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Amy
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Bobby Bones
Guaranteed Human.
Amy
The Bobby Bone Show.
Bobby Bones
Raymundo went to Kane Brown's bar opening last night. I saw some pictures. I guess I saw videos. So you ran into Kane?
Raymundo
Yup.
Bobby Bones
Ran into Patrick Mahomes three feet away. Wow.
Lunchbox Mike
He was there. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Jason Aldean,
Raymundo
two feet away,
Amy
so. But you still ran into these people.
Bobby Bones
That's pretty cool.
Raymundo
Kane was the one I gave daps to, but, yeah, everybody else was, you know, within arm's reach how it was. I mean, the list goes on and on. I mean, it was Danielle Bradbury, Ray Lynn. You got Summer Party. Brittany Mahomes. Brittany party. Or Brittany Aldean. You got Breland Mitchell, Tim P. I mean, it was a who's who.
Bobby Bones
What time did you get there?
Raymundo
I was there probably fashionably late. Like 7:45.
Lunchbox Mike
When did it start? Seven.
Raymundo
Yeah, but it was. It's one of those. Because it was VIP. I mean, all VIPs ain't showing up at 7.
Bobby Bones
What time did the VIP show up? 7:45.
Raymundo
With you? I'd say it started getting kicking around 9. And then I saw videos going 1
Bobby Bones
2am I saw a picture that Ray had posted, and it was like, can you find me in the crowd? And it's Ray standing all by himself kind of in the corner.
Lunchbox Mike
It's funny.
Raymundo
Yeah, that's one of those. You don't have your wife with you for the first time. And I'm like, well, you don't hit on chicks. I guess you just be social after one drink. Awesome. Let's do this.
Bobby Bones
Are you glad you went?
Raymundo
Oh, yeah, dude. Thank you. I mean, it was vip. Like, you don't get into that. There was people on the street that were just waiting for the celebs to go in, and then security would come out and push everybody to the side. And then you didn't just get into this thing. And there were 50 people out there that looking at us, wondering, how did you get into this? And I can't.
Bobby Bones
There was a big stage. Did anybody perform on that outside?
Raymundo
See? So that was the night before. That was some super bowl thing. So that was already taken down. There was no stage anymore.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that was for the announcement that Nashville was getting the Super Bowl.
Raymundo
Yeah. I was kind of thinking that it was for. I was like, oh, my gosh. Al Dean, he's buddies with Kane. He's going to perform. Kane's going to perform. You never know who could come out. Taylor Swift. They're all friends. But stage was gone. It was nowhere to be seen.
Bobby Bones
How long did you say I was there?
Raymundo
I'd say two hours, and then I just had to tap out. Just with the morning show.
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Did you go back to the studio and sleep where. Where you are now?
Raymundo
Yeah. Walked back in the rain. I don't have the Uber app because I always have my wife with me, so I was like, great. I guess this is where it comes in, where my wife then clicks on Uber, so I won't do that. So I walked in the rain, came back wet, use the couches as, like a clothesline, and then slept on the couch.
Bobby Bones
Why don't we just download Uber? That's a. That's not a close walk.
Raymundo
It's doable. I did in 10, but with reception down there. I mean, on any given reception, it's like Broadway.
Lunchbox Mike
There's.
Amy
There's no problem with reception. So you use the couch as a clothesline. So you laid your wet clothes out. What did you sleep in?
Raymundo
I was sleeping naked.
Bobby Bones
No, you weren't. You weren't in the building sleeping naked but shirtless.
Raymundo
No, no, I brought other clothes.
Amy
Oh, okay, good.
Raymundo
I pack a backpack all the time. Yeah, I always have a workout shirt.
Bobby Bones
You like the bar?
Raymundo
I love it. It's. I mean, I'd say right now top three, it's got. You got. Probably I gotta put Gars on top three canes and then maybe throw another one in there. But yeah, it's. It's legit. With the rooftop, I would say that's going to be the most popular spot of it is because they got palm trees up there. Dj, saxophone. The previous bar there didn't have.
Bobby Bones
Why. Why did the word saxophone come into that?
Lunchbox Mike
I figure guys playing up there. Saxophone?
Raymundo
Yeah. I mean, anytime you can include a DJ and a saxophone, it's awesome. That just the vibes that it creates.
Bobby Bones
Huh?
Amy
Maybe that was that just the VIP night or. They're going to have a regular sax player.
Raymundo
See, So I think that it's gonna be regular because he was downstairs playing too, and then made his way up top. So, yeah, I believe he's gonna be a mainstay.
Lunchbox Mike
He just walks around with the sacks.
Amy
That's kind of cool.
Bobby Bones
Okay, Pretty much. Well, I hope you had fun.
Raymundo
Oh, it was awesome. I wish I could have stayed all night. I wish I could have chilled with all those celebs. But they get to sleep in today.
Bobby Bones
I don't. Good point, Ray, what was the entrance
Lunchbox Mike
situation like when you were there? Cars, red carpet, like when celebs walked in. And then how did you walk in?
Raymundo
Well, they had A bus. There was a blacked out bus for all the super celebs that they were chilling in there and they did probably a little pre party and then photographers, tons of fans. And I just got within five feet of the door and some girl grabbed me and said he's good, don't even know who she was. I didn't even say my name. And then they hustled me through into the front door.
Bobby Bones
Any chance they thought you were Paul Rudd?
Raymundo
No, I believe that somebody had tipped him off, said Bobby Bon show people.
Lunchbox Mike
Yeah, Ruffalo.
Bobby Bones
Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, that's a good one. There's something else. Kyle Busch died yesterday. Do you know who that is?
Amy
He's a NASCAR driver. Yeah, I know him from y' all talking about him. But I saw Morgan Massengill repost that. She was devastated. And I saw he was only 41. You know she's big into NASCAR.
Bobby Bones
I messaged my friend who works in NASCAR, I know very little about NASCAR, but I said, hey, what's the word on why Kyle Busch died? Just kind of unofficially. And this is what they said again. They work in the company. We really honestly don't know for sure. He had something going on last weekend or sorry the weekend before last like a sinus infection where he wanted his doctor on standby to give him a shot at the end of the race. But then he won the truck race this past weekend and a total shock to everyone. Oh my gosh.
Lunchbox Mike
I saw earlier in the day, like maybe noon that he was hospitalized for severe illness.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I saw that too. But that's why I asked like what happened? Cuz severe illness could mean anything.
Lunchbox Mike
Anything. And that was just a hospital visit and that was like around noon and then at 2 o' clock it's like he's dead.
Bobby Bones
This is from ABC News. Right at that clip,
Raymundo
legendary NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has died. He had been hospitalized and what his
Trace Adkins
family said was a severe illness.
Raymundo
The two time cup series champion won dozens of races during his NASCAR career.
Bobby Bones
There is no cause of death. Given Kyle busch was just 41 years old, I would imagine it had something to do with that sinus infection. Yeah, if I'm recklessly speculating because that was a big part of what was going on with him.
Lunchbox Mike
And that was like earlier this month. I think it was like May 10th possibly where he called for the doctor but then he, like you said, he won a race last weekend.
Bobby Bones
I did a show with him once but it was all on zoom. And I just remember when he sat down because we're playing, doing a game show against each other. He had a massive house. And I was like, what do you do, man? And I didn't know who he was. And he was like, sell cars. I was like, oh, cool, cool, cool. So I just thought he was just joking. Yeah.
Amy
Yeah. Well, I didn't know if he, like, sold cars also.
Bobby Bones
I also think he thought I was joking.
Amy
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Cause I didn't. I don't know. Nascar. I could name a couple of them without their helmets on. That's. I know a bunch of their names. I know his name. Yeah. But there's only a couple I can name without their helmet. And he wasn't one I can name without his helmet. And so when he's down, I was like, I was just trying to be nice and, like, talk. He was funny. His wife was there. We ended up beating him in the game show.
Lunchbox Mike
He drove the Eminem car.
Amy
Yeah. I've seen pictures.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
It's so sad. His wife and kids. 41. 41.
Bobby Bones
The weird thing about. And now it's going viral where his wife was doing some sort of tarot card thing or, like, talking to her. Her. Her dead grandmother. And maybe it wasn't tarot cards. Maybe it was just some psychic as a TikTok. And this all all goes viral again. And the psychic was telling Kyle Busch's wife, hey, coming up, you're going to have to be brave. And now everyone's going, look, that psychic nailed it.
Lunchbox Mike
Well, have you seen the clips of him after he won this past weekend? He's just there like, well, what does this win mean to you? He's like, well, they're all really awesome, you know, but, like, you never know when this is all gonna end. So that's going viral. And it's just bizarre that he said that in a Post interview last weekend.
Bobby Bones
I saw Dell Jr tweet yesterday. I guess they had spent a lot of their career fighting with each other, like, not liking each other. Yeah, yeah. And he said, you know, recently we had started getting along and one of them went on the other's bus and, you know, we had a lot of plans to work together and know it's the. It. I'm happy that we could at least have put all of that fighting behind us, you know, before this tragedy happens, that type of thing. Wow. But, yeah, I just thought there was more to the story that I didn't know, but apparently there's nothing that nobody knows right now. I thought my friend would have, like, the inside information that isn't being Released to the public and bizarre. Yeah. Cause what's like, I would just think it'd be like a car wreck or something. When I first saw it, I thought that's what it was.
Lunchbox Mike
Right. You see young, 41 year old race car driver.
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Lunchbox Mike
Car related.
Bobby Bones
Oh, what'd you do yesterday?
Amy
I mean, it was pouring rain all day, so felt like I was stuck inside of final day of school for the kids, so worked on a lot of stuff for them for the summer. Both of them. I have someone going into high school and then a person, like figuring out what they're gonna do with the rest of their life. My daughter, so I helped her with some stuff. We're trying to figure out her summer plans and that's pretty much it.
Bobby Bones
No big deal.
Lunchbox Mike
Just the rest of your life is tough.
Bobby Bones
Just the rest of your life.
Amy
Oh, no. We're taking it chunk by chunk. We worked on the summer component yesterday and her summer plan, which I think we've got it nailed down and it feels pretty good. Like she's working on a job and some community college classes. She's not doing like the typical college route because she may do some community college and then she might just do trade school. She wants to be an esthetician, so we're feeling that out. But we want her to take some of her basic classes before we jump into trade school. Just stay consistent, stay committed, and then we'll see. But that's pretty much what we worked on yesterday, which was a little scary.
Bobby Bones
The rest of your life.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
That's a scary thing.
Amy
No, no, not just scary as a mom, like, because also part of the plan we went over yesterday is like, in August she's going to be looking for her own apartment.
Bobby Bones
That's crazy.
Amy
Yeah. So that part I was like having a swallow. I'm like, well, you can. You can stay home for a little bit longer if you want, you know. And then her dad's like, no, she needs to get an apartment in August. I was like, okay. Because that's what kids do. They leave, they go to college. Like, just because she's staying doesn't mean she has to stay at home.
Bobby Bones
I don't know what side to be on here because I just want to be on your side right now. I'm not really sure what side you're.
Amy
I don't know that there's a side. I mean, I think she's excited. Oh. Something that we did reveal to her yesterday, which she is pumped about. There's a night coming up where her dad's gonna Be gone and she'll have her brother. And I just figured they would come to my house that night. Well, then Ben and I talked about it and we were like, let's give her the opportunity to like stay there with Stevenson. So we, we shared that with her yesterday. Cause she didn't know yet. Cause we were. Again, it was a meeting about her summer schedule. And we were like, hey, we've got some nights coming up. You're just gonna be at dad's house with Stevenson, like you're in charge. And she was like, cool, I can do that. So that's gonna be a big moment for us. Kind of made me think of Eddie.
Bobby Bones
Cause he doesn't let his kids.
Amy
He'd be like hard.
Bobby Bones
No, he'd be.
Lunchbox Mike
The cameras on.
Bobby Bones
No. You wouldn't even let that happen.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Even with cameras.
Amy
Yeah. What'd you do yesterday? Any planning for big baby Billy? Rest of her life, her summer plans?
Bobby Bones
Mostly it's like planning for a bath at 8:30 is very much that kind of day at Amy Grant. We did a Bobby cast yesterday evening that'll be on in a couple weeks. But mostly it was the show. And then I don't know what I did midday, then went over and did Amy Grant. And it's just mostly whenever I have a gap, I just try to take the baby and give Caitlin a break. I think that's what I did. That's why I don't remember it. Because it's just like, come home. What can I help with? Got it. If I can help with something, I do. If I can help with the baby with a nap, I do. Went back over to the other studio, did the Amy Grant interview, came back, helped with the baby, gave my wife a break. And then it was bath time for the baby and then it was bedtime for Bobby. That's pretty much it. All the days are. The days are all blurs. Except for work. Yeah, like that's all organized and I still have that but the rest of it all blur. I like when it's bath time though. Means time for the baby to go to bed.
Lunchbox Mike
It's the end of the day.
Amy
It's a real same for me. I don't do bath. Shower time at night is my man wind up.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Trace Adkins coming up in a second. Let's go on the Bobby Bones show now.
Unknown Male Guest
Trace Adkins.
Bobby Bones
Trace, it's really good to see you again.
Trace Adkins
Good to see you.
Bobby Bones
Always a pleasure. I would like to start by saying something I said before you came in. I feel like my favorite Song of yours, and we're celebrating that first album came out in 96. Is every light in the House of Zone. That's my favorite. Is that your favorite one of them?
Trace Adkins
I never get tired of singing that song. Every night. I, you know, get to that one in the set list. And I always. I have a really. A real appreciation for that. That's the one that put me on the map, you know, so that. That one really started it all.
Bobby Bones
Was that the first single?
Trace Adkins
No, Girl in Texas was the first single, but Every Light in the House is On was a top five, so it was legit hit. I think Girl in Texas got the 17 or 18 or something like that.
Amy
Wait, it wasn't number one?
Bobby Bones
It's funny how massive songs sometimes weren't number one songs. It's crazy, because that song, to me, when I think of you, there's two. It's that one and then, you know, the other one.
Trace Adkins
You know, somebody told me really early on in my career, I think it was Bill Coutino at Capital Records. He said, look, man, when you have a song that gets into top five, some. Some even top 10, but top five, especially the public out there, the ones that don't look at the charts and stuff, they don't know the difference between a number five and a number one, because chances are, in the market where they live, that song was played in heavy rotation. So it got played just as much as the number one record did. And then there were a few markets where you didn't get that kind of push. And that's the only reason your song didn't go to number one. But for the majority of the country, it was the same as a number one record.
Bobby Bones
Then you go to Des Moines and you sing it like. We never heard that song. Yeah, we don't know.
Trace Adkins
Yeah, I had some songs like that, you know, where they would come out and. And they would be big hits in certain markets, and then other stations just refused to play it. And you'd do a show there and. And nobody knew that song, you know, but that was a different time.
Bobby Bones
The other one from that record that I think about a lot, where I remember where I was in life. There ain't no thinking thing. Yeah, that was a good one, too. You like that one?
Trace Adkins
I like that one. Yeah, we. We do it a little differently now.
Bobby Bones
It's why.
Trace Adkins
A little different groove to it.
Bobby Bones
Got bored playing it so much?
Trace Adkins
No, we just. We just start. It just kind of morphed into this thing where it's got a little bit. A little Bit more of an R B groove to it now than it did on the record and I just like it better that way.
Bobby Bones
It wasn't on the first record, but the song that probably a lot of people think of you for is Badonkadonk. What do you think about that song?
Trace Adkins
I love it.
Bobby Bones
Okay. All right.
Trace Adkins
I mean, I, I don't want that chiseled on my tombstone, you know, that's the reason I haven't retired yet, because I keep hoping I'll do something to top Badonka Donk. So that's not the only thing I'm remembered for, you know, because I mean, come on, it's. It's not the most high browed tune that's ever come out, you know, so anyway. But I just, I mean, when I heard that song, it made me laugh out loud and, and you know, I got the demo of it and you know, Randy Houser and Dallas Davidson and Jamie Johnson wrote that and this the story of it, you know. They were all down at the Wild Horse one night, drunk up on the balcony, watching them do a dance line dancing lesson. And somebody said, oh, look at the donkey Donkin. And one of them said, honky talk, Badonka Donk. And then the next day after they sobered up, they wrote it and then Jamie sang the demo. So the demo that I got of the song was country ass Jamie Johnson singing that song. And it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. It made me laugh and I told Scott Hendricks, I said, we got to cut this, you know, we got to cut this. Ended up, I did it with Dan Huff, but I heard it first in Scott Hendricks office.
Bobby Bones
But did you think that would be a single or did you cut it but thinking it would just be fun for the album?
Trace Adkins
I thought it could be a single, but I didn't know if they were going to have, you know, the guts to do it, you know, because it could. You. That's one of those. You just didn't know. I mean, I've pulled the trigger on a couple of them in my career that the label was going, this is not going to work. I'm like, yeah, it is. And it didn't, you know.
Raymundo
Oh yeah, it still didn't.
Trace Adkins
Yeah, I was totally wrong. Like brown chicken, brown cow. Oh my God, everybody's going to love that now. They didn't.
Bobby Bones
Why do you think brown chicken, brown cow didn't hit? Because I pretty were about.
Trace Adkins
There were about 60% of the panel, they told me, they said, we think about 60% of the panel will play this song, and about 40% aren't going to touch it just because it's nasty. And I was like, okay, I can deal with that. I can. I can. I'll take 60%. That'll be. You know, that'll be good enough. And. But it was the opposite. There was about 40% that would play it and about 60% that wouldn't touch it. So. Yeah. Yeah, we pulled that one.
Bobby Bones
Whenever you're playing live shows, will you do the song that you did with Blake, hillbilly bone?
Trace Adkins
I do just a little snippet. I do kind of a medley thing of some songs we've had on the radio over the years, and I. And I tag it with that, and I just say at the end of it, I just put that on there just to piss Blake off, you know, Because I think it sounds a lot better without him on it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I feel. Yeah. You and Blake. She'll talk. You guys still close to you and Blake?
Trace Adkins
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
You guys hunt all together?
Trace Adkins
No, we don't. I don't hunt much anymore.
Bobby Bones
You just don't like being in the woods?
Trace Adkins
No, I'm. I'm too lazy to clean stuff. I. I got. I must. I made enough money. I can afford groceries now. I don't. You know, I mean, I grew up. You. You ate what you killed and you hunted, you know, to put meat in the freezer, and I don't do that anymore.
Bobby Bones
It's a bit. Why I don't hunt at all anymore either. I grew up hunting in Arkansas my whole life, and we ate it all. And then I kind of just started to feel bad about killing, Honestly, about killing animals when I didn't need the meat anymore.
Trace Adkins
And I like to look. I mean, I. I keep them fed, you know, out on my place. I've got feeders out. There's just, you know, deer and turkey. I like looking at them, you know.
Bobby Bones
You have cameras out there? Yeah, all over.
Trace Adkins
Not all over. I keep them close to the feeders.
Bobby Bones
You ever see people?
Trace Adkins
No.
Bobby Bones
Oh, there shouldn't be. Oh, no, no.
Trace Adkins
I'll never see people sneaking around. No.
Bobby Bones
Last time I saw you, you were on a cane. We had talked. We were both playing the opry, and I was doing some jokes. You're after me. We were talking for a minute, and you'd said that you'd hurt yourself. Did you ever say how you hurt yourself?
Trace Adkins
I fell off a scaffold, but I was about 12ft high.
Bobby Bones
Like roofing. Were they roofing?
Trace Adkins
No, I was. I wasn't I was. They were working on something on the house, and I climbed up on the scaffold and I was just watching. I wasn't even doing anything. I was watching these guys work, you know, and watching what they were doing. And then I lost my balance and fell off the scaffold.
Bobby Bones
Do you remember it?
Trace Adkins
No, I don't remember really, the fall. I remember waking up and some dude was cradling my head in his lap, and I was like, well, this is bad. You know, anytime you wake up and your head's in another guy's lap, especially
Bobby Bones
when you didn't sign up for it.
Trace Adkins
Yeah. This is not how this was supposed this day. This wasn't on the bingo card.
Bobby Bones
So then what happens the rest of that day? They call an ambulance.
Trace Adkins
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
And so they get you to the hospital.
Trace Adkins
They took me to Williamson Medical at first, and they just took a look at it, went, whoa, you need to go to Vanderbilt, because there were bones sticking out of my pants. You know what I mean?
Bobby Bones
Did you see the bones?
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And how did that freak you out?
Trace Adkins
Well, it didn't freak me out, but I just passed out. That's the only time I think I've ever done that, looking at an injury. I've had a lot of. A lot of injuries over the years, but that one is, like, when you look down, you see that I just went you back out.
Bobby Bones
How long were you in the hospital?
Trace Adkins
Man, I must have been in there a couple of weeks or something, because there was. Yeah, I mean, they didn't know. You know, they thought they might have to cut it off. And then. And when he told me.
Bobby Bones
They told you they may have to
Amy
cut it off, like amputate.
Trace Adkins
And I asked him to, because when he told me what the recovery was going to be like and how long it was going to take and that, you know, the damage to the nerves and all that kind of stuff, he said, you know, you're gonna have trouble picking your foot up and blah, blah, blah. And all this just. Just cut it off, man. How long will the recovery be if you cut it off? Because it was going to be below the knee, so it's not like up here, you know, so anyway. And this. This knees fake, anyway. I mean, I had a total knee replacement years ago, but my wife wouldn't let him do it.
Bobby Bones
You just said, well, recovery is not going to be as hard if you cut it off, chop it.
Trace Adkins
And all the work that I've done with vets over the years, I've seen the advances that they've had in, you know, orthopedics, and it's like, you know, they got some good stuff, you know, so. Yeah, I thought if the recovery be shorter, just cut it off.
Bobby Bones
That's wild. No, not for you. Because you're strong and big and cool. No, I just had my first daughter. You have five daughters?
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
That's a lot of daughters in a row.
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Did you know it was daughter every time?
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Leading into it. So it was never. Let's see what this one is. Daughter. What have you learned about being a dad of daughters?
Trace Adkins
You have how many daughters?
Bobby Bones
We just had my first kid. She's a girl then.
Trace Adkins
I'm five times more confused about girls than you are. That's where I'm at. I don't know.
Amy
Each one, you get a little more confused.
Trace Adkins
Yeah, I don't. I'm not any more of an authority on girls than anybody else is.
Bobby Bones
So you have no advice for me on having a daughter?
Trace Adkins
Be patient. You can't discipline them like you do boys. I don't think you can. You're not supposed to.
Bobby Bones
Well, yeah, I really thought I was gonna come out with some real daughter knowledge here. Trace. How's everything else going? Like, what's. What's. I know you're doing these shows.
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And you're playing. Are you doing more of the anniversary album, just generally speaking, than you would in your normal shows? Because it is, like, 30 years, just really.
Trace Adkins
Girl in Texas. You know, we didn't always do that song, you know, because, like I said, it was my very first single, and it wasn't a massive hit. It was respectable, but not. Not a big hit. So we haven't always done that song. But this year, you know, I put it back in the set just to set it up and say this, you know, June 20th. Something is the 30th anniversary of this song coming out on the radio. 1996.
Bobby Bones
So does that feel like forever ago or yesterday?
Trace Adkins
In some respects, it's. It's a strange thing. Some. In some ways, it was yesterday, and in other ways, it was a lifetime, you know, were you.
Bobby Bones
Was your desire to be a massive solo artist ever when you moved to national?
Trace Adkins
I didn't want to be in a band, if that's what you're talking about.
Bobby Bones
I don't know. Or just.
Trace Adkins
I was. I did the band thing for about four years, you know, playing clubs and stuff, and it just always ended. Not good.
Bobby Bones
Group dynamics.
Trace Adkins
Yeah. I mean, you eventually all end up in a big fight and everybody goes their separate ways. That's been my experience with bands and. Bands are hard, man. Bands are hard.
Bobby Bones
When you decided you wanted to be a solo artist, were there folks that were like, hey, your voice really isn't that of a solo artist?
Trace Adkins
I heard that. I thought that. You know, I thought I. Because when I first started out, I was a bass singer in a gospel quartet, and I did that for a few years, and. And I thought that was. That was my thing. I was going to be a bass singer, you know? And then I have this very vivid memory of seeing the Grand Ole Opry while it was still on television one night, and Ed Bruce was on Grand Ole Opry, and he had that deep, rich bass voice. And I went, hey, he's pretty old. Somebody's gonna have to step in when he's done, right? So. Thought that. I thought I'd give it a shot.
Bobby Bones
You ever watch a movie and it makes you cry?
Trace Adkins
Yeah, sometimes.
Bobby Bones
Like, what? What kind of movie?
Trace Adkins
It's hard to remember. I mean, there's been a few times. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
I'm really curious. I'm gonna let you sit on this.
Trace Adkins
I have a feeling or two. Well, the yearling. The yearling?
Raymundo
I don't know.
Bobby Bones
I've never seen the yearling.
Raymundo
The year.
Trace Adkins
You've never seen the yearling?
Bobby Bones
No, I don't know what the yearling is. I know what a yearling is as
Trace Adkins
far as where the red fern grows.
Bobby Bones
Oh, yeah. When they shot the dog, that made me cry. Are you kidding me?
Trace Adkins
That's terrible.
Bobby Bones
That's terrible. Any animal dying in a movie, I'd rather humans die.
Trace Adkins
Kids usually, too. Like, if something bad happens to a kid, you know, that affects me. Man, that's rough.
Bobby Bones
I've never seen the yearling. Has anybody seen the yearling? Does anyone? Can you tell us what the yearling is about?
Trace Adkins
It's about this kid that takes in this fawn, and then he grows up and just becomes a nuisance and eats their. And it's set way back in the middle 1800s or something like that. And he loves this deer, and it eventually does what deers do. It eats their garden up and all that kind of stuff. And so, yeah, he has to kill it.
Bobby Bones
Did you ever see Marley and Me?
Trace Adkins
I think maybe dog. I can't remember it, but probably dog died. I know the movie.
Bobby Bones
Did you cry?
Trace Adkins
I don't remember watching that one.
Bobby Bones
So I was trying to really trigger that memory. I was just gonna keep feeding you questions until you nailed that. So, no. I wonder. What.
Trace Adkins
I don't get to watch many of those movies. You know, with dogs and animals and stuff like that. Because my wife just won't watch them
Bobby Bones
because they make her so sad.
Trace Adkins
Oh, yeah, she won't watch it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I don't like animals in movies for the most part because I get more nervous about the animal, even if they don't die or if I'm watching like an apocalypse show and they have a dog with them they found the whole time. I'm not worried about the people, I'm just worried about the dog dying. You have dogs?
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
How many?
Trace Adkins
Well, I only got one now. I had two Doberman's brothers, but they died just a few months apart, couple years ago, and I haven't replaced them yet.
Bobby Bones
How long they live?
Trace Adkins
Until my wife's got a little 12 pounder.
Bobby Bones
You know those Dobermans. How long? How long they live?
Trace Adkins
Nine years.
Bobby Bones
What's that? What's the lifespan for a Doberman?
Trace Adkins
About nine years.
Bobby Bones
It really. It is. We have a bulldog and their lifespans are not long. No, but I would expect a Doberman to live longer than a bulldog.
Trace Adkins
Well, they were pretty big. They're about £100. It's big. I don't know. Bigger dogs just don't live as long you have.
Bobby Bones
You have them out.
Trace Adkins
Little ones live too long.
Bobby Bones
Oh, yeah. It's like little people, they live long, too. Oh, that's sensitive. You're big. Yeah.
Amy
Well, it's because he's huge cardiovascularly. Yeah. Pumping more. I'm talking about in the dogs, not you.
Bobby Bones
But when he came in, he's like, everything hurts as soon as he sat down. Like, trace, what's up? How you been?
Unknown Male Guest
He goes, everything hurts.
Trace Adkins
Everything hurts.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Trace Adkins
All right.
Bobby Bones
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Trace Adkins
Yeah, you know the one my voice is still, you know.
Bobby Bones
Still what?
Trace Adkins
I can still sing all those songs in the same keys that I recorded them in. And it's like, man, just you know, knock on wood. I mean so far it just, it's as good as it's ever been. And so, you know, I guess as long as that is the case, then I'll, I'll keep doing this. But it's like, it's like any other thing, you know. And like as an old jock, I mean, after I'd had a couple of knee surgeries and whatever it was, if you could, if I couldn't play at 100%, I wasn't going to do it. I mean what's, you know why? Why do that? You know? You know, I didn't want to do that, so. And this is kind of the same thing. I mean, when I can't go out on stage and. And satisfy myself and. And perform up to my expectations, when I can't do that anymore, I'm done.
Bobby Bones
You got enough money to be good?
Trace Adkins
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
That's awesome. Just say oh. Not even yeah, but oh, yeah, yeah. And he laughed. And then he laughed. Yeah.
Trace Adkins
Yeah. Man, this is crazy. Career has been great for me. You know, it's like. It's like you. I mean, you've taken whatever it is you have and, and just made it a very profitable enterprises. You know what is.
Bobby Bones
What?
Lunchbox Mike
I love the laugh.
Bobby Bones
What is it that I have?
Trace Adkins
I don't know. Whatever it is, I don't know. You tell us. Tell us the secret.
Bobby Bones
I just wonder what you think I have. I know what you have.
Trace Adkins
I don't know what I.
Amy
How do you know what he has?
Bobby Bones
Well, he said, not money wise. I'm talking about the qualities he has that make people like him and his talent that he has that draw people to him.
Amy
Oh, my bad.
Bobby Bones
Like he is. Don't be fooled. He's a very warm guy. If I ever see Trey's outside of this place, he's a very warm guy and I like to be around him now. He's, you know, he's cool. You know, he's in here.
Trace Adkins
I'm being warm.
Amy
Very warm.
Trace Adkins
I thought I was being warm.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, no, you're good. You're good. I like Trace a lot. And he's a good singer, has good songs. He's a very warm person. He's very authentic and sincere all the time. I think when you say something in real life, people believe it. I think people like that about you. I think there's a lot of things that make people like you come from where a lot of us come from. And we feel like you kind of speak to what we come from. I would say that was. Those are the elements, I think. Yeah. Okay. You do me.
Trace Adkins
That's what you do too.
Bobby Bones
No. Okay, fair enough.
Trace Adkins
You come from where we come from?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so trace it. Trace's 30th anniversary tour, traceadkins.com he's doing two shows at the Ryman this weekend. One tonight, one tomorrow, and then he's in Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, all the places that our show is. So if you get a chance to go to a Trace show, go to a Trace show because you play all the hits.
Trace Adkins
Yeah, it's Yeah. I mean, that's what it should be. You know, it's the greatest hit show. You know, do the stuff that they've heard and that they're familiar with. And you don't get on the stage and do your new album.
Bobby Bones
At least not the whole.
Trace Adkins
They don't want to hear that. You know how to hear the whole.
Bobby Bones
How good are you at memorizing scripts?
Trace Adkins
Scripts? Yeah. Like if you're acting, man, it's always come pretty easily for me. Yeah. Fortunate that way. I mean, I usually, I get on set and I know my lines. That's. That's. I think that's the way you should be.
Bobby Bones
What is your favorite acting role ever? Personally, your favorite? Hmm.
Trace Adkins
Wow. You know, I would say probably that thing I did a few years ago, it was kind of a faith based movie called Mom's Night Out. That character that I played in that movie I think is probably the most fun because it was not. There were times when he was serious, but most of the time it was just.
Amy
You were a biker character named Bones?
Trace Adkins
Yeah. And I didn't know it was a faith based movie. They sent me the script. Well, they sent me my sides and so, okay, I'm reading this and it's. Oh, that's kind of funny. I'm playing a biker. That's cool. And then I got on set and CMT was there that day and we were shooting it in Birmingham and first day I got on set, they said, hey, CMT set up in that room over. They want to do interview with you. And I said, okay. So I went. And then the first thing the guy said, he's like, trace, you're doing a faith based movie? Wow, that's. I didn't really expect you to do that. And I just went, this is a faith based movie. He like, yeah. I was like, dude, I didn't know. I swear I didn't know. I didn't read the whole script. That's my bad. You should always read the script. But I didn't in that case and I didn't know.
Bobby Bones
Do you have to audition?
Trace Adkins
Not for that. I. I don't think I've ever gotten. I have auditioned a few times and I don't think I've ever gotten a part that I auditioned for.
Bobby Bones
It's always parts that they just think you're perfect for.
Trace Adkins
They know what I do. They. They know what I'm going to give them. And so, you know, they call me to just go in there and do this, you know, and say the words. They want me to say the way I would say them. I also enjoyed that biker role in Lincoln Lawyer. I like that one.
Amy
Oh, Eddie.
Trace Adkins
Yeah, she knows. Eddie McConaughey was really nice to me, and.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's cool. Yeah, he's met him a couple times. He's like the guy that you see on. I mean, he's the guy.
Trace Adkins
He is.
Bobby Bones
He's that guy.
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
It's not like a different person. He's that dude.
Trace Adkins
He wanted me to come over to his trailer and rehearse the scene, you know, before we went to set. And I was like, okay, dude, you got your clothes on. You know, it's not a bongo there, right? You're not playing the bongos, are you? I'm not coming over there.
Bobby Bones
Get tickets to go to Trace's shows. Traceadkins.com it's the 30th anniversary tour, and we're gonna end this interview and what happens behind. And once the cameras go off, I come over there and I sit down, and you stay sitting. We take a picture. What I'm nervous about, what I did not think about before I came in today, when I knew you were coming in, is you're not going to remember this because it was such a quick moment as we were passing. You made fun of my shoes that I was wearing at the Opry, and so you gave me the business because you thought those are pretty. A term that you used. Pretty ladylike shoes is what you said to me, and you were right. But the shoes I have on today are also quite ladylike. So now I'm a little nervous about hopping over just because I've been through this.
Trace Adkins
Well, I don't have boots on either, so I'm a little worried about it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, wait till you see mine. Yeah, wait till you see mine.
Amy
Maybe you can just cut the feet out of the photo.
Trace Adkins
That's what I'd do.
Amy
Because he sounds like he's a little insecure about his shoes right now.
Bobby Bones
What size shoe do you wear?
Amy
Like 15, 14?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I wear 15s.
Amy
No, you don't.
Bobby Bones
You know, hey, he doesn't respect. Huh?
Trace Adkins
How do you keep them all?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. All right. There he is. Trace Atkins, everybody. Bones Raymundo was added. I didn't know this. To my wife's close friends. That's it. Talk about this.
Amy
Yeah.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Okay. So he saw a picture of the baby because that's the only place she doesn't post much on Instagram. So what happened, Ray?
Raymundo
Yeah, I got added to the green tab on Instagram, so I got to see Those baby pics. But I got one of them and I was like, that's awesome. I'm gonna get a daily baby pig. Just get updates on the kid, you know, Here we go. What's been a week? I haven't seen any baby pics, so I think I got removed from the friend group.
Bobby Bones
Got it. That's what it was. No, my wife rarely posts on social media.
Raymundo
Even to the friend group.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, she rarely posts.
Lunchbox Mike
And I think you thought you were going to daily Ray.
Raymundo
I mean, that's better than, I don't know, somebody showing flowers or somebody showing their borning breakfast or something. I want to see bones, kid.
Bobby Bones
I mean, I have pictures of my phone. You can just be like, hey, actual human life friend that I can touch. Would you mind showing me a picture?
Raymundo
Well, send them over. Friends group.
Bobby Bones
No, I would. I would text you. Yeah, but you didn't get removed from any close friends.
Raymundo
Good.
Bobby Bones
I didn't even know you were making the close friends.
Raymundo
And I hit her. I said, oh, that's awesome. This is elite. And she said something like, this is a selective group or something.
Bobby Bones
I was like, yeah, I think probably she put your wife on it and thought, well, if I put BAE on
Lunchbox Mike
it, don't be rude.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I should probably put Ray on.
Raymundo
Or she hit Loris later and then accidentally hit race later.
Amy
Not accidentally made the decision.
Bobby Bones
You did not get taken off her close friends.
Raymundo
I'm awaiting the next pick.
Bobby Bones
She just doesn't post that often.
Raymundo
Understood.
Bobby Bones
Amy says she has a question for each guy in the room.
Lunchbox Mike
So individual questions for all of you.
Amy
Like, each of you.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Amy
Because one and two men apparently think that they can fly an airplane in an emergency.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Amy
So my question is, do you think you could fly an airplane in an emergency?
Bobby Bones
Like land one or fly one? Because flying, I think, would be pretty easy. You just, I don't know, do what it's already doing.
Amy
Well, the survey specifically says that men think they can successfully land a commercial airplane during an emergency. So to answer your question, it's land.
Bobby Bones
Yes, I can.
Amy
Okay, that's one yes.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah, I mean, yes.
Bobby Bones
I mean, I would just get on with.
Amy
Y' all are all saying yes. It's only one.
Bobby Bones
In two minutes, I would get on
Unknown Male Guest
with the air traffic control and they'd walk me through this.
Bobby Bones
They get to tell us what's up. Right.
Unknown Male Guest
Step by step. I mean, it's not that I'm not doing it on my own.
Lunchbox Mike
If it was on your own. No communication.
Trace Adkins
No.
Unknown Male Guest
I'm in trouble.
Lunchbox Mike
We're dead.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Raymundo
Everybody's dead.
Bobby Bones
But, yeah, there's got to be communication. Is that what it is? Because you get to talk to the air traffic controller. I've seen a lot of sitcoms where people land them just fine.
Amy
Yeah, yeah. They're guiding you. So every man in our group.
Bobby Bones
Every man.
Amy
Every man. Sorry. Every man in our group.
Bobby Bones
Yes. Me.
Raymundo
Yes.
Bobby Bones
Eddie. Yes. Lunchbox Mike. Yeah. Especially after watching that documentary, Sky King. He did it.
Lunchbox Mike
That's true.
Bobby Bones
And he had no experience. I think maybe he had flown before. Yeah, he had a little bit experience. I just play Star Fox.
Unknown Male Guest
And what is that?
Bobby Bones
You guys don't know Star Fox? Yeah, nobody laughed.
Amy
Well, then, shoot. I could do it, too.
Lunchbox Mike
Nintendo Super.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, super. N64 and N64. Ray, could you land a plane?
Raymundo
Definitely not. I would freak out.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Raymundo
It took me a year to learn this board.
Bobby Bones
A whole year. But what if they were walking you through it?
Raymundo
I don't even know the button to hit. You guys keep talking about this secretive tower you're talking to. How do you even know to connect to them? You. Cell phones don't work. Nothing works.
Bobby Bones
You put the headset on.
Raymundo
There's no way it's that simple. It's not like a radio headset. I guarantee there's buttons. Amy's done it. What do you got to hit? You're not just throwing something on and there's a voice in your head.
Bobby Bones
No, they can talk to you.
Amy
Air traffic control coming through.
Lunchbox Mike
Now, if the headset unplugged, I wouldn't know where to put it back in.
Amy
I mean, that can't be that hard to figure it out.
Bobby Bones
Scuba? No, I couldn't do it.
Amy
Wow.
Bobby Bones
But you're the only one. People are incapacitated, and.
Raymundo
Well, if I have no choice, of
Bobby Bones
course, then I'm trying my best to
Lunchbox Mike
do it, but I don't think I can do it.
Bobby Bones
I have no experience with flying an airplane whatsoever. Neither do we, but you guys are
Lunchbox Mike
pretty confident about it.
Bobby Bones
Oh, I nail it. Exactly.
Amy
See, it's interesting. Like, the men in this room and then are the one. And then the men in that room can't. You know.
Bobby Bones
So what are you trying to say? That's a beta room? No, I'm just saying we're being honest.
Lunchbox Mike
No, What I've heard is flying a plane is relatively easier than you think.
Bobby Bones
I bet what you've heard is flying a plane where all conditions are perfect.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah.
Lunchbox Mike
Yes.
Amy
With autopilot.
Lunchbox Mike
Yes. Yes.
Bobby Bones
Yes. All that easier than you think. But we're not paying our pilots to just go up and have an easy flight and land. We're paying them to go up, have easy flight, and land, and if something bad happens, be able to handle it. Yeah, yeah.
Lunchbox Mike
But again, we were the only ones there. And they're like, eddie, we need you to fly this plane. I got you.
Bobby Bones
Land.
Lunchbox Mike
Whatever. I'll do my best to save us all.
Bobby Bones
That Charlie Sheen documentary where they give him the flight. Did you watch that ever?
Lunchbox Mike
There's an airline.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, an airline. And they're like, hey, you can fly it. Although there's, like 300 people in the back. Massive airplane.
Lunchbox Mike
No.
Bobby Bones
And he sits down and starts to mess with the control, and he starts, like, moving it himself, and they're like, get it out now.
Unknown Male Guest
That's bananas. That is bananas.
Bobby Bones
Oh, yeah. He was super famous in the 80s. Have you seen electronics?
Unknown Male Guest
No.
Bobby Bones
It's like the. One of the wildest parts of that documentary. He was so famous, and he was like, hey, can I wear the hat? They're like, yeah, sure. And he sits there, and they turn autopilot off, and he starts to grab the controls and just move them a little bit.
Lunchbox Mike
They have video of this?
Bobby Bones
No, but I think they're recreating. Okay. And he's a picture. Yeah, they had a picture of him in the flight stuff. And then they go to Hayes, like, yeah, yeah. He said. But then they flipped it off. They're like, no. Because he started to be a little too handsy with the controls. Yeah, that was crazy. Why are you buying bear spray?
Amy
Oh, to keep mine by bed, I guess. A long time ago. I mean, I even mentioned it on this show, like, WASP spray. And I talked about it on my podcast recently, and then a listener emailed in and said was, spray is not what you should keep by your nightstand. It's bear spray if you don't want to keep a gun. And if, like, as a parent, sometimes keeping a gun is difficult unless you've got, like, one of those fingerprint things on your nightstand and you can, like, open it up real quick. So she said, bear spray is awesome because it'll shoot really far and I guess get your attacker before he can attack you.
Bobby Bones
So you don't do, like, a bear, though, and spray it at the ground and then make them run through it.
Amy
Oh, I don't know.
Bobby Bones
Because with a bear, you're supposed to do that. You're not supposed to spray the bear.
Amy
Well, now, if someone's. If I have an intruder, I'm just spraying them straight in the face and then kicking them in the.
Lunchbox Mike
Nice.
Bobby Bones
You got that? All planned out.
Amy
That's what I picture all.
Bobby Bones
I would hope you spray and run. Don't spray and kick.
Amy
Well, I guess if I have to kick. See, I worry about when I spray. Am I gonna be impacted by the spray?
Bobby Bones
If you spray it. Because in some movies, the guys will hold the rocket launcher and it'll shoot backward because they really don't know which way to shoot it. You hold it up and it's like, here we go. It goes, boo. If you do the bear spray like that, you go into your own face. Just surrender. Yeah. Be like, take everything.
Lunchbox Mike
Kick yourself in the crotch.
Amy
Yeah. I ordered it on Amazon. The Frontiersman. Max 7.9 fluid ounces. Bear and Mountain lion attack deterrent.
Trace Adkins
Wow.
Bobby Bones
Will you practice?
Amy
I don't think so.
Bobby Bones
Meaning?
Amy
No.
Bobby Bones
I keep a shotgun very close with shells never loaded. And there's about once every month where I practice.
Amy
Yeah. But the savings glow in the dark. Safety where I practice.
Bobby Bones
Grab, load, set.
Lunchbox Mike
Not shoot.
Bobby Bones
No, not in the house. Yeah, not in the house. Okay. If that makes you feel better.
Raymundo
That's.
Lunchbox Mike
That's great.
Amy
I don't know. I just thought when the listener wrote in, I was like, that's a great idea. I had never thought of that. So I went ahead and just went on Amazon, ordered a can. It can't hurt. I mean, but with my alarm, like, I don't even know how anybody would even get there.
Bobby Bones
Don't say that.
Amy
Well, don't.
Lunchbox Mike
It's a challenge.
Amy
No.
Trace Adkins
No.
Amy
No, it's not.
Bobby Bones
No, I didn't say that.
Amy
It's actually not.
Bobby Bones
It's not. It's not.
Amy
No.
Lunchbox Mike
Okay.
Amy
I'll murder you.
Trace Adkins
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. After you're murdered, your body will be dead. And then she'll come and kick you right in the nuts. There was a story on the perfect male and female bodies. This happens every year. A couple of years. And the best male body is as a person. No, generally speaking, the kind of.
Amy
I don't understand how to answer.
Lunchbox Mike
How do you answer that? Mine, Muscular dad bod.
Bobby Bones
Has always been it.
Lunchbox Mike
Oh, nice.
Bobby Bones
We've talked about this every year.
Amy
Yeah.
Lunchbox Mike
But you guys. You guys disagree with it, so I always think that. Okay.
Bobby Bones
It's not true. Well, they're also saying the dad bod era is over.
Lunchbox Mike
Is it?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
So what's in now?
Bobby Bones
Men with leaner, athletic builds.
Amy
So, like, lean up. That's what it's called. Does that mean.
Bobby Bones
I feel like you were gonna pick somebody and then you backed out? Like, I saw. I saw the wheels turning, and then
Amy
I saw a reverse Course, because it's like, we're like, if Eddie knows it's got a nickname, like dad Bod. Like, does this have a nickname?
Bobby Bones
No, just leaner, more athletic bodies. The standard is not the same for women's bodies as guys tend to prefer soft, curvy female bodies over ultra thin ones. When 2000 adults were shown side by side body fat comparison images and people, they were asked to choose which they found the hottest. Male bodies with 15% body fat and females with 30% body fat were perfect. Okay, so more in shape, lean, athletic, builds for women to like guys. And guys like women with a little more curve and soft.
Lunchbox Mike
Shifted a little bit.
Bobby Bones
Thought so.
Lunchbox Mike
I mean, I still think dad bod's in and even more so.
Unknown Male Guest
Get off the dad, bro. Let's go to the women woman.
Lunchbox Mike
Well, hold on. But even more like, if you watch the. How younger kids are dressing, they're trying to look like dads. They got the dad hat, you know, not so much a straight bill, more like a curved dad hat. Baggy clothes, like the jeans look more like, I don't know, baggier and higher. Like they're trying to be dads. I think dad look is cool. Everyone wants to be it. You don't agree?
Bobby Bones
I don't know how kids are looking. I don't have teenage kids like you do.
Lunchbox Mike
Yeah, they're just looking like dads.
Bobby Bones
The other thing is, did you see the four species of aliens that have been recovered story?
Unknown Male Guest
No, no, no.
Bobby Bones
You can't roll your eyes at this.
Unknown Male Guest
I skipped that one.
Lunchbox Mike
They need four species.
Bobby Bones
The stream is so constant now that surely you have to think that something's up there.
Lunchbox Mike
No, this is like the summer of sharks, you know?
Bobby Bones
Like, I don't know what that means.
Lunchbox Mike
When there's a shark attack, everyone jumps on it and happens all the time. This is like everyone's clicking on this. So let's write more articles on aliens.
Raymundo
It's not that.
Bobby Bones
It's that two different CIA scientists have come out and they're talking. This is not just people that run into a shark.
Lunchbox Mike
We need to check their id. Like, are they really CIA scientists?
Bobby Bones
And we have their names. Yeah, you can look them up.
Lunchbox Mike
Really?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. They didn't do this. Remember that, that magician show where the guy covered his face and told all their tricks? It's just the masked magician. Yeah, I don't know, but it was a show. It was on Fox.
Lunchbox Mike
He exposed all the tricks.
Bobby Bones
It's awesome. I watch it on TikTok still sometimes. Like the black mask. Yeah, it didn't come out. So two CIA scientists say that the government has known about alien life crashing here on earth. There are four species that we know of. Here is Dr. Hal Puthoff and Dr. Eric Davis talking about these aliens. People who have been involved in recoveries
Trace Adkins
have said that there are at least four types. Four separate types. Now, I have not had direct access to that, but I believe the people who I talk to.
Bobby Bones
Four different types of life.
Trace Adkins
Four different types of life at least.
Bobby Bones
And the people I've talked to through the process of making the documentary have said that there have been dozens of recoveries of crashed craft in the US alone. The kinds are the grays, which are those classic four foot tall creatures with large heads and enormous almond shaped black eyes that people would draw or describe. And then even from like the late 1800s movies too. Well, that's why the movies, but that's why the movie started making them is because people would describe them like that. The Nordics that are closely resembling us but extremely tall, so kind of look like they're from Scandinavia. The other is reptilians. Remember the woman on the plane?
Amy
Oh yeah. She said that guy turned into a reptile.
Bobby Bones
They may be the most infamous of the alien races mentioned as a. It's been a species that looks like serpents but also can look like a human, walks like a human, can shape shift.
Amy
Oh my. Yeah. What happened to her?
Bobby Bones
I think she's still around.
Lunchbox Mike
Ants, Insectozoids.
Trace Adkins
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Looks like a bug. They have been said to resemble giant mantis like creatures with multiple limbs, an exoskeleton, mandibles and an antenna. Daily Mail your feelings.
Lunchbox Mike
I feel like these are stories that they've heard before, like Airplane lady, like movies like the old 1800s sketches and you know, sci fi, Big Bug, manta, whatever. And then they're like, yeah, these are the four that we've all talked about.
Bobby Bones
But who's they you're talking about?
Lunchbox Mike
I don't know. These the guys that are all talking. That sounds smart.
Bobby Bones
From the CIA.
Lunchbox Mike
Who knows who these guys are?
Bobby Bones
It sounds like, you know, I told you their name.
Amy
It sounds like CIA scientists Dr. Hal
Bobby Bones
Puthoff and Dr. Eric Davis, ex scientists that work for the CIA.
Lunchbox Mike
And then one of them said like there are four. And then one's like, at least four guys. Get your story straight.
Amy
Well, I think he's saying one guy's saying they've identified four, but they know
Bobby Bones
there's more and they'll walk through a door and eat some s' mores and believe it at your core. Lunchbox. What do you think?
Unknown Male Guest
Like, man, I just roll my eyes. These people are idiots. They're looking for attention, trying to get their podcast off the ground.
Raymundo
So they don't have a podcast?
Amy
No, they were on Diary of a CEO He Doesn't Need. I don't know what that podcast off the road.
Bobby Bones
One of the top five podcasts in the world.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah, I mean, you guys want to buy into it? Buy into it? I'm.
Bobby Bones
I'm not buying into anything. I'm just.
Unknown Male Guest
Oh, you guys are all on this alien train. I mean, that's. Every time.
Bobby Bones
I don't know that I train, it literally is. They're leaking more and more. They're slow rolling as to there being some sort of discovery.
Unknown Male Guest
All right, when they. When they come in here for an interview, I'll believe them.
Bobby Bones
Discovery is legal.
Amy
A scientist.
Unknown Male Guest
No, the alien. When they come in for an interview,
Bobby Bones
it'd be tough to book it. The Kelsey brothers will get it first. They tend to get the big. The big guest first. Yeah, so they'll probably go Travis to Jason. Kelsey first. But then after that, Lunchbox City got mailed some toenails to the building.
Amy
Scary.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah. Our listeners are disgusting. I don't understand what their problem is. I like to snack on my own toenails. But I got a letter right here to me at the building, and I opened it up, and they have their toenails in here.
Bobby Bones
What?
Unknown Male Guest
And it said, sorry, I was doing some spray painting. If they're a little dirty like that needs to stop right now.
Amy
I kind of want to throw up.
Bobby Bones
That's disgusting.
Unknown Male Guest
It's so disgusting.
Lunchbox Mike
Is it a guy or girl?
Unknown Male Guest
I assume it's a guy.
Amy
It's a girl. Does it change your mind?
Unknown Male Guest
It doesn't have a return address. Disgusting.
Lunchbox Mike
And no sign name on there.
Unknown Male Guest
No sign name. Oh, wait, maybe it did have a name. Look. Nope. Sorry. But I did some spray painting before trimming.
Lunchbox Mike
Did you look at the nails?
Unknown Male Guest
Nope.
Bobby Bones
That's gross. I don't think you're supposed to mail that.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah, I think that's illegal.
Bobby Bones
Is it not illegal?
Amy
Why would that be illegal?
Bobby Bones
I looked it up. Now, is that not considered, like, a body part? I don't think so, no.
Amy
Because you can mail hair.
Bobby Bones
Can't mail feces, though.
Amy
Okay, good to know.
Lunchbox Mike
Toenails. That's gross, man.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So why'd you keep the envelope? Just to prove to us.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah, just so you guys didn't think I was crazy. So I left it right here. This will be going in the trash. Like I Don't want your toenails. Stop sending them. You're disgusting. Thank you.
Bobby Bones
I think maybe I would have never
Amy
mentioned that because now more will come.
Bobby Bones
Well.
Unknown Male Guest
Oh, no.
Lunchbox Mike
You know, that works.
Unknown Male Guest
I didn't think about that. Oh, my gosh.
Bobby Bones
I mean, it is illegal.
Unknown Male Guest
It is illegal.
Trace Adkins
You want to go to jail?
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
You. Who, like, what kind of person does that?
Unknown Male Guest
That.
Lunchbox Mike
I mean, they're obviously trying to just be funny, but I mean, what kind of person.
Amy
Lunchbox. He would maybe do that.
Unknown Male Guest
I never mail my toenails. Anybody?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, but you can't because you want to eat them.
Unknown Male Guest
Correct.
Lunchbox Mike
You eat them first.
Unknown Male Guest
I mean, I did give Amy and Bobby my toenails when I ran the marathon. And for Christmas, the big toenail fell off, and so I kept it and I wrapped it up as a present. But I wasn't mailing it. That was a quick joke. Haha. Between friends, like, this is over the line. Absolutely.
Amy
So I was totally crazy suggesting he might do this.
Unknown Male Guest
I would never mail my toenails.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
Don't be ridiculous.
Bobby Bones
I don't. Yeah, I don't think you would, but you're right. As a joke. Yeah. You possibly could. Okay, no toenail mailing, please, everybody. Good. One other thing. The 10 richest celebrity couples at the time of their marriage. Who comes to mind? Because I have all 10 here.
Unknown Male Guest
Jay Z. Beyonce.
Bobby Bones
Jay Z. Beyonce is a great one because they were both so loaded. They are at number two. Combined wealth of $3.8 billion.
Unknown Male Guest
That is unbelievable.
Bobby Bones
That is crazy, because Beyonce had around a billion. J.C. jay Z had 2.8 billion.
Lunchbox Mike
I mean, Brad and J. Ben and Jlo.
Trace Adkins
Right?
Amy
Ben Affleck and Jlo.
Lunchbox Mike
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
No, but you got one of them.
Amy
Oh, Brad Pitt and Angelina.
Unknown Male Guest
No, JLo and Mark Anthony.
Bobby Bones
Neither one of them.
Unknown Male Guest
JLO and Mark Anthony.
Bobby Bones
Wait, hold on, hold on. Eddie said Ben and JLo before he said Ben And I said, you got one of them. And Amy goes Angelina and Brad.
Amy
Because before he said Ben and JLo, he alluded to Angelina and Brad. And I thought you were saying the other couple.
Bobby Bones
Okay, got it. No, I don't know.
Amy
Oh, JLo and a rod.
Bobby Bones
That's it.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
They got married.
Unknown Male Guest
I didn't know they ever got married.
Amy
Affectionately.
Bobby Bones
Engagement era peak. I don't know if they got married, but at least they were engaged. Did they get married?
Unknown Male Guest
They never got married.
Amy
JRod.
Bobby Bones
Okay. When they got engaged, their wealth was combined. 750 million bucks.
Unknown Male Guest
Okay, I got one.
Bobby Bones
Yep.
Unknown Male Guest
David Beckham, Victoria Beckham. Spice Girl.
Lunchbox Mike
That's a good one.
Bobby Bones
No, What?
Unknown Male Guest
Must be doing. Just Americans.
Lunchbox Mike
Garth and Trisha.
Bobby Bones
No, no, no.
Unknown Male Guest
Let's see. Who else is rich, beyond.
Amy
Oh. Who did Jeff Bezos marry?
Unknown Male Guest
What? Lauren Sanchez. But she.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, but I think it's both of them combined. Have to have a lot of money.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah. She didn't have any money. She was just. She was just a news reporter. Right?
Bobby Bones
She was. You know, she had a kid with Tony Gonzalez.
Unknown Male Guest
That's crazy.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Trace Adkins
Whoa.
Bobby Bones
Tight end for the Chiefs back in the day.
Lunchbox Mike
Tom and Giselle.
Bobby Bones
Yes.
Unknown Male Guest
Good.
Bobby Bones
Combined $650 million.
Unknown Male Guest
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey.
Bobby Bones
Yep. Number five. If they married today, they'd be worth about 2 billion.
Lunchbox Mike
Dang.
Amy
Yeah.
Unknown Male Guest
That's all, Taylor.
Amy
90 million.
Lunchbox Mike
2 billion.
Bobby Bones
You're never gonna get the first one.
Unknown Male Guest
We're never gonna get the first one. Are they American?
Bobby Bones
No. Okay, then one of them's. Not one of them. I don't think she is either, but we know her here.
Lunchbox Mike
Oh, is it Markle?
Bobby Bones
No, you would know them.
Unknown Male Guest
You know them, dude.
Bobby Bones
And I think she is broke.
Lunchbox Mike
Yes.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. So it's Salma Hayek, but it's her husband mostly.
Unknown Male Guest
She is so hot.
Lunchbox Mike
Who's her husband?
Amy
Oh, is he some Mexican?
Bobby Bones
I don't know if he's Mexican or not, but he's.
Amy
He's like.
Bobby Bones
Yes. He may be French. His name is Francois. Henri Pinol.
Amy
That doesn't sound as like he's from.
Bobby Bones
He is worth $20 billion. Whoa. He has Gucci Balenciaga. YSL.
Unknown Male Guest
Are they about the same age?
Bobby Bones
I don't know, but she has 200 million, and he has 22 billion.
Unknown Male Guest
Let me look.
Amy
22 billion.
Unknown Male Guest
Let me look her up.
Lunchbox Mike
Wow.
Bobby Bones
Carly Kloss, the model. And Jared or Josh Kushner. Jared Kushner's brother.
Unknown Male Guest
Don't know who that is.
Bobby Bones
Kushner's worth 3 billion. Karlie Kloss with 40 million. Kardashian and Kanye.
Lunchbox Mike
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
Rihanna. And ASAP. Rocky.
Unknown Male Guest
Oh.
Bobby Bones
Blake Lively. Ryan Reynolds. And do you know who Serena Williams's husband is?
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah. Reddit guy.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Unknown Male Guest
Don't know his name.
Bobby Bones
That's it. Alex Ohanian. They're worth about 500 million to get, I think.
Lunchbox Mike
Reddick.
Bobby Bones
Reddit.
Lunchbox Mike
Oh, Reddit. Got it.
Bobby Bones
Read it. That's from Business Insider.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah. Selma Haggs, 59. Her husband's 63.
Bobby Bones
What state. What country is he from?
Unknown Male Guest
Is a French businessman and son of billionaire Francis Panault. He took the reins of his father's retail conglomerate.
Bobby Bones
Conglomerate is not a word that would be hard, but the French stuff I do get.
Unknown Male Guest
Yeah. He had a bunch of stuff. His dad took it over.
Lunchbox Mike
Interesting.
Bobby Bones
No, he just felt like conglomerate was a French word like the first one.
Unknown Male Guest
That's crazy.
Bobby Bones
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Lunchbox Mike
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Date: May 22, 2026
Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
Host: Bobby Bones (Premiere Networks)
Guests/Co-Hosts: Amy, Raymundo, Lunchbox Mike, Trace Adkins
This lively episode of The Bobby Bones Show is packed with stories, interviews, and banter. The main highlights include Raymundo's celebrity-filled night at Kane Brown's new bar, a candid interview with country music legend Trace Adkins (including details about a life-changing injury), reactions to NASCAR driver Kyle Busch's sudden passing, and a bizarre listener stunt involving mailed toenails. The crew also discusses family developments, preparedness at home, celebrity riches, and even gets a little conspiracy-minded about aliens.
[00:07–04:05; 11:55]
“Kane was the one I gave daps to, but yeah, everybody else was, you know, within arm's reach how it was. ... It was a who's who.” (Raymundo, 00:31)
“I was sleeping naked.” “No, no, I brought other clothes.” (Raymundo, 03:01/03:06)
“Anytime you can include a DJ and a saxophone, it’s awesome.” (Raymundo, 03:40)
“Some girl grabbed me and said he's good, don't even know who she was. I didn't even say my name. And then they hustled me through into the front door.” (Raymundo, 04:21)
[04:49–09:23]
“I did a show with him once but it was all on zoom... He had a massive house. And I was like, what do you do, man? And I didn't know who he was. And he was like, sell cars.” (Bobby Bones, 06:50)
“We had a lot of plans to work together and... I'm happy that we could at least have put all of that fighting behind us." (Bobby Bones, 08:32)
[09:29–13:12]
“She wants to be an esthetician … she might just do trade school... But that's pretty much what we worked on yesterday, which was a little scary.” (Amy, 09:58)
“She's going to be looking for her own apartment … that part I was like having a swallow. I'm like, well, you can stay home for a little bit longer if you want, you know. And then her dad's like, no, she needs to get an apartment in August.” (Amy, 10:39)
[13:25–38:53]
“I never get tired of singing that song. ... That one really started it all.” (on “Every Light in the House is On”, 13:48)
“When you have a song that gets into the top five ... the public out there ... don't know the difference between a number five and a number one ...” (Trace Adkins, 14:28)
“That’s the reason I haven’t retired yet, because I keep hoping I’ll do something to top Badonka Donk. ... It’s not the most high-browed tune that’s ever come out.” (Trace Adkins, 16:11)
“I’ve pulled the trigger on a couple of them in my career that the label was going, this is not going to work. I’m like, yeah it is. And it didn’t, you know.” (Trace Adkins, 17:48)
“I do just a little snippet. ... I just put that on there just to piss Blake off, you know. Because I think it sounds a lot better without him on it.” (Trace Adkins, 18:34)
[19:57–22:40]
“They were working on something on the house, and I climbed up on the scaffold … I lost my balance and fell … there were bones sticking out of my pants…” (Trace Adkins, 20:10) “...they thought they might have to cut it off. ... I asked him to, because when he told me what the recovery was going to be ... just cut it off, man.” (21:36–22:23)
“I’m five times more confused about girls than you are ... You can’t discipline them like you do boys. I don’t think you can. You’re not supposed to.” (Trace Adkins, 23:07/23:28)
“Everything hurts.” (Trace Adkins, 28:47)
[39:04]
"No, my wife rarely posts on social media... You didn't get removed from any close friends." (Bobby Bones, 39:25)
[40:31–43:50]
[44:33–46:57]
“She said, bear spray is awesome because it'll shoot really far and ... get your attacker before he can attack you.” (Amy, 45:14)
[46:59–49:01]
“Men with leaner, athletic builds...” (Bobby Bones, 47:31)
[49:06–52:57]
The "Grays", "Nordics", "Reptilians", and "Insectoids" are detailed, with skepticism from Lunchbox.
[53:03–55:27]
“I like to snack on my own toenails. But I got a letter right here to me at the building, and I opened it up, and they have their toenails in here.” (Lunchbox, 53:20)
[55:47–59:32]
“Her husband… is worth $20 billion. He has Gucci, Balenciaga, YSL.” (Bobby Bones, 58:11)
The episode’s tone is friendly, humorous, and conversational, with the usual spontaneous tangents, teasing, and authentic moments listeners expect from The Bobby Bones Show. Trace Adkins brought authentic, candid charm and wit, while the regular cast provided comedic and relatable insights into their lives and news stories.
Celeb Sighting: Raymundo at Kane Brown’s Bar
Special Guest: Trace Adkins—dishes on old hits, new tours, and a harrowing injury
Big News: Kyle Busch’s sudden death shocks the cast
Odd Listener Moment: A package of toenail clippings received in-studio
Debate: Are “dad bods” out? Could you land a plane? Are aliens real?
Warmest Moment: Trace Adkins, on being a dad: “Be patient.”
Weirdest Moment: Bear spray and home defense tips
Richest Couple?: Salma Hayek & Francois-Henri Pinault: “He has Gucci, Balenciaga, YSL... $20 billion.”
This summary brings you straight into the major laughs, surprises, reactions, and stories that define this hour of The Bobby Bones Show.