I feel a little bit like a fly on the wall and like I’m listening to conversations I’m in no way a part of. But Justin Timberlake started it.

After he went to a Garth Brooks show on Thursday (Dec. 4) -- the first of Brooks’ four St. Louis shows -- Timberlake posted an Instagram photo from his meet-and-greet with this caption:

“One of my IDOLS. Garth ... You are a MASTER of your craft. I am in awe of you, still.”

A couple of days after that, Brooks posted a link to Timberlake’s photo on Twitter, and wrote, “YOU are the man! -- love, g.”

(And right after that, the people at Eskimo Joe’s -- Stillwater, Oklahoma’s Jumpin' Little Juke Joint Servin' Up Smiles Since 1975 -- retweeted Brooks’ tweet. Because if you look closely, he is wearing one of their hoodies in the photo.)

Timberlake, who has been a fan (and imitator) of Brooks since he was a little boy, was able to catch the show on one of his rare nights off. He had a show in Dallas on Wednesday and one in Oklahoma City on Friday.

And Timberlake created a pretty serious stir as he watched/sang/danced from the second row, as opposed to hiding away in a private box somewhere in the arena. Lady Gaga and her boyfriend, Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney did the same thing, opting for regular seats in the house when they saw one of Brooks' Chicago shows back in September.

There’s just so much mutual love and respect between Brooks and Timberlake. They seem to literally be people loving people, so I think they should collaborate on a song in the very near future.