Best 7 Segments From The Bobby Bones Show This Week

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show: Best 7 Segments From The Bobby Bones Show This Week

Date: March 7, 2026
Host: Bobby Bones (Premiere Networks)
Special Guest: Aaron Watson

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Episode Overview

This week’s "Best Bits" compilation, hosted by Morgan, spotlights the funniest, most insightful, and heartwarming studio moments from The Bobby Bones Show, as the team records from both land and sea. Morgan intentionally limited cruise-related content in this particular "Part 2" episode, focusing instead on the top studio discussions and listener-requested bits—ranging from comedy debates and revealing personal stories to hilarious on-air games and a candid, laughter-filled interview with country artist Aaron Watson.

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Key Segments and Insights

1. Bobby’s Mount Rushmore of Funniest People

[04:47–09:05]

• Listener Question: Bobby is asked to name his "Mount Rushmore" of funniest people—excluding colleagues and his wife.
• Bobby’s Picks:
  • Ricky Gervais: "So cutting funny and so brilliant… the creator of The Office." (05:55)
  • Adam Sandler: "When his records came out and I was 11, it changed my world. It's the whole reason that I probably have a guitar." (06:02)
  • Chris Rock: "Probably my favorite stand up comic ever… his early specials on HBO." (06:21)
  • Mark Norman: "This comedian, Mark Norman, is so funny. I watch his stuff on TikTok…He's just normal. He's so funny." (07:13)
    • Clip played: "Babies are the only thing that comes out of another person that strangers want to hold. Anything else comes out of a human being, you're like, wow, this dinner party is over." (07:25)
• Crew shares their favorites:
  • Amy: "Tina Fey or Amy Poehler."
  • Eddie: "Jim Gaffigan."
  • Bobby: "John Mulaney… Norm Macdonald was the funniest."
• Notable Laughs: Bobby jokes about Chris Rock—"as a black guy like myself, I really related," prompting surprise and laughter due to his (white) ethnicity. (06:40)

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2. Purpose in Life – A Deep Therapy Conversation

[09:05–17:34]

• Setup: Bobby’s therapist asked, “What do you think your purpose is?”—spurring a studio roundtable.
• Eddie: "Mine is to make everyone around me better… I want people to leave whatever encounter we had feeling better about themselves." (10:08, 12:04)
• Bobby: "To show folks that think they can't do it… that it doesn't matter where you come from. You can do whatever you want. The world is absolutely bendable." (12:45)
• Amy: Feels her purpose is to be a connector, both publicly and privately—especially using empathy gained through difficult life experiences. “Now I know, and I can be a connector for someone and connect them to the person that could helpfully change the trajectory of their life.” (15:01)
• Reflection: Bobby emphasizes, "We all have earned tools that we didn’t sign up to have to have, but now that we have them, I think it is our obligation to use them in a positive way." (16:16)

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3. Lunchbox Guesses Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Songs

[21:43–29:46]

• Premise: The team quizzes Lunchbox on whether he can name (or sing) a song by each new RRHOF nominee.
• Highlights:
  • Mariah Carey: Sings "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (22:15)
  • Oasis: Repeatedly just sings or says "Wonderwall" as the only lyric he knows (22:54, 23:20)
  • Billy Idol: Mistakenly claims he sings "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (Def Leppard), then "I’d Do Anything For Love" (Meat Loaf), before being coached to "White Wedding." (23:56–24:17)
  • Black Crows: Thinks their song is "Seven Nation Army" (actually by The White Stripes) (25:18)
  • Lauryn Hill: Remembers her for "Killing Me Softly" (from Fugees) and struggles with her solo work. (26:06)
  • Pink: Attributes “Waking Up in Vegas” (Katy Perry) and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan) to her, before being reminded "Just Give Me a Reason." (27:22)
  • Phil Collins: Knows "In the Air Tonight" but can't quite recall the details. (28:05)
• Conclusions: Lunchbox questions the worthiness of several nominees, insisting, "I feel like there’s not very many good candidates this year… They all kind of suck." (29:45)

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4. Foods That Start with R – On-Air Draft

[29:56–38:38]

• Game: Each cast member rapidly drafts foods beginning with "R," no prep allowed.
• Picks:
  • Raymundo: Raisins, ramen noodles, rosemary
  • Lunchbox: Rice, Reese’s Pieces, Rice Krispies
  • Morgan: Raspberries, Rolos, Ritz Crackers
  • Bobby: Ribs, ravioli, rolls
  • Amy: Reese’s Cups, Ruffle Potato Chips, Rice-a-Roni
• Fun Banter: Amy gives hints, sparking cheating accusations—“Why are you giving him something?” (34:48)
• Best Unpicked Suggestions: Red velvet cake, refried beans, ranch dressing, rotisserie chicken. (37:12)
• Draft Winner: Bobby “took it away by a landslide.” (38:44)

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5. Amy’s Strange Lost Dog Encounter

[38:44–44:09]

• Story: Amy and friends are followed by a little doodle dog. Assumed lost, they try returning it. A man at a likely home first denies knowing the dog, then suddenly claims it and quickly leaves after retrieving it.
• Theories:
  • Amy suspects, “Maybe he was just wanting his dog to disappear.”
  • Eddie jokes, “He was burglarizing the house when he let the dog out.”
  • Lunchbox claims, “He was high as a kite.”
• Takeaway: Group agrees something was "weird" and somewhat sad about the interaction.

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6. Listener’s "Supernatural" Cruise Experience

[48:08–55:06]

• Story (Amy): A cruise-goer, not a devoted country fan, booked the trip for unknown reasons. Days before sailing, Cooper Alan (who has a special song meaning for her and her late husband) is added to the lineup—after Bobby makes a last-minute booking change. The listener feels her deceased husband orchestrated the event through music.
• Debate:
  • Amy: “Is this coincidence or supernatural?”
  • Bobby: “I love this for her… I can’t prove that her deceased husband didn’t orchestrate it. But in my mind, it’s a beautiful coincidence.” (52:39)
  • Playful wrangling over whether events are fate or simply luck
• Aftermath: The team shares how the listener’s gratitude message made it to Cooper Alan’s manager.

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7. Aaron Watson Live in Studio: Family, Touring, Songwriting, and TikTok

[59:05–99:15]

Concert Stories and Fatherhood

• Taking daughter to Taylor Swift: Recalls crying at the concert watching his daughter experience a musical moment—“My little girl is growing up quick. I realized I was having a moment.” (60:30)
• Men’s Bathroom Mayhem: At Taylor Swift concert, Aaron finds himself and other desperate dads surrounded by high school girls using the men’s restroom and a girl calls out, “Hey Aaron, sing us a song!”—leaving him in a hilariously awkward spot. (64:35)
• Performing with his son Jake: Jake, age 19, plays guitar and drums onstage; “He knows the entire show… He’s gonna be dangerous.” (68:57)

Marriage, Grief, and Song Inspiration

• Marriage & Resilience: On relationship longevity—“There’s moments where y' all don’t like each other, but you love each other.” (78:06)
• Loss & Music: The couple lost a child; Aaron shares how grief shapes his songwriting and emphasizes music as therapy. (78:16)

Independence in Music Industry

• Independent Artist Life: “A lot of freedom… Also, survival.” (81:03) Describes the shift from being called a ‘Texas hat act’ to now seeing Texas themes go mainstream.
• Funding and the Five-Year Plan: Details covering all his own costs, launching a 26-song album, and planning sustained radio and recording activity. (83:09)
• Songwriting Process: Writes about life events, blending reality with “three chords and the truth.” Song “Pontiac” inspired by leaning on his mother for advice about marriage and life. (90:21)

TikTok and Social Comments

• Social Media: Embraces randomness—“I think of it as I'm just throwing darts… I got some good ones coming up this next week, in the next five years.” (96:36)
• Negative Comments: “If somebody says something awful to me… I say, ‘You're not wrong,’ or, ‘You're not my mom.’” (96:57)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Bobby (on his purpose): “To show folks that think they can’t do it… the world is absolutely bendable.” (12:45)
• Eddie (on making others better): “My goal is to make their life as good as it can be and prepare them for the world.” (10:08)
• Amy (on connecting through empathy): “… I can be a connector for someone and connect them to the person that could helpfully change the trajectory of their life.” (15:01)
• Lunchbox (on Rock Hall nominees): “I feel like there’s not very many good candidates this year… They all kind of suck.” (29:45)
• Aaron Watson (on father-daughter moments): “I realized I was having a moment.” (60:34)
• Aaron Watson (on marriage): “There’s moments where y' all don’t like each other, but you love each other.” (78:06)
• Aaron Watson (on negative comments): “You’re not my mom.” (96:57)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• [04:47] Mount Rushmore of Comedy
• [09:05] “What is your purpose in life?” discussion
• [21:43] Lunchbox guesses Hall of Fame songs
• [29:56] “Foods that start with R” on-air draft
• [38:44] Amy’s strange dog story
• [48:08] Listener’s cruise “signs” story
• [59:05] Aaron Watson interview (concerts, family, music)
• [78:16/81:03/90:21] Deeper discussion about marriage, loss, independence, and songwriting

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Episode Tone and Energy

As always, the show is quick-witted, irreverent, playful, and honest—balancing heartfelt confessions with classic Bobby Bones humor. Lively banter, authenticity, and personal vulnerability are recurring threads, ensuring the episode appeals to both loyal fans and new listeners.

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In Summary

This episode delivers the perfect Bobby Bones blend: laugh-out-loud games and pop culture debates, heartfelt insights into purpose and grief, raw personal stories, and an unfiltered, entertaining artist conversation with Aaron Watson. New listeners will find it easy to jump in, while long-time fans get exactly what they love—genuine connection, relatability, and plenty of reasons to smile.

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It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan Part 2 Just the Bits

[Morgan]

Good morning everybody and welcome to Best Bits Part two. We're gonna get caught up on the Bobby Bones show from this week.

[Bobby Bones]

Now.

[Morgan]

Now, before we get into it, I'm not going to include a whole lot of cruise content and it's not because it's not amazing and should be on this list, but because a lot of it was in part two from this week. So if you want to get caught up on all things cruise, then listen to a bunch of the part twos from this week and the tell Me Something Good segment. And of course, part one and part three. This weekend is with Lunchbox and it is from the cruise ship. So part one we get into it all things cruise. Everything that's happened up until that moment we recorded. And then part three we answer a whole bunch of cruise questions so all the cruising content your heart could desire. But for this Part two here this weekend, I'm going to include all the things that happened in the studio while we were at sea. So let's get into it. A listener asked Bobby to name his top four list of the Funniest people and I don't know if you're going to expect some of the names on this list.

[Bobby Bones]

Number seven. It's the anonymous inbox. Anonymous inbox. There's a question to be had. Hello, Bobby Bones. Who's your Mount Rushmore funny people sign Laughing in Gainesville? My list is. Has you. You may say you. Is that why you're clearing your throat?

[Eddie]

Oh, I thought you were really just clearing your throat.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought for a second too, like, why is Amy have a cold? And then she was just.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, no, I just add myself to the list.

[Bobby Bones]

I do think you're funny.

[Ad Host Female]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

This should be easy for you.

[Bobby Bones]

You think I'm gonna pick you guys? I'm sitting right in front of you, man.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You work with us every day.

[Bobby Bones]

I do think there is an element of humor you guys all bring.

[Amy]

Okay, don't pick it. If you're not picking one of us. Don't pick anybody in this room. It has to be.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't worry.

[Amy]

Has to be.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't worry. I wasn't.

[Amy]

It has to be like, I know who you're going to pick.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't pick my wife, even though that had been the easiest because she makes me laugh harder than anybody else I've ever met. Yeah, but I thought you guys would be like, oh, your wife.

[Amy]

No, I think we would understand.

[Bobby Bones]

But do you think my wife's funny?

[Amy]

She is funny. She's hilarious. So. But I mean, I guess I can tell you're going to go the professional comedian route.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Okay, so I'm gonna go. Ricky Gervais, I think is so cutting funny and so brilliant. He's the original Office guy. He's the creator of the Office. Think Ricky Gervais. A. I'm gonna go from when I was a child even to now. And I don't know that I LOL as much now, but he has such an influence on everything that I've done. Especially like musically is Adam Sandler. When his records came out and I was 11, it changed my world. Oh, yeah. It's the whole reason that I probably have a guitar and Eddie and I do stupid songs that aren't near as good. But Adam Sandler, to me, one of the funniest people ever. Chris Rock, probably my favorite stand up comic ever. Like his, his early specials on like hbo.

[Eddie]

So funny.

[Bobby Bones]

They were so funny. And as a black guy like myself, I really related.

[Amy]

You know what that just reminds me of? And this was years ago, I don't know, maybe 15 years ago. You made me do like a Chris Rock stand up. Like I had to read it for

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, wouldn't curse at all. She lost a bet and I made

[Lunchbox]

her do the whole thing.

[Bethenny Frankel]

I did.

[Ad Host Female]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That was back when I didn't cuss and I.

[Bobby Bones]

It was.

[Amy]

That was so awkward and hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

I think Chris. I still think Chris Rock is very funny, but Chris Rock, to me, is there. So I got Gervais Sandler, Chris Rock, and there. And I wanted to pick somebody new. This comedian, Mark Norman, is so funny. I watch his stuff on TikTok. I never met him, but I just grabbed a clip from him. His. Stand up here. Hit it. Everything kind of changes when you get older.

[Announcer]

You know, my brother had a kid. That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Everyone wants to play with the baby, touch the baby, hug the baby. I find babies fascinating because babies are the only thing that comes out of

[Announcer]

another person that strangers want to hold.

[Amy]

That's true.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's everything about that. Anything else comes out of a human being. You're like, wow, this dinner party is over. That's like the clean. He's not dirt. He's just normal. He's so funny. Mike, you think you like Mike Norman? Yeah, he's good. Like, I've got to know him on TikTok, but he's a real comedian, sells big shows. So funny. I'm now putting him on my. In my list. Do one, because you guys weren't ready for this question. Do professional. Because I'm not going to allow you

[Eddie]

guys to pick me just one comedian,

[Bobby Bones]

or it had to be a comedian, because Sandler, I mean, I guess he's a comedian, but he's more of a performer.

[Amy]

Yeah. Tina Fey or Amy Poehler.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. He did, too. You cheated. Okay.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I feel like they're.

[Ad Host Female]

They.

[Bobby Bones]

They're besties, so they're the same.

[Ad Host Female]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Eddie, man, I love Jim Gaffigan. Jim Gaffigan's my dude. I think he's so funny. And he spits out comedy specials, like, I would say, every year, so there's always new stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

I love it. I love John Mulaney, just the way he talks. I think he just has a funny voice. Yeah, John Mulaney's really funny, too. I mean, Norm MacDonald, when he was alive, I didn't pick him. Norm MacDonald's the funniest.

[Eddie]

He was so funny.

[Bobby Bones]

Kick off Kevin running the board in there. Do you have anybody? Yeah, I'm a big fan of Shane Gillis. I know he's still, like, very relevant right now. Yeah, he's awesome. Shane Gillis. Super funny. All right, good one. Hey, glad. Glad you sent that email. You can email us, although Morgan's not here right now, so. I remember the address. What is it? Mailbagabbybones.com. all right, there you go.

[Announcer]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.

[Morgan]

Recently in therapy, Bobby's therapist asked him a very intriguing question. What is your purpose in this life? And that's a big question to ask anybody. So Bobby, Amy, Eddie, they all pondered it and shared what they thought their purpose to this life is.

[Bobby Bones]

Number six, I was in my therapist's office yesterday, and he asked me, hey, what do you think your purpose is? That's a big question.

[Eddie]

Big question.

[Bobby Bones]

Because mostly I go in and he's like, what's on your mind? And I hit him with something, and we just kind of roll off that. But it was like, hey, what do you think your purpose is? So what do you think your purpose is? Amy?

[Ad Host Female]

What?

[Amy]

Now you're giving us this loaded question.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll answer mine, but I don't want to point you.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you think your purpose is?

[Amy]

Yeah. When you said, I'm going to answer mine, that means after you answer yours. Oh, gosh, I thought you were going to give me time to think.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you want time?

[Amy]

I would like a little time.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie, what do you think your purpose is?

[Eddie]

It's easy. It's easy. Mine is to. Yeah. Mine is to make everyone around me better. So, like, starting with my family, I want to raise.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy laughed. I'd like to just check in real quick. I just like to check in real quick.

[Amy]

I love the confidence of Eddie. I think he does make our lives better. He's a very joyful person.

[Bobby Bones]

Now there was a laugh. I'm just checking in on the laugh.

[Amy]

I'm just like. I don't know that I could say that with such, like. I guess it's. I'm laughing also with envy of, like. I wish I could answer with such confidence that I have that kind of an impact. And, like, I am supposed to make everybody's life better. And I.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, well, let's hear what he has to say.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I think that I was put on this earth to make people either get better, get away from their problems, whatever, but make them better as people. I don't know why I'm not doing anything. I'm just being me. But starting with my family, I'm raising four boys. My goal is to make their life as good as it can be and prepare them for the world. My wife, I want her life to be better because she's married to me. I don't know, man. That's just how I feel about my Purpose on earth.

[Bobby Bones]

I think your word choice was hit, Amy, a little funky. Because now we understand what you're saying.

[Amy]

Totally.

[Bobby Bones]

You think your purpose is to be there for people, to help them so that they have a better life.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But even someone that I meet, like,

[Aaron Watson]

maybe I don't know them better day

[Eddie]

after we talk for a little bit, their day will be better.

[Bobby Bones]

I can tell you that you are one of the most fun people to be around. You're very kind. You love small talk. Like, you're that person that is so warm immediately that people are drawn to you. Like, we'll go to dinner with people that also. I'll drag Eddie along and be like, hey, Eddie, we're going to go to dinner. I'll give you an example with Rich Eisen from ESPN now has his own show. Someone I've looked up to for a long time. We've become friends, and I was like, eddie, come to dinner. We're going to go to Rich Eisenh. He's like, okay, I'm in. We leave. And Richard's like, okay. He goes, that Eddie guy. Love that guy.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, people love Eddie just being around him. I think how it initially came out was, you're gonna make everybody better because you're so good at everybody.

[Eddie]

No, no, no. I'm not a God or anything. I just. I just feel like I want people to leave whatever encounter we had feeling better about themselves.

[Amy]

That was beautiful.

[Bobby Bones]

Love it.

[Amy]

Sorry I left.

[Bobby Bones]

No, because what he was saying, at

[Amy]

first, it was weird.

[Bobby Bones]

It was kind of like when Morgan number two was talking and she was like, people keep coming up to me saying I'm much prettier than pictures. And we're like that, you mean? That sounds a little weird. Yeah. Okay, you're up.

[Amy]

So I have heard from people that.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, I've heard. I want you to say what you think.

[Aaron Watson]

Your.

[Amy]

This is really hard for me.

[Bobby Bones]

It is. It was hard for me, too. Why are you here?

[Amy]

I don't like it.

[Bobby Bones]

What is your purpose? You want me to go?

[Morgan]

Sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Because it was hard for me, too. I think my purpose is, like, if it was all boiled down to something, it is to show folks that think they can't do it. They come from places that people around them aren't doing. Whatever it is you want to be. You want to be famous? Okay. You want to play piano. You want to be. Get your. The first person to graduate high school in your family. You want to get a doc. You want to be a doctor. That it doesn't it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, I think my purpose is to show by example that it doesn't matter where you come from. You can do whatever you want. That the world is absolutely bendable and resources are far less for some folks. But the fact that you don't have those resources, once you get to that midpoint, you're so much stronger because you got there without all the help other people had. So now you are so strong. You're stronger than they are at the same exact level. It's to show people, to be the example to folks that it doesn't matter where you come from. If you just keep pushing, you can do whatever you want. I think that's my purpose. Beautiful.

[Eddie]

It's pretty good.

[Amy]

Both of you. Beautiful. Okay, Amy, Purpose, purpose.

[Eddie]

Got anything?

[Amy]

I was thinking of that book from back in the day.

[Bobby Bones]

Who wrote it?

[Amy]

Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life. That.

[Bobby Bones]

That didn't read that one and he

[Amy]

doesn't read it was big, big, big, big back in the day.

[Ad Host Female]

Okay.

[Amy]

Well, I feel like a connector of sorts, and not always publicly. I do like connecting with people in our job and what I do. I love connecting face to face and sharing experiences. But something that has been very meaningful to me the last five years is connecting behind the scenes and privately with certain things that I've been through and being able to support others and come alongside them and what they're going through. Because I feel like I've experienced some things in the last several years that I never thought I would. And again, they're not stuff that everybody knows about, but somehow it's like if you're in that circle and someone knows, they're like, you need to call Amy. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe I'm the one with the resource and the information on this. What something that used to be so foreign to me and now I know, and I can be a connector for someone and connect them to the person that could helpfully change the trajectory of their life.

[Bobby Bones]

I think you have a lot of empathy based on a lot of the public, but also private things you've been through in the past years. And empathy is not something that you can buy. Perspective is not something you can buy. Nobody wants to have to get perspective because perspective is only gathered through very hard times. But once you have it, there really is nothing more valuable than it. And I think you have a lot of that in those areas. And so now you're the person that people that are going through those similar situations hard they can go. You know who has perspective and empathy and actually wants to help is Amy. Would you say that would be accurate? I would say that would be accurate.

[Amy]

Thank you. That feels. That feels right. Hard for me to say, but it feels right. Like, even on the cruise, I connected with a listener, a fellow adopted mom, and we ended up sitting next to each other at. She came to my pizza making class, and then we sat by each other. And through just talking, I could tell what she was going through with something. And something I've never shared publicly with anybody. I was able to, one on one, because it's a private situation, share with her. And then gave her, like, you need to order this book. You need to look up at this website. And, yeah, that was just a moment that literally just happened a couple of days ago where, yeah, I felt for her. And those are the moments that mean a lot to me.

[Bobby Bones]

I think we all have earned tools, and it is our obligation to use them in a positive way.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

We don't want to have. We never like it. Listen, I never volunteered. Hey, I want to grow up in poverty in a trailer park and not have parents. However, I'm telling you, I'm so fortunate from what I have from that. And I think if I didn't use that in a positive way, that's on me, and that's not good of me. So I think not just us three, but just any of the listeners, too. We all have earned tools that we didn't sign up to have to have, but now that we have them, I think it is our obligation to use them in a positive way. And so I'm just happy that I have Eddie because he makes me better every day at this job.

[Aaron Watson]

I like.

[Bobby Bones]

I like how Bobby.

[Eddie]

We said what we thought, and Bobby like what you mean to say.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, that's it. I hope that didn't come, but I hope that didn't come out wrong.

[Eddie]

No, you just helped us.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you sure, though? Because that also, you did a good

[Amy]

job doing it before.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't want to be the guy that was fixing you. I don't know.

[Eddie]

You said it how I should have said it.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Well, we.

[Amy]

And I appreciate that I interrupted you with my laugh and I laughed at her laugh.

[Eddie]

Can you do me a favor? Can we hold this question for Lunchbox when he gets back? I really want to hear what his purpose is.

[Amy]

He's gonna say, my purpose is to one day be rich.

[Eddie]

Like, I want to hear that.

[Amy]

So win the lottery then.

[Bobby Bones]

Nobody tip him off.

[Eddie]

You got it?

[Bobby Bones]

No listeners oh, they'll tip them off. All right. Good job everybody.

[Announcer]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two

[Bobby Bones]

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[Morgan]

The next class of Rock and Roll hall of Fame nominees was announced and it's always fun to make Lunchbox guess what songs the nominees sing and instead of just saying a song, he has to sing the song. And it does get as interesting as you might think.

[Bobby Bones]

Number five Rock and Roll hall of Fame. They've put out their nominees. I just wonder if Lunchbox knows who these people are. He also says he doesn't know a bunch about music, but I think he'll know. Mariah Carey nominated for the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. Can you sing one of her songs?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, she sings All I want for Christmas is you.

[Bobby Bones]

We'll take that one.

[Eddie]

It's a big one.

[Lunchbox]

That's the only one I know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she's got A bunch. Can you sing another one, Amy?

[Amy]

Yeah. Give me a love, Give me a

[Aaron Watson]

love Give me a love.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's the song with Diddy.

[Amy]

Give me a love.

[Ad Host Female]

That's weird.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Lunchbox]

Why would you go there?

[Amy]

Or a fantasy.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you just singing the title that you know?

[Bethenny Frankel]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Cause it's just a sweet, sweet fantasy, baby.

[Amy]

Yeah. Or.

[Bobby Bones]

That's good.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. Can you sing a song from Oasis?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They're the ones that sing the Wonder Wall.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You're just singing the title, so I don't know if you really know it.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah, I know Wonder Wall. It's the same thing you just did. No, no, no, no. The Wonderwall. I know Wonderwall. I've heard it. That's the song that's new.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you do it?

[Amy]

Well, now you're my wonderful.

[Bobby Bones]

That's it. You got it.

[Amy]

I said maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me and after all you're my wonder wall Lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

Shakira, whenever, wherever. Good job. Whenever, wherever or. Yeah, good. Billy Idol Lunchbox. Nominated for the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. Can you name a song, man?

[Lunchbox]

Billy Idol. He is. He's that guy who's got white hair.

[Bobby Bones]

Ew.

[Lunchbox]

Billy Idol sings Pour Some Sugar on Me.

[Bobby Bones]

That's Def Leppard.

[Eddie]

Come on, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll walk you into one. See if you know this one.

[Lunchbox]

There you go. Oh, I know, I know it, I know it, I know it. I'll do anything for love But I won't do that meatloaf.

[Bobby Bones]

That's meatloaf.

[Aaron Watson]

Ah, dang.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. How about this? It's a nice day for, ah, a white wedding. All right. That's right.

[Announcer]

I've heard that one.

[Amy]

That's Billy Idol.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. He has another one with a rebel yell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Kinda c. Elmo Mo. He kinda has that one. How about. You're not gonna know in excess? They're nominated. You're not gonna know.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, they had a show. Trying to find a new lead singer

[Bobby Bones]

they did way back in the day.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but I don't know. I mean, I don't know their music,

[Bobby Bones]

but I'm new sensation, new sensei right now. Okay. Jeff Buckley.

[Lunchbox]

Never heard of him. Is he a singer?

[Bobby Bones]

There was a man. He played the sounds of his Angela.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, hallelujah.

[Aaron Watson]

You know it.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I mean, when Bobby was seeing him, I never heard that guy's name.

[Bobby Bones]

How about the Black Crows?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, they were in. Wait, Black Crows? Is that the guy that worked in our building?

[Bobby Bones]

We'd mostly laugh at that, but yes. The drummer of the Black Crows used to work in our building.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, Right down the hall.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. They sing. The name is Seven Nation Army. Seven Nation Army.

[Bobby Bones]

That's White stripes. Oh, but that's a color. White stripes. Black crows.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Black crows, man. I. I don't think I've ever heard their music.

[Bobby Bones]

If I do the line, she never mentions the word addiction.

[Lunchbox]

I've heard that song, but I don't know the next line.

[Bobby Bones]

In certain company.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

She talks to Ang. Okay, close enough. How about Lauryn Hill?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah. She's the Fugees.

[Bobby Bones]

She was one of the Fugees.

[Lunchbox]

She sings.

[Bobby Bones]

Ah.

[Lunchbox]

What is that song? That I know. And it's killing me. Softly with the hands.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but she's a solo artist, too. She's like, girl, you know, you better watch out.

[Lunchbox]

Watch out. I know that one.

[Eddie]

Does she do that thing?

[Bobby Bones]

That's that song.

[Eddie]

Oh, that one's that song.

[Bobby Bones]

How about Melissa Etheridge?

[Aaron Watson]

Oh.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, no, it's not. It's a fast car. Because that's. That's someone else.

[Bobby Bones]

That's Tracy Chapman. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Melissa Etheridge. She shave her head. Now, that's Sinead o'. Connor.

[Bobby Bones]

Sinead o' Connor shaved her head.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, Melissa Etheridge. She's got, like, red hair.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know if that's true.

[Amy]

It's more blonde.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's more. Yeah, brownish blonde. But she has a song.

[Lunchbox]

Come to My Window in my Wall.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no, no. Or am I the only one who walk across? I'm not giving them that one. Not giving that one. How about Pink?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah, she's good. I like Pink.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Song.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's a good question, man. No, that's Waking up in Vegas is Katy Perry. What does Pink sing? Golly, I don't know. She sings. No, it's not. Knocking on heaven's Door. That's not her.

[Bobby Bones]

Bob Dylan. What?

[Lunchbox]

Knocking on heaven's Door. That's not her. I just want to shout. No, that's not her.

[Aaron Watson]

What's he singing?

[Bobby Bones]

I think he's just trying words, guys. He's tossing words out there.

[Lunchbox]

Shout. Shout. I thought that was her, but it's not her.

[Bobby Bones]

Just give me a reason.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Okay, let's do one more Phil Collins.

[Lunchbox]

In the Air Tonight. In the Air Tonight.

[Bobby Bones]

I think he has a title. I don't hear the song, though, but

[Lunchbox]

it has, like, a little piano. It does. It does the piano thing or the synthesizer.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you thinking of the drums?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, the movie with. With Mike Tyson.

[Lunchbox]

Old. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Hangover. Hangover, yeah. That's what that's from.

[Lunchbox]

Which one?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Shakira is big enough to get in the hall of Fame.

[Bobby Bones]

She's big enough to be nominated for it.

[Eddie]

Is nominated, man.

[Lunchbox]

Some of those people. I'm like, I don't know about that. It seems.

[Bobby Bones]

So you don't think Shakira should be in?

[Lunchbox]

No, I think she's huge. I mean, she had, like, two songs, right?

[Amy]

But, like, globally, did they take that in consideration?

[Bobby Bones]

It's kind of. Not really. I mean, yes, but if you have a bunch of, like, Spanish hits, you're not getting in. If it's just that any of those bands. Lunchbox. You think should get in.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know about the Black Crows either. Like, I'm like, I've heard one song. I don't think they're getting in. I think Pink will get in. She's got a lot of hits. I think she's been around a while. I don't know about that guy. Billy Idol.

[Bobby Bones]

What about Oasis?

[Lunchbox]

No, I got one song. Wonderwall.

[Bobby Bones]

No, they don't. They have many. How about In a Champagne Supernova?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, While We Were Getting High.

[Eddie]

That's it?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's it. They have more than that, too.

[Lunchbox]

So you think they get in?

[Bobby Bones]

I just ask him what you think, man.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know.

[Aaron Watson]

I'm a voter.

[Bobby Bones]

I get to vote on this.

[Lunchbox]

I feel like there's not very many good candidates this year.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you don't.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

They all kind of suck.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I'll just send them that email. Like, we're gonna go ahead and opt out because they all kind of suck. Okay.

[Announcer]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan Number two.

[Morgan]

We pulled out the Spinning Wheel and did another draft. The category of this one was foods that start with the letter R. Now, there was no researching before. We had to come up with it on the spot, which made it a

[Amy]

little bit more difficult.

[Morgan]

But I think we pulled out some good ones.

[Bobby Bones]

In this number four, we're gonna draft foods that start with whatever letter. I don't think we allow pens and paper, do we?

[Eddie]

We have before.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we allow writing down?

[Lunchbox]

We let it write down.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Amy]

I'm always doodling.

[Lunchbox]

No, you're always googling. It's a difference.

[Bobby Bones]

All right.

[Aaron Watson]

Not true.

[Bobby Bones]

All right. We're gonna. We don't know what letter it's gonna land on. And the first person is going to be Raymundo spin the wheel. We're gonna be drafting foods that start

[Aaron Watson]

with

[Bobby Bones]

the letter R. Raymundo, you have 15 seconds. Seconds. Foods that start with the letter R.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Announcer]

Good old R,

[Aaron Watson]

man.

[Bobby Bones]

Five seconds. Gotta be something better than that food. I'm saying raisins,

[Bethenny Frankel]

not.

[Bobby Bones]

The other one was worse than that.

[Lunchbox]

Over.

[Announcer]

Over Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. I'll go with rice.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Good old grain.

[Bobby Bones]

Good old grains.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Morgan, the only thing that's coming to mind right now is raspberries.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Getting better.

[Lunchbox]

I have that.

[Bobby Bones]

Slowly getting better. The hard part about being number one is you gotta answer quick. Now you get first shot, but it's quick. So I've had time to think and come to the conclusion of ribs.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

That's good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

That was so good.

[Ad Host Female]

So dumb.

[Amy]

Reese's cups.

[Bobby Bones]

That's good. Reese's cups is good. Okay, so we have raisins, rice, raspberries, ribs, and Reese's cups. All right, let's go back around. Amy.

[Amy]

Ruffle potato chips.

[Ad Host Female]

Chips.

[Eddie]

Nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. Ruffles, huh? Is it rough? You go in the brand?

[Lunchbox]

Yep.

[Amy]

Well, I guess that's a brand, but

[Bobby Bones]

are you going just rough?

[Amy]

Any.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Just.

[Amy]

Just ruffle potato chips.

[Bobby Bones]

Potato chips. All right. Ruffle ruffles.

[Amy]

They have to be ruffled.

[Bobby Bones]

Ruffled. Okay. I'm gonna go with

[Aaron Watson]

ravioli.

[Amy]

That's good. Look at you.

[Bobby Bones]

Ravioli. Okay. Eddie, I'm out. Oh, I'm sorry. You're out. Hey, that's on me. That's on me. Morgan.

[Amy]

I'm going with a candy.

[Morgan]

Amy inspired me.

[Amy]

I'm going rolos.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's a great one.

[Announcer]

I love rolos.

[Amy]

I love rolos, too.

[Bobby Bones]

That is a good one. Lunchbox, you have rice.

[Lunchbox]

Yep. Reese's pieces.

[Bobby Bones]

Reese's PCs.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's okay, right? Amy has Reese's cups.

[Amy]

Yeah. They're different.

[Bobby Bones]

It's different. I agree. I just want to make sure to get that out there in case anybody wants to argue about it.

[Amy]

I think it would get sticky if someone's like, reese's take five.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know what that is.

[Lunchbox]

I don't want to say. You can have that.

[Amy]

You can pick that candy bar ever.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. And, Raymundo, you have raisins. What would you be adding to that? Well, they just stole my candy. That's what I was going with. So I'm gonna just stick with the prison food theme and give me ramen noodles.

[Amy]

That's a good one. Ramen noodles is great.

[Bobby Bones]

Good one. All right, wait. You get three Picks. So we'll go back around. Raymundo, you have raisins and ramen noodles. You get to add one to it to have to go right again. The only thing that is in my brain is what you top a beautiful meal with. And it's only the finest food gets this rosemary.

[Lunchbox]

Did you.

[Bobby Bones]

You just tap out of this one? I think there's no way you don't finish last.

[Lunchbox]

I don't even know.

[Bobby Bones]

You've never eaten fine food if you don't know rosemary.

[Amy]

I mean.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Maybe sprinkle on some potatoes, huh?

[Bobby Bones]

Raisins, ramen, and rosemary, man.

[Aaron Watson]

Simple.

[Amy]

Might as well go like romaine.

[Bobby Bones]

Drafting foods to start with. R. Lunchbox. You have rice and Reese's Pieces.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, man. I'm struggling with the. I'm struggling with another R, man. What in the world starts with R? No, not that.

[Bobby Bones]

Not banana.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I'm trying banana. I'm trying to go through the fruits and the vegetables.

[Amy]

Oh, do rye bread.

[Aaron Watson]

Amy.

[Lunchbox]

Excuse me. Gave me something.

[Bobby Bones]

Why are you giving it something?

[Aaron Watson]

You see what I'm saying?

[Announcer]

She does.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would you do that, Amy? What's your answer?

[Amy]

That wouldn't be good.

[Bobby Bones]

What's your answer?

[Lunchbox]

Give me snack, crackle, and pop. Rice Krispies. Rice Krispies.

[Bobby Bones]

Why did you say anything but nobody wants? But you let them to Rice Krispies.

[Amy]

No, he already had that. He already had that.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you have it? I had it. Okay.

[Morgan]

Yeah, he had rice. He has double rice.

[Lunchbox]

That's okay. Rice and Rice Krispies are totally different. Absolutely different.

[Amy]

I have a feeling whatever I say, y' all are gonna not like it.

[Bobby Bones]

Why? You deserve. It's not about us, Morgan.

[Lunchbox]

If she goes rye bread, I'm gonna die.

[Bobby Bones]

Raspberries and rolos, then I would not

[Bethenny Frankel]

go where I.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, no.

[Amy]

I have.

[Morgan]

I have two carb options, and I can't decide which one to go with.

[Amy]

I don't think a lot.

[Morgan]

Ritz crackers.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's a great one. Oh, my God.

[Amy]

Fantastic.

[Aaron Watson]

So good.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know what it is, but I. I have ribs and ravioli.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, it's over.

[Bobby Bones]

We already lost. I'm gonna go with rolls.

[Eddie]

Dude, you're living good over there.

[Amy]

You got a really good meal.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, pick an R. You have Reese's cups and ruffable potato chips.

[Amy]

Does rice a Roni work?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, sure. I mean, it feels more Lunchbox.

[Amy]

Bronx picked rice, so I don't know if I can pick rice a Roni.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, for sure you can pick rice a Roni. It's different than just Straight rice. You go pick, you get rice.

[Amy]

So would you go rice a roni

[Bobby Bones]

or I can't answer a question.

[Amy]

Or what, am I the last person? Yeah, okay. I'm trying to decide between rice a roni or russet potatoes.

[Aaron Watson]

Huh.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, I had some other pretty good answers.

[Amy]

Or what about ratatouille?

[Bobby Bones]

Is that a real thing?

[Eddie]

It's a dish. It's a dish.

[Amy]

Soup made by a little rat.

[Eddie]

He's a mouse.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. Rice a roni Riceroni.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Because he did take your Reese's after you Reese him, and you riced him back after he riced.

[Amy]

Rice a Roni is not rice. It is, but it's different.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You know, he hit you with the double. Reese hit him with the double rice.

[Ad Host Female]

Wait.

[Amy]

If you have a problem with it, I'll go ratatouille.

[Lunchbox]

I don't care.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not ratatouille.

[Lunchbox]

I was trying to write down other Rs. I couldn't think of any other Rs.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, can I give you some ones that I had?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Red velvet cake.

[Eddie]

Oh, dude, that's great.

[Bobby Bones]

One. And I shouldn't. I. I get motivated since about looking around the room, and I look to my right at Eddie and Mike.

[Eddie]

Something Mexican.

[Bobby Bones]

Refried beans. Oh, I know.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, that would have been good.

[Eddie]

That's a good thing. What about ranch dressing? Does that count?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Another one I was looking at when I was looking at Amy because I tried to take big inspiration. This is something she was talking about recently that she fed her son.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Ad Host Female]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

Chicken rotisserie.

[Eddie]

Chicken. Dang, dude, that's good.

[Lunchbox]

Roast beef.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, roast beef. I thought I didn't pick this one. Red hots. That was one from the gas station. Yeah.

[Eddie]

What's rigatoni?

[Lunchbox]

I don't know what it is.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know, but I would have thought that's a good one. Okay. Yeah. Okay, so let's look at the. And so, everybody, you can go to bobbyvones.com and vote on the team that you think is the best. Ray with the strong raisins, ramen, and rosemary.

[Jacob Goldstein]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox has rice, Reese's Pieces pieces, and rice Krispies. Morgan has raspberries, rolos and Ritz crackers. I have ribs, ravioli, and rolls. And Amy has Reese's cups, ruffle potato chips, and rice a Roni.

[Amy]

You know, that's all right.

[Bobby Bones]

You're not gonna finish last.

[Amy]

Yeah, but y' all are strong. Y' all got good stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Go vote bobbybones.com. thank you, everybody.

[Announcer]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.

[Morgan]

Now, by request, a listener asked me to start sharing the winners of our draft so they can get the full conclusion. Our big winner is going to be Bobby in this one. He took it away by a landslide. And the next bit we're going to get into is a story from Amy. She was walking with some girlfriends and they found a stray dog, and the situation was a little sketchy.

[Bobby Bones]

Number three, Amy says she has a weird story for us. What do you have?

[Amy]

I need to know yalls theories on this. So my girlfriends and I are on a walk. There's two of us, and I have my dog. And all of a sudden on the walk, this cute little doodle thing starts following us. I mean, it is so cute. And I'm like, who? Where did this dog come from? And who does it belong to? Well, we're about to approach a busier road, and the dog keeps following my dog. And I'm like, when we get to the busy road, like something had happened to this dog. So I just decide to go up to a door on that street just to see if they recognize the dog. And the woman says, oh, yeah, I think it belongs to that cul de sac down there. So I'm like, okay. So we turn around, we go to the cul de sac. I don't know which house. I just start guessing. Go to one house, nobody answers. Go to the next house, nobody answers.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you holding the dog?

[Amy]

No, it's just following us. Like, I can't. Anytime we try to get near it to check its collar, it starts barking and, like, backs away, but it's following us, so it's fine. It follows us to the cul de sac. And then I walk away from the second house because nobody's coming. But as I'm walking away, a guy starts walking out, but not because he heard me at his door. He's just walking to his car. And I was like, oh, hey, excuse me. Like, do you know who's this dog is? Or is it yours? And he looks at the dog and he's like, no, that's not. That's not my dog. And I'm like, okay. And the dog's like. Starts barking, like, barking. And I'm like, what is this dog trying to tell us? Like, is there something going on? And then the guy takes a second look, and he's like, oh, yeah, that is my dog. And then calls the dog by name. And the dog follows him back inside the house. And then he goes and gets in his Car and leaves.

[Bobby Bones]

What's your theory? You saw us.

[Ad Host Female]

I want your theory.

[Amy]

Well, so we had some time to think about this on our walk because we all. My girlfriend's, I. We looked at each other. We're like, what just happened? Like, this was weird. And we think maybe he was like, maybe just wanting his dog to disappear,

[Bobby Bones]

you know, like, that would have been what I went to want his wife's

[Amy]

dog to be brought back. Like, he wanted it to be out and he wanted it to either get picked up or, heaven forbid, hit by a car. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Was he any chance drunk?

[Amy]

Well, we had our theories of like, maybe he didn't have his glasses on or had he been drinking. Like, why in the world would someone. I mean, there. This dog. There's no denying if any of us saw our dogs, like right in front of us, we'd be like, oh my gosh. Yeah, that's our dog. And then when he left the neighborhood and drove by us, like, I was thinking how I would handle this situation. I would roll down my window and be like, hey guys, thanks again for taking care of my dog. Like, thank you. He just drives right by, like, we don't exist.

[Bobby Bones]

You off.

[Amy]

I'm like, we just basically hand delivered your dog back to you. And it. The whole thing just felt so weird, like he did not want the dog to return. And it made me really sad.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I would think it can't be the glasses thing because I'm blind with no glasses and I can still tell a dog if it's mine.

[Eddie]

He.

[Bobby Bones]

It had to be like his wife's dog or something that he didn't like, and he was happy it was out and didn't want it back. Yeah, I mean, that's what I would think, you guys.

[Eddie]

Oh, I have a theory.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep.

[Eddie]

He was burglarizing the house when he left the door open and the dog ran out. And he was. Oh, crap, the dog ran out. So he made up some name. The dog obviously knows that that's the house.

[Announcer]

So.

[Eddie]

The house. The dog ran back in the house, and that's why he left immediately. He left right after the dog went in the house.

[Bobby Bones]

What time of the day was this?

[Amy]

I mean, it was still light out, but getting dark. So.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's not a dumb theory. Stupid answer.

[Amy]

I would say 4:30pm we don't know

[Bobby Bones]

the real answer, but it ain't that one.

[Lunchbox]

It's easy.

[Aaron Watson]

What?

[Lunchbox]

He was high as a kite. He was high as a kite. He'd been smoking inside and he came Out. He's like, no, they ain't my dog. Oh, wait a minute. That is my dog.

[Bobby Bones]

You saw him? Thoughts?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Ad Host Female]

No.

[Amy]

Part of me thought he was high and like, also his. I don't know. He didn't look like someone that would just be high, like, or his house. I know that. I know that.

[Bobby Bones]

He didn't have a high house. I hear you.

[Lunchbox]

He didn't have a. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Did he look like a burglar, though?

[Amy]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Was he wearing. Was he wearing just an eye out?

[Amy]

He was like us, like our age. Like, he looked like one of us.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, definitely. Couldn't be higher than.

[Bobby Bones]

Huh. I think they look like a wife's dog.

[Amy]

Be honest though, like, yeah, definitely.

[Bobby Bones]

Like little purse dog, cute little dog. Yeah, that's probably what it was.

[Amy]

I know that had to be our work. That was our working dude. But I'm telling you, like, it was so, like, I think that he finally just started to be like, oh, yeah, that is my dog. Because we were looking at him like the dog was trying to say like, I'm yours. It was barking and I was like. And just how bizarre he was. Like, we were just staring at him. And so I think he just was like, oh, yeah, that is my dog. How can he. It was so off awkward how he looked right at. And he was like, no.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm surprised he came back to yes though, because if you go no, it's just no. And you leave.

[Aaron Watson]

Commit.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's just that's why it's so weird because his no was so. And I think he realized, like, he had three women, like staring at him in a dog barking. He's like, there's no way I'm getting out of this.

[Announcer]

It's the best. Best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

[Bobby Bones]

From executive producer Taylor Sheridan. A new era of Yellowstone begins in the new CBS original series Marshals Tonight. Casey Dutton is back and he's teaming up with an elite unit of U.S. marshals to bring range justice to Montana. With the Yellowstone ranch behind him and a new team at his side, Casey will balance family and duty as he faces his biggest fight yet. Lou Grimes stars In Marshalls tonight 8, 7 Central on CBS and streaming on Paramount.

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[Morgan]

Amy shared a story of a listener on the cruise ship who was getting signs while she was out cruising with us from her husband who recently passed away. And I think this is a really beautiful story about grief and love and country music. So whatever you may think and whatever you may believe, this is a cool one to hear from a listener's perspective.

[Bobby Bones]

Number two. Okay, so we have a story about somebody talking to somebody from the dead. I don't know much about it. Amy, you're on the cruise. What happens?

[Amy]

So this woman comes up to. Actually, Eddie and I were walking around, and she's like, hey, do y' all mind if I share a story with you? And we're like, sure, no problem. She tells us that her husband passed away a few years ago and that he often speaks to her through music. She booked this cruise before all the artists were announced because there's muse, live music all the time. She's like, I'm not even the biggest country music fan. I don't even know honestly why I booked this cruise. She's like, but here I am.

[Bobby Bones]

She did say that. Why did she book the cruise? Yeah, we were on it.

[Amy]

She doesn't know. She just was like, I'm gonna go on that cruise.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

So sure we were on it. She just booked it.

[Eddie]

No, she didn't even really know our show.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, like, she just booked a cruise for no reason.

[Eddie]

Booked a cruise for no reason?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

But she likes music. But she's like, honestly, it's not even country music. That's my thing. She said that. What was it like a week before we set sail, Cooper Allen was added to the lineup. She bought her tickets for this cruise way before that. Well, a song that got her through the death of her husband is a Cooper Allen song. It's something that was really special. Even to her husband? To her. And for, you know, the last few years, she's used it therapeutically. Well, then Cooper Allen's added to the cruise that she didn't even really want to go on. Then he's on the boat. She runs into him on the boat. She's able to tell him how special this song is and what it means to her. And he's like, oh, were you coming to my show in the theater tonight? And she was like, yeah, I'm gonna be there. He's like, all right. She gets to the show, he's on stage. He tells the story. He dedicates the song to her and her husband and then perform it. And so she's like, my husband's always spoken to me through music. So my husband's here on this boat. Like, he was in this moment. He orchestrated this whole thing. Isn't that crazy?

[Eddie]

What do you think?

[Amy]

I mean, let me.

[Morgan]

Let me just say.

[Amy]

Let me give you this, Bobby. I know you're like, oh, coincidental.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't put words in my mouth.

[Amy]

So my question for you here is, is this coincidence or supernatural?

[Bobby Bones]

So I love this for her, coincidentally, anything supernatural that brings her closer to her husband that she loved, I'm a plus for it.

[Amy]

But what are the odds?

[Bobby Bones]

The odds? What, so her husband orchestrated me having to leave a day early from the cruise?

[Amy]

It has nothing to do with you.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, because he wouldn't have come on because I paid my own money to get him on that boat.

[Amy]

Cooper Allen?

[Jacob Goldstein]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. I cut my money to pay to get him on the boat because I had to leave a day early. Whoa.

[Eddie]

This is a wrinkle.

[Amy]

Well, then this is a wrinkle. I guess so. I guess he did.

[Bobby Bones]

So let me get this straight. I want to say this in a way, though, that is extremely respectful. So I love this for her.

[Amy]

But now, beautiful moment. I mean, she's, like, in tears now.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I just be the person now that just says stuff?

[Amy]

You mean that, like, squashes on someone?

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no, no. Freely, dude. What? Because I love this for her. I don't even want to tell the story because I don't want to be the guy that, like, rains on a parade.

[Amy]

I shall sit back.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no. I just don't want to be praying.

[Bethenny Frankel]

You know what?

[Eddie]

We heard her story, so let's hear your story.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't have a story.

[Amy]

All I'm saying, you did bring an

[Bobby Bones]

interesting wrinkle in my mind. I go, my wife. My wife being extremely pregnant, and the doctor saying, you can't be out at sea with no way to get back. And I'm like, okay, I have to leave a day early. So then I take the money that I'm getting paid to pay for Cooper Allen to come on the boat. So that would mean her husband got my wife pregnant at a certain time. Yeah, her dead husband impregnated my wife.

[Aaron Watson]

No, we got problems.

[Bobby Bones]

See, now I'm mad at him.

[Amy]

He was part of the pregnancy. He was okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm okay with that. If I can't prove that's not true, by the way, I can't prove that all that didn't happen. But I'm saying in my mind, I go, oh, this all happened because of some, you know, physical, some health things. Doctor says this wife gets pregnant at this point. And then I go, hey, I will pay for another artist because I can't stay a day. And so I paid for Cooper Allen to go on that boat with my money. And so he comes on the boat, and then all that happened. I think that is a beautiful coincidence. I love it. I love it. And so I don't want to speak ill of it, because you're putting me in a place to speak ill of it, but I'm also being met with the logic of the situation. But I also can't prove that her deceased husband didn't impregnate my wife a long time ago, though.

[Aaron Watson]

Whoa.

[Amy]

Yeah. I don't know that he had to impregnated, but he's orchestrated. He's pulling this like he's somehow involved.

[Eddie]

Okay, you think this is supernatural?

[Amy]

With the help of the Lord.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so then what?

[Eddie]

That's different.

[Bobby Bones]

I think the Lord's helping everything. Every single.

[Eddie]

That's what I hear out of this whole story. That this was all part of the plan.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, because it could have happened to where it's go. I'm like, well, gotta leave a day earlier than I thought. Wonder what we should do. And then all of a sudden, it's like, cool for Allah.

[Amy]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Who plants that in my head?

[Amy]

It's like, why would you choose Cooper Allen?

[Bobby Bones]

I have no way to prove that any of that is wrong. I don't.

[Amy]

Which, by the way, strong selection, because he was awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Of course he's great.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he was good.

[Bobby Bones]

Fantastic.

[Amy]

Like, really good.

[Bobby Bones]

They didn't tell you guys I paid bet.

[Amy]

Nope.

[Eddie]

No, no one said that.

[Bobby Bones]

He may not even know.

[Amy]

I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

It doesn't matter. But I was just using that in the story for. That's how that happened.

[Aaron Watson]

Gotcha.

[Bobby Bones]

So, okay. Well, but I love that for her,

[Amy]

you were a part of a beautiful moment. Whether it's coincidental or supernatural. It was a really cool story to hear and a very special moment for her.

[Bobby Bones]

I love all that. But you made me like.

[Amy]

I didn't. I can't make you do anything.

[Bobby Bones]

You did.

[Amy]

Nope.

[Bobby Bones]

You wanted. No, you wanted me to speak on it, and you knew how I was gonna speak on it. You set me up to fail.

[Amy]

Nope. No. You say what you want to say. I can't make you say anything.

[Bobby Bones]

I do love that story, though.

[Ad Host Female]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's all. He's great, huh?

[Amy]

Yeah. Wait, the dead husband or Cooper?

[Eddie]

No, no, Cooper.

[Aaron Watson]

Probably both.

[Bobby Bones]

But Cooper's great, and I didn't know him. And he came and did a Bobby cast, which was wonderful. And then I was like, oh, I kind of get this guy. Because he would do the mashups, and I'd be like, some of those are really good. Some of the corny, but who cares what I think? But then I got to know and I was like, oh, I think I like him as a person. Then I played golf with him at an event, him and his dad, and I was like, I love this dude.

[Amy]

So what was crazy was she told Eddie and I that story thinking, like, if you see Cooper again, can you tell him, thank you so much because I love. That was a special moment at the concert. Well, then, lo and behold, we didn't know if we'd run into Cooper again, but guess who was on our flight home? Cooper's manager. So we got to tell him that's cool.

[Eddie]

And hopefully it'll get back to Cooper.

[Ad Host Female]

It will.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go. Full circle. This will probably get back to him as well. That too.

[Announcer]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

[Bobby Bones]

From executive producer Taylor Sheridan. A new era of Yellowstone begins in the new CBS original series Marshals Tonight. Casey Dutton is back and he's teaming up with an elite unit of U.S. marshals to bring range justice to Montana. With the Yellowstone ranch behind him and a new team at his side, Casey will balance family and duty as he faces his biggest fight yet. Lou Grimes stars in Marshalls tonight, 8, 7 Central on CBS and streaming on Paramount.

[Ad Host Female]

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[Morgan]

Aaron Watson stopped by the studio and it's really fun to hear stories from him. Not only is he talking about his next project, but he also talked about taking his daughter to a lot of concerts, including Taylor Swift and performing. Performing with his son on stage. So here it is, Aaron Watson in

[Announcer]

studio number one on the Bobby Bones Show.

[Amy]

Now, Aaron Watson.

[Bobby Bones]

There he is. Aaron Watson, everybody. Yeah, come here. Come on in. Come on and have a seat.

[Ad Host Female]

You too.

[Bobby Bones]

Here he is. He's making the rounds.

[Jacob Goldstein]

What's up, man?

[Bobby Bones]

Good to see you. This guy will shake hands with everybody.

[Eddie]

I like it.

[Bobby Bones]

At the sake of our ratings, he will shake hands with everybody.

[Aaron Watson]

You should have thought about your ratings before you invited me on here. I'm just throwing that out there.

[Bobby Bones]

What's up, buddy?

[Aaron Watson]

I'm good. I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt.

[Bobby Bones]

Were you gonna wear the same cardigan?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you mean the one behind you or the one?

[Aaron Watson]

The one behind me. I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt.

[Amy]

I thought he was taking a jab at your pink shirt and your cardigan.

[Bobby Bones]

I would have accepted that and said, I'm glad you didn't wear my pink shirt and cardigan as well. Well, I do have a cardigan one.

[Aaron Watson]

I have one at home. My daughter bought it for me.

[Bobby Bones]

And do you wear it?

[Aaron Watson]

I wore it once when we went to a Taylor Swift concert and because

[Bobby Bones]

that's the Taylor Swift thing. How did you like going to a Taylor Swift concert?

[Aaron Watson]

It was fun. I enjoyed it. I'll tell you, I've cried at two concerts in my career and one was at Paul McCartney when he got up there and sang a song that he wrote for John. And then the other one was the Taylor Swift concert.

[Bobby Bones]

I cried. What moved you about that?

[Aaron Watson]

Just this music that I've been enjoying with my daughter her whole life from when she was little. And then seeing her just lose her mind, going crazy, having fun, and she started crying. And I think I just. I looked at her at some point, and I was like, my little girl is growing up quick. And I just. I realized I was having, like, a moment. Like, I realized I had. I was having a moment. And it was pretty special. And it was. It was a fun concert, you know? You know, she. My. My daughter was very impressed that, like, I was getting recognized and took some selfies. But I did tell her, I said, hey, I want you to look at this. Where this section we're sitting, go down. Because your dad's already done the math for what I paid for the tickets. I said, go down eight rows from here, down eight rows, all the way over to the next walkway aisle. I said, those seats. Your old man has to play about 150 shows a year to make that much money. So just letting you know how amazing, like, I was like, girl, I'm thinking the math. Of course, you know, there's no telling what her production costs. But it was a. It was a fun show.

[Bobby Bones]

And, yeah, the big show, people love the.

[Aaron Watson]

The.

[Bobby Bones]

Not obviously the songs, but how she pulls off that show, it's so impressive.

[Aaron Watson]

And, I mean, I've always been a Taylor Swift fan. I grew up. My buddy Scott, his mom is Liz

[Bobby Bones]

Rose, so like, wrote all the songs early with Taylor. Yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

I remember in, like, the early 90s, going over to Liz's house and there was some guitars. And I remember asking Scott, like, what's up with the guitars? And I remember Scott going, I don't know. Mom thinks she's going to be a songwriter or something. And so that's just such a great story in itself. So. But the weirdest thing in my. Ever happened to me. And at the Taylor Swift concert, I guess there was. One of the openers was like, biba Doobie or something.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm gonna bet you're not pronouncing that right, but I don't know. I don't know.

[Aaron Watson]

I'm probably not saying it right. I need my daughter here. She really helps.

[Bobby Bones]

You might be saying it right, though. I've just not heard that.

[Aaron Watson]

So after Biba duba or biba doobie.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, we're gonna come to you in a second for an official explanation of. Of who it is. It is Biba Doobie.

[Eddie]

You're right.

[Bobby Bones]

Congratulations. All right.

[Aaron Watson]

Thank you, Mike.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not familiar with that artist.

[Aaron Watson]

So my. My daughter goes dad. So after B B Doobie's performance, Jolie looks at me and goes, dad, if you need to go to the bathroom, now is the time. Because Taylor shows like three hours. So I was like, okay, let's go. So we go up to the bathrooms. There is a mile long line in the girl's bathroom, the guy's bathroom, there's no line. So I was like, thank you, Lord. I walk in about the same time as this, like, high school dude. We walk through the first set of doors, we walk in the next set of doors. This, this bathroom is packed full of high school girls.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh. Wanting to get a quicker way to end the bathroom.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, yeah, they're in the men's bathroom. And that high school boy was like, he said, I remember, he goes, oh, heck no. Me, I'm in my 40s and I don't have that kind of negotiating power with myself anymore. It's like, I'm not gonna make it three hours, dude. There are, there are four other dads pulled up to these urinals, right? And I'm looking at all these girls and I'm looking at this situation and like, my mind's racing, like, what do I do? What do I do? A dad walks away from one of the urinals, it's my turn, and he kind of gives me this like, like, I don't know what to do, you know, what do you, what do you do? Kind of look. So I'm like, okay, we're doing this. We're doing this. So I pull up to the urinal to do my thing. And in the middle of the process, some girl behind me says, hey, Aaron, why don't you sing us a song?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

Nice. And I was like, that's really. That was pretty messed up. And I, and I literally said that. I said, girls. And they're all laughing. I said, girls, that's messed up. That's messed up, girls. And I mean, but we had so much fun. I love going to concerts and it's fun.

[Bobby Bones]

I.

[Aaron Watson]

That's kind of me and my.

[Bobby Bones]

Get to go to many concerts though. Because you're on the road a lot.

[Aaron Watson]

Not a lot. I don't get to go to a lot.

[Bobby Bones]

Every time I see you on Tick Tock, you're on the road. You're. No, you're doing a show?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, I. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you doing a lot of shows?

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what I'm saying. Like, you're on the road a lot, playing shows.

[Aaron Watson]

We always. My daughter has the bands in town app, and so I'm like, Like, find the dates where, you know, we're going to a George Strait concert. We bought tickets this week, and it's on a day that I have off. And so we. We have a lot of fun. She has a long list of artists we're gonna go see. And I'll be honest, I know a lot of them about as well as, you know, Biba doobie.

[Bobby Bones]

I do not know Baba Doobie. That's the thing. I never even heard of Baba doobie. Like, I'm. I'm out. I'm out.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, I'm sometimes just like, I'm. I am.

[Bobby Bones]

I.

[Aaron Watson]

She's taken me to places where I look like that, dad. Like, I'm like, let's go. But just seeing her smile and sing, like, I. Whatever it takes.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you feel, though, like, when you go to these shows with your daughter, like, does she like any of the music that you also liked and is that. Does that ever hit you? Like, it's so cool that she likes music that I also like. Like, older stuff.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, yeah. Like, she's. She loves the Beatles. She loves Elton John. She's. I mean, I. I posted a video a while back. She's in there at night. You know, I can hear her in there in the bathroom getting ready for bed. And she is just singing Keith Whitley at the top of her lungs. So it's cool. Like, we did this little cover album just for fun a couple years back called Covergirl. And I did it actually as a project with Jolie because all Jolie was listening to was Taylor Swift. And I said, wow, Taylor's great. I go, there are so many. Like, you need to know the Amylou Harris's of the world. Like, and so it's fun for she and I, we. We take a lot of drives, whether it's in my truck or the. The Corvette or the Jeep, we take these drives just to listen to music. And she's in control of the radio, so you never know what I'm going to be listening to.

[Bobby Bones]

What about your son? He plays with you? He's. He's. I think he's good, dude.

[Aaron Watson]

Well, I already have labels calling about him, and I'm like, the boy hasn't even recorded anything yet. He's so good.

[Bobby Bones]

He's older, though.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah. Jake is 19. And so Jack. And then there's Jack, who's 18. Jack is too smart to be in the music industry. Jack is already. Jack already has, like 200 ounces of silver and a couple ounces of gold. Like, he works by Stock. Like, I was showing Jack some of my most horrible investments I've ever made, thinking that would show him, like, hey, you win some, you lose some. And he looked at me and he goes, why would you have ever thought that that company was a good idea? And I was like, okay, well, now you actually think pops is even probably dumber than you already did. So that backfired on me. But. But I'm having more fun. I'm telling you right now. If they gave an award out for a country artist that has the most fun at their shows, I would win it, because I love what I'm doing. But now I'm literally, like, on stage with my son, and we're jamming out. I'll go over there and, you know, mess with him and undo a Pearl Snap, or I'll go up and button the tops of Pearl Snap. And I just love messing with him. And then I just hand him the mic, and I'm like, pops is tired. You know, dad's tired, and, dude, he'll just. And they go nuts for him. And he's a great songwriter. He's. He's. He's gonna be dangerous.

[Bobby Bones]

Was there a point where he was actually good enough? Did you ever let him play with you when he wasn't quite there to help him get there? And then there was a point where you realized, oh, now he can actually play with this. I don't really have to, like, prop him up anymore.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, I was very protective for a while. Like, if he would be. If he was singing a song, I'd have the mic just waiting to see, like, if he kind of stumbled, I could jump in and sing with him. But he's been getting on stage with me since he was, I mean, five or six, because he just loves to play. And now he has my whole show memorized. And, like, a couple weeks ago, my drummer. His flight got delayed, and we had sound check, so my son just jumped in there behind the drums. He knows the entire show on the drums, too. He knows the entire show on the guitar. He's. He's. He's super talented, and it's fun to watch.

[Bobby Bones]

Is he a better guitar player than you?

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, like, when he was 12?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah. I mean, but Jake. Jake started with the Beatles, you know, then got into, like, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits. Yeah. And then, I mean, he just started learning all this crazy stuff. And honestly, you know, and. And I'm not, like, the biggest John Mayer fan. Like, I have a great appreciation for his music, and I, like, a Lot of his songs, but a lot of John's acoustic stuff is so like Chet Atkins. It's just got that country finger style, guitar picking. And Jake learned all that stuff, so his playing is so good. And he's hungry. He calls me. You know, he's in college, so he'll call me late at night. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, well, I should be studying, but I'm working on a song. And I'm like, well, just. I know your mom says she wants you to make good grades. I'm like, if you could just, like, you know, have good attendance and pass. But don't tell your mom I said that.

[Bobby Bones]

What's Amarillo like now? It's been probably two years since I've been there.

[Aaron Watson]

Well, you know, I live. I grew up there.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you not there?

[Aaron Watson]

No, I've been in Abilene for a while now.

[Bobby Bones]

It's been three years since I've been there. What's Abilene like?

[Aaron Watson]

It's. It's growing like crazy. They've got, like. It's. It's. It's supposed to, like, double in size over the next 10 years because, like, Google and has showed up and AI. Some AI deals showed up. I mean, we live about, I don't know, 20 minutes south of town. Kind of where the hill country starts. Buffalo Gap, Texas. It's a thriving.

[Bobby Bones]

Is it only you guys?

[Aaron Watson]

No, it's actually started growing, but it's. We're. We're out in the middle of nowhere, so it's. It's pretty nice.

[Bobby Bones]

What about you? You got a pretty big ranch? Big, yeah. Piece of land out there?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, I've got it. We've got a big ranch out there. We built a. A ranch house on the edge of this little canyon that has a bluff behind it. And I wrote. I built that place just to write songs. So we. We use that house for a lot of different reasons. I have writers come in, my bus driver, band guys will stay there sometimes. You know, it's.

[Amy]

So that's not your primary house?

[Aaron Watson]

No, it's kind of like the doghouse. Like, also, if I get kicked out of the house, I'm like, not.

[Amy]

It's on the same property.

[Aaron Watson]

No, it's about different property five or six miles away.

[Ad Host Female]

Oh.

[Aaron Watson]

So. But it's a really cool place. And like, if. If someone at church, you know, needs a place to stay, I'm like, well, you can go to the ranch house. So we do a lot of riding at the ranch and we. I've Recorded a lot of vocals there, but that, that, I don't know, it's just kind of my, it's my happy place. And also too, like, whenever I go out to the ranch, I'm. I will look around and I'm like, you know, I bought this with a song. Like a lot of songs, not one, but like a lot of songs. But it always makes me go, wow. You know, people always say, you think someday you'll ever, like make it. And I was like, that's an interesting, you know, that's an interesting statement because what is make it? And I've always told people the reason why I'm successful is because I made sure that I made go, that my goals were achievable. Like, if I would have started off my career saying, I want to be bigger than George Strait someday or as big, you know, that's a pretty big dream. But my goal was, it would be really awesome if someday I had a career where I could write my songs, record my songs, play shows and do well enough that I could provide for my family. And so that's, you know, I've. I've been able to achieve that.

[Bobby Bones]

When you talk about seeing your house going, I got that because I wrote songs. Sometimes I look at my swimming pool and go, I was able to get that because I just say stuff that's crazy to me.

[Aaron Watson]

I'm the same way. I'm the same way that I'm like, what in the world? It feels like it should be against the law.

[Bobby Bones]

Because the swimming pool to me meant somebody made it. Do they even call swimming pools? They call it pools. Okay, is that weird? When I say swimming pool, I call

[Aaron Watson]

it a swimming pool.

[Amy]

Well, do you say washing powder?

[Aaron Watson]

What? A what?

[Amy]

Okay, nevermind. Detergent.

[Bobby Bones]

Obviously I'm from Arkansas, but I have things that I haven't been able to shake consciously.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So I will just say things. For example, that wasn't on purpose. I say swimming pool. And if I'm talking about doing the laundry, I think I've been better. But it's always been like, yeah, we'll use some washing powder and we'll put.

[Aaron Watson]

That's awesome. I'm gonna start using that.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, it's never on purpose. But that's what they're alluding to is at times I can't shake some of that fundamental Arkansas language.

[Aaron Watson]

I like it though. It's. I mean, it's like, I'm gonna use that when I get home that I'm be like, babe, where the flips of washing powder she can be like, what

[Bobby Bones]

are you talking about?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, so no, no, I'm the same way. I'll say, I'll say something and I don't, I can't think of a, a word right now, but I'll say something. And people be like, what did you just, what did you just actually say? And I don't know if it's, you know, being raised in West Texas and my mom, for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

West Texas vernacular, for sure.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

How long you guys been married?

[Aaron Watson]

Gosh, 24 years. She's put up with me for 24 years.

[Bobby Bones]

What's, what's the, what's what? It's hard to say, like why or like what's the reason, but what do you feel like is the common thread in relationships like yours that have lasted?

[Aaron Watson]

A good woman that's patient and, you know, I think, I think the best way I can describe it is like, I remember when I was like 4 or 5, my mom and dad got into a knockdown, drag out argument. And I remember mom slammed the front door and I was in bed and my bedroom was the closed in single car garage that my dad, you know, when my sister was born, he turned that into my bedroom. So when mom fired up the car that night, I remember the headlights like, lit up my room and I was pretty upset about it. And when, I'm sure my mom, I'm sure mom drove down the street to her sister's house. My Aunt Bee, I have an aunt Bee. And I'm sure they had like a Diet Coke and they, she cooled off and she came home. And when she came home that night, she came into my room and I was so little, but I remember this. She said, I asked her, I said, what happened with you and dad? And she said, well, we had an argument. And I was like, well, what happened? You know, like what was going on? And she said, well, I'm just going to tell you this. She said right now, I do not like your daddy. She said, but I love him with all my heart. And I think that's the mentality that, like, you know, because that's the mentality you got to have. Because I'm, I'm not naturally like that. Like, I'm more dramatic. Like the sky is falling. It. If there are times where I'm like, if it wasn't for the kids, like, I just want to pack my bags and hit the road, of course I'd get 10 miles down the road and be like, where am I actually going? You know, but that's how that's how I work. That's how my mind works. And, you know, I just think it's one of those things where, you know, for me in this phase of my life, you know, it's just. Just, you know, I. It's not easy. I mean, I'll just say this. It's just not easy. It not. Not easy. Sometimes I'll say, like, impossible. So, you know, you're really selling this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

I mean, but it's one of those

[Bobby Bones]

things really making you feel like the villain. And she's the greatest superhero of all time.

[Aaron Watson]

Well.

[Amy]

Well, he was the one that was. He's saying he's gonna pack his.

[Bobby Bones]

I know, that's what I'm saying. Like, he's the one that's like, I gotta go.

[Amy]

I think maybe if she's here, she'd be like, well, I was already.

[Bobby Bones]

I think if she was here, she's just slap him and say, aaron, stop talking. Keep your mouth shut.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Should we give him a shovel?

[Aaron Watson]

No, it would be this, this. This look she gives me where it's like, please stop talking. Where she just does the side eye. Like. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't have to say anything. You just know.

[Amy]

It sounds like there's moments where y' all don't like each other, but you love each other.

[Aaron Watson]

Absolutely.

[Bethenny Frankel]

But.

[Aaron Watson]

But that's one of those.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that's any relationship.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah. 110.

[Amy]

If the true love is. Is there.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Unconditional love.

[Aaron Watson]

The secret, though, I mean, I don't. I don't know the secret. You know, if. If we're going to be married, if we make it 50 something years, bro, we still got the other side of the mountain to go. So it's like. But I think it's just that it's just trying to. Trying really hard to work through the tough stuff. And man, we've had some, you know, we've had some tough stuff. You know, I mean, we. We lost a. A child together. And, you know, I think if we were to like, probably dig deep into counseling, I do think that that probably. That was hard on she and I both just, you know, there were. And at that time we had like a. Literally a. Like a four year old, two and a half year old. And like, we had three little ones already. So I mean, I don't know, it does make for good songwriting material, you know, and. And that's life. And a lot of times I try to capture those feelings and put it into a song and. And I really. I try to do that with a lot of My music, like, man, if I'm. If I'm feeling something, I try to be real about it because I. You have to think there's other people out there that are going through those kind of things. And I've always found music to be very therapeutic, so.

[Bobby Bones]

Even to write.

[Aaron Watson]

Oh, writing's. Writing's my favorite thing. Writing is. It's what I live for. Like, I wake up in the morning excited to make coffee and go sit on the back porch and write, and. And I tell you, there's, like, me writing right now. I'm a different writer. Like, I know I'm not supposed to talk about the next record. We've got this new record horse.

[Bobby Bones]

We're just about to do one with 26 songs here.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah. And it's gonna have 40 on it when it's all said and done. But I've already finish next record.

[Bobby Bones]

And don't say that one's even better. You know, we're focused on this one.

[Aaron Watson]

I can't help it. Can't help it. But the thing about it is, is that, like, I don't know. I don't know why. Why now. I feel like my mom's always said. I was like. I remember saying, mom, am I ever gonna grow sideburns? And she was like, baby, you're just a late bloomer. So I don't know if it's. My songwriting has been kind of a late bloomer. I'm. I'm so proud of all my past 25 years of songs, but I just feel like I'm seeing things differently. I don't know if it's just a combination of where I'm at in life or probably too. It has a lot to do with the fact that I have two kids that are writing, and I want them to see my work ethic. I want them to see how hard I work at my craft.

[Bobby Bones]

Those kind of things explain, like, I'm five, what it means to be an independent artist, which you are.

[Aaron Watson]

A lot of freedom. And that's one reason why I'm independent. Also, survival. I mean, if you have a dream and you want to be a country singer and, you know, no labels in town, think you're good enough? Well, do you just give up on your dream? And it's a much different environment than it was. I mean, even when we first met, you know, almost 10 years ago or whatever. I mean, back then. I mean, go look. Go go back and look at country music award shows in 2000 and 15, 16, 17. Like, it's me. And about three other dudes that have buckles and cowboy hats and boots on. And back then that they called me a hat act back then, you know, I was Texas music and it wouldn't work outside of Texas. And, you know, and so I love now when L.L. langley has a song that right off the bat talks about my two hometowns, Amarillo and Abilene. The first second I heard that song, I made a video and I was like, this is going to be the biggest song. It's gonna be a number one hit. So, I mean, I don't know, it's like, I, I, I, I, I. I think that I do take a little pride in being able to talk to a lot of independent artists to saying, hey, what's your business model? It's about running a good business, making good business decisions. But I also love the fact that, like, I'm recording. I'm, I've got sessions into March. We're recording some fun little side projects. I'm recording again in May. I just love the fact that I don't have to ask some record label, like, is it okay if I do this? Is it okay, you know, if I get excited about the music? That's what matters.

[Bobby Bones]

So sounds like the good is you as a creative can do the creative things that you want to do. It sounds like the difficult thing is especially early is nobody's funding it. You're having to fund everything yourself. You're having to find all the money to make all the things happen.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, that's like, like we're, we are. We've got this five year plan and this new album, Horse Name Texas is day one and we're going to be going to radio over the next five years.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you're here now. I'm here when you're literally here now.

[Aaron Watson]

Day one.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I'm just making sure this is day one. Making sure you know where you are. We're not at Chick Fil A. Like, we're, we're here.

[Aaron Watson]

This is day one.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, good.

[Aaron Watson]

I was like, day one of my five year plan. We must be on the Bobby Bones show.

[Bobby Bones]

There are 26 songs on this record. It's a lot of songs. Did you not part with some of them? Did you want. Why that? Why? I'm just always. When it's an odd number, like 26 if it were 11 or 12, I get it. Standard if it were 40 and you're like, it's a double album. But 26 is kind of an odd number of songs. Why?

[Aaron Watson]

Well, we had them recorded. They're all Songs I'm proud of. And those are all songs that I wrote during that phase.

[Bobby Bones]

What would you call that phase? What was that season called?

[Aaron Watson]

Well, the last four years, a lot of ups and downs. I had two vocal cord surgeries, had a lot of time off. And for me, it's like I wrote all these songs together. And, you know, it's. It's. For me, I don't want to sit here and be like, I have. I'm thankful I've had this long career. I've done enough for me. I want to do more than I've ever done in the next five years. And so I love those songs. Those songs are finished. Those songs need to go out. I'm passionate about them right now, but I'm already having a hard time not wanting to push this next record I've already finished. And Greg is over there, like, stop. Do not.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, so am I. I'm like, stop talking about the next record. We got 26 songs here that's out now.

[Aaron Watson]

It's my art, and it's like. It's. It's. It's one of those things. It's. It's almost like talking about your kids, like I found myself, especially when they were little and baseball and like, we go in somewhere, and next thing you know, I'm like, I talked about my kids the whole time and did not talk about the record. But it's just. You get. You get excited about the music, and so. But yeah, Horse name Texas.

[Bobby Bones]

It's.

[Aaron Watson]

It's a story about my career. It's. It's where I've been, where I'm at and where I want to go and. And why I do it. Like the second verse says, came up short, been bucked off, had my heart stomped in the dirt. But I got back up, got back on time and time again. And after all these years, I've learned a winner's just a loser who keeps on losing till the day they finally win. And that's just the story of. It's a lot like your story.

[Bobby Bones]

Fail until you don't. It's one of my books.

[Aaron Watson]

Absolutely. I should have made you a co writer on there.

[Bobby Bones]

Or you just could have said, hey, Bobby's book fail until you don't on Amazon.

[Aaron Watson]

Hey, what camera do I look at?

[Bobby Bones]

Pick one.

[Aaron Watson]

Go that one. Aaron Watson here. Bob, Bobby's new book, Phil until you don't. His old book actually inspired me to write this whole new album, Horse named Texas, and it will change your life.

[Bobby Bones]

Where's my camera? Right there. Okay. Hey, It's Bobby here. I wrote that book, Fail until youl don't, inspired by the record, Horse Name Texas from Aaron Watson. That came out years later, but I really felt it in my heart what it was going to say. So please check out Horse Name Texas.

[Aaron Watson]

Now that's my dog right there.

[Bobby Bones]

That's back and forth.

[Aaron Watson]

That's my dog.

[Bobby Bones]

We both did that.

[Amy]

It's like you're a loser till you're not.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's fell until you don't. What you talking.

[Aaron Watson]

It's like fell until you don't.

[Amy]

Talking about horse name Loser.

[Eddie]

There's no other way to say it.

[Bobby Bones]

No horse Name Texas.

[Aaron Watson]

But it's also. It's just one of those things like. Like, I love baseball. I love baseball. Hall of fame hitter fell 70% of the time. So what do you. It's like I tell my boys, you went over four. Were you going to cry about it? Are we going to work on the next game? Like, what are you going to do? I mean, if you have. You. You have to understand that's just part of. That's just part of the process. And also, why do you do it? Like, if I'm doing this to have big hits and number one records and all that stuff, win awards, like, if that's, if that's the reason I'm doing this, I'm going to be disappointed at the end of the day. But like, the bridge says something like, if I choke or wind up broke, God knows I do it all over again. Because if I write one song that saved a life, wouldn't that be worth it in the end? And that's why you do what you do. You're. You're. I get up on that stage, those people have paid their hard earned dollar to come see a show. And my job is real simple, just to give them a good time. And that's what I do every night. It's. Have we played a show in Knoxville a couple weeks ago? Not going to lie. When you see that you only pre sold 8% of the tickets.

[Ad Host Female]

You're.

[Aaron Watson]

You feel that like G feeling inside. But at some point you suck it up. You go out there and you give them the best you got and then, you know the next night is a sellout. And that's easy me, but it's, you know, I don't know, it's. I'm just in a really good place with my music right now and it's exciting. And like I said, Jake, my boy is watching me, man. He's watching me. And so I Haven't. I've got a lot to teach him. And also, too. I'm not gonna. I. I am fixing to have some big moments because his old man's not gonna go down without a fight. I'm not gonna just start opening up for him out of nowhere like he's got. You know what I'm saying? It's like. It's like getting out there and playing basketball with them. They're better than me, and I know that. I think I may have pulled something and pulled something right here. Can't let them show. I can't let them see that, you know? And I. And I box them out a little harder, Get a little more aggressive. Fight dirty. You can't let those boys beat you. You gotta. The old man. It's the old man thing.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like you think you're dying. Dude, you're scaring me. You're like, I got five years and I'm out of here. Just say to me that you're not dying.

[Eddie]

Dying.

[Aaron Watson]

I'm not dying.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, good. That's all I want to hear.

[Aaron Watson]

Here's the deal.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, here's the deal. No, but he's acting like I got five years. And then they're gonna spread my ashes at sea.

[Aaron Watson]

Here's the deal. I'll come back in. In five years and be like, okay, that five year plan didn't work. But this next five year plan, this next five years, this is the one.

[Amy]

That's the one where you're opening for your son.

[Aaron Watson]

That's the one where I'm opening for Dick. I've got so much exposure. Just really glad we had that kid.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me about Pontiac. What I think is interesting, and I love it. You wrote the song by yourself?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So is that one of those you just grab a guitar at home and you really didn't have it set? Can I do my romantic version of you writing this song? And you tell me how wrong I was? Whenever people write songs by themselves, I feel like there's just some sort of inspiration that happens. And they just pick up a guitar and it wasn't in a calendar for a write because they're not writing with somebody. And they're like, I have this idea. Let me see how. And maybe you're even coming up with something for a right that you have coming up in the future. And you're like, oh, man, this is just kind of falling out of me. And the next thing you know, you're like, I don't think I need anybody. This is everything exactly how I want to say it. Anybody else putting it on it would change how I'd say it. So I think I'm going to record this as a work tape. And then eventually you fall in love with it so much you're like, I'm going to record this as a song. And then it becomes a single. That's the romantic version of my head.

[Aaron Watson]

That's very close. My whole life, when there's something going on in my world, like, I will call my mom. And I. I remember I was like, so, mom, tell me, like, dad, if he did this and it upset you, what would. Like, like, what do I do? And so that's where that song came from. That came from me. I don't know, doing something stupid, upsetting my wife. Something's going on. And me just going to my mom and saying, hey, now, there are a few. You know, they say country music is like three. Three chords in the truth. So that song has like five chords. So. And my mom drove a Monte Carlo

[Bobby Bones]

and an occasional lie. Got it. Got it. My chords and an occasional lie. I like it, though.

[Aaron Watson]

Pop chords and a fib.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, fair enough.

[Aaron Watson]

You know, and I've never heard my mom cuss. And I actually called, and my mom, she's such a wonderful lady, and she's so straight laced. Like, I had to take down an Instagram post two nights ago because my mom didn't like it and it annoyed me so much. But that mama's boy inside of me went. Went fine.

[Amy]

Well, what. What did you do?

[Aaron Watson]

Well, I did. I did an interview with my buddy and he asked me what was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me at my show.

[Amy]

Oh, no.

[Aaron Watson]

And I said, well, it's happened several times, but, like, having a lady breastfeeding her baby right in front of me, I was like, there was the cutest little baby you, baby boy you ever saw. And he's got on little headphones and he's breastfeeding right there. As I'm singing honky tonk songs, I was like. And the whole thing is, I'm like, stare at the woman in her eyes. But I know something is going on down there, right? So we talked about it. So my wife, when she was breastfeeding, it's a brand called Hide a hooter. It's actually. That's what. It's just something that a woman will drape over herself. And so we jokingly were like, we need to get some Aaron Watts and Hota Hooters at the merchandise booth.

[Bobby Bones]

Truth.

[Aaron Watson]

So I made a funny post about it. And my mom literally commented on my post, like, I don't like this. I don't think this is appropriate. And I was like, oh.

[Announcer]

I was like, mom.

[Aaron Watson]

I was like, mom, I'm just kidding. She goes, I just don't. She goes, I just don't think that's funny. She goes, I just don't like that. And she was like, I don't think. And I was like, fine. And whatever her mom control that she has over me, I just went up to the little three dots at the top and delete. And sorry.

[Amy]

You know how to hooter merch coming?

[Aaron Watson]

No. How to hooter merch is coming.

[Bobby Bones]

So the song is about your mom?

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, it's about leaning on her, you know. You know what, how did. It's, it's. It's kind of the same question you asked me earlier. Like, how long have you been married? Like, like, what's. How did you get through that? Or how have you gotten this far? Like, what's the secret? It's me leaning on my mom. Like, you know, and I think a lot about my. My granddad. My granddad was a great guy, but apparently he had a phase of his life where he was drinking, making a lot of bad decisions. And I think about my sweet grandmother that just somehow kept that family together. And I mean, I think without a doubt, you have to give credit to my grandmother for keeping that thing together. So it's. It's talking to mom about, like, what did dad do? How. How did you do it? How did y' all do it? And so that's just kind of a special thing when you can take a memory, a moment in your life and just kind of. It's like a. It's like a snapshot of that moment in a song. So that one's. It's also a song is fun to play live.

[Bobby Bones]

It also got added by a ton of radio stations. Your five year plan is working.

[Aaron Watson]

It's working.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Congratulations. We're gonna play it. We're gonna play.

[Aaron Watson]

Thank you, brother.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's good to see you. Horse Name Texas is out 26 songs. You proud of it? Say yes.

[Aaron Watson]

Say I'm. Say yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

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[Bobby Bones]

Don't say about a second thing you're writing now.

[Aaron Watson]

I think it's fair to say too, since we've talked a lot about my wife and how she's been putting up with me for a long time. I think it's. It's. We need to be honest that everyone needs to know that all the proceeds from The Horse Name Texas album. Go straight into her purse.

[Bobby Bones]

Into her. Why. Into the wife. The white foundation. Yes. That's good.

[Aaron Watson]

I get nothing.

[Bobby Bones]

That's good. I like that. Good to see you again, man.

[Aaron Watson]

Dude, it's great to see you guys. Proud of y'. All. And I love your new place. It's really cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks.

[Eddie]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. This is radio day one.

[Aaron Watson]

Radio day one.

[Bobby Bones]

I was confused for a minute. Yes. All downhill from Aaron Watson. Music is Instagram. Is that also your TikTok? I follow you on TikTok, so I don't know what it is.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, it's the same thing.

[Bobby Bones]

I told you this last time. Your tech talks are great.

[Aaron Watson]

Thanks, brother.

[Bobby Bones]

Even. Do you ever get annoyed when they don't hit and you think it's really funny and. Or do you even look back to see if they hit?

[Aaron Watson]

I think of it as I'm just throwing darts because I've posted stuff that I thought was stupid. Like. Like, I'll give you a quick example. I was holding this lady's baby at the rodeo in Vegas, and I'm holding this little boy, and his pacifier pops out of his mouth and goes down into this crevice. And I reached down to get the pacifier, and when I reached. When I. When I found it, there's literally a beer. A full beer next to it. So I pulled out a beer and a pacifier, and I was like, yes. And the mom videoed that. I was like, oh, that's kind of funny. So I posted it, and the thing had like. Like 30 million views. And I'm like, what? And then I'll post something good, and it's like 200 views, and I'm like, oh, that sucks. Anyways. And I just. I think about throwing darts. Maybe one will hit. I don't think much of it. I'm. But. But I want to be consistent with. I got some. I got some good ones coming up this next week, in the next five

[Amy]

years, working on them.

[Bobby Bones]

He's like, the ones I've got today are. Tickets aren't that good. Wait till you see the ones that are coming down in a few weeks.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Weeks.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Aaron Watson]

You know, but you do good, too, man. Hey, you're one yesterday.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Watson]

Popping. Look, it's popping, bro. Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm calloused at this point with. With negative feedback. It doesn't bother me anymore. I've just had so much of it. I've got to grow with it.

[Aaron Watson]

Do you know what I say to people? Like, if somebody says something awful to Me, I have two responses. It just shuts them down. Either I say, you're not wrong, or I'll say you're not my mom and I just post it on there. And it's just like you. You have. They have nowhere to go. If you agree with them, they have nowhere to go. That just stops them dead in your track. And then, like, just telling someone, you're not my mom just says it all. You're not my mom. You can't. Only my mom can make me take down a post and then say, listen

[Bobby Bones]

to Pontiac streaming now.

[Aaron Watson]

Listen to Pontiac streaming now.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys, check out the record. It is that. It's a horse named Texas. 26 songs, all written by Aaron, a lot by himself, with other co writers that are excellent, but all written by Aaron. And. Yeah, it's good to see you, man.

[Aaron Watson]

It's good to see you too, buddy.

[Bobby Bones]

Great, great appearance as always. And what also we talked a lot about now, but Aaron and I did, like, way over an hour a few months ago, just kind of like, about his life and how he came up. I encourage you to go check that out on the Bobbycast because I learned a lot about you as a person there. This here is very much like, hey, what's up now? What does Some funny stuff.

[Aaron Watson]

That was a lot of fun. Thanks again for having me.

[Bobby Bones]

And we did it nude, but people didn't know. Yeah. Because we really wanted to, like, get back to the core of humans.

[Aaron Watson]

Yeah, we wanted it. We wanted.

[Bobby Bones]

I had a bolo on, but other than that, we were good.

[Aaron Watson]

The bolo, that was a nice.

[Bobby Bones]

It was.

[Aaron Watson]

It kept me from getting distracted.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But I didn't wear it on my neck just for everybody. Yeah, yeah. No, no. I was like, yeah. It was the whole thing.

[Aaron Watson]

But the BOLO was just enough to let me relax.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And it was shaped like his head. It was a bolo of his head with the.

[Aaron Watson]

Dude, that's a great merch idea.

[Bobby Bones]

Your head bow with my face on it. People would buy that. People would literally buy that. I mean, only do a hundred and see how they sell.

[Amy]

Like an Aw, no, no, no.

[Bobby Bones]

Do his face with a cowboy hat.

[Amy]

Yeah, do it.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Sorry.

[Aaron Watson]

I agree.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that'd be awesome.

[Aaron Watson]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

All right. There he is, Aaron Watson. The album is out. Go listen to A Horse Named Texas. And the Horse Named Texas tour continues. And it continues all the way up until month 10, which is. Hold on a 9. September. I know that, like, terrible thing that happened to us, but it's how I remember 9. Same 10. October. October Aaron Watson. Clap your hand for Aaron Watson. Good job.

[Announcer]

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[Morgan]

it for me this week on Best Bits. Really sorry if I sound totally exhausted or like I'm losing my voice. I came home from the cruise just yesterday and I'm totally crashing out. Hopefully I make it to Monday.

[Aaron Watson]

I don't know.

[Morgan]

We'll see though. Thanks for being here. Thanks for listening to Best Bits. Catching up on the show. All the things again. If you want a whole lot of cruise content, check out part one, Part three this weekend and a lot of the part twos from the show this week all on the podcast. And if you don't want to listen to anything else and this is where I leave you, then bye everybody and have a wonderful and safe weekend.

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