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My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild haired priests trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover in a hell bent effort to sabotage a war. J. Edgar Hoover was furious. He was out of his mind and he wanted to bring the Catholic left to its knees. Listen to Divine intervention on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm ready to fight. Oh, this is Fighting Words. Okay, I'll put the hammer back. Hi, I'm George M. Johnson, a best selling author with the second most banned book in America. Now more than ever, we need to use our voices to fight back. Part of the power of black queer creativity is the fact that we got us, you know, we are the greatest culture makers in world history. Listen to Fighting words on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The number one hit podcast, the Girlfriends is back with something new, the Girlfriend Spotlight, where each week you'll hear women share their stories of triumph over adversity. You'll meet Luanne who escaped a secretive religious community. Do I want my freedom or do I want my family? And now helps other women get out too. I loved my girls. I still love my girls. Come and join our girl gang. Listen to the Girlfriend Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Sam Mullins and I've got a new podcast coming out called Go Boy. The gritty true story of how one man fought his way out of some of the darkest places imaginable. Roger Caron was 16 when first convicted, had spent 24 of those years in jail. But when Roger Caron picked up a PA pen and paper, he went from an ex con to a literary darling from Campside Media and iHeart Podcasts. Listen to GoBoy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You feelin this too is a horror anthology podcast. It brings different creators to tell ten vile. No, no, no, no, no, no. Grotesque. Oh my God. Horrific stories on what scare you feeling this too? Listen. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan part two. She's breaking down the top seven segments from the Bobby Bones show this week. What's up everybody? Catching up on the Bobby Bones Show. Well, you are in the right place. This is Best Bits part two where I count down seven segments from the show this week that you all loved Super Engaged with. Or maybe they were a little controversial all across the board. But before we get into that, part one, part three, this weekend is with Scuba Steve. If you've never listened before, part one is with a show member and we really just catch up on life stuff we didn't get to on the big show, or we kind of go on random tangents and just have fun with it. So fun stuff over in part one and part three is a listener Q and A this weekend, it's all with Scuba Steve. So. So go listen to those if you have some extra time. But if you just want to catch up, then let's get into it. There are some things that happen in the world that are awkward, but they really shouldn't be. Like, this all started because a podcast was talking about how when you go bowling and you go bowl year round, the walk back is super awkward. But for what reason? So we all shared something that makes us feel awkward, but we really shouldn't be feeling awkward. Number seven, I like this question. And we're gonna do it as well. Go ahead. What's something that's not supposed to be awk but is walking back after you bowl in bowling, especially when you ain't hit nothing. So everybody just looking at you like you suck. That's pretty funny. That's real funny. So what's something that's not supposed to be awkward but is? And that's from the Can I Vibe with y'all podcast. I'll go first. Getting off the phone. It's awful. Oh, just hanging out. Yeah, I gotta. Oh. Then they start talking again and you're like, well, now they know I want to get off the phone. And. And so now they're going to treat the conversation different. I'm terrible at phone. So. At phone? Yes, at phone. Just in general, I'm terrible at phone. Hank. Getting off the phone with someone, I don't know how to do it because I'll be like, okay, gotta. They just started another sentence. Have you ever been in a situation on the phone where someone trying to get off with you first? No, it couldn't happen ever. You've never been on the phone with anybody that's wanted to get off the phone before you did or you were mid sentence that I can remember? No, because I don't want to be on the phone ever. So if I'm on the phone, my goal is to get off the phone. So if there's any sort of opening to get off the phone, I'm in. I'm out. So for me, that's what's awkward, is trying to get off a phone call you. So I feel like doors for me are awkward. Like, sometimes if you don't know to push, pull, and it's not labeled, like, why do I get so embarrassed if I do it wrong? You ever do that? We're, like, supposed to push a door, but you pull or you do the opposite, and then you're stuck. And people see you. Yes. And then. But you're stuck. I mean, I've done the. Well, for a minute. I've never just committed to being stuck. Or even revolving doors are awkward for me because I feel like I have to, like, jump in. All of mine revolve doors. Or if you open the door for somebody and they're a little too far away and you're having to hold it for a long time, or if they're holding it for you and you're kind of far out and now you gotta run, that's awkward. Like, doors are. Doors are hard for me. Okay. Yes. Do you. Naturally. If you walk up to a door from the outside, do you push or pull? I would think you pull, right? I think it's pull from the outside. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just going universal way. I don't know if there is. I need to learn it. Me too. It kind of says on there, like, what to do. Here's the thing. I don't really freak out because if it doesn't go, I quickly go the other within like, a split second. But sometimes you have all your weight going for the push. Are you guys playing American Gladiators? Like, why are you putting all your weight on a door? Yeah, because we're trying to get through the door. Or if it's like the right. Right one is locked, but the left one is open and you go to the right. It's just awkward. Well, that one's different. I can understand that. Because you don't know which one. Yeah, but the. But then you feel like an idiot. But this is always the right one. Now that I say that, isn't it always the right one? If there are two, I don't know. Another one would be escalators with the suitcase at the airport. I just, like, say a prayer. I get on and I'm like, okay, you do the sign of the cross and go, here we go. Like, that's. That's a ride. Eddie. Buying women's products at the grocery store. I know it's not awkward, but it always feels awkward. And I have to say, like, that's not for me. Can I say that it's okay for that to feel awkward for men? Because it's awkward for me as a woman. I strategically choose who I check out with because I feel awkward. If there's a teenage boy working, I am not buying tampons. I'm not. Even as a woman. Even as a woman. I mean, sometimes we're desperate, but I am going to try to find the elderly woman that's checking out people. I guess I don't feel awkward anymore. Really? Yeah. I think I probably did at one point, but now I think that's just show business. But do you feel like you have to be, like, not for me. I know I don't. I don't say that. I don't have to, like, whistle it. I think they know that just in case. Where am I gonna put it? You know, some people, like, I've done my nose before. It's for my wife. We've been married for 20 years. You gotta tell them your whole story there, Morgan. Yeah. Mine is involving when you are either at an airport or on a plane and you fall asleep and then you jolt up and you feel like somebody saw it happen, and you feel really embarrassed that you A, fell asleep and B, that you jolted awake. I think of how I drool sometimes when I do that. Yeah. If I'm really good, that's tough. Mike D. Going into a small business and leaving without buying anything. Whenever you're in there, like, looking around and you're like, oh, I'm not going to buy anything. But it feels so awkward leaving. You're like, I'll come back later. It feels like you're stealing. That's a good one. And they always ask you, like, you need. It's a small place, and you do walk around and just look. And you're the only one. And you're the only one. And maybe I don't feel like they think I'm stealing, but I. I feel like I just took their time. Like, they just had to dedicate some time to me. And I came in, even though they're glad you're there. Are they, though? I don't buy anything. Oh, they're so nice to you. And you're like, yeah, Raymundo, do you have one two guys going into a men's restroom and going into the urinals next to each other? It's awkward. You got. We all have to go to the bathroom, but you have to do that small talk. I've done it even with my own. So you're saying if someone's already up there and you walk up to it. Yes, I can agree with that. My dad will pull off at a gas station. Me and him will go in the bathroom together. He taught me how to go to the bathroom. And it is still awkward. We have to have that small talk for 30 seconds. If you're here at work and there's a dude up, because the two urinals are in our bathroom. They're right beside each other, Obviously. There's a little wall in the middle so no one's peeking, so that's not awkward. But then you're just so. Your shoulders are so close. You got to kind of be like, what's up? At least you talk to them. Depending on who it is you just got. It doesn't matter who it is. You got to just at least acknowledge because you're standing so close to them. You just have to be like, what's up? Even just that. If not, that's weird. My thing is, I don't want them thinking I'm looking at their thing, so I just look. No one thinks that Tampon void. Well, you never know. Why are you worried about what people are thinking about? Yeah, but Bobby said there's a divider. There's a divider here at work, but sometimes there's no divider. And I just want to make sure that, hey, I'm not looking at you. So I'm looking straight right in the top. Why don't you just say that like, hey, I'm not looking. They're not for me. Or I'm not looking. Or close your eyes or something. I don't know. Something that's not supposed to be awkward, but is. Abby, did you have one or no? Well, like, if you're walking or if you're in a restaurant and you're looking for the bathroom, just like walking through the restaurant, you feel like everybody at every table is looking at you, and they're like, you got somewhere to be? What you doing? I've walked in the kitchen by accident before. Yeah, that's kind of like, oh, this is not. This is not the bath. Then you gotta walk in the kitchen and talk to whoever's next to the urinal in there. Help them cook. Something that happened to me the other day at the grocery store is I ran into somebody that I knew on, like, you know, aisle two. And then I ran. Ran in again on aisle four. And then when you run into them again, I just realized that that felt a little bit awkward because it's like, what do you do at that point? Like, hey, again, I'm not following you. Walking after you already say bye. Then you walk the same way. Yeah. You're like, all right, good to see you. See you soon. Then you walk off toward the car the same. Okay, I like to make the joke, though. You following me? I'm not following you, man. I promise. Eddie has to yell that. Oh, that's a good. Good job, guys. And hey, good job by that podcast. That's a pretty funny topic. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. My name is Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini could make elephants disappear, walk through walls, and escape the Chinese water torture cell. But he was also on a mission against mediums. I have never seen one genuine medium. Join me, Tim Harford, for a Cautionary Tales trilogy on the world's most famous magician. It takes a flim flammer to catch a flim flammer. Houdini wanted the world to see reason in an age of spiritualism. He went undercover to seances, exposed fakes and charlatans, and even tried to convince Washington lawmakers to ban mediums for good. A campaign that cost him friends and made him many enemies. They're going to kill me. 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I'm ready to fight. Is that. I thought it was. Oh, this is fighting words. Okay, I put the hammer back. Hi, I'm George M. Johnson, a best selling author with the second most banned book in America. Now more than ever, we need to use our voices to fight back. And that's what we are doing on Fighting Words. We're not gonna let anyone silence us. That's the reason why they're banning books like yours, George. That's the reason why they're trying to stop the teaching of black history, queer history, any history that challenges the whitewashed norm or put us in a box. Black people have never ever depended on the so called mainstream to support us. That's why we are great. We are the greatest culture makers in world history. Listen to Fighting Words on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. The number one hit true crime podcast, the Girlfriends, is back with something new. The Girlfriend Spotlight. Our first two series introduce you to an incredible gang of women who teamed up to fight injustice, showing just how powerful sisterly solidarity can be. And we're keeping this mission alive with the Girlfriends Spotlight. Each week a different woman sits down with me, Anna Sinfield, to share their incredible story of triumph over adversity. Like Tracy, who survived a terrifying attack. I remember that feeling of okay, this is how I die and turned that darkness into the most incredible journey. I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it. Which took her all the way to Paris for the Paralympic Games. Oh my gosh, this is amazing. So come and join our girl gang. Listen to the Girlfriend Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to introduce a brand new season of my podcast Math and Stories from the frontiers of Marketing. 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Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Lunchbox got tested for syphilis. Now this is no joking matter if it actually were to come out a certain way. But it didn't. And this all started because he came on the show and was super vulnerable and was like, I found out after going to the doctor, I have xyz. And then a listener called in, was like, well, maybe you have xyz. And that's what caused this test to happen. Just follow the story because you might at least get a good laugh out of this. But maybe don't take it so seriously. Number six. So Lunchbox came on the air, admitted he didn't know guys could get this disease, and then said that in his throat he has a yeast infection. Yeah. Then a listener called and said not only that, you might have syphilis. So we have a syphilis test here. Can someone bring me the syphilis test? Yep. So what's gonna happen is he's gonna take this test. How's your yeast infection, by the way? It's getting a lot better. I'm able to eat now and swallow and good, good, good. It's been a lot better. So in my hand here, it's called first to know. First to know? Yeah, it's a home used finger stick blood test for the detection of antibodies to the bacteria that causes syphilis. Now the reason we want to know is because if it goes undiagnosed, that could eat his brain. Yeah, syphilis could dangerous. So that's what I've heard. Let's take a look at this test. But if it is positive, like for sure, like there's a conversation that needs to be followed up on. I've had people tell me he shouldn't even be here with a yeast infection in his throat. Really? They're lying. Amy came in with COVID and just worked for days. And I didn't know. I was like, hey, I know. But I was like, you don't have a cold. It's worse. And she wouldn't. Then she came and she was like, you were right. But she also, also sits by herself. Her lunchbox sits at a table with everybody else. But we're not making out. Yeah, but your spit and you yell and you yell so your spit goes everywhere. But. So I have a syphilis test. I have instructions for use. Lunchbox is going to take this test and it's going to take like 15 minutes for us to get the results back. Any. Anything you want to say before you take the test, Lunchbox man, I don't know anything about syphilis except for you guys telling me about it. And let's hope I don't have it, or else it's gonna be really awkward. Is there anything you'd like to say about how you got. Potentially got syphilis? Well, I've been around the block. Wait, what? I don't think it's taken years. It's like, dormant for. Since your bar. Your bar days in Austin. Yeah, I mean, I was like. I've been everywhere, man. Huh? You trying to sing Johnny Cash? Yeah, I was trying to think of the Vanessa workers. I've been everywhere, man. Everywhere, man. Every. And that's all I know. Okay, so we're gonna take. And he's gonna take the test outside in the lobby. All right, who's gonna do it, guys? I don't. What? He'd have to get it through some pretty specific ways. Yeah, there's a Lancet. You have to sanitize your finger. You prick your fingertip, then you fill the test, and then it's much like a COVID test where we will do the reveal just like we did with his job. We'll do the reveal on the air. Coming up. Oh, man. Have you shared a toothbrush or a razor with anybody? Because those are the two non sexual ways. But that's it, though. Everything else is sexual. But if someone uses his toothbrush and he doesn't know about it, it's not even that he's using somebody else's, but somebody could have come into his house, used a toothbrush. Yeah. Next thing you know, he's got syphilis. Any organ transplants recently? No. Okay. Okay. Lunchbox is going to test for syphilis. His yeast infection is getting better. I mean, I did donate my Power Reds at the Red Cross. He did. He did. He did. He donated his blood. Surely they tested it. Surely they tested it. Yeah. No, no. I'm saying what if I got. Oh, no. What if someone was sitting in my seat and they dropped blood and I got it on me? I don't think. I don't think that's how you get syphilis. I think that's how liars say they got syphilis when they get questioned about having blood transfusion. You didn't get a transfusion. Transfusion. Okay, let's take him out. Abby, do you want to give him the test? Yeah, sure. I trust you to do it, right? I'd love to. Okay. So I love to prick his finger. Yeah. These are the little things. Is that some fantasy you have? Yeah, to hurt you. I mean, I kind of wanted to do it, too. I get it. What if we do? We get, like, 10 of these. We prick them all at once, all over his body. Oh, my God, that hurts so bad. Okay, let's play. Let's play this song, and then. Wait, is there a band aid that you have to seal me up? Because I don't. I don't want to bleed out. Dude, it's a drop of blood. Yeah, we have a band aid for you because I don't want to bleed out. Ma'am. I was gonna say you could just suck on it, but then is that, like, suck on it. Reinforcement. Then you give syphilis to yourself, and it starts over the process. I got a question. Does Abby have gloves? Because I don't want to get her DNA. You just have to wash your hands. Just wash your hands. I'm just saying she's the one you have that should worry because she's with syphilis. But the doctors always put gloves on, and maybe it's her syphilis that. What? Abby, take this out, and you and Lunchbox take the test, and we'll come back and get the results in, like, 15 minutes. Everybody good on that? Good. Yeah. All right, Good luck. Lunchbo. Lunchbox took a test to see if he has syphilis, all based on the fact that he has a yeast infection in his throat, which we did not know that a man could get. I say we. Some of us dudes here, Amy, knew. Well, no, I guess he. I guessed it. Yeah, he did guess. Not, like, familiar with it. And we didn't think this was turning into syphilis either, until this caller called us. Hit it. That happened to me as well. And I had went to two separate doctors because it was still not going away yet, and ended up getting my blood tested. And it turned out to be, like, the later stages of syphilis. But I just wanted to let him know that because it's worth, you know, getting checked out. She also goes on to say that, like, yeah, his brain could start eating itself or something, like Al Capone. That's what happened. He had syphilis so bad, his brain ate itself. But if this is one of the later stages, like, at what point does it start? It might have already started years ago. So how the test administration go, Abby? Because you had to prick his finger? Yeah, I was a little nervous. Abby was shaking like a leaf, dude. It was like, oh. Like, I was like, there's blood flying everywhere. I did have coffee, so I was a little jittery. I may have not been the best one, but, hey, I think we got an accurate result. So you go to his finger with a little thing. Yeah. And you pop it. Did it work the first time? It did, but he, like, screamed. I heard curse words. Oh, you did hear. Yeah, yeah, I heard curse words. And then you put the blood into the little container in the container, then analyzes the blood. Yeah, you have to put a lot. Lot. I kept squeezing a lot. And it's a lot of blood in there. Really? Did you get a band aid? You banded up over there? Yeah, I got it. Do you feel like there's any chance? Because, man, if he misses this one after not getting that job, this is going to be the worst couple of reveals in the show's history. Yeah, that's going to be bad, man. Bad week. It's better to know, actually. You could look at it as bad, but I think it's better to know. No, I think you better not have shiftless. If I'm just like. I'd rather not have it. I agree. But if he has it, don't you want to know? Because then he can handle it. I hear you, but if we're just, like, making up stuff on my list, it's not having it, but I hear you. Lunchbox. Yeast infection's still there. Yeah, still there. But it's going away slowly. And you're hangy bangy in your throat. Yeah, but it's feeling better. Does your brain feel good and normal? Yeah, I mean, it feels crystal clear. Oh, boy. Oh, no. Dang it. Did you hear that? It's like, crystal clear. He said crystal clear. He's got it. I bet. I think he's got it. Okay. Oh, no. I haven't looked at the results. I have in my hand. I have. Not only do I have. Do you have the blood? I do. Oh. Oh, I have the blood and I. So if he does have syphilis, Tim needs to get him out of here immediately. Yes. Why? It's not contagious, and you need to tell your wife immediately. Well, like, it's not contagious unless we're doing it. Maybe you come up with a story first. Oh, man. She's gonna see this. I don't. Well, she must have it. Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. If he has it. If they do that. So Lunchbox has been out. He took the syphilis test. Okay, here. I'm just gonna. The result is. I know. I haven't looked yet. The result is lunchbox does not have syphilis. Wow. Thank goodness. Wow. What a day for this show, man. Thank you. The LCD guys, what's the percentage that maybe it's like, look at the box and say 98. It. It doesn't. It was a hard. No, it's hard to get that little line. Yeah. There was no faint. That means my wife doesn't have it either. Amy, everything's good. I was stating the obvious. It wasn't. I'm just letting you know the guy does not have syphilis. It's great news for the show, man. That was awkward. Reading the test, I felt I was like, I don't know if I want to know, like, what he's been doing. I'm grossed out by having his blood up here on the table. That is gross. So we're gonna put that down. But this today, we could sell it. Today's a victory lunchbox. You don't have set foot. There he is. Congratulations. Congratulations. So much. Box. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two, we found out our employee of the quarter. We used to do employee of the month, but it just kind of became so much doing it once a month. But now we do employee of the quarter, and everybody was up for it. And there was a judging panel, and they decided who ultimately won Employee of the quarter. This is the person who showed up, showed out the last several months, and there was some controversy around it. Number five got this voicemail from Andrew in upstate New York. Can we bring back employee of the month or employee of the quarter or however you want to do it? We sure can. We'll do it right now. It's time for employee of the quarter. So the last three months, I've had my eyes peeled for one super performing employee who will be rewarded once they win this award. In this segment, you can spin the wheel of cash. On that wheel. There's a lot of opportunity, a lot of money. You can do self promotion if you win. A little change to this rule. If you do choose self promotion, I won't make you do it right away. You can do it later on in the show so you have a minute to think about it. Okay, so you can do 30 seconds of self promotion, or you can block someone from contention next quarter if you win, it's the complete spite prize. So why don't we talk about this for a second? Amy, how do you feel about yourself? I feel fine. I feel like I had a good quarter. Some things that I recall happen. I'm like, oh, that was pretty Good. That's pretty good. And that happened because of me. Some of your standout moments include bringing the email that led to us confronting a scammer. Oh, that was good. Which was fun. Yep. She became the easy trivia champion, which was great. She brought us co parenting stories with her ex husband, made us release things for the blood moon, and shared our psychic ability with us. Oh, yeah, I was psychic. So you're. You're still in the mix. Okay. For employee of the quarter. Good job, Abby. How do you feel about yours? I feel good. Yeah? Yeah. Abby's been a key player to behind the scenes. She's been contributing more. Now she didn't get it this time. Abby, I wrote a whole thing. I don't want to spend a bunch of time. She may have been on air. Yeah, you spend a lot of time. Yeah. Behind the scenes. Okay. Morgan, how do you feel you've done? I feel like it's been a trying three months for me, but I feel really good about it. I mean, I showed up here when I was dealing with vertigo for a month and a half and that's been a crazy experience. That's true. Which seems real safe months, dedication. Yeah. You know what? Better luck next time though. You did good. But better luck next time. Okay. That's okay. High five, Morgan. Amy's still in, but you did good. Okay. Lunchbox. Yeah. What's up, dude? Over the last quarter. Oh, we know it. Nailed it, brought it, dominated it. Do you remember anything specifically avenues? Oh, yeah, I got a lot of stuff that I brought to the table. I brought one minute rant. You know you didn't bring that. I'm the one that brought that. You may have done one, but I. That, yeah. Baller, a buffoon, I mean, is now a staple. And also we all play that one, but. But we did it twice. Ever. I can just read you what I have. So you're not making up women? Women are crazy. I do have that. I mean, that is the most segment. That's you. He lived out his lifelong dream of being on the news. Hey, I gotta got this show national attention, even though I didn't really share him. No, wasn't national. It was local news. But even though it didn't really show him as much as he thought it would, it still is good. He took initiative and he applied for the in game host at the MLS team here in town, which I think we're gonna find out later today if he got or not. He debuted the new segment Women are Crazy. He thought that. Well, you made it to the next round. Ah, that's what I figured. Yeah. Like the whole dish. I almost put in, like, the dirty dishes thing. Oh, yeah, they get busted. Remind me what happened there? He got busted bringing his dirty dishes to work. Like, that was a bit. But he didn't do that for the show. He just got caught bringing his dirty dishes to work and putting them in the dishes. Which brings the question, should you get credit for a good bit if you really never planned on it? Well, I think so. Because you're. Without. You wouldn't have existed. Okay, great point, Amy. So Lunchbox. You're still in. Amy and Lunchbox. Still in. We'll go one more. Okay. Eddie still managed to do his job with a broken arm. Come on. I mean, did we call it broken? I mean, it is. It was broken. He put his money where his mouth was and beat Morgan in the Wayfarer building competition. That's true. That was like six months. What? He tallied up the LOL moments on the show. He had. According to our data keepers here, the best lines have made listeners laugh out loud. Don't worry about it. He came up with that data. He also gets the award for the Last Laugh award, which is given out to the person who gets the final joke in a segment, allowing us to hit the little piece of imaging. What does that mean? Like, if you're like, say something. I go, haha. Goes to do Bobby Bones. Oh, that's cool. I got the last. I didn't. I didn't do this. I was just told this. This is a voting panel of three people. Cool. Wrote that. I did not write that. He did not write that. He was part of the 8th annual Million Dollar show that raised over $221,000 for St. Jude, for charity, for the kids. Maddie, you're in. Okay. It's you three. Come on, baby. This is my worst nightmare. What is? What? This whole competition type thing with them, and then it's us, and then we're against each other because she doesn't care. Amy's out. What? Oh, I need eye of the tiger. I need eye of the tiger in this competition. Okay, well, I don't mind being neutral, but I do think it's weird that I'm out this quarter. Well, how would I be out this quarter? You're out this quarter. No, this quarter. And the winner. That's crazy. It's going to be Lunchbox or eddie. Damn. Good 25. It's been a great year so far. Feels good. Oh, I had a birthday in March too. Man, that doesn't matter. But your dishes. But birthday matters. But does it his birthday? Sure, why not? What. What does your birthday have to do with anything? Being a good employee? No idea. This was a split decision. Wow. So we split it. No. For the first time ever, it was 2:1 instead of 3:0. So 2:1 started from the bottom. Now I'm here. The winner for employee of the quarter goes to. Come on. London, Paris and Madrid. Those are all places. But Eddie is the winner. Eddie is the winner. He is employee of the quarter. Yes. How? Because he had a broken arm. Yeah. I don't get it. He did nothing. No, guys, I broke my arm and I continued to. He. He. People laugh. He raised $229,000, Morgan. In the competition. Yes, I did. He. It doesn't matter. He cheated in the competition. No way. Eddie, you are employee of the quarter. So if you want the wheel man, I thought I got to do my speech and everything. You had a speech? You can do your speech now. Go ahead. Yeah, you know, you didn't. You didn't win, but you can try it out. Yeah. My speech. Look, guys, I'm the employee of the month, quarter, whatever you want to call it. And you thought I was going to come on here and talk about myself, but no, I want to give a shout out to the guy. We lost this quarter, James. And in Virginia, you are missed every single day. And I think about you every day when I see your two dollar bills sitting on my counter. Let's hear from James. Anyway, I love family. You're awesome. Bye. Oh, you're pandering, dude. Was that my plan speech? Was that not it? I had to know your planned speech was pandering. Wow. What? Yeah. What do you mean? You were going for, like, the sad angle. No, no, I was not going. That was not you. You. Who wrote that speech for you? Me. It doesn't matter. He lost. Yeah. Yeah. What are we doing? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I have a speech. Do you not have a speech? I do. If you don't have a speech and you're lying, I may have to reverse. Okay. No, no. Oh, my goodness. Look at this, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, my goodness. Do you have a speech? I have a speech written out, but I like that. James from Virginia. No, no. Can I see? Can I see your speech? Yeah. He does have it written out. Okay. Because I was literally about to switch it if he didn't. But it's gonna sound stupid. No, no, it's not. Go ahead. Because I didn't think I was going to win. Oh, my. Gosh because he knows he didn't do cry. I said, guys, guys, this is too much. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. I know that I'm the most deserving member of the show to get this award every quarter, but really, we do need to start thinking of some of the other members of the show when it comes to this award. I mean, Amy made us laugh a lot this quarter. Her scamming the scammer bit, one of her best. Love it. Morgan brought some really funny about her dating life. That's great. Lunchbox. Well, he showed up every day. Sick got us all sick, but he showed up. So I will accept this award. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, everyone, including James from Virginia. Hit it anyway. No, I love Bob Boss family. We're gonna miss James. Bye. We're gonna miss James. Thank you very much. Play the quarter. You want the will, I want the wheel. You know I want. Okay, on the wheel, there's everything from spin again times three to 100 bucks. Oh, my goodness. You ready to go? What if I hit the hundred three times? Well, if you get spin again times three, it only takes one time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that would be 300 bucks, right? Is it three spins or just times three times three? The amount. Got it. Done. All right, here we go. Let's spin that wheel. Come on, come on, come on. Oh, $50. All right, let's go. He wants $50 and employ the month. Employ the quarter. Sorry? The quarter. The quarter. We'll do it again in three months. Thank God. Okay. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you. Anything you want to say that, like, makes us laugh? Yeah. There we go. All right, go ahead. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. My name is Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini could make elephants disappear, walk through walls, and escape the Chinese water torture cell. But he was also on a mission against mediums. I have never seen one genuine medium. Join me, Tim Harford, for a Cautionary tales trilogy on the world's most famous magician. It takes a flim flammer to catch a flim flammer. Houdini wanted the world to see reason. 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I picked up the phone and my thought was this is the most important phone call I'll ever make in my life. I couldn't believe it. I mean Brendan, it was divine intervention. Listen to divine intervention on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Last week you might remember that Lunchbox applied for a side gig to do some in game hosting at the Nashville SC here in town. Well, we got the results. Did he get the job? Did he not get the job? And it all happened live on air for you guys to hear. He didn't even read the email before bringing it to the show. Number about to reveal if Lunchbox got this job he applied for. Now Jennifer from Texas called us and she wanted the update. And Jennifer, what do you remember about this segment and do you remember the job he applied for? Well, I knew it was like a hype man job. I remember that. And I couldn't remember what sport it was for. I thought it was baseball to be honest, but I couldn't remember. Yeah, he's a big soccer guy. Yeah, yeah, season ticket holder. Yes, big deal. And I remember that he was like I don't have a resume. My wife helped me, you know, this and that. All true. We read the resume, thought it was pretty good except for the lies in it. Other than that we thought it was good. I encouraged him to do things like follow up immediately, do extra stuff, you know, be that squeaky. Will, would you have agreed with the advice I gave him Jennifer? Oh yeah, absolutely. 100. That's what I do for jobs. So I have. You want it. Yeah. And I have the email here. That is either he got the Job or didn't get the job. Now, Lunchbox has promised NLR that he does not know he took the E. How did you know to forward it without reading? Because they said they would let me know on the day. And so I got the email and I was like, well, that has to be the answer. So the subject didn't give it away? Nope. Because I don't even like if I'm watching a series of six to eight episodes. Looking at the titles of the later episodes, I'm like, no, no, no. I don't want to see the pictures and those thumbnails or anything. They do that on Survivor. They name it something. So when someone says that during the episode, I'm like, well, I know they're doing good this episode. They're still in. Yes. It's like, man, you ruined it. Well, let's go around the room. Do we think Lunchbox got this job he applied for with the Major League Soccer team here in town to be the hype guy, the on camera guy, the microphone guy during the game? Jennifer, since you called us, do you think Lunchbox got the job? I do. Amy. Yes, he got it. Eddie. I think the resume was so good. He got it even though he lied in it. Man, this is like, if you watch College game day and everybody picks the same team, it's you. That's kind of a bad sign. We're trying to just believe in it. What do you think? I think if he didn't get it, it's only because they had somebody else in mind already and had to open the job. I think he's perfect for it. It. But I'm gonna go with yes as well. Oh, no. We all got yes. Morgan, listen, it's. He may give me a hard time, but I got faith in this guy. I think he got the job. He has not seen the email. I will now. I mean, look nervous. Go ahead. I haven't thrown my name in the hat for many things. Titans announcer. Oh, yeah, that. And then. You know what I mean? And so I saw this, and I was like, this is me. Like, I go to the soccer games already, so why not get this job and have, like, work for a Major League Soccer team? Like, I would be, like, a professional soccer player, basically. Basically. Basically. So I cannot see. I've not flipped it over yet, but I can see through it a little bit, because I don't want to know. 1, 2, 3, 4. There's eight lines. Eight lines. I mean, if it was eight words, it's like eight lines, a line, and a Half paragraph. A line and a half paragraph. A line and a half paragraph. So that would probably be like three long sentences. It looks. I can't tell, but I. It's like a college admission letter. When I see on. I know, I feel like, do we have like a. A Nashville MLS like hat to put on him when he gets it? Like, oh, man. If we. Oh, I should have brought my thought about this bit. Yeah, we've done any preparation in a bit. Isn't that what they do? That's kind of like when you. When you sign college. Oh, yeah. Like, where are you? Jersey. We need something. Okay, here we go. I will now flip over the email. Come on. And we found. No. Are you going to read it first? You going to read it out loud? What are you going to do? I'm going to read it. Is he smiling? He's not doing anything. Oh, man. What did you flip it over? I. I read it. Okay. What are you doing? I read it. Hey, who is it from? I read it. It's from Colleen. They don't even say their last name. I read it. Okay. Do you know Colleen Lunchbox? That's who I've been corresponding with. I've never met her. My come over like this. What are we doing? You can just give us just a generic standard. What do you mean, interesting? How interesting can it be? It's yes or no. Well, no, that's not true. It could be. We're down to the wire, we've got two people we love. You're one of them. And now we need a face off. How much do you want this job, man? I want it. I think it'd be so fun. Okay, without any further ado. Can I see it? No, I want you to experience it. From Colleen to lunchbox subject in stadium host. Yep. Hey, Lunchbox collection, comma. First of all, I want to say thank you so much for your submission and interest. That's never good. What do you mean? No, no, no. That's how they started. First of all, I want to thank you. Second of all, I mean, second of all, we want to welcome you to the team. No, man. No. There's a but coming. Okay, hold on. There is no but in this entire email. There could be. Oh, so this Q. So it's an and. Let's see. First of all, I want to thank you for your submission and interest for the in stadium host opportunity at Nashville Soccer Club. Boo. Oh, I got it. However, no, see, we really do appreciate you taking the time to apply. Yeah. And after further conversations between the powers that be. That's right. We have decided. Yes. Let's go. No, it's lucky to add you to our team to move forward with an internal applicant. No, internal's the worst. It's always internal. We do appreciate you taking the time to apply. We hope that we can work together on something in the future. Best, Colleen. Like maybe hit him with a compliment sandwich. Hey, kill the music, Ray. She did compliment sandwich. That's the only reason that I could see you not getting it was they had somebody in mind already and they just had to post a job. That's what you said. Said from the beginning, but just that, just. You should feel good about that because Internal is hard to beat. Hold on. So if they had someone in mind, you have to post the job though. No, no. Post the job. Fine. But then why have me do another round of things like sending videos? Also a great question. Maybe that's what made them lunchbox. Yeah, maybe it was between you and somebody in and they saw your second video and they're like this dude. No, no chance. Let's go with the Internal Guy Guy. I didn't want it anyway. Sorry. No, that's not true. You'll be late at night. It's going to be late at night. I'm busy. You know what I mean? Well, hey, don't say that, cuz what if something happens to Internal Guy? No, no, I'm not. I'm not second fiddle. What if Internal Guy. I've been second fiddle many times and it's turned into great things. So don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. Okay, well, maybe I will be sloppy seconds, but. Oh, I don't call myself that, but I hear you. Yeah. Oh man. Sorry, dude, that's embarrassing. Sorry. You could be his. Could you be his understudy? Be his assistant? Go and be his assistant. Like chase him around down and like carry his mic cables and stuff. Be next man. And like if something happens last minute, you're called to the stage, then you will be Internal. You're that guy. Yeah. You're the only. Here's the bad part too. Yeah, yeah. But I've been telling my kids. You have to stop telling your kids stuff. You guys are telling them they're going on a cruise. You gotta stop telling them you're gonna be the guy in the mic. No, because I was like, yeah. And they're like, oh, dada. Does that mean we'll finally get to go on the field? And I'm like, oh, probably. Oh, no, because like all the players, kids Run on the field after the game. And I'm like, oh, my God. Also, you're not a player. Even Jennifer. Oh, man. Yeah. Your thoughts? I think they made a mistake. Me, too. But I. I think, you know, he should definitely keep trying for stuff. You know, like, you should be the hype guy, like, your local kids games and then send them video videos of you doing. That's true. With, like, a bullhorn. I'm here now. And you bring, like, your own T shirts. You know what they say? What do they say? Rejection is redirection. And Bobby has a plan for you. You need to go to your kids, your kids games and do the halftime. All right, well, thank you for letting us be a part of your process. Lunchbox that question, like, do I email her and be like, yes, absolutely. What would you get emailed? Like, say, hey, man, thanks for nothing. You want to keep your foot in the door. I would email her right now, but he should reply and be like, I thank you for the opportunity to do this. Like, I. What opportunity? I wouldn't email right now. Don't email right now. Take a breath, take a beat. Next. Next day or so be like, hey, awesome. Totally get it. But if anything happens, love to be a part of the team someday. Okay. Yeah, man. All right, let's play this. Sorry. Sorry, dude. Yeah, it's a tough one. I've been there a bunch of times. Are you embarrassed? Yeah, because I really. The only reason I sent you guys emails, like, there's no chance, like, I mean, they get the publicity of me that gets such a huge easy gift. Huge. Huge. Yeah. And who knows who the internal guy is, though? But my wife kept telling me, I mean, of course they want you. Of course. Well, and we all thought they should want you. Unless it was someone internal. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two, Jon Pardi stopped by the studio. It's always super fun to have him in. He talked about his new album, which is the first in three years being on tour. Talked about the time he got to meet one of his idols, Alan Jackson, and then also the career that Jon Pardi wanted but he didn't pursue for one particular reason. So here it is. This is Jon Pardi in studio number three on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, John party guy brings energy when studio. Good to see you, buddy. Buddy. I was watching your Instagram story with my wife, which we do every night. We set a time where we're like, pull up the parties Instagram story. Oh, yeah, it's like, in the 20s, you gather around the radio. That's what we do with your Instagram story. Love it. We're like, pull up Summer and John's Instagram stories. We sit there, we have a meal, we watch. Your kids are turning into actual humans. It's crazy. Yeah. No, like, they're getting old. They're all. They, like, look like you guys. It's like, slow down. Like, this morning, Presley was like, I'm gonna put on my shoes. And went and put her little rubber sandals on. I don't know what they are. And both on the right feet. And she's two. Like, it was. You mean on the correct feet? The correct. Got it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I guess that doesn't make sense. Well, no, it could have. I just want. I don't know that I got it. Yes. Yeah. But she correctly put her shoes on, and I was like, whoa. Yeah. What is surprising to you about being a girl dad? Because I think as a. As a man, and we don't have kids yet, I have to always say this. My wife's not pregnant right now. People always think if I'm mentioning it, but eventually that's going to happen where we're going to have children. I am scared spitless of having girls because I know nothing about girls. Yeah, you have two. What have you learned? You don't learn anything. You learn how to be a parent and you learn your girls. Like, you learn what your individual, like, Presley likes, what Sienna likes, and. And I feel like when you're saying you're scared, like a boy or a girl, like, it's. You just learn. Like, I wouldn't know what to do with a boy. But I'm saying, though, later, with a boy, I would know, like, what shows. Let's play ball. Let's do. I don't. What do I know about what girls do? And. Yeah, well, that's. That. That's. That's why I'll ask you in 10 years. You just go make a note. I'm gonna ask him this question in 10 years. Presley loves the tractor and she loves the Can Am. So, like, I get, you know, we get our Can Am rides and it's kind of get to do the boy world. But, like, there's a lot of. There's a lot of, like, you know, we watch Beauty and the Beast together. Great story. It's a great story. Fabulous story. And it was, you know, I don't. I haven't seen Beauty and Beast, but it's different. It's different when you watch it with your Baby girls, it's like, oh, you know, like, you get a little more like your heart. Your heart opens up a little bit instead of, like. Whereas boys, like, they're always into something and climbing trees and like, you've talked to boy dads are like, oh, I'm just chasing my kids everywhere. You know, where the. The Presley's like, coloring. So I don't know. I saw you riding a horse at the Houston rodeo. How did your body do now that you're not 22 riding horses? Good. You still got it. Oh, yeah. I brought my own saddle for that one. I just. They. We've done Houston enough to where, like, big guys that, you know, not the most popular saddle. And the stirrups are real high, and you can't ride well with high. Stuart. So I threw in my saddle and that horse, I'm. That was my third ride with him. Link. He's a great horse, and we got the. You know, I got to get on him. And the guys are letting us some steers and some. It was cool. They let some Bronx out and like, we were just kind of around arena with them. And so I. You know, it was just. It's like riding a bike. If you're good. Yeah. But I don't pick my bike seat. You know, I think because of his size. You're saying size like you need your own. He's big. He's a big old boy. Like, if you didn't have your own saddle, you would have been in a little pain. It's tough. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough because I've done it in your. It's just really hard. It's like, be. I don't know. It'd be hard. Our Uncle Rick had a bunch of horses growing up, and so. But we just rode them all bareback all the time. Right. Just get on and ride. And we were idiots. But I got clothesline hard. I didn't see the clothes. A literal clothesline. Yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, boom. Yeah. It's not fun. Vivid. Most vivid memory because probably like eight or so hardest you've ever fallen off a horse. Bareback phone. Just messing around. It doesn't matter. I don't know what's the hardest fall you ever had? I just. You're just riding, and all of a sudden the horse turns real quick and you slide off. Look at the jeans. These are like slip and slides for bareback, you know, and it just fell right off. You know, I try not to fall, but it. You feel like in an arena, you'd be like, oh, it's gonna be soft. It's dirt. No, it's not. It hurts, but, like, getting clothesline. Good thing you didn't have stirrups. You'd be pulling. Be pulling on it. So I don't know. Yeah. Good thing I have stirrups for sure. Didn't. No, you didn't. No, I didn't. Good thing I didn't have stirs. Yeah. Caught up in there. I'm gonna play Friday Night Heartbreaker here. Walk me into it. Tell me something about it. Well, I mean, this is a fun. When I first heard Friday Night Heartbreaker, it just. It gave a different vibe to me. When I. When I heard it was just kind of. Of had a kind of spooky, sexy vibe to it. And I really. I don't know, I just felt connected to it. And I. You know, I think all the girls getting ready out there and be like, I'm gonna break a heart tonight. That's how I feel when I get ready for the show every morning. Every morning I come in here, I'm like, I'm about to break some hearts. Everyone wake up. Break some hearts today. Listen to this weekday Heartbreaker. That's what I need right there on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, John, party got you. Land all cleared or. No, no, never. Is that ever. That's never going to be a thing that's done. That's always going to be the project. It's just. It's. It's. I Like, Tennessee is great, and it's just a lot of trees, but there's a lot of. There's a lot of great parts about land that you can uncover, but you just got to knock trees down and so. I don't know. Firewood. I'll be splitting firewood. Yeah. John would bring it over and for free and unload it and then be like, you don't have to help. And I'm like, dude, you brought all this for free? And then you're telling me I don't have to help, so I just go inside. Okay. No, I would help a little bit, but. Yeah, like, that's. That's fun to you? Well, I mean, it's something to do. I mean, it's. It's not. It's more of, like, feeling like it did something like, you know, playing concerts and traveling. It. It's fun, but it's still like, you want to get out and get dirty. I don't know. I mean, I don't. Splitting wood is fun for a little bit. I just like to get. Get. I like to get it collected and dried out, so. Because summer loves bonfire. Who doesn't like a good bonfire? You know? And we got fireplaces. Overrated. S'mores. Overrated. Overrated, Right? For sure. Right. Individually, all good. But just like, all together, too. Too much time, too much messy. It's just not s'mores. You want to argue that? I would love to hear it. I love a good s'more. Like, it's an experience, it's an activity. It's something to do there. It's nostalgic. It just feels good. It's warm. It's nostalgia I will agree with. Okay. You can also elevate it. And instead of just a plain Hershey's chocolate bar, throw a Reese's cup in there. That'll be. Well, now you're making it different. You're like. You can also wear a golden robe. Hey, I'm just saying, if you haven't had a s'more that way, you're missing out. What I regret isn't I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna get into pistols now. Pistols. Okay. Like you yourself, like a cat. Because I had. Well, not collector. A dot difference. Them bonfires. Correct. Well, I'll tell you what I'm getting to. I have multiple shotguns. That's all I grew up with was shotguns. Yeah, different kinds of shotguns. I have. I think I have two 12 gauges now, but I had a, you know, start with the 410. Classic starter shotgun, 20 gauge. Went to the 20, got 12 gauge. La la. The last time we were up on your property, my wife and your wife, they were. Shoot. They were practicing shooting. Pistol. I didn't. Because I was like, what used to have for a pistol. Pistol. Yeah. But now I'm starting to feel like I need, just for protection, a pistol. Do you. Do you roll? It's not riding dirty because that's packing. Do you roll with a pistol? I'll carry, yeah. Or, you know, not like, oh, you can conceal carry, but there's a lot of rules. You won't fight. You want to go by legally and. Yeah. What do you prefer if someone's. If something's happening around the property, what are you grabbing? I guess is my point. The pistol. Or are you grabbing a rifle? You gotta feel if you're. If you're really talking about self defense. You want to feel whatever you want to use, whatever you're comfortable or animal. So it could be either one. Right. So self defense. Or it could be like there's a bear or something. You know, but, yeah, self defense. I'm grabbing a shotgun because I feel like I can load and unload that thing. And also I got the chick. Chick. I got the pumps just so that's a sound they can hear. Yeah. What are you. What are you most comfortable with anything, really? Yeah. I need to come back up. I feel like, though, like, you talk about self defense, like, you had to be prepared like that. That's what we. We love to talk about. Oh, this guy came up. I'd pull out my grenade launcher, but, like. Yeah, but it's like, do you. Are you ready for that? Like, can you physically ask me that question real quick? Like. Like. Okay, let me ask you that question first. Could you shoot somebody if they were on your property and they were making a. Making a mess. Let's just say making a mess. That seemed trouble. Could you shoot somebody? I mean, it'd be a very. It'd be. You'd have to instinctively know that that was what you had to do. Now ask me. There'd be some questions. Ask me, sir, what are you doing out here? No, ask me if I. What I would if I could. Do you feel I'm not breaking into your house? No. You don't ask me why I'm here. You guys are doing a scene for me. I'm like, no, John, it's Bobby. It's me. It's me. No, we know each other. I've been here. That's how I knew how to get to your house. Well, ask me that question. Ask you what? If I. If he's ready, are you ready? And a freaking heartbeat. She's ready. Been jumped, had my house broken into. Had so many things where it's like, I'm probably too ready. Oh, then all you need is get the shotgun, get the 20 gauge ready to go. But I feel like that's just so. It's. It's cumbersome, almost like I want to be able to go like, well, then do it. Should anybody go get a two. Get a gun? No. Like that, though. I don't know. I'm asking for advice. I'm asking for gun advice here. I feel like you got to go and just get yourself prepared. That's the. It's. The idea is an idea, and it'll always be an idea. If you don't work on it, It's. It's not a thing. It's just like, you should practice. Yeah. Or be more prepared. And my wife was. They were. Kaylin was up with John, and they were practicing. They were getting comfortable Learning handguns on John's property, shooting with people, law enforcement. Like, it was a whole thing. And I was like, I'll pass. I got a 12 gauge. I'm just starting to feel that I didn't take advantage of that. See, now we got kids that got a, like, fingerprint vault on the nightstand with a pistol in it. Oh, yeah, that's good. Like, well, that's what I mean by prepared. Yeah. Like. And like, you can't just sleep with a shotgun. Like, but I can just picture Bobby like, I do. Yeah. Right between my legs. Sleeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Getting out like it's just a dog at the door. Yes, yes. But, yeah, So, I mean, that's just practice and get yourself prepared. Do you ever consider law enforcement? No, I'd rather be a firefighter. Was that a consideration at one point? Point, I had a lot of friends that were joining the fire academy in Chico, California, and it sounded like a great idea that, you know, got a lot of wildfires out in California. There's always, like, there's always work for firefighters. But the big thing was it back then, and it still is, is that you had to, you know, guaranteed to get a firefighter job. You became a paramedic. And I was more like, I'd rather be, like, working on the engine, you know, riding around instead of, like, I'm cutting this guy open. Like, I. I don't. You know, there's. Because you had to learn that in order to be. I don't. I don't consider myself, like, a great paramedic. Like, if I saw myself showing up to save my life, I'd be like, well, we're done. But if I saw myself getting off to, like, with a hose and like, yeah, we're gonna put this fire. All right. That's a guy going to take the fire out. So. Okay. John's gotten up like, three times from his chair. Yeah. No, he's had a How to energy drink. I'm feeling good. Got some sleep last night. Okay. How about Alan Jackson? Give me a story. Just play with Alan Jackson, his farewell tour. And you know what? I got to tell him that I consider him the Merle Hagger of my generation of listening, you know, like, because when he was growing up, he was listening to Merle Haggard, and Merle was the guy that wrote the songs. He sang them, and Alan's that guy. Like, he's, you know, he wrote so many songs. Like, Remember when? I think he wrote that by himself. It's a beautiful song. You know, Day the world Stopped Turning. He, like, wrote. He's in the hall of fame, New York city, next to McCartney. Like, he's. He's the artist songwriter that had some of the biggest songs, like a Merle Haggard. And I got to tell him that. And, like, I think it really meant something to him, and he's been a hero of mine, and I feel like that's. That was my latest story without. And I got to kind of say, you know, hey, I think you're. You're right up there with Merle, like, artist, songwriter. Why did you feel like it was time for another album? It's always time for another album. Sounds like a beer. You know what I mean? I never had one single beer, and I was. Yep, sounds like a beer. Yeah, man. Man. Yeah, it's. Shoot. I'd like to put, you know, 18 months is what I'd like to put out every. You know, put some new music out. But it's hard. We tour in and. And it's not like you could just come up with all these great songs in a short amount of time. Sometimes it takes time. So this been three years, which is crazy. But it goes by so fast. Remember when. Damn. I know. It's kind of that, you know. You know, remember when. Last album, 20, 20 to three years ago. I did a record. Live shows. Live shows. Great. Yeah. You feel good? Feeling great. Keep yourself in shape all the time. You got a lot of energy. You don't want. You don't want to get up there and get winded. No, I mean all my. All my songs, my life stuff still how it's all high energy and it's. It's only going to get hotter. All right. It's been nice right now. Oh, you mean weather. We thought what you meant, like the energy. Yeah, like you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, and temperature wise, I was talking about myself, you know, getting hotter. You know What I'm saying? 17 tracks, and I have the whole thing. And I could do the thing where we go, which song do you like the best? But what's the last song that you recorded? Because that usually means it's one you fell in love with at the end, usually. And you're like, we got to get this on the record. It was. And is that true here? I think the last one we did was Rush. You cut it last. Why? Because it. We needed something with tempo and something that grooved, and that was something I wrote in 2019 that we've been listening for six years. You had it for six years? Yeah. And it was just Something that me and Summer put. We. We've. It passed all the tests. Boat tests, car tests, mowing lawn test. All the tests, airplane tests, windows down test, night test, dancing test. Had a long time to test it, so I was like, we gotta. Let's try this. And then Jay loved it. And he's. It's still one of his favorite tracks off the record. Is it crazy to call? Because you wrote that with Ross Copperman and Bryce Long to call them and be like, remember that song I wrote six years ago? And they're like, nope, sure don't. Well, we're gonna cut it. That's a weird thing, huh? They remember that song. They really? Yeah. No, just because it was different and it sounded. It just. They remember the song because it spoke. It, it says, like, listen to me. Like, you think Ross, who would remember if I said, hey, do you know the song Rush? He'd remember it if I called him right now. Maybe he remember that. Let's just see how. Let's see if John's truthful or not. Let's see if he's doing a good interview or not. Because you give him a good answer. Let's see what he says. Oh, you're calling this. He may not answer. You better you're saying, yes. I bet he remembers. He's probably not gonna answer. He'll call back. Hey, man, you remember that day? Because we were at his. Used to have this house that was, like, by a park, and it was like, a nice day like that, and everybody was out. Dang. He's not gonna hit me back. Dang. You ever get nervous to text anybody that's kind of famous? I, I, I was, I texted Kenny Chesney, and I was nervous about it. You ever have that where you're like, I don't know if I should text them because they're kind of cool. A lot of times I don't get their numbers just because of, like, you know what? Can't. Can't drunk dial that guy. Look at that. Hey, tell him what I did. Okay. I'm so glad you said that. Okay. Bobby doesn't drink, so I don't know what his excuse behind, like, reaching out to someone randomly would be, but he was trying to find Kenny's number in his phone because he's texted with them before, but he didn't save it. It's not saved as Kenny or anything because he didn't want to be tempted at any point to just text Kenny because then that would be awkward. I don't want to have his name in him. It'd be like a Thursday night and they play like a clip of a song on Netflix. I'm like, oh, I should reach out to Kenny. I don't. I don't want that. I don't want to give you that option. But sometimes you don't even need alcohol. You just have caffeine in an idea. You're like, I'm calling everybody. Right. So. So that's. Yeah. So you do that. So you won't even save it because you don't want to call them. You know, it's not like we're going to be going to the park together or anything, like, you know, sharing ideas. Unless. Unless you like. I. I feel like if life keeps giving you this person and they keep coming around. Oh, another time, another time where I'll be hanging out. Let's get numbers. You know, like, it'll kind of give you your friends. But if you just like meet Kenny Chestney going down a hallway and somehow get his number. Hey, but you get caffeine. A good idea. Calling Kenny. You know who we need to call? Kenny. Perfect for Kenny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was looking at your tour and by the way, John's all over. We'll link and you go to johnparty.com. but you got Corey Kent and Cassie Ashton. Two folks I think are just awesome. Great. Both in different ways. I think Cassie's like one of the greatest, not fully understood yet pure artist and country music. Yeah. Whenever you. Yes. How do you pick your openers? Well, I mean, they. They kind of. You. You get your list and you can kind of see what you know. And I really try to, you know, we. You can always, like, try to throw dartboards and see who you can get. But I truly try to. When you come to bookend, it's like really give me the realistic of who's available. And Corey. But this one was very natural. Like reaching out. Corey was reaching out. His man's reaching out to get it right. And then Luke Laird text me Kathy's new album. And so she's always working on songs and just always, you know, putting. Put music out. I got to listen to that. And she's a friend. Like I tell you about last life bringing people in. You know, Cassie and her husband, or I think her husband, they came to the house and we had a dinner and we were just singing songs together and like, you know, just like little things. I remember. So it's like these little, you know, friends that it's like. Yeah, well, she. She needs to be heard And I. I've. I've had a good track record of, like, bringing these girls out and all. Then they're like, get the rocket ship. I mean, we had Laine and Haley. I don't. Can't now we're like, call you back. Well, you were just saying, like, I can't get her to call me back. It's so funny. Like, sometimes you gotta DM them on Instagram and then they'll respond back, yeah, try that. Because Lane, I was like. Because she was on the COVID Rolling Stones, like, uk. And I just said, badass. And then she was like, we gotta get together soon. And I was like, I just saw Haley. And then we brought Ella out, and then Ella's all over the place. So. So I'm like, well, obviously, like that. You're the key. Good luck, Chuck. Or whatever. Dude, that reference. That's the funniest reference anyone's made in the studio in five years. A random. Good luck, Chuck. It was the movie, right? It's like something happened and they just got so successful and never talked to him again. Like, well, move Cassie up there. Good luck, Chuck was Dane. Dane Cook. Yeah. Ah, you're the best. Yeah. Let's do one other song on the new record because we were playing with it before you came in, so we did Rush. What's your best? I love ballads. My favorite. I love slow songs. What's the best ballad on the record? Don't you want to know? I do want to know. What's the best? No, we're doing who's on. We're doing who's on first? Who's on first? Yes. Well, don't you want to know? Bobby, Give me number 14, please. Don't you want to know? I want to ask you one kind of in the weeds structural question. As a yes. Thank you. As a songwriter, do you ever have a song that you write and you like and it works, but it's not there? It's like 8 out of 10 as far as, like, working. So you. Tempo, change it where it's a slow song and you. What if we speed it up? Or if it's a song that's got heavy tempo and you go, what if we slow it down? Ross is calling. Hold on. Hey, Ross. Hey, Bobby. Hey, I'm with. I'm with John party right now. What's up, John? Oh, trying to get back. Don't say anything. Don't say anything. We're a little test here. Do you remember writing any songs with John that you liked ever? Every song I write With John I like. Because he's the most talented dude in the world, man. Okay, yeah, yeah. I need a real answer here. So we were talking about a song that he wrote you. You wrote with him six years ago. You're gonna get. We do write killer songs. Don't even Breathe Up Heaven. You're gonna spoil it. You wrote a song with him, like, six years or so ago. And gosh, Over Covid, probably on Over Zoom. Do you remember what that song was called? And you just. You couldn't get. You passed all the tests. It passed the underwear test. It passed the driving test. That's what he said. But he said he wrote it like six years ago and he put it on the record. Do you remember the name of the song, Bobby? I don't remember the song I wrote yesterday exactly. Okay. But actually, it was before COVID Okay, so does that help? John held up for six years. Years. It probably doesn't help, does it, John? Helen, for six years, I played the base, he played the bass. Oh, oh. At my hat. My studio. Okay, what was the name of it? Was that at my studio? John, when you were. My old studio. When you were cutting the guitars and the bases. I remember that. Yeah. Well, okay. Do you know what it's called? All right, this is coming back. I can see the moment. I can see the moment. It was a long time ago, though. Though, like, it was. I remember John sitting on the stool, cutting the. Cutting the guitars, naked. Golly, I can see it. Yeah, it was me. I mean, Bryce. Yeah, there you go. Okay. It was you and Bryce. I know. Yeah. Something about fixing. Something about heaven. No, no, no. All I Want. The song is really good, and John's like, we loved it. He. He loved it for so long. Does he even know that I put it on the new record? That's a great point. You ever heard of this guy? His name P A, D, R, Y. Like, he gets cut every week. So it's like, I don't know. Let me go back through my cut Rolodex. Do you remember a song called Rush? Oh, yeah. I love that song. Okay. What? You're lying. Your. Your. Your tone changed. I. I remember. Yeah. I do remember that. Can you sing us a little? Oh, man, I can't. I can't wait. Just. This might help. I think for listeners in context of Ross. This is a mean show, guys. This is a mean thing. It's not me because I have two friends here with me. Yeah. One that is a massive performing superstar that will not sit down for some reason. He Keeps jumping around the room. And two, I have another really great friend of mine that has 40, 50, 60 number one songs he's written or produced. And it was just a numbers game. And I was like, there's no way that both of you guys can remember the same. We've written a handful of songs together, though. Though. It's. There's. We've read a bunch. Me and John written a bunch. Yeah. And we need to get back together. I'm like, wait, I think about that. When I saw your album come out the other day, man, and I saw that song on there and I was like, golly, I totally forgot about that. Yeah, exactly. It's definitely. It's definitely one that you. You forget about. But, like, it's not for me. I don't forget about you. You write, you see all kinds of artists and. And songwriters. So you're always writing where I gotta get on a plane and get on the bus. So. But that one really stood the test. Time. Let me ask you a real question. Thank you, John. Thank you, John. That is. That was a great defense. No defense, none needed. I just. It's a numbers game more than a quality thing. A real question. Because on the phone. Quality thing. Oh, my God. Ross. Ross Copperman, by the way, do you know how many number ones you have in general, like, produced or written? It's 41 right now. 41. So I'm asking the hall of fame, and he's worked with a lot of great people. What, What I want to ask about John is if you're riding with John, like, what is he like as a creative contributor? John is. I was talking about John the other day. He's. He has such a sense of who he is. And it's so funny. Me and my wife were literally talking about you in the car the other day, dude, because one of your songs came on the radio and we just look at each other like, dude, John has always stayed true and authentic to who he is. Is. You've always just done your thing. And I feel like that is so commendable, man. You've. You've always just. You stay true. And so many artists chase things. You just do you, man. And it's authentic to you. And it's. It's John Party country dude. Yeah. We had to reboot his whole system for a shuffle, like ipod shuffle. We did a shuffle. And you know, that's not a very common. Like, if you're looking for loot loops, there's not a lot of shuffles, like, in a lot of loop Banks and stuff. We have no idea. So it throws the whole system off to do a shuffle. Yep. It's a joke. This is John, like, smart people get. So a shuffle is authentic to John. Shuffles Head over boots. The one he's talking about, it's called filler up. He's not joking. No, he's not joking. When you. A shuffle is just not a common feel, you know? It was in the 50s, baby. Okay, well, so honestly, that becomes the reason why John is playing bass and guitar on these songs. Because he ends up having to play the feel. Oh, okay. Because he is him and he. Yeah, that's a good point. Like, if he's true to himself and the songs feel like him, why not have him feel within the song? AI ain't getting this guy. Exactly. He can't. And he is. He can do it. And, you know, most artists can't sit down and. And throw a bass on a track or throw a guitar down or, you know, he does it all. We say that with love to all the artists out there that can't play bass. What else have you guys written together? Do you know? We did. No, we don't have any hits together, but we got good songs together. Well, you mentioned Heaven songs. You got that rush. You know why? You know why I feel like we have good songs together? Because I. I always feel like with John, he's so talented, I feel like I just like to just let him do his thing and let. And I kind of just hang on for the ride and let John do jn. And I feel like that's when John. That's when our great artists make the best music. To me. To me is not when somebody else is telling them, hey, this is the. You know what I mean? Well, I would say that if you jumped in a little more, maybe you'd have hits with him. Well, there's a song. There's a song called Heaven that we wrote with Shane, and it's. No, no, it's. It's one of Summer's favorites. But, like, it was, like, at the time. At the time, everybody had a title called Heaven or something with heaven in it. And so it really got put into the catalog. So it's still. It's not out yet. Still. It's not out yet. Oh, we can't wait. And then Summer's gonna see this. This conversation, and I'm gonna hear all about it. Are you in the middle of a. Right, Ross? No, I'm still on my back porch. He's on the beach. He's at the beach. You got 41 number. Number ones. You're at the beach. Hey, the funniest thing was Ross and I play pickleball together, and we'll just put a playlist on and play. And I'll just go to Ross Copperman. Like, you can just go, like, all songs written by Russ Copperman. And I make him listen to all his own songs he's written as we play. Distracts the crap out of him. Beat him every time. Bobby. Bobby destroys me at pickleball. Like, shamefully every time. I just. While he's playing your music. Just like, boom, Playing my music. So I'm like, I'm embarrassed already. And then I just get my butt kicked every time. Well, thank you for answering the song, Rush. You should hear it. It's really great. It's on. It's on John's new record the other day. Congrats, John. Thanks, Ross. We back. We'll get back in the books. See you, buddy. Love you, man. There he is. There he is. Ross Copperman. Honky Tonk Hollywood. Heck yeah. Heck, yeah. You guys. You guys are both good dudes. I love Roth. We have a great time. It's been. I mean, I haven't wrote. We trying to get back. It just gets harder. You throw kids. Kids. Don't throw your kids, dude. They're not big enough. Like, you throw kids in the mix of doing things. Oh, in the mix. I love just throwing kids. I was like, dude, I don't know what you want the farm, man. You throw kids in the schedule. Yeah, it's like. Schedule gets real tight. Tour kicks off April 25th. Honky tonk Hollywood. 17 tracks. My. I'll say it now. My favorite's Rush. That was the best. That was the best song you heard. I liked it. I felt it made, too. Loved it. It's a sexy sound. There's a lot. There's a lot of. There's a lot of vibes on this. You don't realize this, but I've taken off my clothes the whole time. Been doing the interview. It was so sexy. It's a boat. That's a good. I'm Winnie the pooing right now. Only got a shirt on a rush boat on the ocean. You tested it everywhere, though. It's good everywhere. It's good everywhere. Before you leave, you want to take the challenge? I was ready. I'm prepared for bop it. Yeah. Okay. Can we get the scoreboard up behind him? Can we set it up? Scuba with a mic? I don't know how I'm gonna Do, but well. And many artists have come in and performed on Bop It. Some have done wonderfully, some have failed miserably because it's easy to get off it. And Bop it is a classic game where there's a thing you twist, there's a thing you pop, and there's a thing you pull. And it tells you what to do. On the leaderboard right now we have Dirk Spent lee leading with 18. We have Matt Carney with 16. We have Kit Moore with nine. And next up will be John Party. You can. You can beat 18 John. I mean, it seems easy, but it's. It just takes one time. Amen, brothers. For a lot of things. Amen. Takes one time. So let's. Let's get it. Let's make sure it works. Get it straight. Okay, then what? And then you're ready to go. You guys ready? Safety saw. Ladies and gentlemen, it only takes one time. Ladies and gent, gentlemen playing by. And we got to be quiet when it's over. Oh. And I went to sleep. Okay, I got it. I'll use it. Okay. And go. Pull it again. Here we go. Hold a little higher. Bop it. Twist it. Twist it. Twist it. Bop it. Twist it. Pull it. Bop it. Pull it. Pull it. Twist it. Bop it. Bop it. Bop it. Pull it. Twist it. Twist it. Pull it. Twist it. Pull it. Bop it. Twist it. Remember my first time playing bop it. Score 20. Wow. 25 for John party. That's amazing. I didn't know it was that high. Wow. Good job, dude. So now everybody check out his album. Otherwise, if you didn't, we were going to say don't listen to it. Top of the leaderboard. Yes. 25. The album is out. It is Honky tonk hollywood. Go john party.com P A R D I. And he's got great opening acts. He's got a ton of hits. I love them. And good to see you again, buddy. Tell everybody I said hello and good luck with the record, man. Thank you. Love you too. Love you guys. Thank you so much for having me. You have to leave the Bop it though. I was going to bring the suppressed. I know. I can tell. I can tell. Go Amazon John Party, everybody. Thank you. Dude, you crushed the Bop It. You destroyed Dirk. That's awesome job, man. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. My name is Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini could make elephants disappear, walk through walls and escape the Chinese water torture cell. But he was also on a mission against mediums. 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Listen to the Girlfriend Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Most days, I walk into the studio smiling, head held high. It's a good day. We're gonna get some work done. But, you know, every so often, I leave the studio with my head a little bit hung and not doing so well. And this segment is one of those reasons, apparently. We decided to enlist Chat GPT's help to roast all of the show members. And let's just say Chat GPT kind of knows us a little too well. Or maybe we're posting too much on the Internet. I don't know. Number two, I asked Chat GPT to roast all of us. Do you guys want to hear what it wrote? Yes, I would love to hear it. It went hard on me. It did a whole page on me. Oh, whole page. Yeah. So here's the first one. Bobby's like the human version of an iPhone Update date. Slightly better every year, but somehow still exhausted and glitchy. Oh, ouch. That's life. Just wait. Bobby's the only person who can make standing next to a celebrity look like a make a wish moment. Oh, my gosh. Oh, that's harsh, man. Dude, it gets so much harder. Bobby has everything money can buy. Except the ability to take a compliment without looking like you just threatened him. Dang, man. You want another one? Feel like I need a drink to enjoy this. Here's another one. Bobby overcame poverty, addiction in his family and every statistic stacked against him. And now his biggest problem is deciding whether to post a selfie or spiral for three hours about it first. Do you like these? How do they know you? So it's just. Yeah. What did you tell me? Oh, you guys are on here too. Don't worry. Yeah, this is the roast. Okay. And then here's. I'll give you one more on me. Although it's a whole page. I'll read. Read some more on the podcast later today. Bobby is the version of the American dream. Start with nothing, work harder than everyone else, win everything, and still wonder if anybody likes you. That's true. That's hardcore, huh? Yeah. Are you laughing so you don't cry? No, I just think that that's so funny how they just nail all that stuff. Yeah, they know too much. If imposter syndrome were a person, it would have Bobby's teeth, glasses, and childhood trauma. Oh, my gosh, dang, dude. Yeah. Okay, you want to move to Amy? Yes. Oh, no. Amy, are you okay? I'm okay. Because this is not. This isn't a real human. That's right. This is made by AI. Yeah. Amy is the only person who can take a 30 second story and turn it into a 10 minute saga about her journaling a dead bird and a Pinterest quote. Okay, Amy's been. She's cool with that. Amy's been through more therapy than anyone on the show and somehow still ends every story sounding like she's just giving advice to herself. Okay, here's another one. You starting to feel a little bit or what? Just keep going. Okay. I mean, so far it's like, okay, not. Not wrong. I'm proud of Amy. She's proof that you can outgrow your problem and immediately find brand new, even more complicated ones to replace them. That's rude. That's rude. I. No, no, no. I've evolved. I didn't do my. We're not fighting back. I didn't fight back online. I chased chaos because that's what my nervous system was used to. But now my Nervous system is level. I don't chase the chaos. Here's one more about Amy, and I'll do the rest on the podcast later today. Amy's the only person who can survive divorce, grief, and therapy and still get emotionally wrecked for getting where she parked her car at Target. Not wrong. Nope. Okay. Okay. These are so hardcore and like, right on. Yeah. Lunchbox. Lunchbox is living proof that confidence has absolutely nothing to do with confidence. Oh, gosh. I don't get it. Exactly. Oh, no. Lunchbox is what happens when you dare a frat house to raise a child. Oh. That is a slam against his parents. I don't like that. My parents like it. Lunchbox's dream job is, quote, celebrity. Too bad you actually have to be likable, talented, or remotely self aware to get there. Oh, look where I am, Eddie. Oh, boy, it's gonna be bad. Just give me one. Dude, come on. Eddie's been trying to go viral on Instagram for three years, and the only thing he's gotten famous for is being the dad that tries way too hard. It's not funny. Swinging a miss. Eddie has four kids and still believes he's a cool parent. That's cute. Delusional, but cute. And then one more. Eddie's life advice is amazing if you want to end up with four kids, a mortgage, and a fading dream of being a musician. Dang, that one hurt. That one. That was too real. AI not funny. Okay, let's go to Morgan. I don't want to. Oh. Morgan's Instagram is 90 coffee cups and 10 soft. Launching a boyfriend that no one's ever actually met. Fair. That was hardcore. Morgan is basically a human Pinterest board. Cute, colorful, and completely useless in case of an emergency. Dang. And then one more. Morgan's Instagram looks like she's living her best life. Until you realize it's just 400 pictures of latte sunsets and men she refuses to commit to. Oh, damn. Sorry, Morgan, I'm crying. Not in a bad way. Wait, why did Morgan ask you, are you crying? Are you laughing? So you don't cry. That's exactly what I'm doing. I have one for Abby. Oh, they went after Abby. Well, I have one for Abby. Ray and Mike. They didn't go as hard on them because I guess there's less on the Internet about them. Yeah, Abby's singing dreams are alive and well. Just like her Amazon cart that's full of stuff she'll never actually buy. I know. Is that. Is that mean? I mean, Lunchbox has roasted Me harder than that. So that's true. It basically, it means you're never gonna make it. Oh, just like you never. That Amazon card's full. Stuff you're never gonna buy. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Raymundo raised like a walking Red Bull. Jittery, loud and making choices he'll regret by not noon. Love it. Yeah, that's fine and true. We're all like, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. And then Mike D. Mike D is a silent assassin of the show. Barely talks, but when he does, it's usually destroy your dreams. And quietly and politely. There you go. Got us. I feel like they were nicer to them. Well, there's not as much about them to go as hard. I'll end on this one. About me. Bobby is the version of the American dream. If the dream was anxiety, childhood scars, and Googling, am I good enough? Every night before bed. Oh, no. Dang. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went the hardest on me, for sure. Went the hardest on me. I'll do the rest later. Yeah, because you have a whole page, right? It's just like. It's all like. You think it's a compliment at first. Bobby's success is inspiring, mainly because it proves you can have crippling insecurity, overwhelming anxiety, and childhood abandonment issues and still end up richer than any bully who's ever bullied you. So that one kind of a sandwich. Yeah, it's like a slam in the middle. Okay, well, everybody feel roasted? Yeah. Good. Thanks. Thanks. ChatGPT it's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two, Lunchbox came into the studio claiming he was the victim of a crime, which sometimes it's hard to trust Lunchbox because he's come in claiming a whole lot of things. But this time, this claim actually has some validity. He shared the whole story, what went down, and I feel bad for the guy. Number one, Lunchbox claims he was the victim of a serious crime. And he has proof. He says now a lot of times he cries wolf, so we don't believe him. But what is the serious crime? What happened? Well, I'm just going to say this crime is punishable by up to 11 months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 and a suspension of your driver's license. I was driving down the highway fully strapped, fully stretched. Like, buckles up. Like your seatbelt was on. Yeah, my wife's seat belt was on. Strap means gun. Like, go ahead. Okay. Three kids in their car seats all in the vehicle, middle lane, going probably about 65 to 70 miles an hour. We're right there by the airport when I look up and there's this car flying in the right hand lane. And this hot rod thinks he's on fast and the Furious thinks he's been diesel out there. Tries to go from the right lane all the way over to the left lane. So he had to hit. Go right lane, middle lane. We understand how they skip two lanes. Yeah, yeah. And as he comes across that middle lane, he bam. Swipes the back of the vehicle. You got clipped? Clipped. Makes me fishtail a little bit to the right. Oh, dang. Got. Luckily I had two hands on the wheel able to correct it. My wife's like, what are you doing? I'm like, I didn't do that. She didn't know that a car hit you? No. And I'm like, we just got hit. And the guy goes on my left and just keeps zooming. No way I can catch him. And then I look in the side view mirror, and the bumper is just flapping in the wind. Nailed us. So you get hit and run. Hit and run. Crazy that your wife didn't know what that was. No, she was like, what was that? Yeah. You're so fortunate that it didn't spin you and you hit another car. Oh, my goodness. Goodness. So what do you do now? I had to pull over at the corner of Happy and Healthy. Okay. You didn't go to Walgreens. I did. Oh, you did. Oh. He literally thought those were real streets. Okay. No, no. Okay, got it. And I got duct tape. And I had to sit there and duct tape it to the side of the car to hold it on. Wait, I thought it was flopping down the road. No, no, it was hanging. It was half off. Just flapping in the wind. Got it. And you don't want to lose the whole thing. You don't want the bumper to fly off and hit someone. Someone. So I had to pull over and duct tape this thing while it's fully strapped. You're not wearing a gun. So the guy's just gone. Gone. Hit and run. You're out. Out. I mean, look at that, guys. That is danger right there, man. Look at. Yeah. I mean, that sucks. Yeah, it's a bad. So it doesn't really look like it could be flapping that much, though. It seems more like it's like. Yeah, it was like. Like a little piece was flapping. It wasn't flailing in the wind. No, it was flailing, guys. Like, I mean, it looked like, you know, one of those guys at the car dealership that's what it looked like in the wind, guys. Yeah. You're very fortunate that I guess he didn't hit you so deep into your, like, wheelbase that it flipped your whole car. Right. And the fact that he didn't stop. So it didn't make him do anything. He just kept going. He just kept going. He's obviously in a hurry. You chase him? No. Fast and furious. Vin Diesel was going probably 85, 90. No chance I was getting that hot. Cops couldn't. Didn't have a license. What am I going to call? Hey, 91 1. Your favorite thing to do. I can't believe you, Mr. 911 didn't call 9 1. By the time 911 got there, the dude would have been in frickin Kentucky. They have cameras, man. They do, yeah. So what's the move from here? I don't know. Now I got to figure out how to pay for it. Insurance. That's who you call. Call your insurance. I mean, I was. I'm shocked you didn't call 91 1. Regardless of if the car was in sight or not. I mean, I just like something you would do. Be like, I just got hit on the highway and they ran off and they're gonna be like, what kind of car? Be like, oh, it's a black hot rod. He looked like Vin Diesel. Diesel. Did he look like Vin Diesel or like he was. He was acting like Vin Diesel. I couldn't even see the guy. But I mean, how many black hot rods are there? Probably a lot. I mean, a lot. I mean, it's just a black car going fast. He didn't look like Vin Diesel. Can you imagine getting that call at 91 1-CARS? What kind of car was a black hot rod? Do you any idea what the driver looked like? Vin Diesel. So you're saying he was like a Caucasian thing? Dude, that is flopping in the wind. That's half the bumper. Okay. I mean. Yeah, that's not. That's not. That's just peeled off from the side. It's worse than I thought. Now that I'm seeing it on the big screen. It is. That's like a fourth of the bumper. It's not enough to flap. Oh, it's flapping, dude. Okay. Anyway, I'm sorry that happened to you. Great job by correcting it. Yes. Say, and saving everybody's life. That's what I did. So I may be a hero, but I mean, I was just doing what I had to do. That's why we're not gonna call you here. I Don't worry about it. Yeah, but my kids were like, dad, what. What happened? What happened? I'm like, we got hit. Why we got hit? I'm like, yes. It's okay, though. Don't worry. I got it under control. You got hit once, too, back in our early days where you were sitting at a red light and a drunk guy plowed into you, right? Yeah. Did he drive off on that one, too? No, he couldn't drive off because he was stuck in my trunk. He. He was going so fast. He's going about 45, 50. And he never hit the brakes, hit the Centra. That's when I had a Nissan Sentra, and that's. I mean, I was three months from paying her off, and, I mean, he drilled me. Boom. Sounds like he's being a pro positive. No, he drilled me from behind. And my dad hit the windshield with his head, cracked the windshield. And was he strapped? No, he wasn't strapped. He was not strapped. Okay. That was. That's. My dad didn't like to strap. And so then I get out of the car, and the guy's like, man, I don't know why you're stopping on I35. We weren't on I35, guys. We were on 620. We were at a stoplight, and we were going to see my cousin play baseball, and he totaled my car. They had to get a tow truck to the front of my car in the back of his to get him out of my trunk. Two tow trucks. Yes, two different tow trucks. Can I ask you a question here? You always talk about how unlucky you are. Dude, that is so unlucky. But no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna tell you how lucky it was. Just. Just step. Step back for one second. Because it's like the lottery. The lottery gods. I never get lucky. The world hates me. I never got on Real World. You have two instances where you easily could have died. Yes, and neither happened. But the world does hate me because I was three months from paying off that Sentra, man. Yeah, she was green. You lived. She was beautiful. And then they totaled the car. So I had. That's when I upgraded to the Ultima. But I had to start my payments all over because guess what? That guy had no insurance, so they didn't even cover it. So it's all on me. I would say, look at this as a fortunate thing that happened to you instead of everything in your life sucks, which you'd normally say, but it was a blessing and discovery, guys, because I got 15 years out of that Ultima. I mean that's amazing. And you paid her off. No, I paid her off in like five years. But I had her. I mean I had her for. Sounds like she signed an NDA and didn't show your secrets, you know what I mean? It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. That's it for me this weekend, friends. Thanks for hanging out with me, for being here, for catching up on the Bobby Bones show, and again, check out part one, part three this weekend. Also, while you're at it, go subscribe to the Bobby Bones Show YouTube page because although we have missed our deadline of Friday and I'm not sure at the recording of this, if we had hit it yet for our $100, but by August, if we get to 500,000 subscribers, then Bobby is going to pay myself, Eddie and Lunchbox, which still don't understand the lunchbox thing, $1,000. So go subscribe. Lots of content up there. All the content we talk about here, I try and make sure we put lots and lots of video visuals up there for you guys. So go check it out and I'm gonna get out of here. Bye, friends. 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 and follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode. The number one hit podcast, the Girlfriends is back with something new, the Girlfriend Spotlight. Each week you'll hear women triumph over adversity. 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