The Bobby Bones Show
BOBBYCAST: #607 - We’re Talking About Current Stuff! Ft. Hosts of God's Country
11 May 2026
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Within probably 10 days, I put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth.
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My mother-in-law spent years sabotaging our relationship until karma made her pay for it. She moved in for two weeks, lasted five days, left a mess, and then pressed her ear against their bedroom door and burst in screaming. When kicked out to a hotel, she called her son-in-law's workplace, pretending his partner had been rushed to the hospital by ambulance. faked a medical emergency?
And spoiler, that was just the beginning. To find out how it ends, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Chapter 2: How do Dan and Reid Isbell feel about their podcast?
I was like, integrity. This kind of goes against what? What the heck? What? We had neon people rolling. It's up. It's up on all the streams. It was like me.
Neon people was Reed Iswell jumping off the fence to just be a songwriter. It was. It was.
You guys grew up where?
West Tennessee. Right where Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee meet. The county above that's Hardin County.
Where was town then? Memphis? Savannah. Georgia? Tennessee. Oh.
But Florence is where we took our dates, you know what I'm saying?
Or Corinth. Shout out Red Lobster.
Or Corinth, 30 minutes away. So then where would concerts come that was closest? Well, it's interesting because we're kind of from a melting pot of like a lot of different influences right there. You had rockabilly from Jackson, Tennessee, blues from Memphis. You had R&B swaggy type stuff from it came out of Memphis and also North Mississippi, South Mississippi.
delta blues from south mississippi and then you had country music from nashville and then you had the swampers and the funk stuff from florence so all of that kind of blended and our dad's a bible belt there's a ton of you know christian music going on there hams going on too so you got that influence could you guys have secular music though growing up we could watch tnn
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Chapter 3: What challenges do artists face in the current music industry?
Not for a while, no. I mean, my first concert was Billy Joel Elton John, and it was awesome. How old were you? 18. Dude, our parents weren't like... I hear stories now, especially talking to people, that's all they did when they were little. Their parents took them on the road to go see Alabama or go see Grateful Dead or whoever it is. Our parents were never... No, they liked music.
They liked music, but they just... It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work and it's expensive to take a bunch of kids to go see shows. So like... We saw a ton of quartets come through the church, though, man. All those traveling bands that would come through and do the church stuff, we went to all those because they would all come through our church. Gospel quartets, he's talking about.
Yeah, like harmony gospel quartets. And you two end up in music. I think our mom would have loved if we had been a gospel singing duo. You know, like doing the thing. But for me, I loved the storytelling aspect of country music. And my dad's a killer storyteller, too. I've seen him hold court at deer camps and churches and pavilions and parking lots with random P. McDonald's lines everywhere.
just captivating these people with stories and I think that's what I always wanted to be that and so I kind of wrote poems and things like that and then I didn't want anybody to know because that was seen as effeminate in my small town stuff and so then I realized if I get girls if I put those words and stuff to music so I learned how to play guitar and from there we already knew how to harmonize because of the church and the in the
in the singing groups we were in and it just kind of i went band band band band had a big band in mississippi state started getting some looks in nashville didn't know it but we were getting the run up here and uh just ended up falling in love with being a songwriter i also hated the road i'm just not a road guy at all in your hometown do you have a pizza hut hell yeah yeah absolutely we were talking about it recently how i don't see any standalone pizza huts like we talked about in the bill the building the shape building yeah
Yeah, like the Pizza Hut building.
And you know the shape of a Pizza Hut building. Because sometimes you'll see a dentist's office in a Pizza Hut building and you're like, that used to be a Pizza Hut building.
It doesn't matter. You can dress it up however you want to. There were personal pans cooked in that house. Dude, what a great marketing scheme is to make your building one of a kind.
Yeah, except when you want to sell it. Except when you want to sell it. Yeah, it kind of works the same.
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Chapter 4: How do songwriters balance being artists and creating music?
If you don't have food, how can you learn?
Oh, yeah, we talked about that on my favorite episode of the God's Country podcast. Yeah.
One of the worst episodes.
Yeah, worst performing, but most meaningful.
Worst performing, but most impactful. That's what matters, right? Especially in our industry.
When you guys book guests, something that I deal with is like I can get a really good guest, but if they're doing like nine things at once, it doesn't do that well. What do you mean nine things at once? Let's say I'll just pick an artist off my wall, so I'm not picking on anybody specifically. So I'm going to say John Mayer because John Mayer is one of my favorite artists of all time.
If I have him in and we do a great hour together. But he's also doing nine other podcasts that are on the same time, like a media tour. Oh, yeah. It's so watered down that even a great guest is not going to get the numbers that the great guest should get if the great guest is doing so many shows at once.
You mean like ours and yours?
Well, they're on the same level. But I'm just saying, like, if they... What level? In which direction? What charts are we talking about? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Do you guys ever see that? Like, you'll have somebody that... You're like, man, this is going to be awesome. And the interview is fantastic, but they're doing so many things at once that... It possibly doesn't reflect in the numbers.
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Chapter 5: What topics are covered regarding the current state of country music touring?
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Chapter 6: What is 'blue dot fever' and how does it affect artists?
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And then she pressed her ear against the bedroom door and burst in screaming. She did not burst in while they were... She did. They kicked her out and paid for her hotel. And they thought, it's finally over. Days later, she called her son-in-law at work, claiming that his partner had been in some kind of freak accident and had been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.
He called every hospital in the city, and his partner was making coffee the entire time. She faked a medical emergency just to test whether or not he loved her son? Yeah, and she sat in the hospital parking lot, waiting for him to see if he would show up. When that didn't work, she walked into the son-in-law's police station and filed a kidnapping report against him.
She filed a kidnapping report against him in his own police station. And spoilers, karma's going to show up in the best way possible. So if you want to hear how this story ends, search OK Storytime on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening to podcasts.
Welcome back to the Bobbycast.
What about the... It's called blue dot fever. Have you guys been seeing this? Where... So blue dot fever is... If you go to the map, let's say if it's Ticketmaster or wherever it is, all the blue dots are seats that haven't been sold.
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Chapter 7: What are the impacts of high ticket prices on concert attendance?
Do you ever go to that? Are you familiar? I'm familiar. Because when I was doing a lot of stand-up, I would look at the freaking dots. On your shows. Oh, my God. Interesting. As soon as tickets went on sale, I'm online watching, going... I wonder if today's the day that nobody likes me anymore. I was putting so much of my worth into that.
It's kind of like reading the comments a little bit.
Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. Except these people are choosing not to spend. That's money. No doubt. It's more expectancy, I feel like.
Chapter 8: What personal experiences do the hosts share about their careers and relationships?
A lot of these shows are getting canceled. Pussycat Dolls got canceled. Their tour got canceled. Meghan Trainor's tour. We saw some early Post Malone Jelly Roll stadium shows get canceled. And they're calling it blue dot fever because you go and look at the map and there's so many blue dots. You're like, oh, this is not going to sell enough for them to make their money back.
They can't, bro.
Not in today's day. Why do you think? It's weird because the Wallens and the Combs are still doing freaking stadiums.
And that's where I think I'm at with it. I think stadiums could still... I think stadiums are still... If you're an act, they can fill up a stadium.
But there's not many. I think people think they are. or that accent. Exactly.
Yeah, but look, man, we've got to be honest about the factors that determine that, right? Like availability of... I mean, look, man, our best buddy is Luke Combs. Everybody in the world knows that by now. He played in Knoxville last weekend. My wife was like, we should go. I'm like, yeah, let's check out the prices. And everybody gets crazy.
Well, it wasn't the ticket, but it's the Airbnbs and the hotels. You're ruining my story here. I'm pretty sure you cut mine off at the beginning. So I was talking to – she goes, oh, this hotel room is $1,100 an hour. I was like, forget that, dude. We'll see Combs at his barn and make him play a few songs for our kids and go to the house. It's cheaper to do that than to pay –
three nights for that so we completely wrote it off which in turn had me had a conversation my best friend in life is luke combs guitar player and he said that even some of the so they get the dates right they get the dates like a year in advance some of the band's family was booking airbnbs in knoxville because they knew that was the that the show was coming and then i
Airbnb, or whatever the thing was, was canceling their stuff and putting it available for four times as much. And his argument was, everybody's whining about Ticketmaster and how they price gouges. He said, they ought to check some of these hotels and Airbnbs doing that same thing, because everybody in those towns are doing that. And I think that contributes to lack of something.
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