Best Bits: JUST THE BITS

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – "Best Bits: JUST THE BITS" (Released November 30, 2024)

Hosted by Premiere Networks, "The Bobby Bones Show" delivers engaging content daily, blending humor, music insights, and listener interactions. In the "Best Bits: JUST THE BITS" episode, the show revisits memorable moments from the week, featuring games, personal stories, debates, and a special guest interview. Below is a detailed summary capturing the key discussions, insights, and conclusions from the episode.

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1. Game Segment: "Never Gonna Get It"

Timestamp: [00:27] – [07:08]

The episode kicks off with Lunchbox welcoming listeners to the post-Thanksgiving edition of "Best Bits," highlighting the inclusion of a chaotic game session from the week. The game "Never Gonna Get It" involves listeners guessing unexpected items found on the Thanksgiving dinner table that only a small percentage of Americans use.

Key Points:

• Gameplay Mechanics: Listener J.C. participates, attempting to guess unusual Thanksgiving table items.
• Guesses and Reactions: J.C. suggests "mac and cheese," while other hosts propose "menu" and "spoons," leading to humorous disagreements.
• Outcome: J.C. wins a $250 Walmart gift card and a copy of the game by correctly guessing that "menu" is the rare item on the Thanksgiving table.

Notable Quotes:

• Lunchbox: "I don't know if it was because it was right before the holiday and we were all a little delusional, but it was pure chaos and I think you'll get a good laugh out of it." [00:27]
• Eddie: "Never, never, never." [01:00]
• Amy: "You do cannot be more wrong. That's the wrongest anyone's ever been in this game." [04:35]
• J.C.: "I don't think she ever wanted to throw dirty clothes in the bathtub like he does." [06:56]

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2. Wife Gripes

Timestamp: [08:29] – [14:25]

Transitioning from husband gripes shared in previous episodes, the show delves into what wives might publicly gripe about their husbands. Hosts share personal anecdotes, leading to relatable and humorous exchanges about household habits and personal quirks.

Key Points:

• Bobby Bones: Admits to messy habits, like leaving cups and shirts around, and notorious placement of dirty clothes in the bathtub instead of a hamper.
• Scuba Steve: Discusses his forgetfulness, leading to complaints about not listening or remembering tasks like taking kids to school.
• Amy: Shares her tendency to predict TV show outcomes and how it annoys her wife, highlighting competitiveness in everyday scenarios.

Notable Quotes:

• Bobby Bones: "I leave my cup there, my shirt there. I just leave these things everywhere." [08:54]
• Scuba Steve: "I just forget things. I have bad memory, dude." [10:07]
• Amy: "I'll have like 17 of them. [I will have] every single character that's walked on the screen. I've claimed them just so you can be right." [12:07]

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3. Phone Blow-Up Moments

Timestamp: [14:29] – [25:02]

The hosts discuss moments in their lives when their phones were inundated with messages, either positive or overwhelming. This segment emphasizes the impact of significant life events on personal relationships and public interactions.

Key Points:

• Cody Johnson's CMA Overwhelm: After winning Album of the Year, his phone was flooded with congratulatory messages, leading him to hand it over to his wife.
• Raymundo’s Divorce Announcement: Sharing his divorce publicly resulted in numerous supportive and sympathetic texts from listeners.
• Bobby Bones' Marathon Win: Completing a marathon without training led to an outpouring of praise and admiration from listeners.
• Scuba Steve's Charity Walk: Raising funds and walking from West Virginia to Tennessee for foster children caused a surge in texts and engagement.

Notable Quotes:

• Eddie: "I literally gave my phone to Brandy because there's like 105 text messages on, and I have no clue who they're from." [15:05]
• Raymundo: "People were texting you after that?" [15:35]
• Bobby Bones: "If you responded, just people saying what a beast I was." [16:05]
• Scuba Steve: "I think I was texting the whole time. Then when at the end of the day when we were at the hotel, I just responded more texts." [16:22]

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4. Debate: To Send or Not to Send Christmas Cards

Timestamp: [17:59] – [25:02]

A spirited debate unfolds among the hosts about the etiquette and personal preferences surrounding sending Christmas cards. While some view them as a cherished tradition, others see them as an unnecessary expense or environmental waste.

Key Points:

• Personal Preferences: Most hosts express indifference or dislike towards sending and receiving Christmas cards, citing reasons like cost, waste, and the lack of personal connection.
• Practical Solutions: Raymundo suggests creative ways to organize saved cards, such as using silver rings for easy access and reminiscing.
• Cultural Observations: Discussions highlight differing views on maintaining traditions versus embracing modern communication methods like social media.

Notable Quotes:

• Amy: "I don't hate them, right? I don't love them, but I don't hate them because I don't get a lot of mail at the house." [18:16]
• Raymundo: "There's some people that have kept every Christmas card they've ever been given through the years." [24:17]
• Amy: "I feel like we're all a little bah humbug for different reasons." [24:37]
• Eddie: "That'd never be you, Bones. Yeah, it's not me, for sure." [20:57]

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5. Special Guest Interview: Blake Shelton

Timestamp: [25:07] – [43:38]

A highlight of the episode is the in-depth interview with country superstar Blake Shelton, conducted by Amy. The conversation covers Shelton's experiences in the music industry, personal anecdotes, and upcoming projects.

Key Points:

• CMA Awards Insight: Discussion about the controversy surrounding Shibuzi not winning Single of the Year, with Bobby Bones providing context on award show dynamics.
• Career Highlights: Blake shares his journey, including his tenure on "The Voice," his collaboration with Post Malone, and his new record deal.
• Personal Stories: Blake recounts stopping a drunk intruder at a family member's house and his early participation in pageants, revealing a more personal side of the artist.
• Touring and Music: Insights into Blake's "Friends and Heroes" tour, his favorite George Strait songs, and his favorite performances.

Notable Quotes:

• Blake Shelton: "I get to do that, and I'm wasting this time." [52:18]
• Raymundo: "You've been confused for Joe Nichols...and you didn't play songs like 'Broken Heartsville'." [47:43]
• Eddie: "I've been seeing it because she's released an album...and it's the sweetest, nicest things." [50:11]
• Blake Shelton: "I'm not the new up and comer anymore, you know what I'm saying?" [52:30]

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6. Personal Story: Amy’s Daughter’s Fender Bender

Timestamp: [33:30] – [36:16]

Towards the end of the episode, Amy shares a personal and relatable story about her daughter’s recent fender bender in the driveway. The discussion touches on modern car technology and the challenges of handling vehicle repairs.

Key Points:

• Incident Details: Amy explains how her daughter, in a hurry, accidentally dented the bumper of her Toyota Camry, leading to substantial repair costs due to advanced sensors and materials.
• Insurance Process: They discuss the implications of filing an insurance claim, including paying the deductible and increased premiums.
• Modern vs. Traditional Repairs: Conversations highlight the contrast between older methods of repairing bumpers and today’s technologically integrated vehicles.

Notable Quotes:

• Amy: "This fender bender is going to cost a whole lot of money. It's going to be a little pricey." [33:45]
• Raymundo: "How much was the whole Camry? The bumper has got to be a significant part of the whole car." [34:25]
• Amy: "I miss the good old days, but that trips me out." [35:03]

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Conclusion

The "Best Bits: JUST THE BITS" episode of "The Bobby Bones Show" offers a blend of entertaining games, candid conversations about personal and marital dynamics, insights into the impacts of significant life events, and an engaging interview with Blake Shelton. The hosts' humor and relatable anecdotes create a welcoming atmosphere for listeners, while the structured segments ensure a comprehensive coverage of topics. Whether it's debating the merits of Christmas cards or delving into the complexities of award show outcomes, the episode provides a rich tapestry of content that resonates with a broad audience.

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Transcript

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

What's up everybody? Happy post Thanksgiving weekend. Hopefully your bellies are full, your hearts are full, everything was as amazing as it possibly could be. Or at the very least, we got a lot of relaxing in whatever your Thanksgiving looked like. But I am happy you're joining me here on the best bits. This weekend. We're catching up on the show. We only had a few shows this week before the holiday, but plenty of content. So let's get into it.

[Amy]

Woohoo.

[Lunchbox]

We played some Never gonna get it for a listener and normally I don't really include some of the games here because you can watch them all over our social media, but this one was just chaotic. I don't know if it was because it was right before the holiday and we were all a little delusional, but it was pure chaos and I think you'll get a good laugh out of it.

[Morgan]

To start today's show, number seven question.

[Amy]

Is this will be on the Thanksgiving dinner table for only 3% of Americans. Now think about that. Never gonna get it as a game. Not gonna get it. Oh, oh. Never. Never gonna get it. Not the guitar. No, you're not gonna get it.

[Eddie]

Never, never, never.

[Amy]

This will be on the Thanksgiving dinner t of Americans. What is it now? We're gonna give J.C. a chance here to win. Hey, J.C. how are you? Hey.

[J.C.]

Morning studio.

[Amy]

Morning. So I'm gonna give you a chance to win a $250 Walmart gift card and a copy of the game that everybody loves called let's Hit each Other with Fake Swords, which by the way, is currently on sale right now for only $10 at Walmart until tomorrow. Go get it. It's a great game, but for you, JC$250 Walmart gift card. You're gonna have three chances to win. You'll guess first and I'll read the question again. This will be on the Thanksgiving dinner table for only 3% of Americans. So you'll guess, then you can team up with a couple members of the show and then we'll do some weird game at the very end. Okay, so first to you, I am.

[J.C.]

Gonna throw out Mac and Mac and cheese. Like I don't know if a lot of people have that.

[Raymundo]

We do, but yeah, fair.

[Amy]

And it's a quality guess. It is not the correct answer though. I think probably a little more than 3%, but I like it. Like it. She came up prepared. Mac and cheese. Not right now. I'm going to read the question Again. And you guys let me know where you are on 1 to 10 scale of how for sure you are. This will be on the Thanksgiving dinner table for only 3% of Americans. What is it, Amy? How for sure are you?

[Raymundo]

I mean, 3% is so low, so it's got to be something really out of the ordinary. So I feel pretty good.

[Amy]

Oh, wow.

[Raymundo]

Out of the ordinary for Thanksgiving?

[Amy]

What number one through ten?

[Raymundo]

Three.

[Amy]

Okay, that's not pretty. Lunchbox, ten. Morgan?

[Lunchbox]

Nah, I feel like a four.

[Scuba Steve]

Eddie, ten.

[Raymundo]

Oh, God.

[Amy]

Okay, so Lunchbox and Eddie.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't ever disclaim it.

[Raymundo]

Thank you.

[Amy]

So, Jason, you can pick whoever you want. You pick two players here on the show. You got Amy and Morgan who are honest about their answers, or Eddie and Lunchbox who just want to be picked.

[J.C.]

Yeah, I feel like Lunchbox always says 10, but he comes up with some good off the wall answers. So I'll go with Lunchbox.

[Amy]

Okay.

[J.C.]

And you said I get two people.

[Amy]

You get to pick one other person. Yes.

[J.C.]

And I just feel like Morgan's good at this game, even though she said four.

[Eddie]

She is.

[J.C.]

I think I'm gonna go with Morgan.

[Amy]

Okay, so Lunchbox and Morgan will hold the keys to the car here. Amy. What?

[Scuba Steve]

Do you have a TV on the table?

[Amy]

Oh, so you went. Okay. I like your approach. Your approach is very different.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, because.

[Amy]

But on the table.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

This one. Okay. This will be on the tv.

[Scuba Steve]

On the table.

[Bobby Bones]

You put the TV on the table.

[Amy]

Interesting.

[Raymundo]

Like the. Hey, maybe the serving table.

[Amy]

You thought differently. You're wrong, but I admire what you thought differently.

[Raymundo]

Thank you for that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

It means a lot.

[Amy]

Eddie, she didn't pick you, but you were 10.

[Scuba Steve]

It's a shame she didn't pick me, because I have it.

[Amy]

What is it?

[Scuba Steve]

100%. It is a menu.

[Raymundo]

What?

[Scuba Steve]

It's a menu because 3% of Americans go out.

[Raymundo]

No, that would be what?

[Scuba Steve]

The menu is sitting on the table.

[Raymundo]

They meant their table.

[Scuba Steve]

I know.

[Raymundo]

If they're out to eat. That's just.

[Scuba Steve]

It's the menu.

[Lunchbox]

I'm confused.

[Amy]

Well, the question is, this will be on the Thanksgiving dinner table for only 3% of Americans.

[Raymundo]

Thanksgiving dinner table.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. Which is at a restaurant.

[Bobby Bones]

You're saying, like, only 3% of Americans go out?

[Amy]

Quality out of the box.

[Eddie]

Guest.

[Amy]

Let's go, baby. I'm gonna put you on hold. Yes, Morgan.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. I went out of the box for this also. I was gonna do a food, but then I went spoon.

[Raymundo]

A what?

[Lunchbox]

There's no foods on Thanksgiving that typically require a spoon.

[Raymundo]

Smashed. Sweet Potatoes everybody uses for.

[Amy]

That.

[Eddie]

So how do you get the mashed.

[Bobby Bones]

Potatoes out of the bowl?

[Raymundo]

Morgan, that's not outside of the box. We always fork.

[Amy]

Morgan, you cannot be more wrong. That's the wrong as anybody's ever been in this game. Yeah. No. No. Of all the history of this game, that's the wrongest anyone's ever been. Yeah. Good for you.

[Scuba Steve]

It's ok.

[Raymundo]

It's ok. You use spoons. This makes me feel a lot better about a T shirt.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not saying I eat it with a spoon, but the serving spoon, Lunchbox. It's easy, guys. Amy, you're on the right track.

[Raymundo]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't put the TV on the table, though.

[Raymundo]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

You put the channel changer so you can change the channel while you're eating.

[Amy]

That's wrong.

[Scuba Steve]

That's not right.

[Raymundo]

What? That was your guess.

[Amy]

That's wrong.

[Bobby Bones]

It's the same thing as a tv.

[Amy]

No.

[Scuba Steve]

So, Bones, I'm the only one alive here.

[Amy]

You're the only one alive.

[Raymundo]

And that's definitely not it.

[Scuba Steve]

It's gotta be.

[Raymundo]

It can't be a menu.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, yeah, I can.

[Raymundo]

I mean, I guess it could, but 3% even seems high.

[Amy]

Hey, JC are you there? JC? They're fighting. It's like somebody didn't give him a spoon.

[Scuba Steve]

I know, right?

[Amy]

I really felt confident about it. So the people that you picked missed. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go and just let you pick if Eddie, yes or no, got it right. For your third pick, you can say, eddie, yes, got it right or no, he miss. And if you're correct, you win the $250 gift card.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, my goodness.

[Amy]

So Eddie says, Menu, JC.

[Scuba Steve]

You know what I'm saying? Right on menu.

[Amy]

Lunchbox made fun of him and said it was the stupidest answer ever. But that was quickly met after Morgan, stupidest answer ever. No offense, Morgan.

[Raymundo]

To be clear, spoon is worse than menu.

[Amy]

I agree.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot worse.

[Amy]

I agree. It was before I got to Morgan, Right? So at the time, Eddie, that was stupid.

[Lunchbox]

I was just thinking out of the box, guys.

[Amy]

Okay, so jc, did Eddie get it right or wrong?

[J.C.]

I feel like I like his approach and I never would have went there and this is never going to get it. So I feel like a menu could be right if people are going out to eat. So I think I'm going to go with Eddie.

[Amy]

Do you want to advise her, guys?

[Raymundo]

I mean, I guess even in your own home, sometimes people print out.

[Scuba Steve]

No, they don't.

[Amy]

No, they don't.

[Scuba Steve]

No one prints out a menu.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh. What world do you live in?

[Raymundo]

That's what I said.

[Amy]

Thanksgiving menu. I've never seen that. Okay, everyone. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

So, J.C. he got it wrong.

[Amy]

J.C. someone might.

[Raymundo]

Oh, oh, oh. I just got it. It just came to my mind.

[Scuba Steve]

No, it's menu.

[Raymundo]

No, no, no, it's not menu. I'm going to write it down just in case. I don't want to credit.

[Amy]

Did you pick Eddie to get it right or wrong?

[J.C.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay. He's right.

[Raymundo]

Right?

[Amy]

Yes. Yes.

[Raymundo]

No. J.C. you said the Thanksgiving table.

[Amy]

I didn't say you're the one you own.

[Raymundo]

You said the Thanksgiving table.

[Amy]

3% of people plan to eat out on turkey day, therefore a menu. Why are you arguing?

[Raymundo]

But if they eat out at Applebee's, that's not a Thanksgiving table.

[Amy]

It is for Thanksgiving.

[Scuba Steve]

If they're eating the table in your.

[Amy]

House that you use all year long inside a Thanksgiving table until it's Thanksgiving Day.

[Scuba Steve]

That's another good point.

[Amy]

And you eat with a spoon.

[Scuba Steve]

Yes. You serve stuff with a spoon.

[Bobby Bones]

But, Amy, what was the one you wrote down that was right?

[Raymundo]

Oh, like name tags, like where you sit, place settings.

[Bobby Bones]

What in the world?

[Amy]

Okay, J.C. you want a $250 gift card? Okay, cool.

[Raymundo]

Menus.

[Amy]

You want what menus? You won a $250 Walmart gift card. Congratulations there. You want a copy of the Let. Let's hit each other with fake swords game, currently on sale right now for only $10 at Walmart until tomorrow. So be sure to get that. The game is so much fun. And Eddie, congratulations.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

And congratulations, J.C. congrats.

[Amy]

That's awesome. They hate it on you.

[Eddie]

Yeah, thanks.

[Amy]

Eddie and JC Stay on the phone and we'll. We'll get. We'll sign your game and send you the prize. Okay, that's awesome.

[J.C.]

Thank you, guys. Happy Thanksgiving.

[Amy]

Thanksgiving to you, too. Make sure you got a spoon.

[Lunchbox]

I'm going to sign a spoon and add it in there.

[Amy]

Yes. The menu is just weird. The spoon thing, like, what is she. What?

[Lunchbox]

Guys? I don't know. I was trying to think out of the box.

[Scuba Steve]

You did.

[Amy]

Morgan's like, we only use the ice cream scoops and forks in Kansas. Okay, thank you.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

Last week, the guys did husband gripes. Like the things that they would gripe about on their wives. Well, Bobby got some DMS and was like, okay, we need the reverse situation. So all the husbands shared the things that their wives would probably gripe about.

[Morgan]

Them number six.

[Amy]

We'll do wife gripes. What would your wife gripe about publicly if they were to come on the show, what would they say is like one of the difficult things about you? Lunchbox, you go first.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh my messiness. I would say like I'll go get like a chipotle bowl and I'll take that little foam top, there's whatever. And leave it on the counter and never throw it away. Like I'll throw the bowl away because I eat it. But the top, I just leave it on the counter. I leave my cup there, my shirt there. I just leave these things everywhere. I don't like to clean up.

[Amy]

What about dirty clothes? What do you do with them?

[Bobby Bones]

Are they going the bathtub?

[Amy]

Oh, I forgot about those in the bath.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, but didn't she join in on that?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she has joined into that.

[Amy]

She can't beat him join them though, right? Because I don't think she ever wanted to throw dirty clothes in the bathtub like he does.

[Eddie]

What?

[Amy]

I forgot about the dirty clothes in the bathtub. That's so bizarre.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So that she can't really complain. Like in our room I don't have dirty clothes anywhere because I just throw them in the bathtub.

[Amy]

But why not the hamper? Is it cuz the bathroom. But okay, well why not get one for $12 at Target?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, cuz I'm not 12.

[Scuba Steve]

What?

[Amy]

I have a hamper. Sure.

[Scuba Steve]

I do too.

[Amy]

And has a split thing. Mine and Caitlin's on each side.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, that's cute.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So that's not a child thing. I think a child thing is throwing your dirty clothes in the bathtub. But that's you. Now we're doing wife gripes because we came on at husband gripes and I got some DMS going. That's not fair. Like what do you guys do that sucks. Eddie.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. I don't listen. She'll say like, oh my gosh, I've told you that five times. Or she'll be like, you know that you have to take the kids to school today, right? Like, oh yeah, Is that today? I've told you that 10 times. That's her big gripe. And also too, before I go to bed, I take all my clothes off and leave it right by the bed and they kind of stay there. So the whole week. And she'll purposely not pick any up. So by the whole week I have a bunch of clothes right by my bed.

[Amy]

Have you thought about the bathtub?

[Scuba Steve]

No, no, I don't have a bathtub.

[Amy]

I just Have a shower in your whole house?

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, I don't have my kids. Have one.

[Amy]

Take them up there, put them in the bathtub.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, wait. So you have a hamper, but you don't use it, so.

[Scuba Steve]

No, I do. Like, for, like, if I get home from work and I take my clothes off, put in the hamper, but right before I go to bed, I leave it right by the bed.

[Amy]

But the point is, he's not walking it to where a hamper could be and throwing it in the bathtub.

[Bobby Bones]

That's true.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so yours is not. Why do you think that is? Why don't you listen?

[Scuba Steve]

I just forget things. I have bad memory, dude. I don't know what it is.

[Amy]

I think we all claim to have a bad memory, but when it's important, it's a priority. We don't really have a bad memory.

[Raymundo]

Well, you have to put systems in play. Like, that's part of just adulting. I relate to you, Eddie, but I've had to make sure have checks and balances, so I have to, like, make lists and take care of, like, every day.

[Scuba Steve]

When I get home, I'm like, what do we have today? Do I. We have practice. Like, what do I need to do today?

[Amy]

And another one be Keep a calendar.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, that too.

[Raymundo]

Because, like, you know, multiple times of, like, not remembering to pick your kid up from school.

[Eddie]

That's what she says, too.

[Scuba Steve]

She's like, it's in the calendar.

[Amy]

Raymunda, what'd your wife complain about for you?

[I]

For me, it's not tidiness or cleanliness. I'm up on that. It's the stuff where her dad's really handy. He built our dang house. And I don't really know how to do a lot of that stuff, so she's hard on me for that other stuff. I eat loud.

[Amy]

You eat loud?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[I]

Apparently, she'll be in the other room, and she's like, I can hear you chewing that. What is that? Oh, I don't know. Cornflakes.

[Amy]

They're loud.

[I]

I'm sorry. You want me to swallow them? So it's that. And then it's also when I'm on my phone, when I'm on Instagram, I don't want to hear it on volume one or two. I want it full blast. I'm into my phone. I want to experience it. And she'll be like, turn it down from the other room. And she hates my phone.

[Amy]

That's a good one. I think my biggest. If you were to ask my wife and she'd have a list like all of our. We're just scratching the surface, right, boys?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I got more. Now you guys talk. I got other ones.

[Amy]

So we were scratching the surface here. But I think my number one from her wife gripe would be if we're watching a show, we're watching a new, like, series. For example, I'll say we from. We watch from. Great. I like to, as it goes, guess everything that's going to happen. Like, have 100 theories on what's happening with the show. Just so when it ends, I get it right. That's so. So I'll guess I'll be like, oh, I bet this person's a dude. It's gonna be a. And it may not be right, but I'll have, like 17 of them.

[Raymundo]

You'll say them out loud?

[Amy]

Yeah, by the third episode, just so I can claim that I knew what happened at the end whenever it was them. Or I'll, like, call the killer. And that's from. Is not that kind of show. But I'll be like, jonathan's a killer. And she's like, okay, but you just guess a minute ago. The dentist and then before. So I'm trying to cover. I'm trying to cover all the bases.

[Raymundo]

So you turn TV watching into a competition?

[Amy]

Well, we both try to figure out, like, we both compete.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. So why isn't she screaming it out?

[Amy]

Cause she's not petty like I am, and I want it every option.

[Scuba Steve]

Or does she play fair, pick one and stick with it.

[Amy]

Mostly that. And sometimes she'll be like, oh, I'm gonna hop off this one and hop over to this one. But by this point, I've got every single character that's walked on the screen. I've claimed them just so you can be right. Figured out every single. And then when it ends in a way that I picked. I told you, she said that was fourth out of 19 and that annoys her, so. But I do not eat Frosted Flakes. Loud, Ray.

[I]

Yeah, that. And then there's also. I mean, it's basically any cereal.

[Eddie]

What?

[I]

I mean, there's really not a silent cereal, so just skip that meal.

[Amy]

I guess maybe it's just your. Your ears. Because think about this. You like your Instagram jammed up really loud, and you like your cereal loud.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

Don't you like your TV loud?

[I]

That's just how I always ate growing up. So I didn't know you're supposed to, like, keep your mouth closed. That's maybe more a manner thing.

[Amy]

Are you Tarzan.

[I]

Well, when I'm by myself, why does it matter if I close my mouth while I eat?

[Scuba Steve]

You're not by yourself anymore again, are you?

[Amy]

Tarzan.

[Bobby Bones]

She's another room. And. But your Instagram thing, that is annoying. My wife does that and it drives me nuts.

[Amy]

Mine mostly. I keep it on mute unless I'm a bed and accidentally hit it. And not that it's loud. You're like, why do you have the boy? She'll be asleep. And I'm just scrolling. It's fine.

[Raymundo]

So you're not even listening to anything. You're just watching. Like, how do you know what's going on?

[Amy]

Why do I care what they have to say? I just watch. And now they put subtitles on everything.

[Raymundo]

Oh, okay.

[Amy]

Yeah, sometimes they hit a little speaker.

[Raymundo]

So it's like, yeah, you're reading a book.

[Amy]

Yeah, not really.

[Raymundo]

Doesn't count.

[Amy]

No, it doesn't count at all.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

Number two, last week, Cody Johnson won a big CMA award. And afterwards, his phone totally blew up with text messages of congratulations and excitement, which was awesome. But he got super overwhelmed, so it encouraged the show to share it the last time their phone blew up over something that happened in their lives.

[Morgan]

Number five, I got a really cool.

[Amy]

Cody Johnson story for you. If you got a chance, take it. So Cody's cell phone blew up to the point that he had handed off to his wife after he won album of the year at the cmas. Here he is talking about that.

[Eddie]

I literally gave my phone to Brandy.

[Scuba Steve]

And said, I can't take it anymore.

[Eddie]

Because there's like 105 text messages on.

[Scuba Steve]

There and I have no clue who they're from.

[Eddie]

So I'll decipher through that on the 16 hour ride back to Texas.

[Amy]

So, one, congrats to Cody. That's awesome. Two, what was the moment in your life that was your phone blew up moment? Couldn't be good or bad, but all of a sudden you're looking at. You're like, holy crap. I got a lot of text messages, Amy, I'll go to you first.

[Raymundo]

Gosh. Just a recent one for me would probably be when we announced that I was getting divorced on air.

[Amy]

People were texting you after that?

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Heard the. What do they like? What. What was the comment?

[Raymundo]

I think it was people in our inner circle knew people close, especially in Nashville, but just so many people, you know, being from Austin and Ron air there, and so many people that I grew up with, and they just weren't aware because we kept it so, like, to our tight group, and I just started to get random texts of support and just thinking of y'all, praying for you. And I was like, oh, okay, she's over it. Yeah. Or, hey, we went through the same thing. Like, let me know how I can help you all. So I. I think that tops the list for some stuff.

[Amy]

Lunchbox, your phone blowing up moment.

[Bobby Bones]

It's easy as when I'm ran the marathon without any training. I mean, people didn't think I could do it. And when I got done, I mean, I had so many text messages. Took me a couple days to respond. If I responded, just people saying what a beast I was.

[Amy]

And, you know, what year was that, by the way? Do you know what year that was?

[Raymundo]

2010.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, maybe 2010.

[Amy]

14 years. Morgan wasn't born yet. Crazy Eddie.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. I think when I did my walk from West Virginia to Tennessee. But it was cool because, like, when you're walking, you know, 25 miles a day, like, you have nothing else to do. So when people were texting, it was cool. I'd text back, but I got lots of texts. I think I was texting the whole time. Then when at the end of the day when we were at the hotel, I just responded more texts. A lot of texts came in that time.

[Amy]

If you're new. Eddie walked from West Virginia to Tennessee just like the song, because he came on the air going, that's not that far.

[Scuba Steve]

Right?

[Amy]

And so we're like, then do it. And he raised a couple hundred thousand bucks for charity.

[Scuba Steve]

It was amazing for foster children.

[Amy]

And his foot still hurts. He has an injury in his foot.

[Raymundo]

A sacrifice.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. Hey, for the kids, man. Sacrifice for the kids.

[Amy]

I don't think you knew your foot was going to be hurt, but I think, yeah, that's one. Mine is whenever I went dancing with the stars.

[Raymundo]

Oh, for sure.

[Amy]

I don't even know. Some people were that were texting me, and I hate red dots. So I spent out right afterward just trying to clear it all, and then I just would copy and paste. Hey, hey, man. Thanks. But then I realized everybody wasn't a man, and I was sending, hey, man. I know.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, all three of yalls are all physically taxing. Yeah, I guess mine was emotionally taxing.

[Amy]

I think mine was more emotionally taxing than physically, though.

[Raymundo]

Oh, really?

[Amy]

One of that show, like your.

[Raymundo]

You did hurt your shoulder a lot on your body.

[Amy]

Yeah, I was a lot more on my brain.

[Raymundo]

Okay, well, then we're good. I'm like, well, I need to go do something Active.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

A debate on the Bobby Bone Show. This week, it was all about Christmas cards. Bobby is not a fan. Somebody else on the show is not a big fan. And is anybody on the show a Christmas card sender? That's what we found out. A very interesting Christmas holiday debate for you.

[Morgan]

Number four.

[Amy]

I'm starting to get Christmas cards in my house, and I don't hate them, right? I don't love them, but I don't hate them because I don't get a lot of mail at the house. That's not a bill. So open it up. We do our thing. We set it up on the counter. Now, at the end of Christmas, is it okay to take your arm and dump them all in the trash can?

[Raymundo]

Yes.

[Amy]

Okay, everybody good on that?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Amy]

Okay, how about this? What if you don't know them that well, you just mildly know them, and somehow you get a Christmas card from them? Like, there are people that don't make our counter. We just throw in the trash immediately. Am I going to hell for that?

[Raymundo]

No.

[Amy]

Okay, good.

[Scuba Steve]

You're good, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm okay with it.

[Amy]

Next up, why would they send me a Christmas card?

[Bobby Bones]

Great question.

[Raymundo]

Why? Maybe they just send them out to anybody they've ever encountered.

[Amy]

They seem expensive.

[Raymundo]

Well, it's not even just well. Okay, but you're making the cards. That's the expensive part of, like, getting upset. I know, but printing an extra one, that's not the expensive part. To me, it's the time that went into figuring out your address, filling it out, adding you to the list, mailing it. Mailing it.

[Amy]

Okay, let me run this by you. A friend. I would say a friend. And I wish I wouldn't responded like this. So I'd also like to preface with I do. I'm not proud of my response, but it was my. My reaction more so than me trying to prove a point with Christmas cards. Because I. My wife and I, we don't send out Christmas cards. We don't have kids yet. She's not pregnant. But every time I say that I need to say that we don't send Christmas cards out. And she probably maybe did it as a family, but we never did that. I had a friend text me and go, hey, I need your address. I want to send you a Christmas card. And I replied back, oh, don't worry about sending me one. I already know what you're up to.

[Raymundo]

No, that's not just.

[Amy]

I know.

[Raymundo]

Reply with your address.

[Amy]

Okay. And I should have I mean, if.

[Raymundo]

You start with an R friend that you wanted.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, I'm getting the same card. I didn't even ask questions. I gave him the address.

[Amy]

I know.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Cause why would you ask questions?

[Amy]

Which, by the way, love him.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. Great guy.

[Amy]

I don't want a Christmas card from him. He's my friend. It's like, if Eddie goes, wants to send you a Christmas card, why, dude, I see your whole family, like, every Tuesday.

[Scuba Steve]

I'm right there.

[Amy]

Am I just a hater? Am I. I'm trying to break out of my hater of the holidays. I have a lot of good holidays growing up. I don't think I'm a hater. Hater of the holidays, which I used to be. But am I just a hater of the holidays and don't understand that I'm just supposed to be like, I welcome all love in paper form?

[Raymundo]

Yeah, okay.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, you're not a hater of the holiday, though. You're just a hater of the cards.

[Amy]

But eventually, maybe I'll be Christmas card guy.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. But, like, okay, if he's. If this is a guy where he's married or has kids or has. It's not that proud of his kids.

[Amy]

I want somebody to see, but I'm like, I have Instagram, but that's their thing.

[Raymundo]

That's what they do. If that's their thing. And people that mail out cards, it's their thing, and they want to send it out.

[Scuba Steve]

That'll never be you, Bones. Yeah, it's not me, for sure.

[Amy]

Yeah. I'm just saving this because it very much. Well, could be, but it's not going to be you.

[Raymundo]

It's going to be your wife, possibly. Yeah. You're not going to. You're not spearheading the. We need to take our Christmas photos, and then we're going to mail them out.

[Bobby Bones]

And unfortunately, you get lumped in because then someone gets it, like, oh, you sent me a Christmas card. I didn't send it. My wife sent it. I am not part of that crowd around the room.

[Amy]

Then who sends out Christmas cards with pictures of their family? Amy.

[Raymundo]

I've always wanted to be that person, and I'm just not.

[Amy]

Okay, you've wanted to be and someone held you back or you just haven't.

[Raymundo]

Like, yeah, no, I don't have the. Whatever it is. Organization of, like, doing all that and wanting to gather everybody's stuff and send that out. Nope.

[Amy]

Lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

My wife did it for the first time last Christmas. I was not a part of it. I was not A willing participant.

[Amy]

I didn't get your.

[Bobby Bones]

She just took pictures from throughout the year.

[Amy]

Like, got it. Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, we didn't take specific pictures.

[Amy]

You went to Kmart for sure.

[Raymundo]

You did a collage.

[Amy]

Yeah, he went to Kmart for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

And I did not get her one single ad address. If she wanted an address, she found it herself. But I am lumped in, and I hate it. Every minute of it.

[Amy]

Why?

[Bobby Bones]

Because it's just so stupid. It's a waste of paper. It's a waste of space. It's so much garbage. They're so expensive.

[Amy]

It's just not worth it as a hater. Hater.

[Scuba Steve]

That's a hater.

[Amy]

Okay, another one. When people write, like, because not all, but I'd say like, a fifth of them, 20 of them have, like, in the card, like, an update on, like, how everybody's doing, like, a little.

[Raymundo]

That's for family.

[Amy]

Am I wrong for being annoyed by that?

[Raymundo]

No, but I think it's for people that really want to know those updates, like family members. So they just go ahead and throw it into everybody.

[Amy]

The ones that we've gotten. I don't even really know the people.

[Raymundo]

They're like, I know. And it's like, Lucy started her freshman year at college, and that's great for Lucy.

[Amy]

I don't know Lucy.

[Bobby Bones]

Jack played on two soccer teams. It's like, I don't care about Jack.

[Amy]

We don't want to be hater. I'm not trying to be a hater. I did not bring that to be a hater. I'm just asking the protocol. If a friend goes, can I mail? What's your address? And you go, don't worry about it. I don't need. I'm good. I didn't mean that to mean I don't care or love you or like you. It means, you know, don't worry about it.

[Raymundo]

I'm sure they were like, this is literally the first time we've ever gotten this response.

[Amy]

Yeah. And then I never sent my address. Eddie sent cards now.

[Eddie]

No.

[Scuba Steve]

No chance, dude. I can't stand those family.

[Amy]

As your family, growing up, it seemed like, Christmas card family.

[Lunchbox]

No, we never sent out Christmas cards to the family. I did send out a Christmas card of me and my dog one year, and then it was too much work. I gave up on it.

[Amy]

To how many people?

[Lunchbox]

Like, 20. This is, like, my good friends, but there's no update or anything.

[Raymundo]

There's literally just a picture of me.

[Lunchbox]

And my dog and Christmas stuff.

[Amy]

You know, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna. I mean this. I hope I'm a Christmas card guy in the next three, four years.

[Scuba Steve]

You won't be.

[Amy]

I hope you. Why? Because I want to be. That means I. I don't have any deadness in my heart anymore.

[Raymundo]

It's not about that. It's about the time I want to be that guy. An organization.

[Amy]

Scuba. Do you guys have Christmas card?

[Eddie]

Only my mom because she cares and.

[Scuba Steve]

No one else in my family gives a crap.

[Eddie]

So I just sent them to her to keep her happy.

[Amy]

So you sent her one card?

[Eddie]

I sent her one card. It used to be for her and my grandmother till she passed, but just my mom. And I sent her a card for every holiday.

[Scuba Steve]

Anything from Valentine's Day up to her.

[Eddie]

Birthday to the start of summer. She loves cards.

[Amy]

Oh, you send her cards all the time?

[Eddie]

All the time, yeah.

[Amy]

You know what? I think I would like them a little more if I opened it and a gift card fell out. That'd be nice. Let's change that culture. Send me a gift card with the Christmas card and I think I'll like it better.

[Raymundo]

You know, you were talking about throwing away at the start of this, which I do think that is. Okay. But do you know there's some people that have kept every Christmas card they've ever been given through the years?

[Amy]

I saw them on Hoarders. Yeah, I've seen them.

[Raymundo]

No, but there is a cute way to do it. Like there's these big silver rings like you can buy. Like teachers used to use them for like note cards and stuff. You buy those and you janitor key of cards. Sure. You hole punch each card and then you put it on there and they're organized by year. And I thought that's a brilliant little hack for if you're someone that likes to keep them.

[Amy]

Sound like losers to me. However. No, I hope that I'm a loser like that.

[Raymundo]

No, because you can look back.

[Amy]

My goal is to be a loser. I would love to be a loser like that both ways. I'm saving them, I'm sending them. That's the goal. But I'm standing by how I feel right now. And I just had some questions about it, but I feel like we're all a little bah humbug for different reasons.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. I wonder why none of us are Christmas card people.

[Scuba Steve]

Because we're normal.

[Amy]

We're normal. There you have it.

[Raymundo]

I'll accept it. Let's go.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

Bobby shared some Insight into the whole CMA Awards and Shabuzi controversy. So in case you missed it, Shibuzi did not win single of the year for his song, a bar song. And it was kind of controversial because everybody really thought that one was going to win and it did not. So Bobby gave some perspective on why it's possible it didn't win. And just award shows in general.

[Morgan]

Number three.

[Amy]

So Shibuzi did not win. I don't know. I think he was up for a couple awards. The one that I felt and I picked, I thought he should win would have been the single of the year. Yeah, and sometimes I get single of the year and song of the year mixed up.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, it's confusing.

[Amy]

But there was another one, like new artist or something. I didn't think he should win that because he had one song. Now he had one song that was a massive one song. I mean, it's like, so I see people and they're upset that he didn't win. Now this is what I'd like to say for Shabuzi. By the way, Shabuzi has a song. My baby Wants a Birkin, I'm not me Long night long. You know, the 1, 2, 3, 2, 3. I'm getting mixed up. Him and Jake.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Now let's talk about the award shows for a second. So he did not win single of the year. I picked him to win single of the Year. He did not win. But I'm not upset. Everybody in their own way deserves. I think Chris Stapleton, white horse, won. And you can never look at Stapleton and go, well, you don't deserve it. But based on data, I thought Shabuzi was going to win. He didn't. Now, if you look back at last year, Entertainer of the Year, based on data, you would have thought last year Morgan Wallen would have won that, because he probably should have based on everything else, he didn't. If you look back at Dan and Shea a couple years ago when they were up for duo of the year and they had every data point, songs, touring, streaming, they did it. You know what happened, though? They won the next year. Because these award shows a lot of times are a year behind. Now, the problem with single of the year is you got to put another big single where, like new artist, he could be up for that again. If he puts out a couple songs, he could win that one. But everyone's upset and at times they're going, well, this is a race thing. Oh, I don't believe in this instance this is a race thing because it is so common with all of the layers of these award shows, especially CMAs, which are the more the traditional award show. Another thing I'd like to point out. And I'll bring in Walker Hayes, the Applebee song, Applebee's Eating Applebee's. That song was massive. I don't think it won an award. Now. It may have, but it didn't win like single of the year, I don't think. And you can fact check me on this. Now here is why that song didn't win. Because it took forever to convince all these that ain't country program directors to play that song. And so by the time they were forced to play it because of its success, it became a monster hit. I'm still talking about Applebee's. Okay.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Raymundo]

Fancy.

[Amy]

Like, thank you.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

On a date night at Applebee's.

[Raymundo]

Two straws. One check.

[Amy]

So by the time it was a massive hit, do you think those same program directors who fought it the whole time are then gonna vote for it to win any sort of award? No, because they fought it the whole time. Now let's fast forward that to Shabuzi. The same thing happened. Like we're playing Shabuzi on our show and so their station's not even playing it. Cause they're like, well, ma'am, that ain't country. So do you think those guys are going to go vote for it then? Even though it's a massive hit either Going to vote for it after they fought it for so long? No chance.

[Raymundo]

Okay, that helps. It makes sense for me because I was confused and I was happy for Chris Stapleton.

[Amy]

Me too. Love Chris Stapleton.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Have I mentioned my love for Stapleton lately?

[Scuba Steve]

Yes.

[Raymundo]

I think it's because it went to Chris Stapleton. Because I even heard some. Like when they announced it, because I think everyone thought this was going to be shaboozy. I heard some noises like, what? But then, because it was Chris Stapleton, it was like, oh.

[Amy]

But then.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, because we love him and he's amazing.

[Amy]

Yeah. We just want to, like, play with his beard. So here's the thing. There's two examples of. I hate to say precedent because. But it is what it is of people that have overwhelming data to support that they should win that award. And it doesn't happen. And then there's outrage. And the next year it happens. Morgan Wallen last year, Entertainer of the year. This year he won it. I talked about Dan and Shay. Happened to them. Then they want it the same Shabuzi. If he had another massive Single and it was up again. He would win it because people would go like, oh, he got screwed last year. And then also the. Do you think the people are going to vote for it that fought it for so long? No. Walker Hay syndrome. I hope he doesn't mind having a syndrome named after him. So that's all I want to put all that there. I want to say jelly roll. Like, I felt that and I'm happy for you. I don't care who you voted for. Like, let's. Let's. Now that things are in place, I hope everybody, like, finds a way to, like, match and do the best we can to get through the next four years. Yeah, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. Like, it is happening now. So let's just hope for the best. And to Shaboozy. I felt like you should have won. I said that publicly. And that's why also, I think why I can say this without people going, oh, look at you. I did say I thought Shaboozie would and should win, except I love Chris Stapleton. And then also, when you just look logically at it, you think the people are gonna vote for it that fought it for so long? No, they're not. I ain't country. Ma'am, can I have this dance?

[Raymundo]

But also.

[Amy]

Shut up. You're from Pittsburgh and you grew up on a hip hop station.

[Raymundo]

Hopefully people can mature and realize, like, oh, maybe I was wrong about this.

[Amy]

By the way, I love Pittsburgh. I'm not even talking about Casper, our program director. Cause he's my guy. He's probably like, I think I like.

[Raymundo]

He's like, what is it? I voted for Jim Boozy.

[Amy]

I just went toward a city I love in the Northeast and then did a hip hop station. Yeah. That's all I wanted to say. I'm off. I'm. I'm clear now of. And then. Oh, yeah. And also I was talking about that on my TikTok last night. And sometimes I just get the urge and I'd have a shirt on, but I didn't, like, show anything except there's occasional nip slip, but not really.

[Raymundo]

Mostly your collarbone or what?

[Amy]

Yeah, it's pretty hot in the collarbone.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Hey, you got a collarbone fetish, Go get it. My Tick Tock. Which is the same as everything else. Mr. Bobby Bones. I go into that and also talk about the perfect awards scenario. Meaning, God, this is so boring. But an awards show, none of them are exactly right. Because it's impossible. You can't have, like, I work as part of the acms on the broadcast crew. So I'm not. I'm not even gonna act like I'm not biased. I love the ACMS. I'm on the show with Amazon CMAs. They won't have me anymore, but I still like them. They did give us an award.

[Scuba Steve]

Yes.

[Amy]

Right. Let me kind of blackball from the CMAs. But I still, you know, I still like them. What they do is. It's not a panel. It is a massive body of records, record people, management, radio people. It's such a massive body. You can't really influence it just by going, we choose this. It's massive. Right. Same thing with acms. If you were to like, a fan vote, well, that's bull crap. Because just the most famous artist win, you would have those BTs winning all the country awards. And they're not even country, they're a K pop band. So just the fan groups would win. So there is no perfect award show system so accepted as that. It really doesn't mean anything. And even the Grammys, until recently, they could overturn it. Overturn a vote. Everybody could vote. If you're a Grammy voter, they could overturn it with a little panel. There is no perfect awards show system. The only way we would do it is if we voted on like 25 people. Let's say all of us that were members voted on like 25 people to represent us to vote. And then that would be like the House of Representative of the Senate. Yeah, we see how that's working, don't we?

[Scuba Steve]

Get an idea.

[Amy]

That's all I got.

[Raymundo]

I'm just not gonna lose sleep over.

[Amy]

No, I haven't either. I just see a lot of people claiming.

[Raymundo]

Some people get real mad, claiming, like.

[Amy]

They'Re mad at Jelly Roll for certain reasons, they're mad at Shabuzi, or they're like, hey, it's a race thing.

[Raymundo]

And I'm like, shabuzi performed.

[Amy]

And I would like, hey, if you're a racing, I'd be screaming it. I promise. I promise to God I would be here going, not cool. But I think it's a. It's an award show thing. And it's. That song wasn't traditional country finger quotes, whatever that is. And just like Walker Hayes wasn't traditional country, whatever that is. And so you're not gonna have people supporting it when they didn't support it so much up front. That's the inside baseball minute here on the Country Music Show.

[Scuba Steve]

Good stuff.

[Amy]

Now play some Tupac or something. Anyway, that's it.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

Amy's daughter got into a fender bender in her driveway, which I know a little crazy, but not only that this fender bender is going to cost a whole lot of money. Amy's going to share what happened and why. It's going to be a little pricey.

[Amy]

Number two, did your daughter rear in somebody?

[Raymundo]

Yeah, in my driveway. Oh, yeah. So it's just like, normally there's not a car there, and she was leaving for work and sort of in a hurry and didn't look back.

[Amy]

Usually there's not a car there.

[Raymundo]

Totally not a car there, which is such a bummer because it's a newer Toyota. So the bumper. All she did was dent the bumper. It's like, that's something like a big dent. And because newer cars now have all the sensors and the cameras and everything, this is the most expensive bumper known to man.

[Amy]

Back in the good old days, you just get a new bumper, right. Go over the junkyard, find you a similar bumper, tape it on.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. This is not the good old days anymore. Like, the damage was so, like, we thought, okay, because she's been working and saving money. And so I was like, well, this is one of those things that may go towards that. No way. She'd have to work for, like, the entire year. How much was it? $8,000.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, my goodness.

[Raymundo]

On a. Yes, on a Camry. A new one. Because of the. It's because all of the sensors and the, like, everything that was there in that bumper and then kind of like where it was with the trunk part, I don't know. So we filed through insurance, and now she's going to pay the deductible.

[Amy]

How much was the whole Camry? The bumper has got to be a significant part of the whole car.

[Raymundo]

So. But I guess that's where they have a lot of, like, probably anything down below surrounding the car is where all those sensors are. So you have the front bumper, the back bumper. This happened to be the back. And. But she's going to. She's covering the deductible, and then she's going to cover whatever. Our monthly insurance goes up.

[Amy]

You know, it trips me out because my Hyundai, it has this thing where if you're backing up, obviously, it has the camera on it.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Which I don't. Be honest. I shouldn't say this. I don't even turn my head around, look back anymore. I just go off camera because the camera is so good. So I just back. I don't even. Secondly, I don't Know how they do that thing where they can, like, see everything around you from the top?

[Scuba Steve]

It's pretty cool.

[Amy]

You ever see that in a car? My day has that too. Where it's like. It shows you like.

[Raymundo]

Like aerial view. Yeah, I know.

[Amy]

A helicopter above me watching. How do they do that?

[Scuba Steve]

There is no.

[Amy]

That would be awesome. You ever see that?

[Raymundo]

Yeah, but how did they do that?

[Amy]

How do they do that?

[Scuba Steve]

They get all the cameras and they put it in the merge together. I know, but you have cameras in every point of your car. So you merge it together and they put a fake car in the middle. It's not really your car.

[Amy]

Oh, it's shaped like my car. Whatever trips me out.

[Raymundo]

No, roll the window down, stick your arm out and see if you see it in the video.

[Eddie]

You will.

[Scuba Steve]

Cause the camera's gonna catch it.

[Amy]

Oh, it's gonna catch your arm going up.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, man.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Scuba Steve]

It is cool, though.

[Amy]

I miss the good old days, but that trips me out. Let's go.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

Number two, Blake Shelton stopped by the show. Now Amy is the one to interview him because this is the day that Bobby had to leave. He was not feeling well at all, so Amy took over the interview. We found out a lot of things about Blake. Not only that he participated in pageants when he was a kid, but also the story behind him stopping a drunk intruder at one of his family members houses. And just fun conversation all the way around. You know what's also funny is during CMA remotes, which was pre CMA awards, I talked to Blake for a few minutes and I told him that he reminded me of Vince Vaughn. Not only do they kind of look similar, but they're both super, super tall. And their sense of humor is so similar. When he was sitting in the studio, I kept being like, who does he remind me of? This is so similar. You know when you feel like deja vu, like you've met this person or like you've experienced this person before? That is what it was. Blake Shelton is Vince Vaughn, and nobody is gonna convince me otherwise.

[Morgan]

Number one, go on the Bobby Bones show.

[Raymundo]

Now, Blake Shelton.

[Amy]

We're gonna play the full interview Amy did with Blake Shelton. You did a great job. It's excellent.

[Raymundo]

Oh, thank you.

[Amy]

If you're like, why is Bobby there? This was day one of my stomach bug and I missed a whole lot this day. And I was sad to miss Blake, but Amy's awesome, so it was easy for me to leave. But here is Amy with Blake Shelton. Here on the Bobby Bone Show.

[Raymundo]

So, Blake, People magazine, they just came out with their 2024 Sexiest Man Alive.

[Eddie]

No, please.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, they did. They did. And so, of course, we decided to do a country version. So we were like, hey, sexiest man in country music. And we came up with a whole list. And so now, I mean, since you literally were one of People magazine's sexiest men ever, who. Who do you think is the sexiest man in country music?

[Eddie]

Well, you have to lower the bar, you know, in general. Well, you're talking about these guys. Yeah, no, I'm talking about the all. All of us. Country.

[Raymundo]

Y'all don't think country has hotties?

[Eddie]

No, not any of the ones that I know personally. Because I'm thinking, you know, there's a whole new generation coming up that I don't even know what they look like. I know their names. I see their music, comes on the radio, all that stuff, but I don't know what they look like. I do know what guys like Luke Bryan looks like and Jason Aldine. And they're ugly to me. I'm not. I don't find them attractive, you know? Really? Lower the bar. Say what?

[Raymundo]

Sam Hunt.

[Eddie]

He's better looking than Luke and Jason, apparently. He must be high on your list if you just kind of hurled him out there like that. You got a little bit defensive, like, what about Sam. What about Sam Hunt?

[Raymundo]

Riley Green.

[Eddie]

I'll give that.

[Raymundo]

No.

[Eddie]

Who?

[Raymundo]

Riley Green?

[Eddie]

Is it mustache, right? Mustache. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Way better than Luke.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

I feel like you, like, think these guys are high. You're just scared to say it.

[Scuba Steve]

What?

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's. Did she just. What?

[Raymundo]

Like Lunchbox, for example. He says he cannot tell if a man is attractive or not.

[Eddie]

Well, I mean, what's wrong with that?

[Raymundo]

Well, I've been thinking about you a lot, Blake, and I saw that. Oh, Red. There's this. I don't know if it's a new concoction, maybe it's been on there a while, but it's a pimento cheese artichoke dip. Are you familiar?

[Eddie]

No.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Sounds incredible.

[Raymundo]

It's on your menu at Allred, and it got me thinking about weird food combos, and if you have any that you'll admit to that you eat at home, like, are there any concoctions? You're like, this is weird, but it's just so good.

[Eddie]

Well, my brother. When I was a little kid, my brother used to mix, like, this regular, like, pancake syrup with peanut butter, and mix that and put it on a Piece of bread. I don't even know if it had a name. We used to call it mix, and that was our, like, treat when we were kids. Well, do you regular, like, maple, you know, whatever. Griffins, whatever. Syrup and peanut butter.

[Raymundo]

Do you ever eat Mix, like, now as an adult?

[Eddie]

No, that's. But I haven't thought about it in years. I remember one time we used to have a dares where we would try to, like, you know, as kids, like, mix up the grossest crap you can think of, you know, to eat, like, a combination of something and then dare the. You know, it's. Whoever's turn it was had to eat it. And I watched my sister eat mayonnaise and. And Nestle's quick one time mixed together.

[Raymundo]

Oh, gosh. Yeah, that's still.

[Eddie]

It's still, to this day, is horrifying to me.

[Raymundo]

Oh, yeah, no, that's not a good conclusion.

[Scuba Steve]

That's gross, man. That's disgusting.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, I had to eat dirt.

[Eddie]

My sister's gross, man.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, she's gross. Yeah, I did. We would. I think all kids did that. And one time I mixed up a bunch of, like, really good ingredients from the fridge, but with dirt, and my mom thought it was wasting food, so she made me eat it.

[Eddie]

Oh, wow.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

How was it?

[Raymundo]

It was disgusting. So I don't. I don't recommend that. You know, I decided to ask AI, like, to describe Blake Shelton in three words. God, do you want to know the three?

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Raymundo]

Charismatic.

[Eddie]

Oh, okay.

[Raymundo]

Authentic.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Raymundo]

And hilarious, man.

[Eddie]

I love. I love this.

[Raymundo]

AI right.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

I feel this is very complimentary because I was.

[Eddie]

That made me nervous because AI only knows to tell the truth. Right.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Well, which. Speaking of. Well, I do have some fun facts about you. I have no idea if they're actually true or not, so you could say if they are.

[Eddie]

Where did you get these facts from?

[Raymundo]

The Internet. Okay, well, you just, like, Google it, you know, like, I love Wikipedia. Yeah. Are you. So you're not into bare feet? Like, do bare feet freak you out?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

So, like, you always have socks on or, like, if you're with people, they have to have socks on or.

[Eddie]

You know, I think this started, I don't know, when it was. There was a trend, and it may still be going, you know, in country music, there was a. A handful of artists that they would perform in their bare feet, like, walk out on a festival stage in their bare feet. And it kind of started there for me. It's like, man, what. What are you doing? You know, it's not it's not as much about that. It's someone's foot, because, I mean, who cares about that? But it's like, what if there's an emergency? And then it switched into guys wearing flip flops. That really started bothering me the older I got.

[Scuba Steve]

Sounds like Jimmy Buffett started all.

[Eddie]

Yeah, well, it's like, if there's an emergency, that's pretty much. You have shown yourself to be the guy that's not going to help anybody, so.

[Raymundo]

You mean in the room?

[Eddie]

Like, if there's a fire, something's going on, you can't help. You got on your flip flops. You got to go save yourself.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, good point.

[Eddie]

And this guy's in here wearing our cowboy boots. Well, help get the children out of the building.

[Raymundo]

So. Do you not own a pair of flip flops?

[Eddie]

No. God, no.

[Raymundo]

So do you? Well, you only wear cowboy boots and, like, maybe running shoes.

[Scuba Steve]

What about, like, Crocs?

[Eddie]

I'm a big runner, but I do. I have shoes and boots. That's it.

[Raymundo]

I meant, like, running would be. The running shoes would come in handy.

[Eddie]

I'm not on a pair of flip flops.

[Raymundo]

Okay. Yeah, right. What do you do for, you know, working out?

[Eddie]

Treadmill. I'll get. I'll get on treadmill for, like, 30 minutes or maybe 45 minutes.

[Raymundo]

Like, walking.

[Eddie]

It's like a combination. Like, walk for 28 minutes and then mix in, like, 30 seconds of runs here and there, you know?

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Okay. Next, fun fact that we don't know if it's true or not, you once caught an intruder at your uncle's house and detained the drunken man yourself until the police arrived.

[Scuba Steve]

Let's go.

[Eddie]

Well, detained him was a. You know, it's not like I had him down on the floor and, you know, saying, don't move. You know, it was more like. And drunk. I think he had a lot of stuff in his system, you know, And I really think he thought in his mind that's where he lived, you know? And so my uncle, who was special needs, he called and said, hey, you know, there's this guy in my house, and he's just, like, sitting on the couch saying, you know, he lives here. And so my initial thought was, you know, what's going on over there? And. And I went and knocked on my uncle's. I can't even believe I'm telling this. I hadn't thought about this in 15 years or more. And the guy answered the door as if it was his house, like, yeah, can I help you? And it's like, yeah, get the hell out of this house. You know, what are you doing? You know? And he's like, what are you talking about? I go, you know what I'm talking about. Like one of those deals. I mean, while the police are coming. And. And I just kept him entertained, you know, until they got there.

[Raymundo]

Well, I'm glad you clarified it because I definitely was picturing you like sitting on top of him. No detaining, like citizens arrest.

[Scuba Steve]

What does that mean, entertain? You didn't sing a song or anything, did you?

[Eddie]

I may have. I don't know. I just keep everything, you know.

[Raymundo]

You think when that guy sobered up, he's like, huh, so Blake Shelton just came over?

[Eddie]

No, I don't. I think even sober, he wouldn't have known who I was. This man had other things on his mind.

[Raymundo]

Your mom put you in pageants when you were younger.

[Eddie]

Are you saying that just because then you say that and then you just stare at me with like.

[Raymundo]

Because that's the fun fact.

[Eddie]

Disappointed look on your face?

[Raymundo]

No, not at all.

[Scuba Steve]

Is it true?

[Raymundo]

No, I'm. This is fun facts. Are they true or not?

[Eddie]

It is true. Okay, true. Because. And here's why. The way I remember it is I was already messing around with music. Even when I was 6, 7, 8 years old in my bedroom, I would just be in there, you know, playing Ted Nugent, Cat Scratch Fever and Hank Jr. Whatever records my brother had, I would be playing them as loud as I could, singing them into one of those little plug in microphones that you won't remember, but back in the day you could have a little tiny microphone that you could record over cassettes with and I would be singing into that microphone. And my mom finally decided maybe she should enter me into some of these pageants in our small town because there's a talent portion of the pageant, you know, I got to sing a song on there. So she did. She entered me in like, I don't know, probably four or five pageants. Enough that I told her one day, mom, I don't want to sing anymore if that's the. What I have to do to sing. Because it's embarrassing to be up there doing the evening wear and stuff, you know, with. With all the little girls. And I'm the one boy, you know, in the pageant. So it was. I was probably like 12 or 13 before I started singing again. Just like regular music events around our town back in Ada. Ada, Oklahoma. That's true also. That's where I'm from.

[Raymundo]

We got that as a fact. Okay? We Got two more. One being you've been confused for Joe Nichols. So much so that people at festivals used to get mad at you for not playing songs like, you know, probably Tequila makes her clothes fall off.

[Eddie]

Or that's happened. That's happened with a lot of artists, you know, over the years, that. Being confused for other artists. I remember one time they used to have CMA Fest over here at the Nashville Fairgrounds back in the day, and there was a parking lot where all the artists could park to go in and sign autographs or whatever, you know? And I remember one time, I was. I used to have super long hair, like, down, halfway down, middle of my back. And I was leaving one time, and fans had figured out they could go stand next to the fence where that parking lot was, and then mess with standing in stupid lines in the. In the building. They could catch their favorite artists right there going to their car and get autographs, you know, and so I was leaving. I had, like, one song out, maybe not even yet. And I was almost in my car, and I heard some fans say, terry, Terry. Terry Clark. And I stopped, and I started looking around like, oh, my God, Terry Clark's out here. And. And then when I look back at the fans, they were kind of like, oh, you know, and. And looked away, you know, and they were like. I realized they thought I was Terry Clark.

[Raymundo]

Wow.

[Eddie]

When I was leaving, and. And. And I've told Terry this also.

[Raymundo]

How'd you feel?

[Eddie]

We don't know which one is. Is more offended. But then later on, it was Joe Nichols, because Joe and I had pretty much the same haircut at one point. And he came out and. And I do remember, like, you. You know, you didn't play Broken Heartsville. You know, at signing autographs after the show, I used to tell people in airports, they would come up and say, are you Joe Nichols? And I would say, yes. And I hate kids. And you just to try to get a leg up, you know, because back then.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Competition.

[Eddie]

Yes. I was up against him on all the awards and stuff. So, yeah, screw him.

[Raymundo]

And final fun fact, we're gonna find out if it's true or not.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Raymundo]

Gwen Stefani says having you in her life is a miracle.

[Eddie]

That sounds like a stretch, doesn't it?

[Raymundo]

I mean, no, but I really did read, like, a couple of days ago that she said meeting you was like a second chance at life. I'm paraphrasing, but I'm pretty sure that.

[Eddie]

I've seen this stuff too. I've been seeing it because she's you know, she's released an album.

[Raymundo]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

On Friday. And so I've been seeing, you know, she's doing all the press and stuff, and I've been seeing this stuff, too. It's. It's the sweetest, nicest things. I can't believe that. I can't believe it, you know?

[Raymundo]

I know.

[Eddie]

It's. It's awesome.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. I felt like reading that. It gives a lot of other people hope that maybe are on their second chapter or third or whatever. Life, you know.

[Eddie]

Well, I tell you, it's amazing, you know, that to get this. On this end of life, you know, I'm 48 now, and to have only met my best friend, you know, eight or nine years ago is pretty incredible. You know, you just never know what's out there, what's. What's around the corner. And, you know, she's just been. Everything she's saying is. I feel the same way. It's. It's been an incredible connection. I don't know how else to explain it.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Well, I do feel like it does offer hope for people, that maybe they're turning into that second chapter, whether it's age or just a divorce or, you know, what is my life going to look like now? Because this isn't going how I expected it.

[Eddie]

Sure, sure.

[Raymundo]

But hearing people open up and say, like, yeah, there. There are second chances out there. And it's not to say that the first part. I mean, I don't think she would change anything about any of that, and obviously her kids and whatnot, but it's. It was beautiful and it gave me some hope, honestly.

[Eddie]

So it's. Well, I tell you, too. And we were on rock bottom. We hit rock bottom before we found each other, you know, so that kind of. That sounds worse when you say it like that. Like, hey, you got. You gotta. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I don't mean it like that, but just. Just when we thought that's. Well, that was going to be our run at it, you know, is when we found each other.

[Raymundo]

What do you think? Hitting rock bottom. Then you evolve into this next version of yourself. Like, that's the stuff that stretches you and grows you. So if y'all had met earlier, it probably wouldn't have been the right time, because it's this version of both of you that y'all needed.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's true. But it's fun for us to think about, what if we would have known each other, like, way, way back? What would it have Been like, you know, she's written a lot of songs about that. You know, I think there's even one on this new record about that because, you know, it's just. It's just like I say, it's amazing that this chapter started so late in our lives, you know?

[Raymundo]

Well, she's got new music. You've got new music. You know, Austin was your first number one song way back in the day, and then now you kind of got a complete. You got Austin and now you got Texas, which I was born and raised in Austin, Texas.

[Eddie]

Oh, no kidding.

[Raymundo]

Shout out. Wow. And so Texas. I immediately gravitated towards it when it came out. And huge George Strait fan as well. Love that he gets a shout out in the chorus. Why did you decide to cut that song?

[Eddie]

Well, I just fell in love with it the first time I heard it and. And, you know, it's been. It's been a minute since I've released any music.

[Raymundo]

It's two years.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And it's been. I don't know how long it's been before that, before I've even released an album. It's. It's been a. It's been a while. And, you know, I was doing the voice for 12 years and 23 seasons of that show I did. And so when I. When I finally walked away from really, I wasn't just walking away from the Voice. It was just television in general. I just needed a break from. From that machine. I was just kind of numb. When I finally walked away, it was like, gosh, I. I just need some. Some nothing for a while, you know, and it sounds like a spoiled brat thing to say, but I just kind of didn't really feel like I knew what I wanted to do anymore because I had just kind of been on the hamster wheel of. Of that beast that is, you know, television. And so for a year and a half, I really didn't do much. I mean, I did do a little tour in there and a handful of shows were really not anything else. And I wasn't making any records. I wasn't recording or writing or doing anything. And, man, I'll be damned if last spring I got a call to do this duet with Post Malone. And I was shocked, honestly, because it was just like, what me? He wants me to do this? And so obviously I heard the song and was like, this sounds like something that I would have done anyway, and hell yeah, I'll do it. I had met Post at the. At the super bowl last year. Gwen. And I had done a, like, A pre game performance and then Post saying America the Beautiful before the game. And. And so we saw each other and traded phone numbers and. But that happens a million times in this business and you never expect to hear from somebody, you know, it's like, oh, let's get together. Sure. And. But he followed up and so we made that recording and then of course it came out and was a hit. And the whole experience for me and even being around Post, I'm sure he's probably. You guys have probably talked to him now, I'm sure I don't know. But you know what he's like. He's just so excited, so happy and just so full of excitement about music and country music especially, you know, and being around him, shooting the video. We've done, you know, some performances and it was just the. Honestly, the kick in the ass that I needed to kind of go, man, what are you doing? You know, you used to be this fired up, you know, and being around him really lit a fire under me again and reminded me that, you know, nobody gets to do what I do. Very few people get to be recording artists and do what they dreamed of doing when they were a kid, and I get to do that, and I'm wasting this time, you know. And so I really do credit Post for getting me fired back up again and wanting to get back in the studio and really kind of start over again. You know, I got a new record deal starting with a whole new team and just kind of really just turned a page. And so to answer your question, though, about Texas, it. It was a song that I felt like it kind of. It's got a connection to me and who I've been as an artist all these years. You know, I had a record years ago called Sangria, and it's got a little bit of that kind of vibe to it, but it also feels like a step in a new direction, which I always try to do when I go in and make a record. That's what my heroes like Conway Twitty and Kenny Rogers, you know, their catalog, when you listen to them, you know, they're always kind of pushing the envelope and. And I feel like this song does that musically for me, you know, and course it, you know, the tip of the hat to George Strait in the course. If you don't like George Strait, you know, you probably don't have any friends. So I gotta have, you know. You know, even everybody loves George Strait, I hope. And so I love the tip of the hat to George in the course.

[Raymundo]

What's Your favorite George Strait song, man.

[Eddie]

I perform all my exes in my shows a lot, you know, and. But it's probably not my favorite. My favorite is probably oceanfront property. I don't know why I just always go. Go back to that one. But there's. There's so many. And there's so many that were number one hits that are almost forgotten because he's had so many number one hits. It's like I've said before, I've done a lot of shows with George over the years. I go, man, it's impossible to go to a George Strait song and leave without going, man, he didn't play one of my favorite songs. Because how can he possibly play 80 songs in an. You know, there's just literally so many to choose from.

[Raymundo]

Well, you're not.

[Eddie]

There's some of those back in the 80s that are forgotten, that are just incredible.

[Raymundo]

Of a chair.

[Eddie]

Oh, the chair chill of an early fall. There's a. I mean, we could sit here and do this for another hour. Let's not do it. But I love him so much. I don't want to take away from my tie.

[Raymundo]

Oh, yeah. Absolutely not. But your nod to George in the song as the Amarillo by morning, that's one of his.

[Eddie]

Yeah, well, Amarillo's in there. And also he says that's where all my exes go. So I got them both in there.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, you squeeze that one in there. I saw a video of the writers of the song.

[Amy]

I saw that.

[Raymundo]

Yes.

[Eddie]

I still haven't met them in person yet. I'm supposed to meet them today. Either today or tomorrow. I think I'm finally going to get a chance to meet them, because I think for three of them, it's their first single that they've had, maybe all four of them, but I think three of them. It's their first single. And one. One of the riders has been here for, like, 15 years or something, which I totally relate to. You know, I was here for seven years before I had any kind of a break, you know, so, you know, it just shows you that, you know, just. Same thing we were talking about with. With Gwen. You know, you just never know what's. What's around the corner.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, I just thought it was really special. Like, they had to probably be freaking out. Oh, Blake Shelton's gonna cut our song. And then they're hearing it on the radio for the first time.

[Eddie]

Oh, my God. One of them was standing on the top of their car, crashing the hood in or something. It was pretty funny.

[Raymundo]

That Gave me goosebumps. That's like, you know, probably cool for you too, as an artist to be part of helping them, you know, round that corner, make that dream come true.

[Eddie]

Well, you know, those guys help me. I always look at it that way when. When songwriters. There's so many great talented songwriters in this town. Like, it's. It's literally unbelievable. And they've built this thing for me. The writers have. You know, I'm just a lucky guy that's been able to get my hands on. On some of these songs, you know, and no different than Texas. I think it's a special song and I feel like those guys took a chance on me, you know, I mean, I'm. I'm not the new up and comer anymore, you know what I'm saying? So I really appreciate them giving me a chance with it.

[Raymundo]

Well, Texas is catchy. It'll get stuck in your head for sure. It's good. And, you know, we were talking about Austin earlier being your first number one song. You have. You have 29 number one songs. Okay, that's.

[Eddie]

That's all right. That's what I heard when. When the. When the post thing went, because it. I think different charts have different criteria or whatever, but I heard that I was tied with Tim McGraw for, I think, the second or third. Third, most of. However they do the charts now. We all know that George. Nobody's ever catching him. But I thought that was pretty cool because I look up to Tim. It's like, what, man? Tim?

[Raymundo]

I mean, do you think you could name them all of mine? All 29 Pro?

[Eddie]

I probably could.

[Raymundo]

I mean, I know you could, but, like, go ahead.

[Eddie]

No. Oh, my God.

[Raymundo]

We'D be here. You actually do have things coming up on your calendar.

[Eddie]

There's a. There's a lot of my songs that people think were number ones. Not. Maybe not a lot, but there's some that people think were number ones that weren't even close, like O Red, which is probably arguably one of my bigger wreck hits. You know, as far as impact goes it, that was not Even a top 10 single when it came out. I think it went somewhere in the teens, but it went on to be the fan favorite and. And now there's restaurants named after it around the country, you know, but it wasn't Even a top 10 song at the time.

[Raymundo]

Oh, wow.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

Well, speaking of all you have coming.

[Eddie]

So let's just go ahead and say 30. When I say it that way, I mean, you know, it really should have been.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, 31 then. Yeah. Texas. I mean, I don't want to. I don't. Do you believe in the jinx or any of that stuff? Like, if I were to say right now, Texas is so good, it's probably gonna be your next number one. You might be like, well, if it doesn't go number one, then, yeah, I.

[Eddie]

Do believe that stuff. Thanks a lot.

[Raymundo]

You do? I didn't just say it. I was asking hypothetically, when it comes.

[Eddie]

To football, I do. When it comes to my football teams, I. I do believe in jinxes.

[Raymundo]

What do you do on game day? Do you have, like, a hat or a shirt or something you have to do?

[Eddie]

Yes. And when we're on defense, I turn my hat backwards. When we're on offense, it's forward. Unless that's not working. Then I reverse those things.

[Amy]

Interesting.

[Raymundo]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

And that works? No, but then why do you do it? Well, I feel like I'm contributing something to the team.

[Raymundo]

If your team loses, does it completely derail your day?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Raymundo]

Days.

[Eddie]

No, not days, but it will derail the day and part of the next day. And then I start to get over it. Then I start to find ways to find a different path to the playoffs than the one that I had in mind. Y'all, you guys are Cowboys fans. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

[Scuba Steve]

I'm done turning my hat around.

[Amy]

It wasn't working anymore.

[Eddie]

You may want to just take the hat off this year for the rest of the year.

[Raymundo]

They're used to them losing, but it's. It's a psychological thing. It's like you think you're a part of the team, so therefore, it. Fans. Not you, Blake, you. Just you. But most big, hardcore fans, they are a part of the team, and they feel like they're contributing in their own way. And then when they lose, it's like they've actually lost. When, like, you are not on the.

[Eddie]

Team at all, I feel like you're. This feels like therapy right now, usually.

[Raymundo]

Right? Well, I mean, I'm just, like, trying.

[Eddie]

To take this away from you.

[Raymundo]

No, but I just don't know that it should impact you for a day, you know? So do you have to go, like, plow some stuff or what do you do to let the anger out?

[Eddie]

The drink.

[Raymundo]

Oh, yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

That's how.

[Raymundo]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Cool.

[Raymundo]

Cool.

[Eddie]

And when we're winning, that's what I do to celebrate.

[Raymundo]

Drink.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

What's your favorite drink?

[Eddie]

Vodka and sprout zero.

[Raymundo]

Oh, yeah. Look at you.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

Watching the calories.

[Eddie]

It's the. The nectar of gods watching the calories. Is that you?

[Raymundo]

So, you know, you're talking about a little. Little hiatus. I'm looking at 20, 25, and it's like, you're back. Like, you're like, okay, I'm ready to. Yeah, I know. You're doing a residency in Vegas basically all of February.

[Eddie]

Oh, my. By the way, Gwen gets so mad when she sees the word residency.

[Raymundo]

What's wrong with that?

[Eddie]

Because it's two weekends. She's like, that is ridiculous that you call that a residency. I did, like, 63 shows. You're doing, like, six shows.

[Raymundo]

It's exactly what you're doing. Six shows. You're doing the fifth, the seventh, the eighth.

[Eddie]

She said, you're just, like, staying over an extra weekend. That's not a residence. But they're calling a residency and I'm going with them.

[Raymundo]

They are. It's at the Coliseum in Caesar's palace.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

Blake Shelton.com for more details on that.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

And then you have your Friends and Heroes dates, which you are basically February to March.

[Eddie]

Yes. Friends and Heroes is, by the way, my favorite way to tour. It's going to be hard to ever get me to go back to doing it another way because it's just so much fun. I mean, the shows are like.

[Raymundo]

Well, describe Friends and Heroes.

[Eddie]

Yeah, well, what it is, is it started, I think, five or six years ago, maybe even before that. I remember a. Specifically a conversation with Trace Atkins about seven years ago now, I think about it. And I called him. I said, man, Trace, what are you doing, like, early next year? Like, February, March? And I don't know why. Why? And I said, well, man, I want you to come out and tour with me, but I don't want you to, like, tour with me. I said, I want you to come out and sing with me during my show. Like, I said, remember when Uncle Cracker used to do that with Kenny Chesney? Like, Kenny Chesney would go on stage and then. And, you know, halfway through the show, Uncle Cracker would come out and they would sing. They had a When the Sun Goes Down. And then Uncle Cracker would sing another hit or two of his. You know, it was a big moment during the show. I said, I want you to come do that on my show because we had at the time Hillbilly Bone. And he said, well, okay, I'll be your Uncle Cracker. And so. And so from there, it was so much fun. The next year, I had John Anderson, the Bellamy Brothers, and then we did that for a couple of years. And Then I ended up getting Tracy bird and Martina McBride. I'm probably forgetting somebody, but we've done these tours now where we bring out different artists, and they all come out during my show, you know? And so this year, we're having Craig Morgan, Trace Atkins, and Dina Carter, which I'm very excited about. Dina Carter, not so much Craig or Trace.

[Raymundo]

Like a legit hero.

[Eddie]

I know, I know, but I know him. I can't. I can't brag on him too much. We know each other too well. Yeah, but Dina Carter, I mean, I guess if you. We should look this up while we're here. But she has to had maybe top five biggest hits of the 90s. Strawberry wine. I mean, it's got to be top five. I don't know how you measure those things. One of the biggest hits.

[Raymundo]

I feel like Strawberry Wine was number one.

[Eddie]

No, I'm saying of the entire decade.

[Raymundo]

Of the all time. Decade.

[Eddie]

I would say decade top five. Would you?

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Let's figure out that fun fact.

[Eddie]

Huge.

[Raymundo]

I can't even. The first that song comes on, I hear like three seconds of it, and I'm instantly teleported to high school.

[Eddie]

It's unbelievable.

[Raymundo]

Listen to it.

[Eddie]

And what's crazy about that song is it did that to you when it first came out.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

It teleported you to back in time, and now it does it again in a different way when you hear it.

[Raymundo]

Like, even just think about it. Right now, I'm driving in my 1986 Bronco. What was your first car?

[Eddie]

I had a 94 Stepside Chevy.

[Raymundo]

Your first car. You turned 16 and it was a 94. That's not.

[Eddie]

No, no. 90. That's not true. 90. 92. Oh, it was a 92.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Eddie]

But it was a. It was a step side GMC. My dad sold Pontiacs and GMCs.

[Raymundo]

Obviously. Had a little hookup.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Yeah. I had a. I'm like, wow, you.

[Raymundo]

Had a new car. That's right, New car. I mean, not. I mean, not saying that your age would indicate anything.

[Eddie]

No, you're saying I grew up wealthy.

[Raymundo]

No, I. I wasn't lying. You had a newer car for 16.

[Eddie]

It was. It was. It was badass. All my friends were super jealous of me.

[Raymundo]

All right, Mike, we got the fact check on Strawberry Wine.

[Amy]

It does not make the top 10 of the 90s.

[Eddie]

It does not.

[Amy]

No, it does not.

[Raymundo]

It does not.

[Eddie]

Piece of crap list you're looking at, man.

[Raymundo]

I mean, what.

[Eddie]

Internet lies?

[Raymundo]

What does any.

[Eddie]

What is number 10 on that list?

[Amy]

Number 10 is. Man, I feel Like a woman.

[Raymundo]

Okay.

[Amy]

And it's this kiss. Ah, she's a little too late. Chattahoochee boots Goot and boogie don't rock the Jukebox, the Dance Friends in Little places, and Achy Breaky Heart at number one.

[Raymundo]

Okay, okay.

[Eddie]

I can't argue with any of them.

[Raymundo]

I mean, they're all pretty good. Obviously, Blake would have been on the list, but you.

[Eddie]

You're fired. I'm sorry. I thought it was top five.

[Raymundo]

You were. I think you came on the map. What was Austin 2001.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Raymundo]

Okay. Yeah, because I'm. I instantly go back to being at Texas A and M hearing that song. Yeah, that's where I was then.

[Eddie]

Oh, were you really?

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Whoop.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Are we going to go over every memory, or you think you should let him go?

[Raymundo]

No, we're going to let him go.

[Bobby Bones]

I think his tour comes up in 2025.

[Raymundo]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

I think, you know, we don't want to keep here till.

[Eddie]

By the way, I mean, she just got thrown right into the car.

[Raymundo]

Thank you. Yes. She's doing great.

[Bobby Bones]

But, I mean, he's got to get to the residency.

[Raymundo]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, he's got to get the bacon.

[Raymundo]

No, that is not until February.

[Eddie]

Are you trying to throw me out of here?

[Amy]

Is that what it is?

[Eddie]

I got a lot of more stuff I want to talk about.

[Raymundo]

Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, yes, thank you, Blake. We always love seeing you, especially in person, because I feel like a lot of times it's on zoom when, you know, you're chatting with Bobby, so it's almost every time.

[Eddie]

It is. Right.

[Raymundo]

I know. So that's why you, in the flesh is.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, I finished my crossword over here. Amy, let's go.

[Raymundo]

All right. Thanks, Blake. Blake Sheldon, everybody.

[Eddie]

Thank you.

[Morgan]

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

[Lunchbox]

That is it for me this weekend. Friends, I hope you had a good time hanging out, maybe getting away from family for a little bit. Whatever it may be, I'm happy that you were here. Please check out part one and part three. This weekend lunchbox came in on his day off just to do it, so do not miss it. And of course, if you've been hearing the hoodie drama, Lunchbox and I, in part one, we did talk about it, so there is that, and all is good. I'll say that. Beyond that, you have to go listen for yourselves. Have a safe and happy rest of your holiday weekend. Eat those leftovers before they're done. Okay, I'm getting out of here.

[Morgan]

Goodbye, that's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social.

[Amy]

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[Morgan]

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