Alright. American Idol. Couple things that I wanna point out about the finale. I watched the first two hours and 45 minutes of it. There was some fast forwarding here and there ’cause it’s a lot of performances where, hey, let’s bring back the person who finished in 13th place and they can sing with salt and pepper or whatever it was.
You know, if you saw it, you know what I’m talking about. But there were a couple things that I want to point out. First off, I’ll start at the end. Steve, why did you only watch the first two hours and 45 minutes and not watch the end to see who they declared the winner? Well, that was outta my control because in my town last night, in my city, my town, like I live in Podunk somewhere, no, in my city, which is one of the more up and coming cities in America.
Like in 2021 and 2022 and 2023, Frisco, Texas was one of the fastest, was number one, I believe. Anyway, in my city. We had a tornado warning that hit right around 9 45, and the sirens went off. I could hear the sirens. It said it was in Frisco, but Frisco’s pretty big, so I didn’t know what part it was in. It was just, it was raining pretty heavy.
I could hear the winds a little bit. They were saying on the news it was up to 80 mile an hour winds in some places. It definitely wasn’t 80 miles an hour. I opened up my door just to see, and yeah, it was windy and it was rainy. It never got bad, but you know, the sirens were going off. Anytime there’s tornadoes the sirens go off, you can hear ’em all over the city.
So the a, b, C channel out here at 9 45, basically for the last, for the first from about it, it air, it aired from seven to 10 here last night. I’d say from about. Eight o’clock on every time American Idol went to commercial break, they went to the weather guy here on Channel eight, which is a b, c out here in in Dallas.
So the, the weather guy would just speak for the three or four minutes, they were in commercial break and then they would go back to Idol. But once the tornadoes started getting closer and it was literally hitting 70 to eight mile an hour winds, and that was around 9 45 with 15 minutes left in idle.
They just said, sorry, we, we have to cover this and screw your idol. So I had to go online. I did see, obviously Jamal Roberts is your winner. Obviously, I have no clue about whoever’s gonna win these shows. I don’t have a good picker when it comes to this outside of Carry Underwood back in season four.
I’ve told you about that story last year. Anyway, I, when, when this all happened, and. Remember I was talking about I, I said I at top 24, I said, Slater Nally, and I really thought that Maddie Pruitt was gonna get to the final three. I was obviously wrong about Maddie. She went home at Final Eight or whatever, seven.
And then I can’t even remember who the other one was. But someone did email me around Final Eight or Final 10, and I don’t remember who it was. I don’t, I remember reading the email once. But I do remember them saying, ’cause they listened to my podcast and they were saying like, Steve, I think you might be wrong.
It was after I said like, I don’t see John Foster as being a star or whatever. They said, Steve, you might be wrong about this, because if you look at the social media engagement on John Foster and Jamal Roberts, they are way ahead of everybody else. I. And what do you know? Those ended up being the final two.
So I’ve never been one to pay attention to social media. It’s not that I don’t want to see, I just don’t follow any of these people on social media. I just watched the show on Sunday nights and maybe you’ll see stuff on, on social media in terms of what other people are saying, but I don’t follow any of them or the American Idol.
Instagram page to know who was getting a lot of engagement. So I had no idea. But this person, whoever you were, you were right. I should have paid more attention to the social media aspect. ’cause I was like, I don’t see Jamal Roberts winning this. And I said, I don’t see John Foster winning this and they ended up being your final two.
So congratulations to that person. You nailed it and it makes sense. I mean, if they were getting the most engagement. Because they don’t show us the votes, obviously on idle. We have no idea who’s leading, who America likes. But I guess if you go to their social media pages, you can kind of see, and they ended up being the final two.
And congratulations to Jamal Roberts. You know, we’ll see how far he goes. I mean, I, I, it’s tough because ever since rebooted and went to a, b, c, after taking a, a year off or whatever it was, two years off, it just seems like the winners just. Fade away. Yeah. There’s, I’m not saying they haven’t done well and they’re not making money, but I’m talking about mega superstars, like they produced with Fantasia and Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson.
Like, you’re just never gonna get that out of idol anymore. I, I don’t think, and I, I, I’m sure Jamal Roberts is a great guy, seems like a great dad. I just don’t see him all of a sudden, you know, headlining at the Grammys, you know, it’s just, the show isn’t what it was. And, that’s why I didn’t watch the ending of the show last night.
I wanna say this, I did love the fact, you know, we talk about these collabs in the finale. One of the collabs that happened last night was The Goo Dolls singing with Mad Pruitt, and of course they sang one of my top three slow songs of all time, Iris by the Googo Dolls. They were great. Maddie could have been better.
I’ve seen the clip online of Goo Dolls singing with Taylor Swift during her. Can’t remember if it was the Speak Now Tour or the Fearless Tour, but she was in, or maybe it was during 1989 it is, when she kept bringing people out and she was in Madison Square Garden. She brought out Johnny Resnick from Googo Dolls, and they sang Iris and Taylor killed it.
Maddie wasn’t as good, but you can’t go wrong with that song, at least in my eyes. And what was the other thing I wanted to say about Idol? Oh, you’re never gonna believe this. Maybe you saw the finale last night. Maybe you didn’t. Can you believe that Jelly Roll sang liar?
Yeah, I know. Shocker. Huh? Again, I will repeat this till I blew in the face. I’m proud of Jelly Roll for losing the weight that he has. I am proud that he has overcome a lot in his life, including a major drug addiction. The guy has made something of himself when he probably could easily be dead right now.
So all the props who in the world for that. But I haven’t changed my stance that I did the beginning of this season. I’m Jelly rolled out. He’s everywhere. Everywhere. And I know he has other hits. I know he has other songs. But can you sing something more than liar? Anytime you perform at a show, whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s at Stage Coach, whether it’s at Coachella, whether it’s at the American Idol finale, can you, whether it’s at Summer Slam, can you sing something?
Whether it’s at the NCAA Final Four, can we mix in another one of your songs? I know he is got other ones. I couldn’t name any of them. For fuck’s sake. How many times have I heard him sing? Liar At a major event in the last 12 months? It’s the second he took stage with Jamal. I’m like, oh God, here it comes.
Liar. A liar.
I’m sorry, jelly. Ugh. And finally this, I think you guys are gonna get a kick outta this story. It’s one of my longer daily roundups in a while that didn’t involve an interview. So remember when I told you back in March when I went to Vegas and I said I brought this, it’s called the Mayo Ball, which is a vibrating ball that.
You put on the floor and you roll your foot over for, or you can put it on your back. It vibrates it and has vibrate four vibrating speeds and a heat button to basically help ’cause on, on occasion it only happens in Vegas, but I get plantar fasciitis acting up sometimes in Vegas. So I brought the ball to Vegas in March, but when I opened my suitcase, when I got to my room, the ball was gone and I was like, did.
Did TFSA really take this and confiscate this out of my, out of my suitcase? I swear, and I, I, I wish I could have recorded this when I opened up my suitcase that day. I didn’t take everything out of it, but I went through every article of clothing in there. I lifted everything up. I’m like, where the hell is this ball?
I told you guy, I told you the whole story. I said I didn’t get a ball. So when I got back from Vegas, I said I don’t know what happened. I didn’t even get a note, but I brought my ball to Vegas and it looks like TSA confiscated it. Can you send me another one? And they did. So I really appreciate Mayo Ball sending me out a new one.
Same exact one. And they sent it to me for free. Now it’s a very intimate crowd here, right? Just, just me and you. Just, I’m just talking to you. I don’t think anybody from Mayo Ball is listening. And if they are, I’m sorry. And if they aren’t, don’t anybody go tell them. But I’m also someone that when I get home from a trip, I’m one of those people that doesn’t unpack until my next trip.
So, you know, my party is next Saturday night in Las Vegas. I leave next Thursday. I actually got started a little bit earlier. I open up my suitcase. Still clothes in there from my March trip. It wasn’t a lot. I have plenty of clothes, so, but I actually put my suitcase out on my bed and I had to take everything out because I was like, all right, what am I taking out that needs to be washed?
Obviously all of it needed to be washed, but take everything out and start repacking some stuff for next week’s trip. And what did you know the fucking ball is sitting in there. I’m like, there is no way I look. And now granted I did not when I got to my room in March. It’s not like I took every single thing out of my suitcase and, and went through it and like, where is this ball?
But I’m telling you, I’m not exaggerating and I’m not lying. I went through that thing with a fine tooth comb, lifting everything up, going through each layer of clo, like if I had jeans, stacked upon shirts, stacked upon underwear, I’m just like one at a time lifting everything up, and I never saw it. It was not in there.
There’s no way it was in there. I looked everywhere. Well, apparently not. ’cause I took everything outta my suitcase on Saturday and there was the ball sitting there. So now I got two. I guess, just means I can get both feet at the same time now. I don’t know. Thank you Myo Ball for sending Myo. I keep him.
Myo Ball. Mayo Storm, MYO Storm Mayo storm.com. I mean, I, I appreciate them. I, I, I, I was being honest when I emailed them, I, I just don’t know how I missed it. I really don’t. ’cause I swear, and it wasn’t like I did it in the dark. The, all the lights were on in the hotel room. I don’t know how in the world I didn’t see it.
And then I took everything out of the suitcase this weekend, and there it was. I was like, oh, there’s the ball. I guess TSA didn’t steal it from me, so I don’t know. Should I, I. Return The other one. I don’t know. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal, is it? I mean it, I don’t know, but I could not believe I saw it in my brief briefcase.
I could not believe I saw it in my suitcase on Saturday. I, I was like, oh my gosh. After that, remember how I was talking about that for like three days and what a big deal I was making. I was like, how, why did TSA take this outta my bag? And I even went on the frequently asked questions. On Mayo Storm and it said these are TSA approved.
So anybody who was questionable about ever buying this thing because they think it might get taken outta their TSA bag, don’t worry. It wasn’t never taken outta mine, even though I reported that it was back in March after I got back from that trip. Man, what a bizarre sequence that happened to me this weekend with that and the Mayo Storm ball still being in my bag.
Craziness. Anyway, thank you all for listening. Really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcast. Also, rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts is to download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now. If you wanna check that out. Again, thank you all for listening, everybody. I really appreciate it, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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