Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 2: What's up everybody?
Speaker 3: Happy weekend, Excited to be back on another Best Bits.
Speaker 3: It is Cmafest in Nashville, which is the craziest weekend.
Speaker 3: And if my voice sounds a little different, because yesterday
Speaker 3: was a long one from Riverfront Stage to Nissan Stadium.
Speaker 4: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: And if you've never gotten to experience Cmafest, you should
Speaker 3: definitely come to Nashville for one year because I'm telling
Speaker 3: you as a country music fan, it's just a really
Speaker 3: good time. But we've got a lot of things to
Speaker 3: talk about on the Best Bits this week. Before I
Speaker 3: dive into just the Bits, make sure you check out
Speaker 3: Best Bits Part one with Scuba Steve He's on this weekend.
Speaker 3: We spilled some more tea from the celebrities softball game
Speaker 3: and talked about our favorite moments. Of course, I shared
Speaker 3: some bad blood that's happened recently, and if you know
Speaker 3: the Taylor Swift song, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: And Scuba shared a crazy story about something that involves
Speaker 3: a lot of money and a toll ticket.
Speaker 4: So all good stuff over there.
Speaker 3: Let's for now, Let's go ahead and show y'all the
Speaker 3: best segments. This week we started doing a new segment
Speaker 3: called Scuba Steve Suggests, and this week he suggested an
Speaker 3: investigation into somebody on the show.
Speaker 2: He got a.
Speaker 3: Phone call from a number that was something on the show,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't their name that pops up, so he
Speaker 3: wanted to know what the heck was going on in
Speaker 3: Boy did he end up calling somebody out number seven.
Speaker 5: This can be anything.
Speaker 6: It's our executive producer, Scuba Steve, and he gets to
Speaker 6: tell us to talk about whatever, Scuball, what would you
Speaker 6: like us to talk about today?
Speaker 7: Well, this time it's time for an investigation.
Speaker 8: Okay, I suggest we figure out what's going on here.
Speaker 8: So I got a new phone and I'm transferring over
Speaker 8: the contacts and in the middle will be doing that.
Speaker 8: My phone rings. I recognize the phone number, but I
Speaker 8: don't know the name. That's a that's you know, you
Speaker 8: get a phone call, it says like a name as
Speaker 8: tied to it.
Speaker 5: Or yes, sometimes there's a.
Speaker 7: Name on it, like like maybe this person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not always, but sometimes yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: So I look at the name and I don't recognize it.
Speaker 8: I answer the phone. I know who the person is.
Speaker 8: We have a conversation, and afterward, I don't say anything
Speaker 8: to this person afterwards to do some digging in the
Speaker 8: family tree, try to figure out if this name is
Speaker 8: tied to that person. I don't see anyone in the
Speaker 8: branches with this name. The name is Oscar Pavella and
Speaker 8: the phone number is two one oh three.
Speaker 3: Number.
Speaker 5: I saw his face start to crack when you said that.
Speaker 6: Number on it on Oscar Pavela, the name that shows
Speaker 6: up on your phone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so why is that? And who's paying for your bill?
Speaker 8: You're a grown man, forty one years old. What's going on?
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you. I pay for my bill, Thank you
Speaker 9: very much.
Speaker 10: Oscar Favella is my buddy from college that he works
Speaker 10: for a telephone company, and I am on his family plane.
Speaker 6: Okay, you're not paying well, you're not paying for your
Speaker 6: own bill. And I can't believe you're on a family
Speaker 6: plan of somebody.
Speaker 11: From college and you're held forty one.
Speaker 6: Somebody else's family plan. Wow, some dude that works in
Speaker 6: a phone company.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Why but because back in the day when there was
Speaker 10: limited data and rates or whatever, I get unlimited and.
Speaker 9: I pay fifteen dollars a month for my phone.
Speaker 5: So now it's unlimited for everybody all the time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it's only fifteen dollars, and it ain't fifteen dollars.
Speaker 9: If you get on your own plan.
Speaker 5: And he leaves that, you get to say on Oscar's
Speaker 5: phone plan.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's it's Oscar, his wife, his two kids,
Speaker 10: I think his sister and her family, his parents, me
Speaker 10: and my wife are all on that plan.
Speaker 5: Your wife's an Oscar Favella's phone plan too.
Speaker 11: Yeah, all.
Speaker 9: Shout out Oscar Favella. Hey, listen, guys.
Speaker 10: If you need a phone and you you need a
Speaker 10: verizing phone down in Corpus Christi, Texas, Oscar Favella is
Speaker 10: your man.
Speaker 11: We've never heard this story.
Speaker 6: Of all the ways that he tries to sometimes save
Speaker 6: sometimes steal money, this has never been one of his stories.
Speaker 6: We're like, this is what I'm doing. I steal my
Speaker 6: in lawst netflix. We never heard about Oscar Cavella un
Speaker 6: till right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is that embarrassing to you?
Speaker 9: No, it's not embarrass all guys, he never brought it up.
Speaker 9: What is there to bring up?
Speaker 12: Is Oscar in trouble?
Speaker 9: Did you blee that?
Speaker 6: It wasn't bleeping Morgan, We've talked to you about that.
Speaker 6: Your parents pay your what bill?
Speaker 3: It's yeah, my car insurance on the same family plan.
Speaker 5: Lunchbox gave you crap. I just want to bring this up.
Speaker 11: Oh good point.
Speaker 5: He gave you gave Morgan.
Speaker 9: Crap because their parents paid for it. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 6: It's still one saving money. Like you're paying fifteen dollars.
Speaker 6: Somebody's basically paying for your phone bill.
Speaker 3: No, they're not.
Speaker 9: He nothing comes out of his pocket.
Speaker 5: I pay for my own phone fifteen dollars.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 5: He's letting you use his name to save money.
Speaker 9: I'm not using his name.
Speaker 11: You are because the number is under his name.
Speaker 12: Family, you're using his name.
Speaker 6: You're literally using your phone is Oscar Todell I called
Speaker 6: Scuba Steve. Yeah.
Speaker 10: It's weird though, because sometimes if he forgets to pay
Speaker 10: the bill and like it's like it connects me to
Speaker 10: customer service and I'm like, you call him Oscar bro,
Speaker 10: and they're like and then well I can't call him,
Speaker 10: so then I have to get on Facebook, like dude, pay.
Speaker 9: The freaking bill, Like what are you doing?
Speaker 10: And I'll send his wife and message like Brandy, come on,
Speaker 10: get on Oscar for.
Speaker 6: You to use assistance by somebody. Morgan's using assistance by
Speaker 6: her parents.
Speaker 10: Getting paid for She's parents don't need paying for your
Speaker 10: stuff when you're fell.
Speaker 5: It doesn't need to hook you up with a family plan.
Speaker 5: You're not a family with him.
Speaker 9: Now. We're like boys, we're like brothers.
Speaker 3: You're ten years older than me and you still can't
Speaker 3: figure out how to.
Speaker 4: Have your own phone plan.
Speaker 9: I know how to go into the store, and you
Speaker 9: get it.
Speaker 10: I mean, you're thirty one years old and you're twenty
Speaker 10: nine and you had to walk.
Speaker 5: Hey, mom, why'd you just make up a number?
Speaker 9: Because she said you're ten years older than me?
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 10: So I did the math. Forty one minus ten is
Speaker 10: thirty one. I know Kansas people can't do that over there. Okay,
Speaker 10: now see he's pivoting. But how do you feel about
Speaker 10: the investigation? Do you feel like you understand now?
Speaker 8: I understand now, but I still don't understand why he
Speaker 8: would do that. So when your kids get older and
Speaker 8: they start getting cell phones, so they can be added
Speaker 8: to this family plan as well.
Speaker 6: Hopefully and on the plan with him?
Speaker 9: Oh probably, since I was.
Speaker 10: Twenty five, like he used to work.
Speaker 9: Him and his dad used to run a furniture store
Speaker 9: over ten years. Yeah, way over ten years.
Speaker 10: And then he quit the furniture store because it wasn't
Speaker 10: big enough, and then he went to work for a
Speaker 10: Verizon and boom.
Speaker 9: Now he's like a manager.
Speaker 13: Now he's like a manager who sometimes forgets to face.
Speaker 5: Like, Oscar, you the man. You let this guy stand
Speaker 5: your plant for almost twenty years at twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9: Yeah, what year did.
Speaker 11: You do this?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 9: Probably, I mean it had to be sixteen years ago.
Speaker 5: Oscar, You the man, lunchbox a year, a liar and
Speaker 5: a cheater.
Speaker 10: And no, I didn't I didn't cheat, I didn't do
Speaker 10: I'm doing nothing that is illegal.
Speaker 5: You're right, You're right.
Speaker 6: Just you can't hold anybody accountable for doing things that
Speaker 6: are what kids do because the parents are people looking
Speaker 6: out for them. This is what your parent would do
Speaker 6: with you to put join their cell phone.
Speaker 9: Plan if your parents papers you're an adult.
Speaker 5: Oscar, you daddy.
Speaker 1: For now on, it's the Best Bits of the Week
Speaker 1: with Morgan.
Speaker 3: Number two Chris Kraba of Dashboard Confessional stuffed by the studio.
Speaker 3: He performed his song Vindicated, which you may know from
Speaker 3: Spider Man two became the theme song for that movie,
Speaker 3: and he talked about how that all happened and he
Speaker 3: didn't really planned to write a theme song for that movie,
Speaker 3: but it did happen.
Speaker 2: Now it's a massive song, and it.
Speaker 3: Was just really cool to hear from him, and some
Speaker 3: of our listeners thought he is one of the smartest
Speaker 3: people we've had in the studio. So here's that interview,
Speaker 3: but make sure you go to YouTube to check out
Speaker 3: his awesome performance.
Speaker 1: Number six kids. So Bobby Bones Show interview in case
Speaker 1: you didn't know.
Speaker 6: And Dashboard Confessional one of my jams back in the
Speaker 6: early two thousands. So Chris is here from Dashboard going
Speaker 6: on towards Counting Crows and you get tickets at Dashboard
Speaker 6: Confessional dot com. But this is super cool to me.
Speaker 6: Let me play some of these songs. Vindicated. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's Spider Man for sure. Eddie remember that song?
Speaker 11: Yes, I do, of course.
Speaker 6: Thank that's always awesome, stolen our hands down.
Speaker 11: So it's super cool for us.
Speaker 6: Here he is Chris Carabba, lead singer, the guy from
Speaker 6: Dashboard Confessional on the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 1: Now, Chris Carabba of Dashboard Confessional.
Speaker 11: Chris, it's really good to see you.
Speaker 9: Good to meet you.
Speaker 14: Man, and it's good to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Been a fan for a long time.
Speaker 15: Well, I've been doing it a long time. It's suddenly
Speaker 15: occurring to me.
Speaker 6: Now you still I don't know, look twenty four, it's weird.
Speaker 6: Do you have an aged moisturizer?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Hey, so I have a lot of questions, especially about
Speaker 6: when you first started, because there are a few people
Speaker 6: to me. Dave Grohlfoo Fighter started that by himself. Five
Speaker 6: for Fighting, was a single guy, then turned into a
Speaker 6: band Dashboard Confessional similar thing. Right, You started this as
Speaker 6: a project by yourself and then made a band The
Speaker 6: Panic of the Disco Similar? Is that all kind of
Speaker 6: am I right on that story?
Speaker 15: You write about the fact that it was started by
Speaker 15: myself and eventually became a band. But I think in
Speaker 15: my mind in the early days, I know it was true.
Speaker 15: I was in other bands that were proper bands. I
Speaker 15: was in one particular called or This Seems Forever that
Speaker 15: was I thought the main thing, you know, and it
Speaker 15: was only Dashboard was only a side project. But all
Speaker 15: that to say, the side project was all my friends
Speaker 15: are on tour and all of their bands wouldn't be
Speaker 15: fun if whenever they came home, we could all play together.
Speaker 15: So I'll just call this thing that I'm doing by
Speaker 15: myself a band name, so it doesn't feel like preclusive,
Speaker 15: and it feels inclusive. My friends had come on stage
Speaker 15: if they're home, and that's not exactly what happened, but
Speaker 15: it was my original conception for it.
Speaker 6: So the band is dead again. By the way, your record,
Speaker 6: your on plug records are my favorite. I just loved
Speaker 6: it so much, and you know, there's a lot to it.
Speaker 6: So how many people are actually in dashboard confessional? Like
Speaker 6: the dashboard? How many people in the band? Well on
Speaker 6: this tour, so it's all different, right, you are the
Speaker 6: central figure always.
Speaker 15: Well, I guess I've been a constant, and there's been
Speaker 15: quite a few long standing members, and there's been people
Speaker 15: that when they you know, they leave to go and
Speaker 15: do other and onto other musical projects or other life
Speaker 15: product and then they come back. It's kind of an
Speaker 15: open invitation to come on back. So like, for example,
Speaker 15: Scott our bass player has been in the band. I
Speaker 15: think for this will be twenty years. That's a long time,
Speaker 15: you know. But sometimes I go out by myself, so
Speaker 15: Scott's not there.
Speaker 6: So when you're starting this project, and you're doing it
Speaker 6: by yourself. Are you recording it on because everybody has
Speaker 6: a bedroom story or a garage story?
Speaker 5: Like, what did that? Actually?
Speaker 6: What literally does that mean? Are you recording on like
Speaker 6: some four track player? Is that the first dashboard where
Speaker 6: you're just sitting there singing acoustically into a crappy closet
Speaker 6: or microphone?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 15: It was a little task scam four track that I
Speaker 15: bought it a tag sale.
Speaker 14: That was what I started with.
Speaker 15: That's not what the record was, but it wasn't much
Speaker 15: better than that. That first record was recorded in a closet,
Speaker 15: but you know, it had you know, pham patting on
Speaker 15: the wall.
Speaker 14: So it felt cool, it felt real.
Speaker 15: But the early demos I recorded a lot of them
Speaker 15: in my van, in the back of the van, like
Speaker 15: just a single boombox. I can not a multi track.
Speaker 14: So I have a.
Speaker 15: Tape of me running through what would be the first record,
Speaker 15: which is called the Swiss Army Romance. I ran through
Speaker 15: it all just to see what a cool running order
Speaker 15: would be, and I found that tape and it's the
Speaker 15: running order that we used.
Speaker 6: Was that about two thousand, year two thousand, Yeah, it
Speaker 6: was two thousand, So you have this tape, and was
Speaker 6: your expectation to go out and tour this for Dashboard
Speaker 6: to exist, or again, was it just a fun thing
Speaker 6: that your friends could join, like I what was kind
Speaker 6: of the motivation behind creating this music with just yourself.
Speaker 15: I guess it was a glorified art project or something.
Speaker 14: I think.
Speaker 5: Did you expect it to ever be heard by people?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 14: I expected to.
Speaker 15: What I'd hoped to do was put out the one
Speaker 15: recording and maybe get lucky and press one thousand if
Speaker 15: I could afford it, and sell them how and sell
Speaker 15: them to people like from the van from the van, yeah,
Speaker 15: and sell them to people at shows. And I had
Speaker 15: one tour booked and it was I think this one
Speaker 15: window where further seems forever wasn't going out, and it
Speaker 15: looked like just this neat opportunity to go out and
Speaker 15: travel like just by literally by myself. But I think
Speaker 15: it was eleven dates and then I never went home.
Speaker 6: When did you start to feel traction, even the lightest
Speaker 6: bit of traction where it's wow, people actually like understanding
Speaker 6: and relating to this music.
Speaker 15: I was surprised to find it pretty early on. And
Speaker 15: I don't mean that there was many people at the show.
Speaker 15: There weren't, but if there were five, all five seemed
Speaker 15: to get it. Whatever that thing was, they seemed to
Speaker 15: get it. And I was really shocked by that because
Speaker 15: I thought I was doing something unfamiliar in the setting
Speaker 15: of like the punk rock scene. It was definitely unfamiliar
Speaker 15: just to hav an acoustic guitar, and I looked like
Speaker 15: a hardcore kid, but it didn't sound like that kind
Speaker 15: of stuff. But it didn't sound like something you'd play
Speaker 15: in a coffee shop either, So I didn't feel like
Speaker 15: I would have any place where I would find I
Speaker 15: was surprised to find like bund of people so quickly.
Speaker 6: The term emo was tossed around like crazy, everything's emo
Speaker 6: in different ways. Was that term prevalent when you started
Speaker 6: to create this kind of music or do you feel
Speaker 6: like you were one of the first ones to, you know,
Speaker 6: really coin that in music?
Speaker 15: Well, I guess no. I didn't feel like I was
Speaker 15: one of the first ones. Excuse me to coin it,
Speaker 15: certainly not I thought it was. I thought it was
Speaker 15: a misnomer, almost like and not. You know that became
Speaker 15: a four letter word later to some people. I'm not
Speaker 15: sure it ever did to me. But in the early days,
Speaker 15: you know, it was I thought, I thought it wasn't
Speaker 15: deferential to the people that I listened to that did
Speaker 15: that music that was already called emo because there's been
Speaker 15: a whole wave of it, a proper wave of like
Speaker 15: a musical generation of like two to five years already.
Speaker 15: And so at first I was like, this is weird
Speaker 15: that they would call me that, and I couldn't quite
Speaker 15: figure it out, but realized that the thing was evolving,
Speaker 15: whatever that scene was, was evolving to include I guess
Speaker 15: me and my friends.
Speaker 6: Did you feel like that, because again, your music was
Speaker 6: at a time when I was, you know, nineteen twenty
Speaker 6: twenty one years old, so that music was very important
Speaker 6: in my overall musical growth from where I was as
Speaker 6: a kid to now.
Speaker 5: It was right in that timeframe of being in college.
Speaker 6: Did you find that your music though, was different to people,
Speaker 6: even though it was still kind of punk rock, but
Speaker 6: just because it was an acoustic that made it feel
Speaker 6: a bit emo to people, that was a softer feel.
Speaker 15: Oh it's emo, it feels emo, I mean, but I
Speaker 15: guess because of all those obvious reasons that it's softer,
Speaker 15: it's a different delivery it's pretty passionate and it's got
Speaker 15: the It has the benefit of the kind of passion
Speaker 15: you'll put into something when you think you're anonymous almost
Speaker 15: you know, it couldn't conceive that people would really be
Speaker 15: listening to this, so I didn't really hold back for
Speaker 15: fear of how I might feel doing it in front
Speaker 15: of people.
Speaker 6: What did your band think as you started to pop
Speaker 6: off and you're by yourself that you were in was
Speaker 6: that tricky?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 15: Actually, well, it became tricky or later when we were
Speaker 15: two bands operating at the same time once they had
Speaker 15: a different singer and we navigated that really well too,
Speaker 15: to their credit, but in the beginning they were the
Speaker 15: guys that were like, you got to go do this.
Speaker 15: And as a matter of fact, that one of the
Speaker 15: first shows I ever had was that was a phish
Speaker 15: not I guess unofficially a dashboard show. Was because the
Speaker 15: bass player of my other band, Chad from Further seem Sebber,
Speaker 15: said come over here, we're playing a festivals further Was.
Speaker 15: He says, there's a guy kind of doing what you're doing.
Speaker 15: We should go check it out. But the guy ended
Speaker 15: up being me.
Speaker 14: It was a ruse.
Speaker 15: He just threw me up in the middle of a
Speaker 15: tent and there was you know, thirty people there.
Speaker 5: And that's funny. Then that's supportive, even supportive at the
Speaker 5: same time.
Speaker 15: And they're still my best friends that I have. So
Speaker 15: I'm grateful that they saw where I was going and
Speaker 15: it wasn't where they wanted to go.
Speaker 14: They were these all these.
Speaker 15: Songs were presented to them as options for us to
Speaker 15: play in that band, and they were right. They didn't
Speaker 15: fit that band. They were close, but they weren't on
Speaker 15: the money.
Speaker 5: Were you reluctant when success and fame started?
Speaker 14: Was confused?
Speaker 15: Reluctant?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I think I was a bit reluctant. I think I
Speaker 15: remain a bit reluctant. It wasn't exactly the plan, but
Speaker 15: it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: Do you get nervous? Stays right at all? Before shows?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I got to now, how am I doing?
Speaker 5: Are you doing great? I would never think you were
Speaker 5: nervous at all.
Speaker 15: You're kidding now, No, I'm not. No, No, I get
Speaker 15: I have a weird roiling of energy that I'm trying
Speaker 15: to contain when I go up there. And when I
Speaker 15: was newer and younger and greener, I would find it
Speaker 15: to be alarming. It would like set off almost a
Speaker 15: panic attack. But now I understand it's just adrenaline, excitement
Speaker 15: and kind of like the.
Speaker 14: Love of it. But for a while it was hard
Speaker 14: to let it go.
Speaker 6: Was there ever a time that you questioned should I
Speaker 6: keep doing this? Not because it wasn't working, but because
Speaker 6: it really started to work.
Speaker 15: Yeah, things got a little hairy there, like where we
Speaker 15: had to where we had to have like security guys
Speaker 15: and things like that. And I was all thinking, and
Speaker 15: I thought this was a really inclusive scene I was from.
Speaker 15: And it remained so it wasn't any It wasn't people
Speaker 15: trying to like, you know, rip my clothes off or
Speaker 15: our clothes off or anything like that.
Speaker 14: But it's just like a lot of.
Speaker 15: People with a lot of stories that they wanted to do,
Speaker 15: things they wanted to share with us, personal things, what
Speaker 15: have you. And I remember like not being able to
Speaker 15: go I don't know, to the to the mall or
Speaker 15: whatever it was that you would do, you know, running
Speaker 15: errands became this weird thing and and the suggestion was
Speaker 15: made to that we that we take security out. That
Speaker 15: was the weirdest thing ever. The nicest people I've ever met.
Speaker 15: Were these giant security guys, but it was it was
Speaker 15: not a good fit for me. I was like, this
Speaker 15: is bringing more attention. I can put a baseball cap on?
Speaker 15: How about that?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 6: Can you go out and put a hat on and
Speaker 6: just live a somewhat normal life.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm not on MTV anymore, and neither's MTV.
Speaker 14: I don't think you know there's yes.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, that's I've been able to find the thing
Speaker 15: I'd hope for in the beginning, which was this this
Speaker 15: path to be able to play music for and with
Speaker 15: people without having to be have my life totally disrupted.
Speaker 5: What was the first video of yours that was on MTV?
Speaker 14: What was it?
Speaker 15: It was screaming in fidelities?
Speaker 5: Yeah, was that weird for you to see?
Speaker 6: And there's a you know, there's a line and you're
Speaker 6: we'll talk about the Tory doing with the counting Crows,
Speaker 6: but massive, I'm a massive hand accounting crows.
Speaker 5: And Adam Durretz was in We talked to him for
Speaker 5: a while.
Speaker 6: But there's a line even in mister jones'es, like when
Speaker 6: I look at the television, I want to see me
Speaker 6: staring right back at me. Now, that line is him
Speaker 6: wanting to see him on TV? Yeah, if that is
Speaker 6: that line you at all?
Speaker 15: No, it's not at all, it's not at all.
Speaker 14: God, I wish it was.
Speaker 15: I might have I might have had a different experience
Speaker 15: having seen it. But I remember being like, I mean,
Speaker 15: I was excited to tell like my friends, you know,
Speaker 15: but it was not a thing I walked in with.
Speaker 15: I got used to it really quick, though, Like I'd
Speaker 15: get excited and to kind of like, uh, think about
Speaker 15: new video ideas. I got excited about the whole, that
Speaker 15: whole corner of what music could be, and it became
Speaker 15: really fun.
Speaker 6: Do you think you would be happier or would have
Speaker 6: been then happier if you only had mild success where
Speaker 6: you could support yourself create your art, but not because
Speaker 6: there was a point when you just became so popular
Speaker 6: it became pop. Your music didn't change, but you became
Speaker 6: so popular it became pop.
Speaker 5: Was that the hardest time for you? Or was it awesome?
Speaker 14: It was awesome. It was so great.
Speaker 15: I didn't really have to change I did, you know.
Speaker 15: We grew and our music did evolve, but I wasn't
Speaker 15: being made to change, And more and more people were
Speaker 15: were gravitating towards it.
Speaker 14: It was beautiful.
Speaker 15: I was maybe a little tired, like physically tired. It's
Speaker 15: a big world to get to, you know. And I
Speaker 15: think there was a point where we were really doing
Speaker 15: I don't know how many shows it was, but it
Speaker 15: was like three hundred days out on the road, and
Speaker 15: that was a long stretch. I was a good couple
Speaker 15: or three years that we did that kind of schedule.
Speaker 15: That was the only part that was really tough to
Speaker 15: grapple with.
Speaker 5: Was it weirder to be home than on the road.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe always will be and maybe always was.
Speaker 15: So so that that's something I think was probably good
Speaker 15: for me in my life.
Speaker 11: Where did you grow up?
Speaker 15: Well, I kind of grew up in Connecticut and then
Speaker 15: Florida and found music and all that once I moved
Speaker 15: to Florida.
Speaker 6: And what about Florida, Like, were you exposed to a
Speaker 6: scene there that opened it up for you or were
Speaker 6: you already searching for it?
Speaker 5: And I don't know, it's warmer, so you're out. I
Speaker 5: don't know why Florida.
Speaker 15: Well, I think there was there was a scene. There
Speaker 15: was a music scene, of course, there was one in
Speaker 15: Connecticut where I lived. I just didn't know about it.
Speaker 15: I was a little bit too young, didn't know an
Speaker 15: older kid on the block that might tell me there
Speaker 15: was a Youth of Today show or something. But when
Speaker 15: I got down to Florida, a couple things happened. Was
Speaker 15: I was really into skateboarding. And this is pre you know,
Speaker 15: super popularity of skateboarding. Still get beat up for having
Speaker 15: looking like you do it. But I found other people
Speaker 15: like that that were into it, and I hadn't really
Speaker 15: found that many people like that where I'd grown up
Speaker 15: in Connecticut. But it also rains like it's torrential rain
Speaker 15: in the in the afternoons there a certain time of
Speaker 15: the year.
Speaker 14: So we would just like sit in a.
Speaker 15: Car or at the skate shop with music playing, and
Speaker 15: I'd pick everybody's brains about it. And then they said,
Speaker 15: you know, there's they're playing here. Whoever it was, you know,
Speaker 15: we started going to shows and so it was sort
Speaker 15: of that just typical youth culture thing. There a friend
Speaker 15: with a driver's license, that kind of thing. Well, like
Speaker 15: I said, my driver's license, I just don't have a car.
Speaker 15: So a friend with a car and and the kind
Speaker 15: of kind of meshing of those two worlds. The surf
Speaker 15: and skate world with the music world. They're they're really entwined,
Speaker 15: and that's how I found the music scene.
Speaker 6: Really, my assumption is it could be an unfair assumption that
Speaker 6: you may have been a shy kid.
Speaker 5: If you were a shy kid, how in the world
Speaker 5: did you become a front man? Wow? Like, what was
Speaker 5: that proble?
Speaker 15: It was not my favorite thing it was, I should
Speaker 15: say it was not my It was not an endeavor
Speaker 15: I went into looking for how to be a front man.
Speaker 15: I just wanted to play with people, So I guess
Speaker 15: kicking and screaming is how I got dragged into being
Speaker 15: a front man. To be quite honest with you, I
Speaker 15: was really really interested in writing songs. It's just an
Speaker 15: okay guitar player, just an okay singer. I was pretty
Speaker 15: good at at arranging music, so so I was getting
Speaker 15: in these bands and and help and felt like I
Speaker 15: was integral in the band. But I was almost always
Speaker 15: just playing guitar. That's what I really wanted to do.
Speaker 15: But I wasn't like a ripper or anything like that,
Speaker 15: so I thought were contributing as a songwriter.
Speaker 14: I had a place.
Speaker 6: Then, who goes, okay, Chris, we need you to sing.
Speaker 6: We've heard you sing like a background vocals.
Speaker 14: That's how it happens that parts.
Speaker 15: Could you somebody do a harmony there, and I'd just
Speaker 15: do it, and it was there, you know, And and
Speaker 15: then you come in with your songs and you're singing.
Speaker 15: I was singing the songs I was writing to the singer,
Speaker 15: to the rest of the band. And finally somebody got
Speaker 15: annoyed with the time it took to make somebody else
Speaker 15: do it. Just you do it fine, And after a
Speaker 15: while of that, you become a singer in the band,
Speaker 15: not the singer. This band that I was in, Vacant
Speaker 15: Andy's it's where I learned who I really cut my
Speaker 15: teeth on all things musical, certainly on all things band
Speaker 15: like how to be in a band. But there was
Speaker 15: at one point three singers, and then there was for
Speaker 15: the length of the band there was two singers, so
Speaker 15: there was no front man. We were trading off songs,
Speaker 15: and we were always singing each other songs, singing on
Speaker 15: each other songs.
Speaker 14: Excuse me.
Speaker 15: It was later when when I got into further and
Speaker 15: those guitar players are like bananas, and as writers, they
Speaker 15: were bananas, And I was kind of like, why do
Speaker 15: they want me in this band? And it was simply
Speaker 15: because they liked my voice, which was weird because it
Speaker 15: was never the thing I expected anybody to I thought
Speaker 15: it was just something that I got to do, not
Speaker 15: that something anybody would want me to do necessarily. So
Speaker 15: that's kind of how it came to pass that I
Speaker 15: we got comfortable being at the center of things.
Speaker 6: You didn't demand like I always demanded attention, Like I
Speaker 6: demand attention. I'm a type a personality. I want to
Speaker 6: be in the front. Now you were the opposite.
Speaker 14: It was the opposite.
Speaker 15: By okay, I think the opposite thing might have been
Speaker 15: a little bit of like a learned response, right because
Speaker 15: I was I was a shorter kid. I have this
Speaker 15: weird birthmark when my hair grows two colors, so like
Speaker 15: it's like it's a blonde right in the middle. Like
Speaker 15: and I was kid of the eighties, so like Gremlins
Speaker 15: is out, so I'm getting like called stripe and all
Speaker 15: this stuff and beat up for it or whatever, picked
Speaker 15: on for it, and I realized, like, okay, I better
Speaker 15: figure out how to blend. And and maybe that that
Speaker 15: was I learned that lesson too deeply. But once I
Speaker 15: realized I could be more who I wanted to be
Speaker 15: out in the middle of that stage. I would save
Speaker 15: it all four then and really just be the guy
Speaker 15: and have it be the key that turned you into
Speaker 15: the whatever. It is, the real you. I've heard it said,
Speaker 15: you know, oh, who are you up there? It's like
Speaker 15: I don't even know you or whatever. It's like, No,
Speaker 15: that's kind of like I feel like that's me up there.
Speaker 6: So you start this project in two thousand, would you
Speaker 6: say that Vindicated is this song that people would know
Speaker 6: general public? You think Vindicated your biggest song general Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's got to be, right, I would think so, but
Speaker 6: I'm a little too close to it.
Speaker 15: If only because it's in a Marvel movie. Yeah, it's
Speaker 15: got to be the most I don't know whether, like
Speaker 15: I never remember like charts and things like that and
Speaker 15: what songs were successful by certain metrics, but just that
Speaker 15: the most people had to have heard it in the
Speaker 15: world from that.
Speaker 5: Man, that's what jam. You know, you have your guitar.
Speaker 5: Could you give us a little bit of Vidicated?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: All right, that's awesome. That still so, I mean, it
Speaker 5: also takes me back. There are certain songs that you
Speaker 5: hear and again that was a really big It's like
Speaker 5: when you're like a young adult and music matters so
Speaker 5: much to you, Like I can remember where I was
Speaker 5: like when I would hear that song, and I remember
Speaker 5: being in the movie that was a Curse and Dunst
Speaker 5: version right on, Spider Man. Did you ever did you
Speaker 5: meet them?
Speaker 15: I did, but don't they usually called the Toby Maguire version.
Speaker 15: But yes, I'm back, yell.
Speaker 5: You know what I guess. I think.
Speaker 11: That's funny.
Speaker 6: Yes, I tell yes that did you write that song
Speaker 6: for the movie? Because we talked with Adam Durretz and
Speaker 6: County Crows about the song one in the Shrek and
Speaker 6: he wrote that for the movie. Yeah, did you write
Speaker 6: that for the movie exactly?
Speaker 15: And I was like, actually, I hadn't one. And I
Speaker 15: were just talking about that about accidentally in love the
Speaker 15: other day and it got me thinking, you know, I
Speaker 15: submitted a different song to the production when when they
Speaker 15: when they asked me about being a part of the soundtrack,
Speaker 15: and it was not meant to be. The single wasn't
Speaker 15: meant to be in the movie, and I really.
Speaker 14: Liked the song. It still hasn't come out.
Speaker 15: But then they but the cool thing was they let
Speaker 15: me see the movie while it was sort of still
Speaker 15: like it wasn't quite dailies, but it was like the
Speaker 15: graphics weren't rendered yet. It would suddenly just be like
Speaker 15: in animation in the middle of it, like a holding
Speaker 15: place for like something to come later. It was really
Speaker 15: a neat way to see the movie, and it was
Speaker 15: the story of it was really in my mind as
Speaker 15: I left there.
Speaker 14: They're just like sort of like the conflict.
Speaker 15: Of wanting being pulled in different directions, wanting things you
Speaker 15: can't quite allow yourself to have or aren't allowed to have.
Speaker 15: And I got to our last day to that run
Speaker 15: was in Hawaii and we're all going to go surfing,
Speaker 15: and I picked up the guitar and it just like
Speaker 15: kind of spilled out, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 15: what's funny? Where did that song come from? And I
Speaker 15: was like, oh, well, there's this line dangles on a string.
Speaker 15: Maybe it's from Spider Man. So just that bit of
Speaker 15: it made me call home and just be like, would
Speaker 15: you want to hear this other song? I know there's
Speaker 15: no time, and so just like that, it was written.
Speaker 15: Maybe an hour or two.
Speaker 14: Later, I called I played it for Leah Vollak.
Speaker 15: Over the phone. She was the head of Sony Music
Speaker 15: for Pictures, and she was like, give me a minute,
Speaker 15: get me a tape of that. Send her a tape.
Speaker 15: She's like, could you actually I think she made She's like,
Speaker 15: could you demo that today? It's like pre like home
Speaker 15: studio kind of things like that. And we were able
Speaker 15: to do it at the club that we were playing
Speaker 15: that night, and they got that tape home and somehow
Speaker 15: the next they were like, could you fly home tomorrow
Speaker 15: record this. If so, it'll be in the movie, it'll
Speaker 15: be the single.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 14: Okay, well yes, we'll be there.
Speaker 5: How big was MySpace in your career?
Speaker 14: It was so big?
Speaker 15: Oh my god, it was so big. It was the
Speaker 15: biggest prob possibly the biggest thing in my career except
Speaker 15: for Napster. Those were probably two biggest factors in my career.
Speaker 6: Will you explain because I was big on my Space?
Speaker 6: Will you explain on MySpace? As to some of our
Speaker 6: younger listeners.
Speaker 11: Well, it.
Speaker 15: Was like I do it yourself Facebook that was run
Speaker 15: by renegades. I guess it was this. It was a
Speaker 15: it's a social network because the first one I remember
Speaker 15: that you that had the framework of what would really
Speaker 15: come in social networks like really was very much like
Speaker 15: Facebook in a lot of ways. But the way it
Speaker 15: wasn't was it was seemed to be music and art
Speaker 15: related really heavily, and you could skin your own page
Speaker 15: right and you could, so everybody's user interface sort of
Speaker 15: looked like their thing. You know, who you were going
Speaker 15: to see, and there was I think the reason it
Speaker 15: got so big was was people were really hungry to
Speaker 15: just communicate a boy the things they felt passionate about,
Speaker 15: and no adults were really looking.
Speaker 6: And was it they were using your music as their
Speaker 6: song because you could put it. You had a song,
Speaker 6: you put a song up as is your song? Yeah,
Speaker 6: you put people came to your page, was like this
Speaker 6: is the kind of music I like, You're forced to
Speaker 6: listen to it? Yep, So is that what happened with
Speaker 6: your music? People just started sharing it.
Speaker 15: But in that way, yeah, like if you're gonna if
Speaker 15: we're gonna be friends, you got to know this about me.
Speaker 15: It's a big thing, big way to open the door,
Speaker 15: an easy way to open the door, great shorthand And
Speaker 15: we really benefited from from timing on that one that
Speaker 15: we were that were for so many people we were
Speaker 15: writing some I was writing I guess something that they
Speaker 15: that felt to them like a way to explain themselves,
Speaker 15: and MySpace was.
Speaker 14: The way they where they could do that.
Speaker 6: And then MySpace got all weird and you get viruses,
Speaker 6: and then it just went away.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it was really a Nabster too.
Speaker 6: But Napster kind of needed to go away because when
Speaker 6: I was a kid, I would go, I can't believe
Speaker 6: these artists, they want us to pay for this music.
Speaker 6: I was so offended. Yeah, I was like, I can't.
Speaker 6: I hate mentalica, I hate all They were obviously right
Speaker 6: because you are creating an art and you deserve to
Speaker 6: be able to live your life based on the art
Speaker 6: that people are consuming.
Speaker 5: But at the time, as a kid, oh, I was
Speaker 5: so mad. I was like, I deserve to have this
Speaker 5: free and I download every song. I would just hit
Speaker 5: the letter D.
Speaker 6: For example, I download every artist started with D, including
Speaker 6: Dashboard Confession, all of it. So for you guys, again,
Speaker 6: music being shared by like minded people. I gotta imagine
Speaker 6: that was massive for you guys. For that brief period,
Speaker 6: Napster was just killing it.
Speaker 14: Look and I.
Speaker 15: Will have an unpopular opinion. I loved Napster made my career. Sure,
Speaker 15: it like took away the livelihood I might have had
Speaker 15: but wouldn't have. So I can only speak to how
Speaker 15: it affected me. And I was I had a record made,
Speaker 15: but no distribution, and later when I got on like
Speaker 15: a small label, they didn't really have distribution. And then
Speaker 15: when we were popping off, the label that we were
Speaker 15: on next was having like a war with their distribution.
Speaker 15: And that whole time I could still get my music
Speaker 15: into people's hands, and I remember being like, well, we
Speaker 15: can't get like I literally couldn't get my records from
Speaker 15: the distribution place when we when we were at that
Speaker 15: stage where you should have been able to could not
Speaker 15: physically get records. So I'd just be like, look, just
Speaker 15: buy it later if you want to, but maybe get
Speaker 15: it now so we can sing along together. So but
Speaker 15: where I do think that it did us a service societally,
Speaker 15: I guess as a CDs were too expensive. They were
Speaker 15: artificially priced in such a way that was that was
Speaker 15: harmful to the consumer, I think, and so Knabster, if
Speaker 15: if nothing else, was sort of the great equalizer.
Speaker 14: Yeah, but it took away a lot of people's paycheck.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean you shouldn't have it free, you should
Speaker 15: have it reasonably priced.
Speaker 6: Well, I was looking at your catalog of songs, you know,
Speaker 6: Stolen with such a massive song for you as well.
Speaker 5: When you hit this stage of.
Speaker 6: Your career was when Stolen. I mean you you're You're
Speaker 6: a monster by the time Stolen hits. As far as
Speaker 6: people come into your shows, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 6: that there was ever for me a time to see
Speaker 6: dashboard and to see it so large and everywhere you
Speaker 6: went was this. I don't know when I say Stolen
Speaker 6: in that song, where does that put you in your
Speaker 6: mind about that point?
Speaker 14: Oh, I can tell I got it.
Speaker 15: I got a chill, even with how quickly it took
Speaker 15: me back to think about it. You know this, I
Speaker 15: lived in basically a beach town, in a tourist town,
Speaker 15: and so like when the easy end of the season
Speaker 15: would come, you'd kind of get your city back, you'd
Speaker 15: kind of get your town back. But also like everything
Speaker 15: you loved about the exciting now of it all when
Speaker 15: season was happening and you're a young person and there's
Speaker 15: you know, action, activity, girls, new friends, all kinds of
Speaker 15: things that felt familiar to me as I was transitioning
Speaker 15: now into like another place professionally where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 15: I wish I could go back there, but everything ends,
Speaker 15: and I had this kind of I was conflating the
Speaker 15: two things, like the beautiful temporary nature of it all
Speaker 15: and how it's all fleeting, it's all transitional, and like
Speaker 15: I just it was kind of a nod to like,
Speaker 15: I think I need to acknowledge that I love love
Speaker 15: it both ways. I love it when everything's happening, and
Speaker 15: then I love it when it's really peaceful, and I
Speaker 15: always miss the other thing. Whichever place I'm in, I
Speaker 15: miss the other place.
Speaker 5: So grass is greener, it's.
Speaker 15: More like, remember that it really isn't greener. It's special
Speaker 15: in both places, so.
Speaker 5: It's dead on both grasses of dead or.
Speaker 11: No hope?
Speaker 5: Would you mind playing a little bit of stolen for us?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 5: The melody there? Do you write melody first or you
Speaker 5: a lyrics guy?
Speaker 15: I think it's concurrent. Most of the time. I think
Speaker 15: I do the sort of a babbel as I'm singing
Speaker 15: and catch a word here and there, and then I'll
Speaker 15: spend some time on the lyrics and then singo lyrics.
Speaker 15: Melody lyrics is sort of hand and glove.
Speaker 5: How fast do that's all come out of you?
Speaker 15: You know, I always think about this. You know, those
Speaker 15: songs that you wrench on and you really just really
Speaker 15: really are nitty gritty on the minute sho of it
Speaker 15: all that take weeks and months or whatever, by rights,
Speaker 15: those are the ones that should really connect with people.
Speaker 15: But it's the ones that take you know, they come
Speaker 15: in a flash, they connect with people. And this is
Speaker 15: one of the latter.
Speaker 6: Your band dashboard professional accounting Crows doing a whole lot
Speaker 6: of shows together, or fifty shows.
Speaker 5: How'd you guys come together to you know, get on
Speaker 5: this tour?
Speaker 15: Oh, we've been talking about this tour for a really
Speaker 15: long time. So Adam and I have been close friends
Speaker 15: for It's hard to believe, but like maybe it could
Speaker 15: be like fifteen years or more, maybe twenty, I don't know.
Speaker 15: He's kind of been my favorite thing that's happened about
Speaker 15: my career. People I've met, experiences I've had, they're sort
Speaker 15: of always connected right to him. And and he's my
Speaker 15: lyrical here and my musical hero too. So it's a
Speaker 15: beautiful kind of thing that is constantly surprising to me
Speaker 15: that we're that that, Like I still listen to records like,
Speaker 15: he's not that guy, Like he said, this is not
Speaker 15: the guy I'm gonna pal around with later. It's a
Speaker 15: whole different guy when I listen to music. So how
Speaker 15: did it come together? We've been trying to we've been
Speaker 15: talking about it, trying to get schedules, trying to get
Speaker 15: albums to line up, and we're.
Speaker 11: Here and it did it?
Speaker 14: Did?
Speaker 5: I feel like people need to be quiet at these shows.
Speaker 5: Between Dashboard and County Crows, people just did to shut
Speaker 5: up and enjoy the show.
Speaker 11: Would you agree?
Speaker 15: Well, I'm gonna sing along to them, so no.
Speaker 6: People are talking. I don't care if they sing along,
Speaker 6: but they're talking enough talking. Yeah, if you're playing, because
Speaker 6: I'm again massive Counting Crows fan too, Like look when
Speaker 6: he sits down to the piano.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, hush yeah, shut up everybody.
Speaker 14: Yeah, this is it. It's happening.
Speaker 5: Yes right now, Chris, I really appreciate you coming by me.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 6: We talked about the tour a little earlier, but I'm
Speaker 6: gonna say it again. The Counting Crows and Dashboard Confessional
Speaker 6: the Banshee Season tour. You can get tickets at Dashboard
Speaker 6: Confessional dot com. It's over fifty dates and it's all
Speaker 6: the hits. You play all the hits.
Speaker 15: Yeah, man, I know there.
Speaker 6: Sometime you like I don't, and you're gonna hear. You're
Speaker 6: gonna hear all the hits. Chris big fan, Thank you
Speaker 6: so much for coming. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Everybody there is Dashboard Confessional.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 3: Number two, Amy shared that her kids wanted to know
Speaker 3: more about gold diggers, how they happen, how to avoid them,
Speaker 3: you know all that stuff.
Speaker 2: And instead of like teaching, she's.
Speaker 3: Like, you know what, whyn't you go ask Alexa about this?
Speaker 3: And she shared what Alexa told her kids. She took notes,
Speaker 3: so you guys can also get a good laugh out
Speaker 3: of Alexa's teaching lesson about gold diggers.
Speaker 6: Number five, your kids are asking you how do they
Speaker 6: even know about gold diggers?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 13: I have no idea, but out of nowhere, my son
Speaker 13: just says like, hey, mom, uh, how do you can
Speaker 13: how do you tell if someone's a gold digger?
Speaker 12: Was this exact question?
Speaker 5: Did you go context?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 12: Well, I just was like went to my usual default
Speaker 12: and said.
Speaker 4: Go ask.
Speaker 5: So what did Alecsa tell them?
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 13: To spot a gold digger, you watch out for someone
Speaker 13: who asks about what you own, like what you earn,
Speaker 13: your stock options early on in your relationship. This is
Speaker 13: specifically answering how to tell if someone is a gold digger.
Speaker 5: Does he have a girl that likes someone he's wondering
Speaker 5: if she's a gold digger.
Speaker 13: No, No, there was something that's about to say, but
Speaker 13: he asked me, do not say this on the Bubby
Speaker 13: Bone Show.
Speaker 12: So I can't say what I was about to say,
Speaker 12: but I can say this.
Speaker 13: See how they respond when you ask them about their career.
Speaker 13: For example, if they're happy to stay in a low
Speaker 13: level job or not have one at all, they maybe
Speaker 13: look for someone to fund their lifestyle.
Speaker 6: So if you're wondering if someone's a gold digger, you're
Speaker 6: supposed to go, so what do you feel like you're
Speaker 6: gonna do with your career? And they're like, I'm chill
Speaker 6: right here. I don't make much, I don't like it
Speaker 6: that much, but I'm cool.
Speaker 13: Gold digger, but I want to live this champagne life.
Speaker 5: But I also want to have got it right.
Speaker 13: She even suggested, if you want to test out your partner,
Speaker 13: give them an inexpensive but thoughtful, light hearted gifts, kind
Speaker 13: of like a flower. And if they're a gold digger,
Speaker 13: they'll dismiss it.
Speaker 11: Cubic circonia.
Speaker 5: Well, no, that's a trick them.
Speaker 11: Yeah, to make them think it's real.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a trick them. Let's not to test them.
Speaker 5: Let's a trick them.
Speaker 13: Also, be cautious if your partner often has sudden emergencies
Speaker 13: that cause them to need money from you, which is
Speaker 13: a typical excuse used by gold diggers.
Speaker 5: That's a swim, that's a scam. Yeah, yeah, what else
Speaker 5: you got?
Speaker 13: The true definition of a gold digger, in case anybody knows,
Speaker 13: it's a person who is in a romantic relationship, marriage,
Speaker 13: or whatever to a wealthy person is and their primarily
Speaker 13: motivated by the desire for money, like they just want
Speaker 13: to be that's all they want to Yeah, and I
Speaker 13: have tips to avoid. Okay, gold diggers, don't pretend.
Speaker 12: To be rich.
Speaker 5: But what if you are, should you?
Speaker 13: Well that's the next one is, don't show off, got it?
Speaker 13: Don't mention that you're rich.
Speaker 5: If you're pretending to be rich and you're not, everybody loses, right,
Speaker 5: you lose, gold digger loses. You wasted a bunch of money,
Speaker 5: you know, someone you really can't like.
Speaker 12: Instead of a sugar daddy'd.
Speaker 14: Be like a debt daddy.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 13: Listen to your friends because oftentimes they can spot one
Speaker 13: maybe before you can.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 13: Don't dress too nicely. Live in a normal house. Do
Speaker 13: you mean if you're trying to, like, you know, repel
Speaker 13: gold diggers, live in a normal house. Make sure your
Speaker 13: expensive cars are stored away. And then lastly, don't go
Speaker 13: to fancy restaurants too often.
Speaker 11: Okay, I remember that.
Speaker 5: So what was What were the tips you gave your son?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess were the tips you gave your son
Speaker 5: about this?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 12: I well no, I oh you.
Speaker 5: Send them all to Alexa and you never talked about
Speaker 5: it again with it?
Speaker 17: No.
Speaker 12: I know. I was over there and taking notes.
Speaker 13: I was like wait again, I'm like writing this stuff
Speaker 13: down and typing it and trying to be like, oh,
Speaker 13: this is good, Like I want to collect this stuff
Speaker 13: because some people might be getting gold dugged right now? Dugged?
Speaker 5: Do you worry about your gold getting dug now you're single?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 11: Why not? Why not? You're going to eat in nice
Speaker 11: places now?
Speaker 9: She puts the expensive cars away.
Speaker 5: Maybe some of these tips you need to keep in
Speaker 5: put in your pocket Trusby.
Speaker 13: If I go out with someone that is not motivated to.
Speaker 12: Work, that's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 13: I don't care how much they make as long as
Speaker 13: they success doesn't mean money. But if they're passionate about
Speaker 13: what they do and they actually like put forth effort.
Speaker 11: But what are they're? Really cool? Yeah? Fine, really hot?
Speaker 5: They have eight ads?
Speaker 12: No, I cannot that.
Speaker 13: I would be zero percent attracted to someone that just
Speaker 13: wanted to just stay home all day.
Speaker 18: Do you guys think that's why Lunchbox dresses the way
Speaker 18: he does. Keep the gold diggers away.
Speaker 5: He's married, right, What do you mean that's right?
Speaker 6: I don't understand what's right, that's right about any of that,
Speaker 6: all of it.
Speaker 10: Like I want to keep the gold diggers away, but
Speaker 10: also I mean gold digger. You can come be a
Speaker 10: gold digger. You want separate bakinghouse, so you ain't getting it.
Speaker 13: So his wife has a different account, so you would
Speaker 13: buy them stuff.
Speaker 10: I don't really buy my wife's stuff, I mean at all.
Speaker 10: Just I couldn't tell you the last thing I bought my.
Speaker 5: Wife wasn't one.
Speaker 13: Didn't one of y'all do like if you're going out
Speaker 13: with someone for the first time, you go.
Speaker 5: To a all time like first date. Let's go like
Speaker 5: a little crappy taco place.
Speaker 12: See how they respond.
Speaker 6: I'd never try to impress anybody. Also, I didn't have
Speaker 6: I didn't have very much money than either, So my point.
Speaker 5: Then was all gold digger.
Speaker 6: It was like, I'm not going to over extend myself
Speaker 6: and go fancy for a couple of reasons. One because
Speaker 6: I only got it, and then two because I don't
Speaker 6: want them to think this is what normal is and
Speaker 6: their expectations be I right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan
Speaker 1: number two.
Speaker 3: A listener emailed then to share some new power rankings
Speaker 3: for the show based on her opinions. And everybody is
Speaker 3: entitled to their opinion, So listener, Megan, you are entitled
Speaker 3: to that, and I wish you well. Even though you
Speaker 3: were not very kind to me, I still wish you well.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm gonna say, because, like I said, I
Speaker 3: aired out my bad blood on Best Bits Part one
Speaker 3: with Scuba Steeve Number four.
Speaker 6: Six months or so ago, a listener sent us her
Speaker 6: power rankings for this show. Hey, Mike D because you're
Speaker 6: the only one that has this because she emails them
Speaker 6: to you. Will you explain to our listeners what power
Speaker 6: rankings are.
Speaker 16: It's like based on who is the best on the
Speaker 16: show in this listener's opinion, Like if.
Speaker 5: There was a power ranking of NBA teams right.
Speaker 6: Now, probably Denver, Miamiami, and you could go down from there. Right,
Speaker 6: So this is just one listener who ranked all the
Speaker 6: members of the show. Last time, Amy was dead last,
Speaker 6: and I did not think that was fair for the record.
Speaker 13: Okay, that hurts your feelings, Amy, Yeah, I don't really
Speaker 13: like ranking any of us, but to be last, and
Speaker 13: especially how long I've been here with all and the
Speaker 13: things I do, I'm like it.
Speaker 4: It just hurt.
Speaker 6: But it's also one listener, and different listeners have different
Speaker 6: bonds with different people at different times.
Speaker 11: Right, I agree, because I mean, you don't.
Speaker 9: Know how dumb she is.
Speaker 13: Well, I'm not saying anything about her. I just don't
Speaker 13: like ranking us.
Speaker 5: But go ahead, Okay, Well, what are the segment?
Speaker 4: No, you can go ahead.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's nothing you're doing.
Speaker 5: Just let me ask you this. Amy was last last time?
Speaker 5: Is she last this time?
Speaker 6: Mike?
Speaker 19: She is not last?
Speaker 11: Okay, So what we will do.
Speaker 6: Then let's just go from top down, because I think
Speaker 6: the drama is really in the person who's last more
Speaker 6: than the top couple.
Speaker 16: I agree, Okay, I will say one thing. They did
Speaker 16: not rank Abby.
Speaker 11: She's unranked.
Speaker 9: She got left off, not forgettable.
Speaker 11: Huh.
Speaker 19: Okay, so this is Megan in California.
Speaker 6: The only person not left not put on purposefully is
Speaker 6: Mike de because she knows he'll get the email and
Speaker 6: he could change.
Speaker 11: And Abby, I mean what, I don't know?
Speaker 12: Okay, whoever ends up last, I'm here for you. It's
Speaker 12: not fun.
Speaker 5: How many people made the list?
Speaker 19: Mike, there are seven people on the list.
Speaker 5: Who does she rank as the number one power ranking
Speaker 5: member of the show?
Speaker 19: Number one on the list?
Speaker 9: Bobby?
Speaker 11: Thank you? Sure, thank you?
Speaker 5: What does she say?
Speaker 16: He says, First of all, he's the only one I
Speaker 16: would consider a celebrity.
Speaker 19: His biggest strength, in my opinion, are.
Speaker 16: All his interview skills that he's excelled in lately, but
Speaker 16: not only that, he is the most well rounded out
Speaker 16: of anyone on the show. Without him to package everyone up,
Speaker 16: the show would be chaos.
Speaker 5: I mean, I couldn't agree with one.
Speaker 6: I mean with all that every single point agree on
Speaker 6: a coin, So I say, put that on a coin.
Speaker 6: That's very nice. I don't think I was number one
Speaker 6: last time? Was that you were Ember one last night
Speaker 6: on the show.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that, all right.
Speaker 19: Number two at number two, it is Amy.
Speaker 16: Wow, she says, Amy is the glue that keeps the
Speaker 16: show together. She's been so open with what's going on
Speaker 16: in her personal life. I also love seeing her branch out,
Speaker 16: expand your brand with live podcasts and acting.
Speaker 11: Okay, good job, Amy, Amy at number two?
Speaker 5: Lunchbox? Does that make you feel? With Amy at number two?
Speaker 9: I mean whatever, she jumped you. I mean whatever. We'll
Speaker 9: see where I end up. See how dumb this lady is?
Speaker 5: Mike's number three?
Speaker 19: It is a lunchbox.
Speaker 9: Okay, whoa, Yeah, smart lady, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9: She's not as dumb as I thought.
Speaker 5: What does she say about him?
Speaker 16: Even though I find him irritating, I also find myself
Speaker 16: wanting to hear what he has to say next. I
Speaker 16: think if he actually took some initiative, he would get
Speaker 16: the things he complains about, not having.
Speaker 5: A couple backhanded compliments in there.
Speaker 7: But okay, we'll go with it.
Speaker 6: He's irritating and he complains, but she still likes him.
Speaker 6: At number three he got a bronze medal. Number four
Speaker 6: it is Eddie, she says. Eddie is like a fine
Speaker 6: wine that gets better with age.
Speaker 16: I wasn't the biggest fan of Eddie on my last rankings,
Speaker 16: but he's humor has grown on me. I moved him
Speaker 16: out of the friend zone and into my top five.
Speaker 11: Wow, I'll take it.
Speaker 12: Oh do we remember where he was last night?
Speaker 11: I don't remember.
Speaker 19: Number five It is Scuba Steve.
Speaker 16: He didn't make my list last time, but he has
Speaker 16: definitely made himself known recently. While I don't agree or
Speaker 16: believe all the things he says, I respect him for
Speaker 16: telling it how it is.
Speaker 6: I believe everything says and sometimes I find out crazy
Speaker 6: stories about I'm like what, But I believe everything he.
Speaker 5: Says on the show.
Speaker 11: Oh same here.
Speaker 5: There are certain people I don't believe their stories. I
Speaker 5: think Ray clickbait.
Speaker 3: Ray.
Speaker 5: Sometimes his was some stuff that's unbelievable.
Speaker 11: A lot of made up stuff there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, remember that, Ray, All the stories you told it,
Speaker 6: they're pretty accurate.
Speaker 5: As you need the country artists, they're all true.
Speaker 13: I think Ray thinks that they're accurate.
Speaker 10: I mean his are pretty accurate too, like, you know,
Speaker 10: not nail everything everything.
Speaker 5: I say, Boat a ghost touched him in a room.
Speaker 11: His agent Eulett Jackson.
Speaker 9: I'm going to donate one thousand dollars to a server.
Speaker 5: He's going to. He was like, yeah, that's also kind
Speaker 5: of bull crap.
Speaker 11: It's all bull It's very accurate.
Speaker 6: She would like to do a lot of nice charitable stuff,
Speaker 6: but does that. But that's not you lying about it.
Speaker 6: That's right because I would like to do stuff too.
Speaker 6: I don't do exactly all right, Next up.
Speaker 9: Mike, Wait, wait, so my bottom three was nailed?
Speaker 10: I said, Ray, Morgan, Abby Abby was left off right,
Speaker 10: so boom, it's down to Morgan and Ray.
Speaker 5: But whenever we on, oh we are.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so let's just go straight to the last.
Speaker 5: Who's the worst to you? I want to hear six.
Speaker 5: I want to hear the.
Speaker 10: Reasoning to It's definitely gonna be Morgan at seven. Yeah,
Speaker 10: she's gonna be out, like the why. She just hasn't
Speaker 10: really come with anything.
Speaker 12: Does a lot, it's just maybe not on air.
Speaker 9: She posts a couple of things on Twitter.
Speaker 5: Cool, That's what I'm saying, Mike, number six.
Speaker 19: It is Morgan number.
Speaker 4: Two boom lunchbox.
Speaker 5: I don't know if six is boom.
Speaker 11: It's fine.
Speaker 4: I just need to.
Speaker 16: Especially what she wrote not boom worthy.
Speaker 19: It's kind of mean.
Speaker 9: You know, No, I don't know.
Speaker 11: I mean I got boom.
Speaker 5: No, I'm personally hurtful.
Speaker 11: Can Morgan read it?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 5: Give it to Morgan if she feels like there we go,
Speaker 5: or she could pass.
Speaker 9: I just got boom.
Speaker 11: It's like mean tweets and Morgan wants to read that.
Speaker 11: She can read it.
Speaker 5: That's fine, okay.
Speaker 3: My mother in laws a fellow Canson and says that
Speaker 3: Morgan is a bad representation.
Speaker 4: Of her people. Also, who are my people? Okay?
Speaker 3: I personally don't hear her on the show that often,
Speaker 3: but when I do, I have to agree.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Morgan, that's that bad.
Speaker 11: It's fine, okay.
Speaker 5: And my coming at number seven to go ahead and
Speaker 5: read raise.
Speaker 19: It is Raymundo. My only complaint with Raymundo is that
Speaker 19: I don't get enough of him.
Speaker 16: He's hilarious and says the most outlandish things that make
Speaker 16: me lool, but he's at the bottom of my list
Speaker 16: because I need more.
Speaker 11: I can agree with. Oh, that's good.
Speaker 5: I've always told you, I think you're a dynamite on
Speaker 5: the air.
Speaker 12: I gotta say, when I was seven, it wasn't that.
Speaker 13: I mean, now, I was gonna.
Speaker 5: Comfort compliment you at seven.
Speaker 12: I was going to comfort him.
Speaker 13: But like that is she's just saying, she means, Ray,
Speaker 13: we need more of you.
Speaker 6: But so, hey, Ray, why are you mad Amy because
Speaker 6: he got a compliment at seven?
Speaker 12: No, I'm not mad.
Speaker 13: I'm just saying I'm gonna comfort her disappointed. No, I'm
Speaker 13: saying it doesn't.
Speaker 11: Need comforting that.
Speaker 13: I'm glad she handled it that way because now Ray,
Speaker 13: this is good for him. I'm just saying that she
Speaker 13: did not do that when I was seven.
Speaker 5: So does that mean Morgan actually last?
Speaker 11: Yeah in a way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey I came in six thank you.
Speaker 6: I don't know her name, Mike Meghan in California Meghan.
Speaker 6: Every six months or so. It gives us a new
Speaker 6: power rankings. Okay, but now.
Speaker 5: She'll have to change it up to make a statement
Speaker 5: next time.
Speaker 6: At seven next time now, because she's like, oh, this
Speaker 6: is getting on the air, let me change it out.
Speaker 18: No chance, he's smarter than that. What we got something
Speaker 18: to work for now? Like you know, I want to
Speaker 18: I want to move up.
Speaker 5: The rank employee the month too.
Speaker 11: Yeah that too, that's a good one too.
Speaker 5: You get that all right, Thank you, Meghan.
Speaker 11: We appreciate that.
Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two.
Speaker 3: The Folds of Honor celebrity softball game happened this week
Speaker 3: and Lunchbox scoob of Steve and myself played in the game,
Speaker 3: and we had a lot of stories to share, a
Speaker 3: lot of tea to spill. And that's what's coming in
Speaker 3: at this spot right here. It's a lot of tea
Speaker 3: spilling from the celebrity softball game, particularly tea I'm spelling
Speaker 3: on Lunchbox. I'm just going to tell you it was gold.
Speaker 3: I had a lot of good stuff that happened. And
Speaker 3: then I shared even more on Best Bits with Scooba Steve.
Speaker 3: We talked about all our favorite moments and a little
Speaker 3: bit more lighthearted than just spilling the tea on lunchbox.
Speaker 2: So be sure to check out both.
Speaker 3: But here right now, grab your teacups, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: it's tea time.
Speaker 1: Number three.
Speaker 5: I want to play a voicemail. This is Steve from Nashville.
Speaker 10: We're at the Celebrity softball game, and I'm really worried
Speaker 10: about the seed because he hits the ball like a girl.
Speaker 6: Guy is you know, Smiff. First of all, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: say this, I just I've been watching a lot of
Speaker 6: college softball and I don't think hitting the ball like
Speaker 6: a girl should be a negative thing, right neck, because
Speaker 6: I'm watching girls.
Speaker 5: Who are crushing the freaking ball.
Speaker 11: They hit it hard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I think hitting like girl, throwing like a girl,
Speaker 6: that ain't really a thing because I know a lot
Speaker 6: of girls are way better athletes than any of us
Speaker 6: dudes in here. So aside from that, Scoop Seve, apparently
Speaker 6: he didn't look very athletic.
Speaker 5: I think it probably would have been the thing.
Speaker 7: No, and to kind of pond what you're saying, the
Speaker 7: best player of the game was a woman.
Speaker 11: It was or No.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she played softball Alabama.
Speaker 11: She killed it.
Speaker 5: She was incredible my division once off ball.
Speaker 7: I love watching her play.
Speaker 11: It was awesome.
Speaker 8: So yeah, to go onto that, But yes, I didn't
Speaker 8: play my best and just mostly just because I'm just
Speaker 8: not that good at it. I mean it was good
Speaker 8: in the field, good at throwing and catching all that,
Speaker 8: but my batting was it was Okay, at one pop
Speaker 8: fly in a grounder.
Speaker 5: What position did you play?
Speaker 8: I've switched between third base and right field, making any plays.
Speaker 7: I made no great plays.
Speaker 5: Well, you said you did good at fielding and throw.
Speaker 7: I was there, ready to go, and I threw the ball,
Speaker 7: ready to go.
Speaker 5: Okay, good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I warmed up with Jerry Stackhouse. That was
Speaker 8: probably skighlight. That was really cool. Cool coach Manerbilt. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but the NBA player to me from the nineties, and
Speaker 8: he was.
Speaker 10: Geeking out, and Morgan was like, dude, we gotta go
Speaker 10: get a picture with Scoob before the game starts.
Speaker 9: Like, Morgan, you do not interrupt his childhood.
Speaker 5: Drain Jerry Stackhouse, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was cool, like playing catch a dad.
Speaker 5: I did want to break. I know that feeling. I
Speaker 5: played Castrin Nolan Ryan once.
Speaker 11: Okay, cool, Yes, you get it warming up and I did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I just didn't want.
Speaker 9: It to Enddel Diamond.
Speaker 5: Round Rock Express. Oh yeah, we were doing a deal
Speaker 5: there and you throw it hard.
Speaker 6: He was I mean, he didn't throw the no, but
Speaker 6: he was throwing and he threw just consistently strong.
Speaker 5: It was anyway moving off.
Speaker 6: That I didn't want talk about the game, big celebrity
Speaker 6: softball game last night, And I was looking at the
Speaker 6: promo and they were talking about the people on the
Speaker 6: people's team. For example, over on Team Riley Green, which
Speaker 6: team are you guys on?
Speaker 9: And Scuba was on Team Riley Green?
Speaker 11: Got it?
Speaker 6: So on Team Jelly Roll, they talk about the people.
Speaker 6: There's Jelly Roll, there's Taylor Lewan who used to play
Speaker 6: for the Titans. There's Morgan number two, there's Heart, there's
Speaker 6: the whole list, and it was Morgan number two and
Speaker 6: Lunchbox didn't show up till like the very end of
Speaker 6: the list.
Speaker 10: It's like the people running the just don't I guess
Speaker 10: they don't really understand what they're doing. They don't understand
Speaker 10: how to promote their event. Like when you are promoting it,
Speaker 10: you want your biggest names first.
Speaker 5: But I think that's what they're doing in their mind,
Speaker 5: that's what they're doing.
Speaker 10: That's what I'm saying. Obviously they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 10: They think like they have Morgan number two on there
Speaker 10: with Jelly Roll, Taylor Lawan, the biggest names. Like if
Speaker 10: you want the biggest names on that promo.
Speaker 6: They put me, Okay, other than you My point is
Speaker 6: they think that Morgan number two is a bigger way.
Speaker 10: Crazy to actually think that, Like whoever did that? Their
Speaker 10: social media coordinators should be fired, like immediately.
Speaker 5: So good showing last night showing people they were watching
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I sold out.
Speaker 6: It was awesome, love it. And so was this the
Speaker 6: thing last night too? Or is this this one story
Speaker 6: that I saw? Oh, that was just one story that
Speaker 6: I saw. I was like you saw last night. It
Speaker 6: was fine, you know what I mean?
Speaker 9: Like I was there, we were great.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, because I got a hand now
Speaker 3: all of my signed baseball cards and lunchbox still has.
Speaker 5: All of his. So wait, people wanted your baseball.
Speaker 4: Like all of mine are gone.
Speaker 10: Here's the thing because people Morgan was walking around with
Speaker 10: hers like saying here, you want my car and signing
Speaker 10: them and hanging them out.
Speaker 9: I just put him on my backpack and was like, hey, guys, I'm.
Speaker 10: Here to drink and take pictures. You want to take
Speaker 10: a picture, fine, but I an't getting them out of
Speaker 10: my backpack. And then I can give them my relatives
Speaker 10: like for Christmas presents, like I got my baseball.
Speaker 4: See this is why I'm a better.
Speaker 5: Draw car that's a good point.
Speaker 6: I heard from my little Birdie that there was actually
Speaker 6: kind of a I'm not gonna say a fight, but
Speaker 6: an uncuf between you two about this thing where Morgan
Speaker 6: was being promoted more than you.
Speaker 9: No, no, I was just did that one promotion?
Speaker 10: I mean Morgan, who was the last person in the
Speaker 10: stadium because so many people want to take.
Speaker 5: Pictures in human form. Did you guys get into it
Speaker 5: a little bit?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 3: He he literally we were sitting here in the studio
Speaker 3: and he sees it for the first time and he looks,
Speaker 3: He's like, why are you on here?
Speaker 4: And I was like, because I'm playing in the game.
Speaker 3: And he starts throwing this whole fit, and everybody who
Speaker 3: walks in the studio goes, guys, why is she promoted
Speaker 3: more than me?
Speaker 12: It was this whole argument that he was mad that
Speaker 12: I was getting promoted.
Speaker 4: More than him.
Speaker 5: I heard it was sincere too, like he was really excellent.
Speaker 5: It's not why I take it out on her. It
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with her.
Speaker 10: Well, I was asking her like, don't you find it crazy?
Speaker 10: Like this is unbelievable?
Speaker 19: Why not just go?
Speaker 6: I wish I were up a little more. This is crazy,
Speaker 6: not you're up above me, and that's stupid.
Speaker 9: What is I mean?
Speaker 10: Just go look at the social media presence alone. I
Speaker 10: dominate hers.
Speaker 11: What do you mean presence followers?
Speaker 9: If you want the most followers to just go look
Speaker 9: at hers. In mind, I blow her out of the water.
Speaker 5: So to say, she's also been on the show a
Speaker 5: lot longer matter.
Speaker 12: Okay, I hear you, but that part should matter too.
Speaker 6: My hope would be that you would go, dang, this sucks,
Speaker 6: I'm not up there more, but not take it out
Speaker 6: on her because she was.
Speaker 5: She had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 12: She didn't create it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I just thought it was a bad look.
Speaker 4: I was just a better player last year, I guess.
Speaker 4: I mean that has to do with this.
Speaker 12: Last year, and you didn't.
Speaker 10: Yeah see I did hit last year, but they didn't
Speaker 10: they put me in the game.
Speaker 4: I put you in the game.
Speaker 18: I love that Lunchbox just keeps playing the game, like
Speaker 18: you know, if he's so mad at this organization, don't
Speaker 18: play anymore. But he goes every single year and gets
Speaker 18: hurt that they never talk about him or they make
Speaker 18: him the announcer.
Speaker 6: Well, last year they didn't even ask him to play,
Speaker 6: and I got upset for him, and it was a
Speaker 6: whole thing. And so he played and this year he
Speaker 6: got invited to play, but now he's upset because he
Speaker 6: didn't get put up on the list.
Speaker 5: High Now it's.
Speaker 13: Also just to say something positive here. I saw someone
Speaker 13: post a video of Lunchbox going up to bat and
Speaker 13: they did his like walk up song, and he went
Speaker 13: up there and when they said all right and Lunchbox,
Speaker 13: I mean, there were loud screams.
Speaker 11: That's good.
Speaker 13: Yes, Like it seemed as though people, I don't know how.
Speaker 5: They were saying that.
Speaker 9: People we know, we know.
Speaker 5: We're just saying, don't take it out on Morgan, right,
Speaker 5: that's it.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 12: I was just I figured this would help him.
Speaker 9: Just trust me. I know there's screams. I know who
Speaker 9: gets big billings.
Speaker 5: You're not billing. You didn't get the billing. Billing means promotion.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was their fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you may get.
Speaker 9: A more love, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: How was How was your love?
Speaker 6: Morgan?
Speaker 4: My love was great?
Speaker 3: Like I said, I was signing autographs, I was taking pictures.
Speaker 6: Let's go to scuba, Steve, because scuba you're not either
Speaker 6: one of these two your thoughts.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I like that Amy said that Lifebuck's got a
Speaker 8: lot of roars and cheers, but Morgan got like ten
Speaker 8: times more.
Speaker 7: When she came up.
Speaker 8: It was like Michael Jordan came out and they had
Speaker 8: her run for jelly roll and she ran ella quick.
Speaker 8: Is she more of an athlete than he is?
Speaker 7: Way more of an athlete than both of us.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, here we go. Didn't Morgan hit the
Speaker 9: ball out of the infield?
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter where she hit it.
Speaker 4: She was you to third base.
Speaker 5: I did my job, No exactly.
Speaker 7: She got base hits, which is all that you guys needed.
Speaker 9: She didn't get a base hit.
Speaker 7: I thought, yes.
Speaker 3: No you did not.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm not arguing about stats and a check game.
Speaker 7: Yes, Morgan have had more of a following there at least.
Speaker 11: Okay, So how did you play? Great?
Speaker 10: One for two, scored our first run. We couldn't get
Speaker 10: our team couldn't hit the ball. Finally I got the game.
Speaker 10: I gotta go one like you got the game winner? No, no,
Speaker 10: got it started like we our top are hardy struck
Speaker 10: out man, well hardy, they like I know, like it.
Speaker 9: He was so like, he was like, this is the
Speaker 9: worst day of my life.
Speaker 6: He said, and but we bring up Hardy strike out anything.
Speaker 6: You were asking your game, But why would you take
Speaker 6: shots at other people?
Speaker 9: Because I'm not taking shots at Hardy.
Speaker 5: You have no reason to bring up Hardy striking out.
Speaker 11: Like we would have never known unless.
Speaker 12: We have not and now we know.
Speaker 5: The worst day was like, so you went one for two, Morgan,
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't get on base for my own hits I got,
Speaker 3: I moved lunchbox one I got.
Speaker 6: It's not even bad then, if it's a sacrifice, it's
Speaker 6: not in a bad I it was a fielder's choice, was.
Speaker 3: Hey, I didn't get I didn't hit any pop ups.
Speaker 3: They were all grounders. And I ran for Jelly and
Speaker 3: I scored for Jelly. So I did play good, and
Speaker 3: I fielded a lot of balls. I was out there
Speaker 3: making place.
Speaker 5: Good for you, lunch watch filly balls.
Speaker 10: Yeah, one Jerry Stackhouse hit out to me like the
Speaker 10: second basement dropped it, And uh, where'd you play?
Speaker 9: I played right field, second base, right field?
Speaker 5: Did you play?
Speaker 3: I was in center and right and second we are
Speaker 3: lunchbox and I were switching off.
Speaker 4: I was trying to make sure you play.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's nice of you.
Speaker 6: Here we go okay, I'm I'm glad you guys played.
Speaker 6: I mean a great cost folds of honor and that's all.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to bring it up see how it went.
Speaker 6: You have anything else, lunchbox. This sounds give an out
Speaker 6: the grievance.
Speaker 9: No, No, I'm just saying. I mean, they nominated me
Speaker 9: for m v P but ended up not getting it
Speaker 9: at the end.
Speaker 5: What's the nomination process of m v P.
Speaker 4: There is none. Everybody's up for m v P and
Speaker 4: then they choose to at the end of the night.
Speaker 5: Who nominated you?
Speaker 9: I guess people on our team a meeting.
Speaker 3: Who got it? And then a first responder Yeah he.
Speaker 5: Was on the other team though.
Speaker 11: Losing team got it.
Speaker 5: We won, we won, got it?
Speaker 4: And Scuba loss got it?
Speaker 5: And who struck out?
Speaker 9: I'm not going to say you already did landed.
Speaker 5: To Okay, if it wasn't the worst day of her life, No,
Speaker 5: I don't think so. Anybody else is devastated by striking out.
Speaker 10: No, I mean there's only I think there's only two strikeouts.
Speaker 10: Maybe how a jelly roll hit he grounded it to
Speaker 10: like shortstop and Chris Lane.
Speaker 9: Booted it and that's error.
Speaker 4: But I got on base.
Speaker 9: We got moving, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like it was, there's no reason that can bring it
Speaker 5: crisly making an error, honestly, just.
Speaker 10: Like or maybe Sean bu dropped it at first. I
Speaker 10: don't know what's gonna happened, but what.
Speaker 11: It's all shots from him?
Speaker 12: What's an error you made?
Speaker 9: Not I didn't make an era.
Speaker 4: No, you hit a pop fly.
Speaker 9: That's not an error.
Speaker 6: You got out, that's not an error. Okay, I'm glad
Speaker 6: you guys had fun.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, but I did meet Charles Eston.
Speaker 9: Chip came up and introduced himself.
Speaker 11: You've met him, he's in the studio.
Speaker 9: He was like, hey, you may not know who I am.
Speaker 11: He's been in the studio like multiple times.
Speaker 4: Well, I have tea from this.
Speaker 3: Lunchbox went up to Charles Eston, came up to him,
Speaker 3: and Lunchbox comes to us after this conversation and he goes, guys.
Speaker 3: Charles Uston said, I don't know if you guys, if
Speaker 3: you know who I am, but I'm a huge fan
Speaker 3: of yours.
Speaker 4: And then they took a picture together.
Speaker 3: So Lunchbox comes up to us and he goes, guys,
Speaker 3: Charles Uston's a huge fan of me.
Speaker 4: I know Charles Uston.
Speaker 3: So he walked up and I said, Hey, did you
Speaker 3: happen to say to Lunchbox that you're a huge fan
Speaker 3: of his?
Speaker 4: And he goes no.
Speaker 3: I just said, hey, I don't know if you know
Speaker 3: who I am and wanted to say hi.
Speaker 4: I love got called out.
Speaker 3: He's never been more embarrassed in his life than when
Speaker 3: he got called.
Speaker 5: But you're lied about somebody saying they were a huge fan.
Speaker 9: But then he asks to take a picture with me.
Speaker 6: But you can take a picture together. It does mean
Speaker 6: you're like a massive super fan. Like you're posting on social.
Speaker 6: They're like plase post on social to promote this.
Speaker 9: Oh maybe that's what he's doing. I thought he's doing
Speaker 9: it because he's a big fan, and what's this.
Speaker 3: No Lunchbox turned bright right in the face when I
Speaker 3: called him out right in front of Charles Uston.
Speaker 6: It is great, everybody glad you played the game. No more,
Speaker 6: Lunchbos He's going I got more to say, no more.
Speaker 9: I mean, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 10: What I mean the person that doesn't get embarrassed, She asked,
Speaker 10: like I was so embarrassed, and I was like, oh
Speaker 10: my gosh.
Speaker 4: Let's give it was he not right in the face
Speaker 4: when that happened.
Speaker 10: Here we go, Ok, guys, hit it out of the enfield.
Speaker 10: Let me know when it gets out of the infield.
Speaker 9: Thanks.
Speaker 13: Do you think Charles said that to him as like
Speaker 13: a joke, because hasn't Lunchbox said he's more famous than
Speaker 13: Charles Deston and nobody knows.
Speaker 5: I'll jumped. I think he just made it up.
Speaker 4: Lunchbox just wanted to somebody else.
Speaker 5: I know this. Bet you guys are driving me in
Speaker 5: this bit. This is the fly trap. Be his fly
Speaker 5: trap a bit. We're not doing it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2: Number two, Lunchbox announced on the show this.
Speaker 3: Week that he booked his first TV commercial, which was
Speaker 3: kind of a lie because it's not exactly what it is,
Speaker 3: but it is a commercial.
Speaker 2: So here you go.
Speaker 3: This is the Lunchbox being so excited to share the
Speaker 3: news of his TV commercial.
Speaker 6: Number two, big news if I get that drum roll please,
Speaker 6: somebody on the show has told me they booked their
Speaker 6: first TV commercial.
Speaker 5: I've not seen it. I didn't know anything about it,
Speaker 5: so it was news to me as well.
Speaker 6: But this is a big achievement. We like to celebrate
Speaker 6: our achievements together. Everybody on the show is trying to
Speaker 6: do stuff outside of the show.
Speaker 5: Amy, He's got.
Speaker 6: A small part in Holiday Harmony on HBO now called Max.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Eddie not really doing anything outside the show.
Speaker 11: Hey, I'm doing speaking yeah stuff.
Speaker 6: Absolutely has been speaking plays with the Raging Idiots out
Speaker 6: of the road.
Speaker 11: A lot of outside of the work stuff.
Speaker 6: Lunchboxes on Zoom, reading scripts to Three's company whatever.
Speaker 12: Lunchbock speaks, Yes, kid.
Speaker 5: Morgan, what do you do?
Speaker 4: I'm doing some reefest.
Speaker 5: There you go, doing hosting, there you go. Okay, but
Speaker 5: he got little hustles. So one of you has booked
Speaker 5: a TV commercial, Amy, who do you think it is?
Speaker 11: That is not Amy, It's not me.
Speaker 13: So I I feel like Lunchbox has really been going
Speaker 13: after stuff, and maybe we find convinced him.
Speaker 5: How's he been going after stuff?
Speaker 13: He's been going, I'm doing the we we sort of
Speaker 13: pick at him for doing the zooms and not much else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but what's he been doing to go after though?
Speaker 13: You said practicing the zooms and then he shut up
Speaker 13: on Nicole, I.
Speaker 11: Put me in, Yeah that's going out.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, you guys, I'll be happy to know the
Speaker 6: person who got the TV commercial.
Speaker 5: Let's lunch box.
Speaker 9: TV commercial?
Speaker 11: What's it for?
Speaker 10: Hey, don't you worry? You will see it shortly? I
Speaker 10: can I tell you, but you can't tell us what
Speaker 10: it's doing. No, why you don't. They don't come out
Speaker 10: and announce people in commercials before the commercials.
Speaker 5: Air, but you can. They like you to, but they
Speaker 5: do not.
Speaker 9: They said it is confidential.
Speaker 12: Did you sign something?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 5: You signed something?
Speaker 12: Are you lying like an NDA?
Speaker 9: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 10: But I signed a contract saying I won't talk about it,
Speaker 10: and then the commercial will be out and you'll be
Speaker 10: able to see it, and we're gonna shoot it and it's.
Speaker 9: Going to be amazing.
Speaker 12: How'd you get it?
Speaker 9: I auditioned for it, sent it tape.
Speaker 5: Are you lying?
Speaker 9: No, I'm not lying. I don't understand how.
Speaker 11: You Something feels weird about it.
Speaker 5: It does feel weird how he's answering the questions.
Speaker 6: And second of all, I don't know a single brand
Speaker 6: that wouldn't want their brand unless it was a super
Speaker 6: Bowl commercial that they were keeping secret.
Speaker 11: It's not a super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 9: How do you know?
Speaker 11: There's no way is it? Can you give us the
Speaker 11: category it's.
Speaker 9: In, uh TV?
Speaker 5: Okay, come on man, No, the category of the product.
Speaker 9: Oh, the product? How would I describe it? Satisfying?
Speaker 11: Snickers massage?
Speaker 5: Nope, so the category is satisfying. Let me explain what
Speaker 5: categories are.
Speaker 6: That's a category, Like there's healthcare, there's food, there's service,
Speaker 6: entertainment loathing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you could.
Speaker 10: Say service, so like a restaurant.
Speaker 11: And you haven't shot the TV commercial?
Speaker 6: No? No?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And will we see it?
Speaker 9: You will see it for sure.
Speaker 13: Okay if you're going to show it to us or
Speaker 13: we would happen upon it.
Speaker 10: I mean, if you're watching TV, you may see it
Speaker 10: or I'll show it to either one. I don't know when,
Speaker 10: what shows you watch and what commercials they play?
Speaker 13: Okay, I have one question about how I know you
Speaker 13: auditioned for it. You sent in a tape, but how
Speaker 13: did you even hear it was open? Like?
Speaker 9: How do you hear about the audition online?
Speaker 11: Okay?
Speaker 6: Yepco to Staved, shaking his head right now.
Speaker 8: Online through his email from me, what do you mean?
Speaker 8: So this is this is with Sonic, so it's a
Speaker 8: good thing.
Speaker 5: Get a Sonic TV commercial.
Speaker 8: Sonic commercial, but it's not on TV. Oh, my god,
Speaker 8: it's on Instagram TV.
Speaker 5: So Sonic gonna put it on all their brand stuff.
Speaker 8: Well, so there isn't a final say on where it
Speaker 8: will live maybe in the future of depending on how
Speaker 8: they like it. But it's only supposed to live on
Speaker 8: our Instagram account.
Speaker 11: Wait. So if it's really good though, it could.
Speaker 5: Okay, but let's get this right.
Speaker 9: No, it's not Oh no, you don't know that.
Speaker 5: Okay, but it's not a T commercial and it's only
Speaker 5: for our social media.
Speaker 8: I was told his TV he was he doesn't read
Speaker 8: his emails because I'll talk to him about suff after
Speaker 8: the show. He's like, yeah, no, no, no, I'm like, no,
Speaker 8: it's just this. Read your email and I'll go, oh,
Speaker 8: I see it was an email.
Speaker 5: So it's not a TV commercial, scoop.
Speaker 9: I mean they are shutting down an entire Sonic so
Speaker 9: I can go film this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So it seems like it's gonna be a big
Speaker 8: deal because it is for us. They they are shutting
Speaker 8: down roads, they are closing that a Sonic. There is
Speaker 8: a camera crew gonna be there. There is things that's
Speaker 8: happening that makes it big. But he left out of detail.
Speaker 7: It's commercial but for Instagram.
Speaker 11: And my camera crew.
Speaker 5: It's me, is it Eddie?
Speaker 11: It is not?
Speaker 8: And what's funny is he's gonna be sharing the spotlight
Speaker 8: with somebody else too.
Speaker 5: You have a co host in it?
Speaker 10: Well, no, no, I was told that they it's gonna
Speaker 10: be two different commercials and there may be someone in
Speaker 10: there for a couple of seconds on the other one.
Speaker 17: Morgan.
Speaker 5: Morgan got a TV commercial.
Speaker 11: Morgan.
Speaker 9: I didn't know it's gonna be Morgan.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 9: They just said you may have a code, so.
Speaker 6: You don't have a TV commercial. So we just had
Speaker 6: all this and you don't have I do. I mean,
Speaker 6: why do you keep pointing at scubasteam? He just said
Speaker 6: you don't. What's the audio?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: My agent called and tell me I got it?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, what's your agent saying?
Speaker 9: Jackson Hughes.
Speaker 11: I feel like we're dealing with like a you know.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to our listeners. I also did not know
Speaker 5: what we were doing here.
Speaker 6: I thought he really got a TV commercial and I
Speaker 6: wanted to experience it live and learn about it.
Speaker 5: And Jackson Hughes is not a real person.
Speaker 6: It is Lunchboxes, according to you, is Lunchbox's voice, and
Speaker 6: he edits this together, Go ahead.
Speaker 9: Lunchy, Lunchy, my friend, Jackson Hughes, your agent.
Speaker 11: Yes, Oh my gosh, I got great news.
Speaker 5: You know the tape you sent off for that commercial.
Speaker 11: They loved it. They loved it. You're in.
Speaker 9: You're in, my friend, You've got it. You got your
Speaker 9: first ever commercial.
Speaker 10: We're gonna film it later this week, so I'll be
Speaker 10: in touch.
Speaker 11: But congratulations. All that hard work.
Speaker 9: Is paying off.
Speaker 6: My friends.
Speaker 9: We're going places.
Speaker 13: You did it.
Speaker 11: You're in a commercial. Bye, Lunchy.
Speaker 5: You didn't even change your voice.
Speaker 10: That was my voice. It was out to my voicemail.
Speaker 10: So I don't know how you think I could be
Speaker 10: on my voicemail.
Speaker 9: That is Jackson Hughes. That's my agent.
Speaker 6: Is it Jackson's a tax company or something? Jackson Huett,
Speaker 6: that's what Jackson Hewitt.
Speaker 11: Should we not make fun of him anymore about this? Like?
Speaker 11: I feel bad?
Speaker 9: Why do you feel bad? Because I got a commercial
Speaker 9: and you guys didn't know?
Speaker 11: Because that's you and you're in this fairy tale.
Speaker 13: Okay, the category is clearly food and he went satisfying service.
Speaker 10: It though exactly definitely did they provide a service? Yeah,
Speaker 10: exactly due.
Speaker 5: Lunch he lunch he loun.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 3: Number two, our new Patriotic Pimp and Joy line went
Speaker 3: on sale yesterday to help build a home for us
Speaker 3: MC Corporal Aaron Mankin. All the proceeds from this new
Speaker 3: line and anything Pimp and Joy are going to building
Speaker 3: homes for heroes, specifically to help build a home for
Speaker 3: Aaron Mankin and his family.
Speaker 2: And Bobby shared the news with him that this was
Speaker 2: happening this week.
Speaker 3: He had no idea and it was super emotional and
Speaker 3: all of us got chills and it was heart wrenching.
Speaker 3: His story is just it's wow. And his story is
Speaker 3: what you're gonna hear right now. So grab the tissues
Speaker 3: and get your phone or computer so you can buy
Speaker 3: some of this new line just and have it in
Speaker 3: time for Fourth of July or anything. Pimp and Joy
Speaker 3: so he can build this guy in his family home
Speaker 3: because they're so deserving of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm probably gonna cry again.
Speaker 1: Number one, So Bobby Bones Show Interviews in.
Speaker 6: Case you didn't know, We're gonna hop over and talk
Speaker 6: to United States Marine Corps Corporal Aaron Mankin in just second.
Speaker 6: He is in Ourhyndai Virtual green room. He is on
Speaker 6: with us from his place, his home. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 6: you he does not know that we're on with him
Speaker 6: to hopefully build him a home. We've done this six
Speaker 6: times before for different heroes that have served and have
Speaker 6: had catastrophic injury. Corporal Making has had seventy surgeries, he has,
Speaker 6: and I'll let him tell the story about the ied
Speaker 6: that hit him. And he's got kids, and he's had
Speaker 6: burns and amputation and lung damage serving us, serving this country,
Speaker 6: and so we have teamed up with building homes for
Speaker 6: heroes to help veter in the United States Marine Corps
Speaker 6: Corporal Aaron Mankin. We're gonna build him house, and he
Speaker 6: does not know that. So now we're going to connect
Speaker 6: him over so he doesn't hear that part. And he's
Speaker 6: on now and here he is.
Speaker 1: On the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 5: Now. Marine Corporal Hello, Aaron, how's it going.
Speaker 17: It's going well.
Speaker 5: Thank you, good to see my friend.
Speaker 17: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 6: First of all, from all of us, we appreciate your
Speaker 6: service obviously, and I want to talk about why you join,
Speaker 6: when you join, and what happened to you specifically. And
Speaker 6: you know I always going to be sensitive when talking
Speaker 6: about what happened to you. So if I ask anything
Speaker 6: that's a little too much, let me know. Okay, I
Speaker 6: appreciate it, Okay, cool.
Speaker 17: I'm an open book. I'll talk about anything. I think
Speaker 17: it's important for people to not only hear my story,
Speaker 17: but the opportunity I've had to educate people about my
Speaker 17: experience and what it's like to come home.
Speaker 5: So you enlisted, what year and where'd you live?
Speaker 17: So I enlisted out of my hometown here in Rogers, Arkansas,
Speaker 17: back in two thousand and three at the onset of
Speaker 17: the war. And back then it was an or it
Speaker 17: was you know, Operation of Rocky Freedom, when we were
Speaker 17: going to liberate the nation. So that resonated with me.
Speaker 17: That spoke with me a lot. The idea of you know,
Speaker 17: the bush doctor exporting democracy and going out and helping
Speaker 17: the world in that way really really resonated with me.
Speaker 17: And I thought, you know, if I'm going to join
Speaker 17: the military, if if this is what my generation is
Speaker 17: going to do with this my generation's war, what what
Speaker 17: can I do that that I that I do well
Speaker 17: so that I could be an asset to my unit.
Speaker 17: And I didn't want to just be another pair of
Speaker 17: boots in the sands. So I took my skills as
Speaker 17: a as a photographer and a storyteller and decided to
Speaker 17: become a combat correspondent. So I started my training in
Speaker 17: De Floyd to a Rock in two thousand fire, spent
Speaker 17: my time in Fallujah, and was there to tell the
Speaker 17: Marine Corps story.
Speaker 6: What does that mean? Tell the Marine Corps story? As
Speaker 6: someone that's in the Marine Corps? Are you telling it
Speaker 6: to people like us? Are you telling it within both?
Speaker 17: Actually? So you know, I had a camera in one hand,
Speaker 17: a rifle in the other, and every Marine rifleman so
Speaker 17: and especially having you know, combat at the front of
Speaker 17: my bill. At my job is to be expected. And
Speaker 17: so I would write for I would write press releases
Speaker 17: for the general for the base newspaper, but then those
Speaker 17: were also released online and back here in the States,
Speaker 17: and I did videography. I did several reports that would
Speaker 17: come through the satellites out of Fallujah and then back
Speaker 17: to the States and wind up on the evening news.
Speaker 17: So you know, the Marine Corps story is very much
Speaker 17: in large part of the American story. And so you know,
Speaker 17: just telling those those personal connections between the troops and
Speaker 17: the home.
Speaker 6: Front did you find the fulfillment that you were searching
Speaker 6: for whenever you win an end to the service into
Speaker 6: the Marines? You had been there, you did your training,
Speaker 6: you were serving. Did you feel like this is what
Speaker 6: I was meant for while you were doing it?
Speaker 17: I really did. I really thought that not only was
Speaker 17: I in a place that spoke to me, that fed
Speaker 17: me as an individual, where I could lean on my
Speaker 17: skill set and be valued within my unit and toward division,
Speaker 17: I did. I enjoyed it. Best job on a Marine Corps,
Speaker 17: hands down, best job. I mean, I loved it. I
Speaker 17: mean everything that the Marine Corps had its hands in,
Speaker 17: I had the opportunity to go and tell that story.
Speaker 17: So if we were doing training and awesome high speed
Speaker 17: you know, helicopter operations or you know mount training, or
Speaker 17: a celebrity would come on base to entertain the troops,
Speaker 17: if that's where the story was, and that's where I
Speaker 17: would be in order to tell it.
Speaker 6: So we had mentioned before you came on that you've
Speaker 6: undergone seventy surgeries throughout your recovery, But I do want
Speaker 6: to talk about what happened that has well made you
Speaker 6: have seventy surgeries. So what do you remember about the
Speaker 6: day it happened to kind of walked me through it.
Speaker 17: I survived that blast. I walked away luckily. I don't
Speaker 17: know how I escaped it. Why would you tell you
Speaker 17: the god honest truth. I mean, it took the lives
Speaker 17: of six marines and I walked away with no broken bones,
Speaker 17: no shrapnel, really just a flesh wound. I had to
Speaker 17: give my face and my flesh and a few fingers,
Speaker 17: but you know, I had my life and got to
Speaker 17: walk away from it. And honestly, every day's been a
Speaker 17: blessing since.
Speaker 6: Well, was it an ied that exploded a lot of
Speaker 6: times when you know, we talked to you know, people
Speaker 6: that have been injured in war, it's either an id
Speaker 6: they didn't know they drove up on or is that
Speaker 6: what happened with you?
Speaker 17: Yes? Yeah, we were moving from one objective to the
Speaker 17: other in our track. Just happened to hit a stack
Speaker 17: mine through a twenty six ton vehicle with marines chow
Speaker 17: ammunition to us good ten feet in here, boom boom,
Speaker 17: can crash it back down, And we thought it was
Speaker 17: an ambush. We thought we were taking fire, But it
Speaker 17: turns out that the heat was so intense inside the vehicle,
Speaker 17: all of our art that started to cook off, So
Speaker 17: all of our grenades or flares or fifty calamela, everything
Speaker 17: started to cook off. Inside it was chaos.
Speaker 6: When you say cookof, does that mean like like shoot off,
Speaker 6: like firework, like if a fireworks stand ord to catch fire.
Speaker 6: But that's like it's like real, real stuff exactly. Oh man,
Speaker 6: So what happens then? As in what do you remember?
Speaker 5: Next? Are you do? You wake up in a hospital?
Speaker 17: So at that point, uh, I'm on fire inside the vehicle.
Speaker 17: I opened my eyes. I can see flashes of orange
Speaker 17: and the pitch black smoke. My first reaction was to
Speaker 17: just gasp, you know, just shocked, and I inhaled all
Speaker 17: this fire and debris, and later surgeons would dig out
Speaker 17: cardboard and glass out of my lungs, and panics set in,
Speaker 17: and I thought I got to get out. And by
Speaker 17: that time, one of our sergeants had muscled ope in
Speaker 17: the back hatch and the smoke started to flood out.
Speaker 17: Daylight kind of trickled in, and I found my try
Speaker 17: and I just dove and I just jumped out of
Speaker 17: the track. I landed in the road. I stopped and
Speaker 17: looked at myself and I was still on fire, and
Speaker 17: so I started to roll and roll and roll, and
Speaker 17: I couldn't. I couldn't put myself out. I just you know,
Speaker 17: exhausted myself trying to extinguish myself. And I thought, this
Speaker 17: is it. And this piece came over me and I thought, uh,
Speaker 17: this is how my story ends. And you know, they say,
Speaker 17: your whole life flashes before your eyes. Ironically for me,
Speaker 17: being a photographer, I just saw these like pictures. I
Speaker 17: just saw these little still frames of all the people
Speaker 17: in my life that meant the world to me. And
Speaker 17: as I was trying to hold on to him, I
Speaker 17: woke up to the sound of my fellow marine Jill,
Speaker 17: and putt you wow, put him out. You know, they
Speaker 17: run over, they dive on top of me, and they're
Speaker 17: you know, kicking turn on top and they're trying to
Speaker 17: put the flames out, and and they do, and then
Speaker 17: it's like they just evaporated. It's like they just disappear
Speaker 17: and they all go to help other marines. And I
Speaker 17: wasn't wounded from the waist down, so I stood up
Speaker 17: and of course in shock, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 17: I need to get to my camera. I need to
Speaker 17: get to my my mission, and so I started to
Speaker 17: walk back toward the track, and it was about then
Speaker 17: that our navy corman grabbed me by the collar and say, hey,
Speaker 17: you're hurt. You need to come with me. And that's
Speaker 17: really where the story of my recovery began. And I
Speaker 17: tell that story, you know, uh, to different groups around
Speaker 17: the country and and I'll i'll point that that part
Speaker 17: out specifically, and how often we'll walk around in life
Speaker 17: and not know how truly wounded we are and take
Speaker 17: someone else to come up to us and extend their
Speaker 17: hand and their help and their aid. So he gets
Speaker 17: me to the casualty collection point, and then they got
Speaker 17: to get me on the on the chill right, and
Speaker 17: it's like every war movie you've ever seen. Let's go,
Speaker 17: get them on the chop bottle, let's go, you know.
Speaker 17: They load me up on the litter and I start
Speaker 17: running through a field to load me up onto the
Speaker 17: helicopter to our air support. And sure enough, you know,
Speaker 17: Murphy's law, things go wrong and somebody fell over and
Speaker 17: I came tumbling out. Now I'm back on the ground
Speaker 17: and we were so close to the bird. I thought,
Speaker 17: you know, I'll just walk, So I start walking toward
Speaker 17: the bird and Oliverene start yelling at me, Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 17: let down, lay down here in shock. We got you,
Speaker 17: come on here in shock like I'm shocked that you
Speaker 17: dropped me right right. Get this marine some morphine. So
Speaker 17: they got me out of the bird and got me
Speaker 17: out of there. They knocked me out and then I
Speaker 17: woke up about two days later in San Antonio.
Speaker 6: So you're in San Antonio and that's where they start
Speaker 6: to really work physically through your recovery. Second third degree
Speaker 6: burns to your arms and your face, ambuitated fingers PTSD
Speaker 6: long damage. I'm assuming the lung damage is from when
Speaker 6: you were breathing in and the fire. That's all you
Speaker 6: took in there. Yes, so physically it has been extremely
Speaker 6: to have seventy surgeries. That yeah, when you can't even
Speaker 6: remember every star, there's no way I remember seventy surgeries
Speaker 6: and you can't even remember every surgery. That's how you
Speaker 6: know you've had a lot of surgeries right right eron.
Speaker 17: For sure.
Speaker 6: And so here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna work
Speaker 6: together with building homes for heroes, and our goal is
Speaker 6: to repay you and it'll never actually be repayment for
Speaker 6: what you gave to this country.
Speaker 5: And our goal is to just simply build a house.
Speaker 6: Building a house that is easier for you to live in,
Speaker 6: easier for what you're going through, easier for your family.
Speaker 5: And so what we're going to do.
Speaker 6: Because you told us your story and because you served,
Speaker 6: is we're going to get with our listeners and we're
Speaker 6: going to say this is Aaron's story.
Speaker 5: If you guys would like to help, can you help?
Speaker 6: And over the past six years we've been able to
Speaker 6: do just that, and so we've chosen you this year
Speaker 6: United States sub Marine Corps Corporal Ara Making and we
Speaker 6: really want to hopefully impact your life in a positive
Speaker 6: way because of how you have impacted ours, if that's
Speaker 6: okay with.
Speaker 17: You, Bobby, I thought we were just talking here. Wow,
Speaker 17: it's so huge. I can't wow.
Speaker 6: Let us take it from here again. You've done so much,
Speaker 6: You've been through so much. It is the least that
Speaker 6: we can do. And we will be in touch very soon,
Speaker 6: my friend. So thank you again. And by the way,
Speaker 6: behind you, I mean I see Captain America. That's who
Speaker 6: you are to us, man, that's it. I mean, that's
Speaker 6: who you are. You got a little figuring back there.
Speaker 6: But but you are, You're a corporal freaking America.
Speaker 11: That's right.
Speaker 6: Okay, So we will talk again soon and again I'll
Speaker 6: thank you again a million times, but for now I'll
Speaker 6: just say we'll talk to you later.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 17: Wow.
Speaker 5: All right, Aaron, you have a great day and until
Speaker 5: we meet again.
Speaker 17: Thank you, Bobby. We'll see soon.
Speaker 19: All right.
Speaker 6: There he is the United States Marine Corps Corporal Aaron Macon.
Speaker 6: And what we do right now, if you want to
Speaker 6: go over to the website, it's up, it's ready for you,
Speaker 6: Bobbybones dot com. It's right there, and that's where you
Speaker 6: can do the deal. That's where you can get the
Speaker 6: limited edition Patriotic Pip and Joy shirt. We have so
Speaker 6: much up there. We don't keep any of the money.
Speaker 6: Zero dollars, zero sense goes to us.
Speaker 5: We don't keep it all. We don't keep any of it.
Speaker 5: And let's do it.
Speaker 6: Let's build him a house, a house that he can
Speaker 6: move freely, in a house where he doesn't have to
Speaker 6: worry about restrictions of anything because of all the surgeries
Speaker 6: that he's been through, seventy surgeries. I don't have seventy friends.
Speaker 6: I mean, and he's been through seventy surgeries and.
Speaker 13: His kids too, just creating a space for them to
Speaker 13: all live.
Speaker 4: Together with ease.
Speaker 6: Bobbybones dot Com up now the limited edition Patriotic Pimp
Speaker 6: and joy Line it is on, so you'll.
Speaker 5: Have him July fourth. By the way, yes we will,
Speaker 5: Lunchbuck will walk it to your house. If it is.
Speaker 6: I will say, yes, Usa, Yessa, go now, Bobbybones dot Com. Again,
Speaker 6: we don't keep any of the money, so let's go.
Speaker 6: Let's build them. Let's build them a house. You know,
Speaker 6: I say, it's Marine Corp, Corporate air Manking. We appreciate
Speaker 6: his time. We'll talk to him again soon. And now
Speaker 6: it's up to you guys, because you can go. We
Speaker 6: have a limited run today. Friday is going to be
Speaker 6: the big release. But I'm told you better go quick
Speaker 6: because we only have like two hundred and fifty or
Speaker 6: so we're doing today. I guess I should have said that,
Speaker 6: say everybody, we only have a few today, but the
Speaker 6: big release is Friday.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, there you go, Thank you guys. Bobby
Speaker 5: Bone Show.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 4: Oh we are all done.
Speaker 3: It's been a fun weekend with y'all again. I hope
Speaker 3: you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. If
Speaker 3: you did, hit me up on social media let me
Speaker 3: know what you'll like dislike if you want to share
Speaker 3: something you just like.
Speaker 2: Please, I just asked you to be a little bit
Speaker 2: nicer than listener Megan. It's my only request.
Speaker 4: I love you guys.
Speaker 3: If you want to follow me at web Girl Morgan
Speaker 3: on All the Things, and of course the show. At
Speaker 3: Bobby Bone Show, we got a whole lot more content
Speaker 3: than just these seven segments up. We also had honorable mention,
Speaker 3: blind karaoke, line dancing songs this week, so definitely check
Speaker 3: out our YouTube page that's more content, or Instagram or
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Speaker 2: You name it.
Speaker 4: I love you guys.
Speaker 2: I hope you have a fabulous weekend.
Speaker 11: Be safe.
Speaker 4: Bye, There's Bobby Ball.