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BOBBYCAST - Megan Moroney Shares Swiftie Dreams, Tour Burnout and Why She Loves Sad Songs
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Megan Moroney
I'll do all my rehearsals in a weighted vest because sometimes my outfits weigh like 10 to 15 pounds. And when I've done the performance, I'm like, oh, like, I. I'm not in shape for this.
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Bobby Bones
Today's guest is one of the biggest stars in country music and one of my favorite artists, Megan Maroney. Billions of streams, so many number one songs with songs like Tennessee Orange, Am I okay? Jam? She just dropped her brand new album, Cloud 9, which obviously debuted at number one. And she's about to hit the road on her massive Cloud 9 tour. And somewhere in the middle of all that, she's writing songs. She leads the ACM Awards nominations this year with nine nominations, including entertainer of the year. Big fan, awesome artist. Here she is, Megan Maroney. Megan, good to see you.
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Megan Moroney
Good to see ya.
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Bobby Bones
I wanted to start. This is a little bit selfish of me, but I get a lot of emails asking for advice to me.
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Megan Moroney
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
I give the same answers over and over. It feels like. So you want to do some of these with me?
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Megan Moroney
Sure.
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Bobby Bones
Thank God.
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Megan Moroney
What if I was just like, no,
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Bobby Bones
Then we would just move on. We would literally just move on.
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Megan Moroney
I'm down. I'm down.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, let's go with the first one here. Hey, bobby. I'm a 23 year old singer songwriter living in a small town in North Carolina. I've been writing songs since high school and playing local coffee shops and bars on the weekends. I've saved up a little money. Nashville has always been a dream, but making that leap feels terrifying. What advice would you give me? Sign girl with a guitar?
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Megan Moroney
I think all good things are terrifying at first and. And I would say if I'm in your position, that's kind of like where I was at in Athens, like when I was playing at bars and like I was scared to move to Nashville, but I just felt like I needed to. It was like a gut thing and I knew That I also moved to town knowing, like, this could not work. So. But I don't want to die without trying. So that would be my advice, would just be to do it. Give it your all. And I would say also, like, try to build. As annoying as it is, try to build a following on socials and post your original songs and stuff, and build a fan base that way so that when you move to Nashville, maybe you'll have a couple people show up at writer Johns or whatever you get into.
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Bobby Bones
I have a friend that is thinking about changing careers, and he hit me up a couple days ago. He said, hey, when should I do this? And I said, well, you can either do it now or in six months. You'll be in the same position going, when should I do this? And then you can either do it then or in six months. And then before you know it, two years have gone by and you haven't done crap, and you're going, man, when should I have done this? And, like, if you physically can do it, right, like, do it now. Because what happens is, even if you make mistakes, when you do it, you actually get to learn on those mistakes rather than just inaction, which you get to learn nothing.
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Megan Moroney
That was kind of my reasoning to my parents, too, when I wanted to move, because it was during COVID so my parents were trying to be like, there's no point for you to spend your money on rent in Nashville when, like, nothing's happening. And I told my parents, I'm like, well, nothing's gonna happen here in Covington, Georgia. So that's for certain. But you don't know it's gonna happen. Like, I could at least maybe make friends, write with people like you don'? Yeah, I would say good things are scary.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Do it. If you're watching us on Netflix right now, I'm looking at the camera. Do it.
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Megan Moroney
Move.
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Bobby Bones
If you can afford it. Yeah, but even if you can't, you can figure it out, right? Like, people move here and get jobs.
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Megan Moroney
There's weird ways to make money in
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Bobby Bones
Nashville, but not weird weird.
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Megan Moroney
Just weird.
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Bobby Bones
Not weird weird. Just weird. Let's just go one weird. You can do it. We believe in you. Next up. Hey, Bobby. I've heard it's uncool to wear an artist's merch to their own concert. Is that actually a thing? Because I feel like I want to wear it. What's your official ruling? Cool or not cool to wear an artist merch to their own concert?
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Megan Moroney
Super cool.
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Bobby Bones
I think so, too.
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Megan Moroney
Super cool. If it's like, an old tour, too. You have something not everyone at this place can have.
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Bobby Bones
Also, if you want to go and buy a shirt and then put it on, do it.
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Megan Moroney
My. My fans do that 100%. Like, I look out and it looks like an army of camo. And it's just. Yeah, it's like they don't even worry about their outfit. They just put on the shirt when they get there. So I love it.
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Bobby Bones
And in the end, who gives a crap what other people think about what you're wearing?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah. Dumb. And like, that artist, you're at their show. I can tell you from an artist's point of view, they love it. I love seeing, like, a lucky shirt. I'm like, oh, wow, you've been around for a while.
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Bobby Bones
Do you ever see any really cool old merch that you haven't seen in a long time and somebody's wearing it?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, during my ep, Pistol made a Route Roses era. There's this, like, sparkly denim jacket with, like, a picture of me that I took on, like, an iPhone. And there was only, like, a few of those made, but they were sold for, like, 100 bucks, which, like, back then was like, I couldn't believe anybody would spend a hundred dollars on me. And, yeah, there's a couple of them floating out there.
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Bobby Bones
Do you remember any of those? We'll call them Day 1ers who were fans of you before you had really popped.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, I have, like, a notes app of my fans on my phone. Not like all of them, obviously, but.
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Bobby Bones
Well, now that'd be a tough app to keep. But, yeah, but like.
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Megan Moroney
But like, yeah, no, and, like, I remember, like, some of these girls, too, at my meet and greets. Like, I've met them, like, several times, like, to the point of where, like, I know what's going on in their lives and stuff. So it's like, we would definitely be friends. We are friends.
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Bobby Bones
I started a long time ago, like, taking questions from people, like, helping out, basically. I come from the streets, obviously. Look at me. Nobody's more street than me. So I started to, like, just give advice randomly. I bet, though, in your DMs, there's probably a lot of people constantly asking you questions too, right?
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Megan Moroney
I don't go there too often. It's a scary, dark place.
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Bobby Bones
That's the right answer.
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Megan Moroney
Scary dark place.
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Bobby Bones
I only go on Tuesdays.
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Megan Moroney
Oh, Tuesdays.
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Bobby Bones
The comments or DMs. I only go on Tuesdays because it's brutal.
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Megan Moroney
Oh, yeah.
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Bobby Bones
And you can be as conditioned, you can be as calloused as You. But if you didn't eat right that day, if you're sad about something else and you see a comment that catches you just wrong. Even me, who has dealt with all of it in all capacities, like, it sucks. So I give myself Tuesdays as, like, my cheat day. Like, when I, you know, I'm like, I'm working out for something. Tuesdays is the day when I go in and I read the comments. Otherwise.
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Megan Moroney
So Wednesday is just horrible. You wake up Wednesday pissed off.
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Bobby Bones
That's a good point. That's a good point. You know, you.
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Megan Moroney
Monday night comes, you start sweating.
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Bobby Bones
You're like, I didn't think about getting nervous for Tuesdays. And then the effect of after Tuesdays, usually by the time I go to bed and because it's like a cheat day, like, if I was doing a TV show or something, I would really want to get in shape because I did feel like it put weight on me to be on camera. And so I would, like, hyper focus. But then on my cheat day, I wouldn't even cheat that bad.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
But the fact that I just allowed myself, that would keep going crazy.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
And so some Tuesdays, I don't even go to the comments.
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Megan Moroney
Wow. Because it is straight.
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Bobby Bones
What. What is your rule? Do you go to comments?
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Megan Moroney
You know, this is an interesting question because it's been really relevant lately to me. I'm obviously in tour prep, you know, like, doing all the things physically. And I had this, like, epiphany the other day where it's like, just like, I am disciplined about my physical prep. My mental prep has to be just as important. And so stuff like reading the comments, I actually have to not do it. You just can't. And if I do see something, I have to tell my brain. That can affect you today. You can't dwell on it and let it fester. And then you think about it, it's like, I'm disciplined physically now. I have to be disciplined mentally. Even if I saw that, I've also gone to therapy enough to where I know how to, like, not carry that and stuff, but it's more so been like a. That can't affect me today. So I'm gonna move on. You know? So I really just. Yeah, I don't have a Tuesday rule or anything, but in my head too, it's like 99% of the time for me, it's gonna be bad. So I'm just like, I don't need to know. Screw y'. All.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. The 11 1, the 001%. Screw y'. All I agree. Screw y'.
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Announcer
All.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, it sucks. But what I. I've talked about a lot in therapy as well. I came from therapy straight here. Wasn't talking about that. That'd have been weird if I was talking about that today. I wasn't. But what I try to do now, too is instead of on Tuesday, just focusing on the negative ones, which I really. It's. What I'm searching for on Tuesday is like, I try to spend time on the positive ones, like commenting back to the positive ones because I neglect the comment section.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Because it's not good for my mental health. It's a weird thing, right? Because you would think I would think you would be. You're good. It didn't bother you. Nothing bothers you. Yeah, that's what the normal person would think.
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Megan Moroney
And I think, like, most days I can let it not bother me, but obviously there's some days where you just, like, feel like shit and you kind of agree with them and you're like, I know.
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Bobby Bones
So I'm saying if I don't eat right or something. Absolutely. Like, I'm off. My. My, My blood sugar's off.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Something's wrong.
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Megan Moroney
I think it's just. Yeah. What I've learned, though, is just like, you can't. It requires discipline to not look, and you just have to not look.
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Bobby Bones
All right, I got a couple more. This is fun. I love that you're doing this. Saves me a lot of effort. All right, next up. Hey, Bobby. I have a full time marketing job. I'm also chasing creative dreams, but I feel like I'm exhausted constantly. I think I'm starting to burn out. How do you handle burnout?
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Megan Moroney
How do you handle burnout?
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Bobby Bones
How do you handle burnout?
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Megan Moroney
I don't ever allow myself to say I'm burnt out. I think it's. Once again, I think your mind creates a narrative and it can become real in your head. Your mind is a scary place. So you have to. My burnt out. Even right now, I'm not really writing songs right now because I'm trying to destimulate my world right now. And I guess you could call that burnout if that's how you looked at it. But for me, it's like, I just need to chill out for a second. And you. I think as a creative person, if you tell yourself I'm burnt out, then you think like, am I never gonna write a good song again? Am I never gonna do anything good again? Your brain just can't go there. So I think burnout is Just like, you probably just need to breathe and why don't you just chill for a second? Do something else. Stop putting so much pressure on yourself and it'll come naturally. Cause that's always. I feel like I've never been in a. What do they. Writer's block. I've never had writers block because I don't. If I'm not feeling creative that day, that's just. Cause, like, I don't even know where songs come from. You know what I mean? Like, you'll just write one day and you just get this idea, and you're like, how the hell did I come up with that? And it just comes, and then you don't know where it came from. And then maybe next day it doesn't come, and that's okay. So it's kind of just like not putting pressure on yourself. Because obviously, I mean, if you're writing out, I'm in a creative block. Then you're like, oh, fuck, I'm not gonna. Like, I'm not gonna be able to be creative anymore. I'm feeling so stuck. And it's like, no, that's your mind telling you that perhaps you go do something. Touch grass. Breathe.
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Bobby Bones
Touch grass. For sure. Yeah. Take a break. But don't put pressure on yourself to get back. For me, the greatest comes when I'm bored. It's so hard to be bored, though, whenever you have an active mind, an active professional lifestyle. If I can be bored. If I can find time to be bored, which is a weird thing to do. If I can schedule boredom.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah. And then your mind starts just flowing with things that, like, you have time to actually be creative, then you're spending that time worrying about why not being creative. So, yeah, I always tell any of my songwriters and stuff too. Like, if we're in the room and I'm just not feeling it today, then that's okay. That doesn't mean we suck. That just means it's not happening today. Perhaps it'll happen tomorrow. Maybe it won't. Maybe it'll happen in a week.
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Bobby Bones
There are two times where I feel like I can even check out during the day. We have a sauna at the house.
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Megan Moroney
Oh, love that.
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Bobby Bones
If my phone goes in, it overheats.
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Megan Moroney
Right?
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Bobby Bones
You can't have your phone, and that sucks.
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Megan Moroney
And you're forced to drink water.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Yeah. That's two things. Yep, you're right. So when I go into the sauna. Sauna. That's one. The shower's always good because I can't have a phone in the Shower so I can't get too hot. It's all phone related. That's what's crazy. It's all phone related.
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Megan Moroney
Gotta put your phone down.
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Bobby Bones
Yep. The sauna, the shower, and the baby. If I'm holding the baby, I can't be on the phone.
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Megan Moroney
Yep.
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Bobby Bones
That's where my mind does get to flow. So I think my advice too is take a break. Because that will be so beneficial to you in the areas you're worried about doing more in. Because if you just keep pushing, you're not gonna create.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
As much as you would if you took a break. I used to feel that way about sleeping. Do you sleep well?
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Megan Moroney
I sleep great.
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Bobby Bones
You do.
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Megan Moroney
One thing that yeah, I do do well is sleep. I could fall asleep right now sitting like this, probably.
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Bobby Bones
Has that always been the case?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
So you have clear conscious.
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Megan Moroney
Is that what that means?
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Bobby Bones
I mean, probably. Partially. Mostly, yeah. I struggle with sleep and I find that because I would just go, I'm not getting enough sleep. Same thing too. I would say it so much that I think it would also start to manifest just like you're talking about. If you say you're burnt out. Ye like I'm not sleeping good. And I think it did actually make me sleep worse that I wasn't sleeping good.
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Megan Moroney
Right. I like sleep so much to the point where like, I'm really bad at watching movies. Cause if it's dark, I'll fall asleep.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, really? That's called narcolepsy, Megan.
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Announcer
I don't know if that's like that,
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Megan Moroney
but I'm like, if we're like just in a living room, I'm like, hey, can you turn the lights up?
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Bobby Bones
If I had a natural sleep pattern, because mine is so jacked up now because I started doing working in the morning so early in my life.
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Megan Moroney
And baby probably.
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Bobby Bones
Well, my wife crushes that. Like, she knows my job's a bit weird and I'm probably not always gonna make all the money that I make now. So she's very like sensitive to the fact of do your job. I'll take care of this stuff. Do your job.
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Megan Moroney
That's nice.
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Bobby Bones
It's awesome. Yeah, right? Like, I'm so. I'm so fortunate there. But I wake up, you know, wake up at three or four in the morning. I try to go to bed at nine or so, but my normal body clock is go to bed at 4 in the morning and wake up at noon or 1pm wow. That's my natural cycle. And if I'm off for a few days, like on vacation, especially when I was single. That's. That's what happened.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
I would stay up until almost the sun came up.
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Megan Moroney
Wow. I don't think I've ever stayed up like till like 6am in my life.
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Bobby Bones
Maybe I'm not doing anything cool. It's not like I'm partying or anything. Like, I would just stay up.
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Megan Moroney
That's crazy.
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Bobby Bones
You know, watching Netflix or something. So. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, I got two more. Hey, Bobby. I'm 25. I feel like I'm at the stage of life where everyone else seems to have it together and constantly questioning every decision that I make. I am, career wise, where I want to live, what I'm doing next. How do I trust my gut when there are so many opinions coming out of me? Have you ever made a decision you weren't 100% sure about?
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Megan Moroney
25 is super young, by the way. I am 28 and I even sometimes am like, what am I doing? But I would say it's one of those things where you just gotta take action, like whatever your gut is saying the loudest. Like, even for me, like, I. Let's think about me, like moving to Nashville. This was like, right after college, during COVID I'm like, should I move or are my parents right? I usually always listen to my parents. So I'm like, maybe my parents have something with this, like, stay at home and then move like after Covid's over, whenever that's gonna. But I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna move and if I hate it and nothing happens in like six months, I give myself like six months, then I'll move back and say that at least I did it. And that rules out one option. So I would say in your case, like, you don't know what you're doing, don't know where to live. Try something like whatever your gut is the loudest about. Go towards that. Give yourself a timeline of how long you wanna try it. If you love it, then keep going. If you absolutely hate it, I mean, you might hate it at first, but with potential of loving it. So keep doing it then. But if you just absolutely. You can try something else. Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
And at least you have information to make a decision on it.
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Megan Moroney
Exactly.
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Bobby Bones
Inaction is the worst because you have no data.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Your thoughts are just swirling in inaction. If you even make a wrong decision, there's more of an understanding of what the right decision is because you know what's not right at that point. And also the first line of this I feel like I'm at the stage of life where everyone seems to have it together. There is no stage of life where everybody has it together.
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Megan Moroney
Say it again.
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Bobby Bones
There just isn't all the stages I have felt, man, I just don't have it together.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Can't wait till I get to that age.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
There is no age where you have it together. That is never a thing. It's just a presentation put on by people. And sometimes it's not even put on by them. It's. You're putting that presentation for them. You just think they have it together.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. I don't think you ever get out of your head. Yep.
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Megan Moroney
Take action.
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Bobby Bones
One more. Hey, Bobby. I'm chronically over committed because I say yes to everything. Brunch? Yes. Extra shift. Sure. Help someone move. Yes. Now I'm exhausted and a little resentful. How do you say no without being a bad person? How are you in that?
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Megan Moroney
I've always said yes, to be honest.
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Bobby Bones
You do or don't?
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Megan Moroney
No. I haven't always said yes because I'm very in touch with myself and I know what I can take and what I can't take. And it's been really helpful over the past couple years for my team to get to know me really well because they'll know what I can handle well and what I can't. And so I would say that's just about. I mean, you're not a bad person if you can't do everything ever, though no one expects that of you but yourself. So I think it's just, you know, pick a couple and do it, but say no to some stuff because you got to take care of yourself.
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Bobby Bones
One of the great maturations in my life has been learning how to draw boundaries.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Professionally and personally. People also respect you more when you have boundaries.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Not that they don't respect the person who messaged me, because they probably do. They probably like you a lot. But when you start to draw boundaries, one, you respect yourself more, then you don't resent people as much and you
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Megan Moroney
don't show up as a better person when you're not just, like, completely drained from doing everything all the time.
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Bobby Bones
Do you get to a stage where you feel drained from doing everything if it's, like, end of tour, if it's like, the recording process?
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Megan Moroney
I mean, maybe a little bit. I think it's more so, though, like, my year is planned out where we strategically have, like, pockets of time for me to be off. Cause over the years, we've learned what I need. And so it's like right now I'm in a phase of like, I'm, you know, de stimulating myself from like the tour or means, sorry, the album release and like the Nine Cities, nine Days thing. But now I'm like, can't wait to get back on tour. So it like comes in, it goes from like, I really need this break to like, okay, let's go. So I think, yeah, I think it's also like just prioritizing yourself, I guess. Like you, you know yourself and you're like, I've. I've got to take time off. Time off is important and just like. Or whatever you need maybe do things that make you happy.
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Bobby Bones
When you did the Nine Cities, Nine Days, did you just stay and like take a ton of pictures?
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Megan Moroney
Oh, I met every single person that came.
- [21:52]
Bobby Bones
That's crazy. That's awesome. That's crazy.
- [21:55]
Megan Moroney
It was crazy. Yeah, we'll say that's like the craziest, most ambitious thing I've ever done. When I told my team that they
- [22:01]
Bobby Bones
were like, so what would that day look like?
- [22:06]
Megan Moroney
Let me think.
- [22:08]
Bobby Bones
Are you busing to most of the cities I'm busing.
- [22:10]
Megan Moroney
And let's say we. Okay, so we start in Virginia. People would actually start lining up a day 24 hours before or 48 hours before. And you had to get your ticket in person because I didn't want people to be able to sell them. I wanted to be my real fans and they didn't know that I was gonna do this. When I advertised nine cities in nine days, it was a $9 ticket and I was gonna play like three songs or two songs or something. Can't remember. Was it three? Okay, yeah. Okay, so three songs. But then. So they're all excited, you know, they're, what am I doing? I probably got ready. It takes me about two hours to get ready. So I think we would start in the middle of the day though. I'm kind of blanking. Cause they were all a little bit different, but like they would line up everyone. Once everybody was inside the venues, then I would come out, play three songs and then tell them, I'm gonna meet every single person. So then after I would do the three acoustic songs, I would go to this booth and then would stay till every single person got something signed.
- [23:15]
Bobby Bones
That's super cool of you. 1. And also it's great that you played not a full set because I used to do that doing stand up shows. I'd be like, I'm gonna meet everybody. And the theater would kick everybody out because it'd be midnight, right? And then we'd be out on the street and that wasn't safe. And so then like, you can't do this anymore, right? Because I bet they were so happy. That's so cool to stay and meet everybody. Like, they had to be freaking out, right?
- [23:34]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, especially those that have been exciting and like, it's one of those things where on paper it seems really draining. But, like, I feed off people's energy and like, they're. They were just so excited. So my hand was literally bleeding by like day nine, which was just like so funny. I'm like, imagine like telling like college Megan, she was gonna have this problem. Like, you're gonna sign so many items of anything that you're gonna. Your hand's gonna be bleeding. But anyways, yeah, it was fun. It was crazy. And nine cities, nine days.
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- [27:21]
Bobby Bones
And we're back on the bobbycast. Do you have any place that you go that's like your your place, your vacation place, or like a favorite place?
- [27:31]
Megan Moroney
Anywhere? That's the beach. Love the beach. Turks, Bahamas 30A down there a lot.
- [27:40]
Bobby Bones
We went to Turks. I'm not cool enough to call it Turks. I've only ever been there once. Went to Turks and Caicos. Have you been there a bunch?
- [27:47]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [27:48]
Bobby Bones
Okay. I'm not cool. I probably need to be there at least three times to call it that. So we went. We went to Turks and Caicos and we stayed at this place, super cool place. Everybody's so nice there, too. I mean, everyone is so nice. So we go in and we're having dinner one night at. Because we're staying in this hotel and there's like three couples there. My wife and myself and two other couples. 9:30. So it's later in the evening and we see these guys come in and kind of jumpsuits, three or four of them, and they're talking to them like the person running the wait station. And they're just kind of going back and forth and I'm like, some funny is kind of happening over there. They all had Michael Jordan logos on, like Jumpman logos. And they're like arguing with the person. And our waiter comes over and he's like, hey, somebody's here. Is asking if everyone would leave the restaurant so they can have dinner by themselves. And they're like, I don't think they're going to allow it. But I'm just giving you guys a heads up. That's the conversation. We're like, first of all, we can't believe you're telling us that before. Either you're kicking us out or you're not. And they decided to not let them do it. And we didn't know who it was still. And so we see them walking through and it was Drake and he. They tried to get everybody kicked out of the restaurant for, so. And we're like, dude, we don't care. Like, have dinner next. We're not even taking a picture of you. Like, we'll be annoyed that you're sitting next to us.
- [29:08]
Megan Moroney
Like, we.
- [29:09]
Bobby Bones
But yeah, the one time we went to Turks and I didn't think about it, but he raps about Turks a lot. Yeah, I think that's his place.
- [29:15]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, his plane's always there when you land. It's like. He's got a big, like, thing.
- [29:20]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. That's my one pretty cool Turk story. But it's really. I'm not a beach guy.
- [29:26]
Megan Moroney
Wow.
- [29:27]
Bobby Bones
I kind of hate the beach.
- [29:29]
Megan Moroney
Mountain, lake. What's the vibes?
- [29:31]
Bobby Bones
Wi Fi. Just give me good WiFi.
- [29:33]
Megan Moroney
Okay. Okay. Screen time.
- [29:34]
Bobby Bones
I mean. I know, I know.
- [29:36]
Megan Moroney
Okay, Screen. Okay. Tuesdays.
- [29:38]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I'm from Arkansas, so I grew up in the woods a lot. And we. So I'm good on outside. I'm all caught up being outside. I'm good, I think. I've never had alcohol and I don't have much sun. I plan to live to be like 110.
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- [29:53]
Bobby Bones
And we never went to the beach, so I don't really have a relationship with the beach. Like, what do you do? You lay in the sand?
- [29:58]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, I lay there and I disconnect. I feel like. Yeah, it's really nice and I like sun.
- [30:06]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Not a fan.
- [30:07]
Megan Moroney
No. No.
- [30:09]
Bobby Bones
Well, I get all the things I like about the beach.
- [30:13]
Megan Moroney
Get this man to, like, an Apple Store or something. That's where you're gonna have your birthday.
- [30:17]
Bobby Bones
I do freaking love the Apple Store. That's one of the greatest places to go. So the Bahamas.
- [30:25]
Megan Moroney
St. Bart's is really nice, too.
- [30:27]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I haven't been there. I've been to the Bahamas. Bahamas. The Bahamas is cool. But where? Saint Barts is that same area, like, Caribbean. You've been to Bali?
- [30:35]
Megan Moroney
No, but my best friend wants to go there this year or next year.
- [30:38]
Bobby Bones
I'm like, I had to look it up on a map. It's. That's a far one.
- [30:41]
Megan Moroney
That's far. Yeah.
- [30:42]
Bobby Bones
That's like Australia type. Like, travel to get over there. I had a friend that just had a wedding over there, and luckily my wife was pregnant, so we didn't go. Good excuse, because that would have been. That's a. Have you flown those really far trips? Like Australia, Japan?
- [30:54]
Megan Moroney
Australia? Yeah.
- [30:55]
Bobby Bones
Brutal.
- [30:56]
Megan Moroney
It was brutal. One time we were planning. I was actually coming back from New Zealand. I went to Australia and then New Zealand, and I didn't download anything because I was like, oh, we'll have WI fi. Didn't even have messaging. So, like, no book, no nothing. Just, like, me and my thoughts for, like, 18 hours or however long it is.
- [31:19]
Bobby Bones
I was just like, people with raw dog flights. You ever see those? They're like, I got nothing. They just stare at the back of a seat.
- [31:24]
Megan Moroney
I'm scared of those people.
- [31:25]
Bobby Bones
Oh, my God. So you just read a magazine?
- [31:27]
Megan Moroney
I was, like, trying to, like, take some Advil pm. I'm, like, looking at the thing because I can't even look up. How many is safe to take? Let me just guess. I felt like I was in, like, the 1800s.
- [31:39]
Bobby Bones
That's funny. That also sucks.
- [31:42]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [31:42]
Bobby Bones
Over those international flights. Sometimes they do shut off WI Fi. It's not even the point of like.
- [31:46]
Megan Moroney
And I'm like, you couldn't even warn a brother. Like, you're. Hey, there's no WI Fi. I could have downloaded something, but, yeah, champagne problems.
- [31:54]
Bobby Bones
That's what I say. No crying on the yacht.
- [31:56]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [31:56]
Bobby Bones
Like, you got a yacht. No crying on it. You brought the Casey Musgraves Album here, if you don't mind holding it up. And so what we do is we have people bring in music that really inspired them, and then we donate all the music. But. Yeah. So tell me why you picked this album right here.
- [32:12]
Megan Moroney
This album, I think, changed the trajectory of my life.
- [32:16]
Bobby Bones
So it's same trailer, different part.
- [32:17]
Megan Moroney
Same trailer, different part. Casey Musgrave. My dad and I, obviously, he taught me how to play guitar, and we really connected through music growing up. And this was the first album that I showed him. And I just remember hearing this album, and I'm like, I was, what, probably like a freshman in high school or something. And I remember thinking, if I ever write songs, I want it to be something like this, because how is she so clever? How is her voice so good? How is she so funny? And it seems really effortless, and it was so country, and I just. Yeah.
- [32:54]
Bobby Bones
What are your favorite songs on it?
- [32:56]
Megan Moroney
Oh, man, it's hard. All of them. I mean, I have to say Merry go round. Cause that's just like an Alzheimer. I really. Where is. Oh, Keep it to yourself. There it is. Yeah. I love Keep it to yourself. Step off is really funny. Like, when you step off. Yeah. Keep climbing that mountain of dirty tricks, and when you finally get to the top, step off. I'm like, are you kidding? Iconic.
- [33:20]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Her ability to be, like, super strong and extremely vulnerable at the same time.
- [33:23]
Megan Moroney
Right. And I saw her live after this, like, 18 times, and I just. This album has been a staple. Like, I. Sometimes if I'm bored with music, I just listen to that. I go back.
- [33:35]
Bobby Bones
Do I have it behind me?
- [33:36]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, you do.
- [33:36]
Bobby Bones
I keep. So these are all my favorite albums of all time that I keep around me. Like, my top album. Behind you. Behind me. It's one of my top 10 albums of all time. I think it is possibly one of my favorite debut albums of all. Yeah, period.
- [33:50]
Megan Moroney
I agree. And, like, follow your arrow. Just all these songs are so. They were way ahead of their time for sure. And, like, I miss you too. The chord progression in that, I just. I love it.
- [34:05]
Bobby Bones
And there had to be times that it wasn't super comfortable for her because it wasn't met with a record. The industry wrapping its arms around her.
- [34:12]
Megan Moroney
Right.
- [34:13]
Bobby Bones
I think if that same album comes out today, it would be like, oh, this is amazing. You're right. It was. It was so far ahead of its time. When you got your first guitar, how old were you?
- [34:21]
Megan Moroney
16.
- [34:22]
Bobby Bones
Did you do the thing where you go and you play to your fingers bleed or.
- [34:26]
Megan Moroney
Yes, I did. So my dad had been, like, trying to teach me, but it wasn't until I got the Taylor that I got as a breakup consolation prize.
- [34:35]
Bobby Bones
The Taylor? Was it smaller?
- [34:37]
Megan Moroney
No, it was a real one. And I was not good enough to be having a tailor because I had. I knew G, C and D and. But after I got that guitar, I just, like, loved how it sounded because it's a lot more fun to learn how to play guitar on a good guitar than, like, a super shitty one. So, yeah, I was sold after that.
- [34:55]
Bobby Bones
Did you ever have an electric?
- [34:57]
Megan Moroney
My dad would try to get. I have an electric now, but electrics
- [35:01]
Bobby Bones
don't hurt your fingers as bad. Yeah, I'm glad. Like, when I was starting to learn how to play for, like, comedy reasons, I'm glad I never had an electric then because I think I would have just played electric and never had to, like, develop finger strength.
- [35:14]
Megan Moroney
Yes, exactly. The calluses.
- [35:16]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Are you pretty calloused up now?
- [35:18]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [35:18]
Bobby Bones
Are you playing a lot now?
- [35:21]
Megan Moroney
Honestly, no. My rehearsals start tomorrow, so. In 24 hours? Yes. But right now, no, I've really been disconnected. I've been trying to, like, totally do nothing.
- [35:33]
Bobby Bones
Does that mean not even listening to music?
- [35:35]
Megan Moroney
I don't listen to music right now.
- [35:36]
Bobby Bones
No, just podcasts.
- [35:38]
Megan Moroney
Nothing.
- [35:39]
Bobby Bones
You just raw dogging earth.
- [35:41]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, that's not true. I listen to Joshua Sloan. If I need music, I listen to Joshua Sloan.
- [35:47]
Bobby Bones
I don't know who Joshua Sloan is.
- [35:48]
Megan Moroney
Debut album. One of the best.
- [35:50]
Bobby Bones
Okay, tell me more.
- [35:52]
Megan Moroney
I just love him. I talk about him a lot in interviews. I've never met him, so he's probably like, this freaking weirdo.
- [35:57]
Bobby Bones
Compare him to something. I'm asking for the comparison. So compare him to somebody for me, so I'd know.
- [36:02]
Megan Moroney
It's unlike anything I've heard, actually. No, no. Rustin Kelly.
- [36:06]
Bobby Bones
Got it.
- [36:07]
Megan Moroney
Rustin Kelly? Yeah.
- [36:09]
Bobby Bones
Does he live in town?
- [36:11]
Megan Moroney
I know nothing about this dude, but I've worn that album out. I literally had it on yesterday and my mom was like, this guy's really sad, Megan. You always listen to him. I'm like, exactly. But other than Joshua Sloan, nothing. Yeah, I just be driving, just thinking.
- [36:26]
Bobby Bones
How do you find Josh?
- [36:26]
Megan Moroney
Plotting. I don't even remember. I think he came up on my Spotify playlist, and then his whole album, I just put it on, and it's one of those things where you can just listen all day and it's been out since end of last year. I'm still wearing it out. What is it now? April, May, April, April, October. Where are we? Who am I?
- [36:53]
Bobby Bones
The Bobby cast will be right back.
- [36:58]
Lost Person
We're lost and the concert starts soon. I wanted to get there early. I'm gonna ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're trying to get to the amphitheater.
- [37:07]
Helpful Stranger
Well you're going to take a left at the old oak tree at this here road. Nah, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out.
- [37:13]
Lost Person
How is there signal out here?
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- [37:28]
Lost Person
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- [37:31]
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- [40:07]
Bobby Bones
Bobby Cast. Are you drawn to sad music? Yeah, I. That's all. That's all I listen to as far as, like, love. Why, why, why you.
- [40:15]
Megan Moroney
It's just calming to me. I don't know. Sad music has always been easier for me to write. And, yeah, his shit's pretty sad.
- [40:26]
Bobby Bones
It is.
- [40:27]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [40:27]
Bobby Bones
Even my guys are going, yeah, over there.
- [40:29]
Megan Moroney
Like, like, I'll have it on while I'm, like, getting glam done and everyone's, like, in a bad mood. Like, everyone's moping around. I'm like, sorry, guys face. But to me, I'm like, this is awesome.
- [40:42]
Bobby Bones
Favorite sad song ever. Oh, most played sad song ever. How about that?
- [40:52]
Megan Moroney
Jealous. Who sings that?
- [40:55]
Bobby Bones
Which one? The Jonas Brothers?
- [40:57]
Megan Moroney
No, not Jonas.
- [40:58]
Bobby Bones
I think that song rocks. That song makes me happy. Wait, Jealous?
- [41:03]
Megan Moroney
Oh, I'm jealous.
- [41:04]
Bobby Bones
Don't worry.
- [41:05]
Megan Moroney
Yes.
- [41:06]
Bobby Bones
Natalie Hemby. Ooh, Natalie Hemby wrote it.
- [41:09]
Megan Moroney
I didn't know that. Yes.
- [41:11]
Bobby Bones
Did you watch any of Justin Bieber Coachella? Yeah, we watched both nights at my house.
- [41:15]
Megan Moroney
I love him so much.
- [41:19]
Bobby Bones
I thought it was super cool what he was doing, and I think people didn't understand what he was doing with the videos behind him. I think it was wildly misunderstood.
- [41:26]
Megan Moroney
I think it was perfect.
- [41:27]
Bobby Bones
I do, too.
- [41:28]
Megan Moroney
And if you're a. Just. If you're not a Justin Bieber fan, you're going to look at that and be like, oh, he he was being lazy. If you know Justin Bieber and even have been keeping up with him over the past few years, that is exactly what he wanted to do. And like you could tell how fun, how much fun he was having. So for me, I was just my Bieber fever through the roof this weekend. Last weekend.
- [41:47]
Bobby Bones
Same for my wife and she's 12 years younger than I am, so she's Bieber forever. But I woke up, I didn't watch it live, I didn't stream it live, but I woke up and I saw mostly adult men my age being like that sucked. And I was like, did it or they just not understand. So I got on and I watched and we spent a lot of time listening to his new stuff too before it came out. So I knew all the new stuff and I was like, okay, he's playing all the new stuff. And then he sat down and started playing videos. I thought that it was so incredible because he kind of took you through his life because it was all his whole life was there when he was singing along with the covers that he did.
- [42:25]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [42:26]
Bobby Bones
Like as a kid he'd say, imagine
- [42:27]
Megan Moroney
how cool that is for him too. And all the stuff he's gone through. It's like to be on a stage and do be doing exactly what you want to be doing and. Yeah.
- [42:35]
Bobby Bones
And also to have so many hits there is no way he could have sang his full songs anyway.
- [42:40]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [42:40]
Bobby Bones
And for him to do a verse and a chorus of Baby, that's good enough.
- [42:42]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, everybody got their fill Everyone got the fix.
- [42:45]
Bobby Bones
Yeah, everybody got their fill and they heard Baby and he did one like
- [42:49]
Megan Moroney
my favorite one time favorite girl.
- [42:51]
Bobby Bones
One Less lonely Girl, I gotta say
- [42:52]
Megan Moroney
is my favorite with Billie Eilish too. I'm like, oh my God, I've never wanted to be beat Billie Eilish so bad.
- [42:58]
Bobby Bones
Same
- [43:01]
Megan Moroney
one less lonely guy.
- [43:03]
Bobby Bones
You know what, I'll take girl too. Just make it me. The crazy thing about the Billie Eilish stuff is when she was a kid, you ever see the pictures of her room?
- [43:11]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [43:11]
Bobby Bones
But all the Justin Bieber posters are behind me.
- [43:13]
Megan Moroney
I wish I had a picture of my room. Cause that was my room. I had the stand up of him in the red pants or whatever.
- [43:19]
Bobby Bones
There was a video of her when she was younger going I can't wait to have a boyfriend. But I don't know, she's like 12. I don't know if I'll ever love him as much as I'll love Justin Bieber.
- [43:28]
Megan Moroney
It's fair.
- [43:29]
Bobby Bones
Awesome.
- [43:29]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [43:30]
Bobby Bones
And then yeah, I Just. I felt like that was super cool. Casey played night two of Coachella and came back and played her new stuff.
- [43:35]
Megan Moroney
I did see some of that.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. The second weekend. Excuse me.
- [43:37]
Megan Moroney
She rode out on a horse. Iconic. She's iconic.
- [43:42]
Bobby Bones
She. Yeah, her. And I got into a little tiff when I first moved to town. All my fault. I was pretty reckless. But she's top five artists for me all time. Like, massive Casey Musgraves fan. I'm imagining she's up there in yours, too. As far as, like, favorite, who else do you have up in that list?
- [44:03]
Megan Moroney
Well, Taylor's up there. Taylor, Casey, Miranda. I would say those are, like, my three that got me into, like, country music.
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Bobby Bones
Have you met all three?
- [44:13]
Megan Moroney
No, I haven't met Taylor. I've met Miranda and Casey. Yeah. Not Taylor. Everyone will know. When I meet Taylor, I'll make it very known. All my friends and family. I might send postcards or something.
- [44:23]
Bobby Bones
She has the ability, and I've heard this said about certain politicians and a couple celebrities, to make you feel like you're the absolutely only person in the whole room when she's talking to you. And Garth, does this. Have you met Garth at all?
- [44:38]
Megan Moroney
No.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, so you think Garth is somehow. He's like, logged in and read your journal or something. He knows so much about you. Like, he's got people that have. Who knows, but he comes in and when he's talking to you, there's nobody else around. And he certain. He knows things, he notices things. But Taylor's the same way. There are a couple, probably four, I would say, since I've moved to town, that you meet and you go, okay. They obviously have the talent, but they have that thing that makes them amazing. Taylor1 met her when I first moved here. Garth, Dolly.
- [45:11]
Megan Moroney
I haven't met Dolly yet either.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, my God. I understand the complete adulation towards her from afar. I've probably. Dolly did my comedy special with me. Like, she was like, I'm happy to. I probably spent eight or nine instances with Dolly One. She's so sharp, but she is sharp and cutting and loving at the same time. And Reba. Reba's the other one. You're just like, I get it. I get why.
- [45:37]
Megan Moroney
It makes sense.
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Bobby Bones
It makes total sense. They have the talent, but they have that kind of element that separates them and makes them super special. But they're all funny. Like, you're funny. I was telling someone the other day about how funny you are. They were asking. I think it was some. I was doing this with someone, and they Were like, what? What's Megan Maroney like? And I was like, one. She's freaking funny. I told him a story you probably don't remember, and I won't even say it for here, but we were backstage in Dallas. We were doing a charity show. I think I was telling jokes and you were playing. It was Brooks and Dunn.
- [46:11]
Megan Moroney
Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah.
- [46:14]
Bobby Bones
I would never share that story, but I had to do with automobile. And I was just. I was like, dude, she's so funny. Like, I get paid to write jokes and do jokes. She was funnier than I was. So that's. I think you have that element, though. I think you're wildly funny. Is your family funny?
- [46:32]
Megan Moroney
I got a lot of my humor from my brother. He's hilarious. And I grew up wanting to be just like him. In fact, I played baseball instead of softball. Cause I wanted to be like my brother.
- [46:42]
Bobby Bones
Really?
- [46:43]
Megan Moroney
Really.
- [46:43]
Bobby Bones
As a girl. You played baseball?
- [46:45]
Megan Moroney
Only girl on the team. They had to specially get me a trophy with a ponytail.
- [46:49]
Bobby Bones
Well, that's cool. Them to do that.
- [46:50]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. That was nice of them.
- [46:51]
Bobby Bones
When did you stop playing baseball?
- [46:53]
Megan Moroney
I don't even know. I was pretty young. But when, you know, it was time to sign up for baseball or softball, I'm like, what's Connor doing? And my mom was like, baseball, obviously. And I was like, I'll do it.
- [47:02]
Bobby Bones
What's he doing now?
- [47:03]
Megan Moroney
He is in school to be a nurse. Anesthetist. Hard to say. CRNA is the easier way.
- [47:12]
Bobby Bones
So he was kind of your family role model?
- [47:16]
Megan Moroney
One of them, yeah. I look up to both of my brothers. My other brother is an attorney, so. And he's the musical one, so I think, like, both of them. Yeah, I wanted to be like both of them.
- [47:26]
Bobby Bones
Does he look over your stuff or do you have. No, I don't. Never.
- [47:30]
Megan Moroney
He's like, helped me out a little bit with smaller things, but. But yeah, he does, like criminal stuff, so.
- [47:36]
Bobby Bones
Oh, so you don't want him looking at your stuff. That'd be better if he never looked at your stuff, actually.
- [47:39]
Megan Moroney
No. No. Well, yeah, I guess.
- [47:42]
Bobby Bones
What about Christian Bush? Now, I know you're not related to Christian, but you guys met way back in the day, right?
- [47:46]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, I was his intern, which is crazy.
- [47:49]
Bobby Bones
Cause Christian's from Sugar Land.
- [47:50]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [47:52]
Bobby Bones
How'd you get a job with him?
- [47:53]
Megan Moroney
It was with him and Brandon Bush, his brother. And I was in the music business program at Georgia. And. And I remember David Barbee, who's a music. He runs the music business over There he was like, if this program will do anything for you, you need to go and be this, like, sign up for this internship and I'll do what I can to make sure that you get it if you want it. But it was not ideal because a lot of the other internships were in town in Athens and I was gonna have to drive to Atlanta, which obviously with a college schedule, how am I going to party every day if I got to drive to Atlanta? But anyways, long story short, yeah, I got that internship, learned how to do publishing a little bit, and then I didn't even tell them. I think they might have known that I was moving to Nashville. But at this time, I wasn't going around telling people I'm moving to Nashville to be a country music star. I was like, I'm going to move and see how it goes and if I don't survive, I'm going to move home. But yeah, he didn't even know about it till like a year of me living in Nashville probably. And then hooked me up with some writers and yeah, now he's produced my first three albums.
- [49:06]
Bobby Bones
That's pretty crazy.
- [49:07]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. Started from an internship, now we're here.
- [49:12]
Bobby Bones
He's so delightful.
- [49:14]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, he's so smart and just like has lived a lot and it's cool that he knows so much about like the production side of things. But also he's been an artist. So you're in the studio a lot of hours. So anytime I'm just like talking about stuff, he's gone through it too, so it's nice to have someone. I'd just be venting, you know, and
- [49:34]
Bobby Bones
he's been through it.
- [49:35]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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- [53:20]
Bobby Bones
And we're back on the bobbycast. When you're tour prepping or you're. What'd you say you were doing your tour?
- [53:26]
Megan Moroney
Tour prep?
- [53:27]
Bobby Bones
Yeah, tour prep. What does that, like, what does that mean?
- [53:30]
Megan Moroney
So no alcohol. And it's really. I'm like a week and a month out. So May 1st is when I really super duper lock in with like the diet stuff. Right now it's just kind of been like, I'm not eating out. It's mostly like steak, fish, vegetables, like the boring stuff. But it might get even crazier. May 1st, we'll see. But anyways, it's like, like the diet aspect. No drinking. My rehearsals start tomorrow. I'll do all my rehearsals in a weighted vest. I've underestimated how sometimes my outfits. Cause sometimes my outfits weigh like 10 to 15 pounds. And when I've done the performance, I'm like, oh, shit, I am not in shape for this. So I'm rehearsing in a weighted vest.
- [54:15]
Bobby Bones
That's crazy.
- [54:16]
Megan Moroney
Also the singing with a weighted vest on a treadmill, doing that red light therapy.
- [54:24]
Bobby Bones
I was gonna. I literally was gonna ask you about that.
- [54:27]
Megan Moroney
He actually gave me. He was like, I was asking him about it. Cause he had a red light mat and he was like, oh, do you want this one? I have an extra one. Just gave it to me. Like, absolutely, yes. But it's the higher dose mat. So doing that every day. Sauna and cold tub every day.
- [54:45]
Bobby Bones
Physically, this feels like it's such a. A positive grind, though. I don't think a lot of people would understand that it takes all of that, like, for you to do all that just to get ready for this.
- [54:55]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. And I mean, I Think it's. I obviously. Oh, Legree, too. Have you ever been to Legree?
- [55:01]
Bobby Bones
It's like a crazy plot for those that don't know. Yeah, it's like. It's like a Pilates machine times eight. Yeah.
- [55:06]
Megan Moroney
And then go super slow and die the whole time. Like, my legs fall asleep while I'm doing it. I'm not sure if this is good for me, but. Yeah, a lot of strength training too. But I think that I've never taken touring as serious, like, as far as, like, the prep for it as I'm doing right now. But I want it to be the best show, and it's the biggest one yet. It's gonna be the biggest, most involved show. So just really locking in.
- [55:33]
Bobby Bones
I had a doctor in here pretty recently. We were talking about red light therapy and. Red light therapy. We had. Have a red light bed at the house. One of the.
- [55:40]
Megan Moroney
Oh, nice. Yeah.
- [55:42]
Bobby Bones
Beds. And, you know, red light's great. And then the deep red light, which is what that bed is. And how I'm cynical towards everything at this point. I've been burned by everyone and cynical towards everything until it's proven. Until I'm proven otherwise. Yeah, I know. I'm super fun to be around. And so we were talking about. So why I started to believe that red light works because I had to see data to go. Because otherwise you're just laying in a. Feels like a tanning bed and you're not tan. That sucks. You just lay in a tanning bed for 20 minutes. You came out. No Tanner. But there were these studies that NASA did on plants, like broken plants. And they did a whole study with them under red light and a whole study with them not just under sunlight. And they healed back at such a faster rate under the red light than they did with sunlight. So I can't see it Right. But I believe it.
- [56:36]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, they said it's like. Like get laying out in the sun too, but better, so.
- [56:43]
Bobby Bones
But better. What'd you say?
- [56:44]
Megan Moroney
It's like vitamin D, basically. Like, equivalent.
- [56:47]
Bobby Bones
If you can't, like, get up, I don't do that. I go to the sun.
- [56:49]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. I'm. I'm hoping that, like, the winter months in Nashville, because this is like, I just got it recently. So I'm hoping, like, in the winter months when it's like the seasonal depression comes out, I'll be like, nah. Me and my red light therapy, we're good.
- [57:04]
Bobby Bones
I have Tuesday depression. Have I told you about that?
- [57:06]
Megan Moroney
Tuesday.
- [57:06]
Bobby Bones
I have Tuesday depression. That's why I go into the Comments. Yeah, that always. When you're doing this tour, are you keeping. Like, how do you keep things a surprise nowadays?
- [57:18]
Megan Moroney
By not telling anyone at all, though.
- [57:20]
Bobby Bones
Like, do you take everybody's phones?
- [57:23]
Megan Moroney
What do you mean?
- [57:24]
Bobby Bones
I don't know if you're even tour prepping. You're rehearsing. You'll say you're rehearsing.
- [57:26]
Megan Moroney
Oh, rehearsing.
- [57:27]
Bobby Bones
What the heck?
- [57:28]
Megan Moroney
Oh, everybody knows better.
- [57:30]
Bobby Bones
But how do you, like, not have random security people in there or.
- [57:34]
Megan Moroney
We just don't. We keep that locked down, I think, too. Like, obviously, my touring crew is expanding. I think they said I have 16 trucks this year.
- [57:45]
Bobby Bones
Holy crap.
- [57:47]
Megan Moroney
That's a lot of trucks.
- [57:47]
Bobby Bones
That's a lot of trucks. You know what I hear that's a lot of trucks to pay for.
- [57:50]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [57:51]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. But good for you for needing them also, like, it's both.
- [57:54]
Megan Moroney
So obviously with that many trucks, there's a lot more people on tour. But a lot of my touring crew is the same they've been for a long time. So it's kind of just an understanding. Yeah, we have a. Have a good group.
- [58:08]
Bobby Bones
So you're doing 49. 49 shows on this tour.
- [58:12]
Megan Moroney
Is that true?
- [58:12]
Bobby Bones
That's what I see here.
- [58:14]
Megan Moroney
It says maybe 49 in Summerfest. I don't know. I thought it was 50, but maybe it's 49. 50 sounds better, so we'll go with that.
- [58:24]
Bobby Bones
And so if you're doing okay, let's say 50 shows. How is that different? Do you do different wardrobes every night, or do you have.
- [58:32]
Megan Moroney
That would be a secret.
- [58:36]
Bobby Bones
Okay. Yeah. Very good. All right. You got me there. How do you feel like the response has been to the album?
- [58:45]
Megan Moroney
Good. I'm especially. Obviously, like, the response online is always fun to look at, but I think that each one of my albums has really come to life during the live shows. So I'm really excited to see, like, what. It's like, an experience singing these songs, you know? So I'm excited to see, like, how the meanings of these songs and stuff change for me on tour. Cause that's happened in my past albums.
- [59:16]
Bobby Bones
Do you have any really great songs that you've written that you haven't recorded that are so great? You just don't know when you're gonna be able to put them out or if they're great. Do you just record it immediately
- [59:26]
Megan Moroney
if they're great? I usually record them. I've got a few songs that are not out that I think are great. But, yeah, I usually. I usually just put them out.
- [59:39]
Bobby Bones
Nothing you'd Pass on. You ever pass on a song to somebody else?
- [59:42]
Megan Moroney
Mm. Mm.
- [59:43]
Bobby Bones
You wanna keep it all for now?
- [59:46]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. I just think, like, I like to think of myself in the building phase of my career, so I phrase things a certain way.
- [59:56]
Bobby Bones
You know, if you died, could they release three or four records of songs, stuff you've recorded that isn't out there?
- [60:01]
Megan Moroney
Probably. But even, like, for example, the reason too, that I don't pitch songs a lot is because, like, Wedding Dress, I wrote during the Lucky era. And that just made this album because it, like, wasn't time for that.
- [60:12]
Bobby Bones
So that would have been a great song you were holding on to then that.
- [60:15]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [60:15]
Bobby Bones
Do you have any of those now?
- [60:17]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [60:18]
Bobby Bones
I'm not even asking anything specific because I don't want you to tip off somebody a great concept and they steal it from you. But I just wonder how long you have stuff sitting in your phone. Do you have just concept ideas that are great that you haven't written yet?
- [60:28]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, tons of those. My notes app is really scary.
- [60:32]
Bobby Bones
Do you sing into your app sometimes?
- [60:34]
Megan Moroney
The melodies I do, but I forget to name them. So then in my. It just is like, new recording 800. And I'm like, I have to go through and, like, listen to all of them. So it's really time consuming. So usually no, but there are some things where I'll just be driving and I'm like, hmm, I need to sing into the phone.
- [60:53]
Bobby Bones
Do you ever get ideas when you sleep?
- [60:55]
Megan Moroney
Yes. Yes. There's been times where, like, I've woken up in the middle of the night and I learned my lesson because there was one time that I was like, oh, I'm gonna remember this in the morning. So I'm not gonna write it down. Didn't remember it. Lost that idea forever. Still haven't found it. But I know that it exists somewhere, which I always find really interesting. Cause I'm like, I wonder when it's gonna come back to me. Cause I'm sure it will. But, yeah, if I wake up in the middle of the night, like, gotta write it down. That's why I wrote Hair Salon from a Dream.
- [61:21]
Bobby Bones
That's my favorite song ever. Ever of yours. Not of all time. There are other ones I like more. Yeah.
- [61:26]
Megan Moroney
Like, I'm surprised if my song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hair Son is,
- [61:30]
Bobby Bones
I think, because that's the song that I was sent. Like, hey, my wife actually sent it to me. She goes, hey, this girl's good. And then.
- [61:38]
Megan Moroney
Nice.
- [61:38]
Bobby Bones
And then I know the other writer as well.
- [61:41]
Megan Moroney
Mackenzie, Micah, Ben. Yeah, I Love them.
- [61:44]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. That's a really cool song because I think it like reminds me of, well, my home, my small town, just how people are.
- [61:51]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. It was literally a dream that I had. I'm in my hometown hair salon. I haven't sat down yet. I'm in the waiting chairs and it's like an open thing and three chairs down. In my dream, they're like, oh my God, so and so got engaged. Look how cute they are. And everyone in the hair salon runs over to this person's chair, like three chairs down, and they're like, oh my God, they look so cute. Look at her ring. They are so cute. And I'm like sitting there looking out the window with a tear coming down my face. And I woke up and I was like, like hair salon, like it was crazy.
- [62:24]
Bobby Bones
But that was a dream song.
- [62:26]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [62:26]
Bobby Bones
That's cool. I have three things left. You got a puppy.
- [62:30]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, puppy.
- [62:31]
Bobby Bones
Puppies are very hard.
- [62:33]
Megan Moroney
They are.
- [62:34]
Bobby Bones
They're awesome.
- [62:34]
Megan Moroney
They're. She's awesome.
- [62:36]
Bobby Bones
They're so hard.
- [62:37]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. She's been doing this thing. I don't know if it's like, I'm not into the woo woo moon stuff that much, but like it was a new moon recently, right? And she's been crazy at like 10:45pm every night. And I go to bed by then, like, I'm lame in my, like, you know, training era. And it's just like, yeah, she's crazy nuts. She had my hat running around the other day last night. She's like, my wood floor has like real wood, so there's like some holes in the floor that are from the wood. Does that make any sort of sense?
- [63:10]
Bobby Bones
Yes.
- [63:10]
Megan Moroney
Okay. She's digging at it, trying to open the floors. I'm like, please don't do that. Not sure how I would replace that.
- [63:17]
Bobby Bones
What's her name?
- [63:17]
Megan Moroney
Boots.
- [63:18]
Bobby Bones
And you named her after.
- [63:20]
Megan Moroney
So her back feet are white. Like my boots that I wear on stage. It was between Boots and Lorraine. Because my song Waiting on the Rain is gonna ruin the song for everybody, by the way. So sorry. If you listen to that song, it sounds like I'm saying, waitin on Lorraine, Waitin on the flood. Waiting on Lorraine, you know, but it's the rain, right?
- [63:44]
Bobby Bones
So why would that run. I think that's funny.
- [63:47]
Megan Moroney
I know, but. Cause now you can't unhear it. It's not waiting on. It's waiting on Lorraine.
- [63:52]
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- [63:52]
Bobby Bones
I know what the. I know what the song is. Oh, yeah.
- [63:55]
Megan Moroney
It's just like, who's Lorraine? Who the hell Is Lorraine. Got it like that kind of thing. So anyways, I thought she would be cute, like a puppy named Lorraine would be cute. But then when I saw her back feet were white, like my boots that I wear. And then I was thinking, what could her middle name be with a fur? So it sounds distinguished. Yeah, sounds distinguished.
- [64:15]
Bobby Bones
Boots with the fur, obviously. Flo Rida, right?
- [64:18]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [64:18]
Bobby Bones
Did you see the picture of Reba, though, with the boot? The fur. Okay. So Reba was standing at a window and she's. What do you think about the boots with the fur? What do you think that means? Before I tell you this shawty had them apple bottom jeans. Boots with the fur. With the fur. But explain. Describe the boot.
- [64:36]
Megan Moroney
The boot is probably a stiletto boot with fur around it.
- [64:39]
Bobby Bones
Okay. That's what I always thought it was like a boot with the fur on it.
- [64:41]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [64:42]
Bobby Bones
But Reba was wearing fur and then had boots on it. She was like, boots with the fur. And that's time I ever thought maybe it's just somebody wearing boots with a jacket with the fur. The fur's not on the boot. Maybe it's just they're just wearing freaking
- [64:52]
Megan Moroney
fur boots with the fur. It was one of the. That is perspective, man.
- [64:59]
Bobby Bones
I spent a lot of time thinking about that.
- [65:00]
Megan Moroney
Boots with the fur. Yeah. You know, I was also thought about naming her boots E. Period Wootsy.
- [65:06]
Bobby Bones
Bootsy. Wootsy.
- [65:07]
Megan Moroney
Wootsy.
- [65:08]
Bobby Bones
Whenever my daughter was born, I wanted to name her Sue. And my real last name is Estelle. Did you know that?
- [65:16]
Megan Moroney
No.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, it's my wife. She goes by her normal name. She was like, I'd never be called Bones Kill me. And so I'm a big Arkansas guy. I wanted her name to be Sue. E. Suey.
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Megan Moroney
Like Sui. Oh, Woo. Pig.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. And my wife was like, I know what you're trying to do. We ain't doing that. Florida. Do you know what that name is?
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Megan Moroney
Florida?
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. How many. How about.
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Megan Moroney
Oh, I knew that one.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. It took a minute though, for me too.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Boom flow right Of Florida.
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Megan Moroney
Is he from there? Probably.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Megan Moroney
Or maybe he just like.
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Bobby Bones
I never even looked it up. I just thought Florida. Okay. Two things left. Do you believe in aliens?
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Megan Moroney
Probably.
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Bobby Bones
Do you have any thoughts at all?
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Megan Moroney
My thoughts about aliens are that, like, when you. Sometimes I just look up at the stars and like, realize how vast the universe is and how minuscule we are. And I'm like, there's no way in hell. We are just like, magically the only
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Bobby Bones
people here have those thoughts. Mostly when it's like, A Southwest flight just right over, like, Antioch, flying out of Nashville. And I look down and I'm like, there's no way.
- [66:16]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, Like, I saw this thing that was like, I bet aliens, like, lock their doors when they fly by Mars. Wait, no. Fly by Earth.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, no, we got you. We got you. Okay. I think they're in the ocean, though.
- [66:32]
Megan Moroney
You think they're in the ocean?
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Bobby Bones
The ocean is so much less exploring. Like, we have no idea what's in the ocean.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, I bet the dinosaurs are down there.
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Bobby Bones
We don't know what's in the middle of the Earth, we guess, but we don't really know what's in the middle of the Earth.
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Megan Moroney
I think some things, ignorance is bliss sometimes. Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
I think I felt a little more complete before I thought about Boots with the Fur. That my ignorance. Like, furry boots. I felt better. But now that was Boots with the Fur. I feel like all those years I wasted thinking they were furry boots. Last question. How many singles do you think you put out on this album?
- [67:05]
Megan Moroney
How many do you think I will Till they stop playing them, I guess. How many songs on the album? 13. Or. Actually, there's, like, way more than that. 16. I don't know. I've been like. I've been on off mode, so it's
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Bobby Bones
not even like you're writing stuff for the next at all.
- [67:28]
Megan Moroney
Um, yes, I am. Of course. I was plotting. But, yeah, I'm letting this one ride out. I think the tour is gonna be really fun, and I'm excited to play these songs live. It's like, it's been the hardest thing trying to decide what to cut from the set list. Three albums in is, like, my first time. I've been like, wow, there are gonna be some people upset.
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Bobby Bones
Will you switch it up?
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Megan Moroney
There will be parts that get switched, but, yeah, like, for example, this is kind of a spoiler. Hair Salon didn't make the set list.
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Bobby Bones
I'd be the one pissed.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah. But I'm like, you gotta pick, you know, Hair salon or Bless your heart. And if I've seen my fans live, I think both of those are bad options to lose to the.
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Bobby Bones
Wow, you lost me.
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Announcer
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Megan Moroney
So sorry Bobby won't be joining us.
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Bobby Bones
You lost me. That's my song. Tell me about Medicine. Like, what? When you write that, like what? I don't know what happens in a room. What do you remember about it?
- [68:38]
Megan Moroney
I was with Connie Harrington, Jesse Alexander, and Jesse Jo. We were in the East Tennessee mountains, and I had the. How you like the taste of your own medicine in My notes app. And it's like, so easy writing with them. And especially too, when it's just like, you know, it's the day that, like, great things are gonna happen. It was one of those days. And I was just talking about how, like, let's write a song about how when you treat a man like 1% of how they treat you, like, sometimes they just freak out and they're like, this is horrible. This is the worst thing to ever happen. And I'm like, oh, you don't like it, do you? Like, oh, imagine that. And so, yeah, it was just, like, a really fun song to, like, just talk about. We were all, like, giggling the whole time and just thinking, like, heard from you in three long days. You won't hear from me for five. Oh, you gave your number to an LA blonde while I gave a quarterback mine. It's just like, just playing your game the same way you. I learned it how to play it from you. So you playing that in concert for sure? Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
I still pick hair salon.
- [69:47]
Megan Moroney
I like it, but hair salon over medicine.
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Bobby Bones
Hair salon overall, other than I told you, it's my favorite song.
- [69:55]
Megan Moroney
No, I love hair salon. I love that you're a hair salon truther because that means you're.
- [69:58]
Bobby Bones
It's existed so long, it's like when you pick a favorite song in life, you don't pick a new song.
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Megan Moroney
Well, maybe I'll play it. Sometimes it's just so difficult.
- [70:05]
Bobby Bones
You just need to know which show I'm at is what you're saying. So I'll let you know ahead of time. And that one you can play. You guys can get tickets. We talked about before you came in, the Cloud 9 tour, just. Meganmoroni.com Most of the dates are sold out. There are still some tickets left. I really appreciate you coming, hanging out. I'm a massive fan.
- [70:22]
Megan Moroney
Appreciate you.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, I'm a massive fan, obviously. Tell everybody I said hi. Your brothers, your dog, Christian.
- [70:30]
Megan Moroney
Casey.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, tell Casey. I can't get Casey in here. I apologized to her once. I saw her. I apologized to her many times because I was a jerk. I was a bull in a china shop. When I got to this town, everybody hated me. I was pissing everybody off. I was just so different than anything in this town. And I misconstrued something she said, and I was wrong about it. And I saw her in a parking lot, and I woke up, I said, hey, it's Bobby. You know Bones?
- [70:57]
Megan Moroney
Where'd you find her? In a parking lot.
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Bobby Bones
She was in a. We were outside of a hotel.
- [71:01]
Megan Moroney
Oh, okay.
- [71:02]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. In a parking lot. We were both going into the hotel and I was like, hey, I know it's been a long time and I've messaged you this, but I'm really. She was like, no, we're all good, we're all good. But I can't get her in here yet, so I'm working on it. Yeah, so if you see her, be like that dude. Coolest dude.
- [71:17]
Megan Moroney
New album coming out, so maybe.
- [71:18]
Bobby Bones
I know. I'll be on it regardless. Maybe I shouldn't say that though. Nope, won't be on it. Unless she comes in.
- [71:24]
Megan Moroney
I'll be on it.
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Bobby Bones
Casey. I'll be on it too. Casey. Megan, thank you very much.
- [71:28]
Megan Moroney
Thank you.
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Bobby Bones
There she is, the great Megan Maroney.
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