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This is 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.800 part two where I just intro the bits and the 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.640 bits play. The conversation this weekend was with Abby and 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.600 it was super awesome. So if you want to hear that, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.720 make sure you listen to part one. That's just the conversation. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.960 I'll still break down the bits, but right now we're 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:27.800 getting into the bits that you want to hear in 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.759 case you missed it this week. So coming in at 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.360 number seven, Raymundo had an awkward encounter with a listener 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.959 and now he may close his account at the bank 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.960 because of it. So a lot of drama with this one, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.559 because Raymundo felt very violated in a lot of ways. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.399 Here you go, number seven. All right, we voted in 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.920 the room, although Lunchbox did call him click bait Ray Ray, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.040 segment has been chosen and pick a bit. Ray had 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.280 an awkward experience at the bank with a listener. Raymundo, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.040 your bit has been chosen. What would you like to 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.080 do here? So I go into the bank and I 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.760 have a check to cash, and I cash with the 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.240 lady there and everything was just fine. She's getting my 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.120 money out, and she goes, hey, I'm a really big 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.840 fan of the show, and I'm like, great, she got 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.640 my account open. Here we go and she said I 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.960 also love Amy. Cool, I'm not Amy. But she continues 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.920 and she goes, hey, I'm looking at your account. And again, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.240 I'm just cashing a check, and she says, I see 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.880 you don't have a savings account. Why is my account open? 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:25.880 Why is she looking into my savings account when I'm 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.959 just catching a check. So I'm sitting there, I'm like, no, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.880 it's in my wife's name. And she goes, well, would 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.560 you like me to pull up your wife's account and 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.120 then bring that over to your account as well? And 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.280 I'm like, no, no, you're you're a fan of the show. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.800 I just want to check cash. I want you out 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.399 of my account. And so then and then she says, well, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.160 I see here that you don't ever put any money 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.600 in savings and I'm like, oh my gosh, close my 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.800 account and just give me the check. And so my 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.280 out was yeah, I'll I'll just take twenties. That'll be perfect. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.040 And she gave me the twenties and then I said, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.399 thank you have a good day, and in my head, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.800 I said, I will never come back to this game again, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.880 the bank again. I'm closing my account, but why why 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.400 do you don't need to get into my account when 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.760 I'm cashing a check. So you wish they wouldn't have 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.880 said they were a show listeners. It was bad form 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.840 on their part that she said she was a fan 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.840 and she's interested, yes, so she probably should have just 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.839 I think everything she did, though, was normal. I think 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.400 if she were able to do it without saying she 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.480 was a fan, you wouldn't have felt violated. It did 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.600 feel like snooping a little bit, but I will never 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.880 go back to that bank again. Considering closing the account, 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.080 I feel like that's a that's a bit too much. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.200 I don't need somebody told me I need to put 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.080 money into savings. It is weird, though, when people have 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:41.600 access to your accounts and they're also like, have a 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.760 big fan. That's weird. Once ten years ago, some officers 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.000 showed up to my door and I looked out that 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.200 a little thing. I moved the little hatch back and 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.880 I could see him. They dropped two badges and I 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.880 was like, what is happening? They said, you mind if 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.360 we come out and see. Yeah, and they came in 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.480 and those badges were IRS badges. Yeah, I just have batches, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.520 but like we work on the IRS Task Force and 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.000 I'm like, what did I do? And so, but it 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.400 turns out a listener had hacked into all my IRS 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.680 files and then was such a big fan of the show, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.520 got into Amy's got into and so they were like, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:16.840 do you want to press charges? Do you know who 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.279 this is? And I was like, yeah, she shows up 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.880 at remote like remote broadcasts all the time. We knew 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.240 who she was in the IRS. Yeah, but the FBI 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.680 was involved too. I lived in North Carolina at the time, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.480 so the FBI is the one that questioned me. It 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.800 went from IRS to FBI. Yeah, but they were the 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.320 ones first. They were like, do you recognize this person? 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.360 They brought me a picture of her. But it does 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.080 feel a bit of a violation whenever it isn't to 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.280 be a fan, but when someone knows you, But it 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:40.840 also works at a place where they can get inside 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.480 your information and see like your guts. I mean, she 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.040 had already seen it all. But thank goodness, there's also 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.520 an internal system that will flag people like how she 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.560 got caught was she was looking at things clearly she 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.200 wasn't supposed to. When it got red flagged and then 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.000 they were like, wait, why is this person in San 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.240 Antonio looking up these people? And then they can did 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:01.919 the dots. They were like what did these people have 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.479 in common? And it was a show and they said that, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.600 oh wait, okay one of my ex girlfriends at the time. Yeah, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.520 like she went in on me every way, and then 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.760 started just dude, going around the dots. Just look what 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.640 everybody in part of a federal investigation where people put 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.080 our names together, and someone on the team or someone 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.320 investigating was like, that's the Boppy Bone show. And then 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.400 they started reaching out to all of us. And I 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:24.600 remember when they got there, I sit down in the 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.320 chair and sort of pulling water over my face. They're like, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.040 what are you doing on like some waterboarding me. I 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:33.039 know you guys want some answers, you just don't hear yourself. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.960 it was scary. I think my story saved your bit Ray. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.960 Thank you. It's kine. I wouldn't picked his no matter what. Yeah, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.680 all right, is he getting reputation to clickbit Ray? No? 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.160 I think that that's right. I think he is clickbit ray. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.440 It's like he was pretty good. The headline was pretty good, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.560 but click bit ray, I mean it works on the internet. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.360 Why not clig bit ray. I might need to change 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.680 the title of my story then, yeah, a murder in 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.599 my house? Maybe no, but it's not true. HiT's still 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.160 kind of true. All right, right, thank you for your story. Yep. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.279 It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.400 It's number six on the Best Bits this week. The 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.640 show share the things they are geeking out over right now, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.240 and they're across the board, from basketball to Forrest bathing 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.120 to reality TV shows too fishing. It is all the 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.360 fun things that sometimes we never get a geek out over. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.200 So you get to hear that from the show right now, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.240 number six. All right, this segment it's called nerding out. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.680 It's what we're all individually nerding out about. We even 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.839 have nerdy music hit that please. All right, nerding out 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.640 amy your first go Well. I'm nerding out about forrest 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.240 bathing because I keep reading about it in like health 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.720 and wellness as a way to decrease stress and stuff. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.240 So I'm finally gonna go take myself to a forest 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.920 bath this weekends A forest bath. Well, all you gotta 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.680 do is just go be out with nature. I'm going 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.520 to go to this woods area where I like to hike, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.880 and I'm gonna sit and soak up like all the 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.120 things I'm going to breathe. You're fully closed. It's not 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.200 like you're taking a back You're not in the water. No, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.760 you're not in the water. You're you're soaking up nature 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.960 the trees. Like. So, I guess what's it called forest 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.880 bathing ages? I don't know, zero th eighteen forest bathing 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.480 for life. For me, I loved in the woods basically. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.360 I guess. I'm sure it's good for your stress level. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:22.000 So why again, um, decreased stress, boosted immunity, and it 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.560 helps me. There's a boost immunity when you're sitting in 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.239 the woods because like, if you're feeling one with nature 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.800 and healthier, and if your stress is decreased, your immunity 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:36.080 is better. I mean, that's all right, interesting, all right, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.120 nerding out what you got? Man? So you know, I 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.120 love fishing. The guy this guy in North Carolina, he 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.120 caught a fish that broke a sixty year old record. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.520 This fish was twelve pounds eight ounces. I mean it's huge. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.560 I saw it. I'm like, that is a beautiful fish. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.360 What kind of fish though, because like a catfish, they 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:54.920 go to like one hundred. Sure, I get it. It's 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.880 a speckled trout, smaller. My goal recently has been to 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.360 catch a trout. There's a like thirty minutes from here. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.320 I will do it in the next couple of years. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.760 I know I can't. Who's gonna do it? First? Lunchbox 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:11.360 wins a lottery, already catches a record trump the fish 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.760 mine is. The NCAA tournament starts on Thursday, officially with 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.600 the sixty four they're playing games. Um not on Thursday. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.680 They've already happened, But on Thursday it happens. You can 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.360 still bet. You can still build your bracket. I'm gonna 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.880 give you tips. Now, pick the lower numbers, okay, just 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.840 in Generally pick number one two. Yes, they're the better team. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.160 Sixty four percent of the time a number one seed 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.400 wins the tournament, wins the whole thing. There are four 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:44.040 number ones, Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, and Baylor. There are number two's. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.720 We could go through the whole thing, but they are 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.200 number eleven. Literally, pick the lower numbers there were gonna 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.800 be some upsets, but usually what happens most of the 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.520 time is that the lower numbers win, so we can 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.280 still bet like through I don't want to do a bracket, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.400 but I can do like draft kings. Okay, I'm you're 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.400 my coach. I don't want to be in charge of 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.920 your minds. Okay, I'm going Baylor number one all the way. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.920 Take it. Okay, that's what my dad would want to 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.160 You can't. You know you're not gonna be You can 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:10.320 bet them to win. You can be what they call 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.440 a future to win at all if you want. But 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.080 you can also bet individually each game. Okay, all right, Well, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.600 I guess I'm gonna be busy. I'm not gonna watch 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.920 though to watch. I have a coach her, then watch 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.480 for her. I'll be watching, yes, But that's my tip. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.720 It's an easy tip. Don't pick a lot of ups 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.600 You can pick up occasional upset or two, but generally 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.719 the data shows the lower numbers win more games and 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.959 win the tournament. Who are you saying going to win Arkansas? 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.520 But they're not said what I said. There are four 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.640 other than Arkansas. I think I think Tennessee got robbed. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.480 There are three, but I think they probably should have 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.199 been a two or maybe even a one. I think 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.440 your school, Texas and m got robbed of being in 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.839 the tournament. Period should not be in the tournament. Oh, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.760 there's a there's a lot of different things happening here, 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:59.679 but um I'm going with Arkansas or Tennessee, Kentucky. Okay, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.760 no number ones there? Okay, gets correct? Yeah, thank you, 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.000 lunch box, you're up. Look, guys, I've been telling you 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.360 about the Challenge on MTV for years. West Banana, CT 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.960 Laurel kill It Cam. I'll tell you guys, you gotta 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.240 watch it. No one cares about the Challenge. No one 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.479 likes the Challenge. That's why the Challenge is coming to CBS. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.760 It got a spinoff. Baby, when you want to know, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.400 when you're huge and TV is you get a spinoff series. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.040 They're gonna take people from Big Brother, Survivor and Amazing 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.080 Race and they're gonna put them on the Challenge. And 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.920 we got another rendition of the Challenge. Whoo. They've done 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.840 this form of show for a long time. They used 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.320 to do Battle of Network Media Stars, Battle of Sport. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.280 So the Challenge itself isn't New. But I think what 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.240 we don't care about are the people on the MTV 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.520 Challenge because we don't know who they are. Well, you 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.480 should care because it used to just be Real World 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.000 and Road Rules people, and now they're going to CBS 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.400 and the winner of that gets an automatic bid into 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.240 the MTV show Battle the World. What if the people 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.000 that win are like, now, I'm good to go play down. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.040 I just won the big one. You're on CBS. That'd 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.440 be fun. It'd be fun to watch your favorite network 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.440 reality stars play against each other. I probably won't watch it, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.360 but I do say where that would be fun. All right. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.559 I thought you're gonna get on the Challenge train if 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.080 it were shows I cared about. If it were like 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.959 Dwight from the Office, you know, it wouldn't Larry David 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:19.040 from Curb your enthusiasms. You can't have Jennifer Aniston. Yeah, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.480 like that would be fun because I care about them. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.560 All right, there you go. That's nerding out. Thank you guys, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.199 and jam out to some music for five seconds. Turn 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:31.240 it up. Yet we're just nerding out. We're nothing but nerds, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.240 and we're just nerding out. It's the best bits of 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:40.360 the week with Morgan number two. Hey, this is Justin Richmond, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.680 host of the Broken Record podcast. Join me on Broken 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.040 Record along with music industry icon Rick Rubin and authors 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.520 Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce had Them as we sit down 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.640 with the artists you love. Getting unparalleled creative insight into 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.160 your favorite music. Go here revealing interviews with some of 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.560 the most legendary figures in music like Neil Young, Under Thousand, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.480 Bruce Springsteen, and Nas, and you'll learned about up and 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.400 coming artists like Michelle's Honor, who talks about her big 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.400 plans for the dreamy indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, and Krumbing, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.640 the Texas trio who shared the inspiration behind their global 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.000 funkus sound. This March, we're spotlighting female artists like Miss Elliott, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.719 Patti Smith, and Bonnie Rait. Celebrate Women's History Month with 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.640 us and learn how these incredible women changed what was 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.120 possible in music. Forging their own paths will also pave 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.960 in the way for others. Listen to Broken Record on 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:39.560 the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.240 A super epic interview and performance this week by Ernest 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.559 It was his first time on the show. He's done 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.720 the Bobby Cast with Bobby one time, and then I 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.839 think Bobby went on Ernest's podcast as well, so super 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.360 cool things there. But this was his first time on 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.079 the Bobby Bones Show, and he talked a lot about 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.520 his songwriting. The you know, he's written for Morgan wall 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.960 and Chris Lane, Mason Ramsey. He has so much talent 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.080 just across the board. And so he performed some of 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.520 those songs that he's read and he also performed his 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.240 brand new song, flower Shops. That's with Morgan Wallen. Of course, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.640 it was just him here in studio, so you can 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.400 hear that interview and his performance. But if you want 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.160 to watch it too, go to Bobby Bones dot Com. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:24.679 Number five The Friday Morning Conversation with Ernest. All right, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.960 I'm pumped to have Ernest here and before we actually 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.960 talk to him, which, by the way, Hello Ernest. Hi, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.280 Now I just pause for a second. I'm gonna do 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.400 a little little cell of you. Okay, good. I love 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.640 this guy. He's got a new album out called Flower Shops, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.400 and we will he's gonna play a song from it 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.800 in a second. The song right now that is crushing 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:46.560 the charts is flower shops and here's a clip Ernest 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.880 and Morgan Wallen right there on the top of that. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.360 He wrote big, big plans for Chris Lane, one of 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.439 the writers there, some big big I Love My Country 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.920 from Fglry. Breaking up was easy in the nineties for 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.200 Sam Hunt sitting more than My Hometown from Morgan Wallen 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.440 it Cane Brown won Mississippi. This guy's got it all 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:13.920 all right, We'll be back after this break. That's a 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.760 whole break just talking about Ernest. How are you, Buddy 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.200 good Man? How are you? You know? Eddie said, he 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.120 came in the studio and he said he I saw 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.000 possibly Ernest driving down the road, and he said it 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.080 looked like two cartoon characters. It could have been. And 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.880 because your car is a seventy five Coop Deville, yeah 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.760 that was it. And yeah that was it. What did 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.680 you see inside the car? Just two dudes? Like I mean, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.680 the music was so loud. We were at a red 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.600 light and you had pulled up next to me, and 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.680 my car was shaking because you guys were jamming to something. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.760 It's almost like that TikTok video where you guys are 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.640 just not both not talking to each other, but nod 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.000 in your head listening to something really good. Yeah, that 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.120 sounds about right. Who do you think was in the 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.280 car with him? Maybe Hardy? Just because you both have 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.120 like trucker hats on. I didn't recognize Hardy. Maybe he 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:00.880 didn't have glasses on or what. I think it was 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:07.560 my boy, Folly, classic, classic Boy. That's awesome. People are 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.000 loving the new record. Thank you. You know. I had 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.040 a radio guy that reached out to me, UM and said, hey, 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.840 I don't often say this. It's uh one of our 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.120 guys that runs the station of South Carolina. Just privately, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:19.960 he says, this is the only record that I love 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.800 every single song on it. And he said in like 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.200 twenty years. Wow. And so that wasn't him blowing smoke 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.200 because you were doing an interview. He was just telling 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.760 me that, you know, offhand because you come to the 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.640 house into the podcast. That's wow. That's awesome. Um. I 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.080 want to play a little clip here. This is Sucker 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.240 for Small Towns. I really like this one. This is 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.200 track one on his record, I'm a Sucker for Small 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:59.280 Saturday Night. So this album has everything. It's got the 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.920 slow ones that I of. It is a is a 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.160 pure country album and congratulations on him. Man, it's really good. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.360 I appreciate it when you make music because you know 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.760 you've written all kinds of songs for all kinds of people. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.400 How do you know what songs you want to keep 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.200 for you and what songs you want to let somebody 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:17.000 else record? Pretty early on, while the song is getting written, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.440 I can have that emotional connection with it. When I 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.320 start singing it, I know pretty pretty well then and there, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.960 and in the same way I know when it sounds 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.360 like if it's a Morgan song or Chris Lane or 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.120 somebody else, if I'm gonna let it go. How many 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.440 songs on Morgan's last double album did you write with 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:38.120 with him or right period? Lib That's a lot. Wow, Yeah, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.040 that's a lot. And you're doing these shows out with 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.320 Morgan now, Like, what is it like to get I mean, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.320 these these arenas are packed. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.160 the hardest part is not being able to play any 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.080 of my Morgan songs in myself in my set. But 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.240 uh no, it's great. His fan base is awesome and 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.720 they've taken me on well, and playing in front of 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.720 any crowd is awesome, and they're singing your songs back 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.120 it's just yeah, it's the best. Tell my friends here 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.040 on the show. You moved off to an island for 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.520 a long time? How long? Yeah, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.720 I lived there for about a year and we visit 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.119 regularly now still. And why did you move there? Because 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.679 at the time, my girlfriend's dad, now my wife, was 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.600 looking for houses down there, and he went and took 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.080 all of us with him. For six weeks we rented 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.000 a house and in that six weeks we fell in 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.520 love with the island. He found the house, so I 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.480 stayed on the island with him while she went to 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.560 college and gigged around like Thursday through Saturdays doing beach 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.280 bar gigs, stay with a girlfriend's dad, and just played 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.600 on the island for a year. Do you feel like 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.240 that's where you kind of found yourself musically because you 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.200 were just playing so many shows you weren't making really 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:47.280 any money. I found myself entirely there musically and spiritually. Definitely. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.960 The islands helped jump start whatever the rest of my 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.760 life was about to be. What is the rest of 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.040 your life? What's it about right now? Ernest is here? Like? 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.920 What do you say? What someone's like? What's your life 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.760 about Well, now I'm a family man, which is awesome. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.200 You know that the dream is happening perfectly, music and family. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.320 But having to find the balance between being a dad 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.560 and a husband and going and do the rock star 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.000 thing too has been a challenge. But I'm lucky. It's 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.199 all get out their supportive. Ryman's coming out with me 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.879 this weekend on the roads about Ryman's his baby Okay, 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.119 Ryman's my baby. Boy's name Ernest is here And if 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.040 you don't mind, I would like to start off with 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.120 hearing you perform flower shops. Sure. Can you talk about 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.920 this song though, because you wrote it, talk about you're 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.960 sitting in a room and you know where the idea 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.560 come from and what does this song mean? Yeah? So uh, 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.840 to be honest, the song that inspired this song is 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.640 Good Year for the Roses. A boy. George Jones and 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.080 Burgess beIN. Burgess and I were on our way to 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.960 Mark Holman's to write that day and that song came 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.200 on on iTunes, A Central playlist or whatever George Jones 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.280 playlist and we looked at each other like what a 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.320 cool title. Burgess like, yeah, dude, we should write one 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.200 of those. I was like, yeah, He's like, we should 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.080 write something like good Day for flower Shops. I was like, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.479 absolutely yes. So we kind of talked it out, the 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.160 character and what that song was gonna mean, and had 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.840 a lot of it written by the time we got 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.199 to Holman's. And when we got to Holmans, picked up 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:21.000 picked up the guitar and started the uh and it 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.639 was in better tune at that time of the day. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.040 But in no time we put we put melody, and 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.159 all the thoughts came to life when we wrote the 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.280 song pretty quick, and we knew then and something was special, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.639 but we didn't know. Here is Ernest, yea, here you 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:49.320 go performing flower Shops. It's a beautiful day. She's been 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:55.159