The most glorious day of the year is here, but will it live up to two years of waiting and two lineups that blew our minds?

What will the 2022 Monitor lineup have in store for us?

We do a deep dive line by line.

Today on the Season 5, premiere of The What Podcast.

It's lineup day, kids.

Brad Steiner, Barry Courter, Lauren Toco.

The What Podcast starts right now.

The most magical day of the year.

It is lineup day.

The What Podcast, which bands this year that matter.

It's Lord Taco, Barry Courter.

I'm Brad Steiner.

I can't believe it's actually here.

We were good at the lineup part, Barry.

We're not so good at the festival part.

I don't know if we can do lineups all the time.

In fact, let's do a few more lineups.

It doesn't really mean we're going to have a festival.

That's true.

We've had lots and lots of practice.

We've got the lineup thing down.

Now we should point out again.

We're actually going to do this.

Yeah. Point out again.

The longest running podcast about an event that hasn't happened.

It hasn't happened.

It hasn't happened. Sure.

I can't believe it's actually happening.

And there's a part of me that maybe I don't know.

Maybe I'm alone on this, but boy, I have tapped out for so long on this kind of stuff.

I didn't follow any of the rumors.

I didn't follow any of the leaks up until like yesterday and the day before.

And like a week ago, that's it.

I just been tapped out and I kind of would suggest that to a lot of people because it's been glorious.

Not worrying about this.

I'm so glad to hear you say that because I thought, man, am I, what am I missing here?

Am I just that old?

Which I know you're going to say I am, but well, I'll be honest with you.

I sort of miss. I tweeted this out earlier.

I miss Blam.

Do you remember Blam and how fun that was where we all got together and hung out?

We all went to Mellow Mushroom that one week or that one night and we had a big lineup reveal party.

We watched Blam together and called a phone number and every time we called, we got a different person on the lineup.

It was so much fun.

And now we just wait around till noon.

Well, and then we have fun talking about it and then we rethink it a week later.

Talk about it some more.

Yeah, I get really excited and say it's the greatest lineup ever.

Then two weeks go by and I'm like, man, I really hate this.

Yeah, I'm never going again.

I hate it.

All right. So the lineup is out.

And should we do this first?

What do you want to do first?

We've done this is our fifth year and I thought maybe we should do a quick sort of what do you call it in the biz?

A reset.

There might be people who who don't know who we are and why we're here and what we're talking about.

The reset should be my hair.

I just rolled out of bed.

What's going on here, guys? Is it all right?

We need to start over.

Yeah. So you do the reset. I'll leave that up to you.

It's all you, Barry. Well, I'm I'm Barry.

I work for the Chinese Times Free Press.

Brad is in radio.

Brad Steiner works.

I'm Russ.

No, no, no, no.

Brad with the hair.

What do you program?

What you what is your title?

Yeah, program director, operations and radio cluster in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

But and then that's Ringgold in the bus.

Yeah. And the bus is always.

Yeah, I don't really do anything.

I just sit in the bus and drink PBR all day.

My man carries it carries us.

But we've been going.

Brad and I combined almost 30 years.

It's a 15 each or so.

I mean, I will say it's pretty amazing.

This is the start of season five.

I mean, this is not something that we never we never anticipated doing it like this more than a year.

We just want to do.

Yeah. If you're just now joining, we started this in 2017,

because there were 20 18 just to talk about how much we love the festival.

The line up was was light and we had nothing else to talk about.

Right.

And we found that people all over the country and even the world like it as much as we do.

And in the last year, it's developed.

You're going to fidget with going on with my hair.

What is happening here today?

And we just figured out that a lot of people like not only Bonnaroo, but all kinds of festivals as much as we do.

So that's why we are here.

Consequence picked us up, what, eight, nine, ten months ago were part of their network

because they like music and festivals, too.

So anyway, I just thought if somebody just dropped in, like, who the heck are these guys?

These idiots. These are these mooks.

That's that's how we got here. What's a mook?

I'm sorry, Barry. That's the moops mooks.

That would be the band name, wouldn't it? Yeah.

I I will say, you know, maybe it's because of the two years that we've gone through this.

The lead up to this for me, I insinuated earlier.

I just I have not been right into it.

I really have not been into it.

And I guess, you know, I found out a week ago where the big rumor was that the Dixie chicks were going to be our first female headliner after, you know, Lizzo was on the lineup twice.

I mean, I read that and I was like, there's no possible way that that in 2021, that is a relevant headliner.

And I'll start there.

I think that if we were to pick a name that was available to be your first female headliner, Lizzo was not the one.

I think we will all, you know, settled on Stevie Nicks being that's that's appropriate.

It's pretty solid pick. That's appropriate.

Even even even though I've heard from so many people that go to her shows and say, you know, it's really 50 50.

If you get her on a night where she's doing some Fleetwood Mac stuff, you're fine.

But if she's doing her stuff, it is a snooze fest.

So I have no idea what to expect, but I'm betting that's, you know, I would hope because of the history of honor in that Sunday night, you know, legacy act doing just hit after hit after hit, I hope.

At least, you know, you know, it's interesting.

She's in that same stratosphere.

Stevie Wonder used to be that way.

Bob Dylan that way. Van Morrison, you know, just depends on what you get.

Yeah, just depends.

Oh, by the way, Van Morrison, another one. I just I, I can't believe they haven't made a call.

You know, Van Morrison just seems like he would fit a Saturday afternoon so perfectly at Bonnaroo.

That's way up there on my list. Yeah, me too.

Okay, so I start with Stevie Nicks and I'll just go through your first impressions and then we'll go line by line.

What do you think so far after you spent here at, you know, 10 o'clock in the morning on a line?

Yeah, we got it a little bit early. So looking at it, I think your first reaction was,

and then more I'd taco and I looked and talked while you were getting set up.

There's a it's not top heavy for me. Stevie Nicks is a is definite.

I want to see the others. I will go and see the second line and then some of the undercar people.

There's a lot in there for me.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss I've seen. She's always terrific and you know, he's an icon.

So you got to go see it. King Gizzard. I'm glad to see on their goose.

We've been talking about since their virtual Bonnaroo Japanese breakfast owes us a do over.

Kristen Moroney's on there. We like Isaiah Rashad's Chattanooga guy.

Well, hang on a second. You're going way too fast.

Start start with your initial impression.

Initial impressions is that even though the top doesn't do anything for you, there's nothing there that you like, huh?

On the top. Well, in the whole festival, you mid card down, you feel like there's enough in there for you.

Oh, enough in there. Yeah, I thought you said nothing. Yeah, there's enough in there.

And I fully expect to find some folks that I, you know, are new to me.

So, yeah, I would taco.

That's good. There's there's enough, I think, from 2020 and 2021 to kind of like slide in there that, you know, will be good to pick up that we didn't get to see.

There's something every day that I'm interested in.

My initial impression was, man, I really feel old for the first time in my Bonnaroo life. This makes me feel very old.

Last time. Yeah, no kidding. It won't be the last time I.

Much of that because I was thinking about this goes back to what you were saying earlier, where you sort of checked out.

I mean, there's there's a lot of I wonder how many new acts have come along in the last two and a half years that I just don't know about because I've sort of checked out.

Well, I mean, look, I think the first impression of this and maybe a lot of these that you don't know Barry is because a lot of these.

This is the most electronic heavy lineup that they've ever put out. And I think that if you're electronic music fan, this is just a dream come true for you.

If you are a if you're a classic Bonnaroo person, you probably want to throw up all over your clothes.

So, you know, it's going to have it's going to I have a feeling it's going to be really polarizing.

And, you know, at first pass and I am going to reserve the right to change my mind. But at first pass of this, it feels like when your ex starts dating someone else, when you start looking around and you're like, oh, they've moved on because this doesn't feel like the same festival that I was so excited about two years ago.

The lineup that came out two years ago is one of the greatest festival lineups we've ever seen. And it never came to fruition.

So we got a watered down version of it last year. And now it feels like there's just it's totally different.

I mean, this feels like a an operation that's not being ran by the guys. Yeah, the same people anymore.

Better or worse, I don't know. But this doesn't feel like the Bonnaroo lineups of old.

All right, I'll give you that. Yeah, there's some there's some lanes in there. There's some acts in there that feel like Bonnaroo of old, but probably not percentage wise, to your point.

I'll give you that. And, you know, some of that has to happen. I mean, we've both done it enough that there have been several years where I felt like that or the put it this way, the perception from the masses was that that's what's happened.

This is not the same Bonnaroo. Yeah, well, they've done that several times. Well, I think recency bias comes into play with a lot of this stuff.

And that's why it's always the worst lineup ever. The greatest lineup ever. You know, we have this recency bias that only accounts for this amount of time that's ever existed in the history of time.

So, you know, I don't want to go crazy and say, you know, worst, greatest anything. It's just, you know, first off, if anybody thinks that booking a festival at this point in the world is easy.

Look at Coachella Coachella is is the stories that I've heard come out of Coachella as to why this band pulled out or this artist doesn't want to do it or this person's asking for this.

I mean, it's so bat shit crazy Barry that I don't even want to repeat it because it could. It doesn't sound right. I mean, the demands on the writers that are changing on the daily so that, you know, one person gets this and what the other person gets that because the ex of the girlfriend of the boyfriend.

And it's nutty the stuff that I've heard come out of Coachella just in that world. It's hard to book but imagine now try to, you know, add COVID on top of it. And, you know, budgets being slashed in half.

I don't know how you book a lineup, to be honest with you. I this. So just putting something out. Congratulations.

I'm the best credit in the world. Yeah, I totally agree. And I keep thinking of our conversation with Stephen and Brian several years ago for that amazing lineup, you know, when you had two guys doing it.

There was no COVID everything was pretty much, you know, they could not pick and choose but a lot more so than today. So I agree. I mean, I can't imagine what all they've had to deal with people changing their minds acts, breaking up, you know, moving on, going over, whatever.

I mean, I, you can you can put it, you can put it within the COVID bucket if you want to but you know there is, if you just go with surface level here.

It's a tad schizophrenic. This lineup is a tad schizophrenic. And in some ways, sometimes it's really good. You know, you can find a lot of different bizarre things when it's this schizophrenic but man, when you have.

I don't know what the rationale with booking machine gun Kelly is, but there's no world where I understand it.

You could you can sell me on a million different things but there is nobody in this industry that makes me scratch my head more than machine gun Kelly. And frankly, if it if the argument was a ticket play.

I don't really even know if he's if he sells that many tickets. He didn't not every one of his tour dates was sold out on his tour for his for his latest album. He came to New Orleans, and, you know, I the report was before it got shut down because

of COVID that they sold less than 5000 tickets for, you know, 15,000.

You know person festival. I don't really understand the rationale because he fits nothing that this festival is about, you know tool and Stevie Nicks are the closest they may be the chicks even I mean you could even convince me that the chicks fit more

than what the Bonnaroo mentality is supposed to be then than any of them, but the rest of it, I'm really struggling to figure out if this is a Bonnaroo lineup or just another festival lineup.

Does that make sense. Yeah, or what you know, best they could do this year.

I'm okay with just about every day I know only two names on Thursday, I'll be honest with you but we all know Thursday is discovery day so that doesn't bother me.

But I'm giving you one right now, the dip right down the dip right down that that is a fun show.

That is another song by Freak Nasty.

Yeah, it's what you nicknamed your, nevermind.

But, you know, the other one that makes me laugh is, I don't want to. Okay, I'm just going to say it and if I get in trouble I get in trouble but how the brook and the bluff still makes their way to festivals is beyond comprehension to me I know that the guys might be

nice people but the people that are their representatives, they have done the biggest best sales job on this band that I've ever.

I've ever seen because there's just, there's just no metrics to back this up yet they find themselves on every festival lineup in the world I okay.

So, now you want to see him. Yeah, well, you had him in Chattanooga we did him at, we did him for the, the first Moon River Festival, they were there.

They were there at Shakenese too.

Left their way in.

Well, you know if you wanted a nice nap in the middle of the day. That's your band. That's the guys for you.

God love them though I mean I don't mean to dog on them it's just it's it's pretty remarkable they keep finding themselves on festival.

So, alright so that's my initial impression I don't want to dislike it but the mere fact that machine gun Kelly is on a lineup makes me so uncomfortable, because he just doesn't fit anything that's that that festivals about the second band that sticks

out of your sore thumb for me, and it's because of some recent news that came out about their guitar player, and some underage girls that was that he was accused of all time low has gone through it the last six months, and they've seen a lot of their

shows get canceled they've seen a lot of their shows become under attended. Now I don't know if that's because of coven but also they've got some serious stuff out there, accusations against the guitar player with underage girls now.

A lot of that could be incorrect, but it is very surprising that Bonnaroo is, you know, rolling the dice, especially when they have a very female presentation on their top line I'll put it this way down few presentation, but they are definitely making

sure that they put females. First, for the first time.

Now by the way, does that mean Lizzo is the first ever female headliner, or will Stevie Nicks be the first ever female headliner even though Lizzo actually didn't perform.

Yeah, depends on how we define it.

Probably gonna, I mean, she that it could be written that Lizzo was the first female artist book as a headliner for sure.

Like me. Yeah, but Stevie will be the first to have actually done it. If it happens. Okay, so those are my first two thoughts now I'll go, let's just start with the headliners.

You know there's not much that you're going to get from us on these headliners you know, you're not looking at the biggest tool fans.

You're not looking at hip hop fans. I'm excited about tool I'm glad they might on there. Yeah, are you. Yeah, I'm going to go see him. I'm not a huge fan but doing, you know,

I went listening back to some stuff. And I could, I could definitely hear them on the farm, they fit what sure what you and I talk about all the time.

Sure, you know, you can hear it in that big field. For sure. I agree. You know, and I Stevie Nicks like I've said icon I want to see J Cole.

I listened to one song and you know my, I really only have one or two rules. No misogyny and, you know,

I'm not a big. If you can't think of a better word. I don't I don't want to hear it so I won't be there. Yeah. Well, J Cole has what I really don't like being this negative I really don't but by all accounts that 2015 J Cole show was one

of the worst of maybe a Bonnaroo history. I just don't know many people that that had positive things to say about that show but I mean if you went and you liked it then more power to you.

That is surprising that they that they bring that kind of stuff back. It was instead of going through Thursday. Any thoughts on any of the other headliners any of the top lines, the chicks, a lineum flume 21 Savage machine gun Kelly Roddy rich it's almost as if they

created three, three headliners each day that perfectly fit each other.

Okay. You know my, my, I said to you yesterday when we thought the chicks were going to be on the lineup.

And I think you're right in that it does feel like they were going to get a female headliner, and they, they probably found Stevie.

And I don't know what the chicks show is these days but my first thought was, I don't want to be coming out of this two and a half years and be preached at.

Didn't you see you didn't see him at the Moon River. I thought they were great. They moon checks. Yeah, no, no, no no no no no no no no no.

I don't know who you're thinking of but are you thinking about Brandi Carlisle. Oh no it was the, it was the.

It's that band that female band that you love so much. Oh god what now was the name of that band I don't remember but no it wasn't the Dixie chicks I don't know if the Dixie chicks have done a show in.

I wouldn't even know where to guess. I couldn't tell you the last time the Dixie chicks did an actual show I mean they put it on an album and I don't think anybody cared.

And by the way it's the checks I can't, we're not supposed to be calling them anymore but but I, they did an album and I don't know if anybody really even paid attention to it I don't even think they toured on it.

So, you know, again, very odd poll but again, I will say, I think it actually is one of the more inspired choices because of where it lands now if you put it in the same slot of Stevie Nicks we probably have some problems but I have no problem with the chicks being

turned down. I don't have any problem with that. No, it'll be. It could be a good show could be a lot of fun. My only hesitation is is I just don't want to be preached at.

I don't care who that is. Who the artist is. I'm going to tell you, you know, I know that that my first initial impressions, they're all painted. I'm going to be very honest it's all painted by machine gun Kelly.

You know, again I reserved the right to have this lineup grow on me but my initial impression is so much uncomfortable and or discomfort rather because of machine gun Kelly but let's go through Friday which you know for a guy like me there's a there's a lot there,

you know, plant house and Kraus. I think disclosure is going to sound fine, Lord here on to me is, I've had my moments with them the war on drugs you know I love with all of my heart.

He's just so creative I love this album so much as one of my favorite albums of the year, King Gizzard is a band that we've been targeting for years goose, ever since seeing them on the stream was great.

I know that bleachers and jack Antonoff gets a rough go of it. So, by some people but I want.

He used to be the guitar player for fun.

Fun was the only band in the history of Bonnaroo to have a number one single while they were playing Bonnaroo. Right, that in of itself is incredible and they were one of the biggest last minute additions on the Bonnaroo poster maybe, you know, ever, you know, there's not been a

lot of, you know, high level additions at the last minute like Jimmy Buffett is one of them, but fun was one of those last minute additions and jack Antonoff got his first you know Bonnaroo that year with fun now jack Antonoff is back, not only doing the bleachers show,

but also the super jam.

I have no idea what jack Antonoff 1984 is.

But the dudes creative, the dude knows what he's doing. And I don't hate the new bleachers album.

I don't hate it.

It, you know, I know it it's polarizing to some people but you know it could be a lot worse.

Like you said Isaiah Rashad Chattanooga kid came out of nowhere.

At least an hour, even in our city.

People didn't see that coming. Right. Big big what hit six months ago. Yeah.

So let's look at him he's on the third line on Friday. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. He's got to be the biggest Chattanooga artist to ever play Bonnaroo.

Oh, gotta be.

Yeah, I can't think of anybody bigger at this point.

So then still woozy and I haven't even left the third line yet. I love still woozy so now you go to the next line. Denzel Curry and Japanese breakfast Tovlo day glow.

And then I think it's gonna be the crown jewel of Friday.

I am in love with Arlo Parks. She had one of my favorite songs of the year I love that album so much. Oh man, Arlo Parks, early in the afternoon show on Friday will be the first time the first show of the weekend that

really gets me going.

Man, if I stress anything to you Barry taco go listen to Arlo Parks, but let me come back to Japanese breakfast for a second because you said earlier, we are owed a do over.

She's had an amazing. Michelle is going to be on the show with us this season, and she's had a pretty amazing year not only she's, you know, had an album that has been critically acclaimed by every hipster, you know, magazine blog on the planet but also she's got a

number one New York Times bestseller. She wrote a book as well. I can't wait to ask her how the different what the differences between the band from three years ago and they played Bonnaroo to now because one of the most odd one of the most odd shows we have

ever been to as a group was watching Japanese breakfast take 40 minutes to soundcheck, and then to play 25 minutes afterwards and their set was over. Yeah, that's no exaggeration at all. That's exactly what happened.

It was so strange. And, and every time we looked around like well there was a there was a hip hop guy that played before.

And I kept wondering it's like I thought they were like the first ones on the stage. They were pretty if they weren't first they were second, they were second, like how this is so strange and the reason why I never bought that as an excuse was I watched them do the hey

bell, hey bell station, sorry, hey bell sessions backstage right inside the trailer, there's like two or three people they get to sit in there and watch you record something for Bonnaroo radio, and they had done that, and I swear to God, had they not spent half

an hour sound checking, I wouldn't have believed you that they spent half an hour sound checking on the main store on this tent. So, there was something just not connecting in that space, and for them to come back to Bonnaroo, I am so intrigued with what her.

What that transition was like and how different that band must be now. Yeah, I agree it was weird when it taco I mean it was intentional. It wasn't like something broke or, you know, they were trying to hurry it was just taking

their time and they were there time. Yeah, we're over and over and over. Oh my gosh. It was pretty brutal. It was like, are we getting trolled like is this real like, should we go somewhere else and do something else like what's going on it was so strange.

You remember you tell them the show started. You know how when you're watching a band soundcheck, and then they start playing a song and like okay they got to figure it out now it's time to do it.

Nope. Nope. They kept doing that over and over and over they were playing snippets of songs like is this, is this like a remix.

You know, St. Paul came out what the next year, and did a soundcheck and we all kind of went crazy but it was about 30 seconds or maybe 60 seconds and he just kind of waved and went back off stage.

And then they started that.

That's even unusual, but the Japanese breakfast thing was crazy I've never seen anything like it. I'm gonna go the next line on on Friday because there's some interesting stuff here so tie Verde's the regrets, Brist and Moroni.

But weren't there regrets on Thursday, last year the year before. No, that was like five years ago Barry has it been that long four years ago we interviewed the regrets backstage at Bonnaroo, and it was one of the most odd chats we've ever had never children

and I don't give them any blame in this whatsoever we were more to blame than anybody but it was we were very unprepared. It sounded terrible. And we were talking to children. Yeah, literal children, and I felt really bad about the interview, we didn't air it.

And now they actually have a year that's coming this year could be a really big year for them. They've got a song that's, you know, starting to move on alternative radio. My stations playing it we have a show with them in a month.

They seem to have their shit together and especially the people that back them I mean she's, she's like best friends with Billy Eilish, you know so she's got Phineas connection so they're set up to have a really good run here.

That's the one I would watch but the, of course, bristlin Moroney has been on the show before type Verde is a, he'll probably be on the show this year.

This kids, you know, sort of a pop alternative act. It's got a pretty big hit at pop radio, but the one I want to, the other one I want to point you to, other than Arlo Parks on Friday.

I love Claude, C, L, a, U, D. I love her, I love her, I love her, talk about another song that was in my top five of the year.

She's incredible. My buddy Chris Muckley at Sirius XMU is probably the guy that found her and started blowing her up on on on Sirius XMU but, man.

I know there's in my own, I can talk out of both sides of my mouth here. I know that I'm irritated and sort of uncomfortable with with Machine Gun Kelly and Jay Cole and Roddy Rich and Flume, 21 Savage, but you know I started digging in on Friday.

That's a lot. Yeah, I mean I just ran around 15 bands and I could watch on Friday. That's what I'm saying. It's, it's

better than, than at the first blush.

All right, you want to take Saturday, you want to, what do you think about Saturday.

Saturday is probably for me the, the not weaker, it's the one where I know fewer people.

Tool like I said, I can picture them on the farm.

And definitely want to check it out.

Billy strings.

You know, come out zeitgeist I know what two years ago he was, he was everybody's next big thing, or one of them.

Mark Rubio lat is was on what the last two or one.

Look, I don't care what anybody says about Mark that dude's show is so fun. Yeah. Yes, you can you can you can dog him out all you want to for being a goofball or whatever but that show is a blast.

It is an absolute blast.

Yeah.

And then, ludicrous I'll go, that's a for sure I got to check out.

Yeah, I'll be a little Chris, because there's other ones, you know, in there that that I want to talk to talk about before you get to ludicrous like for instance churches churches canceling, you know their Germany dates to come over to American to do Bonnaroo Mount joy also been on the show before, but ludicrous.

Would you rather have Nelly or ludicrous ludicrous me personally in the later Chris, but we've already seen the show it was, he was just here.

You saw it I didn't see it. He just did this.

Yeah, I didn't see it. And what has he done between then and now to make that show any different. Again, these are part of the thing that I like about this festival and festivals in general is that I, I wouldn't buy a ticket for, you know, 90% of them are 95.

But the fact that I can see him, along with everything else. It's worth, it's worth checking out. I know but I think you're missing my point. He was just at Bonnaroo.

You know that's one of those things that comes up every now and then with Bonnaroo fans, but they repeat acts all the time I know that but most most acts like Dua Lipa Dua Lipa, who was there one year and then came back the next year to get on the main stage, at least put an album out that year.

Fair enough. What is ludicrous.

I can't answer. I don't know. I don't know what the show is going to be different. I don't know what's different about the show.

I have no idea. Okay.

So, then you get Judah and Lion and Mount Joy, and then we come to all time low, by the way, Mount Joy, I'm sorry Judah and Lion's gonna be on the season with us.

Good. I like slow tie slow ties a really fun one and then come to ash ash has got a little bit of heat especially in the west coast.

The, the LA kids really like the ash. She's got some Phineas connections as well. And then, you know, our old favorite from years and years and years ago, I think it might even be the very first ever root clue is the pigeons playing ping pong.

Somebody might with with a better historical accuracy tell me if pigeons playing ping pong was the first ever root clue but I think that they might be that's how long they've, they've been around, and how much the Bonnaroo people love them.

Yeah, that's, yeah, that's, that's our champion.

That's the only one left on the list that I have any clue about to be really well let me introduce the backseat lovers. I like these guys a lot.

They could, they can get into they don't jam but they get into some long pieces, really good rock outfit. I think they they deserved a better shot at radio.

They've got a song called kill be girl that I'm a big big fan of my outfit. What do you dick Clark all of a sudden.

He's a tall drink of water is a good little combo these guys.

And then, Femi Kuti, Femi Kuti.

And then, oh, our boy Patrick drone is back. Do you remember Patrick droney. I do remember the name yeah I do.

Three years it was three years ago, we, we, we brought this name up or like who is Patrick droney and then we ended up liking the song didn't even have them on the show that we talked to droney.

I don't know if we talked to him.

I don't like it. I think we actually had that kid on the air.

I think.

Well, we said we were gonna remember.

We say we're gonna have a big meetup at the Patrick droney show didn't we.

Was that it. I mean it might have been but we never went to the daily, Davey was the baby.

But we actually never went to the Patrick droney show even though he's got that one song that we all seem to like that none of us can remember that can remember.

He's a good singer man I like that he's a good singer songwriter. Yep. Yeah, yeah.

All right now again, I go through this and we're all the way to Sunday, and I've skipped over every electronic act, and I'm sorry about that. I just don't have it, I don't, I don't have the combination to the lock that is electronic music I have been very open about

this I don't know any of these artists and I don't necessarily think I should be talking about something that I have no idea about.

And I don't think we have to apologize either. I mean you can't like everything.

Which is not my lane I mean I just don't know who shipwreck is.

No, I think I don't apologize.

You know, you can't like everything you can't know everything and it always bothers me when people try to act like, Oh yeah I know that.

You don't know you don't know. Yeah, I know comment. I'll do. Yeah, I quit trying to do that a long time ago because I kept getting caught. Yeah.

Oh my god I did one the other day. Oh I felt like the biggest asshole. I was talking to a record guy I'm not gonna say the band. I'm not gonna say the band, but I was so convinced.

The certain sound of this band and he's like, Are you sure you're not talking about blank. Blankly. No, no, it is not like that and then I did a quick Google search and I couldn't have been more wrong.

Yeah, you know I could not have been more wrong. You know I thought that it like insert how to tell you was his roof is the soul. I got it so completely wrong. I thought it was like some sort of like, I'll forget it doesn't matter.

I guess I've done it too many times. I get to Sunday, and I think to me, the one that stands out and the one that if there's a can't miss on Sunday.

I mean, who would pass up the opportunity of seeing her be Hancock, who, who would do this. Yeah, talk about an absolute banger parade that is going to be the most fun show of the entire weekend.

And I don't know if anybody will talk about it.

Well, it may fall in that Lionel Richie category where you don't think people, you know, but, but Bonnaroo folks are pretty intelligent crowd.

Most of them know their history and between he and Stevie Nicks.

Man, that's a lot of rock and roll music history right there so yeah, it don't pass up seeing her be.

With that being said, the artist that I love the most on this day is Nathaniel rate lift.

I'm obsessed with Nathaniel rate live I love the new album.

Plus, I just love walking around the house screaming son of a bitch son of a one bitch son of one bitch.

What do you do for a living on that guy, I'm the son of a bitch guy. Right. I love I love the idea just walking down the street looking like the way that he looks and somebody just screaming son of a bitch. Yeah.

I want to see that one. And I and I have a feeling that that you'll find Nathaniel rate lift if he's there throughout the weekend he'll pop up everywhere. I do just loves playing.

He just, just doesn't need much, you know, he's just one of those guys that just shows up and can be cool, look cool, act cool play cool, everything about him is just the personification of cool.

I want to see all them witches to me too that's that's been on my list.

Okay.

We've got, of course, res pacifier wallows, sort of a. I mean, I don't want to get too crazy here and mean but a little bit of a whiny alt rock band, Tash Sultana, God I love her.

She's just a day she might be a day, be honest with you I don't know the proper pronoun, but incredible artists coin from Nashville Nashville's own coin.

I mean, they were expecting were they not. They were. Yes, they were they were expecting some big things out of them and then a girl that I met in Miami.

Years and years ago. Her name is Fletcher. She had a massive hit, like, three, four years ago.

And just really hasn't been able to capture that lightning in a bottle again.

I tend to think that she wants to be. If you remember the artist a couple years ago banks.

You know she's got a little bit of that in her. The jaded ex girlfriend route is sort of her angle and I really hope she does well because I find her to be just an absolute sweetheart, who, who, you know, in fact, did I have her running of the chihuahuas,

I was just thinking that I think I did ask you.

I'm almost sure that you did.

I might have done that. That's true. She's been here and I'm pretty sure you, you radio station brought her here. I think so.

Yeah, the lettuce in there too. And that's about all I can talk about on Sunday.

You skipped over Christopher real quick but that's another main.

That's another Maynard band. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's a that's a Lord taco angle, I, I couldn't. I don't think I could pick out one of their songs.

I mean I really have, I have a time I don't know how many, I don't know how many other songs we could say on the show. Oh yeah.

I smell a game. I smell a game coming.

See, we all found we all found enough.

And like I said we haven't even done the deep dive yet so you know there'll be some acts on there that I know I will have never heard of that I'll end up liking.

But you might be right. They might be a whole lot more EDM that I'm aware of.

There's no babies, there's no babies on this line a little no babies.

Really, really good point there is not one baby for Lord time to see one baby I don't see any little babies, babies, I don't see them.

It's hard to do in this day and age. I mean, why do they hate babies.

Yeah, what is the bonders anti baby policy.

They're anti baby heights.

Somebody get them on the phone right now and figure out why they hate babies so much.

Why are they so babies. Why do you baby. Why do you babies so much.

Dear dear Ashley caps.

What is your problem with babies and they hate. What is your problem with babies.

I'm looking through some some pussie for song titles I don't see anything that's too outrageous here bullet train to Iowa, the underwhelming killed mom killed dad kill.

Kill kill kill kill.

Wait, is that not real.

I don't see anything I don't see anything too too crazy here but yeah that's a that's a Maynard is another Maynard band. I think it'll be fun.

So I don't have a problem with tool I really don't and and look I'm pretty honest and forthright when it comes to the, you know, things that I like and dislike on the show, but tool is always difficult for me because I was never able to tell the

difference between tool and nine inch nails.

I always had a difficult time deciphering the two.

And yeah and there was just a moment in the world where, you know, the tool sound the nine inch nails sound and you probably even get to like Marilyn Manson and and on.

I just never got there. Right and never connected I was on a different plane I was in, you know, I was on neutral monk hotel and death cab and the shins and you know whiny, you know, angsty shit like that I was never into the tool and that side of it so I don't know much to say about it, unfortunately.

Yeah, so I guess I get it. Don't have to punt to other people when it comes to stuff like this. There's a whole period of music that I missed because I was, you know, raising babies or whatever so I understand, you know, or my.

Maybe we can get raising babies for the lineup raising babies yeah right there's your baby so so Barry is not anti baby. Very not anti baby that area is pro baby. Yeah, I am a baby so I'm pro baby.

I will be that baby.

Anything else and let's go through anymore. Oh yeah the super jam and then finally the super jam of jack Antonov.

I boy. They are really milking jack Antonov. There's something in me that thinks that he might just find himself somewhere else, like a, you know, like a like a campground late at night doing something.

Something tells me they're going to parade him around like the Haley Williams of 2022.

Probably, I'm trying to look through the rest of the release that we got early to see if there's any big news will, you know, we'll come back and talk about the camps and the all those things, tickets go on sale Thursday.

For people who don't know the one I don't know that I am immediately intrigued by black tiger sex machine.

Give me some more black tiger sex machine.

I do see that they've added Chattanooga shuttles.

Really, how about that. Look at you.

That's new to my knowledge I've had from Nashville but now they're adding from Chattanooga so well they added that last year but last year didn't happen so never happened to people are still waiting on that bus to go.

They're still standing out there yeah I paid for it.

But yeah, all that later and several other things we've I talked to longtime listeners will remember the name Jeff quay are he's no longer with live nation or AC, but he has been with had been with the festival since its beginning.

He's changed jobs so he'll be a guest coming up, I'm looking forward to that he has, we'll have some great insights into the industry and changes and how it's developed and where it's going and all that.

And we efficient it's officially the start of season five huh, this is it. That is correct.

Season five, Episode one. What are the big, what are the change we don't have a new set.

We haven't we haven't added a new character do we have a love triangle this year is I'm trying to think like what happens on the OC, and then new season so I added a dog hey Marigold have a baby.

There's a there's no dashboard so I won't, I won't pick up a dashboard mom unfortunately, you know, the news just came out this morning dashboard Jimmy world are coming to New Orleans.

I saw that March, March 21 you ready.

Maybe a lot of moms, though, moms, I wonder who the mom act is for this. Oh yeah, let's see you know, you know I bet that you would do really well with Dixie chick moms.

I bet there's gonna be a lot of moms at the chick show.

Where that PBR hat.

That up. Yep. Nothing right now. Nothing since thighs a quiver.

I should mention. I don't know when if it'll be this week or next or how soon but we'll be talking about some of the other festivals to write the other lineup announcements.

I mean if Coachella ever happens, we'll see.

You know, there have been a few that have come out over the last couple of weeks that I'm actually really intrigued by somebody's gonna have to explain to me what FYF festival is.

I don't know how do you, I don't is a fight. I've never heard of it so I don't know but this lineup is absolutely incredible. It has got everything that I've ever wanted in a festival lineup in one place.

I love to sort of dive into that one because I don't know what it is. I've never heard of it and it's somewhere in LA.

Redondo Beach festival. That's nothing but 90s bands it's like Smashing Pumpkins 311 and then Weezer and Black Pumas.

Weirdest combination. But, boy, if you love the 90s, head to Redondo Beach.

There's a few more. Oh, and then the other thing that I found out is churches is going to be doing a whole bunch of festivals including ACL later on this year like they were, I mean I think churches there last year too.

But you get the ACL festival coming. I just don't think that you know Voodoo is happening.

You know the Buku lineup is out. You know there's there's several other festivals that are coming. But the big one to drop is Coachella and the fact that they can't seem to find a third headliner has gotten everybody.

Here's, let me ask you guys this as as Bonnaroo lifers.

If what was happening with Bonnaroo, if what was happening at Coachella right now is happening with Bonnaroo, how panicked would you be?

I panicked doesn't enter into it anymore. I mean after what we've been through.

No, I mean, you know, we joked about it every year. Lineup comes out we love it. Week later we hate it. Three months later we're not going because they've changed the entire universe around and they're screwing us all up and then we go and it's great.

So I just don't even worry about it. No, not like that.

I mean if it was two years ago, it would be concerning but so much has happened like you said at the beginning of the show that I just, you know, it's wait and see panic when it happens to me anymore.

Or if panic is even the right word.

But I understand what you're saying but it's just, you know, adapt. I don't know how else to put it.

I mean, I gotta I want to come back to this one more time. First off, I think that I'd be really panicked and very confused if I was a Coachella lifer like we are Bonnaroo lifer I can't imagine what they're going through, where every day they think they're getting a lineup

and then every day they're like, oh we lost another headliner. Start over.

But, man, I keep coming back to this. This festival is about acceptance. It's about love. It's about community, it's about taking care of each other.

All of the, the wonderful things that we pull out of Bonnaroo. And one of their headliners is Machine Gun Kelly.

I mean, I just can't get around that. I can't get around it.

I did change in the subject, but you reminded me, I've had several conversations this week with people involved.

And you know we along with everyone else has raised the issue of communication.

What happened, you know with Bonnaroo they're always so great at communicating marketing, social media, all of that stuff. And the reality is just like we thought, they're just been short staffed.

And when, when the thing started back up. It was, you know, drinking from a fire hydrant type of stuff, they had too much to do.

So, just what we thought it was, I don't, it wasn't, you know, a conspiracy. It was just not enough people to do the job at hand.

Sure.

So, you know, I mean, I just going forward. I mean, that's why I think that any lineup that you put out in this environment on the scale of Bonnaroo or Coachella, you know, is a win. Congratulations.

I mean, you get all the credit in the world for being able to put something together. Yeah.

I mean, I really could, I mean, I, this lineup would have been fine for me.

If when nameless, you're not gonna let that go. I'm not gonna let it go. I really can't let it go.

I tell you we had that like I interviewed him I interviewed him about a, about a year ago in deep quarantine.

And I just, I've never like,

I get it. I've asked you, I don't understand. I was doing laundry. I'll put it that way. The guy was doing laundry during the interview. You know, like on video, like emptying out his dryer.

I mean, multitask. I mean, it's impressive. The man doing his own laundry. I mean, the other thing too, that machine gun Kelly, I will say he loves New Orleans. He actually owns a house in New Orleans. He was filming a movie here with Pete Davidson for a while.

And it's so weird you say that man. I was gonna say that's the one act I don't get. I've told you that before. I don't understand what his talent is. I don't understand why we talk about him ever.

I mean, he was before Saturday live. I mean, he was a pretty good comic. I don't know what he does on Saturday night. Well, anyway, that's my one. So they're they're doing a movie here and they always end up at this bar in uptown called the saint.

And he loved this bar so much he bought a house across the street.

And that's hardcore. I know, I know I've got a bar here in my neighborhood that I don't want to leave the neighborhood because it's my favorite bar. I get on in fact right here. Yeah, well the pals. There you go.

But yeah, I mean, it's I will give him you know that he does love the city of New Orleans. He really does.

They apparently love that bar. They love the city.

All right. There you go. Anything else? I guess it's time to start, you know, rallying the troops and finding some people to talk to.

Yep. Yeah, and now we got to put together a whole season of this. We got to work. Are we 16 weeks away? Something like that. I think we're 16 weeks away.

Happy lineup day.