WEBVTT - Best Bits (Just The Bits) with Morgan: PART 2 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:05.200 It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:07.640 What's up everybody? 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.760 Happy weekend, Excited to be back on another Best Bits. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.760 It is Cmafest in Nashville, which is the craziest weekend. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.599 And if my voice sounds a little different, because yesterday 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.240 was a long one from Riverfront Stage to Nissan Stadium. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.400 It was crazy. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.960 And if you've never gotten to experience Cmafest, you should 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.920 definitely come to Nashville for one year because I'm telling 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.400 you as a country music fan, it's just a really 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.160 good time. But we've got a lot of things to 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.839 talk about on the Best Bits this week. Before I 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.879 dive into just the Bits, make sure you check out 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.440 Best Bits Part one with Scuba Steve He's on this weekend. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.240 We spilled some more tea from the celebrities softball game 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.440 and talked about our favorite moments. Of course, I shared 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.880 some bad blood that's happened recently, and if you know 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.840 the Taylor Swift song, you know what I'm talking about. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.680 And Scuba shared a crazy story about something that involves 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.720 a lot of money and a toll ticket. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.120 So all good stuff over there. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.920 Let's for now, Let's go ahead and show y'all the 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.760 best segments. This week we started doing a new segment 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.440 called Scuba Steve Suggests, and this week he suggested an 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.440 investigation into somebody on the show. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:08.960 He got a. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.800 Phone call from a number that was something on the show, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.679 but it wasn't their name that pops up, so he 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.760 wanted to know what the heck was going on in 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.279 Boy did he end up calling somebody out number seven. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:22.240 This can be anything. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.000 It's our executive producer, Scuba Steve, and he gets to 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.480 tell us to talk about whatever, Scuball, what would you 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:28.520 like us to talk about today? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.080 Well, this time it's time for an investigation. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.720 Okay, I suggest we figure out what's going on here. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.319 So I got a new phone and I'm transferring over 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.640 the contacts and in the middle will be doing that. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.920 My phone rings. I recognize the phone number, but I 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.720 don't know the name. That's a that's you know, you 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.480 get a phone call, it says like a name as 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.039 tied to it. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.520 Or yes, sometimes there's a. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.080 Name on it, like like maybe this person. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.520 Yeah, not always, but sometimes yeah yeah. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.280 So I look at the name and I don't recognize it. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:56.760 I answer the phone. I know who the person is. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.480 We have a conversation, and afterward, I don't say anything 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.920 to this person afterwards to do some digging in the 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.960 family tree, try to figure out if this name is 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.640 tied to that person. I don't see anyone in the 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:12.400 branches with this name. The name is Oscar Pavella and 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.560 the phone number is two one oh three. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:17.240 Number. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.519 I saw his face start to crack when you said that. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.600 Number on it on Oscar Pavela, the name that shows 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:25.240 up on your phone. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.400 Yeah, so why is that? And who's paying for your bill? 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.920 You're a grown man, forty one years old. What's going on? 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.880 Yeah, thank you. I pay for my bill, Thank you 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:33.400 very much. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:38.360 Oscar Favella is my buddy from college that he works 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.400 for a telephone company, and I am on his family plane. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.680 Okay, you're not paying well, you're not paying for your 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.239 own bill. And I can't believe you're on a family 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.200 plan of somebody. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.919 From college and you're held forty one. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.519 Somebody else's family plan. Wow, some dude that works in 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.240 a phone company. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:56.840 Yeah. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.480 Why but because back in the day when there was 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:04.120 limited data and rates or whatever, I get unlimited and. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.200 I pay fifteen dollars a month for my phone. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.359 So now it's unlimited for everybody all the time. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.359 Yeah, but it's only fifteen dollars, and it ain't fifteen dollars. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:13.440 If you get on your own plan. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.280 And he leaves that, you get to say on Oscar's 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:16.760 phone plan. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.600 Yeah, so it's it's Oscar, his wife, his two kids, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.080 I think his sister and her family, his parents, me 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:26.640 and my wife are all on that plan. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.679 Your wife's an Oscar Favella's phone plan too. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.639 Yeah, all. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.200 Shout out Oscar Favella. Hey, listen, guys. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.960 If you need a phone and you you need a 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.520 verizing phone down in Corpus Christi, Texas, Oscar Favella is 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:40.960 your man. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.360 We've never heard this story. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.600 Of all the ways that he tries to sometimes save 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.600 sometimes steal money, this has never been one of his stories. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.440 We're like, this is what I'm doing. I steal my 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.120 in lawst netflix. We never heard about Oscar Cavella un 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:55.720 till right now. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:57.520 Yeah. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:59.200 Is that embarrassing to you? 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.680 No, it's not embarrass all guys, he never brought it up. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:04.360 What is there to bring up? 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:05.680 Is Oscar in trouble? 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:06.640 Did you blee that? 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.120 It wasn't bleeping Morgan, We've talked to you about that. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:11.600 Your parents pay your what bill? 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.600 It's yeah, my car insurance on the same family plan. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.640 Lunchbox gave you crap. I just want to bring this up. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:18.320 Oh good point. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:19.680 He gave you gave Morgan. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.479 Crap because their parents paid for it. That's embarrassing. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.280 It's still one saving money. Like you're paying fifteen dollars. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:25.840 Somebody's basically paying for your phone bill. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:26.320 No, they're not. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.159 He nothing comes out of his pocket. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.320 I pay for my own phone fifteen dollars. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:31.800 Yep. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.279 He's letting you use his name to save money. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:36.600 I'm not using his name. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.320 You are because the number is under his name. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.600 Family, you're using his name. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.440 You're literally using your phone is Oscar Todell I called 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:43.480 Scuba Steve. Yeah. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.560 It's weird though, because sometimes if he forgets to pay 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.840 the bill and like it's like it connects me to 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.400 customer service and I'm like, you call him Oscar bro, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.560 and they're like and then well I can't call him, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.000 so then I have to get on Facebook, like dude, pay. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.520 The freaking bill, Like what are you doing? 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.159 And I'll send his wife and message like Brandy, come on, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.360 get on Oscar for. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.080 You to use assistance by somebody. Morgan's using assistance by 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:03.560 her parents. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.200 Getting paid for She's parents don't need paying for your 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.200 stuff when you're fell. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:08.520 It doesn't need to hook you up with a family plan. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:09.840 You're not a family with him. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:11.919 Now. We're like boys, we're like brothers. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.800 You're ten years older than me and you still can't 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:14.359 figure out how to. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:15.280 Have your own phone plan. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.159 I know how to go into the store, and you 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:17.520 get it. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.800 I mean, you're thirty one years old and you're twenty 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.200 nine and you had to walk. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.839 Hey, mom, why'd you just make up a number? 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.479 Because she said you're ten years older than me? 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.360 Got it? 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.960 So I did the math. Forty one minus ten is 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.080 thirty one. I know Kansas people can't do that over there. Okay, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.520 now see he's pivoting. But how do you feel about 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.120 the investigation? Do you feel like you understand now? 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.120 I understand now, but I still don't understand why he 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.000 would do that. So when your kids get older and 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.479 they start getting cell phones, so they can be added 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:43.840 to this family plan as well. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.440 Hopefully and on the plan with him? 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.800 Oh probably, since I was. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.760 Twenty five, like he used to work. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.159 Him and his dad used to run a furniture store 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.000 over ten years. Yeah, way over ten years. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.719 And then he quit the furniture store because it wasn't 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.600 big enough, and then he went to work for a 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.240 Verizon and boom. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:05.440 Now he's like a manager. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.960 Now he's like a manager who sometimes forgets to face. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.880 Like, Oscar, you the man. You let this guy stand 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.600 your plant for almost twenty years at twenty twenty three. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.599 Yeah, what year did. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:17.760 You do this? 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:18.040 Oh? 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.200 Probably, I mean it had to be sixteen years ago. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.720 Oscar, You the man, lunchbox a year, a liar and 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:25.200 a cheater. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.000 And no, I didn't I didn't cheat, I didn't do 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.479 I'm doing nothing that is illegal. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:30.560 You're right, You're right. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.360 Just you can't hold anybody accountable for doing things that 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.520 are what kids do because the parents are people looking 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:37.840 out for them. This is what your parent would do 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.159 with you to put join their cell phone. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.839 Plan if your parents papers you're an adult. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.560 Oscar, you daddy. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.680 For now on, it's the Best Bits of the Week 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:50.120 with Morgan. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.839 Number two Chris Kraba of Dashboard Confessional stuffed by the studio. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.800 He performed his song Vindicated, which you may know from 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.480 Spider Man two became the theme song for that movie, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.600 and he talked about how that all happened and he 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.080 didn't really planned to write a theme song for that movie, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.200 but it did happen. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.240 Now it's a massive song, and it. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.960 Was just really cool to hear from him, and some 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.000 of our listeners thought he is one of the smartest 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.520 people we've had in the studio. So here's that interview, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.120 but make sure you go to YouTube to check out 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:18.760 his awesome performance. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.880 Number six kids. So Bobby Bones Show interview in case 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:23.600 you didn't know. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 And Dashboard Confessional one of my jams back in the 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.960 early two thousands. So Chris is here from Dashboard going 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.720 on towards Counting Crows and you get tickets at Dashboard 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.600 Confessional dot com. But this is super cool to me. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:42.120 Let me play some of these songs. Vindicated. I mean, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.640 that's Spider Man for sure. Eddie remember that song? 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:45.920 Yes, I do, of course. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:56.800 Thank that's always awesome, stolen our hands down. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.040 So it's super cool for us. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.880 Here he is Chris Carabba, lead singer, the guy from 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.120 Dashboard Confessional on the Bobby Bones Show. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.080 Now, Chris Carabba of Dashboard Confessional. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:11.400 Chris, it's really good to see you. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:11.840 Good to meet you. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.480 Man, and it's good to be here. Thank you. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.160 Been a fan for a long time. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.080 Well, I've been doing it a long time. It's suddenly 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:18.720 occurring to me. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.760 Now you still I don't know, look twenty four, it's weird. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.560 Do you have an aged moisturizer? 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:23.880 Yes? 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.520 Hey, so I have a lot of questions, especially about 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.640 when you first started, because there are a few people 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.760 to me. Dave Grohlfoo Fighter started that by himself. Five 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.800 for Fighting, was a single guy, then turned into a 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.360 band Dashboard Confessional similar thing. Right, You started this as 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.599 a project by yourself and then made a band The 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.920 Panic of the Disco Similar? Is that all kind of 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.000 am I right on that story? 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.760 You write about the fact that it was started by 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.000 myself and eventually became a band. But I think in 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.160 my mind in the early days, I know it was true. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.800 I was in other bands that were proper bands. I 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.840 was in one particular called or This Seems Forever that 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.400 was I thought the main thing, you know, and it 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.480 was only Dashboard was only a side project. But all 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.400 that to say, the side project was all my friends 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.800 are on tour and all of their bands wouldn't be 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.400 fun if whenever they came home, we could all play together. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.880 So I'll just call this thing that I'm doing by 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.679 myself a band name, so it doesn't feel like preclusive, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.720 and it feels inclusive. My friends had come on stage 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.760 if they're home, and that's not exactly what happened, but 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.080 it was my original conception for it. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.920 So the band is dead again. By the way, your record, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.440 your on plug records are my favorite. I just loved 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.960 it so much, and you know, there's a lot to it. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.640 So how many people are actually in dashboard confessional? Like 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.320 the dashboard? How many people in the band? Well on 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.640 this tour, so it's all different, right, you are the 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.199 central figure always. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.920 Well, I guess I've been a constant, and there's been 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.000 quite a few long standing members, and there's been people 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.800 that when they you know, they leave to go and 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.719 do other and onto other musical projects or other life 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.520 product and then they come back. It's kind of an 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.920 open invitation to come on back. So like, for example, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.520 Scott our bass player has been in the band. I 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.560 think for this will be twenty years. That's a long time, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.240 you know. But sometimes I go out by myself, so 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:13.959 Scott's not there. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.680 So when you're starting this project, and you're doing it 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.679 by yourself. Are you recording it on because everybody has 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.439 a bedroom story or a garage story? 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:24.560 Like, what did that? Actually? 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.280 What literally does that mean? Are you recording on like 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.640 some four track player? Is that the first dashboard where 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.560 you're just sitting there singing acoustically into a crappy closet 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.160 or microphone? 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:33.680 Yeah, it was. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.480 It was a little task scam four track that I 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:38.679 bought it a tag sale. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:40.640 That was what I started with. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.440 That's not what the record was, but it wasn't much 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.080 better than that. That first record was recorded in a closet, 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.959 but you know, it had you know, pham patting on 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:50.400 the wall. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.640 So it felt cool, it felt real. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.880 But the early demos I recorded a lot of them 0:10:54.920 --> 0:11:00.120 in my van, in the back of the van, like 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.120 just a single boombox. I can not a multi track. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.679 So I have a. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.600 Tape of me running through what would be the first record, 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.040 which is called the Swiss Army Romance. I ran through 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.560 it all just to see what a cool running order 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.439 would be, and I found that tape and it's the 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.640 running order that we used. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.880 Was that about two thousand, year two thousand, Yeah, it 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.880 was two thousand, So you have this tape, and was 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.760 your expectation to go out and tour this for Dashboard 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.800 to exist, or again, was it just a fun thing 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.120 that your friends could join, like I what was kind 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.400 of the motivation behind creating this music with just yourself. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.480 I guess it was a glorified art project or something. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:39.760 I think. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.880 Did you expect it to ever be heard by people? 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:42.480 No? 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.440 I expected to. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.640 What I'd hoped to do was put out the one 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.880 recording and maybe get lucky and press one thousand if 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.520 I could afford it, and sell them how and sell 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.600 them to people like from the van from the van, yeah, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.680 and sell them to people at shows. And I had 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.760 one tour booked and it was I think this one 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.440 window where further seems forever wasn't going out, and it 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.440 looked like just this neat opportunity to go out and 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:13.679 travel like just by literally by myself. But I think 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.520 it was eleven dates and then I never went home. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.120 When did you start to feel traction, even the lightest 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.400 bit of traction where it's wow, people actually like understanding 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:24.920 and relating to this music. 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.920 I was surprised to find it pretty early on. And 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.800 I don't mean that there was many people at the show. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.280 There weren't, but if there were five, all five seemed 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.559 to get it. Whatever that thing was, they seemed to 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.000 get it. And I was really shocked by that because 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:43.360 I thought I was doing something unfamiliar in the setting 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.880 of like the punk rock scene. It was definitely unfamiliar 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.640 just to hav an acoustic guitar, and I looked like 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.920 a hardcore kid, but it didn't sound like that kind 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.520 of stuff. But it didn't sound like something you'd play 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.280 in a coffee shop either, So I didn't feel like 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.520 I would have any place where I would find I 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.040 was surprised to find like bund of people so quickly. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.400 The term emo was tossed around like crazy, everything's emo 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.040 in different ways. Was that term prevalent when you started 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.439 to create this kind of music or do you feel 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.520 like you were one of the first ones to, you know, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.600 really coin that in music? 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.320 Well, I guess no. I didn't feel like I was 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.440 one of the first ones. Excuse me to coin it, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.960 certainly not I thought it was. I thought it was 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.160 a misnomer, almost like and not. You know that became 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.400 a four letter word later to some people. I'm not 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.120 sure it ever did to me. But in the early days, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.440 you know, it was I thought, I thought it wasn't 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.120 deferential to the people that I listened to that did 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.800 that music that was already called emo because there's been 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.600 a whole wave of it, a proper wave of like 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.120 a musical generation of like two to five years already. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.680 And so at first I was like, this is weird 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.520 that they would call me that, and I couldn't quite 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.400 figure it out, but realized that the thing was evolving, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.360 whatever that scene was, was evolving to include I guess 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:02.440 me and my friends. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.040 Did you feel like that, because again, your music was 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.120 at a time when I was, you know, nineteen twenty 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.239 twenty one years old, so that music was very important 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.640 in my overall musical growth from where I was as 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:14.160 a kid to now. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.000 It was right in that timeframe of being in college. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.920 Did you find that your music though, was different to people, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.360 even though it was still kind of punk rock, but 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.040 just because it was an acoustic that made it feel 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.240 a bit emo to people, that was a softer feel. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.920 Oh it's emo, it feels emo, I mean, but I 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.360 guess because of all those obvious reasons that it's softer, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.400 it's a different delivery it's pretty passionate and it's got 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:42.560 the It has the benefit of the kind of passion 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.000 you'll put into something when you think you're anonymous almost 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.920 you know, it couldn't conceive that people would really be 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.240 listening to this, so I didn't really hold back for 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.920 fear of how I might feel doing it in front 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:52.360 of people. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.160 What did your band think as you started to pop 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.080 off and you're by yourself that you were in was 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:58.960 that tricky? 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:00.160 You know? 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.840 Actually, well, it became tricky or later when we were 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.440 two bands operating at the same time once they had 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.480 a different singer and we navigated that really well too, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.280 to their credit, but in the beginning they were the 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:13.880 guys that were like, you got to go do this. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.080 And as a matter of fact, that one of the 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.760 first shows I ever had was that was a phish 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.760 not I guess unofficially a dashboard show. Was because the 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.560 bass player of my other band, Chad from Further seem Sebber, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.960 said come over here, we're playing a festivals further Was. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.000 He says, there's a guy kind of doing what you're doing. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.720 We should go check it out. But the guy ended 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:33.120 up being me. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:33.760 It was a ruse. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.600 He just threw me up in the middle of a 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.880 tent and there was you know, thirty people there. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.320 And that's funny. Then that's supportive, even supportive at the 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:41.840 same time. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.200 And they're still my best friends that I have. So 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.840 I'm grateful that they saw where I was going and 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:48.960 it wasn't where they wanted to go. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.200 They were these all these. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.240 Songs were presented to them as options for us to 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.320 play in that band, and they were right. They didn't 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.560 fit that band. They were close, but they weren't on 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:57.960 the money. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.800 Were you reluctant when success and fame started? 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:03.239 Was confused? 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:04.680 Reluctant? 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:04.960 Yeah? 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.720 I think I was a bit reluctant. I think I 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:12.640 remain a bit reluctant. It wasn't exactly the plan, but 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.200 it was a lot of fun. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.160 Do you get nervous? Stays right at all? Before shows? 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:18.480 Yeah? 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:19.920 I got to now, how am I doing? 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.120 Are you doing great? I would never think you were 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:22.600 nervous at all. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.840 You're kidding now, No, I'm not. No, No, I get 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.880 I have a weird roiling of energy that I'm trying 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.720 to contain when I go up there. And when I 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.320 was newer and younger and greener, I would find it 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.320 to be alarming. It would like set off almost a 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.600 panic attack. But now I understand it's just adrenaline, excitement 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:40.960 and kind of like the. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.600 Love of it. But for a while it was hard 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.120 to let it go. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.160 Was there ever a time that you questioned should I 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.160 keep doing this? Not because it wasn't working, but because 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.360 it really started to work. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.320 Yeah, things got a little hairy there, like where we 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.480 had to where we had to have like security guys 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.280 and things like that. And I was all thinking, and 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.960 I thought this was a really inclusive scene I was from. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.240 And it remained so it wasn't any It wasn't people 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.359 trying to like, you know, rip my clothes off or 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:09.439 our clothes off or anything like that. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:10.840 But it's just like a lot of. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.600 People with a lot of stories that they wanted to do, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.760 things they wanted to share with us, personal things, what 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.359 have you. And I remember like not being able to 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.840 go I don't know, to the to the mall or 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.840 whatever it was that you would do, you know, running 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:28.399 errands became this weird thing and and the suggestion was 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.240 made to that we that we take security out. That 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.760 was the weirdest thing ever. The nicest people I've ever met. 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.520 Were these giant security guys, but it was it was 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.840 not a good fit for me. I was like, this 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.480 is bringing more attention. I can put a baseball cap on? 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:40.480 How about that? 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:41.280 Now? 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.200 Can you go out and put a hat on and 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.119 just live a somewhat normal life. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.639 Yeah, I'm not on MTV anymore, and neither's MTV. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.199 I don't think you know there's yes. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.280 Yeah, yeah, that's I've been able to find the thing 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.920 I'd hope for in the beginning, which was this this 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.040 path to be able to play music for and with 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.919 people without having to be have my life totally disrupted. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.119 What was the first video of yours that was on MTV? 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:10.920 What was it? 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.159 It was screaming in fidelities? 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.120 Yeah, was that weird for you to see? 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.760 And there's a you know, there's a line and you're 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.960 we'll talk about the Tory doing with the counting Crows, 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.080 but massive, I'm a massive hand accounting crows. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:21.800 And Adam Durretz was in We talked to him for 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:22.200 a while. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.640 But there's a line even in mister jones'es, like when 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.679 I look at the television, I want to see me 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.640 staring right back at me. Now, that line is him 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.760 wanting to see him on TV? Yeah, if that is 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:33.680 that line you at all? 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:38.680 No, it's not at all, it's not at all. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:39.520 God, I wish it was. 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.360 I might have I might have had a different experience 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.239 having seen it. But I remember being like, I mean, 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.720 I was excited to tell like my friends, you know, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.320 but it was not a thing I walked in with. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:53.760 I got used to it really quick, though, Like I'd 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.840 get excited and to kind of like, uh, think about 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.680 new video ideas. I got excited about the whole, that 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.080 whole corner of what music could be, and it became 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:02.600 really fun. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.439 Do you think you would be happier or would have 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.760 been then happier if you only had mild success where 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.080 you could support yourself create your art, but not because 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.720 there was a point when you just became so popular 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.000 it became pop. Your music didn't change, but you became 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.639 so popular it became pop. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.359 Was that the hardest time for you? Or was it awesome? 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:23.960 It was awesome. It was so great. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.720 I didn't really have to change I did, you know. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.720 We grew and our music did evolve, but I wasn't 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.240 being made to change, And more and more people were 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.199 were gravitating towards it. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:37.880 It was beautiful. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.160 I was maybe a little tired, like physically tired. It's 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.199 a big world to get to, you know. And I 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.159 think there was a point where we were really doing 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.320 I don't know how many shows it was, but it 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.959 was like three hundred days out on the road, and 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.760 that was a long stretch. I was a good couple 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.200 or three years that we did that kind of schedule. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.080 That was the only part that was really tough to 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:00.639 grapple with. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.720 Was it weirder to be home than on the road. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:08.679 Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe always will be and maybe always was. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:14.760 So so that that's something I think was probably good 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:15.600 for me in my life. 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:16.520 Where did you grow up? 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:18.399 Well, I kind of grew up in Connecticut and then 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:25.440 Florida and found music and all that once I moved 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:26.119 to Florida. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.520 And what about Florida, Like, were you exposed to a 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.520 scene there that opened it up for you or were 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:32.840 you already searching for it? 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:34.440 And I don't know, it's warmer, so you're out. I 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:35.480 don't know why Florida. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.000 Well, I think there was there was a scene. There 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.480 was a music scene, of course, there was one in 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.199 Connecticut where I lived. I just didn't know about it. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.159 I was a little bit too young, didn't know an 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:45.879 older kid on the block that might tell me there 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.480 was a Youth of Today show or something. But when 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.760 I got down to Florida, a couple things happened. Was 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:58.159 I was really into skateboarding. And this is pre you know, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.320 super popularity of skateboarding. Still get beat up for having 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.040 looking like you do it. But I found other people 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.119 like that that were into it, and I hadn't really 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.159 found that many people like that where I'd grown up 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:14.040 in Connecticut. But it also rains like it's torrential rain 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.840 in the in the afternoons there a certain time of 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:17.160 the year. 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:18.280 So we would just like sit in a. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.199 Car or at the skate shop with music playing, and 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.760 I'd pick everybody's brains about it. And then they said, 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.919 you know, there's they're playing here. Whoever it was, you know, 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.760 we started going to shows and so it was sort 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.399 of that just typical youth culture thing. There a friend 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:35.440 with a driver's license, that kind of thing. Well, like 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:37.320 I said, my driver's license, I just don't have a car. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:42.240 So a friend with a car and and the kind 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:46.720 of kind of meshing of those two worlds. The surf 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.240 and skate world with the music world. They're they're really entwined, 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.400 and that's how I found the music scene. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.560 Really, my assumption is it could be an unfair assumption that 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:57.840 you may have been a shy kid. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:00.000 If you were a shy kid, how in the world 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:05.320 did you become a front man? Wow? Like, what was 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:05.640 that proble? 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.439 It was not my favorite thing it was, I should 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.400 say it was not my It was not an endeavor 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:12.439 I went into looking for how to be a front man. 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.800 I just wanted to play with people, So I guess 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:18.840 kicking and screaming is how I got dragged into being 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:20.600 a front man. To be quite honest with you, I 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.280 was really really interested in writing songs. It's just an 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.439 okay guitar player, just an okay singer. I was pretty 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:33.879 good at at arranging music, so so I was getting 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.639 in these bands and and help and felt like I 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.960 was integral in the band. But I was almost always 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:41.879 just playing guitar. That's what I really wanted to do. 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:43.560 But I wasn't like a ripper or anything like that, 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:45.680 so I thought were contributing as a songwriter. 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:46.560 I had a place. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:48.960 Then, who goes, okay, Chris, we need you to sing. 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:50.960 We've heard you sing like a background vocals. 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.639 That's how it happens that parts. 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:56.080 Could you somebody do a harmony there, and I'd just 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.239 do it, and it was there, you know, And and 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.480 then you come in with your songs and you're singing. 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.960 I was singing the songs I was writing to the singer, 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:05.680 to the rest of the band. And finally somebody got 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.560 annoyed with the time it took to make somebody else 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.680 do it. Just you do it fine, And after a 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.600 while of that, you become a singer in the band, 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.639 not the singer. This band that I was in, Vacant 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:20.240 Andy's it's where I learned who I really cut my 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.240 teeth on all things musical, certainly on all things band 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:25.320 like how to be in a band. But there was 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:27.280 at one point three singers, and then there was for 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.800 the length of the band there was two singers, so 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:33.439 there was no front man. We were trading off songs, 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.600 and we were always singing each other songs, singing on 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:37.320 each other songs. 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:37.840 Excuse me. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.000 It was later when when I got into further and 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:43.960 those guitar players are like bananas, and as writers, they 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:45.359 were bananas, And I was kind of like, why do 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.040 they want me in this band? And it was simply 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:50.239 because they liked my voice, which was weird because it 0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:53.080 was never the thing I expected anybody to I thought 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:54.919 it was just something that I got to do, not 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:57.840 that something anybody would want me to do necessarily. So 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:00.240 that's kind of how it came to pass that I 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.440 we got comfortable being at the center of things. 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.359 You didn't demand like I always demanded attention, Like I 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.480 demand attention. I'm a type a personality. I want to 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:10.680 be in the front. Now you were the opposite. 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:11.760 It was the opposite. 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:15.080 By okay, I think the opposite thing might have been 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.160 a little bit of like a learned response, right because 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:19.600 I was I was a shorter kid. I have this 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.280 weird birthmark when my hair grows two colors, so like 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.159 it's like it's a blonde right in the middle. Like 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:27.840 and I was kid of the eighties, so like Gremlins 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.399 is out, so I'm getting like called stripe and all 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:32.320 this stuff and beat up for it or whatever, picked 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:34.320 on for it, and I realized, like, okay, I better 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:38.240 figure out how to blend. And and maybe that that 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.800 was I learned that lesson too deeply. But once I 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:43.639 realized I could be more who I wanted to be 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:45.720 out in the middle of that stage. I would save 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.440 it all four then and really just be the guy 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:50.440 and have it be the key that turned you into 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:52.399 the whatever. It is, the real you. I've heard it said, 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:54.280 you know, oh, who are you up there? It's like 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:55.639 I don't even know you or whatever. It's like, No, 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.440 that's kind of like I feel like that's me up there. 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:02.280 So you start this project in two thousand, would you 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:05.119 say that Vindicated is this song that people would know 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:11.040 general public? You think Vindicated your biggest song general Yeah, 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:13.359 it's got to be, right, I would think so, but 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:14.680 I'm a little too close to it. 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:17.080 If only because it's in a Marvel movie. Yeah, it's 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:21.679 got to be the most I don't know whether, like 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:23.919 I never remember like charts and things like that and 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.480 what songs were successful by certain metrics, but just that 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.159 the most people had to have heard it in the 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:30.800 world from that. 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:33.879 Man, that's what jam. You know, you have your guitar. 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:35.760 Could you give us a little bit of Vidicated? 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:36.040 Yeah? 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:40.040 All right, that's awesome. That still so, I mean, it 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:41.840 also takes me back. There are certain songs that you 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:44.239 hear and again that was a really big It's like 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:46.879 when you're like a young adult and music matters so 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:49.000 much to you, Like I can remember where I was 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:51.119 like when I would hear that song, and I remember 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:52.679 being in the movie that was a Curse and Dunst 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:55.159 version right on, Spider Man. Did you ever did you 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:55.600 meet them? 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:59.200 I did, but don't they usually called the Toby Maguire version. 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:00.840 But yes, I'm back, yell. 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:02.679 You know what I guess. I think. 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:05.040 That's funny. 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:08.400 Yes, I tell yes that did you write that song 0:26:08.440 --> 0:26:10.879 for the movie? Because we talked with Adam Durretz and 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:13.199 County Crows about the song one in the Shrek and 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:14.760 he wrote that for the movie. Yeah, did you write 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:15.639 that for the movie exactly? 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:16.720 And I was like, actually, I hadn't one. And I 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:18.760 were just talking about that about accidentally in love the 0:26:18.800 --> 0:26:20.520 other day and it got me thinking, you know, I 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:26.000 submitted a different song to the production when when they 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:28.640 when they asked me about being a part of the soundtrack, 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:30.560 and it was not meant to be. The single wasn't 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:33.240 meant to be in the movie, and I really. 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:34.320 Liked the song. It still hasn't come out. 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:37.280 But then they but the cool thing was they let 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:39.600 me see the movie while it was sort of still 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.399 like it wasn't quite dailies, but it was like the 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.800 graphics weren't rendered yet. It would suddenly just be like 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:48.000 in animation in the middle of it, like a holding 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:49.760 place for like something to come later. It was really 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:51.760 a neat way to see the movie, and it was 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.320 the story of it was really in my mind as 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:55.000 I left there. 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:58.760 They're just like sort of like the conflict. 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:04.480 Of wanting being pulled in different directions, wanting things you 0:27:04.800 --> 0:27:07.040 can't quite allow yourself to have or aren't allowed to have. 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:10.240 And I got to our last day to that run 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:12.760 was in Hawaii and we're all going to go surfing, 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:16.560 and I picked up the guitar and it just like 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:18.680 kind of spilled out, and I was like, you know, 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:20.479 what's funny? Where did that song come from? And I 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:23.040 was like, oh, well, there's this line dangles on a string. 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:25.680 Maybe it's from Spider Man. So just that bit of 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.520 it made me call home and just be like, would 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:30.080 you want to hear this other song? I know there's 0:27:30.119 --> 0:27:32.760 no time, and so just like that, it was written. 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:34.680 Maybe an hour or two. 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.919 Later, I called I played it for Leah Vollak. 0:27:36.680 --> 0:27:39.600 Over the phone. She was the head of Sony Music 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:43.520 for Pictures, and she was like, give me a minute, 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:45.240 get me a tape of that. Send her a tape. 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:47.399 She's like, could you actually I think she made She's like, 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:50.760 could you demo that today? It's like pre like home 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:52.720 studio kind of things like that. And we were able 0:27:52.760 --> 0:27:54.359 to do it at the club that we were playing 0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:58.639 that night, and they got that tape home and somehow 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:01.320 the next they were like, could you fly home tomorrow 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:02.920 record this. If so, it'll be in the movie, it'll 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:03.440 be the single. 0:28:04.040 --> 0:28:04.359 Wow. 0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:06.320 Okay, well yes, we'll be there. 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:09.560 How big was MySpace in your career? 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:10.399 It was so big? 0:28:10.920 --> 0:28:12.480 Oh my god, it was so big. It was the 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:17.200 biggest prob possibly the biggest thing in my career except 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:20.399 for Napster. Those were probably two biggest factors in my career. 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:22.320 Will you explain because I was big on my Space? 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:23.840 Will you explain on MySpace? As to some of our 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:25.080 younger listeners. 0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:26.119 Well, it. 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:33.080 Was like I do it yourself Facebook that was run 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:38.120 by renegades. I guess it was this. It was a 0:28:38.480 --> 0:28:40.360 it's a social network because the first one I remember 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:45.200 that you that had the framework of what would really 0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:47.600 come in social networks like really was very much like 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:49.160 Facebook in a lot of ways. But the way it 0:28:49.240 --> 0:28:51.360 wasn't was it was seemed to be music and art 0:28:51.360 --> 0:28:54.840 related really heavily, and you could skin your own page 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:58.800 right and you could, so everybody's user interface sort of 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:00.400 looked like their thing. You know, who you were going 0:29:00.440 --> 0:29:03.360 to see, and there was I think the reason it 0:29:03.400 --> 0:29:08.800 got so big was was people were really hungry to 0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:11.280 just communicate a boy the things they felt passionate about, 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:13.440 and no adults were really looking. 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:16.720 And was it they were using your music as their 0:29:16.760 --> 0:29:18.400 song because you could put it. You had a song, 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:20.480 you put a song up as is your song? Yeah, 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:22.040 you put people came to your page, was like this 0:29:22.120 --> 0:29:23.480 is the kind of music I like, You're forced to 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:26.160 listen to it? Yep, So is that what happened with 0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:27.680 your music? People just started sharing it. 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:29.920 But in that way, yeah, like if you're gonna if 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:31.600 we're gonna be friends, you got to know this about me. 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:33.520 It's a big thing, big way to open the door, 0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:35.840 an easy way to open the door, great shorthand And 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:41.040 we really benefited from from timing on that one that 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:44.760 we were that were for so many people we were 0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:46.760 writing some I was writing I guess something that they 0:29:46.920 --> 0:29:50.960 that felt to them like a way to explain themselves, 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:52.200 and MySpace was. 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:53.400 The way they where they could do that. 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:55.480 And then MySpace got all weird and you get viruses, 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:57.280 and then it just went away. 0:29:57.680 --> 0:29:59.479 Yeah, it was really a Nabster too. 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.880 But Napster kind of needed to go away because when 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:04.840 I was a kid, I would go, I can't believe 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:07.720 these artists, they want us to pay for this music. 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:10.080 I was so offended. Yeah, I was like, I can't. 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.720 I hate mentalica, I hate all They were obviously right 0:30:13.760 --> 0:30:16.360 because you are creating an art and you deserve to 0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:19.200 be able to live your life based on the art 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:20.200 that people are consuming. 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:22.200 But at the time, as a kid, oh, I was 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:23.920 so mad. I was like, I deserve to have this 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:26.320 free and I download every song. I would just hit 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:26.840 the letter D. 0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:29.680 For example, I download every artist started with D, including 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:32.880 Dashboard Confession, all of it. So for you guys, again, 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:36.800 music being shared by like minded people. I gotta imagine 0:30:36.800 --> 0:30:38.560 that was massive for you guys. For that brief period, 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:39.600 Napster was just killing it. 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:40.680 Look and I. 0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:44.720 Will have an unpopular opinion. I loved Napster made my career. Sure, 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:47.000 it like took away the livelihood I might have had 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:49.479 but wouldn't have. So I can only speak to how 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:51.920 it affected me. And I was I had a record made, 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:54.960 but no distribution, and later when I got on like 0:30:55.000 --> 0:31:01.080 a small label, they didn't really have distribution. And then 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:04.000 when we were popping off, the label that we were 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.200 on next was having like a war with their distribution. 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:08.200 And that whole time I could still get my music 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:10.840 into people's hands, and I remember being like, well, we 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:12.840 can't get like I literally couldn't get my records from 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.040 the distribution place when we when we were at that 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:18.080 stage where you should have been able to could not 0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:21.640 physically get records. So I'd just be like, look, just 0:31:22.280 --> 0:31:24.080 buy it later if you want to, but maybe get 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:28.400 it now so we can sing along together. So but 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:32.200 where I do think that it did us a service societally, 0:31:32.320 --> 0:31:35.480 I guess as a CDs were too expensive. They were 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:38.640 artificially priced in such a way that was that was 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:44.120 harmful to the consumer, I think, and so Knabster, if 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:46.320 if nothing else, was sort of the great equalizer. 0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:48.640 Yeah, but it took away a lot of people's paycheck. 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:54.000 Yeah, I mean you shouldn't have it free, you should 0:31:54.000 --> 0:31:55.719 have it reasonably priced. 0:31:56.320 --> 0:31:58.720 Well, I was looking at your catalog of songs, you know, 0:31:58.760 --> 0:32:00.880 Stolen with such a massive song for you as well. 0:32:01.760 --> 0:32:03.360 When you hit this stage of. 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:06.440 Your career was when Stolen. I mean you you're You're 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:08.760 a monster by the time Stolen hits. As far as 0:32:08.840 --> 0:32:10.920 people come into your shows, I mean, I don't know 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:14.440 that there was ever for me a time to see 0:32:14.520 --> 0:32:18.000 dashboard and to see it so large and everywhere you 0:32:18.040 --> 0:32:21.719 went was this. I don't know when I say Stolen 0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:23.160 in that song, where does that put you in your 0:32:23.200 --> 0:32:24.120 mind about that point? 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:24.960 Oh, I can tell I got it. 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:26.720 I got a chill, even with how quickly it took 0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:30.160 me back to think about it. You know this, I 0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:32.240 lived in basically a beach town, in a tourist town, 0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:34.640 and so like when the easy end of the season 0:32:34.640 --> 0:32:38.239 would come, you'd kind of get your city back, you'd 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:40.480 kind of get your town back. But also like everything 0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:46.320 you loved about the exciting now of it all when 0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:48.760 season was happening and you're a young person and there's 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:54.840 you know, action, activity, girls, new friends, all kinds of 0:32:54.920 --> 0:33:00.640 things that felt familiar to me as I was transitioning 0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:03.800 now into like another place professionally where it's like, Okay, 0:33:03.840 --> 0:33:06.480 I wish I could go back there, but everything ends, 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:08.920 and I had this kind of I was conflating the 0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:12.480 two things, like the beautiful temporary nature of it all 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:17.719 and how it's all fleeting, it's all transitional, and like 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:20.280 I just it was kind of a nod to like, 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.640 I think I need to acknowledge that I love love 0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:25.640 it both ways. I love it when everything's happening, and 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:28.600 then I love it when it's really peaceful, and I 0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:30.960 always miss the other thing. Whichever place I'm in, I 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:31.760 miss the other place. 0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:34.440 So grass is greener, it's. 0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:37.520 More like, remember that it really isn't greener. It's special 0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:38.680 in both places, so. 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:40.280 It's dead on both grasses of dead or. 0:33:43.320 --> 0:33:43.680 No hope? 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:46.479 Would you mind playing a little bit of stolen for us? 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:48.640 Oh? 0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:53.960 The melody there? Do you write melody first or you 0:33:54.040 --> 0:33:54.720 a lyrics guy? 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.120 I think it's concurrent. Most of the time. I think 0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:00.720 I do the sort of a babbel as I'm singing 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:02.959 and catch a word here and there, and then I'll 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:06.160 spend some time on the lyrics and then singo lyrics. 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:07.920 Melody lyrics is sort of hand and glove. 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:10.680 How fast do that's all come out of you? 0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:13.239 You know, I always think about this. You know, those 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:16.600 songs that you wrench on and you really just really 0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:21.239 really are nitty gritty on the minute sho of it 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:24.680 all that take weeks and months or whatever, by rights, 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:27.360 those are the ones that should really connect with people. 0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:30.640 But it's the ones that take you know, they come 0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:32.400 in a flash, they connect with people. And this is 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:33.320 one of the latter. 0:34:34.800 --> 0:34:38.000 Your band dashboard professional accounting Crows doing a whole lot 0:34:38.000 --> 0:34:39.360 of shows together, or fifty shows. 0:34:39.440 --> 0:34:41.640 How'd you guys come together to you know, get on 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:42.000 this tour? 0:34:42.239 --> 0:34:44.520 Oh, we've been talking about this tour for a really 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:46.920 long time. So Adam and I have been close friends 0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:50.239 for It's hard to believe, but like maybe it could 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:52.800 be like fifteen years or more, maybe twenty, I don't know. 0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:59.479 He's kind of been my favorite thing that's happened about 0:34:59.480 --> 0:35:02.879 my career. People I've met, experiences I've had, they're sort 0:35:02.880 --> 0:35:06.239 of always connected right to him. And and he's my 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:08.560 lyrical here and my musical hero too. So it's a 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:12.200 beautiful kind of thing that is constantly surprising to me 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:15.759 that we're that that, Like I still listen to records like, 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:17.920 he's not that guy, Like he said, this is not 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:20.000 the guy I'm gonna pal around with later. It's a 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:23.160 whole different guy when I listen to music. So how 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:25.040 did it come together? We've been trying to we've been 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:26.960 talking about it, trying to get schedules, trying to get 0:35:27.000 --> 0:35:30.400 albums to line up, and we're. 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:30.880 Here and it did it? 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:31.600 Did? 0:35:32.120 --> 0:35:34.040 I feel like people need to be quiet at these shows. 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:37.759 Between Dashboard and County Crows, people just did to shut 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:38.719 up and enjoy the show. 0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:40.120 Would you agree? 0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:41.920 Well, I'm gonna sing along to them, so no. 0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:45.880 People are talking. I don't care if they sing along, 0:35:45.960 --> 0:35:49.640 but they're talking enough talking. Yeah, if you're playing, because 0:35:49.640 --> 0:35:52.880 I'm again massive Counting Crows fan too, Like look when 0:35:52.920 --> 0:35:53.840 he sits down to the piano. 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:56.840 Oh yeah, hush yeah, shut up everybody. 0:35:56.960 --> 0:35:58.480 Yeah, this is it. It's happening. 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.880 Yes right now, Chris, I really appreciate you coming by me. 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:02.080 Man. 0:36:02.680 --> 0:36:04.480 We talked about the tour a little earlier, but I'm 0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:08.240 gonna say it again. The Counting Crows and Dashboard Confessional 0:36:08.239 --> 0:36:10.840 the Banshee Season tour. You can get tickets at Dashboard 0:36:10.840 --> 0:36:15.080 Confessional dot com. It's over fifty dates and it's all 0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:16.320 the hits. You play all the hits. 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:18.640 Yeah, man, I know there. 0:36:18.960 --> 0:36:22.200 Sometime you like I don't, and you're gonna hear. You're 0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:25.040 gonna hear all the hits. Chris big fan, Thank you 0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:26.600 so much for coming. I really appreciate it. 0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:29.719 Everybody there is Dashboard Confessional. 0:36:31.600 --> 0:36:34.800 It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:39.560 Number two, Amy shared that her kids wanted to know 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:42.439 more about gold diggers, how they happen, how to avoid them, 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:43.640 you know all that stuff. 0:36:44.040 --> 0:36:46.360 And instead of like teaching, she's. 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:48.920 Like, you know what, whyn't you go ask Alexa about this? 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.480 And she shared what Alexa told her kids. She took notes, 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.399 so you guys can also get a good laugh out 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:57.920 of Alexa's teaching lesson about gold diggers. 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:01.480 Number five, your kids are asking you how do they 0:37:01.520 --> 0:37:03.200 even know about gold diggers? 0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:03.560 Oh? 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:06.000 I have no idea, but out of nowhere, my son 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:10.439 just says like, hey, mom, uh, how do you can 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:12.320 how do you tell if someone's a gold digger? 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:13.480 Was this exact question? 0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:14.880 Did you go context? 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:15.280 Please? 0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:16.600 Okay? 0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:19.400 Well, I just was like went to my usual default 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:20.080 and said. 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:20.480 Go ask. 0:37:22.760 --> 0:37:24.120 So what did Alecsa tell them? 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:24.760 Well. 0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:28.160 To spot a gold digger, you watch out for someone 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:30.799 who asks about what you own, like what you earn, 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:35.120 your stock options early on in your relationship. This is 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:38.160 specifically answering how to tell if someone is a gold digger. 0:37:38.200 --> 0:37:39.680 Does he have a girl that likes someone he's wondering 0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:40.399 if she's a gold digger. 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:45.640 No, No, there was something that's about to say, but 0:37:45.680 --> 0:37:47.200 he asked me, do not say this on the Bubby 0:37:47.200 --> 0:37:47.600 Bone Show. 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:50.160 So I can't say what I was about to say, 0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:51.080 but I can say this. 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:54.400 See how they respond when you ask them about their career. 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:57.120 For example, if they're happy to stay in a low 0:37:57.239 --> 0:37:59.680 level job or not have one at all, they maybe 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:01.520 look for someone to fund their lifestyle. 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:05.480 So if you're wondering if someone's a gold digger, you're 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:07.160 supposed to go, so what do you feel like you're 0:38:07.160 --> 0:38:09.480 gonna do with your career? And they're like, I'm chill 0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:11.960 right here. I don't make much, I don't like it 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:13.080 that much, but I'm cool. 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:15.560 Gold digger, but I want to live this champagne life. 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:17.439 But I also want to have got it right. 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.920 She even suggested, if you want to test out your partner, 0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:26.799 give them an inexpensive but thoughtful, light hearted gifts, kind 0:38:26.800 --> 0:38:29.680 of like a flower. And if they're a gold digger, 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:30.920 they'll dismiss it. 0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:32.600 Cubic circonia. 0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:34.280 Well, no, that's a trick them. 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:35.799 Yeah, to make them think it's real. 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:37.160 Yeah, that's a trick them. Let's not to test them. 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:37.839 Let's a trick them. 0:38:38.000 --> 0:38:41.399 Also, be cautious if your partner often has sudden emergencies 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:43.880 that cause them to need money from you, which is 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:46.640 a typical excuse used by gold diggers. 0:38:46.760 --> 0:38:49.480 That's a swim, that's a scam. Yeah, yeah, what else 0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:49.759 you got? 0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:53.160 The true definition of a gold digger, in case anybody knows, 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:56.840 it's a person who is in a romantic relationship, marriage, 0:38:56.880 --> 0:38:59.920 or whatever to a wealthy person is and their primarily 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:02.920 motivated by the desire for money, like they just want 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:04.640 to be that's all they want to Yeah, and I 0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:08.879 have tips to avoid. Okay, gold diggers, don't pretend. 0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:09.080 To be rich. 0:39:10.040 --> 0:39:12.239 But what if you are, should you? 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:14.560 Well that's the next one is, don't show off, got it? 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:16.600 Don't mention that you're rich. 0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:21.360 If you're pretending to be rich and you're not, everybody loses, right, 0:39:22.640 --> 0:39:25.280 you lose, gold digger loses. You wasted a bunch of money, 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:27.680 you know, someone you really can't like. 0:39:27.760 --> 0:39:29.320 Instead of a sugar daddy'd. 0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:29.800 Be like a debt daddy. 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:30.200 Yeah. 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:31.240 Yeah, go ahead. 0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:34.680 Listen to your friends because oftentimes they can spot one 0:39:34.719 --> 0:39:35.640 maybe before you can. 0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:36.440 Uh. 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:39.960 Don't dress too nicely. Live in a normal house. Do 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:43.400 you mean if you're trying to, like, you know, repel 0:39:43.560 --> 0:39:47.319 gold diggers, live in a normal house. Make sure your 0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:53.600 expensive cars are stored away. And then lastly, don't go 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:55.560 to fancy restaurants too often. 0:39:56.800 --> 0:39:58.759 Okay, I remember that. 0:39:58.800 --> 0:40:00.359 So what was What were the tips you gave your son? 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:00.640 Yeah? 0:40:00.920 --> 0:40:03.920 Yeah, I guess were the tips you gave your son 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:04.279 about this? 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:05.520 Oh? 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:07.480 I well no, I oh you. 0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:09.319 Send them all to Alexa and you never talked about 0:40:09.320 --> 0:40:09.719 it again with it? 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:09.920 No. 0:40:10.000 --> 0:40:11.839 I know. I was over there and taking notes. 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:14.200 I was like wait again, I'm like writing this stuff 0:40:14.239 --> 0:40:16.359 down and typing it and trying to be like, oh, 0:40:16.360 --> 0:40:18.560 this is good, Like I want to collect this stuff 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:24.280 because some people might be getting gold dugged right now? Dugged? 0:40:24.560 --> 0:40:26.840 Do you worry about your gold getting dug now you're single? 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:28.040 No? 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:32.640 Why not? Why not? You're going to eat in nice 0:40:32.640 --> 0:40:33.120 places now? 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:34.640 She puts the expensive cars away. 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:36.160 Maybe some of these tips you need to keep in 0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:37.960 put in your pocket Trusby. 0:40:38.800 --> 0:40:43.839 If I go out with someone that is not motivated to. 0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:46.120 Work, that's gonna be a problem. 0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:48.319 I don't care how much they make as long as 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:52.160 they success doesn't mean money. But if they're passionate about 0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:56.080 what they do and they actually like put forth effort. 0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:59.319 But what are they're? Really cool? Yeah? Fine, really hot? 0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:00.000 They have eight ads? 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:01.759 No, I cannot that. 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:04.600 I would be zero percent attracted to someone that just 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:06.319 wanted to just stay home all day. 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:08.799 Do you guys think that's why Lunchbox dresses the way 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:13.080 he does. Keep the gold diggers away. 0:41:13.280 --> 0:41:16.560 He's married, right, What do you mean that's right? 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.600 I don't understand what's right, that's right about any of that, 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:20.640 all of it. 0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:26.200 Like I want to keep the gold diggers away, but 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:28.120 also I mean gold digger. You can come be a 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:30.759 gold digger. You want separate bakinghouse, so you ain't getting it. 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:34.560 So his wife has a different account, so you would 0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:35.200 buy them stuff. 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:39.520 I don't really buy my wife's stuff, I mean at all. 0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:42.480 Just I couldn't tell you the last thing I bought my. 0:41:42.440 --> 0:41:43.640 Wife wasn't one. 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:45.920 Didn't one of y'all do like if you're going out 0:41:45.960 --> 0:41:47.239 with someone for the first time, you go. 0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:49.840 To a all time like first date. Let's go like 0:41:49.880 --> 0:41:51.000 a little crappy taco place. 0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:52.760 See how they respond. 0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:55.640 I'd never try to impress anybody. Also, I didn't have 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:58.000 I didn't have very much money than either, So my point. 0:41:57.880 --> 0:41:58.960 Then was all gold digger. 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.799 It was like, I'm not going to over extend myself 0:42:02.320 --> 0:42:04.839 and go fancy for a couple of reasons. One because 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:06.440 I only got it, and then two because I don't 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:08.920 want them to think this is what normal is and 0:42:09.000 --> 0:42:10.640 their expectations be I right. 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:15.520 Yeah, it's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:16.040 number two. 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:20.520 A listener emailed then to share some new power rankings 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:24.279 for the show based on her opinions. And everybody is 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:28.080 entitled to their opinion, So listener, Megan, you are entitled 0:42:28.080 --> 0:42:31.160 to that, and I wish you well. Even though you 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:33.440 were not very kind to me, I still wish you well. 0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:36.640 That's all I'm gonna say, because, like I said, I 0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:39.359 aired out my bad blood on Best Bits Part one 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:41.359 with Scuba Steeve Number four. 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:44.560 Six months or so ago, a listener sent us her 0:42:45.040 --> 0:42:47.880 power rankings for this show. Hey, Mike D because you're 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:49.640 the only one that has this because she emails them 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:52.680 to you. Will you explain to our listeners what power 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:54.040 rankings are. 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:55.719 It's like based on who is the best on the 0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:57.680 show in this listener's opinion, Like if. 0:42:57.600 --> 0:42:59.879 There was a power ranking of NBA teams right. 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:04.680 Now, probably Denver, Miamiami, and you could go down from there. Right, 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:08.520 So this is just one listener who ranked all the 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.520 members of the show. Last time, Amy was dead last, 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:14.720 and I did not think that was fair for the record. 0:43:14.800 --> 0:43:18.279 Okay, that hurts your feelings, Amy, Yeah, I don't really 0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:21.640 like ranking any of us, but to be last, and 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:24.200 especially how long I've been here with all and the 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:25.560 things I do, I'm like it. 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:26.120 It just hurt. 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:29.520 But it's also one listener, and different listeners have different 0:43:29.560 --> 0:43:31.440 bonds with different people at different times. 0:43:31.520 --> 0:43:33.120 Right, I agree, because I mean, you don't. 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:33.840 Know how dumb she is. 0:43:35.080 --> 0:43:37.279 Well, I'm not saying anything about her. I just don't 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:38.799 like ranking us. 0:43:38.880 --> 0:43:41.720 But go ahead, Okay, Well, what are the segment? 0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:43.400 No, you can go ahead. 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:44.560 Okay, it's nothing you're doing. 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:47.520 Just let me ask you this. Amy was last last time? 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:48.960 Is she last this time? 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:49.160 Mike? 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:50.040 She is not last? 0:43:50.200 --> 0:43:52.040 Okay, So what we will do. 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:54.600 Then let's just go from top down, because I think 0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:56.640 the drama is really in the person who's last more 0:43:56.640 --> 0:43:58.200 than the top couple. 0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:00.560 I agree, Okay, I will say one thing. They did 0:44:00.600 --> 0:44:02.640 not rank Abby. 0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:03.600 She's unranked. 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:07.200 She got left off, not forgettable. 0:44:07.520 --> 0:44:07.719 Huh. 0:44:08.280 --> 0:44:10.960 Okay, so this is Megan in California. 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:13.480 The only person not left not put on purposefully is 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:14.840 Mike de because she knows he'll get the email and 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:15.399 he could change. 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:18.759 And Abby, I mean what, I don't know? 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:24.719 Okay, whoever ends up last, I'm here for you. It's 0:44:24.760 --> 0:44:25.120 not fun. 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:26.239 How many people made the list? 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:28.279 Mike, there are seven people on the list. 0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:30.680 Who does she rank as the number one power ranking 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:31.440 member of the show? 0:44:31.520 --> 0:44:32.440 Number one on the list? 0:44:32.800 --> 0:44:33.160 Bobby? 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.000 Thank you? Sure, thank you? 0:44:35.040 --> 0:44:35.560 What does she say? 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:37.120 He says, First of all, he's the only one I 0:44:37.120 --> 0:44:38.400 would consider a celebrity. 0:44:38.600 --> 0:44:40.160 His biggest strength, in my opinion, are. 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:42.719 All his interview skills that he's excelled in lately, but 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:44.640 not only that, he is the most well rounded out 0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:47.400 of anyone on the show. Without him to package everyone up, 0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:48.520 the show would be chaos. 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:49.920 I mean, I couldn't agree with one. 0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:52.120 I mean with all that every single point agree on 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:55.759 a coin, So I say, put that on a coin. 0:44:56.000 --> 0:44:58.160 That's very nice. I don't think I was number one 0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:00.640 last time? Was that you were Ember one last night 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:01.520 on the show. 0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:02.799 Yeah, it makes sense. 0:45:03.080 --> 0:45:04.080 I appreciate that, all right. 0:45:04.120 --> 0:45:06.520 Number two at number two, it is Amy. 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:09.799 Wow, she says, Amy is the glue that keeps the 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:11.880 show together. She's been so open with what's going on 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.560 in her personal life. I also love seeing her branch out, 0:45:14.560 --> 0:45:16.880 expand your brand with live podcasts and acting. 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:19.520 Okay, good job, Amy, Amy at number two? 0:45:19.560 --> 0:45:21.439 Lunchbox? Does that make you feel? With Amy at number two? 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:26.600 I mean whatever, she jumped you. I mean whatever. We'll 0:45:26.600 --> 0:45:28.680 see where I end up. See how dumb this lady is? 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:30.400 Mike's number three? 0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:31.759 It is a lunchbox. 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:35.160 Okay, whoa, Yeah, smart lady, That's what I'm talking about. 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:36.440 She's not as dumb as I thought. 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:37.719 What does she say about him? 0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:40.200 Even though I find him irritating, I also find myself 0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:42.200 wanting to hear what he has to say next. I 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:44.680 think if he actually took some initiative, he would get 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:46.600 the things he complains about, not having. 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:47.799 A couple backhanded compliments in there. 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:48.719 But okay, we'll go with it. 0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:51.279 He's irritating and he complains, but she still likes him. 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:53.120 At number three he got a bronze medal. Number four 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:55.960 it is Eddie, she says. Eddie is like a fine 0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:57.320 wine that gets better with age. 0:45:57.360 --> 0:45:59.640 I wasn't the biggest fan of Eddie on my last rankings, 0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:02.120 but he's humor has grown on me. I moved him 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:04.160 out of the friend zone and into my top five. 0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:06.160 Wow, I'll take it. 0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:07.799 Oh do we remember where he was last night? 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:08.600 I don't remember. 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:10.720 Number five It is Scuba Steve. 0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:13.279 He didn't make my list last time, but he has 0:46:13.280 --> 0:46:16.160 definitely made himself known recently. While I don't agree or 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:18.719 believe all the things he says, I respect him for 0:46:18.760 --> 0:46:19.640 telling it how it is. 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:22.680 I believe everything says and sometimes I find out crazy 0:46:22.680 --> 0:46:24.719 stories about I'm like what, But I believe everything he. 0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:25.359 Says on the show. 0:46:26.000 --> 0:46:26.680 Oh same here. 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:28.239 There are certain people I don't believe their stories. I 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:29.040 think Ray clickbait. 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:29.319 Ray. 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:31.200 Sometimes his was some stuff that's unbelievable. 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:32.160 A lot of made up stuff there. 0:46:32.239 --> 0:46:34.680 Yeah, remember that, Ray, All the stories you told it, 0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:35.920 they're pretty accurate. 0:46:36.080 --> 0:46:38.000 As you need the country artists, they're all true. 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:40.640 I think Ray thinks that they're accurate. 0:46:42.040 --> 0:46:46.200 I mean his are pretty accurate too, like, you know, 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:47.520 not nail everything everything. 0:46:47.520 --> 0:46:50.439 I say, Boat a ghost touched him in a room. 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:53.560 His agent Eulett Jackson. 0:46:55.680 --> 0:46:58.880 I'm going to donate one thousand dollars to a server. 0:46:58.320 --> 0:47:00.520 He's going to. He was like, yeah, that's also kind 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:00.960 of bull crap. 0:47:01.440 --> 0:47:03.320 It's all bull It's very accurate. 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:05.400 She would like to do a lot of nice charitable stuff, 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:06.920 but does that. But that's not you lying about it. 0:47:06.960 --> 0:47:08.719 That's right because I would like to do stuff too. 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:10.919 I don't do exactly all right, Next up. 0:47:10.800 --> 0:47:13.080 Mike, Wait, wait, so my bottom three was nailed? 0:47:13.080 --> 0:47:16.719 I said, Ray, Morgan, Abby Abby was left off right, 0:47:16.760 --> 0:47:18.359 so boom, it's down to Morgan and Ray. 0:47:18.640 --> 0:47:20.600 But whenever we on, oh we are. 0:47:20.719 --> 0:47:22.160 Yeah, so let's just go straight to the last. 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:24.879 Who's the worst to you? I want to hear six. 0:47:24.920 --> 0:47:25.520 I want to hear the. 0:47:25.440 --> 0:47:28.839 Reasoning to It's definitely gonna be Morgan at seven. Yeah, 0:47:28.880 --> 0:47:31.600 she's gonna be out, like the why. She just hasn't 0:47:31.640 --> 0:47:32.720 really come with anything. 0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:35.399 Does a lot, it's just maybe not on air. 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:37.320 She posts a couple of things on Twitter. 0:47:37.360 --> 0:47:43.080 Cool, That's what I'm saying, Mike, number six. 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:44.600 It is Morgan number. 0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:46.360 Two boom lunchbox. 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:48.000 I don't know if six is boom. 0:47:48.440 --> 0:47:48.920 It's fine. 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:49.719 I just need to. 0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:55.920 Especially what she wrote not boom worthy. 0:47:55.920 --> 0:47:56.680 It's kind of mean. 0:47:56.800 --> 0:47:59.560 You know, No, I don't know. 0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:00.840 I mean I got boom. 0:48:00.920 --> 0:48:02.400 No, I'm personally hurtful. 0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:03.839 Can Morgan read it? 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:04.240 Okay? 0:48:04.239 --> 0:48:06.000 Give it to Morgan if she feels like there we go, 0:48:06.120 --> 0:48:06.719 or she could pass. 0:48:07.120 --> 0:48:09.040 I just got boom. 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:11.960 It's like mean tweets and Morgan wants to read that. 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:12.759 She can read it. 0:48:16.160 --> 0:48:17.120 That's fine, okay. 0:48:17.239 --> 0:48:19.319 My mother in laws a fellow Canson and says that 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:21.480 Morgan is a bad representation. 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:25.720 Of her people. Also, who are my people? Okay? 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:27.720 I personally don't hear her on the show that often, 0:48:27.719 --> 0:48:29.040 but when I do, I have to agree. 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:31.000 Sorry, Morgan, that's that bad. 0:48:31.239 --> 0:48:32.280 It's fine, okay. 0:48:32.600 --> 0:48:34.200 And my coming at number seven to go ahead and 0:48:34.239 --> 0:48:35.400 read raise. 0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:40.160 It is Raymundo. My only complaint with Raymundo is that 0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:41.120 I don't get enough of him. 0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:43.440 He's hilarious and says the most outlandish things that make 0:48:43.520 --> 0:48:45.520 me lool, but he's at the bottom of my list 0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:46.239 because I need more. 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:48.480 I can agree with. Oh, that's good. 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:50.920 I've always told you, I think you're a dynamite on 0:48:50.960 --> 0:48:51.239 the air. 0:48:52.640 --> 0:48:55.720 I gotta say, when I was seven, it wasn't that. 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:57.040 I mean, now, I was gonna. 0:48:56.800 --> 0:48:58.400 Comfort compliment you at seven. 0:48:58.719 --> 0:48:59.919 I was going to comfort him. 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:03.399 But like that is she's just saying, she means, Ray, 0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:04.480 we need more of you. 0:49:05.239 --> 0:49:07.160 But so, hey, Ray, why are you mad Amy because 0:49:07.160 --> 0:49:08.120 he got a compliment at seven? 0:49:08.239 --> 0:49:08.919 No, I'm not mad. 0:49:08.960 --> 0:49:11.839 I'm just saying I'm gonna comfort her disappointed. No, I'm 0:49:11.880 --> 0:49:12.680 saying it doesn't. 0:49:12.480 --> 0:49:13.400 Need comforting that. 0:49:13.600 --> 0:49:16.000 I'm glad she handled it that way because now Ray, 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:18.440 this is good for him. I'm just saying that she 0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:20.240 did not do that when I was seven. 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:22.120 So does that mean Morgan actually last? 0:49:22.600 --> 0:49:23.359 Yeah in a way. 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:26.960 Yeah, Hey I came in six thank you. 0:49:27.080 --> 0:49:29.640 I don't know her name, Mike Meghan in California Meghan. 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:31.359 Every six months or so. It gives us a new 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.120 power rankings. Okay, but now. 0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:35.720 She'll have to change it up to make a statement 0:49:35.760 --> 0:49:36.360 next time. 0:49:37.680 --> 0:49:39.400 At seven next time now, because she's like, oh, this 0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:40.759 is getting on the air, let me change it out. 0:49:40.840 --> 0:49:43.040 No chance, he's smarter than that. What we got something 0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:44.520 to work for now? Like you know, I want to 0:49:44.560 --> 0:49:45.279 I want to move up. 0:49:45.200 --> 0:49:46.560 The rank employee the month too. 0:49:46.760 --> 0:49:48.239 Yeah that too, that's a good one too. 0:49:48.280 --> 0:49:49.880 You get that all right, Thank you, Meghan. 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:51.799 We appreciate that. 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:55.719 It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two. 0:49:57.200 --> 0:49:59.799 The Folds of Honor celebrity softball game happened this week 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:03.279 and Lunchbox scoob of Steve and myself played in the game, 0:50:03.320 --> 0:50:04.800 and we had a lot of stories to share, a 0:50:04.840 --> 0:50:07.239 lot of tea to spill. And that's what's coming in 0:50:07.360 --> 0:50:09.640 at this spot right here. It's a lot of tea 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:13.920 spilling from the celebrity softball game, particularly tea I'm spelling 0:50:13.920 --> 0:50:16.960 on Lunchbox. I'm just going to tell you it was gold. 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:19.239 I had a lot of good stuff that happened. And 0:50:19.280 --> 0:50:22.239 then I shared even more on Best Bits with Scooba Steve. 0:50:22.280 --> 0:50:24.600 We talked about all our favorite moments and a little 0:50:24.600 --> 0:50:27.600 bit more lighthearted than just spilling the tea on lunchbox. 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:29.360 So be sure to check out both. 0:50:29.719 --> 0:50:32.680 But here right now, grab your teacups, ladies and gentlemen, 0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:34.120 it's tea time. 0:50:34.719 --> 0:50:35.319 Number three. 0:50:35.400 --> 0:50:39.080 I want to play a voicemail. This is Steve from Nashville. 0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:42.080 We're at the Celebrity softball game, and I'm really worried 0:50:42.120 --> 0:50:45.359 about the seed because he hits the ball like a girl. 0:50:45.920 --> 0:50:49.279 Guy is you know, Smiff. First of all, I'm gonna 0:50:49.280 --> 0:50:52.640 say this, I just I've been watching a lot of 0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:54.320 college softball and I don't think hitting the ball like 0:50:54.320 --> 0:50:55.959 a girl should be a negative thing, right neck, because 0:50:55.960 --> 0:50:56.800 I'm watching girls. 0:50:56.640 --> 0:50:57.919 Who are crushing the freaking ball. 0:50:57.960 --> 0:50:58.800 They hit it hard. 0:50:59.360 --> 0:51:01.919 Yeah, So I think hitting like girl, throwing like a girl, 0:51:02.080 --> 0:51:03.640 that ain't really a thing because I know a lot 0:51:03.640 --> 0:51:05.239 of girls are way better athletes than any of us 0:51:05.280 --> 0:51:08.920 dudes in here. So aside from that, Scoop Seve, apparently 0:51:08.920 --> 0:51:10.240 he didn't look very athletic. 0:51:10.239 --> 0:51:11.359 I think it probably would have been the thing. 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:12.840 No, and to kind of pond what you're saying, the 0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:14.200 best player of the game was a woman. 0:51:14.239 --> 0:51:15.279 It was or No. 0:51:15.440 --> 0:51:16.960 Yeah, she played softball Alabama. 0:51:17.280 --> 0:51:17.759 She killed it. 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:20.200 She was incredible my division once off ball. 0:51:20.280 --> 0:51:21.439 I love watching her play. 0:51:21.440 --> 0:51:22.080 It was awesome. 0:51:22.320 --> 0:51:24.080 So yeah, to go onto that, But yes, I didn't 0:51:24.120 --> 0:51:26.880 play my best and just mostly just because I'm just 0:51:26.920 --> 0:51:28.200 not that good at it. I mean it was good 0:51:28.200 --> 0:51:29.839 in the field, good at throwing and catching all that, 0:51:29.880 --> 0:51:32.399 but my batting was it was Okay, at one pop 0:51:32.440 --> 0:51:33.240 fly in a grounder. 0:51:33.320 --> 0:51:34.279 What position did you play? 0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:37.920 I've switched between third base and right field, making any plays. 0:51:38.400 --> 0:51:39.520 I made no great plays. 0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:41.040 Well, you said you did good at fielding and throw. 0:51:41.200 --> 0:51:42.640 I was there, ready to go, and I threw the ball, 0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:43.120 ready to go. 0:51:43.280 --> 0:51:43.680 Okay, good. 0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:46.239 Yeah, and I warmed up with Jerry Stackhouse. That was 0:51:46.239 --> 0:51:49.600 probably skighlight. That was really cool. Cool coach Manerbilt. Yeah, 0:51:49.920 --> 0:51:51.880 but the NBA player to me from the nineties, and 0:51:51.920 --> 0:51:52.200 he was. 0:51:52.160 --> 0:51:53.759 Geeking out, and Morgan was like, dude, we gotta go 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:55.400 get a picture with Scoob before the game starts. 0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:58.280 Like, Morgan, you do not interrupt his childhood. 0:51:57.880 --> 0:51:59.359 Drain Jerry Stackhouse, that's pretty cool. 0:51:59.400 --> 0:52:00.959 Yeah, that was cool, like playing catch a dad. 0:52:01.120 --> 0:52:03.440 I did want to break. I know that feeling. I 0:52:04.400 --> 0:52:05.680 played Castrin Nolan Ryan once. 0:52:05.840 --> 0:52:08.359 Okay, cool, Yes, you get it warming up and I did. 0:52:08.640 --> 0:52:10.240 Yeah, And I just didn't want. 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:12.440 It to Enddel Diamond. 0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:14.640 Round Rock Express. Oh yeah, we were doing a deal 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:15.560 there and you throw it hard. 0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:21.120 He was I mean, he didn't throw the no, but 0:52:21.200 --> 0:52:24.680 he was throwing and he threw just consistently strong. 0:52:24.760 --> 0:52:26.160 It was anyway moving off. 0:52:26.120 --> 0:52:28.360 That I didn't want talk about the game, big celebrity 0:52:28.400 --> 0:52:30.480 softball game last night, And I was looking at the 0:52:30.520 --> 0:52:33.640 promo and they were talking about the people on the 0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:40.600 people's team. For example, over on Team Riley Green, which 0:52:40.640 --> 0:52:41.360 team are you guys on? 0:52:42.880 --> 0:52:44.520 And Scuba was on Team Riley Green? 0:52:44.640 --> 0:52:44.960 Got it? 0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:47.440 So on Team Jelly Roll, they talk about the people. 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:50.040 There's Jelly Roll, there's Taylor Lewan who used to play 0:52:50.040 --> 0:52:52.880 for the Titans. There's Morgan number two, there's Heart, there's 0:52:52.920 --> 0:52:54.640 the whole list, and it was Morgan number two and 0:52:54.719 --> 0:52:57.319 Lunchbox didn't show up till like the very end of 0:52:57.320 --> 0:52:57.680 the list. 0:52:58.360 --> 0:53:01.279 It's like the people running the just don't I guess 0:53:01.320 --> 0:53:04.759 they don't really understand what they're doing. They don't understand 0:53:04.840 --> 0:53:08.719 how to promote their event. Like when you are promoting it, 0:53:08.760 --> 0:53:10.640 you want your biggest names first. 0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:13.000 But I think that's what they're doing in their mind, 0:53:13.239 --> 0:53:13.960 that's what they're doing. 0:53:14.440 --> 0:53:16.880 That's what I'm saying. Obviously they don't know what they're doing. 0:53:16.960 --> 0:53:19.600 They think like they have Morgan number two on there 0:53:19.600 --> 0:53:23.440 with Jelly Roll, Taylor Lawan, the biggest names. Like if 0:53:23.480 --> 0:53:25.520 you want the biggest names on that promo. 0:53:26.239 --> 0:53:29.400 They put me, Okay, other than you My point is 0:53:29.440 --> 0:53:31.240 they think that Morgan number two is a bigger way. 0:53:31.600 --> 0:53:35.879 Crazy to actually think that, Like whoever did that? Their 0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:39.879 social media coordinators should be fired, like immediately. 0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:43.359 So good showing last night showing people they were watching 0:53:43.360 --> 0:53:43.560 the game. 0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:44.279 Yeah, I sold out. 0:53:44.280 --> 0:53:46.440 It was awesome, love it. And so was this the 0:53:46.440 --> 0:53:49.120 thing last night too? Or is this this one story 0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:51.680 that I saw? Oh, that was just one story that 0:53:52.080 --> 0:53:55.160 I saw. I was like you saw last night. It 0:53:55.239 --> 0:53:56.120 was fine, you know what I mean? 0:53:56.200 --> 0:53:58.000 Like I was there, we were great. 0:53:58.080 --> 0:54:00.200 I don't think so, because I got a hand now 0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:03.160 all of my signed baseball cards and lunchbox still has. 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:06.319 All of his. So wait, people wanted your baseball. 0:54:06.960 --> 0:54:08.080 Like all of mine are gone. 0:54:09.840 --> 0:54:12.960 Here's the thing because people Morgan was walking around with 0:54:13.000 --> 0:54:14.960 hers like saying here, you want my car and signing 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:15.719 them and hanging them out. 0:54:16.960 --> 0:54:19.280 I just put him on my backpack and was like, hey, guys, I'm. 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:20.640 Here to drink and take pictures. You want to take 0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:22.440 a picture, fine, but I an't getting them out of 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:24.920 my backpack. And then I can give them my relatives 0:54:25.120 --> 0:54:27.320 like for Christmas presents, like I got my baseball. 0:54:28.520 --> 0:54:29.840 See this is why I'm a better. 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.640 Draw car that's a good point. 0:54:32.920 --> 0:54:36.640 I heard from my little Birdie that there was actually 0:54:36.719 --> 0:54:38.279 kind of a I'm not gonna say a fight, but 0:54:38.719 --> 0:54:40.880 an uncuf between you two about this thing where Morgan 0:54:40.920 --> 0:54:42.440 was being promoted more than you. 0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:44.160 No, no, I was just did that one promotion? 0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:46.440 I mean Morgan, who was the last person in the 0:54:46.480 --> 0:54:48.560 stadium because so many people want to take. 0:54:48.480 --> 0:54:50.360 Pictures in human form. Did you guys get into it 0:54:50.360 --> 0:54:50.799 a little bit? 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:51.600 Yeah? 0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:53.800 He he literally we were sitting here in the studio 0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:56.760 and he sees it for the first time and he looks, 0:54:56.760 --> 0:54:58.520 He's like, why are you on here? 0:54:58.800 --> 0:55:00.560 And I was like, because I'm playing in the game. 0:55:01.280 --> 0:55:03.640 And he starts throwing this whole fit, and everybody who 0:55:03.640 --> 0:55:06.080 walks in the studio goes, guys, why is she promoted 0:55:06.120 --> 0:55:06.560 more than me? 0:55:06.880 --> 0:55:08.839 It was this whole argument that he was mad that 0:55:08.920 --> 0:55:10.280 I was getting promoted. 0:55:09.880 --> 0:55:10.399 More than him. 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:14.480 I heard it was sincere too, like he was really excellent. 0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:16.759 It's not why I take it out on her. It 0:55:16.760 --> 0:55:17.799 has nothing to do with her. 0:55:18.000 --> 0:55:20.560 Well, I was asking her like, don't you find it crazy? 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:21.960 Like this is unbelievable? 0:55:22.160 --> 0:55:22.880 Why not just go? 0:55:23.040 --> 0:55:25.000 I wish I were up a little more. This is crazy, 0:55:25.040 --> 0:55:27.360 not you're up above me, and that's stupid. 0:55:27.520 --> 0:55:29.600 What is I mean? 0:55:29.680 --> 0:55:32.759 Just go look at the social media presence alone. I 0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:33.560 dominate hers. 0:55:33.719 --> 0:55:35.680 What do you mean presence followers? 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:38.279 If you want the most followers to just go look 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:40.680 at hers. In mind, I blow her out of the water. 0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:42.799 So to say, she's also been on the show a 0:55:42.800 --> 0:55:43.839 lot longer matter. 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:47.480 Okay, I hear you, but that part should matter too. 0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:50.000 My hope would be that you would go, dang, this sucks, 0:55:50.000 --> 0:55:51.279 I'm not up there more, but not take it out 0:55:51.280 --> 0:55:52.160 on her because she was. 0:55:52.200 --> 0:55:53.120 She had nothing to do with it. 0:55:53.120 --> 0:55:53.839 She didn't create it. 0:55:54.480 --> 0:55:59.280 Yeah, yeah, I just thought it was a bad look. 0:55:59.520 --> 0:56:01.320 I was just a better player last year, I guess. 0:56:01.400 --> 0:56:02.600 I mean that has to do with this. 0:56:03.360 --> 0:56:04.360 Last year, and you didn't. 0:56:04.680 --> 0:56:06.959 Yeah see I did hit last year, but they didn't 0:56:06.960 --> 0:56:07.839 they put me in the game. 0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:08.839 I put you in the game. 0:56:10.480 --> 0:56:12.640 I love that Lunchbox just keeps playing the game, like 0:56:12.760 --> 0:56:15.279 you know, if he's so mad at this organization, don't 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:17.799 play anymore. But he goes every single year and gets 0:56:17.880 --> 0:56:20.319 hurt that they never talk about him or they make 0:56:20.400 --> 0:56:21.000 him the announcer. 0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:22.640 Well, last year they didn't even ask him to play, 0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:24.640 and I got upset for him, and it was a 0:56:24.680 --> 0:56:27.799 whole thing. And so he played and this year he 0:56:27.840 --> 0:56:30.360 got invited to play, but now he's upset because he 0:56:30.480 --> 0:56:31.640 didn't get put up on the list. 0:56:31.719 --> 0:56:32.640 High Now it's. 0:56:32.480 --> 0:56:35.120 Also just to say something positive here. I saw someone 0:56:35.160 --> 0:56:37.839 post a video of Lunchbox going up to bat and 0:56:38.160 --> 0:56:39.960 they did his like walk up song, and he went 0:56:40.040 --> 0:56:43.000 up there and when they said all right and Lunchbox, 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:46.080 I mean, there were loud screams. 0:56:46.200 --> 0:56:46.640 That's good. 0:56:46.800 --> 0:56:49.560 Yes, Like it seemed as though people, I don't know how. 0:56:49.440 --> 0:56:50.719 They were saying that. 0:56:50.719 --> 0:56:51.960 People we know, we know. 0:56:52.480 --> 0:56:54.600 We're just saying, don't take it out on Morgan, right, 0:56:54.719 --> 0:56:55.080 that's it. 0:56:55.160 --> 0:56:55.520 I know. 0:56:55.640 --> 0:56:57.720 I was just I figured this would help him. 0:56:57.760 --> 0:57:01.000 Just trust me. I know there's screams. I know who 0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:01.920 gets big billings. 0:57:02.000 --> 0:57:06.120 You're not billing. You didn't get the billing. Billing means promotion. 0:57:06.360 --> 0:57:07.239 Yeah, that was their fault. 0:57:07.320 --> 0:57:08.800 Yeah, you may get. 0:57:08.920 --> 0:57:10.720 A more love, yeah yeah yeah. 0:57:11.040 --> 0:57:12.000 How was How was your love? 0:57:12.040 --> 0:57:12.360 Morgan? 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:13.439 My love was great? 0:57:13.520 --> 0:57:16.640 Like I said, I was signing autographs, I was taking pictures. 0:57:16.720 --> 0:57:18.760 Let's go to scuba, Steve, because scuba you're not either 0:57:18.800 --> 0:57:19.800 one of these two your thoughts. 0:57:19.840 --> 0:57:21.840 Yeah, I like that Amy said that Lifebuck's got a 0:57:21.880 --> 0:57:24.200 lot of roars and cheers, but Morgan got like ten 0:57:24.240 --> 0:57:24.720 times more. 0:57:24.720 --> 0:57:25.360 When she came up. 0:57:25.400 --> 0:57:27.600 It was like Michael Jordan came out and they had 0:57:27.640 --> 0:57:30.680 her run for jelly roll and she ran ella quick. 0:57:31.000 --> 0:57:32.520 Is she more of an athlete than he is? 0:57:32.560 --> 0:57:34.280 Way more of an athlete than both of us. 0:57:34.280 --> 0:57:36.880 Oh my gosh, here we go. Didn't Morgan hit the 0:57:36.880 --> 0:57:37.800 ball out of the infield? 0:57:37.840 --> 0:57:38.960 It doesn't matter where she hit it. 0:57:38.960 --> 0:57:40.680 She was you to third base. 0:57:40.760 --> 0:57:42.440 I did my job, No exactly. 0:57:42.440 --> 0:57:44.280 She got base hits, which is all that you guys needed. 0:57:44.440 --> 0:57:45.400 She didn't get a base hit. 0:57:45.680 --> 0:57:46.800 I thought, yes. 0:57:46.760 --> 0:57:47.240 No you did not. 0:57:47.280 --> 0:57:48.880 Okay, I'm not arguing about stats and a check game. 0:57:48.960 --> 0:57:52.200 Yes, Morgan have had more of a following there at least. 0:57:52.320 --> 0:57:55.160 Okay, So how did you play? Great? 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:57.520 One for two, scored our first run. We couldn't get 0:57:57.560 --> 0:57:59.480 our team couldn't hit the ball. Finally I got the game. 0:57:59.520 --> 0:58:01.800 I gotta go one like you got the game winner? No, no, 0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:04.800 got it started like we our top are hardy struck 0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:07.840 out man, well hardy, they like I know, like it. 0:58:08.720 --> 0:58:09.960 He was so like, he was like, this is the 0:58:10.000 --> 0:58:10.760 worst day of my life. 0:58:10.800 --> 0:58:15.880 He said, and but we bring up Hardy strike out anything. 0:58:17.040 --> 0:58:20.200 You were asking your game, But why would you take 0:58:20.240 --> 0:58:21.000 shots at other people? 0:58:21.000 --> 0:58:22.560 Because I'm not taking shots at Hardy. 0:58:22.720 --> 0:58:24.640 You have no reason to bring up Hardy striking out. 0:58:24.760 --> 0:58:26.320 Like we would have never known unless. 0:58:27.040 --> 0:58:28.000 We have not and now we know. 0:58:28.200 --> 0:58:31.360 The worst day was like, so you went one for two, Morgan, 0:58:32.160 --> 0:58:32.440 I did. 0:58:32.560 --> 0:58:35.160 I didn't get on base for my own hits I got, 0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:37.000 I moved lunchbox one I got. 0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:39.560 It's not even bad then, if it's a sacrifice, it's 0:58:39.560 --> 0:58:42.240 not in a bad I it was a fielder's choice, was. 0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:44.320 Hey, I didn't get I didn't hit any pop ups. 0:58:44.320 --> 0:58:46.800 They were all grounders. And I ran for Jelly and 0:58:46.800 --> 0:58:49.560 I scored for Jelly. So I did play good, and 0:58:49.640 --> 0:58:51.520 I fielded a lot of balls. I was out there 0:58:51.560 --> 0:58:52.280 making place. 0:58:52.320 --> 0:58:53.960 Good for you, lunch watch filly balls. 0:58:54.560 --> 0:58:56.800 Yeah, one Jerry Stackhouse hit out to me like the 0:58:56.880 --> 0:58:59.080 second basement dropped it, And uh, where'd you play? 0:58:59.400 --> 0:59:03.440 I played right field, second base, right field? 0:59:04.320 --> 0:59:04.800 Did you play? 0:59:05.040 --> 0:59:08.360 I was in center and right and second we are 0:59:08.440 --> 0:59:09.680 lunchbox and I were switching off. 0:59:09.720 --> 0:59:10.760 I was trying to make sure you play. 0:59:11.720 --> 0:59:13.240 Yeah, it's nice of you. 0:59:13.440 --> 0:59:16.480 Here we go okay, I'm I'm glad you guys played. 0:59:16.880 --> 0:59:20.200 I mean a great cost folds of honor and that's all. 0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:21.720 I just wanted to bring it up see how it went. 0:59:22.040 --> 0:59:24.160 You have anything else, lunchbox. This sounds give an out 0:59:24.160 --> 0:59:24.600 the grievance. 0:59:24.760 --> 0:59:26.960 No, No, I'm just saying. I mean, they nominated me 0:59:27.000 --> 0:59:28.960 for m v P but ended up not getting it 0:59:28.960 --> 0:59:29.360 at the end. 0:59:30.240 --> 0:59:33.320 What's the nomination process of m v P. 0:59:33.600 --> 0:59:35.520 There is none. Everybody's up for m v P and 0:59:35.520 --> 0:59:36.960 then they choose to at the end of the night. 0:59:37.040 --> 0:59:38.080 Who nominated you? 0:59:38.920 --> 0:59:40.800 I guess people on our team a meeting. 0:59:41.480 --> 0:59:47.520 Who got it? And then a first responder Yeah he. 0:59:47.640 --> 0:59:48.640 Was on the other team though. 0:59:50.040 --> 0:59:50.880 Losing team got it. 0:59:51.120 --> 0:59:52.880 We won, we won, got it? 0:59:53.320 --> 0:59:55.080 And Scuba loss got it? 0:59:55.080 --> 0:59:55.840 And who struck out? 0:59:56.600 --> 1:00:00.120 I'm not going to say you already did landed. 0:59:59.840 --> 1:00:02.400 To Okay, if it wasn't the worst day of her life, No, 1:00:02.520 --> 1:00:05.720 I don't think so. Anybody else is devastated by striking out. 1:00:06.280 --> 1:00:08.960 No, I mean there's only I think there's only two strikeouts. 1:00:09.040 --> 1:00:12.080 Maybe how a jelly roll hit he grounded it to 1:00:12.240 --> 1:00:15.120 like shortstop and Chris Lane. 1:00:15.000 --> 1:00:16.960 Booted it and that's error. 1:00:17.040 --> 1:00:17.760 But I got on base. 1:00:17.840 --> 1:00:19.280 We got moving, That's what I'm saying. 1:00:19.320 --> 1:00:20.920 Like it was, there's no reason that can bring it 1:00:20.960 --> 1:00:22.400 crisly making an error, honestly, just. 1:00:22.600 --> 1:00:24.760 Like or maybe Sean bu dropped it at first. I 1:00:24.800 --> 1:00:26.360 don't know what's gonna happened, but what. 1:00:27.880 --> 1:00:28.960 It's all shots from him? 1:00:29.880 --> 1:00:30.960 What's an error you made? 1:00:31.480 --> 1:00:32.160 Not I didn't make an era. 1:00:32.320 --> 1:00:33.160 No, you hit a pop fly. 1:00:33.680 --> 1:00:34.560 That's not an error. 1:00:35.040 --> 1:00:38.959 You got out, that's not an error. Okay, I'm glad 1:00:38.960 --> 1:00:39.760 you guys had fun. 1:00:39.840 --> 1:00:44.080 Yes, yeah, but I did meet Charles Eston. 1:00:44.400 --> 1:00:46.640 Chip came up and introduced himself. 1:00:46.640 --> 1:00:48.360 You've met him, he's in the studio. 1:00:48.400 --> 1:00:49.760 He was like, hey, you may not know who I am. 1:00:49.760 --> 1:00:52.000 He's been in the studio like multiple times. 1:00:52.440 --> 1:00:53.840 Well, I have tea from this. 1:00:54.200 --> 1:00:57.440 Lunchbox went up to Charles Eston, came up to him, 1:00:57.560 --> 1:01:01.400 and Lunchbox comes to us after this conversation and he goes, guys. 1:01:01.800 --> 1:01:04.960 Charles Uston said, I don't know if you guys, if 1:01:05.000 --> 1:01:08.120 you know who I am, but I'm a huge fan 1:01:08.160 --> 1:01:08.640 of yours. 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:10.160 And then they took a picture together. 1:01:10.200 --> 1:01:11.919 So Lunchbox comes up to us and he goes, guys, 1:01:12.000 --> 1:01:13.400 Charles Uston's a huge fan of me. 1:01:14.080 --> 1:01:15.320 I know Charles Uston. 1:01:15.480 --> 1:01:17.320 So he walked up and I said, Hey, did you 1:01:17.400 --> 1:01:19.400 happen to say to Lunchbox that you're a huge fan 1:01:19.440 --> 1:01:19.680 of his? 1:01:20.160 --> 1:01:21.240 And he goes no. 1:01:21.480 --> 1:01:22.600 I just said, hey, I don't know if you know 1:01:22.640 --> 1:01:24.040 who I am and wanted to say hi. 1:01:25.080 --> 1:01:26.240 I love got called out. 1:01:26.280 --> 1:01:28.360 He's never been more embarrassed in his life than when 1:01:28.360 --> 1:01:29.040 he got called. 1:01:29.240 --> 1:01:30.920 But you're lied about somebody saying they were a huge fan. 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:32.680 But then he asks to take a picture with me. 1:01:32.720 --> 1:01:34.200 But you can take a picture together. It does mean 1:01:34.280 --> 1:01:37.000 you're like a massive super fan. Like you're posting on social. 1:01:37.080 --> 1:01:38.680 They're like plase post on social to promote this. 1:01:38.920 --> 1:01:40.360 Oh maybe that's what he's doing. I thought he's doing 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:42.160 it because he's a big fan, and what's this. 1:01:42.400 --> 1:01:44.320 No Lunchbox turned bright right in the face when I 1:01:44.360 --> 1:01:46.280 called him out right in front of Charles Uston. 1:01:46.560 --> 1:01:49.400 It is great, everybody glad you played the game. No more, 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:52.080 Lunchbos He's going I got more to say, no more. 1:01:52.120 --> 1:01:54.800 I mean, I love it. I love it. 1:01:54.840 --> 1:01:57.120 What I mean the person that doesn't get embarrassed, She asked, 1:01:57.160 --> 1:01:58.680 like I was so embarrassed, and I was like, oh 1:01:58.720 --> 1:01:59.520 my gosh. 1:01:59.560 --> 1:02:01.040 Let's give it was he not right in the face 1:02:01.080 --> 1:02:01.680 when that happened. 1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:05.760 Here we go, Ok, guys, hit it out of the enfield. 1:02:05.800 --> 1:02:07.440 Let me know when it gets out of the infield. 1:02:07.440 --> 1:02:07.760 Thanks. 1:02:08.280 --> 1:02:10.040 Do you think Charles said that to him as like 1:02:10.080 --> 1:02:13.280 a joke, because hasn't Lunchbox said he's more famous than 1:02:13.360 --> 1:02:14.640 Charles Deston and nobody knows. 1:02:14.640 --> 1:02:17.720 I'll jumped. I think he just made it up. 1:02:18.320 --> 1:02:20.640 Lunchbox just wanted to somebody else. 1:02:21.400 --> 1:02:23.040 I know this. Bet you guys are driving me in 1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:24.600 this bit. This is the fly trap. Be his fly 1:02:24.680 --> 1:02:25.880 trap a bit. We're not doing it anymore. 1:02:27.160 --> 1:02:30.360 It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. 1:02:30.440 --> 1:02:38.120 Number two, Lunchbox announced on the show this. 1:02:38.080 --> 1:02:42.360 Week that he booked his first TV commercial, which was 1:02:42.680 --> 1:02:45.520 kind of a lie because it's not exactly what it is, 1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:46.760 but it is a commercial. 1:02:47.000 --> 1:02:48.400 So here you go. 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:50.960 This is the Lunchbox being so excited to share the 1:02:51.000 --> 1:02:52.320 news of his TV commercial. 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:55.720 Number two, big news if I get that drum roll please, 1:02:56.560 --> 1:02:59.880 somebody on the show has told me they booked their 1:02:59.880 --> 1:03:01.000 first TV commercial. 1:03:01.160 --> 1:03:03.200 I've not seen it. I didn't know anything about it, 1:03:03.200 --> 1:03:04.320 so it was news to me as well. 1:03:04.480 --> 1:03:06.120 But this is a big achievement. We like to celebrate 1:03:06.120 --> 1:03:09.120 our achievements together. Everybody on the show is trying to 1:03:09.120 --> 1:03:10.360 do stuff outside of the show. 1:03:11.600 --> 1:03:12.400 Amy, He's got. 1:03:12.240 --> 1:03:17.040 A small part in Holiday Harmony on HBO now called Max. 1:03:17.200 --> 1:03:21.200 Yeah, Eddie not really doing anything outside the show. 1:03:21.240 --> 1:03:23.160 Hey, I'm doing speaking yeah stuff. 1:03:23.240 --> 1:03:26.400 Absolutely has been speaking plays with the Raging Idiots out 1:03:26.400 --> 1:03:27.000 of the road. 1:03:26.840 --> 1:03:28.800 A lot of outside of the work stuff. 1:03:30.800 --> 1:03:36.760 Lunchboxes on Zoom, reading scripts to Three's company whatever. 1:03:36.840 --> 1:03:38.680 Lunchbock speaks, Yes, kid. 1:03:39.480 --> 1:03:40.560 Morgan, what do you do? 1:03:42.120 --> 1:03:43.600 I'm doing some reefest. 1:03:43.640 --> 1:03:45.600 There you go, doing hosting, there you go. Okay, but 1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:48.640 he got little hustles. So one of you has booked 1:03:48.640 --> 1:03:50.640 a TV commercial, Amy, who do you think it is? 1:03:51.440 --> 1:03:53.000 That is not Amy, It's not me. 1:03:53.160 --> 1:03:56.600 So I I feel like Lunchbox has really been going 1:03:56.680 --> 1:04:01.480 after stuff, and maybe we find convinced him. 1:04:02.080 --> 1:04:03.120 How's he been going after stuff? 1:04:03.360 --> 1:04:05.960 He's been going, I'm doing the we we sort of 1:04:06.080 --> 1:04:08.600 pick at him for doing the zooms and not much else. 1:04:08.720 --> 1:04:10.280 Yeah, but what's he been doing to go after though? 1:04:10.320 --> 1:04:13.600 You said practicing the zooms and then he shut up 1:04:13.640 --> 1:04:15.919 on Nicole, I. 1:04:15.800 --> 1:04:17.920 Put me in, Yeah that's going out. 1:04:18.000 --> 1:04:19.920 Okay, Well, you guys, I'll be happy to know the 1:04:19.920 --> 1:04:21.040 person who got the TV commercial. 1:04:21.120 --> 1:04:22.000 Let's lunch box. 1:04:26.640 --> 1:04:27.800 TV commercial? 1:04:27.920 --> 1:04:28.400 What's it for? 1:04:29.160 --> 1:04:31.760 Hey, don't you worry? You will see it shortly? I 1:04:31.800 --> 1:04:34.320 can I tell you, but you can't tell us what 1:04:34.320 --> 1:04:37.160 it's doing. No, why you don't. They don't come out 1:04:37.160 --> 1:04:39.800 and announce people in commercials before the commercials. 1:04:39.320 --> 1:04:41.600 Air, but you can. They like you to, but they 1:04:41.640 --> 1:04:41.920 do not. 1:04:42.120 --> 1:04:43.520 They said it is confidential. 1:04:44.400 --> 1:04:45.360 Did you sign something? 1:04:45.680 --> 1:04:45.919 Yes? 1:04:48.360 --> 1:04:49.200 You signed something? 1:04:50.640 --> 1:04:52.440 Are you lying like an NDA? 1:04:53.160 --> 1:04:54.160 I don't know what that means. 1:04:54.160 --> 1:04:56.560 But I signed a contract saying I won't talk about it, 1:04:56.600 --> 1:04:58.000 and then the commercial will be out and you'll be 1:04:58.040 --> 1:05:00.520 able to see it, and we're gonna shoot it and it's. 1:05:00.400 --> 1:05:01.120 Going to be amazing. 1:05:01.440 --> 1:05:02.200 How'd you get it? 1:05:03.000 --> 1:05:04.680 I auditioned for it, sent it tape. 1:05:05.320 --> 1:05:06.120 Are you lying? 1:05:07.160 --> 1:05:10.320 No, I'm not lying. I don't understand how. 1:05:10.200 --> 1:05:11.680 You Something feels weird about it. 1:05:11.560 --> 1:05:13.200 It does feel weird how he's answering the questions. 1:05:13.480 --> 1:05:16.000 And second of all, I don't know a single brand 1:05:16.040 --> 1:05:18.600 that wouldn't want their brand unless it was a super 1:05:18.640 --> 1:05:20.560 Bowl commercial that they were keeping secret. 1:05:20.680 --> 1:05:22.280 It's not a super Bowl commercial. 1:05:23.240 --> 1:05:23.800 How do you know? 1:05:24.440 --> 1:05:27.400 There's no way is it? Can you give us the 1:05:27.400 --> 1:05:28.160 category it's. 1:05:28.000 --> 1:05:30.200 In, uh TV? 1:05:30.880 --> 1:05:34.200 Okay, come on man, No, the category of the product. 1:05:35.080 --> 1:05:41.000 Oh, the product? How would I describe it? Satisfying? 1:05:41.880 --> 1:05:43.440 Snickers massage? 1:05:44.000 --> 1:05:49.040 Nope, so the category is satisfying. Let me explain what 1:05:49.080 --> 1:05:49.720 categories are. 1:05:49.880 --> 1:05:54.880 That's a category, Like there's healthcare, there's food, there's service, 1:05:55.280 --> 1:05:56.200 entertainment loathing. 1:05:56.640 --> 1:05:58.000 Yeah, you could. 1:05:57.760 --> 1:06:02.200 Say service, so like a restaurant. 1:06:02.760 --> 1:06:04.000 And you haven't shot the TV commercial? 1:06:04.080 --> 1:06:04.480 No? No? 1:06:04.400 --> 1:06:05.000 Yeah? 1:06:05.040 --> 1:06:06.200 And will we see it? 1:06:06.360 --> 1:06:07.720 You will see it for sure. 1:06:07.560 --> 1:06:09.960 Okay if you're going to show it to us or 1:06:10.000 --> 1:06:11.120 we would happen upon it. 1:06:11.240 --> 1:06:13.000 I mean, if you're watching TV, you may see it 1:06:13.080 --> 1:06:14.840 or I'll show it to either one. I don't know when, 1:06:15.000 --> 1:06:17.160 what shows you watch and what commercials they play? 1:06:17.440 --> 1:06:19.520 Okay, I have one question about how I know you 1:06:19.560 --> 1:06:21.120 auditioned for it. You sent in a tape, but how 1:06:21.120 --> 1:06:23.680 did you even hear it was open? Like? 1:06:23.720 --> 1:06:25.560 How do you hear about the audition online? 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:26.360 Okay? 1:06:26.440 --> 1:06:29.280 Yepco to Staved, shaking his head right now. 1:06:29.640 --> 1:06:33.160 Online through his email from me, what do you mean? 1:06:33.360 --> 1:06:35.320 So this is this is with Sonic, so it's a 1:06:35.320 --> 1:06:35.600 good thing. 1:06:35.640 --> 1:06:36.760 Get a Sonic TV commercial. 1:06:36.800 --> 1:06:40.000 Sonic commercial, but it's not on TV. Oh, my god, 1:06:40.200 --> 1:06:41.240 it's on Instagram TV. 1:06:41.480 --> 1:06:43.680 So Sonic gonna put it on all their brand stuff. 1:06:43.720 --> 1:06:46.080 Well, so there isn't a final say on where it 1:06:46.080 --> 1:06:48.520 will live maybe in the future of depending on how 1:06:48.560 --> 1:06:51.440 they like it. But it's only supposed to live on 1:06:51.520 --> 1:06:52.840 our Instagram account. 1:06:53.120 --> 1:06:55.280 Wait. So if it's really good though, it could. 1:06:55.080 --> 1:06:56.680 Okay, but let's get this right. 1:06:56.760 --> 1:06:58.800 No, it's not Oh no, you don't know that. 1:06:59.000 --> 1:07:01.000 Okay, but it's not a T commercial and it's only 1:07:01.000 --> 1:07:01.880 for our social media. 1:07:01.960 --> 1:07:05.000 I was told his TV he was he doesn't read 1:07:05.040 --> 1:07:06.760 his emails because I'll talk to him about suff after 1:07:06.760 --> 1:07:08.240 the show. He's like, yeah, no, no, no, I'm like, no, 1:07:08.280 --> 1:07:10.240 it's just this. Read your email and I'll go, oh, 1:07:10.480 --> 1:07:11.560 I see it was an email. 1:07:11.800 --> 1:07:13.280 So it's not a TV commercial, scoop. 1:07:13.560 --> 1:07:15.320 I mean they are shutting down an entire Sonic so 1:07:15.360 --> 1:07:16.080 I can go film this. 1:07:16.160 --> 1:07:17.640 Yeah, So it seems like it's gonna be a big 1:07:17.680 --> 1:07:20.240 deal because it is for us. They they are shutting 1:07:20.240 --> 1:07:22.000 down roads, they are closing that a Sonic. There is 1:07:22.160 --> 1:07:23.960 a camera crew gonna be there. There is things that's 1:07:23.960 --> 1:07:26.320 happening that makes it big. But he left out of detail. 1:07:26.320 --> 1:07:31.000 It's commercial but for Instagram. 1:07:30.000 --> 1:07:30.840 And my camera crew. 1:07:30.880 --> 1:07:32.600 It's me, is it Eddie? 1:07:33.040 --> 1:07:34.720 It is not? 1:07:35.400 --> 1:07:37.240 And what's funny is he's gonna be sharing the spotlight 1:07:37.240 --> 1:07:38.160 with somebody else too. 1:07:38.720 --> 1:07:39.680 You have a co host in it? 1:07:39.680 --> 1:07:42.400 Well, no, no, I was told that they it's gonna 1:07:42.440 --> 1:07:45.160 be two different commercials and there may be someone in 1:07:45.160 --> 1:07:46.680 there for a couple of seconds on the other one. 1:07:47.520 --> 1:07:47.840 Morgan. 1:07:48.840 --> 1:07:50.080 Morgan got a TV commercial. 1:07:52.480 --> 1:07:52.800 Morgan. 1:07:52.800 --> 1:07:53.920 I didn't know it's gonna be Morgan. 1:07:54.080 --> 1:07:54.360 Okay. 1:07:54.400 --> 1:07:55.840 They just said you may have a code, so. 1:07:55.880 --> 1:07:57.560 You don't have a TV commercial. So we just had 1:07:57.600 --> 1:08:00.520 all this and you don't have I do. I mean, 1:08:00.560 --> 1:08:02.200 why do you keep pointing at scubasteam? He just said 1:08:02.200 --> 1:08:03.960 you don't. What's the audio? 1:08:05.440 --> 1:08:06.120 Oh? 1:08:06.520 --> 1:08:07.920 My agent called and tell me I got it? 1:08:08.080 --> 1:08:09.520 Oh my god, what's your agent saying? 1:08:09.680 --> 1:08:10.400 Jackson Hughes. 1:08:11.240 --> 1:08:13.480 I feel like we're dealing with like a you know. 1:08:15.000 --> 1:08:18.720 I'm sorry to our listeners. I also did not know 1:08:18.760 --> 1:08:19.439 what we were doing here. 1:08:19.439 --> 1:08:20.960 I thought he really got a TV commercial and I 1:08:21.000 --> 1:08:23.280 wanted to experience it live and learn about it. 1:08:23.400 --> 1:08:24.880 And Jackson Hughes is not a real person. 1:08:25.080 --> 1:08:28.479 It is Lunchboxes, according to you, is Lunchbox's voice, and 1:08:28.479 --> 1:08:30.560 he edits this together, Go ahead. 1:08:30.560 --> 1:08:33.879 Lunchy, Lunchy, my friend, Jackson Hughes, your agent. 1:08:34.040 --> 1:08:36.320 Yes, Oh my gosh, I got great news. 1:08:36.520 --> 1:08:38.720 You know the tape you sent off for that commercial. 1:08:38.840 --> 1:08:41.080 They loved it. They loved it. You're in. 1:08:41.280 --> 1:08:43.840 You're in, my friend, You've got it. You got your 1:08:43.880 --> 1:08:45.200 first ever commercial. 1:08:45.520 --> 1:08:48.240 We're gonna film it later this week, so I'll be 1:08:48.320 --> 1:08:48.759 in touch. 1:08:48.840 --> 1:08:51.240 But congratulations. All that hard work. 1:08:51.120 --> 1:08:51.800 Is paying off. 1:08:51.840 --> 1:08:52.479 My friends. 1:08:52.600 --> 1:08:53.840 We're going places. 1:08:54.000 --> 1:08:54.599 You did it. 1:08:54.720 --> 1:08:56.759 You're in a commercial. Bye, Lunchy. 1:08:57.360 --> 1:08:58.519 You didn't even change your voice. 1:08:58.800 --> 1:09:00.879 That was my voice. It was out to my voicemail. 1:09:01.120 --> 1:09:02.559 So I don't know how you think I could be 1:09:02.600 --> 1:09:03.360 on my voicemail. 1:09:03.400 --> 1:09:04.880 That is Jackson Hughes. That's my agent. 1:09:05.040 --> 1:09:07.360 Is it Jackson's a tax company or something? Jackson Huett, 1:09:07.640 --> 1:09:09.719 that's what Jackson Hewitt. 1:09:09.760 --> 1:09:12.160 Should we not make fun of him anymore about this? Like? 1:09:12.479 --> 1:09:13.160 I feel bad? 1:09:13.360 --> 1:09:15.000 Why do you feel bad? Because I got a commercial 1:09:15.040 --> 1:09:15.720 and you guys didn't know? 1:09:15.760 --> 1:09:17.880 Because that's you and you're in this fairy tale. 1:09:17.960 --> 1:09:22.760 Okay, the category is clearly food and he went satisfying service. 1:09:24.920 --> 1:09:28.200 It though exactly definitely did they provide a service? Yeah, 1:09:28.520 --> 1:09:29.519 exactly due. 1:09:29.880 --> 1:09:31.439 Lunch he lunch he loun. 1:09:33.000 --> 1:09:36.200 It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. 1:09:36.280 --> 1:09:39.760 Number two, our new Patriotic Pimp and Joy line went 1:09:39.760 --> 1:09:42.280 on sale yesterday to help build a home for us 1:09:42.400 --> 1:09:45.760 MC Corporal Aaron Mankin. All the proceeds from this new 1:09:45.800 --> 1:09:49.240 line and anything Pimp and Joy are going to building 1:09:49.280 --> 1:09:52.320 homes for heroes, specifically to help build a home for 1:09:52.400 --> 1:09:53.920 Aaron Mankin and his family. 1:09:54.200 --> 1:09:55.760 And Bobby shared the news with him that this was 1:09:55.760 --> 1:09:56.479 happening this week. 1:09:56.520 --> 1:09:59.400 He had no idea and it was super emotional and 1:09:59.479 --> 1:10:01.960 all of us got chills and it was heart wrenching. 1:10:02.600 --> 1:10:05.760 His story is just it's wow. And his story is 1:10:05.760 --> 1:10:07.919 what you're gonna hear right now. So grab the tissues 1:10:08.280 --> 1:10:10.639 and get your phone or computer so you can buy 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:12.960 some of this new line just and have it in 1:10:13.040 --> 1:10:16.040 time for Fourth of July or anything. Pimp and Joy 1:10:16.240 --> 1:10:18.080 so he can build this guy in his family home 1:10:18.160 --> 1:10:19.760 because they're so deserving of it. 1:10:20.360 --> 1:10:21.920 Oh, I'm probably gonna cry again. 1:10:22.439 --> 1:10:26.240 Number one, So Bobby Bones Show Interviews in. 1:10:26.120 --> 1:10:28.599 Case you didn't know, We're gonna hop over and talk 1:10:28.640 --> 1:10:32.080 to United States Marine Corps Corporal Aaron Mankin in just second. 1:10:32.320 --> 1:10:35.439 He is in Ourhyndai Virtual green room. He is on 1:10:35.720 --> 1:10:38.200 with us from his place, his home. I'm gonna tell 1:10:38.240 --> 1:10:42.280 you he does not know that we're on with him 1:10:42.400 --> 1:10:46.320 to hopefully build him a home. We've done this six 1:10:46.320 --> 1:10:49.400 times before for different heroes that have served and have 1:10:49.520 --> 1:10:57.680 had catastrophic injury. Corporal Making has had seventy surgeries, he has, 1:10:58.120 --> 1:10:59.840 and I'll let him tell the story about the ied 1:11:00.080 --> 1:11:02.960 that hit him. And he's got kids, and he's had 1:11:03.080 --> 1:11:09.880 burns and amputation and lung damage serving us, serving this country, 1:11:09.960 --> 1:11:11.800 and so we have teamed up with building homes for 1:11:11.840 --> 1:11:14.320 heroes to help veter in the United States Marine Corps 1:11:14.400 --> 1:11:18.320 Corporal Aaron Mankin. We're gonna build him house, and he 1:11:18.360 --> 1:11:20.800 does not know that. So now we're going to connect 1:11:20.840 --> 1:11:23.120 him over so he doesn't hear that part. And he's 1:11:23.160 --> 1:11:25.840 on now and here he is. 1:11:26.880 --> 1:11:28.120 On the Bobby Bones Show. 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:32.000 Now. Marine Corporal Hello, Aaron, how's it going. 1:11:32.680 --> 1:11:33.519 It's going well. 1:11:33.560 --> 1:11:35.320 Thank you, good to see my friend. 1:11:35.760 --> 1:11:36.519 Thanks for having me. 1:11:36.600 --> 1:11:38.320 First of all, from all of us, we appreciate your 1:11:38.320 --> 1:11:41.519 service obviously, and I want to talk about why you join, 1:11:41.600 --> 1:11:44.240 when you join, and what happened to you specifically. And 1:11:44.800 --> 1:11:46.439 you know I always going to be sensitive when talking 1:11:46.479 --> 1:11:48.840 about what happened to you. So if I ask anything 1:11:48.840 --> 1:11:51.720 that's a little too much, let me know. Okay, I 1:11:51.800 --> 1:11:52.920 appreciate it, Okay, cool. 1:11:53.520 --> 1:11:55.639 I'm an open book. I'll talk about anything. I think 1:11:55.640 --> 1:11:59.280 it's important for people to not only hear my story, 1:11:59.280 --> 1:12:02.680 but the opportunity I've had to educate people about my 1:12:02.800 --> 1:12:05.320 experience and what it's like to come home. 1:12:06.040 --> 1:12:09.400 So you enlisted, what year and where'd you live? 1:12:10.200 --> 1:12:13.559 So I enlisted out of my hometown here in Rogers, Arkansas, 1:12:13.680 --> 1:12:16.559 back in two thousand and three at the onset of 1:12:16.600 --> 1:12:18.240 the war. And back then it was an or it 1:12:18.360 --> 1:12:20.439 was you know, Operation of Rocky Freedom, when we were 1:12:20.439 --> 1:12:23.680 going to liberate the nation. So that resonated with me. 1:12:23.760 --> 1:12:26.960 That spoke with me a lot. The idea of you know, 1:12:27.000 --> 1:12:30.200 the bush doctor exporting democracy and going out and helping 1:12:30.240 --> 1:12:33.200 the world in that way really really resonated with me. 1:12:33.240 --> 1:12:35.120 And I thought, you know, if I'm going to join 1:12:35.120 --> 1:12:37.200 the military, if if this is what my generation is 1:12:37.200 --> 1:12:39.880 going to do with this my generation's war, what what 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:42.400 can I do that that I that I do well 1:12:42.520 --> 1:12:45.160 so that I could be an asset to my unit. 1:12:45.360 --> 1:12:47.200 And I didn't want to just be another pair of 1:12:47.240 --> 1:12:50.000 boots in the sands. So I took my skills as 1:12:50.040 --> 1:12:54.680 a as a photographer and a storyteller and decided to 1:12:54.680 --> 1:12:58.200 become a combat correspondent. So I started my training in 1:12:58.360 --> 1:13:00.559 De Floyd to a Rock in two thousand fire, spent 1:13:00.600 --> 1:13:03.760 my time in Fallujah, and was there to tell the 1:13:03.760 --> 1:13:04.599 Marine Corps story. 1:13:04.880 --> 1:13:07.519 What does that mean? Tell the Marine Corps story? As 1:13:07.560 --> 1:13:10.240 someone that's in the Marine Corps? Are you telling it 1:13:10.240 --> 1:13:13.639 to people like us? Are you telling it within both? 1:13:13.840 --> 1:13:16.200 Actually? So you know, I had a camera in one hand, 1:13:16.200 --> 1:13:19.559 a rifle in the other, and every Marine rifleman so 1:13:19.760 --> 1:13:22.479 and especially having you know, combat at the front of 1:13:22.479 --> 1:13:25.640 my bill. At my job is to be expected. And 1:13:25.680 --> 1:13:29.479 so I would write for I would write press releases 1:13:29.560 --> 1:13:32.000 for the general for the base newspaper, but then those 1:13:32.000 --> 1:13:35.160 were also released online and back here in the States, 1:13:35.160 --> 1:13:39.280 and I did videography. I did several reports that would 1:13:39.280 --> 1:13:41.240 come through the satellites out of Fallujah and then back 1:13:41.280 --> 1:13:43.719 to the States and wind up on the evening news. 1:13:43.760 --> 1:13:47.360 So you know, the Marine Corps story is very much 1:13:47.439 --> 1:13:50.320 in large part of the American story. And so you know, 1:13:50.439 --> 1:13:54.680 just telling those those personal connections between the troops and 1:13:55.760 --> 1:13:56.280 the home. 1:13:56.120 --> 1:13:58.879 Front did you find the fulfillment that you were searching 1:13:58.920 --> 1:14:02.080 for whenever you win an end to the service into 1:14:02.360 --> 1:14:04.960 the Marines? You had been there, you did your training, 1:14:05.000 --> 1:14:06.880 you were serving. Did you feel like this is what 1:14:06.960 --> 1:14:08.280 I was meant for while you were doing it? 1:14:08.479 --> 1:14:12.320 I really did. I really thought that not only was 1:14:12.360 --> 1:14:15.880 I in a place that spoke to me, that fed 1:14:15.920 --> 1:14:19.040 me as an individual, where I could lean on my 1:14:19.120 --> 1:14:23.519 skill set and be valued within my unit and toward division, 1:14:24.240 --> 1:14:26.240 I did. I enjoyed it. Best job on a Marine Corps, 1:14:26.360 --> 1:14:28.960 hands down, best job. I mean, I loved it. I 1:14:28.960 --> 1:14:32.080 mean everything that the Marine Corps had its hands in, 1:14:32.200 --> 1:14:35.439 I had the opportunity to go and tell that story. 1:14:35.479 --> 1:14:38.240 So if we were doing training and awesome high speed 1:14:39.000 --> 1:14:43.600 you know, helicopter operations or you know mount training, or 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:48.439 a celebrity would come on base to entertain the troops, 1:14:48.439 --> 1:14:50.240 if that's where the story was, and that's where I 1:14:50.240 --> 1:14:52.240 would be in order to tell it. 1:14:52.560 --> 1:14:54.200 So we had mentioned before you came on that you've 1:14:54.280 --> 1:14:57.519 undergone seventy surgeries throughout your recovery, But I do want 1:14:57.560 --> 1:15:00.800 to talk about what happened that has well made you 1:15:00.840 --> 1:15:04.920 have seventy surgeries. So what do you remember about the 1:15:05.000 --> 1:15:06.880 day it happened to kind of walked me through it. 1:15:07.360 --> 1:15:10.680 I survived that blast. I walked away luckily. I don't 1:15:10.720 --> 1:15:12.360 know how I escaped it. Why would you tell you 1:15:13.160 --> 1:15:15.360 the god honest truth. I mean, it took the lives 1:15:15.360 --> 1:15:20.200 of six marines and I walked away with no broken bones, 1:15:20.240 --> 1:15:24.360 no shrapnel, really just a flesh wound. I had to 1:15:24.400 --> 1:15:28.479 give my face and my flesh and a few fingers, 1:15:28.520 --> 1:15:31.600 but you know, I had my life and got to 1:15:31.640 --> 1:15:34.600 walk away from it. And honestly, every day's been a 1:15:34.600 --> 1:15:35.240 blessing since. 1:15:35.479 --> 1:15:38.200 Well, was it an ied that exploded a lot of 1:15:38.200 --> 1:15:41.280 times when you know, we talked to you know, people 1:15:41.280 --> 1:15:44.160 that have been injured in war, it's either an id 1:15:44.280 --> 1:15:46.920 they didn't know they drove up on or is that 1:15:46.960 --> 1:15:47.680 what happened with you? 1:15:48.520 --> 1:15:52.680 Yes? Yeah, we were moving from one objective to the 1:15:52.720 --> 1:15:56.719 other in our track. Just happened to hit a stack 1:15:56.840 --> 1:16:01.080 mine through a twenty six ton vehicle with marines chow 1:16:01.160 --> 1:16:04.439 ammunition to us good ten feet in here, boom boom, 1:16:04.560 --> 1:16:07.400 can crash it back down, And we thought it was 1:16:07.400 --> 1:16:09.400 an ambush. We thought we were taking fire, But it 1:16:09.439 --> 1:16:12.080 turns out that the heat was so intense inside the vehicle, 1:16:12.120 --> 1:16:14.439 all of our art that started to cook off, So 1:16:14.479 --> 1:16:17.759 all of our grenades or flares or fifty calamela, everything 1:16:17.800 --> 1:16:19.639 started to cook off. Inside it was chaos. 1:16:19.720 --> 1:16:22.120 When you say cookof, does that mean like like shoot off, 1:16:22.160 --> 1:16:24.320 like firework, like if a fireworks stand ord to catch fire. 1:16:24.360 --> 1:16:28.120 But that's like it's like real, real stuff exactly. Oh man, 1:16:28.600 --> 1:16:32.479 So what happens then? As in what do you remember? 1:16:32.680 --> 1:16:35.160 Next? Are you do? You wake up in a hospital? 1:16:36.560 --> 1:16:41.639 So at that point, uh, I'm on fire inside the vehicle. 1:16:42.960 --> 1:16:46.240 I opened my eyes. I can see flashes of orange 1:16:46.240 --> 1:16:49.960 and the pitch black smoke. My first reaction was to 1:16:50.080 --> 1:16:52.960 just gasp, you know, just shocked, and I inhaled all 1:16:53.000 --> 1:16:56.599 this fire and debris, and later surgeons would dig out 1:16:58.120 --> 1:17:05.120 cardboard and glass out of my lungs, and panics set in, 1:17:05.160 --> 1:17:07.519 and I thought I got to get out. And by 1:17:07.600 --> 1:17:09.439 that time, one of our sergeants had muscled ope in 1:17:09.439 --> 1:17:12.519 the back hatch and the smoke started to flood out. 1:17:12.600 --> 1:17:14.479 Daylight kind of trickled in, and I found my try 1:17:14.520 --> 1:17:17.360 and I just dove and I just jumped out of 1:17:17.360 --> 1:17:21.240 the track. I landed in the road. I stopped and 1:17:21.280 --> 1:17:23.080 looked at myself and I was still on fire, and 1:17:23.160 --> 1:17:25.720 so I started to roll and roll and roll, and 1:17:25.720 --> 1:17:29.439 I couldn't. I couldn't put myself out. I just you know, 1:17:29.520 --> 1:17:33.920 exhausted myself trying to extinguish myself. And I thought, this 1:17:34.040 --> 1:17:37.280 is it. And this piece came over me and I thought, uh, 1:17:37.400 --> 1:17:40.160 this is how my story ends. And you know, they say, 1:17:40.200 --> 1:17:44.120 your whole life flashes before your eyes. Ironically for me, 1:17:44.320 --> 1:17:48.760 being a photographer, I just saw these like pictures. I 1:17:48.800 --> 1:17:51.080 just saw these little still frames of all the people 1:17:51.080 --> 1:17:53.479 in my life that meant the world to me. And 1:17:53.520 --> 1:17:56.599 as I was trying to hold on to him, I 1:17:56.640 --> 1:17:58.960 woke up to the sound of my fellow marine Jill, 1:17:59.000 --> 1:18:01.479 and putt you wow, put him out. You know, they 1:18:01.520 --> 1:18:03.599 run over, they dive on top of me, and they're 1:18:04.760 --> 1:18:06.200 you know, kicking turn on top and they're trying to 1:18:06.200 --> 1:18:09.280 put the flames out, and and they do, and then 1:18:09.320 --> 1:18:11.599 it's like they just evaporated. It's like they just disappear 1:18:11.600 --> 1:18:13.800 and they all go to help other marines. And I 1:18:13.840 --> 1:18:16.000 wasn't wounded from the waist down, so I stood up 1:18:17.360 --> 1:18:19.680 and of course in shock, and I thought, you know, 1:18:19.720 --> 1:18:21.200 I need to get to my camera. I need to 1:18:21.240 --> 1:18:23.400 get to my my mission, and so I started to 1:18:23.400 --> 1:18:26.559 walk back toward the track, and it was about then 1:18:26.600 --> 1:18:29.800 that our navy corman grabbed me by the collar and say, hey, 1:18:29.800 --> 1:18:32.160 you're hurt. You need to come with me. And that's 1:18:32.200 --> 1:18:35.439 really where the story of my recovery began. And I 1:18:35.520 --> 1:18:39.759 tell that story, you know, uh, to different groups around 1:18:39.800 --> 1:18:42.400 the country and and I'll i'll point that that part 1:18:42.439 --> 1:18:46.000 out specifically, and how often we'll walk around in life 1:18:46.000 --> 1:18:48.559 and not know how truly wounded we are and take 1:18:48.600 --> 1:18:51.280 someone else to come up to us and extend their 1:18:51.320 --> 1:18:54.639 hand and their help and their aid. So he gets 1:18:54.680 --> 1:18:57.680 me to the casualty collection point, and then they got 1:18:57.720 --> 1:19:00.800 to get me on the on the chill right, and 1:19:00.880 --> 1:19:02.720 it's like every war movie you've ever seen. Let's go, 1:19:02.720 --> 1:19:04.280 get them on the chop bottle, let's go, you know. 1:19:04.320 --> 1:19:06.599 They load me up on the litter and I start 1:19:07.040 --> 1:19:10.000 running through a field to load me up onto the 1:19:10.000 --> 1:19:13.600 helicopter to our air support. And sure enough, you know, 1:19:13.680 --> 1:19:18.519 Murphy's law, things go wrong and somebody fell over and 1:19:18.560 --> 1:19:20.559 I came tumbling out. Now I'm back on the ground 1:19:21.080 --> 1:19:22.880 and we were so close to the bird. I thought, 1:19:23.000 --> 1:19:26.120 you know, I'll just walk, So I start walking toward 1:19:26.160 --> 1:19:28.439 the bird and Oliverene start yelling at me, Hey, hey, hey, 1:19:28.479 --> 1:19:30.120 let down, lay down here in shock. We got you, 1:19:30.160 --> 1:19:32.559 come on here in shock like I'm shocked that you 1:19:32.640 --> 1:19:36.760 dropped me right right. Get this marine some morphine. So 1:19:37.000 --> 1:19:38.559 they got me out of the bird and got me 1:19:38.600 --> 1:19:40.800 out of there. They knocked me out and then I 1:19:40.840 --> 1:19:44.240 woke up about two days later in San Antonio. 1:19:45.479 --> 1:19:47.880 So you're in San Antonio and that's where they start 1:19:47.920 --> 1:19:53.120 to really work physically through your recovery. Second third degree 1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:58.600 burns to your arms and your face, ambuitated fingers PTSD 1:19:58.880 --> 1:20:00.840 long damage. I'm assuming the lung damage is from when 1:20:00.880 --> 1:20:03.120 you were breathing in and the fire. That's all you 1:20:03.160 --> 1:20:06.799 took in there. Yes, so physically it has been extremely 1:20:06.800 --> 1:20:10.080 to have seventy surgeries. That yeah, when you can't even 1:20:10.080 --> 1:20:12.080 remember every star, there's no way I remember seventy surgeries 1:20:12.720 --> 1:20:14.479 and you can't even remember every surgery. That's how you 1:20:14.520 --> 1:20:17.400 know you've had a lot of surgeries right right eron. 1:20:19.240 --> 1:20:19.719 For sure. 1:20:20.160 --> 1:20:22.080 And so here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna work 1:20:22.120 --> 1:20:24.760 together with building homes for heroes, and our goal is 1:20:24.800 --> 1:20:29.240 to repay you and it'll never actually be repayment for 1:20:29.280 --> 1:20:30.519 what you gave to this country. 1:20:30.840 --> 1:20:34.040 And our goal is to just simply build a house. 1:20:34.280 --> 1:20:38.120 Building a house that is easier for you to live in, 1:20:38.439 --> 1:20:42.320 easier for what you're going through, easier for your family. 1:20:42.880 --> 1:20:45.160 And so what we're going to do. 1:20:45.680 --> 1:20:47.759 Because you told us your story and because you served, 1:20:47.920 --> 1:20:51.400 is we're going to get with our listeners and we're 1:20:51.400 --> 1:20:53.280 going to say this is Aaron's story. 1:20:53.720 --> 1:20:55.639 If you guys would like to help, can you help? 1:20:55.800 --> 1:20:57.920 And over the past six years we've been able to 1:20:57.920 --> 1:20:59.960 do just that, and so we've chosen you this year 1:21:00.439 --> 1:21:03.280 United States sub Marine Corps Corporal Ara Making and we 1:21:03.360 --> 1:21:06.160 really want to hopefully impact your life in a positive 1:21:06.160 --> 1:21:08.360 way because of how you have impacted ours, if that's 1:21:08.400 --> 1:21:08.920 okay with. 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:19.879 You, Bobby, I thought we were just talking here. Wow, 1:21:21.920 --> 1:21:25.000 it's so huge. I can't wow. 1:21:27.080 --> 1:21:30.479 Let us take it from here again. You've done so much, 1:21:30.479 --> 1:21:32.120 You've been through so much. It is the least that 1:21:32.160 --> 1:21:36.479 we can do. And we will be in touch very soon, 1:21:36.720 --> 1:21:40.160 my friend. So thank you again. And by the way, 1:21:40.479 --> 1:21:43.000 behind you, I mean I see Captain America. That's who 1:21:43.040 --> 1:21:45.760 you are to us, man, that's it. I mean, that's 1:21:45.760 --> 1:21:47.840 who you are. You got a little figuring back there. 1:21:47.880 --> 1:21:51.240 But but you are, You're a corporal freaking America. 1:21:51.400 --> 1:21:52.040 That's right. 1:21:53.000 --> 1:21:55.800 Okay, So we will talk again soon and again I'll 1:21:55.840 --> 1:21:57.960 thank you again a million times, but for now I'll 1:21:58.000 --> 1:21:59.559 just say we'll talk to you later. 1:21:59.600 --> 1:22:01.960 Okay, thank you, thank you so much. 1:22:02.000 --> 1:22:02.200 Wow. 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:04.880 All right, Aaron, you have a great day and until 1:22:04.920 --> 1:22:05.880 we meet again. 1:22:05.880 --> 1:22:07.120 Thank you, Bobby. We'll see soon. 1:22:07.160 --> 1:22:07.479 All right. 1:22:07.520 --> 1:22:10.240 There he is the United States Marine Corps Corporal Aaron Macon. 1:22:10.840 --> 1:22:13.120 And what we do right now, if you want to 1:22:13.120 --> 1:22:15.519 go over to the website, it's up, it's ready for you, 1:22:15.920 --> 1:22:19.439 Bobbybones dot com. It's right there, and that's where you 1:22:19.479 --> 1:22:21.240 can do the deal. That's where you can get the 1:22:21.320 --> 1:22:24.439 limited edition Patriotic Pip and Joy shirt. We have so 1:22:24.560 --> 1:22:26.000 much up there. We don't keep any of the money. 1:22:26.160 --> 1:22:28.160 Zero dollars, zero sense goes to us. 1:22:28.280 --> 1:22:30.160 We don't keep it all. We don't keep any of it. 1:22:30.520 --> 1:22:31.439 And let's do it. 1:22:32.120 --> 1:22:34.639 Let's build him a house, a house that he can 1:22:35.000 --> 1:22:36.880 move freely, in a house where he doesn't have to 1:22:36.920 --> 1:22:40.000 worry about restrictions of anything because of all the surgeries 1:22:40.000 --> 1:22:43.439 that he's been through, seventy surgeries. I don't have seventy friends. 1:22:44.280 --> 1:22:47.479 I mean, and he's been through seventy surgeries and. 1:22:47.280 --> 1:22:50.479 His kids too, just creating a space for them to 1:22:50.560 --> 1:22:51.360 all live. 1:22:51.200 --> 1:22:52.200 Together with ease. 1:22:52.760 --> 1:22:56.479 Bobbybones dot Com up now the limited edition Patriotic Pimp 1:22:56.479 --> 1:22:57.759 and joy Line it is on, so you'll. 1:22:57.600 --> 1:23:00.599 Have him July fourth. By the way, yes we will, 1:23:00.880 --> 1:23:03.120 Lunchbuck will walk it to your house. If it is. 1:23:04.680 --> 1:23:10.760 I will say, yes, Usa, Yessa, go now, Bobbybones dot Com. Again, 1:23:10.800 --> 1:23:12.600 we don't keep any of the money, so let's go. 1:23:12.800 --> 1:23:14.360 Let's build them. Let's build them a house. You know, 1:23:14.400 --> 1:23:16.280 I say, it's Marine Corp, Corporate air Manking. We appreciate 1:23:16.360 --> 1:23:18.080 his time. We'll talk to him again soon. And now 1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:19.600 it's up to you guys, because you can go. We 1:23:19.640 --> 1:23:22.000 have a limited run today. Friday is going to be 1:23:22.040 --> 1:23:24.680 the big release. But I'm told you better go quick 1:23:24.680 --> 1:23:27.040 because we only have like two hundred and fifty or 1:23:27.040 --> 1:23:29.040 so we're doing today. I guess I should have said that, 1:23:29.479 --> 1:23:31.920 say everybody, we only have a few today, but the 1:23:31.920 --> 1:23:33.040 big release is Friday. 1:23:33.160 --> 1:23:36.040 Okay, all right, there you go, Thank you guys. Bobby 1:23:36.080 --> 1:23:36.519 Bone Show. 1:23:37.800 --> 1:23:41.479 It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. 1:23:42.760 --> 1:23:44.360 Oh we are all done. 1:23:44.800 --> 1:23:47.320 It's been a fun weekend with y'all again. I hope 1:23:47.320 --> 1:23:49.439 you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. If 1:23:49.479 --> 1:23:51.120 you did, hit me up on social media let me 1:23:51.200 --> 1:23:53.479 know what you'll like dislike if you want to share 1:23:53.520 --> 1:23:54.160 something you just like. 1:23:54.240 --> 1:23:55.920 Please, I just asked you to be a little bit 1:23:56.000 --> 1:23:58.839 nicer than listener Megan. It's my only request. 1:23:59.320 --> 1:23:59.920 I love you guys. 1:24:00.400 --> 1:24:02.040 If you want to follow me at web Girl Morgan 1:24:02.120 --> 1:24:04.080 on All the Things, and of course the show. At 1:24:04.120 --> 1:24:06.080 Bobby Bone Show, we got a whole lot more content 1:24:06.160 --> 1:24:09.240 than just these seven segments up. We also had honorable mention, 1:24:09.400 --> 1:24:13.000 blind karaoke, line dancing songs this week, so definitely check 1:24:13.040 --> 1:24:16.680 out our YouTube page that's more content, or Instagram or 1:24:16.760 --> 1:24:18.800 TikTok or Twitter or Facebook. 1:24:18.640 --> 1:24:19.120 You name it. 1:24:19.560 --> 1:24:20.200 I love you guys. 1:24:20.240 --> 1:24:21.880 I hope you have a fabulous weekend. 1:24:22.040 --> 1:24:22.519 Be safe. 1:24:22.720 --> 1:24:25.280 Bye, There's Bobby Ball.