Speaker 1: Episode four thirty five. We thought we would do a
Speaker 1: Toby Keith special because over the last twelve years we've
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun interviews, experiences, stories with Toby Keith.
Speaker 1: And we were on the radio show yesterday, which was Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and you know, talking about Toby Keith passing away at
Speaker 1: age sixty two. Obviously, it was a sad day, sad
Speaker 1: day for all the people that knew him, all the
Speaker 1: people that had worked with them were been affected and
Speaker 1: influenced by him. But some of the stuff that we're
Speaker 1: gonna do here just isn't sad. And although it did
Speaker 1: feel very sad on the day that we came and
Speaker 1: talked about his death, I just don't want to leave
Speaker 1: that as kind of the last impression of us talking
Speaker 1: about him. So I wanted to just play a bunch
Speaker 1: of clips, a bunch of interviews from the many times
Speaker 1: he's been on the show, some of the stories that
Speaker 1: we've shared as well. So in memory of Toby, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a special Bobby Cast that you know, features
Speaker 1: everybody from the people on the show to Toby calling,
Speaker 1: to Toby being in the studio, and we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with back in October of twenty thirteen. Twenty thirteen is
Speaker 1: the year we moved to Nashville. It was a wild year.
Speaker 1: It even snowed in April that year, I remember, And
Speaker 1: so we moved here. We're all like new to the area.
Speaker 1: Toby Keith was coming in the studio. We were like,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. I remember walking in. He was humongous.
Speaker 1: Obviously we knew he was, but we never met him.
Speaker 1: But he was like six three six ' four and
Speaker 1: big personality. Obviously felt like he had a duck walking
Speaker 1: in the door. We talked about tequila that he was
Speaker 1: drinking during the interview, playing with Willie Nelson, how he
Speaker 1: got into horse racing with his dad, and a few
Speaker 1: other things. So this is us with Toby Keith back
Speaker 1: in October of twenty thirteen. Hey, Toby Keith is here
Speaker 1: this morning on the Bobby Bone Show. Hey, yes, it's
Speaker 1: tequila with you.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: It's a mescow. It's a cousin of tequila, but it's
Speaker 3: a mescaut with a worm and it's the real McCoy.
Speaker 1: Well, what's the difference. I've never had a drink alcohols.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyth about it.
Speaker 2: You don't even drink.
Speaker 1: I got water.
Speaker 2: So what's the mesca is?
Speaker 3: Tequila's made from blue agave farm raised and they squeeze
Speaker 3: the juice out, extracted the raw juice and make tequila
Speaker 3: and Mexico. It's kind of Mexican moonshine. They take the
Speaker 3: green of goavi that's wild and they smoke it like
Speaker 3: a ham and gives it a smoky flavor and cure
Speaker 3: it and then they've crushed the juices out of it
Speaker 3: and they make it. And there's a worm in the
Speaker 3: bottom of the bottle that always is symbolic to Mexican moonshine.
Speaker 2: Would you all the time?
Speaker 1: Are you immune of the worm?
Speaker 2: Immune?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it doesn't bother you anymore, Like you have
Speaker 1: immunity to worm.
Speaker 2: Immune.
Speaker 1: Like what if I hate the worm? What would happen
Speaker 1: to me?
Speaker 2: You'd lose your show?
Speaker 3: Probably, Oh, I didn't know where that was going, Bobby.
Speaker 3: Nothing would happen if you just took the worm out
Speaker 3: of the bottom of the bottle.
Speaker 2: Nothing would happen.
Speaker 3: Though they say that there you see visions when you
Speaker 3: eat the worm, But I think it's just because he's
Speaker 3: the bottom of the bottle.
Speaker 1: Because you've had the entire bot. I got it. That's
Speaker 1: called wild Shot and you can get it where.
Speaker 3: You can get in thirty seven states liquor storage. It's
Speaker 3: the number one premium mescow in the US.
Speaker 1: So what's the light working with Willie? Spend the time
Speaker 1: with Willie.
Speaker 3: Well, the unique thing about it is the guitar player
Speaker 3: has been in my band that I've had forever. Joey
Speaker 3: Floyd was the little boy in Honeysokel Rose. So my
Speaker 3: guitar player grew up in the Willie family since he
Speaker 3: was in grade school. So to be around them all
Speaker 3: the time, it was just like they were already family.
Speaker 3: I was in with them the second that I met him.
Speaker 3: And will He's always been very professional, very good friend.
Speaker 2: Call you tell you Joe. He loves jokes.
Speaker 3: If you you know, he'll just call you up out
Speaker 3: of the blue and say, if you heard a good one
Speaker 3: to day. He's he wants to know when he starts
Speaker 3: his day out whether he's going to have some new
Speaker 3: material to lay on everybody all day. And it's amazing
Speaker 3: how big his heart is and the little light that
Speaker 3: shines in his eyes, and what a you know, what
Speaker 3: a great guitar player, how jazz he is man he
Speaker 3: is jazz.
Speaker 2: WILLI is just jazz.
Speaker 3: His guitar is like an extension of his spirit, and
Speaker 3: he can really create music on a guitar that no
Speaker 3: one else can.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna play a new song, Toby, you ready,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Drinks after work and so for those maybe they haven't
Speaker 1: heard it yet. First of all, the album of the
Speaker 1: same name comes out October twenty ninth. Tell us about
Speaker 1: the album that tell us about the song album.
Speaker 2: Is as I told you earlier.
Speaker 3: I write all year long, and I go in the
Speaker 3: spring and I start piling my songs up there I
Speaker 3: wrote and I never have a theme or anything. I
Speaker 3: just take my ten or twelve best things I think
Speaker 3: I wrote and record them and live with them. So
Speaker 3: they're all homebreads. It's not like we went over to
Speaker 3: Kentucky and handpicked a bunch of iarling race horses and
Speaker 3: gave a million dollars each for them. They're no cherry
Speaker 3: picking going on. We write them and them their home cooked,
Speaker 3: and then we stick them out and I live with
Speaker 3: the results. This is one song here that's on the
Speaker 3: album that I didn't write. Drinks after work and Mark right,
Speaker 3: my partner found this song, and he said, you have
Speaker 3: to cut this song. I didn't know if it fit me.
Speaker 3: I didn't know if I could sing it. It was
Speaker 3: putty out of the box and we did a knocked
Speaker 3: it out in the studio and it kind of bloomed
Speaker 3: in the studio and the tornadoes hit hit. I only
Speaker 3: had four songs done for the album running behind in
Speaker 3: June Tornadoes hit Oklahoma. They said we'll have a single
Speaker 3: by June eighth, and I was like, well, I'm kind
Speaker 3: of busy here and and so I turned those in
Speaker 3: and they said, let's pick something. So we went with
Speaker 3: this first. It's a really cool song. It's kind of
Speaker 3: a wednessy hump day song.
Speaker 1: I love this bar and girl continue to expand. You
Speaker 1: have almost twenty locations now right.
Speaker 2: I think there are twenty?
Speaker 1: Are there twenty now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe more?
Speaker 1: At press time there was eighteen. So two have happened
Speaker 1: in the last hour, like they're growing, like we're twins. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you ever go just okay, you don't tell them
Speaker 1: you're coming, but you see one. You go in, you
Speaker 1: have a meal and just oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then you get like bad service and you go
Speaker 1: have a talk with the manager.
Speaker 3: Usually don't get that far. When your picture's on the
Speaker 3: wall and it's your joint, usually sit down. Somebody goes
Speaker 3: all right, oh my god, you're old.
Speaker 1: Then they would tell everybody and everybody freaks out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so's I snuck in one and uh And I
Speaker 3: actually didn't get it very It was in the afternoon,
Speaker 3: so it was like four o'clock in the afternoon, so
Speaker 3: it was twein er time of day. You know, the
Speaker 3: dinner crowd hadn't hit yet and the lunch was way over,
Speaker 3: and I kind of snuck in the side door and
Speaker 3: sit down by the bar. And we'd been playing golf,
Speaker 3: so we had four or five golfers, so they just
Speaker 3: thought we were four or five dudes. Took them ten
Speaker 3: minutes to figure it out, but.
Speaker 2: It took them a while.
Speaker 3: A wait on, men, I was like, hey, you're not
Speaker 3: getting over here quick now, so's slop some whiskey out here.
Speaker 2: Girls.
Speaker 5: Come on.
Speaker 1: So you're a racehorse guy, huh yep, I grew up
Speaker 1: near Oakland Racetrack. You sneak in like twelve years old.
Speaker 1: You just go races all time?
Speaker 2: I go, I racehorse silver all the time.
Speaker 1: And hey, love, we would go and you know, two
Speaker 1: dollars minimum bet, and you go and find an adult
Speaker 1: to make your bet for you. There all day and
Speaker 1: his bet horses.
Speaker 3: As kid, Yeah, I bet the long shot most of
Speaker 3: the time as a kid all sixty.
Speaker 2: Try to make sixty dollars out of two.
Speaker 1: Or you take the two and you'd bet the favorite
Speaker 1: and you bet them a show and you make like
Speaker 1: two dollars and ten cents. Now you do one of
Speaker 1: those two things. So how'd you get into racehorses?
Speaker 3: My dad had some family friends who he grew up
Speaker 3: with who had some homegrown racehorses, and he passed away
Speaker 3: in two thousand and one, but around ninety four, ninety five,
Speaker 3: he was go to the track with and watch them
Speaker 3: run their horses, and I said, Dad, I'm I want
Speaker 3: to buy you a horse so you can. So I
Speaker 3: bought them a little bought half interest in a local horse,
Speaker 3: and we win the first race. And he was all excited.
Speaker 1: You won the first race? Did you expect to win
Speaker 1: the first rounce?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 3: Today, I got a horse. I'll take twenty thousand or
Speaker 3: half of him. So I bought my dad a horse
Speaker 3: and he went to the track at Remington there at
Speaker 3: Reymingdon Park in Oklahoma City, one of his first races.
Speaker 3: Was like then I was hooked.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm did you dag Get in the
Speaker 1: picture afterwards? Yeah? Yeah, he went down on in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I got the picture with ther.
Speaker 3: In the winter, sir, yeah, yeah. And so then look up.
Speaker 3: That was sixteen years ago. And now I have one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty five mayors, and.
Speaker 1: You have one hundred and twenty five mayors? Well, where
Speaker 1: do you keep those things? Do you have your own
Speaker 1: horse racing ranch?
Speaker 3: I do really In Oklahoma, I keep twenty five quarterhorse
Speaker 3: thirdbred mariors are thirty there and I keep the other
Speaker 3: one hundred and something in Kentucky. I have four thoroughbred stallions.
Speaker 3: Two stand in Kentucky, two stand in Florida. I have
Speaker 3: three quarter horse stallions.
Speaker 4: Do you know all their names?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know what?
Speaker 1: No? You know everyone name?
Speaker 2: Really mean the stallions?
Speaker 1: No? Every horse? Now she thinks every horse?
Speaker 2: Ye horses, I actually do.
Speaker 1: Really, I believe it. We're all big fans Toby Keith.
Speaker 1: Everybody right here on the Bobby Bones show. Next up
Speaker 1: as us with Toby. In twenty fourteen, Toby came back
Speaker 1: into our studio to promote his new single that they
Speaker 1: released that day called Drunk Americans. And something that we
Speaker 1: have talked about in our studio, even off the air
Speaker 1: for at least ten years, is how Toby said he
Speaker 1: could make more money in one night unmerched, than the
Speaker 1: president canon a year. Kind of hilarious, very much an
Speaker 1: inside joke around here. I didn't know if it was
Speaker 1: even on the air or off the year that he
Speaker 1: said that to us, But here is that back from
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. All right, Toby keithon studio right now?
Speaker 2: What I'm in, Hey man, not a lot.
Speaker 1: Good to see you again. Yeah, today's a big day
Speaker 1: for you because today is the world premiere of your
Speaker 1: new song, right, which we just played, and people are
Speaker 1: going to be able to hear it every hour decent
Speaker 1: around read reviews.
Speaker 3: Never right iTunes, I haven't read one in fifteen years,
Speaker 3: maybe fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Or if you have any like an album song, nothing, nope.
Speaker 1: Drunk Americans, Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just about a bunch of people who get
Speaker 3: together at night in this happy go lucky.
Speaker 1: Bar, and it is and the song is about all
Speaker 1: kinds of different people.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a cross between I Love This Bar
Speaker 3: and American Ride?
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about running for frofas hell?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you mean liars man, You didn't.
Speaker 1: That's what I say too about politicians is they don't
Speaker 1: know what it's like to be normal, because most of
Speaker 1: them get to be you know, they grow up rich
Speaker 1: and title. So that's why they get to run for
Speaker 1: offst to begin You can't.
Speaker 3: It'd be really hard to run that show because you
Speaker 3: just everybody around you would either be a yes man
Speaker 3: or a liar.
Speaker 1: You don't feel like you could break that mold though,
Speaker 1: don't you feel like you broke a mold? And country
Speaker 1: music and you know, feel like you can break them all?
Speaker 2: In politics now, I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I could put a niche in maybe at the city
Speaker 3: level or something. But plus, the pay sucks.
Speaker 1: Right, that's about power though, that's not even about pay.
Speaker 2: I can make more in a night and the president
Speaker 2: makes all year and a night.
Speaker 1: You can make over one hundred thousand dollars. You brought
Speaker 1: it up, not me, he makes more than a hundred.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking thom in a night you make over
Speaker 1: one hundred grand. Oh yeah, oh my goodness, Holy crap,
Speaker 1: you're simple. I am simple. What's the president maker year?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Two fifty? Is that what the salary is for the president?
Speaker 1: The two fifty? Right? You didn't not you can make
Speaker 1: over twenty fifty thousands.
Speaker 2: I made that much in merch before in a night
Speaker 2: in the night.
Speaker 1: Could touch you. So you went from like not having
Speaker 1: anything to having whatever you want. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you're different inside?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: What's what's money you've been able to let you do?
Speaker 1: Like on on a gravel giving level, on.
Speaker 3: A giving legl Yeah, oh, I built. I built a
Speaker 3: sixteen room Ritz Carlton disney World Children's Cancer Lodge in
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City that we didn't have cost sixteen million bucks
Speaker 3: to build, as it really looks like Ritz Carlton meets Disneyland.
Speaker 3: I had hold on, let me get.
Speaker 1: This, Hey, who is it? Let's who's calling Toby somebody cool?
Speaker 1: Who is it?
Speaker 3: It's a buddy of mine runs a meat packing plant.
Speaker 1: What would he call you for right now? Like? What
Speaker 1: would he say?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: We I have I have a company that I don't
Speaker 3: call dream Walker Farms Meats.
Speaker 2: So what has plug that right now? And say?
Speaker 3: What sell smoked turkeys and stuff through the through the internet.
Speaker 3: So he's called me to tell tell me that the
Speaker 3: turkeys are smoked or something.
Speaker 1: You gotta hook it up. Then you gotta send me
Speaker 1: you need a turkey. I need like five of them.
Speaker 2: The best. I wouldn't be in it.
Speaker 1: If they want to say the name again.
Speaker 2: Dream Walking farms.
Speaker 1: Meats okay, And that means Bobby gets some free dream walking.
Speaker 3: I send you some turkeys and some bony and filets
Speaker 3: and stuff and turkeys and beef.
Speaker 1: See you think that that message was, Hey, Toby and
Speaker 1: turkeys are in, turkeys in, We're all good, We're all good.
Speaker 1: What was the first song that you finished and it
Speaker 1: comes out hits number one? You're all right, I'm here
Speaker 1: to stay now.
Speaker 2: She'd have been a cowboy.
Speaker 1: So that was it. That's when you knew this is
Speaker 1: this is it?
Speaker 2: I'm here. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, you obviously had to follow it up with something,
Speaker 3: but I knew I had. If they liked that one,
Speaker 3: I knew I had another one just like it.
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking earlier about all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you're able to do now that you make money.
Speaker 1: Is that the best part about making Money's you able
Speaker 1: to do things for other people?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: It is you can only make so much. You probably
Speaker 1: hit a point to where you make enough for you
Speaker 1: and then you're able to like build the Ritz Carlton
Speaker 1: Disney thing you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the biggest thing that we get a kick out.
Speaker 3: I was letting my kids pick stuff out, like around
Speaker 3: the holidays and stuff. They start picking stuff out, big
Speaker 3: stuff we can go do silently, you know, so I
Speaker 3: can't really talk about it much more, you know than
Speaker 3: keeping it souight. But they'll pick something in the paper
Speaker 3: where somebody struggling at Christmas.
Speaker 1: How do you do it with kids? Because I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're brought up way different than your kids brought up now.
Speaker 2: But I never missed anything. I mean I never knew we.
Speaker 1: Were right, and I didn't know I was poor either.
Speaker 1: But now that you have money and you have gift
Speaker 1: to raise kids with money, do you fight them having
Speaker 1: a sense of entitlement? Is that a hard fight?
Speaker 2: It is a hard fight.
Speaker 1: How do you manage to balance a making You.
Speaker 3: Can't You want them to have more than you had,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, you know there's a balance there.
Speaker 3: You have to try to, you know, I try to
Speaker 3: do you know what I mean? I tell them like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna get you a car when you
Speaker 3: turn sixteen. But I'm not you know, but we're not buying.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get you like a Mustang or one of
Speaker 3: those a twenty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1: You making pay their own insurance or anything like that?
Speaker 3: No, but I make them have to pay for their
Speaker 3: gas and stuff through doing chores.
Speaker 2: And earning their way.
Speaker 1: Do they ever have to work real jobs?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Like well, Crystal was working with her husband an oil
Speaker 3: and lease office.
Speaker 1: And I'd be like, come on, dad, I sai you
Speaker 1: on Forbes. I'm working to well on Lisavi. You have
Speaker 1: you have free turkeys? Come on, good to see you
Speaker 1: you too. Yeah, all right, Toby Keith here, everybody.
Speaker 7: Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
Speaker 7: and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1: Next up is Toby from twenty fifteen. And he surprised
Speaker 1: me by calling you to the studio and he asked
Speaker 1: Eddie and myself and the Raging Idiots to come open
Speaker 1: a show for him in DC, and he sent us
Speaker 1: plane to come pick us up. It's a whole deal.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool and We've talked about that three or
Speaker 1: four times over the past few days, but we haven't
Speaker 1: played any of this yet. And then following the call
Speaker 1: with Toby, You're gonna hear the segment we did on
Speaker 1: the radio following that week and recapped all of that
Speaker 1: with Toby, even some audio of us on stage singing
Speaker 1: red Solo Cup with Toby Keith.
Speaker 4: Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a joke at first because I
Speaker 1: was walking to the airport. Here's a story, and I
Speaker 1: met one of Toby's people and he was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: nice to meet you. And then I get a call
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, Toby would like for the Raging
Speaker 1: Idiots to open up for him in DC. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I thought this was like punked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was like punked. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: stop it. So I said, I talk to Toby, and
Speaker 1: so Toby's here now. Now is this a joke, Toby?
Speaker 1: And be for real because I don't like you, know,
Speaker 1: like you, I don't like pranks me and play it
Speaker 1: on me. What's the deal here?
Speaker 5: Well, we're just going to have to come in open
Speaker 5: up the DC show, and we're always looking for new
Speaker 5: crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: So you are legitimately asking us, the Raging Idiots, to
Speaker 1: open up for you. This is a real question. Yes,
Speaker 1: no question, Eddie, We're in right, it's an honor.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How many millions do we.
Speaker 5: Get shows you want to do?
Speaker 1: Sincerely? Yeah, we would not say no ever in a
Speaker 1: million years. So thank you. I thought it was a joke.
Speaker 1: So that's that's crazy awesome. So Eddie and I go
Speaker 1: as the Raging Idiots and we go to play right
Speaker 1: outside of DC Northern Virginia. We're opening up for Toby Keith.
Speaker 1: And first of all, let me say thank you to Toby.
Speaker 1: It was a great experience. It's crazy to play such
Speaker 1: a big venue. I mean it's a twenty thousand seed venue,
Speaker 1: so to even have us up there, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: More on that later. Yeah, and then I went out
Speaker 1: with Christiansen and did buy me a boat, completely unexpected.
Speaker 1: One of the coolest things I've ever got to do.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that later.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: At one point, the whole night was a blur because
Speaker 1: we have like twenty stories from it, good and bad.
Speaker 1: But at one point during Toby's show, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the crowd, it is just twenty thousand Deep at
Speaker 1: Jeffy Lube Live and they always bring out the acts
Speaker 1: that played before him to come on and do Red
Speaker 1: Solo Cup with him. So Red So Low Cup, I
Speaker 1: fill you up. Let's have a party. We're all hitting.
Speaker 1: So before we go out, we're talking to Toby backstage
Speaker 1: and we're talking about the Regie Idiots and I'm the
Speaker 1: white one and Eddie's the Mexican one, and that's how
Speaker 1: we introduce ourselves. Yeah, I'm the white one. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: the Mexican of the band. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's easy to just keep up with you all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we look alike. We're like twins basically, but
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I'm the white guy and he's like
Speaker 1: the Mexican guy. So we walk out on stage and
Speaker 1: it's totally a joke that Eddie brought up to Toby,
Speaker 1: like I'm the Mexican one. And Toby's like on the
Speaker 1: mic because we're not singing Red Solo Cup, and he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: where's that Mexican one. The crowd has no idea. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play the clip and we laughed so hard because
Speaker 1: Eddie is the one that told him like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: the Mexican one. But here here we go. So this
Speaker 1: is me and Toby singing you here Eddie a little bit,
Speaker 1: and you hear him during the clip go, hey, that
Speaker 1: Mexican one. So if you listen again, what he says
Speaker 1: and I slowed to he says, hey, let's get the
Speaker 1: Mexican in here. But what people don't know is Eddie
Speaker 1: told him to call him that, so before anything else happened.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want me to get you call
Speaker 1: Eddie a Mexican. Sure, Eddie's like, call me the Mexican.
Speaker 1: I am the Mexican of the I'm the white guy. Boom,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna. I didn't think you'd be able to
Speaker 1: hear me that much, that they had our mics up loud, loud.
Speaker 2: And I think I think that's what happened.
Speaker 1: When I first got the mic, I was lip syncing
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to mess up the words, and
Speaker 1: I think the sound guy probably boosted us up because
Speaker 1: of that. So in return, i'd not heard myself jam
Speaker 1: it out. I mean, because that's like not even Toby
Speaker 1: like I hear me. Yeah, that's tell me. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: The next time Toby was on our show was twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: he called to talk about the release of his song
Speaker 1: Don't let the Old Man, in, which he wrote for
Speaker 1: the movie The Mule starring Clint Eastwood. So Toby talked
Speaker 1: about the inspiration behind this song, what the movie was about,
Speaker 1: and hanging with Clint Eastwood. Hello, this is Toby, this
Speaker 1: boy bones.
Speaker 5: Hey Bob, what's up buddy?
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Don't let the Old Man? D tell me what the
Speaker 1: movie is about? Like, normal person? Normal person.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's based on a true story about a guy
Speaker 5: from Indiana that was eighty something years of old, eighty
Speaker 5: eight and he he is fame to fame was he
Speaker 5: was famous that uh even got a printed in the
Speaker 5: New York Times that he made these lilies or something.
Speaker 5: He grew flowers. And at some point the cartel started sticking.
Speaker 5: He'd haul loads of vegetables, I guess, and the cartail
Speaker 5: start putting a sack of something else in there with them,
Speaker 5: you know. And then when he found you know, as
Speaker 5: he found out, he knew he'd kind of wrecked his
Speaker 5: life and was desperate, and so he ends up running
Speaker 5: drugs for the cartel. And and uh, they didn't really
Speaker 5: ever check him because they did see an eighty eight
Speaker 5: year old man and just not checking. You know, it's
Speaker 5: not what they were looking for. And uh, it's a
Speaker 5: great movie, great story. And so I wrote the song
Speaker 5: and sent it to him. He called me back the
Speaker 5: next morning after I sent it to him and said,
Speaker 5: I'm putting it in the movie.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's plenty of would like though?
Speaker 4: Like hanging out?
Speaker 5: He's uh, really, he's a real nice guy man and
Speaker 5: me he's real, Uh, he's real laid back, he's funny,
Speaker 5: he's real soft heart.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I was expecting to be riding with dirty Harry, you know,
Speaker 5: and he's just he just I love that he's been
Speaker 5: with the same company, Warner Brothers, for over forty five years,
Speaker 5: and that they kind of let him do what he
Speaker 5: wants to do. And he really doesn't have to. You know,
Speaker 5: a lot of people work for a lot of different
Speaker 5: whatever's the best script and whatever pays the most or whatever.
Speaker 5: But he kind of gets to go about and do
Speaker 5: his own thing. And I love that. But he's a
Speaker 5: total gentleman. And he's an old dare guy. Will get
Speaker 5: up in the morning, play golf all day and then
Speaker 5: hosts this event till midnight. I mean, and he'll do
Speaker 5: it three days in a row, and he's in great
Speaker 5: mind and shape for a guy of his age.
Speaker 1: All Right, Toby keats on with us, and the movie
Speaker 1: we're talking about is called The Mule. That's what Toby's
Speaker 1: gonna go and watch. And the song is Don't Let
Speaker 1: the Old Man In and Toby's singing it. Toby wrote it. Toby,
Speaker 1: it's good to talk to you, my friend. We don't
Speaker 1: see each other enough.
Speaker 5: Well, come out. See you used to come out jam
Speaker 5: with us once a while. Still you're still doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to like pay my mortgage right now,
Speaker 1: so I'm doing everything to survive.
Speaker 5: Okay, brother, all right, see you, Toby.
Speaker 6: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Speaker 6: Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1: The final chat with Toby will be one that happened
Speaker 1: last month where he came into our studio. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot about his returns, his return to music, his
Speaker 1: returned to the live stage, his return here with us,
Speaker 1: and so we talked about that being in Vegas and
Speaker 1: his concern of remembering the lyrics on the Bobby Bone Show. Now, Toby, Toby,
Speaker 1: it's rare that people that I'm super close to ask
Speaker 1: me for tickets anything, because they know, like, unless it's
Speaker 1: really meaningful, don't ask. And I've only had two close
Speaker 1: friends asked me for tickets this whole year, and our
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 4: It was Morgan Wallen and it was your shows in Vegas.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 1: That's how big those shows were. And they sold I
Speaker 1: saw they sold out immediately. What do you still have
Speaker 1: any sort of anxiety at all about shows selling?
Speaker 3: No, I hadn't worked in I probably only worked a
Speaker 3: handful of shows in the last wide COVID two big seas,
Speaker 3: COVID and Cancer, So I hadn't worked handful of shows
Speaker 3: in the last three years. But I worked every year
Speaker 3: for twenty seven eight years, And I mean I was
Speaker 3: only the only thing I had that concern me was
Speaker 3: being away from it for three years and remembering all
Speaker 3: the words because they subconsciously come to you when you're working. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't even think about it, you know them, and
Speaker 3: then getting completely away from them and having to start back.
Speaker 3: So they had a telepromp trip there and I got
Speaker 3: into a little bit of a sound check We're going
Speaker 3: to go full dress rehearsal to day, but.
Speaker 8: I didn't even use it. It was just like riding
Speaker 8: the bike.
Speaker 4: Oh you knew all the words.
Speaker 3: Yeah, once I got up there and started rolling and
Speaker 3: it got familiar. I just I didn't even look at
Speaker 3: the tail from.
Speaker 4: What about playing at all? Did you did your handstake callous?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I still played no matter where I was, always had
Speaker 3: a guitar there and still plunked around. But they've been
Speaker 3: callous so long.
Speaker 1: It's all callous and even bones anymore. It's just all callouses.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's why you have an extra fingernails.
Speaker 1: You guys are putting these songs. Don't let the old
Speaker 1: man in. Its hard, it's been out, but you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: this song's good.
Speaker 4: Here it is, remember it. We're gonna push it again.
Speaker 4: Where did that come from? And why?
Speaker 8: So? So that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 3: So we put that in the in the Eastwood movie
Speaker 3: three or four years ago, and the movie didn't do
Speaker 3: as well as they thought. But and it's at the
Speaker 3: very end, and as powerful as the song was, it
Speaker 3: still didn't really get us to do. Great songs have
Speaker 3: a way of finding a home.
Speaker 2: Will he cut it?
Speaker 8: Humpherdnt cut it?
Speaker 3: A bunch of foreign legends cut it in their language,
Speaker 3: And I thought, well, that's cool, you know. And then
Speaker 3: when the Icon Award came up at the People's Choice,
Speaker 3: Rack Clark did Clarkson Who's I'm known for years, he's
Speaker 3: produced a lot of the award shows. He said, I
Speaker 3: really want you to do this song. I was like, man,
Speaker 3: Blake's present.
Speaker 4: Me, Oh, yes, you do that song? Like you weren't
Speaker 4: planning to do that song, got.
Speaker 3: It and because it's it was it's dark, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's and and I hadn't been in the public
Speaker 3: eye for a while, and so I was like, Blake's
Speaker 3: gonna do Who's Your Daddy? And I want to do
Speaker 3: something up tempo because he's he's going to be fun
Speaker 3: and funny. And he goes, no, Rack insisted, and I said, Rack,
Speaker 3: if you want me do it, I'll do it.
Speaker 8: He goes, I think it'd be gigantic highlight and he
Speaker 8: was right.
Speaker 4: He was massive. People went crazy.
Speaker 1: And so because of that response, everybody's like, we need
Speaker 1: to reintroduce this song.
Speaker 3: Well it just it went number one immediately on iTunes.
Speaker 3: And then people start calling saying, hey, it want service radio. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I haven't really served. I haven't done anything in
Speaker 3: three or four years. And I was like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if they play this kind of music anymore. You know,
Speaker 3: this is way different than what you normally hear. And
Speaker 3: I said, this is this song is even more classic
Speaker 3: than my age. This song could have been recorded in
Speaker 3: the fifties, you know, our sixties, and it's it's so
Speaker 3: it's so country and so old school that I said,
Speaker 3: you do what you want to do with it. But
Speaker 3: I just love it that it got it, it found
Speaker 3: a home.
Speaker 1: So you live in Oklahoma, right, almost all the time
Speaker 1: all the time. So do you live close enough to
Speaker 1: go to a bunch of games? Like are you close
Speaker 1: enough to Norman?
Speaker 3: I'm seven miles from the stadium, you are. My ranch
Speaker 3: is about seven miles. The stadium kind of sets on
Speaker 3: the outskirtsytown and I'm out further.
Speaker 1: What's been difficult for me being someone that is very
Speaker 1: much from Arkansas and a diehard razorback is that family
Speaker 1: that not only are the massive OU fans, but they coach.
Speaker 1: Oh you, Patty Gasso is the OU softball coaches won
Speaker 1: like seven national championships.
Speaker 4: And it's been hard for me to be a fan
Speaker 4: of OU sports.
Speaker 1: But I've picked a softball team I'm fan of can't
Speaker 1: quite jump on board with football quite yet. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: And my wife's like, you should put up Would you
Speaker 1: ever put on another team's like shirt?
Speaker 8: Me up?
Speaker 3: Now, I will say this my parents. My mom's from
Speaker 3: Arkansas and my dad's from Oklahoma. So like I told you,
Speaker 3: I'm half Hog in my raising, I'm all Ou. But
Speaker 3: my second, if I have a second, favorite team is Arkansas.
Speaker 3: And the first two or three football games I went
Speaker 3: to as a six or seven year old, my grandmother
Speaker 3: took me Little Rock two different y'all played two different stadiums.
Speaker 4: They still do that one time a year. I wish
Speaker 4: they wouldn't, but yeah, So.
Speaker 3: I went to FEE, and then I went to Little Rock,
Speaker 3: saw Tech and SMU and the old Southwest Conference. But
Speaker 3: so I tell everybody, Keith Jackson's a great tide end
Speaker 3: at ou he's Smarkansas, And when we see each other,
Speaker 3: we y old boom or Sioue instead of Boomer.
Speaker 8: Soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the house, we do woo pick sooner, but
Speaker 1: only that because I put to woo pick first. We
Speaker 1: have a Matt that's half Arkansas half Oklahoma. And my
Speaker 1: wife she's not petty though she can go to Arkansas
Speaker 1: games and be like, let's go with me.
Speaker 4: I struggle.
Speaker 3: I could probably if the Hogs were in the National
Speaker 3: Championship and I was like singing the anthem at the
Speaker 3: game and they weren't playing Oklahoma, I could put on
Speaker 3: a I'd be comfortable in Arkansas Jersey.
Speaker 4: You like Venables, I love it. What do you like
Speaker 4: about him?
Speaker 8: He was here when Bob Stoop's got the coaching job,
Speaker 8: and he was here for years.
Speaker 3: And his defensive prowess. I mean, the guy's been around
Speaker 3: twenty two years coaching at that level. Not head coach,
Speaker 3: but defense going. He's he's played in eight national championships
Speaker 3: fourd oh you and Ford Clemson and his number. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's just a great defensive coach. We were a really
Speaker 3: really bad shape. He's processed like sixty five players in
Speaker 3: the last twenty four months. It was on the last team,
Speaker 3: and only two of the portal guys got Power five deals.
Speaker 3: Everybody else went smaller division. So we were really lacking
Speaker 3: on the defensive side of football. And he fixed that.
Speaker 4: You do you do an al stuff yourself?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, me too.
Speaker 4: Do you talk about it?
Speaker 8: I'll talk about it.
Speaker 4: You do talk about it because people ask me to
Speaker 4: talk about him like, I mean, I guess I will.
Speaker 1: But I do stuff like I take these student athletes
Speaker 1: and I hire them to use their name, image and
Speaker 1: likeness to promote things that I do make sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I just give them money.
Speaker 4: Oh well see yeah, I have to like find a.
Speaker 3: Kid, I have a charity, I have a foundation, and
Speaker 3: we'll get them to whatever.
Speaker 8: You know. I mean it's you get them to do
Speaker 8: a little stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get them to do stuff for the charity.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they show up, you know, I get them to
Speaker 3: show up at my golf tournament or my foundation auction
Speaker 3: or something. But they don't really have to do much.
Speaker 3: You know what's weird about that whole thing is this
Speaker 3: toothpastes out of the too, you know, yeah, put it back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't ring that bell for sure.
Speaker 3: Four years ago, if they have just said, hey, we
Speaker 3: don't give every player in fifty grand, they had a
Speaker 3: sign that immediately. But it's with the portal in that
Speaker 3: it just makes it crazy.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely bizarre, even where players just moving all
Speaker 1: over the place, even to shopping for deals.
Speaker 3: No one's loyal, no one. I mean, you recruit them
Speaker 3: and get them on campus. You do everything. You can
Speaker 3: give them money, you get them education, and you have
Speaker 3: to recruit them again next year.
Speaker 8: It's it. I wouldn't want that. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think I take it, though, I still take it.
Speaker 4: I still be a head coach. Yeah, I'll be pretty good.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd run, we'd wide open offense. We'd run, you know,
Speaker 1: probably have two footballs, three tailbacks, two doing two quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: so one that could also play wide receiver in motion.
Speaker 4: You never knew he was going to come through and
Speaker 4: actually take the snapper.
Speaker 1: Not tell me that's not revolutionary, that's like, that's not
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley stuff. Yeah, but then it wouldn't work because
Speaker 1: I'd have no defense and then we'd lose and.
Speaker 4: Everybody would laugh.
Speaker 8: Well that would be Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be Lincoln Riley exactly. Yes, yes, So how's
Speaker 1: everything going.
Speaker 2: It's going pretty good.
Speaker 3: But I've got a roadhouse out in the country by
Speaker 3: that's like a ninety seven year old roadhouse that has
Speaker 3: a lot of music history, a lot of Oklahoma history.
Speaker 4: What's a roadhouse. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 8: It's like a bar outdoor. Oh, got it, got it,
Speaker 8: got you know, it's an old roadhouse.
Speaker 4: Like Texas roadhouse, the restaurant type place.
Speaker 3: Well, like a bar out in the country that people
Speaker 3: would drive out to, like in a movie. You'd see
Speaker 3: people they'll set a roadhouse up, Remember the one where
Speaker 3: Patrick Sway roadhouse?
Speaker 8: Yeah that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah one, all right, so yeah, there you go. Okay,
Speaker 3: So that's kind out by itself. This thing's like ninety
Speaker 3: seven years old. The old actor James Garner was named
Speaker 3: James Bumgarner before he went to Hollywood. He pumped gas
Speaker 3: in there. Bonnie and Clyde State and some cabins behind it.
Speaker 3: Bob Wills and Texas playboys people like that would come
Speaker 3: through and play these little dances out there, and then
Speaker 3: it turned into a convenience store. We used to get
Speaker 3: baked beer, tobacco stuff there before we rolled it up.
Speaker 8: And then we're going to tear it down.
Speaker 3: And my whole countryside out there where I live, I
Speaker 3: know everybody, that's my sanctuary. They were like, man, they're
Speaker 3: telling it tearing the old Hollywood's corner down.
Speaker 8: And so I.
Speaker 3: Went and bought the thing, popped it up, cleaned it up,
Speaker 3: put some lights in the trees, put a stage out there,
Speaker 3: shot in all State TV special out there Live concert
Speaker 3: from all State Entry and left the stage up and
Speaker 3: now you can go out there, get some food, get
Speaker 3: a beer, sit on the lights, bring your dog, bring
Speaker 3: the kids, and have bicker night on Wednesday. And I
Speaker 3: saved it, you know. And so one night I said
Speaker 3: I want to try to play. So I called the
Speaker 3: manager and I said, tell uh, Jennifer, I said, tell
Speaker 3: the band. They're paid, but they're not going to play.
Speaker 3: And then she goes, who's playing? I said, another band?
Speaker 8: And then I was.
Speaker 3: Bringing my guys in from Nashville, and we were just
Speaker 3: gonna go up incognito and just let the word build
Speaker 3: and just have fun. And I was going to see
Speaker 3: how far I could go without taking a break, you know.
Speaker 3: So I did two three hour nights and she goes, well,
Speaker 3: who do I advertise is playing? I said, the Greasy Weenies,
Speaker 3: and so she put it up the Greasy Weenies will
Speaker 3: be here Friday and Saturday. Well, everybody started going something
Speaker 3: not right because the bands getting paid. So when I
Speaker 3: showed up first night, they were just like lined.
Speaker 8: Up down the ditches a half a mile in every direction.
Speaker 3: And and I did two nights in July, and I
Speaker 3: was like book it go book me some shows. So
Speaker 3: you just can't get the trucks and buses after three
Speaker 3: years all together, and the crew everybody's off working with
Speaker 3: everybody else, you know, So it took till December to
Speaker 3: launch this thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah here we.
Speaker 4: Are, well Toby, good to see you. There is to
Speaker 4: Keith everybody.
Speaker 1: Toby's been kind enough to come in the studio and
Speaker 1: call into our show numerous times over the years and
Speaker 1: has let Eddie and I perform with them, and we've
Speaker 1: also performed with them at festivals. And Toby Keith will
Speaker 1: always be a major part of country music. His songs
Speaker 1: will continue to live on and they will for sure
Speaker 1: be played for decades to come. Thanks to Toby Keith
Speaker 1: for all that he did. Thank you guys for listening.
Speaker 1: This has been a Bobby Cast production.