Wed Part 2: Neal McCoy Is On! + Eddie Got Ghosted By Brooks & Dunn RSVP

Published Oct 16, 2024, 4:52 PM

Neal McCoy calls into the show to talk about the daily Pledge of Allegiance he does on his Facebook page, how he got his first big break from Charley Pride and more! Plus, find out what happened when Eddie got ghosted after he RSVP'd for a Brooks & Dunn show, and how Bobby got involved and more!

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It's on the radio, and the Dodgers keeps in lunchbox.

More game too, Steve Bred and it's trying to put you through this fog.

He's running this week's next bit. The Bobby's on the box, so you know what this the Bobby Ball.

There's this haunted stone in this abandoned town and the guy apparently touched it and vanished gone.

Is there any chance any of this crap is real?

Ever?

Yes, I don't know, maybe, man, Like, why would it not be?

They lost their friend and they're just like sobbing because they go into this abandoned town like, let's go. Despite a police search the next day, he vanished without a trace, leaving the mystery of the disappearance unresolved.

So that's the thing with the stone, If you touch it, you go missing? Yes, right?

Oh, man, come on, Enrique appeared notice a dark figure staring at them from a church window. His friends did not see it. They toppled a gravestone. One of the gravestones that they touched when they toppled was the haunted stone that they say, anybody that touches any vanish. They still can't find them. This is somebody feeding us crap on TikTok, right, probably because if it ever did happen once, we wouldn't believe it.

Right, But does that mean it's never happened? But the police are involved? I know, But how do we know? How do we know that's real?

I want to talk about Halloween for a second, mostly because Lunchbox is so irritated at something I wou's been no energy being irritated at. And mostly it's Halloween costumes, and you irritated that what.

I was at the store the other day and I'm walking down the aisle and there's a costume for hawk Tua. She has her own freaking costume? Are you kidding me? What is the costume? First of all, it's like this pink jumpsuit. She wasn't even wearing a pink jumpsuit when she said hawk Tua. She didn't wear pink, So I don't even understand the costume. How does this girl have a freaking costume? She's a nobody.

First of all, she has one of the biggest podcasts in America now, she's on Jake Paul's podcast network, and she's actually pretty funny.

Is that talk to.

It's yeah talk, it's doing really well, massive stars on it, and I don't know that this is like licensed to buy her. You're very angry about this, which is ridiculous because it's not taking anything from you.

So I don't know where the anger comes from.

I mean, we have never had a costume after us, but put me in this.

I'm not.

At all so hawk to us spent on that thing jumpsuit and she's a pink jumpsuit and it says hawk on the patch, So it's not really supposed to even be something she wore. I think it's just it's just because people will buy anything. This is HOWK two on it.

It's unbelove I mean, it's just trash from you.

I mean it's not even what she wore. Why are you so jealous?

I think you need to look into yourself here. Why are you so jealous of hawk to a Halloween cup?

I've been in the spotlight for how many years now twenty?

But this is how fame works, Like especially these days, you can like catapult into this like crazy things status years.

Hey, you've never gone viral.

Yeah, you've never done anything that people thought was so dynamic that it went wildly viral, or even if you went mildly viral, you've never done anything to capitalize on that like she has.

Yeah, this is well. I mean when I went viral, I guess this was before podcasts. What was that I walked into a communience store.

That was like we got in trouble on the news, right that you weren't gonna get a prison jumpsuit.

I don't know, but I.

Fear there wasn't really like social media. He probably could have blown up a little bit more from that, I don't think so.

I don't think so.

They could have sold little pantyhose colleens.

Oh that's funny.

I mean twenty years costume made about us and this girl nothing to do with this.

I mean I decided to jealous a pot to a girl. You've always been jealous pot to a girl. And I don't even think this is her costume she's making money off of, and he's still upset her.

So how can they? They just rip it off? You can write anything you want. When she came in, how did he act like? Is he?

He was just irritated that she was even famous. I've been trying to be famous for one hundred years. Well, then she said she dave me shopping and Spencer's for her gear.

Never took me.

Well, when you yell that she's garbage and it's garbage, would want to hang out with you?

She's done nothing. Have you listened to her pod?

Yes? I have.

It's actually pretty funny. Oh dad, I don't. I don't like that. You don't like this? She's funny? No, you just wanted to be kind of a one hit.

Yeah, because she's getting all these huge stars for nothing, Like what does she talk about her halloween?

Hey?

Check out my halloween? Oh my god, I've done. I've done. Are you not annoyed? No? I actually thought nothing about it, Eddie nothing. I don't care. You don't care at all? Other things that concerned. Let's do the news.

Bobby's research has found that when choosing a partner, women are highly likely to go for a guy that resembles their father.

Oh thoughts, gentlemen in the room, that's weird. Yeah, I don't want to.

I don't think it's weird. I don't want to be looking at me like her dad? Right, why would they want to think? Okay, you guys are just weird? O pervos. You think it's trying to be with her dad, you know. Yeah, it's the traits that her father has that she's always found.

To be positive, comforting.

Yeah, so you subconsciously unconsciously look for that. So like, guys are so weird you can't have anything and just be adults about it.

Dad, do bald guys have a one up on that, because like their dads are probably good good chances they're bald.

I don't know a lot of it.

Well, let me read you some more of the story here, and then I'll go to Morgan and let her actually talk like an adult.

Uh.

Researchers found that women are highly likely to go for a guy that resembles their dad. In fact, according to the scientist, the main predictor of future husband's eye and hair color is the dad's eye and hair color. And so yes, some physical but a lot of also traits that even if they're not one, I must find someone like my dad. What they feel most comfortable with are the qualities that they felt protected by or loved by that their dad had. I think Morgan's got like one of the nicest, coolest dads have awesome, and so maybe that's why she hasn't met the guy yet, because until this last one they've been opposite her dad.

Yeah, Morgan, but your dad's awesome. He is, He's really awesome. How do you feel about this?

I do look for quality trades similar to my dad, for sure. But to Eddie's point, he is bald. And that's also why I haven't dated bald guys, because it feels so similar to my dad.

I don't think the bald head thing is a thing though.

Guys.

Yeah, never said amount of hair on head.

A couple of things were like I and hair color he said, resembles her dad, which is who.

Your wife's dad?

Me?

No, it's the white dude. Yeah, Eddie's nice. I don't.

I'm just saying I'm trying to figure out if this study is true.

I'm gonna true with everybody. I think this is the most like it can even be. Qualities.

Yeah, I think qualities is true, and I think like my wife's dad is like that.

And I don't want to exaggerate at all, So no hyperbole here. The greatest human beings ever lived.

WHOA, No, he's freaking so that's why she picked you. Thank you. I didn't want to say it.

Oh, I didn't want to say that, but I'm glad somebody did.

No.

But he's like the greatest guy ever, and it's he's loving, caring, funny, successful, smart. Yeah, like I ways with my dad, But that would be weird because Ken'll be my sister would be well, you know what, I'd still do it. I love her so much. That's weird, I know. But the same holds true for him, but in a different way. Guys tend to go for women who resemble their moms, but who isn't identical but share way more characteristics. That's from Cosmopolitan. I think, even if we don't know it, that's true. We like what's always been positive to us and given us positive reinforcement.

We're not saying, can hook up with your mom lunch.

I'm not.

I can't, Yuess Morgan. I also think it goes back to comfortability too.

You're aware of something like that and so you know it's comfortable. And if you had a good experience with your parents, then that makes sense. You're naturally going to go towards someone who reminds you of good things.

And I think follow me here. I had a little breakthrough. Have them in therapy.

Sometimes my wife is eleven, almost twelve years younger than I am. So younger my mom fifteen when you got pregnant. Do I like younger? So that's weird?

Yeah yeah, I mean my wife their thirties. But I'm just saying maybe because my mom was so young. Yeah, that's like, that's what you remember. Really stretching for next story.

We've heard about distracted driving being a problem, but so is distracted walking.

Oh big time, me too.

And I thought i'd see you stupid at first, but big people, I've almost hit with my car because they're not even looking up. They're just crossing the road when it's not time to cross, and they're on their phone. So stupid distracted pedestrians those using their phones for texting or listening to music. I'm telling you, the idiots I see aren't reading books when they're walking across texting. They tend to walk slower and stay closer to the street and walk through possible hazards. That's from Accident Analysis of prevention and research publication. So the I Robot movie, which maybe you saw back in the day with Will Smith, I liked it. The designer of those robots is calling out Elon Musk for stealing the film's designs, which I would say they do look similar, but they just look similar to what a human looks like if you were to take all the hair and close off. Now my heart has been a little further broken because I came on and I will just do these robots Mike do, who's always my fact checker and will always tell me, Hey, you're not right about something. He goes, hey, I think somewhat those were run by humans, and I'm like, no way, And so they weren't fully run by humans, but way more than I even thought, because I watched a video of the robots would do what the people would do, Like if they put like gloves on, the person could like move their.

Hand, the robot would move their hand. Oh as they could talk, it would come through.

Now it wasn't one hundred percent of the robots were still able to do some of it, but they had people like helping more than I thought. And then they kept that was kind of the misleading, right, Mike, Like they lied to us. Elon Musk lied to us, which, by the way, think about Elon Musk, here's what's weird.

Grew up a rich kid and didn't didn't start Tesla lied to this again. I had no idea. A couple of weeks ago. I feel lied it too.

I thought he like started Tesla and he's like Iron Man, and I thought he like, No, he's a rich kid who just bought Tesla.

I'm not saying he's not smart.

But his PR people did a great job of making.

Us think like he just invented all this crap.

Right, so he bought Tesla. So does that mean he doesn't even know what he's doing with.

Ta I'm not saying no, because he's done some really cool stuff with rockets.

He's hired great people to do so not saying that.

I just felt like he was like a guy who came from nothing from South Africa and started this out of nowhere and then as the the American Dream.

So where's the creator of Tesla?

Well, Tesla? Well, do you know what, oh man, this is a good project for you, lunch You know what Tesla means? Yeah, yeah, Well it's a person Nikolai Tesla. Who But I think that's something super fun for Lunchbox to do. One hundred and twenty second report on Nice next week on Tesla, on the original Tesla. Okay, you know what I mean, not the Tesla company, but the original guy named Tesla, Okay, because.

I don't know anything about him, so that'd be people learn.

Crazy like some of the stuff they say he was into that he figured out really that he ended up dying poor. But Nikolai Tesla was like one of he could have been a time traveler.

And this wasn't. He was an American, right, Oh, I guess we'll find.

Out he was born in Croatia, but he lived in New York and he died in the forties. But yeah, interesting, now missoury man gets called into work. Win's a million bucks lottery prize. He was headed to work and he wasn't supposed to his day obviously by a little shot boom hit a million bucks.

But I'll be honest, like, when you started reading these stories, like you want to go, I was like, this is so cool.

This is so cool. But the more you read them, I'm kind of feeling on lunchbots. Now I'm like, this is like, what are we not doing here?

Right?

They have a good furcy like on a Saturday on the way up here to do best bits of Morgan, I need to stop at the gas day.

Yeah, you come up on Saturday. You have no. We don't like that. To me, he's never come up on a Saturday.

She's running joke that he comes up on Saturdays to do it.

And it's there's one person who doesn't come up on Saturdays or days off and not that we all do or no chance.

Uh.

Finally, Airbnb has a host that refused to refine refine a mom who canceled because of Hurricane Milton.

Oh, that's I know, that's ridiculous. That's dity. I had bad review then I don't orview anything though. So did they not go to the They didn't use it at all because it be Trump property.

But the hurricane approached, she said, hey, this is not safe, so we're not going to come. And so the Airbnb was like, I can't help get out of here. That's a bad person, right, Yeah, that's from you all here. Uh yeah, dude, lunchboks, I think you'll think that the Nikolai Tesla guy is very interesting.

I'm gonna find out about it. And the report's only.

Going to be two and a half minutes, So that's one hundred and twenty seconds and sixty divide by two sixty divide by two is thirty, so the whole report will be a minute and thirty seconds and no two minutes and thirty seconds?

Okay?

How many seconds? So total thirty one hundred and it's slowly down. See, man, I know you have just job on the spot. I know I'm walking.

Don't be on the spot taking over what he says a two and a half minute report?

Okay, how many seconds is that?

The sixty plus sixty seven hundred and twenty plus thirty so it's two minutes and fifty seconds.

No, two hundred and fifty seconds. No, yeah right, good again. No pressure is a lot of pressure. No, no, no, because I have.

Had this calculate, I know, but I want to show you how easy it is if you just break it down, because you are you're a very smart person, and I know you can do this, but you field the pressure.

There's no pressure. Think draft kings because I'm gonna do it every time. I will gambling. There's a bet.

Can lunchbox get a two and a half minute report on How long is that report?

Okay?

Sixty sixty thirty so one hundred and twenty Okay, it's one hundred and fifty.

Seconds, one hundred fiftyeconds. You got there, and you know why you got there because you didn't put pressure on yourself.

No, because I thought draft kings like, ah, I'm gambling, That's why I do the parlay.

And then yeah, he thought gambling, that's how I can do math. All right.

I was able to talk to OU former OU National champion head coach Bob Stoops yesterday, which was super cool for me and all my family.

They're massive OU fans and so for two reasons. It was cool.

And we do the whole interview and he's amazing. And at the end, I did something I thought I would never actually do, especially publicly, and I'm not ashamed of myself.

I'm surprised you did it.

I felt like the moment was right here you go, Coach Stoops. It's been really honored to talk with you. I really appreciate you spend some time with us. And you know, I'll say it. I'm only gonna say this to you. I've never said this in my entire life. My family charges to get me to say it all the time, but because it's such a special treat for me to spend some time with you, I'm gonna say boomer.

All right, sooner. There you go. I've never, I've never.

That's it.

I'm done.

So you know, they walk around people just you know, boomer at them and they go sooner like crazy the movie theater, like if Kalin has anything, O you on? Somebody from nine Cars over Boomer and y'all sooner and they go back to their life. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, it's a cool back and forth. But I've never said it, but that was the appropriate time to say it. Coach Bob Stoops on twenty five Whistles the episode we put up yesterday and he was like, hey, I listened to the show.

Yeah, that was cool.

That was cool that anybody ever knows. I am always freaking out. I think it's super cool. So check out twenty five Whistles our sports podcast. It's more than sports, but it's mostly sports. Go check it out wherever you podcast.

Eddie got ghosted.

Now that's usually a dating term where you're going on a couple of days and all of a sudden they don't respond or even exist anymore.

You're like, hello, but it wasn't by somebody you're dating or your wife.

No, no, no, no, no no, this was just an rs VP that I that I did, and I heard nothing back.

What was the rs VP? It was a Brooks and Dun concert. Man, did they send it to you? Yeah? They send it.

So you are invited to a Brooks and Dun concert exclusive to release their new.

Album A concert or like a small performance. No, it was a full fledged concert like at the arena.

So no, it was like a personal like a small, little intimate venue.

Have they had it yet?

Yeah?

It will. Yeah, it was last night. I was gonna say I could just call Ronnie done.

Dude, it was last night, and I'm like, why would I get an rs VP email when I actually RSVP'd and heard nothing back. Now, I did say like, can I have a plus one for my mom? Because my mom's in town? Was there an option for a plus one?

It didn't say that. Okay, I got the email here, But then.

Tell me, you know, like bricks and Done taking over whiskey jam.

No, dude, I'm gonna be honest with you because I don't think you had the EMA. All right, it's tomorrow, oh really, so then they can still respond.

So I can actually if you want to go, I do want to take my mom out there.

Confidential for now, oh.

Well, Oh oops.

I don't get that email.

If you would like, would you like? I would love Okay, I'll call Ronnie. Really, this is my little flex. It's it's a flex for me. It's the craziest thing. I'm friends with the lead singer of Brooks and Done because my whole life I just grew up. Listen to the Brooks and Done like I knew every song. I'll call Ronnie. If you're and your mom, I can't do like plus two or anything.

No, no, it's just me and my mom. That's it. You know, somebody over here. Let's take eight kids and then oh wait, i'd like to go to No.

Yeah, I have the email, but you can and you can r SVP back, but I will hit up. Oh you didn't ask about it wasn't important to you and you're only piggybacking off Eddie.

My wife would love to go this.

See this is what I thought initially when they ghosted me. I'm like, Lunchbox's ruined it for all of us.

Yeah.

No, I think that too, because they think if someone from our show's coming, they're bringing nine people, they want all the food and taking extra gifts.

And do you think we have that rep now where they're just like a Bybone show.

Here you go.

They're gonna eat all the food now.

I think Lunchbox from the Bybone Show's gonna eat all the food and bring all his kids. So if it's not me or Amy, they think you're all in the same group, but not Morgan because Morgan does.

A lot of this stuff very professionally. That's not fair.

So it's just me, you, Lunchbox, and probably Ray.

Yeah, thanks dude, I will say too.

I think they'll respond later today or tomorrow. Most of the time when these events happen, you get the information super last minute.

Says please are SVP by So today's I was on it by two days ago.

Okay, up, really due, thank you, thank you. No, no, no, you're not in I can't do it for you. You didn't ask all the text my wife.

So we're going to see Brooks and the Okay, that way he puts pressure on you. I don't feel pressure. Hey, thanks dude, that's awesome. Okay, I'm gonna do You're actually gonna call Ronnie and ask them. I'm gonna I'll text him right now and hopefully he responds.

Does that mean that my mom and I can hang out with Ronnie and Brook and kicks. I don't see there we go. I won't do that. Hello, good buddy.

Hey, So you guys have that show that that promo show tomorrow at the bar downtown. And Eddie, my best friend, you met him on the show. He are s vped and he wants to bring his mom, but they never replied back. Can I'm just going right to the horse's mouth and you are the horse and the mouth. Can him and his mom come to that party tomorrow? And okay, you've met him one hundred My mom wants to meet and Eddie's mom wants to meet you. I don't know if you're awake. If you'll let me know, that'd be awesome. All right, Love you buddy. Bye.

Wow.

That's awesome, dude. That's the coolest thing I ever seen ever. Well, I mean one of the coolest things I've ever seen. The fact that we can still do things one to make each other laugh. We've been together so long, yes or two, we can still do things people like.

That's cool. I mean, we haven't done anything. This is pretty unique. Like who can do that? He has? I know me, I do. I think the same thing. I'm like, this is crazy. It's amazing. He's saying at my wedding. How crazy is that?

If you just told fourteen year old me that I to pee my pants. If I get a response, i'll let you know.

Thank you man. All right, we got an update. I knew he'd be up.

Come on, so Eddie said, he sent RSVP to go to this Brooks and Done small concert because they're talking about their new album and they're playing stuff from the album.

It's very intimate. Yes, well it's semi intimate. It's private though what they call it.

Eddie RSVP did this thing and they never responded, and the show's tomorrow. So I who, it's crazy. He's one of my friends. I'll admit it. I'm not too cool to admit it. Ronnie Done, lead singer of Brooks and Done, one of my dear friends. And I said, set the message voice text. Here's his response. Come on, baby, come on, it's tomorrow. This is what time it starts. And then he says, it's Eddie's mom.

Hot. He did not say that. Yeah, that's what I got it. That's what he said, is Eddie's mom. He's kidding. He is a smiley face. That's hilarious. And he's said, of course, I'll get her back to meet her. And then he.

Says, I here is somebody because he knows if you try to call him, you know he'll miss call him any times.

And so he says, here have bett he call this number, and all good. You'll go.

Wow, just like that, that's Ron is the best.

That's pretty amazing.

So yeah, you and your mom can go. And if he gets a little flirty, yeah he's married. That's really so yeah, you'll be good to go. I didn't hear anything about lunchbox. Oh you did ask about lunch?

No, didn't. He didn't, He didn't.

I only it can only ask for like one thing. It's like if you go and ask somebody for something, you can't really follow up. And he didn't ask me for it.

You did. I responded that message and be like, hey what about lunch? But about one more?

And then on top of that, if he would have asked, I would have done it for him.

But he only asked because you asked, correct. So I didn't even know what's happening.

Man.

But now that I know, I got the email too, I see it. Now. They must have gone to spam my spam box.

Yeah.

So you and your mom are good, Thank you, man, that's amazing. Me and my wife not so much. All right, sorry honey.

Well why don't you just rsvv oh try it now, that's not as cool. Okay, thank you. There we go on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Neil McCoy, Neil, what's up buddy?

There? You okay?

Yeah, I do it pretty good. Hey, question for you? First of all, are you still doing the Pledge allegiance every morning?

Three ninety seventh.

Day in a row?

Is that like a world record?

Somebody? And I'm won't boarded with detail, but somebody said, why aren't you in the Guinness Book of World Records. So somebody tried to go top kill him about it, and they said, well, since everybody doesn't have a Pledge of leagiance, I guess at ken, you can't put me in there. I have a country didn't have one.

I don't know.

Come on anyway, So those that are listening, so Neil does the Pledge of Allegiance every morning on Facebook life since January twenty sixteen and three one hundred.

Well, I don't know then where we are on the number. I don't know what you just said there.

But at nine am Central for eight years and nine months, he does the Pledge of allegiance. Do you ever just like feel sick and you're like, I don't know if I can get through it.

You can fight through it, Neil.

There's a lot of days I feel like that, and I think whatever I got myself into because I didn't start it for a streak. I just started to get people to at least, you know, show the respecting love for our flag in our country, and then it kind of turned into that streak and people will see me sometimes. So you look tired, I said, I am tired. I hadn't slept in in eight years and nine months.

That's true. He can't ever just sleep till noon.

It'd be nice like a recording one like you know, just just play the play the recorded win and it's one they just feed into the video.

But no, Neil, that's really cool that you do that.

Hey, question, So you're in a new book called Country Faith Christmas. So it's fifty reflections and recipes from big country stars like yourself. How did you end up in this book?

Like? What was this all about?

Well, I've known Gabra the girl that has put this thing together, Deborah Evans Price, and I've known her forever, it might. I've been doing interviews with it for probably thirty five forty years. And I always tell her, I said, she's the greatest interviewer because she actually has done her homework and pay attention when you're talking to her. So I always brag on her. And she just reached out to me and hopefully the mutual respect about what we're going to ever do in our little career and uh, and she just asked about being there. I said, yeah, I'd love to be and and then she found out that I was Filipino. And I know, I know Scuba Steve is married to a Filipino. So I just put a Filipino recipe in there called Poncei and it's pretty good, and I don't make it a lot, but I'm making enough that my watch American Wife.

It is it like, since you're Filipino and this is a Filipino dish, but you're also I'd say, am I do you still live in Texas?

Are you Texas?

Now?

Field Texans Now they'll be.

Called like Texa Pino, you know, because they have like Texa mac.

Right, well that's what. That's what I call myself a Texapino long than one in country music, full blood teo.

As a matter of fact, that's funny.

Hey, what do you think did you ever play those shows early on where like nobody was there?

I played a bunch of them still and they're coming back around.

Stop it, stop it.

Yes, I played him my worst show ever. I'm going to tell you this because this is where Trace Atkins is from Syrepta Louisiana. Because somebody saying, you remember your worst show, I said, I'll never forget it. I had a little four piece band. They set us in the corner of a club, and I always try, I work hard to try and get my audience and bring them in to me. And I started. I worked about thirty minutes, and then I just turned around to the band, I said, how much more time do we got? Because when we when that last minutes over, set start tearing stuff down.

One of those shows we've always worked at.

Him pretty good and got them most of the time.

Yeah, one of those shows where you watch the clock like if I do stand up, I'm like, man, this has been a long forty five minutes.

And I look down we're like eighteen minutes in.

I'm like, oh god, that was exactly that night, insrepted Louisiana.

Yeah, who was it that really gave you your first big opportunity? Like another artist that said, hey, should come on tour with me, like way back in the day, or somebody that kind of gave you the I believe in Neil.

McCoy, Charlie Pride, I want a contest in nineteen eighty one in Dallas. Jane Frickey was a judge of that contest. A lot of p Old Country folks know her name, and she's a great lady and one and she had a guy that worked with Charlie Prize's booking and Management eight see out of Dallas called chart On and they were judges. And when I won, they came over and talked to him after the things said, and Jane said, she said, Neil, I worked with Charlie Prize's booking and manager company. He has already helped get started. Earl Thomas Conley and Ronnie Mills said, and Dave and Sugar and Gary Stuart And she said, I don't know, this is eighty one. So she said, I don't know if he's stilled into that, but I would love her opportunities for y'all just to meet. And my wife and I drove up about two weeks later and went in Charlie and his wife Roseen's office and visited with him, and she just had a big mutsu respect that. Charlie said, exactly what you mentioned a while ago. He said, Neil, here's the deal. I would like for you to come open my shows with me. When we had on open an act and he said, I know you don't have a band. I suggest or I know, and he said, you use my band. You can use my band about twenty or thirty minutes, do your show, and then when you come off, you can go out and sell merchandise. And so that's what I did, and a lot of and when I got through selling merchandise, I would go watch your shows, not in and not out. And I just learned so much from him from a performance standpoint, to just it's okay to be silly and goofy. You don't have to be that. A lot of these artists nowadays, and I'm not telling you something you don't know, Bobby, A lot of them are macho men. Everybody's a tough guy. All their pictures are all no only smile and no one's doing anything. And I knew I didn't want to do that. So but Charlie Primee is goin to got me started and let me shows with him all over the world for about five years.

How did you decide from somebody else that has a name that's not their real name? Me, My last name's not Bones, it's a stupid name. Yours is not stupid. Yours is actually cool. Like, how did you decide on your stage name?

Well? Which name you talking about?

My stage name is cool, Yeah, your stage name's cool. That Neil McCoy sounds cool. Bobby Bones is like a pirate.

Amen man. My real name is boy hm c g a U g h e win. And it didn't look like mcgoy, looked like mcgaye mcgonfie. I got it all my life. And when I when I signed with Charlie Pride's book and the management agency, they they couldn't remember what it was either, so they would call me different things. And then I finally signed with Atlantic Records in nineteen ninety and Rick Blackburn, the head of the label that changed in eighty eight to McVoy the way it looks mcg o win. I thought, surely people will be able to read that, and they didn't. They called me McCoy. Then they thought it was a misprint. So when I signed with Rick Blackman Atlantic Records, he said, he said, you got any problem to change your name to McCoy And I said, well, will that help me get a hit record? And he said, well, I can't. I can't guarantee you on that, but we can't change your name. I said, yeah, let's go for it. So I've only been McCoy thirty four years.

So because people were mispronouncing it.

If that were my case, I'd be Bobby Jones for sure, because everybody calls me Bobby Jones.

Now, yeah, I gots.

You be Bobby McCoy. That would help me out.

Yeah, you wouldn't want to jink yourself with that name you've done.

I'm reading her seventeen USO too. I know you're a proud supporter of veterans. I didn't know you'd done so many, so many USO tours, Like where have you been? They kind of was like, Wow, I cannot believe I'm in this part.

Of the world.

Afghanistan in two thousand and one, and that is our the town was failed. In September, the Marines went in and the start of October and start of November and we went to We went to Afghanistan at Camp Rhino, which was their first campus Estambulish Marines. We went ferry flew in in the darkness the night. And also the Kandahar where we had just bombed the airport and taking it over. There's some great stories there. And I've been on every USO too with Wayne Newton and we just we were rushed out at the Kandahari report because some emergency or something. So we went and took us back on the plane and we left and Wayne and I just sat there next to each other and go did that just happen? I said, yes, Sir, I believe it did. But any any USO trip, Bobby is, whether it's Italy, Hungary, Bosnia, England, just a lot of different places other than just in theater. But I've been into Iraq seven times in that dance stand, a few times of Pakistan and those places just kind of it's a little more intense there. But any USO tour, I'll get an opportunity to go perform a sing or maybe just shake hands and hug next. I have any time to get that opportunity in the United States, and also it's worth it to me.

Neil McCoy on with us again.

He recites a pledge of allegiance every morning on his Facebook live at nine am Central. And he's in a new book called Country Faith Christmas Fifty Reflections and recipes from leading country music stars. They came out October fifteenth, and Deborah Evans Price compiled all of this and Neil, I am a big fan and I really appreciate the time and looking forward to seeing you in the book.

I appreciate you, Bobby, and congratulations to everything you've been able to do, because I know it was just like, at least to me, because I'm not in Nashville. I'm still a textan we talked about. But for me, your name came out of the blue and then the next thing you had just blown up and you're doing everything that you're doing. So congratul lads. I know it's everybody thanks WELLI it's an overnight success, but it's certainly not. I understand that.

I'm eighty three years old, Neil. This is taking a long time. Yes, all right, Neil, have a great day.

Appreciate the time, buddy, I see.

It, Bobby Bone show up today.

This story comes us from Toledo, Ohio. A thirty six year old man is facing charges after he was run over by his own vehicle. He was intoxicated and he said, hey, nine year old, you ready to learn how to drive? So he took his kid out in the driveway. I was trying to teach him how to drive the car.

I think it's interesting he calls his own kid, hey, nine year old, not his name, Hey, nine year old, dad's me you're drunk. I was wondering how he was going to get in trouble for getting hit by his own car. But if he taught his nine year old to drive it, that would be the problem.

Yeah.

Yeah, So the kid hit the gas instead of the brake and ran him over.

Who hasn't done that?

Nine or not?

Okay, I'm much boxed. That's your Bonehead story of the day. Suspected gang member was arrested with that.

You're like, dang, what was it like drugs? Was it like something even worse than that? And this is in Houston. He was arrested for stealing thirty four hundred dollars worth of women's underwear.

See that's not gangster.

Oh he was a gangster doing Yeah, what kind of gang panny underwear gag.

Under the pandy thieves? What gang are you in the peats? Oh? What's that? Pandy thieves? Don't mess with those guys. I thought there were the PEPs. Panty posse.

Posse's like a nineties thing though, you know if you're still a posse and today the suspected gang member arrested last week in Houston for thirty four hundred dollars stolen a women's underwear thirty two years old, says Texas DPS says that he's been doing retail theft, but it seems like a lot of panties, Like that's not hardcore.

He's not doing that to be creepy though, right, he's doing probably resealing stuff.

If you're going to resell it, you need like hundreds of thousands, So maybe he's doing to be creepy. In July twenty twenty three, he was the rested for stealing almost four thousand dollars worth of clothing and sunglasses. Please say he stole one hundred and eighty pair of panties from Victoria's.

Secret Oh lingerie. Yeah, that's the new stuff. It's not like he's stealing it from the clothes line. I was stealing from clothes lines. He's not saying anything. Is this little bamba? Yeah, the clothes.

Lines ABC thirteen with that story. And maybe he has the thing where he goes and he steals a bunch of stuff. But if I were like a hardcore gang banger and I was like, all right, your next theft, I'd be.

Like, what are we doing?

Diamonds, jewels, humans, No, you're gonna go steal panties. I'm not doing I'm doing that because if I get caught, I'll be known as a panty thing.

But there's different levels. Man, you gotta start somewhere.

But he's already started. He's still sunglasses. Like he went backwards, got demoted. He's like less hardcore. Now, what's your name?

Panty Paul? Oh, panty Paul in prison, not gonna last. I'm not gonna do good.

Uh.

Yeah.

So if you're in a gang, I probably asked for a like a bigger, a bigger get.

Uh.

That's it for today. I hope you guys enjoyed the show.

Check out twenty five Whistles our sports show. If you go search for twenty five whistles. We had a full interview with Bob Stoops, who was the OU head coach for eighteen years.

Were national championship.

I did something in that interview I've never done in my Life's super cool for me, just because he's a legend and he's also coaching the UFL. Is that the Rocks Football League? Yeah, he used to be the XFL and the USFL. They combine them, and now he's coaching one of the UFL teams in the.

Fall, the Arlington Renegade Arley. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So check out twenty five whistles because that's pretty cool. All Right, thank you guys. We'll see you tomorrow.

Bye, everybody bow. The Bobby Bones Show theme song, written, produced and sang by Reid Yarberry. You can find his instagram at red Yarberry, Scuba Steve executive producer, Raymondo, Head of Production. I'm Bobby Bones. My instagram is mister Bobby Bones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.