Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 1: What's up, y'all? Welcome to the Best Bits. This is
Speaker 1: just the bits. Thank you guys for hanging out with
Speaker 1: me this weekend. Before we get into it, make sure
Speaker 1: y'all check out part one, which is with Scuba Steve
Speaker 1: this weekend. We dive, we dived, we doved, you know
Speaker 1: whatever verb it is, into our lives. Talked about some
Speaker 1: things from our past as well as what's been having
Speaker 1: with us lately in Scuba and his kids. Just lots
Speaker 1: of fun stories over there, so definitely check that out.
Speaker 1: We're going to kick this one off. Coming in at
Speaker 1: number seven. Amy felt that she might have been a
Speaker 1: helicopter parent with her son. He asked to ride his
Speaker 1: bike to jiu jitsu practice and she said yes, but
Speaker 1: she also followed him. So listen to this and let
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Number seven. Okay, so the
Speaker 1: question from Amy is is she a helicopter parent or
Speaker 1: a responsible parent? Why do you ask this? What happened? Well,
Speaker 1: so Stevenson has started to want to ride his bike
Speaker 1: to him his practice, like his classes. You know that
Speaker 1: he takes for martial arts and stuff, and I want
Speaker 1: him to have that freedom. Yes, go ride your bike.
Speaker 1: We live in the area where you could do that.
Speaker 1: But then at the same time, I followed him in
Speaker 1: my car. Liberty, you're free child. Yea strong the lng. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then there was one point where I was at
Speaker 1: a red light filming him and he caught me. He
Speaker 1: didn't know that you were following him at all. No,
Speaker 1: I said, free as a bird. You got this, dude,
Speaker 1: you got this. Go ahead. And so I followed him,
Speaker 1: especially to this one busy or intersection that I'm worried about,
Speaker 1: and I, you know, wanted to make sure he did good.
Speaker 1: And then I went off and I pulled over and
Speaker 1: kind of hid back behind these bushes to see if
Speaker 1: he would handle everything within the law. And he did.
Speaker 1: I was so proud of him. Okay, I don't think
Speaker 1: this is helicopter parent at all. Okay, I think it's
Speaker 1: fine to do this a couple of times to see
Speaker 1: if he's making good decisions. I think it's fine to
Speaker 1: do it when he knows you're following him. I think
Speaker 1: it's fine to do it when he doesn't know you're
Speaker 1: following him, so you can see what decisions he's making.
Speaker 1: And then eventually, though, if you like what you see,
Speaker 1: you have to fall off and let him do what
Speaker 1: you told him he was getting to do anyway, right.
Speaker 1: My only problem with is not so much that I'm
Speaker 1: fearing his choices now that now that I've seen him
Speaker 1: do it successfully, I'm very proud of him. I just
Speaker 1: worry about other people that might snatch him or something. Well,
Speaker 1: that's always going to be there, right, are you going?
Speaker 1: Are you going to let him just right? Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make you feel good. Amy, here we go. Ready,
Speaker 1: people are always gonna try to steal him. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I feel better about this. No, it's right. So are
Speaker 1: you going to let him do it without you're following him?
Speaker 1: Next time? We'll see, I'll let DVD. I'll keep y'all posted.
Speaker 1: This is this is a big deal. I am proud
Speaker 1: of him, and we'll see what happens. One time I
Speaker 1: couldn't catch him on the way back, and I had
Speaker 1: to call my husband be like, you gotta follow him
Speaker 1: on the way home because I can't be there and
Speaker 1: you gotta fall So my husband was all trying to
Speaker 1: be all incognito following our son home because in full
Speaker 1: camo behind trees, crawling on the ground. But then like
Speaker 1: did this maneuver where he beat him home and so
Speaker 1: he thought we were at home like the whole time, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're clever. You're probably not as clever as you think,
Speaker 1: but I like it. It It means you love him. And
Speaker 1: if you watch him make good decisions many times in
Speaker 1: a row, you have to trust that he's gonna make
Speaker 1: good decisions when you're not watching him as well. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what I would say. But are you a helicopter parent?
Speaker 1: I go no, I'm gonna speak Freddie because he is
Speaker 1: a helicopter parent and go no. Eddie thinks you should
Speaker 1: have him in that little cart beside you and you
Speaker 1: should ride him. You know, you should put the little
Speaker 1: cart like the little bicycle cart, the sidecart. Hey, she
Speaker 1: was telling that story and the whole time I'm not
Speaker 1: in my head. Absolutely, you're a great parent, Amy, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but would you eventually let your son just do it himself? Now?
Speaker 1: Not the next year and he's like eventually twenty one,
Speaker 1: you're we're fourteen year old? Or held her? Yeah he's fourteen.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you're a helicopter parent. Let the kid go.
Speaker 1: I mean guys, you have to let the kids out
Speaker 1: in the world and experience things. I was riding my
Speaker 1: bike to school a mile away when I was in
Speaker 1: second grade. I was six years old, riding my bike
Speaker 1: to school. You guys need to get a grip on reality.
Speaker 1: Let the kid go do his thing and trust that
Speaker 1: you have raised him to make smart decisions. People. The
Speaker 1: Cold War is over. Okay, exactly, Lunchboxes out argue with
Speaker 1: Clouds right now, Mica, when I was a kid, but
Speaker 1: I can't believe you won't let him ride his bike
Speaker 1: and you tailgated him. Well, no one knows that. But
Speaker 1: also it was Lunchbox an advanced second grader six okay,
Speaker 1: seven years old? Sorry, seven years old? Sorry about that, Amy,
Speaker 1: keep doing you. I like it. Give us the up
Speaker 1: date whenever you let him go himself. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: it's the best bits of the week with We're getting
Speaker 1: number two. You know, whenever our show gets invited to
Speaker 1: an event or to go do something out in public
Speaker 1: or out in the wild, it's almost guaranteed that stories
Speaker 1: are going to come back from it. And that's definitely
Speaker 1: what happened this time. Scuba, Steve and Eddie went to
Speaker 1: Graceland for the Elvis movie, the whole press junket, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff, and while something happened, basically, they did
Speaker 1: something that the show has deemed unprofessional and not a
Speaker 1: good look for us. So you know, you can hear
Speaker 1: the segment for yourself, and then if you check out
Speaker 1: part one, which is with Scuba, he gives a little
Speaker 1: bit more to this story and his thoughts on the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Number six. You know, we are allowed certain
Speaker 1: things because we do a show, a big show, I'll
Speaker 1: say it, the biggest it's ever happened in this format.
Speaker 1: And so with that, like Spider Man, you know, with
Speaker 1: power comes responsibility, and sometimes we aren't as responsible as
Speaker 1: we should be with that power. And mostly I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Scuba, Steven Eddie because they went to Memphis, they
Speaker 1: went to go watch the Elvis movie. And whenever you're
Speaker 1: a producer or you're like Eddie, you get the phone
Speaker 1: number of artists that will come play on the show
Speaker 1: because you got to have these professional contacts. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean if you see someone covering their song in a
Speaker 1: bar at midnight, you should send them a video of
Speaker 1: somebody playing their song. Would you? When you agree, Amy
Speaker 1: I'm nervous to hear what happened. Yes, okay, so what happened,
Speaker 1: Scooba Steve, Why don't you tell me what happened? Somebody's
Speaker 1: playing Gavin to Gross song somewhere. Yeah, so Eddie and
Speaker 1: Iron Memphis for that Elvis junket, and we're at a
Speaker 1: bar and this guy we were upstairs at a top bar,
Speaker 1: had a good time coming down. This guy he's just
Speaker 1: killing it. He's got nine different pedals, he's playing solos.
Speaker 1: He's really really good at playing the guitar. And he
Speaker 1: starts singing a Gavin the Gross song and I'm like, whoa.
Speaker 1: Eddie and I start singing along, and I was like, Eddie,
Speaker 1: should we send us to Gavin. Eddie's like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: totally send it to Gavin. I was like, but it's
Speaker 1: like ten thirty, it's kind of Lais like, no, Gavin
Speaker 1: Hardy's late, don't worry about it, he'll be up. Just
Speaker 1: send it to him. So, under the peer pressure of Eddie,
Speaker 1: I sent a video. We're not blaming it on Eddie,
Speaker 1: You're you're the oh Eddie, You're in fault too. But
Speaker 1: Scooba Steve is the responsible list of the responsible and
Speaker 1: was he playing I don't want to Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: and I in the hindsight, I probably should have done it,
Speaker 1: but I just and I've never done it before, and
Speaker 1: I just felt like that was the time to do it.
Speaker 1: And he responded and said yes. I think he felt
Speaker 1: like he had no other options. He's a nice guy.
Speaker 1: Don't text me. Whose idea was it to do that?
Speaker 1: I don't remember because we both are little tips. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, see alcohol and celebrity. Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to have to text him and say
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry that we use a number that was
Speaker 1: given to us for professional reasons to harass you, even
Speaker 1: in the nicest way on a Friday night. I'm sure
Speaker 1: people cover that song all the time. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if somebody texted him somebody covering that song every time
Speaker 1: they saw it? Mean anybody else guilty of texting artists
Speaker 1: that have come in before? Anybody? Well Scoopa is the
Speaker 1: only one that's a producer that has the numbers. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is a that's a pretty crazy line to cross,
Speaker 1: but it's a baller mood to be like start that
Speaker 1: friendships and say thing bad. It was just it was
Speaker 1: just a cover. Wasn't like I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I want to hang out. It
Speaker 1: was just like, here's this, have a great day, here's this.
Speaker 1: Have a great day at ten thirty at night as
Speaker 1: you've been drinking. That was basically a professional booty call. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're at a bar, you had a few drinks, yet
Speaker 1: somebody kind of have like a professional crush on Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so inappropriate or totally appropriate, Amy, inappropriate, lunchbox, inappropriate baller.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're starting a relationship. It's good Eddie. Hey, dude,
Speaker 1: I was there. You're eliminated. No, I knew it. It's
Speaker 1: not awesome. Okay, it's funny. I'm gonna be like, hey, sorry,
Speaker 1: my guys text you while they were drunk on Friday night.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be going down Broadway just looking at people
Speaker 1: singing covers to go through Scuba's phone to oh no, okay,
Speaker 1: So I wanted to start with that. Hey, I'm not mad.
Speaker 1: I'm just disappointed, right, Yeah, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.
Speaker 1: It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves this segment, which kind of makes me sad.
Speaker 1: Because that means y'all like to hear us being rejected.
Speaker 1: It is rejected segments. Bobby comes on and he shares
Speaker 1: segments that were pitched to him but never quite made
Speaker 1: the air. And even in this segment, they make the air,
Speaker 1: but it's not a guarantee that you actually get to
Speaker 1: talk about what's going to happen. So, without further ado,
Speaker 1: rejected Segments number five. Listen, you guys come up with
Speaker 1: a lot of ideas for the show, and some of
Speaker 1: them get used, and that one was very appreciative, but
Speaker 1: some of them are so just we'd never do them,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the effort, but that's how we get
Speaker 1: this segment called rejected segments. Rejected segments. Although some of
Speaker 1: these are so dumb. I don't think you guys even
Speaker 1: really wanted me to air it. I think you're just
Speaker 1: filling out space. I gotta sitting in some ideas. So
Speaker 1: these are rejected segments segments and in a million years
Speaker 1: we would have never done on the air. There have
Speaker 1: been times though, where I've been like, wow, that's actually
Speaker 1: a pretty good segment. Let's do it. So let's see
Speaker 1: if any of those do this. We'll start with Lunchbox
Speaker 1: Lunchbox welcome, thank you, and I don't know why any
Speaker 1: of my segments get rejected. I'm shocked when they don't
Speaker 1: make it. Lunchbox wrote, I am supper annoyed with my
Speaker 1: wife Supper, which I think I'm at super That spelling
Speaker 1: is not my strong point. Care that much, he said,
Speaker 1: I think my wife's faking a back injury so she
Speaker 1: could just lay around all weekend, turn me into a
Speaker 1: single dad. I don't think she was hurt. Listen to
Speaker 1: these grunts and moans I've recorded of her, and tell
Speaker 1: me that she isn't exaggerating it. Okay, guys ready like
Speaker 1: this are getting up off the couch, in the car,
Speaker 1: out of bed. I mean, it is so ridiculous. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Okay, I'm going it. She's not hurt. Come on,
Speaker 1: like that's exaggerated, right, No, did she know you were
Speaker 1: recording her? No, that thing is real. I'd be so
Speaker 1: mad if total my husband brought in. I mean like,
Speaker 1: I mean literally, so for three days I had to
Speaker 1: do everything with all three kids, like she just sat
Speaker 1: there on the couch like I can't get up all
Speaker 1: like the kids crying. Okay, oh, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get that like what rejected segment? Rejected segment. That's how
Speaker 1: you guys stop talking about it. I just yelled. Next up,
Speaker 1: Mike Dson. In Paintball Roulette, we get five different paintball guns,
Speaker 1: but only one is loaded. Bobby, Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, and
Speaker 1: Morgan get a chance to select a gun and we
Speaker 1: take turns shooting each other. The game stops once one
Speaker 1: person quits or goes to the hospital. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: brutal bit, I've been hit. It's not that's like some
Speaker 1: squid games stuff right there. Talking about rejected segments. Also
Speaker 1: from Mike d It's a spin off of one of
Speaker 1: our other segments where we do the employee of the Month,
Speaker 1: but instead we recognize the person who is the worst
Speaker 1: employee of the man because person needs to show the
Speaker 1: most improvement, and we list all the things they did
Speaker 1: badly last month. That's hilarious money worst, that just would
Speaker 1: not be good for morale. Rejected segments, Morgan number two,
Speaker 1: And this one actually wasn't so bad. I just I
Speaker 1: guess it didn't get to it. But you've been in
Speaker 1: three different workout classes where the same guy keeps live
Speaker 1: streaming the workouts. Yeah, I'm like in the background of
Speaker 1: all of his live streams and I'm just working out.
Speaker 1: I didn't figure it out until all the way through
Speaker 1: a full workout class and I walk over and there's
Speaker 1: people like commenting on what we're doing. Is he a
Speaker 1: person in the class or teaching the class? No, he's
Speaker 1: a person in the class. Oh, he's just in the class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so weird. He's live streaming himself, yes, so that
Speaker 1: others can work out with him. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: then the rest of us are in the background of it,
Speaker 1: and we don't know that strangers are commenting on what
Speaker 1: we're doing while working out. Yeah, usually just sign it
Speaker 1: consent if we're a if you're a teacher, I get it. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna live stream the class to people who can't
Speaker 1: get up here. Yeah, somebody random? Yeah, just setting up
Speaker 1: on the side, like watching him go at it. Oh
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound he listen. Even watched him do ab
Speaker 1: crunches with his body like, you know, his legs towards
Speaker 1: the camera. It was not a pretty go. Is this
Speaker 1: like a thing like a rejected segments lunchbox back in
Speaker 1: the mix? Here? Oh, hello, Lunchbox is mad at Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Oh boy, because they're not putting on models.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know. Yeah, they put Kim Kardashian on the
Speaker 1: cover of the Swimsuit issue, and I'm like, we already
Speaker 1: know Kim Kardashian. Give another model a break. And also,
Speaker 1: that's how we discover new models. That's how we what
Speaker 1: do you what do you need models for? I mean
Speaker 1: that's how they get their big break and we get
Speaker 1: to see a new hotty instead of oh Kim kay,
Speaker 1: we already see Kim kana bikini all the time. They
Speaker 1: should rejected segments frustrating. Okay, Raimundo saw on TikTok how
Speaker 1: he can remove excess skin from his eye for twenty
Speaker 1: dollars and let's know if he should right on the air, Yes,
Speaker 1: tell us how Yeah, I've had these stighs on my eyelids.
Speaker 1: They run in my family. My grandpa had on, my
Speaker 1: father has him and my wife in a noise or
Speaker 1: it's right on my eye. It's been there, Jack segment
Speaker 1: rejected segment twenty dollars. Yes, he's gonna lose an Eye's
Speaker 1: gonna tell us and somebody's gonna do it, but he
Speaker 1: could do it on air. Yeah, rejected segment phone, I
Speaker 1: got one left. This one is from lunchbox. He wanted
Speaker 1: to spill the tea on shady Scuba Steve because he
Speaker 1: saw a shady deal in the parking lot and he
Speaker 1: doesn't think what Scooba is doing is legal. Yes, there
Speaker 1: was a car that pulled into the garage. Scuba went
Speaker 1: out there and looked at his left right, stuck his
Speaker 1: hand in the car person hitting him like a brown
Speaker 1: paper bag wrapped up. Scooba went put it in his
Speaker 1: truck like no one was watching. I was like, that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem very normal question. It wasn't like an Amazon delivery.
Speaker 1: It was a can't cash for something? Like how did
Speaker 1: this go down? Let me just run this by it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you like Scuba Steve. Yeah, let's say he was doing
Speaker 1: a drug deal, which I don't think it was. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I was doing, all right, but let's
Speaker 1: say it was. Would you really want to come in
Speaker 1: here and tell on him for doing that? I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's going down to work, like do that at
Speaker 1: your house, man, don't bring that business to my work.
Speaker 1: It was me at Jeopardy doesn't but what was it? Really,
Speaker 1: I don't go was Steve, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: It wasn't a drug deal, so I don't mind asking
Speaker 1: him this. Yeah, yeah, no problem, was it a drug deal.
Speaker 1: It was not. Actually the thing you're speaking into right now,
Speaker 1: that red microphone that I got you for Christmas. It
Speaker 1: was that. Oh they got brought out that dropped dropped
Speaker 1: it off, and I was trying to be secret about
Speaker 1: it because it was a surprise. Oh that's it. So
Speaker 1: how do you feel, lunchbox? I feel good. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that Scoop was not breaking the law. It just seemed
Speaker 1: weird than you're gonna just tell on him. It was
Speaker 1: the car was in the car was all tinted windows,
Speaker 1: and it was just seeing every car almost just saying
Speaker 1: it had a radio, just seeming really shady. Okay, well
Speaker 1: those are all rejected segments. Amy didn't make the less
Speaker 1: good job. Oh but I don't know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: fun hearing them. Okay, here's battom for you. A woman
Speaker 1: trusted Amy with her purse in the bathroom. Whoa, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big dude. That's weird. That crazy. So she
Speaker 1: was in the stall next to me, and her like
Speaker 1: toddler son was in there with her, and he kept
Speaker 1: throwing stuff out of her purse into the other stalls.
Speaker 1: And so when I got out and washing my hand,
Speaker 1: she scooted it under and she was like, can you
Speaker 1: watch this for me? And I'm like, this woman does
Speaker 1: not know me. But I gathered everything and put it
Speaker 1: up on the synk and waited for her to come out.
Speaker 1: You look trustworthy. She couldn't see me through the stall.
Speaker 1: But why was that rejected? It could just a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Well, I wasn't going too And
Speaker 1: you're like, whoa, what had that? Well? Okay, but I
Speaker 1: just thought, wow, this woman trusts me because I could
Speaker 1: have just walked out with her purse. No problem. That's
Speaker 1: rejected segments. Thank you everybody. Please rejected segments. Keep them coming.
Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 1: Also in the Best Bits this weekend, Amy's son a
Speaker 1: husband sending her photos of his bathroom visits and it
Speaker 1: sounds exactly what you think. So I'm just gonna leave
Speaker 1: this one here because I don't need to get into
Speaker 1: this and share my opinion or talk about it. I
Speaker 1: just want you guys to hear it for yourself. Here
Speaker 1: it is Amy's son what he's been doing lately that
Speaker 1: she does not know what to do with. Number four,
Speaker 1: I feel like you want to show me a picture
Speaker 1: of something I saw Amy grab her phone. Is we're
Speaker 1: going to segment what's on your phone? Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you want to see it. But my son
Speaker 1: now thinks it's hilarious to text me pictures from his
Speaker 1: bathroom experience. What do you mean like when he goes
Speaker 1: to the bathroom bathroom number two, he takes a pictures.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I don't want to see that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Why don't text that? You don't know? No,
Speaker 1: I thought, is this just the little boy humor thing
Speaker 1: and the medical reasons? Yea, like mom, I think he
Speaker 1: should or he's proud of himself. Oh no, I don't know. Yes,
Speaker 1: And now he thinks it's so funny. Oh oh, can't
Speaker 1: stop old stuff. Oh no, I've never opened a text
Speaker 1: from him. It'd be like I haven't eaten in days
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't look at it because I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to see that. Don't to me? To me you no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, Oh, dude, what are you
Speaker 1: tell him? Please stop? This is not or don't send
Speaker 1: these to anybody else? But mom, no, no, please stop. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: no pictures. It's like a Jeans jaga born in the seventies.
Speaker 1: No pictures, no pictures. Yeah, I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: hope he's not texting him out to anybody. Have his
Speaker 1: own phone. He has an iPad. He's taking a picture
Speaker 1: of an he's having to get a cinematic. That thing's huge.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he doesn't have a phone. Oh no, he
Speaker 1: can text me through his iPad account. Oh that's what
Speaker 1: he's been up to, like an email, like a week.
Speaker 1: What else he up to? Well, he had a friend
Speaker 1: over and they got locked out, so that was quite
Speaker 1: the experience. I get you at home. I wasn't home.
Speaker 1: The friend has a phone, so text me and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I was just down the shad at the grocery store
Speaker 1: and I was going to be back. And he's like,
Speaker 1: somehow we've managed to get locked out. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: well I'll be home soon, so just play basketball or
Speaker 1: do something outside and I'll be there. And I get
Speaker 1: back and Stevenson's very dramatic and is already spelling out
Speaker 1: sos with sticks and rocks in our driveway for people
Speaker 1: flying over instead of knock on the door. And what's
Speaker 1: funny is he just learned what meant a week ago,
Speaker 1: and so I actually thought it was quite clever and cute.
Speaker 1: But he was just very dramatic. When I pulled up.
Speaker 1: We have been locked out for hours. It had been
Speaker 1: no more than thirty minutes, that's for sure, and he
Speaker 1: was spelling out sos, which, by the ways, means nothing.
Speaker 1: Oh it means nothing. Save our ships, It's what people
Speaker 1: have inserted the meeting meaning to him, But it means nothing.
Speaker 1: It's made of just those specific sounds. And the letter's
Speaker 1: looking like a distress signal. Not save our souls, that's
Speaker 1: another one. Save our sushi, We our sisters. Oh come
Speaker 1: any of days. It's the best bits of the week
Speaker 1: with Morgan. Number two talk about an epic weekend at
Speaker 1: CMA Fest for obvious reasons, but more importantly because I
Speaker 1: got to meet Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and it
Speaker 1: was literally incredible and such a fun, cool experience. I
Speaker 1: met them in the wild. That wasn't like at a
Speaker 1: press moment. They were just out being country music fans
Speaker 1: and it was just so cool. So here's the story
Speaker 1: of how it all happened and how I realized that
Speaker 1: it was Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. Number three, Morgan,
Speaker 1: how did you meet Tom Hanks? Well, so I was
Speaker 1: at CMA Fest working, but after I got done working,
Speaker 1: I just went out into the crowd and I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with my parents and we're jamming to Jason
Speaker 1: Aldeen he was playing. I was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: really need to go pee. So I left during the
Speaker 1: middle of Jason Aldeen set and I'm walking up the
Speaker 1: stairs in this section where every other fan is at right,
Speaker 1: and I kind of look and I'm like, oh, that
Speaker 1: looks like Rita Wilson. She's on her phone. Didn't think
Speaker 1: much of it. I went to Pete and while I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there, I'm like, if that was Rita Wilson and
Speaker 1: she's only sitting next to somebody else, that has to
Speaker 1: be Tom Hanks. So I come back and I kind
Speaker 1: of scoot in front of him. There's no one around,
Speaker 1: no security guards, know nothing, and the guy sitting there
Speaker 1: jamming to the concert, Rita's on her phone reading something,
Speaker 1: and I just turned around and sure enough, it was
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson just sitting there like watching
Speaker 1: the show like any other fan. It's crazy that people
Speaker 1: weren't piling onto them, going hey can I get a picture?
Speaker 1: Like they weren't recognized, I know. And they were sitting
Speaker 1: like right on the aisle there in the rows in
Speaker 1: front and behind them weren't full, like you could easily
Speaker 1: access them if you wanted to. And after I went
Speaker 1: up to him, first of all, I did go up
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm Morgan from the Bobby Bones Show
Speaker 1: and we all love you on our show. Both of
Speaker 1: you guys are so awesome, Like do you mind if
Speaker 1: I get a picture. And then after that I blacked
Speaker 1: out because he took my phone and like took a
Speaker 1: selfie with me, and I have no idea what happened afterward.
Speaker 1: See Tom Hanks knows the gay having to grow a technique.
Speaker 1: You take the phone, take the picture, and you can
Speaker 1: scoot people on their way. That's exactly what happened. And
Speaker 1: they still feel loved, right, Yeah, I so did, because
Speaker 1: like I was like, oh, Tom Hanks even touched my
Speaker 1: phone like that even made me feel more special. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Just saw Tom Hanks hanging out, so you walked off?
Speaker 1: Why didn't they have better seats? Can't we can't we
Speaker 1: get Tom Hanks and better seats than sitting in the
Speaker 1: back of the stadium randomly. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know who they were there for, because they
Speaker 1: did stay through Jason Aldeen. They stayed for a little
Speaker 1: bit of Keith Urban and then they were gone. I
Speaker 1: maybe saw two other people go up to him. But
Speaker 1: besides that, there were people walking past the whole time.
Speaker 1: Oh see, that's what I would be nervous of. Is
Speaker 1: it if they were just chilling and then someone sees
Speaker 1: you asked for a picture, and then it causes this
Speaker 1: flow of people, and then I would feel really, really bad.
Speaker 1: I know that's why I did originally too. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I won't post a picture right now, like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make everybody come talk to you guys,
Speaker 1: And they were so cool about it. I don't think
Speaker 1: Tom heard me most of the time, though, because the
Speaker 1: whole set was going on, and he kept kind of
Speaker 1: putting his ear up to me, like I really hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying, But he just kind of smiled and
Speaker 1: took my phone, took a picture and then waved and
Speaker 1: I left. So did he look older younger in person?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've just never seen Tom Hanks in person,
Speaker 1: and he's about as famous as you can get. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, he looked so good. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how old they are, but like his smile. He
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's had work done or anything,
Speaker 1: but he looks amazing. And Rita looked great. But they
Speaker 1: don't look like Tom doesn't look like how he would
Speaker 1: look in the movies. He looks like how he would
Speaker 1: look out in public, and all those stories we hear
Speaker 1: about him, it's all. He has his hair died, like
Speaker 1: he's got like, you know, white hair, He's got his
Speaker 1: glasses on. He's just like a regular guy. Well, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1: I wish I could see somebody famous in the wild.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if they would have known who. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Morgan from the Bobby Bones Show. I think they're
Speaker 1: just here. What's just white noise to them, don't you think?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like Rita knew who it
Speaker 1: was because she looked at me and she's like, oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Tom had no idea. But Rita, I think new I
Speaker 1: don't know. Some say Forrest Gump was based on me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do Morgan wall and waste it on you.
Speaker 1: That's a good story, Morgan, that's pretty cool. I can
Speaker 1: hear Eddie's jealousy. You heard that. I can just hear
Speaker 1: driven out at I can't believe it. You never met him, Eddie.
Speaker 1: I've never met him. And that night I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be there with Morgan, but schedules got shifted around
Speaker 1: and I wasn't able to be there, So that was
Speaker 1: my one chance. That's your punishment there. It's the Best
Speaker 1: Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two. A super
Speaker 1: cool accomplishment for Bobby this week. His children's book Stanley
Speaker 1: the Dog The First Day of School is out. Now.
Speaker 1: He couldn't do the whole press stuff that he planned
Speaker 1: for it because he's not been feeling well, and so
Speaker 1: he did talk about it a little bit on this
Speaker 1: show this week. But I'm definitely wanted it to be
Speaker 1: here on the Best Bits so you guys could purchase
Speaker 1: it and get it if you haven't already. If you
Speaker 1: pre ordered and did all that good stuff, awesome, But
Speaker 1: if you haven't ordered it. You can go to Bobby
Speaker 1: Bones dot com and get you a copy. He signed
Speaker 1: a book for my niece and nephew and it went
Speaker 1: to Kansas to them, So I'm super excited to hear
Speaker 1: and see pictures of them reading it and make sure
Speaker 1: if you're reading it to your kids or you got
Speaker 1: the book, share it on socials with us. He's loved
Speaker 1: getting to see all of that. Number two, I had
Speaker 1: a book come out on Tuesday, Stanley the Dog first
Speaker 1: day at school. I had all this press lined up
Speaker 1: to do and missed every bit of it, so I
Speaker 1: got to do no sort of press for the book.
Speaker 1: So well, what's crazy is how many people pre ordered.
Speaker 1: And honestly I was shocked. I forgot I pre ordered
Speaker 1: it and it arrived in the mail and I was like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: look at me, okay back in the day. But also
Speaker 1: I saw so many people that got it day of
Speaker 1: which means so many people pre ordered. Yes, and I'm
Speaker 1: very appreciative. And if you weren't pre ordering, because I
Speaker 1: would never pre order anything really, and I appreciate those
Speaker 1: who did. You can go to Amazon and order it
Speaker 1: now and it'll be there in a day or two.
Speaker 1: But it's yes. Two things to say. Yes, it's called
Speaker 1: Stanley the Dog First Day of School. But I haven't
Speaker 1: received my signature yet. Oh you just kidding. I didn't
Speaker 1: email the thing, but I saw some people are getting
Speaker 1: mad and they're leaving that as a review and they
Speaker 1: need to not do that because you're mailing it out
Speaker 1: and they need to give you five stars. Well, here's
Speaker 1: what happened. The book company says you need to do
Speaker 1: a pre sale. I said, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: a pre sale. I think presales are dumb. They said, well,
Speaker 1: it's in your contract to do a presale. I said,
Speaker 1: I will only do a pre sale if I can
Speaker 1: promise the people they are going to buy it early
Speaker 1: that I can send them something extra. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to charge them anymore. But they say, okay, great, So
Speaker 1: we sell like thirteen thousand in presale. I've been signing.
Speaker 1: I've been signing these little art cards every day for
Speaker 1: at least an hour for the past two months. And
Speaker 1: so we never said they were going to come out
Speaker 1: right when the book came, you're gonna get the book.
Speaker 1: Some of them got it before, so we'll get it after.
Speaker 1: But you'll get it in the mail and it's a
Speaker 1: signed piece of art that goes with the book, and
Speaker 1: people are all upset that didn't get there is when
Speaker 1: other people are getting it on the app. We're mailing
Speaker 1: them out individually. I'm going crazy over here and I
Speaker 1: got sick. And so then they're leaving one star reviews
Speaker 1: on Amazon. They're like, love the book didn't get them
Speaker 1: out to graft one star. Yeah, I was bothered by that,
Speaker 1: but I was just saying too, they had to have
Speaker 1: also sent the email to get the signature. Yes, it
Speaker 1: is a matter anyway. Okay, It's the best Bits of
Speaker 1: the week with Morgan. Number two in Super Hot At
Speaker 1: the number one spot is Gavin DeGraw. He came on
Speaker 1: the show this week for an interview and he also
Speaker 1: performed some of his hit songs, including Yes, I Don't
Speaker 1: Want to Be, which, as a One Tree Hill fan,
Speaker 1: such a fun moment. I've seen him in concert, but
Speaker 1: nothing was like this interview in this performance. Gavin is
Speaker 1: just such a good dude. And to have him in
Speaker 1: here talking about all of his hit songs in his
Speaker 1: new project and what he has had to go through
Speaker 1: in his life recently to put out this new project
Speaker 1: just an all around. Incredible interview and probably one of
Speaker 1: my favorites in recent years. So, without further ado, why
Speaker 1: have I been saying that a lot lately? I have
Speaker 1: no idea, but it's Gavin DeGraw Number one. Gavin. I
Speaker 1: was watching some of this this this docuseries where you're
Speaker 1: road tripping, and I know that you also like to
Speaker 1: be in your bus. Do you hate flying? I just
Speaker 1: is like, would you hate flying or you just like
Speaker 1: being on the ground. Uh? Man, I don't really like
Speaker 1: airports because I hate flying. I'm scared of flying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're scared of people. It sounds like, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't like bad interactions and airports is like it's like
Speaker 1: a recipe for bad interactions with people. You know, you
Speaker 1: taught me a lesson in an airport once. It was
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. That's pretty pandemic. And I
Speaker 1: think we were sitting next to each other or near
Speaker 1: each other on a flight and we had both been
Speaker 1: stopped going through the airport. But you were you were
Speaker 1: very efficient and very nice to people, and I'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's take it. I would take like ten minutes and
Speaker 1: you're like, no, here's what you do. You go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me your phone, and you take the self before them,
Speaker 1: and you give them their phone back, and everybody wins.
Speaker 1: And so that's the move because yeah, your lesson was
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, well, I can't give my camera ride.
Speaker 1: I can't. He say, you just take the phone from them.
Speaker 1: You do that, you take the selfie because you know
Speaker 1: exactly how to do it. Then you hand their phone back.
Speaker 1: At true, everybody wins a lot faster, and it looks
Speaker 1: good because you control it because you've been doing it
Speaker 1: a million times. Yeah right. You know who did it
Speaker 1: the best? Who I saw do it? And I was like,
Speaker 1: he's knocking this out of the park Ed Sheering. I
Speaker 1: was with Ed one night and things were blowing up
Speaker 1: for him and I was like, man, this guy's really
Speaker 1: good at this. Look at that angle way to hold
Speaker 1: that phone steady. He's got it down. I got it,
Speaker 1: got out the mole skin. I was like chopping it
Speaker 1: down on pen and paper. You know, I remember this
Speaker 1: thirty degrees. I've passed your knowledge to multiple people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the same way I taught you, you taught me. Gavin's
Speaker 1: going generationally at this point, let's do this. It's like
Speaker 1: you'll save time you'll have a better picture. Just say, hey, yah,
Speaker 1: let's take a picture. Give me your phone boom, take
Speaker 1: it all right, there we go and I love it.
Speaker 1: And if you're not too heavily caffeinated, the pictures pretty good.
Speaker 1: Otherwise the little shaky Yeah, let's forget about the caffeine
Speaker 1: hits me hard. Man, I'll drink and eight ball's worth
Speaker 1: of it and I'll be I'll take the selfie for
Speaker 1: it looks like an earthquake gappen. Congrats on the new record, man,
Speaker 1: so good you don't it was lucky enough that you
Speaker 1: send it over to me, because you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: a fan of you musically anyway. And I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's and we're gonna play something from it just a
Speaker 1: little bit. But also, and I'm not sure if you
Speaker 1: know all who's been bragging about the record, but I
Speaker 1: would be considered like a half toaster. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a podcast called The Morning Toast and they were player
Speaker 1: bragging on it and playing it to a pretty podcast
Speaker 1: and I was like, I know that guy. Thanks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I didn't do it. Mind's right now, but there's
Speaker 1: already happened, I think, yeah too, man, So the record
Speaker 1: is really great. So when this thing comes out, well,
Speaker 1: I guess before it comes out, like, how long do
Speaker 1: you work on an album like this? And do you
Speaker 1: feel like musically sonically this is I don't want to
Speaker 1: see a change. It definitely feels a little more in
Speaker 1: the loveliest way, like mature, Like did this album did
Speaker 1: do you feel? Did you feel like that appropriate way
Speaker 1: to describe it? I think that's spot on. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: record came out on the twentieth of May, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been holding it back, um because I
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was the right time to put
Speaker 1: it out for a long time. It's been done for
Speaker 1: a long time, but you know, the world was all
Speaker 1: upside down and my life, my personal life was all
Speaker 1: upside down. Um, and I wasn't I wasn't sure when
Speaker 1: when's the right time to put out new music and um,
Speaker 1: when does it feel like the right time? And also
Speaker 1: at the same time, how how am I going to
Speaker 1: serve the songs to my fans? I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to just launch this thing out, you know, out
Speaker 1: of a cannon and hope people heard it. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of deliver it to them personally and
Speaker 1: go out and play little rooms. Um the tour I
Speaker 1: just did. UM. I went out and I played rooms
Speaker 1: that were the size of the rooms I played before
Speaker 1: I ever had a record deal. UM like the Even
Speaker 1: on launch, the actual release day of the record, we
Speaker 1: played the Bitter End, which is the first place they
Speaker 1: ever gave me a gig in New York City. You know,
Speaker 1: it holds one hundred and fifty people, two hundred people.
Speaker 1: I just felt like being in those environments was the
Speaker 1: right way to serve the songs to people who've been
Speaker 1: with me for a long time. The audience is basically
Speaker 1: what changed my life. So I wanted to serve them
Speaker 1: the songs the way that I used to serve songs
Speaker 1: before I haven't had a record deal. Get up on stage,
Speaker 1: talk about the music, talk about my life and you know,
Speaker 1: here's a song about it and all these things happen,
Speaker 1: and then just make it rhyme right, make it ry yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, making this record it was heavily personal.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of loss in the family.
Speaker 1: And I lost my mom, and then two weeks later
Speaker 1: my grandma died, and then six months later my granddad died.
Speaker 1: And then COVID happened, and then my dad got diagnosed
Speaker 1: and he died, and you know, I'm watching all that
Speaker 1: stuff happened around me. But I wanted to finish the
Speaker 1: record while he was alive. I wanted him to hear
Speaker 1: the record. It was that was my timeline. My timeline
Speaker 1: was finish it for dad right whenever, you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: before I lose him. So it wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: a business as usual album. That wasn't going to be Hey,
Speaker 1: let me write some songs and I hope I get
Speaker 1: some hit songs. And it just had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that. It was just different. The world was different.
Speaker 1: I'm different, and for me to go on and just
Speaker 1: do business as usual, cutting records just in hopes of man,
Speaker 1: I hope it catches on, it just wasn't gonna It
Speaker 1: would be disingenuous. And I can't ignore the things that
Speaker 1: happened to me, or to them, or to every the
Speaker 1: world as a whole, you know, and just launch a
Speaker 1: record and and hey, this is so people dance. That's
Speaker 1: just not how I feel. You know, the world changed
Speaker 1: and I changed with it. I'm forty five years old,
Speaker 1: I'm a grown man. For me to go out and
Speaker 1: just trying to, you know, do my happy dance would
Speaker 1: just be silly. You know. I was listening to it again.
Speaker 1: I'd spent some time with it when you sent it
Speaker 1: to me, and then I was listen to it again.
Speaker 1: And this the track that hit me always every time,
Speaker 1: was Chasing Win. I'm gonna ray if you'll play some
Speaker 1: of this. Here's some of Gavin song Chasing Win. You
Speaker 1: know what's interesting too, as Dave co produced this right
Speaker 1: and Dave Calls worked with a lot of our favorite
Speaker 1: artists here intown. He's he's genius. I took a meeting U.
Speaker 1: He took a meeting with me, which I didn't expect
Speaker 1: because you know who am I? And Um? I met
Speaker 1: him in midtown here and U. We did lunch, was
Speaker 1: he and I And I was expecting some old geezer
Speaker 1: to walk through the door because I heard his name
Speaker 1: so many times, you know, and he had so many
Speaker 1: hit records. But he walked in. He had cooler hair
Speaker 1: than me, and he was cooler than me, and and
Speaker 1: uh probably younger than me. Um. He said, what do
Speaker 1: you want to do? And I said, I need to
Speaker 1: get all this stuff out of my body. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to co write with anybody. I want to
Speaker 1: go back to writing alone like it did with the
Speaker 1: first few records. UM. But I think you're the best
Speaker 1: producer in the world for kind of record I want
Speaker 1: to make U And he said, with some explet is,
Speaker 1: let's do it, you know. And a couple weeks later
Speaker 1: we were in the room and UM, you know, he
Speaker 1: brought in some ace players and I brought in the
Speaker 1: best guitar player. I know this guy right here, Billy
Speaker 1: Norris and uh and uh, and we just started recording
Speaker 1: and um. And I think that Dave's influence over the
Speaker 1: record as a whole was something that took took it
Speaker 1: to to heights I couldn't have I couldn't have seen.
Speaker 1: And um My my vision for it was more linear
Speaker 1: than his. Um. His vision was much bigger than mine. UM.
Speaker 1: And he really challenged me in the studio, which I
Speaker 1: really appreciated. I think we all worked better under pressure anyway,
Speaker 1: you know. I think everybody needs to have somebody kind
Speaker 1: of putting a thumb on him and uh and challenging him.
Speaker 1: And I think what he did, uh and what he
Speaker 1: demanded made the album a whole lot better. Than than
Speaker 1: I ever could. Gavin Nagrass here got a new album,
Speaker 1: Faced the River. We're gonna play for it in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. But when I think about, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody just says your name and that that chair that
Speaker 1: melody of Chariot, Yeah, just sits in like the on
Speaker 1: the back when it's like, hey, you know, listening to
Speaker 1: having a girl and immediately chair that that just that melody.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming when you when you play, you play, do
Speaker 1: you play all the hits like your shows? Yeah? Pretty much? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: You know I'm walking you play a little bit of
Speaker 1: Chariot just to get that that bug out of my ear? Oh? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: won't play just play the hook. Sure that's a part,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, it's part I think I know more.
Speaker 1: That's a part that Yeah, all right, here to good
Speaker 1: three four chairing you go walking down, so check I'm
Speaker 1: singing out to God me give me you sho rang nice?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm good. That worm is gone. You know,
Speaker 1: you just gotta sometimes you gotta feed the worm and
Speaker 1: the worms and the worm goes away. I like it.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna read tune now right? Do you
Speaker 1: need a second? Just a second? Cool? Can we keep talking. Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: So Chariot was one of your first singles. I played
Speaker 1: it on radio as wow. It was one of the
Speaker 1: early ones, right very early. Yeah, two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: somewhere and there. It was a funny little group of song.
Speaker 1: The timeline is really weird because the first song I
Speaker 1: ever released, um, I don't want to say it didn't
Speaker 1: do anything, but it didn't do anything. It was called
Speaker 1: follow Through. And then I got lucky with a song
Speaker 1: called I Don't Want to Be And then Clive Davis
Speaker 1: loved the song follow Through so much he goes no
Speaker 1: rereleasing follow Through, so he wanted to launch it again,
Speaker 1: and that time, for whatever reason, it was a hit.
Speaker 1: And then the next one was Chariot. And so it
Speaker 1: was in that first little little group. Yeah, but I'll
Speaker 1: be around. It was till five or six. Everything's just
Speaker 1: flying so fast. Then, I'm assuming at that stage of
Speaker 1: your career, you know. It's funny. I was always um
Speaker 1: afraid to acknowledge any successes that were happening. Um, I
Speaker 1: was almost too busy to notice them. But as they
Speaker 1: were occurring, I was so afraid that they were going
Speaker 1: to disappear if I picked my head up to look
Speaker 1: in the rearview mirror and go, well, cool, look, look
Speaker 1: what just happened. You know, um, and I and I
Speaker 1: was you know, I don't know. It's a personality type thing. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm always waiting for the other shooter drop. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so you know, even when big things were happening,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was, oh, we have to do this.
Speaker 1: We're doing this. It's great, we're doing this. But we're
Speaker 1: doing this. I guess we're doing this because we have
Speaker 1: to do this because nothing's working yet, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And I don't know why. It's a personality
Speaker 1: type thing. But you know, you get on, you're lucky
Speaker 1: enough to come on, it will show like this me
Speaker 1: and go, this is great, this is awesome. We definitely
Speaker 1: have to do this. Nothing must be working right. It's
Speaker 1: a little happening by a little lot of nerosis because
Speaker 1: I live no databauck, no dabt about it. It's it's
Speaker 1: fear and uh and it's you know, it's fear of failure,
Speaker 1: and it's fear of hey man, did I make all
Speaker 1: the wrong decisions? And you know I joke about it
Speaker 1: with with with friends of mine that you always feel
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm one one more bad decision away from
Speaker 1: just playing the lobbyist some hotel in the middle of somewhere,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know that guy you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, you're just you just you don't have complete
Speaker 1: control of things. You know. You mentioned you got lucky
Speaker 1: with I don't want to be yeah again. I was
Speaker 1: in pop radio at that point. I don't know it
Speaker 1: from One Tree Hill that the show. It's one that
Speaker 1: I don't know it from that. I'll just know it
Speaker 1: from being played on the radio. So which this chicken
Speaker 1: or Egg? Here? Was it a single? And then it
Speaker 1: got big and the TV show put it on, or
Speaker 1: did the TV show, and then it went from there. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny with that song because I thought
Speaker 1: that was the obvious first single. My brother was screaming
Speaker 1: up all the time at me, you know, in our
Speaker 1: apartment in New York. He's like, that's a single. What's
Speaker 1: wrong with people? You know, like they need to put
Speaker 1: that out first? But follow Through is the one. And
Speaker 1: I got a phone call from a guy. The song
Speaker 1: hadn't been selected to be a single yet, and I
Speaker 1: got a phone call from a guy named Joe de
Speaker 1: Vola and Joe de Vola said, hey, I want to
Speaker 1: use your song for a TV show, and I said, nah,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I don't even watch TV. TV stupid, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's just you know New York, you know East
Speaker 1: Village Art, you know snob at the time, you know,
Speaker 1: I was kicking around Alphabet City and you know, twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, right. So I said, nah, I don't even
Speaker 1: watch TV. Who watches TV? And I don't want to
Speaker 1: be associated with it. He goes, listen, you gotta help me,
Speaker 1: help you the song I think would be a big song,
Speaker 1: and I want to put in a show. I said, nah, no,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. You sound like a nice guy,
Speaker 1: but no thanks. He goes, okay, let me ask you
Speaker 1: another question. How much money you got in your bank
Speaker 1: account right now? And I was like, he starts laughing,
Speaker 1: and he goes, listen, think about it. We're not going
Speaker 1: to touch the song. We're just gonna put it in
Speaker 1: a place where people are gonna hear it, you know.
Speaker 1: And that show wasn't on yet, right, I wasn't even
Speaker 1: on yet, right, yeah? And I followed through. Apparently had
Speaker 1: been picked up and put in another show that was
Speaker 1: in pilot in pilot mode that never got actually never
Speaker 1: became bigger. But I think val Kilmerson was about the
Speaker 1: porn industry followed through. I don't know, but anyway, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, you' know what, all right, this guy's right.
Speaker 1: Guys like me aren't going to be watching this stuff
Speaker 1: anyway and associated with certain things. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: associate it with a teen show. I'm not a teenager,
Speaker 1: you know. I was twenty seven at the time, and
Speaker 1: I was an adult. But I said, all right, do it,
Speaker 1: do you know, man, just do whatever you want with it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and you know what, just do it,
Speaker 1: Just do it. And sure enough that the song took off.
Speaker 1: And then I walked into the label and I had
Speaker 1: a meeting with Clive Davis, and he said, with everything
Speaker 1: happening around this show, the show with the song you've
Speaker 1: heard clap Talk, the obvious next single would be I
Speaker 1: Don't Want to Be And I was like, all right, great,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. You know, so the song I originally wanted,
Speaker 1: it's finally going to be the single, and it did it.
Speaker 1: It took off, and you know, fortunately that was a
Speaker 1: foot in the door. In the door moment you know,
Speaker 1: does that I don't know. Obviously it got you to
Speaker 1: the place that you originally wanted, meaning it's kind of
Speaker 1: a weird way that happened. For sure, you wanted it.
Speaker 1: They said no, you didn't want it to be on
Speaker 1: the TV show, then you finally said yes, which got
Speaker 1: it back around where you wanted it. Yeah. So but
Speaker 1: do you look back at it being on the TV
Speaker 1: show and go, I wish I wouldn't have done it,
Speaker 1: or I wish I would have, or are you just
Speaker 1: like you know what nailed it? It had to happen.
Speaker 1: The looking back things always tough because I think if
Speaker 1: I would have made a different decision, I'd be looking
Speaker 1: back right now thinking I should have changed something else that,
Speaker 1: you know, based on wherever I was at that at
Speaker 1: that point, right as they say noah, they say, no
Speaker 1: battle plan ever survives combat. Right, So so you know,
Speaker 1: of course, no matter what changes I would have made
Speaker 1: back then, there'd be some other something else I'd have
Speaker 1: to look back on now it say I should alter this,
Speaker 1: I should alter that. But I think the association, certainly
Speaker 1: at first, was a great idea. It opened doors that
Speaker 1: were absolutely well did shut to me because there were
Speaker 1: other artists who are always going to have priority at
Speaker 1: other labels. You know, I wasn't I wasn't. I wasn't
Speaker 1: Alicia Keys. You know, she was out, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit before me, but under the same same company.
Speaker 1: I wasn't Maroon five. They were out just before me,
Speaker 1: with the same group of people doing the same marketing.
Speaker 1: So there were already a couple of acts here that
Speaker 1: we're going to get the most attention. And I needed
Speaker 1: to find I had to find a window to crawl through.
Speaker 1: Um and that's that was the window. So then let
Speaker 1: me ask you to you this way. When people go, hey,
Speaker 1: I know you from one Tree Hill, that's right, right, sure,
Speaker 1: Well people go I know you from one Tree Hill,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh no, I say, that's awesome because you
Speaker 1: know that's cool. Yeah, because how you found me, How
Speaker 1: you found me, however you found me. You know the
Speaker 1: fact that you know, twenty years later someone's coming up
Speaker 1: to me saying they know me from a team show,
Speaker 1: but they're still coming to my shows. That means somehow
Speaker 1: the music is making them feel good still, right, And
Speaker 1: if they're only coming for that one song, hey, god
Speaker 1: bless them. If they want to sit through two hours
Speaker 1: in music, you know, for me to get song at
Speaker 1: the end of the night. You know, then cool. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a speaking of which because I think every
Speaker 1: artist probably goes through this the first probably on their
Speaker 1: first their first successful song. Oh you're gonna love this, okay.
Speaker 1: So because I was having little success with that song
Speaker 1: early on, and the song took off. Here it's a
Speaker 1: big hit, blah blah blah whatever, people start coming to
Speaker 1: your gigs. So then you know, for about you know,
Speaker 1: for about six months, you start feeling pretty good. You're like,
Speaker 1: this is pretty cool. This is I'm having some success.
Speaker 1: You know, sadly, you feel like you're a little bigger, stronger,
Speaker 1: you know, everything's bigger on your body right, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And so I thought, let's play the hit early tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, let's do it like third. Everybody's gone by
Speaker 1: the fourth song. You can't do that. You know, everybody's
Speaker 1: left there is watching you just bored to death because
Speaker 1: they already heard what they came again. There was there
Speaker 1: was like two or three gigs. I was like, I
Speaker 1: know what I gotta do. I gotta play this one again.
Speaker 1: That's fun to play it again, you know, And Uh,
Speaker 1: so those are growing pains, those are those are real
Speaker 1: learning experiences, I think, and uh, just the stuff you
Speaker 1: gotta be able to laugh at afterward. Because every act,
Speaker 1: every act that's had a big hit, I know they
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Whether whether they decided I'm
Speaker 1: going to try it out play the hit earlier or not,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've all done that, but I
Speaker 1: know that they know the crowd is really coming for
Speaker 1: the hits? Do you you gotta play them, but you gotta,
Speaker 1: you gotta pick, pick and choose your moment. So you
Speaker 1: did you ever have a stage where you disliked playing it?
Speaker 1: You played it so much? No, I've never, not ever,
Speaker 1: Thank god. Well it's about to get real awkward. No, no, no, literally,
Speaker 1: But you know it's funny because I do know acts
Speaker 1: who talk about, oh, I don't want to play my hits,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do those anymore. And I think,
Speaker 1: to myself, does it how lucky they are right now
Speaker 1: that they get to do this. You know you got
Speaker 1: to pull them aside. But hey, listen, I know you
Speaker 1: know you've been doing this song every day since you
Speaker 1: wrote this song. But must I remind you you have
Speaker 1: one of the only jobs in the world that when
Speaker 1: you get the clock out, people clap for you and
Speaker 1: tell you what a good job you did. You know,
Speaker 1: name another one, you know, name another job you could
Speaker 1: think of that at the end of your workday, people go,
Speaker 1: great job, that was amazing tonight. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: get that. Nobody gets that. You know, get up there
Speaker 1: and give them what they came for. You're so blessed
Speaker 1: to be able to do that, or you you're you
Speaker 1: have forgotten how how tough real life really is. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to do a song for three and
Speaker 1: a half minutes for people who saved up three and
Speaker 1: a half months to drive three and a half hours
Speaker 1: to watch you sing that song, well, okay, Gavin, the
Speaker 1: girls here and he's looking at me when he said that. Sorry, man,
Speaker 1: so crazy that you would you want that, So listen
Speaker 1: as a fan, I'm glad that you feel that way,
Speaker 1: right And and with that being said, yeah, don't play
Speaker 1: the whole thing, just give me that doesn't give me
Speaker 1: the hook of that. I don't want to have him
Speaker 1: yell at me. I don't just give me the hook.
Speaker 1: And we'll call out to day on that one, all right,
Speaker 1: here's Gavin the girl hit me with that hook of
Speaker 1: I don't want to be Yeah, there we go. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be anything other than what I've been
Speaker 1: trying to be. Laid leg have to dude singing me
Speaker 1: and a piece of mind. I'm tired of it get around,
Speaker 1: but I gotta do I'm supposed to be. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be anything other than me. That's awesome. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the new stuff now, that's what we all
Speaker 1: came for. We drove three and a half hours. I
Speaker 1: don't want to yell at me again. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about leaving. Yeah, you leave after that. It'll so the
Speaker 1: song that I'd like for you to play, if that's
Speaker 1: cool as forward. It's from the new record. Would you
Speaker 1: give me a little set up on this? And you
Speaker 1: wrote it and forarded it, so what led you to
Speaker 1: actually do both? Uh? Well, this song is about sort
Speaker 1: of recognizing that you've been uh caught up on the
Speaker 1: hamster wheel of life, and you know, you have that
Speaker 1: revelation one day of you know, my stuff owns me.
Speaker 1: I don't own my stuff. Why why am I doing
Speaker 1: all this other work? Or am I why am I
Speaker 1: picking up this these o'ts Why am I doing these
Speaker 1: other things to pay for things that I'm not even
Speaker 1: getting to enjoy because I'm spending all my time just
Speaker 1: paying for him, you know. Um, And you're seeking advice,
Speaker 1: so you know, I think if you're gonna get advice,
Speaker 1: hopefully you get it from somebody that you love, somebody
Speaker 1: uh uh who's smarter than you and and who's older
Speaker 1: than you, um, because they're gonna give you better advice.
Speaker 1: So this is this is uh. The song's a conversation,
Speaker 1: uh about somebody looking for advice asking some old dude,
Speaker 1: you know what what do I do? All right? Here's
Speaker 1: Gavin DeGraw. This is from the new record Face the River,
Speaker 1: and here is for it. Try a tired but try
Speaker 1: and still I've been climbed the Oh why can't he
Speaker 1: the top? Old man? Can't you help me understand why
Speaker 1: I'm on this planet? Do you know when to stop
Speaker 1: working for a dollar? Oh? That tire making man feel broke?
Speaker 1: Working for a dollar, that's the only thing nine old
Speaker 1: just striving old Ford, count blessings and pray the Lord have.
Speaker 1: Let's make it feel like more. Leave work the front door,
Speaker 1: work hard and you get paid. Don't giving your best
Speaker 1: days only so meant me left saved some of them
Speaker 1: up for the ones worth saving them for. Lata la
Speaker 1: da da da da la da da da la da
Speaker 1: da da da Yeah, Lata la da da da da
Speaker 1: La da da da da da da da da da
Speaker 1: da da da. Yeah, it's so good yet kill him.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Song's good, the message is good, You're good.
Speaker 1: Everything that's great. Don't yell at me anymore. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: I was amazing. That's really great. The records it's great too.
Speaker 1: The record is an album that I would listen to
Speaker 1: if I wasn't working in music and had to listen
Speaker 1: to music for a living, right, I mean that that's
Speaker 1: the music. I like this. This whole record is that
Speaker 1: and wow. I encourage people to check it out. It's
Speaker 1: not a few weeks called Face the River. So many
Speaker 1: good songs, and listen the feeling that you guys probably
Speaker 1: got by hearing that song and that message. Those feelings
Speaker 1: are sprinkled all throughout the record for different reasons. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: because I mean, you sing that song there and it's
Speaker 1: like ring I should re evaluate my life and quit
Speaker 1: this job and walk off the air right now, and
Speaker 1: so and go and spend time with my wife and
Speaker 1: wabbly through this place. Yeah, but you know that's the
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It is, like I'm spending too much
Speaker 1: time doing dumb crap and that same kind of oh,
Speaker 1: like punching the gut in a good way is all
Speaker 1: through the record. So great, great jobs, a heck of
Speaker 1: a project. I appreciate it. I hate that so much
Speaker 1: crap had to happen for you to create this project,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad that you did it because I feel like,
Speaker 1: hopefully it was therapeutic for you, very very I appreciate that. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that it's been. Um, it was therapeutic writing it,
Speaker 1: and it's it's therapeutic recording it and therapeutic playing it
Speaker 1: every night. And it's been it's been emotional playing it
Speaker 1: every night. Um. Some nights are harder than others, you know. UM.
Speaker 1: But but I feel like it's a message that I
Speaker 1: need to get out. UM, and I think it's something
Speaker 1: really other people are relating to. And you know, when
Speaker 1: you lose people, you become part of this fraternity or
Speaker 1: this club that you never really wanted to be a
Speaker 1: member of. UM. But we're all members of it um
Speaker 1: or gonna be and and I just think you have to,
Speaker 1: uh take it head on. You know. My father always
Speaker 1: told me run to the lion, and I think you
Speaker 1: just have to take you just have to take everything
Speaker 1: head on. Everything you're worried about, everything that's scaring you,
Speaker 1: everything you're that's you, that you were putting off. There
Speaker 1: has to be a moment where you turn and you
Speaker 1: go to it um and I just needed to go
Speaker 1: to it. You did. It's it's again beautiful art, tragic circumstances,
Speaker 1: beautiful art. And just don't stop doing it, you know, man,
Speaker 1: don't stop doing it. Gavin Degrass here, you guys check
Speaker 1: out the record. It's Face the River the there's a
Speaker 1: six part documentaries on face book. Yeah, you guys did
Speaker 1: about road trip and as you're making like the creative
Speaker 1: Fish process, well it was after the uh, after the
Speaker 1: record was made, I got to go out and do
Speaker 1: do another road trip because I like road trip. And
Speaker 1: you know what I said, I if I don't like
Speaker 1: being in the air, I wish I could fly on
Speaker 1: the ground. That makes sense. That's the move, That's what
Speaker 1: that's that, that's the move. Can I fly on the ground?
Speaker 1: We're supposed to see the world from about five to
Speaker 1: six feet above the ground. Yeah, right where our head is,
Speaker 1: right where our feet. That's that's yes, you guys check
Speaker 1: that out in and that's gonna be it for now. Um.
Speaker 1: My absolute favorite song of yours is not over You.
Speaker 1: Wow you still like that one? Or no? Of course? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I wrote that with Ryan Teter. I
Speaker 1: did not know that. Yeah, I wrote with Ryan Teter
Speaker 1: and the spark of it. One Republic guy, One Republic Yeah,
Speaker 1: super just a wonderful uh pop songwriter specifically, just a
Speaker 1: genius at pop and we um. He first played me
Speaker 1: that riff, the piano riff up top that um come
Speaker 1: on right that think we were in um Blackbird Studios
Speaker 1: in her Nashville. He goes, you know, man, when we
Speaker 1: think of this piano doing this, and I was like, us,
Speaker 1: it's okay. I guess he was like, yeah, I need
Speaker 1: to be great for your dreams. That's where I have
Speaker 1: to go to see your beautiful fit sending more stared
Speaker 1: ride a picture, rub you and listen to the radio
Speaker 1: boop music conversation. We booting bit we had it good.
Speaker 1: Then It's Daily Nation NINEO that and munch is understood
Speaker 1: and not read a lot. If you ask me how
Speaker 1: I'm doing, I would say I'm doing just fine. I
Speaker 1: will light say that you not all mine. But I
Speaker 1: go out and I sit down at a table set
Speaker 1: and finally I'm force to face no matter what I see,
Speaker 1: I'm not over you. Not over you. That's awesome, man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Thanks for walking us through that. That's it,
Speaker 1: Gavin DeGraw. You guys follow him. Listen to the record
Speaker 1: over and over again. Face the river. You will find
Speaker 1: your own story inside of it. He created music. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be the exact same story that you're living.
Speaker 1: I find song a lot of times that speak to
Speaker 1: me in different ways, and it was originally written and
Speaker 1: it speaks to me the same way that they was
Speaker 1: supposed to speak to me. So great, great body of work,
Speaker 1: Gavin degral Thanks appreciate you, guys. It man there he
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, guys. It's the best Bits of the
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Speaker 1: joining me this weekend. I hope you loved the best bits,
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Speaker 1: love you. Goodbye, Bobby Bone.