WEBVTT - Best Bits (Just The Bits) with Morgan: PART 2 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:05.200 It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:08.960 What's up, y'all. If you're listening to this, you have 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.039 met the bit side of the Best Bits. This is 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:14.520 part two where I just intro the bits and the 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.360 bits play. The conversation this weekend was with Abby and 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.319 it was super awesome. So if you want to hear that, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.440 make sure you listen to part one. That's just the conversation. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.680 I'll still break down the bits, but right now we're 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.520 getting into the bits that you want to hear in 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.480 case you missed it this week. So coming in at 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.080 number seven, Raymundo had an awkward encounter with a listener 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.680 and now he may close his account at the bank 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.680 because of it. So a lot of drama with this one, 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.240 because Raymundo felt very violated in a lot of ways. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.120 Here you go, number seven. All right, we voted in 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.640 the room, although Lunchbox did call him click bait, Ray Ray, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.760 segment has been chosen and pick a bit. Ray had 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.000 an awkward experience at the bank with a listener. Raymundo, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.760 your bit has been chosen. What would you like to 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.720 do here? So I go into the bank and I 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.480 have a check to cash, and I cash with the 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.960 lady there, and everything was just fine. She's getting my 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:04.840 money out, and she goes, hey, I'm a really big 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.560 fan of the show. And I'm like, great, she got 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.360 my account open. Here we go and she said I 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.679 also love Amy. Cool, I'm not Amy. But she continues 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.640 and she goes, hey, I'm looking at your account and again, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.959 I'm just cashing a check, and she says, I see 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.600 you don't have a savings account. Why is my account open? 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.600 Why is she looking into my savings account when I'm 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.680 just catching a check. So I'm sitting there, I'm like, no, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.600 it's in my wife's name, and she goes, well, would 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.280 you like me to pull up your wife's account and 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.840 then bring that over to your account as well? And 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.960 I'm like no, no, you're you're a fan of the show. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.520 I just want the check cash. I want you out 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.120 of my account. And so then and then she says, well, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.880 I see here that you don't ever put any money 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.320 in savings and I'm like, oh my gosh, close my 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.480 account and just give me the check. And so my 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.000 out was yeah, I'll I'll just take twenties. That'll be perfect, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.840 and she gave me the twenties and then I said 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.240 thank you, have a good day, and in my head 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.520 I said, I will never come back to this game again, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.600 the bank again. I'm closing my account, but why why 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.960 why do you don't need to get into my account 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.400 when I'm cashing a check. So you wish they wouldn't 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.800 have said they were a show listeners. It was bad 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.320 form on their part that she said she was a 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.400 fan and she's interested, yes, so she probably should have 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.320 just I think everything she did, though, was normal. I 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.000 think if she were able to do it without saying 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.000 she was a fan, you wouldn't have felt violated. It 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.160 did feel like snooping a little bit, but I will 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.600 never go back to that bank again. Considering closing the account, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.800 I feel like that's a that's a bit too much. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:36.920 I don't need somebody told me I need to put 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.760 money into savings. It is weird, though, when people have 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.320 access to your accounts and they're also like, have a 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.440 big fan. That's weird. Once ten years ago, some officer 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.720 showed up to my door and I looked out that 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.919 a little thing. I moved the little hatch back and 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.600 I could see them. They dropped two badges and I 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.560 was like, what is happening. They said, you mind if 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.080 we come out and see Yeah, and they came in 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.720 and those badges were IRS badges. I just bad, like 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.520 we work on the IRS Task Force and I'm like, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.160 what did I do? And so, but it turns out 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.639 a listener had hacked into all my IRS files and 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.760 then was such a big fan of the show, got 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.320 into Amy's got into and so they were like, do 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.880 you want to press charges? Do you know who this is? 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.520 And I was like, yeah, she shows up at remote 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.000 like remote broadcasts all the time. We knew who she was, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.800 like the IRS. Yeah, but the FBI was involved too. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.680 I lived in North Carolina at the time, so the 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.560 FBI is the one that questioned me. It went from 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.880 IRS to FBI. Yeah, but they were the ones first. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.359 They were like, do you recognize this person? They brought 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.560 me a picture of her. But it does feel a 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.120 bit of a violation whenever it isn't to be a fan, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.600 but when someone knows you but also works at a 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.440 place where they can get inside your information and see 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.040 like your guts. I mean, she had already seen it all. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.520 But thank goodness, there's also an internal system that will 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.200 flag people like how she got caught was she was 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.280 looking at things clearly she wasn't supposed to when it 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.400 got red flagged and then they were like, wait, why 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.920 is this person in San Antonio looking up these people? 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.720 And then they connected the dots. They were like, what 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.320 did these people have in common? And it was a 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.560 show and they said that, oh wait, okay one of 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.960 my ex girlfriends at the time. Yeah, like she went 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.119 in on me every way. And then started just dodd 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.040 going around the dots. Just look what everybody in part 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.040 of a federal investigation where people put our names together, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.720 and someone on the team or someone investigating was like, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.040 that's the Boffy Bone show. And then they started reaching 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.599 out to all of us. And I remember when they 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:23.800 got there. I sit down in the chair and sort 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.240 of plunging water over my face. They're like, what are 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.960 you doing on like some waterboarding me. I know you 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:31.760 guys want some answers. You just don't hear yourself. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.680 it was scary. I think my story saved your bit Ray. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.240 Thank you. It's fine. I would have picked his no 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.520 matter what. Yeah, all right, is he getting reputation to 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.000 clickbit Ray? No? I think that that's right. I think 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.160 he is clickbit ray. It's like he was pretty good. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.039 The headline was pretty good, but click bit ray, I 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.040 mean it works on the internet. Why not clig bit ray. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.720 I might need to change the title of my story then, yeah, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.880 a murder in my house? Maybe no, but that's not true. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.120 I'm still kind of true. All right, Ry, thank you 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.680 for your story. Yep. It's the Best Bits of the 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:10.760 Week with Morgan number two. It's number six on the 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.520 Best Bits this week. The show share the things they 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.799 are geeking out over right now, and they're across the board, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:22.040 from basketball to forrest bathing to reality TV shows too fishing. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.240 It is all the fun things that sometimes we never 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.280 get a geek out over. So you get to hear 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.440 that from the show right now, number six. All right, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.080 this segment it's called nerding out. It's what we're all 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.520 individually nerding out about. We even have nerdy music hit 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.920 that please. All right, nerding out amy your first go Well. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.760 I'm nerding out about forest bathing because I keep reading 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.960 about it in like health and wellness as a way 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.080 to decrease stress and stuff. So I'm finally gonna go 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.240 take myself to a forest bath this weekends forest bath. Well, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.120 all you gotta do is just go be out with nature. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.800 I'm going to go to this wood's area where I 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.960 like to hike, and I'm gonna sit and soak up 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.599 like all the things I'm going to breathe. You're fully closed. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:00.960 It's not like you're taking a back You're not in 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.240 the water. No, you're not on the water. You're you're 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.880 soaking up nature the trees. Like. So, I guess what's 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.360 it called forest bathing ages? I don't know. Zero through 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.760 eighteen forest bathing for life? For me, I loved in 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.080 the woods basically, yea, yeah, I guess. I'm sure it's 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.200 good for your stress level. So why again, Um, decreased stress, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.560 boosted immunity, and it helps me. There's a boost immunity 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.560 when you're sitting in the woods because like, if you're 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.360 feeling one with nature and healthier, and if your stress 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:33.560 is decreased, your immunity is better. I mean that's all right, interesting, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.599 all right? Nerding out what you got, man? So you 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.680 know I love fishing. The guy this guy in North Carolina, 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.839 he caught a fish that broke a sixty year old record. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.240 This fish was twelve pounds eight ounces I mean it's huge. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.280 I saw it. I'm like, that is a beautiful fish. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.080 What kind of fish though, because like a catfish, they 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.640 go to like one hundred. Sure, I get it. It's 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.599 a speckled trout, smaller. My goal recently has been to 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.000 catch a trout. There's a river like thirty minutes from here. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.000 I will do it in the next couple of years. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.440 I know I can't. Who's gonna do it? First? Lunchbox 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:10.080 wins a lottery, already catches a record trial the fish 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.440 mine is. The NCAA tournament starts on Thursday, officially with 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.320 the sixty four they're playing games. Um not on Thursday, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.400 They've already happened, But on Thursday it happens. You can 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.120 still bet. You can still build your bracket. I'm gonna 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.600 give you tips. Now, pick the lower numbers, okay, just 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:31.560 in Generally pick number one two. Yes, they're the better team. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.880 Sixty four percent of the time a number one seed 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.120 wins the tournament, wins the whole thing. There are four 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:42.760 number ones, Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, and Baylor. There are number two's. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.440 We could go through the whole thing, but they are 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.920 number eleven. Literally, pick the lower numbers. There are gonna 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.520 be some upsets, but usually what happens most of the 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.240 time is that the lower numbers win, so we can 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.000 still bet like through I don't want to do a bracket, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.120 but I can do like draft kings. Okay, I'm you're 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.120 my coach. I don't want to be in charge of 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.640 your minds. Okay, I'm going Baylor number one all the way. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.720 Take it. Okay, that's what my dad would want. You 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.040 can't you know you're not gonna bet. You can bet 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.120 them to win. You can be what they call a 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.320 future to win at all if you want. But you 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.800 can also bet individually each game. Okay, all right, Well, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.560 I guess I'm gonna be busy. I'm not gonna watch though. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.040 To watch, I have to coach her, then watch for her. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.760 I'll be watching, yes, But that's my tip. It's an 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.680 easy tip. Don't pick a lot of ups You can 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.040 pick up occasional upset or two, but generally the data 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.120 shows the lower numbers win more games and win the tournament. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.040 Who are you saying going to win Arkansas? But I 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.880 said what I said, There are four other than Arkansas. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.920 I think I think Tennessee got robbed. There are three, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.520 but I think they probably should have been a two 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.640 or maybe even a one. I think your school, Texas 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.040 and m got robbed of being in the tournament. Period. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.880 Michigan should not be in the tournament. Oh, there's a 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.280 there's a lot of different things happening here. But um, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:59.360 I'm going with Arkansas or Tennessee, Kentucky. Okay, no number 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:04.200 one's there, gets correct? Yeah, thank you, lunch box, you're up. Look, guys, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.480 I've been telling you about the Challenge on MTV for years. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.320 West Bananas, CT Laurel kill It Cam. I'll tell you guys, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.640 you gotta watch it. No one cares about the Challenge. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.199 No one likes the Challenge. That's why the Challenge is 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.000 coming to CBS. It got a spinoff. Baby, when you 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.120 want to know, when you're huge and TV is you 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.600 get a spinoff series. They're gonna take people from Big Brother, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.000 Survivor and Amazing Race and they're gonna put them on 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.760 the Challenge. And we got another rendition of the Challenge. Whoo. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.280 They've done this form of show for a long time. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.680 They used to do Battle of Network Media Stars, Battle 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.680 of Sport. So the Challenge itself isn't new. But I 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.440 think what we don't care about are the people on 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.120 the MTV Challenge because we don't know who they are. Well, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.880 you should care because it used to just be Real 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.000 World and road Rules people, and now they're going to 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.880 CBS and the winner of that gets an automatic bid 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.720 into the MTV show Battle the World. What if the 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.079 people that win are like, now, I'm good a lot 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.640 to play down, I just won the big one. You're 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.880 on CBS. That'd be fun. It'd be fun to watch 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.120 your favorite net work reality stars play against each other. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.800 I probably won't watch it, but I do see where 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.760 that would be fun. All right, I though you're gonna 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.880 get on the challenge train. If it were shows I 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.120 cared about, if it were like Dwight from the Office, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.880 you know, wouldn't play again, good one, Larry David from 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:18.360 Curb Your Enthusiasm, Oh you can't. Jennifer Aniston. Yeah, like 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.480 that would be fun because I care about them. All right, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.960 there you go. That's nerding out. Thank you guys, and 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.280 jam out to some music for five seconds. Turn it up. Yeah, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.200 we're just nerding out. We're nothing but nerds, and we 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.360 just nerding out. It's the Best Bits of the Week 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:40.920 with Morgan. Number two a super epic interview and performance 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.920 this week by Ernest. It was his first time on 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.880 the show. He's done the Bobby Cast with Bobby one time, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.000 and then I think Bobby went on Ernest's podcast as well, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.520 so super cool things there. But this was his first 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.240 time on the Bobby Bones Show. And he talked a 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.480 lot about his songwriting that you know, He's written for 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.880 Morgan wall and Chris Lane, Mason Ramsey. He has so 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.280 much talent just across the board, and so he performed 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.720 some of those songs that he's writing. He also performed 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.400 his brand new song Flower Shops. That's with Morgan Wallen. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.840 Of course it was just him here in studio, so 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.800 you can hear that interview and his performance. But if 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.839 you want to watch it too, go to Bobby Bones 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.920 dot Com. Number five The Friday Morning Conversation with Earnest. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.040 All right, I'm pumped to have Ernest here and before 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.560 we actually talk to him, which by the way, Hello Ernest. Hi, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:28.959 Now just pause for a second. I'm gonna do a 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.360 little little cell of you. Okay, good. I love this guy. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.440 He's got a new album out called Flower Shops and 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.120 we will. He's gonna play a song from it in 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.600 a second. The song right now that is crushing the 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:45.280 charts is Flower Shops. And here's a clip Ernest and 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.680 Morgan Wallen right there on the top of that. He 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.040 wrote Big, Big Plans for Chris Lane, one of the 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.800 writers there, Big Big, I Love My Country from fgl 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.560 My Country. Breaking up was easy in the nineties for 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:05.760 Sam Sitting more than My Hometown from Morgan Wallen it 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:11.240 Kane Brown won Mississippi. This guy's got it all all right, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.040 We'll be back after this break. That's a whole break 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.800 just talking about Ernest. How are you, Buddy good Man? 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.120 How are you? You know? Eddie said, he came in 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.880 the studio and he said he I saw possibly Ernest 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.920 driving down the road. And he said it looked like 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.400 two cartoon characters. It could have been. And because your 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.079 car is a seventy five Coop Deville, yeah that was it. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.959 And yeah that was it. What did you see inside 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.800 the car? Just two dudes? Like I mean, the music 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.680 was so loud. We were at a red light and 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.400 you had pulled up next to me, and my car 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.720 was shaking because you guys were jamming to something. It's 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.480 almost like that TikTok video where you guys are just 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.319 not both not talking to each other, but nod in 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.400 your head listening to something really good. Yeah, that sounds 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:51.920 about right. Who do you think was in the car 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.200 with him? Maybe Hardy? Just because you both had like 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.000 trucker hats on. I didn't recognize Hardy, maybe he didn't 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.240 have glasses on or what. I think it was my boyfriend, classic, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.200 classic boy. That's awesome. People are loving the new record. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.600 Thank you. You know. I had a radio guy that 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.080 reached out to me, um and said, hey, I don't 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.760 often say this, it's uh, one of our guys that 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.320 runs the station of South Carolina. Just privately, he says, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.120 this is the only record that I love every single 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.000 song on it. And he said in like twenty years. Wow. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.440 And so that wasn't him blowing smoke because you were 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.760 doing an interview. He was just telling me that, you know, offhand, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.880 because you come to the house into the podcast. That's wow. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.600 That's awesome. Um. I want to play a little clip here. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.640 This is Sucker for small Towns. I really like this one. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.199 This is track one on his record, I'm a Sucker. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:57.880 For Saturday Night. So this album has everything. It's got 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.400 the slow ones that I love. It is a is 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.440 a pure country album, and congratulations on it man, it's 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.480 really good. I appreciate it when you make music because 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.800 you know you've written all kinds of songs for all 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.520 kinds of people. How do you know what songs you 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.160 want to keep for you and what songs you want 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.719 to let somebody else record? Pretty early on, while the 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.560 song is getting written, I can have that emotional connection 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.880 with it. When I start singing it, I know pretty 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.560 pretty well then and there, and in the same way 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.440 I know when it sounds like if it's a Morgan 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.640 song or Chris Lane or somebody else, if I'm gonna 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.040 let it go. How many songs on Morgan's last double 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.080 album did you write with with him or right period? 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.280 Lib That's a lot. Wow, Yeah, that's a lot. And 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.960 you're doing these shows out with Morgan now, Like, what 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.920 is it like to get I mean, these these arenas 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.640 are packed. Yeah, well, I'll tell you. The hardest part 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.360 is not being able to play any of my Morgan 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.160 songs in myself in my set. But uh no, it's great. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.000 His fan base is awesome and they've taken me on well, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.200 and playing in front of any crowd is awesome, and 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.760 they're singing your songs back. It's just yeah, it's the best. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.840 Tell my friends here on this s show. You moved 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.400 off to an island for a long time? How long? Yeah, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.120 Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. I lived there for about a 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.120 year and we visit regularly now still. And why did 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.520 you move there? Because at the time, my girlfriend's dad, 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.120 now my wife, was looking for houses down there and 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:17.960 we went. He went and took all of us with 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.440 him for six weeks, we rented a house and in 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.480 that six weeks we fell in love with the island. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.040 He found the house, so I stayed on the island 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.920 with him while she went to college and gigged around 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.360 like Thursday through Saturdays doing beach bar gigs, stay with 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.520 a girlfriend's dad, and just played on the island for 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.360 a year. Do you feel like that's where you kind 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.400 of found yourself musically because you were just playing so 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.200 many shows you weren't making really any money. I found 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:47.160 myself entirely there musically and spiritually. Definitely. The islands helped 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.240 jump start whatever the rest of my life was about 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.000 to be what is the rest of your life? What's 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.920 it about? Right now? Ernest is here? Like, what do 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.400 you say? What someone's like, what's your life about? Well? 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.000 Now I'm a family man, which is awesome. It's you 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.840 know that the dream is happening perfectly his music and family. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.960 But having to find the balance between being a dad 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.200 and a husband and going and do the rock star 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.600 thing too has been a challenge. But I'm lucky he's 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.800 all get out their supportive. Ryman's coming out with me 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.520 this weekend on the roads about Ryman's his baby. Okay, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.760 Ryman's my baby boy's name. Ernest is here And if 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.680 you don't mind, I would like to start off with 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.800 hearing you perform flower shops. Sure. Can you talk about 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.560 this song though, because you wrote it, talk about you're 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.600 sitting in a room and you know where'd the idea 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.960 come from? And what does this song mean? Yeah? So, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.480 to be honest, the song that inspired this song is 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.120 good Year for the Roses, a boy. George Jones and Burgess. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:44.920 Ben Burgess and I were on our way to Mark 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.080 Holman's to write that day and that song came on 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.320 on iTunes, a Central playlist or whatever. George Jones playlist 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.880 and we looked at each other like what a cool title. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.360 Burgess like, yeah, dude, we should write one of those. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:16:59.960 And I was like yeah, he's like we should write 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.720 something like good Day for flower Shops. I was like 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.119 absolutely yes. So we kind of talked it out the 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.800 character and what that song was gonna mean, and had 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.480 a lot of it written by the time we got 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.840 to Holman's. And when we got to Holmans, picked up 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:19.600 picked up the guitar and started the uh and it 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.280 was in better tune at that time of the day. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.680 But in no time we put we put melody and 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.800 all the thoughts came to life when we wrote the 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.920 song pretty quick, and we knew then and something was special, 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.359 but we didn't know. Here is Ernest. Here you go 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:48.880 performing flower Shops. It's a beautiful day. She's been crying 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:54.800 all night all there's tears in her blues and bloodshote 0:17:55.000 --> 0:18:01.080 in mine. This bender's been bending. It's hill bound break. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:08.920 My baby said all she can take. So mister, I'll 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:16.600 take your roses. If you cut off the thorns, she 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:23.359 can't take no more. How about violets and daisy to 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:29.400 hide all the crazy. It's gonna take all you've got. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:36.400 Oh it's a bad day for love, but a good 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:47.719 day for flowers, shine hops, Ernest and studio. Thank you. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.919 It's a great song man. Thank you. How did you 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.280 get Morgan Walling to sing that song with you? I 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.200 texted him the demo pretty soon after I got it back, 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.560 just out of excitement, like, yo, dude, listen to this 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.880 and it turned into one of both of our favorite songs, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.160 and pretty naturally we started singing it together. We sang 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.560 it together at a couple events, and then um, he 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.399 pretty much announced that he was gonna do it with 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.680 me at a Whiskey Jams show. And then Morgan said 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:17.720 he was going to do it with me, and then 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.200 we did it together at Ernest. You guys can follow 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.399 on Instagram. We'll be back with Ernest in a second. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.359 I'm gonna ask you to do what cool songwriters do 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.199 that have a lot of success, Just to play me 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.400 little clips of the songs you've written. Okay? Is that cool? 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.600 Can we do that? Sure? Also, and I haven't ran 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.600 this by him, but can you? And I don't want 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.480 to spoil it for our listeners a time? Can you 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.960 rap my favorite song that you wrote for someone else? 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.200 It's that little part of it. Oh you're talking about 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:47.399 the young. The young hop up in wet yea. We 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.359 will come back, all right. Ernest did something that I'm 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.560 amazed by. I love, and I didn't even know he 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.560 did it. Ernest has a new album called flower Shops. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.640 The album this is track two that I love called 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:20.520 ten see Queen Good Good As you grew up here 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.840 in Nashville, which is rare. You know, most artists that 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.720