went over to Tik Tok and did a bunch of scrolling and then searched it and typed in tank. And that's where it comes from. And then you have to rip it from Tik Tok without the watermark.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

And put it over on Instagram. But I did that one. So I think that's.

[Eddie Montgomery]

You're ahead of that.

[Bobby Bones]

So I think that's one that's going to come. Mike, would you. You think that was coming? Yeah, I've seen that one a little bit.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, the Tank tunes. Yeah, Tank tunes playlist. But 2016, I didn't hop in on.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It was fun. It was fun even to research pictures, like, even to go back and look.

[Bobby Bones]

How did you find your Pictures.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I have them all in the cloud. Same 2016 was there.

[Bobby Bones]

You think I would. I don't have. I googled 2016. Nothing came up.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, like, you could just hit years, and you're.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I understand how it works.

[Jacob Goldstein]

I did that.

[Richie McDonald]

What you're gonna want to do is.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Go into your photo op. It says you hit years, and it gives you all the years. Dude, my life was crazy at. In 2016 because we were touring a lot, and it was like, I just. I went from January all the way to December, and it was just like New Year's with a family. Kids. I had a. I mean, my youngest probably was. We hadn't adopted yet, so my youngest was probably, like, three years old. And it's us and then us on the road, and then back at home, birthday party. Us on the road.

[Bobby Bones]

We were on the road a lot.

[Richie McDonald]

A lot.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Rich. And I saw a picture of you and Brandon. Yeah, Brandon looked like a child.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Was.

[Bobby Bones]

You look like a child with a beard.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah, and if I don't have a beard, dude, I look like I'm nine.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Still.

[Richie McDonald]

Still.

[Bobby Bones]

So this podcast, the concept is we're in 2016, and I have all the things that were happening. Oh, I love it.

[Richie McDonald]

This is cool.

[Bobby Bones]

So from when I say beep, we are now in 2016. Okay. Not yet.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Not yet. We're still here.

[Bobby Bones]

And I have all the topics that we're going to talk about, but we're talking about them as they're currently happening.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay.

[Richie McDonald]

I love this.

[Eddie Montgomery]

This is great. It's a time machine.

[Bobby Bones]

We're in a time machine. Everybody strapped in?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay, we're in.

[Richie McDonald]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Buckle up. All right.

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Beep.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I think first we're going to start with this. Dude, we're not in the 20s.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Dude, look at that.

[Richie McDonald]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

No, we. We didn't come back. We're literally in it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, right, right, right.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. We're not like where we were back. We're just there again. It's like if we grabbed an old episode.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, now I got to beep again. Hold on. Beep. Good to see everybody on this.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Up.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude in 2016.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Beautiful, man.

[Richie McDonald]

Everybody, bright the future.

[Bobby Bones]

So you talk about Chris Stapleton for a second. Oh, who? No, no, he's already doing it. Yeah. 2015 is whenever he did last. I didn't know.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, man, I know.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It's been.

[Bobby Bones]

It's been a difficult year for you.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, dude, that new guy, I was.

[Richie McDonald]

There last year when him and Justin Timberlake did the thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, 2015.

[Eddie Montgomery]

2015 was the CMA Awards.

[Bobby Bones]

When he came out with, okay, 2016, Chris Stapleton is still dominant. It's kind of crazy because he didn't just have a big year. He's pretty much doing something that we don't see anymore. Traveler came out in 2015, and this record is still selling, still streaming, still winning awards. And it's a rare condition, this day and age. It's one of those rare things where somebody just exists on an award show randomly. It pops so hard, and then everybody is exposed to their music. It's almost like back in the 50s or 60s when someone would come on a television show, and that's how the exposure happened. But here we are a year later, and the guy is not chasing radio trends. He's not doing pop crossovers. He's really just being Chris Stapleton.

[Eddie Montgomery]

So he's not wearing any leather. He's still staying true to his original wardrobe, which is just, like, a denim shirt.

[Richie McDonald]

It's pretty cool.

[Eddie Montgomery]

And jeans.

[Bobby Bones]

A denim shirt. Mwes.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. You know, like, that's all he's wearing, you know, which is, like. You see every time you see, like, a little success, like, oh, the clothes start changing a little bit.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of people don't know this about old Chris Stapleton, though.

[Eddie Montgomery]

What is that?

[Bobby Bones]

Used to be lead singer of Steel Drivers. Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were good, man. I'm gonna be honest with you. This is hard for me.

[Richie McDonald]

This is so hard because I'm like. Even the way I'm reacting, I'm like, is that right? Is that 2016?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Like, I know so much. I'm so knowledgeable now.

[Richie McDonald]

I was to say, yeah, I just bought Chris Stapleton cd, and I did Traveler. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

He was also the lead singer of the Johnson Brothers.

[Richie McDonald]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a record. Big songwriter. Sang with Justin Trevor, like, a year ago, and now he's still killing it.

[Richie McDonald]

Still doing it last year, 2015.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we don't have to keep saying that. We know what last year is.

[Richie McDonald]

I'm just reminding myself.

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[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Okay. I have another one that's good. This new artist who's not even signed yet, Luke Combs, is kind of breaking the system.

[Eddie Montgomery]

He's a North Carolina kid, right? He.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah, something Hurricane.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Well, he's got this song out now that's online, and it's called Hurricane. And so he hasn't signed a record deal yet. There's a word he may sign pretty soon with Columbia.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Is that the shirt he wears?

[Eddie Montgomery]

That's Columbia? Yeah. Fishing shirts.

[Bobby Bones]

That he may. He'll wear in the future.

[Eddie Montgomery]

You know, our buddy Zach Massey was out the other night, and he saw him at Losers, and he said that he played Hurricane and the place went wild.

[Richie McDonald]

I saw that picture he posted.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Luke Combs did not come up the normal way. No massive radio launch, no big award show push. No polished introduction. He's been in town writing songs. But he's a kid from North Carolina that's got a song that is really doing well online. I expect big things. What record label do we expect him to sign with? Maybe Columbia Nashville.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Is it Columbia Nashville?

[Bobby Bones]

Let's see.

[Richie McDonald]

Sony.

[Bobby Bones]

Let me. Let me see what record label we think he'll sign with.

[Richie McDonald]

I hope it goes well, because when it rains, it pours, you know?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Well, that's interesting.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it is Columbia. I was right.

[Eddie Montgomery]

So it's the shirts and the record label shirts are.

[Richie McDonald]

This is it Columbia.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, Columbia.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Richie McDonald]

He also. I hear he's looking to work with the cr. With Crocs to do his own Combs.

[Bobby Bones]

They'll never come back.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That would be cool if he worked with Crocs.

[Bobby Bones]

Those things will never come back.

[Eddie Montgomery]

And then people put those dumb things on them.

[Bobby Bones]

No chance. What are those called? Trinkets? Yeah. Jibbitz.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Jibbets. Yes. You know, there's a picture of Luke Combs, his first show ever, and he looks.

[Bobby Bones]

But he doesn't post that until 2026.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Well, he hasn't posted yet. I just saw it on his phone.

[Richie McDonald]

Oh, when you were with him.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you saw it on his phone? Why are you looking at his phone?

[Eddie Montgomery]

He showed it to me.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't say you knew him.

[Eddie Montgomery]

He said, look at. Look at this picture of me of my first show ever in North Carolina.

[Richie McDonald]

He showed me a picture of him at an Eric Church show, front row at Coyote Joe's.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know you guys knew him so well.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, I mean, he's just a normal dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. Dang, dang. All right, next up, it looks like, as of right now, in the year of 2016. Correct. This real dumb dude said that women are like tomatoes on radio. They're calling it tomato gate.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Really? Who said that?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you don't know about this?

[Eddie Montgomery]

I forgot.

[Bobby Bones]

Massive story. It was so stupid for him to say this, too.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Who said it?

[Bobby Bones]

So in 2016, which is today.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, yes, today. Yes, yes. The date.

[Bobby Bones]

The industry is still dealing with fallout from what is known as tomato gate. The comment that female artists are basically just tomatoes on the salad. Not even real.

[Richie McDonald]

Part of the salad is this Howard Stern.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. It's a. It's.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It's a country artist.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's not a country artist. It's a country music consultant. Radio consultant. Oh, oh, oh. His name's Keith. What?

[Richie McDonald]

So, Keith, go ahead.

[Bobby Bones]

You act like you knew.

[Richie McDonald]

I forgot what year it was. Sorry.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead. What were you gonna say?

[Richie McDonald]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, he said this, and now everybody's, you know, all hurt. Consultant Keith Hill is the guy that was like, yeah, women to just tomatoes on the salad. And so the uncomfortable part is female artists are being played dramatically less. Programmers are defending it, and now they're starting to be a bit of a. An angry revolution about it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

What is the stage where he said that?

[Bobby Bones]

Like, think it was it like a industry.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, so he said it out loud on a microphone and stuff?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm pretty sure.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Richie McDonald]

Bad. That's bad taste.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it was country radio seminar.

[Eddie Montgomery]

And maybe he thought it would just stay in there.

[Bobby Bones]

See where it is, because this just happened.

[Richie McDonald]

Yes, because right now, the only.

[Bobby Bones]

I read it in country air Check. You read in the country air. Check it out. Good deal. We got that one.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I like that publication.

[Bobby Bones]

He advocated the stations not play songs by women artists back to back and drew an analogy to salad. Male artists as a lettuce and female artists as the tomatoes.

[TJ Maxx Advertiser]

Whoa.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That is crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

This guy's never gonna hear the end of this.

[Eddie Montgomery]

No, he's.

[Bobby Bones]

People 10 years later are gonna be talking about this.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah, I'll bet on that.

[Eddie Montgomery]

And what are we calling this? Tomato gate.

[Bobby Bones]

Tomato gate.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, I name it that right now.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That's good, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Perfect.

[Richie McDonald]

It's gonna take off.

[Bobby Bones]

Also, something I think we should talk about today, since today is the year of 2016. Beyonce just changed when an album releases. Now, this doesn't have anything to do with country music because I doubt Beyonce ever gets into country music, but that.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Would make a lot of people mad.

[Bobby Bones]

She dropped lemonade with no warning. No traditional rollout. Just said, here's the album. Got on my itunes. Oh, yeah.

[Richie McDonald]

I think it was smart, everybody.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I listen to all my music.

[Bobby Bones]

No doubt. And people are gonna download music forever. It's. You know, people want to pay for it.

[Richie McDonald]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

No radio warm up, no months of promo, no lead single strategy. Just, here it is.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Well, that's. That's ballsy.

[Bobby Bones]

Pretty cool.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know if it'll work.

[Jacob Goldstein]

Who knows?

[Bobby Bones]

But the Internet basically shut down. And so I think the message was, you know, you don't need permission anymore. So I think we're starting to see the old rules feel optional. Wow.

[Richie McDonald]

It seems like she's starting to be.

[Eddie Montgomery]

The lettuce on the salad, not the tomato.

[TJ Maxx Advertiser]

Mm.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go. I think streaming is starting to really, really do its thing.

[Richie McDonald]

I don't know.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay, you say that you don't believe. No, come on.

[Richie McDonald]

I'm going to be. I'm going to be buying songs off itunes forever, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I think stream is.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I want to own my music, so I would like to pay a dollar.

[Bobby Bones]

And keep that song for 299. 299 or maybe $1.99.

[Eddie Montgomery]

The price went up.

[Bobby Bones]

No. What was it, Mike? Whenever it stopped? 199.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Richie McDonald]

What year are we in right now?

[Bobby Bones]

2016.

[Richie McDonald]

Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you say beep?

[Bobby Bones]

So 2016, the charts are starting to feel weird because songs are huge if they're on the radio or if they're streaming really well. Like there's starting to be for the first time two different ways to actually make an impact on the charts.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I've seen the kids use this. They have streaming apps and stuff, right?

[Bobby Bones]

You have?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like just your three year old there?

[Eddie Montgomery]

No, my older one. He's older?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, God.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, he's streaming music and I think something called I heart radio app. Oh, good deal.

[Richie McDonald]

Very cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Something else just dropped. This new show called Stranger Things.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, that sounds weird. What's it about?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm glad you asked. It's very nostalgia based. Oh, cool. Yeah, so, you know, 80s music is all in it. Synths, kids on bikes. But it's about this girl and I'm not sure because I haven't seen the first episode yet, but it's about this girl who's been in a facility and, you know, they think she's got some kind of, you know, super, super normal powers that really supernatural powers. Have you seen it, Mike? It's pretty good. First episode was great. Like one of the kids goes missing trying to find him. He loves a good kidnapping. Not a kidnapping story. He just loves a good kidnapping. Yeah.

[Eddie Montgomery]

So you think there's a one and done kind of show? Like just.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I think it's very much a. You know, people love nostalgia. I think I bet on it to get at least one. One extra season.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So two seasons by 2018, this show is probably long gone, you know?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, Stranger Things just dropped and that's crazy. I guess a couple other things I don't know about you guys, but this election just feels different. You got Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

[Eddie Montgomery]

You know, it's just not the same anymore, man.

[Bobby Bones]

It just feels. Just feels angrier. Everything feels meaner.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Now Harold Clinton's a big favorite.

[Eddie Montgomery]

You're talking about Donald Trump, The. The reality guy, the reality star guy.

[Richie McDonald]

Oh, the. The Apprentice guy.

[Eddie Montgomery]

You're fired.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but he's been running guys for like over a year. Yeah, I know, but you don't think.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I don't think he's.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, he's the underdog big time. Yeah. Everybody, it's. It's almost a given that Hillary Clinton's gonna win.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Right? There's no way he gets elected.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Even if you want to avoid politics, you can't avoid this. The 2016 election. Trump and Hillary Clinton. It does not feel like past elections. Louder. It's meaner. It's more personal. It's way more online.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. She would be the first woman president and he would. Male president. He'd be the first verse.

[Bobby Bones]

Reality. Reality. Yeah. So, you know, just. That's what's.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Big election.

[Richie McDonald]

Weird times, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep. So we'll see what happens.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It may not change anything.

[Richie McDonald]

Nothing. I bet 10 years ago.

[Jacob Goldstein]

10 years.

[Richie McDonald]

10 years. I bet 10 years from now, man, will be just. It'll be the same like another day.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, same thing.

[Richie McDonald]

Whatever.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you guys thought about bitcoin?

[Eddie Montgomery]

What is that?

[Richie McDonald]

Never heard of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Buy. Buy some.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Should we buy some? I don't know, man. Doesn't sound like it's real money, so I wouldn't buy any.

[Richie McDonald]

400 bucks sounds like a lot.

[Bobby Bones]

For one. For one bitcoin.

[Richie McDonald]

Serious. And I got to mine it somewhere. How do you do that?

[Bobby Bones]

Good point.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Ye.

[Bobby Bones]

A shovel. I think you have to go dig, like, literally in the dirt to find one. Man.

[Eddie Montgomery]

This is like, you know, you. You say something like bitcoin and it just doesn't make any sense. Like, what is it? No one can explain what it is. Just buy it and it'll make you money.

[Richie McDonald]

Yes.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Sounds shady.

[Richie McDonald]

No guarantees there.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, well, good talk, guys. Way to be in the current time of 2016, man. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor.

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[Bobby Bones]

And we're back on the bobbycast. When I beep, who knows what's gonna happen?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay, Beep.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, we're back. Wow, how crazy that was.

[Richie McDonald]

That was so hard.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That was difficult.

[Bobby Bones]

I did pull up and we can talk from today. Looking back, I have all the big items of 2016, just in general with culture. Donald Trump's elected president.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Changed a few.

[Bobby Bones]

Things we didn't know then. Because that other thing you heard was from 2016. We recorded that and put in a time capsule.

[Eddie Montgomery]

We had no idea.

[Bobby Bones]

And put it in the ground and thought we'd bring it back. And that's what you guys just heard. Let's see. I just said, give me the biggest News events from 2016. And this was one that really shook me. The Syrian Civil War.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Damn.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Feels like just yesterday.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't remember this. They do have it listed. I don't know that, but I don't know that. The Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting happened in 2016. Major celebrity deaths of the year in 2016.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Dude, that nightclub shooting, that doesn't feel like that long ago.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because it was so freaking tragic.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Prince died in 2016.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

What song do you think of? Don't say it out loud, everybody. We're probably gonna say the same song. Prince.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

One, two, three.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Purple Rain.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you can't jump in. Raspberry Beret. No.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Why don't you just stick to what you want?

[Richie McDonald]

I don't know, guys. Back in 2016, I just really wanted to be like you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so now that's my do. The second song I was about to do, that comes to your mind Control. Pee control. Would that have been your second song?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I would have done Kiss, Kiss.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Kiss. And then.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, don't say. Hold on, I'm singing in my head.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Does it have the word little in it?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's not. Is that yours? Little red Corvette? Yeah, mine is. Oh, no. Let's go, dude. Let's go crazy. Let's go crazy.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Damn, dude. Yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah. Prince dying, that was a shock.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. It was fentanyl, right? They, like, give him extra fentanyl or something. Is that true? See, look, in a lot of ways, I can have Michael Jackson confused because Michael Jackson died of fentanyl.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Overdose on pain pills.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Not fentanyl. Pain pills, probably.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, Michael Jackson was.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I think.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Counterfeit pain pills containing fentanyl.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, so they both died from fentanyl?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think Michael Jackson was using it to sleep. Not the same year, obviously. Prince's biggest streaming songs. Number one.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Purple Rain.

[Bobby Bones]

Number two.

[Eddie Montgomery]

A Little Red Corvette.

[Bobby Bones]

Not top five.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Let's Go Crazy. That one.

[Bobby Bones]

When Dove Scries. Number two.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Kiss. Raspberry Beret.

[Richie McDonald]

Love that song.

[Bobby Bones]

And let's go crazy. Ours. Top five. Also dying in 2016. David Bowie.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Wow. Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Me and you. Ready? One, two, three.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Hold on, hold on. Let me think, let me think, let me think. Gosh, that's hard. I don't really even know. Big ones. Go ahead.

[Bobby Bones]

One, two, three. Under pressure.

[Richie McDonald]

Get city.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Under pressure is good. I should have said under pressure.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's dance is good. Let's dance.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Richie McDonald]

Put on your dancing shoes.

[Bobby Bones]

George Michael died that year.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, wow. I don't remember that.

[Bobby Bones]

You want to do me and you. One, two, three. Faith.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Faith. What else?

[Bobby Bones]

One, two, three.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Wake me up before you go.

[Bobby Bones]

What'd you say?

[Eddie Montgomery]

I want your sex, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that what probably.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I want your sex, baby. Right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I think that's one of them. Let me look them up.

[Richie McDonald]

Never gonna dance again.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's see.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Sing that one. I'm never gonna dance again With a saxophone.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but that's Wham.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That's Wham, I think.

[Richie McDonald]

Was it really?

[Eddie Montgomery]

I think so.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Wham.

[Bobby Bones]

George Michael died. Let's see. George Michael's top streaming songs. Oh, number one. Listen to this. I'll play the saxophone, you name the song. Okay.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That one. The one he was saying.

[Bobby Bones]

What is it, though?

[Richie McDonald]

It's not called that. It's called. Not Father or. What's it called?

[Eddie Montgomery]

Don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Careless Whisper.

[Richie McDonald]

Careless Whisper.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good one. Number two is Faith. Number three is I will be your father. Oh, yeah, man, he does have some jams. Freedom.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay, sing that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Freedom. Freedom.

[Eddie Montgomery]

And these are all Michael. These are all George Michael solo songs.

[Bobby Bones]

Number five is a jam, too. And I'm not even gonna sing. I can't sing it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

But at one part, he goes, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John. Can you name that one?

[Richie McDonald]

I can't.

[Eddie Montgomery]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't let the sun go down on me.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It's not coming to me.

[Bobby Bones]

No, that's. That's literally the chord. Go down on me.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay, that sounds familiar.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I just sang it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I think the drums help. No, the lap drums.

[Bobby Bones]

And I think they both might have recorded that, Gentlemen. Because it doesn't. He go, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John. And then Elton John comes out and goes, if it's da da da da. I see.

[Richie McDonald]

That's a good impression.

[Eddie Montgomery]

No, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Also dying in 2016. Leonard Cohen.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Hallelujah.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you think of any other songs? Leonard Cohen.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I can't.

[Bobby Bones]

And I always get him and Leonard Nimoy mixed up. Only. Only for a second. Because Leonard Nimoy was Spock.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, yes. Yeah, I get Leonard Cohen and the Cohen brothers mixed up. He's not a Cohen brother, by the way.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you're right.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Coen brothers, who direct Fargo.

[Bobby Bones]

So his number one streaming song is not Hallelujah.

[Eddie Montgomery]

No way. I bet you it's something that we don't even know.

[Bobby Bones]

It has 167 million streams, and I don't know if I know it. And I could play it and see if we do have to play it underneath the mic.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's called Suzanne, and I don't know if I know Suzanne. Let me get to the course here.

[Richie McDonald]

Summers.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know this.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, I've never heard that.

[Bobby Bones]

Did he just have one song?

[Eddie Montgomery]

I don't know.

[Richie McDonald]

Maybe.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I mean, really, the only reason, because.

[Bobby Bones]

Hallelujah wasn't even a big song by him.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Is it not his one top five songs?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but I'm saying it wasn't a massive song by him. I think probably a lot of his streaming is because. Is because Jeff Jackley made it so big. Because his. His song. I'm gonna be total casual Leonard Cohen here. I don't think his version is that good.

[Eddie Montgomery]

No, I agree.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's only good because the other version was good. The Jeff Buckley version. Hot take. It's only good because Jeff Buckley made it good.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I like it. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So those four people died in 2016. Prince, David Bowie, George Michael, and Leonard Cohen.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

There were two breakouts in the Olympics in 2016. Michael Phelps, historic Meadow hall, and Simone Biles. Breakout.

[Richie McDonald]

Oh, was that her first?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. It just has a breakout. The Cubs won the World Series. I went.

[Eddie Montgomery]

You were there.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't go to Game 7, but here's my Cubs story. I went to Game 2 in Chicago. The Cubs lost to the Indians, but I remember Wrigley Field and all of Wrigleyville. It was so packed. You couldn't even walk the streets without. It's not even bumping anybody you bumped. You were touching somebody the entire time you existed. It felt like what Times Square looks like on years. And I never been to that. Because it looks miserable.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It does look miserable.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what it felt like outside the stadium. That's what it felt like inside the stadium. But everybody was so happy.

[Richie McDonald]

I was going to say the Cubs.

[Bobby Bones]

Hadn'T won since 1908. They had been since 1945.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Curse of the Billy goat.

[Bobby Bones]

So everybody was so happy being so tight. And then they lost that game. And then game seven was during the CMAs. And it was the first time that I'D been invited to be on network television presenting an award ever, and I turned it down so I could stay home and watch game seven.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

So I did not go on cbs. I think that's where it was on CBS that year, the CMAs. I stayed home and I watched Game 7 and the Cubs were losing and rain delay hit. Then the Cubs won. It was awesome. And yeah, that was my first TV offer to go and present an award show. And I said no.

[Eddie Montgomery]

But you're such a die hard Cubs fan.

[Bobby Bones]

I was. I literally am. Sometimes people go like, you're not a real Kobes fan.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. No, you are.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, bro, you don't even know. I don't feel the need to constantly beat my chest about it because I am. You know, there's. I don't need to prove it to anybody, but yeah, I skipped out on my first network television.

[Eddie Montgomery]

When you went, did you take your stepdad?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I took him later. He had never been to Wrigley and I took him when I threw the first pitch out. I love that. That was super cool because he. He's who made me a Cubs fan. And so I took him. I've taken him since again. But yeah, I got the first pitch out. That's pretty cool.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That's really cool.

[Bobby Bones]

But it wasn't. It wasn't that year.

[Richie McDonald]

Was your team at the time like, like your management team? Were they like, what are you doing, man? You gotta take this offer?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think I had a management team then.

[Richie McDonald]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I think I was just raw dogging it. Raw dogging.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I made more money then.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Richie McDonald]

Raw doggy Bobby.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. In technology and culture, Pokemon Go takes over the world. And this is Mike. The game. Yeah. I even played the game for a minute. You would walk around and find Pokemon. That was that.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. I mean, how stupid were we? I'd go to parks.

[Bobby Bones]

Stupid. It was fun. I think I didn't go anywhere, but if I saw one near, I would stop and try to chase it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Or get it. You don't chase them. You just grab. Yeah. You just walk around and they pop up.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It was just dumb. I'd be at a red light and like, you know, in my car and pull it up and be like, oh, my gosh, there's one in the park right here across the street.

[Bobby Bones]

There's a squirtle right next to me.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I'm blowing my phone walking around.

[Richie McDonald]

Didn't somebody die?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I'm sure, like walked in front of cars or off cliffs or something.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That's so Dumb, because. Yeah, you'd hold your phone up and you would follow the signal.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that still thing Mike? I think it's gone away. Yeah. Fake news goes mainstream viral. Misinformation on social media becomes a recognized political force for the first time.

[Eddie Montgomery]

That'll never end. I'm telling you right now, that'll happen forever and ever.

[Bobby Bones]

What year are you in right now?

[Eddie Montgomery]

No current. I'm being sarcastic.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I'm being sarcastic. Like that's.

[Bobby Bones]

I think, though, if we're in, we're today talking.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I think what AI will do is I think AI will eventually build.

[TJ Maxx Advertiser]

A.

[Bobby Bones]

Way to stomp out misinformation if they want it to. A lot of the reason they don't want it to is because it creates engagement and more engagement it gets. The longer you're on these sites, the more money they make. It's why they feed you things that make you angry. Because we stay longer with things that make us angry than things that make us happy. I think if people get so fed up with misinformation that it starts to keep us off these sites, they will then train their AI to eliminate things that are misinformation. But then the problem with that is you then have a bias. Because they could also train AI to not push forward into the algorithm certain political beliefs, even if they're true. So it's a slippery slope. But I could see AI eliminating all of that if they wanted it to.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You would basically, though, need a board of different minded people constantly changing or monitoring what they're allowing and not allowing.

[Richie McDonald]

Right.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I think where the problem was in 2016 was breaking news. I remember the problem being with breaking news. Right. Like where back, you know, back with mainstream media, they'd had to double check before they announced anything like, all right, is this double check, Check with your sources, call the authorities, call the police department, call the chief, make sure that this is accurate before we announce it. And there were just so many different, you know, social media was just no breaking news. This is happening. So the mainstream media, the networks are just like, well, we can't let social media beat us, so then let's just report whatever we hear.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Was everybody trying to figure it out at the same time? And to be the first, I think, and I think there's enough data to back up what I'm about to say. I think the reason that the misinformation happened so dramatically, 2015, 2016, is because of that election. And I think you were seeing, and they do it now a lot. You're Seeing outside forces try to get in and split us apart.

[Richie McDonald]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Now we know it's Russia, we know it's China. We know all these bot farms coming from all these different countries. We didn't know what that was then, but they were doing that against us. And you can look at like Cambridge Analytica, there's a whole documentary on that. And that's exactly what was happening. So we didn't know that. We just thought people were just being funny or just putting out fake news. But it was an absolute. I don't even know how to. But there was an agenda and we.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Were falling for it. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And we still do.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Still fall for.

[Bobby Bones]

We still do. Yeah, there was. There was absolutely an agenda. And it turns out it was like adversarial forces doing it.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

We just didn't know that. Now we do know. We still fall and we still fall for it. Even though we know in health and science in 2016, Zika happens. Do you remember Zika? Yeah.

[Richie McDonald]

The virus, right.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know what. Do you know what it was?

[Richie McDonald]

Mosquito.

[Bobby Bones]

Zika was. Yeah, I think Zika. You could get it from mosquitoes. That's right around pregnancy. If you're pregnant, you had to like avoid mosquitoes because it would give birth defects. Yeah. 2016. What a year, man.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Crazy year. Lost some good people. Had Zika. Got faked out by the news a lot.

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[Richie McDonald]

Peyton Manning winning the super bowl, retiring.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Was that 2016?

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah, 2015 season, but.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I didn't have that.

[Richie McDonald]

You didn't have that?

[Eddie Montgomery]

I don't know about that.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have this podcast starting. Is that what I can say?

[Eddie Montgomery]

2016.

[Bobby Bones]

No way.

[Richie McDonald]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

The Bobby cast. We'll be right back.

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[Bobby Bones]

This is the Bobby cast. The big ones of 2016. Musically, Adele, 25, Eddie. Do you know why she named her records all the numbers?

[Eddie Montgomery]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

That's because her age. Every.

[Richie McDonald]

That's how old she was.

[Bobby Bones]

Every time she releases a record, it's.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, it's her age. Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

These are the big releases that year. Views from Drake. One Dance was on that one. Lemonade, Beyonce, the Life of Pablo, Kanye, Mike. Any songs from that? From the Life of Pablo. Mmm. Waves. I don't know about big songs. I don't really think of anything that pops through famous. I haven't looked it up. That Taylor Swift one. What do you mean where he made that music video and it's like Taylor Swift naked in the bed? And there was that whole controversy over that. I think I remember that part, but I remember the song let's see.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Father Stretched My Hands.

[Bobby Bones]

What is that?

[Eddie Montgomery]

I don't know what. You know, how, like, you go to, you know, Apple music or whatever, and it has a star. The most played. That's the most played.

[Bobby Bones]

2016 country music albums. Chris Stapleton, Traveler, which I think we talked about back when we recorded earlier. Remember that album of the year at the Grammys was Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor's Guide to the Earth. And Maren Morris, Hero Had a big crossover moment because my church crossed over.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So there you have it. Anything else you Want to say?

[Eddie Montgomery]

2016. No. And dude. And our band was just Killing the road. 2016.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Killing the road. I think the road was killing us.

[Eddie Montgomery]

It was. We got tired every. Every single week.

[Bobby Bones]

Did we have a bus then?

[Eddie Montgomery]

We had a bus. We would fly some places.

[Bobby Bones]

We weren't vanning it then.

[Eddie Montgomery]

I'm trying to. I'm trying to think of all the pictures. Yeah. Like, we. No van. We were past the van, which is crazy. There's a big deal for us, but. Yeah, there's a lot of bus pictures. We played the state fair in Texas that year.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, I remember that. It was a pretty small stage, though.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Yeah, it was.

[Bobby Bones]

We played like an in. It wasn't indoor, but it was covered.

[Richie McDonald]

Covered. It had the two trucks on both sides. It was pretty big.

[Bobby Bones]

But it wasn't like the main stage.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Oh, no, no, no, it wasn't. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think we made the main stage. What was weird was we weren't on the radio anywhere in Texas, and I hadn't had any success outside of just the radio show.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Well, definitely not in Dallas.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So I remember. Yeah. Dallas especially. I remember it was just like, eight people from Austin who drove up.

[Richie McDonald]

Yeah.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Whoever was at the couple from Love.

[Bobby Bones]

Baking, like some faro goers.

[Eddie Montgomery]

Whoever was eating funnel cake.

[Bobby Bones]

And we were like, man, well, I don't know why they booked us here. We don't have a following here, so. All right, thank you, guys. Don't forget next week, this podcast. I've already said who the first guest is, but now I can. Because we've already recorded the hour with him, but on Netflix. In a week, Kenny Chesney will be our first guest. So pretty pumped about that. Thank you, guys. Hope you have a great rest of the day. And we will See you soon. Thanks for listening to a Bobbycast production. Hey, Donald, you really flying on that treadmill? I'm trying to run as fast AS T mobile 5G home Internet, Zach. Well, you better pick it up because now T Mobile has the fastest 5G home Internet according to OOKLA Speedtest. Really? How's this? No, T Mobile's faster than that. And it's still just 35 bucks a month. Come on, faster. Whoa, that's too f. You'll be alright. Just walk it off.

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[Bobby Bones]

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