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7/20/09 RADIO Bob & Tom Show Interview with DavidCook Including Acoustic Come Back to Me

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Bob: Uh, this is the Bob and Tom Show. Uh, welcome back, everyone. Uh, Tom, taking an extra

day off today. Gunner in his place.

Kristie Lee Laughing

Gunner: Hi there!

Bob: We have, uh Dr. Will Miller, uh in the studio with us. And also joining us now, we have, uh,

David Cook. Dave, are ya, uh, make sure your mic is on.

David: Good Morning

Bob: Hi! How are ya?

David: I’m wonderful. How are you?

Bob: Great

David: Good – nice to see you

Chick: David, uh, makes, uh, Bob and Tom Show history.

Kristie Lee: Why?

Bob: How’s that?

Chick: He’s one of the first. No, he is the first person who told us, when we were talking to him on

the phone “if I’m ever by your studio, I’ll stop by”.

Kristie Lee: Um hm

David: Oh, yeah, yeah

Kristie Lee: You didn’t lie

Chick: And David is the first one to actually go through with it.

David Laughing

Chick: So, congratulations!

Will: He really is!

Bob: You know why, you know why, because…

David: Thank you. Is there, like a trophy for that or something? How’s it work?

Bob: You know, most people find out about us, and they keep going

David: Oh, well you know…

Kristie Lee laughing

David: I’ve been given fair warning.

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Bob: All Right

David: And I’m a man of my word, so…

Bob: Well, uh, we appreciate that

Kristie Lee: You’ll get a nice parting gift. Trust me. Mmm Hmm.

David: Thank you, yeah, right

Bob: Unfortunately, unfortunately the man who followed your, I guess, rise to fame, uh every week

is Tom and he is not here today. He is uh on an extra…

Kristie Lee: That’s actually David’s benefit

Bob: It truly is. It truly is.

David: Uh oh, and he’s not even here to defend himself.

Will: No, trust me; the whole atmosphere is completely different

David: Now, did he take a trip to France-Land?

Kristie Lee: France-Land

Chick: That would be to France Land. France Land

Will: Mmm Hmm. Mmm Hmm.

Bob: He did. He went to France Land. A lot of people don’t know they’ve added “the Land” to

their name

David: Yeah, yeah

Will: Mmm Hmm, Mmm Hmm

Bob: It’s uh, no, he did not go to France Land. He’s, uh, out somewhere…

David: Yeah

Bob: We claim that we buried him.

David: OK

Bob: Uhhh…

Laughing

David: Good to know…

Will: He’s chewing his way through the ropes right now

Laughing

Bob: He should be here tomorrow, we hope

Kristie Lee: Wow, that’s a great visualChick: arr, arr, arr (chewing noise)

Bob: Dave, uh David, you’re on tour

David: Yeah, yeah

Bob: And, uh, I guess you’re touring through October, I understand.

David: Yeah, we’re on the road for a while. We’ve been uh, we’ve been up

Bob: When did you start?



David: Valentine’s Day

Kristie Lee: Ohh

Bob: Are you kidding me?

David: No, we’ve been, uh…

Bob: Are you guys hitting, what, uh, one, two three a week or are you doing six, seven a week

David: Uh, we’re doing, we’re doing, like five, six a week.

Bob: Wow

David: Yeah, they’re keeping us busy

Bob: I guess they are

David: But busy beats bored. So…

Bob: That’s true

Will: Absolutely

Bob: Do you have time to record something while you’re, uh, while you’re on tour? Or did you

record everything before you left?

David: Uh, we, well, we put out the record in November, and, uh, as a band we’ve, this is our first

tour together and so we’ve been, uh, we’ve been kind of noodling while we’ve been on the road,

but, um, I would imagine we’ll be on the road ‘till closer to the end of the year. And then, um,

probably start, beginning of 2010, on a new record. Hopefully, so…

Bob: Umm Hmm. I noticed you’re a left-handed guitar player

David: Yes

Bob: It’s probably nice having a little bit of notoriety that you can actually find a left-handed guitar

now.

David: You’d be surprised how hard it still is, yeah

Kristie Lee: Oh, Bob’s a lefty, he knows

Bob: Oh, I’m a left-handed guitar player also

David: Then you do know, you do know, yeah

Bob: And I’ll tell you, it’s a pain in the ass trying to find a guitar

David: Absolutely, no, we actually, uh, we were in a Guitar Center yesterday, and I contemplated

buying a right-handed guitar and flipping it, so…

Bob: Right, which is usually the norm for most leftiesDavid: Yeah Yeah. Um, but I’ve got a, I’ve got a fire, fire, a Gibson Firebird that I flipped and, um.

Bob: Uh Huh

David: But, for the most part, man, I normally have to order and then wait, like, three, four weeks

to get it, so…

Bob: Sure. Do you have to pay the extra 10%?

David: Of course.



Laughing and agreement

Kristie Lee: They charge you extra?

Bob: It’s a discrimination thing that I want to stand up for lefties here

David: Yeah

Chick: Well, you know, some left-handers should be…

Bob: They claim they have to stop, retool everything, and then make the left-handed series, and it

costs you an extra 10%

David: Which has, which has gotta be a lie

Kristie Lee: Well, why don’t they always just have one machine that’s set up for the lefties and

just…

Bob: Well, you would think that’s be the, the norm, because there are more and more lefties, I

have noticed

Kristie Lee: Sure

Chick: It’s the only minority we can make fun of anymore. Left-handed people and white trash.

You know, that’s it.

Kristie Lee: Oh, God

David: Caught-off-guard laughing

Chick: Now, you get a left-handed guy who’s white trash and, look out

Bob: It’s a field day

Will: And it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, baby.

Chick: Comedy gold!

David: Look out, look out

Kristie Lee laughing

Bob: I was on YouTube uh, this week, saw your uh, Come Back to Me video.

David: Oh, yeah yeah yeah

Bob: How in the world do you guys do that? The whole thing’s filmed backwards, but your lips are

not.

David: Uh, I learned the song backwards. Took me about two weeks.

Bob: Did you really?

David: YeahBob: Seriously?

Will: Really?

David: Yeah. Emuck skymuck, avushni howfui ishnu

Chick: (Laughing) Gesundheit

David: Yeah, thanks.

Bob: You are kidding me?



David: No, I, uh, not at all, and sadly, it was my idea. Like, I went, I went to the label

and everybody’s like, I think it would be really cool, like, you know the Coldplay, uh,

(the Coldplay), Coldplay has a video out, uh, from a few records ago, called The

Scientist, and he did, and Chris, from Coldplay, did the same thing, and…

Bob: Uh huh

David: And I was like, if he can do it, I can do it. So, I took two weeks and typed the

song out phonetically, backwards, and then memorized that and, uh, I’ll never do that

again. Every video from here on out is animated.

Kristie Lee: I was just gonna say…

Laughing

Kristie Lee: That’s a lotta work

David: It was a nightmare

Bob: Now, since you memorized the lyrics backwards have you guys, uh live, do you play it backwards?

David: Uhhh – NO… no

Bob: You should. You should!

Will: You should do that!

David: I know, yeah

Bob: You should learn how to play it backwards and do..

David: Thanks, thanks for putting that out there, though. I appreciate it

Laughter

Bob: ‘Cause you know, when you’re on the road, after a while, you know, you guys get

into, sometimes, a little rut, and you go, let’s, uh, spice things up, and BAM!

David: Let’s spice things up and play gibberish, yeah

Will: There you go

David: No, it’s funny; it was funny for me because when we were filming it, um, you

know, I’m, I’m not really an actor, by any stretch. And, um, we had the kissing scene

with, uh with this girl, Sarah Roemer, and, uh, so we have to film it, you know, like

everything else. Film it backwards, sing it backwards, so it will layer all forward and

stuff.Bob: Right

David: And, um, so, I’m in her, I’m in her face and, you know, we’re kissing or whatever

and then I pull away…

Chick: “I’m in her face” Laughing

Bob: Yeah?



David: And then I, you know, we back away from the kiss and, and then I have to, like,

stare her in the eye, like, longingly, and then, speak gibberish. And, uh, she was, she was

a pro, man, ‘cause I, I don’t know how she didn’t just, lose it. Cause I about did about

every time. You know, we come away from the kiss (whispers) “Emuck skymuck…

avushni howfui ishnu”. You know?

Laughing Hard

Bob: Yeah, I’m surprised she didn’t reply with “Luke, you are my father”

Laughing

Will: Are you sure that what you said is not translatable in, like, Czechoslovakian, or…

maybe it means something

David: God, I hope not. Yeah, we could be in real trouble here

Bob: Oh, man. I see you have, uh, your guitar player with you. Who’s with you, here?

David: Uh, this is, uh, actually my, not only my guitar play, one of my best friends. Thisis, uh this is a guy named Neal Tieman, and, uh

Bob: Neal? How are you?

Neal: Hi Guys. I’m good. How are you guys?

Bob: Are you, uh, are you part of the original group, Axium?

Neal: No

Bob: OK. Just wondered.

David Laughing

Bob: Just wondered if you were way back, how far back you went.

David: Noo, about…

Bob: Uh, that was your first group in High School, right?

David: Absolutely, yeah, and I actually, uh, I was in Axium for 8 years. And then, left

Axium, moved to Tulsa, and joined Neal’s band, MWK.

Bob: Ah…

David: So, I’ve known Neal, um, well we did shows together when I was in Axium and

he was in MWK and we’ve known each other, like 7 years now.

Bob: Is that right?

David: Yeah, yeah, just, just long enough to start to get tired of one another.Chick: Ahh, yes

Laughing

Bob: I guess this is your last tour

David: Yeah, yeah, this is actually our last gig. This is our farewell, right here

Laughing

David: He just, he just doesn’t know it yet



Will: Goodnight, everybody!

Bob: Wow, oh, OK…

Kristie Lee: Whoa, that’s uncomfortable

Bob: No, it’s not uncomfortable at all

David Laughing

Bob: Uh huh, ‘cause now, they’re gonna play the song backwards, I know, I know they’re

gonna

David: No, no

Bob: I know they’re gonna be on the bus trying to figure out how to do it backwards

David: Absolutely. All the way, all the way to the next gig

Bob: Well, and I see you guys have guitar in hand, and uh, do you guys want to play

something for us?

David: Yeah, we’re actually gonna play our, we’re gonna play our current single. This is,uh, this is Come Back to Me.

Bob: OK

David: Cool

**Acoustic Come Back to Me – David Cook and Neal Tieman**

Applause

Chick: All Right

Bob: Wow, yeah

Will: Excellent Job

David: Thank you very much

Will: Super

Bob: You guys are well rehearsed.

David: Well, you know.

Bob: Sounds great

David Thank you so much, man, andBob: Absolutely

David: And, by the, I have to say thanks for lettin’ us come out and play, man, I really

appreciate it

Bob: Well, I’m glad you guys could make it out this morning.

David: Absolutely



Bob: I know it’s tough to do when you’re on the road and you guys did a show last night,

and I know you have one tonight and in Covington, Kentucky

Kristie Lee: Covington… Kentucky

David: Yeah yeah

Bob: And it’s non-stop and you’re in great voice this early in the morning

David: Oh, wow. Bless you for saying that.

Laughing

Bob: Well, all right

Kristie Lee: What do you guys do when you’re not playing? When you, do you guys

have hobbies, or, when you’re on the road

David: Um, we sleep. A lot, um,

Kristie Lee: Yeah

Bob: That could be a hobbyChick: Sleep is good! I like sleep

Will: Sleep is wonderful

David: No, but, uh I don’t know, we all, kinda do our own thing. I, uh, I’ve actually got

a, I got a dog with me on the road. A Scottie named Dublin

Kristie Lee: Gasp!

Group Awww

David: So, uh, he takes up a…

Chick and Kristie Lee in unison: He’s a big sweetie!

Bob: All right

Chick: He’s a good boy

Bob: All right, David, let’s hear your dog voice. I know you’ve got one

David: Um…

Bob: How do you talk to him?

David: All right, well, um, now it’s really early in the morning… Ok, it’s uh: “Hey buddy,

how are ya, buddy? How ya doin’? Huh? You wanna go, you wanna go squirt in the

dirt? Huh?”

Hard laughter Chick: Atta good buy

Bob: That’s gotta be the name of your next album: Squirt in the Dirt

Chick: Yeah, Squirt in the Dirt, it has to be

Bob: And do it backwards

David: Yeah yeah yeah yeah. All right, well, dirt, dirt backwards is something like turd,

isn’t it?



Bob: That’s true

Will: Easy. Easy

Kristie Lee: Al least something like turd

Bob: Well, who knew?

David: Something like turd…

Will: Trid, Trid

David: Yeah, yeah

Bob: Well, that’s great, having a dog on the road

David: Yeah, he works out, man. He’s, uh, he’s small enough where he can hang out on

the bus and not bother anybody too much, but

Chick: Grrrrrr

Will, Oh, yeah. Like

Bob: Let go of the bus driver’s leg…Will: Hey, dude, uh…Dave’s Dave’s dog’s biting me again, can we do something about

that?

Laughing

Chick: Seriously, I know

Bob: It’s cool, and, how long have you had the dog?

David: Um, I got him in, uh, I got him in January, right before we started the tour. So,

he’s been on the road with us pretty much the whole time.

Bob: As a puppy?

David: As a puppy

Group: Wow

Bob: So, Ok, he knows the road then, that’s his life

David: Trained him for the road. Absolutely. That’s all he knows.

Bob: So, he knows when there’s a; he can actually sees signs that say rest stop, 2 miles

David: Oh man, he’ll, he freaks out. Looses it.

Laughing

Chick: Hey, uh, Dave’s dog pissed in my hat.

Will: Yeah, you know, we should really ask Neal how he feels about the dogDavid: Uh, I will say, that actually happened. I lost a hat. So,

Bob: I was gonna say, how do you bus-break a dog?

Chick: Laughing. Bus Break a Dog!

Will: That’s gotta be tough!

David: Well, it strange, ‘cuz, I mean, you know, like we, I try to take him out whenever

we stop and stuff, but, uh, along these long drives when we don’t stop,



Chick: Sure

David: Um, I have to, I’ve gotten him trained on these, they’re call, like, pee pads or

whatever

Will: Newspapers? Or something

Kristie Lee: Puppy pads

Group agreement

David: They smell terrible!

Bob: Well, sure. Well if you leave ‘em in the bus they do, dude

Chick: They’re full of piss!

David: Oh, OK, see, lesson learned. Now I know.

Chick: My puppy’s pee smells like roses. It sure does

Laughing

David: Oh, LordBob: Oh, my

Bob: Covington Kentucky tonight, and, uh

Kristie Lee: And Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa. Boy, you’re all over. Delaware, DC, New

Jersey

Bob: Phew, non-stop.

David: When you say it like that, it sounds like a lot

Bob: It is. And that’s just this week… Yeah, I mean

Kristie Lee: It is a lot

Will: It is

Kristie Lee: And that’s just 10 days.

David: Uh, Man

Will: I bet the, I’ll bet the crowds are great, though, right?

David: The crowds are fantastic

Will: Fantastic, yeah

David: Uh, We, uh, I’ll tell you what. We with, with, with the cord we’ve been able to

strike with people, it’s been really cool. You know, with the economic situation the way

it is, I mean, it’s not necessarily the easiest thing for somebody to go out and buy a bunchof concert tickets.

Bob: Sure

David: And, uh, you know, we’ve managed to have a really great sell-out rate and, um, I

don’t know. People just seem to come out and know the songs and and and and want to

see, you know, us perform, which is amazing. Such a good gig. I love it.

Will: Right



Kristie Lee: Well, and I think the American Idol audience is is like a whole ge(nre), you

cover everything. My kids are excited to see you. I mean, my mom loves you.

David: Yeah, yeah

Kristie Lee: I mean, it’s a wonder thing that you’ve exposed you music to everybody.

Not just a, a small segment of the population

David: Yeah, well, like I see it in my family, more than anything. Cuz, um, you know I

have, I have like, young cousins and stuff that’ll like “you know, I read this on the

internet” and then, you know, they’ll talk about it with my grandma, who read the same

thing on the internet and, um, it is cool. I think, just to see, eh, really the reach to the

show. I mean, it’s it’s a nice built-in fanbase to have, for sure.

Kristie Lee: Yeah, not bad (laughs)

Bob: Have you, have you, uh have you appeared on the cover of any, uh, trash magazines

yet?David: Not on the cover…

Bob: OK

David: I’ve snuck into, like, page 30

Bob: Have you? Ok, just wondering if you’ve had an alien baby, or, you know, anything

like that.

Kristie Lee: Yeah, what’s the greatest thing, what’s the greatest fake thing you’ve read

about you

Bob: The greatest myth about you that, uh

David: Greatest myth about… Oh, I remember, OK, I was on uh, I was actually on the

Idol Tour last year, and we were on the East Coast.

Bob: Ah hah

Kristie Lee: Um hmmm

David: And, um, the National Enquirer comes out, and my, my mom calls me and she

goes “are you in LA?” I was like “no, why?” There was a small, I mean, like, tiny little,

like, blurb about how, uh, I was shopping in Melrose…

Bob: Uh huh

David: And, uh, I’m so full of myself that I refused to close the curtain when I was in thechanging rooms.

Kristie Lee: Giggles

David: I was just changing for everybody to see

Laughing

Bob: Really?

Chick: I’m comfortable with my body, enjoy the show



David: Yeah, yeah. Exactly

Chick: Yes, it’s me. It is me,

Bob: Uh huh

Will: Yes, Idolize this

Hard laughing

David: But, I couldn’t have been any further away. And anybody that knows me, knows

that that ain’t happening.

Bob: Yeah, yeah

Will: But the next day, didn’t you go into a store in New York City and repeat that

David: Of course I did. I try not to, I try not to make liars out of people, you know?

Will: Yeah, right

David: Reputable

Bob: Wow, well, it must be, uh, fun, though, going out on tour and singing your songsnow, instead of the songs that are, obviously, presented to you each week, on the show

David: Yeah, I mean, it’s a nice, it is a nice transition, for sure. And, uh, um, you know,

these are songs that… I don’t have to learn a new song every week, which is great.

Bob: Right

David: ‘Cuz nothing is more stressful than walking out on that stage and being like “I

don’t remember the words”

Bob: Sure

David: That happened Dolly Parton week. I walked out and was just like “I’m going

home this week”. I couldn’t remember the words to save my life. And, so, I just I just,

concentrated on no locking my knees so I wouldn’t pass out, and then it just kinda…

Chick: I’m workin’ 8 to 6…

Bob: Which, you hate to

Kristie Lee: 8 to 6?

Will: 8 to 6 is not right

Bob: Which, uh, 8 to 6?

Chick: Wait a minute, what are those numbers?

LaughingBob: (Sing-songy) 8 to 6 with a 2 hour lunch…

Will: Yeah baby, I’d but that record!

David: Yeah… yeah

Will: I’m in for that record

David: I’d work those hours, man, I’m telling ya

Will: Yeah, right!



David: 2 hour lunch? Where’s this at?

Bob: Uh huh. I think it’s in Spain

David Yeah – I’m sending my resume in

Bob: Well, we, uh it was a real treat having you guys in this morning. I know you guys

have to probably hit the road

David: Yeah

Bob: Uh, head on, uh, head on South, so…

David: Well, that you so much for having us. I really appreciate it.

Bob: I appreciate you guys coming in and continued success

David: Thank you so much. You guys have a good one.

Bob: Thank you, gentlemen. Uh, we are gonna take a break and come right back. This is

the Bob and Tom Show

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