Best 7 Segments From The Bobby Bones Show This Week

Summary

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

Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
Host: Bobby Bones + regular cast (Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, Morgan, Raymundo)
Episode: Best 7 Segments This Week
Date: March 14, 2026

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Overview

In this week’s Best Bits episode, the Bobby Bones Show team recaps the most memorable and entertaining moments from their recent shows. The highlights revolve around deeply relatable, funny, and sometimes personal stories from both the cast and their listeners, with a special segment featuring country artist JoDee Messina discussing new music, TikTok fame, and her career journey. The episode is engaging, with its signature mix of humor, heart, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the crew.

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Key Segments and Insights

1. What People Assume You’re Good At, But Actually Struggle With

Timestamp: [03:59] - [09:27]

• Promoted via Anonymous Inbox:
  Listener asks what people assume the cast is comfortable with but actually struggle with.

• Bobby:
  "The entertainment industry is a fickle industry…my number one fear is that I’m back and I’m poor again. That’s not a rational fear, but it’s my number one fear." ([04:08])

  • Struggles with turning his brain off, always feeling the need to be productive, fear of losing what he's built.

• Amy:
  Parenting insecurities, imposter feelings. "That’s one that constantly will find its way back up to the surface." ([06:21])

• Raymundo:
  Sensory overload despite being perceived as the "life of the party."
  "Big rooms. Vegas stresses me out…noises, a lot of people talking kind of stresses me out…I just hear white noise." ([07:06])

• Lunchbox:
  Claims not to struggle much, jokes about having to dig deep for an answer, mentions fashion uncertainty, which is a running joke with the group.

• Group Dynamic:
  Good-natured ribbing; honesty interwoven with humor.

• Memorable quote: Eddie teases, "How do you always turn it into a compliment about yourself?" ([06:49])

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2. The Cigar Bit – Cruise Memories and “Poser” Drama

Timestamp: [13:42] - [17:42]

• Lunchbox is annoyed with Eddie for constantly parading a Key West cigar—unlit—weeks after the trip.
• Raymundo labels both Eddie and Morgan as “posers” for using cigars as photo props without actually smoking them.
• Lighthearted banter about authenticity vs. just looking “cool” for social media.
• Morgan admits, "Can I be fair? I don’t think any of you guys actually participated in the cigars. I never saw one cigar being smoked." ([16:16])
• Lunchbox: "He had it backwards. He had the wrong end in his mouth!" ([16:40])
• Running gag: Ray’s wife had to keep “unsharpening” the cigar after he chewed it.

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3. Listener Favorites from the Cruise

Timestamp: [18:03] - [26:45]

• Several listeners call in to share memories from the Top Shelf Country Cruise, including Boozy Bingo, meeting show members, and unexpected experiences.
• Lisa: "That was the best vacation of my life…Boozy Bingo. Too funny, Morgan. They had to bring her a chair out because everybody just kept feeding her shots…" ([18:16])
• Michelle: Calls out Amy for leaving the cruise early. Emotional about connecting with the cast.
• Stephanie: Shares how she lost a bag, swam with dolphins, and describes the cruise as "fabulous. Mind-blowing." ([25:31])

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4. The “Return Worn Clothes” Ethical Debate

Timestamp: [31:25] - [34:56]

• Eddie admits wanting to return cruise clothes, including items worn once.
• Debate: Is it OK to return worn clothes?
  • Eddie: "To me, my integrity would not allow me if I’ve used something to take it back…" ([32:18])
  • Ray: "Would you teach your kids? Wear something, Take it back?" ([34:11])
  • Split between honesty, justification, and just ‘saving money’ mentality.

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5. Bobby Gets Certified in CPR (Life-Saving Skills)

Timestamp: [36:11] - [42:57]

• Bobby: Proudly announces getting certified in baby and adult CPR: "I got my certificate in CPR. …A couple months ago, we went and took a class on baby CPR and then we did adults while we were there. Why not do adult CPR?" ([36:11])
• Shares useful how-tos:
  • On babies: "You turn it over and give 5 boom, booms on the back…then you do two thumbs in the middle." ([37:49])
  • No more finger pushes—now two thumbs. Songs: For adults, compressions to “Staying Alive”; for babies, “9 to 5.” ([37:23], [37:33])
  • Emphasizes value of AED machines and their accessibility: "We bought a machine for the house…She said, keep it in your car so many times…" ([41:03])
• Insight: Really educational, gives listeners real-world, potentially lifesaving tips with humor.
• Quote: "Babies are built to make it. They’re built to survive." ([41:33])

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6. More Cruise Stories – Forgotten Bags, Casino Chips, Exhaustion

Timestamp: [47:20] - [55:48]

• Lunchbox & Morgan share stories about post-cruise mishaps: Morgan leaves her bag (with $5000 camera) on the ship while editing a TikTok, is rescued by a listener on Instagram and the ship’s Rick.
  • "She left her bag on the ship with the two most expensive things she has because she was so engrossed in that social media, man." ([50:59])
• Morgan forgets to cash out casino chips (worth $345).
  • "I forgot to cash them in…so I have boat chips." ([53:16])
• General exhaustion: Everyone’s wrecked after the cruise and time change, debating whether it’s from work or partying.

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7. In-depth Interview: JoDee Messina on New Music, Industry Pressures, and TikTok Fame

Timestamp: [60:48] - [100:57]
This is the episode's centerpiece and runs ~40 minutes.

Highlights:

• TikTok and Modern Fanbase:

  • Messina embraces TikTok, connects with new generations.
  • "Is it cool to be like TikTok famous? Cause you are…Your stuff goes viral all the time." – Eddie ([62:21])

• New Album, First in 10 Years:

  • Shares about her new single “Some Bridges” and upcoming album, the first time she's written nearly all songs herself.
  • "This is the first time I’ve ever been able to like, pour my entire guts into an album." ([87:36])

• Industry Challenges:

  • Reflects on being told by a Nashville label she was "too fat" to sign.
  • "I got turned down by a record label in Nashville. They said I was too fat. …If she was 10 pounds lighter we’d have signed her." ([71:15])
  • Songwriting as catharsis: "Whatever you do, don’t let them hide your beautiful."
  • On authenticity: "I can’t pretend to be something that I’m not." ([84:32])

• Contact with Fans:

  • Tells stories of people mailing music to her house, pest control guys giving demo CDs.
  • "The insect guy came over…Don’t forget, listen to my songs." ([92:12])

• Mental Wellness and Resilience:

  • Messina and the team discuss insecurity, perseverance, gratitude, and giving back to younger artists.
  • "There’s a part of your heart you don’t even know exists until that child comes." ([100:16])
  • Offers her number to rising star Carter Faith, wanting to be a safe haven for new artists navigating the industry. ([89:48])

• Memorable Show & Touring Stories:

  • Former marathon runner, relates endurance in marathons to persistence in the music business. ([69:06])
  • Confirms she never did Dancing With The Stars, but would do it if asked.

• Signature Quote:

  • "Don’t sell out who you are just to be successful." ([83:42])
  • "That joy that comes from within is not…happiness…It’s joy and perspective, too. Just grateful." ([98:58])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Bobby: "My number one fear is that I’m back and I’m poor again…"
• Amy: "Nobody knows what they're really doing" (on parenting)
• Lunchbox: "It is time for Morgan to grow up!" (re: cruise drama)
• JoDee Messina: "Don’t let them hide your beautiful."
• JoDee Messina, on TikTok: "I live in a bubble. So, like, I just post my little…do my little dance…"
• Bobby, on CPR: "Babies are built to make it. They’re built to survive."

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Timestamps for Highlighted Segments

• [03:59] – What People Assume You’re Good At (Anonymous Inbox)
• [13:42] – The Cigar Bit and ‘Poser’ Drama
• [18:03] – Listener Cruise Stories
• [31:25] – Returning Worn Cruise Clothes: Ethical Dilemma
• [36:11] – Bobby on Getting CPR Certified
• [47:20] – More Cruise Stories: Forgotten Bag & Casino Chips
• [60:48] – JoDee Messina Studio Interview

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Final Thoughts

This week’s episode combines the relatable, the ridiculous, and the heartfelt. Whether discussing industry anxiety, cruise mishaps, or TikTok reinventions, the cast’s chemistry is palpable. The JoDee Messina interview stands out as especially thoughtful, blending music history, vulnerability, and industry realities for both longtime fans and new listeners.

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[Morgan]

It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Part two, Just the bits.

[Bobby Bones]

What's up, everybody?

[Lunchbox]

And welcome to Best Bits Part Part two. You're here. You're trying to get caught up on the Bobby Bones show from this week, and I'm so happy that you've made it. If you do want to check out some more extra content, we've got part one, Part three. This weekend with Amy, Part one, we did a little recap of the cruise. Our thoughts, feelings, experiences, and part three, we always answer listener questions, so check those out. And if you just want to catch up on the show, let's get into it. A listener wrote into the show asking, what is something people assume you're great at that you actually struggle with? And you're going to hear Bobby, Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, all answer. Something that came to mind for me that's really funny is I feel like people would assume that I'm really good at directions or, you know, getting to places, but I actually have to put everything in my gps. I am very directionally challenged. Even if I've been there multiple times, sometimes I still have to put it in there. I go off of landmarks more than north, south, east, west. So that is a huge struggle with me. Now you're going to hear the rest of the shows.

[Morgan]

Number seven, it's the anonymous inbox.

[Eddie]

Anonymous inbox. There's a question to be had. Send it into the mailbag. Hello, Bobby Bones. What is something people assume that you're quite comfortable with, but you actually struggle with? Signed B teamer in Boston. I'm gonna ask you guys this question too. So to come back around, what is something people think I'm comfortable with? So number one is probably one. The entertainment industry is a fickle industry. And I feel like I've been spending 20 plus years building something that is pretty great, but that it could all be Taken away. And then I'm. Honestly, I've been through therapy so much that I'm back and I'm poor again. Like, that's my number one fear, is that I'm back and I'm back to where I started. And that's not a rational fear, but that's my number one fear. Like, survival mode always kicks in. It's like, man, there's some rough times. I'll be back there. So I struggle with that. I struggle with turning my brain off. So that's why I don't sleep a lot. But I also think that goes back to that first one too. That I have to always keep running, because if I don't run, it's going to eventually turn into failures, which turns into no job, which turns into being poor again. So me shutting my brain off is that one. And then always feeling like I need to be productive. Always, always. If there's any time down, there's no time down. I gotta figure out what to do in that time down in order to be productive. So that's probably the stuff that I struggle with the most. There's also like the new dad stuff. And I'm sure all that's gonna factor in, but that's probably what I deal with most internally even. It's so subconscious now, but it's still taxing on me. Amy, you.

[Amy]

Yeah, the parenting stuff that gets me for real. That'll sometimes, like, then you realize, like, nobody has it figured out. Nobody knows what they're really doing, but just that I'm capable and believing in myself. I feel like sometimes I'll get a handle on it. But similar to you, you have those ones that are so deep rooted that you know you've done the work, but it'll still rear its ugly head sometimes. And you're like, it's like whack a mole. And you're like, ugh, get down.

[Eddie]

Oh, get down. Not like James Brown. Get down. Get down. Yeah, get down. Mole.

[Amy]

No, get down. Lack. Like, you're just. That's one that constantly will find its way back up to the surface somehow. Even when I feel like I've done the work to push it down. But then that's great because when it does, I sort of know I can recognize it and have that awareness, but it still pops up even though I've worked on it.

[Raymundo]

Eddie, you guys may not know this about me, but I have sensory overload. So, like, big rooms. Vegas stresses me out, which is a weird thing because everyone's always like, man, you're so Much fun, whatever.

[Eddie]

How do you always turn into a compliment about yourself? What do you mean again? This feels like when Morgan was like, people tell me how much prettier in person.

[Raymundo]

No, people are like, always like, ah, life of the party.

[Eddie]

You're so fun.

[Raymundo]

Life of the party. Which I do act like that when I'm in Vegas in big rooms or whatever.

[Eddie]

But Stray Morgan is.

[Bobby Bones]

Alright, alright, go ahead.

[Raymundo]

But in reality, I'm stressing out deep inside because noises, a lot of people talking kind of stresses me out because I just hear white noise. Almost like when a television is just like going. It's kind of crazy.

[Ray]

Lunchbox man, I don't struggle with a lot. So this is. I'm just digging deep here, I guess. Fashion, you know, when we have a big event, you know what I mean? I show up and I look good, but I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to wear. But I still knock it out of the park. But I do struggle with that.

[Eddie]

But I think the question was, people think you're. You don't struggle with it, but we

[Raymundo]

know you struggle with that.

[Ray]

Oh, you do know. I figure when you put pictures on Instagram where it's like, man, Lunchbox got his fashion game together.

[Eddie]

No, I think whenever you wear something good, people freak out because they're like, who is this guy?

[Ray]

Yeah. Okay.

[Eddie]

Otherwise you're good.

[Ray]

Yeah, besides that, I'm good, man. I don't really struggle. You know what I mean?

[Amy]

Eddie's reminded me of one that's like, not as serious, but it is a thing. Like, I. I don't like overhead lights. Like, I don't like lights on. Like at home, I keep everything dim and I. I don't really realize it unless, like, other people are at my house or other people bring it up and they want to turn the lights off and I instantly go over and bring them down. Like the. It's over. Stimulating. There's something weird about it. I'm not saying people think, oh, that's so weird. You're so fun.

[Eddie]

You're. No, you're known as being the light person, which is what's weird. Love some lights.

[Amy]

No.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

This is hard.

[Raymundo]

It is hard. That's why I was being vulnerable with you guys, man.

[Eddie]

But you threw in because everybody thinks I'm awesome.

[Morgan]

They.

[Ray]

They expect that I'm loving this.

[Raymundo]

That's what they think I am.

[Amy]

Can I say another one without you thinking that I'm giving myself a compliment?

[Eddie]

Probably not. We give it a chance.

[Ray]

Oh, great. Here we Go.

[Eddie]

There we go.

[Amy]

Well, because lunchboxes also remind me of like fat fashion or dressing. I. Oh, good.

[Eddie]

I just, just go.

[Amy]

Some people might think that that comes or if they see outfits or something, like, especially how well dressed you are. Like that. Like, I might be good at that. But I don't. Like, I'm so uncomfortable. I freak out. I text like, Caitlin. I have to get like five friends opinions before buying anything. You know, like it's not. I'm not that confident in that area at all. Like, if you see me in a cute outfit, I probably did not pick it out.

[Raymundo]

Even though you think she looks good,

[Eddie]

even though everybody's like, Amy's so hot all the time. No, we got you.

[Raymundo]

This question was a trap, man.

[Ray]

It is.

[Amy]

It's a trap.

[Eddie]

We got you. Thank you for that. Close it up.

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[Lunchbox]

really annoyed with Eddie. And then somehow it turned into Raymondo's annoyed with me. And it all has to do with with some dang cigars that came out of Key West.

[Morgan]

Number six.

[Eddie]

Lunchbox is so annoyed by Eddie because of a cigar. I guess the one that he got from Key West.

[Ray]

Yeah, Key West. I mean, he walked around Key west with it in his mouth the whole time, never lit it. Okay, Funny. It was funny for a day. Then he brings it back on the cruise ship. Is walking around the cruise ship with it in his mouth, never smoking it. Kind of funny, but it's starting to get annoying. Then he's walking around the office at work with the cigar in his mouth still, and it's like, dude, that was two weeks ago. Put it away.

[Eddie]

You're just joking now, right?

[Raymundo]

I mean, it's kind of a power move.

[Eddie]

You really shouldn't be walking on the office of the cigar.

[Ray]

What are we doing?

[Raymundo]

It's not lit.

[Amy]

It's got to be germy at this point.

[Raymundo]

Germy?

[Amy]

Yeah, like you've been sucking on it

[Raymundo]

for a week, and it's weird. Like, if you smell it, it still smells fresh. And the weird thing is, when I. When I do sniff it, it takes me to Key West.

[Ray]

So we can just walk around the office with cigars and cigarettes in our mouth now?

[Amy]

No, it's not lit.

[Eddie]

It doesn't matter. You still shouldn't really. It's like walking around with a beer in your hand, not open. Yeah, like, there are just some things that are appropriate for the office for one bit. That was funny. I didn't see it, but it's funny. You got it. No more. Okay.

[Raymundo]

I mean, I still have it.

[Ray]

No, we saw you.

[Eddie]

You're walking over the bottle of whiskey. Amy. Everywhere you went and it was still on the top, you'd be like, okay, it's a funny bit, but enough. But Eddie's trying to, like, look cool.

[Raymundo]

It does look kind of cool.

[Eddie]

I don't think it looks cool.

[Raymundo]

Like, people like, I see walk in the studio, in the office, and they look at me like, that guy makes decisions.

[Eddie]

No, they're looking. I'm like, why does that guy have a cigar and stuff in a office building?

[Ray]

What is going on?

[Eddie]

Do you still have it with you?

[Raymundo]

Yeah, yeah, it's in the refrigerator.

[Amy]

Wait, why is it.

[Eddie]

Why is it in the refrigerator?

[Raymundo]

Because I read that if you put, like, tobacco in the refrigerator, it stays

[Eddie]

fresh in the green room, though. Take it home.

[Ray]

Don't they make the green room with all the snacks for the artists, guys?

[Eddie]

Ew. So it smells it up.

[Ray]

No.

[Raymundo]

No, it doesn't. It's not lit.

[Lunchbox]

What's it called?

[Amy]

A humidor. You need one of those?

[Raymundo]

Humidor would be nice.

[Eddie]

We'd get one for the office, just for Eddie's one.

[Morgan]

Who?

[Eddie]

Someone else was annoyed with Morgan about this, too.

[Raymundo]

She had cigars, too.

[Eddie]

She went to the cigar place and took pictures. Is it Ray Was it you? Yeah. So, like, Eddie being a poser, not smoking it. Morgan, we go to this cigar shop, and she had nothing to do with the cigars. She thought they were gross. She did her own thing. And then towards the very end of Key west, she goes, oh, I'm gonna take a picture next to this cigar painting and fake like, I'm smoking a cigarette and a cigar. Well, the problem with that is that's being such a poser. It's just she didn't at all participate in the cigars until the Instagram picture. But can I be fair? I don't think any of you guys actually participate in the cigars. I never saw one cigar being smoked.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, yeah, we didn't. We didn't light them.

[Amy]

Yeah, because Ray also walked around chewing on his.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, and they also took pictures in there, by the way.

[Eddie]

It's like people who take pictures of them holding guns and never shot a gun. That's kind of what it was. Like, look how, like, how manly I am. And it's like, dude, you can't even, you know, load or unload that thing.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ray]

So I can't believe Ray called Morgan a poser, because Ray was doing the same thing. And here's how. Here's how bad Ray was. He had it backwards. He was. He had the wrong end in his mouth that.

[Eddie]

Like in a movie when someone's like, they get a bazooka, and they're like, I'm ready, and it shoots out the bag.

[Lunchbox]

And he kept sucking on it so much that he made it really sharp, and his wife had to keep taking it from him and unsharpening it because she was worried what he was going

[Eddie]

to do with it.

[Lunchbox]

Like, so wait, wait, what?

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm. I don't want to know, dude.

[Eddie]

So, no. You guys went to a cigar shop? Yeah, man. You bought a few?

[Raymundo]

Yeah, I bought two.

[Eddie]

How much do they cost?

[Raymundo]

20 bucks each.

[Eddie]

And then it was just to look cool.

[Raymundo]

I mean, I think I wanted a lot because I bought a lighter, but I just never lit it. And then I'm like, why light? At this point? It's just part of, like, who I am now.

[Eddie]

It is not who you are. Okay, so here are the rules. Eddie, take cigars home.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Raymundo. Hilarious. Yeah. Morgan, they need to get over it.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you.

[Eddie]

It's just a picture.

[Lunchbox]

I liked my picture.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they need to get over it.

[Morgan]

It's the best bits of the week. With Morgan, number two, getting back from

[Lunchbox]

the cruise, a lot of listeners shared their favorite moments we had some people leave voicemails, some people write online, and even some live callers. So here's all the listeners getting to share their favorite moments from our top shelf country cruise number five.

[Eddie]

A lot of people went on the cruise with our show. We're so grateful we're doing it again next year. Topshelfcountrycruise.com Next year, we'll be able to stay longer for sure. We have Lisa, who's on the phone now in Florida. Hey, Lisa, you're on the show. Good morning.

[Listener/Caller]

I'd like to say that that was the best vacation of my life. And that was. I've been on a lot of cruises, been on a lot of vacations, and it was right up there. We had a spectacular, especially at Boozy Bingo. All the shows Morgan and Lunchbox both hosted. Boozy Bingo. Too funny, Morgan. They had to bring her a chair out because everybody just kept feeding her shots and chug, chug, chug. And we were there with another couple. And my girlfriend actually won the jackpot. The $2900. The last game of bingo. That was cool. A bingo. Yeah. My girlfriend sue, and then Morgan was supposed to meet us for shots at the casino after sue was treating, but nobody could find Morgan. Lunchbox texting her, calling her. We think she passed out in the cabin. We don't know.

[Eddie]

Yeah, probable Morgan.

[Lunchbox]

I was upstairs in the cafeteria eating french fries with chocolate. There's. There's some video proof of that. So that's where I was. That's why nobody could find me.

[Eddie]

Were you trying.

[Listener/Caller]

Not French fries also?

[Eddie]

Were you trying not to be found, or were you unable to find yourself at that point?

[Lunchbox]

I was unable to find myself at that point. So I did have a handler with me, making sure I was eating and stuff because everybody was feeding me a whole lot of shots.

[Eddie]

Did you guys find that when on a cruise, the alcohol did hit different, like, because of the sea, because of the waves, or is it just you drink, drink more like that was Amy's thing on night one.

[Ray]

I think you just drink more.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Ray]

Because you don't realize what time it is. You're going. It's just like a fun atmosphere. And you're like, oh, you walk by a bar. That bar looks cool. Let me try that one. Oh, that has an ice, like, bar.

[Amy]

Oh, the ice bar was.

[Ray]

That was so cool.

[Amy]

Very neat.

[Ray]

Like, it keeps your drink cold and it feels cool. Oh, let me sit there for a while. Then you have two drinks. You're like, let me walk over here. You're just on. There's no clocks. It's amazing.

[Amy]

Yeah, you're right. There's no clocks. We made it places on time. I mean, obviously we have our phones,

[Eddie]

but there's a clock in your pocket.

[Amy]

I know.

[Eddie]

Like, you weren't allowed to see the time. Like they were keeping it from you. Like you're in Guantanamo.

[Amy]

Yeah, true. I don't know.

[Raymundo]

It makes for a really good excuse, though. Like when you're drunk, like, oh, it must be the water, for sure.

[Amy]

I don't know. It's something.

[Eddie]

Lisa, any chance you come back next year?

[Listener/Caller]

Oh, yes, absolutely. Absolutely. I just want to, you know, see, I would like to go to different places, but it's kind of like the same place. But they did throw Cozumel in there.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I think we start in a different place. Tampa.

[Ray]

Yep.

[Eddie]

Which is easier for us.

[Raymundo]

It's a good start.

[Amy]

Oh, as opposed to Fort Lauderdale.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And then we go to Cozumel, which I've never been to Mexico.

[Amy]

Oh, well. So this is a different route.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Bimini first, then Key west, then Cozumel.

[Eddie]

No, no, no.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

We ended Cozumel this time.

[Eddie]

Oh, is that what it is? I have no idea. I don't know. I went to key. I went to Key west in Fort Lauderdale.

[Morgan]

You did?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah. All right, Lisa, if you decide you need a change up for next year and you don't want to come, that's still awesome. But we would love to have you back, and I'm glad you had a good time. Thank you for calling and sharing.

[Listener/Caller]

Thank you. Have a good day.

[Eddie]

All right, see you later.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Eddie]

Let's go over and talk to Michelle in Minnesota. Michelle, you're on the show.

[Listener/Caller]

Hey, morning, studio.

[Morgan]

Morning.

[Listener/Caller]

I just had to say I had a phenomenal time on the cruise with you guys. Eddie, I was the one that had the Cowboys jersey on at the wine tasting and was supporting you and Lunchbox and Morgan. You guys were awesome. I got to run into you on your way to dinner and you still stopped and took pictures and talked to my husband, who doesn't even like country music. But he still went on the cruise with me and got to meet everybody in the studio, including Bobby, except Amy. Cuz you left early and I was so disappointed.

[Eddie]

Amy left early. What a loser. Loser.

[Amy]

I'm sad I didn't get to meet you either. However, I. I left with Eddie.

[Eddie]

All of us are here. Don't throw me in the mention anything about Michelle. Probably stayed after the show. I stayed after I met everybody. Right, Michelle?

[Listener/Caller]

Yes. I Met you after the show. I hung out after the wine tasting to meet Eddie again. And actually, I did run into Amy at the spa cafe. I think the morning you were leaving, you had on, like, black leggings and a black hat and top, and you weren't looking very well. I didn't want to go over and interrupt you.

[Amy]

Well, I wish you would have. I wish you would have come to say hi, but, yes, that was when I was. That was the morning I was leaving with Eddie. Eddie and I were leaving together.

[Eddie]

Amy didn't leave his.

[Amy]

Yeah, that was a. It was probably just before I got sick, but I wish you would have. You can always wait.

[Eddie]

You got sick?

[Amy]

Yeah, I did. Twex doesn't even know.

[Raymundo]

Called hungover.

[Eddie]

No. Yeah, she got. She was hungover, not sick. From the boat.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah, a little bit.

[Ray]

Like, she.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. At the airport.

[Ray]

Oh, no, no.

[Eddie]

She did blame it a little on being car sick, though.

[Amy]

Well, that enhanced it.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

It's another good excuse.

[Ray]

But I don't know.

[Eddie]

As someone who gets car sick, I'm never going to judge somebody.

[Amy]

Eddie, even. You know that car ride was sketch.

[Raymundo]

Yep.

[Eddie]

Sketch or fast? You guys said two different terms.

[Morgan]

Fast.

[Eddie]

Michelle, thank you for calling. Thank you for coming. We're so happy you had a good time.

[Listener/Caller]

Thank you guys for putting it on. It was great fun.

[Eddie]

Did you go to show one or two of Eddie and I?

[Listener/Caller]

Two.

[Eddie]

Okay. Thank God.

[Amy]

Why?

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Amy]

Cause show one, there was disruption.

[Eddie]

Yeah, there was. Yeah.

[Ray]

Oh, I met that lady.

[Eddie]

The one that disrupted show one.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Ray]

Yes. You know what it is? She said, lychee martinis. No, no, not lychee martinis. Lavender martini. She was like, I had never had one, and I had one, and I was like, this is delicious. And she goes. So I was just sitting at the martini bar, and I had, like, three of them, and it was like 30 minutes before the show, and I was like, uh, oh, I'm in trouble. She goes, But I tried to power through the show, and I just.

[Eddie]

She powered through the show.

[Ray]

She did. And she goes. So I just. She goes. When I get drunk, I get kind of giggly. And she goes. And I thought I was gonna be able to hold it together. And she goes. And I didn't hold it together.

[Eddie]

She did not, but. Not hold it together.

[Ray]

Yeah, we met her. She was really nice.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. Well, I met her, too.

[Ray]

And I met her husband. He didn't know who we were, but he was just smoking a cigar on the deck and just hanging out.

[Eddie]

There were a Lot of husbands who didn't know who we were, who came with their wives.

[Raymundo]

That was my favorite. Like, every time I'd meet them, I'm just like, man, I'm gonna make sure you have a good time.

[Eddie]

Most of them were like, oh, this is much more fun than I thought.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah. A couple were like, I still don't get it, but only a couple. But their wives were happy, so that's all that mattered. Michelle, thank you for the call.

[Listener/Caller]

You bet.

[Eddie]

Thank you. Bye.

[Amy]

Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

Bye.

[Eddie]

Let's go. One more. Stephanie. Stephanie, Airport on my on way home. Stephanie, are you at the airport now?

[Listener/Caller]

Yes, I'm at the airport now.

[Eddie]

Going home now from the cruise?

[Listener/Caller]

Yes. Yes. Good morning, studio.

[Eddie]

You gotta help us understand what's happening here.

[Listener/Caller]

Okay. Okay. So I came a couple days early to get on the cruise and then went on the cruise and then stayed a couple of days because I went swimming with dolphins.

[Eddie]

Oh, you stayed after, like, Fort Lauderdale, Miami?

[Listener/Caller]

Yes. This was my birthday celebration. I just turned 50 on the 10th of February.

[Eddie]

Oh, happy birthday. That's crazy, because I feel like after a cruise I'd be like, I'm tired. And you stayed and kept going. How was one with the dolphins?

[Listener/Caller]

Oh, my gosh, it was amazing.

[Eddie]

That's cool. How'd you enjoy the cruise?

[Listener/Caller]

It was really awesome. Oh, it was. It was fabulous. Mind blowing. I mean, I got to meet so many people. It was just crazy. I met Amy in the hallway. Morgan. And I got a selfie. I met Ray and his mom. Bobby, you and I.

[Eddie]

Hold on, hold on. Do you mean Ray and his wife?

[Listener/Caller]

Okay, so. Well, Ray said it was his mom. I don't think it was mom, but she was some lady that was with him.

[Raymundo]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Ray was lying about something. Got it, got it.

[Listener/Caller]

I'm pretty sure she was. Yeah. I don't know who she was, but

[Eddie]

anyway,

[Listener/Caller]

I got a selfie with Cooper Allen. I got front row with Keith, and then I got a selfie with Scotty. It was just. It was so awesome. Like, best birthday ever.

[Eddie]

Well, that's super fun. And I'm glad you stayed and get swim with dolphins. That's awesome. I appreciate you calling. Hope you have a safe trip home. Where's home?

[Listener/Caller]

Wichita, Kansas.

[Eddie]

Shout out. Wichita, Kansas. Yeah. A lot of love. Okay, Stephanie.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Have a safe trip. Thank you. I know you have a connector because ain't nothing going straight to Wichita. You know what I'm saying, Morgan?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

It is not.

[Listener/Caller]

No, I have to. I have to go to Chicago, so. Yay.

[Eddie]

Thank you. Hope you Have a great trip and thank you and hopefully we'll see you again soon. Okay?

[Listener/Caller]

Yes. Thank you so much. You guys have a great day.

[Eddie]

Bye. Bye. And you guys can sign up topshelfcountrycruise.com so we're gonna go. Thank you everybody for being here today. And I don't know, man, it's a good show. If you missed any of the show, go listen to today's podcast. Just go search for the Bobby Bone show wherever you get your podcast.

[Morgan]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Hello. Hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Ambetta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing at IBM Research. What we always do is answer, what is the future of computing? Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together? It's our DNA. To answer the question of what is the future? Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff, Destiny building actual physical machines.

[Ray]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

It's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature, right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point? With Quantum, by 2029, we'll build the first fault tolerant Quantum computer that is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com quantum@cvs.

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[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

So Brian, why do you care?

[Eddie]

I care because I don't want to leave anybody behind. I oversee one of the biggest resource center in UnitedHealthcare. I see people walking in my office every day. Just like my parents. They have no idea about the healthcare. I feel like they are my uncles, aunties. I treated people like family. I'm Brian and I'm committed to care.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

And speaking of the cruise, everybody bought different outfits to bring on so we could all look our best, including Eddie, who also now wants to return some things that he bought specifically for the cruise. So this might bring up a ethical dilemma number four.

[Eddie]

Let's jump back into this topic. Eddie bought some stuff for the cruise, some he wore, some he didn't. But he wants to take it all back.

[Amy]

Like some of the stuff he didn't wear.

[Eddie]

Yeah, some shirts wasn't some stuff he did wear.

[Raymundo]

Oh, I wore a couple. So there's a total of three shirts. I wore three, two of them, and I did not wear one of them. So one of them still has a tag and the stickers and everything. So I don't feel bad about that one. Obviously, I can Return that one. But the. I mean, why not just return. I'm not gonna wear. These are like Hawaiian cruise wear. I'm not gonna wear that again.

[Amy]

You're like, Mr. I love the beach guy, you'll wear them again.

[Raymundo]

Correct. But these were a little big on me, you know, So I didn't really. They were a little too fluffy. I really didn't like it. So I'm thinking I'm turn them all back.

[Eddie]

If you wore it, you can't take

[Raymundo]

it back, Dude, I wore it once on the boat.

[Ray]

Yeah. It's not like he was sweating and, you know, wearing it once.

[Amy]

It's in your arms.

[Eddie]

Ew.

[Raymundo]

So you can never. You guys never take any clothes back

[Amy]

if we've worn it.

[Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

To me, like, my integrity would not allow me if I've used something to take it back, because I used it. I paid for it. I used it. I wouldn't take it back. I may give it away to somebody, but I wouldn't take it if I didn't wear it Had a tag on it. Take it back.

[Raymundo]

What have you, like, bought a shirt. You wear it out, and everyone's like, oh, that shirt's ugly, dude. That doesn't fit. Good on you. Like, no, that. That's not a good shirt. I think that you have the right to go back and be like, I don't want it. I'm not satisfied with this shirt.

[Amy]

I wore this, and I got no compliments. People said it was ugly. I mean, I guess you could be honest with the store, and they might be like, okay, we'll take it back.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy]

What do you think?

[Eddie]

Okay. I think there's a difference on will they take it back versus should you?

[Amy]

Yes. I think that if you want to take back the one with the tags and then take the other ones and say, hey, full disclosure. I wore these, but they're a little big. I'm, like, not totally satisfied. Then they may give you, and they might be like, well, you wore it. Sorry, our policies. We can't. Or they might take it back.

[Ray]

I wouldn't go honest route. I'd just be like, I know.

[Eddie]

Hey. He wouldn't chase the honest route.

[Ray]

I would go more like, I tried this on. I took the tags off, and then I was looking at it and didn't really fit.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Morgan]

Boom.

[Raymundo]

Don't say I wore it out.

[Eddie]

So not even. Don't go. Honest lie.

[Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I mean, it's like, I wore Shang didn't fit right. It's a lie.

[Ray]

I wore shoes to a wedding, and I Cleaned them and took them back, and they were like, oh, did you wear these? And they looked at the bottom and they could tell I wore them. I was like, yeah, but they just didn't fit right. They gave my money back.

[Eddie]

But I think you'll get it back. Are you okay with yourself if you do that?

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Because if you are, like, what would

[Amy]

you teach your kids to do?

[Raymundo]

Well, my kids don't have to know about this.

[Amy]

But what I'm saying, what if they came to you and said, dad, hey, what would you teach them to do?

[Raymundo]

Guys, that's tough. Why are you putting that on me?

[Eddie]

Do you believe as a parent, though, there are some things you can do that your kids never need to know?

[Raymundo]

Absolutely.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Raymundo]

For sure. Don't need to talk about that.

[Amy]

Yeah, but that's an easy way to check yourself of, like, okay, what example do I want to be for my kids? Like, lunchbox is probably, like, no problem. I teach my kids to do this. But I don't think you would.

[Morgan]

Why?

[Ray]

What is wrong with.

[Eddie]

Would you teach your kids? Wear something, Take it back, Like, Yes. Okay. Do you. Would you teach yours if it doesn't fit right? That's not the thing. It does fit right. It was a little big. No, no, no, that's not the same. No.

[Raymundo]

Like, it said large, but it was really big.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

What? You could. They'll probably take it all back, but if it were me, I would take the one with the tag back and I wore the other ones. Because you could have tried it on with the tag and you chose not to do that.

[Raymundo]

I didn't.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

I just grabbed it off the rack. Yeah.

[Eddie]

You just update us on what you do and just know.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's on you.

[Eddie]

Just know. Jesus knows.

[Raymundo]

You got it.

[Eddie]

Okay. Because everybody else, we may not know.

[Raymundo]

That's a tough decision, guys.

[Amy]

Is it, though?

[Raymundo]

It is.

[Ray]

It is.

[Raymundo]

Because I'm saving, like, so much money.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. Where did you shop?

[Raymundo]

It's Target.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Did you go to Gucci?

[Raymundo]

No, it's Target. But these clothes add up.

[Eddie]

If you're still hurting from daylight savings time. Some quick things here. Think of daylight savings time as jet lag. It's not losing sleep.

[Morgan]

It's.

[Eddie]

But it's. I don't know. That one's stupid, because I don't think enough people fly with jet lag. Give your body a few days to catch up. Okay. We're doing that. We have no choice.

[Ray]

Yeah. We can't.

[Eddie]

That's nothing we can even do.

[Amy]

Is one of them talk Positively to yourself about it.

[Eddie]

Didn't make it. No. Make sure you get outside, preferably in the sunshine, to help combat some of the effects of time change. Like foggy thinking, feeling moody, and of course, being tired. Getting some exercise and going to bed earlier for a week can help. Sleep if you can, and pay attention to what you eat. This is just normal stuff.

[Amy]

Yeah. Let me tell you what I've been doing, okay? I'm saying my body is handling this time change with ease.

[Eddie]

Oh, you're just saying stuff.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Like I.

[Amy]

This. I feel great. My body isn't impacted by this at all. It's crazy. Like, I just talk to myself like that.

[Raymundo]

Does that work?

[Eddie]

So far, so nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

Number two, Bobby got certified in something that is totally life saving. And now he can just save all of our lives. That's basically what he's prepared for.

[Eddie]

Now. Number three, I got my certificate in cpr. Yeah, we did. A couple months ago. Thank you. I'll clap for me. So a couple months ago, we went and took a class on baby cpr and then we did adults while we were there. Why not do adult cpr?

[Raymundo]

Already there.

[Eddie]

We did the shockers.

[Raymundo]

Oh, you did?

[Eddie]

AED learned about that and how to do it on adults and babies. So I'm certified now. I don't know what to do. Like, I don't think I can teach it. Can I teach CBR now?

[Raymundo]

No, you can't.

[Eddie]

Then why would I Certified. Then you can even use it.

[Amy]

It's like if you wanted to babysit, it'll come in handy.

[Eddie]

I think about that. Yes. I can get on Craig. No.

[Amy]

What's care.com?

[Raymundo]

what's the list for babysitters?

[Eddie]

Angie's list. I get on Angie's list now and be a babysitter.

[Raymundo]

But if any of us, like, need it, you can.

[Eddie]

But I don't need to show you the card while you're unconscious.

[Raymundo]

No, you're right.

[Eddie]

It's okay, guys. I got the card.

[Amy]

No, but I mean, you know, certain gig you have coming up, like, just add it to your resume.

[Eddie]

Hmm. I am now certified in cpr. So we did all that. We did. You know what? Babies mostly need to be turned over and hit on the back and something. They're choking.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, that's when they're choking. But if their heart stops, you need to do the little finger push, okay?

[Eddie]

Not anymore. They've changed that.

[Raymundo]

Come on, tell me for those that

[Eddie]

are wondering about baby CPR in The last few months, there are no. It's no fingers. It was like that for 20 years. It's now two thumbs. Oh, and two thumbs. And it's faster because you do adults to stay in alive at that pace. You do babies with two thumbs to what song? To nine to five. It's a little faster because baby's heart's beating. Working nine to five. What a way to make a living. That's a little too fast.

[Amy]

It's like double speed.

[Eddie]

But that's what's up. If a baby's choking, you turn it over and you give it five boom, boom, boom's on the back. And then you turn it over and you do two thumbs in the middle. And the thing about CPR that I realized, too, is you have to let it totally, like, reconcile what it was like. If you push down and you just come up a little bit, you can't go, like, push. Look, you got to push down. Let it come all the way up. Okay, Push, push, push, push, push. And then did adult. And then you look down and see if the chest. It's a whole thing. We did it.

[Raymundo]

And the adult thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you.

[Raymundo]

Is there no more? There's no more mouth to mouth, Right.

[Eddie]

So they don't recommend mouth to mouth because so many people do it wrong. Oh, with the baby, mouth to mouth, you have to do over the nose and the mouth.

[Raymundo]

Oh, you cover the whole thing?

[Eddie]

Yeah, over the whole thing. I guess if it's a really, really small baby, you just put the whole head in your mouth. No, they don't really recommend that. They recommend going. When you call 911, you tell someone. You tell someone specifically. You don't say, can someone call 911? You go, you, blue shirt, call 9-1-1. And then you keep going until someone gets there. And then we did the whole two pumps. With a baby, if you do pumps with your hand, you just do one hand locked with a human. With an adult, it's two. I did the whole thing.

[Raymundo]

And then what are the numbers on the pumps?

[Eddie]

Like, say adults?

[Raymundo]

What are the. What's the number? Like 10. Break.

[Eddie]

No, adult. You don't stop.

[Raymundo]

You just keep going.

[Eddie]

You keep going until somebody gets there. I'm certified. So I feel like with a baby, before you go to the mouth, it's 30. Then two. Two puffs.

[Raymundo]

Gosh, that's such good information, man.

[Eddie]

Thumbs up. Thumbs.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Eddie]

On choke, if a baby's choking and conscious, you don't go with your finger to pull it out.

[Raymundo]

Right. That was the old days.

[Eddie]

You turn it over and you. You go back five times.

[Amy]

What's the song?

[Eddie]

I don't know. Let's pick one.

[Raymundo]

Now there's no song.

[Eddie]

Well, I'm not about to. Girl I Love. And I'm like, forgive you. Try that one. No, not that one.

[Amy]

No songs.

[Bobby Bones]

Just.

[Amy]

Just bangs.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And if conscious, but then you do the thumbs.

[Raymundo]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Up front. If there's no. There is a point where you can go in and try to get it if they're unconscious.

[Raymundo]

Now, did you. You use the AED machine, right?

[Eddie]

Yes. On a baby. You put one on the front, one on the back. Yeah.

[Raymundo]

And did the machine tell you.

[Eddie]

It tells you everything. What to do.

[Morgan]

Boom.

[Eddie]

The machine tells you everything. So you turn it on. It's like, how's your day? And I'm like, well, not great. I'm using you. Okay, good to know. And then it says, back away. On the adult, you do one, and it tells you. Just so everybody knows, I have to grab one of these. You put one. It tells you. On the chest, basically. Upper chest, and one on the side, like, where the ribs are. Yeah. And then you don't have to yell clear, because I thought that was, like, the key word, like, clear.

[Raymundo]

No, no, it does even. What's so cool about that is it even tells you if the person doesn't need it, like.

[Amy]

Yeah, you put it on, and they're like, yeah, you're good.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

It never said, yeah, you're good. But it'll say something like detecting heart irregulation or something. Yes.

[Raymundo]

You can remove pads or whatever.

[Eddie]

We bought a machine for the house. Yeah. That's awesome. Because she was also like, you have a pool and there are people here. And she's like, you don't have to, but you're gonna have a baby. She said, keep in your car so many times. Like athletic events, kids. It's like just having your car. And we were like, all right, we'll take one.

[Raymundo]

That's such a good idea.

[Eddie]

So we have. Well, we don't have it yet, but that. I did that a couple months ago.

[Raymundo]

How much does one of those run?

[Eddie]

Eleven hundred bucks. Okay.

[Raymundo]

That's worth it. You can save up to get something like that. It's worth it. I mean, you don't want to be without.

[Eddie]

Whisper that to me. You think some listeners maybe kind of wanted to hide it from some.

[Amy]

Felt like. Like, should I be asking this?

[Raymundo]

Yeah. I thought it was going to be really expensive.

[Amy]

Well, that is, you know.

[Raymundo]

No, but I thought it was going to be like, yeah, 2 million. Oh.

[Amy]

They're like, you don't have to have any. Just keep it in your car.

[Eddie]

Holy crap. So, yeah, I'm pretty proud of that. We went through all the classes. That's cool. Babies are built to make it. They're built to survive.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And I was, what?

[Amy]

I know where you got that from.

[Eddie]

Well, the ribs are full cartilage.

[Amy]

Oh, I thought you got that from Paradise.

[Eddie]

Oh, that did happen on paradise too. You're right.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That's where I was like, dang. Babies are resilient.

[Raymundo]

That's not a spoiler, is it?

[Amy]

Nope. No, not at all. Trust me. I thought about it three times before it came out of my mouth.

[Eddie]

Babies rib cages are full cartilage, and they're like, go give it to business. And they're also saying, because we were practicing on the adult dummy, because you have to push hard, and the thing has, like, sensors. Like, if you do it right, it gives you two green lights. And so I was getting two green lights, but I was like, I feel like I'm pushing hard. Like, I might break a sternum. She's like, here's the thing. You break a sternum, they're alive. You don't break a sternum, they're possibly dead.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So it's okay. So if you do a broken sternum for a live person is okay. And that may not be, like, by the rule book, but I remember them telling me that my fear was, what if I break someone's ribs? They're like, okay, but if you break their ribs and they're still alive, I think they'll get over it. They'll be happy with it.

[Raymundo]

It's worth saving their life.

[Eddie]

So took the class. Anybody need saving real quick?

[Raymundo]

Not yet, man.

[Amy]

Not yet.

[Eddie]

Okay, so what I want to do is I got a bunch of Cheerios for everybody. I want everybody to start eating. I just want to test something out. So eat these Cheerios, and maybe we'll check in later on the show, see how everybody's doing. Okay.

[Amy]

Employee of the year.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Morgan]

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

[Amy]

Hello.

[Morgan]

I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast smart talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvind Krishna, and I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? My one advice to them, Pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example, if anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago, they're already five years behind it. If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software 30% more productive today with the goal of being 70% more productive. Yeah. So we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say you can leverage what we did. We are happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change in the process. Because the biggest change is not technology, is getting people to accept that there's a different way to do things. To listen to the full conversation, visit IBM.com smarttalks.

[CVS Announcer]

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[Eddie]

I'm Spencer and I work at UnitedHealthcare.

[CVS Announcer]

So Spencer, why do you care?

[Raymundo]

I care because my daughter Adeline has special needs. I am motivated by Adeline, who inspires me every day.

[Eddie]

I am driven to help families like mine navigate the healthcare system. I'm so blessed to lead an amazing

[Raymundo]

team at UnitedHealthcare, focusing on the member experience and making that better.

[Eddie]

I'm Spencer and I'm committed to care.

[Bobby Bones]

One sweet, melty bite of a Hershey's bar and suddenly I'm right back, sitting on the front porch with my grandmother on a slow summer afternoon. She doesn't say much, just breaks the bar in half and hands me a piece. I open my mouth to say whatever a 9 year old wants to say and she replies with a low listen. So we sat there listening. That was the first time I learned that quiet can feel full. Hershey's it's your happy place.

[Karissa Thompson]

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[Lunchbox]

stories from the ship. Some things happened, especially towards the end of the week that involved forgotten bag on the ship, some casino chips, everybody being really tired, different listener moments. There's just a lot of stories that came out of our top shelf country

[Morgan]

cruise number two, Lunch is going to

[Ray]

come back from the cruise. He's not going to have a voice and he's going to be like, oh, it's my allergies. There's no allergies when you're at sea. How do you get allergies out at sea? There's no trees, there's no pollen or anything like that.

[Eddie]

It's not allergies.

[Ray]

It's never been allergies.

[Eddie]

It never will be allergies. So that's the voicemail we got. Lunchbox, I'd like to hear your voice. Hey, drumroll please. Lunchbox, how are you doing?

[Ray]

I'm doing great, man.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Ray]

Yeah, there were some flare ups on the boat.

[Eddie]

Allergies?

[Ray]

Yeah, allergies, you know, stop stopping in Nassau, Key West, Benami. They have trees, whatever it's called, I don't know how to say it. And they had trees, they have allergies. So they were flaring up on the ship but man.

[Amy]

So it's like wherever there's a tree, any tree.

[Eddie]

I think it's wherever there's alcohol if I'm being honest.

[Ray]

But I'm gonna say that my was able to come home this weekend and use some Allegra and all that and get rid of the allergies and I am back.

[Eddie]

Are you tired?

[Ray]

I'm exhausted still.

[Eddie]

Even after a couple days there is no rest.

[Ray]

I have three kids. I got home and it was like, oh, here we go.

[Amy]

And the time change.

[Eddie]

Oh God, I'm gonna tell you I'm not a big time change affects life kind of guy he does are you're not tired today.

[Amy]

Spring forward does.

[Eddie]

You guys are letting me finish My talk. I'm literally in the middle of a sentence. Oh, my God. Everybody take a breath, okay? It was a comma, not a period. I'm not usually a time change affects me kind of guy, but I did wake up this morning and I was like, man, I feel like something's wrong. Like something's a little up. And so I wear a oura ring, not an ad. And it'll tell me if there's like, stress signs inside my body. No, no stress signs. And I go, and I have talked to Stanley, my dog. I'm like, hey, you feeling good today? And he's like, huh? And then I'm like, I think it's the hour change. And then. Yeah, now I think it's all you guys.

[Amy]

Maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, maybe it is.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah. I took. I literally took one breath. All you guys pounced on me. Like, inhale. Oh, my God.

[Amy]

Well, because I feel strongly that spring forward is the painful one. Fall back, obviously. Feels great.

[Ray]

Yeah. Feels so good.

[Raymundo]

The extra hour. Oh, so nice.

[Ray]

Why put it right at the end of the cruise? Like, we could have planned that better. That was rough.

[Eddie]

You mean the federal mandate of moving our hour.

[Ray]

Yeah, like that. Oh, man.

[Eddie]

Whoa. He's still tired, huh?

[Ray]

Still tired, man. I'm saying, I got home, my wife took a two hour nap. I was like, hey, hello.

[Eddie]

But she spent a whole week watching all the kids.

[Ray]

Yeah. What do you think I did? You? I spent a whole week working with 2,000 people.

[Raymundo]

You were having fun, though, drinking and.

[Eddie]

Both can be true.

[Amy]

Gambling.

[Ray]

Yes. Both can be true, guys.

[Eddie]

Yeah. What happened? Because I'm just gonna go with Lunchbox's side of the story.

[Ray]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

Oh, do you know I'm gonna say,

[Ray]

oh, I go for. Yep, go ahead.

[Eddie]

And why is Morgan irresponsible?

[Ray]

Oh, my gosh, she is so irresponsible. Like, it is time for Morgan to grow up like we are. It is what, Friday morning and we gotta get off the boat. And they tell us to meet in this one spot by the sushi restaurant. And we're there. Morgan's there on time, has her three bags. Cause she has so much stuff. And then she gets to editing her TikTok video that her and I did on the boat. And she's so engrossed in her phone. Editing, editing, editing, editing. Oh, look, all right, I got it posted. They're like, time to get off the boat. Morgan gets up, walks off the boat, and is loading her bags into the transportation. The airport goes, oh, my gosh, where's my black Bag. Where's my black bag? It has my computer and the $5,000 camera that belongs in our studio. Where is it? Oh, my gosh. I must have left it on the shelf. Lunch. Take my bags. I got to go find it. She goes running back like they're going to let her go back on the ship.

[Eddie]

You can't get back on the ship.

[Ray]

We've already gone through customs. We've done it all. And she's just like, I'm out of here. And she just disappears. She left her bag on the ship with the two most expensive things she has because she was so engrossed in that social media, man.

[Eddie]

It's time to realize that social media.

[Amy]

You sound. So. You want Morgan to grow up, but yet you. Sounds elderly.

[Ray]

No, no, but I mean, guys, when you have a computer and a $5,000 camera, yeah, that should be your number one priority, not the TikTok video.

[Eddie]

Morgan, a response?

[Ray]

Is that exactly what happened?

[Lunchbox]

It's not totally inaccurate.

[Eddie]

This.

[Bobby Bones]

This did happen.

[Lunchbox]

I did leave my bag on the ship, and it was irresponsible. I was editing a video, but I was also just exhausted. Guys, I've been on that ship for eight days. I was not. I was not in the right state of mind. I was so excited to get all my stuff and get back home. And, yeah, I definitely had a huge brain fart moment, and I did. I left my bag on the ship.

[Eddie]

Did you get it back?

[Lunchbox]

I did, thanks to a listener and Rick. So a listener messaged me on Instagram as I'm panicking, right? You can't get back on the ship.

[Eddie]

No way.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. You cannot get back on the ship once you've gotten off. I learned that the very hard way. And so as I'm standing there, I'm trying to make all these phone calls, seeing who's left on the ship to bring me by back bag, because they said if they had to go get it, it was gonna take three to five hours to go through customs and get back to me, which I did not have. I didn't have that time. And so I was calling everybody. Rick was searching for it. It was like a scavenger hunt for my bag on the ship. And then I just happened to pop back on Instagram, and a listener named Chris, he sent a picture and was like, is this one of your guys's bags?

[Eddie]

No way.

[Amy]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And I was like, oh, my gosh, that's my bag.

[Eddie]

Oh, Chris, hit the wait. Hip, hip, hooray. It's not hip hop.

[Raymundo]

Hooray.

[Eddie]

Hip hop, hooray ho.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie]

You got it. That's very Amy of you.

[Lunchbox]

I know. I had an Amy moment. And, yeah, Chris saved my life. He was like. I was like, where is that? Tell me where it is. He's like, here it is. This is the location. Rick went and got it. And Rick bought it off. Brought it off the ship for me.

[Eddie]

So we talked to Morgan when she was on the boat. She said she'd won a bunch of money in the casino on our cruise. And did you bring all the cash back with you?

[Ray]

Oh, yeah. There's another great thing, guys. Another irresponsible moment for Morgan.

[Lunchbox]

I had a rough last day. I forgot to cash them in.

[Raymundo]

So you have chips?

[Eddie]

You have boat chips?

[Ray]

She has boat chips, guys. She wakes me on that Friday morning, she's like, hey, so where do I cash in my chips? I said, girl, we're at port. The casino is closed.

[Amy]

Wait, so what does she do? Wait till next year.

[Ray]

We're gonna. Different boat.

[Eddie]

You gotta be able to mail them in or something, right?

[Lunchbox]

I don't know. I haven't done a whole lot of research yet.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not.

[Lunchbox]

Listen, the last day boozy bingo did me in, I was not well, okay? So that's why I did not cash my chips in. I was three sheets to the win.

[Eddie]

So.

[Ray]

And you're thinking like 125 bucks. 100 bucks, right? No, no, no. Morgan, how many chips do you have?

[Lunchbox]

$345.

[Karissa Thompson]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

Well, I've paid Ray and C.H. ships before, so maybe she can. Ray will take them.

[Ray]

I'll buy them for 100.

[Bobby Bones]

He loves cruises, but I don't know.

[Eddie]

You have to go back on. Not the same boat. Like, we're doing the cruise again next year. And you guys, if you want to come on the cruise. Topshelf, countrycruise.com if for somehow it's already sold out. I mean, I don't know. There's a lot of people that have been signing up because we did a week's worth of content just talking about it and. But if you want to go. Riley Green is the first performer that we signed to play on it, but. Topshelfcountrycruise.com oh, we have more people, too. Lauren, Elena, who was just on the show. Randy Houser, Chris Young, more to be announced, but go. I'm assuming you can cash your chips in then, or you could sell them to lunchbox for $100. I don't know that that's a terrible deal. If it's all profit.

[Lunchbox]

I feel like I should take the risk and potentially cash them in next year. I'm gonna try.

[Ray]

Okay, let me tell you. We were on a bus to the airport, and we're driving away, and Morgan is just standing outside the bus like a sad puppy dog dude. And we're all just like, bye, Morgan.

[Eddie]

For which reason. Camera, computer, Camera, computer, all of it. There's no chance if we got, like, a baby or anything on there, I

[Lunchbox]

could have at this point, honestly.

[Eddie]

Are you still exhausted?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah. I slept all weekend, and I still feel like I. I got hit by a bus, man.

[Eddie]

Question. Do you guys think that that's everybody coming off the cruise because they had a vacation or because you guys said it hosts so many things?

[Ray]

I think, man. I think it's because we had to host so many things.

[Eddie]

Like, if you go on a vacation, you're probably relaxed, right?

[Ray]

There's no stress. Like, there's no, like, time. There's no clocks. You just had to be wherever you can sleep whenever you want. That wasn't the case for us. And then I had an appearance on Saturday night. I got back, and I had to work on Saturday. I mean, I'm just so tired.

[Raymundo]

Hard worker over here.

[Ray]

That's right.

[Eddie]

Maybe he went to see and came back a different person.

[Ray]

Any chances I'm a changed man.

[Eddie]

Give me number. Number two. Raymondo.

[Listener/Caller]

Hey, I was just commenting about lunchbox having a red card. I worked in customer service and in hospitality at resorts. Typically, that means that you have refused

[Eddie]

to put a credit card on file

[Listener/Caller]

for charges, and so you get the red card or whatever your hospitality service gives you.

[Bobby Bones]

But typically that is the reason.

[Listener/Caller]

Love you guys.

[Ray]

That's not the reason on this cruise ship. The cruise ship had red and blue because when they have performances, they can't fit everybody in the performances. So you have a red or a blue, or if you're talent, you have a black. So you can go into either show.

[Eddie]

So, like, Eddie and I did two performances. So we had a red show and then a blue show.

[Ray]

Right? And the red show was the first show because I tried to go to the second show, and I had to sneak past the people.

[Eddie]

Is that even something we should do, though? Sneak. Sneak past thing.

[Ray]

I had to go out onto the deck, deck walk, find the last door, sneak in there and go into the audience. It was awesome.

[Amy]

I mean, I don't think anybody else is trying to sneak. If they want to come, they go to the appropriate time. He was just trying to sneak because I think he Wanted content. I don't know. Yeah, he was trying to get video,

[Eddie]

10 second Instagram video.

[Raymundo]

Just want to see the shot from,

[Eddie]

like the top corner.

[Amy]

He kept, like, I kept hearing him

[Eddie]

like, you almost got court martialed or whatever they do to you on a boat.

[Ray]

Well, I couldn't get down to the bottom. Yeah, I didn't have a blue card.

[Eddie]

All right, one more.

[Listener/Caller]

The cruise has been the best thing

[Eddie]

for my life right now.

[Listener/Caller]

It's great. Lunchbox is pure entertainment and he needs to stay all seven days.

[Bobby Bones]

And I have to go next year.

[Listener/Caller]

You guys are killing it. It's great.

[Eddie]

I love it.

[Listener/Caller]

Have a good day.

[Karissa Thompson]

Bye.

[Eddie]

So many people reached out and said the red card drama was the funniest thing they had heard in months. It wasn't a bit. I swear to everybody listening had nothing to do with it. I promise you. I did not say, let's give Lunchbox a lesser card. If anything, I would have made sure that he got a black card. I didn't know anything about it. Scuba didn't either. We don't know how that happened.

[Ray]

Do you.

[Eddie]

Do you believe me?

[Ray]

I believe you.

[Eddie]

Do you believe Scuba?

[Ray]

I believe Scuba. But also people. Like, that's real. Like, people online. I saw people saying they don't have blue and red cards on a cruise. That's. That's just made up.

[Raymundo]

That was real.

[Ray]

No, that's legit real. Like 100% real.

[Eddie]

Because there are so many people. And that theater was like a thousand people. Two thousand people on the boat. I don't know what the number is. Everybody can't get in. So, like, I did two shows. Eddie and we did two shows. Scotty McCrea did two shows.

[Ray]

And that's what they did with dinners too, is like the red. Like, if you had a red card, you went to dinner second. So you went to the shows first and then you went to dinner where the blue card was at dinner while the red card was at the show.

[Amy]

But also, that aside, like, you know, picture us sitting around being like, ooh, what. What crazy story should we come up with? Let's invent red cards and blue cards. Like, it'll be so dramatic. Like, I. I don't. Is that what some people think we do?

[Eddie]

I think it was so good. And maybe this is a testament to us not being that good. They were like, that's so good. You had to have made that up. No, no. Lunchbox had a lesser card than everybody, and we had nothing to do with it.

[Ray]

And I think the icing on top was I could Only get tap water.

[Eddie]

I think that was really not even bottled water.

[Ray]

Like, I couldn't even get bottled water on the ship for the first three days.

[Raymundo]

So funny.

[Amy]

I don't even know that next year I'm gonna have anything to drink.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Are you still hurting?

[Amy]

I'm still hurting. I cannot think about it. Also, I opened up my email and I got some email from a husband and wife on the phone.

[Eddie]

Oh, reminding you of the fun you had.

[Ray]

Yeah. I was like, oh, God.

[Eddie]

What did it say? Dear pineapple buddy, it does say, even

[Amy]

though we had no idea who you were at first, you ended up enhancing our vacation. And then it says, loved hearing some quote, fun facts about you. I'll leave it at that as I presume.

[Eddie]

I'll leave it at that.

[Ray]

What in the world?

[Eddie]

World. We need to do a check.

[Amy]

I'll leave it at that as I presume someone screens your messages for you.

[Ray]

What in the world?

[Amy]

I'm like, what did I say now?

[Eddie]

What did you do?

[Amy]

I'm not worried. I did anything. I know. I think I met them on the dance floor.

[Raymundo]

Oh, that's how it starts.

[Eddie]

That's where. Yeah, but call us if you want. Our phone number is 877-Bobby. Again, not ads. Because if you want to come and be on the cruise next year, it's up now. Top shelf country cruise. This is not an ad for that. I guess it kinda is, but we're not getting paid to say it. We're just saying we're doing it again. Yeah. We would love for you guys to come.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

It was so fun to have Jodi Messina in studio. She is putting out new music for the first time in around 10 years, and she talks about being TikTok famous. Plus the thing that happened that didn't get her signed to a label. And that story is just crazy. So here she is, Jodi Messina in the Bobby Bone show.

[Morgan]

Studio number one on the Bobby Bones

[Bobby Bones]

show now, Jody Messina.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. Did you say that too? I thought you said it. No, I didn't.

[Amy]

It did sound like an echo or something.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I'm so happy you're here.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm happy to be here.

[Eddie]

We have a lot of stuff to talk about. I would first. Have you seen the video that I made you?

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Eddie]

Never mind, never mind, never mind.

[Bobby Bones]

I want to see this wig.

[Eddie]

No, no, no, no, no. If you haven't seen it yet, then maybe you're not supposed to know about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I'm not supposed to Know about it?

[Eddie]

Oh, no. It's about the anniversary of your record. Never mind. I'm not saying. I'm not going to say anything about it. I just shouldn't have said anything. I was just going to make a point about something. How you doing, Jody?

[Raymundo]

Now she wants to know about it.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm like, wait a minute, what's going on?

[Eddie]

You're about to have a big anniversary for your first album.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Yeah. How many years?

[Bobby Bones]

30.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Which is pretty great. So if you haven't seen it yet, I will tell you. I did a whole video talking about it and what it meant to me and all of that. But if you haven't seen it yet, one day you'll see it.

[Bobby Bones]

I haven't seen it.

[Eddie]

Okay, then I'll just leave it there. It was only me.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Okay. I have a lot of questions for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, go, go.

[Listener/Caller]

I'm ready.

[Eddie]

I'm ready.

[Bobby Bones]

First of all, you know I love you.

[Eddie]

It's. I could not hold a mirror up and say it back to you a hundred times over, so. You're so awesome. Same to you.

[Bobby Bones]

And I follow you and I just support you, and you know that.

[Eddie]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

You've gotten messages from me.

[Eddie]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

But I do. I just. You're just such a jewel.

[Eddie]

Well, thank you. This is not about me. I want to make it about you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, let's make it about you.

[Eddie]

Is it cool to be like TikTok famous? Cause you are.

[Bobby Bones]

I highly adopt that.

[Eddie]

You are. Your stuff goes viral all the time. People love you on TikTok. It's like a whole new age of people that get to, like, experience what we got to experience.

[Bobby Bones]

The crazy dances, just all of it. Yeah. Well, we have a fun thing, and we haven't put it up yet, but last weekend we played in California, and the guy that choreographed all the snow back when I always, like, had dancers and everything lived out there, and he choreographed a new dance to one of the hits. And so we recorded that while we were out doing a festival this weekend.

[Eddie]

Your stuff, pops.

[Amy]

Well, thanks.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like, do you keep track of what your videos do? Like.

[Bobby Bones]

Like Sam, sometimes, but it's. We're moving so fast, and now everything's getting really busy, so.

[Eddie]

And this is the first record, like, new. New music, right?

[Karissa Thompson]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

In a long time. Over. Over 10 years now. I released something, I think, in 2014.

[Eddie]

Not a full record, though.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, just like a GoFundMe or whatever. It was a Kickstarter.

[Eddie]

I don't even know.

[Bobby Bones]

They still in business. I don't Know, so something like that. But a major release label thing. The last thing that came out, I think, was my giveaway. I'm sponsored. Is that 2007?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a long time.

[Eddie]

What does it feel like to put out a new project? Because it's been. Again, we have done a full project. Is there. Are there nerves? Is it excitement? Is it Both.

[Bobby Bones]

Both.

[Eddie]

Are there expectations from other people?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

You know, just other people have expectations for it, and so you don't want to let people down, especially those that are working really hard on it, you know, and with the marketing and the promotion and that kind of stuff. Stuff. So I'm just happy to be here, Bobby, you know that.

[Eddie]

Earth or in the studio.

[Bobby Bones]

Just the studio, of course. And Earth. No, literally every morning, I mean, I'm like, this morning I sat outside and I was like, God, thank you for today. I get today.

[Eddie]

Well, today's a big day because the single's out.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

New album will be out this summer, but the new song is out, and so we're gonna play some bridges. So this feels like a radio. It will.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

This feels like a wisdom song.

[Bobby Bones]

It is.

[Eddie]

Tell me about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you know, we grew up, and as you're growing up, we're always told, you know, don't be burning bridges. Don't burn bridges. You know, Oh, I know. They, you know, like, with my kids, I'm like, don't. Don't be rude to those hockey players in rec. Hockey, because you don't want to burn those bridges because they'll probably be on your team next year. Or, you know, be respectful to the coach. Don't be burning bridges because, you know, you might run into them, whatever. And we're told, don't burn bridges. You. Because you're not going to find your way back. And. Or if you take chances, which is so funny because I'm looking at your book, fail until you don't. If you don't take chance, if you take chances, oh, you're going to. You know, you might end up off track. You know, you might make a mistake. You might fail. And it's like you. Sometimes you. You have to fail. You know, sometimes you. And sometimes you have to burn bridges. If they lead you back to a place that harmful to you or where you lose yourself. It's not. It's not worthy.

[Eddie]

Did you feel like this was the single when you wrote it, or did you get all the songs together and then go, this is the one, Bobby,

[Bobby Bones]

did we send you a link for the Album.

[Eddie]

Why do you say that?

[Bobby Bones]

It's loaded. So I let someone else pick it because I was like, oh, I love this one. Oh, I love this one. Oh, I love this. So I was, yeah, they're like, boom, let's come out with this one. But so I wasn't.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Okay. So I have other things to talk about. I want to go to Amy first. What song comes to mind if I just say Jodi Messina, what's. What song first comes to mind of all of them?

[Amy]

I mean, it's gotta be Heads, Carolina.

[Eddie]

Would you think that's common? Is it most. Is it. Is that it with most people? Because I think Bye Bye to me is the one that comes to mind first.

[Amy]

I was trying to see if another would come to me, but then that wouldn't be fair because then that the first one was Heads, Carolina.

[Eddie]

What do you think the first one

[Bobby Bones]

is to people probably right now? Heads, Carolina.

[Amy]

Because of its resurgence.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because of its resurgence.

[Eddie]

And then, oh, with Cole. That's right.

[Bobby Bones]

But if you look at what people are playing from my catalog, I think Bye Bye was first, then I'm all right, then Heads, Carolina. Isn't that crazy?

[Karissa Thompson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

See, there's a lot of them. Then Lesson and Leaving and Stand Beside

[Amy]

Me, Bring on the Rain, Listen and

[Bobby Bones]

Leave and sing them all.

[Eddie]

We're gonna give a second here where Amy sings all your songs back to you.

[Bobby Bones]

I could.

[Amy]

I could.

[Eddie]

Amy finished with Lesson Leaving. Amy, go ahead.

[Amy]

Oh, somebody's gonna give you a lesson and leave and somebody's gonna give you back what you've been given and I hope that I'm around To watch you Knock you down that's it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I threw you off. Sorry.

[Eddie]

No, it's not. No, trust me, you didn't throw her off.

[Raymundo]

Trust me, it wasn't you.

[Eddie]

That's not it at all. Do you. Are you still living away from here?

[Bobby Bones]

I live here. No, no, I went. I didn't. I don't talk about this a lot, but you. No, no, no.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

So I moved to Georgia for a few years. I went down there originally. Cancer Treatment Centers of America is down there. They had one in Atlanta and one in Minneapolis. They don't exist anymore. But anyways, that's why I went there. And I was there for a few years, and now I'm back.

[Eddie]

How's your health?

[Bobby Bones]

It's good right now.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Monitoring always Once a year.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I'm to the point where it's once a year I go in and get checked.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

The blood work and Scans if needed or whatever.

[Eddie]

How do you feel physically?

[Bobby Bones]

Pretty good.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Good days. Some not good days. No.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, the day after leg day or the second day after leg day. I train every day for. I train every day for what? No. Weight. Train like lift?

[Eddie]

No, I know just for. Because I say that and I tell them I train. They're like, why are you training? And I'm like, I don't know. Apocalypse?

[Amy]

No, he. But you act like you're training to be a. A pro athlete.

[Bobby Bones]

Like we're.

[Amy]

It's like we're training for life. Like osteoporosis.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, actually, I'm going for a look, but. Oh, you're taking longer. It's taking a lot longer than I wanted.

[Eddie]

Amy was projecting right there.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, lifting is very important for our bone health as women.

[Bobby Bones]

And just. Yeah, I have kids and you'll. You'll find this out. It's a lot of energy to keep up with them. So. Yeah. And I'm gonna start running with my 14 year old. I used to be a big time runner. I ran Boston Marathon, Chicago, San Antonio.

[Karissa Thompson]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't qualify.

[Eddie]

Bobby, you just got on. Ran.

[Bobby Bones]

I was invited to run because I'm from Boston, so I would never have qualified. I'm way too slow.

[Amy]

What was your time?

[Bobby Bones]

I was. If you go look at that year, I am the second to last. Only before my brother, who let me cross the line first because they cut it off at six hours. I think we're five hours and 59 minutes. I pulled my IT band at mile six, so I'd have to stop every, like, mile or so and let my leg loosen up, let that muscle loosen up, and then start again. But I did finish it.

[Eddie]

Did you see them shutting down? And you're just trying to beat them shutting down, taking all the. All the stuff off like you were waiting.

[Bobby Bones]

They're like, keep going, keep going. Because there was, like, news crews when I crossed the finish line, and I was just. The last thing you want to do is talk to somebody when you've been running for six hours.

[Eddie]

You were a marathon runner?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I mean, I was never fast.

[Eddie]

That doesn't matter.

[Bobby Bones]

It's kind of the story of my life. You just keep going. You just keep going. You just keep going. Keep going. Again, I'm gonna reference your book. I love it.

[Eddie]

Thank you. Buy it on Amazon.

[Bobby Bones]

Everybody I know go until you know.

[Eddie]

So how many did you do? You did Boston, Chicago.

[Bobby Bones]

Chicago. I did the whole Chicago. I did the half of San Antonio, crossed the finish line, walked on Stage and played a show. It was a rock and roll marathon. So they have a concert at the end. I was it. So I had to finish my half marathon before the set started. So that was a little.

[Eddie]

But you knew. That was like. You knew, you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They hired me to go down there.

[Eddie]

But you knew you were gonna run it and then play?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

How was that? Was that hard to do?

[Bobby Bones]

It was okay. It was okay. You know, my legs started to feel a little jello y towards the middle of the show and then.

[Eddie]

That's crazy that you would do that. You're doing a lot of shows. I was looking at your. Your tour schedule is part of, like, I would imagine being in shape helps you do, like, a more active show, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, my show is very active.

[Eddie]

What do you mean by that?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't stand still. I. I'm like, there's two songs where I play a guitar on, and that's about the stillest I get. And then other than that, I'm running around, I'm head banging is. You'll see a lot of pictures. My hair flying.

[Eddie]

What do you do as your.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not a beauty show by any means.

[Eddie]

I don't want to spoil it. But what do you do? You have so many big songs. What's the. What do you do as your final song?

[Bobby Bones]

Final song of the night?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Is this a spoiler?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's not my song.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I give a little pep talk to the audience. I'm like, if you have dreams and things that you want to do, surround yourself with positive people.

[Eddie]

Can I guess then? Yeah, give me the pep talk and I'll see if I can guess the song.

[Listener/Caller]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, well, it ends with okay. So I mentioned, you know, if you have something that you want to do, don't surround yourself with naysayers. Because there's plenty of people that will say, well, that won't work because. And I always tell my team, I'm like, please don't tell me. Why not? Tell me how you want people. And I'm like, look, God's word tells us that the tongue has the power of life and death. You either have people around you that are like, oh, yeah, well, not sure that's going to work out. Or, that's dumb. Nobody's doing that. Or you have people that are like, you can do it. You've got this now. And I do say to the audience, I'm like, I'm not saying you're the greatest in the world. I was never. My sister was my greatest support. She's like 15 years older than me, and she never was like, oh, you're such a great singer. She's just like, you just got to keep going. And I remember I got turned down by a record label in Nashville. They said I was too fat. And I was like, actually said that. They told my producer that, oh, if she was 10 pounds lighter we'd assigned her is what they said. So. And I was devastated. And she's like. I said, I did this showcase and I didn't get the record deal. They passed. And she's like, yes. I was like, what do you mean, yes? She's like, oh, they say you have to get passed on a thousand times before you get a deal. She's like, now you only have 999 left. Just keep going. Just keep going. And I was like. And whatever you do, don't stop believing.

[Eddie]

Oh, well, now we know the song. Don't stop Believing.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the end of the speech.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, but you could have not said that part.

[Bobby Bones]

I told you the name was in it.

[Eddie]

You know what I was gonna guess, though? The climb. Miley Cyrus. That was gonna be my guess until you beast.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, the Hannah Montana thing is coming back. We gotta do the dance. Did you see that on TikTok? Only took us four hours. Don't burn it.

[Eddie]

So you'll practice. You'll practice a long time for your Tiktoks.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that one was long. I never. I didn't know it at all. And then we learned it, and we're on the road. Boy, my legs are sore.

[Amy]

The next day, the Hannah Montana dance.

[Eddie]

Who says to you, this should be the next TikTok that we do?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I don't know if we do you

[Eddie]

doom scroll on TikTok.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I don't have time to scroll. But the one that dances with me sometimes will have suggestions. Yeah, probably he would be the most.

[Eddie]

When you moved to town, how long until you had any sort of traction at all?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, four years.

[Eddie]

Did that four years feel like 40 years?

[Bobby Bones]

It did. I remember my first year was all about trying to survive, finding a place to live, paying the bills. Like, I didn't sing, and there weren't as many places. We didn't have Broadway. Broadway was tootsies. I think that was it. And then Ernest Tubbs record shop or whatever. It wasn't like 50,000 bars with, you know, open 24 hours and different shifts or whatever. So there wasn't a lot of places to sing back then. Once he Got here.

[Eddie]

Where did you sing then?

[Bobby Bones]

Talent nights. I'd perform. I needed money for rent, so I would do the talent contests.

[Eddie]

Oh, you would come. Did you win?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Yes, I did. And that's how I got my start. I won a chance to perform on a radio show as well. And then the radio show had me back every Saturday night. It was called Live at Libby's from Dayesville, Kentucky. It's gone, but that's where my producer, Byron Gallimore, heard me, who was producing Tim McGraw at the time. And then I took a meeting with him, and then he's like, hey, let's work on a demo.

[Eddie]

So what would you sing to win these competitions? Because I like. What was your go to?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh. Rumor has it.

[Eddie]

Not Adele, Reba.

[Bobby Bones]

Rumor has it.

[Eddie]

And would you know they would. That they. You'd melt them with that?

[Bobby Bones]

No. I was always terrified. Yeah, I was always terrified.

[Eddie]

Did you ever lose?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Did you ever lose? Did you ever lose anybody else that ended up making it?

[Bobby Bones]

No. There was one girl that I had done something with a long time. We were on a competition, and she was nasty. Yeah, she is mean. And then later, after I heads, Carolina came out. She got a record deal, but it didn't work out so good. I didn't say that I did good, but she's so mean.

[Eddie]

Good.

[Bobby Bones]

She had money, I didn't. So she had, like, the fancy guitar and the fancy clothes and was like, oh, yeah. You're like, ugh. And so she's just not nice.

[Eddie]

How does somebody from Massachusetts. That's exactly what I was gonna ask you. How did they get into country music?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I had gone to a boarding school, and there were kids from all over the country there, and one of them was from, like, the south and would listen to country music. And I just loved it because I was like, oh, they're singing about me. They're singing about my life. And so I would gravitate towards that.

[Eddie]

Even though you lived in Massachusetts, like rural Massachusetts, about 30.

[Bobby Bones]

30 miles outside of Boston.

[Eddie]

Then how was it your life? What would you hear that would resonate?

[Bobby Bones]

What would I hear? Baby, I lied when I told you I could walk away Remember that one? Now you don't. It's a song.

[Eddie]

I know the song.

[Bobby Bones]

Break it to me gently. Remember that? No, I was a Juice Newton.

[Raymundo]

What the.

[Eddie]

No, I think Amy's hybriding songs now.

[Amy]

No, I feel like I.

[Bobby Bones]

And then I remember Alabama came out with Rule on Highway. I was like, oh, this is so cool. And the Juds. The Juds came out, too. Love that.

[Eddie]

We had a lot of Judds in my house. My mom and my grandma. It was all Judds all the time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Then I loved it. And so I gravitated towards.

[Eddie]

Were you singing in high school? Like, in school?

[Bobby Bones]

I was. I started performing out in clubs when I was 13 or 14. My mother would drive me. I'd sleep through class. It is not advice for those listening. But anyways, my mom would drive me out to open mic nights, and I'd sit in with bands. And then my brother and my sister and myself put a band together. And then I'd ride with my older siblings.

[Eddie]

You had a family band?

[Bobby Bones]

Kinda, yeah. We hired a guitar player, but my sister played the bass and my brother played the drums.

[Eddie]

Did they not want to pursue it further? Because they didn't move down for music, did they?

[Bobby Bones]

They did not. They live here now, but they did not. I think, you know, it was just a time where you just gotta get a real job.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And so my brother's had the same job since he was 18. And he's a little older now. And, like, he was programming computers for the government or something. You know what I mean? He was a computer programmer and does that still to this day. Same job. Same. Never left that job.

[Eddie]

My theory is there has to be a screw loose to even pursue what this is. Right. It's gotta be the right screw. But to pursue any sort of art, there's gotta be a screw loose.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because you have to have, like, this wild belief in yourself that even other people may not have. Like, you have to believe in yourself so much.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have to believe in yourself, or do you just have to want

[Eddie]

the dream it can be? I don't think you can even understand the want of it if you don't believe in yourself.

[Bobby Bones]

Really? Because I'm really insecure even today.

[Eddie]

But I'm really insecure, too. I think insecurity fuels me. I'm embarrassed by everything that I do. It's a weird juxtaposition of I believe in myself more than anybody ever, but also hate everything about me.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. I hear you. I didn't mean that in a mean way.

[Eddie]

She's like, I hate everything about you, too, man.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no. But I get it. Cause, you know, I'm looking at myself in the. Whatever in the room. I got my pict taken next to your sign, and I was like, I look awful. You know what I mean? You're your own Morse critic. And so that that circle just keeps going on and on in your Head. Even when you're standing in front of tens of thousands of people. I remember playing Texas Stadium for the first time, and I stood there at the edge of the stage, and people were, like, screaming and cheering. It was so loud, it, like, rumbled the stage. And I'm like, what am I doing here? Like, I don't belong here.

[Lunchbox]

Like.

[Bobby Bones]

And none of these people realize that.

[Eddie]

And you can't let them know that you're thinking that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, well, I did now.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I think that. I think that happens with a lot of artists, though, that when you. For me, especially when I got to a point, you start to go, man, I don't. Like. This is kind of crazy. I don't know if I'm actually good enough. But I believe I at least believed I was good enough at some point.

[Bobby Bones]

I think there's a point of gratitude, too, where the gratitude kicks in. So if you go see my show now, it isn't really, hey, look at me. I'm up here. It's like, oh, my gosh, we're gonna have so much fun, you know? And I do. We have a blast with the audience.

[Eddie]

But for you to move down here and want to be a singer and also have to have a job to make money again, you didn't have the benefit of having your bills paid for and still pursuing this. Like, there's. There's a small screw loose. To think you could do that.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it was naive.

[Eddie]

That's a superpower, though.

[Bobby Bones]

If I knew that everyone that I ran into in town was in town for the same reason, I probably. My insecurity would have kicked in and I'd be like, no, no, no, I can't compete with all those people. Right. But I didn't know. So I was like, oh, in order to get a record deal, I gotta go to Nashville. So, okay, I'm going to Nashville. Me and 50,000 other people.

[Eddie]

Did you get down and see other people and go, oh, wow, the competition is pretty tough?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, they're talented. Oh, yeah. I'd go to these talent contests, and I'd be like, oh, I'll just put my name on the list. Something to do.

[Eddie]

Did you ever almost go home?

[Bobby Bones]

No, because I loved to sing, I loved to perform. So that's what would fuel me and keep me in the room was my chance to sing.

[Amy]

That record label, starry. Still thinking about them. That said you were 10 pounds.

[Bobby Bones]

If I was 10 pounds lighter, they would assign me like that.

[Amy]

Whenever you did get your first hit, did you ever think, like, you know, having, like, A Pretty Woman moment with them of like, big mistake, huge. Like, I have to go make music now because I. I can't stop thinking about how. I mean, I know that's the reality for a lot of women in the business. Pop country, you've heard a lot of people, especially now that they're older, they're like, oh, yeah. When I was first starting out, I heard this from my record label, this from my management team.

[Bobby Bones]

I wasn't allowed to wear my hair this way. I had. Wear these clothes. I had to.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So, I mean, did you. I don't know, did you just like, let it go or.

[Bobby Bones]

It's 30 years later, I'm still talking about it. I didn't let it go.

[Amy]

Or like you run into them, like, kind of just.

[Eddie]

But you act like it's not happening now too.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, no, I'm sure. I. I guess I just have a little bit of hope that maybe we progress a little bit. But you're right, we probably haven't. As much as I would like to think was there a time it does still have.

[Bobby Bones]

Actually on my record, there is. I was talking to an artist and she's like, man, I just, you know, I can't do this, I can't do that. I just. Oh, she's like exhausted. And I said, whatever you do, don't let them hide your beautiful. And then we wrote a song. It's actually a song on the album.

[Eddie]

I believe it's track three.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, there you go. You know, everything. But yeah, that's where that song came from. Was someone being told by everyone else, no, this is what you need to do. This is how you have to look. This is what you should do. This is where you should be. This is. This is, you know, and. And she's like, none of it's me. You know, what are they selling? It's not me. And I was like, well, don't let them hide your beautiful.

[Eddie]

Was there a time when you got to town where you had so much success that you started to feel a bit bulletproof because you had. You had to run like a multi week that's like never been done before, where it's like number one for multi week. Number one for multi week. Number one for multi week.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, and that's the thing in. When you're. I remember Byron Gallimore telling me, my producer saying, I was like, oh, man, it would be so great to have a number one record. And he goes, yeah, but then you gotta have another one. And so you were so in the chase for the next one for me. And then again, you're insecure, right? So you were like, oh, gosh, I gotta have another one or else I'm done. Or else. I remember Downtime came out and it peaked at number eight. What I would do for a number eight song right now. Not really. I mean, but it would be such a thrill to have a number eight song, right? I'd be like, oh, my gosh. But as soon as that song maxed out at number eight, they're like, well, she's done, she's done. She's over again. That was like probably 20 years ago. But still at that point, you know, everyone was so disappointed. And I felt like they were disappointed in me. I was like, I am a failure. I am. You know, so I don't know that there ever was a point where I felt bulletproof now. It was always about working harder.

[Eddie]

If you could do it again or you could tell you back then, like, right when it was starting to hit, like, right. Right before you got your first number one, you have a deal. What advice would you give yourself then?

[Bobby Bones]

I always say this. Don't sell out who you are just to be successful.

[Eddie]

Do you feel like you did that?

[Bobby Bones]

I think there were moments, yes, where I did that. And I would look at pictures and be like, oh, boy. I remember that. You know, there was a point where I was myself. Then we went had some success, and then all of a sudden the people would flock and be like, wear this, do that. We had a photo shoot and I remember looking at these photos. My hair was bone straight long down to here. All these like couture clothes. And I was like, I don't know who that is. And they're like, oh, but you look beautiful. I'm like, yeah, but I don't know who she is. Like, I don't know who that is. Who is that? I can't. I said, I don't go to Kroger looking like this. You know, people, they will never see me look like that. You know, I can't sell that. Why would I represent something that I'm not? Which that was a. Then.

[Morgan]

Then.

[Bobby Bones]

Back then, it was like, oh, we were being difficult. Oh, she's hard to work with. And it was really just, I can't pretend. I can't pretend to be something that I'm not.

[Eddie]

Were there a group of women that kind of had each other's back or did you have at all? Or was it so competitive?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it wasn't. I don't know that. It was like backbiting competitive. And I don't even know if it's that way now. I think a lot of social media creates those scenarios where it's like, I see all these girls and just, I love them. But of course, I. I'm a little older, so I'm gonna, you know, they don't see me as like, oh, get out of my way. But I think at that point, again, I was just running so hard for the end zone that I didn't really. I'm always on the road. I was always, you know, touring, always. Or in the studio or whatever. I didn't have time to be like, hey, how's it going? And I was terrified. You know what? Actually. Okay, okay. Back to the insecurity. There was one award show. I remember I shared a dressing room with Trisha Yearwood. Martina McBride, Faith Hill. You were talking about beautiful women. Golly, Stand next to Faith Hill. I never will. She's still stunning. And I had a curtained off section in the back corner, and I didn't come out. I was just. I did not feel worthy enough to be in the room with those girls. And so they. But they read it probably this is just that, oh, she thinks she's all that. And I wasn't all that. I was just like, oh, my gosh, I'm hiding from these beautiful, talented girls. So it wasn't cutthroat or anything. It was just keep your eye on your own, on your own game at

[Eddie]

that point when you decide that you're gonna do a new album or was it an album? Cause it could have just been a couple songs. And it kept growing like, what was this?

[Bobby Bones]

It turned out I started writing a lot with people in town. And then someone's like, you should record this. You should record this. This is a hit. You should record this. And then it just started to rol a full project. Because I was like, well, I don't, you know, I'm just here to write. I just love to write. You know, I'm still out touring, always been touring. And so then they were like, you should really put this together as a. As a record. And I was like, I don't know if anyone who wants to hear a record for me, and they're like, just do it. So we did.

[Eddie]

So have you put any expectations on yourself with this record? You, I'm asking you again, not anybody else like it, or is the expectation been met already by just creating it?

[Bobby Bones]

I would love to hear how people like yourself like the record. You know, of course, you're always so kind. So you wouldn't be like, well, this sucks. So not to my face, but I'd love to hear that, because I wrote everything on the record, and it's never happened before. I've never written. I've never been able to, like, pour my entire guts into an album. And that's the difference between now and then or then and now or whatever is a lot of stuff that I recorded was written by other people and staff writers at certain places that were the great songwriters. Nowadays, the artists write most of their records. And I was like, oh, can I do that? I can do that. This is great. So this is the first time I've ever had a. There's one song I didn't write, but for the rest of the record, I wrote everything on there.

[Eddie]

So this is way more vulnerable, I think, than you've ever been as far as a creator, probably.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, there's a song on there. Yeah, there's a song. I share this in the live show. It's called if He Knew Jesus. And it came out of a conversation that I had with somebody, and they're like, oh, you know, would you ever consider going out with so. And so this. And I was like, whoa, no, no, no, no, no. They gotta love Jesus, because I've been down that road. And so I walked into the writing room and I said, I have an idea. I said, what if we wrote and I'm gonna start crying? I said, I have this idea of a song. And it. And it just starts off, well, if he knew Jesus, there'd be no raising these babies alone. And so I still, again, started crying. Like, I'm crying here.

[Morgan]

Sorry.

[Bobby Bones]

And the guys looked at me, and they're like, oh, man, it's gonna be a long day. But it wasn't.

[Eddie]

But they knew that was a song. But that's what they meant, though, right? Like, it's gonna be a long day because they're gonna write that song with you.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, they. Well, just because they're like, oh, man, we gotta deal with her emotion. But. But we made it through. We made it through. And then there's a verse in the. I'm sorry, the bridge that's like, well, he might go to church, know the words in the Bible, but only if he knew the man or whatever. And then one of the guys was like, okay, this is making me second guess myself here. So it was just.

[Eddie]

He found salvation in your writing.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's my. That is my hope. What is your big. What is my biggest hope for this project? And I'll be really, really honest. It's is. And it might be too honest. And you can edit it out if you want, is to be relevant enough to share the gospel with people behind the scenes. You know, my heart on that.

[Eddie]

What do you mean, behind the scenes?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you know, I think because, like, a lot of the new artists, I want to be a safe place for them to go when they're like, oh, my gosh, how do I handle all this? Because they're inundated with requests and demands and requirements and all this other stuff. And it's like an opportunity to say, hold on a second. You're okay. You're okay. I just did a show with Carter Faith.

[Eddie]

I love her.

[Bobby Bones]

She's awesome. I was like, here's my number. Things are about to get crazy for you, and if you need a safe space, please call me.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's what I want. That's my heart. Heart's desire is to be a safe place for people who are spinning around so fast within the industry that they need to step away for a second, you know, just realize who they really are in the midst of it.

[Eddie]

Why would we edit that out?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I don't know. Some people don't like to talk about Jesus.

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

But that's my heart, because that's what happened with me. I know the road that they're walking. I know that the demands that are on them and the expectation on an everyday basis. I know what it's like to have things said that aren't necessarily accurate. And it hurts. It hurts. And so you start to get a hard heart, and then you start to get, you know, a little bit feistier and a little bit. And then before you know it, you don't even know who you are anymore. And so just someone that understands what they're walking through and can give them a safe place to just decompress and be themselves.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

That's my heart.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Ray]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Did CMT make being famous easier and harder?

[Bobby Bones]

In what way?

[Eddie]

People knew who you were because of videos.

[Bobby Bones]

Videos, No. I don't know. Easier or harder or both.

[Eddie]

But easier because they now knew who you were as a face. But harder because now you had to deal with the fame because there weren't really a lot of. Until CMT or MTV, sometimes you wouldn't know what an Rs look like, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Hence the Christopher Cross, you know, syndrome that happened. There was a big singer named Christopher Cross, and then someone said as soon as the video aspect came out, you know, that's when he lost some traction. And I was like, well, that doesn't seem fair. But it did put a lot of expectation on the way you carry yourself and the way, you know, you have to look and et cetera. It did put all that added pressure on you, but also it was good for, you know, people recognizing you and. And familiarity in the sense of getting a shows and getting work.

[Eddie]

Did you ever have, like, valets handing you music and stuff?

[Bobby Bones]

All the time still? I drop stuff in my mailbox all the time.

[Eddie]

In your mailbox?

[Amy]

I get your home?

[Eddie]

Yes. Oh, no, I don't like that.

[Bobby Bones]

Or the. I think the latest was the insect guy that came over and he's like, hey, yeah, so here, will you go check out my stuff on this website?

[Amy]

Pest control.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, pest control. Yes, the insect guy.

[Eddie]

But he's a singer too, it sounds like.

[Amy]

Right, but was he pest controlling?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And then he sprayed the house.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

He was like, and don't forget, listen to my songs.

[Amy]

I mean, I guess. Yeah. They show up and then they realize, like, okay, whoa, this is Jodi Messina's house. Like, maybe I should shoot my shot,

[Bobby Bones]

but what can I do? I'm like, I'm. I can't do anything for myself. Never mind.

[Amy]

I'm like, I don't know.

[Eddie]

That's not true. That's funny, but that's not true.

[Bobby Bones]

It's kind of true, right?

[Eddie]

I don't think so. Because you play these shows where tons of people. Come again? I made the comment earlier. You're now TikTok relevant, which is the hardest thing to be. You just have all these different avenues because fame is so fractured now. It is more fractured than I've ever seen it. Somebody could be famous to somebody, and then the person next to them has no idea who they are. Yet this person is freaking out because this person that they follow on TikTok. And so I think you're now so tucked strongly into these areas of, like, new versions of fame. Like, I see people freaking out about you on TikTok and I'm like, oh, dang. This is like a whole different world of fame versus what, the fame that you have had for the past 20, 25, 30 years or so.

[Bobby Bones]

You're right. I love that, that it's fractured because it used to be, you know, so many TV shows and everyone would watch them and everyone either had knew them or didn't. You know what I mean? It was like, it's not like, you know, you now have. You find your celebrity here or you find your music There or you find, you know, so that's a great way of describing that. It's so great. But I. I love it in the sense of people are like, well, we think your demographic is da, da, da, da. And then you come to. And a lot of these people don't come to the show. So my whole thing is, look at the first 50 rows.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, we got six year olds with their moms and their grandmothers. So we're covered. So I think with all those different social media platforms, we're able to hit different demographics. And you know what? These kids still love Bye Bye. And they still love I'm All Right. And they are singing it so, like, it's crazy the way they find music now. They're singing like, deep cuts, all the words. I'm like, I don't even know the words to this.

[Eddie]

So that's why I felt you were being too harsh on yourself when you said you can't even do things for you. You're doing massive, great, wonderful things right now.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I live in a bubble. So, like, I just post my little. Do my little dance, you know, and I. Then I go bring my kids to school. And that's true, you know, Or I'm at the rink, I'm at the hockey rink or whatever.

[Eddie]

Kids play hockey?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. So I see Dirks Bentley quite a bit.

[Eddie]

Do you play against Dirk's kids or same team?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, his kids are younger, his son is younger, so. But they're, you know, it was so funny one time, I was like, are you at the rink? He respond. I texted him and he texted me back. He's like, I'm always at the rink. I'm like, I get you.

[Eddie]

So do your kids play hockey because they have fallen in love with it because of Nashville or because you come from a hockey place and you pass it down a little bit?

[Bobby Bones]

They discovered it on their own. They discovered it when we lived in Georgia. They started with inline hockey.

[Eddie]

I don't know what that is.

[Bobby Bones]

Roller. Like a Rollerblade.

[Eddie]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

And then they wanted to play ice. So when we move back here, they play ice hockey.

[Eddie]

Just too cold for me. You think if I gotta wear a coat to go watch a game, ain't for me.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, sometimes you don't have to wear a coat, but sometimes, yeah, sometimes I keep those drinks.

[Eddie]

Do you travel? Are you a travel parent?

[Bobby Bones]

No, because I travel for work. So my kids were not able to try out for the travel teams.

[Eddie]

That's probably better.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yeah, and I wasn't gonna let them like, hey, you go to, you know, Detroit by yourself with people that I don't know and all that stuff.

[Eddie]

But, well, I'm so happy that one. You're here. You have a box of gifts. I mean, do you want to give it to us now or do you want to give it to us after? I don't know what it is.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it would be on the.

[Amy]

Hi.

[Bobby Bones]

It would be on the air. Look, you can see my pants.

[Eddie]

No, your pants are awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

I wear happy pants. I lead worship at a school, and so there's 18 months to 8th grade kids that I lead worship with, and I always wear my happy pants for them. Mostly the middle schoolers who care less. But the little ones like my pants.

[Eddie]

And we're like your little ones. We act like that's our whole situation here.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you get to all your questions?

[Eddie]

Oh, I could do this for two hours.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, well, we could fire them.

[Eddie]

I'll.

[Bobby Bones]

Ten words less.

[Eddie]

Did you ever, like, way back in the day, talk about doing Dancing with the Stars?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my. Yes. Yeah. They never. I wasn't ever.

[Eddie]

But did they not approach. They approach you or no.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Eddie]

They never approached you about it?

[Bobby Bones]

No, they. I've gone. I went out there a few times, too, so. To support people, and they still never called.

[Eddie]

See? Okay, I'd like to see.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe they saw my TikTok.

[Eddie]

It hasn't been up long enough, I think. I think you would be excellent for the show.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I'd love to.

[Eddie]

Would you do it now?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. It would be fun.

[Eddie]

Okay. I mean, I know people. So I'll just send out a text and be like, hey. Because they do look for different areas, right? They look for somebody in country music every other year. They do look for, like, an athlete. And I'll just be like, hey, keep Jodi Messina in mind, if you wouldn't mind me doing that.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, go for it.

[Eddie]

I don't want to do that. And then go for it.

[Bobby Bones]

It'd be fun.

[Eddie]

Because if they came to you and you said no, then I'd look bad. Then I'd have to be like, boycott Jod.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't even have a response.

[Eddie]

Okay, good.

[Bobby Bones]

The boycott thing. I thought I'd have a quick comeback. I didn't.

[Eddie]

The album just is out this summer. I don't know what that means. Any date yet. We just wait. Do you just want to wait?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. There's Sarah. Sarah. What do you think?

[Eddie]

You don't have to say it now. You can take.

[Bobby Bones]

She's. Sarah's like, the mastermind behind all the marketing.

[Eddie]

I just heard. Wait. They're close to confirming, so don't say it.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, okay.

[Eddie]

I heard in my ear.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. There is something in the works there.

[Eddie]

Do you play any of the new

[Bobby Bones]

shows live now that it's out? We're gonna do the whole song.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

But people were so frustrated because I would just do the little bit of the chorus and then the hook and then would end it, and they're like, no, they've never heard the whole thing till your show.

[Eddie]

Amy, any question for Jodi before she goes?

[Amy]

Yeah, well, your. Your energy, like, where does that come from?

[Eddie]

Yeah, how do you do it?

[Bobby Bones]

Gratitude, I think.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

Okay. So just pure, like, it's joy. It's not. There's a happiness. Joy. Content. Like, would you describe yourself as content?

[Bobby Bones]

I. Somebody said, why is it taking 10 years? And I was like, well, I don't know. I've just kind of been content, you know, I'm happy. So when I say I'm happy to be here, I'm happy to be here at the Bobby Bones show and happy to be here, you know?

[Karissa Thompson]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Well, there is just different energy about you. Sometimes people come in and they're happy and it feels a little manufactured or just like they're putting it on. And, like, you're just like, I feel the energy.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's. That's Jesus. That joy, that joy that comes from within is not like, oh, he makes me so happy because he gave me a new car. I don't have a new car. I bought it used. It's five years old. But it isn't that it's not happy. Happiness is depending on your situation. It's joy where. And perspective, too. Just grateful. And grateful I get to sit here with you. I'm like, that's a gift. That. It really is. And you know that I love you and I see you maybe once every couple years, and it's so. So this moment is awesome.

[Eddie]

It's weird that you say that because you're right. That's absolutely right. But I. Social media allows you to feel like you're closer to somebody because we know each other, but I see all this that you're doing, so I don't. I don't feel like it's been a couple years, but you're right. I think since we've hugged each other, it's been a couple years.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But I do, like, keep up, so it doesn't feel like we're so disconnected. And I also feel like I could just message you and Be like, hey, what up?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, I sent Bobby messages.

[Eddie]

That's not weird. That's because we know each other well.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I like to think. I like to think so because there are moments where I just reach out. Or I think when you announced, when you guys made your announcement, I was like, hang on, brother. Your world's about to change.

[Eddie]

My wife getting pregnant.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, Because. Because let me tell you, there's a part of your heart, you love your wife and you think you know what love feels like, but there's a part of your heart that you don't even know exists until that child comes. And then you're like, what is this? Where did this come from? You know? And so I'm so excited for you.

[Eddie]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Cause you're such a good guy.

[Eddie]

Well, I appreciate you saying that. Thank you very much. You're the best. We love having you in. We can't wait for the album. And everybody check out stream the new song some bridges. She's gonna play it in her live shows. And again, I looked at your tour schedule. You have so many shows. So go to jodymasina.com shows all the way up until October.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. Follow me on socials. You'll get to see my dance.

[Eddie]

Odymasina. Jody, great to see you. Thank you so much. There she is. Jodi Messina, everybody.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

That wraps it for me this weekend. Thanks for catching up with the show again. Check out part one, part three this weekend with Amy. I think you'll really like it it. And if you want something totally different, I have a podcast called take this personally. This week I had on Danny Morrell and it was a really fun episode. We really connected during it and I think it's one a lot of people should hear. So check out that if you want something a little bit different and if not. And this is where I leave you, thanks for being here and I will yap with you guys next week.

[Amy]

Bye.

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That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend.

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