Best Bits of 2024

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – Best Bits of 2024

Episode Information:

• Title: Best Bits of 2024
• Host/Author: Premiere Networks
• Release Date: January 4, 2025
• Description: A compilation of the standout moments from 2024 on "The Bobby Bones Show," featuring top stories, humorous segments, and heartfelt discussions.

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1. Taylor Swift’s Billion-Dollar Lifestyle

Timestamp: [00:00 – 02:27]

Morgan begins the episode by highlighting a viral segment comparing the cost of everyday items for Taylor Swift versus the average person. This segment garnered significant attention on social media.

• Bobby Bones: “Taylor Swift is now the richest female musician with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion.” [01:13]

• Comparison Highlights:

  • Lululemon Leggings:
    • “$98 for Taylor. If she were to buy those, Amy, that would feel like she's spending 11 cents.” [01:36]
  • Dinner at Nobu:
    • “$700 bucks for Taylor feels like $81 cents.” [01:38]
  • New iPhone:
    • “$1,200 for Taylor feels like $1.87.” [01:50]
  • Average Car:
    • “$40,000 to the average person vs. $37 for Taylor.” [02:07]
  • Average Home:
    • “$300,000 for the average person vs. $400 for Taylor.” [02:16]

Morgan emphasizes the disparity:

• “Imagine all the houses we could have for $400.” [02:27]

Insights:

• The segment underscores the vast financial differences between celebrities and everyday individuals.
• Morgan and Bobby reflect on how such comparisons can blow up on social media, sparking conversations about financial inequality.

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2. Lunchbox’s Hoodie Drama at the CMA Awards

Timestamp: [02:28 – 12:49]

Morgan discusses a controversial moment from the CMA Awards where Lunchbox wore a hoodie instead of the expected formal attire. This incident became a hot topic online and within the show’s community.

• Morgan: “Lunchbox wore a hoodie to the CMA Awards, and it was the hottest of hot topics.” [04:41]

Detailed Breakdown:

• Initial Reactions:

  • Bobby admits missing the show due to illness but praises the appearance of other hosts.
  • Upon seeing group photos, Bobby notices Lunchbox in a hoodie amidst formal attire and questions this choice.

• Dialogue Highlights:

  • Scuba Steve: “No one told me that I had to wear a suit.” [05:55]
  • Bobby Bones: “I think some of your hoodies are nice. You're wearing here Red clay today. I love that, man.” [07:28]

• Explanation and Apology:

  • Bobby acknowledges the oversight in communicating the dress code:
    • “That's on me for not explaining that everybody needed to wear what the email said in the official rules of black tie.” [11:03]

• Dynamic Ticket Pricing Discussion:

  • While not directly related to the hoodie incident, the conversation touches on how dynamic pricing affects concert tickets, linking back to Morgan Wallen’s tour success.

Insights:

• The segment highlights the importance of communication and adherence to event dress codes.
• It also reflects on celebrity culture and audience expectations.
• Bobby’s candid apology showcases accountability within the show’s dynamic.

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3. Amy’s Locked-In Bedroom Incident

Timestamp: [12:56 – 59:54]

One of the most entertaining and unexpected moments of the episode involves Amy getting locked inside her bedroom, leading to a humorous and chaotic on-air scenario.

Event Overview:

• Morgan: “Amy got locked in her bedroom at her house and couldn't make it into the show.” [12:56]

Live Drama:

• Bobby receives a video from Amy showing her locked in her room.

• The team brainstorms creative (and comical) ways to help her escape, including:

  • Using a battering ram
  • Kicking the door open
  • Calling a handyman

• Amy’s Attempts:

  • “I've got the dog and the cat, and I think they are the ones that need to use the bathroom.” [49:46]
  • Attempts to unlock the door and humorously suggests meeting someone romantically through the ordeal.

Resolution:

• After various comedic suggestions and resounding laughter from the team, Amy successfully exits her room.
• Bobby Bones: “Amy's back and safe.” [57:50]

Highlights:

• Humorous Banter:
  • “You never turn the knob to get out of the room. That might be the problem.” [51:32]
  • “You can't even tell if someone has a system on Eddie's head.” [75:23]

Insights:

• The incident showcases the show's ability to handle unexpected live situations with humor and camaraderie.
• It emphasizes the close-knit relationship among the cast, turning a potential mishap into memorable content.

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4. Eddie’s Hair Transformation

Timestamp: [60:11 – 80:25]

A standout segment where Eddie undergoes a hair transformation using a modern hair system provided by JBank Salon and Nashville Hair Replacement.

Process:

• Introduction:

  • Morgan: “Eddie is about to get a hair system, which is the modern version of a toupee.” [60:11]

• Expert Insight:

  • Julie Taylor (JBank Salon): Explains the non-surgical hair replacement process, emphasizing natural appearance and monthly maintenance.

• Live Transformation:

  • Eddie is blindfolded during the process to enhance the reveal.
  • Post-transformation, Eddie is visibly thrilled:
    • “I have hair, dude. This is so unreal.” [74:10]

• Reveal:

  • The team reacts with surprise and admiration at Eddie’s new look.
  • Bobby Bones: “You look like your oldest son.” [75:53]
  • Eddie: “This is unbelievable.” [76:11]

Key Quotes:

• Lunchbox: “It's a pretty simple process.” [61:37]
• Bobby Bones: “Eddie is getting his hair system put on right now.” [72:05]
• Eddie: “I’m super excited. The fact that I’m going to have hair in the next few minutes is amazing.” [65:05]

Insights:

• The segment highlights advancements in hair replacement technology, offering a natural and maintenance-friendly solution.
• It also serves as a humorous and uplifting transformation story, reinforcing themes of self-improvement and confidence.

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5. Remembering Toby Keith

Timestamp: [80:25 – 84:47]

Morgan shares a poignant moment remembering the passing of Toby Keith, one of country music’s legends. The show reflects on their last interview with him and celebrates his legacy.

Discussion Points:

• Toby Keith’s Passing:

  • Morgan announces Toby Keith’s death, expressing the community’s grief.

• Last Interview:

  • Bobby recalls one of the last interviews conducted with Toby, discussing his music and life.

• Legacy:

  • Ray (Toby’s Manager): Shares anecdotes about Toby’s contributions, their final performances, and the song “Don’t Let the Old Man In,” highlighting its resurgence and impact.

Key Quotes:

• Morgan: “Toby Keith passed away this year, and it was heartbreaking for his family, friends, the entire country music community, and fans alike.” [80:25]
• Ray: “This song could have been recorded in the 50s or 60s, it sounds so country and old school.” [84:18]

Insights:

• The tribute underscores the deep connections within the country music community.
• It also emphasizes the enduring nature of Toby Keith’s music and his influence on future generations.

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6. Closing Thoughts and Future Outlook

Timestamp: [90:11 – End]

Morgan wraps up the episode by thanking listeners, expressing gratitude for their support, and looking forward to the new year.

• Morgan: “I hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you for being here, hanging out with me.” [90:11]

Final Messages:

• Encouragement for listeners to stay engaged and participate in future segments.
• Teasers for upcoming episodes and continued sharing of standout moments.

Closing Quote:

• Morgan: “Brighter new horizons. And I'm excited for all of us for what 2025 will bring.” [91:20]

Insights:

• The closing segment reinforces the show’s community-driven approach, valuing listener participation and anticipation for future content.

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Notable Quotes:

• “Taylor Swift is now the richest female musician with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion.” – Bobby Bones [01:13]
• “Lunchbox wore a hoodie to the CMA Awards, and it was the hottest of hot topics.” – Morgan [04:41]
• “Eddie is getting his hair system put on right now.” – Bobby Bones [72:05]
• “Toby Keith passed away this year, and it was heartbreaking for his family, friends, the entire country music community, and fans alike.” – Morgan [80:25]

Conclusion: This episode of "The Bobby Bones Show" encapsulates a year’s worth of memorable moments, blending humor, heartfelt tributes, and engaging discussions. From dissecting celebrity lifestyles to handling live on-air antics and transformative makeovers, the show offers listeners a comprehensive and entertaining recap of 2024’s best bits.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

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

[Morgan]

Just the bits at this time every year, I always do the best bits of the year. So I know we're after New Year's because the holidays are falling a little funky this year. So this is post New Year's and technically we are in 2025, but I'm still doing here the top bits of 2024 from the Bobby Bone show for this week. And yes, Best bits part one and part three this weekend are new content. I had Scuba Steve come in and record some stuff with me before we left for the holiday. So it's all new and you can get some fun conversation over there about New year's reflection of 2024 and some holiday stuff over there too. Without further ado, let's get into it. The best bits of 2024. This one blew up on our social media. Bobby had shared what things cost to Taylor Swift. Like a house to a normal person is this. But to Taylor Swift, it's this much and all kinds of things like that. And this one just blew up. People were like, what? And crazy. Also, how is this possible? So that's what you're going to hear right now. What do things cost to Taylor Swift versus how it cost to the average person?

[Bobby Bones]

Number seven, Taylor Swift is now the richest female musician with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion. So what I like to do is see how much things feel like they cost to Taylor based on what it would cost, what it feel like to cost to the normal person. For example, if you were to go buy some Lululemon leggings, $98 for Taylor. If she were to buy those, Amy, that would feel like she's spending 11 cents.

[Amy]

Oh, wow, that's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

For her, a dinner for two at Nobu, which is a very fancy place in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, if you go, it's like 700 bucks for Taylor. 81 cents.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

A new iPhone. Big purchase for some folks, especially if you don't have it. Like in your plan where they give it to you for free. If you don't, like, renew your plan for the three years, a new iPhone. Twelve hundred dollars for Taylor feels like $1.87.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

A new average car. In the United States, the average car is about $40,000. To Taylor, $37. Okay. Get her a $30 car.

[Eddie]

Gosh, that's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

And the average home in the United States is $300,000. For Taylor to buy that home, it would cost her to us $400. Imagine all the houses we could have for $400.

[Amy]

Not bad.

[Bobby Bones]

That would be awesome. Just the houses galore. $400 a house. Dang. So good for her, though. Those shows, I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen it. Like, it just. They sell out so fast. You're talking about football stadiums and, like, ever. Even when she changes, like, a new dress in her show, it's like a new story. It's like Taylor has decided to wear a gold snake dress instead of the green one, and it, like, pops up in my feed. Yeah. It's unlike anything I've ever seen as far as, like, pop stars. And Morgan Wallen, they announced he had the highest. The biggest country tour of all time. And it's for two reasons. One, he sells at football stadiums, right? Like, because, like, Kenny's done it. There's only a few artists I've ever sold at football stadiums. Garth Wallen, Kenny Zach, Brian does it now. Luke Combs has done it a few times. But also, the ticket prices, they. The concert tickets cost so freaking much. And, like, the extra good tickets are, like, even higher than what inflation is for, like, this year versus 50 years ago. Like, to get, like. And they also have this, like, ticket gauge thing where the more in demand, they raise the prices of the tickets.

[Lunchbox]

So.

[Amy]

But that's the. Some of those are being the resold ones.

[Bobby Bones]

Not always. Oh, yeah. It's called, like, dynamic ticket pricing. And I'm not saying this happens, but that happens too, where it's like buying a ticket on Southwest Airlines, meaning the ticket prices go. It's the same. You get a seat, but the less. The fewer tickets there are, the higher the ticket cost is.

[Amy]

Oh. Because, see, I just thought that Taylor would maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know that Taylor does dynamic tickets. I know that at times because I'm.

[Amy]

Like, you just went over those numbers. Like, she could lower them a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Bit, you know, if people are buying them.

[Eddie]

Why?

[Bobby Bones]

I know, I know, I know. Dynamic ticket pricing is a strategy that increases prices when demand is high and decreases when demand is low.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It is used by many industries, including entertainment, and they go through all of it. And so. But yeah, I mean, that's what the airlines do. That's why a ticket, if you get it last minute, costs so much, you're getting the same seat you would have got if you'd have bought it three weeks ago. But, yeah, no. Morgan Wallen, biggest country tour, and Taylor Swift, it's wild. And she get a house for $400. How crazy is that it's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.

[Morgan]

There was some clothing drama on the show this year, but this one stood out in particular. Lunchbox wore a hoodie to the CMA Awards, and it was the hottest of hot topics, not just within our show, but on our social media. It was controversial all the way around, and it still is a running joke and maybe one of the most infamous hoodies to ever exist.

[Bobby Bones]

Number six, I was looking at pictures. I was not able to go to the CMA's last night. Regretfully, I was. I've been sick the last few days, even here on the show. So Amy looked great.

[Amy]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie looked great.

[Eddie]

Oh, thanks, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Morgan, I saw your video. You're like, I'm just. Just a girl that's kind of wet from a shower, and I'm not going out. And you did your hand swipe. Boom. And then she's, like, in her dress. You know, one of those things is good. And then you guys can help me, because I only saw a picture. Was Lunchbox in a hoodie?

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Confirmed.

[Amy]

Yeah, like a sweatshirt hoodie. But it was an.

[Bobby Bones]

It looked.

[Amy]

It was nice.

[Bobby Bones]

I just saw the group picture. Not just our show, but, like, they did a picture of, like, everybody who won, and every single person's in a suit or, like, a really nice dress. And Luxbox is in a hoodie. But I would. I'm not judging yet. We all love to judge on this show, but I would like to hold back for a second. What? What was that?

[Scuba Steve]

What do you mean? It was an outfit. It's called style. No one told me that I had to wear a suit. No one said there's a dress code.

[Bobby Bones]

You've been to that many times? We've done that many times.

[Scuba Steve]

Justin Bieber goes to something, he wears a hoodie. People say, oh, fashion. I wear a hoodie, and it's, like, the worst thing in the world.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think it's the worst thing in the world. No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Amy]

He's not judging you yet.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not asking you. I'm not asking you to be defensive. I'm. They are not jumping in because they've already all made fun of you behind your back. So I'm. But I'm. Oh, no, no.

[Scuba Steve]

They made fun of me in my face when I walked in. Morgan did. Goes. Are you wearing a hoodie?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, hold on. It's just me and you talking here.

[Scuba Steve]

And then I'm gonna. Eddie says, are you gonna change? And then Mike D's Wife, first thing she says to me goes, I see you got your nicest clothes out. And here's my thing. If I went up to Morgan and said, you look like crap.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but Morgan was dressed appropriately for, like, what the. They. They say, you know, it's like, whatever the kid. What the style of dress look.

[Amy]

It's like black tie people are wearing.

[Bobby Bones]

This is also what I like to do. Everybody else, shut up.

[Eddie]

Yes, sir.

[Bobby Bones]

Except for lunchbox night, because he's gonna get mad at you guys. And I'm not trying to talk to him like I'm upset or irritated.

[Scuba Steve]

I don't. And see, here's the thing.

[Bobby Bones]

O, no, no, let's take it down. Let's take it down half a notch. Just me and you talking.

[Scuba Steve]

If. If I went up to a girl and said, why are you wearing that crap? I'm a jerk, right? But Morgan does it to me and it's. Oh, cool. If I told her your dress looks like trash, how would she feel?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I don't think I liked your hoodie, by the way.

[Scuba Steve]

See, I. Here, here's the thing there. I don't give a crap what hoodie.

[Bobby Bones]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I liked your hoodie. I did think that it. It was a bit underdressed for the occasion, but I just wondered what your thought was.

[Scuba Steve]

I thought it was a nice event. It's a nice hoodie. It ain't some trash hoodie that I wear every day.

[Bobby Bones]

I think some of your hoodies are nice. You're wearing here Red clay today. I love that, man.

[Scuba Steve]

I wore it today because I saw them last night. There you go. So, yeah, I thought it's. No one said anything about a dress code or what you're supposed to wear. Just said, hey, we're going to the CMAs. I'm like, cool, man. This is a nice hoodie. That is expensive.

[Bobby Bones]

Gotta love you for being you.

[Scuba Steve]

And I wore it, and I wasn't worried about it. And not one person was like, oh, my gosh, we can't let you in because you have a hoodie on. Cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Great. Yeah, yeah, great. I have said nothing to the fact of I'm upset or irritated. I just saw it and thought, is that real? Or is that, like, a fun picture he took, like, after he changed out of his suit? Scuba. Everybody else, mouth shut, please.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. What's up, Scuba?

[Bobby Bones]

You're the executive producer of this show?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, of course my name's on it, but, like, you run this thing, no doubt about it, as that guy. What Were your thoughts?

[Eddie]

Well, I guess my first question would be, you get the CMA emails, right? Lunchbox. They come through about to vote for this and here's information for this tickets and all that.

[Scuba Steve]

And I voted.

[Eddie]

Gotcha. So in one of those emails, there's an important line here. It says attire and additional information. It says, the CMA Awards encouraged you to honor the tradition of country music's biggest night by dressing in black tie or formal attire.

[Bobby Bones]

It does say that. I didn't know that. I just see everybody else doing it every year, so I wear it well.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And everyone else is doing it as well. I will say it was a really nice hoodie for him. It was more of an upgrade from what we normally see. So I could see in his eyes, he's like, well, I wore a really nice hoodie. This is like my black tie.

[Bobby Bones]

And it. Okay, fair enough.

[Eddie]

Maybe he's tone gentle to the audience.

[Scuba Steve]

Jelly Roll wasn't in a suit. No one seemed to complain about that.

[Eddie]

And I wore sunglasses, so I kind of didn't care a little bit myself. But I still wore like a suit and looked somewhat nice. But I just think maybe he doesn't understand his world. He thinks that was awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

That's on us then. You know what? That's on me as the leader to not go and say, hey, be sure to wear a suit. I mean, I got a hoodie. Nordstrom.

[Scuba Steve]

Not even Nordstrom Rack.

[Eddie]

But also, I think too, he wasn't sure he was going to make it as well because his wife was doing something. So I think he was like scrambling last second to put something together, do.

[Bobby Bones]

On his best hoodie. Okay, that's on me.

[Scuba Steve]

And I knew it matched because it was black and white, so I knew that it matched with black jeans.

[Eddie]

What's on you? I don't understand.

[Amy]

Well, when there's a mistake, there's a.

[Bobby Bones]

Mistake that happens with this show because even one of our executives reached out to me saying, was this a bit.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, the hoodie?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. And I said, not that I know of. Because I didn't. I didn't know what to say.

[Amy]

He looked nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. For him.

[Amy]

He had jeans that fit. Like, really? The jeans were nice. The hoodie was. You could tell he just bases things off where he bought it and how expensive it is.

[Scuba Steve]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Showing up to a funeral in a tank top and jorts and you're like, well, I'm wearing clothes. Well, but I hear you, I hear you.

[Amy]

But it was still up level for him.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. It is my fault because I. Because I. I will take. And I will message that executive back, because listen, no, no executives listen to our show. They only care about us when we get in trouble. Nobody cares. So I'll message the executive and be like, you know what? That's on me. It was a bit. It was like, could Lunchbox what was the nicest hoodie he could find to wear? And that's. We're good. That's on me. It is my fault. I thought you looked great. I thought you were a bit underdressed for this occasion. But that's on me for not explaining that everybody needed to wear what the email said in the official rules of black tie.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, I still. I mean, I'm looking through this email, and I don't see that anywhere, man.

[Bobby Bones]

But also, can I add one other thing? And I mean this because I feel this way about me too. You're not Jelly Roll or Justin Bieber. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Toby Keith]

Oh, really?

[Eddie]

He thinks he is.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

But here's the thing, people. Fashion is different for everybody.

[Bobby Bones]

I agree.

[Scuba Steve]

And so, like, for you to say, oh, you can't wear this.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't. I didn't say that. I'm saying that I think the hoodie looks great. It is my fault that I didn't explain express to everybody that you need to do what's traditionally done that you guys have seen for, like, I don't know, eight or nine years in a row.

[Eddie]

Maybe longer.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And the bit that I suggested of Lunchbox. Can you wear the nicest hoodie he can find? Was not the greatest idea for me to do that bit.

[Amy]

Okay, Link, Link.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't want him to get in trouble because I have a feeling that they're gonna be like, you guys are disrespect. You know, these executives are so. That's my. Everybody. That was my bit. I made it up. Okay.

[Eddie]

It's bad taste, man. If you think that was bad, you should hear. He heard his speech. He took over and did the speech.

[Bobby Bones]

At the awards in the hoodie.

[Eddie]

In the hoodie, front and center, doing a speech.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we have audio that?

[Eddie]

Oh, we got audio of it.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't play it yet because I don't think I'm in the place to hear it. Well, I don't. I'm not in the place. Hold. Everybody, hold. I'm not in the place.

[Scuba Steve]

I have a question, though.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, we can play in the next segment. I just. I don't. I need a break.

[Scuba Steve]

Okay, so can I tell, like, when a woman says that to her, I'll be like, well, why are you wearing a trash bag? Is that.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think it's about. It wasn't that you look bad. It was you were underdressed according to the dress code.

[Scuba Steve]

I mean, show me a dress code.

[Bobby Bones]

He's still going through seeing your eyes for the past 10 years. But it doesn't matter. That's my fault. It's my fault. Please, everybody, thank you for remaining quiet during this segment. And it's my fault.

[Eddie]

Okay?

[Bobby Bones]

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

[Morgan]

This is not one that I would typically share because it's a little weird for me, but it was highly viewed. Lots of engagement on this across the board. So I'm putting it here just in case you missed an update. I think if you follow me on social media or have listened to the show since I made this announcement, you're well aware of where things are now. But in case you didn't and you're just catching up on the show now, in fall of 2024, I had to announce some sad news in regards to man in Uniform number five.

[Bobby Bones]

This is what's referred to as a band aid segment where I don't tease it. There's no buildup to it. We just rip the band aid off. I've never called it that until now. But if you ever hear of a band aid segment, that's what it's going to be for now on. Okay, I didn't before going into this segment. I didn't tease or anything. Band aid segment ready? Go ahead.

[Morgan]

Man in uniform and I broke up.

[Bobby Bones]

What? Oh, so that is Morgan.

[Ray]

Oh, boy.

[Bobby Bones]

Didn't want to do a big bit build out.

[Amy]

Don't lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, Morgan, also, I've known for a bit because I will try to make sure that the show doesn't migrate to going in on something just to give her a little space. And so she was like, hey, this happened. So cool. I feel like it's my job to protect her for a little bit. So if it goes somewhere, I. I can boot it out until she's comfortable. Right. A little behind the scenes. She did also come and say, I would like to say it now and get it over with because it will be brought up again in normal discussion. And I commend her for that because she's looking out for herself by doing that. But this is always a hard segment. So I'm also vamping here to let her catch her breath again because I know that was hard for her to say. So we're Going to give you all the space that you want or need, and you can lead us in whichever direction you like. Morgan.

[Morgan]

I was completely blindsided. I didn't know this was coming. I didn't see it coming. I protected myself in every way that I possibly could and thought that I had found somebody, that this was it. And you guys heard that in me talking about it on the show. But he. As we were about to move in together, I guess you could say.

[Bobby Bones]

What'd you say? As you what? To move in together.

[Morgan]

We were about to move in together.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Morgan]

Had a epiphany. Man in uniform is Jewish. And decided because I'm not Jewish, that's not what he wanted. So we had multiple conversations about it. I thought we were on the same page, which is why I was completely blindsided, but I guess we weren't, and that's where we are now.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I give you a. Oh, it's such a light, like, fractional positive. Can I give you a fractional positive? You didn't pick a freaking loser. And I think that. That for the first time, like, as your friend, like, that's big growth. This sucks now. No, I'm not taking away. This sucks for you in any way. But I think that you're maturing and actually knowing what you want in a relationship and from our life with you, I think you have started to look for more quality guys and for what they stand for and believe in. And I know right now it doesn't help you feel better, but, like, this was. This is a mild win in your growth as a human that I totally get. If you guys aren't compatible on that level, don't go further at all. And I'm sure it hurts for both of you and sucks for both of you. And I'm gonna stop talking because I'm not even sure what I can even ask, but that really sucks.

[Morgan]

I mean, you can ask that. I do feel good about the fact that I finally found someone who gave me hope that there are good men out there, but it sucks all the more because of that again, because I was blindsided in thinking that this was. This was it.

[Bobby Bones]

Did he want you to convert? Was that it?

[Morgan]

No. You know, really, Like, I don't think that would have mattered.

[Bobby Bones]

Was he practicing or born or both? Born. Okay. So does he. Does he practice Judaism? Was that. Was that.

[Morgan]

It's more the culture thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Morgan]

Not as much practicing, which is why, like, when we had conversations about it, I. It kind of really threw me because I. I didn't see that at all. And I. That's why when we would have conversation about it, I thought we were on the same page. But as you know, we got more serious and stuff. It just became that that's going to be more important for him in the future, I suppose.

[Bobby Bones]

Does he want to find a Jewish wife? Yeah, I think good job by him because this definitely could have gone a lot farther and he could have pulled that thread a little later, which would have been even harder. I think. Good job by you by picking somebody that was worth the crap. It still very much sucks and I'm very sorry because I know you were like you fundamentally, you are excited about the future and that's. You'll look back at this as big time growth, big time growth. You can't right now. It sucks. It really sucks. I'm sorry.

[Morgan]

Yeah, there's not a lot of people out there that can relate to this particular topic, which also makes it harder and really hard for me to understand. But I do, I do. I am really happy that one day I can look at this scenario and know that I found somebody that was good and I now can see out there that there is going to be good.

[Bobby Bones]

I think this is actually something that happens more than you think. And I'm not saying you're specific Jewish and Christian, but I think there are a lot of couples that struggle with, again, I'll use the word like fundamental foundation that they don't come from that same spiritual background or even same religion and they have to figure a way to make it work. I have very close friends that have gone through some extremely difficult times because they do have like a. They even call it like a split, I think interfaith. And it's, it's, it's, it's difficult. But it's again, it's really great that you guys identified that now because it just would have before it got it have been way, way, way, way harder.

[Amy]

And then you sharing right now, even as hard as it is, it may prompt conversations that other people need to have, like hearing this, like, even though it's painful and hard, somebody listening right now is going to be encouraged of like, oh, this is a conversation that I haven't had yet in my relationship and I maybe need to do it. And it may help them get through either. Whatever direction they're going to go. It's a conversation that sometimes people avoid or don't realize till it gets too late. They're like, oh, shoot, we didn't discuss this and what if we want to have kids? And then how are we going to raise them? And you know, it snowballs.

[Bobby Bones]

So is there a chance you guys have a discussion about it later and change your minds?

[Morgan]

I don't think so. We had a follow up conversation after the breakup happened and he seemed very sure in his decision. So I don't think there's anything that I could have done or could do differently for him. And that sucks for me. But I do still believe he's a great human, which also sucks.

[Bobby Bones]

And two things can be true at the same time. Number one, this sucks. I'm really sorry. Cause it sucks and your heart hurts and I hate that for you as a person. But it also, I think is a good thing that it happened now and not later after you lived with each other and made it even harder, which would then make you did decide to get married and keep punting it, kicking the can. God dang.

[Morgan]

It would have made it so much worse. So I am thankful for that.

[Bobby Bones]

Well everyone, it really hurts really bad right now. I'm sure it does.

[Eddie]

Sorry, Morgan.

[Bobby Bones]

And I know Lunchbox's eyes got big cuz he was going to be like love bomb. Told you. But it wasn't that at all. And then, you know, he did. His eyes got low. You know what? He lowered his head down real quick because he wasn't going to say anything.

[Scuba Steve]

I got a couple theories.

[Bobby Bones]

There aren't theories to have.

[Eddie]

She told you what happened?

[Bobby Bones]

No, this is. I don't even know that. I don't even know.

[Amy]

It's too soon. This is why right at the beginning I'm like lunchbox. I looked at him and I was like, lunchbox. No.

[Eddie]

Maybe that's why he looks.

[Scuba Steve]

That's why I looked down.

[Amy]

She's clearly in pain right now.

[Bobby Bones]

She's scolding him mid segment.

[Amy]

Yeah, no, right at the beginning.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you see?

[Amy]

I looked back and I go Lunchbox. Because I knew he was about to.

[Lunchbox]

Just like go in.

[Bobby Bones]

What's one, what's happened? What's one of the theories?

[Scuba Steve]

Well, part of my just hearing her talk.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Scuba Steve]

Is he got cold feet about the moving in because she said we were about to move in together. And so he looked for the one thing that he knew he could use as the excuse because she said they had multiple conversations about it and they were on the same page. So I think the moving in like freaked him out.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, let's go to Morgan. Morgan, your thoughts on that theory?

[Morgan]

I don't think it was that because he's the one who brought it up. I was never. I was Never pursuing that. That was never something that I pushed. And it came very naturally into the conversation, and he was very consistent. There was even, like, a moment where I was like, I'm not getting rid of any of my stuff because we're not married, and I'm not going there. I don't want to do this. And he assured me that this is. This is happening, and we were moving forward. So there was no part of me that believed the cold feet thing was going to happen.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, that's one theory. Get it out.

[Scuba Steve]

Second. Second theory.

[Bobby Bones]

Get out of the way.

[Scuba Steve]

Is that he had been waiting to meet me, and then now that he did, he was like, all right, I.

[Bobby Bones]

Can break up that one. I can probably cosine.

[Eddie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because that happens with a lot of us.

[Scuba Steve]

I met him, like, a week and a half ago, and then it's like, all right, now that I got to meet lunch, I can.

[Bobby Bones]

So the whole relationship. He was just using her to get to you?

[Scuba Steve]

Sounds like it. I mean, he did ask me if I wanted to go run with him.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the one, guys. I can kind of co Sign. Kind of believe. Morgan, it really sucks. We're laughing now because we're just trying to lighten it up a little bit, but weaker people have gotten through harder things, and you're gonna crush this. You're gonna grow from it. You're gonna learn from it yout didn't pick a loser. And I think, as funny as that sounds, for me to say, like, that shows your growth, and I'm sorry it happened.

[Morgan]

You know, I will say there's a moment for me this weekend as I'm trying to process everything. I was my dog that you had mentioned that my new foster, Sunshine, got adopted, and I was taking her to her new home, and I looked at her and I was like, you're so special. And I know this is scary, and I know that you're afraid of what's to come, but this is going to be so beautiful for you. And as I was telling her that, I was like, what the crap am I doing? Why can I say that to her? But I can't say it to myself right now? And there was some healing in that. So that was kind of a bright spot amongst all of this as well.

[Bobby Bones]

Would it help you if we promoted your podcast? At least you get some streams from the podcast from this. I think that would be good.

[Eddie]

Good idea.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Morgan, the name of your podcast is Take this personally.

[Toby Keith]

Oh, no.

[Bobby Bones]

What? That's the name of her podcast. Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

Maybe he took something personally from the podcast.

[Eddie]

You're so dumb.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, like, maybe he stick with the theory. He wanted to meet you.

[Amy]

Right?

[Eddie]

That's the better one.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, roll with that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Check out Morgan's podcast. Take this personally. We care about you. You're going to be fine. It sucks right now, and that's okay. And it should suck right now.

[Scuba Steve]

Are you back on Hinge?

[Amy]

It's been like a weekend lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

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

[Morgan]

The hottest of hot songs this year was the collaboration between Ella Langley and Riley Greene. You look like you love me. And if you have not managed to hear that song this year, props to you. But also maybe turn on your phone. I'm not sure what's happening there. Go listen to that one particularly. But we had Ella Langley in studio to talk all about the collaboration and how it happened. And then Riley Greene came in and they performed the song together. So I can't put their performance here, but you can watch that on our YouTube page. Right now. You're going to hear the interview with Ella and then a little bit with Riley as well.

[Bobby Bones]

Number four, here we go on the Bobby Bones show now, Ella Langley. Ella. I became a big fan just by TikTok. I mean, you pop it up in my algorithm because obviously I have a lot of country music in my algorithm, and it's been really cool to watch it organically. Like, especially this song. Just become a monster.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. What does that felt like to you? Is like more people recognizing you, more people come into when you're playing? Like, what's been happening?

[I]

Well, I've wanted to do this my whole entire life. This isn't something I just kind of stumbled upon and was like, yeah, I like playing guitar or I love singing. Like, this is just like. It's. It's like a limb. It's just something. I was always gonna do this, and I've been working really hard at it for a minute. I moved here five years ago, and before that I was going to school at Auburn and went to school at Auburn.

[Bobby Bones]

Really? Yeah.

[I]

Yeah, I went for the two years I went to school.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[I]

And then I dropped out and moved here. But, yeah, I just play a lot of COVID gigs. I started out restaurants. I mean, literally every kind of gig you can play, I've done it. Whatever you can travel there in, I've done that too.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, just traditional. Someone moves to Nashville with a dream, you're playing anything you can play. To make money, to survive, so you can chase the bigger dream. But then this song hits so hard again. I would just start singing it, forgetting where I would even have heard it, because it would pop up. And not just in your videos. It would start to be used in other places too. I just wonder what that feels like. When something starts to build, wherever it starts to build. Do you actually day to day feel again, more people pursuing, like, your music? Or is it like, man, I know it's blowing up, but I'm really not seeing it yet.

[I]

No, I'm seeing it. I'm seeing it. This song is crazy. That's what I was saying. I've been doing this for so long and it's been a slow climb and I've put out single after single and kind of just organically grown fans. But this song, it's the things it's done and we didn't even plan on. This song was never supposed to leave my audio recordings on my phone. I wrote it as a joke with Aaron Raittier first and then the label heard it and loved it. And then Riley asked us on tour and him and I just kind of being from the same area, growing up on the same kind of music, and I was thinking maybe we could do it out on the road. That's why I asked him to do it. And I was like, hey, just kind of write the second verse how you would respond to a girl coming up to you in the bar like that.

[Bobby Bones]

What I like about it is it's so old school, talky, singy, which very much happened in the 40s, 50s. Like, it's. It sounds super, super, super traditional with people that aren't born in the 40s and the 50s. Is that probably why it wasn't supposed to be more than a voice recording? Because you're like, I don't know. Will anybody even think this is a legitimate song?

[I]

No, I think it's just kind of more. I'm drunk and I'm ready to leave, you know, it's kind of silly, you know, but, yeah, I guess it's a little bit of a risk, you know, just because it's not something. It's not the popular thing to do, you know, and traditional country is only just now kind of coming back. So. Yeah, I don't know. But I grew up on it. I love it and I'm just kind of doing what I love to do and not what I think other people think they want me to do.

[Bobby Bones]

Did anybody suggest that you change some of when you recorded it? Some of like the talking parts of the song.

[I]

Yeah, we went back and forth a lot on it, on singing it, on all kinds of different things. I never wanted to sing. I never wanted a song. I'm never gonna release a version where it's sung.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think you should.

[I]

It's awesome how it's every single song I have. My argument to the label was every other song I've put out sings the verses. So can I not just have one? That doesn't mean.

[Bobby Bones]

That's why it sticks out so much though, right?

[I]

Yeah, well, that, I mean, it's got a great hook. It's not a girl walking up to a guy in a bar. You know, it's like. That's also not a common thing in country. Well, not over the past 10 years now. Recently it has been. But yeah. So I don't know, it's kind of a risque thing to do, but it's. It's crazy to see the reaction. It's. I just started my first headlining tour and it's a little nerve wracking to have such a viral song and wonder are they gonna be here just for that. But I put out the. My debut record, which is what you look like you love me came off of and they're singing every word to every song. It's crazy. They're listening to the whole thing and it's just wild. It's like I'm just watching my dreams come true.

[Bobby Bones]

It's that one viral thing though that gets them to even pay attention to the rest. Right?

[I]

Yeah. Well, it's also cool too. Just a lot of these fans are not just the song, but you know, I saw you out with Randy Houser. That was my first tour three years ago. Or I saw you with John Partey, or I saw you o'reilly or, you know, it's a lot of these fans. See, we've grown through playing so many shows over the years and just working hard that way. But yeah, it's wild to see. When that song, we did it in Hyde park too. That was probably the wildest time thus far. It was 50,000 people.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy.

[I]

We opened it for Morgan and it was just crazy. That was probably the first time I had seeing a crowd like a mass amount of people sing words that I had written and for it to be 50,000 people in the UK was. It was just hard to. I don't know, it's hard to put into words almost. I remember I had my ears in because when you're way, way out there, the Slap back was so bad. So it's like you can't keep up with the drum. You got to keep your ears in, so it's hard to hear the crowd. And I kind of remember walking back being like, that was crazy. I just, like. I don't know if I registered anything. And I was, like, walking back thinking, like, just a Norma time of us singing the song and everyone that was, like, on both of our teams. I was like, was that crazy? And they showed me back the video, and me and Riley both watched it, and it was just, like, massive. So I think that's when we both realized it was like the song is doing something ridiculous.

[Bobby Bones]

And also, I mean, Riley's a massive star, and he's, like, perfect for the song as well.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, all the stars kind of aligned with him going, yeah, I'll do the song. That's cool. And he's also a big star, and it works with him.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

What was the. How did you ask him? What would. Hey, you want to do this song? Well, text him a version of it. Was it always a duet?

[I]

No. I mean, like I said, I wrote it just for fun. I mean, it wasn't like.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't write for fun, like, another duet?

[I]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Bones]

I just.

[I]

I just. I was just listening to it after we cut it. It was not gonna be a duet right when we first cut it, but Riley asked us on tour right around the same time, so I don't know. I just. I just thought of the idea. I was like, God, what if we asked Riley to sing the second verse and then we could do it on the road? And obviously, I didn't think it would just do what it's doing now. It's hard to expect something like this, but.

[Amy]

So did you have a second verse before he came in?

[I]

Yeah, and that's what I'm singing out on the. Actually, we wrote a lot of verses when we wrote the song, we just kind of giggled and wrote as many verses as we had in us, and then we just picked our favorite ones. So I kind of throw those alt verses in the live show right now. I usually start off with, like, before, there was a man named Riley Green singing this song, and then all the girls were like. And I'm like, I was singing the second verse.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I tried to get Riley to do a duet with me. He turned it down, so I was just jealous. Yeah, he didn't. He didn't like that.

[I]

Well, really? My manager, Bradley Jordan, he's. He's kind of. He's the reason I met Riley, and he's just helped a lot of artists coming up, but he showed it to him. I was like. And then. And then, yeah, I think actually I played a show with Riley, and I went on his bus, and I said, I think my first line was, riley, do you like making money? That was my first pickup. That was my first line. And didn't know I was gonna do anything from there, but that's how I started.

[Bobby Bones]

And now he.

[I]

Now here it is.

[Bobby Bones]

He makes money. Makes it. Makes it anyway. But he makes more now, which is always fun. I'm being told that Riley just arrived. Riley. Riley Green is entered the building. So why don't we take a break? Ella Langley's here. Is that true, Scuba? Is Riley here? Yep.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he's in the green room.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Riley Greene has entered the building. Wow. There are there. There's underwear being thrown at him as he walks down through the hallway. We don't even know. There's nobody else in the whole building. Underwear still landing on his head. We'll be back in one second. We'll get Riley in studio. You guys will perform it.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

All right. Back in one second. Okay, so Ella Langley's here. Riley Green has entered the room. Riley, good to see you, buddy.

[Toby Keith]

Yeah, thanks for having me.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks for coming up. And so I think what we'll first, if you don't mind, why I would love to hear the song live, and then we can just talk a little more. You guys good with that? Okay, so this is a song that I love that I'm playing on the show, and I sometimes sing it and wonder, where did I hear it? And then realize it was on, like, nine different videos of from nine different people. And this is called you look like youe Love Me. It's Ella Langley and Riley Green.

[Eddie]

Oh, I'm sorry, we can't post the.

[Ray]

Live performance on the podcast, but if.

[Bobby Bones]

You go to our YouTube page, you can watch it there or maybe listen live. Okay. All right, great. Now back to the podcast. How many times do you think you guys have played that together now?

[Toby Keith]

First time.

[Bobby Bones]

It's great.

[Eddie]

It was good.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, you nailed the first one.

[I]

I don't think we've done it the same time twice. The same way twice.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[I]

No, over.

[Bobby Bones]

Over 50 now at this point, can you like. Because again, when you.

[Toby Keith]

I'm not good with numbers, but I would say 10.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So. Wow.

[I]

Yeah, okay.

[Toby Keith]

See, I'm not good with that. I don't know.

[I]

I don't know. Probably like, us together.

[Toby Keith]

Probably, like, I'll say It's gotten louder every time we've played it, which has been really fun to watch.

[Bobby Bones]

Why'd you say yes to the song?

[Toby Keith]

Well, I've always liked Ella. She's from Alabama. Very, very country musically and in spiritually, and we just grew up the same way. Bradley Jordan, her manager, is a really good buddy of mine, and he kind of put me on tour, and I just like to see good folks do well. And she was on tour with me. I thought it made a lot of sense. I thought the song was fun. Had no clue it was a giant hit. You know, I thought talking verses was probably a little too old school, a little too traditional. But how cool is it that a song that's this country is doing this.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you know, when did you start to notice, oh, crap, this is a monster. Like, did it randomly ever just come up or were your people just letting you know?

[Toby Keith]

Well, no, I mean, I've never had any type of. I guess what you would call is, like, viral, you know, and this song is really, like, viral. I mean, I can barely work TikTok. I don't really know how that works, but it's just everywhere. So you'd get your phone out and it was every scroll would you hear this song playing? So I guess that was kind of the eye opening thing about it. But certainly playing it at a show, I think maybe. Yeah. I mean, some of the stuff I would just kind of randomly bring Ella up and we would do a couple of songs together, and we did this one a couple of times and it just didn't take long.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy. That's so cool that. Because it organically happened, right? Like you.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And any creator, any musician, any artist, you're always one really special piece of content away from having a real shot going viral. You're. You never know what it can be. And there are people that. It's. It's a weird dynamic because, you know, you, like, you don't want to give it too much power. But also, if it's really good and nobody's giving it a chance, sometimes the chance is right here. Like just a platform that is able to be used. And I think this is one of Those examples of 500 executives are going to hear that song and go, like what you just said, Riley, it's. Maybe this is a little too old school. We're probably not going to invest any money. However, the people freaking loved it. And that's what makes all the difference in it.

[Amy]

I mean, l. After you wrote it, you're like, I don't know that anybody will ever hear this.

[I]

Well, yeah, I mean, I just kind of like. My whole goal for writing the song was just to. Honestly, this is when I was still playing a lot of rounds in town, is to just have a song when, like, no one's listening, they're all talking to. Maybe they'd laugh a little bit because I'm talking in the verses, you know. But yeah, some Maya Hanson, she works on my. On my team and she heard it and she just was like, dude, you've gotta. You gotta send this in. And I just fought it for so long.

[Bobby Bones]

This is the first time you put it up. Did people reacted to it or take a few times.

[I]

No, no, it did not. It just wasn't that hard. Like, I just posted one. We were out on the roads, I think on the west coast towards the end of the tour, and I just posted like a video of me doing the verse and that's it. And just. That's kind of what started it. And then I did one other video of just me singing the chorus. And that's the sound that everyone's been using. But then whenever we did Red Rocks and posted us that he's actually on the song. And then, yeah, when we did it for the show the last day of the tour too.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm a sports nerd and I was. And I like sports memorabilia. This is going to be a segue. This is how I heard the song the first time as I was watching this sports memorabilia being broken. The song's playing in the background and I'm like, that sounds like Riley. I don't know who the girl is. What is that song? I hear it as a background sound when I'm watching them freaking break signed helmets. And so I've searched for a couple things I heard. That's where I heard it then. It was so ubiquitous, just existing everywhere. Then that's when I started to play it here. But like, congratulations. Like, it's.

[I]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

It's something that's so awkwardly awesome that it makes all the bit of sense and it's why it resonates so much, because it doesn't sound like everything else.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's good.

[I]

Well, I think it's also like kind of for this next record. I'm already working on it. But just like the creative freedom I have now just. It's like there's literally no singing in the verses. And the songs on radio doing well right now. And it's wild. So I kind of feel like it's kind of ripping the structure out of my head a little bit and just doing what feels good.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, when I think about like Conway, Loretta, because they were awesome. They did their music together, they do funny songs, they do talky songs, they do singing songs. That's what it kind of feels like to me. Yeah.

[Amy]

You're the reason our kids here.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So, yeah, it's cool.

[I]

That's a great one.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You know that song. Yeah. The reason I. Riley, I was talking about you on social media. I didn't know you're gonna be here. And I. At one point I was like, I want everybody to make sure that they know this is a compliment. But I was talking about how you're. Everybody knows you're a star and you have a lot of hits and. But I don't think people understand the amount of mega star you are at shows. Meaning what I compared it to is you have a lot of number one songs, a lot. And you have a very successful career. But any other people that I know that have had that many number one songs, they don't have the crowds that you have. And I was talking about the only other artist I've seen do it like this kind of low key mega star. It is Kane Brown, who. It took forever for people to understand the Kane had built this following that selling out arenas until people are like, oh, yeah, but that's you now. And I think what you're doing is on such a level and people don't even understand the level it's on right now. And I just want to like congratulate you and celebrate you because you are. You're killing it. So I was talking about you a little bit on.

[Toby Keith]

Well, I took it as a compliment regardless of how you meant it when I heard it. So I appreciate the kind words. And it, it's. Man, it's. It's. It's a wild time. I think it has to do with a lot of putting out a lot of music. You know, I've got a lot of songs that haven't been on the radio that people seem to know and. And you know, the song with Ella is a great example of you just never know what somebody's going to latch onto. You know, I thought the chorus was catchy, you know, in the. In the song. And maybe it'd be a little bit of an earworm, but to see it be as big of a song it is just proves you never know. And you know, writing from where you come from and hopefully people can relate to it. And I think that's what Ella does really well, and it's working really well for us right now. So I'm blessed to be out here doing it.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you. Are you on the road every weekend now?

[Toby Keith]

Yeah, I thought I was on the road today.

[Bobby Bones]

You are on the road.

[Scuba Steve]

Wake up.

[Bobby Bones]

Wake up.

[Toby Keith]

I had to come play a guitar gig today for Ella.

[I]

That's my. And guitar player.

[Toby Keith]

That's how big the song is. I'm playing guitar for Ella now.

[Bobby Bones]

Ella Langley. And by the way, Ella's album is out. It's called Hungover. It came out in August. So hopefully you hear this song and what it does is you go, oh, I like that. Let me go check out some other stuff. That's the great thing about something popping is that people check out the other.

[I]

Stuff if they, like, I wasn't playing.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And Riley Green, maybe you've heard of them. Big deal.

[Amy]

So does the line work, though?

[Bobby Bones]

It depends. What? It depends what the girl looks like, how drunk the guy is. That's generally what it is.

[I]

I'm waiting to hear about. Like, you know that pickup line got us married.

[Amy]

Yes.

[I]

I'm ready for that. Or you just, you see this kid right here? Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Except it's like, see this kid? We're not married, but thank you, Ella Reilly. Thank you guys for coming in.

[Toby Keith]

Appreciate it.

[Bobby Bones]

Congratulations. Looking forward to Ella seeing you a whole lot more.

[I]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

There they are. Ella Reilly. Good job, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

[Morgan]

Number two, everybody's had something happen where they've gotten locked out of somewhere. But locked in is a kind of different story. And this happened to Amy. She got locked in her bedroom at her house and couldn't make it into the show. And so it became this whole thing that played out on air.

[Bobby Bones]

Number three, breaking news. Breaking news. First morning, studio. Morning. Now, if you did not hear a special Amy voice, there's reason why she's not here.

[Eddie]

What is happening?

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, no.

[Bobby Bones]

It's funnier and worse than you think, but funnier. First, breaking news. Hitting it again. This is so breaking news. Breaking news. This has never happened. So before I come into work, I get a text from Amy, and there's no. There's no letters or words in the text. It's just a video. And I'm like, oh, boy, what's happened here? And so Amy sends me a video, and all you see is inside her bedroom and her door. And this is the. She's not here. This is the video she sends me.

[Amy]

Literally locked in my room.

[Lunchbox]

I'm trying to leave.

[Amy]

And I cannot get out. And I don't know how this happened or why my children are not coming for me.

[Morgan]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm watching her. She can't get her doorknob open.

[Eddie]

She's locked in her bedroom.

[Bobby Bones]

She's inside her room.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, no.

[Bobby Bones]

And so I'm laughing, and I'm like, first of all, you know how you're flustered if you're late?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, you. The clock's a little late. You're like, oh, my God, how am I gonna catch up? First of all, I call her and I say, remove any fluster, because I know you're gonna feel like that because you're coming in late. I said, second of all, this is hilarious. So I'm texting with her as I'm getting ready, coming in, and I say, haha. Oh, no. And then I write window, question mark. And she goes, my room's upstairs, second floor. Oh. I said, battering ram.

[Scuba Steve]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Oh, good.

[Bobby Bones]

And I said, are the kids there? Because it's so early. You can wake them up. I said, 91 1, question mark. Do we need a lunchbox call?

[Eddie]

Oh, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

I said, prayer. Like, I'm giving her all these options on how to break out of a room. She said her son Stevenson is now awake, trying to help. I said, don't worry about work. Don't stress out about it. You're gonna be fine. And this is gonna be good, content, if that makes you feel any better. So then she sends me another video. Here we go.

[I]

You should be able to hear a little clip.

[Bobby Bones]

That's Stevenson, Pam.

[I]

And that should work, but it's not working for myself. Don't budget in.

[Amy]

I'm not. I'm not. I. I feel like I'm getting close to within a.

[Bobby Bones]

They're trying to, like, pick the lock. Now her son, who's 13 or 14 now. Yeah. Yeah. Is, like, going, okay. We're trying to pick, pick. And she's like, got me too.

[Eddie]

I love how he's taking charge too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, well, he, like, passed or something under the door, like a. Like a little paperclip. But unless you, like, know how to do it, you've only seen it on TV and you don't know how to do it. Right.

[Eddie]

I've seen credit cards too.

[Bobby Bones]

Even that. Right. Like, who's gonna. Amy's trapped in a room right now.

[Eddie]

Hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Hilarious.

[Scuba Steve]

That's great.

[Bobby Bones]

What? That's great for. For. I mean, it's for us. Yes. Or because you want more time? Both. Okay, cool.

[Scuba Steve]

But she just break it down.

[Bobby Bones]

I said she should knock the doorknob off.

[Eddie]

Like, how do you do that?

[Bobby Bones]

You get a book or something to go whack and knock it off.

[Eddie]

See, that's in the movies too.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I think I can knock a doorknob off.

[Eddie]

Like at that point, just kick the door open.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. Kick a hole through it.

[Bobby Bones]

Problem with the door. Oh, kick a hole through it.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. Then climb through.

[Bobby Bones]

That's. That's a big hole.

[Scuba Steve]

You just get a new door.

[Bobby Bones]

I hear you, but I would knock the doorknob off before I would get a new door. But the problem with kicking the door not a hole, but like, kicking it open. Yeah. The door opens from the inside.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

So someone on the other side have to kick it open.

[Eddie]

Okay. Stevenson, kick it.

[Bobby Bones]

We should call her in a minute.

[Eddie]

Okay. Is she still stuck in there, like right now?

[Bobby Bones]

As of update, three minutes ago, she was still stuck in her room. This has never happened. We've been doing this show for a hundred years. It feels like, like I met Amy 20 years ago. No one has ever been locked in their house. It almost feels hilarious. Like, can you actually get locked inside of somewhere?

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like when someone's like, I'm locked inside my car. No, just pull the door handle. Handle. When you're inside, you just pull the handle and it unlocks.

[Eddie]

Dude, it sounds like they're working hard to open that and it's not moving.

[Bobby Bones]

So we're gonna call her if she doesn't. Let me check and see if she texted.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Ray, can you get her on the phone?

[Eddie]

Yep.

[Scuba Steve]

Hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, I was laughing out loud and that's why I wanted to call her, to be like, don't feel like you're late and flustered because there's a lot of stuff that her and I do that she does before the show. Lots of local liners and country minute for night shows. And I was like, don't worry about it. We'll take care of all that. So I've been doing a lot of her work and I'm happy to do it because it's so hilarious.

[Eddie]

Out of all the things I didn't expect, this one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, this is too good.

[Scuba Steve]

I thought car wreck.

[Eddie]

Let's fender bender. Not another major.

[Bobby Bones]

But her driving, I was like, I thought 10 car pile up, multiple fatalities. Wait, what the. Did you notice she wasn't here though?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't? Okay. Because her car wasn't here. Yep.

[Scuba Steve]

Why? I just sitting at her chair.

[Eddie]

Security guy asked me, have you seen Amy? And I said, no.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I didn't tell him. My bad. My bad.

[Eddie]

Should probably tell him.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I didn't. Yeah, I was laughing so hard.

[Scuba Steve]

She should send her son to the neighbors.

[Bobby Bones]

This is also. This is what people should do if you're late to work. Do this.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I thought of it.

[Bobby Bones]

No, shut up.

[Eddie]

No, when you were telling the story, I'm like, this is genius.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't. Oh, I think for you to do it tomorrow. No, you can't do that tomorrow. Look, Bobby, I'm stuck, okay? So we're gonna try to call Amy. This is a new situation. After 20 years, we've never had this happen. We can appreciate it for that. Yes.

[Scuba Steve]

If she's still stuck, we're calling 911 because we don't want her to starve.

[Bobby Bones]

And has she dedicated a pee corner in her room?

[Scuba Steve]

That's a great point.

[Bobby Bones]

Because she had.

[Eddie]

There's probably a bathroom in her bedroom.

[Bobby Bones]

It doesn't matter. You still need a pee corner. If you're trapped anywhere, you need a pee corner. We're going live to Amy's house. If you did not wake up and hear the beginning of the show, Amy is locked in her bedroom. Ray, would you play that beginning clip again? Because this is what she texted me before I even came into work this morning.

[Amy]

Literally locked in my room. I'm trying to leave and I cannot get out. And I don't know how this happened or why.

[Bobby Bones]

So you see her, like, trying to unlock the door. She's like, I can't get out. And I say, jump out the window. She goes, I'm on the second story. So, Amy, are you safe? First of all, are you safe? And have you found a pee corner in your room to make sure that you can still go to the bathroom?

[Amy]

Well, I have a bathroom in my room.

[Bobby Bones]

It doesn't matter. I think you still need a pee car.

[Eddie]

No, she has a bathroom.

[Amy]

No, I have the dog and the cat, and I think they are the ones that need to use the bathroom. So got to figure that out. And yeah, help actually is here. Working on it. So my kids, I banged and screamed loud enough to where they woke up and tried to help and couldn't. But I called some people and so they're actively working on it right now.

[Bobby Bones]

And by actively working, can you hear them on the other side of the door?

[Amy]

Yes. Like, you can hear them working on the other side of the door. Like, they're doing, like, different things. Like, I don't know. I think I just heard, like, go get a card. Like, there's Credit cards?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Screwdriver cards. Little. I don't know if you can hear that, but we can.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, I think somebody's breaking in your house. Yeah. Call 911.

[Scuba Steve]

She sounds famined.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no. Lunchbox wants to know if you're starving, if you need to somehow get food to you.

[Amy]

Well, I'm about to start having my caffeine headache, so I need coffee.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no. Withdrawals. She's going through withdrawals in your house.

[Amy]

Withdrawals are setting in. I need to somehow get that. And then I have organized my bathroom and my closet.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she's productive. No, you say bored.

[Amy]

In my bed is. Sometimes in the morning, I make my bed fully. I always make my bed. But this morning, I definitely did a little, like, just kind of sort of made my bed. But now it is made perfectly origami.

[Bobby Bones]

With the sheets she's folded up into, like birds and swans. Do you feel safe? Blink twice if you don't. Like, we. Like, we can see her. The cough.

[Eddie]

Cough.

[Amy]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. No.

[Scuba Steve]

Was there ever a thought of kicking down the door?

[Amy]

I don't know that it would be possible. I don't know. But now I'm for sure gonna buy one of those little ladder things that you throw out your window. Because this is necessary.

[Bobby Bones]

Would you actually have thrown the ladder out and crawled down just to get to work?

[Amy]

I think yes. I could do that. Easy. I was already. I already figured out. I was on Amazon a minute ago trying to figure out what to order and which window I throw it out of. Like, now. I need to be prepared.

[Bobby Bones]

Amazon prime can probably get it there already.

[Eddie]

Same day.

[Bobby Bones]

What about. Have you thought about calling the fire department?

[Amy]

Yes. And I kind of thought, what if that is how I meet somebody? Could you imagine?

[Bobby Bones]

She's doing romance. Oh. He comes up, sweeps her way. She doesn't go to work because they make a love all morning.

[Eddie]

Huh.

[Amy]

No, wait.

[Bobby Bones]

Whoa.

[Amy]

That escalated quickly. I was just thinking, storyline.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's a story.

[Scuba Steve]

That's how it happens in the movies.

[Bobby Bones]

And he's wearing his suit, but no shirt underneath it, and the suit's unzipped.

[Amy]

Okay. No, I was thinking maybe we go to dinner. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we gotta set your sights higher than that. Okay.

[Amy]

Dinner. Food. Okay. Well, I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

They.

[Amy]

I feel like they're making progress. So I'm supposed to, like, turn the knob for a second. So do y'all want to hold on?

[Bobby Bones]

You never turn the knob to get out of the room. That might be the problem. She just never opened the door.

[Amy]

Okay. All right, well, they. They need my assistance, so we'll listen in. I'll do it. And.

[Eddie]

Yeah, let's go live.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, well, we are live.

[Eddie]

Well, I mean.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Okay, we're gonna listen in. Amy's locked in her bedroom.

[Amy]

What am I supposed to do? Like, we're to the left. Okay, I'm turning it to the left. What is that thing you're sticking through there?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's dirty. That's called a firefighter. No, that's called a glory hole.

[Eddie]

Don't touch it.

[Scuba Steve]

I got a question. Did she. She hire a door expert? Who is this?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's like on Pawn Stars. She knows a guy. Oh, she knows a door expert.

[Amy]

Okay, wait, I'm turning to the left. My left or your left?

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, boy.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my God.

[Amy]

Yeah, let go. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

No, doesn't sound good. Guys, I've heard a lot of doors open. Doesn't sound like that.

[Eddie]

Amy, can they unscrew the doorknob?

[Bobby Bones]

Just knock the doorknob off and then get a new doorknob. That's what I would have done.

[Amy]

They already tried to unscrew the unscrewed burnout boss.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, watch your language early in the morning.

[Eddie]

No, literally unscrew it.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, got it.

[Scuba Steve]

So, Amy, did you call a locksmith?

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox is so worried he's going through puberty right now. Amy.

[Amy]

No, I called. Oh.

[Eddie]

Huh.

[Amy]

Handyman.

[Eddie]

Handyman.

[Scuba Steve]

Did you hear the way she said that?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she's just looking to meet anybody. I think the door's not even broken. She's finding a way to call every dude in town. I called a local heart surgeon who I read was single on Instagram.

[Amy]

Wait, so do I pull it?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, boy. What if the door has always been a pull? She's just been trying to push the whole time.

[Amy]

We're gonna try to block where it.

[Bobby Bones]

Goes into the gym.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Sounds like a handy woman.

[Eddie]

It sure does.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

It doesn't sound like a man.

[Amy]

Okay, Shannon, do you have your phone?

[Eddie]

She's like, call a handyman.

[Amy]

No, he's here.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, she broke out. Amy's trying to get out of her bedroom. She is not at work because she's been locked in her room.

[Amy]

Who. Who's on the other side?

[Eddie]

What? You've been talking to him?

[Amy]

Nelson.

[Bobby Bones]

Now there's a whole cast of characters on the other side of our house. Kramer listeners are stopping by you.

[Amy]

Oh, I just didn't know. Shannon, if you can you.

[Bobby Bones]

We're gonna come back. I feel like we're not close, though.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, I Don't think so.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like we're not close. Hey, Amy, can I ask a question?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Why don't you. Can you not just take a hammer and bang the doorknob off? Because doorknobs relatively inexpensive.

[Amy]

Well, I just got new doorknobs.

[Bobby Bones]

I will buy you a new doorknob if that's the case. If you're really hurting for a doorknob.

[Amy]

Well, no, but. Yes, I suppose you could, but it's the lock that coming. It's somehow. Doc, I. I don't really know. They're close. They say they're close. I hear. I just heard. Oh, they're close.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, we're gonna come back.

[Eddie]

I'm getting frustrated. I want to go help so bad.

[Scuba Steve]

I want to take a hammer through the door so she can crawl through. I mean, great video of her crawling through the hole.

[Bobby Bones]

She's not gonna break the door knob. She's not gonna kick a hole in the door.

[Eddie]

Well, let's just give it a good kick.

[Bobby Bones]

That's it.

[Eddie]

Just try it.

[Bobby Bones]

But the kick is on the inside. She needs somebody outside to kick in.

[Eddie]

Someone's out there. The handyman's out there, and so is Shannon.

[Bobby Bones]

I heard that.

[Eddie]

Right, right, right.

[Amy]

Well, I hope both my kids left for school, because they're definitely still playing.

[Bobby Bones]

Video games right now.

[Eddie]

Totally not going to school.

[Amy]

Yeah, they are.

[Bobby Bones]

No, they're worried about their mom.

[Eddie]

Their mom's stuck in her bedroom.

[Bobby Bones]

We're gonna have to come back. Amy is locked in her bedroom. She's not. Obviously. She's gonna miss the first hour of the show.

[Amy]

I'm open.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Hi. Hey.

[Eddie]

Oh, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, she's never acting. Like somebody discovered on a deserted island.

[Amy]

Thank you so much. Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you. Oh, there it is.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, what's up with Mr. D. Voice over there?

[Amy]

What happened? Is it broken?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, well, yeah. Okay. I need to get a new one. Yeah. Okay. All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Ask him how that happened. Like, what happened.

[Amy]

You know? Know how this happened. You said no oblat.

[Bobby Bones]

Let Eddie talk to him.

[Eddie]

Yes, yes, yes. Let me talk to him.

[Bobby Bones]

Can Eddie talk to him?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

Is Eddie talking to us?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Buenos dias.

[Bobby Bones]

Buenos dias.

[Eddie]

I don't know what that means.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, Mike. The little thing in the middle is what it was. Okay. Ah.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Oh, she needs a new chapa.

[Bobby Bones]

Ask if she's crazy.

[Amy]

No. Say.

[Eddie]

Okay. Gracias.

[Bobby Bones]

Gracias, gracias. Okay.

[Amy]

Gracias. Okay, guys, I'm free. I'm gonna get coffee, and then I'll come to Work.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. No rush. Hey, Amy. Amy. Amy.

[Amy]

Oh, he. Oh, he just pointed to the phone and said that. Y'all are crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, local.

[Eddie]

Local.

[Bobby Bones]

That's local. Tip him. Tip him. Well, nice.

[Eddie]

Thanks, Mom.

[Bobby Bones]

Not Eddie.

[Eddie]

Well, what do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

No, not tip. You Tip the guy.

[Amy]

Well, yes, of course.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I'm just saying that because I. He was also on the show with us, and that's what the tip's really for. Yeah, both. He was. Yeah. All right, we'll see. We'll see in a little bit. Okay.

[Amy]

Well. Yeah. All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Free at last. Free at last. She made it. All right. Bye, Amy.

[Amy]

Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't be in a rush. Hey, stop and get a coffee.

[Eddie]

Hey, your breakfast.

[Bobby Bones]

Take your sweet time, you know, go the long way. And she's gone.

[Eddie]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

She locked out of her phone number. Okay. Well, that was fun, huh?

[Eddie]

That was fun.

[Bobby Bones]

Look who's back. She's safe. It's Amy. Amy's back. Amy's back. She was locked in her bedroom on the inside. Never heard of that before. But if you go listen to the podcast, you can hear us do half hour with Amy locked in her room. Her kid can't get her out. Her friend can't get her out. Finally, a handyman comes and gets her out. Handyman doesn't know English, so Eddie translates.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy's out and she's safe. We were so worried, and. Wow, are we so worried. Yeah, we worry. Yes, Queen. We were so worried.

[Amy]

I am very grateful for everybody that woke up to try to help me.

[Eddie]

No problem.

[Bobby Bones]

When I saw the. When her. When she just texted me a video before I got to work early. Early. No text involved, just a video. I was like, oh, my God. Because why would somebody just send a video that early unless something is wrong? And, Ray, would you play just the beginning clip for listeners that missed it?

[Amy]

Literally locked in my room. I'm trying to leave, and I cannot get out. And I don't know how this happened or why my children are not coming for me.

[Bobby Bones]

I said that for 30 minutes, and I like that she blamed her children. Well, no saying she's like, they're not coming for me.

[Amy]

Well, they weren't fully awake yet, and I'm banging on the walls being like, children.

[Bobby Bones]

And the kid's probably like, mom probably has somebody over again. Just kidding. It's a joke. It's a joke. That's a terrible joke. Terrible. Kind of funny, but terrible. Admit it. Okay, thank you.

[Eddie]

Terrible.

[Bobby Bones]

Kind of funny, though.

[Amy]

Admit it.

[Bobby Bones]

Terrible. Amy's back. So that's all. Thank goodness she's safe. The door lock monster got her, but she loved to tell us about it.

[Eddie]

Amy, you got the bad news, though. You're gonna need a new door and.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Just a lock, right?

[Amy]

Just a whole new.

[Bobby Bones]

Sold all those other doors.

[Amy]

Not a whole new door.

[Bobby Bones]

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

[Morgan]

There was a long standing segment on our show that was existing for several months of 2024 where Bobby wanted to send Eddie to Turkey to get a hair transplant. Well, and he didn't really want to go to Turkey, you know, travel to another country and all that stuff. So it then evolved into him getting a hair system, which is the modern version of a toupee. And it looked really, really good. But now it's evolved where Eddie doesn't even have the hair system. It just, unfortunately for me, sits in between our desk on our studio equipment, which is kind of gross. You're gonna hear the moment here where Eddie got his hair system, because it was a huge moment and shocked all of us to see Eddie with this, his full thing of hair, when we've only known him one way.

[Bobby Bones]

Number two, in studio right now, Julie Taylor, owner of JBank Salon and Nashville hair replacement. Am I saying that right? Okay. So, Julie, we're here because Eddie is.

[Lunchbox]

I'm here to make Eddie look 10 years younger.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Can we do 15?

[Lunchbox]

I can do 15.

[Amy]

Is that what you typically see with.

[Lunchbox]

It's a hair and the confidence that they shine through after they get hair, they feel like themselves again.

[Bobby Bones]

I have so many questions, and so let's roll through some questions because what's gonna happen is we're gonna let Eddie and Julie go off and she's gonna. Because let's talk about the process. But Eddie's gonna have a new head of hair today.

[Eddie]

It's amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

So what is the process? You'll leave this room with Eddie and what do you do?

[Lunchbox]

It's a pretty simple process. I mean, it's non surgical hair replacements.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that his hair? You're gonna put on his.

[Amy]

Hair.

[Eddie]

All that hair?

[Scuba Steve]

That's a mop.

[Bobby Bones]

Then you look like Enrique Iglesias. Yes.

[Lunchbox]

Like a mom now. But you guys, it will look natural when I get it on you.

[Eddie]

Okay, so you will. That won't be my hairstyle.

[Lunchbox]

No, that's not gonna be your hairstyle. I mean, unless you want that.

[Bobby Bones]

That's pretty cool. That's Shaggy Dog.

[Amy]

You're gonna cut it.

[Lunchbox]

I'm gonna cut the heck out of it. It will look like a natural. It's gonna look like his hair. People will not know.

[Bobby Bones]

So what do you do? So you say you walk out with Eddie. When you guys do your thing, you. He. He takes his hat off. Do you, like, shave part of his head?

[Lunchbox]

I am going to shave you a grandpa haircut today.

[Bobby Bones]

So he'll look like Dr. Phil on the top of his head.

[Lunchbox]

He will for a minute.

[Bobby Bones]

And how long will this thing stay on his head before, like, it starts to, like, fall off?

[Lunchbox]

So monthly maintenance, once a month, you come to the salon, I take it off.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like a haircut.

[Lunchbox]

It is, Yeah. I mean, that's all it takes to wear a system.

[Eddie]

So once that thing is on my head, that's my wig, it's yours.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you call it.

[Lunchbox]

It feels like.

[Bobby Bones]

Is wig insulting?

[Lunchbox]

Wig and toupee are insulting.

[Amy]

I hear you're calling it a system.

[Lunchbox]

The technology in this, it's a modern men's hair system.

[Eddie]

I'm not worried, though. If I do a little dive off the diving board, that's gonna fall off at the.

[Lunchbox]

It will never fly off like you see in the movie, ever.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm so excited about this.

[Eddie]

And I do drive a Jeep. And I love the hair in my wind idea. Like, I've been dreaming about that.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my clients live their best life with the wind in their hair. Yes.

[Amy]

When you say my clients, do you have to book them, like, with a buffer in between, or do they mind if clients see clients? You know, because I feel like they might not want to tell people.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good point. Like. Like they don't want to run into somebody else who's getting it.

[Amy]

You have a 30 minute buffer, so.

[Lunchbox]

We don't have that yet. We do have private rooms. I would say 50% of the clients that wear these, they want to flaunt it. They don't care that people know that they're wearing it.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

It's like my boob job.

[Eddie]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

My boob job. I want everybody to know.

[Lunchbox]

Right, right. You know, other clients, the high profiles, I can do them, you know, on a day off for certain hours that the salon are closed and stuff like that.

[Bobby Bones]

How long have you been doing this version of your work?

[Lunchbox]

This version? About five years.

[Bobby Bones]

And what's the difference? Because again, we've only seen movies where people fall off or they're, like, pointing and they have no idea. This is so far past that, right?

[Lunchbox]

So far past it. There's so many tape and glue options. We're gonna go in and go with the basic option for you, Eddie, just with glue. And like I said, you won't even feel it. You're gonna be surprised.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so we're gonna keep her on here for a second. We're with Julie Taylor. She is the owner of JBank Salon and Nashville Hair Replacement. Are you. Are you trained to cut hair as well?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah, I do it all, really, but. But mainly this is all I do.

[Bobby Bones]

But did you learn to cut hair, though, before you did?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So you were a hairstylist? Stylist. That's cool. So we're also going to link her, and we're going to put her in the podcast show Notes, so you can find the Instagram and stuff. But the website is nashvillehairreplacement.com. do you have clients all over the country? All over the country, because our show is all over the country. Oh, cool. So nashvillehairreplacement.com. what do we call it, Julie? Because we don't say toupay. What are we saying?

[Lunchbox]

Modern men's hair system.

[Bobby Bones]

But if we're saying Eddie's about to get new hair. Yeah. What's gonna be on his head?

[Lunchbox]

A hair system.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

My system, man.

[I]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Sorry, man.

[Eddie]

Leave it alone.

[Bobby Bones]

Julie's here, and Eddie's gonna have new hair with a new hair system in the next hour. So we'll do the. We'll do the reveal on the air. And, Eddie, what are your thoughts? You're about to get a new hair system.

[Eddie]

I have questions.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Eddie]

Is that real hair?

[Lunchbox]

It's human hair.

[Bobby Bones]

Whoa. Oh, my gosh. Where do you get the hair? Sure.

[Lunchbox]

I have a US Manufacturer that does this and distributor and stuff. I keep most of the hair systems in stock at the salon.

[Eddie]

What on earth? I'm wearing somebody else's.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's not somebody who died and, like, gave you their hair. Maybe, like, an organ. It's like, somebody who just donated their hair.

[Amy]

Donated.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Scuba Steve]

Like, so when I donated my hair, I could have been a system on someone else?

[Bobby Bones]

You could, but they said your hair was too gross. They used it for the oil spill.

[Amy]

I didn't pick up the oil, but it was needed.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And can people donate their hair to you or they have to go through a process.

[Lunchbox]

It goes through a whole process. Yeah, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

You're gonna be wearing somebody else's.

[Eddie]

That's crazy. That's crazy to think about.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's real, though.

[Eddie]

No, I know, I know. It's. It's so. Okay, so the styles. Can I put, like, gel in It a little bit of a pomade, but they.

[Lunchbox]

They style really easily. They've got just enough texture in them. The haircut is going to just style itself. So, you know, my goal is you just run your hands through your hair and that's it. It.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's just say it's a really windy day. Exceptionally windy. Any chance it flies off?

[Lunchbox]

No, it's not going to fly off at all.

[Bobby Bones]

It's crazy wind.

[Lunchbox]

I've had people test it. I've had people surf in it and do all kinds of crazy roller coasters and stuff, and it has not fly.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, wow.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Amy]

Okay, you're good.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie, your thoughts, your emotions right now?

[Eddie]

I'm super excited. Like, the fact that I'm going to have hair in the next few minutes is amazing.

[Lunchbox]

Good hair.

[Eddie]

Good hair.

[Bobby Bones]

Will you show her your head?

[Eddie]

Yeah. She's seen it.

[Bobby Bones]

Because we're gonna have to see it before and after.

[Lunchbox]

I've only seen the picture years.

[Eddie]

She's seen it.

[Bobby Bones]

How? So what do you think about that head?

[Eddie]

I mean, that's the top.

[Lunchbox]

He's the perfect candidate.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

Going to have a good hairline because.

[Bobby Bones]

He'S so good looking.

[Lunchbox]

Two hours.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang.

[Scuba Steve]

Eddie, do you have a haircut in mind? Because you've been dreaming about this one for years.

[Eddie]

Just so much. Like, I mean, I've always liked the high and tight, but I don't know if that's still in. Is that still in the high and tight?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

I'd have a little. I have a.

[Scuba Steve]

Like, you need to have some extra, dude.

[Eddie]

Like, I did.

[Bobby Bones]

Mine's not long, but there's a little, like, fluffy, you know, Like.

[Eddie]

So once I decide the style, though, can I choose a different one? Like, if I go a little long at the beginning, can I come in and be like, I need to cut this off a little bit?

[Lunchbox]

But you can't go the opposite, right?

[Eddie]

Because it doesn't grow.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So that's why I should go a little shaggier.

[Eddie]

What about bed head? Am I gonna have bedhead in the morning?

[Bobby Bones]

You want bed?

[Lunchbox]

You will, and you're gonna love it.

[Bobby Bones]

Congratulations, buddy. Wow.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but I've never had bed head, like, what, In a long time.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you nervous about shaving your head?

[Eddie]

No. Because once, if I don't like it, I'll just shave my whole head again, you know?

[Lunchbox]

True. Exactly.

[Eddie]

And we'll just start from zero.

[Lunchbox]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

But you'll like it.

[Eddie]

But you're gonna think I'm gonna love it, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Is there a way? Because we'll check in. We're gonna send you guys off to do your work. But is there a way that he can't see what's happening until the very end?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. There's not a mirror in your office.

[Bobby Bones]

Whoa, whoa. You know, we want the reveal to you to also be. That's like, when someone puts on those colorblind glasses and they start crying because they're like, I see color.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

But you can't go to the.

[Eddie]

You can't go to the hair salon and not look in the mirror.

[Amy]

Yeah, no, you can. They turn you around. Like, I. I got my hair chopped off recently, and I didn't see a thing until she was done styling. And it was so fun when she spun me around. Like, it's fun, Eddie.

[Scuba Steve]

So do you think we know a lot of people with these on and we just don't know it?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

What if right now I got extra vulnerable and I went, look, guys, that'd be crazy. That'd be crazy.

[Amy]

Yeah, that would be. Have you ever had to sign, like, an NDA?

[Lunchbox]

No, not yet.

[Amy]

Oh, but they just trust you.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Okay.

[Eddie]

You know what? I didn't tell my wife I'm doing.

[Bobby Bones]

This today, but she doesn't know it all.

[Eddie]

I mean, she knows that I'm. I was thinking about doing it, but she doesn't know it's today.

[Bobby Bones]

Then don't say anything about it. Go home. See if she notices.

[Eddie]

Yeah, no one's gonna notice.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, we're gonna let. Let you guys go do your work, but. Okay, Julie Taylor is here, which, by the way, you guys go to nashvillehairreplacement.com. she has clients all over the country, you know, do you travel? Like, do you.

[Lunchbox]

Do I travel some? Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, let's see how it goes.

[Eddie]

All right, Julie, Eddie.

[Bobby Bones]

Julie, let's do it. You guys go do your thing. When Eddie comes back, like, he'll be a new man.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Hey, watch the confidence level.

[Lunchbox]

15 years younger I might be.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm gonna be honest. A dude has never really turned me on. But I'm worried. I'm worried that you walk in and I'm turned on by it. But you know what? That's a risk I'm willing to take. All right? Eddie and Julie are hopping out, checking back with Eddie right now. He is back in my office. He has no mirror. He is getting Amy. What you call it a hair system. A hair system put on. Eddie has been bald, and he's worn a hat for years and years, and he didn't want to have surgery. Even though we offered him up a really surgery?

[Amy]

Like, hair transplant?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Offered up a great option with a wonderful doctor. So I said, what about one of these? We called it a wig or a toupee. That's not what it's called. It's a system, we're told. And so Julie Taylor's back with Eddie. It's gonna take about an hour or so. Eddie, what's happened so far?

[Eddie]

Oh, dude, I don't know. Like, I've had. I can't see anything, so I've heard a razor go on the top of my head.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, she razor shaved you? Wow. You got the Dr. Phil treatment. Straight up. Bold, dude.

[Eddie]

So much that it's like she was rubbing her hands on there, like, putting glue up there, and it sounded like sandpaper. I'm like, oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have hair on your head as of right now?

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I think I can't again. So for the last, like, five minutes, I've had my eyes closed because in case there's a mirror that she's holding and I don't want to see it. So I don't really know other than I did get my system put on. There's. It's glued on right now.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's human hair, right? It's human hair that's been donated, and so it's a whole head of hair. Is she, like, cutting around your already hair on your head now?

[Eddie]

It's almost like I'm just getting a haircut, Bones. Like, I am just at the salon right now getting my haircut. I hear spraying a little scissoring there and then putting some product in there. Like, it's just like I'm getting my haircut.

[Bobby Bones]

How does that feel?

[Eddie]

I mean, do. It Feels awesome. Like, it does feel, though, that I have something on my head, like. Like a bean bag maybe, or.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what we feel every day of our lives. Welcome to the party, man.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Oh, that's what it is. It's called hair. Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie is getting his hair system put on right now, which, by the way, social media influencers made Julie Taylor, like, a big deal because people were getting it done and then posting it, and she blew up nationally.

[Amy]

Oh, wow.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And her website is nashvillehairreplacement.com in mere minutes. What's up, Eddie?

[Eddie]

This is amazing, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

In mere minutes, Eddie's gonna walk in, and he hasn't even seen it yet.

[Amy]

This is like that TV show, remember? I mean, it was that boss. Well, yeah, that or this was awful. I didn't like this show, but, yeah, they were like. They called him, like, the little duckling, and then they emerged, and they were a swan in front of the mirror, and that's not nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that too. They did, like, teeth and plastic surgery.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. No, I mean, it was extreme.

[Bobby Bones]

You're gonna be our swan, Eddie.

[Amy]

You're about to be a swan.

[Bobby Bones]

You'll be our little swan. You haven't told your wife?

[Eddie]

No, I didn't tell her that I was doing this today.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, we'll check back with Eddie. Eddie able to tell me something good from back there?

[Eddie]

Yeah, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Of course.

[Bobby Bones]

We'll check with Eddie in just a few minutes. All right, set time. Eddie's about to walk in. He has not seen his hair yet. The thing is, Lunchbox is gonna laugh regardless.

[Scuba Steve]

This is gonna be incredible. Just because I'm used to bald, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

So Eddie has a new hair system, right, Julie? I said that, right?

[Lunchbox]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep. Julie Taylor's been here for over an hour working with Eddie. You shaved his head completely bald. With a razor or clippers?

[Lunchbox]

With clippers.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Just the. The grandpa haircut right in the middle.

[Bobby Bones]

That's, you know, I guess that's a grandpa. I think it's like a bowl. The. The bowl on his head. Like the. The ring.

[Amy]

Like Danny DeVito.

[Bobby Bones]

So Eddie's gonna come in. He has not seen his hair. How do you feel about Eddie's work? Do you feel like it looks good? Like.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Does he look. Does he look natural in it?

[Lunchbox]

He looks 15 years younger.

[Bobby Bones]

Does he think he's gonna look good?

[Lunchbox]

I think so. He's just. You know, it's funny because he hasn't seen it yet, so he doesn't really know how it's supposed to feel.

[Bobby Bones]

Was he awkward in there? Like, didn't know what to say.

[Lunchbox]

He was not awkward. He was very calm and kept his eyes closed and. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, well, did you laugh at all?

[Lunchbox]

There was no laughing.

[Scuba Steve]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's just our friend, you know? It is. And it is. However, it's our.

[Lunchbox]

I get it. I get it. You gotta roast him a little bit. But.

[Amy]

But do you feel like this is one of your most. Most like, successful cases?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, it was, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Probably gonna be a model after this.

[Lunchbox]

He really was the perfect candidate for transformation.

[Scuba Steve]

He's gonna be on billboards.

[Bobby Bones]

[e-mail] this is Julie Taylor, and Eddie has not seen his own hair, nor is he gonna see it when he walks in. So he's gonna sit with us first. We're gonna see it, then we'll do.

[Scuba Steve]

We want her to tell us what kind of haircut she gave him, or are we just gonna see it? Like, what, what, what style?

[Lunchbox]

You want me to prepare you all for it?

[Amy]

I can't, y'all. I just saw through the glass.

[Bobby Bones]

I just saw through it. I just. Bringing the in. Bring him in, Bring him in, bring him in.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh.

[I]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

It looks so good. Wow. There is.

[Eddie]

That looks so real and wow. I hear. It looks so good. And I hear a laugh.

[Amy]

No, no, no.

[Eddie]

Hear a wow.

[Bobby Bones]

I wouldn't have known that was you, bro. Okay.

[Eddie]

What are you talking about?

[Bobby Bones]

Hold on. I'm telling you, you do look younger.

[Toby Keith]

What?

[Amy]

Fresh.

[Eddie]

So this is not cool. Let me tell you. Let me tell you.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie hasn't seen it.

[Amy]

You look like he's going to love it.

[Bobby Bones]

You look like your son.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

More than ever. It's like you're so.

[Scuba Steve]

Hey, your 16 year old son.

[Bobby Bones]

You do look like your oldest son. You. When you walked in, it was like, oh, my. Wow. Oh.

[Amy]

I put money on the fact that he's keeping this look for the rest of his life.

[Lunchbox]

Like him.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you serious? Yes.

[Amy]

You're gonna do the maintenance. There's no way you're getting rid of this.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you serious? You're gonna see it, dude.

[Eddie]

Hold on. Hey, what kind of haircut do I have? Like, what's my style?

[Lunchbox]

I didn't even tell him.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so I would say it's kind of like. So I. Mine naturally goes forward, but sometime screen on camera, I'll have to like. Like put it back just a little bit. Yeah, it's got like a little cool poo. That's what that is.

[Eddie]

But it's long. I can like, it's styled and stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, you haven't touched it with your hand?

[Eddie]

No, dude, I haven't touched it. I honestly, I was. I walked to the bathroom and I walked like, my. My neck was stiff because I didn't want to, like, move it. And for the first time in my life. Well, not first time, but in a while, I'm like, what? Like, is my hair in place? Like, I look good.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, it looks real and it looks good. And no one is ever. If they don't know you, they will not know. No one's gonna say, I wonder if that dude has anything on his head.

[Eddie]

Really? I. Legit, legit, legit lunch and he.

[Bobby Bones]

Wants to make fun of you. He wants to make fun of you. We told him he can if he wants. Go ahead.

[Scuba Steve]

It's hilarious because you have hair. But literally, like Bobby said, if you're a stranger, you would have no idea you were a bald fool.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go.

[Scuba Steve]

They would have no idea that you have a system in your hair.

[Eddie]

That's my system.

[Bobby Bones]

And you have, like, a side fade a bit. So when I. If I get a haircut, it's like, shorter here and it fades up a little bit. Like, it's purposefully that way.

[Eddie]

I mean, I thought about telling her to do that skin tight like Lunchbox does, but that's too much.

[Scuba Steve]

I don't know if I can take you serious, though.

[Bobby Bones]

It's hard. It's why it's. Well, no, it's because we only know you as one way, Right? And a little bit I'm attracted to you, so that's difficult. I know.

[Amy]

Okay, here we go.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie's now going to look at his new hair.

[Eddie]

I'm so ready.

[Bobby Bones]

And go. Whoa. Whoa. Dang.

[Eddie]

I have hair, dude. You know who I kind of look like? The dude from Ted Lasso.

[Scuba Steve]

Stop.

[Bobby Bones]

The assistant coach. Yeah. Do you not look like your son?

[Eddie]

I mean, I. Yeah, I mean, I.

[Bobby Bones]

See it, which makes sense.

[Eddie]

This is unbelievable.

[Bobby Bones]

Isn't that crazy?

[Eddie]

What the crap?

[Bobby Bones]

I have hair.

[Eddie]

I have hair and it looks real. This is crazy, dude. I. I don't know what to say, dude. My wife's gonna flip when I get home. I haven't told her and.

[Bobby Bones]

You're not gonna tell her, right?

[Eddie]

No, I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna show up.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, hey, hey. Make sure the kids are out of the house. You know what I'm saying?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, hopefully. Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

So, Julie, question. Can you touch it?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah. You can run your hands through it.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know if there's like a dry. Like a dry. I don't know, like, when you can touch it.

[Lunchbox]

No, yeah, it's totally dry.

[Scuba Steve]

When can you take a shower?

[Eddie]

Like, all my. I don't like, bald spot on the back of my head. This is unbelievable.

[Bobby Bones]

You want to touch, dude?

[Scuba Steve]

Like, turn around. Let's see the back.

[Eddie]

Check it out. Dude, look.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I touch it?

[Scuba Steve]

Dude, that fades in.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, it's like a fade. She also did a great job with a haircut on it.

[Scuba Steve]

That's what I'm saying. Like, the fade in looks, like, legit.

[Bobby Bones]

So Eddie has. Eddie has new hair. Wow.

[Amy]

Are there even little gray hairs?

[Lunchbox]

I did. I gave him 10 gray.

[Eddie]

Obviously, I got a little bit.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't. You can't even tell.

[Eddie]

Easy, but easy.

[Bobby Bones]

Am I going too hard on it?

[Amy]

No, no.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't even tell by the line. There's no like line.

[Amy]

But Bobby, do you see that gray hair?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. It looks like all of his hair. Yeah.

[Amy]

No, it's like, go show Amy. That's so.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so Eddie has new. Julie, this. You're the Picasso of heads.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Scuba Steve]

Hey, you do look like Nate, dude. You do look like. I. I just pulled up the pictures. I'm like, dude, they both got the big. No.

[Eddie]

Okay, stop with the note.

[Bobby Bones]

So you had to cut his hair that he had. Yes.

[Scuba Steve]

It's not gonna go anywhere. This is so. What?

[Lunchbox]

You can give it a tug.

[Bobby Bones]

No tugging. No, do not let him tug it. Cuz he'll t. No, no, no.

[Lunchbox]

It's. It's on.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I hear you, but this Eddie.

[Eddie]

Okay, I gotta look at this again. Dude.

[Bobby Bones]

I have hair.

[Amy]

He's gonna keep looking at him.

[Eddie]

This is unbelievable. I might look at myself for the rest of the day.

[Bobby Bones]

It feels like those videos where people that are colorblind put on the colorblind glasses. I can see the colors for the first time.

[Scuba Steve]

Look at them.

[Eddie]

It's pretty cool, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

It's really cool, dude.

[Eddie]

I'm afraid I'm gonna get in a car wreck on the way home.

[Bobby Bones]

Look in the mirror too much.

[Eddie]

Yeah, the whole time.

[Bobby Bones]

Holy crap.

[Eddie]

This is amazing.

[Scuba Steve]

No, I need you to not keep this because I got to be able to make fun of you for being bald man.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I think that's over.

[Eddie]

I think that might be done.

[Bobby Bones]

So here's what we're gonna do. First of all. Hey, your Instagram, is it just.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's produced already.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not you. There's. Is it Nashville Hair Replacement. Okay.

[Lunchbox]

At Nashville Hair Replacement.

[Bobby Bones]

OK. @ Nashville Hair Replacement. The website is nashvillehairreplacement.com. this is so good, Eddie. I want to take a picture for my wife.

[Eddie]

This is magic.

[Bobby Bones]

Come over here. Yeah, because she is going. I know what she's gonna say. That looks freaking awesome. Hold on. Wow. That is a glamour shot. And you didn't even do anything.

[Eddie]

Tell me what she says.

[Bobby Bones]

I will.

[Eddie]

And tell her not to my wife.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, good point. I'll wait till.

[Eddie]

Yeah, she will.

[Bobby Bones]

Julie, any final thoughts on Eddie and if. If people want. What do call you and get a. Do you do a consultation?

[Lunchbox]

We do. Yeah. Free consultations in the salon and even phone consultations for people that live out of state. And yeah, it's an easy process.

[Bobby Bones]

And people fly. People can fly. In and get it done.

[Lunchbox]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

She's. She's the best.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Holy crap. I cannot believe how real it looks. Dude.

[Eddie]

I have a system on my head.

[Bobby Bones]

And he can work out and sweat and not worry about it.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

It to the limits. I mean, they. Yeah. Very active.

[Eddie]

Did she say I can live a normal life? Just a normal life, do my everyday.

[Bobby Bones]

Stuff and, like, your headphones are on.

[Amy]

And off of his head.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, the picture of you looks awesome. It's just like a normal dude.

[Eddie]

I don't look like myself. That is unbelievable.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, we're gonna put all the stuff on the website, too. Up on our podcast Notes at Nashville Hair replacement on Instagram nashvillehairreplacement.com Julie, thank you for your time. Eddie, you look great. Hope you feel good about it.

[Eddie]

Thank you, Julie. Thank you so much. You may have changed my life. Life. Listen, dude, she says that when people walk out of her salon, she notices they walk taller. I'm already feeling that.

[Lunchbox]

An instant confidence boost.

[Eddie]

I. I think I've gained an inch just alone on my hair.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's true.

[Eddie]

I am now six foot, maybe six'one let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

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

[Morgan]

This is a really sad one, but also one that's really cool to look back on. So Toby Keith passed away this year, and it was heartbreaking for his family, friends, the entire country music community, and fans alike. Everybody was devastated by this massive loss. But what was so cool is that Toby Keith had come into our studio a couple weeks before he had passed, and Bobby got to do one of the last few interviews that he ever did. And it was really cool getting to talk to Toby Keith, see him in studio, and hear him talk about everything he had been doing and living his life up until that point. So while it's incredibly sad and hard to remember this loss, it's also a really cool interview to look back on, and I hope you enjoy it in the same ways that I do.

[Bobby Bones]

Number one on the Bobby Bones show now, Toby Keith. Toby. It's rare that people that I'm super close to will ask me for tickets, anything, because they know, like, unless it's really meaningful, don't ask. And I've only had two close friends ask me for tickets this whole year. And. Or last year, it was Morgan Wallen and it was your shows in Vegas. That was it. That's how big those shows were. They sold. I saw they sold out immediately. Do you still have any sort of anxiety at all about shows selling No.

[Ray]

I hadn't worked in. I probably only worked a handful of shows in the last wide. Covid, two big C's. Covid and Cancer. So I hadn't worked a handful of shows in the last three years, but I worked every year for 27, 28 years. And, I mean, I was. The only thing I had that concerned me was being away from it for three years and remembering all the words because they subconsciously come to you when you're working. You don't even think about it. You know, them, and then getting completely away from. From them and having to start back. So they had a teleprompter up there, and I got into a little bit of a sound check. We're gonna go full dress rehearsal today. But I didn't even use it. It was just like riding a bike.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you knew all the words.

[Ray]

Yeah. Once I got up there and started rolling and it got familiar, I just. I didn't even look at the teleprompter.

[Bobby Bones]

What about playing at all? Did you. Did your hand stay calloused?

[Ray]

Yeah, I still played. And no matter where I was, I always had a guitar there and still plunked around. But they've been callous so long that it's all callus.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not even bones anymore. It's just all calluses.

[Ray]

Yeah, it's like having extra fingernails.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys are putting the song Don't Let the Old man in. It's been out, but you're like, hey, this song's good. Here it is. Remember it? We're gonna push it again. Where did that come from? And why? So.

[Ray]

So that wasn't my idea. So we put that in the Eastwood movie three or four years ago. And the movie didn't do as well as I thought, but. And it's at the very end. And as powerful as the song was, it still didn't really get its due. But great songs have a way of finding a home. Willie cut it. Humperdink cut it. A bunch of foreign legends cut it in their language. And I thought, well, that's cool, you know? And then when the Icon Award came up at the People's Choice, Rack Clark, Dick Clark's son, who I've known for years, he's produced a lot of the award shows. He said, I really want you to do this song. I was like, man, Blake's present me.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, he asked you to do that song? Like you weren't planning to do that song. Got it.

[Ray]

And because it was. It's dark, you know, and it. And I hadn't been in the public eye for a while. And so I was like, blake's gonna do who's yous Daddy? And I want to do something up tempo because he's. He's gonna be fun and funny. And he goes, no, Rack insisted. And I said, well, Rack, if you want me to do it, I'll do it. He goes, I think it'll be a gigantic highlight. And he was right.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it was massive. People went crazy. And so because of that response, everybody's like, we need to reintroduce this on.

[Ray]

Well, it just. It went number one immediately on iTunes. And then people started calling saying, hey, they want service. Radio.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Ray]

And I haven't really service. I haven't done anything in three or four years. And I was like, I don't know if they play this kind of music anymore. You know, this is way different than what you normally hear. And I said, this is. This song is even more classic than my age. This. This song could have been recorded in the 50s, you know, or 60s. And it's so country and so old school that I said, you do what you want to do with it, But I just love it that it got its. It found a home.

[Bobby Bones]

You're going on the road. How's your health? How's everything going?

[Ray]

It's going pretty good. This is a roller coaster, and it takes a little while to get your brain wrapped around it. And then you get to a point where you just say that, hey, this is what I do. And you can't let it define, you know, your future. You can sit around and wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. But I've got a roadhouse out in the country by. It's like a 97 year old roadhouse that has a lot of music history, a lot of Oklahoma history.

[Bobby Bones]

What's a roadhouse? I don't know what that is.

[Ray]

It's like a bar and grill, outdoor.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, got it, got it, got it.

[Ray]

You know, it's an old roadhouse house, Like Texas Roadhouse.

[Bobby Bones]

The restaurant type place.

[Ray]

Well, like a. A bar out in the country that people would drive out to. Like in a movie. You'd see people, they'll set a roadhouse up. Remember the one where Patrick Swayze Roadhouse. Is that called that one?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that one. Yeah. Yeah, I know that one.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that one.

[Ray]

All right, so there you go. Okay, so that's kind of out by itself. This thing's like 97 years old. The old actor James Garner was named James Bumgarner before he went to Hollywood. He pumped gas in there Bonnie and Clyde stayed in some cabins behind it. Bob Wheels and the Texas Playboys, people like that would come through and play these little dances out there. And then it turned into a convenience store. We used to get bait beer, tobacco stuff there before we were old enough. And then we're going to tear it down. And my whole countryside out there where I live, I know everybody. That's my sanctuary. They were like, man, they're telling that, Tearing the old Hollywood's corners down. And so I went and bought the thing, popped it up, cleaned it up, put some lights in the trees, put a stage out there and left the stage up. And now you can go out there, get some food, get a beer, sit on the lights, bring your dog, bring your kids, and have biker night on Wednesday. And. And I saved it, you know. And so one night I said, hey, I want to try to play. So I called the manager and I said, tell Jennifer. I said, tell the band they're paid, but they're not going to play. And she goes, who's playing? I said, another band. Then I was bringing my guys in from Nashville and we were just going to go up incognito and just let the word build and just have fun. And I was going to see how far I could go without taking a break, you know. So I did two, three hour nights. And she goes, well, who do I advertise as playing? I said, the Greasy Weenies. And so she put it up, the Greasy Weenies will be here Friday and Saturday. Well, everybody started going, something's not right because the band's getting paid. So when I showed up first night, they were just like lined up down the ditches a half a mile in every direction. And I did two nights in July and I was like, go, book me some shows. So you just can't get the trucks and buses after three years all together and the crew, everybody's off working with everybody else, you know. So it took till December to launch this thing and here we are.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, excited to have you back. Yeah, yeah. Like optimistic, playing music, love it. Did you have to your voice, aside from health? Like, yeah, you don't sing for three years. Like, that's a muscle, right? Like you can sing for three hours, but I mean, did you like blow your voice at all after two days?

[Ray]

No, but the. The thing that I've had to overcome is the surgery I had on my stomach, they had to stitch on my diving, so. And not using it to sing every night, that is a muscle, you know, so I've had to really work that to get it. So where I sing really, really hard and really, really violent and loud. And I didn't have that last 10% on the bottom where I could just really belt anything, you know, like when I sang MacArthur park at Carnegie hall, it was like opera stuff. So I don't know if I could build that. But what I do on stage is no problem. So it's like I've had to. I've had to work on that diaphragm, and it's getting better all the time. But I went through about three hours yesterday off and on, you know, going through our list, working it up, and I didn't have any issues.

[Bobby Bones]

What's your favorite song to do now that you're back doing it? Anything like, man, that feels good to do again.

[Ray]

Man, those four and five week number ones, you can just pile them up, come downhill and it. They're all fun.

[Bobby Bones]

You gonna do any songs about the Greasy Weenies? I love that band. I don't know if you heard of them. They're really making the name in Oklahoma.

[Ray]

Yeah, they don't do many covers. They do all Toby stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that's why some people get annoyed by them. They're like, enough Toby Keith, play Some Greasy Weenies. So. Well, Toby, it's good to see you, man. New album, 100% songwriter. They came out a few months ago. Don't Let the Old man in is back. We've been playing it a little bit and all the shows sold out again. My friends never asked me for anything and they were like, can you get us Toby tickets, kids? And I said, not only that, they could come and stay in your hotel room, so you'll see them there.

[Ray]

Well, I don't stay in my hotel rooms. They can have it. Well, as long as they pick up, incidentally.

[Bobby Bones]

Crap. All right. All right, Toby. Good to see you, buddy. All right, there he is, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

[Morgan]

Well, there it was, everybody. The top bits of 2024 on the Bobby Bones Show. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you for being here, hanging out with me. I hope you had an amazing New Year's and you're already kicking off 2025 with an absolute bang. And if you're not and you're kind of waiting for the weekend to end, then I totally get it. Also because I will be doing the same thing. So, again, thank you for being here. Thank you for hanging out. I appreciate you guys as always. I couldn't do the best vids without you guys. Because you guys submit questions and you participate, and you always hit me up of things you're hearing on this podcast. So thanks for listening. Thank you for being here. I'm gonna say it a million times because I'm super thankful. And we're coming out of 2024 and on to 2025, brighter new horizons. And I'm excited for all of us for what 2025 will bring. Well, for the next best bits, I will officially be seeing you guys in the new year, because, you know, this was recorded in 2024. Okay. Yeah. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

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 platforms. Obby Bones, Webgirl Morgan. To submit your listener questions for next week's episode.