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FRI PT 2: Megan Moroney On Collaborating With Ed Sheeran And Kacey Musgraves
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Megan Moroney
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Joel and Matt (How to Money Podcast)
Hey, it's Joel and Matt from how to Money. If your New Year's resolution is to finally get your finances in shape, we've got your back prices, they're still high and the economy is all over the place. But 2026 is the year for you to get intentional and make real progress. That's right. Yeah. Each week we break down what's happening with your money, the most important issues to focus on, and the small moves that make a big difference. Kick off the year with confidence. Listen to how to Money on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Nav Green (Broken Play Podcast)
This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? It's your boy Nav Green from the Broken Play podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. Guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoffs. The chief. It's time to rebuild. Listen. Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get.
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Bobby Bones
Your podcast on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Megan Maroney. Megan, good to see you.
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Megan Moroney
Good to see you.
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Bobby Bones
I was wondering if you had to go buy a bunch of new pink stuff.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, I did. I had some, but, you know, stocking up.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, sometimes you can tell ahead of time and I wondered if people would have seen you at a store buying pink stuff if they'd have gone like, ah, we got it. We know her next era is gonna be pink.
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Megan Moroney
For my birthday, before the color was announced in October, I got a lot of pink stuff. I got a pink purse, pink ugg slippers, and I couldn't post them or anything or be seen in them because my fans are really sneaky and smart.
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Bobby Bones
In a similar way, my wife is very pregnant and when I post any Sort of picture of, if I have, like, a stroller, I'm putting together a stroller. I make them black and white because we're not saying what it's going to be. And if I'm wearing blue shorts, oh, it's an Easter egg.
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Megan Moroney
He's hinting.
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Bobby Bones
So I wondered if you had to hide all your pink stuff.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, I did.
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Bobby Bones
Why did you choose pink?
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Megan Moroney
Well, once I started writing the album about, like, three songs in, there was a song that was, like, really, like, hot Pink. And so that kind of was stuck in my brain. And then I continued to write the rest of the album. And there's a softness about Cloud 9 that isn't in my other albums. So I think I kind of chose, like, all shades of pink. But I guess there is that, like, staple hot pink. But I think it's soft but also still confident and empowering, and it just makes sense in my brain.
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Bobby Bones
I love pink. I wear a lot of pink anyway.
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Megan Moroney
Real men wear pink.
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Bobby Bones
I'm also very colorblind.
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Megan Moroney
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
And reds I do pretty good with. And isn't pink just a version of red? Like a lighter red light with some white?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Maybe that's why I like it.
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Megan Moroney
Red and white makes pink.
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Amy
There you go.
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Megan Moroney
What color do you think I'm wearing right now?
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Bobby Bones
I know you. Well, I would have trouble with the pants.
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Megan Moroney
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
Because the pants don't the shoes look purple. I can tell you have a pink top on, like a hoodie or sweatshirt. And the pants, I don't know. That doesn't look like anything.
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Megan Moroney
They're all, like, a little bit different shades.
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Bobby Bones
They are all pink.
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Megan Moroney
I see where you struggle. They are all pink. Not even a little purple. I don't think, like, in my hair.
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Bobby Bones
You don't have to say that. Like, you don't have to, like, double down on that. You can just be like, it's all pink. Go ahead, Amy.
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Amy
I keep having that line from. Have you ever watched Steel Magnolias?
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Megan Moroney
No.
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Amy
Okay.
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Megan Moroney
Actually, some of it.
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Joel and Matt (How to Money Podcast)
Yeah.
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Megan Moroney
I fell asleep. Oh, really? It's a movie thing. When it's dark, Like, I can only watch movies with the lights on. That's like a whole other thing.
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Amy
Okay, well, maybe turn the lights on and watch it.
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Bobby Bones
It's so good. Maybe turn the lights on and watch.
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Amy
It because it's so good. But her. Her wedding colors are pink and pink, and she's adamant. Her mom is like, your colors are pink and pink. She goes, my colors are blush and bashful. And she's very specific. So you've got on your Blush your bash. Different versions of Pink.
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Bobby Bones
What was the first song on this album that you wrote?
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Megan Moroney
Wedding Dress is the oldest.
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Bobby Bones
How long ago?
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Megan Moroney
Three, four years.
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Bobby Bones
And is that a song you hold with intention of at some point putting on an album or project? Or you just write it and go, I don't know what's gonna happen? Let's just see.
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Megan Moroney
The story of Wedding Dress is really interesting because I had posted the bridge and the chorus years ago, and it's gone viral since then. And truthfully, it doesn't really fit the theme of the rest of the album. Like, there's some heartbreak songs on the album, but none of them are truly, like, I'm devastated. I'm never gonna get over it. And Wedding Dress is that. So I included it on the album for my fans. Cause I know they wanted it. And what's interesting is I didn't like the verses that I wrote years ago. So the song was never good enough to put out. Like last year for Am I okay? I hadn't rewritten it, and Lucky hadn't rewritten it. So I randomly woke up one day this year. I felt like I was finally past the situation. And I wrote down, like, what is the most logical way that this makes sense? Because I think when I felt the whole song is, don't let me miss him in a wedding dress. Like, let me miss him at the store. Let me miss him on his birthday when I meet someone with the same name as him. But, like, just don't let me miss him in a wedding dress. So it's pretty devastating. But I. The verses were just not good to me, and I feel like. Because I felt that way, and I was just kind of distraught when I wrote the song. I couldn't even make sense. So it took me, like, getting over the situation, I think, to actually be like, what would a logical person say if they're feeling this way? So I woke up randomly on my first writer's trip of the year, and I wrote it in my notes app as a poem, and then I figured out the melody.
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Bobby Bones
So will you read it and just sit with a guitar and just kind of find the chords that fit? Is that how you'll do a lot of your songwriting? Do you write lyrics first?
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Megan Moroney
Not typically, but for whatever. Like, I swear, I always say, like, the songwriting stuff is, like a God thing. Like, I have no idea why I just woke up one day, and it. The whole song came to me. Like, I have no explanation. There's also a weird thing in the song where I say, at the store, On Aisle nine. And this was before I had written Cloud nine. So I'm like, why the heck did I pick Cloud? Or why did I pick Aisle nine before Cloud nine was even a thing? So weird.
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Bobby Bones
Do you have any songs that you play only live that you've never recorded that your fans know? Like the hardcore fans know.
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Megan Moroney
There's a song from like a long time ago that I released and then took down. And only a select few of my fans, like back when I could still Reply to everyone's DMs, I would send them a link, like a private listening link, so that they could still have it and they wouldn't be mad at me for taking it off platforms. But it was a song called Haven't Met Yet.
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Bobby Bones
When you play that, do you hear like a pop in the crowd? And you know that's like the old.
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Megan Moroney
The OGs, you know, I really, I don't play it.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, you don't play it anymore?
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Megan Moroney
I do play Wonder and that kind of Wonder was the first song I ever released. I wrote it by myself. I made the COVID art by myself. It was a one man band there and I play that and it's become a staple in my show because I think my fans, it's kind of one of those things where my fans are like, you don't know Wonder. Why are you here?
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Bobby Bones
You haven't been to 31 Dave Matthews Band shows. That's what it feels like. You judge based on if they know the old school stuff. Yeah, do. When you play these shows and you're having to invest more money in because the shows are getting bigger and that is a process to where when you're a new artist, you just go on and you're performing with your guitar and then it's like, hey, you have a hit. We need to invest more into your state. So now you gotta pay more. You're always paying more and building up.
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Megan Moroney
You're doing bigger shows, everyone gets more expensive.
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Bobby Bones
You're doing arenas now with this next tour. Is that again, another one of those, man, I gotta invest even more now to get more because the shows are bigger.
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Megan Moroney
Definitely. Yeah. I think it's all like a part of the strategy that we've always had. Like from the day that I met my agent in either late 2020 or early 2021, she told me you're going to be in stadium or you're going to be in arenas in 2026. So this has always been a plan. And even like the last tour, there was a little bit more production than I Think has ever been brought into the pinnacle in Nashville. But that's just like. I like to give my fans, like, a memorable set and.
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Bobby Bones
But you have to pay for that. I don't think that's what people realize, like, the pinnacle or whatever venue is not paying for that. You're the one paying for the trucks.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
You're the one paying for all the buses.
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Megan Moroney
True. I went from zero trucks to like four or five trucks this year. So next year, how in a year.
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Bobby Bones
You went zero to four or five in a year?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, they're just expensive. Yeah, they do have my face, actually. The amount K graphic. There's like several of my faces. It's like a collage shows kind of like a jump scare every morning, walking to get my breakfast.
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Bobby Bones
Did you have van days before bus days?
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Megan Moroney
I had rental car days before the van days.
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Bobby Bones
Walk me through that.
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Megan Moroney
Well, I didn't want to. I had a 2010 Mustang up until like last year, and I didn't want to put miles on it. And obviously I couldn't, like, carry more than a guitar in that. So like, suitcase and a guitar was a big problem. And so we would rent like a minivan. And that was before the church van. We were actually. I had a, you know, a band dinner with everybody last night, and we were talking about how crazy it is that like, it went from rental car. We thought we were living it up because we were like, oh, we're on tour. This is like we're touring artists. Then you get a church van with a U haul and you're like, we got legroom ayo. And then we got into a bandwagon, which is not quite a bus, but.
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Bobby Bones
Like a sprinter van.
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Megan Moroney
No, it's like a semi truck with bunks on it. It's like a rock tumbler. You hit a bump down the highway and you about sends you through the roo. But we got to lay down like, there was bunks. So we were like, okay, we've made it. And then we all were on our first bus for about a year and a half. All like 13 of us. So we were just talking about the evolution and it's. I think it's necessary. It makes you grateful that you even have a bunk to lay in. Even when it's like a 17 hour drive. Like, not ideal, but it's like we were in a rental car.
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Bobby Bones
So what about the last song you recorded and how close did you record it to actually when they had to like, have it. Have it sealed?
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Megan Moroney
The last song I recorded, it would have been I guess probably who Hurt yout. I guess that was the last one. And I finished up the album completely in July. So, like, my. I was done. It was mixed and mastered.
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Bobby Bones
Was that a song, though? You were like, we can't shut it down yet because I have this one song we need to record. Was it one of those?
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Megan Moroney
No, actually, there was one weekend and I can, like, go back and I'm sure my fans, like, look into this, but it was when I played the Ohio State Buckeyes Stadium with, like, Jelly Roll and Kane Brown, whatever festival that was that weekend. We wrote Waiting on the Rain, Liars and Tigers and Bears and who Hurt yout. And once we wrote those songs, I was like, the album's done. And that was like, I didn't.
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Bobby Bones
And you called it right then I called it.
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Megan Moroney
I said, it's complete. These are three songs that totally wrapped up the album and things. And it was interesting. Cause it's never happened like that. You know, I've always been, like, a little unsure. But as soon as we got done writing those, I was like, we're done. Let's drink a margarita.
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Bobby Bones
Are you ever so excited about a song you just wrote and you want to play it so bad, but you know you can't, and it's got to just sit until it's horrible. Right.
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Megan Moroney
I play it for everyone in person, though. There's been, like, fans that all meet at bars. I'm like, just listen to the bridge, please. And yeah, it's difficult because I want to share everything right away, but obviously there's strategy and.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, that's. The strategy, though, is not really for the creative. It's for them to enforce that. You're doing the strategy that you've agreed on before you got creative.
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Megan Moroney
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Have you had a song fall out of you where it's almost 20, 30 minutes or so?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, a lot of them. Honestly. One that comes to mind six months later. I mean, honestly, beautiful things too. Like, basically every song that makes an album. It happened pretty quickly. There's very few times where it's like Wedding Dress, where I love the chorus and the bridge so much that I know it's worth going back and fixing one day. But a lot of the times it just happens very naturally. Which is.
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Bobby Bones
What was the first concert you ever went to?
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Megan Moroney
I was talking to Luke Bryan about this the other day. It's either Luke Bryan Farm Tour at the Villarika v Plex, or it was Justin Bieber at Phillips arena. And I can't remember which came first. Yeah, I think it Must have been the same year.
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Bobby Bones
Have you met Bieber?
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Megan Moroney
No. He's, like, the one person when people ask me, who would you get starstruck over? I genuinely think it would be Justin Bieber.
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Bobby Bones
And you haven't, like, talked to him at all? Like, no messages from him? Being like, I'm a big fan of your music.
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Megan Moroney
Nope.
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Bobby Bones
Nothing.
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Megan Moroney
And I still got Bieber fever.
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Bobby Bones
Who doesn't?
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Megan Moroney
I know. I don't think. I think it's something that you. You contract, and it never goes away.
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Bobby Bones
Do you play piano?
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Megan Moroney
A little bit.
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Bobby Bones
Do you ever just sit down and play piano and, like, at a. I.
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Megan Moroney
Do when I am, like, it's nice to just sit down and, like, make your brain stop working for a second. And I'm not good at playing piano. Like, I took piano lessons as a kid. Hated them. I had to do a few piano recitals, and I was mad at my mom for making me do that. And now I can, like, play chords and stuff, and I can figure out stuff if I teach myself. But for the most part, I'm, like, not very good. So it requires a lot of brain power, which is sometimes fun for me.
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Bobby Bones
Do you wish you would have committed more?
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Megan Moroney
Younger 100%.
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Bobby Bones
Say something to small kids out there listening that are going through this, that are like, I hate piano.
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Megan Moroney
I will give a message to the kids and the moms.
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Bobby Bones
Kids, which camera? Eddie? I wanted to look at a camera and do it. Which one?
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Megan Moroney
Which one? This.
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Bobby Bones
That camera. Okay.
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Megan Moroney
Okay. To the kids, listen to your mom and take the piano lessons. Because one day, it'll be a cool party trick that you're gonna. You're gonna be the coolest kid at the party. It might not seem cool right now, but it will be one day. To the moms, maybe. If the kid has a suggestion of what it would like to learn, just go with it. I wanted to learn how to play High School Musical so bad, and instead I was learning these, like, really classical pieces as, like, a. You know, however old I was 8 or something. So maybe a little mix.
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Bobby Bones
Less Tchaikovsky.
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Megan Moroney
Yes.
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Bobby Bones
More Demon Hunters.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah, let them learn Demon Hunters. Genius.
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Bobby Bones
Yes, Bones.
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Joel and Matt (How to Money Podcast)
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Nav Green (Broken Play Podcast)
This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? This your boy Nav Green from the Broken Play podcast? Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoffs. The Chiefs. What's a wrap? It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now. Then Drake May up there.
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Megan Moroney
Josh Allen up there still.
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Nav Green (Broken Play Podcast)
Oh, my boy. Matthew Stafford Nixon, he ain't too far behind.
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Megan Moroney
He did all this talking with Matthew.
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Nav Green (Broken Play Podcast)
Stafford is doing statistically, bro. It's crazy, bro, you know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better weapon. Caleb Williams.
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Bobby Bones
Hey, he should be in that conversation.
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Megan Moroney
And what conversation?
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Nav Green (Broken Play Podcast)
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Bobby Bones
You get your podcast on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Megan Maroney, what's your coffee order?
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Megan Moroney
Depends on the day. When it's when it's like Christmas time. I've been trying everything. I'm like, give me that caramel brulee latte. Give me the gingerbread latte. But typically it's a salted caramel cream cold brew with extra cold foam. Unless you're at La La Land and I get a banana cloud Matcha La.
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Bobby Bones
La Land's tough because it's long lined, long line, La La Land long. Does Megan Rooney have to wait in line?
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Megan Moroney
I have waited in line before. Yeah, I think we could probably call them ahead and get something done, but there's been times where I've just like gone after a workout and I'm like, I don't want to be like a diva. That's crazy.
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Bobby Bones
Will you just go to a Workout by yourself?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Really?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Nashville is fine though, right?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah. And I. I go, like, really early, so there's not that many people taking classes, which is nice.
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Bobby Bones
Do you like mornings?
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Megan Moroney
I do, yeah. I like. My mom called it the farm clock. The other day, we wake up with the sun.
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Bobby Bones
Have you always been that way?
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Megan Moroney
I think so. I just have. I can't. I've never been able to sleep past 10 ever. And that was, like. Even when I'm, like, hungover in college, you know, like, I'm still, like, the first one up. I'm, like, getting everybody coffee and bagels.
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Bobby Bones
I have a Oura ring, and they don't advertise, but it tells me there's, like, an update, and it tells you what your natural body clock is. And because I wake up so early, I would go to bed early. I would try to. And it's telling me, do not go to bed so early. Like, you. Even though you're waking up early, your body is not doing well. So you need. Yeah, so it's. You know, I try to go to bed at 8:30. We wake up very early. So 8:30. And it's like, if you go to bed before 10:30, you're not getting optimal output. Even you could take less hours and go to bed later and feel better.
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Megan Moroney
Wow.
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Bobby Bones
Which is crazy.
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Megan Moroney
Okay. I think you need, like, three months of data for that to start working.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, I've got, like, four days, so it's very micro data right now. But I've been staying up late. This Oura ring, like, really, Like, I look at it every morning. I'm obsessed with that.
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Megan Moroney
I look at the sleep score every morning because I try to win today. Mine was 80.
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Bobby Bones
Really?
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Megan Moroney
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
I think I got a good. I got a solid five last night.
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Amy
Five hours.
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Bobby Bones
Well, that. That's a solid five, though. She got 80.
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Joel and Matt (How to Money Podcast)
You got. No, no.
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Megan Moroney
The highest I've gotten was 94. And that was on, like, the flight home from Australia. I took an Advil pm.
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Amy
Oh, well, that'll do it.
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Megan Moroney
I was like, I've never gotten above 94, though. So I've been shooting for the stars.
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Bobby Bones
I got a 71.
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Megan Moroney
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
That's pretty good for me.
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Megan Moroney
Passing.
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Bobby Bones
I don't sleep well. Yeah, it's a C. It's a solid C. Yeah. I got a 71 sleep and a 71 readiness. I look at that readiness a lot. Cause sometimes if I get good sleep, my readiness is low. I don't know. I don't know how this ring does it.
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Amy
So wait, what does readiness mean?
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Bobby Bones
It means how ready you are, like.
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Megan Moroney
How alert you are.
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Amy
Okay, but what does that mean?
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Bobby Bones
I think it means based on the activity from the day before.
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Megan Moroney
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
The sleep that you got, all the data, how good your day is going to be physically, just based on what it knows about you. But I'm blown away that Apple watches and Oura rings can just feel a pulse and tell you all this stuff.
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Megan Moroney
Yeah. I've been wearing this on stage at the end of the year when I played in Australia and stuff. And it's really interesting, my stress levels on show days compared to non show days. It's interesting how this little ring does all that.
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Bobby Bones
Mine will give me a. Did you just cross train during the show? Because I get so elevated on a live show and it goes cross training. 178 calories. And I'm like, no, was just at work. Was just at work. Yeah. So I'm gonna play like random hits of yours before we go and play six months later before we play Beautiful Things. So can you give me just like a random story about three of these songs if I say the song?
- [20:09]
Megan Moroney
Sure.
- [20:10]
Bobby Bones
Okay. If we go back to Tennessee Orange, like, what comes to mind about that song?
- [20:15]
Megan Moroney
Me sending it to my mom for the first time and literally being scared because I'm like, she's gonna be so.
- [20:20]
Bobby Bones
Mad at me because of what you're singing about.
- [20:23]
Megan Moroney
Because I'm saying I'm wearing Tennessee Orange for him. Yeah.
- [20:26]
Bobby Bones
What about I'm Not Pretty?
- [20:29]
Megan Moroney
I think about how the person that inspired it accidentally liked a photo at 2am or something like that. I think it was like 2am and.
- [20:37]
Bobby Bones
Then I wrote a whole song accidental likes, where they were just stalking and hit.
- [20:40]
Megan Moroney
Yep.
- [20:41]
Bobby Bones
That's tough. Because I scroll. Yeah. Because it takes a push to scroll. It does take a push. And if you just push too hard.
- [20:48]
Megan Moroney
Sometimes it likes my favorite is. Or I'm like showing my mom and she's like getting. She's really being careless with the phone. I'm like, easy. Don't like.
- [20:56]
Bobby Bones
You don't want her to accidentally like something.
- [20:59]
Megan Moroney
You can't explain that to somebody. It was my mom.
- [21:02]
Bobby Bones
And we're here talking about six months later. So give me a story about six months later.
- [21:06]
Megan Moroney
I wrote that song in the middle of the ocean on a boat. And I was. I was in the island for about like seven days. And we were supposed to be writing songs the whole time.
- [21:15]
Bobby Bones
Which island?
- [21:16]
Megan Moroney
It was like the BVI somewhere, but it's like middle of the ocean, so not sure. And we were writing. We're supposed to be writing all week. We wrote six months later, and then all the following days. I didn't like the songs as much as I liked six months later. So that's the only song we got the whole seven days. It's quite inefficient.
- [21:36]
Bobby Bones
Do you have any songs you're holding on to now that you've held for so long that maybe at one point you'll do what you did with Wedding Dress?
- [21:44]
Megan Moroney
I think there's possibility.
- [21:45]
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
- [21:45]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [21:47]
Bobby Bones
That you just haven't found it. Exactly. But there's a reason you're holding onto it and you maybe don't even know why yet.
- [21:52]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. I think there's two, like, songs take on different meanings at different times in your life. So I keep everything. This is, like, something that I guess is kind of weird, but I don't, like, pitch my songs. They're all just locked for other artists. Yeah, they're all locked up on my phone.
- [22:08]
Bobby Bones
Amy, Anything for Megan.
- [22:10]
Amy
Well, I was just saying I like what you said about wedding dress, and I found it so interesting that you're like, wait a second. I need to pause. Like, what would a rational person say you had the awareness of, like, I don't know that I'm thinking rationally right now. And I want this song to be from that place. So you had to pause, and then you woke up one morning. And so I wonder if your ability to write it and finish it the way you wanted was like, oh, maybe was there. Like, this is the day where I know that healing happened.
- [22:34]
Megan Moroney
Right. And I think, too, like, songs like Wedding Dress and Girl in the Mirror to be able to sing those live. I think it's inspiring to my fans to know, like, I was in the trenches.
- [22:43]
Amy
Yeah.
- [22:43]
Megan Moroney
Like, I was down astronomically bad. And it was. Did get better. And I think that there's strength in that. Definitely even hope. Yeah. And hope. So some of the, you know, best songwriters I know have given me the advice to just, like, hold on to songs. If there's, like, a little, like, sparkle in there that you think exists, like, don't give up on it. It might come back around, and you never know.
- [23:07]
Amy
And with your pink, your current lip color.
- [23:10]
Megan Moroney
Thank.
- [23:11]
Amy
Do you know it?
- [23:12]
Joel and Matt (How to Money Podcast)
Yeah.
- [23:12]
Megan Moroney
So it's endless cacao by Makeup Forever.
- [23:15]
Amy
I'm writing it down.
- [23:16]
Megan Moroney
You kind of overline.
- [23:17]
Bobby Bones
I just love cacao. I'm writing it. No, I'm just kidding.
- [23:21]
Megan Moroney
It's kind of like a brow.
- [23:22]
Bobby Bones
By who?
- [23:23]
Megan Moroney
Makeup Forever. Okay. And then you fill in, like, I kind of overline that with whatever Walnut. And then. Oh, gosh. It's a makeup. You can use any, like, gloss. But my makeup artist has posted it. It's something. Makeup by Mario. Lipstick and then a gloss.
- [23:40]
Amy
Okay. Well, it's like the lip color that I'm most intrigued by. It's like the perfect, like, light or pinkish. I don't know.
- [23:46]
Megan Moroney
Perfect.
- [23:47]
Amy
Okay. But it's makeup by Mario.
- [23:49]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, I wear the same one every single day.
- [23:50]
Amy
Okay, well, then if your person's posted about it, we can find it online.
- [23:53]
Megan Moroney
You could probably just look it up on TikTok.
- [23:55]
Bobby Bones
I feel like we just had to get ready with me with Megan.
- [23:58]
Megan Moroney
We should do that next time. I'll just come in. No makeup, no hair. Put it in, do the whole interview. Yeah.
- [24:05]
Bobby Bones
So the collab with Casey and Ed, so I don't know. That's a lot. That's three of my favorites.
- [24:10]
Megan Moroney
Yeah, I. The Casey Musgraves thing is my super bowl, as anyone who's followed me for the past however many years would know. And the Ed Sheeran thing is also just unbelievable. I don't know how I pulled that one off.
- [24:24]
Bobby Bones
So did you send them songs and go, do you want to be on this individually? Do you get nervous? They're not going to say yes.
- [24:30]
Megan Moroney
At first, I was nervous to talk to Ed Sheeran, of course, but he's an emailer, so that takes kind of the pressure off because I would just not check my email for, like, two weeks and wouldn't worry about it. But Ed and I would send back and forth songs and. And then is it like we had said he would send me one, and I'm like, I don't know if this is it. I'd send him one. He's like, hey, I don't know.
- [24:48]
Bobby Bones
Oh, you guys did that dance?
- [24:50]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. And we really just. After the Bluebird show, he told me that his wife and kids love me, and he, like, loves my songwriting. And I'm obviously such a fan of his. So I think we just really wanted to, like, collab together.
- [25:03]
Bobby Bones
What's great about that is, you know, you're actually honest about it. Because if both of you said, I don't know if this is it, that means when it is it, you both are sincere about it.
- [25:10]
Megan Moroney
And I definitely trusted Ed after it's done, like, he made the right decision. The song that we cut is a traditionally country song. It's not a pop song. I think from my. What I know about collabing with pop artists, usually it's like a tempo, like, kind of pop song. With a country voice on it. But he wanted to go the opposite route and do a really traditional country song with his, like, modern pop voice on it. So it made it really interesting and that. I'm very excited for everyone to hear that one. The Casey Club. I had just. Hail Mary. Will you just sing some background vocals?
- [25:48]
Bobby Bones
You send her a text.
- [25:49]
Megan Moroney
It was actually my team. My. My manager knows her manager pretty well, and I remember them asking me, like, is there anything that would make this album, like, a little bit better to you? Like, if you could have any U.S. request, anything. What do you want? And I was like, you know, bells and whistles would sound really good with Casey. It sounds like a song that maybe could have been on same trail, different park, I think. And I was like, man, it would just be a cool talking point to have, like, yeah, Casey Musgrave saying on one of my songs. And she ended up singing on it. I found out. The day I found out I won a VMA award, and I was like, I was in the best mood ever, and nobody knew why, because I couldn't say anything. They just thought I was just like, VMAs rule.
- [26:32]
Amy
Best award show ever.
- [26:33]
Megan Moroney
Which they were really, really fun, I will say. But I was on cloud nine that day. And so that's when I found out she was gonna sing on it. I was like, oh, my God. Casey's singing on my song. Life has never been better. And then when we finally got the song, she had sent over a text that was like, hey, I've never done this before. Please don't feel like you have to use it. But I went ahead and sang the second verse. No way. Yeah. She's like, I've never done this before. And, like, I really don't want you to feel like you have to use this, but I love the song.
- [27:02]
Bobby Bones
And were you blown away at that?
- [27:04]
Megan Moroney
That, like I said, it's my Super Bowl. Like, she Sanctario different park made me want to start writing songs. And so to have her first of all, just lend me her voice, which I've. I always knew we sounded good together because I've been harmonizing with her in the car for a long time, but just to hear our voices together and then to know as a songwriter, she liked the song so much. She didn't change one word. She didn't change a syllable. Like, she sang it as it is. And to me, that's, like, the highest compliment. We sat next to each other at Paul McCartney, and, like, the whole time, I was just like, I love you. I'M obsessed with our song. And I'm like, all hail Queen Casey.
- [27:40]
Bobby Bones
So that's a great story.
- [27:41]
Megan Moroney
It's definitely like a bucket list thing. And my. I cried. I'm not a happy crier, typically. And I cried when I heard it because I was. I just couldn't believe that she was singing with me. I used to make my parents. Anytime she was in the Southeast, I would make my parents go with me, and we would get there at like, 2pm, sit outside the venue. I met her outside of her tour bus one time.
- [28:02]
Bobby Bones
You met her as a fan?
- [28:03]
Megan Moroney
Yeah.
- [28:04]
Amy
Have you told her that?
- [28:05]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. And we shared a dressing room at the CMA's last year, which was a. I didn't know how it was going to go because I was like, she might be like, oh, great. The girl that waited outside my bus for me. I get to share a room with her. How lucky am I? But she was so sweet. And that's, to me, like, you know, award shows are stressful anyways, so I wasn't expecting her to even say hi. And she took time to take pictures and stuff. So I'll always be grateful for her just being so kind and just for her music and her voice. It's. I'm, like, the number one case.
- [28:35]
Bobby Bones
That is a great story. Yeah, that's a great story. My final question is, Kenny gave you a Dolly autograph guitar. What'd you do with it?
- [28:43]
Megan Moroney
It's, like, in the case in my bedroom right now. I don't want it to get dust on it.
- [28:49]
Bobby Bones
You're still deciding? What do you mean, what to do? Is it always going to stay in the case? It's not a guitar you're going to play, is it?
- [28:58]
Megan Moroney
I'm going to write with it.
- [29:00]
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's cool.
- [29:00]
Megan Moroney
Yes. It's going to be my new writing guitar because I feel like if it's got the Kinney touch and the Dolly touch, like, there's got to be some sort of magic in that. Definitely not going to bring it on the road or anything because it's like, one of my prized possessions, but.
- [29:13]
Bobby Bones
Well, congratulations on everything.
- [29:14]
Megan Moroney
Thank you. Thanks.
- [29:16]
Bobby Bones
Can't wait for the full album. Congrats on six months later. We love when you come by. So great to see you guys. Next time, we'll do a get ready with me, and I'll also get ready, but it takes me five seconds.
- [29:26]
Megan Moroney
Yeah. We could do each other's makeup.
- [29:28]
Amy
I'm already over here shopping. I'm like, okay.
- [29:30]
Megan Moroney
Found it.
- [29:30]
Amy
Endless cacao.
- [29:31]
Megan Moroney
Got it.
- [29:33]
Bobby Bones
Megan Maroney, everybody. EGMARONE and yeah, stream the crap out of the album when it comes out February 20th. Right?
- [29:39]
Megan Moroney
Woohoo.
- [29:40]
Bobby Bones
We're getting really close.
- [29:41]
Megan Moroney
February 20th.
- [29:41]
Bobby Bones
All right, there she is. Megan Maroney, everybody.
- [29:43]
Megan Moroney
Yay. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.