Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Everybody excited to be hanging out with y'all for another
Speaker 2: weekend on the Best Bits, y'all. There is only well,
Speaker 2: yesterday I was counting this, there's only three Fridays left
Speaker 2: until Christmas, which then I assume means three Saturdays.
Speaker 3: But if my math is wrong, don't get mad at me.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: It's December and we are officially in full speed Christmas.
Speaker 2: So let's dive into some of the big segments on
Speaker 2: the show this week.
Speaker 3: One of them, actually a few of them involved Christmas.
Speaker 2: Some listeners were asking for an update on Arkansas Keith.
Speaker 2: They wanted to know how his retirement has been going.
Speaker 2: This is somebody that's very important in Bobby's life. He
Speaker 2: used to be his stepdad and now they still spend
Speaker 2: time together and talk to each other. So Arkansas Keith
Speaker 2: called in let everybody know how his retirement was going,
Speaker 2: and he even gave some tips to Eddie and Lunchbox
Speaker 2: about how they should be focusing on retirement.
Speaker 5: Number seven. Here's a voicemail from Amelia in Atlanta.
Speaker 6: I was just curious if you had an update on
Speaker 6: Arkansas Keith.
Speaker 7: We haven't heard from him in a while. It's just
Speaker 7: swondering what he's up too.
Speaker 5: Right here, he is former stepdad Arkansas Keith. I believe
Speaker 5: he's on the phone now.
Speaker 8: You there, I am.
Speaker 9: How you doing?
Speaker 10: Doing pretty good?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I talked to Keith periodically, so for me, that's good.
Speaker 5: It's not that I haven't talked to Arkansas Keith since
Speaker 5: he's been on the show.
Speaker 6: He don't only talk to him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And mostly if I can show you
Speaker 5: Arkansas Keith's messages to me, it's mostly all dead animals.
Speaker 10: What animals have you killed lately?
Speaker 9: I've been out hunting every day since beginning to season
Speaker 9: November eleventh. I hadn't killed a deer.
Speaker 5: Have you passed on deer? Though?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 10: Have you passed on some doze or.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and some books too?
Speaker 11: Little bucks?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, but nothing I'm going to shoot, but.
Speaker 5: You know, and at this point you're such an avid,
Speaker 5: accomplished hunter. If it's not at least like an eight point,
Speaker 5: who cares, right.
Speaker 9: Well, I'd shoot a small one. But you know, I'm
Speaker 9: just I'm just not in the mood, you know, I'm
Speaker 9: just enjoying it. That just goes to show you that
Speaker 9: it's not all about to kill. I'll put in lots
Speaker 9: of time this year so.
Speaker 5: Far you enjoy waking up early, being in the cold
Speaker 5: and sitting in the woods, not shooting animals.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 11: Oh that's why it's whispering.
Speaker 10: Wait where are you right now?
Speaker 9: I'm in the woods right now, I'm in a blind
Speaker 9: this this morning. Duck honey, deer honey. Well, I don't
Speaker 9: want to have the highland.
Speaker 10: I don't want to like ruin your day here. I
Speaker 10: don't want to make the deer go away.
Speaker 9: Running my day? You know?
Speaker 11: Do you?
Speaker 9: I'm doing some long this is stuff today?
Speaker 11: What what like rifles?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm hunting on the high line, looking down the
Speaker 9: high line.
Speaker 6: Oh long distance? Does that I'm making nervous that it's not
Speaker 6: a deer, it's something else?
Speaker 5: Is that scope?
Speaker 10: Probably?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 9: I have a range front. I just ranged a lot
Speaker 9: poe and it's three hundred and sixty yards at a
Speaker 9: lot pole. So that's why that's how far I'm looking.
Speaker 5: So don't you think the deer can hear you talking
Speaker 5: on the phone now? And they're like Arkansas? Keith is
Speaker 5: back in the woods. We shouldn't go over there.
Speaker 9: Well, they're probably it's probably muffling this blind so they're
Speaker 9: not probably hearing too much. Do get that distance.
Speaker 10: What else is happening with you? Any updates?
Speaker 9: Uh? Just had good good times Thanksgiving, you know, and
Speaker 9: that's uh, just living a life, man. I love just
Speaker 9: retired life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So what do you do all day being retired? Like,
Speaker 5: I don't know if I can handle it?
Speaker 9: Well. I usual to get up and here lately has
Speaker 9: been hunting every day, you know, and duck season just
Speaker 9: went out. We did do for the first first week.
Speaker 9: We hunted three or four times during the duck season.
Speaker 9: And uh, you know, go deer hunting every day or
Speaker 9: duck hunting and just come home and hang out for
Speaker 9: a little while and go back for the evening hunting.
Speaker 9: And you know, I sometimes I'll journey down to Glenwood
Speaker 9: with the you know, Mike Blaze and that bunch to
Speaker 9: go have dinner with the fishing is. And that's about it. Man.
Speaker 9: But life is good, you know, I like it.
Speaker 11: That's the life simple.
Speaker 6: We need Arkansas Keiths to put together a plan for
Speaker 6: Eddie and Lunchbox to retire.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they have no retirement.
Speaker 12: Oh great, well he doesn't need money.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, hold on here, Arkansas, y did you
Speaker 5: have a retirement set up for when you retired?
Speaker 9: Only my retirement plan at warehouses.
Speaker 5: That I had, you know where houses the mill where
Speaker 5: we're from, Uh huh we lived in was the mental
Speaker 5: mill town.
Speaker 10: But your retirement plan, though, was that like a four
Speaker 10: oh one K?
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, it was. It was just a you know,
Speaker 9: a retirement plan for It's like an annuity. You know,
Speaker 9: you get checked for your forever how many years you work,
Speaker 9: you get that monthly.
Speaker 11: We get that.
Speaker 9: Here's kind of what I was living basing on. But
Speaker 9: you know, es since then, I've discovered you have to
Speaker 9: have more than that.
Speaker 5: What would you tell these two who are you know,
Speaker 5: early forties and have no retirement plan whatsoever.
Speaker 9: Well, kind of get diversified. Maybe, you know, I was
Speaker 9: been buying some gold and I, you know, got an
Speaker 9: r A four one K into an r A and
Speaker 9: it's all right as much as you can.
Speaker 5: It's it's a part of the government that investigates you.
Speaker 5: That's what that's the I R.
Speaker 11: S Oh yeah, yeah, and you.
Speaker 9: One K it used to be in my ra is
Speaker 9: a full one. It used to be a four one
Speaker 9: k it's he.
Speaker 10: Went toward down dar Hills and found him some gold.
Speaker 6: No did you order gold off the TV?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So wait, I don't How do you? How did you
Speaker 5: buy gold?
Speaker 11: Then?
Speaker 9: I got a U S money reserve, you can buy
Speaker 9: you know, gold.
Speaker 10: What's the dream retirement plan for you? What would you
Speaker 10: love to do?
Speaker 9: Maybe move out with for a little while, like California?
Speaker 9: Not no, I'm not that far lat yeah, wool and
Speaker 9: I don't want to live there in the winter. I
Speaker 9: just want to live there.
Speaker 6: My gosh, that's the reality show.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 5: Well, uh, callers ask about you a lot, and we
Speaker 5: just had one. So I was just gonna hit you
Speaker 5: up and see if you talk to us on the
Speaker 5: air a little bit.
Speaker 11: That's it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm just living the dream man.
Speaker 10: What can I say when you're gonna come see me?
Speaker 9: Isaac? Now we're just talking about that. We're probably thinking
Speaker 9: about trying to make a run, you know, mid March,
Speaker 9: maybe on spring break. Again.
Speaker 10: This is a grandson.
Speaker 11: Wondering.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Well, uh, good to talk to you.
Speaker 5: I talked to you, so I know you're good. But
Speaker 5: everybody else now hopefully they feel good. Knowing about you,
Speaker 5: Any any sage advice you want to pass along to
Speaker 5: the millions of people listening right now.
Speaker 9: Stay healthy?
Speaker 11: Well how do you do that?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's go to doctor man. Make sure catch everything
Speaker 9: before it gets you, get it for it gets you.
Speaker 6: Oh, be proactive.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like in your sixties you have to
Speaker 5: do that now more than ever? Oh?
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, you know I've had a couple of elments
Speaker 9: that could probably put me down here to not called
Speaker 9: him Mary. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Have you had a colonoscary?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 10: Them every Tuesday.
Speaker 5: His cousin Brutis does it for him. Okay, talk to
Speaker 5: you soon and let us know if you kill anything.
Speaker 9: All right, take care?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 10: See there is Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Ye, it's the best bits of the week with Morgan
Speaker 1: Number two.
Speaker 2: Our annual Christmas gift exchange is fast approaching, so we
Speaker 2: have a theme. All the gifts have to start with
Speaker 2: the letter S. But this week we drew who gets
Speaker 2: to like who's buying a gift for who? And I'm
Speaker 2: super excited about who drew me And I had to
Speaker 2: give my gift.
Speaker 3: Because it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: And then there's also some controversy already with all of that,
Speaker 2: But even more cool than all of that is this
Speaker 2: is the first year ever we're doing a listener edition
Speaker 2: of our Christmas Gift Exchange, all thanks to Hyundai.
Speaker 3: They are helping us not.
Speaker 2: Only give away cash, but a chance to win a
Speaker 2: freaking car.
Speaker 3: Guys, this is so awesome, first time we've ever done this.
Speaker 2: But you got to go enter at bobbybones dot com
Speaker 2: if you want to play, and the last day to
Speaker 2: sign up is December seventh, which.
Speaker 3: Is my sister's birthday. Chat out Taylor Happy Birthday early,
Speaker 3: So go sign up.
Speaker 2: If you want to win a car or some cash,
Speaker 2: or just be a part of our Christmas Gift Exchange,
Speaker 2: go do it.
Speaker 3: What's the harm.
Speaker 2: You're not going to get any spam or scam emails
Speaker 2: from us. All you're gonna get is a chance to
Speaker 2: win a car and some cash, and quite frankly, all.
Speaker 3: Of us could use that.
Speaker 2: So go ahead our Bobby bones dot com And for
Speaker 2: now you're about to hear who all will be giving
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 5: Gifts this Christmas number six. So our Christmas show comes
Speaker 5: up in a couple weeks. We always do a theme.
Speaker 5: We voted on the theme before we went away for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 5: and the theme is starts with the random letter, So
Speaker 5: we'll do the letter generator. Whatever letter at Landson's got
Speaker 5: to be what the gift starts with. Okay, yeah, Now
Speaker 5: I have everybody's name here, and I'm just gonna draw
Speaker 5: for everybody. And when I draw, I'll say who you
Speaker 5: are and who you're buying for. Okay, Amy, you will
Speaker 5: be buying for.
Speaker 13: Me?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, cool, that's rough.
Speaker 11: Hey, that's not hard or anything.
Speaker 10: We don't know what the letter is.
Speaker 12: No, but I'm just saying she only does half the income. Now,
Speaker 12: not gonna be as good.
Speaker 5: But she had to buy any people gifts either, Eddie.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're buying for you know, a lunchbox, raymondo.
Speaker 13: Oh you I got you, Ray, Thanks man, I'll get
Speaker 13: you on the back end.
Speaker 10: Lunchbox.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm buying for the this person.
Speaker 10: You're buying for this person?
Speaker 12: And who's who wants me? I said, who wants me?
Speaker 11: We said nothing.
Speaker 6: Oh no, that has to be rich.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be good.
Speaker 5: We already know it.
Speaker 11: Oh he's not gonna be good.
Speaker 6: Can you read draw?
Speaker 10: I definitely?
Speaker 5: Oh man, that's sorry about that.
Speaker 11: That sucks Abby all right even he says it.
Speaker 10: More Agan, you'll be buying for.
Speaker 2: Scooba ool Scoobs, I got you?
Speaker 5: Oh man, Hey, you don't even know the letter yet though.
Speaker 12: All right, Bobby, who you drawing for?
Speaker 10: I'm not there yet, but hey, do you have me
Speaker 10: to go ahead and pull mine out and lay the side?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Here we go, watch and chack it up.
Speaker 10: Nothing nothing fishy happening here, got it? I'm gonna in
Speaker 10: your pocket pocket?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, boy, you want to be you
Speaker 12: all right, Mike D, because like what if it's c
Speaker 12: car cash, Mike D.
Speaker 10: You will be buying Mike D. You'll be buying for Eddie.
Speaker 12: Hey, Eddie's acting excited. I am just shut up. You're disappointed.
Speaker 11: Mike gives good gifts.
Speaker 5: Scuba Steve, You'll be buying for.
Speaker 10: Lunchbox pay back for last year.
Speaker 12: What do you mean you have me a crappy gift
Speaker 12: last year? I got you a Shaquille Noodle shirt you
Speaker 12: still wear?
Speaker 5: No, I have it.
Speaker 10: He's never worn it.
Speaker 11: I have it.
Speaker 4: Oh you gave it to him?
Speaker 5: No, I wanted a contest idiot. All right, this is
Speaker 5: Ray Raymundo Amy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And then finally Abby, Mike.
Speaker 5: D, I got more?
Speaker 10: Freaking again, I got more? Last second row? All right,
Speaker 10: I think Morgan yep. Okay, so Abby has Mike D
Speaker 10: I have more?
Speaker 5: Okay, So now we're gonna spin the wheel. So it's
Speaker 5: a random video the letter, and I'll record it here.
Speaker 5: We'll do the first. The first one won't count. Let's
Speaker 5: just let's just spend the will and see what it was.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, here's the first one. The will is spinning.
Speaker 10: And it ends on.
Speaker 5: The letter would have been H.
Speaker 10: So we're gonna we're gonna remove that. Oh, let's leave.
Speaker 11: Let's leave H up there of course, hot dog?
Speaker 10: Or do we want to pull H down? Okay, pull H?
Speaker 12: It can't be H.
Speaker 10: Okay, this one's for real.
Speaker 5: Whatever the letter is, Oh.
Speaker 12: You know what we could have got for H?
Speaker 10: Hooker?
Speaker 5: I ok here we go, let's here we go.
Speaker 12: I would have got Abby that Okay.
Speaker 10: I showed up banana hammock. Are you Abby?
Speaker 5: Here we go? Let's spin wheel? All right, here we go.
Speaker 5: I'm recording it on my phone so you guys can
Speaker 5: see it. The letter is.
Speaker 11: Uh oh s yes, don't lunchbox.
Speaker 10: That's gross, dude, foul of.
Speaker 4: Everybody?
Speaker 5: Goody start thinking me.
Speaker 12: Hooray, I got it for You're going right now.
Speaker 10: Let me play this song. We're back everybody else the season.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 2: Y'all love the fantasy draft, So we did a draft
Speaker 2: of bands slash artists with numbers in their name. So
Speaker 2: think of a lot of them. I mean there's a
Speaker 2: lot out there, even a country artist that didn't get drafted,
Speaker 2: which I'm sad I didn't realize this at the time,
Speaker 2: but tenpenny is a great addition to one of these teams.
Speaker 2: So check out our teams and I'll tell you right
Speaker 2: after this who won who lost.
Speaker 12: Number five.
Speaker 10: Hey, let's do it.
Speaker 5: We're doing a draft here, draft your team. They could
Speaker 5: have numbers in their name. Bands, artists have numbers in
Speaker 5: their name.
Speaker 10: We rolled the dice. I'm first.
Speaker 5: Overall, there were like three that I.
Speaker 10: Was equally torn to pick.
Speaker 5: Interesting, but I'm gonna go with my number one pick,
Speaker 5: Matchbox twenty.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 10: That's good, is it?
Speaker 5: I don't know? Because said man, there's another there's the
Speaker 5: two more that I think could be the number one pick,
Speaker 5: but I'm going Matchbox twenty as my number one pick.
Speaker 6: Amy Maroon five great one.
Speaker 5: Also on my list, Lunchbox blink one also on my
Speaker 5: top list. Good good job. Those are the three that
Speaker 5: I think were the great ones. Morgan, I'm going fifty.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 10: I didn't have him down.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 12: I was hoping he'd slipped to the second room.
Speaker 5: Good one, Ray for all the girls out there.
Speaker 12: One direction.
Speaker 11: And that's good.
Speaker 5: Yep, fifty cent on came out of nowhere on me.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have picked it first name, but that's a
Speaker 5: good one. Matchbox twenty, Maroon five, blank one eighty two,
Speaker 5: fifty cent one direction.
Speaker 10: Ray. We'll go backward now with you taking the lead.
Speaker 10: Second round. Who are you adding to your team? Yeah?
Speaker 13: Stealing this one from Eddie. Sorry, man, I know you
Speaker 13: did your wedding at him or whatever.
Speaker 11: You two, that's good.
Speaker 6: I thought that that was Pearl Jam.
Speaker 7: No, I mean I went to Hawaii to see Pearl
Speaker 7: Jam open up for YouTube.
Speaker 10: Would you have picked you two next?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 7: I can't even think of like number bands. Every time
Speaker 7: you guys mentioned one like that's a good one. Didn't
Speaker 7: think about that, he said. I was like, I don't
Speaker 7: think about that one direct.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess you're not playing to I'm not playing okay, Morgan, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Everybody took my big ones. Okay, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5: Jackson five, Yeah, fifty cent and Jackson five lunchbox yet
Speaker 5: blank one eighty two?
Speaker 10: Who are you adding?
Speaker 12: Three doors down?
Speaker 10: Let's go, Amy? You have Maroon five?
Speaker 5: Who are you adding one?
Speaker 6: Republic?
Speaker 11: Is that tedor?
Speaker 9: Mm hmm?
Speaker 5: It's too late to apologize. I'll be adding to match
Speaker 5: Marks twenty. Tupac, oh, the number two Pac.
Speaker 6: I did not because I was spelling him to.
Speaker 12: That's the problem.
Speaker 11: Stop.
Speaker 5: Well I was really, I mean, that's why I've seen
Speaker 5: it spell both ways. I'm being honest, right, but I'm
Speaker 5: going with Tupac.
Speaker 10: With the number two.
Speaker 5: So okay, Now I have Matchworks twenty and Tupac will
Speaker 5: go one more round and I'll go first. I don't
Speaker 5: know I'm gonna go.
Speaker 11: Hmm.
Speaker 10: I've got a few really good ones.
Speaker 11: I can't think of any.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go because I feel like both the minor older.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go twenty one pile I haven't yeah, twenty
Speaker 5: one pilots from me.
Speaker 10: Amy have Maroon five and one Republic.
Speaker 6: That's that's what I have.
Speaker 11: Okay, you picked them, I know.
Speaker 6: Because what I had is taken.
Speaker 10: So I can't sit here.
Speaker 6: So you just saw we just saw this guy in Vegas.
Speaker 6: So I'll go thirty seconds to Mars.
Speaker 5: Okay, Oh yeah, Jared leto lunchbox. You have Blink one
Speaker 5: eighty two and three Doors Down.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Now I'm in trouble. Mmm. I don't know who
Speaker 12: these bands are?
Speaker 11: Then, how do you have them on the list?
Speaker 12: Well, Google, Google. I mean, I've heard of them, but
Speaker 12: I don't know what they sing like. I couldn't name.
Speaker 10: Their songs.
Speaker 12: Any mean, mom, But I know this one I'm gonna
Speaker 12: go with, and hopefully they associate him with his band,
Speaker 12: Go ahead, Andre three thousand, Okay, hopefully they associate him without.
Speaker 11: He's an artist too, I know, but i'll ye.
Speaker 5: Morgan, I'm gonna go one.
Speaker 2: That is a massive band right now, the nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, very popular.
Speaker 5: All the Tailor fans are like cursing you.
Speaker 3: Though, well then they also still love them.
Speaker 11: It's kind of weird.
Speaker 5: Why it's a weird situation is that she dated that dude.
Speaker 5: Oh the Four Trials bet ray last pick you have
Speaker 5: one direction and you two.
Speaker 13: Yeah, try and go tops on another category? Give me
Speaker 13: five sauce? What five seconds?
Speaker 10: This summer?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 10: Got it?
Speaker 5: What got it? All?
Speaker 13: My bad guys are using the kids lingo nowadays.
Speaker 10: I mean I really I would struggle with no one.
Speaker 10: I know who they are that awesome.
Speaker 5: I didn't call them five sauce?
Speaker 11: Are they still they still making music?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Again?
Speaker 5: Okay, so there are teams. Here's something we didn't pick
Speaker 5: that I had on my list. I'm forty one.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I didn't know who they were.
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 10: Boys two men?
Speaker 5: Oh almost picked boys? Stupid every list I look at
Speaker 5: it weren't on there all for one ub forty, the
Speaker 5: four Tops, Sugar Pa, Honeybunch, nine inch Nails, be fifty
Speaker 5: two's whoa?
Speaker 12: Why did they not have boys? The men on these lists?
Speaker 5: Three Days Grace, four non Blondes, Ben Folds five sixpence
Speaker 5: and on.
Speaker 10: The richer two chains, oh thirty six mafia? That those wrong?
Speaker 5: Three eleven, three eleven That Ambaza color of.
Speaker 6: Ooh is that? Who sinks that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Three eleven?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Wow that just back to college.
Speaker 10: So here are the teams. Go vote, don't vote for
Speaker 10: the first round pick.
Speaker 5: It's not fair because I got the first pick, so
Speaker 5: I don't vote on just the first round, vote on
Speaker 5: the whole team. I have Matchbox twenty two pac and
Speaker 5: twenty one pilots. Amy has Maroon five, one Republican and
Speaker 5: thirty seconds to Mars. Lunchbox has Blink one eighty two,
Speaker 5: three Doors Down and Andre three thousand. Morgan has fifty
Speaker 5: cent Jackson five in the nineteen seventy five and RAYMONDA
Speaker 5: has one Direction You two and five Sauce.
Speaker 4: Five.
Speaker 1: Good job, good job, all right, it's the best bits
Speaker 1: of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 2: So I guess not a good show out for me
Speaker 2: because I lost this draft, which I was very happy
Speaker 2: with my team fifty cent Jackson five in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3: I felt strongly about that team, but I did not.
Speaker 2: I lost, so I'll be sitting out the next draft.
Speaker 2: And Amy won this one, so she gets to keep
Speaker 2: the championship belt. For now, we're going to dive into
Speaker 2: this interview with Jelly.
Speaker 3: Roll and Bobby.
Speaker 2: He talks about an inspirational quote that he heard this
Speaker 2: year and really likes. Of course, his collaboration with Laney
Speaker 2: Wilson and that time he was wrestling so just a
Speaker 2: really good interview.
Speaker 3: Jelly's always one of my favorite to see come in
Speaker 3: the studio.
Speaker 2: He's so authentic, very genuine, and I swear he gets
Speaker 2: nicer every time I see him. And I said it
Speaker 2: on my Instagram and I'll say it here, like every
Speaker 2: time I see Jelly Roll, it makes me feel like
Speaker 2: Christmas Day. He just has that kind of energy and
Speaker 2: it makes you love a person. Also, he manifested his
Speaker 2: Grammys nominations that he recently got while we were on
Speaker 2: the red carpet together at the CMA.
Speaker 3: So you can go check that out on my TikTok.
Speaker 3: But right now, here's Jelly Rolling.
Speaker 1: Bobby number four, So Bobby Bones Show interviews in case
Speaker 1: you didn't.
Speaker 5: Know Jelly Roll, He's everywhere. He's killing it. Son of
Speaker 5: a Center at number one, Need a Favor, same tok
Speaker 5: to Guy a ninety to favor his song now with
Speaker 5: Landy Wilson, Save Me Not to Do the same thing Love,
Speaker 5: Nominated for two Grammys. He won Best New Artists at
Speaker 5: the CMA Awards. I mean, this guy's killing it here.
Speaker 1: He is on the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 10: Now, good to see you man, Good to be bag Baby.
Speaker 10: It's like with you.
Speaker 5: It's like flashes. Now You're everywhere. It's awesome to see.
Speaker 5: It's like good guys win type thing. Is are you
Speaker 5: enjoying it or is it such a blur? Because I
Speaker 5: mean it has come fast.
Speaker 4: It got blurry at the beginning of the year, and
Speaker 4: I recognize that. And I talked about my mentor my
Speaker 4: therapist about it, and I was like, I don't want
Speaker 4: to look back at these years like a vortex. And
Speaker 4: the best advice they gave me was separate myself from
Speaker 4: my phone.
Speaker 10: Just in general.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so like wherever I'm at, that's where i'm at.
Speaker 4: I'll check that phone and deal with stuff between stuff.
Speaker 4: But like, all the matters is right. All the matters
Speaker 4: in my life right now is hanging out with Bobby
Speaker 4: Bonums and the crew.
Speaker 5: Have you found that you have a new appreciation for
Speaker 5: first impressions again, because I feel like I get to
Speaker 5: see people meet you all the time, and you were
Speaker 5: always in that rare air of just you're awesome with people,
Speaker 5: and I feel like you've made that a priority more
Speaker 5: than really I've seen anyone do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, man. I take pride in it. Dude.
Speaker 4: It's like I knew that I wasn't going to be
Speaker 4: a great entertainer, but I knew that I could be
Speaker 4: a great connector, So early in my career, I chose
Speaker 4: connection over entertainment, even when it comes to writing songs,
Speaker 4: like I'm writing to connect, Like I'm not going to
Speaker 4: get up there and do it diddy or nothing, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. There's never gonna be a jelly
Speaker 4: roll song that requires a backflip, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So it's like I knew that early. So I've just
Speaker 4: focused on connecting with people.
Speaker 5: With you and the different types of careers that you
Speaker 5: have and still have like you did, You've done it
Speaker 5: in all these different ways. And I only say this
Speaker 5: on a parallel like I've worked in tons of I've
Speaker 5: done hip hop, I've done pop, I've done rock, I've
Speaker 5: done sports. So do you know, do this but I'm
Speaker 5: still the same person, Like that's nothing about me has changed.
Speaker 5: I just have all these interests in these places. When
Speaker 5: you were twenty four, did you ever think you would
Speaker 5: be doing country music or was that just something that
Speaker 5: you knew and you love from where you grew up,
Speaker 5: But you really were dedicated to hip hop.
Speaker 4: I just I didn't think I had the voice. I
Speaker 4: didn't know I could really sing until I was in
Speaker 4: my thirties, Like I had no clue. And to this day,
Speaker 4: I still think I'm like the worst singer in town.
Speaker 4: I'm just learning as I go, Like I'm getting better,
Speaker 4: you know what i mean. Like even if you listen
Speaker 4: to me from Son of a Center to Need a Favor,
Speaker 4: it's just so much less, less pitchy, and so much more,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like, So I'm just I'm
Speaker 4: just developing into this. I always say it, Bobby, and
Speaker 4: I mean a dude, the man changed. I just drug
Speaker 4: the music with me. The music never knows where we're going.
Speaker 4: They're just like, whatever this dude's doing, we're doing, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So I changed, my heart changed,
Speaker 4: my spirit changed, and the music started to change slowly.
Speaker 5: How do you even go anywhere now? Because not even
Speaker 5: it's not just the fame and the awards and the Grammy.
Speaker 5: It's not even just that in the Hulu doc, It's
Speaker 5: that you have face tattoos and gold trees that even
Speaker 5: if they were like I don't know, is that I
Speaker 5: don't know if that jolly roll or not, like like's
Speaker 5: it been harder to go out and do normal person
Speaker 5: things a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, because dude, not only that, Bobby, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm so big you can recognize me from the back.
Speaker 4: You can stand behind me and go, that looks like
Speaker 4: Jelly Rolls shape, you know. But it's been cool.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: I love people, so it don't bother me at all. Dude,
Speaker 4: you know, I just move on with the move.
Speaker 5: So you're a panda express eating and somebody comes up
Speaker 5: that they know, what.
Speaker 10: If you said, no, it's not me. I get that
Speaker 10: all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah you can't, you can't do that. You're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 5: people tell me that all the time, but like, no,
Speaker 5: the face tattoos are exactly like this.
Speaker 10: I'm in the picture I just googled.
Speaker 4: My favorite is when they go you look like Jelly
Speaker 4: Roll and they're like, people are like, you look like
Speaker 4: jelly Roll, And I'm thinking, God, bless that poor person
Speaker 4: that does you know what I mean, Like, of course
Speaker 4: I'm Jelly.
Speaker 10: Ro I'm not evenna acknowledge that. I make fun of
Speaker 10: myself a lot.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna acknowledge that because I think you're
Speaker 5: awesome and I think we've watched you grow into who
Speaker 5: knows like we don't know you every single day like
Speaker 5: your wife does.
Speaker 10: But it's like I feel like when.
Speaker 5: You were in here the very first time to now
Speaker 5: even that's a different person and not not in a
Speaker 5: negative way, in a way of like it's it's weird
Speaker 5: to see somebody get way more famous and way more
Speaker 5: cool at the same time.
Speaker 4: A dude, thank you, man. I ground myself, Dude, I
Speaker 4: do a lot of reading. I do a lot of
Speaker 4: nerdy stuff that people don't know. I play video games,
Speaker 4: like I'm going to wrestling like I'm just like you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just that's just who I am.
Speaker 5: Do you ever want to be a wrestler? And that
Speaker 5: would be fun?
Speaker 4: Oh, dude, I thought about listen they had I never
Speaker 4: told this story. It's jolly roll exclusive. There was a
Speaker 4: wrestling academy in Laverne when I was a kid, and
Speaker 4: it was ran by the dude from a group cup.
Speaker 4: Does anybody listen? What am I the only wrestling nerd?
Speaker 10: Really?
Speaker 4: Okay? Do you remember da Yeah? Chains owned that studio.
Speaker 4: So I was like nine or ten years old, and
Speaker 4: they would take us to Laverne and let us run
Speaker 4: around that ring and teach us stuff, and I loved it.
Speaker 4: There was definitely a moment. In that moment, I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do this forever. Even when they called me
Speaker 4: to be a part of the show in Nashville, I
Speaker 4: was like, do I get to body slam somebody? It
Speaker 4: was like it hardy got to hit somebody with a guitar.
Speaker 4: They're like, no, you're doing dialogue. I was like, but
Speaker 4: I'm more athletic than you think, I swear.
Speaker 10: Were you a pretty eas an athlete?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I played. Yeah, I played football. Well you know
Speaker 4: if my high school I missed, but I played football, basketball,
Speaker 4: and wrestling in middle school.
Speaker 10: You say miss prison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was in Jewie.
Speaker 5: But did you guys know I saw Long's Yard Yeah yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: we had a boxing program.
Speaker 4: I started boxing one really. Yeah. But when I think
Speaker 4: back at that, how crazy is that. Let's get a
Speaker 4: bunch of violence young kids and teach them.
Speaker 10: To fight jelly rolls here?
Speaker 5: Speaking of that, I did see too that And I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna know this exactly, but you're doing like a
Speaker 5: show in a like a somebody announced I saw somebody
Speaker 5: in with like a badge and hounce.
Speaker 10: You're doing a show.
Speaker 4: So we stopped by jails all the time.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: We probably performed with maybe twenty of them this year.
Speaker 4: If I had a guess, probably twenty thirty rehabs you have, yeah,
Speaker 4: this year. We do it all the time on tour.
Speaker 4: It's a big thing we do. And uh, there was
Speaker 4: this sheriff in Chesterfield County, Missouri. Not on my fault
Speaker 4: up Michigan. No, No, the Michigan's where I'm going, but
Speaker 4: there was one in another I gotta get it anyways,
Speaker 4: but he's seen what I did with that guy, and
Speaker 4: these sheriffs are a lot alike and they have a
Speaker 4: big re entry program. And he called me and I said, dude,
Speaker 4: I'm in man, and he's the cool thing is he's
Speaker 4: fired up. It's in Flint, Michigan. It's the Flint, Michigan
Speaker 4: County Jail. They have a barber program. So I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go in unless somebody cut my hair that day. Every
Speaker 4: inmate who's graduating barber college or got their ged will
Speaker 4: walk that day with a robe and cap. He gives
Speaker 4: them robes and caps, which is really cool. I didn't
Speaker 4: get one. And I get to do a speech at
Speaker 4: the ceremony. Then I'm gonna sing some songs.
Speaker 10: I found it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the Genesee County Sheriff of Michigan announced jail
Speaker 5: concert featuring Jelly Roll December fifth.
Speaker 10: Do you ever record these?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the day after my birthday too, birthday. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we recorded one for a Netflix thing in the UK.
Speaker 4: I went back to my old jail and they let
Speaker 4: me perform at the jail I was in in South
Speaker 4: and Ashvilla and Hardy Only, UK. Yeah, but you have
Speaker 4: I don't understand how that worked out.
Speaker 12: America.
Speaker 10: Why can't we watch it?
Speaker 4: I know, like like they can't watch my Hulu doc
Speaker 4: over there.
Speaker 5: So that's answer to that. Well, that Hulu doc is
Speaker 5: very raw. I like it because you know, with that
Speaker 5: documentary there's a good I don't even like good or bad,
Speaker 5: but we'll just say there's there's one side and there's
Speaker 5: the other side.
Speaker 10: You show it all. You're very vulnerable in it as well.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like people feel they know you better
Speaker 5: because they've seen you express lows and they feel more
Speaker 5: comfortable to come talk to you because you've been vulnerable
Speaker 5: with them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I think it's I think it's vulnerability is
Speaker 4: something that I believe the generation before for me miss
Speaker 4: the most, especially amongst men. We're old enough. I don't
Speaker 4: want to share our age, but we're close right and
Speaker 4: like me, and it was like a rule. You just
Speaker 4: didn't talk about stuff, and I was like, man, we
Speaker 4: got to break that as men, we got to start
Speaker 4: being more vulnerable and creating safe spaces for other men
Speaker 4: and women to just like me and my wife's entire
Speaker 4: thing is built on connection and creating a safe space.
Speaker 4: I want you to be able to call me and
Speaker 4: talk to me about you won't talk to anybody about.
Speaker 10: Like the couple bubble. That's what I call it.
Speaker 5: A little bit like we got a bubble, and we
Speaker 5: got to make sure the bubble is protected at all
Speaker 5: costs with each other, and then we can figure everything
Speaker 5: else out. You and your wife have a strong relationship there.
Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah, I might steal that from me because we
Speaker 4: just call it the foxhole, and we call it like
Speaker 4: an onion. There's layers of our foxhole, but the foxhole
Speaker 4: is just me and my wife and our daughter, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, even just me and my wife,
Speaker 4: and we bring the daughter in. We need it because
Speaker 4: you don't want to stress her with life stuff, you know,
Speaker 4: So It's like this is my foxhole, and then the
Speaker 4: next layer is this small group of family and friends.
Speaker 4: It's just creating these safe spaces.
Speaker 5: What is your wife? What's her importance to you on
Speaker 5: a personal level?
Speaker 4: Man, constant motivation, inspiration, but listen by it. Let me
Speaker 4: tell you something about my wife, and I'm sure I
Speaker 4: can tell you feel like this about yours. She's my
Speaker 4: best friend. And I don't say that loosely, Like when
Speaker 4: I have a moment to call somebody to just laugh
Speaker 4: about something, like you know you have them go to
Speaker 4: people in your mind. I watched me in all day,
Speaker 4: like I gotta step outside and call my wife. I'm like, yes,
Speaker 4: I got a moment to call my wife, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? Like I'm excited to call her, Like
Speaker 4: I know we're gonna giggle, I know we're gonna sort
Speaker 4: through stuff like that's the that to me, Her inspiration,
Speaker 4: her motivation, her willingness. Just man, I could brag on
Speaker 4: her for days. Dude, She's everything I'm not. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do a post
Speaker 4: about it. Her closet looks like the epitome of organization,
Speaker 4: and mine is two suitcases strung out on the floor opened.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 4: our this is why I have my stuff together because
Speaker 4: of this woman.
Speaker 5: You know in that documentary you took Hillary Lindsay she's
Speaker 5: with you and she's you get You took her on
Speaker 5: the road to write. If I'm wrong on this, but
Speaker 5: on the head to write, and you're writing and you're
Speaker 5: singing in like a higher voice with her, I think
Speaker 5: she's like pushing you a little bit. What's the difference
Speaker 5: in your rapping voice and your singing voice.
Speaker 4: I can sing with more conviction than I could have
Speaker 4: rapped with, which is what I love the most about
Speaker 4: being able to sing.
Speaker 5: Am I right about that, because it's been I've seen
Speaker 5: that like months ago.
Speaker 10: But wasn't she like having you sing higher?
Speaker 4: Yeah? For sure. I was trying to sing with her,
Speaker 4: and you know, Hillary can't sing. For those of y'all
Speaker 4: that don't know, she's one of the greatest songwriters ever
Speaker 4: and she has the voice of an angel and her
Speaker 4: range is ridiculous. But I ended up actually singing the
Speaker 4: song in that key, so I ended up shooting for
Speaker 4: it on there.
Speaker 10: Anyways, do you feel confident when you're singing at all.
Speaker 4: Now, sometimes you know how it is like anything else,
Speaker 4: like when the room's right, like when you do comedy
Speaker 4: and the room feels good and it sounds good, and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh no, this is like like the opry
Speaker 4: is one of those places. I've never sounded bad every
Speaker 4: t except for Leslie Jordan's tribut because I was crying,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But every time it's like
Speaker 4: you just certain rooms you feel good, and some rooms
Speaker 4: you go in and they feel flat. Not the people
Speaker 4: the room, like empty room feels that. You're like, man,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a rough night at the office.
Speaker 5: Like they give you the confidence to be better. Therefore
Speaker 5: you're better for sure. After you wanted the CMA Awards
Speaker 5: and you say some really cool things and then it
Speaker 5: shows your trophies broken.
Speaker 10: Now was that a prop trophy?
Speaker 5: Because whenever I got they would always give me a
Speaker 5: prop trophy.
Speaker 10: And I'm like, if they gave Jelly Old a real
Speaker 10: trophy that night, like that's baller.
Speaker 4: I got a prop trophy, but I didn't know because
Speaker 4: I haven't got as many trophies as you, so I
Speaker 4: was thinking I'd ruined my only seat I still secretly
Speaker 4: hope they duck tape it and send it back to
Speaker 4: Amy broke hers.
Speaker 6: Did you well a couple of them, yeah, multiple of well,
Speaker 6: one of them I did, and another one Scuba Steve did,
Speaker 6: and they're in the boxes both of us. Is a
Speaker 6: situation where one fell out of his car, one fell
Speaker 6: out of mine. But they're a glass and so it's
Speaker 6: a sitting right here next to me, y'all.
Speaker 4: Didn't wrap it up, y'all have that little reverence?
Speaker 6: Oh no, there was. It just accidentally fell out and
Speaker 6: it was still in the CMA box like the protective box.
Speaker 6: And when you open it up set it's broken like it's.
Speaker 4: Very Oh so you didn't know it until you open.
Speaker 6: It to like super good. I guess.
Speaker 4: Is that Steve's story too, or was it an alcohol
Speaker 4: related in.
Speaker 7: Oh, it was actually lunchbox because I told him not
Speaker 7: to put him in the back seat and he did
Speaker 7: it slid out and happy to be Amy's.
Speaker 4: You know what I love about this show. I just
Speaker 4: watched the diamono effect of the blame.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what happen the trails all the way
Speaker 5: and eventually get back to me or you if you
Speaker 5: just sit here long enough. What's been the coolest thing
Speaker 5: about the last.
Speaker 4: Year the ability to help people. Somebody said a quote
Speaker 4: that changed my entire life. He said, if we believe,
Speaker 4: and this changed me just the middle of this year,
Speaker 4: if we believe that our purpose is to be happy,
Speaker 4: how much more narcissistic could we be? Our purpose in
Speaker 4: life is to be useful? And man, that changed my
Speaker 4: entire approach.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: I mean that's when I started being like, we gotta
Speaker 4: go to rehabs, we gotta go to jails. We gotta
Speaker 4: quit just writing checks and helping people. We got to
Speaker 4: show up and be people in service. And that's been
Speaker 4: the coolest part, man, is that almost every room I
Speaker 4: walk into, I make somebody happy. And I spent so
Speaker 4: many years walking into rooms either completely unseen or bringing
Speaker 4: the energy down. So now it's really cool to come
Speaker 4: in and lift things up.
Speaker 5: How hard is it to go from being in prison
Speaker 5: to being just a normal citizen.
Speaker 4: It takes a few years, and it's like, dude, I
Speaker 4: haven't been to jail in you know, four thirteen years
Speaker 4: or something. I went by my old jail again the
Speaker 4: other day for a TV special and it's so humbling.
Speaker 4: I went back to the old halfway house, and I
Speaker 4: was thinking about it that thirteen years later, I still
Speaker 4: look at things like I still won't play spades.
Speaker 10: Because it reminds you of what you do now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I still won't play diamondos. I don't eat flaming
Speaker 4: hot Cheetos, and I love flaming hot Cheetos, but they're
Speaker 4: a big commodity in jail, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: For whatever reason, you put them on sandwiches and stuff.
Speaker 4: But it's like, yeah, those things you realize stick with
Speaker 4: you forever. And that's just from my childhood being in
Speaker 4: and out of being in and out for eight nine years.
Speaker 4: I think about guys like Struggle, who did six seven
Speaker 4: years five six seven years straight, or dudes have done
Speaker 4: ten twenty thirty years. I couldn't have maned reacclimating to society.
Speaker 10: What's been the hardest thing about the last year.
Speaker 4: The schedule full? Maybe too honest, but the schedule Sometimes
Speaker 4: you're just like, man, I just you know, it's a lot.
Speaker 4: I'm grateful for it. You don't want to talk about
Speaker 4: it's hard.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 4: Are we in a safe space right now? It's like yeah, right,
Speaker 4: because it's like you I don't want to come off ungrateful.
Speaker 10: You're not to question I complained about schedule.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but sometimes you look at the schedule and you're
Speaker 4: just like, man, I just you know, I wish I
Speaker 4: had a little autonomy. I wish I just had a
Speaker 4: couple of days to like, you know, dude, I think
Speaker 4: I've slept in my bed thirty eight days this year,
Speaker 4: and Laney did seventeen last year, so she's like grime
Speaker 4: here or wherever.
Speaker 5: There was a point where I was thinking to myself
Speaker 5: and I kind of had to adopt the I'm lucky
Speaker 5: I get to be this tired because I work so
Speaker 5: hard to be able to run this ragged and I
Speaker 5: would have to have that or I would have just died, right,
Speaker 5: But that's what I had to really commit myself to be, like,
Speaker 5: I'm so fortunate to be able to be this exhausted
Speaker 5: flying all over the country doing this stuff because it
Speaker 5: does suck, but like you deserve it, and you deserve
Speaker 5: to be that tired, and congratulations, that's the greatest thing,
Speaker 5: the greatest thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's the greatest thing.
Speaker 4: It's the gift in the curse. Right, It's like the
Speaker 4: schedule gets exhausting but then you're like, man, this is dude.
Speaker 4: I'll be in I think four different states this week,
Speaker 4: and that's awesome to me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'm working all the way up until like the twentieth
Speaker 4: of December. I think is my last thing. The seventeen
Speaker 4: shows left this year really even when this airs.
Speaker 6: So what do you do to you know, rest and
Speaker 6: like if you have that moment or to recharge, what
Speaker 6: does that look like for you?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 4: I'm nerd, dude. I play video games a lot. What
Speaker 4: do you play though, Like Call of Duty or I'll
Speaker 4: play Mad and I play everything anything that's like I'm
Speaker 4: a real tribal guy, so anything that we can play
Speaker 4: as a team, you know what I mean. I'm into
Speaker 4: all that stuff and golf. I finally got to golf
Speaker 4: the other day. It was awesome. I went out a
Speaker 4: Black Friday and played it my old water and hold.
Speaker 4: It was fun.
Speaker 5: That's the first time I ever saw you, like in person,
Speaker 5: was on a golf course. Yeah, with Steve Hodges years
Speaker 5: and years and years baby, yeah. And I was like, oh, jolly,
Speaker 5: Rold the Rapper plays golf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love it too, dude. I played the
Speaker 4: other day for like the fourth time this year, having
Speaker 4: so busy and the other three were like scrambles like
Speaker 4: Charity and I had a good time, dude. I played
Speaker 4: pretty decent, man, I mean I shot high, but I
Speaker 4: had a couple of holes that I was like, I
Speaker 4: still got it.
Speaker 10: That's all it takes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all too. You know that game has a curse.
Speaker 4: You can go out there and bomb for seventeen holes
Speaker 4: and make one par and be like, I'm quitting my job, dud,
Speaker 4: I'm going to the league, dude, I'm joining the product,
Speaker 4: Like this is it? Why am I rapping? Why am
Speaker 4: I singing?
Speaker 5: Let's talk about save Me? So you know the song
Speaker 5: you mentioned Lanny? You and Lanny do this song together.
Speaker 5: I mean I feel like before this was even put
Speaker 5: out as a single, it had had single momentum and
Speaker 5: like single feel behind it because of how it had
Speaker 5: touched people.
Speaker 10: Do you feel the same way? And why do you
Speaker 10: think that is?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Man, it's like, well, I think that it was
Speaker 4: just so honest at the time, we needed honesty. This
Speaker 4: was in the middle of twenty twenty when I dropped it.
Speaker 4: Now when I met with the record label. This is
Speaker 4: how the sausage is made super inside Baseball. I take
Speaker 4: Jonathan Lower to the side before we signed our deal,
Speaker 4: I say, look, I know this song is already a
Speaker 4: double platinum song, but man, I get so many messages
Speaker 4: about the impact of its song. I think it could
Speaker 4: help so many people if we could find the right
Speaker 4: partner and give perspective. And this was before I signed
Speaker 4: the deal, before son of a Center, before need to
Speaker 4: favor any of this, you know, And he goes, I agree,
Speaker 4: let's find the right partner. And when I went to
Speaker 4: Lanny about it, it was a no brainer. Want I
Speaker 4: heard the conviction in her voice, you know, talking about
Speaker 4: God being good Bobby. I would have never I knew
Speaker 4: that she was on a hot streak when I got
Speaker 4: her on the record, and at the beginning of this year,
Speaker 4: I said, Lannie, I want you to know I'm hooking
Speaker 4: my trailer to your train.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: This everything Jelly Roll can do with this song I've done.
Speaker 4: I need a woman's perspective and I need your spirit
Speaker 4: on this. And she said, I got it. And then
Speaker 4: that same year she goes on the win Entertainer of
Speaker 4: the Year and have four or five number ones. I mean,
Speaker 4: she just had an unreal year. So I couldn't have
Speaker 4: had a better dance partner. I think she actually did
Speaker 4: all the heavy lifting on this one.
Speaker 5: You guys could follow at jelly Roll six one five,
Speaker 5: which Eddie brought to us that you you know, tell him.
Speaker 11: Vam jelly Roll follows me on Instagram.
Speaker 4: Yeah, babe, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 11: Was that a mistake? Did you accidentally slip?
Speaker 4: I am a fan of the show. This is I
Speaker 4: could when I get on here. I just ruggle not
Speaker 4: to ask y'all stuff that y'all didn't elaborate on that
Speaker 4: I want to know about it, that I might have
Speaker 4: missed the next one that somebody told what ended up happening.
Speaker 4: You know, I got questions, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: Well, he was.
Speaker 5: He came in one day, top of the world. He's like,
Speaker 5: jelly Roll follows me.
Speaker 11: It made my ear man.
Speaker 5: And then we told him its probably a fake account.
Speaker 4: No, no, dude, it's me, dude. I'm there. I love y'all, dude.
Speaker 4: I love this show good see No, no, my mama
Speaker 4: loves this show down. I love you, baby.
Speaker 10: We do so happy for you.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I hope hopefully I'll see him passing a few times
Speaker 5: because just running experiencing the success and spreading the word.
Speaker 5: You know, it's really cool to see it just blow
Speaker 5: up and for you to be like more cool, like
Speaker 5: chill or more down.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just we're around each other all the time, and
Speaker 5: I get to see new people come and meet you
Speaker 5: for the first time and freak out, and you treat
Speaker 5: everybody like they're the only person you have ever met
Speaker 5: in your entire life.
Speaker 10: Thank you, it's super cool to see.
Speaker 4: No, it's the coolest thing ever. Thank y'all for having me.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the show, being an advocate for Jelly.
Speaker 4: It's been fun from day one. This was my first
Speaker 4: big look on the on radio. I'll never forget the
Speaker 4: first interview and it going viral for us and how
Speaker 4: much that do for me in my career. I'll always
Speaker 4: think of y'all. That's why we're friends. That's why I
Speaker 4: follow all of y'all. That's why harassed Scuba Steve all
Speaker 4: the time. And uh, I just love y'all man, and
Speaker 4: I love you, dude, and thank you by the way.
Speaker 4: That night we did the opry, I've seen you talked
Speaker 4: about it the next day on the show Man. It
Speaker 4: meant a lot to me.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I've never seen that place more electric.
Speaker 5: Pre I had to go on right before you, and
Speaker 5: I was like, man, this crowd is nuts and I'm
Speaker 5: telling jokes right, and I'm like, they're nuts, not in
Speaker 5: a bad way, not in a good way.
Speaker 10: It's just a weird feeling.
Speaker 5: And then I was like, oh, and I say, I said,
Speaker 5: jelly Roll in the place like popped And there's a
Speaker 5: clip aub on the internet where I'm this woman it's
Speaker 5: going crazy, and I'm like, you're here for jelly Roll
Speaker 5: And she looks like I think, I say, she looks
Speaker 5: like Martha Stewart meets Girls Gone Wild.
Speaker 10: And she's out of her mind.
Speaker 5: But she's like somebody that would see at the post office.
Speaker 5: I've never seen that place more electric. Pre Like I've
Speaker 5: seen Garth come on and it'd be a freaking monster,
Speaker 5: but I've never seen it electric before somebody comes on
Speaker 5: and I've been at they I've played it twenty five
Speaker 5: times afore I hosted the show hundred times. That was
Speaker 5: the craziest performance I've ever seen before you even got
Speaker 5: on stage.
Speaker 10: For you, it was awesome.
Speaker 4: It was awesome, dude, And thank you When you said that.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, but just know I love y'all, like
Speaker 4: all of y'all.
Speaker 5: This is awesome, all right at jelly roll six one five.
Speaker 5: He may follow you everybody.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but can you say that quote that you shared
Speaker 6: me too, that you heard this year that changed your perspective,
Speaker 6: changed your life. I just I feel like closing on
Speaker 6: that would be really good because I think that is
Speaker 6: such a powerful thing.
Speaker 4: It's that if we think the purpose of life is
Speaker 4: to be happy, that's so narcissistic of us. The purpose
Speaker 4: of life is to be useful. I just want to
Speaker 4: be a man of service.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that, And I just want Arkansas WA
Speaker 5: National championship with football.
Speaker 10: But we're both working, aren't we.
Speaker 5: All right there, he is jelly everybody.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since Lunchbox has truly upset people,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, he always makes people angry and annoyed,
Speaker 2: but this is the first time I think he's been
Speaker 2: controversial and a hot minute. Y'all were calling up a
Speaker 2: storm about this one and posting online. Lunchbox's wife had
Speaker 2: her fortieth birthday and he had come on the show
Speaker 2: and been like, what do I do?
Speaker 3: It was like a few days before, Well he did nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna lay that out right here so you
Speaker 2: can prepare for the anger that's probably about to come
Speaker 2: over your whole body. Here's Lunchbox talking about what happened
Speaker 2: on his wife's birthday.
Speaker 5: Number three, Lunchbox his wife's fortieth birthday? Has it happened
Speaker 5: or is it about to happen?
Speaker 12: No, it's happened. She's forty. She crossed over that bridge.
Speaker 5: Well, we had the big talk like what were you
Speaker 5: gonna do for it? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I know, and most of I said something.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you guys said I should plan it. I said,
Speaker 12: she knows what she wants, she knows who she wants
Speaker 12: to invite. She should do it if she wants something,
Speaker 12: And how does it feel? Just that don't feel healthy?
Speaker 12: It feels so wrong. No, No, it's not healthy to
Speaker 12: put the pressure on me.
Speaker 5: That's the job you signed up for as her husband.
Speaker 12: I did not sign up as party planner. Yeah you
Speaker 12: kind of did for a fortieth Yeah, okay, cool. Well
Speaker 12: I didn't do anything. So I looked at it as
Speaker 12: it's an added pressure because you know what you want.
Speaker 12: So just plan it, because if I don't do it
Speaker 12: the way you want it, you're gonna be upset. So
Speaker 12: why wouldn't you just plan what you want?
Speaker 5: So whatever she did, she plan your fortieth birthday?
Speaker 12: No, it was more of a group text.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you you just did a face where you
Speaker 5: were like, eh.
Speaker 12: No, No, it was more of a group text. I
Speaker 12: guess she did a little bit. So we went to Vegas.
Speaker 12: She went, no, no, no, it was me, her, Ryan Garrett,
Speaker 12: and Missy. We all went to Vegas and we did
Speaker 12: like three days and then Ryan, Garrett and Missy left,
Speaker 12: and then she booked us at a different hotel and
Speaker 12: had like my first ever spa day and that's when
Speaker 12: we had the spot ourselves. It's pretty awesome, be honest.
Speaker 11: She planned all that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, she planned stuff. It's her fourtieth birthday. You
Speaker 5: plan nothing or you just doing a bit?
Speaker 12: No, no plan nothing. And then I was like, all,
Speaker 12: maybe we should go to dinner, but then we couldn't
Speaker 12: find a babysitter.
Speaker 10: Because you thought that so last minute.
Speaker 12: Yeah, couldn't find a babysitter. So her fortieth came and went.
Speaker 12: She ordered a birthday cake. I went and picked it
Speaker 12: up from the bakery. We had some cake, which she
Speaker 12: ordered it though her own cake. Yeah, which is good
Speaker 12: because she knew what she wanted.
Speaker 10: But you should also know what she wants to since
Speaker 10: your a husband, you're with her every day.
Speaker 12: I don't know what kind of cake she wants. You
Speaker 12: want a different cake different times a year. You don't
Speaker 12: want the same cake every time?
Speaker 5: Sure, a lot of cakes.
Speaker 12: I couldn't tell you the favorite kind of cake. Guys,
Speaker 12: it's not like we eat cake once a week. I
Speaker 12: don't know. Okay, so had the cake different times of
Speaker 12: the year, right, But like kid's birthday, we make a
Speaker 12: different cake every year.
Speaker 5: I mean I probably Yeah, I tell you, buddy, go ahead.
Speaker 12: So didn't have a babysitter. So this Friday we are
Speaker 12: going to dinner. We made a she made a five
Speaker 12: pm reservation because daycare has extended hours where parents can
Speaker 12: go Christmas shop. You know, they're like, oh, it's free,
Speaker 12: we'll stay upen until nine, and so we're gonna go
Speaker 12: to dinner five and celebrate her birthday.
Speaker 5: What do you say, except I I'm not not bad.
Speaker 10: I'm not surprised.
Speaker 5: I'm not even disappointed because that was kind of the expectation.
Speaker 5: I guess I'm disappointed that I'm not. I don't are surprised.
Speaker 12: I don't understand.
Speaker 5: I wanted you to kind of be like, we planned this,
Speaker 5: it was awesome. Surprised her with this, or we went
Speaker 5: into it, didn't mean crazy if you did nothing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like maybe that there's been some growth, or you know, you.
Speaker 5: Woke her up and you have a flowers in the
Speaker 5: morning when you woke up, you send her on.
Speaker 12: The How would I get it? Flowers were in the morning.
Speaker 12: A flowers shop ain't open at three o'clock in.
Speaker 11: The morning at the day. But if you can't buy
Speaker 11: it the day, But yeah, where are you going to
Speaker 11: put them in your car?
Speaker 5: I keep mine in my car and I put a
Speaker 5: little blanket over them. No, they didn't die, not in
Speaker 5: one night. And was she upset at all that she
Speaker 5: did nothing for a birthday except order her own cake.
Speaker 12: She didn't say anything, So I don't think.
Speaker 5: So what if that happened to you and she did
Speaker 5: nothing for you and you just sat at home.
Speaker 12: I'd kind of suck. M uh huh. Yeah, But I'm not.
Speaker 12: I'm not a planner.
Speaker 5: I feel like we're talking to my fifteen years do
Speaker 5: you have any guilt at all?
Speaker 12: Like no, I mean maybe a little bit, Like I
Speaker 12: didn't even get her card, Like maybe I should have
Speaker 12: got our cards a happy birthday. I didn't do that.
Speaker 10: Get her a gift?
Speaker 12: No, I didn't get her a gift.
Speaker 11: What I get her?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 12: Dude, you should think she likes Dude, it's your wife.
Speaker 6: I just it doesn't feel like we're having a real conversation.
Speaker 11: That's what I'm saying. This is crazy.
Speaker 5: This is I know everybody, this is I promise you.
Speaker 5: If it's a bit, it's a bit to me too.
Speaker 5: And I don't know he's putting me on too, because
Speaker 5: people like, there's no way this is true. That's what
Speaker 5: people say all the time. There's no way this is true.
Speaker 5: We did not sit and go lunchbox. You say this,
Speaker 5: and I'll say this, promise you.
Speaker 12: Like, literally, I don't know what my wife would want as.
Speaker 5: A present, even time away from you and the kids.
Speaker 12: Is that really a present?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Like you send her to again a spa here
Speaker 5: in town, get a massage.
Speaker 6: Yeah you liked that, right, you enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: You know I liked it because they did it? Did
Speaker 5: what what the small room that he got for them,
Speaker 5: she got for them.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker 5: I liked it.
Speaker 12: They literally said, hey, you have the room to yourself
Speaker 12: for an hour, and they didn't and we'll knock before
Speaker 12: we come back.
Speaker 6: I did not remember remember that.
Speaker 5: Good good for you. Then, okay, well, we're sorry I
Speaker 5: forgot about We're sorry to her.
Speaker 10: We try to be a good influence.
Speaker 12: I thought we did pretty good.
Speaker 5: Now we can say happy birthday Lunchbox's wife.
Speaker 10: That sucks.
Speaker 12: You know what I did do something for her birthday.
Speaker 10: Let's go.
Speaker 12: That is the day I came up here at night
Speaker 12: and interviewed the challenge.
Speaker 5: No way, that was the night you came up here.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, that's right.
Speaker 11: Okay, she's still married.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the must but at the.
Speaker 12: End of the podcast, at the end of the view
Speaker 12: interviewed the challenge, people said, Hi, your birthday tour good?
Speaker 10: Okay? Was she up here with them meeting them?
Speaker 12: No? No kids?
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 2: I had to share this update here, which feels it
Speaker 2: always feels weird when I include myself on this because
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here talking with y'all.
Speaker 3: But I did share an update.
Speaker 5: Y'all.
Speaker 2: Remember I gave a country artist my phone number on
Speaker 2: a friendship bracelet and I.
Speaker 3: Hadn't got a text for a while, but I did
Speaker 3: get a text.
Speaker 2: Over Thanksgiving, and so I shared what that text said,
Speaker 2: and everybody shared their thoughts. It was a whole situation,
Speaker 2: and more than anything, I just want to thank y'all
Speaker 2: for just I mean, you guys have been rallying around me,
Speaker 2: supporting me and just like so hopeful for me to
Speaker 2: find love and encouraging any and every which way I'm
Speaker 2: doing that. So shout out to you guys, because you
Speaker 2: guys are so awesome. And right now you're about to
Speaker 2: hear the latest update in the saga of the friendship
Speaker 2: Bracelet number two.
Speaker 5: Reagan News Fagan News. Well, well, well, Dustin Lynch text Morgan.
Speaker 5: That's all I know. I'd come on, let me just
Speaker 5: say that, let me do a quick version of the recap.
Speaker 5: Morgan was like, I'm gonna shoot my shot with Dustin Lynch.
Speaker 5: Lorgan's like, I've been single for a while, ile Dustin's
Speaker 5: a nice dude. I'm gonna give him a friendship bracelet
Speaker 5: with my phone number.
Speaker 12: On it.
Speaker 5: We're like, go for it. She does, we don't hear
Speaker 5: anything back. Then the label reaches out and like, hey,
Speaker 5: let's send him on a date. And I'm like, wait,
Speaker 5: is this a bit.
Speaker 10: For the label?
Speaker 6: In an airplane?
Speaker 10: Yeah, in an airplane?
Speaker 5: And then and then I'm like, well, maybe the label
Speaker 5: thinks this is a bit. So the water's muddy, but
Speaker 5: we're swimming, and so he hadn't texted you, and now
Speaker 5: he finally does.
Speaker 10: Now I know nothing about it.
Speaker 5: Guys, So everything she really know nothing?
Speaker 10: Morgan? Do I know anything?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't send him anything.
Speaker 6: I just said he texted.
Speaker 5: So we're all gonna hear and learn together. Morgan, what
Speaker 5: did Dustin Lynch, singer of songs like.
Speaker 10: Angel Girl, You're.
Speaker 11: Good, Good Girl Good? I No, No, that's Tom Peg?
Speaker 10: All right, go ahead?
Speaker 3: Do you want me to read the full text or
Speaker 3: do you well?
Speaker 8: Do you feel like, yeah, I think what she's asking
Speaker 8: me is should you read the whole text or should
Speaker 8: she keep him up a private I don't think she's
Speaker 8: going you, guys, that's to you.
Speaker 5: I would say it just depends because I don't know
Speaker 5: what the text says.
Speaker 10: So you do your best judgment Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'll just give you a recap and then you can
Speaker 2: view the text message later. But basically he said, like
Speaker 2: I saw the show convo.
Speaker 5: Because I'm already like feeling this is difficult for me,
Speaker 5: and I need to know when are you time out
Speaker 5: with your hands?
Speaker 6: Because when did this?
Speaker 5: When did the great question?
Speaker 12: Was it on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: It came in last Tuesday.
Speaker 6: And you've kept it from us.
Speaker 5: I just kind of was.
Speaker 3: Sitting on it. I was trying to figure out how
Speaker 3: it felt.
Speaker 2: Okay, I needed to process it.
Speaker 10: Okay, go ahead, So he said.
Speaker 2: He was like, I think you're awesome. Obviously, he decided
Speaker 2: a while back that he didn't want to date in
Speaker 2: the industry, so but he was like, I think it'd
Speaker 2: be fun to jump in the plane and go for
Speaker 2: a little film trip and take Lunchbox with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah with you.
Speaker 10: Well, here's what I want to say.
Speaker 12: I'm married.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 12: If he's trying to get to Lunchbox, that's I'm happily married.
Speaker 5: Lunchbox is in the industry too, So okay, first of all,
Speaker 5: I would like to acknowledge that it's brave.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10: I hope you don't have any regret.
Speaker 2: No, no regrets, and honestly, like I appreciate that, he texted,
Speaker 2: I appreciate the honesty, like all good, I'm good.
Speaker 10: No regrets is what I say.
Speaker 6: No, I had.
Speaker 2: Honestly already like kind of moved on and forgot about it.
Speaker 10: And you want to go to commercial lunch?
Speaker 11: He said, Should we try another artists?
Speaker 5: No? No, no, stand So again, I agree, no regrets.
Speaker 5: Now that being said, that's not it's not it's not.
Speaker 3: No, he's not interested.
Speaker 5: That's I'm just saying that so our audience knows that
Speaker 5: we're all in this room on the same page.
Speaker 12: Okay, Yeah, to drive it home, he started, Yeah, there's
Speaker 12: nothing there. Yeah, I never got off the runway.
Speaker 10: Oh good one his loss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, you know what, I I put myself out there.
Speaker 3: I still think he's a good guy.
Speaker 2: He has his feelings about who and how he wants
Speaker 2: to day and that's but I respect it.
Speaker 10: And you're I think you're the best.
Speaker 5: But if he found something industry he wanted date, he'd
Speaker 5: still tate him.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: That's a guy who says, I'm not looking looking to
Speaker 5: date right now. No, they're not looking to date you, right,
Speaker 5: not you Morgan they're not looking to date you right now.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm not looking for a commitment right now. I
Speaker 12: mean I don't want to have fun with you, but
Speaker 12: I don't want to have a commitment right now.
Speaker 10: But if you are committed, no offense, teamwork, no, it's okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Oh man.
Speaker 10: That being said, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 5: I also inspired a lot of listeners to to just
Speaker 5: be like, what's the worst thing that can happen? What's
Speaker 5: already happening?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and dating not here is rough.
Speaker 2: I mean like, sometimes you just got to go a
Speaker 2: little unconventional and try something different.
Speaker 3: And that's what I did.
Speaker 10: How long would you let me to ban him from
Speaker 10: the show?
Speaker 12: You don't have to ban no Morgan, come on, Oh,
Speaker 12: if we brought him in next week, that would be
Speaker 12: the most awkward thing ever. It would be awesome.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's gonna be awkward because Morgan's mature
Speaker 6: in him.
Speaker 5: Okay, what if we did what brought Morgan and Dustin
Speaker 5: and to play spend the bottle with only those two
Speaker 5: in lunch box?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's the weirdest threesomever you guys.
Speaker 12: Would have to play for the show.
Speaker 10: For the show Man okay, well, yeah, so now I need.
Speaker 3: A text him back.
Speaker 11: I have not.
Speaker 6: But do you think it could be about what I
Speaker 6: read about? When it comes to justin.
Speaker 10: Here's the thing, you can say whatever now.
Speaker 12: Okay, so what you read?
Speaker 6: He did a recent interview and he said, what do you.
Speaker 5: Say, Barbara Walters in a recent interview.
Speaker 6: Because it's not like I just heard it in past.
Speaker 6: But he said that he doesn't want to date in Nashville,
Speaker 6: or dating in Nashville is scary because so many women
Speaker 6: here kiss and tell and Morgan is on the radio.
Speaker 5: You know, if it was worth it now, yeah? Would
Speaker 5: it's different? Oh?
Speaker 6: He said the gossip afterwards was not worth it.
Speaker 12: You know how many people date in Nashville and don't
Speaker 12: worry about the kiss.
Speaker 10: It's not a thing if you want it. So we
Speaker 10: hate that, but we love the man. Keep going.
Speaker 5: We're proud of you.
Speaker 10: Are going on the play?
Speaker 12: Are we going up in the point?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 10: Oh you can't want you and him go I'm good.
Speaker 6: Well wait, is this like a way to get somewhere
Speaker 6: like easily?
Speaker 11: All go?
Speaker 10: Are you just on the phone randomly? No, I'm just
Speaker 10: on the phone randomly.
Speaker 5: Okay, Scoopa's got like a orded phone up to his ear.
Speaker 5: I don't know the dustin LNCH hotline rang oh man, right, okay, well,
Speaker 5: then let's.
Speaker 6: End this like I need to hop up to Arkansas
Speaker 6: for like a meeting. That'd be creative. I could just
Speaker 6: get he could fly me there. This is this offer
Speaker 6: on the table for everybody.
Speaker 12: Amy don't get it.
Speaker 11: No, can you imagine buch He says yes to Amy
Speaker 11: and not Morgan.
Speaker 12: No, this would be terrible, terrible Amy one, Morgan zero.
Speaker 6: He's so much maybe he's waiting for Abby or Amy
Speaker 6: so much younger than me.
Speaker 5: I don't know so much. He's like he's probably thirty seven,
Speaker 5: thirty six, thirty seven, and you're forty one.
Speaker 10: That's not that's nothing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, forty two, almost forty three.
Speaker 12: But only thirty eight.
Speaker 5: Oh that's so much your.
Speaker 6: Min I'm just different. I come with you know what.
Speaker 12: That's okay?
Speaker 4: It's a plane.
Speaker 6: No. No, I don't no, no. I don't refer to
Speaker 6: my children as.
Speaker 5: Bagging become children, past relationship.
Speaker 6: I have a good relationship with my thought.
Speaker 5: You were talking about anymore clips your dog coughing?
Speaker 11: You want to hear?
Speaker 5: Okay, that's for sharing that with us. If it were me,
Speaker 5: I would not respond.
Speaker 10: That's not the healthy thing to do. But you waited
Speaker 10: a week anyway.
Speaker 6: I just didn't know.
Speaker 3: I wanted to bring it to the show.
Speaker 6: I can't she like double tap heart thumbs up.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't double tap heart heart like that.
Speaker 10: What I would if I were going to do that,
Speaker 10: I would double tap thumbs down and.
Speaker 12: Or find a gift of a plane that crashes.
Speaker 5: Or just say just say, man, thanks for the text
Speaker 5: switch just a bit anyway, loser.
Speaker 6: Loser, No, no, thanks for the extra content.
Speaker 12: Or texting bag?
Speaker 5: Who is?
Speaker 11: Hey, did you think I was really serious? Nice?
Speaker 5: Ray? What do you suggest you always have a Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's got another chick, so we're done with this one.
Speaker 13: So yeah, we should definitely have some fun with it.
Speaker 13: And she should definitely text him back. Try and get
Speaker 13: that plane ride?
Speaker 11: Please?
Speaker 6: Why not because doesn't know who he's dating.
Speaker 10: No, I'm telling you that people. If that's the case,
Speaker 10: Dustin's in for a world her.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got it.
Speaker 6: I got because she's dating somebody else.
Speaker 10: I'm just saying. There are some slipslurping in a public place.
Speaker 11: That's that another dude, Oh that's the kiss in town,
Speaker 11: and it wasn't.
Speaker 10: It wasn't. I didn't read it anywhere. You mean it
Speaker 10: wasn't in a interview. I had a friend that was there.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, Morgan, Yeah.
Speaker 12: Send him a nude. Say sorry this.
Speaker 4: Nude.
Speaker 12: Sorry, there's what you're missing.
Speaker 6: I don't like hearing lunch.
Speaker 3: Yet.
Speaker 10: Weird job, Morgan, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the comedic relief that you guys are providing.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 11: It's been great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been a way bigger loser than this before,
Speaker 5: so don't worry about it.
Speaker 12: I mean, not much.
Speaker 6: She's not a loser.
Speaker 10: She lost this one, but it's okay. When you lose,
Speaker 10: you get stronger.
Speaker 11: That's like a loss. Say, she's not a loser.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she shot or shot she missed, and now she
Speaker 5: moves on. But she's stronger because of it, and she
Speaker 5: knows that the world doesn't end.
Speaker 6: I just didn't know if you thought it was comforting
Speaker 6: to say to someone I've been a way bigger loser
Speaker 6: than this, because that I don't know that would bring
Speaker 6: me comfort interesting, you know, because she's doing fine over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know I'm doing good. I genuinely had forgotten
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't respond it, I wouldn't respond.
Speaker 5: Okay, just let it flowed on into the world and
Speaker 5: then we won't have him on the show until twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five.
Speaker 10: Boom, you mess with our personal right that I doubt that.
Speaker 6: He probably is one of the people that's come on
Speaker 6: the show the most.
Speaker 10: Sorry sucking.
Speaker 5: Maybe Leura, we'll give away one of my cell phone
Speaker 5: numbers a day.
Speaker 10: Yoh, okay, that's it all right, thank you Morgan.
Speaker 1: It's the best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 12: Number two.
Speaker 2: Brenda Lee was in the studio this week and my
Speaker 2: Christmas heart couldn't possibly take it.
Speaker 3: It was such a fun interview and she's just so frickin' adorable.
Speaker 2: Not only that, but we match and everybody when we
Speaker 2: took the photo, everybody thinks that we may be related
Speaker 2: in some way, which would be wild. But she talked
Speaker 2: about the connection between her song Rocking Around the Christmas
Speaker 2: Tree with Home Alone, and there's a really huge connection.
Speaker 2: And she also shared some famous friends stories like y'all
Speaker 2: know Patsy Klein, George Jones. Yeah, she has stories about
Speaker 2: them because she's been in the industry practically her whole life.
Speaker 3: So just fun stories from Brenda Lee. You're gonna love
Speaker 3: this interview.
Speaker 2: And if you want to see how adorable she is,
Speaker 2: there's photos on our instagram where you can watch this
Speaker 2: interview at YouTube.
Speaker 14: So here we go.
Speaker 2: It is the Christmas Queen herself, or as Bobby calls her,
Speaker 2: the original Justin Bieber.
Speaker 3: It's Brenda Lee.
Speaker 1: Number one, So Bobby Bones Show Interviews.
Speaker 5: In case you didn't know, this is so cool for me.
Speaker 5: So Brenda Lee is here. She's celebrating sixty five years
Speaker 5: of her Christmas song rocking Around the Christmas Tree, Rocking
Speaker 5: Around Christmas Tree.
Speaker 10: At she recorded in nineteen fifty eight. She was a
Speaker 10: teenager when she did it.
Speaker 5: She got a new EP out it's more Christmas songs.
Speaker 5: She has such a life and such a history and
Speaker 5: country music and rockabilly music and it's super awesome.
Speaker 10: So here she is on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Brenda,
Speaker 10: it is so nice to have you in here.
Speaker 5: I see you driving around town sometimes and I always
Speaker 5: kind of geek out and I'm like, there's Brenda Lee.
Speaker 14: Well, aren't you sweet?
Speaker 5: I am very sweet? Yes, thank you, you're welcoming, very
Speaker 5: very sweet. Yeah, So correct me if I'm wrong here.
Speaker 5: But the song that every Christmas has played all the time,
Speaker 5: over and over again. You sang that when you were
Speaker 5: six years old? Is that right? Nine? Do you remember
Speaker 5: singing it? Because I don't remember almost anything at nine
Speaker 5: years old.
Speaker 14: I do, Yeah, I remember the players that played on it.
Speaker 14: I don't ever forget. I was sitting at home in
Speaker 14: the phone rang and I answered it, and it was
Speaker 14: one of my friends and she said, Brenda, did you
Speaker 14: know that your song is all over the movie Home Alone?
Speaker 5: It says here that it was recorded in nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 5: I guess I just assumed that it had always been
Speaker 5: a massive Christmas hit because in our life it mostly
Speaker 5: has been because Home Alone came out when.
Speaker 14: We were youngng eares, Yeah, and it was played, but
Speaker 14: it wasn't like nobody went crazy over it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 14: but it's a good song. It was written by Johnny Marks.
Speaker 5: So was it weird to you that it blew up
Speaker 5: way later?
Speaker 14: Yeah? It was, And that was really the catalyst that
Speaker 14: pushed it to where it went.
Speaker 5: And you have a Christmas EP that you put out
Speaker 5: earlier this month, and you do rocking around the Christmas Tree,
Speaker 5: Santa clausa comeing Town jingle bell rock a marshmallow world,
Speaker 5: a reimagined rocking, as we like to.
Speaker 10: Call it in the VIZ. Rocking. That's how we call it,
Speaker 10: don't you Guys don't call it that, but me and
Speaker 10: Brendy call it rocket.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we call it rocking.
Speaker 5: So are you known as like the Christmas Lady now?
Speaker 5: Because that's a big part of how a lot of
Speaker 5: us were introduced to you, is rocking around the Christmas.
Speaker 6: Stress you get?
Speaker 14: You know, Like I said, I never thought that that
Speaker 14: would be my signature song that everybody, if they remembered me,
Speaker 14: would hear that and say, yeah, that was her song.
Speaker 14: But it's become that. I thought I'm Sorry would be
Speaker 14: the one.
Speaker 5: Well, what's interesting about that song is it went viral
Speaker 5: on TikTok for it was on every time I'm sorry
Speaker 5: so so but that like kids were putting that yeah
Speaker 5: in their tiktoks.
Speaker 14: It was amazing to me that that group understood and
Speaker 14: loved that song.
Speaker 10: How old were you when you recorded I'm Sorry?
Speaker 14: Fourteen?
Speaker 10: And as a kid were you just a very gifted
Speaker 10: singer from a young age?
Speaker 14: I guess. I mean I never took lessons, I never
Speaker 14: practiced sorry as a kid though, who did, and it
Speaker 14: just all came natural.
Speaker 5: And at what age did you start to go I
Speaker 5: think I'm going to do this as a job. Was
Speaker 5: it at six, seven, eight, nine years old? Did you
Speaker 5: start traveling around singing?
Speaker 14: Yeah? I did, And I came from a very poor family,
Speaker 14: very poor background, and I was so thrilled that I
Speaker 14: was going to get to go and work and do
Speaker 14: what I loved but get paid for it where I
Speaker 14: could help my family.
Speaker 10: So would you get on a bus with adults and
Speaker 10: travel the country?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 14: Not at that point. It was by car and I
Speaker 14: slept up in the back window. Yeah, because I was little,
Speaker 14: that's all fit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, So yeah that is old school.
Speaker 6: Because you didn't have to buckle and no seat belts,
Speaker 6: no seat belts back then, that's right.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you're traveling around the country, you're a kid performer.
Speaker 5: You're basically Justin Bieber before Justin Bieber. Do you know
Speaker 5: that I didn't? You're the original had the original Justin
Speaker 5: Bieber here, which is so yes, yes, which is super cool.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 5: What I think is remarkable about remarkable about your career
Speaker 5: is you know, as we talk about the songs that
Speaker 5: you know, you're like, I'm surprised, But you're in the
Speaker 5: Country Music Hall of Fame, in the Rock and Roll Hall.
Speaker 14: Of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So you have like two three different massive careers
Speaker 5: that independently anyone would be super proud of. But the
Speaker 5: fact that you're in multiple hall of fames just shows
Speaker 5: how versatile you were as a singer. As an artist,
Speaker 5: you know, what, what years do you feel like you
Speaker 5: were thriving the most artistically? Like what age for you
Speaker 5: you were like on it you felt like you were singing, creating,
Speaker 5: like everything was going right.
Speaker 14: Probably fourteen, and I was getting the great songs and
Speaker 14: you get a great song and it's not hard to sing,
Speaker 14: but it never was worked to me at all.
Speaker 6: I loved it.
Speaker 14: And I think a lot of people in our industry
Speaker 14: are unhappy because they don't like what they're doing, but
Speaker 14: they love the money that it's bringing in and they
Speaker 14: love all that. And you'll finally burn out if you
Speaker 14: don't like what you're doing.
Speaker 10: Did you ever burn out?
Speaker 6: Never?
Speaker 14: Because I had a lot of responsibility even at the
Speaker 14: age I was. My dad died when I was seven,
Speaker 14: and it was almost like and I love to sing
Speaker 14: nobody made me sing. But it was like, Okay, well
Speaker 14: I can sing, maybe I can make.
Speaker 10: Some money, and you would send it back home.
Speaker 14: I'd give it to my mama.
Speaker 10: Yes, so I guess you would go back home with it.
Speaker 14: Well, we lived in Georgia, got it. So I was
Speaker 14: on a show called John Farmer and the TV Ranch Boys,
Speaker 14: and there was a place, a big, huge dance hall
Speaker 14: called Sports and I used to sing there every weekend
Speaker 14: with the guys on the show.
Speaker 10: As a kid.
Speaker 5: Oh so if you're a kid and you're in an
Speaker 5: industry with a lot of adults, and times are different
Speaker 5: back then though, but were there are a lot of
Speaker 5: bad influences around you. Not because it was you, but
Speaker 5: because that's just the nature of that kind of business.
Speaker 5: You're just around adults and that the road's hard and
Speaker 5: there's drinking, And how did that affect you as a kid.
Speaker 14: It didn't affect me because but I would see the
Speaker 14: drinking and I would see the It was hard even
Speaker 14: as a kid to ride in a car, and I
Speaker 14: remember sleeping up in that back window. But yeah, I
Speaker 14: was kind of kept away and hid from a lot
Speaker 14: of that.
Speaker 10: Oh that's good. So you have people around you that
Speaker 10: cared about.
Speaker 5: You, that detected Absolutely, that's great. And when I look
Speaker 5: back at some of your career, like, for example, playing
Speaker 5: Vegas at twelve years old, what was Vegas like just
Speaker 5: for it doesn't even matter what year it was, but
Speaker 5: for a twil all of year old to be playing Vegas,
Speaker 5: that had to be really exciting.
Speaker 14: It was exciting, and Vegas was exciting and Vegas was good. Uh,
Speaker 14: not like it is today.
Speaker 10: Evil.
Speaker 14: Now it's changed a lot.
Speaker 5: Somebody pooped in my shower last time I was in Vegas.
Speaker 5: Joke went in, there's me pooped in my shower. Brenda,
Speaker 5: that's so it is evil. So yeah, no, I don't interview. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm telling you in a Vegas trip for me? You
Speaker 5: he didn't know someone pooped in my shower. We went
Speaker 5: back in the room after we've been down. No, I
Speaker 5: wish it had been me. I wouldn't have been as
Speaker 5: grossed out. We walked back in the room and that
Speaker 5: we were was pooping our shower from somebody else?
Speaker 14: What'd you do?
Speaker 5: Called and said, there's pooping my shower from somebody else.
Speaker 5: Vegas has changed. That's why I'm asking about old time Vegas.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I loved old time there. Yeah, the days when
Speaker 14: Wayne Newton was the thing, and all the good acts
Speaker 14: and the and the quartets and all they were playing there,
Speaker 14: and it seemed like that was the place to be
Speaker 14: at the time.
Speaker 10: Did you ever gamble?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 10: Oh man, never.
Speaker 6: Never.
Speaker 5: Can I ask you about some people, like, for example,
Speaker 5: Little Richard so exciting as an artist, not just a player,
Speaker 5: not just a singer, but as a whole artist.
Speaker 10: And I know that you knew Little Richard.
Speaker 4: What was he like?
Speaker 14: He was crazy in a good way, He was very sweet.
Speaker 14: He supported a lot of people, and his show was
Speaker 14: one of the most exciting to this day that I've
Speaker 14: ever seen. And he's my friend.
Speaker 5: A lot of people would even know him. That's younger
Speaker 5: than me. From Full House. He went on and was
Speaker 5: the uncle on Full House, and so he went and
Speaker 5: he played the school show. I was a big Little
Speaker 5: Richard fan. I was too.
Speaker 10: What about someone like Patsy Klein.
Speaker 14: Patsy and I were the best of friends, even though
Speaker 14: I was a lot younger. I was a kid, but
Speaker 14: I'd go and she'd talked to me about show business,
Speaker 14: and she taught me a whole lot about how to
Speaker 14: deal with people. And I lived on Kelly Road at
Speaker 14: the time, and her we had twelve acres and it
Speaker 14: was all fenced, and her plane went down almost in
Speaker 14: our backyard. And it broke my heart because even though,
Speaker 14: like I said, she was older than me, I just
Speaker 14: loved her. I still I'm close to her kids.
Speaker 5: To this day.
Speaker 10: What about someone like George Jones.
Speaker 14: Well, George, I mean, what a singer, one of the
Speaker 14: best singers I've ever heard. But the stuts he pulled, and.
Speaker 10: That we would hear about them, or we see like
Speaker 10: a recreation, but we probably.
Speaker 11: Have no idea.
Speaker 14: Well, he was funny and you know, I could see
Speaker 14: him drinking a little bit. But other people say, we
Speaker 14: don't know how tow that he goes on stage, But
Speaker 14: he did and he did great. So I never knew
Speaker 14: that side of.
Speaker 5: Him because you stayed away from him in a personal life.
Speaker 5: Or your age was so my age was so young.
Speaker 14: Mama wouldn't let me when I got off that stage.
Speaker 14: Mama was waiting and there we'd go, Well.
Speaker 5: That's a lot of love, it is, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: That's gotta be tough. As you're getting famous, your mom
Speaker 5: still going I'm still the mom even though you're getting famous.
Speaker 10: What was your mom, Like.
Speaker 14: My mom was a beautiful woman. My dad died when
Speaker 14: I was seven, so Mama had a lot to do
Speaker 14: and everything, but she she was she was a pretty woman.
Speaker 14: And she was asked many times by bailles in the
Speaker 14: industry for a date and she never would do it.
Speaker 14: And I would say, Mama, date them, maybe you'll on
Speaker 14: somebody for yourself and be happy, and she would always say,
Speaker 14: I'm happy now, So I just kind of let it drop.
Speaker 5: Sounds like she is one of the major influences on
Speaker 5: still who you are today.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I don't know who or what I would have
Speaker 14: been without my mother.
Speaker 10: Do you ever go back to your hometown and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: what's it like now?
Speaker 14: It's still the same, honest to goodness. I expected to
Speaker 14: go down and say, see maybe one big building. I
Speaker 14: knew there it wasn't going to be like Atlanta, But
Speaker 14: it's still the same precious little town that it was
Speaker 14: when I left.
Speaker 5: Do you have a sign says home of Brenda anything?
Speaker 6: I know they have.
Speaker 14: They have a sidewalk that goes all around the school
Speaker 14: I went to, and it's my It's the Brenda Lee sidewalk.
Speaker 5: Oh that's cool, because do you want to sign I'll
Speaker 5: make them put one up if you want one.
Speaker 10: Do you want one?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Do yeah?
Speaker 10: No, I don't think I won't call and talk to
Speaker 10: the mayor.
Speaker 4: Oh do it?
Speaker 10: Okay, make that note Scuba.
Speaker 5: We're gonna call, dang it and get a sign that
Speaker 5: says welcome to the home of Brenda Lee. There you go,
Speaker 5: and then it's gonna say quote, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: A couple more questions for you here. And I only
Speaker 5: say this because of your nickname, which was a little
Speaker 5: Miss Dynamite. But it was because everyone said you were
Speaker 5: stood four.
Speaker 14: Nine, So.
Speaker 5: I don't know how tall you are now four nine.
Speaker 5: You're still four nine, Okay, four nine's not very tall
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: Did you ever think at like, I don't know, ten eleven,
Speaker 5: fourteen years old, like at some point am I gonna
Speaker 5: grow anymore? Or was your mom also short?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 14: Mother wasn't. Nobody in my family is except me.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 5: How'd you feel about the niname little Miss Dynamite because
Speaker 5: it was referencing that you were four nine, four foot nine.
Speaker 14: It was well, you know, I was just glad, like
Speaker 14: I said, to have a moniker that people would remember.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5: But you have so much that people remember, and it's
Speaker 5: it is wild what has been chosen to be remembered
Speaker 5: by the masses, by the mainstream, because again, you have
Speaker 5: if you were to separate your careers individually, you have
Speaker 5: like three different, massive, wildly successful careers.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: And what people know now that are that's my age
Speaker 5: and younger are.
Speaker 10: Rocking around the Christmas tree.
Speaker 5: It still played currently, I mean as a current Christmas
Speaker 5: song it is, and then I'm sorry, went viral and
Speaker 5: still it's probably sampled for songs all the time too.
Speaker 14: It is TikTok uses it all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 10: Do you still make decent money off the Christmas song?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Oh good?
Speaker 14: Like that all right?
Speaker 5: So that's that supports you? Like you still get the checks.
Speaker 14: I get the checks. But my husband is the bread winner.
Speaker 10: So he sports us hey wink wink, and.
Speaker 14: And he makes sure that the royalties right good and
Speaker 14: all that's right. And then he has his own separate
Speaker 14: business which is a millwork company and makes all the
Speaker 14: trim for the wonderful homes here and really, yeah does
Speaker 14: all that stuff?
Speaker 10: And I need to give you guy a call.
Speaker 5: Then yeah, well were you seeing as he puts.
Speaker 14: It on, you are crazy?
Speaker 5: But you know he.
Speaker 14: Works every day, and I say, why are you working
Speaker 14: every day? You don't have to? He says, I love
Speaker 14: it and I want to take care of it because
Speaker 14: we have two girls and three grandchildren and one great grandchild,
Speaker 14: so we figure that we're going to try to leave.
Speaker 5: Them something if there's extra.
Speaker 14: I'm here too, okay, because you're being real nice to
Speaker 14: me and I like that. You'll get a check in
Speaker 14: the mail, don't you worry?
Speaker 10: Thank you? Well, not now.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not dead, yeah exactly. Yeah, some people think
Speaker 5: I am, but I'm okay. Let me say this and Brenda,
Speaker 5: at some point, maybe even next year, I do this
Speaker 5: show that's like a different show.
Speaker 10: It's like an hour long. We really get into the
Speaker 10: career line.
Speaker 4: I'm so just.
Speaker 5: Just wildly interested in your career other than the Christmas song. Okay,
Speaker 5: I would love for you to come over to my
Speaker 5: house studio sometime and us just because you have such
Speaker 5: a history of not just this town, not just this format,
Speaker 5: multiple just living different lives.
Speaker 11: Through the ent.
Speaker 14: Like when I go to foreign countries, I sing in
Speaker 14: their languages.
Speaker 5: I've learned no way. Yeah.
Speaker 6: How many languages?
Speaker 14: French, Spanish, Japanese.
Speaker 5: What song can you sing in Japanese?
Speaker 14: I had a hit song there called One Rainy Night
Speaker 14: in Tokyo.
Speaker 10: And you can sing that Japanese.
Speaker 14: Or Nima.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you're lying, so I'm just gonna.
Speaker 14: Go she beg nasika sunakuti a little bit.
Speaker 6: That's a big yeah.
Speaker 5: You're not making that up because I don't know Japanese.
Speaker 10: I can't fact check that. No, you call, you get
Speaker 10: my Japanese front on the phone. Don't have any don't
Speaker 10: have any.
Speaker 5: I just have to trust you.
Speaker 10: Brenda.
Speaker 5: Okay, everybody out there, here's the deal. A Rock and
Speaker 5: Christmas with Brenda Lee came out earlier this month. It
Speaker 5: is an honor to spend a few minutes with you.
Speaker 5: I would love to just go super in depth at
Speaker 5: some point, because you are You would love that. Yeah
Speaker 5: to me, You're it. She sold over one hundred million
Speaker 5: records worldwide, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and we still play.
Speaker 5: There's so many more accolades too, But I don't want
Speaker 5: to make you feel too good. I need you want more,
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, yeah, I need you want more. Accolades
Speaker 5: so the next time we do this, I'll go full
Speaker 5: in and tell everybody exactly how great you are, but
Speaker 5: i'll do it in Japanese. No, how on. I just
Speaker 5: thought that'd be fun to say.
Speaker 14: But I can come back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh for sure, and we're gonna spend a lot
Speaker 5: of time together, and we're going to talk about all everything,
Speaker 5: not just Christmas.
Speaker 10: Right now, it's Christmas, I get it. We're promoting this
Speaker 10: and your song. I love it.
Speaker 5: I'm so happy you came in, but I wanted to
Speaker 5: talk about your whole career because I don't think that's
Speaker 5: been focused on in a way that is that that's
Speaker 5: right to what you deserve. Well, thank you, You're very welcome.
Speaker 5: I'm very sweet. Remember me with that check?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 5: All right, there she is Brenda Lee.
Speaker 10: Everybody, thank you, Brenda, thank you.
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Speaker 3: If that can't get you in the holiday spirit, I
Speaker 3: don't know what will.
Speaker 2: I hope you're enjoying a fun weekend as we head
Speaker 2: into the crazy holiday season. Maybe you're shopping, watching some
Speaker 2: Christmas movies. I am probably going to be taking some
Speaker 2: big naps and watching Christmas movies along with having some
Speaker 2: hot chocolate. So maybe I have a weekend like mine.
Speaker 2: If not, I'm just glad that you're here, excited that
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