BILL BLOG
Thursday August 21, 2025
Running a little late this Thursday morning. It will be hot today, and Lord, it was an oven yesterday in Nashville. We get a little relief today, with the high predicted to be 86.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Erin hit parts of the East Coast, bringing flooding and life-threatening rip currents with it.
YESTERDAY
I got out of the oven and ducked inside air-conditioned Billy Blue Publishing and worked on a new, “swing” song with Alex Miller and Stuie French, both great guitar players.
Stuie, who had just gotten off the road playing with those “Gaither Family” stars, Brothers of the Heart, and was running a little late. But when he did arrive, he had a great idea that we tore into that will feature some great guitar playing. Young Alex Miller is all about those kinds of songs, so he jumped into the middle of it with both of his big Kentucky cowboy boots.
There’s still work to be done before this one is finished, but we’re off to a good start.
LAST NIGHT
Alex joined me last night at the Sounds baseball game. He’s from Kentucky, a Reds fan as I am, and he told me he had not been to a baseball game in a long time. I had gotten some free tickets from a friend, so the two of us took advantage of those. Thank you, Brian Smith!
Alex had not been to our ballpark with the gigantic scoreboard, so it was fun taking him. And…the good guys won by a run. Heck of a game with good company.
RADIO
Yesterday was National Radio Day. Here’s a late “shout out” to my fellow men and women who have spent time behind a microphone. Pretty good work if you can get it! I was certainly blessed to have had such a great and long radio career.
Too many blessings to count.
SONG OF THE DAY
Well, with Hurricane Erin hanging around, you know the Weather Channel dude Jim Cantore can’t be far away. So let’s make the song I wrote with Brent Burns be our tune today, “Jim Cantore”. Hard to beat the classics!
HEALTH NOTES
Great news. An 11-year-old girl in Ohio just received a heart transplant after waiting for 200 days in the hospital.
New research suggests that a hearing aid decreases your chance of getting dementia by 61%, but only if you do it before the age of 70.
In California, some residents tested positive for the plague after a camping trip at South Lake Tahoe.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
Guys, feel free to argue that with your wife if you’d like.
POWERBALL
The ticket I bought was worthless, sigh. But nobody won, so it’s up to a ridiculous 700 million now. I’m liking my chances!
Meanwhile, they say the Amish Powerball is now up to 4 dozen eggs.
WORK
Whoever wins the Powerball won’t be in for work next week. Pretty sure of that.
When people don’t want to go to work, they can come up with some REALLY strange excuses. Here are a few.
A man didn’t come in because he claimed his llama was barfing.
An employee’s wife found out he was cheating, and he had to spend the day digging his belongings out of the dumpster.
And maybe my favorite. An employee claimed his grandmother poisoned him with ham.
NEW SPORT
It’s called Padel. And the sport is growing. The founders claim it’s a mix between tennis and squash. Never played or ate “squash,” so there’s that.
Four people play, and the ball has less bounce.
Between tennis, pickleball, and now this? You won’t see a lot of empty doctors’ offices. I’m betting.
AIRPORT ENTERTAINMENT
So, a guy waiting for a JetBlue flight at the airport gate decides to strip off all of his clothing and then moon everyone at the gate. Uh huh.
Maybe those cheap airlines ARE all they’re “cracked” up to be?
YOU’RE BEING RECORDED
Two former Harvard dropouts are developing AI glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation. And then it displays that information to the wearer in real time. Wow.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in a writing session, and one of my co-writers recorded me singing the song we wrote that day while wearing a version of those kinds of glasses.
And the times, they are a-changing.
NOTHING SACRED?
Cracker Barrel is changing its logo from this…
To this.
TODAY’S HEADLINE
This one from the fake news folks at Babylon Bee.
Trump Says Following Brief Phone Call, Hurricane Erin Has Agreed To Change Course. (Amazing what that guy can do!)
TODAY
I’ll be online this morning writing with my friend out in Maryland, Rick Lang. Rick is a writer on the song “Blue Collar Gospel” by Jerry Salley and the Oak Ridge Boys, which is nominated for the “Bluegrass Gospel Song of the Year” that we wrote with Jerry. The awards show itself will be held in Chattanooga this year, and yep, we do have our fingers crossed.
And once again, proving how times have changed…we will write the song, and within a few minutes, with the help of AI, I’ll have a recording that sounds like a record.
Have a great Thursday!
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