Speaker 1: It's the best Bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2: I kill just the bits. What's up friends, Happy weekend?
Speaker 3: Excited that you're here to catch up on the Bobby
Speaker 3: Bone Show from this week. I've got a whole lot
Speaker 3: of segments for you, and if you want something totally new,
Speaker 3: you can listen to part one this Weekend with Abby.
Speaker 3: Not only do we answer our listener questions, but we
Speaker 3: talk about not using our free will correctly in the
Speaker 3: person we've become that we never wanted to become. So
Speaker 3: a lot of fun stuff over there. If you just
Speaker 3: want to get caught up on the show, then let's
Speaker 3: get into it. Eddie went to a restaurant with his
Speaker 3: family and found something super gross in his drink. Now
Speaker 3: would you say something or would you.
Speaker 2: Just let it be? Number seven Eddie went to dinner
Speaker 2: with the family. Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 4: So we get there, we sit down, and the server
Speaker 4: comes with a picture and starts, you know, serving everyone
Speaker 4: water in their glasses.
Speaker 2: Well it's nice.
Speaker 4: I'm a little parched. So I get my glass and
Speaker 4: I'm about to drink it when I've noticed something like
Speaker 4: a dark black like something floating in it. I got
Speaker 4: it's weird. So I back up a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's a fly.
Speaker 4: There is a fly in my water. It's dead, but
Speaker 4: it's sitting there.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask what you guys did, cause dude,
Speaker 4: it's awkward, right Like. First I'm just like, like, I
Speaker 4: almost drank a fly.
Speaker 2: That's gross.
Speaker 4: Then second I'm just like, it's just a fly.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done just a fly, but I hear you.
Speaker 4: So I started to reach in there and be like,
Speaker 4: it's just a fly. Pull it out, like, pull it out,
Speaker 4: throw it and just drink the water.
Speaker 2: But I did it. I said, you know what, kind
Speaker 2: of want them to know what they did? What did
Speaker 2: they do it?
Speaker 4: Sure, they served a customer a glass of water with
Speaker 4: a fly in it.
Speaker 2: Where was the fly? I think it was in the cup?
Speaker 2: Or do you think it was in the water they poured?
Speaker 5: I had landed in the picture.
Speaker 4: It had to have been in the picture because the
Speaker 4: cups were just sitting there, you know, and they were empty,
Speaker 4: and then the picture they come put the water in it.
Speaker 4: So I said, excuse me, ma'am, there's a fly in
Speaker 4: my water. And she goes, oh gosh, I'm so sorry, Like,
Speaker 4: let me just get you another water, but that was it,
Speaker 4: And I was like, I don't know if I should
Speaker 4: make a bigger stink out of it some kind of
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I just left it there and
Speaker 4: I said, you know what, that's fine.
Speaker 2: I got a water, didn't have a flying it. I'm good.
Speaker 5: But is everybody else? Then I would be like, and
Speaker 5: could everybody else's table get new water because their water
Speaker 5: came from the dead fly picture?
Speaker 2: You gave your family flywater? Wow? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: gave your family flywater. Dude, that's a good point. Amy, Like,
Speaker 2: what would evil Eddie have done? Oh?
Speaker 4: I think Evil Eddie probably would have made a big
Speaker 4: deal out of it and been like, no, we're we're
Speaker 4: not gonna eat here unless we get our food for free.
Speaker 2: Did you consider evil Eddie?
Speaker 4: No, dude, Honestly, I was really considering just taking it
Speaker 4: out of the glass and drinking it, because because if
Speaker 4: I was at home, that's easy, right.
Speaker 5: If there's why you just.
Speaker 2: Take it out and drink it at home? Is not
Speaker 2: a restaurant and experience. What would you have done? Said, hey,
Speaker 2: just fly my water like a new glass and a
Speaker 2: new picture of water, please, that's it.
Speaker 5: You would think, well, maybe some places might be like, hey,
Speaker 5: let's go ahead and send app tizer out to that
Speaker 5: family that dealt with the fly you had done.
Speaker 6: I would ask to talk to the manager.
Speaker 2: Okay, hello, hello, yeah, yes, the Daniel family. What can
Speaker 2: I do for you?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a problem here, your health code violations.
Speaker 6: There was a fly in the pitcher of water.
Speaker 7: Sorry, yeah, so I think we need to be compensated.
Speaker 7: Our meal probably needs to be taken care of. You
Speaker 7: haven't ordered yet, though, Well I'm about to order or
Speaker 7: else we're gonna have to go find another restaurant.
Speaker 2: Oh so sorry. And so what I would like to
Speaker 2: say is a French can you tell? I can tell? Okay,
Speaker 2: oh all right, we will send you fried pickles. Were
Speaker 2: sorry about that? Will give us a fried pickles?
Speaker 7: Oh no, fried pickles is not enough, man, I'm sorry,
Speaker 7: but like we could have been contaminated. My family, my kids,
Speaker 7: we could have been sick because you have dead flies
Speaker 7: in your water.
Speaker 6: That's not acceptable.
Speaker 2: Oh much, you are not. So if you'd like to
Speaker 2: go go ahead, okay, goodbye, good bye? And then that's it.
Speaker 2: Who wins there?
Speaker 7: Then they get a negative help review. Yeah they got
Speaker 7: flies in their stuff. Man, be careful. They tried to
Speaker 7: force me to eat flies for dinner.
Speaker 2: They tried to force me to eat flies. See my
Speaker 2: mind never went that far.
Speaker 6: Or you pull up your yelp.
Speaker 7: And start typing it out so the manager can see
Speaker 7: and be like, hey, you want me to hit inner.
Speaker 6: You want me to hit it sin wow wow Wow,
Speaker 6: that easy.
Speaker 2: You write it up and you hold your finger over
Speaker 2: the inter button like I'm gonna push inter Yeah, free
Speaker 2: meal man, and.
Speaker 4: You expect them to be like no, no, no, please, don't
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I don't think it's worthy of a whole free meal.
Speaker 2: I do think an appetizer's fine, but I think also
Speaker 2: I just like some new water please, or cover our
Speaker 2: drinks good.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 6: Number two.
Speaker 3: We talk about aliens sometimes on the show, or extraterrestrials,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call them, But this particular segment
Speaker 3: we didn't actually get into the thing about aliens. More
Speaker 3: so we talked about the first song we would play
Speaker 3: if we met an alien.
Speaker 2: Number six. The question is if an alien came down
Speaker 2: from space and said, play me a song it tells
Speaker 2: me about your people, what do you play them? Switch
Speaker 2: it up? On the Alien Talk. You thought I was
Speaker 2: gonna go all interdimensional. Yeah, but a little green mank Hello,
Speaker 2: play me a song that tells me about your people.
Speaker 2: I just want to hear something. What would you play me? Amy?
Speaker 5: I feel like I want something with a little bit
Speaker 5: of like we can dance to and like clapping or
Speaker 5: snapping or something. So I'm gonna go with hey, y'all
Speaker 5: from outcasts Wow, because we can chick it like a
Speaker 5: polar bood picture.
Speaker 2: What is a polaroid picture? I store all images in
Speaker 2: my brain forever, right.
Speaker 5: I feel like we would dance to that.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. I think I'm going led Zeppelin
Speaker 2: Stairway to Heaven because it's got sonically all the things,
Speaker 2: slow fast. It is a song that's lasted over decades
Speaker 2: and decades and decades, is still considered one of the
Speaker 2: greatest songs of all time. It is one of the
Speaker 2: greatest songs of all time. It is traditional music formattics
Speaker 2: that there's a chorus, just all that, like what is
Speaker 2: all that? The music part? Because it's slow and fast.
Speaker 2: And then this is like a song that has been
Speaker 2: considered great for fifty years. So I'm handing them Stairway
Speaker 2: to Heaven.
Speaker 5: There's a laity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Eddie. Yeah, kind of the same thing as you.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna give them Bohemian raps in my second one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: same reason right, Like it's got everything on, all these
Speaker 4: tempo changes. And then one of the best singers ever,
Speaker 4: Freddie Mercury. You're like, you got to hear race.
Speaker 2: I really struggle with one of those two. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: one does everything go slow goes fast? Yeah, tell different
Speaker 2: parts of the story. There's some nonsensical parts, there's Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good one.
Speaker 3: Uh Morgan, you guys really thought your guys is out
Speaker 3: And as soon as you asked this question, the first
Speaker 3: thing that came to mind was play that funky music
Speaker 3: that's not bad.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: It was a white boy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just felt like a fun song to show
Speaker 3: them and be like this was a really popular song
Speaker 3: for a long time. But I did not have any
Speaker 3: You guys had a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 2: I think we're just music nerds and you guys, yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys are trying to like grind with the aliens.
Speaker 2: We're trying to teach them about music.
Speaker 5: Yeah, at weddings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys lunchbox.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's easy uptown Funk by Bruno Mars. I want
Speaker 7: them to hear this and there it's fun, it has everything,
Speaker 7: and then they're gonna be like, how can I see
Speaker 7: this guy? So I couldn't pick someone that was dead
Speaker 7: because they're gonna love the song so much they're probably
Speaker 7: gonna want to go see them in concert. So it's
Speaker 7: uptown Funk by Bruno Mars.
Speaker 2: I would imagine they'd have the ability to time travel
Speaker 2: and then they could go back and watch anybody.
Speaker 5: We have.
Speaker 2: We have Bruno in our hearts. And also we just
Speaker 2: went back in time and watched Queen. The Mexican fella
Speaker 2: told us to watch Queen, so we saw them. Raymundo, yeah,
Speaker 2: I gotta give him a little bit of Sam Hunt
Speaker 2: body like of course, because it also crossed over, so
Speaker 2: he's gonna get the pop and then also country.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 6: I thought he was over Sam Hunt. I thought you'd
Speaker 6: moved on.
Speaker 2: Well, you can still likes him, but you think the
Speaker 2: aliens are they're not ready for walling because he's so
Speaker 2: hardcore country back Patio, I don't want to go straight
Speaker 2: to there, so you yeah, Scooba Steve, what do you
Speaker 2: think aliens come down song?
Speaker 4: I think anything from that first album from Lincoln Park
Speaker 4: because it kind of gives them a vibe like rock
Speaker 4: and hip hop and it's I don't know, I would
Speaker 4: get them excited.
Speaker 2: I think like they would give us a song like
Speaker 2: numb or what's that one song goes?
Speaker 8: I blead it out, digging deeper, just to throw it away.
Speaker 2: I please, just to throw and he gets them screaming
Speaker 2: in there. The aliens are gonna shoot. They're gonna get
Speaker 2: fired out and just start lasering us all to day
Speaker 2: as soon as like Chester screams all the way. Okay,
Speaker 2: we should do that as an iHeart playlist songs we'd
Speaker 2: tell the aliens if they landed.
Speaker 1: It's the best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 6: Number two.
Speaker 3: Corey Can't stop by the studio to talk all about
Speaker 3: his career and including a story behind his hit song
Speaker 3: wild It's Her and how Willie Nelson changed his life
Speaker 3: when he was sixteen years old.
Speaker 2: Number five, Here we go on the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 5: Now, Corey.
Speaker 2: Corey and I had a brief discussion on text message
Speaker 2: the other day and he said, hey man, thanks for
Speaker 2: letting me come on your show, and I honestly didn't
Speaker 2: know he was coming on the show yet. And I said, oh,
Speaker 2: I had no idea. That's awesome. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: see you. And then he said, oh, never mind, my
Speaker 2: people haven't asked yet. Oh so his people had nass
Speaker 2: and I didn't know anybody, and so anyway, it obviously
Speaker 2: worked out.
Speaker 8: It's good to see you, man, man, thanks for having
Speaker 8: me again. I tell people too, because people love you
Speaker 8: as an artist. And mostly if I'm like, hey, who's
Speaker 8: real good, that's like making it, but you're waiting for
Speaker 8: them to make it, make it like your name comes
Speaker 8: up a lot, and don't say thanks to me because
Speaker 8: mostly some other people mostly I just agreed.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, yeah, I love that guy. But what
Speaker 2: people thinks funny is that your wife took pictures at
Speaker 2: like my family's yeah wedding, talk like Grayson DJ's wedding.
Speaker 2: His wife was taking a picture because they're they're the photographer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know the way you say.
Speaker 2: Right, so will you back that story? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Well my vantage point is, uh so, Dana, if you've
Speaker 8: seen like all of our like this photo, h all
Speaker 8: my album art, Dana's like super talented photographer, and uh,
Speaker 8: she used to do like she used to do weddings,
Speaker 8: but just like selective. If if she knew the people
Speaker 8: or if it was in a really cool place, she
Speaker 8: would take that that gig. We kind of she kind
Speaker 8: of slowed down on that just because keeps both of
Speaker 8: us away on the weekends from all the kids. But uh,
Speaker 8: this particular wedding, she's like, I'm gonna do this one.
Speaker 8: And and she came back from that wedding and was like,
Speaker 8: I met Bobby Bones and his wife and they were
Speaker 8: super nice, and I'm going this is like years ago, right.
Speaker 8: I'm like, she's you told him about me? Right, She's like, no,
Speaker 8: Like what this could have this could have progressed my career,
Speaker 8: Like what are we doing here? That's my vantage point
Speaker 8: of it. But I saw some of the photos. It
Speaker 8: looked like a blast.
Speaker 2: It was a blast. Where'd you grow up? Specifically Bigsby, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: That's exactly where we were for the wedding. And yeah,
Speaker 2: there's awesome sonic there, and I.
Speaker 8: Know I know that's our only claim.
Speaker 2: Well it's kind of how I know places like towns
Speaker 2: are as good as their sonics are strong. There was
Speaker 2: a new really strong sonic there and I know you
Speaker 2: guys from sports in Oklahoma.
Speaker 8: Now, ye yeah, Bixby's kind of become a like a
Speaker 8: football dynasty out there. It was not that way when
Speaker 8: I was there.
Speaker 2: Oh, they weren't good when a kid. We were a.
Speaker 8: Wrestling school when I was growing up. But my little
Speaker 8: brother who just graduated, I think that they lost one
Speaker 8: game in four years that he was there. Something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I know them for. Is like
Speaker 2: being dominant at football.
Speaker 8: State title after state title after at the highest level
Speaker 8: was crazy. And that towns I think like three or
Speaker 8: four x in size since since I graduated.
Speaker 2: But you get a big everybody comes running.
Speaker 8: I know, it's how it works.
Speaker 2: Well, you tell them the story, because I don't think
Speaker 2: they know it because they're all Texans. They got a
Speaker 2: room full of tech, not me, are you really?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We got we got all Texans. Can you tell them
Speaker 2: you're Willie Nelson's story? Oh yeah, do you guys know
Speaker 2: this story? Okay, you're gonna there is the greatest story
Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
Speaker 8: Okay, dude, Yeah, Because we talked about this on the podcast,
Speaker 8: so I was sixteen years old. We got to preface
Speaker 8: this by the reason that I love Willie Nelson's music
Speaker 8: is because my grandfather, who a couple months ago passed away.
Speaker 8: He was like, he was my person. Uh so this
Speaker 8: story is like, it is really fun for me to
Speaker 8: think of just one of my favorite memories with him.
Speaker 8: So my uncle buys my grandfather tickets, like really good seats,
Speaker 8: like third or fourth row seats to Willie Nelson. And
Speaker 8: I think Willy's in his late seventies. At this point,
Speaker 8: I'm sixteen years old. I just got my driver's license,
Speaker 8: and uh, they they come to the house. They live
Speaker 8: in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and so came up to the
Speaker 8: house because he was playing in Tulsa, and obviously our
Speaker 8: house is closer to Tulsa than there, so they were
Speaker 8: staying at our house. And my uncle's like, you should
Speaker 8: really think about, you know, getting a ticket to this show,
Speaker 8: because Willie's a legend. You haven't seen him live, you
Speaker 8: love country music. This might be your last chance to
Speaker 8: see him. Little did we know he'd still be touring
Speaker 8: like now one hundred years later, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: But anyways, I was like, you're right, So, sixteen year
Speaker 8: old kid, I don't have any money tickets are expensive.
Speaker 8: So I was like, well, I'll just drive up there
Speaker 8: and I'll wait outside and you know, get a ticket
Speaker 8: from somebody scopping tickets. And that's what I did. I
Speaker 8: waited till about ten minutes after the show. I got
Speaker 8: a ticket from some guy who was just trying to
Speaker 8: make a buck off of him and once the show starts,
Speaker 8: you can't really make any money off him. So I
Speaker 8: got a ten dollar ticket and I walked in and
Speaker 8: at this point in my life, I I like couldn't
Speaker 8: really enjoy a concert because all I could think about
Speaker 8: is like, what would I do if I was up there?
Speaker 8: Would I be ready? What would I sing? Would I
Speaker 8: be ready for that moment? And you know, obviously that's
Speaker 8: never happened. But I've gone to a lot of shows
Speaker 8: and I've had that same feeling, and this night just
Speaker 8: felt a little different. And so I'm up in the
Speaker 8: nosebleeds with a ten dollars ticket and I walked over
Speaker 8: to this sweet lady at the concession stand and I
Speaker 8: was like, this is gonna sound super odd, but do
Speaker 8: you have any like cardboard or anything? And so she
Speaker 8: walked to the trap. She pulled out a piece of cardboard,
Speaker 8: and handed it to me and she's like, what do
Speaker 8: you want this for? And I was like one other question.
Speaker 8: Do you have a sharpie I could use? And she
Speaker 8: got me a sharpie and I wrote, it's my dream
Speaker 8: to play a song with you. And I didn't know
Speaker 8: what I was gonna do with that sign, but I
Speaker 8: ended up in the in the nosebleeds. And one thing
Speaker 8: that you also have to understand about my grandfather is
Speaker 8: that he loved makers Mark and you add makers Mark
Speaker 8: and Willie and Nelson, like he's having the time of
Speaker 8: his life. Anyway, my uncle calls me, he's like, did
Speaker 8: you make it in? I was like, yeah, I'm way
Speaker 8: up here, and he's like, bro, I need a beer,
Speaker 8: Like I need you to come sit down here with
Speaker 8: your grandfather and make sure he's all right. And because
Speaker 8: my grandfather's like third row, eyes closed, Willie Nelson's playing,
Speaker 8: hands up, he's feeling it, he's it is a spiritual
Speaker 8: experience for this man. So I tried to walk down
Speaker 8: there and I got stopped by a security guard because
Speaker 8: you had to have like a wristband to be on
Speaker 8: the floor or whatever. And I was like, this isn't
Speaker 8: gonna work. I walked back up, walked around to the
Speaker 8: next the next security guarden. Just I was like, I
Speaker 8: just got to act like I belong here, walk straight
Speaker 8: through with my sign. I sit down next to my
Speaker 8: grandfather and I'm like, this is my chance, you know.
Speaker 8: So I hold this sign up and holds it up
Speaker 8: for a couple songs and the guy behind me is
Speaker 8: pissed because I'm blocking his view root and these people
Speaker 8: pay good money for this seat, right like, So I
Speaker 8: hold the sign up and Willie sees the sign and
Speaker 8: he leans over and he takes his bandana off his
Speaker 8: head and he throws it to me. It's like a
Speaker 8: very obvious, like thanks for being here. Put the sign
Speaker 8: up down. So, of course, being you know, naive, bullheaded
Speaker 8: sixteen year old me, I take the bandana and I
Speaker 8: put it in my pocket and I'm like, that's crazy.
Speaker 8: I got a bandana from Willie Nelson. Then I put
Speaker 8: the sign up and he leaned over again a couple
Speaker 8: songs later and he threw me another bandana, and I
Speaker 8: was like, this is great, man. I was like, I
Speaker 8: was like, hey, Papa, check this out, Like open your
Speaker 8: eyes for a second. I got a bandana for you,
Speaker 8: and and then I put the sign back up and uh,
Speaker 8: and the third time he leans over, he throws me
Speaker 8: another bandana. I'm not kidding this. The third bandana off
Speaker 8: this guy's head and I grabbed it and I looked
Speaker 8: behind me and I talked to the guy behind me,
Speaker 8: and I was like, bro, I'm sorry, I gotta do this,
Speaker 8: but you can have this bandana, Like, hopefully this buys
Speaker 8: me a little grace here. I put the sign back
Speaker 8: up and he leans over and he goes, all right,
Speaker 8: what do you want to play? And up to this
Speaker 8: point in my life, I've been in this Western swing
Speaker 8: band for like five years. From age eleven to sixteen,
Speaker 8: I was part of a Western swing band which plays
Speaker 8: like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. It was basically
Speaker 8: like a cover band for that. But I knew that
Speaker 8: nobody in that place wanted to see a random sixteen
Speaker 8: year old kid sing on the road again or blue
Speaker 8: Eyes crying in the rain, like they want to hear
Speaker 8: Willy sing that, right. And I also knew that Willy
Speaker 8: loved Bob Wills, like that's one of his biggest inspirations.
Speaker 8: And I'd seen him play this song called Milkow Blues,
Speaker 8: which is one of my favorite songs to sing that
Speaker 8: I played in my band. So he leaned over. He goes,
Speaker 8: what do you want to sing? And I said Milkow
Speaker 8: Blues and I could see his eyes get like, what
Speaker 8: does a sixteen year old kid know about nineteen thirties
Speaker 8: dust bowl aer, you know, Bob Will's music. And he's like,
Speaker 8: all right, get up here, and so it was like
Speaker 8: a mad dash, like a blur of time. They escorted
Speaker 8: me over. They started the song like we didn't talk
Speaker 8: about what key is this gonna be in? Like it
Speaker 8: could have been an absolute train wreck. It could have
Speaker 8: been terrible. If they started that song too high or
Speaker 8: too low, I wouldn't have been able to sing it.
Speaker 8: But they played it in the exact key that we
Speaker 8: played it in. And I walked up there and he goes,
Speaker 8: what's your name? And I was like, Corey Ken? And
Speaker 8: he walks up to the mic and he goes, Corey Ken, everybody,
Speaker 8: And the coolest moment, I think still to this day,
Speaker 8: the coolest moment in my career was, you know, Willy
Speaker 8: obviously doesn't know if I can sing at all, Like
Speaker 8: I could have been terrible. So he's right there next
Speaker 8: to his mic, basically ready to take over if I
Speaker 8: get up there and bomb and uh. I start singing
Speaker 8: the fruit will I woke of this morning and I
Speaker 8: just saw this like huge grin on Willy's face of like.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank god, this kid can sing, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 8: And he gets his big grin and he just nods
Speaker 8: at me and he lets me sing the whole song.
Speaker 8: And in the middle of the song, I'm like, nobody
Speaker 8: at school is gonna be leave this on Monday, like
Speaker 8: and nobody sixteen years old is at this Willie Nelson concert, Like,
Speaker 8: nobody from my school's here. So I pull out my
Speaker 8: phone and I'm like, I'm gonna snap a quick picture
Speaker 8: while they're taking a solo and I'm like, my hands
Speaker 8: are shaking. So I take this picture and it looks
Speaker 8: like the ghost of Willie Knison, Like you can't tell
Speaker 8: you can't you can't see anything. And so get done
Speaker 8: with the song and he's like, hey, come backstage after
Speaker 8: the show. I'd love to talk to you. And they
Speaker 8: send me back to the seat and I sit down
Speaker 8: and I'm like looking at my grandfather and he's still
Speaker 8: eyes closed, hands up. I'm like, did he he didn't
Speaker 8: even see this man, Like, I don't even know if
Speaker 8: he knew what was going on, but uh. I sat
Speaker 8: back down and I'm like, dang it, this is this
Speaker 8: is like the coolest moment of my life and nobody's
Speaker 8: gonna believe it and there's gonna be no proof of it.
Speaker 8: And I sit back down and the guy behind me
Speaker 8: taps me on the shoulder. He's like, are you gonna
Speaker 8: leave that sign down?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 8: Like, am I gonna be able to watch this show now?
Speaker 8: And I was like, yeah, I'm so sorry that and
Speaker 8: he goes, well, here's my card. I got the whole
Speaker 8: thing on film and he had a handycam.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 8: So the only video that exists is from that poor
Speaker 8: guy that was, you know, blocked the whole time. But
Speaker 8: that after the show, I got to talked to Willy
Speaker 8: for a few minutes and I was like, Hey, if
Speaker 8: you have any advice for a kid that wants to
Speaker 8: take a real stab at this this music thing, what
Speaker 8: would it be? And he goes, It's easy. You gotta write.
Speaker 8: You gotta write great songs. And if you don't know
Speaker 8: how to write great songs, you got to go spend
Speaker 8: some time in Nashville. Tennessee, where some of the greatest
Speaker 8: songwriters in the world live. And and that's what I did.
Speaker 8: Six months later, I was seventeen years old. I packed
Speaker 8: up and I moved out here, moved I slept in
Speaker 8: my truck till I made some friends and then crashed
Speaker 8: on their couches and tried not to overstay my welcome.
Speaker 8: But I've still not been able to reconnect with Willy.
Speaker 8: But that night changed my life, changed the trajectory of
Speaker 8: my life. And and uh, yeah, and now we're here.
Speaker 2: Tell me that's not a top five story. Yeah, the story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I watch the video and it's like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: the brand, but you're on like an under armour pullover.
Speaker 2: You got a short haircut, buzz cut, blue jeans. I mean,
Speaker 2: he just like a kid who was just playing baseball
Speaker 2: and then decided to, you know, go to the show.
Speaker 2: And you do see Willie just like smiling at you
Speaker 2: from the side, like, oh he's got this and he
Speaker 2: like it like tickled him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you could tell it was. Uh. I mean, he's
Speaker 8: one of the obviously, he is one of the people
Speaker 8: who enjoys live music on a completely different level. I mean,
Speaker 8: he's he's still doing it like it brings him so
Speaker 8: much joy, and you can just tell in every show
Speaker 8: and he's playing with family members up there and everything.
Speaker 8: It was just I don't know it. That night really
Speaker 8: just solidified like what I wanted to do, but also
Speaker 8: just like built in this inherent love for live music.
Speaker 8: Like I think I just caught the bug from from him.
Speaker 2: Did you just have a fourth kid? I did? How
Speaker 2: long ago?
Speaker 8: Six months?
Speaker 2: How's that going? Well? Pure chaos four?
Speaker 8: Pure chaos, Yeah, fours.
Speaker 2: As far as live she.
Speaker 8: It's I'm my wife and I were talking. I was like,
Speaker 8: I don't know if if we got lucky on the
Speaker 8: fourth one or if we finally figured something out. But
Speaker 8: she is like the chillist, and it's like she knows
Speaker 8: she's the fourth and that we didn't have any more capacity,
Speaker 8: you know. So it's it's been really it's been really nice.
Speaker 8: And I feel like knowing like this was kind of
Speaker 8: our last hohoah. I think we just kind of approach
Speaker 8: it with a different mentality. I think we just have
Speaker 8: like a little more patience and we enjoy the like
Speaker 8: small moments a little more.
Speaker 2: How old is your oldest?
Speaker 8: Eight?
Speaker 2: So? Was it always you were gonna have four kids?
Speaker 2: Was that what you guys had talked about? Or do
Speaker 2: you just keep going because you enjoyed it.
Speaker 8: We always thought we'd have like three, and really we
Speaker 8: didn't know my wife's one of four, so that probably
Speaker 8: plays into it a little bit, but we didn't know.
Speaker 8: We thought we were done after three. And then in
Speaker 8: December of last year, we had a miscarriage that was
Speaker 8: kind of unexpected. The pregnancy itself was unexpected, obviously, like
Speaker 8: we had never walked through that, and that was, like,
Speaker 8: I I did not understand like the devastation that came
Speaker 8: along with that. Like I when when somebody else would
Speaker 8: be like, hey, this is what we walked through, I'd
Speaker 8: be like, man, I'm so sorry, but I had a
Speaker 8: hard time like sympathizing with that. And then after walking
Speaker 8: through it, I'm like, and you know what these these
Speaker 8: kids become, you know, those relationships and what they what
Speaker 8: they grow into, and it was just devastating. And I
Speaker 8: think that that was the moment that we realized, Okay,
Speaker 8: well maybe we're not done. Like we we wanted this
Speaker 8: more than we thought we did. And so, uh, thank god, Mike,
Speaker 8: you know, baby Ivy is here and healthy and but
Speaker 8: it's uh, it's pretty cool to hear our kids talk
Speaker 8: about it because they're like, they are very adamant about
Speaker 8: we have We have five kids in our family. We
Speaker 8: just have one up there and we'll get to meet
Speaker 8: her or him someday. But yeah, that's a not to
Speaker 8: bring the mood down or anything, but that's that's the story.
Speaker 8: That's the real raw story of how we ended up,
Speaker 8: uh with four kiddos, and life is just full and
Speaker 8: chaotic and fun. And it's really nice to uh, like
Speaker 8: they don't care at all about my music, like they
Speaker 8: I'm just dad, you know. So it's nice to have
Speaker 8: just like a really stable place to go home to
Speaker 8: people that love you for you, not for a platinum
Speaker 8: record on your wall or whatever.
Speaker 2: Do nice flexed on that in there at the end,
Speaker 2: Yeah well yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, or
Speaker 2: the platinum record on the wall. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I always just say, like, you know, someday, like people
Speaker 8: aren't gonna care, you know, someday they just everybody, even
Speaker 8: even some of the greatest of all time who have
Speaker 8: achieved everything, Like, I think that that fades, but I
Speaker 8: like measure, I'm like trying to p act out a bit,
Speaker 8: and I think like success to me is like, do
Speaker 8: my kids still want to hang out with me when
Speaker 8: I'm older and they've grown up? And like, how full
Speaker 8: is my table? You know when the music's gone, and
Speaker 8: hopefully that's not for a long time. But yeah, I
Speaker 8: just never wanted to have like personal life regrets. And
Speaker 8: you know, it's hard enough making it in music, right,
Speaker 8: like just to break through and become somebody that people
Speaker 8: are paying attention to. And we were like, man, that's hard.
Speaker 8: You know what we should do is have four kids
Speaker 8: in the middle of that and make it are really hard,
Speaker 8: you know, like the hardest part of raising kids and
Speaker 8: the hardest part of building a career. Let's do it
Speaker 8: all at the same time. But it's beautiful, it's chaotic,
Speaker 8: it's it's it's just full.
Speaker 2: You moved from Texas to Nashville. Then I know you
Speaker 2: moved back to Texas. Are you still in Texas now?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Moved there like really right, a few months before
Speaker 8: the pandemic and that was like, yeah, I live in Salina, Texas.
Speaker 8: And it's kind of a if it ain't broke, don't
Speaker 8: fix it approach, but yeah, we moved back. I got
Speaker 8: dropped as a songwriter I was writing songs for other
Speaker 8: people and just randomly got a phone call one Monday
Speaker 8: that said, hey, we really believe in you. We think
Speaker 8: that you have, you know, all the potential in the world,
Speaker 8: but you're fired. And I was like, dang, this is
Speaker 8: a terrible time. We just bought our first house out
Speaker 8: in Dixon, Tennessee, we just had our first baby, girl
Speaker 8: out here, and I lost my job, you know, and
Speaker 8: so we were like, well, we want to raise our
Speaker 8: kids around like, you know, my grandfather and my grandmother
Speaker 8: like super close to me, and my wife's part of
Speaker 8: a big Italian family and families everything. So we were like,
Speaker 8: we want to raise our kids with that. We want
Speaker 8: to give them that. And the only thing that was
Speaker 8: keeping us in Nashville was at that contract to write,
Speaker 8: and so when that kind of dried up, we moved
Speaker 8: out to Texas and I was like, all right, I'm
Speaker 8: getting the band back together. I'm gonna buy a van,
Speaker 8: We're gonna go hit the road. And everybody here in
Speaker 8: Nashville was like, dude, if you want a music career,
Speaker 8: you're basically committing career suicide by leaving. Like it's not
Speaker 8: gonna that, ain't gonna happen, and I was like, man, well,
Speaker 8: we're just gonna We're gonna give it all we got.
Speaker 8: We're gonna go build it the way that, you know,
Speaker 8: the only way that I knew how to build it,
Speaker 8: which was showed by Show on the Road. And as
Speaker 8: soon as we got there, like the world shuts down
Speaker 8: for a couple of years. It's like it was just
Speaker 8: the worst timing.
Speaker 2: So no to You're getting no publishing money because you're
Speaker 2: not not writing anymore, and now you can't tour to
Speaker 2: make money.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was the first time in my life, in
Speaker 8: my adult life, where it's like what do I, How
Speaker 8: am I? How am I gonna make any money? New baby,
Speaker 8: new baby?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It was. It was brutal. So shopped around, tried to
Speaker 8: get any work that I could, worked at a motorcycle shop,
Speaker 8: worked at a pavement company, and just kept taking a
Speaker 8: We sold our house in Dixon, Tennessee, and we made
Speaker 8: like sixty thousand dollars on that house. And when when
Speaker 8: the world started finally opening up and early twenty twenty one,
Speaker 8: really Texas kind of opened up earlier than the rest
Speaker 8: of the world. Maybe not Florida, but uh.
Speaker 2: Not Tennessee either. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: So I was the only gig that I had was
Speaker 8: playing at a taco shop in Louisville, Texas, and I
Speaker 8: was just I was doing that for like fifty bucks
Speaker 8: and free tacos, you know, And but I just I
Speaker 8: had to do I had to play somewhere, like, I
Speaker 8: just I couldn't not play. It just was like for me,
Speaker 8: and uh yeah, I mean we just kept We took
Speaker 8: that sixty thousand dollars and in twenty twenty one, we
Speaker 8: were losing like one or two thousand dollars a night
Speaker 8: opening up for Randy Rodgers and Josh Abbott. We were
Speaker 8: getting paid like two hundred and fifty bucks, and obviously
Speaker 8: you got to pay the band, and we rode that
Speaker 8: money all the way down to within a thousand bucks.
Speaker 8: And then wild Ashurt came out and it it changed everything.
Speaker 2: So when you say wild As Heart came out, what
Speaker 2: do you mean, like you just put it up on
Speaker 2: streaming and then it popped.
Speaker 8: In a way. So we had put we had been
Speaker 8: putting out songs like every six to eight weeks, just religiously,
Speaker 8: and then at the end of that we put out
Speaker 8: eight or nine songs and it was like the end
Speaker 8: of twenty twenty one, and we were like, well, we
Speaker 8: kind of accidentally created a record, so we packaged it.
Speaker 8: We called it twenty one, and it kind of it
Speaker 8: did really well for us, especially in Texas. We were
Speaker 8: starting to see people show up at these shows, and
Speaker 8: we were kind of transitioning from the like the desired
Speaker 8: opener to like, oh, we can sell our own tickets now.
Speaker 8: And then I had this next song while just heard
Speaker 8: just like in the can, ready to go, but the
Speaker 8: record had just come out in December, like late December,
Speaker 8: and I remember talking to some people that I look
Speaker 8: up to and respect, and I'm like, what what do
Speaker 8: you think I should do next? Like I have this song?
Speaker 8: Should I put it out? And every He's like, don't
Speaker 8: put it out. You gotta let you just put out
Speaker 8: a record. You gotta let it breathe, you gotta let
Speaker 8: it have its moment. And I was just like, I
Speaker 8: just don't. I don't feel like anything that I've ever
Speaker 8: done by the book has worked ever, Like my everything
Speaker 8: has been backwards.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 8: You moved to Nashville, you think you got a job, right,
Speaker 8: and you get dropped, moved to Texas. You're gonna hit
Speaker 8: the ground run and you're gonna build it on the
Speaker 8: road and the world shuts down, right, And so I've
Speaker 8: been putting out this this music and I was like,
Speaker 8: I just we've been consistent. We should just do it again.
Speaker 8: So we put that song out in early March, so
Speaker 8: just you know, two months after releasing a record and
Speaker 8: it it was doing okay. And then I got a
Speaker 8: call from my manager, probably a month or maybe a
Speaker 8: couple months after the song was out, and he was like, Hey,
Speaker 8: I think you're having a moment on on social media.
Speaker 8: And I was like, what does that even mean? Because
Speaker 8: I'm I'm I'm very involved in like the creation of content,
Speaker 8: but I'm not super involved in like how we roll
Speaker 8: it out and the posting of it and all that.
Speaker 8: That just it drives me crazy. So I don't. I
Speaker 8: don't do a lot of that part of it. And
Speaker 8: he was like, You've got people making so many videos
Speaker 8: to this song. And it just kept growing, dude. It
Speaker 8: became a gold record while we were an independent band
Speaker 8: in Texas sept you know, rolling around in a van
Speaker 8: and it just kept going. And then we were playing
Speaker 8: a biker bar in McKinney, Texas, and twelve different record
Speaker 8: labels showed up and eleven people offered way yeah, and
Speaker 8: obviously not all based on that song. They came to
Speaker 8: the show and we were playing like two hour sets
Speaker 8: and we had sold out this little biker bar, maybe
Speaker 8: four or five hundred people. But they knew all the
Speaker 8: the they knew the twenty one record, they knew the
Speaker 8: from the West record, the stuff that we've been playing
Speaker 8: for a couple of years in that in that scene
Speaker 8: and uh yeah, we got eleven record deal offers and
Speaker 8: we picked the one that we thought was best team
Speaker 8: that would fit with us, and they took it to
Speaker 8: radio and now it's a uh triple platinum. Yeah, flex it,
Speaker 8: flex it freaking number.
Speaker 2: One hit, platinum number one.
Speaker 8: But to me, I'm like, I say that because I'm like,
Speaker 8: how crazy is that that song? Like we celebrated that
Speaker 8: song going number one in a van, Like it just
Speaker 8: was like this rags to Rich's moment of just like
Speaker 8: how what are the actual odds that you would get
Speaker 8: dropped moved to Texas? COVID happens. You keep putting out
Speaker 8: music and then eventually one becomes I mean it's still
Speaker 8: being played on the radio. It was just, uh, I
Speaker 8: don't know, and and hitting all those lows, you know,
Speaker 8: working at the pavement company, doing something I was terrible
Speaker 8: at that I wasn't you know, I wasn't passionate about
Speaker 8: just trying to get by, like hitting those lows. It
Speaker 8: when I finally got back to playing music, even though
Speaker 8: we were losing money every night, like I was happier
Speaker 8: than I had been in a long time, and I
Speaker 8: was like able to fully be I was like just
Speaker 8: filled with gratitude that I was able to do what
Speaker 8: I love to do again. And so I don't know,
Speaker 8: I tell that story and that it was like a like,
Speaker 8: look at what this song did and how big this
Speaker 8: song is. Just like the odds of that happening were
Speaker 8: so slim, Like I really thought that maybe music for me,
Speaker 8: maybe uh maybe the fulfillment that I was looking for
Speaker 8: was gonna just come from playing at the taco shop,
Speaker 8: you know, And that was that was maybe reality for me.
Speaker 8: But I was still gonna do that because I learned
Speaker 8: through that process that like, I love this, I have
Speaker 8: to do this for me, but obviously super grateful that
Speaker 8: these songs have connected with people and I get to
Speaker 8: do this for a living and take care of my family.
Speaker 8: It's uh it's a dream man.
Speaker 2: I saw you teasing a duet. Have you announced that yet?
Speaker 8: Uh? No, I haven't announced it, just teased it.
Speaker 2: I feelt titillated and is a good one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty. It's pretty, dope. You said, no,
Speaker 8: it's not very good.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 8: I was in the studio actually last week. That was
Speaker 8: kind of the last like putting the bow on the record,
Speaker 8: this this feature and uh yeah. I looked over. The
Speaker 8: guy's manager was there, and I was like, you know
Speaker 8: how crazy this is for me? Like this guy's music
Speaker 8: the person you're not saying the person I'm not.
Speaker 5: Saying, but you're saying it's a.
Speaker 2: Guy's and it's somebody that the engineer was impressed by.
Speaker 5: I was picturing a girl.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead, Okay, Well, I was.
Speaker 8: Like the music that you know that this this particular
Speaker 8: dude's music was like really influential and and in my
Speaker 8: career and kind of the lane that I ended up
Speaker 8: in in country music. And I'm sitting there like hey,
Speaker 8: what if you try this? And then it just hit me.
Speaker 8: I was like what am I?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 8: How did I get here? Like I'm I'm making music
Speaker 8: with a guy that has influenced my music and he
Speaker 8: he's like, yeah, that's a good idea, and we're just
Speaker 8: going back and forth as as peers, and it was
Speaker 8: just a I don't know, I don't know if other
Speaker 8: people feel this way, but it's just a crazy it's
Speaker 8: just been. It's been a crazy journey for me. And
Speaker 8: I still feel like the regular dude that's working at
Speaker 8: the pavement company that gets to make music and to
Speaker 8: be in there with like, you know, a guy I
Speaker 8: really look up to who's done it at a high
Speaker 8: level for a really long time. It just like it's
Speaker 8: just crazy. It's like those moments where you life almost
Speaker 8: forces you to stop, slow down enough to smell the roses,
Speaker 8: and like, man, just life could have ended up so differently.
Speaker 2: Okay, made a list don't react, don't react. Obviously, number
Speaker 2: one on my list just guesses. Don't react. Guess, can't react.
Speaker 2: It's Willie Nelson just because of that story. And number
Speaker 2: two is going to be like Evan Felker from Turnpigh.
Speaker 2: Number three is going to be a Pat Green. You're reacting.
Speaker 8: I'm not reacting. I'm listening.
Speaker 2: I also put on like a stony LaRue or something. Oh,
Speaker 2: it could be really anyone because he's a Texas guy.
Speaker 2: You know, we all live in Texas for a long time.
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking about, like, who are the people that
Speaker 2: we and those guys have been doing it for a bit.
Speaker 5: I feel like with Willie though, I just this is
Speaker 5: just my first thought when you said that. I don't
Speaker 5: think he would suggest anything, like, you know, he said
Speaker 5: they were going back and forth as peers.
Speaker 2: That's a great point.
Speaker 5: Why don't we go ahead and try to take that
Speaker 5: down And like he'd probably just sit back like this,
Speaker 5: that's probably off the table.
Speaker 2: How did the Co Wetzel song come together?
Speaker 10: Then?
Speaker 8: Oh? Man, this is a this is a fun one.
Speaker 8: So Co and I have been kind of and quite
Speaker 8: a few shows together, just getting build on the same things,
Speaker 8: you know, a lot of kind of musical fan overlap,
Speaker 8: and so got to spend some good time together hung
Speaker 8: out in Denver one night, and uh, I just realized
Speaker 8: how much cooler Co was than me because he was
Speaker 8: hanging out with like justin Gaechee and all these like
Speaker 8: top tier UFC fight I'm such a huge UFC fan,
Speaker 8: But uh, we were just hanging out and just that
Speaker 8: relationship naturally developed, and uh, I've been a fan of
Speaker 8: how Co has built his career for a long time.
Speaker 8: He's been you know, kind of outside of the mainstream
Speaker 8: for a bit, but just just built this this huge fandom,
Speaker 8: like he is a lot of people, especially in Texas, uh,
Speaker 8: and in that that area of the world, he's a
Speaker 8: lot of people's favorite country artists and anyway, so I've
Speaker 8: respected him for a long time, looked up to him
Speaker 8: in a lot of ways. And anyway, I wrote this
Speaker 8: song Rocky Mountain Low, And one of my favorite things
Speaker 8: about country music is like I think the challenge of
Speaker 8: being a good narrator, Like I know, a good example
Speaker 8: is like I know Garth Brooks didn't get shot by
Speaker 8: his ex wife, but I love hearing him saying thunder rolls,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean. Like George Strait is masterful storyteller.
Speaker 8: And you know, I even think like Hardy waiting the truck,
Speaker 8: like I know he's not in prison, but damn I
Speaker 8: believe the song. It's just so good, Like some people
Speaker 8: can tell stories so well. So this song felt like
Speaker 8: a really cool challenge to like can I tell this
Speaker 8: story well? But it got to the second verse and
Speaker 8: wrote it in the day that we wrote it with
Speaker 8: you know, three of my buddies. I was like, man,
Speaker 8: this just feels like this almost feels like co wrote
Speaker 8: this verse. And so I texted him the song and
Speaker 8: to get a duet across the finish line is like impossible.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's just especially if you guys are both
Speaker 8: on labels and you got you know, management, and just.
Speaker 2: So many people schedules.
Speaker 8: So I sent the song to Code and he was like, dude,
Speaker 8: I am in like, this is a song. And I
Speaker 8: was like, what if we just do it and don't
Speaker 8: tell anybody? And so that's exactly what we did. We
Speaker 8: booked a studio out in Cisco, Texas, and booked the
Speaker 8: film crew, and we went out there and we cut
Speaker 8: the song and we turned it in and I said, hey,
Speaker 8: I want this to be the first thing off the
Speaker 8: new record. I think this is the this is the
Speaker 8: perfect thing to kind of set the tone for the
Speaker 8: next chapter of country music in my career. And you know,
Speaker 8: three days later, it shipped to radio. Like, to my
Speaker 8: team's credit, they won, they didn't they didn't get in
Speaker 8: the way of that. They were really fully behind it.
Speaker 8: But two, it was like, you know, in today's world,
Speaker 8: everything's very data heavy. It's like all the song's got
Speaker 8: a it's got a stream x amount for x amount
Speaker 8: of time, and then it'll go to radio if it
Speaker 8: hits all these benchmarks. And and we were just like, man,
Speaker 8: we really co and I both really believe people are
Speaker 8: gonna dig this song, Like our fans are gonna like this,
Speaker 8: and we should just follow that and like forget the data.
Speaker 8: Like we still there's still a place for like taste
Speaker 8: making in country music. Like I tell this dumb story
Speaker 8: about like getting my son to try steak for the
Speaker 8: first time. He's like, well, it's not a cheeseburger. I'm like,
Speaker 8: just close your eyes and try this. You don't know
Speaker 8: you're gonna love this, but you don't know it yet,
Speaker 8: and you know it takes for a buy. He's like,
Speaker 8: this is amazing, you know. And I still feel like
Speaker 8: that is that is a responsibility of artists. But I
Speaker 8: think we kind of lose the forest for the trees
Speaker 8: sometimes and we want to know without a doubt that
Speaker 8: a song's gonna work. But the beauty of this was
Speaker 8: like we followed our gut, we followed our intuition, and
Speaker 8: we put this song out and it's been the fastest
Speaker 8: climbing radio single we've ever had, and just like a
Speaker 8: really a really cool and different texture to in the
Speaker 8: country music landscape. It should have been a fun, fun thing,
Speaker 8: but uh yeah, I kind of took a page out
Speaker 8: of Coast Book and we just did whatever the we
Speaker 8: wanted to do.
Speaker 2: That's definitely a page out of Coach book. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the that's the book he wrote. Yeah, it does of
Speaker 2: whatever he wants whatever, and I respect him for it.
Speaker 8: Me too, man. I mean that's kind of like what
Speaker 8: we were talking about earlier. Just the way that he's
Speaker 8: gone about his business is like silence the noise, follow
Speaker 8: your gut, and it's worked out pretty well for him.
Speaker 2: So, new album you just announced, a Heartland rock and roll.
Speaker 2: Is there a data when you're putting it out? I
Speaker 2: think there is, or like an era a month or something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, September, I know, September. I think that they put
Speaker 8: a specific date on there.
Speaker 2: How many songs fifteen? Did you have more than that
Speaker 2: and you had to like cut it down to fifteen? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that hard?
Speaker 8: It is tough, man, especially in an era where people
Speaker 8: are putting out thirty five song records. But you know,
Speaker 8: I got to be realistic about where I am in
Speaker 8: my career. I don't think people have the I don't
Speaker 8: have the attention span to listen to thirty five songs
Speaker 8: from anybody. So I just like, I don't know. I
Speaker 8: think fifteen is a good a good number. I have
Speaker 8: only really put out like ten, eleven, twelve song records.
Speaker 8: That's kind of been my formula of just onto the next.
Speaker 8: But this one, man, to be honest with you, I've
Speaker 8: obviously been proud of any record that I've put out,
Speaker 8: because like, you work hard on them and you believe
Speaker 8: in the songs. But like when I think of Stapleton,
Speaker 8: I think of the Traveler Record, When I think of
Speaker 8: of Eric Church, I think of the Chief Record, when
Speaker 8: I think of Kings of Leon, I think about Come
Speaker 8: Around Sundown. Like there's just certain records that I just
Speaker 8: you know, John Mayer, I think of Continuum. There's just
Speaker 8: certain records that are just catalysts in these people's careers.
Speaker 8: But it's just what I think about when I think
Speaker 8: about that artist, and I've never really felt like I
Speaker 8: had that, and I think, really, for the first time ever,
Speaker 8: I'm like, man, this might be the record that when
Speaker 8: people think about my name, they're going to think about
Speaker 8: this record, and that's an exciting place to be, and
Speaker 8: so I just didn't want I finally got some time.
Speaker 8: You know, you have to put out music so fast,
Speaker 8: I think, faster than ever. Finally just was like stop rushing,
Speaker 8: like trust the process. Let's just make the best record
Speaker 8: we can possibly make, and when it's done, it's done.
Speaker 8: And if it's not done, then we don't put it
Speaker 8: out yet. And it just it took a little bit
Speaker 8: of time, but kind of putting the finishing touches on
Speaker 8: it just really last week it feels special and we're,
Speaker 8: you know, three singles in and Rocky Mountain Low's doing
Speaker 8: its thing in the top ten at radio. Empty Words
Speaker 8: is going We're gonna have two songs on the radio
Speaker 8: at the same time, which is crazy, Like never really
Speaker 8: dreamed that was a possibility. So so far, people are
Speaker 8: really resonating with the new stuff, and it feels like
Speaker 8: we might be onto something special.
Speaker 2: We're gonna play Empty Words. I don't know, give me
Speaker 2: a little story, a little anecdote about this one.
Speaker 8: This is a deep cut that I never thought anybody
Speaker 8: would care about. That people really, really connected with. It
Speaker 8: was gonna be a song that I loved that nobody
Speaker 8: cared about, because that's usually how it goes. My favorite
Speaker 8: songs are I mean, I think a lot of artists
Speaker 8: feel that way. But this song is is it just
Speaker 8: doesn't sound like anything else. You know, it's a it's
Speaker 8: got a lot of it's a lot of soulful influence
Speaker 8: in in this and uh, we we made this song,
Speaker 8: created like every aspect of it in the third floor
Speaker 8: of Combustion, just me and my one of my best friends,
Speaker 8: Austin Goodlow, who's produced in this record. And a lot
Speaker 8: of times you take the the what you create in
Speaker 8: that moment and then you're like, let's go to the
Speaker 8: studio and then let's add all these A list players
Speaker 8: and let's see if we can make it better. This
Speaker 8: particular song, we were like, sometimes it's just it just
Speaker 8: is perfect when you when you originally create it. And
Speaker 8: so we took what we originally created, we didn't mess
Speaker 8: with it, and we just put it out and uh,
Speaker 8: it's been it's been a really awesome thing to see.
Speaker 8: I mean, we played we knew it was gonna be
Speaker 8: special with played this show in Sacramento. We just picked
Speaker 8: up a random show and it was a little club
Speaker 8: and it was a sold out crowd, and they sang
Speaker 8: this song like every word as loud as they sang
Speaker 8: Wild as heard or the stuff that's been on the radio,
Speaker 8: and so it just feels like it feels like they've
Speaker 8: taken ownership of this song and now it's gonna be
Speaker 8: It's gonna be on the radio.
Speaker 2: We're gonna play it. Also, guys, go watch Corey. If
Speaker 2: you go to Corey Kent Official, all the dates are up.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of shows all the way to
Speaker 2: the end of the year. So great live performer. I
Speaker 2: think people know you mostly as that. Like if they say, hey,
Speaker 2: what's Corey good at the first thing they say is
Speaker 2: he's raight live, and so yeah, do not know they
Speaker 2: say that they should tell you that then, because mostly
Speaker 2: like people that like you and have worked with you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I you know what, living in Texas,
Speaker 8: it is really kind of tough to know what people
Speaker 8: think of you. I don't hear like I'm not seeking
Speaker 8: that out. I'm not trying to figure out what do
Speaker 8: people think of me all the time. But I'm also
Speaker 8: just like one layer removed from I actually do ask
Speaker 8: my manager. I'm like, you know, are we doing are
Speaker 8: we doing good? I just don't know, Like I feel
Speaker 8: like we're doing good. But I also just I'm not here,
Speaker 8: like I'm not I'm not like immersed in it twenty
Speaker 8: four seven like I used to be, and so uh.
Speaker 2: Behind your back, people say, man, that dude's great live
Speaker 2: right on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's like, that's the highest compliment to me,
Speaker 8: because I you know, I think a lot of people
Speaker 8: would write songs even if they didn't perform live. To me,
Speaker 8: I'm like, if I could record and write but I
Speaker 8: couldn't play live, I just would do something else, like
Speaker 8: live music, even from that night with Willie Nelson, Like
Speaker 8: that is why, that is why I got into this,
Speaker 8: Like live music is what I love. So that's that's
Speaker 8: a reassuring that's awesome.
Speaker 2: We're gonna play empty words. I'm big fan Corey. Good
Speaker 2: to see you, man, Good to see you too.
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Everybody good. Yeah, man, you guys had enough.
Speaker 8: You guys are so quiet storyteller, we're talking too much,
Speaker 8: like I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't good, we'd have been doing bits in between, Okay,
Speaker 2: we'd have been like, Amy, how do you feel about
Speaker 2: his hat? What does look for stuff? I'm doing bad guests? Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you're killing it, you're on your box.
Speaker 5: I'd be like, what kind of cologne do you wear?
Speaker 5: Because you so really good.
Speaker 2: That's when you know interviews are going bad. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: but really he does he smells good. Yeah, he hugged you.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe that's why I still smell it.
Speaker 8: I don't know. It's like, uh, the I'm gonna mess
Speaker 8: this up my freaking rednecks about the show.
Speaker 10: It's like.
Speaker 8: But but it's not like the one that everybody knows. No,
Speaker 8: it's not that it's.
Speaker 5: A new scent to me, but I like it.
Speaker 2: Lalabo Horse Tall Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm always so impressed by people who can like smell
Speaker 8: something and be like that's this. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 8: possess that that like dark magic that people can do.
Speaker 2: I gotta play your song. I gotta play afty more.
Speaker 2: All right, I got to a song. It's Corey Kent.
Speaker 2: This is new song. Empty Words album comes out in September. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, Ish's Corey Kent. Everybody great, God.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 3: Number two, A listener called in and wanted some dating
Speaker 3: updates from Amy.
Speaker 2: Is she dating?
Speaker 3: Is she thinking about dating? Does she want to get
Speaker 3: married again one day? What's the situation going on? So
Speaker 3: here's an update on Amy's love.
Speaker 1: Life number four.
Speaker 2: All right, voicemail, Good morning studio.
Speaker 9: I was just wondering if Amy ever planned to date again,
Speaker 9: or if she's going to get into it, or if
Speaker 9: she's been talking to any guys. I feel like she
Speaker 9: hasn't been talking about that much lately, and I just
Speaker 9: wonder what she had planned love the show.
Speaker 5: I mean, no plan, but I would imagine I will
Speaker 5: date again, but I'm not and I'm over do it. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 5: do I want to be alone the rest of my life?
Speaker 5: Considered it? But I don't. I don't think that's for me.
Speaker 2: You know what, being alone?
Speaker 5: Here's the thing. I think I probably could do it,
Speaker 5: but then that would be very lonely.
Speaker 2: But are you going to find someone to say you're
Speaker 2: not alone?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I don't think that's the goal. I just want That's
Speaker 5: what I watched my mom do. My mom never dated,
Speaker 5: she never got it was crazy that she went so
Speaker 5: many years just and she got content, and I know
Speaker 5: I could be like her and I could get that way,
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to let myself. So that's more
Speaker 5: so I'm I want to experience life with someone.
Speaker 2: Are you actively no? Are you on any app?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Do you plan to be?
Speaker 5: No? I mean I did the app thing.
Speaker 2: And how do you expecting to change then?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm I'm just literally asking you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, I've got this friend, got match maker, he
Speaker 5: wants to go out.
Speaker 2: That's what happened with your boyfriend, right, Yeah, you're set up.
Speaker 5: So I could that So maybe that could happen again.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I know organically, I know my friend
Speaker 5: just talked to me about that this weekend. She was like, well,
Speaker 5: what what what did you do? And I was like, well,
Speaker 5: it was rainy. I didn't do much of anything. I mean,
Speaker 5: so it's hard like she was. She's singles. She goes
Speaker 5: out with groups of friends and they meet people and
Speaker 5: she loves doing that. Like I don't have the desire
Speaker 5: to just go out and meet people. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 5: either right now, just generally speaking, and that might change,
Speaker 5: Like maybe there'll be a day that comes up where
Speaker 5: I'm like, Okay, Yeah, let's go. I want to go,
Speaker 5: but that's just not where I am.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you for the question. Lave's voicemail.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 3: Lunchbox has another bone to pick with the whole education situation,
Speaker 3: but this time not exactly teachers, maybe more so room parents.
Speaker 3: But there's a situation that involves teachers and he has a.
Speaker 2: Lot to say. Number three, folks wants to complain about
Speaker 2: teachers again. So here we go, right, Yeah, so.
Speaker 7: We got the email from I guess it's called the
Speaker 7: room parent. They have someone at no, no, it's like
Speaker 7: a parent that helps around the classroom. And they said, hey,
Speaker 7: don't forget the teachers are taking down all their stuff
Speaker 7: in the classroom. They're going to be out of the
Speaker 7: building by this coming Friday. We would like to give
Speaker 7: the teacher an end of the year gift. We are
Speaker 7: asking for twenty to twenty five dollars per student.
Speaker 2: WHOA how many students in the class get in our rollax?
Speaker 6: And what ah, there's probably eighteen. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but hold on.
Speaker 7: We just did teacher Appreciation Week and now we're doing
Speaker 7: into the year gifts. Teachers are getting more gifts than
Speaker 7: anybody I've ever met in my life. Like, why are
Speaker 7: we getting all these gifts? Like what are we saying, oh,
Speaker 7: teacher appreciation? We you know, they want to do all
Speaker 7: this stuff and now it's into the year gift? What
Speaker 7: was teacher appreciation then? What if they would have said?
Speaker 2: And I feel like this would have been probably better
Speaker 2: five dollars per person. Twenty bucks seems like a lot
Speaker 2: per person for a gift for the teacher eighteen student.
Speaker 2: I like the idea of any of the teacher an
Speaker 2: end of the year gift if they did a great job.
Speaker 2: Twenty bucks seems high. Five bucks for each person. Can
Speaker 2: I say this is turning into tipping culture?
Speaker 7: I do not remember, and I'd had to ask my parents,
Speaker 7: but there was none of this get teachers gifts for
Speaker 7: a week when we were kids. There was no end
Speaker 7: of the year gift for teachers when we were kids.
Speaker 7: Why all of a sudden are we doing this? Did you,
Speaker 7: as a parent say no, I don't know.
Speaker 5: You can opt out. You're not forced to participate in
Speaker 5: the I wouldn't, but you could.
Speaker 2: I feel like if there was one time to opt
Speaker 2: out though it's at the end of the year because
Speaker 2: you don't have see that teacher anymore.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, but do you think the home parent or the
Speaker 4: parent teacher whatever would tell them like, hey, everyone did
Speaker 4: accept Daniel.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: See, I don't think the teacher's ever going to know,
Speaker 5: but the other parents will and you will likely be
Speaker 5: if your kids are at the same school, you're going
Speaker 5: to be with the same parents.
Speaker 7: You're opting in, right, yes, but it's just like it's
Speaker 7: getting out of control, Like what is going on? We've
Speaker 7: got to put a stop at some point. So are
Speaker 7: we gonna are we now coming two and a half months?
Speaker 7: Are we going to do a welcome back to school gift? Like, hey,
Speaker 7: let's start off to your good here's a present for
Speaker 7: the teacher to say, we're excited about the year ahead.
Speaker 6: It's crazy, do you do you am? I? Am I?
Speaker 6: You guys kind of agree with me on this one.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, it's like, let me ask you, what is what's
Speaker 4: the most precious thing in your life?
Speaker 6: My kids?
Speaker 4: So you like spend a little money to think the
Speaker 4: people that.
Speaker 5: They're spending hours and hours.
Speaker 4: Hours, So look at it that way.
Speaker 7: Okay, then why do we have teacher appreciation Week to
Speaker 7: appreciate them as well.
Speaker 6: Okay, now, so.
Speaker 7: How many appreciation gifts are we going to give them?
Speaker 5: Okay, well right now if it's the beginning of the year,
Speaker 5: appreciation week and end of year, that's three and then
Speaker 5: maybe Christmas.
Speaker 6: No, no appreciation week. They had a different theme every day.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's right. Wow to a different school because
Speaker 5: I never had.
Speaker 2: Oh that's not happening with you, guys. What if they're
Speaker 2: only just targeting you.
Speaker 6: Maybe they see.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they see radio guy Baller and they think, oh,
Speaker 7: you show up on your bike.
Speaker 2: They're like that guy, he's got it, he's got it together.
Speaker 2: So what's the point here.
Speaker 7: I just think it's getting out of control, Like we
Speaker 7: are turning this Like the teachers, they work, they do things,
Speaker 7: but why are we acting like they are doing this
Speaker 7: amazing like changing.
Speaker 2: They are doing amazingly. They are changing lives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, they're teaching your kids shapiness.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you get your doctor a gift, my doctor, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't see my doctor near as much as a
Speaker 2: kid was a teacher, which is everything.
Speaker 7: But if the doctor, like Eddie, the guys that either
Speaker 7: the doctors and nurses that saved you from mercer or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sect, what did you give them? Nothing? That's
Speaker 2: money you paid, money, we paid, But you're not paying
Speaker 2: your teachers.
Speaker 6: My tax dollars are paying those teachers.
Speaker 2: But his wasn't a tax dollars.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's not a bad idea. So start appreciating the
Speaker 4: doctors and giving them.
Speaker 2: I mean, so you want to do that too, So
Speaker 2: you want to No, no, give more people gifts.
Speaker 7: No, that's what I'm saying. Like, we do teachers, but
Speaker 7: we don't do everybody. It's it's out of control. It
Speaker 7: needs to stop.
Speaker 2: Then why don't you reply to that email? Be the
Speaker 2: man you say you are, apply back and say, hey,
Speaker 2: this is out of control. It needs to stop. Did
Speaker 2: you tip your doctor? Yeah, like the way you said
Speaker 2: it here, dude, Yeah, be the guy.
Speaker 6: I'll just send them a link to this.
Speaker 5: Be like I get teachers do things. Yeah, but this
Speaker 5: is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just tipping culture. Do the whole bit you just
Speaker 2: did here in an email. Okay, I love that it
Speaker 2: needs to stop. Yeah, with exclamation, you're going to be
Speaker 2: the first person to stop it. We got to draw
Speaker 2: a line in the same don't link us, you just
Speaker 2: say it in an email. Okay, okay, let us know
Speaker 2: how that goes. I will, but you're still gonna give
Speaker 2: them money probably, Okay.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 3: Number two, Amy's son was out running and he was
Speaker 3: offered a ride from a stranger, and Amy shared the
Speaker 3: whole story behind it, what went down, and how they
Speaker 3: handled it, plus how would you handle it if a
Speaker 3: stranger offered you a ride.
Speaker 2: Number two Amy Sun was out running. It's been raining here,
Speaker 2: and some dude was like, hey, you want to ride?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 5: He got back from his run and came inside and
Speaker 5: he was like, some guy asked me if I needed
Speaker 5: to ride home?
Speaker 2: So instead of stranger danger, can I again just be
Speaker 2: Devil's advocate a little bit? Your son looks like an adult. No, no,
Speaker 2: he's a teenager. But he's a tall teenager. If it
Speaker 2: were like a seven year old, I would go stranger
Speaker 2: danger for sure. Run. I almost feel like that's just
Speaker 2: somebody trying to help somebody out running in the rain.
Speaker 4: Was it a pickup truck or like get in the car?
Speaker 5: No, just to hey, no, like I don't know. He said,
Speaker 5: a small suv and the guy asked if he needed
Speaker 5: to ride home, and he was like no, and then
Speaker 5: he just.
Speaker 8: Ran offt smart.
Speaker 2: I would have also ran off. He did the exact
Speaker 2: right thing, but if it's an eleven year old, it's different. Right.
Speaker 2: Did your son feel like he was trying to abduct him?
Speaker 5: No? I think he thought it was odd. He's never
Speaker 5: had somebody pull over and ask him if he needed
Speaker 5: a ride before, and all he's ever heard if someone
Speaker 5: offers you to get in the car and take you somewhere,
Speaker 5: like you say no. And so he just was a
Speaker 5: little I don't want to say shaken up, but a
Speaker 5: little like mom, that was weird, right, And I said
Speaker 5: that is that is weird, and he it could have
Speaker 5: been a kind gesture. However, I'm thinking, as an adult,
Speaker 5: would I pull over and ask a teenager if they
Speaker 5: needed to ride.
Speaker 2: Home they're running in the rain?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Probably not unless you're a runner. And he did it.
Speaker 5: He knew it was he went out to run specifically
Speaker 5: in the rain.
Speaker 2: But the guy doesn't know that, right. I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: I'm glad he didn't get in the car. No, change,
Speaker 2: don't get in the car. Yeah, nope. However, your son
Speaker 2: is bigger than like a kid, that can't fight and
Speaker 2: like punch and beat somebody up. And then also it
Speaker 2: was a rainy I know it would.
Speaker 5: Any buddy in this room ask a kid if they
Speaker 5: need a ride home?
Speaker 2: No, it's a rain kid's a weird thing. How about
Speaker 2: young adult? He is a kid, I mean an adult.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even ask him if they need a.
Speaker 2: Right I might. I might, yeah, if it's pouring down
Speaker 2: rain and they got themselves caught out there, Hey man,
Speaker 2: you need to ride?
Speaker 4: And i'd he's sitting there like, oh gosh, covering himself
Speaker 4: here walking lunchbox.
Speaker 7: Man, I feel like I wouldn't offer, but I do
Speaker 7: feel like when I hear it, it does. Think he
Speaker 7: sees a guy and he's running, so he's like, oh man,
Speaker 7: he just got caught in the rain. He's trying to
Speaker 7: run to get out of the rain. So he's like, man,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do something nice. I'm asking him if he
Speaker 7: needs a ride home.
Speaker 5: That's yeah, Maybe I don't know the right thing.
Speaker 2: He did the right thing.
Speaker 5: I just have a bad taste in my mouth about
Speaker 5: people because in general, because I was like, who does that?
Speaker 5: Who asks? And he was right. It's all like Stevenson
Speaker 5: was seeking shelter under a like he was running, and
Speaker 5: I think it was that there's this part on the
Speaker 5: street where he has to cross the road and you
Speaker 5: have to wait for the crosswalk, so you have to
Speaker 5: press the button, and he was waiting there.
Speaker 6: He looks like he's stuck in the rain.
Speaker 2: In the rain, nobody normal.
Speaker 5: He was waiting for the walk button so he could go.
Speaker 2: Stuck in the rain.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 7: The guy sees him stuck in the rain, like, oh
Speaker 7: my gosh, you're just standing at a crosswalk getting drinking.
Speaker 5: Some might say he looks twelve.
Speaker 2: No, he's sixteen. He's tall.
Speaker 5: He's fifteen and he how tall do you think he is?
Speaker 2: I was with him a month ago. He's he's like.
Speaker 5: Here, okay on me, He's here, Okay, Yeah, that's his
Speaker 5: hair is tall.
Speaker 2: That could be it. I'm glad. I'm not advocating for
Speaker 2: him getting in that car. I'm just saying I don't
Speaker 2: necessarily think that was stranger danger. It just could have
Speaker 2: been somebody, out of the goodness of their heart, looking
Speaker 2: to help someone who got stuck in the rain.
Speaker 5: I don normally I can see the good.
Speaker 2: If I were going to be a predator, I would
Speaker 2: pick somebody more vulnerable, not a tall, strong, sixteen year
Speaker 2: old boy could beat me up. Yeah fifteen sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And he was he dressed like he was running to
Speaker 4: see Like, all that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6: What would does that mean? He's dressed like he's.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look like he's walking from.
Speaker 5: School, right, he's got his headphones like he was on
Speaker 5: a run.
Speaker 2: I just challenge you to not lose faith in Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: in humanity.
Speaker 5: Thank you, it's right.
Speaker 2: But eighty percent chance creepo twenty percent just a good
Speaker 2: person trying to help somebody out in a bad day.
Speaker 5: My main thing was I wanted to ask everybody in
Speaker 5: the room, like, would any of you stop? And none
Speaker 5: of us would?
Speaker 2: I think lunchbox would. Well, it just depends if it
Speaker 2: were an adult and I felt like they were trapped
Speaker 2: in the rain. I possibly depending on what carm uh right.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.
Speaker 3: We had listener Kyler in our studio this week. You
Speaker 3: may know him as the one who keeps all the
Speaker 3: stats for all of our.
Speaker 2: Games, who wins, who loses? You know, me always losing.
Speaker 3: He's stopped by the studio with a grip challenge for us,
Speaker 3: which is super competitive in the studio. If you listen
Speaker 3: to this and you love it, you can also go
Speaker 3: watch it on our YouTube page Appobby Bone Show.
Speaker 1: Number one, So Bobby Bones Show Interviews in case you
Speaker 1: didn't know.
Speaker 2: Forgut Sue's got the strongest hands on the show because
Speaker 2: Kyler Innis is here. He is a professional di wire
Speaker 2: and like he literally that's what he does. But he's
Speaker 2: gone super viral on social media testing people's grip strengths.
Speaker 2: Not only that, this is the guy that keeps all
Speaker 2: of our stats for games. He listens to every single
Speaker 2: segment we do and then calls us at the beginning
Speaker 2: of every year and gives us all the stats. But
Speaker 2: we told him come up to the show. We're all
Speaker 2: going to test our grip strength now with Kyler Innis.
Speaker 2: So what's the did you buy the grip machine from
Speaker 2: like the internet or I.
Speaker 11: Ordered it off Amazon? This is like my sixth one.
Speaker 11: There's been a few that have broken.
Speaker 2: Is it because so much use or because some people
Speaker 2: are just so strong.
Speaker 10: So much use use and abuse?
Speaker 2: You ever met anybody that's so freaking strong and you're like, dah,
Speaker 2: it goes wild.
Speaker 10: Uh, There's one guy.
Speaker 11: He was my plumbing excavator and he's like seven foot
Speaker 11: tall three eighty five and he just absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 10: He's the strongest guy I've tested for sure.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this because we're gonna do this.
Speaker 2: Oh great, I think I'm last. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 2: with you. I think I have the weakest hands of
Speaker 2: all the dudes. You just did a test that you're physical,
Speaker 2: right I did.
Speaker 11: Did they have you hold it over your head or
Speaker 11: like a ninety degree angle? Do they have you do
Speaker 11: it any specific way?
Speaker 2: And then even tell me I was doing it. They're like, here,
Speaker 2: grab this and pull, and I did it, and I
Speaker 2: was like all right. They said, okay, you're strengthen this hand.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't even warm my I know
Speaker 2: we were like measuring this, and then I did the
Speaker 2: other hand, which was a little bit more. But no,
Speaker 2: he's supposed to above your head.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 11: Some people have said you're stronger if you hold it
Speaker 11: above your head, but I don't know. I just tell
Speaker 11: the whoever I'm testing, like, hey, just however, you can
Speaker 11: feel like you're the strongest, just rip it.
Speaker 2: I feel the strongest naked, Okay, Okay. If I'm completely
Speaker 2: butt naked, I feel like I can pull the hardest.
Speaker 2: I think Scuba Steve is number one.
Speaker 4: Well now he's just angry. That isn't an equal.
Speaker 2: It does, though, sometimes I think Ray Mundo is number two.
Speaker 2: That's wrong. Mike d is number three. Lunchbox, you're doing that.
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 2: If I were betting on this, it would go. Lunchbox
Speaker 2: is an eddie then me. So is your machine? Do
Speaker 2: you have to like plug it in or anything? No?
Speaker 5: You just you just squeeze it, squeeze it go.
Speaker 2: Can we get him a piece of paper? And I
Speaker 2: don't want him to tell us the results as we
Speaker 2: do them. We'll do them all. He'll write them all down,
Speaker 2: rank them and then he'll read them to us like that. Scuba,
Speaker 2: you want to come in first? That's finales do yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, here is our executive producer, Scuba Steve. He's
Speaker 2: coming in, Kyler. What is this thing called this machine?
Speaker 10: It's called a dynamometer.
Speaker 2: So we pick one hand? You give it a rip?
Speaker 2: Do you want it?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 6: You only do one hand?
Speaker 2: So ugly, Scuba Steve. Are you ready?
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm ready, Yes, just one hand.
Speaker 11: Only take your other hold it, hold it to your
Speaker 11: side or however you feel strongest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, area three.
Speaker 11: Yeah, whenever you let go, it'll show like the number
Speaker 11: that you maxed out.
Speaker 2: And don't don't say your number three to go. That's
Speaker 2: a strong You don't have to hold any Relax, bro,
Speaker 2: are you a little bit? Scuba? Steve is done? Hey, Raymundo,
Speaker 2: you come in Scuba. Steve can take your spot there
Speaker 2: on the old soundboard if needed.
Speaker 6: It was very interesting. Hey might want to try that
Speaker 6: upside down so Ray doesn't see the number?
Speaker 10: Good call?
Speaker 2: All right, Raymondo?
Speaker 10: What I do?
Speaker 2: Get there? You go? Looks okay, diarrhea? So my again
Speaker 2: My prediction is scuba. Then Ray, Mike, do you want
Speaker 2: to go next? Let's go and oh Mike is shaking
Speaker 2: very silent, like hey, it's quiet, Mike, he lives silent.
Speaker 2: There you go, lunch box.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah you ready?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: Here we go, all right, I don't need my shirt
Speaker 2: on or off on?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 2: Here we go. Here goes down like this. You do
Speaker 2: it above your head, my head and go.
Speaker 5: That barely moved, I mean, also hit the light.
Speaker 2: It also nailed the light. I know, Eddie. My next yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, go and break it.
Speaker 10: Due.
Speaker 2: That looked pretty good. I'm surprised at that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was an interesting maneuver.
Speaker 2: All right, is it me? All right?
Speaker 6: Bobby?
Speaker 5: Is this how people on the job site do it?
Speaker 2: They don't go and what.
Speaker 6: Did they grunt? My back hurt?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of have to grunt.
Speaker 4: I feel the back hurts.
Speaker 6: Dude. You can hurt my back.
Speaker 2: You can put everything in it.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: Okay, who is the strongest baby grip on the show?
Speaker 10: Scuba?
Speaker 2: Scuba?
Speaker 11: Still by two point four pounds? He got one thirty
Speaker 11: one at number two?
Speaker 10: Number two? You got Ray Mundo at one twenty nine.
Speaker 7: Wow, So far Bobby's preseason rankings are dead on nailed.
Speaker 2: Ray Mundo at too strong?
Speaker 6: Ray?
Speaker 2: What was their difference?
Speaker 10: Two point four pounds?
Speaker 2: That's not a lot, right, it's pretty close? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: get you guys? All right, guys, did you guys all
Speaker 2: look at your number?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, you didn't even see your number?
Speaker 6: No idea?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I didn't look at it. Okay, number, Just
Speaker 2: give us the grip of the third person?
Speaker 10: One fourteen point two?
Speaker 5: What were they that's gotta be one twenty nine? Was raised?
Speaker 6: One? We're way down there.
Speaker 2: That's a big draw a number three is is Eddie
Speaker 2: talking about low T with lo T? Yeah, if you
Speaker 2: got your tea up, dude, I would know. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 2: I was wrong on that one. I thought yes, okay.
Speaker 2: The next score.
Speaker 10: Number four, we got you at ninety four point eight.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my gosh, what was I finished fourth?
Speaker 2: That's awesome for my gosh, Oh my god, I got
Speaker 2: little princess hands. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: There's two pid lunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lunchbox and Mike d oh no, same looking good
Speaker 2: for me? Okay, I got high tea so far, Scuba
Speaker 2: at one, Ray at two, Eddie at three, Me at four.
Speaker 2: Thank god I'm not last. And then we have Mike
Speaker 2: and lunchbox. Hey you feel Mike?
Speaker 4: I think I feel good about beating lunch Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you got this.
Speaker 7: I mean the last time I've been to the gym
Speaker 7: seventh grade. So I don't know, man, I'm not feeling
Speaker 7: too good about this. It's been a long time since
Speaker 7: I've used my hands for work.
Speaker 2: All right? And who came in fifth?
Speaker 10: Wait?
Speaker 6: You want to go last now? Because you just want
Speaker 6: to announced last.
Speaker 2: Who came in the fifth? Yeah, you got Mike d fifth,
Speaker 2: so last place? Launch my.
Speaker 8: Last.
Speaker 2: You last. Yeah, you're the weakest of all loser.
Speaker 11: That's all right, So Mike, Mike got eighty six and
Speaker 11: Lunch got seventy six.
Speaker 2: You want to do the lady It? Sure?
Speaker 4: Okay, Hey, preseason up there?
Speaker 2: I think Morgan is at one, Amy's at two and
Speaker 2: Abby three.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Abby might struggle picking it up.
Speaker 5: I feel like Abby's.
Speaker 2: Just lifting it up.
Speaker 4: She's going to freak out and not squeak.
Speaker 2: She gets so nervous about it slips out of her hands. Morgan, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right? Walking up now? Is Morgan ready? One? Two? Three? Go?
Speaker 2: You're strong? All right? Amy's walking up now to take
Speaker 2: the grip challenge with no shoes. There we go and go.
Speaker 6: Pretty good?
Speaker 2: Amy? She squeezing. Yeah, she said she can barely open
Speaker 2: a jar. All right, Abby, I was walking in to
Speaker 2: take the grip test.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 5: You guys feeling any pain?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure my arm?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We don't do a show tomorrow because we're all at
Speaker 2: the hospital. Abby ready, Abby, don't get nervous and go,
Speaker 2: oh god, whoa what her gun?
Speaker 4: I think you're right. Preseason odds are right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I think Amy is gonna be better than
Speaker 2: probably she thought though, because I thought you looked pretty
Speaker 2: good doing it. Okay, so who was the strongest.
Speaker 10: You got Morgan at sixty seven point.
Speaker 12: Four goods for close seventy six dang, so close. And
Speaker 12: second second you have Abby.
Speaker 11: At fifty two pounds, and then Amy got forty five pous.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Amy, your heart's about to explode. I don't
Speaker 2: think I believe that we're going to lose you.
Speaker 5: Oh no, guys, I gotta go to the doctor.
Speaker 2: Take lunchbox away with you. Oh no, oh wow.
Speaker 5: I didn't scream though, that was the problem. They scream?
Speaker 5: Should I scream?
Speaker 2: I mean you probably could have. Yeah, even ever pooped
Speaker 2: your pants doing it, because I feel like that's the
Speaker 2: same muscle that I was using like a push.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me scream.
Speaker 2: All right, this is exhibition. Hold it above your head. Okay,
Speaker 2: now I know, and go.
Speaker 8: Shooter.
Speaker 2: That's pretty select though, that's pretty selectly. Tried to hands.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 5: It was natural. I didn't mean do it just feels better?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: Is that higher? Thirty eight went down?
Speaker 5: Guys around with me?
Speaker 4: Guys your yeah, your heart is now, your heart is bad.
Speaker 2: You're what are you squeeze higher than all those squeeze
Speaker 2: squeeze one for us.
Speaker 8: Oh gray ish, get it.
Speaker 2: Up and oh dude, look at his arm one ninety three. Yeah,
Speaker 2: without even really doing it, he.
Speaker 5: Just like blinked.
Speaker 8: Dang.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty cool. So Scuba one thirty two, Ray
Speaker 2: one twenty nine, Eddie one fourteen ninety four, Mike D
Speaker 2: eighty six, Lunchbox seventy six. That is not really Eddie.
Speaker 2: I apologize, Thank you, man, I thought you would finish
Speaker 2: next to last.
Speaker 4: Dude, I'm strong even with low t baby.
Speaker 10: That's a wide range of numbers there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Scooba is pretty strong, right, one thirty two him
Speaker 2: and right, those are pretty strong numbers generally. Yeah, what's
Speaker 2: strong in your mind? What numbers is generally? Just strong?
Speaker 5: Thirty eight?
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, thirty eight.
Speaker 11: I bet at this point I've probably tested like over
Speaker 11: a thousand people, and I'd say like anything over like one.
Speaker 10: Sixty is like elite.
Speaker 11: Oh dang elite then, But average, like on the job
Speaker 11: site especially, is usually around like one twenty five, one thirty.
Speaker 4: It's average on the job site guys that work with
Speaker 4: their hands all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel yeah, Kyler, where's the.
Speaker 4: Line between like women and men.
Speaker 10: Like the strongest woman. Yeah, the strongest I've tested is
Speaker 10: one eighteen.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 11: Nice, and then my wife is in second place at
Speaker 11: one twelve.
Speaker 2: But you guys said, I'm like tractors, and I mean
Speaker 2: I would work out doing it.
Speaker 10: No, I actually have like pretty bad tennis elbow. I'm
Speaker 10: wondering if it's from I'm always doing that.
Speaker 11: But like anytime I do, like trained back day or anything,
Speaker 11: I don't use straps anything like that.
Speaker 10: It's just I don't know, and working with your hands.
Speaker 2: A lot generally, if a guy like myself gets up
Speaker 2: to do that and he's wearing pink, how does that
Speaker 2: turn out.
Speaker 10: About like it did?
Speaker 2: Okay, you know I want a little pink here. What
Speaker 2: are you guys doing while you're in Nashville.
Speaker 11: Well, our anniversaries tomorrow and so we're gonna figure out
Speaker 11: something to do.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you came in. Seriously, this is fine. You
Speaker 2: have provided a lot of fun for us to every
Speaker 2: year when we talk to you, and if you come
Speaker 2: back to Nashville, bring it back, kink. I'm a train
Speaker 2: like a mofotel.
Speaker 10: Come back in a year.
Speaker 2: I have one hand that's hug and one that's small.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: You guys follow Kyler at Kyler Ennis and we really
Speaker 2: appreciate you and you have happy anniversary. I hope you
Speaker 2: guys have a great couple of days.
Speaker 5: How many years are you celebrating?
Speaker 10: Nine years?
Speaker 2: Congrats? What's what's what's nine years like? Cloth?
Speaker 10: I don't know?
Speaker 2: All right, there he is Kyler.
Speaker 10: Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 6: Number two.
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