Bobby Bones (2:59)

Thanks for joining. The Best Bits. We're gonna catch up on the Bobby Bones Show. It was a short week cuz we of course all celebrated Memorial Day. So just four days to choose from this week of content, but still plenty to catch up on. Make sure you check out part one and part three this weekend with Scuba Steve, or as I call him, Scoobs. We talked about life, dad life. We did some Disney movies that he saw for the first time. So fun stuff on part one and part three is always the listener Q and A things you really want to know about scoop Scuba Steve. So check those out. But if you're just here to listen and catch up on the Bobby Bones show, then let's do this. Amy's daughter found something on the road and she's trying to decide if they should keep it. Crazy stuff happening and it all has to do with a distribution system. Number seven, this listener called us and there will be an update saying, hey, am I getting scammed, y' all? I pulled an Amy I think and I think I'm software scam. I contacted a lady on Facebook to buy a specific type of bunny. The bunny was supposed to come today. Apparently the bunny was sent to the transit company, but now the transit company is asking me to pay all these refundable fees before the bunny can be transported. So I did talk to somebody on the phone. So I am, I don't know, just doing a play by play, I guess. I can give you guys a call here in a couple hours and let you know if I have a bunny or not. Feels like she was getting scammed, but she did call us a couple hours later. Hey guys, it's me. I'm just calling with an update about the bunny rabbit scam. I sent another payment after they sent me a picture of proof. I wanted proof so I asked them to send me a picture. They did send me a picture and I don't think it's the same rabbit. I'm pretty sure I'm being scammed. My rabbit says that is in transit now, so I guess we will. I'll call back later and let you know if I have a cute little bunny or if I'm negative $400 out of my account when she got that picture and it wasn't the same bunny. That's bad news. Yeah, I wish we'd have heard the voicemail in time because we just said, don't pay any more money. So that's where we left it. Now we do have the final update. She called us back. Here we go. I'm calling. This is my third call about a possible scam. I ordered a rabbit online.

Morgan (5:04)

It was supposed to be delivered.

Bobby Bones (5:06)

I paid the seller and then had to pay additional shipping costs and then additional shipping costs again.

Morgan (5:12)

And I refused to pay them the.

Bobby Bones (5:14)

Third additional shipping cost that they were requiring before they started threatening to take the rabbit to an abandonment. She and telling me that I will.

Morgan (5:25)

Be charged and responsible for abandoning the rabbit.

Bobby Bones (5:28)

So I have been scammed. I can't really do anything. Just want to give you all a call. Hopefully this helps somebody else. So she was scammed. Wow. There's no abandonment. There's no rabbit.

Morgan (5:39)

No.

Bobby Bones (5:39)

What a guilt trip. There's no. Yeah, we're gonna kill the rabbit right now. We're gonna slice the rabbit's throat if you don't. Crazy. Yeah. My favorite part is she's like, I wanted proof, so they sent a picture. So I paid them again. And then she was like, it doesn't look like the same. But then I paid him for shipping and then extra shipping. Yeah. When people are asking for money up front, that's problematic, especially when they ask for more if there's a deposit required. Yeah, I know. You almost got got.

Morgan (6:07)

I did.

Bobby Bones (6:07)

You got. You do have a new cat, I saw. Well, we're taking care of a kitten that my daughter found on the side of the road. But what's the kitten delivery system you're talking about? Oh, cat distribution system. Well, once I posted about it, all these comments from listeners are like, oh, you should keep the cat. The cat distribution system has chosen you. And so I googled it, and it's just this, you know, it's a thing people say online of, like, when the universe has spoken or God has given you a kitten. So when you're given a kitten, you keep the kitten, and it's called the cat distribution system. So you're keeping the kitten. Well, so where did she find it? So she was driving down the road, and it was about. I mean, it was dark out, and she, like, had to swerve a little bit because it's on the side of the road, but, like, about to walk into the road, but it can barely walk like it's a new kitten. And so she's like, oh, my gosh. So she pulled over to see if it was okay, and then she looked around and she didn't like see any other cats or a mama cat. She kind of looked, but again it was dark. So she scooped it up and, you know, called me and she was like, mom. And then she was cutting out a little bit. She's like, you'll see when I get there. And she walks in and she's like, has this cat cradled up in her dress. And I'm like, gosh, that's from up above. Yeah, I think. Okay, so follow me here. What if we called this caller and say, hey, we don't have a rabbit for you, but we have a kitty cat. Because the cat distribution system is. You didn't get a rabbit. We have a cat and all she has to pay is a you scammer. Again, we told you, stop paying money for things. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two, Eddie got accused of being a helicopter parent again because he brought a question to the show asking if he should allow his 17 year old son to go to a concert with his friends. And, and no parental supervision whatsoever. And he's not sure what he's gonna do. But the show had a lot of takes on what he should allow to happen. Number six, Eddie's debating letting his 17 year old son go to a concert alone. Now, does it matter what the concert is or is it just general? I mean. No, it doesn't matter. I think it's pretty. It could be Coldplay. It doesn't matter. It just wants. So Coldplay to you means safe? That's the safest show to go to. Yeah, I would think more just adults would go to that. Okay. Okay. So he's 17. Do you want to say the show? Sure. It's the weekend. Okay. The Weeknd's coming to town and he wants to go with his buddies and he's. The last concert he went to, I took him. It was Kendrick Lamar, him. And I went and I felt safe. It was him and I, we had a really good time and it was whatever. Now he's like, dad, I really want to go with my buddies. Just like me and four friends. And I go, why would you. Okay, let's do both. Why would you say yes? Give me a reason for both. Because he loves music and he'd have a good time and he, I mean, I think he likes concerts. So yeah, it'd be great for him to go to a concert. Do you trust him? Absolutely. Okay. Why would you say no? Because he's going with buddies. Like I feel like four friends alone at a concert. You're Talking about, like, hey, let's try to buy beer. Hey, let's try to. We'll vape in there. You know, whatever. Like, I think with him and four buddies alone at a. In a concert environment where people are definitely doing other things, other substance. Do you think what's happening at a concert in your mind? Yeah. Don't they have to have an ide. You make it sound like a champagne room in a club. What do you mean you've been to a concert? You smell it, bro? I was 17. I had no rules. I know, so. But I also didn't do anything wrong, but seven, I think 17. Eddie's 17 is everybody else's 14. And then he's going to drive. He's got to park and do all that. I don't know, man. He's 17. The driving and parking, like, that's why. Then why don't you let him go but you drop him off, because that'd be nice. 17? No way. My dad's dropping me off somewhere if I'm 17. If your dad embarrasses you all. I like that. Stop. No chance. 17 years old, parking. Amy, you first. Okay. Eddie, you definitely need to let him go to the concert. Like, it's the weekend. He's popular amongst the teens and adults. Like, I think regardless of the artist, it could be. It could be Coldplay or Chris Tomlin. Chris Tomlin? You can show his friends. Hey, I bet some people do a little smoky smoke there. That Chris Tomlin. I bet not. The last time I went to a Tomlin show was Easter. Nobody was smokey smoking. So he's 17? Yeah, man. Yeah, 17. When does he turn 18? What month? January. So he's almost able to vote. Yep. And serve our country. Yet you're considering not letting him go by himself to a concert. Now, I will say this little asterisk on the side. You're his dad. You know more about him, you know? You know, we don't, but I kind of know eventually you gotta cut the cord. And he didn't come out of your womb and you're cording him. It felt good when I went to a show with him, you know, and him and I just there and. And I see other kids with just their friends, who their parents probably just drop them off and they're doing stuff. But isn't part of life doing stuff and figuring out what stuff that you can do, you should do, you shouldn't do? Like, that's gonna happen regardless. Do you want it to happen when he's 17? Like, now or do you want him to wait until he can go absolutely out? Then you go even harder the longer you're held back from it when you're exposed to it. Why do you think in America we have such an alcohol problem? Because we don't allow it in any capacity until 21. Legally, you have to sneak it. Or then when it's time to go, if you never had it, you go crazy. In other countries that have near the alcoholism rate. You know why? Cuz it's not a big deal. 12 years old, they have a little drink at dinner in Europe, for sure. Absolutely. So that's young. The situation here is if you keep holding him, he's gonna go even harder. It's like a homeschool kid who goes to college. Yeah. They go crazy. They go ape. So you should let him go. Eventually you have to let him go. Or when he's 18, he just goes. Do you talk to him about drinking and vaping? What do you say? I just say, hey, I just want to make sure you're not. You hang out your friends like you're not doing anything like that. Right? Because it's. But what if he were to, like, how do you say. And if you did and you came to me and said this? What? Like, do you have to do any of that? Or if you're ever in a situation, call me, no questions asked. Yeah, I've done that too. But you do. No questions asked. No. Okay. We have lots of questions. You will be interrogated. And I don't even hate that. I don't even hate that. Yeah, but I don't even know this is about vaping or drinking. I mean, that's all it is, really. Because it's not the concert. The show's fine. You're just wondering what he'll do with friends when you're not around. I mean, you have four buddies. That's when everyone's just like, come on, let's do this, let's do this, let's go do that. Okay, so if he's going with two, it'd be okay. Well, maybe two is just. I don't know. I don't know. The whole thing just makes me a little nervous then. And it should, because this is your son. It's probably the first time. Yeah, you should. I'm glad. I'm glad you're nervous. It means you care. We only get nervous about things that are important to us. I think he's 17. If he's been in a positive state, school's been good, his actions have been Good. He's been great. Of course you let him out. Let him. Give him some rope, see what he does with it. Okay. Let him go, Amy. Yeah, let him go, lunchbox. Let him go. Dude, it sounds like you're worried you're getting left behind. You're like, oh, I went to the concert with him. I don't want him to go with his buddies. He's going to have fun without me. That's what you're worried about? Let the kid go. He sucks. 17 years old. You sound like a loser. Okay, drop him off. No. He has a driver's license. Oh, my gosh. No. Hey, who are the parents of teenagers here?

Morgan (13:47)

Me and Eddie.

Bobby Bones (13:48)

Eddie, you could offer. If he says no, we're going to tell you guys you're losers. I'm not a loser. Yeah. If you're taking your 18 year old, 17 year old and going, I must drop you off or you can't go. Yeah. Oh, no, no. I didn't say to say that. But I say he could offer because I think if I were to offer, if my daughter was going with some of her girlfriends and I offered to drop them off and pick them up so they didn't to mess with parking and downtown stuff, she'd probably be like, oh, yeah, that'd be awesome. If it's offered as a. Hey, instead of you guys having to drive. That's what I mean. But that's not what he's doing. And I would make it fun too. I'd play the weekend songs. That's what I'm saying. You're doing it different than what he's proposing. He wants to do it to have an extra eye at the latest time possible. You get a little bit of both, but just present it as casual, laid back. And then you get the benefits of having the extra eye. And he's gonna frisk them when they get out of the car. Dude, he's gonna be like, everybody against the wall. Let me check what you're carrying with you. And then when they come back, he's gonna breathalyze them. Exactly. Definitely do the smell test. Okay, Let him go. And when he comes back, though, give him a curfew. And when he comes back, see what's up. All right. Be waiting for him. Okay, But I think you should let him. I love it. Like, I'm not asking my wife, I'm asking you guys. I'm sure you and your wife will have this talk. What does she think? We haven't talked about it yet. Oh, my God, Really? Bringing it to you guys first. Okay. And I'm the perfect person to answer one because I have no kids and I had no rules growing up at all. Like, I'm the. The worst. Okay, good luck. Let us know how it goes. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone, most of all, his wife, Caroline. He texted, I've ruined our lives. You're going to want to divorce me. Caroline's husband was living another life behind the scenes. He betrayed his oath to his family and to his community. She said you left bruises, pulled her hair, that type of thing. No. How far would Joel go to cover up what he'd done? You're unable to keep track of all your lies, and quite frankly, I question how many other women may bring forward allegations in the future. This season of Betrayal investigates one officer's decades of deception. Lies that left those closest to him questioning everything they thought they knew. Listen to betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast network. Hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores and brought to you by Velvet Buck, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best selling author and meat eater founder, Stephen Rinella. I'll correct my kids now and then. They'll say, when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the ice age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6, where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this Taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them. From Lava for good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1 Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1 Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2 and 3 on May 21 and episodes 4, 5 and 6 on June 4 ad free at Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lodd and this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Sir, we are back in a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky William, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just the compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote unquote drug fans Benny the Butcher, Brent Smith from Shinedown got Be real from Cypress Hill NHL enforcer Riley Cote, Marine Corps vet MMA fighter Liz Caramouche. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does.

Morgan (19:14)

It makes it real.

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Morgan (19:39)

Cassin, founder and CEO.

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Of 3C Ventures and your guide on Good Company, the podcast where I sit down with the boldest innovators shaping what's next.

Morgan (19:47)

In this episode I'm joined by Anjali.

Bobby Bones (19:49)

Sud, CEO of Tubi, for a conversation.

Morgan (19:52)

That'S anything but ordinary.

Bobby Bones (19:53)

We dive into the competitive world of streaming.

Morgan (19:56)

How she's turning so called niche into.

Bobby Bones (19:59)

Mainstream goal connecting audiences with stories that truly make them feel seen. What others dismiss as niche, we embrace as core. It's this idea that there's so many stories out there and if you can find a way to curate and help the right person discover the right content. The term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Get a front row seat to where media, marketing, technology, entertainment and sports collide and hear how leaders like Angeli are carving out space and shaking things up a bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Lunchbox got upset with me this week. I mean, what's new. No, I'm just kidding. But he did get upset because I got to be on the news and he didn't. But he could have been had this particular place asked him, but they didn't. And we showed some clips from the news segment, and he thought I did horrible number five. So Morgan came in late the other day to work, and I just want everybody to know why Morgan came in late was not a massive deal to me because I said that she could do it, but Morgan went and did it. The news wanted to talk to Morgan. I know who was going to be sensitive about this. What? The news. About what? What could the news want Morgan for? The news had reached out to Morgan to ask her to come on camera and talk about something specific. So that's what's up. I wanted to wait till the show to reveal it because a couple people were like, hey, Morgan was late. She wasn't late. She told me what she was gonna do. She had to go be on tv. Morgan, do you want to say what you were doing, or do you want to leave it and let a sleeping dog lie, as they say? Well, what would you like me to do? I would love you to say it. I would love for you to say exactly what you were doing. Okay, well, folds of honor invited me to go talk about the celebrity softball game. Are you freaking kidding me? Now, for those out there listening. Are you serious? Year after year, I just get slighted in this softball game. I do not understand this. So folds of honor, great organization. They put on a charity softball game with celebrities. And lunchbox is complaining about a couple weeks ago because he got invited, but I guess he got invited later than everybody else. And they want to talk to Morgan about playing in it seems very weird. If they want a big celebrity, why would they ask Morgan? Like, they want the most views, they want the most people's eyeballs. Morgan is not the one you would want. I mean, I do look a little bit prettier than you on camera, so maybe that's why. And she does speak well about it. And I think mostly that's what they want, someone who can speak well about the organization. Hey, what's foldabinder do? Lunchbox. They give scholarships to people, women and soldiers that have lost their lives in battle. Women and soldiers? Yeah. What are you talking about? They do. It's not funny. It's not funny? No, it's not funny because you're just making up. It's parents that gave the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. They give them scholarships to further their education. They're just all soldiers, though. Lunchbox. No, they're gonna be first responders. Yeah. So, yes. So we work with Folds of Honor, and they do work with. If the parents have passed away or died in war. Or died. They do make sure the kids are taken care of and the family's taken care of. It was just how you said it. Yeah. Can you imagine a camera going. And he goes. He says that. So. But that's just. It's. That's. Was there another celebrity there? There was somebody from Folds of Honor that went with me. Wow, what a waste of a segment. That's what you think. But they said I did great. I'm sure they did. How much does that upset. You want a 10 scale? Probably a 10. I mean, it's just like they. They had to go to the lowest fruit on the totem pole. They're like, oh, lunch won't be the lowest fruit on the totem pole. Not a saying emerged. That's not a saying. That's like women and soldiers. What do you mean it's not a saying? Lowest fruit on the totem pole is not a saying. Hello. Hanging fruit. And then highest on the tot. Lowest. Yes. Not the same difference. No, it's not.

Morgan (24:02)

But.

Bobby Bones (24:02)

But that's. Do you ever think that's why people don't have to say stuff? Here's the thing. If you don't invent sayings, then they never get made. Like, if you just. No, no, but you didn't invent a saying. You did. You took two and smashed it together because you didn't know how to say the one. It's kind of. It's like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You used to have toast with peanut butter and jelly on it. And someone finally said, you know what? I'm gonna put those together. And they made an amazing sandwich. So maybe I just made an amazing saying. So why is there fruit on a totem pole? So what does that make sense, though? There's not a lot of things that make sense. These things don't make sense. Lowest. Low hanging fruit. Yes, it makes sense because it's very easy to get. That's why that's called, like, ooh, no need to go for the low hanging fruit. Like, if I were to. My wife gives me crowd sometimes about jokes. All right. She goes, you're going to too. Low hanging fruit. That's the easy one. Don't make work harder on the joke. So that's low hanging fruit. So that's why that exists. It's very. So easy that anybody can get it now. Totem pole. You've seen them, right? Yeah, I've seen them. Like heads. So highest on the totem pole. Highest ranking. Lowest on totem pole. Lowest ranking. Okay. That's what that would mean. Both of those have reasons that they exist, those sayings. Okay. Fruit on a totem pole. They don't have fruit on totem poles. I've never seen that. Have you seen all the totem poles in the world? I have not. You got me. There you go. Dang it. I didn't expect to be gotten today. Yeah, we can play Morgan Sting. We don't really need to. I'd like to hear it. Maybe tomorrow. Yeah, next day. Maybe at any time. I'll just play it out of nowhere. That's amazing. You know what? It aired almost immediately after we did the interview. So there was no delay. There was no, like waiting on it, you know, when he was on. And we didn't know if it was gonna air. No, we knew it was gonna air. We had to wait forever for years. And they cut like 80% of it out on the news. No, they didn't show you playing. Yeah, they did. They gave me like three minutes of air time. Do we want to make a bet on that? On the three minutes of airtime? Yeah, because I think the whole story was three minutes. The whole story was three minutes? I think so. It wasn't me the whole time, but. How much. How much over under you on camera in that news story? Oh, that's a good question. You said three minutes, but carried the one. Yeah, go ahead. Now that there's money involved, probably 45 seconds exactly. I'd still go under, but. Yeah, different. Morgan, great job. You're promoting a great organization. Women and soldiers. Women. That's. You know, I'm going to try and sneak that in. I mean, they got someone that couldn't even hit home runs. Like, I mean, they want someone that can hit the softball. They would get me. We saw the Home Run Derby, right? Yeah. Maybe they missed that. They wanted, like I said, one of the worst player in the game. Hey, come watch her. You know what I mean? I think it was more about the organization and her celebrity factor than you. I think they also knew I'd put the organization first and it wouldn't be about me. I mean, I have a folds honor shirt I wear sometimes in public. Folds o honor. You want to check the tape? I said of it's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two. Gavin Adcock stopped by the show. It was his first Time in the studio. And it was fun to hear about him in the rise of his career and all things that are happening right now. And not to mention, we found an old DM from him that he messaged the show back in, I think it was 2021, asking us to play a song. So very full circle moment hearing this whole interview happen. But I didn't see that DM till after he was out of our studio, so we didn't address it with him. But really crazy to think about. This has happened also with Jackson Dean as well. Guys, there's so many DMs that come in and I try to keep up with them all the time, but kind of hard, so there's some that get missed. And it just so happened that I missed Jackson Dean and Gavin Adcock, but he did come in studio and got to talk all about it. So it was fun to hear from him and see what he's up to right now. Number four, it's a Bobby Bones show interview, in case you didn't know about to talk to Gavin Adcock, who got famous four or five years ago, not for music, but he played on the Georgia Southern football team and he was on the team bus. They were driving off to a game. He's on top of the bus, they throw him a beer. He chugs the beer on the bus in his jersey, got kicked off the team. I remember him going viral for that. And now he's a big star. Here we go on the Bobby Bones show now, Gavin Adcock. Gavin, good to see you, buddy. Good to see you too, Bobby. It's rare that the first time I meet an artist is with their parents. That's what happened with us. Yeah. In the, in the lobby, the hotel, they see him. I walked into the lobby and Gavin's there. And Gavin, you're fully, you know, show attire. Yes, sir. Like you were. You went hard and your parents, as normal as can be, look like they adopted like some, some rowdy kid off the side of the road. It's awesome. Yeah, they. I flew them out with ACMs and my show clothes keep getting elevated every time a little bit more crazy. I saw a headline because you just did two sold out shows here in Nashville and I don't know you as a person yet, but the headline was booze filled Rave Gavin Adcock. And I was like, what's he doing at his shows? So why would they write a headline like that? I think it's just because everybody gets so involved in the music during the show. When you come they're singing every word to every song. Doesn't matter if it wasn't necessarily a hit three years ago. When I let it out, it's a hit to them. And I see people just lose their self in the song and just throw an empty cup and just get him. Just have an out of body experience on some of these songs. We had some PBR guys in a few days ago, and you know, these guys are doing bull riding, a bunch of bareback. But that was kind of like a dream of yours early on, right? Yeah. When I was a little kid, I was working, feeding cows with my daddy on the farm, and we watched bull riding together on the weekends. I'd sit with him in his chair and I wanted to be a bull rider. And he. He broke me of that. He showed me the movie 8 seconds when Lane Frost died. And I was like, you know what? I don't. I don't know about that. You just spoiled it for everybody. Some people hadn't seen that movie yet. Well, I'm sorry. Sorry. It's been out for 30 something years plus. So you're good. You're behind now. I'm not an athlete like you were. I got like broken fingers and stuff. My bones hurt like a day like today. Does, like your knee kill you? It does. The weather really tightens up my knee. I tore it up and really started my career with my knee injury because I'm not an inside person. I'm an outdoors kind of guy, and I was stuck in the house. So I coped with that by writing music and I just fell in love with it. What did you do with your knee? What was the injury? I tore my patella meniscus and had two fractures. One in the. One in the femur and one at the bottom of my knee. Was that. Did you do it playing football? Yeah. Your freshman year? No, it was my senior year, actually, going into my last season. Oh, you played. How many years did you play football? Four and a half. Oh. Because I was looking at some of your stats and you had starts like you were actually an actual player. Did you start on the offensive line or did you play defensive? I played D line, nose guard. What'd you play in high school? D end and offensive guard. Both sides? Yeah. Small school or did you just division like. Or not division, but 3A. So we were four by the time I got out of there. What was recruiting like for you in high school? Not very good. You didn't have a bunch of letters, bunch of offers? Nah, just some smaller schools like Division 2 and different stuff. But I just figured if I wanted to go, I wanted to go as big as I could. So I asked my head coach. I said, do you know anybody down at Georgia Southern? Because a few of my friends were going down there. And he said, yeah, I coached with a guy for a little while that is coaching down at Georgia Southern. I went down there and was a preferred walk on a couple years, started playing and got a scholarship. They do the whole thing where it's like, all right, everybody in. You don't know the scholarship's coming. And they're like, guess who's getting a scholarship? Gavin. Yeah, it was right for our. Our bowl game that we played. They. They did it in the team meeting. Did you not know it was coming? I had a feeling, but I didn't. I didn't know. So they got me. Sounds like my wife and I proposed. I mean, I'm. She acts like she didn't know it was coming, but she. But she did kind of. So what was growing up in your hometown like?

Morgan (32:10)

Was it.

Bobby Bones (32:11)

Is it Watkinsville? Is that what it's called? Yes. It was a small town when I was little, and we're probably like an hour from Atlanta east. Hour and 20. And as Athens has moved west and Atlanta has moved east, it's turned into a bigger city than. I enjoyed it when I was a little kid. I grew up on a cattle farm and working with my daddy and going to stockyards and different stuff, and it was a pretty country heavy community. A lot of country music in the town, and everybody just loved listening to the radio. What was the first concert you went to, Tim McGraw in Atlanta at? I think it was called Aaron's Amphitheater at the time, but I think it's Lakewood now. Yeah, it was. What do you remember about that show? He come out with high energy right off the bat and stirred everybody up, and it was just a party. And it was about the time he had let out, like, Cowboy and Me and live like you were dying. Whenever you decided you weren't gonna play sports anymore, had you already been dabbling in music, like, as far as, like, learning how to play guitar? Or is that why you went and got a guitar, because you felt like you needed to put that energy into something? Well, I got a guitar when I was 16, and I didn't learn how to play it or attempt to play it until I was 22. The Sunday before I tore up my knee. On that Tuesday, I hit up a guy from my hometown that I went to high school. With and said, what are you doing this week? He said, not much. What are you up to? I said, I'm down here at Georgia Southern. You want to come play guitar? This is before you hurt your knee? Yes, this is before I hurt my knee. Tuesday tore up my knee. He come down Wednesday, played a handful of songs, and just took off running right there. How'd you start writing songs? You do it by yourself, just in a room? Yeah, I just would find a tempo and find a melody. Because I wasn't very good at guitar at the time when I started. And I'm still working on it and still learning every day. But I'd just write with them, find a beat, find a melody, a whistle, a. A home, and just right from there. What was the first song that you could play and sing at the same time? What was the first song you learned where you could do both? It was. The first song was called Going Gone. It was a. It was a G, to walk down to the E minor, C and slide it over. And it was one of the biggest songs I ever had when I started out my first year. Wait, what about that? You learned that you didn't write? Like, was that. Was that the first song you learned? You wrote the first song you ever learned? See, that would be, like, next level. Oh, no, no. Like, for me, like the. Yeah. First song you ever picked up a guitar, like, and you're like, oh, I can. Because it was hard to sing and play at the same time. At first, I was. I played when youn say Nothing at all by Keith Whitley. And it's just capo, too. D, A minor, G, A minor. Now we're talking. That's it. Heck, yeah. And that was the first one. And then I learned Troubadour by George Strait. And then there's a bunch of Hank songs I can play because he. He plays about, like, me, just GC and D. Do people think you're older than you are? They've always thought that. They've always been like you. Even when I was in high school, you in college, or you graduated from college, I'm like, nah, I'm 17. But, yeah, I think people think I'm 26 right now. I'll be 27 in October. But first time you ever got paid to play music, where was it? Statesboro, Georgia. I hit up the main bar there. I was a couple months into playing, had one song out, hit up the main bar. They said I could play for free drinks. And I was like, no, I've kind of got a little bit of A following. It ain't much, but around here I got a following. So I went to their bar, which is their competition, and told them, and they were like, yeah, we'll pay you 300 bucks. Come out here and sing on syllabus week on Tuesday night. And I was like, hell, yeah, we're coming. And we went out there, we killed it. The bar was packed full, and the owner come up to me, and he gave me 500 bucks instead of three and said it was great tonight. So I was like, I like this. And the other bar, they were just SOL because they only wanted to pay you drinks. Yeah, they hit me up the next day. Of course they did. And was like, we gotta get you to come play. I was like, well, dang. I hate I had to go over here to get you to hit me up, but I guess that's how it works sometimes. What about your parents? What do they think about all this? Because it's exploded for you? They're really excited for me, and they're great. They've supported me the whole time. Never told me to not chase my dreams or been like, I don't know about that, Gavin. It's gonna be really hard. They've always been very confident in me, and my mama just worries. She wants me to stay me. That's what she always says. She just always worried that money and the road and meeting everybody, it would change who I am. And I'm pretty confident that it's not going to. But she just worries about that a good bit. You get about a year and a half to be out of your mind, and then you got to get back. Because if you don't get out of your mind, I don't want you get out of your mind. But you got like a year and a half, two years, kind of get. And then you kind of realize, this ain't for me. It's. If you go two and a half years out of your mind, then you kind of stay that version. Yeah. So I'll talk to her if you need to. Yeah. Like, he's good. You got good people around you, too. I think I've been out of my mind way before I started making music. The dream, Buying, like, a ranch. Is that what you want to do? Yeah, no doubt. I've just bought my first place in Tennessee about a year ago, which is on about six or seven acres, and that's going to be my house until I save up enough money to buy 100, 200 acres somewhere. And where do you want that? 100, 200 acres? Like back home. I don't know about back home. It's pretty played out, is what I'd say. It's played out in terms of land situations down there. A lot of it's already bought. Oh, so you mean already bought? Like, I'm played out because, like, everybody's heard my stories a hundred times. So you don't mean that. You mean, like, there's nothing else? Yeah, there's not. There's not much else over there. I'm not like Texas. And if I go east in Tennessee from here to Knoxville, find a nice place, you want animals? Yeah. Cattle. Yeah. Look at this guy. He's already further ahead than I am. He's a cowboy. He's like, oh, yeah, look at him. What do you. Do you put any product in your hair when you wash it? No. Every once in a while during a photo shoot, I'll. If it's like a windy day, I'll put a little bit in there because it'll blow around. But I just throw a hat on in the mornings after a shower. Have you always had the kind of long hair? When did you grow it out? I started growing it out in college, probably my sophomore year. How much a haircut cost now around here? Dang kidney. Yeah, that's true. I think it's like 80 bucks around here. My hometown. You go get a $20 haircut. Do you have a place. Do you have a specific person here now? Yeah, I can't call her out now. For sure. Yeah, I do. What about now? Because you have to do so much on camera, underline, or photo shoots. What about the whole putting makeup on thing? I don't want to put makeup on. I just. You don't do that at all. I'd rather. I'd rather look rough. No, I live. I love the makeup. Can't put enough on me. Hell, yeah. All right, Gavin Adcock is here. Your guitar is here. You want to grab it? You want to place a little something? How about. And I don't know if you're cool with this, but you mentioned playing George Stray, Troubadour. Would you mind, you know, going back in time and playing us one of those first songs you learned? Oh, I'm sorry, we can't post the live performance on the podcast, but if you go to our YouTube page, you can watch it there or maybe listen live. Okay. All right, now back to the podcast. Come on. Great job, dude. That's awesome. That's how he started. I don't know already. Good. Came out of the womb. Good. So I'M gonna ask you about a couple your songs here. We're about to play never call again, and I was looking at a lot of the songs you've written. Tell me about this song. Like, where'd it come from? You walk into a room with the idea, where'd it come from? I come up with the guitar a few days before the rite, and I had these young group of writers that I had been writing with separately in town, and it just felt. Felt good for the group of people I was bringing it into. Colton venner, Joy Beth Taylor, and Jack Rowton, three. I think everybody's probably under the age of 25, 26 years old. And I brought it in there, and we just started figuring out how it made us feel. And I just said, it kind of makes me feel like I wouldn't forget about that girl if everything didn't remind me about her. And we took off running with that. And it'll be the first song. We just sent it to radio yesterday, actually. It feel good when you finished it. Good as in, like, man, this is a little different. This one feels special. Yeah. It gave me chills, and it would, like, almost. I get emotionally attached to some of these songs, and I fall in love with them off the bat. Like, it's kind of like if I could hear that song for the first time again. When I played it in the truck, the phone demo, I got chills, and it just kind of like, made me choke up a little bit. I just thought it was so good. We're gonna play it now. This is never call again. It's a new one from Gavin Adcock. Gavin, great to see you, man. Great to see you, too, Bobby. Dude, congratulations on all your success. I mean, people talk about you when you're not around in a great way. I mean, you're that guy right now. That's like, have you seen the numbers? Have you seen the ticket sales? Have you seen, like, you're that guy. So congratulations. Remember, you only got two years to go crazy. Oh, yeah. Then you got to get it back a little bit. I told you, I'm already crazy. All right, well, don't get any crazier. Gavin adcock. And you guys follow avinadcog music. Good to see you, buddy. And hopefully we'll see you soon. Very soon. There he is. Gavin Adcock, everybody. Let's go. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. I'm Andrea gunning, host of the podcast betrayal Police. Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone. Most of all, his wife Caroline. He texted, I've ruined our lives. You're going to want to divorce me. Caroline's husband was living another life behind the scenes. He betrayed his oath to his family and to his community. She said you left bruises, pulled her hair, that type of thing. No? How far would Joel go to cover up what he'd done? You're unable to keep track of all.

Morgan (43:37)

Your your lies, and quite frankly, I.

Bobby Bones (43:39)

Question how many other women may bring forward allegations in the future. This season of Betrayal investigates one officer's decades of deception. Lies that left those closest to him questioning everything they thought they knew. Listen to betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. Hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores and brought to you by Velvet Buck, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best selling author and Meat Eater founder Stephen Rinella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6, where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this Taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything. The Taser Toll from Lava for good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is absolute Season one Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 4:1 Taser incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2 and 3 on May 21 and episodes 4, 5 and 6 on June 4 ad free at Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lod and this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Sir, we are back in a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just the compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote unquote drug thing is. Benny the Butcher, Brent Smith from Shinedown got Be real from Cypress Hill, NHL enforcer Riley Cote, Marine Corvette MMA fighter Liz Caramouche. What we're doing now isn't working and.

Morgan (46:52)

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Morgan (47:21)

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Bobby Bones (47:33)

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We dive into the competitive world of.

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Bobby Bones (47:43)

Connecting audiences with stories that truly make them feel seen. What others dismiss as niche we embrace as core. It's this idea that there's so many stories out there and if you can find a way to curate and help the right person discover the right content. The term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Get a front row seat to where media, marketing, technology, entertainment and sports collide and hear how leaders like Angelique are carving out space and shaking things up a bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Does using a straw make you look feminine? That was the topic of conversation this week and it's all because there's a new story about a congressman who claimed this that only the females in his household use straws. So we had a whole debate about it and I think all of us had a surprising reaction that I don't know that any of us started with when we first heard the story. So I don't know Listen, give us your hot take number three. I never thought using a straw was masculine or feminine, but there's a congressman from Tennessee who says straws. That's what the women in my house do. Oh. Oh, wow. So. So why did he say that? Representative Tim Burchett said in a recent interview that he does not use straws, telling Fox News that this is, quote, what women in my house do. The Fox News producer asked lawmakers in both chambers of Congress on Thursday about rules for men and bird chit said, men should not drink out of straw with straws, in public or at all. I don't drink out of a straw, brother. That's what the women in my house do. Oh, he said brother. He did in the beginning of that. Yeah, that makes sense. Wkrn with the story question, is it feminine to use a straw? No. You're a girl, though. Well, I'm saying I don't look at a man and think, oh, what? A feminine man. He's using a straw. Got it, got it, got it. I feel like I can have an opinion about it. Yeah, but you're a girl, though. Yours is different. Oh, because you're gonna be more accepting. Okay. I just have not. I never thought this was a thing. Y' all use straws, don't you? I. I love a straw. You love a straw. I can't get it in my mouth fast enough. Hold on, hold on. It also tracks if you just have, like, a glass of water and, like, no lid, no nothing. You're not at a fast food place. Do you look for a straw to drink it out of? I will quickly monitor the area, see if I can find a straw. That's a bad look. That's not good. It's a bad look. Morgan, what do you think? It's funny that this is coming up because my boyfriend's had to start using my Stanley because he lost his water bottle. And it's kind of funny now I make fun of him because he walks around with drinking out of a straw and his Stanley, and it looks funny. Well, the whole Stanley's feminine. Yeah. Okay, now we got a little edge from Amy. Yeah. Okay. You can do a straw, but you can't do a Stanley.

Morgan (50:58)

What?

Bobby Bones (50:59)

No, I said the Stanley. Now I like where she's coming from. Okay, so if I'm gonna use a mug or a Stanley or something, if I'm gonna, like, go to somebody's house to play pickleball, I went to somebody and we have, like, a cabinet with, like, six or seven of them. I always try to grab them on the straw or the handle or the flip up that I can suck on. That's okay. That's okay. What's the difference? Now the flip up is just part of the contraption. The straw's sticking way out. Looks real weird. So the flip up suck is okay, but the straw suck isn't. You probably just should get a screw cap. See, I knew it. Hey, I knew she'd come around. Hey, now that you say it. I don't. I, I, I. Mine is screw. The. The lark is a screw. I don't know if I have a flip up. You do. Like, I want a straw. Oh, that's my bike one. My bike one is a flip up. Because when you're riding, you got to squirt in your mouth. Yeah, you squirt. You don't just drink. That's a good idea. It's like you said, the red light, you squirt it. You should get a squirt one because you don't want to put your lips on that. Why are you guys looking at me now, like, only judge? Okay, hold on. You're concerned. Are you changing your mind? I think you could get a squirt one or a screw run. Are you changing your mind about straws? I'm sort of changing my mind about straws. Like, if we're talking, like fast food, you've got a straw, no problem. But if you're actively seeking out a straw at home for your cup. Oh, I do. We have glass straws. Yeah, that I like to drink out of at home because I don't want to waste all the plastic. It's not good. Oh, it's so thoughtful. Why do you need a straw at home? I just like sucking them. Okay, see, that's it right there. That's the problem. So you guys think this guy's onto something? He might be, but not necessarily, because it's not every straw. Like Amy said, a fast food place. Hey, what are you going to do? Take the lid off and. No, it's already had the straw. Like, drink it. Okay. In your house, though. Oh, you can't have a straw in your house. He said that's what the women in my house do. But I guess he means just the women that live there, though. Not just in the house. But if you came over and I was drinking a drink and I added with straw in my house, you guys would think that was weird. Yeah, a little bit. I kind of feel like I need to see it. No, it's weird. Amy, no one sits around with a Straw. I mean, if you're grabbing for a Stanley. Yes. That's weird. Like, when you're, like, trying to drink out of it, do you get your tongue to, like, find it first? Cause then, dude, we got problems. Probably. But again, I can also see it, I guess, if it's dark underneath that. But if I can see it. No, it just goes right in my mouth. Yeah. Like if you're sick and you can't move your head and you're in bed, then, yeah, you can use the straw. Yeah. Or it's dark. Yeah. Like if you have a bunch of cats and you can't move your. And they need to put a straw to your mouth. Cool. Like you're bedridden. I get it. Okay, so then let me ask again, since we've talked this out a little bit. Is using a straw feminine, just generally speaking? Gosh, I did not think so at the beginning of this, but I, you know, have the right to change my mind. So sometimes if they don't have a straw and they only have the little coffee stirrers that have a straw, I'll use that as a straw. The tiny, tiny one. Yeah. Because I just. I just really like a straw. Interesting. The little teeny, tiny ones. Uh huh. Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Is using a straw feminine? Amy, your final vote. Yes. Lunchbox 100. Morgan. It is Eddie. I'm gonna go with. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Wow. But this is not. I don't. I don't even know. I'm gonna go say it was a politician. Yeah, I'm gonna go. No, you're the only one. I'm gonna go. No, it is not feminine. Yes. This is not. I'm not. I don't want us to get political here. I don't really think this is not political. I don't think this is an issue dividing. It sounds like. I just don't, you know, I'm just Republican or Democrat. We're just stating our own opinions here. This has nothing to do with anybody's politics. Yeah, that's from WKRN, okay. With a 20% of. Of it is not feminine. That's where I come in. So I lost that election, huh? All right, Jason Aldean, here's a masculine guy for you. He doesn't drink. He doesn't drink out of a straw. I guarantee you don't drink out of a straw. If he does, it's in the closet. Whoa, whoa. You don't know that. I mean, they're like, in private. You think he goes in the closet and drinks out of his straws so he feels good. He's a closeted straw drinker. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan Number two. Gretchen Wilson stopped by the studio. It was also her first time and it was really cool to hear from her. Not only did she talk about Redneck Woman and the inspiration behind that song, but also that she's doing something cool with here for the party. And oh, of course she was on the Masked Singer and so we got all the behind the scenes details with her. So this is Gretchen Wilson on the Bobby Bones Show. Number two, here we go on the Bobby Bones show now. Gretchen Wilson. Gretchen, good to see you. What do you have with you?

Morgan (55:39)

What do I have with me?

Bobby Bones (55:40)

Yeah. Is that from Pearl?

Morgan (55:42)

It is. It's a little part of Pearl that I brought. Yeah.

Bobby Bones (55:44)

Is that a glove?

Morgan (55:45)

It's both of them, yeah. These were my. These were my hands. Don't they look small?

Bobby Bones (55:49)

That's so funny.

Morgan (55:50)

Yeah. And they're off. They were kind of dirty. I was surprised. But they sent them to me just so I could have them for things like this so that I could bring them around and show a little piece of my other self. They want them back. I have to.

Bobby Bones (56:03)

They want them back. Yes.

Morgan (56:04)

We have to fedex them back. Actually, my publicist was like, don't forget the gloves. They're asking me about them.

Bobby Bones (56:10)

I would make fake ones and send the fake ones back that look like that.

Morgan (56:12)

Well, you know, I have four dogs at home and my mom this morning was just like, tell them that the dogs ate them. You know, I mean, the all classic.

Bobby Bones (56:19)

My dog ate them.

Morgan (56:19)

That actually probably happened.

Bobby Bones (56:21)

Yeah. So I have some questions about that show. Specifically what. Who can you tell that you're on the Masked Singer?

Morgan (56:28)

You can't tell anyone. I mean, I actually am so surprised at how. How they keep the integrity of the. The secrets and the hush hush. Like the whole time I was there for a month long work days, very strenuous. And you have to wear this hoodie and this visor that's taped. It's even taped on the inside so you only have two little tiny squares that you can see through. Gloves can't show your hair, your skin, your ankles, your fingers, nothing. So the whole time I was there, I had absolutely no idea who I was competing against.

Bobby Bones (56:56)

Oh, you didn't even know who you were?

Morgan (56:57)

Absolutely not thought about that? No. I had to watch just like the viewing audience at home to see who was being unmasked. Every. The only one I knew was who came in second place. Andy grammar because they let us unmask in front of each other but that was it. I didn't know anybody else the whole time. It was a guessing game.

Bobby Bones (57:14)

What about your family though?

Morgan (57:15)

So very few people obviously. My publicist knew hair and makeup artist who's been with me for over 20 years. She's the only one that went out there with me.

Bobby Bones (57:23)

Why did you hair and makeup done.

Morgan (57:25)

Well, there is the unmasking at some point.

Bobby Bones (57:27)

Oh that. Oh, so they're there.

Morgan (57:28)

Just because you could get unmasked at any, at any given moment. Every time you go out there, it could be your last performance. So you have to be ready to. Oh to look as good as you possibly can underneath. And I mean if you saw it, I was pretty dang sweaty. I looked like I looked like a regular old middle aged woman who just worked her ass off.

Bobby Bones (57:48)

That's funny.

Morgan (57:49)

But I mean we did the best we could under the mask. Yeah.

Bobby Bones (57:52)

When I did Dancing with the Stars we had to take our suitcases fully packed every show.

Morgan (57:56)

Because you might be going.

Bobby Bones (57:56)

Because we might be going home. I never thought about that. Like.

Morgan (58:00)

Yeah. So I mean, I guess it's probably a lot easier for, for the guys. They don't do as much styling but you know, some of the girls take that mask off and it's like did they just spend an hour and a half doing hair and makeup before they took that head off?

Bobby Bones (58:13)

When did they come to you? How far ahead before you left did they come to you and say do the masked singer? And what did they say to convince you to do it?

Morgan (58:21)

Well, they had been asking, I think they asked several times and I was just, you know, I was just like me, you know, dancing around in a costume. I just, it just didn't make sense. But then a few years ago I was one of the first in I think town early in 2020 to get Covid and it was threw me for a loop. I'm a long hauler. I've got now high blood pressure. These are all things that I didn't have before. And then I fell dancing with a six year old boy doing Ring around the Rosie. I fell and just demolished my left leg. Ankle was just, you know, when you see on YouTube videos sometimes the foot hanging the wrong way, that's what I did. And so I had like about a solid year and a half of just. I don't know if I'm ever going to get back, you know, get back to walking, wearing these shoes. My health was so bad. It took forever to get the Right. Medication. So this time, when they asked, I was on the rebound. I was. I was getting healthier. I'd finally found good doctors and all of that. And I thought to myself, I was scared. I was scared to go back out on tour. I was. I didn't know if I could still do it. And I thought, well, if I can go out there and I can do something that's so outside of my norm, something that pushes me to my limit. I mean, hard rehearsals for choreography and just stuff that I'm not used to. If I can do that, then I can keep going for a while. And so for me, it was. It was really about testing myself and proving to myself that I could still do this for another, you know, however many years.

Bobby Bones (59:45)

Wow. I didn't know you hurt yourself so bad.

Morgan (59:47)

It was.

Bobby Bones (59:48)

And while you're sick, it's also like you're dealing with long Covid. And you also can't get your body.

Morgan (59:54)

In shape for two reasons.

Bobby Bones (59:55)

Like £65, your foot's broken, and your. Your whole system's figuring out.

Morgan (59:59)

Yeah. I was in a wheelchair for like almost eight months. Casted from over the knee all the way down to the middle of my foot.

Bobby Bones (60:04)

I'm sorry to hear that.

Morgan (60:05)

Yes. And it was just. Yeah, and it was just a long recovery and then depression. Like, I was one of those, you know, I'm old fashioned redneck from out in the country. I'm like, depression, I don't believe in that, you know, and then it happens to you, and then you're like, dang, this is real. You know, like, I really. My everything just felt bad for a while. I just. I didn't even feel like I was inside of my own self. Like I thought I was in someone else's skin. And it just took a lot of determination, a lot of prayer, obviously, and a lot of. A lot of hard work and believing in myself. But yeah, the masked singer definitely gave me that just kind of that push.

Bobby Bones (60:42)

You seem so energetic and even magnetic right now. Are you feeling good?

Morgan (60:45)

I feel good. I feel like that in my life, I have had so many things working against me, and I've always sort of just. I don't know if it's just the way I was raised by the women around me, just being such strong women, but I've always just been, you know, you're not going to get me down kind of a person. But there was definitely in the last couple years, there was that moment, especially at my age. I'm, you know, I'm no spring chicken. I'M coming up on 52 years old. So I was like, well, maybe it's just time. Maybe this is God's way of saying, slow down. Just be an old woman like you're supposed to be, you know? But then, you know, with all the prayer and everything, it. It just made sense to me that God actually has a much bigger plan for me. And I. I know this sounds crazy, but it is not singing, even though that is like a miracle that I came from where I come from, and, you know, the things that have happened to me weren't supposed to. But I. I'm determined, and I'm sure that. That this singing thing is still just a path to something else that I'm supposed to be doing, or I think I would have been hanging it up, you know, a couple years ago.

Bobby Bones (61:44)

Is that suit heavy?

Morgan (61:45)

It is very heavy. Very heavy.

Bobby Bones (61:48)

Because I'm thinking about your foot.

Morgan (61:49)

Yes.

Bobby Bones (61:50)

And you're testing your lungs, obviously, singing, but you're having to move around in that thing a lot. And if it's heavy, was it very uncomfortable?

Morgan (61:58)

It's mostly hot. I mean, I would say it's heavy for sure, but there's just the heat and the kind of costume that I had. There was not even a little bitty sippy hole for, like, a straw to take a drink. So in long rehearsals and long, you know, dry blocking sets, that would get kind of uncomfortable, but.

Bobby Bones (62:17)

Cause you can't just pull your head off because there are other people around you.

Morgan (62:20)

No, you can't. Sometimes they'd let you do the rehearsals with the visor, but that was still hot, you know. Yeah, it's heavy. It's. It's hot. It's. But you know, what a lot of people don't know is that underneath, it's like a bicycle helmet that they just crank tighter and tighter and tighter, and then you wiggle and if your head starts to go over. But I mean, it's heavy enough that one of the performances, they had me squatting down and inside of this little box. And then when the music starts, I step up. And I had to practice it three or four times because just lifting that head, it was like lifting another person on my back to stand up straight. And I just thought, I'm not going to get all the way up or I might go over backwards.

Bobby Bones (62:59)

When did you start to feel like you could win it?

Morgan (63:03)

I didn't think I was going to win all the way till the end. I thought for sure that that boogie woogie had it. He was my favorite character. I mean, the first time I heard him sing, because we were in the same group. We started in the same group and I was like, oh, this guy's got it. Whoever he is, he's fabulous. He's just got the charisma. He played the character part so well. And we actually kind of. We were really high fiving each other through the hallways, still not knowing who each other were. You know, we'd just call each other. I just called him Boogie and he called me Pearl.

Bobby Bones (63:32)

That's crazy.

Morgan (63:32)

But, yeah, we had kind of a little character romance thing going on. And then, yeah, I didn't. I was determined to win it when I got there because I didn't fly all the way out there for nothing, you know, I wasn't going to do all of that just to go home right away. So, yeah, I was in it to win it, but I didn't think I had it, not even till the end.

Bobby Bones (63:51)

What happens right after the show after you win?

Morgan (63:55)

You go sleep. You go to sleep, you try to get the cramping to stop, you hydrate. I mean, seriously, the hydration was probably the biggest thing for me just being out there. Not used to California, really, that I don't go that often and just the wear and tear. So, yeah, I mean, there was twice that I had to have medics come and give me an IV in my hotel room.

Bobby Bones (64:18)

Wow.

Morgan (64:19)

Yeah, it was. It is not an easy show.

Bobby Bones (64:22)

Are the contestants always singing live?

Morgan (64:25)

Yes. Yeah, we sing live every time. And they're now. They do. They do do some vocal recording. They're not really. It's not that important. But I think they. They do the vocal recording in case, you know, like it's a. It's a live TV show with a. With a live audience. I mean, what. What would happen if I fell and broke my leg again right before I was supposed to go on, you know, and they had to just sit me in a seat or what happens if I got laryngitis? You know, all of a sudden I think that they have it as a backup plan. But everybody from what I was listening to was live. And I'm pretty good at, you know, if you hear no. No flaws at all, you have to question it. But, you know, sitting back in my little piping drape, listening to the other performances, it all seemed really live to me.

Bobby Bones (65:07)

You talk about where you came from. Pocahontas, Illinois?

Morgan (65:10)

Yes.

Bobby Bones (65:10)

What's your hometown like?

Morgan (65:12)

Small. There's like 700, 800 people there. Like a little quick shop, really.

Bobby Bones (65:19)

No traffic light.

Morgan (65:20)

There's Pocahontas is a little bit bigger than Pierron. See, I had to pick a place. When I got signed, they were like, you have to have a hometown. I was like, I really don't, though. I just lived everywhere. You know, I'm here for three months there for three months. I was born in Granite City, but I never lived in Granite City. You know, it's just a. It's been. It was a weird childhood, so I had to pick a place. And my favorite childhood memories were in Pocahontas. And I did live there in two different spots there. But all around there, they're all little towns of like 500, 600, 700, mostly bars. There's really nothing to do but go to the Tavern. You know, everybody's mom and dad and grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncles are all a member of some kind of bush pool league or, you know, some kind of sand volleyball where everybody's just getting drunk and fighting. I mean, it's just. It's just a lot of. A lot of ignorant drunken stuff. I mean, and it's still the same. I go back and I'll walk into the bar, and there's the same old man with the same cigarette with the long curved ash hanging off of it. He's still drinking the same mug of bush, you know, and it's like, nothing changes around here, you know, it's. It's crazy.

Bobby Bones (66:27)

Why did you move to Nashville?

Morgan (66:29)

Because I was. Had big dreams, you know, just like everybody else that moves to Nashville. I wanted to. I wanted to be Loretta Lynn, you know.

Bobby Bones (66:36)

How old were you when you moved here?

Morgan (66:37)

I wasn't that young. I had had a pretty good deal going back home. I was in three different bands at the same time, playing every night. I was kind of the. The big star back home and moved down here in probably 94 and had to get a job 10 and bar right away because it was, you know, now little fish. So. Yeah, and I got a job in the one place in all of Nashville that prides itself on never playing country music, which was really strange.

Bobby Bones (67:05)

Really?

Morgan (67:06)

Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar.

Bobby Bones (67:08)

Yeah, I used to live right over there on Printer's Alley.

Morgan (67:11)

Mm.

Bobby Bones (67:11)

Yeah. So that's where you went to work?

Morgan (67:13)

That's where I went to work. And I was making really good money, you know, worked five nights a week there, go in at. At 3pm to open and stay there until 3am to close.

Bobby Bones (67:21)

And were you singing at the bar at all?

Morgan (67:23)

So not at first, but then after I was there for a little while, I made Friends with Stacy Mitchart and Blues yous Can Use Band, who. He still plays there and we're pretty good buddies. And he would start calling me up and, you know, I was like the singing waitress. And he'd just call me up and. But again, I didn't get to do any. Any originals or anything that was country. I was singing, you know, Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin.

Bobby Bones (67:44)

Were you riding that?

Morgan (67:46)

So when I worked at Bourbon street is when I first met John and Kenny. John and Kenny just happened in there one night. I was behind the bar and they heard me sing and made their way up to talk to me.

Bobby Bones (67:57)

And was it like Big and riches here? Was that the thing or did you.

Morgan (67:59)

No, they were. They were still up and coming. Nobody knew them as big and rich. John had a solo thing that was going and. And Kenny was trying his hand at the solo thing, but they had really first met right around that time and started writing together. So the music Mafia was just beginning at that moment. And so that's when. That's when they just asked me, you know, hey, John said, how come you ain't got a record deal? And, you know, me being who I am, I just kind of looked at him like, why you got one in your pocket? Cause if you don't, you know, order a drink and get out of my face, I'm busy. So that was kind of our first meeting. And then I got invited out to a Music Mafia at the Pub of Love. And the kind of. The rest is history.

Bobby Bones (68:38)

And you just. That just became your group.

Morgan (68:40)

Became my family. It became my musical. My musical home and my musical family. Yeah, we were all a little bit different, but we were all good. And we were all good enough to hold an audience. And that was kind of what our motto was. It doesn't really matter what you play, whether it's electric guitar or a fiddle or if you're, you know, a painter or if you're a sword swallower, we don't care. As long as you're good at what you do and you can hold an audience, then you're welcome at the Mafia.

Bobby Bones (69:03)

I saw you at the ACM Awards. I didn't.

Morgan (69:05)

I saw you, too.

Bobby Bones (69:06)

I didn't get to talk to you because everybody, you know, everybody's moving all around. But I thought it was super cool because you got on stage with. With other new artists when it was you. It was a whole bunch of you guys. Yeah.

Morgan (69:15)

Other female vocalist artists that have won in the past. Yeah.

Bobby Bones (69:17)

And it was 20 years since you won the award.

Morgan (69:19)

Something like that.

Bobby Bones (69:20)

Yeah, that was really. It was a really cool moment.

Morgan (69:22)

It was. It was neat to be standing up there with the likes of Winona and, you know, just amazing, amazing women in the industry. Crystal Gale. Yeah. Sarah. Martina. Who's my Martina? I had to tell her a crazy story about one time I was going under for a surgery, and the last thing I saw on TV as I was going under was Martina McBride. She was on one of the morning talk shows, and when I came out of anesthesia, I was screaming at everybody, don't you mess with my Martina. And I told you, I told her that story. That's a pretty funny story.

Bobby Bones (69:55)

I had a weirdo show up at my house looking for Martina and had to call her and be like, there's a weirdo looking for you. Like, lock every door, because they just came out.

Morgan (70:01)

Martin is aces, man. I had issues with a television show filming my little girl back in the beginning of my career, and they were asked not to, and it was actually in the contract that they would not film the kid, but they were doing it anyway, and I was losing my mind. I called John and John was like, I don't have any kids yet. Call Martina. So I called Martina and she was just really, really calming, very, very cool about the whole situation. Gave me great advice. She's just a. She's aces.

Bobby Bones (70:28)

What do you say to new artists if they're like, Gretchen, I'm 22 and I just signed a record deal? What do I expect? Like, what kind of advice do you.

Morgan (70:35)

Give them not to expect anything because it's never what you expect. I don't think anybody, when they come to Nashville, following their hopes and dreams, really know what they're getting into, because no one, no, no deal is the same. Everybody's going to have a different kind of experience in it. Especially now. Like, I was, I think, among one of the last to have, like, the real major record deal. Things really changed after that. Nobody goes to Walmart parking lots and does in stores and sign CDs anymore. You know, that was still going on, you know, for me, when I was a breaking artist. So it's so different. I don't know that I would have great advice, because the world and just how you market yourself and how you present yourself is so different. I'd probably have to call my daughter and say, what advice would you give someone your age? But, I mean, honestly, I think just try to stay true to yourself. But remember that in every business, regardless of what it is you. You have to. There are some concessions. There Are some things that there's some give and take. If I could speak to my younger self, I would tell myself that be a little less nitpicky and demanding and, and be a little more open minded, you know, like my first album, I really. There were three songs that I just did not want on that record. And I really fought and fought and fought and of course the record label won. But now I look back at those particular songs and I'm so glad that they're on that record because they show a side of myself that I wasn't gonna show anybody. And the, you know, the producers knew better and so be open minded. I think that's the best advice I can give.

Bobby Bones (72:03)

How much did Redneck Woman change your life?

Morgan (72:06)

Redneck Woman was it. I mean, it was the whole. People will tell you there are a lot of really talented people, but it takes the right voice, also the right song and the right time. Those things have to kind of come together for you to have a really monster hit. And that's what happened with Redneck Woman. And it was just the perfect time. Women like me weren't really being spoken to or sung about. And, you know, when I turned on the music channels, all I saw was beautiful women like Faith Hill rolling around in silk sheets. You know, I can feel you breathe and I'm like, who the hell looks like that at 6 o' clock in the morning? You know, not me or anybody that I know. So it was just the time, it was time to write a song for women like me that were happy to be like me, that thought that their whole world was fulfilled living in a mobile home and driving a pickup truck and raising kids and dogs, you know, and going to the football game on the weekend. Not everybody wants the same thing in life. And if that's what your life is and that's what you're happy with and you should be celebrated too.

Bobby Bones (73:04)

Did you and John just write that together?

Morgan (73:06)

Yes.

Bobby Bones (73:07)

When you finished writing it, did it feel special? Did it feel like it had texture?

Morgan (73:11)

It felt special to me because it felt like my home. You know, it felt like I'd finally truly written a song that, that really represented me. But no, I think our, our honestly, our feeling was nobody's gonna play this. It's, you know, we were in a. In a moment in country music where that pendulum was swinging more towards the slicker sound and we just thought that we might have missed. Missed our window or that the timing wasn't right and, and, you know, girls weren't doing what I was doing. At that moment. And so it really. That's the reason it worked. But we were afraid that it could be the reason that it wouldn't.

Bobby Bones (73:46)

Did it work immediately once they committed to it?

Morgan (73:50)

No, the fans loved it. Yes, the fans loved it. And if it hadn't been for the fans calling the local radio stations and demanding it, I'm not sure that it would have gone the way it did. Program directors didn't really love it that much. I mean, we got. We got phone calls back at. At the label that I was hearing about, you know, some of. Some of them saying things like, we've been working for 20 years to get this redneck word out of our listeners mouth, you know, and it was really kind of up to me to. To define redneck. It's like, you know, you guys have just decided all across this country that it's a bad word and that it means racist. But that's not what it means. It's not at all what it means. I mean, being a redneck has value. It. It's about where you come from, and it's really about being out in the field farming all day and coming back in the house and having a redneck from being out on a tractor all day long. That's what it's about. It has nothing to do with racism. And I became kind of the face of having to explain that to the world. And even the radio stations didn't want that word. And so to present myself as the redneck woman kind of took a lot of, you know, what I saw that.

Bobby Bones (74:53)

You'Re doing the show with Blake Shelton, the Taylor sheridan show. You're the tour manager.

Morgan (74:57)

Yes.

Bobby Bones (74:57)

That's exciting. Tell us about that show.

Morgan (74:59)

It's really cool because in this show, I get to show my face.

Bobby Bones (75:02)

You don't have to wear a really heavy costume.

Morgan (75:05)

Yes. Yeah, this is a really, really cool opportunity. I think a lot of people are thinking that's just going to be another run of the mill, you know, talent competition. But it's really very different than any of the ones that I've seen. Anyway, this is. This one moves across the country. It's a live audience in kind of a bar, like a large honky tonk sort of situation. The. The audience that comes in every night is an audience that's coming to see Keith Urban. So all of these contestants really are opening act for, you know, an amazingly talented artist who. Who goes out there every single show and just. Just nails it. I mean, I'm super huge fan of his. Now I. If I wasn't before, I'm just amazed by how. How professional he is. And, yeah, my job was really just to prepare these kids for what it's really like to be on the road. It's not all the glory, glitz, and glamour.

Bobby Bones (75:58)

It's.

Morgan (75:58)

It's a lot of bus life. It's a lot of parking by dumpsters. It's a lot of making sure that you don't party too hard, get plenty of sleep, don't talk all day. You know, take care of yourselves. What songs are you gonna sing? How are you gonna beat the girl that was just up there before you? It was that kind of thing. I didn't have to take care of the buses and hotels, thank goodness. I just did.

Bobby Bones (76:16)

You didn't have to really tour manage?

Morgan (76:17)

No, I. I did. I did what a tour manager does on site.

Bobby Bones (76:20)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Morgan (76:20)

But not the logistics.

Bobby Bones (76:22)

No merch. At the end of the night, everybody gets paid. None of that.

Morgan (76:25)

No. Thank goodness.

Bobby Bones (76:26)

The show is called the Road, and it's this fall, right?

Morgan (76:28)

This fall, yeah. I don't have an exact date yet, but yeah.

Bobby Bones (76:30)

Are you re recording here for the party?

Morgan (76:32)

I am, yes.

Bobby Bones (76:33)

That's what I've heard.

Morgan (76:34)

So I'm gonna go in and re record the first album entirely, but I'm gonna do it different. I'm gonna. I'm gonna get guest artists on each. On each song, and I've got a few in mind already, but I. I'm kind of keeping my. I'm keeping it open right now because there are a few people that I really think haven't had the opportunity to be in the spotlight yet. That should be. So some of the names I think you'll recognize, some of them you might just should have recognized already.

Bobby Bones (77:02)

And did performing again on the Masked Singer, because obviously you're a performer and a singer, but did it make you feel comfortable with committing just to getting on the road, doing a bunch of shows now?

Morgan (77:12)

Well, yeah. I mean, that was definitely one of the things that I had to prove to myself. If I could do that, then I could get out there. I'm not gonna say that it's. It's easy to be on the road at my age. It's not. It's hot.

Bobby Bones (77:23)

You act like you're 100 is the thing. You're not. You look great, you sound great. You're acting like you're walking here in a walker.

Morgan (77:30)

Yeah, well, I was. I was just a couple years ago.

Bobby Bones (77:34)

Okay.

Morgan (77:34)

I guess. I don't know. You get that close to it all, and you just maybe I'm just still in that fear mode, you know, that, like, every step I take, as you can see, I'm wearing really short boots now. I'm just like, yeah, I don't know about the high heels anymore. So. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely. I'm not as young as some of them, so I have to be careful. But I'm having fun on tour. I've already done probably 10 this year. I've got 15 or 20 more on the books, and I'm actually having a lot of fun. A new band together. Young kids in the band got a lot of energy, and they jazz. They make me have a lot of fun on stage.

Bobby Bones (78:08)

And a bunch of the shows and a lot of the places that we're in. Indiana, California, doing Nashville, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ocean City, Maryland, So you guys can catch Gretchen out on the road. It was super cool to talk with you.

Morgan (78:22)

Thanks for having me. It's cool to be here.

Bobby Bones (78:23)

I really appreciate you coming. Congratulations on the win. I know how much hard work it is to actually do that. It looks like to people, it's like, oh, go. But it's hard work.

Morgan (78:30)

No, no. Dancing would have been way. That show was like an absolutely no for me from Word. Go.

Bobby Bones (78:36)

Both. Both their own difficult, but the. One of the most difficult parts is being away from home.

Morgan (78:41)

Yeah.

Bobby Bones (78:41)

Like living in a hotel.

Morgan (78:43)

Yeah. Well, you know what it's like to wear a lot of hats, you know? And also, I saw you two at the awards show. You were also wearing a lot of jackets. Didn't I see you change coats?

Bobby Bones (78:50)

Changing jackets. There were times where, like, things were breaking and they were like, just get out there and. And I'm like, all right, I'll do it. So. Yes. Yeah. I was being versatile. Being versatile and just doing it is my only talent.

Morgan (79:03)

Yeah. You just got to. You just got to trust in yourself.

Bobby Bones (79:05)

Just got to do it. Well, it has been super fun to talk with you.

Morgan (79:07)

Thank you.

Bobby Bones (79:07)

Congratulations to Pearl.

Morgan (79:09)

Thank you.

Bobby Bones (79:10)

Who is you, but not really you.

Morgan (79:11)

I'm gonna add a couple of those songs to the show, I think.

Bobby Bones (79:14)

Really?

Morgan (79:14)

Yeah. Why not?

Bobby Bones (79:15)

That's fine.

Morgan (79:16)

Why not?

Bobby Bones (79:16)

That's fine.

Morgan (79:17)

If I could keep the gloves, I'd wear them. But they won't. They won't lie.

Bobby Bones (79:20)

I'm telling you. I would send back fake ones that look just like that. That's a good idea. And they would never know the difference. We had the opportunity to buy our stuff on Dancing with the Stars, so.

Morgan (79:27)

I think this stuff all goes into a museum of some of Some sort. And then they. They put it out on display for certain.

Bobby Bones (79:32)

A museum.

Morgan (79:33)

A museum.

Bobby Bones (79:34)

Where is that museum? D.C. smithsonian, right next to the Smithsonian. You guys follow Gretchen on Instagram. Gretchen Wilson, 27. Gretchen, thank you for coming in. Congratulations and hopefully we will see you soon.

Morgan (79:46)

Thank you so much.

Bobby Bones (79:47)

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Morgan (84:30)

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Bobby Bones (84:32)

We dive into the competitive world of streaming.

Morgan (84:35)

How she's turning so called niche into.

Bobby Bones (84:37)

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Anyways, we drafted the best country songs from the 2000s, and it was a bit controversial because, you know, there's so many country songs from the 2000s, honestly, a really great era of country music. So it was tough. This was a tough one. But listen, let us know your thoughts. You can still go vote. I don't know if it'll count, but you know, bobbybones.com if you wanna. Number one. We will be drafting best country songs from the 2000s. Raymundo, you're first. What is the best country song from the 2000s? Simple. I would like to go with Cowboy Take Me Away by the Chicks. That's incredible. Great song. Yeah, I sadly did not have that in my top 10. And I sadly am an idiot. That is a great song. Lunchbox. Best country song from what? Oh, it's from 1999. Oh, my goodness. I listened to that in high school. But be sure to put next to it. 1999. Yeah, that's why it wasn't on my list. Ray, anything you want to say back? Yeah, I'm just going to need to talk to I heart because they put out this list of. Of 2000's biggest country hits. So I'm gonna. I will actually address it and email them today. So do we put poop? Does it only go up as poop? I mean, it was definitely being played a lot. I'm sure in the year 2000. Okay. Yeah, but. But so was the twist by Chubby Checker on oldie stations. So it's when it was released, right? Yep. Yeah. I think we gotta put poop. That's what we've done in previous drafts. If it didn't. No, no, no. Yeah. Okay. Ray, draft poop as his first song. Oh, Ray. Wow. There's a reason why Ray never wins. Lunchbox, you're up. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Chicken Fried by Zach Brown Band. That's a good one. And not poop. No, it's 2005. Okay. Morgan iconic. Live like you were dying, Tim McGraw. Can't argue with it. Can't argue with it. I'm gonna go with a song that Amy laid in her shelf shower and cried too. Oh, that's what I had. It's a Great Day to Be Alive jam. Travis Tret. Yeah. Classic Amy. Just laying in the shoe water coming on her. Okay, I have Travis Tret. It's a Great Day to Be Alive. That song from 2000. Amy. Okay, I'm gonna go with a little thrown off because I thought that wouldn't want to make it to me. You must have more written down. Surely you've picked at least three. Yeah, yeah, I have more. But now I struggle with what should be number one. Well, you get two in a row because you're the end of the line. And it starts with you again. All right, that helps me bless the broken road, cuz. God bless the broken road. Let me. Oh, you gotta extend it out because I'm doing the very final one. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Good. Then let me straight to you. Okay, what else you got? You get to do the first one of the second round. Chicken fried. Oh, my goodness. It's the first time ever. We got two poop. Do poops. We got poop. Who said two fried? No, he said something else. Yes, you did. You said let. You were dying. That was me. Oh, my goodness. This poop's on. Killing the 2000s. This is crazy. No way. Yeah. So Amy has God bless the broken road. And poop. And poop. Amy, I could have swore like that. You may not finish last, though. Now. We've never had two poops. This is hard. Okay, so Amy has selected Bless the broken road and poop. Oh, boy. It's over to me now. I don't even care anymore. Oh, okay. Just kidding. It's over to me now. I'm gonna go with Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw. Dang it. Good one. I had that. Yeah. Good one. Thank you. Better than poop. Morgan, do I do it because. Oh, it's so iconic, though. Best country song from the 2000s. Dang. I. I'm gonna do Red Dirt Road. It's good. Brooks and done. That's where I found Jesus Jam. It's a jam. They did that at Iowa Country Festival. It was awesome. So good. It was awesome. Lunchbox. Yeah. I'm gonna go with a song that all the ladies love. All my redneck ladies. Give me a redneck woman. By. By. Let me look. Oh, come on. Gretchen Wilson. There you go. There it is. There you go. Come on. Okay. That was good, dude. Ray, so far you have poop. What would you like to add to your. From 2008, confirmed. You belong with me, Tay Tay. Okay, good. You're gonna ride it like that. Tay Tay. No. Okay, so that's two rounds. We have one more round. Now we start back with Ray Taylor Swift, you belong with me and poop by the pooh Brothers. Brothers, what do you have as your third song? I want to say I'm not totally 100 on this one, but I believe need you now crossed over and was on pop as well. So I'm gonna do need you now 2009. Nine lady. A good. Okay. Lunchbox has chicken fried and redneck woman. And what will you be adding to yours? Lunchbox? Yeah, I'm making sure a year here. Just. Good. I'm getting nervous. Yeah, I've got it. Tequila makes her clothes fall off. Joe Nichols. What year do you have there? That's 2005. Okay, well, that's good. Morgan, you have live like you are dying Red dirt road. What will you be adding to your draft? Oh, there's two really good ones that I want to choose. Let me see which ones. You know, I'm already done. I can. Let me see which ones you're looking at. See if I.1 and 3, and they're both so good. Oh, man. I had. Yeah, I had them, but I don't go with what he says. I'm not trusting him. He did win last round, though. Oh, man. Okay. I think you're gonna choose one of these, Bobby. And that's why I might want to take it. I have two that I'm deciding between. I'm curious if they're similar. I think I'm gonna go. Austin by Blake Shelton was not on my list. It's a great song, though. So I have two that I'm choosing between, and I think is one of them chicken fried? It is. And I think I'm gonna go with chicken fry. I'm gonna go with Courtesy of the red, white, and blue. I'm shocked right now. Toby Keith. That is a good one. Why? I thought he was gonna. Hello? Yeah, I'm pandering a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I see that. Yeah, a little bit. America. Sure. Red 1. Rest in peace, Toby. Yeah, more than picking my absolute favorite song, I'm pandering a little bit. So should I pander to the. You do it. You already have poop. You can pander all day long. I know I have that. But, like, Jesus took the wheel. I don't. It's not one of my favorite songs, but it was huge.

Morgan (93:05)

And, like, that's a good.

Bobby Bones (93:06)

I don't think that's as pandering. No, that's pretty pandering. Is it?

Morgan (93:09)

What?

Bobby Bones (93:10)

I mean, that's about Jesus. I would. Yeah, yeah. No, it is about Jesus. That's pretty true, Amy. Do whatever you want. Whatever. I mean, why do I. I love beautiful mess. Diamond Rio, go ahead. It's up to you. You hate that, don't you? You're not gonna win. So. You already have Poop.

Morgan (93:31)

I might.

Bobby Bones (93:32)

If it's five o' clock somewhere. You might win with Jesus, though. Just go, Jesus. What if you just write the word Jesus? How could people. That's that People. People can't vote against that. Right? Just write Jesus really big and then takes the wheel really tiny. What is your answer? When? Who cares? I don't know. What do I do, guys? What do I do? It literally doesn't matter. Okay, Star Spangle banner, you're down 20 points. Calling a timeout with three seconds left. Yeah, I'm an idiot. Nobody said that. I say it. Go ahead. Okay, we gotta put it on for me. Clock. Okay. Five seconds. Okay.

Morgan (94:13)

What was. What.

Bobby Bones (94:14)

What was I gonna do? Beautiful mess. Okay. There you go. Thank you for yelling. Beautiful mess. What a beautiful mess I'm in. So I'm surprised Amy didn't pick Troubadour George Straight. Oh, yeah, there's other George Straight songs. Yeah, but that was better than Give it Away and I had that as another one of the bigger 2001. Give it away. Yeah. My favorite is Whiskey Lullaby, but I didn't pick that because it's one of my favorite songs ever. So that's what I had. And that's what I thought you were gonna pick. And that was the two that I was deciding between. Alan Jackson, where were you in the world's top Turning was also on my list. Oh, yeah, I had that one. Oh, for sure. Pander. For sure. Okay, so here's everybody's team. Go vote on the full team. Don't vote on the first song because there's a draft order. Ray has poop. You belong with me and need you now. He dropped it. Number one overall. Number one. It's the first time poop's been drafted. Number one overall. I'll be. Amy's lunchbox has chicken fried Redneck woman and tequila makes her clothes fall off. Morgan has live like you were dying Red dirt road in Austin. I have It's a great day to be alive. Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift and courtesy of the red, white and blue. And Amy has blessed the broken road. A second round pick. A poop and beautiful mess. Diamond Rio. Two poops in one game. There's also first round Overall. First overall pick is poop. Amazing. Okay, let's play one of these. Let's do play it. I want to hear it. I can't find it. It's not in the system. It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two, thanks as always for being here. I hope, I hope you enjoyed catching up on the show with me. And if you have some extra time, listen Part one, Part three this weekend with Scoobs, we caught up on life, all the dad stuff that's going and the four things that people put 30 plus year olds in categories of like if you turn 30, you probably have fallen into one of these four categories. 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