Friday Full Show: Parmalee on Getting Snubbed + Was Morgan Flirting With Country Artists?

Published Nov 22, 2024, 5:10 PM

Parmalee stopped by to talk about their recent run of No.1s, stories behind their hits and why they think they constantly get snubbed. Lunchbox brought in evidence where he thought Morgan was flirting with country artists during interviews this week. We also hear Lunchbox's controversial CMA award acceptance speech.

Transmitting Liza, Welcome to Friday Show Morning Studio Morning.

I want to start with a voicemail. We got go ahead.

So I was just on Instagram and I saw lunchboxes post of the Crocs and how he said one for me, another one for me. Just curious, were they freeze and did he take more than one pair?

So I've heard about this from other sources, So lunchbot you can go first.

Yeah, at the CMA, like where we do interviews for the artists leading up to the CMA Awards, there was a Croc booth and they had a wall of Crocs and they had iPads there and you got to order crocs, and so I went and ordered crocs for me.

I ordered crocs for my wife. I ordered Crocs for my.

Three kids, and then I got me a fuzzy pair of Crocs like the warm ones for the winter.

So they weren't there. You just ordered it.

They ordered, Yeah, And I got the email and it says, let me see what it says. It says that my order has been confirmed and I'm not sure when they will arrive though.

Okay, Morgan, were you.

With him, Yeah, Oh yeah, I saw all this happen.

Did he He's been known to take advantage of situations. Maybe this wasn't one of those.

Uh no, you you definitely were just supposed to take like one pair. The artists were allowed to do some for their camp, but the rest.

Of it, like we couldn't.

We didn't even tell if it was actually for the radio people at all.

That's the way. It wasn't even offered to you.

No, I was ordered number I was ordered number one fifty five, and I'm confirmed my order from crocs CMA Media Remote Portal is confirmed. Your package will ship and we will send you a notification email boom.

So it really they didn't go say, would you guys like a pair of crocs.

No, at no point attended anybody from CMA come over and be like hey, like everybody's welcome to go get one of these, you know, here's how many you can have whatever.

Never did that happen.

But they were having artists there and doing some promotion with the artists, and Lunchbot goes over there and pretends he's an artist. He even took a polaroid over there and like signed it like he was an artist and doing this with the crocs.

It's kind of funny yeah, I would do that. Pictures ain't kind of funny, yep. I would be so nervous so about like taking stuff because I'm just not a good I'm just not good at being dishonest.

I mean, there was nothing dishonest. They were free. I didn't do anything dishonest. I lady gave me the iPad. I sat there and said, I want that one.

That one. I guess I would have felt I was being dishonest because it was for the artists that were there, not for all of the people that were working interviewing the artists. And they had like some USA crocs and I was like, ooh, that was pretty cool exactly, and I said, can I get those? And I want to get a pair of form each one of my boys, like like red, white, and blue. Okay, So I guess that's the part to the fields where he got all his family. Oh yes, yeah.

He was ragging about Christmas gifts for the kids.

But the only problem is they didn't have the USA ones and kids sizes, so I couldn't get the kids ones and they didn't have any online they were all sold out and those were two big so I didn't get the USA ones.

But it's like the artists really gonna go with an iPad and I'm like, oh, I mean my crocs.

Oh, I don't see. I think they all probably did that, or their management did it.

Oh.

So what I would say though, is, and this is a true question, please answer me truthfully, lunchbox. Do you feel like you got one over on them?

No?

Okay, they could have taken that iPad away from it anytime they wanted. Okay, but you saying that is you going? You knew you were up to something. I guess in your heart. Do you feel like you were sneaking free crocs?

No?

I think yes.

Do you feel like they were offered to you? Yes? Okay, because they could have said at any time, but they don't know who everybody is, Like you don't even know who every new artist is.

It's there, correct, But they could have said, hey, oh what you know, what song do you sing?

Or something like that.

But they could have had like proof of entry.

Another question, whenever you took like all the stuff from Saint Jude, you should have gone backpacks. Those weren't for you. Did you feel like you were getting one over on the Children's Cancer Hospital? No, they were free backpacks but for one a part. What about the gift cards for the Christmas when they were given out one per Christmas?

Oh, that was good. That was at a restaurant on the road. We haven't done that in a while. We haven't gone back to that restaurant. Did you feel like you were getting one over on the restaurant? Well, I did go on one side of the room because it was only like a ten dollars gift cards, so I can't really buy anything with ten dollars.

So then I went to the other side of the room, got to get that at him because they weren't big enough, and so I got thirty dollars worth of gift cards. That way I could get a full meal. Did you feel like you were getting one over on them?

I just called strategy, Yes, a little bit, okay that one, maybe a little bit.

Is it amazing for you Morgan when he does stuff like that.

Yeah, no, for sure, because you just don't know who's watching and who's seen all this happen, whether it's artists, people in the industry like CEA, who's hosting us, So you just feel uncomfortable and he's and he's.

Bragging about it too.

It's not that he does.

It, you feel like he's didn't. Okay, if he's bragging, why is he bragging because he knows he's just got one over on if he's because if he were, if it's just normal and he was getting that, it's like a gift bag, you wouldn't be bragging about it. Yeah. No, how long have I been wearing crocs? No, that's not the question time.

So you know what, I think I deserved it, and now we're the truth. They were nice enough to give me some pret pair of crocs. So crocs. Thank you.

Shout out Boulder, Colorado.

Shout out Boulder.

That's where they're at. Well let's get the trut started. Thank you everybody for being here. Did you get us any you're just thinking about? Oh yeah, I didn't know your sizes? Okay, you get a text? Easy text? Oh yeah. Man, the reception there wasn't not good? Oh dang, that sucks, yamous sin.

There's a question to.

Be Hello, Bobby Bones. My girlfriend and I have been together for almost a year. She still insists on splitting everything down to the penny. Fiercely independent. She's a bit quirky, which I love about her, but it feels a bit extreme, especially when it's something like a coffee Jaska loosening up a bit, or just like to go and inspect her boundaries. Signed dating a penny pincher, I guess I wonder, is she wanting display everything because you spend more money than her, because that would be a thing, right, That would be the penny pincher part of it, right, Or if you're doing stuff but his tastes are a bit more expensive and she's like, I don't want to pay for that.

She's a big time in penny picture. She let him pay so she can pinch all of her pennies.

That's extra penny pinching, right.

I think that she just needs to tap into her feminine energy.

I think that if this is our thing, let her do it. Yeah, Or you can divide it in different ways so it's not so awkward on occasion. At the occasion, So if you're getting a coffee, like, no one need to split this, Okay, I'll get the coffee. This is seventeen dollars. The next seventeen dollars thing, we'll keep track of it. I'll get again. This is not what normal people do, but this is the kind of stuff that I do in my head, like I know what it's like to kind of be ocd ish about stuff, because this doesn't feel like full OCD, but it feels ocd ish. I would let her do it with the idea of you're trying to understand why she's doing it, because I think instead of diagnosed saying the symptom, it's trying to figure out what the actual and it's not a disease, but I'm saying symptom, what the actual disease is, So.

Well, maybe the route behind why she's wanting to deadly disease that way all the time.

Yeah, instead of the symptom, find find the real reason and then work work with her on that. Also, maybe she didn't think you're in the future, Oh yeah, and she's like, we're not together forever, so wonna make sure to cover my crap ding. Yeah, I'll pay for me.

It's okay for his needs to be met as well, though, And if he has a desire to pay for her sometimes like oh, he can express that like, hey, I would really love to take you out and I would like to pay for this.

It sounds like he has if he's emailing us. But I agree, but I think the way to meet that is just kind of keep track of what you're spending individually and fully spend and then lets the other person fully spend after that, and said of having to split everything because it's just awkward in the moment to be like, all right, you hat a bagel, Starbucks coffee, it's a lot. You have a Christy treat that is, it's a lot, and it's awkward for everybody. But what I would suggest one short term that long term, what happened back when she was a kid that made her feel like you needed to do this, like where is it? And then work with work with that situation. I don't think there's anything wrong with her. I think we all have our our quirks and maybe you're alter sensitive to it. But that's what I would suggest.

Good luck.

That's gonna be a tough one, but good luck with that. Or let her pay for everything. But again, it may not be yeah, that's not it may not be a control thing. Yeah, but also it may be a full control thing. But he's just calling her a penny picture.

Yeah, I think that's what he's doing.

Good luck, buddy, let us know how it goes. You want though, all right, Bye. Here's a voicemail we got last night.

Hey, I'm listening here jamming out to Kane Brown and Marshmallow, and it just drives me nut, says the guy who spent years and years and years selling furniture. Just because it's illiterative doesn't mean it's correct. The whole deal about the king size bed right talking about the truck bed that's wi like a.

California You King.

California King is not the extra wide King bed that's the Eastern King. California King is longer and made for people that are tall, not necessarily that much wider.

So even though it's a.

Jam, it's a really cool song. Every time I hear it drives me nuts to hear him say California King. Thanks guys, love the show.

I love that guy too.

Wow, guy, he has to do something in beds too, like his but like specially might special beds mattresses? Yes, like he must spend a lot of time with beds for that to trigger that.

Could you turn the California King uh horizontal and then it could be wise?

It seems like too much work. I love it good. Thanks for the call. You are insane, that's crazy.

I never knew that.

Pile of stories.

Have five things you should keep to yourself and never complain about, okay, and a number one how much you hate your job.

I think there's a group of people you can share that with. But yes, not at your job out loud so other people can hear.

Yes, or just like complaining about it too much? I mean, you can really drag down the vibe. Your partner's flaws in at number two, because you should address that directly with your partner.

Well, the problem there is you have your own flaws, buddy, and so it's not like you don't have your own and they're probably not complaining as much. And also get over it or move on. That's all I say.

Number three, how much you're struggling financially. This can make people feel awkward.

Yeah, there's a very select group people you can do that with. You can't really do that when you go to PF Chain's, you know, I mean you with a bunch of people you just hang out with twice a week.

Go you ahead, Uh, how you never have enough time because nobody wants to hear everybody's busy exactly. And then and at number five, how tired you are exactly? We're all tired.

We're all tired, and no one wants to hear how much you work. No one wants to hear how your Fens football team's doing. Nobody wants to hear the dream you had last night. I have my own list of these things nobody wants to hear. All right, what else?

If you want healthier coffee? The new trend right now is using maple syrup instead of sugar or anything else. I don't know if.

Because maple syrup is natural sugar. But also don't they add sugar to maple syrup?

No, no, it's not. Maple is a natural, it's naturally they don't add sugar to the way it comes.

I get what actual maple syrup is, but I'm saying when it's package, you're telling me that no maple syrup, they add sugar to make it.

If you're getting like true maple syrup, it is sweet, just like honey is already sweet.

Yeah, but here's my question. I don't know what true maple syrup is. If I go to the grocery store and get maple syrup, they add sugar.

If you look on the back and the only we're telling you if you look at the only ingredient, and it's maple syrup. That's all that's in there.

I believe, I believe there's quitely good ones, but no, that's not.

Okay, Yeah, that's added. This is like the maple syrup in a jar. And I don't know if maple tree Farmers put this study out or what, but I've been seeing it everywhere and they say, first of all, it's yummy, but your blood sugar doesn't spike as much, and it can help with digestion, and there's anioxcidents.

As well, so it's not cheap.

I will say that, well, yeah, nothing natural is. It's the opposite. It, like anything organic, costs way more and it's like, dude, it came from the earth, give us a discount.

What else.

Uh.

There's this thing that's going viral about this company that will let you DNT about your bosses anonymously and then they will like send a note to the boss like scolding them for what all they're doing wrong.

I would never open. I think it was spam or scam or one.

Of the Yeah, it's a way for you to anonymously voice workplace grievances through professional scolders and.

You just like to a a burner account? Is email the boss yourself to a burner? Hey, I guess you could.

Yeah, I feel like somehow that'll get tracked.

Yeah, no not if you mean really, it's almost possible to track those unless you put your name in like that subject head by accident.

I would get way too nervous that something would get like. I mean, first of all, I wouldn't do this, but just like, what's the healthiest way if you have a grievance with your boss, like a, oh, have a conversation with the boss, right, but like, and here's the thing about bosses in general and why bosses always feel like their employees are up to something or wanting something.

Rarely is there an employee that ever has a conversation with the boss and goes, hey, you're doing a good job. An employee usually goes to a boss and something's wrong. So anytime an employee wants to talk to a boss, you're like, great, now, what's wrong. It's like just generally in life, even though they're like a TV show, you know't get a message on it. This is my favorite show. It's like, oh, this show sucks. It's just general. So a lot of bosses their a relationship with their employees is not a healthy feeling one because the only time the employees really come to the boss, unless they're friends, is when something's wrong.

It's so right, Like I've never gone to a boss and been like, hey, boss, you did really good.

It's like you said you did a great job. I know people, I don't tell you that, but yeah, it's dis grievance site kick Crocks.

Yeah, I mean yes, boss is rules. I say, this is not recommended, but I just thought it opens the conversation of like, you know, it's the end of the end of the year, you're doing some reflecting like no, but as you enter the new year, like how do you want it to be? And maybe you could have some hard conversations.

No, it's end of the yearmericrousness in January. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news.

Bobby.

I'm gonna helpe you save money during the holiday shopping season. So I feel like I gotta go to the store, I gotta go buy presents. They say, don't go when it's crowded. I'm gonna save you money. Right here. Researchers found that people tend to spend more in stores, and there are a lot of people when it's very busy because they have to make decisions quicker. Mondays and Tuesdays the best days to go. The absolute worst time Saturday and Sunday after lunch. So if you want to save I'm saving you in right now. Everybody say thank you. Do not go when it's busy. You see people, they're moving, the wrestling, bustling. Yes, you will spend more money. Also, don't go to the store hungry. But we know that one.

We know that one.

Yeah, yeah, that's moment's the world all right, there you go, That's what it's all about. That was telling me something good. I have some flirtyish moments with Morgan and different artists. Do you guys want to hear these?

Yeah, so CMAS they're flirting.

You just listen.

And I don't want to lead you. I don't to lead the witness. Okay, does Morgan you're single?

Yeah, I'm single?

Wrong with being single?

Living it up?

Okay during the CMAS and this is the last time after today, we'll do very little CMA talk. But I wanted to play this. Tucker Wetmore came in. He was a farm football player. Uh now he's got a song about to be number one, big deal. And so they were talking about what he wanted to accomplish in life, and his answer led all the guys to make it awkward because of Morgan and single and just listen to this and give me your thoughts.

Here you go, What is something that you hope to accomplish before you die?

Not music related?

A family?

Want to be the dad?

I do, not anytime soon. That's that's probably like one of my mangles.

Oh that's really awesome, but not right now.

No, no, god.

No, absolutely not.

I mean, no position to be a fallow any particular reason.

You say that.

Just still learning to take your career, you know.

Okay, got it? I thought you did. Sorry, not bad, I'm sorry. Oh my god, stop it right now.

We're done.

We're done, guys are no no, no, no, no, no, okay, Doug, it's really great to.

See you think.

So okay, that was.

Flirting with Morgan. That was Morgan flirting with him.

I think it was just working like yeyundward flirting.

But Morgan, like it stopped in her track like single?

Can I tell you why?

I had just seen that he had a girlfriend online, So I felt.

Really bad that I brought it up.

I guess they had just broken up.

A little bit of that also, I felt like she was a little but if.

You're if you're thinking they're with someone and then broke up.

And yeah. Here's another one was Morgan flirting with Riley Green. Here's here's the clip.

You know, Riley, listen, everybody thinks you're so attractive, You're like the we did a whole thing on the show that you're the hottest man in country music. But I feel like what just made you even more attractive to me is that you love Christmas as much.

As I do, and I like, but nobody has a chance because I'm flung up on this.

Elf girl exactly.

We got to find the elf.

I need to find Miles.

Yeah, anything, okay, it's the hot. It goes high when she gets voice if they say something that indicates their looking.

She said, what makes me attracted?

And did we see.

On the list?

That's not our voting, It was the list that we.

Read, and Morgan said his name, yeah, but she just picked we were guessing what.

Was on the list.

Every woman would say his name, he's.

Good looking cat.

She got the bug in that one, because she's like, you know what makes even hotter than.

Me excited to talk about Christmas?

Morgan fled with him, right, Yeah. I think Morgan took a little, very small, put a little effort in there to let her let him know she knew that he knew.

These are like outwardly though, I feel like this might my personality personality.

This one here is the lead singer of Parma Lee.

It's Matt and they're talking about jeep ducking, putting those ducks on someone's jeep.

You have ducks on your jeeps.

I don't have a duck on my jeep.

Have you never been duck?

No?

Guys have them. It's not just a girlfriend.

Guys have them too.

I need to du du me.

I'm okay, awkward, Yeah, because we get the duck thing.

But also, is that why it's called duck? No, I don't know. Moment she goes, I need to duck you, it's like a good looking dude, Morgan, guys, it was. We don't hate you for it.

I know I'm not trying to though, Guys, is the thing I'm genuinely not You're not.

And then she would let me tell you She was so disappointed because Warren Zyders never came by our booth, and she kept going, and when is.

He gonna come by? I'm gonna talk about him not being on our Sexiest Man list.

I need to tell him about he's not on our Sexiest You.

Follow up because he commented on the video. He saw it and he commented, and I was like, that would be a cool follow up.

Well, maybe it's.

Everybody else making it.

I was just having fun. Warren was her first guess. Yes, whatever, Yeah. In the video like you and me, you're like Amy sexy, mean lab and I was like George Straight and you're like Amy, let me go to someone that knows what they're talking about. Morgan.

I didn't say that. I said he was too old to be on the line way I clearly you exaggerated that, and that makes me feel small.

I mean, you're taking away the attention from Morgan because oh, that's not taking my intent.

No, let's go back to Morgan. And sorry, Bobby, that was my own insecurity of picking George straight, and I took it out on you.

Now, Morgan, who would you who would you rather duck from? Parmalley or Riley? Green on a question. You get one night of duck right right, Yeah, you're gonna duct a lot of stop the cmas are now streaming on Hulu. Yes, that's Morgan geting thirty all right, thank you. A fun fact Friday. Before penicillin, the best available cure for syphilis was intentionally giving someone malaria. Oh, it would cause such a high fever that it would kill the bacteria that caused syphilis. Of course it could also kill a person to wait, whatever, But that is how if someone got syphilis, they treated it by going and getting them. I don't know how they got the malaria, you know, did they get a I don't know, but yeah, that's that's crazy. Huh. That's my fun fact. That's fun. That's fun fun because discovering penicillin, that's wild because it was just mold, right, yes, and all of a sudden that's like killing back. That's crazy. Amy, What do you have over there?

Just the smell of chocolate can help relax you and reduce stress. You don't even have to eat it, just smell it.

Then I become stressed. How quickly can I eat it? Because I want it? It's a different stress lunchbox.

Once a chicken lived without a head for eighteen months.

Back in the nineteen forties.

He survived because he's jugular vein and most of his brainstem were still left mostly intact, allowing it just enough function.

To stay alive. That's so sad, that's wild if true. But also where's the video because it's like the forties, nineteen forties. No, we trust that the hey get your paper, like do we trust that it just may but yes, they can't actually, not for a minute anyway. Even now, how about this one Indiana, big basketball state to himI. Oh yeah, big basketball state has ten of the twelve largest high school basketball gyms in the country. They don't even have like the biggest cities, like Indianapolis is the biggest city and it's ranked like the thirtieth biggest city. But they have ten of the twelve largest high school basketball gyms in the country. The other two that aren't our Texas in Illinois. But look at Indiana. Shout out basketball all right, eddie.

Okay, So there are one hundred and fifty two people in America named lol law huh.

I don't know if it's lull or it has to be.

It's gotta be the lull right, and most of them live in Wyoming, which is weird family name.

Like, yeah, oh, go over to Lowell's house.

LOLd Johnson. Yeah, the original Lalls were before there was the ability to text or even know what laugh out loud meant. They just probably the Lalls right, go over to lowls All the third Yeah, oh you know my pops. That's funny, Morgan.

So this is for all the friends in Gilmore Girls fans.

While Matthew Perry and Lauren Graham were dating, the Friends cast would hang out at Luke's Diner, which is a place in Gilmore Girls set, and then both shows would also swap close with each other.

So Matthew Perry, So the other person you mentioned though from Gilmore Girls.

Yeah, Lauren Graham. She's one of the main characters in gil Mom.

God, well, not the mom mom, because there's a grandma, a mom, and a daughter.

But that's a grandma. That's her mom.

True, But if you're talking about her, then that's her mom.

But if you're saying the mom, it's the mom on the show and not the grandma. Correct. Okay. The head football coach at the University of Michigan quit to prospect gold in Alaska. He actually struck it rich like that was cool eighteen ninety seven, but he was a head football coach University of Michigan.

Was like, I'm out of this.

I'm gonna go look for gold, and then.

He hit they're still looking for gold in Alaska. There's a whole TV show about it.

Really.

Yeah, wait, I'm going to google when cotton candy was invented because I think that was also in eighteen ninety seven, and I just remember reading that a dentist invented it. Isn't that crazy.

I think we talked about it. Oh we did.

Maybe that's why I know it, because it's just in my head.

It was like I found this out, like, no, this is from our shows.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

God, guys. Sometimes I'm like, why is my brain rumoring this and it can't rerun that's called like fairy okay. Cotton candy, also known as fairy floss, was invented at eighteen ninety seven by a dentist who was craving something sweet.

That's the same year.

Yeah.

Well, when Bobby said eighteen ninety seven, my brain thought of cotton candy.

It's pretty crazy. I was finding rubbing off on us. We're learning things. Another one, Anderson Cooper has no formal journalism training. He got his degree in political science from Yale and did his summer internships at c i A. He just started doing like traveling, spending his own money, going overseas with a camera to like where Middle East conflict was.

His mom is like famous family.

Very very wealthy. Yeah, that's how he keep the plane tickets overseas. But like he still put himself in very dangerous situations in order to be like, look, I'm covering this crap.

You remember him on one, sure.

Cooper back in the day. The original reels have gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and many other classic movies. They're stored underground and Assault Mine in Kansas to be protected. Well, now everyone knows, we don't know which one. Yeah, a lot of there's a lot of can that, a lot of can't. There's a lot of can't. Morgan cans are pretty big, yeah, exactly. No.

The salt mills, a lot of salt mills over there.

No, they're just very somewhere under Yeah, it says under assault mine, not a mill o salt mine. Lost salt minds Morgan, you hang out. No, they're Friday like field parties. You guess that's aalt my parties.

We have lots of field parties, not a lot of AsSalt mine parties.

Should all right, there you go. I'm it's time for the good news.

There's his husband, Andrew, and he just won Husband of the Year with his wife's fortieth birthday gift. Our name's Jennifer, and they both volunteered together at Chesapeake Animal Services. They've been doing that for over years. They obviously love dogs, and one of their own dogs died unexpectedly. Jennifer has been really down about that. So for her fortieth birthday, he came up with an idea to pay forty adoption fees for people like in her honor, and so those fees are covered. So if someone walked in that day and was like, hey, I want to adopt a dog and be like, oh, guess what your adoptions paid for? Because of Andrew here and his gift to his wife.

That's cool. Hope you also got a real gift. But that's cool.

That is a real gift. No, no, no, I think covering forty.

I think it's amazing way to give it back and she loves it. But I hope for him he also got her something for her because fellas.

But we know what's up.

We still got to get a gift.

We do.

Even if we do something like that, I get my wife a gift. I think that is an amazing gift to give back in her honor. If I still should have got it a little something.

This is her Jennifer's birthday. Wish is that more people will visit the shelter and adopt. I know she wants to all have homes. And now he's attributed in her honor.

For of the year.

Hopef they got a little treat I hope they got a little treaty. Another treat. There you go, all right, that's what it's all about. That was telling me something good. My voicemails from last night. Go ahead, hey, Bobby comment about Eddie saying he's gonna donate bone marrow.

I actually donated bone marrow back in June.

And Eddie is too old. You had to be forty years old or younger to do it. So sorry, Eddie, you're too old.

Wow?

Is that what you found out through your research that you should have already been doing?

No, I haven't even researched yet, but that's crazy. I mean, he saved me time.

No, this is not the gospel. This is like a kid learning something on TikTok. You need to find out for yourself, meaning don't google. You have to talk to somebody, a doctor, a medical specialist. Yes, so we may actually put him on the air as well. Okay, okay, because if you google it, you're not gonna like what it says. Well, it says that anyone you must be between the age of eighteen and sixty.

Okay, it sounds like this guy's already done it though, and they said, ah, you're too old.

But he may be what they call.

A geriatric doner.

No, I don't like that unmarrowed. Oh that I made that up.

That sounds terrible.

Now it sucks to him, all right?

Giving me Travis North Carolina, just wondering what y'all's thoughts for on Morgan Wall and not being at the CMA's.

He's the best country.

Singer out there as of now, and I was just wondering what y'all thoughts were.

I'm fine with it. What's an award show anyways? And these days I said, oh, that was kind of funny, but we don't know why he wasn't there. No, but he wasn't there. That's kind of funny. And he won Entertainer of the Year, and I feel like they may I'm not sure which award show. You know, there was a point where one of the you know, one of them, are like, hey, you're not welcome here when you got in all the trouble. And although at the time some felt that was just if I were him, maybe I'm whole.

I don't know.

I don't know the reason. It's always kind of like, yeah, he showed that. I don't know. I am not a system guy. I am often held back by the system. The country music man, the corporate country music world does not enjoy me. So I like it when someone else who has far far more reach and credibility than I do, who also isn't at times embraced by the system, or sticks it to him, because when I stick it to him, it's more like you're poking with your pinky. When he sticks it to him, it's almost like he's doing one of those that the swat team comes up to the door. Yeah, yeah, mine's like a pinky poke. His is a battering rama. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, so ah, that's pretty funny. I'm glad he won. I thought he deserved to win. Thought pretty cool. All right, just get over to Amy in the morning Corny, the Morning Corny?

What did the turkey say when he met the president?

What's happening?

Pardon me?

Funny good one? Yes, that was the Morning Corning. That's what I'm talking about right there, we're broad contract.

Okay. I thought about this though. Would it be better if I said? What what did the turkey say when you bumped into the president?

What you said?

Part of this? Not a big difference. What's the munch line?

Here?

Starting? Same punchline?

But like you would, not a difference.

When you bump into someone you say party.

You achieve the highest of high with that joke.

Okay, keep that one in your back pocket for Thanksgiving Day?

Do all the other turkeys hate the one that gets pardon? I don't think a turkey would understand what hate is even.

Yeah, and they don't understand because they're gone got it.

But even if they hear about it, I don't know they know English. We don't know that they're about to die.

It's true.

There's a lot they don't trust me. Turkeys are alright, both really smart and really stupid, Like when it rains they look up and drown. They can do that we took out of our whole life. It's the hardest, least least area to shoot. You got to be the quietest of almost any animal. But also if it rains, Oh.

Mike, haven't they learned to stop doing that?

Wake up, Wake up in the mall?

And it's from the radio and the Dodgas keeps on time.

Ready and his lunchbox more game two Steve red and it's trying to put you through.

Fact he's running this week's next year. The Bobby's on the box, so you knowing this.

The Bobby ball.

So easy trivia. The category is twenty tens Country music. Eddie Whate artist released a body like a Background in twenty seventeen, Sam Hunt. That is correct, Good job, Eddie's the champion. You got the tr on Amy What country duo is known for the song Cruise.

Florida Georgia Lang?

Correct? Fun fact? Did you know they fought and split up over political beliefs, But now the one that fought with BK is now his same political belief so they getting back together. Well, so they don't need to break up, but I think now they change each other.

Great, Yeah, how about that? That's terrible.

Next up, Abby, m hm, take a d breath, girl, got it. Abby's been going to therapy to win this thing, and it's worked one time. Who sang Dia Happy Man? At twenty fifteen?

Thomas Rrett correct Lunchbox, which artist's twenty twelve song Springsteen became a massive hit? Eric Jert It's so easy if you do miss the question.

Though you hear this sound, you've been boo. The only people on the pool on the point board is Eddie Wood two Abbey with one yes, I'm The category is two thousands movies? Easy Trivia? Which two thousands movie stars Russell Crowe as a betrayed Roman general seeking vengeance The Gladiator?

I accept it?

Gladiator? Oh it is not though, No, but that didn't count. Okay, Yeah? What two thousand and eight superhero movie start Heath Ledger as the Joker Amy, We'll shoot?

Oh okay, yeah, yeah he was a joker. But that particular movie, part of the franchise I believe is The Dark Night.

Correct that trick?

I mean that is very.

True, Abyan, what two thousand and three animated movie does a clownfish and a marlin search for his son finding Nemo Correct? Lunchbox What two thousand and four romantic drama stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple in love.

The notebook Correct, everybody remains, good job, everybody?

The category and easy trivia is the arts?

I love the arts.

Question number one, what's the name of the boy who never grows up? In the book Peter pan Adie's od the Boy that Never grows up? What's the name of the boy who never grows up in the book Peter pan That is Peter pan Correct? Good job? Could have been a trick, you trying to trick me. I was very confused a trick.

I wasn't confused at all. I was like, the name is in the title, and I feel like he got that last week too with something else. But that's not me complaining.

I'm I will say that it's that was not gonna be super easier, super hard, depending on the trick of it.

But he's the boy that now.

But there's another kid in pajamas?

Who is that to you? When you read it? All? Right? Who wrote the famous play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare. Correct? Abby, What is the boy wizard's name in JK. Rowlings book series? Yeah, that's the whole question. What's the boy wizard's name in JK. Rawllings book series?

Harry Potter?

Correct? Lunchbox? Who painted Starry Night? Fan?

Go?

Correct? Wow, I was lucky. No, you've seen it. I haven't seen it, but we had a whole conversation. I forgot.

I remember you were like, it's so small.

Next up in the fifth grade math?

Oh?

Great, I can't even help my kids with their homework.

Dude, Eddie, what's the term for the top number in a fraction?

The enumerator?

Correct?

The denominator and the numerator?

Yeah, five seconds.

I don't know, man, I'm gonna go with the numerator.

What is that the record? What numerator on top? Denominator on bottom?

I thought I was thinking of terminator?

Might have been, by the way, Amy, what's the term for the result of multiplying two numbers together? H what's the term for the result of multiplying two numbers together? Clocks on the X?

Oh?

Gosh? In an answer? What anybody knows them? I don't understand. No, it's the product. Yeah, who's the products? Therapy? You got better help on phone with it right now they're talking with the okay, am, I'm sorry even eliminated. Abby over to you. What is the value of pie rounded? Two decimal points, two decimal places? Three point one for correct, guys, you may have a challenger over here?

Now?

What was the answer? Three point one four?

Because it's like three point one four eight?

What's lunchbox? What's the lines name that divides a circle into two halves? So there's a line when you buy a circle in two half? What's that line called? That would be the equator for earth? Yes, for a regular circle. No, it is the diameter with it again?

Oh my goodness.

What I just said?

Yeah?

Literally like it.

It's diameter. It's getting it.

No, never do that.

Well, So it's Abby and Eddie again. Let's go. Let's go. We're done with math though, right The next category is famous landmarks. I'm gonna play a song first. We'll come back to the famous landmarks only to remain Abby and Eddie.

I feel like we were here last week. You wear an Abe scenario.

Famous Landmarks, easy trivia, Eddie. The Great Pyramid of Giza is in what country?

Egypt?

Correct? Abby? What country is the Leaning Tower of Pisa in?

That's that's Italy?

Correct? Wow? The category is the eighties? Oh, Dan, I like it because I was alive then, Eddie, which animated TV series featured characters like Optimist Prime and Megatron.

Optimist Prime and Megatron.

Which animated TV series featured characters like Optimist Prime and Megatron talks.

On is that.

Transformers?

Is that your answer?

Yeah?

Correct? Abby? What was the name of the show, The debut in nineteen eighty nine, starring David Hasselhoff, is a lifeguard bay Watch? Correct? The category is famous Athletes. Well, that's okay, Eddie. Who's the famous British soccer player known for his time with Man You and the England national team?

David Beckham?

Correct? Abby? Who is the NFL quarterback known for winning seven Super Bowls and is now a commentator? Oh?

He was married to hold On? Oh they did.

As who is the NFL quarterback known for winning seven Super Bowls and his.

Good job?

Thank you?

Fourth grade science. Your clock now will be to ten seconds only, guys, it goes to it fourth grade science, Eddie, what do you call a group of stars?

The former pattern a constellation.

Correct, Abby, what's the name of the layer of gases surrounding the Earth? The what's the name of the layer of gases surrounding the earth? Clock is on.

The cosmosphere galaxy.

It was one layer in correct, That's what I would against the atmosphere a miss?

Did I say atmosphere before?

I'm like, wow, I won, but I'm kind of freaking out.

Hey, Abby played strong, I got it first in the second place finished, But Eddie, you are the winner. I want to hear the speech. I've not heard lunchbox of speech that he gave during the CMAS and that was on television. But we did win an award. And before there's nobody in the room, which I always wonder why we're giving a speech to when no one's in the room. Do you guys know why?

I mean, they're starting to have people filter in, so there were some people in there.

But also it's weird, like they just say saying an archive. Anyway, we have to give a speech, and so you know, we wanted to pass. I'm like, hey, this is awesome, thank you guys, we love you. Whatever. For some reason, Amy decided not to give the speech, and she was I wasn't there. I was sick. Amy was like, I guess I won't do it. You let Lunchbox do it, right? Yeah?

Because I did it last time, and so I thought it would be nice to share.

Okay, that's uhl of you.

Yeah yeah, I just assumed like we should rotate. That seems that that's what I thought was the right thing.

I've not heard this yet. Now you guys know me. What will my reaction be after I hear Lunchbox of speech? I would say, you're gonna put your face in your hands. Okay, Amy, it could have been worse. Oh okay, that's Lunchbox. That would you like to set this up?

I think I nailed it. I gave a shout out to you know, all our fans.

I'll spoil it. Don't do this speech again. You're gonna be like, man, that's pretty good. Okay, this a lot of emotions.

The end. Pay attention.

How long is it? Ray? Thirty? Okay, here's Lunchbox. This speech. We were giving a CMA award, and action.

Man who would think of college dropout would.

Be here exactly the CMA award tonight. And Bobby has been seeing all week a stomach bug.

So please say a prayer for Bobby because without him, we wouldn't be here.

And I mean all the other shows that aren't.

Over here winning the war.

Now we're here, we go, we gotta go, we gotta go it. Why did you guys yell no, no, what we need to say.

We didn't yell anything he was trying to say, which I don't know that we need to bring up any other shows at all, but he was like putting it out there to other shows like, hey, we're here to stay. We're not going anywhere. Like we're not going anywhere, So is that.

The place to talk about other people?

That's what That's where That was the part that was cringe for me. And then they all start yelling, and then we're being told like wrap it up, walk off, and they're just still yelling, sort of like sticking it to the man.

I don't mind shout to me. I appreciate that.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

It wasn't that bad last time, Stoma felt better. So for some reason, at like six point thirty two that night, I was like, Wow, the reason.

I'm saying, Eddie's like talking about you're gonna put your hands your head in your hands, Like, oh, I don't understand what you would put your head in your hands apart.

Can I just say this, we don't compete with a single other show, So stuff like that is always mind blowing to me. We don't. We don't compre We don't compete with a single other show. We compete with people listening to podcasts, with people living life, watching YouTube videos. We don't compete with other radio shows. Like, nowhere in my mind do I ever even think about another radio show ever. So that's like ten years ago. Maybe that's how you do it. There's no competition in mind radio show. Yeah, he's what show's youre talking about? Where this day?

Well, what we're saying is like, you know, you want to win that award. You're like, man, how do I win that award? I was just letting them know, hey, we're not going.

In the category.

No I know, but in my mind, we don't compete. We're not fighting for people versus another radio show. We're fighting for people versus every kind of media and out there listeners.

I was talking about winning the award. They are looking at us, going, man, I want to win that award one day, but they ain't gonna win, so you want to yell there, we're not leaving. We can't win it next year because you can't win it two years in a row.

It's only every other year.

We are hopefully they stick it to us next year.

Whoever wins it.

I want to send him a text and be like, hey, when you get.

Up there, like, where are y'all?

You were never show today losers.

Yeah, they say that that's okay, that's so what do you think?

What do you think?

It's fine?

It was him.

He was also being pushed along Raymundo and Scuba, and I can hear you guys heard that you're pushing him along.

I did not yell go back to the table and he saying wrap.

But I think that was you saying yeah, yeah, we were drunking. Amy, you just have to be the leader. This is on you a little bit. But Amy's refusal to leave too. She goes, We're not no.

I turned around and I was like, I'm leaving immediately. I think it was the first one off the stage.

Thank you, Bobby Bone.

Show today is this story goes it's from Idaho. We'd all say teenagers are really stupid, right, No.

Not at all.

I wouldn't think so, I think there's some yeah, yeah, okay.

So there's a group of teenagers driving in an suv and he's driving, eighteen year old and he's swerving all the road, having.

So much fun, and his buddy's like, oh, man, what if we light your armpit hair on fire? Yes?

What if? What if?

Okay?

And so they said, yeah, let's try it. Let's try it. So they pulled out a lighter as the guy's driving and let his arm bin on fire.

And then then then then what there's nothing else? Then white, it hurts. They slap it out.

He wreck So I went, uh, he's like, god, he flipped his car.

Oh, there's just not a If the armpit hair was three feet long, like you rapunzeled that armpit hair, I can understand. Like the joke, let's light it on fire. Even then it would be a good idea, But I would get that because it would take a while. You know, it's a long fuse. You ever see hair?

No hair burns up so fast.

I hear you.

I'm just thinking, that's the only way that I would even consider the possibility in my stupidest years.

Okay, but then in your wiser years, you'd be like hair is like.

Like, oh, it smells so bad.

But it's not like a like a wick or a rope like Rapunzel.

Okay, I'm lunch bogs. That's your bonehead story of the day.

I saw on Instagram Ray was spraying himself with the Jake Paul spray, you know, when they were going down in the car before the Mike Tyson and they kept spraying, and then in the ring they kept spraying, and I was like, I bet they're selling that. Whatever it is, Ray, what is it?

I don't know.

My wife got me the body wash and it's the axe type spray. But w what's W you mean on it?

It's just his thing.

It's like, yeah, that's what it means. Are you just saying that?

I'm saying that.

What's the brand of it?

Says it?

But is it good?

I will say the body wash is amazing. The Axe spray could do better.

But it's not acts.

Just so people know what I'm talking about. It's a body spray.

Ye, What's what's the name of it? Do you know?

Mike's looking it up. It's it's just called W and it's a body spray and they have body wash I will say this, and I've said I think that's it's the answer win cool.

Oh yeah, I'm right.

But it's literally called w that's yeah, the brand. Okay, so they're the greatest promoters ever haha, they got us. But also great athletes too, Like the other Paul brother is a really good w W wrestler.

That's crazy.

It's crazy, like he's legitimately good. And what upsets the other wrestlers is sometimes he's like, I don't do a lot of that extra like the either training or hanging out, but he just talks about it and they're like, that's not how we do it. So it's funny to hear the old school guys like get mad. What's the other brother's name called logan Ron Paul? The logan Ron is Ron Paul is no.

Politician senator?

Yeah, oh yeah, Ron Paul.

You know what?

Too high?

Shot? Too high with that? That's okay, So that would have been funny too, Yes, we would have.

Known who that is.

Their drink is good, Brian, Yeah, it's good. We were in like Arizona.

Where were we Arizona?

And they were like, hey, should get the Paul. I don't know which Paul. It is.

I know.

I was like on they were like, there's like super citrus ginger strawberry lover lover. I don't know what it's called.

So I got it.

It's good.

It's a good I mean, I I'm gonna say it. I'm a fan of the drink.

You drink it and you're like, oh this is delicious.

What's in here?

And you're like, uh, how does this have zero calories?

Yeah, I don't know that.

I trusted it.

I trusted about it much. I trust a fight they're gonna put on.

Yeah, yeah, Well, and just do as a parent. You have to beware because there's the prime that has the energy and then the prime that's like a hydration, and you gotta know the difference because your kid will be like I want prime, I want prime, and then you're like giving them basically like a crazy red bull.

Well it was good.

It's all I know. Doctor the gas station, I got it is good by everybody.

Bobby Bone there go on the Bobby Bones Show now formally boys, it is good to see you.

If you don't mind, I'd like to walk through some number ones. I have a point I'm gonna make here. The first let's go back to twenty thirteen, right, Moondo, what'd you play Carolina?

What do you think?

Give me a story about what you think about that song when it was written or like the success of it.

Just so much when our parents came and we got our number one's plaques and everybody from our famili's got to witness that, uh, you know, for the first time, kind of their validation of supporting us through.

The years, and yeah, getting to present those all.

Right, Just the way with Blanco Brown hit that one twenty nineteen.

Matt we were off in California and he decided to go right and we had a day off.

I'm like, we're going out, We're going to the bar, You're going to write with some people.

He came back with this song. I heard it for the first time.

I was like, Wow, this is amazing.

This is gonna be big. We didn't have Blanco yet, but that I knew it was gonna be a big song.

Question about that, because I hear the song and I'm like, man, catchy, super catchy hook hook's grade? Do you ever think that though it doesn't become a big song, are you like this song's gonna be a Jenkins? We never get to hear those stories. We're like, it's gonna be awesome, and then it really doesn't.

That was two years later also, so the song sat there. Yeah he got Blanco on it. It made magic, but it just sounded like I hit.

But dear your question. Absolutely. I mean we've swung in this before.

We've had a million of those.

I would think that about every song. I'd be like, oh, by the mansion.

This was maybe a lot of money, learn lesson about that.

Yeah, oh yeah, But then what would happen is I would be scared to ever feel that way again after I was wrong like nine times in a row. So if you still are able to get it, like that must mean what is it?

Scott's always right, He's our go to guy when it comes to picking songs. He knows which ones will be his. He's what are you five for five?

Uh?

Three for three? Maybe four for four?

But then it gets risky because and again now and now they put pressure claim something in passing too much pressure.

Now do you have you ever had the one where it's like kind of the opposite. You're like, cause, song sucks, but I guess we're gonna put it out and then it does awesome question.

Well, what a great problem to have.

I don't know about that.

Uh.

I think the other thing though, well, I mean when we would put out Close Your Eyes that we didn't really like that song.

We didn't we as a single or in general or they sing.

We just didn't think much of it. It just sounded like a song that sounded like a hit, and it sounded like something that was familiar. So we were just like you think, and then all of a sudden it goes up and like goes top five and it's like, whoa.

We didn't We didn't realize it was that catchy, you know.

So who then recommended to you? And then do you trust them more than next time?

That was a lob of down over from the label. He sent us a song and I heard it.

I was like, man, kind of sounds like a couple of things I've heard and I don't know where I've heard it. And he's like, that's exactly why you should cut it, That's what he said. And I said, yeah, sounds for me. And I was like that's great.

Yeah, that one of the right one.

Scots like, yeah, he's nine for nine records getting better and we're.

Going they love this.

There's a lot of pressure here.

Now, let's do ray give me take my name. I remember playing this song for some radio people. We were down in Florida and they listened to the song, and I loved the song. I thought that they should be way more excited about this song than they were. And I was watching everybody listen to it, and I was like, is there's something wrong with this song? Something's wrong with it? And I was like, it's too long. It's too long. So I immediately went in the hotel room, started chopping up the song, editing the song, got it down to like two minutes and forty seconds or whatever, and then boom, it was.

A answer your question. This was the one.

Yeah, this is the one.

I think we all kind of slept on and didn't realize how massive, and it ended up being the biggest one.

We felt like that was thirteen minutes long. You fell asleep.

None of us knew how big this song was gonna be.

I don't think anybody in the whole I.

Can't remit is there a moment? And it could be any of the songs, And I'm gonna save this. Is there a moment question? But let's do a Girl in Mind play this ray.

My favorite thing about this song is the day we shot the video for it. We shot it on the roof of a high rise building right here in downtown Nashville, and little known fact, Matt is terrified. He's scared of heights, and they put him on top of this building, right on the edge, with drones flying around and getting all this footage, and I felt scared for you. I wasn't enough as high as you. But that's my memory of Girl in Mine.

When is that threshold moment when you go okay, we feel pretty good about it too? Oh yeah, this is doing it? Like what does that feel like? Because it doesn't have to just be a number on a chart, because I'm sure sometimes it can hit a number and it doesn't feel that way, or the opposite, Like, when when can you feel that it's really going to do something major?

I think it's the live show.

It is.

I think it's all people showing up at the shows.

Yeah, people singing showing.

What do they sing the loudest back more than Carolina?

Yeah?

Yeah, sometimes I just scream Carolina in my backyard by myself.

My favorite is it?

We used to end to say it always with Carolina, and you probably would think we did end with Carolina, we end would take my name now just when we when that changed, we were like.

And you would be amazed at the amount of proposals that are happening. It shows we just had one a couple of nights ago.

I do a face going, I'd be like, proposed, never worry that might have him. Yeah, you ever do you ever I've done I've messed up before doing a gender reveal. Do you ever do gender revels on stage?

No, we've not done one of those.

Are we Okay? Well, I'd like to give you a word of a little tipton if you don't mind, because I've screwed this up very badly, because it's gonna happen. You guys are successful stars and people are gonna want to be like, will you reveal my baby? And so I made the mistake once and I was doing a stand up show and they were like, we wanted to do great, let's do it. So in the envelope They're like, you're gonna reveal it to us. I made the mistake of going, Okay, what do you want now? They answered that, and I believe they wanted a boy. I asked him he wanted a boy. The problem is if I pull out, it's not a boy in the picture. He's now never ask what they want. Okay, okay, yeah, but you're taking yeah, because all you can do is like be even Oh you got what you wanted, and if you don't ask, you just pull out. Everybody's gonna be excited. But it was so awkward because what do you want a boy?

Oh?

It's a girl. Like I can't teach you much because you guys just start. But that's the one thing I'd like to leave.

From this meeting here.

Yes, there we go on the Bobby Bone Show.

Now I got on social media and Matt, I'll talk to you about this specifically. I I kind of get annoyed for you guys. Sometimes it's not really at you, guys. I like you. I get annoyed for you because you do have massive songs. You might to have a fifth number one, And I just said, I was like, you know, it doesn't really get the credit, and you weren't asking for the credit. You didn't even tell me to do it. I was like, parmally kind of gets robbed from whenever people talk about how successful accolades that bands getting deserve. And I felt like when you were laying on the couch of all your medals on you, I felt like you felt that too. Dude.

When I saw that post, I was like, I gotta hit Bobby back. Thank you for doing that. You know, it meant a lot feel good.

I said, we gotta just yeah, we got we gotta do the duet thing, man, because yeah, I mean, yeah, what's up with that? You know, it's like, this is almost if this song goes up, that'll be five.

In a row.

Crazy, crazy at a time when there aren't a lot of bands, because there just aren't a lot of bands, never has been, especially a lot of bands having success much less just bands that exist. You know, what's what's what's the are you what's probably too good looking? What's the guys? I mean, what's are you intimidated? Like?

I don't know, man, I think that's.

What it is.

Yeah, me too, Like what do we think.

Fundamentally? Why do we think this happens?

I don't know, Well, a lot of one likes a lot's happened for us in the past three years.

Yeah, I mean it's really I felt like we did, you know, come out of which is part of the accolade, you know, digging your way out and proving yourself and coming out with some performing at award shows.

Yeah, we do too, But how many years have y' all been together.

Longer than we have? A five years?

No, really twenty five years, That's what I'm saying, Like I want to say five years. It's not even like I'm meeting. It's a great wish of like I'm really rooting for you got like you deserve to play at these network award shows. And I think that's where I get frustrated, is it doesn't have to be you guys. It could be anybody that is reaching the data point of what the expected data point is. It's almost like, oh, you've done this, so now you deserve to do this. You're not asking for charity. I'm not. You're not asking me for anything. I'm just saying I feel like life's not fair. But I feel like it's a bit unfair that you guys are not playing these main spots on these massive award shows. I mean, what have we gotta do? Yeah, tell us you got to do exactly only fans partly fantastic.

We're calling it only bands hard.

Has looked out for us. They nominated us for awards several They've been great to us.

Yeah, I'm part of that.

By the way, you love this shirt.

Rest of the crowd, I.

Don't know snub exactly exactly. So how are the live shows going?

Like?

Amazing, amazing?

Don't you wish you could get people out there to see because again, I'd be very selfish. When I was touring doing theaters and theaters are all full, I was like, I wish I could be from home to see like the people to think I'm funny. Like it was a very selfish like thought. I was like, man, if think of watching me do a show, they'd be like, oh, that Gues's funny. And so don't you wish like you have people out in like Des Moines, watch you fill up thousands of seats and just crush it?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, I mean what are you gonna do? I mean, yess why you can post.

Your stories and we're still trying to do it every night.

I know, then I edit out the empty seat, do you ey ever do that? I'd like crop out the little corner of empty seat. I'd be like, I'm not putting that out there. This song, and we've talked about it on the show and so, and I don't think I would even brought it up except for when I was actually reading about the song I'm Gonna Love You, based a bit on the shooting situation. Yeah, can you for our audience? I feel like we're interesting everybody all the time, all over again, even ourselves. Can you give me an abbreviated version of that story?

Yeah?

So this was back in twenty ten, before we had a record deal. We were playing the club on a Monday night and I think we had like twenty people there. But anyway, short story, me and Scott were out in the RV packing up after the show, getting knock on the door. I'm thinking it's burying Josh, but it's two guys and bandanas with guns at my head again at my head. Pushed me up an RV, give me you f and cash, and then fired the gun right by my head.

And I knew Scott was.

In the back.

It's just me and him up there, and I knew he had his fire arm with him.

He was considered concealed carrier. And I said Scott, I need some help, and he didn't hesitate. He came walked up that little hallway and engaged both the guys, shot both of them. One of them is not here, the other ones in prison. But in the gunfire he got shot three times, one of them for more artery, and he was fell out on the couch and was bleeding out right front. When these guys finally made their way to the RV to see what was going on, and thank god, there was a cop right at the McDonald's next door, and the first responders got there quick and they airlifted him.

But I think he bled out like twice on the way to Charlotte got in. There was so terrible.

Ten days in the coma, forty in the hospital, three life saving surgeries.

But when he when he came out of his calla, the first thing he said was we ain't playing no more than clubs.

Yeah, first words out of his Yeah, they knew I was gonna.

Be all right.

He's like, I think this song will be a number one. Yeah.

I mean it was terrible, you know, but we got through it, and we had a lot of help from family and friends, and at that time we were just about to come out of Nashville to get a record deal.

We have worked on that we had already.

Recorded Carolina and must had a good time and we'd had those in the bucket, and this is the biggest thing we've ever had in our career. Happened up to this point as far as like being on the cusp of getting finally getting a record deal and then boom, this happens and everything just shut down, and.

But everybody was supportive.

They raised money, local bands, that shows people in Nashville, that auctions, uh, you know, family and friends, everybody pray and everything just came together, you know.

Came back, got the record deal, and then we met Bobby Bones and the rest. That's when you came to town.

That is.

So how does that story? How uh Int're gonna love you? Like? What is the relationship there?

It's just the song that we needed to tell the story. And we had a lot of people ask us about, you know, man, you should you have should do a documentary or you should do a movie, and we wanted to tell the story. And we just had the song now and we hadn't had it before and I was like, Okay, this is this is coming down.

This is what all this is for and about unconditional love too.

Yeah, you know, having people's back. And you know there's people that no matter when you call, they're going to pick up and and so.

We have that in ourselves.

You know, answer my phone when I called last night, you didn't answer.

Exactly change his number.

I didn't see you call me back.

Question about the family dynamic here you got two brothers and a cousin and a friend, but Josh not being related. Do you ever not get invite to the family reunions and you're like, what's up? Guys?

Well, thankfully, no, he wouldn't go anyway.

I wouldn't go anywhere. But I'm an only child. I don't have any siblings, and being in this band, these guys are my brothers.

It's to day and by you the family reunion if they have one, they don't exactly, it's not coming anyway. That's funny.

Guys.

By the way, you like, I don't know, you look like extra trendy, Like look at you guys, like those checksmen coming in.

Come on.

This has been our biggest year.

Yeah, like we know you for a long time. At this point, let me say that's called what they call it glow up right now?

Holy crap, look good.

We just got to work on that smell.

You ever go to like Applebe's and hear your song over the top all the time, That's a perfect place for a primary song and Apple's great man.

Shout out to for sure for sure.

Parmally music dot com. Uh they you guys are playing some shows all the way up until the end of the year. You guys some Kine shows too.

Oh, we didn't have to tour.

How was that? It's awesome.

Kane's awesome, Kane Brown.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect, perfect combination was us and Tyler Hubbard and Kane. It was just hits from the time we got on stage till the to the end of the whole show.

It was amazing.

I'm super happy for you guys.

Thank you.

And it's just it's happening now. Yeah, I mean it's now happening, and so you know all this stuff I say, like, oh, it's timing a bit different than I think we had all hope more you more than anybody. But it's now happening, and I can feel it happening now for you guys in a way that even though you've had hits, I haven't felt it like it is now. I don't know if you guys feel it like it is now, but it's starting to be a little bit different. Yeah, So congratulations guys, thank you, and congratulations on the success. Are going to love you, always love seeing you, and I can't wait till the next one. All right, there they are, everybody, nice job, all right, thank you. The Bobby Bones Show theme song, written, produced and saying by Reid Yarberry. You can find his instagram at read Yarberry, Scuba Steve executive producer, Ray mud No, Head of Production. I'm Bobby Bones. My instagram is mister Bobby Bones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.