Bobby Bones Show Best Bits of the Week with MorganThis part of the podcast is just the 7 best bits from the show this week that Morgan counts down from 7 to 1. You'll be able to listen to them uninterrupted with just a few intros!
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
What's up, y'all?
Happy weekend, Excited to be back with y'all on another awesome episode of Best Bits.
It's Morgan here, and make sure before.
We dive into all the best Bits of the week, you guys go check out Part one with Amy. I did a little Boomer test on her. Now, I know she's not a boomer, but I just wanted to see where she falls on it, and maybe you guys can test yourself on the Boomer test too.
And we talked about our go to girl dinners, which is a huge trend right now.
And I recently bought a Nintendo Switch, so I need some gaming ideas, and I talk about the number one game that's been making me feel super nostalgic.
Plus we talked about some concerts.
We've been to and it was just a whole lot of fun. So check out part one. But for now, let's dive in. You guys love hearing this story because you love when Amy shares her mom moments. She got secondhand embarrassment when she was with her son at a Walgreens after somebody fell in the aisle and there was a lot of laughter involved, and Amy was very uncomfortable.
Number seven, What happened?
We were at Walgreens and this woman fell and my son started laughing. She was okay, she's.
She honestly just kind of slipped.
It was a little like weird and funny because she kind of like flailed and then made this loud noise and luckily she was okay. So it made me feel better about his laughter. But then it led to us having to have a conversation.
About how close were you to her when she fell?
We're in the same aisle.
Did she see you see her fall?
I mean, I think she was just embarrassed.
I don't I know she heard my son laughing, So then I was mortified.
How do you know she heard him?
Because Stephenson's laugh is loud, yes, and he's listen.
He's almost like, she falls, Okay, I'll do a sound effect and then you do what you can remember.
Hey, I mean this is just my re enactments.
Here we go.
No, I don't know that's how I felt.
I mean maybe it was like it's just like, oh, you know, boys, he's almost thirteen. I think we're past this day age. But man, we're right in it.
He thinks it's hilarious exactly.
I mean, I still remember when I worked at Sam's Club and there's a lady that it's raining outside and she comes sprinting in because she doesn't want to get wet, and she has high heels on and she tries to stop on a dime. And I don't know if those fours at Sam's are like concrete, and they just put some finish on it so it's really slippery, and up she went boom, right on her butt. And I mean, I mean I was laughing, so I couldn't help it.
Okay, rolls of laughing, you first need to check and make sure that they are.
Yeah, rules of laughing are rules. You can't control it.
You can't help it.
Her laugh.
Somebody felt through a display once a hobby lobby, like one of the floor. I turned around and walked away because I did not want to laugh. They like tripped and fell into it. It was a middle display. Boom, all fell down. They fell on top of it.
That's what we would call thoughtful laughter.
Hilarious.
Uh, we had zero compassion yesterday at least. And when I say we, my son, but.
As I get all doer, I like to watching it fall and I was like, twenty two hilarious. Now see somebody fall. I'm like, ooh, hope they didn't tear an aco.
It hurts, Yeah, it does hurt.
So like what about crash into a fence? Like if they're on a skateboard and they crash.
I don't like watching pain anymore, like if for.
Watching America's funny some videos.
That's what I'm.
Saying, Yeah, I like that though. I'm like, oh yeah, I don't like that. I don't like needles going into stuff in movies or TV shows. I turned my head.
I don't like when doctors do surgery on stuff and they cut on TV shows and movies or then I don't like people fall. I don't mind io sometimes sometimes.
Ice is funny.
Sometimes ice is funny, Like that's funny.
They have a lot of those on AFV.
Yeah, those are I can take a little bit of those.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Number two A hilarious moment on the show Lunchbox finally shared is JFK Conspiracy Theory Report.
And honestly it was really chaotic.
It's only in the number six spot because I don't think I actually learned anything during this.
I mean I heard a lot of words and there was a lot of.
Wigs flying around the studio, But I don't feel like there was a lot.
Of knowledge in this segment.
But I still had to include it because y'all are going to get a huge laugh out of this one.
Number six.
Nobody had a reaction when Lunchbox said he got wigs from Goodwill Studio prepare for everyone to go home with weiss because what in the vestl that and underwear are the last thing you buy from a second and store.
And nobody had a.
Reaction, And I'm just like, love the show by bye.
I just was, I guess so wrapped up in the fact that he kept asking for extensions and that he wanted to use wigs for the performance.
That's a good point though, So it's JFK.
He was assassinated. We were talking about conspiracies. Lunchbox had never heard of the assassination conspiracy, so we said, hey, learn it, and he keeps going, I'm not ready, I need wigs.
Are you doing the report today? Yes? Or no?
Well, oh my god.
I mean I can do it today, but I'm a little nervous.
Yeah, but that's okay. Do you have wigs?
I got wigs.
Are they from Goodwill?
Yes?
We're not putting them on. We're not a part of your show, right, only you?
No, No, only me? Good I mean one is from my house, but the other ones are from the Goodwill.
Worry about lice?
No, I didn't even think about that until she said that.
Okay, well, let's walk, come on up to the stage. I'm excited about this. Here he is walking up to the stage. Now, where are your props? Carrot top?
Oh he's got it.
He ripped walking up to the stage. Now Here he is lunchbox. Okay, he's got a bag. It's like a well, it's gonna be tough grocery bag.
You know why. I'm abou have to put it on over my headphones.
That's okay.
Take your headphones off. You don't have to hear yourself.
Oh I need to. I need to make sure you guys can hear me and what you're saying back to me.
We can.
We're in the same You're standing three feet from me.
I can hear you, so you can.
You can put your headphones off for just for a minute.
He likes to hear himself I hear myself.
Okay, so go how do you start the story?
He's gonna put a wig on the start?
What wig is that?
JK? Wig?
Man?
Or No? Maybe I should go with the other wig. I should just read my normal hair for JFK and then wig it up for other people. I don't know. I didn't even think about that. I thought I was going, JK do something.
Haven't you had all this time?
You've had literally a month, guys. It takes time to put on using shit. Have you ever been to the Broadway show? You think they put that on in a month? No, it takes six months to practice that that out of hell. We practiced for months leading up to that. Yeah, go ahead, all right, guys, let's go back November nineteen sixty three. There's a little parade in Dallas, and there's this guy named Jay FK John F. Kennedy and he's riding into convertible and he's waving to people.
You stand for.
Don't know what was the parade?
Don't know? I don't know what the parade was for, man, I don't know. No, it was November, dude, so I couldn't have been fourth of July. I know my stuff like going just think, just take yourself back and coughlin. She was in the third grade. That's my mom, just so you know.
Yeah, and you call your mom to help you with this report.
No, no, she was just cut up. We were just talking about it, and she goes, I remember I was in the third grade and Grandpa came to her. Dad came to pick her up from school and like school shut down, and she remember watching the funeral on TV. But we're not there yet, guys, you know he's gonna.
Die hair like yeeah.
So he's riding in the convertle, he's waving at everybody when all the sudden.
You're asking for sound effects.
Yeah, shots ring out, shots ring out?
Ray that was coming, go ahead, No, I feel it, I feel it, go ahead.
Shots putting wig on. It's a blond long wag who did it?
And there's this guy, Lee Harvey. He's up in like a library of bookstore and he shot from the upstairs bam and JFK's rushed to the hospital and he dies and they quickly arrest Lee Harvey Oswald and that's it. Case closed, right, So then Lee Harvey Oswald is walking he's being purp walked you know what I mean. And all of a sudden, right hit it. Ruby, I.
Have no idea what you're talking about. He says, no, no, he gun shots again. He hit it, boom boom, Ruby out of nowhere. This wig that's is that?
This is a wig. Ruby is waiting and then he assassinates Oswald. Ruby exactly who is Ruby? And he that's a great question. Ruby is like an associate of Oswald and he works like, I don't know who exactly who he is. But they say that he he shot Oswald to shut him up because one of the theories is that bro that is the CIA, and everybody was behind it. And Ruby was worried that he was gonna that Oswald was gonna spill the tea, and so he said, Ray hit the guns again.
Oh my god, got it.
But yeah, but they didn't know all this. They think, oh, case closed, Oswald did it, you know, no big deal. But then there's this this uh what do you call him?
A prosecutor new wig.
He's blonde too, very similar to.
The other blonde wig. Blond, blonde hair, straight straight though.
Yeah, he's from he's from like New Orleans or something. And he starts investigating starts interviewing witnesses and they're like, it couldn't have been. It couldn't have been Oswalt, because we heard gunshots from the grassy knoll. It's a hill over by the fence. Like I saw three to four gun shots, and I saw a guy run and get in a car, and there was a getaway driver. So then the theory is, oh, my gosh, they're two shooters. And all these witnesses they come forward and they tell their story. But did you know that their testimony when they were spoke to police was changed, they changed what they wrote and they're like no, And then all these witnesses guess what they ended up doing right hit the clip. They ended up dead too. All these witnesses were dead.
They got shot. No, they didn't get shot.
Every witness died.
Witnesses were turning up dead. The mysterious instances of them turning up dead.
How many like six seven? What all dying randomly?
There's books about it. You can get a book about it.
He put another another way, he's got three weeks like exactly, saying that he's putting on a different one.
This is lady g No.
I mean, I don't know listen, guys.
This one has a bow on.
There's there's theories. The theories are that the c I A and the Mob was behind it because Bobby Kennedy was coming down on the mob and he was the Attorney General at the time, and so they thought, Okay, you want to come down the mob. Guess what the mobs do. Mob kills JFK. You better shut your mouth and then Bobby can you killed two? I mean in the or. They think it's to do with the Russians in Castro and the Oswald.
We just have.
Twofferent places del Castro and Russia Cuba.
Yes, in the Russians like they think they had j They killed.
JFKA in Russia together?
Yes?
Why why?
Because he was trying to put some sanctions rah like batten down the hatches. I mean, it is crazy and I don't know what to believe. But after all these witnesses turned up dead like I and the testimony was changed. I mean, guys, I'm worried that we got a conspiracy on our hand. Worry, but they're here, and That's what I'm worried about talking about it, because I'm wried that's gonna hear me. But here's my issues.
Oh wait, yeah, it's been three of them look exactly the same.
Yeah, this is all I got.
Who are you trying to be next?
No, no, there's so many people I can't tell you all their names. So the wigs are hard because there were so many people involved in this, and I am just shocked that this happened. But I don't know if I believe there's a conspiracy, because someone by now would have talked when they're on their deathbed. They would have said, yo, we had them killed, but no one has said anything, and so I don't.
Know what to believe and selling conclusion.
And another reason is they think that Oswald was not a very good shooter a marksman, and they had professionals go up and try it, and they're like, there is no way he could have been that accurate. Through the tree from the bookstore and all these people talking about the grassy knoll and a car driving out and speeding away, and man, it's just crazy.
Did Harvey Oswald ever go to Russia?
Yes, he went to Russia, due that's what I'm saying that. But here's the problem. I think he was a spy for the USA in Russia, double agent double aging because he goes to Russia and he's like, hey, guys, I want to be on your side and I want to, you know, give you secrets about the Americans and the Russians, like, oh you do wait Russian?
The one looks like the other Russian way prosecutor.
No, no, this was this was Ruby's first name. What's Ruby's first name? I don't know, Jack Jack Ruby. I just go with last. There's too many names, guys, there's way too many names in this conspiracy. So Oswald goes to Russia, right, and it's like they think, oh, man, he's defecting over to Russia, like he's becoming a Russian citident and he's spying on a But then he comes back to American and he's welcomed with open arms. It's like, huh, And he went to Russia, he'd be in trouble, so obviously the Americans sent him over there. And then he comes back and he kills JFK and they kill him to shut him up.
I know less than I did before I started.
I'm telling you like, I felt like I had a pretty good grasp of what the theories are, but now I'm lost. It's like and a beautiful mind when he does all the picture things. But it's the opposite of that.
You guys did not enjoy that.
Yeah, I need to know your theory though, after all of your research. If you had to put money on one theory, do you think Leo Harvey.
Oswald hold on? Let me ask you the question was involved.
You think Lee Harvey Oswald shot him just out of hating the president. Do you think there's the Russian slash Cubans? Do you think it was them covering up the mob?
Do you think it was the mob? That's what I'm saying, man.
Which one is it?
I think Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby he killed Oswald and they were thinking that. They said, Oh, it's because you wanted to shut him up. Your word, he was gonna squeal on everybody who was like, no, it's because I love my president. That was his excuse. And I'm not buying that. I'm not buying Ruby. But I think Oswald really just killed them because.
You think they're The conspiracies are all wrong. It is just one loan shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald.
There's no grass, you know.
There is no grass.
You know.
Maybe people heard backfiring of cars, or they heard the gunshots and they see smoke because cars are driving, so they think they see someone over by the fence. I don't know, but I feel like someone would have squealed already. So that's why I don't believe that. They just think about how many people in the government would have to be involved to set up the assassination of our president, and no one talks. Let me tell you about this. People could kill all the time, and guess what they always have to do.
People kill all the time.
What did they tell somebody?
Yeah, shut up a stat that like forty murders are never solved, right, right.
But most people tell somebody you you do something, and you're just like, I have to get this off my chest. At some point, someone tells somebody tell me. All these people live their whole life and have no regret about having that JFK assassinated. And they don't tell a soul.
They don't know said by two people.
Yeah, therapy, They don't go to the priest, they don't go to you know, confessional.
No.
I think if it's as high up as you're saying, then it's not as many people as you're thinking. And they've also likely been trained to like not got any things.
I appreciate the effort into this. Ray just said break in my ear, which we've been going on for a way a long time.
Bangs.
Yeah, you look like a character from Charlie Brown.
Okay, but yeah, I mean, dude, I am so like intrigued, like I couldn't I couldn't put my finger on who did it? Who done?
A lot of people life people have the same problem, like scholars have the same problems.
Thank you.
The ultimate murder mystery.
Of ultimate Bobby. What do you think? Who do you think did it?
And I.
Was after witness not even sure he's dead. But what I think before that.
Is that probably I mean probably the mob situation. There's a lot of theories about Sinatra.
He was a mobster.
Forgot that bar, but he said I know, but he said, no, I just did it because I love my president.
We're gonna have to hit that, buy that the Oscars music on lunchbox and rack them off stage. Yeah, thank you, lunchbox. There he is and he's down to here, and thank you.
We gotta go to a commercial, all right, way back in a minute, everybody.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number.
Two, there was some car drama on the show.
Somebody is getting rid of their car, some other people would like to buy it, and Lunchbox is mad at me. Yeah, let's just say it all involves a whole lot of cars and a whole lot of things happening at.
Once number five.
It's a car war going on up here.
And so what's happening is Mike da is thinking about getting a new car after all these years, and so you two are trying to buy it from him.
Well, yeah, when he said yeah, he wants a new car, both of us perked up, like, wait, we're both looking for cars.
But he want Mike. We come to the microphone. So you're getting a new car because I've had this car for eleven years. It has some issues now and I don't want to put more money in it. I'd rather just get a new car. Okay. And so how did this come up a conversation?
I don't even remember what I said.
I think I just said I was thinking about getting.
A new car.
They jumped all over, what are you doing in your old car? And so why do you want it?
Well, I mean the ultimate night are not speaking right now?
What's dead.
I mean, yeah, I hadn't started, and I haven't talked to her or tried her since then, so she's just been sitting there.
Why not get something a little newer because you have kids and that cars giving you trouble for a long time, and you can afford it.
Right, I just I mean, I haven't had time to go look at a car, and so I thought, oh, this would be a stop gap. Buy Mike's car for a couple hundred bucks.
And a couple hundred no, no, no, no, here's the deal.
And then Mike tells me it's leaking.
Mike said, I wasn't thinking about selling it, like I was just thinking about getting rid of it.
Are you leave it outside the road?
I didn't know what I was gonna do with it.
But now at A two want it, but you can trade it in. Yeah, well, whoa, whoa, whoa you're going to give him for the car?
I'm he said he was making a deal. He said he was gonna throw it in the track. That's what he said.
Okay, but now he's not.
And then the agent and then he admitted that it's leaking and has major problems.
So now we're going to put more money into that we'll rescue the car.
Rescuing Okay, Mike, you pay them one hundred bucks and they'll take the car.
I'm hat an abandon aid on it.
Okay, So Eddie, how much you're willing to give it for the car? Two hundred dollars, Lunchbox you got two fifty. I'd give him two fifty, traded him, Mike. They'll give you a couple of I can get more.
Whoa, whoa what a couple of thousand car?
Yeah? No, No, it's the radiator is leaking.
He said, it's not working.
It is not like the ac is.
He's not gonna get gets you go trick him and give you He's great.
Yeah, speaking of cars, Lfgebox doesn't have a car right now right because he's not speaking with his ultimate apparently, and it's dead. It's dead dead or it's like, are you just waiting for some miraculous thing to happen again?
No, because, like Amy said, power prayer does not work. We've already we've gone over this, and so like it. Literally when I was when it first started, it would I would start, it would shake, but then it would start and then all of a sudden, check engine light went off, and everything was great. Drove it for a few weeks, no problem. And then I came out the other morning and I tried to start it, and and it was shake, but it won't start, and so then I just left her.
But well, it's still shake even if it went today.
Yeah, it'll shake, but it won't start like it rattles.
So what are you gonna do, though, is my question.
I don't know, man, Like I haven't had time to think about it, Like about your car, Yeah, I haven't.
You take naps every day for two and three hours.
I haven't had time to process what it could mean if this is the end.
Like, what do you think about when you ride your bike, like or you're on a run?
I think when I'm on my bike, I'm no, I think about, man, I'm gonna beat this car.
You erace the car? Yeah, right, run faster than cars. That's what you think about the whole time.
As I'm riding my bike. Yeah, and as I'm running, I'm like, ah, you know what I mean, Like, I don't know what I'm thinking about.
So he doesn't have a car.
So yesterday or the day before yesterday, when of the days Morgan was gonna take lunch box home.
Yeah, and then she just left me.
Of course she did, because every time you ride me, she makes fun of you.
That's a good point.
He makes fun of her.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant.
Yeah, she was like, oh, y'all give you a ride home? What's your version of the story, because she was like, hey, will you be on my podcast? And I was like, oh yeah, then you have to give me a ride home. And she goes, oh yeah, no problem. Fourteen years and so she gets done with her podcast and then she's bales and I'm like, I come in here to get my computer and stuff. And I go back out there and she's gone, and I'm like, cool, all right, so I did you a favor by appearing on your podcast and then you just peace out.
Okay, that's your story. How'd you get home?
By the way, I had to call my wife.
Oh no, had to go and get you.
Yeah, she had to come and get me. So I had to wait outside on the night at Timmy's house.
They all get you.
I had to wait on the steps and she came and got me in the back alley.
You didn't want uber, I was cheaper.
She goes and gets me.
Got it, Morgan, what is your version of the story.
So, yes, he was on the podcast, which is the show podcast.
Everybody takes time to do it.
It's not her pockets. It's a show.
I mean, it's hosted by Morgan. It's what it's called.
Okay, but still it's on the this feed. But go ahead.
And I did tell him I would take him home, and I purposely lived without him.
That's funny if you did on purpose?
Yeah, because I didn't want to drive him home. I didn't want to get criticized again for my driving.
And I was like, oh, just drive like a normal adult and not check your emails as you're driving or hit curbs and we will have no problems.
Okay, But here's the thing. It's hard, man. The judge is having trouble here.
But here, you know, the judge of the judge. Guess what next time she asks me to be on her pod, Y'll be here at six am. You know, I'll be six am Saturday. We'll do that pod. Just won't show up. If we're gonna do that, we're gonna play that game.
So I think that's a game you actually play with each other.
I like that. Thank you.
Constantly set each other up and then lay each other down.
You want me to come up here two o'clock, Yeah, just wait for me. If I'm waiting, just lay wait a little bit longer.
So balls in your court, lunchbox, and how you handle an next?
Thank you?
He does make fun of you a lot, Morgan. But maybe you don't say you will take him home and then don't.
But I wanted to get him back for like all the crappies talked on me driving and he was like, oh, he just assumed that I had nothing else to do and.
I would take him home.
No, I asked, and she said yes, yes, she said yes. Okay, say funny, But I have to side with LaunchBox on this because you did tell him you were going to take him home.
You went down to his level, Morgan.
But it's a fun level to be on. But you say, I make fun of your driving, you, thank you. I'll stop because I'm already I already won the case.
Won the case.
We all we all understand why she did it. But you're up and you get one back and then you guys are done. Okay, okay, cool, But you can't physically hurt her.
Well, I would never do that.
Well, he doesn't get one back.
He doesn't. No, he does.
This is me getting my one back.
Yeah, he didn't do anything.
What did I do wrong? I told about instances in her car when she messed up driving.
Given multiple rides for those to happen.
Yeah, just don't hurt her. I don't steal anything from her.
Would never steal, never hurt, never hurt.
You get one, get one, get one.
Okay, just watch your back.
You never know.
Wash your back.
You never know when it's coming.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Number two.
Super exciting news for Abby.
Bobby asked her to open for two of his Wichita shows. She's super excited about it, and she has to find a guitar player. So if you are in Wichita and you know a guitar player, hit her up. She's looking for one. But it's super exciting news. You're gonna get to hear that whole moment and segment kind of happened right here. And by the way, if you want to see Bobby on his tour at the tickets Bobby bones dot com. They're right there. You can easily purchase him. Make sure you see him while he's out. Who knows when he'll go back on the road, so be sure to see him now.
Number four love when someone on the show has a big breakthrough, like even within themselves. Abby says she has found her purpose in life and I'm super excited about this. You went skydiving. Now you think you're a different person. What's your new purpose in life?
Like to give back more?
That's what you get now skydiving.
Yeah, Like, I just feel like there's more out there to help others than just like myself.
Will you explain to me how you got there because I love it?
Okay, So like after once you first jump out, it's just like hectic and crazy and you feel like you got hit in the face the airplane.
Yes, yeah, but then when you.
Pull the parachute, it is just like the most peaceful thing ever that There's there's no sound, there's nothing you can hear.
It is just you're just floating.
And I was like, I can actually do good instead of just like everything around me. We think that the wall, like the world wolves around us, and I'm like it really doesn't.
Like, you know, I love that you got there. Yeah, it was just the parachute part of that.
Why do you think that is like connected to because I've gotten to some places too. That doesn't make sense how I got there. We all get to places differently. Is it because you felt so free or you felt like, I don't know, that was like an advantage that you had about everybody can't skydive, or is it because you had no control?
You know what is it?
I think it's just like a different perspective the way you see it, that you're on top of everything and you're just looking down like it's hard to.
Describe, you know, when I'm flying sometimes you just in an airplane, I look down and I'm like, every single one of those people down there, and every one of those houses and every one of those cars, that's just a complex as much complex life as I do. Every single one of them, and every single one of them has something that's going on that ain't very good in their life right now, somebody and they got something going on that's awesome the same way that I do. Very interesting, and they could use help, and they could also give help.
But I do that right That like a really bad sociological experiment in my head that never actually happens.
I just think about it, you know, I'm just like every one. But then I land and I'm like, like to meet me in suffer. So but I like that And has.
It inspire you to actually do something?
Yes, well, I'm in the process. I don't really know what, but like to translate, it's kind of like, you know, when you're looking up at the sky and you look at the stars and you realize we are just like a grain of sand.
This is me every day.
You think that every day?
Every day?
Oh god, you guys are crazy. Every day. I have too much time on your new new and need more time to think about this more. But I I think about this, and I think about how small we are and what we don't know, not what I do know, but what I don't know.
Good for you, and that there's just more out there instead of just living day by day, get up every day, do the same thing.
There's just you got to find your purpose.
Every night I go to bed or I take the dogs out. I do it again.
I take the dogs out every night, and I'm like, oh, there's another night. And eventually this turns into five hundred nights, which turns into ten thousand nights, which turns into me being dead.
Oh my God, No, I don't think about that.
And I don't want all these nights to be Yeah, I was gonna say, I want this night to end. That's a song.
I don't want these nights to But I do that too, and then after I go back inside and I get sleepy, and then I'm back to be in suffish and so but.
Yeah, it's good, good that that's your thing.
So, but what do you want to do, because I mean, I'd love to help you if you do. Decide what it is that you want to do. I have to decide right now. But is it help turtles?
Humans?
Humans?
Probably?
And dogs?
There's so much I want to do.
I would just encourage you not to want to do so much that you can't do anything. Because if you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks. So so find your one. Yeah, get your starter, focus on it and do that.
Okay, Okay, I'll let you know when I think.
Yeah, I have a suggestion. She wants to help people.
Oh no, what no, okay, you asked what Abby, I wasn't going to she asked what lunchbucks?
Go ahead?
Yeah, you could baby sit my kids for free. That's helping out.
That's helping you.
But that's helping people out.
How's home witch talk good?
Yeah?
How often do you go back?
Not very often?
Only I have a special occasion. But I'm going home for a wedding when this weekend, it's coming weekend.
How hard is it to get there from here?
It's very difficult because all the flight times you go through, like Saint Louis and it's either five thirty in the morning or ten at night.
Do you want to come and do a few songs in the witch Talk shows? My Witchtalk shows?
What really?
Yeah?
Are you serious? Yeah?
You can come and open the shows we have. We have Carter Faith who's going to be like the my main support. But if you want to come and open the show, they do like three songs, you should come and do it.
So I find a guitarist.
That's all that's up to All that's up to you. Okay, you don't get you're not gonna get paid. I'll pay you two hundred bucks a show.
What well, you got to donate that money because it's you're all about a new purpose.
We're all about a new purpose. Do you want to come? You can do three songs each and I'm doing two theater shows up there you ever play in that theater?
No, no, you haven't never even been.
They won't. They won't let you in. They won't let you you. They won't let your type in.
No, No, that's like iconic, like there is or theater. Yeah, that was in what's his name? That music video Craig Morgan.
Well, if you want to come and open those two shows on August eleventh and twelfth, I would love for you to come and do three songs each show.
I'll do that.
You'll do that. Okay, there's.
You're welcome if you guys are listening and you want to come watch Abby. The Saturday night show is already sold out. There are still tickets left for the Friday night show at the Orpheum. Just go to Bobbybones dot com. They're up there and it'll be awesome. It's it's your home show. And I'm not gonna be up there with this time. Now there's Eddie like, this is me?
Are you? You've done it with this before? But you come and sing with our band? This is you.
You got you have to find a guitarist, but I'll pay you how much. She's down. Okay, there she has everybody rich. She's changed her life. She's given back, she parachuted a whole new person.
This is cool too because I think it's an example of Abby sharing her heart and how she wants to give back and she has she's going to work on that and then boom you swooping, and you know, she gets rewarded in a way, I know what, Like she's putting good energy out there and she's receiving.
Always has good energy that beans like the greatest energy of the whole room, which is why lunch book Store.
Her energy gets strong for years.
At this point, it's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.
Jordan Rodgers came on our show this week and it was a really great interview.
So maybe you know him from.
The Bacherette, which he shared a story about why he got on that show to meet his now wife, and he also talked about his most embarrassing viral moments because he works for ESPN and he calls games and well there's just a lot there.
So a lot of sports talk also happened.
Number three, so Bobby Bones Show interview.
In case you didn't know, his name is Jordan Rodgers.
First of all, he won the Bachelorette way back in the day twenty sixteen and they're still together.
They were married. Look at this congratulations. I mean everybody knows.
Secondly, he has a show called The Big d It airs Wednesdays at ten pm on USA Network. It streams the next day on Peacock and so it's a committed a relationship show.
He also was a quarterback of Vanderbilt. He was real good.
He signed a contract with the Jags, Bucks of Dolphins NFL.
There's a lot here.
Let's talk to him now here he is Jordan Rodgers on The Bobby Bones Show.
Now, Jordaners, Jordan, do you sing at all? Oh?
That's it?
Do you sing well?
No?
I don't. I sing passionately.
I like that like Church would say, make a joyful noise. You do that.
But you think I can sing like a good soundtrack? Really, like you give me a Laddin soundtrack, I'll nail it.
But no, you never wanted to be a country singer or any kind of singer at all.
No.
I asked that because he's an athlete, he's good look and he's talent. All those guys end up coming over here. Oh yeah, like saying did Chase. They're all like super that's true.
I didn't get that, and I thought, maybe Jordan's gonna come in and announce his country music career today.
Now look, I wanted to play drums in high school, so I got a drum set and I sucked. Never did it, no music at all. Well, you know, I was a I found my way in as a extra and an a cappella group and Pitch Perfect two I saw that. So technically, if you want to say I have sung on a number one soundtrack on iTunes, I like to throw that one in there.
He's got a number one record.
I want to talk about your show The Big d because very interesting because you're taking divorced couples and putting them together.
Yes, and then.
It's like it's like divorced couples but also temptation island at the same time because they can also get with other people too.
It's all the islands of reality TV mixed together.
How did they come to you about this show?
So we got pitched the idea and our first reaction, me and Jojo because at the time when we filmed, we were still engaged about to get married. We're like, we're not divorced. We've never been divorced, we're about to get married? Are you sure we're the right ones? And as we kind of dove into their plan for the show because we've done a few reality shows. Actually was really attracted to the craziness of it. We're reality TV show junkies. We love them all. So the train wreck of what you would expect when you move in a bunch of divorce couples into a villa, but we have a relationship coach there and really the focus is kind of on closing a chapter a chapter, finding healing, dating again, getting to a place where you can have healthy relationship with your ex, or a place where you're like, wait, maybe we ended this a little too soon. So we're the ones they're like, hey, this is a crazy TV show, but we fell in love on TV. I know it's weird, but it can work. So that was kind of how it happened. We're like, yeah, we'll do it, like and it's really it was really really fun show. It's starting to get really good now we're about halfway through the season. It's on Peacock obviously streaming if you need to catch up. It's on USA Network every Wednesday night. But it's wild.
Wednesday nights at nine, So it was on last night, but you can also stream it on Peacock Today. Amy's recently divorced Any chance Season two?
Like, why was I sitting here thinking like, oh, I'm about to get.
Called out for you?
That'll sound like the worst thing, like in your mind when you heard there's like I would never do that.
No, I mean I instantly went to Okay, wow, what if some of these couples don't have access to a therapist or a coach and signing up for something like this.
Are you the therapist?
Like?
No, but I will say a couple of times I kind of had to be right, yeah, like.
Like hail Mary for them, and they have tools and resources, but of course drama as well.
But season two for me, no, you know that?
Well no, because you have to be almost divorced, right or you're totally.
Totally divorced, no, legally divorced, yes, but but you're right, Like the interesting part was seeing some of these couples and we did the whole Like they walked up on the beachs to meet each other the first time, right, and did they know that they're going to see their divorce? I think so, Yeah, I think they knew that they were doing the show. We get into it, so we add divorced couples. Because we bring singles in, they didn't know their X was maybe going to come in. So the first groups, the second group did not know that their X was going to show up. But what I love is a couple that singles. Divorces showed up and they were like, I want nothing to do with you. We're good, but like I'm single, I'm ready to date. And then you start to see that a little bickering and they realized that, wait, like why did we divorce? Like that wasn't that big of a deal. We just didn't know how to talk through this issue. Or one of the couples, one of my favorites, Devin and Alexa, were divorced for years and they're mo was really heavily involved, probably too involved in their relationship. And they start to talk that through and realize we weren't really the issue. It was kind of the outside noise that got to our relationship. And they're starting to figure out maybe it's not over yet.
So you're saying that there's a chance that some people get back together, a chance, there's a chance.
And they've been divorced for years years. Did some of them have kids? Yes, Wow, that's cool.
You get some of your stuff back.
Yeah, I did lose off.
So you know, it makes me think too, Like as a kid, I come from a divorced home and if.
Your parents, if you're like fourteen and your parents.
Are right, like I would be mortified, But at the same time, like that's all we ever wanted. Like me and my sister when we were little, we'd just be like, oh my god, it is so cool if like mom and dad got back together, and like how cool if that this helps someone make that.
Happen, no doubt, And I'm just you know, maybe a little teaser, but it's happening right now. If you're if you're looking into watching, tune in because there is love brewing with a rekindled relationship.
You know what else you think of people watching?
And so if they're watching couples on TV be able to come back together and work, like they may not even have to go on this show to have that happen.
It may make them be.
Like maybe I should, Like maybe we could book a counseling session or let's go to therapy, or like maybe we need to revisit this.
Yeah, you're acting like people watching USA reality TV is going to make a really wise decision about counseling well okay.
Or calling there like or it makes them think, right, we thought over something so like that.
I do that.
Me and Jojo sit and watch reality TV and we're like, yeah, but do you ever.
Go we should really go with a therapist after you're watching. I say that, but I mean listen.
I mean it might. I'm just saying it might rekindle.
Other people like positive and they don't have to go on the show.
Amen.
I think most of the time we sit there and go, yeah, we're not that bad exactly.
That's why I watch it to go like, oh, never do that, or I'd be so much better at that than them.
Like that's while we watch reality TV totally.
So by the way, everybody, It's Wednesdays at ninth Central on USA Network, streams on Peacock.
The episode from last night is up today.
Let me ask you about this because you went to Costa Rica and I just want to compare it. But I'm about to be really irritated. I did a show for USA. We went to Costa Rica. We lived there for six weeks and it was in the middle of COVID. We lived in a terrible hotel we had just lived with all the crew.
It was awful. It was Mike d went We did the radio show from there every day. Awful. Please tell me your experience was awful?
Yes, okay, good, all right, we'll get about to get rid of it was that we were excited too, but it was still COVID. It was twenty twenty one, late twenty one, so we we were locked in the hotel, and we weren't in the hotel. We were at the kind of like house across from the cast house where we kind of had this set up and we couldn't.
It wasn't super fun because it was it was you were kind of miserable a little.
Bit, thank you, thank God. Yeah, it makes me feel good that he was also kind of miserable.
But also because we were so confined. Doctor Jada, the relationship coach on the show, we got so we got our therapy. We had like every single day. If she decided to send me a bill for that, I probably couldn't.
So you guys utilized her because she was there too.
Yeah, in the green room talking and we're like Hey, we're about to get married, you know, like and Jojo'll be like, hey, so Jordan, he's not a good communicator.
What Costa Rica is awesome though.
People are so nice and I haven't spent a lot of time in South America. And we flew down and there were people on the streets with machine guns and it scared me at first because I thought, what's going to happen here?
I realized, first of all, they don't have a military Costa Rica.
They're a friendly country, no military, But they're just trying to stop cars coming through running drugs.
They're not trying to stop us.
I remember seeing the trucks like in America, pickups and the guys and I'm like whoa.
And I'm like, what's about to happen here?
But it was really because people were driving from you know, Panama going up through Costa Rica and they were just trying to catch stop those cars that were running drugs, which the people were so nice. I just remember my We stayed to a what hotel Hilton Garden in by the airport. Oh wow, not really what you want to do in Costa Rica, because it's not the experience that you really are.
Told about what's their saying like, as a really white guy from Arcus says, Vida, Yes, pure vida.
You guys watch The Big D, which, by the way, when they tell you that's the name of the show.
You giggled a little bit. I did, okay, just making sure well.
I honestly had not heard of it yet. And when you sat down, Bobby's like, so you're hosting the Big D And.
I was like, I didn't know what it was? Like what show was?
The best was if I can have a ten second story. The best was we did an Instagram live kind of promoting the show a few weeks ago, and you know when someone pops up in your thread and they want to join, and so a name pops up, doctor Jada wants to join. Oh we're talking about the show. Yeah, let's bring her in. Brought her in and it was a naked dude that had hijacked our Instagram live and was dancing everything right in front of the camera. So great built in marketing for.
The bill was the Big D or the Little D jumping in? It was?
The marketing was on point?
Was it the Little the Big D?
Was?
It was a big yeah?
Yeah?
USA set that up.
And we learned a lot about our relationship because I froze and Joe's like, oh wait, how do I get this off?
So people that are on a live when it gets you know, flashed.
Like that, I guess what do you call it?
Sure?
Yeah, anyone watching just they all see like so there's like kids.
On there or and we found out this person is like a serial does this and it makes names and somehow don't know how he does it.
Or did he create a fake account that's almost like doctor Jada.
I think that's what he does. And we're just in the moment see it. All you see is like the name, like, oh yeah, bring her in and.
Said doctor Jada definitely parentheses. Definitely not a guy's winner. And he's like, all right, I'm clicking that one. So you have like the greatest job because you get to do shows like this, but you also get to.
Work for ESPN.
Yeah, and you get to I was watching I watched all of them, and I was watching you fly in once and I guess you guys had a sponsorship with wheels up.
Yeah, and it was.
Like, and now flying in, were you really on the plane they were filming or they just filming that.
They're like, here's Jordan flying in and they're showing the plane lands.
Sometimes not, but you're talking about it Arkansas, right, probably? Yeah, So in Arkansas the tightest turnaround I've ever had because we finished our show at noon. I had a forty five three thirty kick something at Arkansas. I landed at like two forty seven, and where you land is I can see the stadium, So that one they actually were filming the plane because they were like, is he gonna make it? Like I had to like quick change in the plane and go straight to the stadium, straight to the field, and we kicked.
How is that going into a game with all the knowledge you need to have about that week's game versus all the knowledge you needed to have while you were playing a game?
Very similar? Not quite right. There's a lot more pressure when you're getting hit. But I was the thing I like about calling games on TV is that to me, I kind of get a little bit of that rush again because I'm prepping for all this stuff and I don't know what's gonna happen, so I kind of get to re react as things happen. There's an anticipation for me, but I appreciate that I don't wake up on Sunday with, you know, in pain and getting hit every day when I make a mistake. So I make a lot of mistakes on TV and people just hit me on Twitter, and I'm fine with that.
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, have you had any clips go viral? Oh you have said something dumb? Yes, because I've a ten million, But I wonder do you and do they still live and what's your what's the one your most barrassed about it?
Yeah? One is still making the rounds from last year. So we did a South Carolina game in Columbia and they had at the same time, they have the State Fair right there, literally almost outside the stadium, and so kind of the whole show or the whole game are our truck is kind of doing cutaways of the carnivals and the food and everything, and they're doing like a pan of these giant corn dogs and kind of in a I thought I was being funny, but I don't think it landed that. I was like, ah, talk to me, dirty corn dog in that voice too?
Well, were you kind of not remembering?
I'm on ESPN, like, what are we doing here? So that one lives forever? But also we ended up running food up to the booth and on our little peep cam in the in the booth, I have just a giant foot long corn dog, and let me tell you, there's no graceful way to go at that first bite.
Yeah, it's tough anything.
So that lives on the internet forever as well.
If you open your mouth real wide for anything that's a bit fallic, they can potos anything.
In I did. So now they mesh together the talk to me dirty corn dog, and then that shot, and there you go. That'll live forever. People don't forget what's.
The preparation like before you do a game? What are you actually learning other than the players' names.
Well, so I'm just a junkie for football. I love it. So in talking to coaches, they don't give you much, right, they give you a little bit. So I like to just watch games. I kind of understand the concepts that maybe a team will want to run what they're good at, and then I understand the defense as well. So in my mind, I'm trying to prepare, like a coach Arkansas is good at this, what is this defense going to run to stop that? And then so in the game, I kind of want to show that to fans, like, here's what this defense is going to have to do to stop kJ Jefferson on this play, this type of play, whether they're doing it or not, I'm going to tee that up and then let the game kind of take over. So I treat it like I'm a coach, because I that's what I'm used to. I'm used to prepping like that. So it is a lot of you got to make sure you know everybody's name because someone's mom and dad are watching and if they get a catch, you know, they want to make sure you say their name and have a little something about them. So that's part of it. But also, I like my job on TV. I hope I teach a little bit of football. I don't want to talk like a like a PhD, but I want to teach a little bit of football. So people that are watching kind of go, oh, that's why they did that, or oh that's what that's called.
When you're quarterback at a Division one school like Vanderbilt in the SEC and you're just walking around campus, it's a life awesome because I just got to imagine, well it'd be I mean, when you are the quarterback and you look like you do, and it was I would just imagine life is like the greatest.
Well you've been in Nashville for a while, right, I have, But still Bandy's not hasn't been great. So I will say other schools that may have been cooler, it was still I mean, yeah, we did well when I was at Vandy, so it was fun. But I will say it's academics and sports at least it was back then. So so yeah, but it's not like Alabama walking around as a quarterback, you know, Bama banks and all.
When you went to Vandy.
So you went to junior college before Bandy. When you were deciding on where to go to, job out like, yeah, why did you pick Vanderbilt?
So I picked Vandy because they were really bad, and I was like, I want to go to a bad team in the SEC. No, you know, I was. I had aspirations. I wanted to play in the NFL, and I was like, where can I go that I can show that I can play at that level? Like I had other offers to go play in other conferences, and I was like, I want to go play against the best because even if we're a bad team. But I show that, like I can play against SEC defenses, I can have some success. Then I think that'll give me the best opportunity to play at the next level. So and then Nashville. I visited in Nashville wasn't bad, So I was like, this will be fun. I lived at home in junior college. I was ready to get out.
Where did you almost go?
So Washington was on the table late, and then as smaller schools like Western Kentucky was on the table. And there was a couple others MAX schools that were there that had good opportunities. I will say Vandy wasn't the best opportunity because they had a starting quarterback. But I was like, yeah, we'll see, but.
Correct me if I'm wrong. But didn't you have like didn't you have a winning record of bandit when you're here.
In nine games? Nine games for the first time in ninety seven years at Vandy when we were there, So it was fun. It was we got a chance to do something of this.
Saying he's also.
Winning, he's the quarterback, they're winning. You just like to have it, So why in the world?
And I say, this is how he has done it as well, So I ask you this in the most complimentary way.
Why would you go on the Bachelorette? It's a great question because your life is just going in a great it looks like it's all happened for you.
Why would you do that? It was the most I'm very spontaneous. It was honestly the most spur of the moment decision I've ever made. And I wasn't someone that watched the show. Never watched. I knew what it was obviously because the data people are, oh, hey, the Bachelorettes sound cool. But I literally got a call from a producer, Oh, here's it is actually a good story. They start filming, like in the middle of March, end of February. I get a call from my agent, my sports agent, because I was doing radio at the time, hadn't been doing TV yet. She's like, hey, Fox is doing a dating show. They kind of want an ex athlete. Would you be interested. I'm like, maybe I'm single, give me some information. A couple weeks later, a week later, my agent calls, Yeah, they went with someone else. I'm like, oh, whatever. A producer on that show was married to a producer on the Bachelorette, so they passed my name along. I got a call from a guy named Bennett, who's one of the executive producers on the Bachelor, and he's like, hey, have you ever heard of the show. Yeah, He's like, well, are you single. I'm like yeah. He's like, well, I got a pretty cool girl. You could come and it could be fun for a couple of weeks and at the worst to get to travel a little bit and have fun. I'm like, all right, sounds fun. Like I'll do it. So I didn't go through any of the casting a fly fifty five guys out in January cut it down to twenty five. I was a part of no of that. None of that, I said a week before we started filming. Sure, I'll show up.
And then you get there and there are all these other dudes you I mean, even if you don't know the show, you then learn the show kind of totally, kind of quick. Yeah, because I'd never when I did to Dance with At, I never watched the show except for like little clips, but then I tried to even study it. Right, Yeah, So but you get there and do you strategize? And also are they intimidated by you? Because again, you were just freaking starting quarterback at Vanderbilt, I would have been intimidated.
I will say it. The intimidating is you walk into the mansion night one, right, And I was actually one of the last limos. Even though on the show I'm the first one to step out, I was in the last limo, so everybody was already there when I showed up. I was one of the very last ones. You walk and you look around and go, it's a bunch of good looking dudes, you know what I mean? And so this s every day with all you guys.
That's that feel every day. Yeah, go ahead, I sing.
I think this strategy I started to I wasn't like strategizing, but I started to notice that everyone was like panicking for time and attention, and I was like, you know what, I'm going to be the one that kind of just sits back and just waits. And I found that if I waited, especially in these big group environments, for the last opportunity to talk to her, I got the most time because it was kind of they weren't trying to make sure everyone had time, so I would kind of just sit around and wait. But also Jojo got pissed because she's like this guy doesn't even like me, Like he doesn't even want to spend time with he doesn't even care. He's not he's not you know, coming to find me and just like hey, I'll wait, I'll sit and wait my turn. But it actually ended up working pretty well, So I'd say that was kind of the strategy that I had. It just like, don't be over eager, because I think it came off like kind of bad.
What's been cool about your careers? I don't even think about you as being a bachelorette person.
I mean, and everybody you kind of assigned to something, but you've been able to do so many things successfully. It's like some of these artists that come in that have blown up on TikTok, but then they've really launched a career outside of that to show that they are Like I don't really think you as a bachelorette.
I appreciate that you're in the minority.
Really well, I guess, I mean, I guess I watch a lot of sports, so I guess I just but most people know you as that.
I think, so still, yeah.
That's right, But I mean I don't think it's bad. I don't know that you're but you seem to have like some that we know, it's like they don't. They're holding non tight to it, you know, like they need it, like they're like, oh, this is like my last like claim to fame, even though they were on it years ago and they haven't really done much else.
But I don't know.
I see you as he's the only one talent every one the show.
I know, I'm not saying that at all, And I think there's women and men that have been a part of it that have like they're clearly talented outside of just trying to get on there. And you didn't even to fill out an application, like you didn't even they sought you out.
What percentage do the SDD test on you? Though? Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah the test?
And I'm like, wait, actually maybe I should watch this show. What am I doing? What am I signing up for?
Well?
What percentage of the guys there?
Like I'm thinking if I'm a guy that filled out an application like really wanted to be there, and I find out this guy comes in last minute you.
Talk about applications, Yeah, I don't think they knew that. How many pages?
Question?
N it's three? What about you? I don't think that conversation happened.
No, it probably doesn't.
Did they find out now that you were brought in last minute via Well obviously the story is out there, but you know what I mean, like that would.
Be yeah, I don't know. They guys, I don't know we'd care.
Oh why I would think they would be favoring you because they're like, oh this guy.
I just always think how crazy that is? Right, I mean it's my wife now, yeah, right, I mean that's it's it's weird, like every now and then we'll just be sitting and go watching the show like we like that we met doing something like this, like how dumb is that?
Can you see when people come up to you? I can, and I can always tell if it's somebody who who listens to the radio show or watched American Idol or dance.
This is an age of demographic. Can you tell when they're coming up or they know you're from one percent?
Yeah? And it's mostly it's interesting because the guy. It's it's interesting to watch the like the thirty forty year old man that his wife like is not with him, but he's like, oh, hey, can I get a picture for my wife? And it's really funny, but there's definitely a demographic, Like and when I'm traveling for football, it's still about ninety percent of people that are like, I saw you on the Bachelor.
That's crazy.
It's still that ye well and they're like, oh, well, you know, I see you on football too, But you know, I like, I know you're from the Bachelor, and I'm like, that's awesome.
What's been the key? Because you guys were both public, you still are both public, But what's been the key to having a successful relationship and then marriage when everything is public and what to keep private? Like what have you guys prioritized?
That's the heart That was the hardest part. I mean we were very open that our first year was bad, Like we just you know, you come off a show, and what people don't realize about that show is you are never not on camera, Like you don't get any conversations that aren't like on camera, so you have to make sure you're authentic. But I think we never had to go through adversity on a reality show. We never had to get back to real life and have a bad day and then figure out how to have a conversation after that. So our first year we just didn't know how to communicate. So we would be in an argument and we're speaking different languages and it would just escalate, escalate, escalate, and then we'd just be like, well, okay, let's move on, forget about that and try to go look like we're happy because you're in our spotlight where everyone's expecting you to be happy all the time and have this amazing relationship. So there was a lot of pressure to go like, hey, we're working through a lot of stuff, but we need to like like look happy, right because we don't want to let people down. Like there was a weird pressure about that. So I think we got to a point about a year in where we're like, f this, like we either got to do this because we want to be together and not that we were staying together because of anything, but it's just like we got to actually work at this, Like it's not just going to be brushing stuff under the rug. We got to lean in work at this relationship, or I love you, you love me, it's just not going to work. And so we kind of chose the first path and said, Okay, this is it's gonna take work. It's gonna take a realization that we're not perfect, and that we have a lot of issues that we just need to like address head on instead of going, hey, we're happy a photo op. Cool, So that was kind of how we did it. We were like, hey, we're going to be more open about the fact that it's not easy and it's not all rainbows and butterflies. After reality show, it's actually very hard. You're in a spotlight, you're not prepared for it. So I think just the the realization internally and then also just not being afraid to say that was big.
Hard for me and I my wife is a very private person, but it was hard for us. I've been married two years, never been married before, never been engaged, so it's it's it is work. I never understood when people said it is work to be married. For me, it's work to remember to put someone at least equal, if not more than myself Like it's too because I've been so and I'll just use the word selfish because I've just been a self I've been the sun in the solar system, my own solar system. It is such a shift to not be it anymore. It's worth it, but sometimes it is work for me to have to have that understanding of your life is different. We don't have kids yet, yah you and I imagine that happens a good once kids come out. But it's been hard, but in the best way, in the same way, like he says, you can't see them now, have a big swetsh on it. But if you buy steps right then those curls, you know they were hard to do, but those muscles got big. But I never really understood the work part of it until I actually got married. And I can imagine when you're both coming off of something so public, there is that pressure to not show that.
It's hard, no doubt, and because when you write, when you come off the show, we're not that cool anymore. Like people come up, but when we're traveling and say hi, but like there's paparazzi and stuff that first like year, like outside of our house and so like if I was taking the trash out and I looked like, we know, like that, like there'd be an article we're in the grocery store, walking out of the grocery store.
It was just it was crazy, that's crazy.
So we felt like we were putting out a facade that wasn't an accurate representation of the struggles we're still going through.
Where do you guys leve town.
We actually live in Puerto Rico right now, so we live in Doratto Beach.
Really, that's why we relate to Arkansas Row. That's a long wait.
He didn't know how far he missed us fly he missed his connector so you live.
How does that work?
It's great. We were in Dallas and then the middle of COVID kind of a lot of our friend group had moved away, and I traveled during football. She has family downe in Puerto Rico, so it's like, let's just go rent a place month to month. At worst you're near family, will have to travel a ton and it's a little we can be outdoors.
Our famili where again in Puerto Rico.
Yeah, both of her brothers lived at and it makes sense. Yeah, and so we moved down there. We loved it't really hey until we have some kids and we want to settle down, like this is gonna be a good spot. But we'll end up here in Nashville at some point. We have some lanteer so we'd like to build a house here eventually, and uh and and kind of put our roots here.
That's pretty cool.
I was just thinking, like I when we moved, I wanted to live somewhat closest to the airport because I travel so much. But you travel to a lot of these southeastern.
Not easy to get to.
Yeah, he's he's going to Columbia, South Carolina from Puerto Rico. There are no Southwest boys. I don't know if you're familiar with how that works.
So you know, it makes it makes the travel during football season a little bit longer. But again, i'd like, I can't complain, like football season is five months and the rest of the year we do a lot of other projects, but it's not as travel intensive and we're together twenty four to seven most of the time. We do a lot of work together.
So remove my bias. So don't answer this question for me. Who is your favorite head coach sec to hang out with? Not best coach, not, but like if you were going to go to dinner and then we're like, hey, pick any coach you guys just go hang out for an hour, who would it be?
Ooh, it would probably be uh rest in peace piece Mike Leech, Like Mike was one of the best to be around, Like just because it was. You never knew where the conversation was going to go. But I'd probably say Beemer's pretty fun. Shane Beamer South Carolina's pretty fun. Just he's quirky and he's he's got a great personality. Lane's pretty fun as well. I think you got to you got to peel back the layers of Lane though, you know what I mean. You got to get him comfortable and then he then he starts to open up a little bit.
What is Nick Saban like in person?
Nick's great in person, but he's just like there's there's like a there's an or around him, like there's a it's he's the goat. So he's great in person, but he is very he's business, he got a cup of coffee, wants to answer talk football, and then you're good. Well, I will say, okay. Sam. Sam is one of my favorite coaches as well.
Just to Sam Pittman at ARCHT.
Yeah, Sam Pittman, just to he's the He would be the best to go get a beer with no doubt. Actually, now I think about it totally.
Sam's a man a lot of money, a lot of pressure to be a head coach, and especially in the sec which of these coaches are who is the most hands on as far as they're in these meetings offensively or defensively. And who's a CEO the best CEO?
Like, give me the because Mac Brown was an excellent CEO type of Texas, Like he knew how to run that program last time Texas been really good. Yeah, and so, but he was very much that CEO type guy. Give me both of those, Like who's great at ceoing and who's great at being hands on and really getting like granular with the team.
I think Brian Kelly's a really really good good CEO. I mean he's done it for a really long time at LSU. Yeah, at LSU, and he's hired good staff around him. So he is definitely a guy that you just sit and you realize he has the thirty thousand foot view for everything in his program and he's willing to get down in the nitty gritty when he needs to. But he is the guy that tells the ship which direction they're going and make sure it's going in that direction at every level. So he's definitely a CEO type as far as in more x's and o's guy.
Maybe somebody who even calls play still offensive Yeah, like it's an office guy still calls play.
Yeah, Josh Hipol is a guy that he is becoming more of a CEO because I think he's realizing what that takes at Tennessee. But he's still a like he just wants to talk offensive ball and so he's a fun one to sit down with because you know, he lives and breathes offense and he just loves it and that's all he wants to do. And if he could just call plays, he'd probably just call plays just so happens. He's a great head coach and he's got other responsibilities.
My wife's a massive Oklahoma her family is, and they get to come over to the SEC next ye, which I'm ver excited about because that just means we get to play the same teams and get to play each other occasionally.
Right.
Josh Hipepool was yeah, her favorite player growing up. She loved Josh Hipel, And Josh Hipel got fired at Oklahoma's the offensive coordinator on your stoops and Joshipel's now at Tennessee after being at UC. But he's at Tennessee and Oklahoma is now going to be in the SEC. That is interesting because if you are a player, and you have your allegiance, and you played and you won at Oklahoma and you coached, but then you got fired. How does he feel this is just you your opinion? How does he feel about playing those guys? Does he want to kick the crap out of them? Or is it like, man, this is awesome. I get to go back into Norman, back to the people that made me.
I think it's both. I think you're able to kind of separate, right because as a coach when you've been at so many different programs, you've played and your allegiance is initially to where you play, I believe, and it probably still is deep down for a guy like Josh Hypel, I think you end up wanting to dominate and winning those games. And because really you're not coaching and playing as much for the logo and the university as you are for the guys. So as a head coach like you end up having so much invested in these kids, right, these eighteen nineteen year olds, They're like, that's really why you want to go beat your alma mater, not because it's your alma mater and there's bad, bad blood. I think you still have like a deep allegiance to it, but you end up just doing it for the guys that you spend ninety nine percent of your day with, because those coaches spend more time with those players than they do their family. Coaching's tough, like you have zero hours, Yeah, one day part of me, yes, But I've also been so close to it now that I'm realized that it would take the perfect scenario if I live back here in Nashville and there's an opportunity to go coach quarterbacks at Vandy, Like that is something where I lay there. I've already told I told Clark, because hey, in a couple of years, just you know, I'll be here and I may be ready to step onto that side. I did have an offer a couple of years ago as a position coach, but I just I like what I do on TV now, and I like the flexibility it allows me to do other things at some point. Yes, that could be something I'd like to do.
Okay, Yes, that's a great job. Like I'm jealous of your job. Do you get paychecks every week or only five months? Durm a football season?
Every week?
You got a salary too?
Boys?
Eat it up.
I mean when you play in the NFL, and I was only a practice squad guy, so I wasn't making big money. But you realize like, oh wow, these paychecks are awesome, and then they stop in December and you're like, wait, wait, I get zero until August. Wait a minute.
Being on a practice squad in the NFL, are you basically learning what every team you're playing that we as quarterback is doing and you have to mimic that.
Yeah. So I was in Tampa in twenty thirteen. A guy I work with now, Dan Orlowski, was a quarterback there as well, in Mike Glennon, and it was my job because Dan's a big, tall, unathletic guy. I'm a shorter athletic guy. So when we played like Russell Wilson, I was Russell Wilson. We played Cam Newton that year when he was in North Carolina or sorry at the Panthers. I don't look like Cam Newton, but I could run around a little bit. So yeah, you kind of just mimic whoever, whatever quarterback you're playing. But that year we were injured at receiver, so I ended up play receiver for a scout team runner outs against Darrel Reeves. I was like, wow, yeah, I'm not as athletic as I thought I was.
Darrel Reeves was locking you down in practice.
He always legit.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome. I caught one ball story. I didn't make it. I'd be like, hey, take a picture of me. Yeah, I mean, do you have a picture of Darrel Rieves?
Unfortunately no.
Man.
I was like kind of too scared of that boy. I'm just like, I'm just a scout team quarterback.
How tall are you?
I'm just under six two. I'm like six ' one.
Oh.
Yeah, Because he said he was considered like what, I don't know if you said little or small, shorter?
Yeah for a quarterback, totally, that's a big d you relax.
Yeah, yeah, I just didn't know because I mean, yeah, some of these athletes you just see them on TV.
Yeah, so I can't. And you hear like in.
Real life they look tall or big or huge, and like you seem tall, but you're saying you're small.
Yeah, the cat and the hat, I am sam I am.
Yes.
In that same vein, I was pleasantly surprised that just Ryan Gosling is a normal sized guy. You know, actors you never know stood next to him the other day. I was like, wow, the other day.
You look like him?
No, just now, I just see it.
Does anybody else see it?
Not really?
Our eyes are kind of close together.
That's where you're at the Barbie premiere, where you really.
Yeah, and he's just a good looking do Did you watch it the movie?
Yeah?
Yeah, we watched it and it was good. It was fun. You know what I liked about it is it was kind of self deprecating in a way, just because it was theyselves. Yeah they could, They're they're Barbies, So it was fun.
All right.
Final, final few questions here. Question number one? Who wins the SEC East? And why is it going to be South Carolina? Oh, it's not going to be South Carolina.
It could be Actually, I think that that Week three, I think it is game against Georgia is going to be interesting. Dude, love South Carolina's going to be Georgia. They're just too good.
Even even Tennessee. You go Georgia Tennessee South Carolina?
Yes, just because I think I think Georgia is gonna lose one. I think, I mean, I don't know, Tennessee has every opportunity, but I'm gonna go with Georgia sitting here right now.
Over in the West, it's probably still gonna be Alabama.
Really yeah, Alcamya, he turns a program around that quick.
Alabama is good. They're deep at every position. Then I have the superstars on offense that they're used to having, and their quarterback position is going to take a step back. They're gonna be fine. They're gonna be good. But I think lsu Is has everybody back, especially on offense, so I think they're gonna get the West.
Has Saban lost his edge?
No?
Has are other people's edges just sharper then? Yeah, just be smart sharper edge.
I mean, well, we're mad at Saban because he only wanted like a national championship every other year essentially, you know, averaging over the last six or seven years. No, I just think nil is changing things right. It's easier to now pay kids and get them there as opposed to just going, hey, we're Alabama. So that's even in things out a little bit.
Are there rules against you participating in in IL. Let's say you wanted to have a kid at Vanderbilt or any school, Yeah, and you'd be like, I can't want you to promote my show The Big D.
Could you pay them or they?
I believe so yeah, I think I could because I do a lot.
Of NL kids totally. But I'm also not working in sports or ESPN.
So yeah, it's weird. It's probably like a great area. Like maybe it's frowned upon.
But Bobby twenty five whistles.
Yeah, but that's a podcast and it's sponsored by and it's sponsored by DraftKings, and they're just kind of like, do your thing. Yeah, it's not ESPN because if he's calling the game, yeah, and there's he's got a player on the Georgia defensive line.
Yeah, that's true. Like I said, I don't think it's illegal for me, but I think they'd probably say maybe not.
Yeah.
I stay away from stuff where I'm like, I don't think it's illegal, but if it's on that line.
Okay, So The Big D airs Wednesdays. That aired last night, but you can watch it on Peacock Today. Jordan Rodgers, and you're here for SEC media, it is, yes, So what do you do? You just talked to everybody as much.
Yeah, a bunch of radio opportunities, coaches and players are here. So we have a set over there. We'll interview some them and just talk football, like we know what's going to happen in a month or two when we don't.
Do you want here's the option. Last time we had a guest here because you were kind enough to.
Uber up here. Yeah, now, lunchbox can drive you back to your hotel.
Yeah I could.
He drove I could he drove Richard Marx back to his hotel.
Wait in what car?
That?
But in my car?
Yeah that's right. So he picked him up and dropped him right.
And so the problem. The thing is, I gotta take some stuff back. You ever been what's that place called where you buy like salt shakers and stuff. It's like way expensive, I believe shaker Oh great love Williams and Oma. Oh my god.
I walked out of there.
I don't know salt sharek calls one hundred bucks. I got a salt shaker.
There's a hundred bucks that I take back today. So if you do take him, you gotta put that in the back seat.
Oh, I gotta take it to Williams.
No, yeah, to take it back. I'll take it back today.
Come so in the winter when they get the the peppermint chocolate bark and then they have like the apple cider taster spots.
I've never been in there. I can't believe this stuff was that expensive.
Oh, you should go in. It's nice.
Did a salt taker for one hundred dollars?
When you enjoy that, that is a definite like marker in your life. He goes, Oh, yeah, I made it to that point where I love going in Williams, Sonoma.
There is no salt shaker that should cost one hundred dollars.
What does it do shake salt? Wait?
Does it? Is it the automatic one? When you like flip it and there's like a motorator.
It's not.
Let's see it. Maybe we'll buy it.
Maybe I'll give it to him as a gift.
I'll give you sixty bucks.
That's his Derek Jeter, goodbye shaker. Okay.
Jordan Rodgers, you guys follow Jordan on Instagram, Jay Rodgers eleven uh Killing on ESPN SEC Network and also the Big D Jordan.
Thank you for your time, MANE appreciate it. There is Jordan Rodgers. Everybody.
It's the best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Number two.
Miranda Lambert has been going viral lately for something that happened during one of her concerts and some fans and a selfie. If you haven't seen it, then dang, good for you for not being all up in the news. But Bobby made a statement about that situation and his thoughts on everything that happened.
Number two, a couple things I wanted to mention.
First of all, I cannot believe how big this Miranda Lambert story is getting. Oh my, I know it's and I talked about it yesterday and it is a bit trivial, but it's also I guess.
A slow news time because it's Maranda.
The Lambert story is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And I said yesterday, I like Miranda. I know Miranda. I believe my stance was I really know enough of what happened in the crowd. It wasn't the greatest look. But I know that maybe Miranda is having a bad day. And I can understand that because I'll come on here sometimes and if I'm not feeling good, I'll react in a way and go like, oh, I wish I would have done that. So I said, this is not her typicalm So even if it was worst case scenario, I'm gonna give her a pass.
Because everybody deserves to screw up. I have a bad day, grace yeah, or and then we were also like who knows what was really happening down there? Well, a couple of things to talk about here.
First of all, the fans that are that were the ones being yelled at, they act like now that they've been treated so terribly, they act like now that someone went into their house, broke in, stole all their family. It's crazy at how much of a victim they are.
They were just told to pay attention.
They were just like, shut up right attention. And look, if I'm doing a lot of ballads and I do comedy, I don't have fune.
I don't allow phones that way. That never happens. So maybe that's what we learned from this.
It's Miranda's Vegas residency show, so small intimate her big shows.
You ain't gonna cut phones down. Maybe you shut down phones there because everybody's seating.
In it weird. But these people are like Miranda, hear me, I don't know what.
They can't survive a fan whom Miranda Lambert chastis for taking selfies.
It was more than that. And I saw more angles on TikTok.
I'm still not saying that Miranda was completely in the right here, but these people during I believe was it ten Man like her greatest, Slowest, most Vulnerable ballad, They're like standing up, big flash, big flashes.
I get it. They paid the money, they can do it.
I'm not saying they were on the wrong, but I'm also saying I'm annoyed if I'm people around them, because they're all doing a big group, big flat It's like, do it during a song that's not like the most Vulnerable sad and don't use I don't know, and I'm trying not to be biased because I do like Miranda, but these people now are acting like the biggest victim of all time, like someone walked up and just punched them on the nose and said, get out of this Miranda show.
That didn't happen.
Here's here's a clip of I'm going to talk about some of this, and again I am not on the side of I'm still I think I'm still on the side of the people taking the picture, because you can do that if there were no rules against it.
It just is not so cut and dry like this. Here is a clip of the woman with GMZ go ahead.
It felt like I was being back.
She is British, She's Bredish, so she automatically felt snotty, there's no she probably.
Likes the Queen, her king. Probably Okay, go ahead, do it again.
Felt like I was being back at school and the teacher said sit down. We were in the process of sitting back down. We just finished taking our group picture, and then suddenly we realize that as really as I was stirling and sitting down on the bench or the concert is stopping something, it's happening. And we were like, oh, this is about us.
Oh my goodness, that's not British.
Yeah, not British.
But also yeah, I would be embarrassed if I got called out like that and someone was like, you're really busying me off, and plus I'm there to see Miranda, Like, I would be mortified and just want to like crawling a hole.
And go away.
They did go away, they left immediately.
I know they went away, but.
Yeah, because they had bottles.
Oh, I know they went away, but they're just like making a whole now, they're very much out there.
I would just go away and make it stop.
And then continue with more people. Okay, so this is again I'm looking at other people. It's funny how.
Many people record everything because I guess people were recording Brandy didn't care about other phones recording her. No, because other people have their phones up and you can see it.
So she's not stopping the show because people are recording her show or recording her taking pictures of her. She's stopping it because they're probably fifteen feet in front of her.
They're all standing up in a group, blocking people and big flashes.
That's what I want to know, Like, how many pictures? How many angles?
What?
Wait? How many people in the group?
Five?
Yeah?
Five or six? That's a lot.
I'm still not on the side. I'm still not gonna go.
I'm on Miranda's side, but I'm not on anybody's side because these people are annoying me now too, because just because they're doing interviews like acting like they've been done along but yeah, no, they're it's Miranda singing a ballad and they're very close to her, and they're up taking big pictures and that's okay. I would just shut phones down as a judge. No more phones than Miranda shows that are small at the casino.
Okay, I'm very curious if you could pick I'm saying it justice from Miranda, if you could picture this happening to you, like, how do you think you legitimately would hand right question.
If I'm doing jokes, because I would say jokes for me there are I need to have a cadence and I'm telling the jokes and I can't have anybody interrupt me because I'm like, set up, set up, set up, punchline, laughs, set up. If she's doing a ballot and it's just her instrument and these people are really really close to her because they are they're fifteen feet from her standing up. If people stood up and took a selfie as I'm like, what's the deal with peanuts, it would throw me off. Yeah, it really would throw me off.
Okay, now flip it.
You're the you're the concert, you're there, you're attending there.
I know you wouldn't I know.
So it's I know it's hard for you to imagine it, but imagine it, and they need annoying.
So I wouldn't do that right then in that song, I know.
But just for the sake of like, because I've tried to think. Okay, gosh, I again, I'd be mortified and maybe i'd leave, But also I could maybe have a good attitude and be like, sorry, Randa, love you, like sit down and enjoy the show.
I don't know.
I would just do it like durring Mama's broken hard or something. When everybody's up, nobody else is up.
Read the room.
I think that's my number one rule we talk about all the time on the show, that there is nuance in life.
Read the room. I'm still not on random side, as everybody knows, but I'm not on their side either. I just think it's an incident.
Where they did some kind of probably dumb at that time, and she probably reacted in a way that she wished she hadn't. And Okay, we're all losers because we're still talking about it. And I'm a loser for still talking about it.
That's it. And you guys aren't victims, and you're British, so she didn't sound British.
O the country.
It's like Australia.
No no, no, no, no, no Russian.
What from the value of lele that sounds more like Armenian.
And now we're all good.
And the picture was great. It was a great picture. They did a great job.
She was right in the middle.
They did a great job the whole I mean, I was like, that is a great picture of even Miranda Like I was like, whoever coordinated, Like, okay, you need to move a little bit to the left.
It was perfect framers.
I got to get the better for that lunchbox a good point. It was a great picture because they left that gap. That's like somebody with a gap in their teeth. They had the gap in their teeth, and Randa filled that gap. She was that tooth.
That's probably why they wanted it.
I'm terrible with accents in that moment.
I guess America's in the world's big melting pot to me, and everybody sounds the same, and I just love everybody.
Oh that's nice.
Good except for people to ruin concerts. All right, thank you. I think that's it.
Let's play the other clip from her ray and if I get annoyed, I'm just gonna shut it down.
Go ahead.
It was so fast, twenty seconds, no more than thirty. I don't think he could see the flash because we are standing. I learned afterwards that Miranda Lambert sometimes does get bothered when someone in the audio.
You know, twenty or thirty seconds and a three minute song. That's a pretty big that's it. It's about a third of the song. Well no that's Eddie.
No, not very good.
Yeah they still that's time I met six. Okay, she ain't British.
Huh no no no, not even clothes, not Australia either.
All right, thank you justice from Miranda's what I say.
Everybody get off her case. I did say, Randa, if you want to come talk about this, you're more than welcome. They passed, takes picture, they passed. And then don't throw, don't use a beach ball if you It's like what the people can do next, put a beach ball up in Rando show in the Vegas Casino.
Remember she has the beach balls. Oh, we talked about that with her, about that.
We were talking because she was Randa's been on the show a bunch. But she keeps a box cutter on stage and then if a beach ball comes up, she slashes them.
And so here's what she had to say about beach balls. And asked her where that started.
I was literally starting over you and here comes the beach ball flying at my face and then the whole crowd's looking at the beach ball and it's steering like a heartfelt ballad. And where it started was on the k Chessie tour in two thousand and nine because I was doing more like her, which is like a again like a deep whatever. I was sitting on a stool on the stage and a beach ball someone like did a volleyball spike like with this chip ball, and it hit the mic and hit my lip and busting my lip, and I was bleeding, and I was like, I'm done. So I started carrying a knife on stage on the drum riser. So now I have like a pink little razor blade.
And that was a slow song too.
It sounds like when she's doing an emotional song and she's pulling her guts out, she would like for people to at least act like they're paying attention.
That's it.
Good things. She keep a knife up on stage with that. She don't go out there, oh those.
She also says people this is on our show here accused her of being a buzzkill. Do you feel though that sometimes they do this now because they want the treat of having Miranda pop their beach.
Ball, because then they're like you're so violent and you're not any fun, and I wish you wouldn't be so a buzzkill like, but I don't have a song about anything about water, like, not even not even a steel drum anywhere, So I don't understand.
It's just weird.
I don't like it.
Justice from Randa's last time.
I'll say it unless I'm still annoyed and do the segment again tomorrow.
That's it.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Number two.
It's always a fun week when Chris Stapleton is on for an interview because it's not often we get to hear some things from Chris Stapleton, but he is hilarious. First we found out does he actually play pickleball at the mall like Raymundo claimed he did? And what was the story behind that viral ACM photo you know where he's cleaning up all the confetti. Plus apparently he's drink out of somebody's grammy. So we got all the details from Chris Stapleton, and I'm just telling you all, Chris is one of my favorite interviews because you just don't expect the funny stories that come out of that man.
Number one kid So Bobby Bones Show interviews in case you didn't know.
About to talk to Chris Stapleton. A few fun facts. He was his class valedictorian when he graduated in nineteen ninety six. He used to work with Papa John's Pizza, still keeps his employee badge in his medicing cabinet. And as a songwriter, over one hundred and seventy of Chris Stapleton's songs have appeared on albums and sung by Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Dirk's Bentley. He's also just really one of the greatest. It's Chris Stapleton. He's got a new song that we were all premiere today and here he is now on The Bobby Bones Show.
Now, Chris Stapleton.
Chris, what's up, buddy? Going pretty good?
Before we get to a big album announcement and a new song that we've already been playing. A couple questions that we have been meaning to ask you for a long time. Ray Mundo claims he saw you playing pickleball in the mall.
Is there any truth to that?
Ray Mundo, who works on our show, he came in one day Chris and He's like I saw christ.
Able to playing pickleball in the mall where they have a little nets set at all falls.
I've never played pickleball.
So what do you want to say? I mean, I don't know, maybe what maybe he was doing a different sport.
It just looked like he had gotten done playing pickleball because there's a mall pickleball area. He could have been shopping. I don't know, that's not a sport, right, maybe at the mall.
You seen me occasionally I do play tennis.
But not at the mall.
Not the mall. No.
Yeah, there's this court that's set up in the middle of the mall. And Ray was just like I saw Chris Dalpleton. I swear he's playing pickleball in the mall and we were like, you're nuts, and so that confirms it raised nuts?
Yeah, yeah, cool, good, all right?
Yeah, check that one off in the box there.
Yeah.
No, not not at all.
I mean, I mean, maybe I'll take it up.
Have you played pickleball at all?
No?
No, it's legit. Yeah, it's legit, and it's not. It's way easier than tennis.
So for me, you're probably pretty good tennis player because you're an athlete, but pickleball is much easier for a guy like me.
Well yeah, well you you're an athlete. You are an athlete. You can laugh.
I mean, I'm a forty five year old man with five kids, so whatever that means in the ranger, I'm know, Tom Brady, I think.
OK, let's talk about this new song. Okay, because we've been playing it today.
I love when you put on new music, So tell me about white Horse. You and Dan Wilson wrote it together, like the concept did you have a note on your phone?
How'd this song come about?
I was in preparation for talking to you today. I was like, I have to remember the timeline of this song, so I kind of, you know, try to make sense of it. Because the reason the song got written there was a movie that was made a long time ago called The Lone Ranger. There was a Disney movie and they were looking for songs, and so this would have been twenty twelve or maybe early twenty thirteen. I'm not exactly sure, but that was kind of what came up that day. I was in la and Dan was like, Hey, they're looking for songs for this Lone Ranger movie. I was like, what do we know about it? He's like nothing, And so we wrote this song hoping maybe it would be useful for that, but it wound up just being a song that I like a lot, you know. And you can probably even find a YouTube of me playing this song thinking I was going to cut it a long time ago with a band prior to Travelers. I think there's youtubes of me playing a song out there, and then it kind of fell off, you know, the set list, and didn't get attempted recording. Sometimes I do that with songs. They a lot of age or come of age, I don't know which one it is. And then we wound up in feeling like the right time to try to cut this thing, and we got a version of it that we really thought was strong. So that's the story, all right.
With Chris Stapleton.
Right now, Hey, let's talk about this album, because I'm seeing that we're talking about an album this year, Chris.
I guess I'm allowed to say that.
Yeah, yeah, that's right, he just said it right now? Wait are you not supposed to?
Sometimes things are shrouded in secrecy and people have plans for things. But I'll tell you, Bobby, Yeah, we're gonna put an album.
Out exactly before the year is over, Chris, A lot of the songs that you do sometimes you write them forever ago, and even with White Horse, and you love them and you hold on to them, but they don't match like the project that you're putting out.
You feel like, So, what's the.
Oldest song on this album that's coming out later this year that you've saved for so long?
There's a song on this record from the first demo session I ever did in Town that I probably I don't think I moved to Town with a song, but I definitely wrote it, you know, the first year I was in towns of two thousand and one. So there's a twenty two year old, twenty three year old song on this record.
And why was that song so special to hold? And why wait this long?
Have you said it best? You said? You know, sometimes it's just not the right time, or mentally you're not in the right place to put it on, or doesn't fit or I don't know. It's a song that my wife has always begged me to do, but I think i've It's a very difficult song to sing. So I've always always been maybe not afraid of it, but certainly hesitant to record it. But that's the oldest song on it.
I'm being told that I can announce that Chris is announced. Well, I guess I'm announcing it.
Chris has a new album, Higher will be released November tenth.
We're very excited about that. It's correct. We love that.
And how meticulous are you whenever you're making an album, Chrus, Are you listening to every single note of every single instrument, listening to the depth and the sonics of everything.
Are you like, all right, this is what I do? You guys do what you do?
No, no, no, We get very deep and we've probably listened to this record so many times by the time that we let it go that we don't want to listen to it again. But that's not not true. We put it down for you know, a bit. But I do think this is a really strong record. Proud of what we've done, and we really dug in and work on this record a lot, and I think the songs are There's a lot of strong stuff on here. So I'm excited to see how people. I mean, there's a lot of some of it's different. I mean, some of it's I don't want to say it's a departure, but certainly on the edges of things that we've done in the past.
I cannot wait. I hope there's some accordion. Now, that's what I'm talking about, an accordion. Let's go.
Oh day, Okay, a couple more questions here, and we're gonna call this. However, you're doing the shows with George straight now you'll go on right before George.
Now, will you go a little less hard because George is.
Gonna come on and you don't want to go you know, full Stapleton and envelop the crowd just they're.
Like, Chris, Chris, Chris, will you go like medium hard?
No? No, no, no, I mean I don't know what that means. Necessarily, I'm not going to go on your show and say that I go medium hard Bobbies.
Okay, Well, you know, I I thought I was asking in a weird way, so okay, all right, didn't asking me for it to come out that way.
But you give me a question is and then the final thing we're going to do here. These are questions from our listeners. They're uncomfortable questions from our listeners. Question number one.
Will Chris Stapleton's wife tell him if a song that he plays her is not good.
That's a question.
Yes, yes, that should be.
That's not a question at all like that. Yes, yes is the answer. She'll tell me if a song I play her is tearum. You know, yes, she she doesn't pull any punches, and she's she's a wonderful partner in that way, and she's not mean about it. She just you know, she'll tell you what she thinks, and she's very She has great taste in songs, and a lot of what she'll hear on records, song wise, is led by her. So certainly, yeah, she will, she'll, she'll tell you.
I'm a massive Morgan fan, by the way. Let me be honest. I like Morgan better than Chris. Oh can you hear me? Can Chris hear me? I like Morgan than Crust?
I said it all right?
Bye bye?
Okay. Has Chris ever drank out of one of his Grammys?
No, okay, I'll drink out of someone else who's it was a long time ago. I'm not gonna fell on that person for drinking out of a Grammy.
Okay, fair enough, though, Yeah, Okay, does his name rhyme with Lou bega, what yeah, awesome? Number five A little bit Monica in my life?
Okay, no, no, not okay.
Final question, why was Chris Stapleton cleaning up after the a c MS?
Okay, this is for me, So I felt like I was waiting on people to buzz in.
No, no, no, yeah, most yes, that's what we do here. But the picture of you cleaning up.
The real answer is we were walking out and the guys were cleaning up with the blowers, and uh, I was like, hey man, it would be pretty funny if we could grab a blower and do that. Do you think these guys would romantic? We ask them, you know, and so they were kind enough to let us, you know, do a little bit of posing like we were actually cleaning up and take a photo. It wasn't Uh. They were getting a kick out of it too, and it was. It was a nice spontaneous moment and we had a little bit of fun with it. And then we continue to leave there he is.
I love him. I can't get enough Christapleton.
I could just I'm want to play this interview back but cut all my parts out and just listen to him talk the whole time. That's right, Chris, great to talk to you, love the new song and super excited about the new album coming out later this year.
Thanks.
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
That is it, y'all, are as. What does that cartoon that happen? That's all folks. I feel like that's a really old cartoon in it somewhere in my brain. But that is all for us today.
I hope you guys had a great time hanging out with me, But make sure before I go you listen to Best Bits Part one with Amy because the part one on all these Best Bits is original content. It's brand new stuff that we have never talked about before, and it's me talking to somebody on the show that I get out of their busy schedules to come hang out with me for at least an hour, sometimes more. But definitely check it out. I promise you'll enjoy it and you get to see another side of most of us.
Most of the time.
Sometimes it goes off the rails, but Amy and I's interview is super fun, so check that out and be sure to follow the show at Bobby Bone Show. On all the things We're literally on every platform, including Threads, which I personally and the show account are a little bit more chaotic on because it's just fun.
