Thursday Post Show (11-21-24)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – Thursday Post Show (11-21-24)

Host: Bobby Bones
Guest: Tim Hurley, Morning Host at Go Country in Los Angeles
Release Date: November 21, 2024

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I. Introduction

In the Thursday Post Show edition of The Bobby Bones Show, host Bobby Bones welcomes Tim Hurley, the morning host from Go Country in Los Angeles. The episode delves into various topics, including recent challenges with TikTok, Tim's career journey, insights from the CMA Awards, and discussions about notable country music artists.

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II. TikTok Ban Discussion

Timestamp: [03:00] – [04:40]

The conversation kicks off with a discussion about TikTok’s recent ban affecting the show.

• Bobby Bones: "We were kicked off TikTok yesterday." [03:00]
• Morgan: "I think because of talking about that little star symbol, that name, saying it repeatedly. Over think we were saying cuss words." [03:17]

Key Points:

• The show faced a temporary ban from TikTok, possibly due to content violations related to language or original content policies.
• The team speculates that their use of certain terminology or phrases like “unalive” may have triggered the ban.
• They express frustration over the lack of clear communication from TikTok regarding the specific reasons for the suspension.

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III. Guest Introduction: Tim Hurley

Timestamp: [04:46] – [05:35]

Bobby introduces Tim Hurley, highlighting his role and career background.

• Bobby Bones: "You're not here, but your career is here." [04:53]
• Tim Hurley: "I was splitting time for a minute, yeah. It's a bit of a story, but, yeah." [04:58]

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IV. Tim Hurley's Background and Career

Timestamp: [05:35] – [11:24]

Tim shares his journey from Rhode Island to Los Angeles and eventually Nashville, detailing his transition from event production to country music.

• Tim Hurley: "I ended up kind of meeting the guy, talking to him, and then about a month later, he invited me out to El Paso, Texas, where he was living, because he got asked to open up for John Michael Montgomery." [10:37]

Key Points:

• Grew up in Rhode Island with a German mother, initially not involved in music.
• Developed an interest in country music through a roommate and transitioned into performing after a chance encounter at a karaoke bar.
• Tim performed his first gig for 10,000 people in El Paso, Texas, opening for John Michael Montgomery.
• Managed to sustain a music career for eight years, balancing event production with songwriting and performances.

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V. CMA Awards Recap and Discussion

Timestamp: [11:24] – [19:59]

The bulk of the conversation focuses on the recent CMA Awards, including performances, artist highlights, and controversies.

• Tim Hurley: "Ashley McBride. I think she's one of the most underappreciated artists in all of country music right now." [12:47]
• Eddie: "Ella Langley and Riley Green. I was obsessed with it. Like, I was smiling the whole time." [19:38]

Key Points:

• Ashley McBride's Performance: Tim praises Ashley McBride for her authentic acoustic performance, noting her consistency and talent.
• Ella Langley and Riley Green: Eddie highlights their dynamic performance, emphasizing its quintessential country feel and their chemistry on stage.
• New Artist of the Year: Discussion about the category often being occupied by artists who've been around for several years, with Tim mentioning Mitchell Tenpenny as a notable example.

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Hurley: "Ashley McBride gets up and she's just holding an acoustic guitar. She sounds absolutely perfect every single time." [12:47]
• Eddie: "Ella Langley and Riley Green. I was obsessed with it. Like, I was smiling the whole time." [19:38]

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VI. Controversy Around Zach Bryan

Timestamp: [13:14] – [18:24]

The hosts delve into recent controversies involving country artist Zach Bryan, discussing allegations and public perceptions.

• Tim Hurley: "I've never been a huge Zach Bryan fan. I don't know why..." [13:27]
• Bobby Bones: "He's like, I know for a fact because everybody around you hates you, that must mean consistently you're treating everybody around you like absolute garbage." [14:24]

Key Points:

• Allegations against Zach Bryan involving trolling behavior, including an incident where he allegedly took a fan’s rescued cat and showcased it on social media.
• Discussion about the authenticity of Zach Bryan's actions and the impact on his reputation within the country music community.
• The hosts express skepticism and call for holding artists accountable for their actions beyond their musical talents.

Notable Quotes:

• Bobby Bones: "He's like, I know for a fact because everybody around you hates you, that must mean consistently you're treating everybody around you like absolute garbage." [14:24]
• Tim Hurley: "That was a weird decision for him to do that, right? Because she literally said, he took my cat." [17:55]

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VII. Personal Insights on Self-Belief and Opportunities

Timestamp: [35:03] – [36:07]

The conversation shifts to personal development, self-belief, and missed opportunities related to career growth.

• Eddie: "I have to believe in myself, which is like your suffering Scuba Steve syndrome." [35:30]
• Bobby Bones: "I know, I know. This is why I probably hate it." [35:38]

Key Points:

• Discussion about the importance of self-belief in pursuing opportunities, referencing the concept of "acting as if" to achieve goals.
• Eddie shares his struggles with self-doubt impacting his chances in acting and other creative endeavors.
• Bobby reflects on his own experiences with writing and pursuing unconventional career paths without formal training.

Notable Quotes:

• Bobby Bones: "I believe I can do anything in the whole world. Like, what's gonna stop me?" [34:54]
• Eddie: "Act as if, like, acts apart and you create it and it happens." [35:03]

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VIII. Discussion on Award Show Photo and Guest Appearance

Timestamp: [41:00] – [48:45]

The hosts analyze a photograph from the CMA Awards, providing humorous and candid observations about their appearance and positioning in the group photo.

• Bobby Bones: "Scuba Steve is right in the middle of everybody. That's the biggest smile." [47:29]
• Lunchbox: "He looks like a drug dealer of crook." [45:18]

Key Points:

• Detailed breakdown of the group photo, highlighting individual appearances and attire.
• Light-hearted teasing about each other's outfits, particularly highlighting Lunchbox's hoodie and Scuba Steve's look.
• Reflection on how personal presentation can influence public perception and opportunities within the industry.

Notable Quotes:

• Bobby Bones: "It's like, you can't go another row. I just didn't know there was a spot there." [46:54]
• Eddie: "He looks like a drug dealer of crook." [45:18]

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IX. Closing Remarks

Timestamp: [55:00] – [57:52]

The episode concludes with final thoughts, congratulations to Tim Hurley, and light-hearted banter about future appearances and interactions.

• Bobby Bones: "Thanks for coming by and we'll say hi after we turn the microphones and stuff off." [55:07]
• Tim Hurley: "First ever gig in radio too, so." [54:35]

Key Points:

• Bobby congratulates Tim on his successful stint as a morning host and discusses the challenges of maintaining a radio career.
• Final interactions emphasize camaraderie among the hosts and appreciation for Tim’s participation in the show.
• Brief mentions of upcoming shows and topics, maintaining the engaging and friendly atmosphere of the podcast.

Notable Quotes:

• Bobby Bones: "Good for you." [54:30]
• Eddie: "I used to wear my pajamas. I was doing the show from North Carolina for five years." [51:27]

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X. Conclusion

The Thursday Post Show episode of The Bobby Bones Show provides an engaging mix of personal anecdotes, industry insights, and candid discussions about current events in country music. With Tim Hurley’s unique perspective and the hosts' dynamic interactions, listeners gain a deeper understanding of both the challenges and triumphs within the radio and music industries.

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Highlighted Quotes with Timestamps:

• Bobby Bones: "He just freaking wrote essays one after the other and then mailed them, emailed them off. It was like, I don't know. This sucks." [34:03]
• Tim Hurley: "Ashley McBride gets up and she's just holding an acoustic guitar. She sounds absolutely perfect every single time." [12:47]
• Eddie: "Ella Langley and Riley Green. I was obsessed with it. Like, I was smiling the whole time." [19:38]
• Bobby Bones: "If you want something, look like that as to what you want, because then they'll at least consider you for it." [50:26]

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This comprehensive summary encapsulates the essence of the episode, providing valuable insights and capturing the engaging dialogue that The Bobby Bones Show is known for.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

Me wherever I go, it just make.

[Morgan]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Morgan]

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[Tim Hurley]

It's time for the Bobby Bones post show. Here's your host, Bobby Bones.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, a couple things before I introduce Tim, who's our guest in here today. Morgan, were you gone when we got kicked off TikTok yesterday?

[Morgan]

No, I was here when we got banned.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Kicked off. Banned, Similar, but I guess kicked off means you get to come back the next day.

[Lunchbox]

But we're still not.

[Eddie]

We were banned for three days, so.

[Bobby Bones]

But why?

[Morgan]

I think because of talking about that little star symbol, that name, saying it repeatedly. Over thinks we were saying cuss words.

[Bobby Bones]

Ass. But you can say cuss words on the stream. There are things you can't say. Like, I won't even say that. Like unalive. Like, that's what people say now instead of the S word, you have to say unalived.

[Morgan]

It might be because we're currently kind of on a trial with TikTok in their studio, so maybe they are just really want us to be pg.

[Lunchbox]

They did say something that I took offense to.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, oh, you should ban them then.

[Lunchbox]

No, dude, I was really offended.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go.

[Lunchbox]

A little thing pops up and it says, you're violating our. Whatever, our code. And it said that due to unoriginal content. That's rude.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that is rude.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know what that means.

[Eddie]

Were we plagiarizing something?

[Bobby Bones]

Probably like Mojo in the morning turned us in and he's like, they stole our bit. And we're like, no, we didn't. You stole ours, idiot. That. That type thing maybe? No, that's what old radio shows used to do all the time. They'd be like, you stole our bit. Maybe we played like audio of some.

[Lunchbox]

Or I don't know, or possibly a Reed's mailbag song. They think that that's copyrighted content.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I like to be on TikTok live through this setup. But we'll be back next week.

[Morgan]

Yeah, next week we're back. We'll give it another go.

[Bobby Bones]

We just need to know what we can't say.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like, they need to explain what happens so we don't do it again.

[Morgan]

Well, it could also be just talking about news stories and they think that's not original content.

[Eddie]

It's really hard to tell what TikTok.

[Morgan]

Believes as original content versus I just.

[Bobby Bones]

Picture some dude in China over there going, I don't like it off.

[Morgan]

Could also be that.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so let's introduce Our guest, Tim, does Mornings at Go country in Los Angeles, correct?

[Tim Hurley]

That is correct.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but you're. You're. You're not here. But you were here like your career was here.

[Tim Hurley]

I was splitting time for a minute, yeah. It's a bit of a story, but, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So do you go by Tim Hurley? What do you. I don't want to say your name. If it's not your name on the air, what do you go by?

[Tim Hurley]

Tim Hurley is the name that I use on the air as well.

[Bobby Bones]

Perfect.

[Tim Hurley]

Also my given name, because some people.

[Bobby Bones]

Don'T have a given name. I don't use my real name. Bob's my real name. But. But then my wife uses my real name, so it's not like it's hidden. So. Yeah. So did you do the show this morning?

[Tim Hurley]

I did, yes. Which is why we might be struggling just a touch here after the CMA Awards last night.

[Bobby Bones]

No way. Well, I guess it's later, though. You could.

[Tim Hurley]

Well, you know, there are some expertise that we use to make it sound like it was live when it wasn't necessarily.

[Bobby Bones]

We record crap all the time. I don't know if you recorded anything. We record crap all the time. We won't even do an interview live because mostly I don't do it for artists. Artists don't want to be here at 6, 18 in the morning.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah. It's good to get people in there fresh.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. How was. So what have you done while you've been here?

[Tim Hurley]

So we did the radio remotes, the CMA officials. Yep. And so we're just talking to the artist Monday, Tuesday, and then obviously the award show yesterday was watching that one from the comfort of the hotel room. And why didn't you go? You know, I've done the award shows many times, and the commercial breaks just break my heart.

[Bobby Bones]

So we're literally talking about that during, like, our break where wardrobes are all good and stuff to watch, but when they go to commercials and you're there and it's constant, it's. It's terrible. And Morgan said off air. She goes, that's why I got drunk or something.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I kept going to get drinks so many.

[Tim Hurley]

You feel like you got to kill time. So you run to the bar, and then you don't get back fast enough before they close the curtain on you. Then you got to go back to the bar, and then your timing's all off. It's a whole thing.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like a tennis match. Like, you can't actually walk down into the tennis match while it's happening.

[Lunchbox]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

They hold you up because it's a distraction to the players. And it's like, if you have a seat any. Almost anywhere in, like, the front part, which he would be sitting because, you know, he's a big deal in media. You are on. Sometimes you could be on camera, like, getting into your seat, and they don't want that. So when you go back home this afternoon, how do you like Los Angeles?

[Tim Hurley]

LA is great. I live in a great little beach town called Playa del Rey. So if you're familiar with LA at all, there's obviously West Hollywood. There's a hustle and bustle, Santa Monica. And I live in play, where everybody kind of knows each other. Very small, 100 steps off the beach.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm very familiar with LA as being car sick.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, I. I don't leave the bubble.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Tim Hurley]

I pretty much live in flip flops and I take a bike anywhere.

[Bobby Bones]

When did you. When did you move out there?

[Tim Hurley]

I've been there for 20 years.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my God. Oh, you've been there forever.

[Tim Hurley]

I've been there for a long time. And then I kind of fell into country music as an artist, and so that's why I made the move here to Nashville. And I was sort of splitting time and then day two of really giving Nashville the go of, like, committing to live here, getting a house, getting the whole. That's when I got the job offer to be the morning host in Los Angeles. Day two, literally.

[Eddie]

So it's like, how did you make that decision?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, why? Day two.

[Tim Hurley]

Day two. I mean, I'd had the house for a while, but I couldn't spend a lot of time here because we ended up getting booked a whole lot, like, for, you know, which is great. So we were, like, touring around. We're playing a lot of great shows and stuff. And then I was like, really? I'm like, all right, now we're going to move. We have a little bit of a lull. And literally day two is when I got the call and they were like, we'd like to do like an air check with you. So I flew back to la. Day three for the morning, did the. Did the air check in the morning and got the job offer like, 10 minutes later.

[Bobby Bones]

Huh. Bizarre timing.

[Lunchbox]

Very bizarre.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think a little bit I've been irritated at the timing. I've been happy for the opportunity, but I've been irritated at the timing.

[Tim Hurley]

And then I wasn't sure because I came here to be, you know, in the songwriting community and, you know, doing the Nashville game, as they say. And then I was like, well, is this gonna help promote the music? You know, being the morning host, it's obviously major market, and it's, like, a great opportunity. Job security is nice with a paycheck. I didn't actually know I was going to be paid when they first offered me the gig. I thought it was just to, like, promote the music.

[Bobby Bones]

Like a barter. Who would like to hire you to barter your songs?

[Tim Hurley]

Like, seriously? I thought I was just going to be, like, you know, on, like, every once in a while to promote the music. And then I got the offer, and I was like, oh, like, this is a job that I have to go to every day. All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Your music career, you say you kind of fell into country music. Where'd you grow up?

[Tim Hurley]

In Rhode Island.

[Bobby Bones]

You? Wow.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, my mom's German. Makes no sense.

[Bobby Bones]

I've been. I. I've been to Providence. Very nice, Providence. Beautiful. They have a lot of shirts with, like, boat oars on them.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, that's where our logo is. An anchor.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Like, go to the gas station. They, like, sweaters and oars on them. Like, that's what I remember about Rhode Island. So how far from New York was Rhode Island? Like, could you go to the city?

[Tim Hurley]

The city's. It's closer to Boston. It's only 45 minutes from Boston.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you were closer to Boston.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah. Providence is right there.

[Bobby Bones]

And what kind of music were you doing at home?

[Tim Hurley]

So I was never a musician ever, and. But I was a big Kenny Chesney fan. My roommate in college is from Denver. All he did was listen to country music. So I got kind of into that. And then I literally started. I sang a karaoke song at a dive bar, like, 400 yards from my house in Playa Del Rey. And a guy in California, though. In California. I was already in California when I got into. I kind of fell into.

[Bobby Bones]

But not to do. You were. So why were you in California?

[Tim Hurley]

I was doing event production.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so you have a little bit.

[Tim Hurley]

Of a weird path.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I'm into it. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Where'd you go to college?

[Tim Hurley]

I was in college outside of Boston.

[Eddie]

Okay, and then you decided to go all the way west?

[Tim Hurley]

Took a job out west with a few stops on the way.

[Bobby Bones]

So you were doing event production. Were you touring with groups or were you, like.

[Tim Hurley]

We were doing, like, custom fabrication for events. So, like, you know, we'd build out a studio or something.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, you're smart.

[Lunchbox]

Sounds like it.

[Tim Hurley]

Not according to my college or high school teachers and professors.

[Bobby Bones]

This Job smart. Okay. So you do that and then. But then if you want to go write songs. Were you around other songwriters in la? So you kind of dabbled your toe in it there.

[Tim Hurley]

So I was absolutely not trying to pursue music whatsoever. I literally went to a karaoke bar. Drunk, sure. Saying Picture Cheryl Crow. Somebody asked me, did you hear part.

[Bobby Bones]

Of I put you?

[Tim Hurley]

I should have actually, but I did the Kid Rock. Kid Rock part. But yeah, somebody was actually sitting in the crowd. There were like eight people in our neighborhood bar, Prince of Wales, shout out. And this guy was like, you got to meet my friend. He's in Texas. El Paso, Texas. He's a producer. I think you're going to do great.

[Bobby Bones]

Things from you singing at a karaoke bar. Okay, go ahead.

[Tim Hurley]

And so very long story short, but I end up kind of meeting the guy, talking to him, and then about a month later, he invited me out to El Paso, Texas, where he was living, because he got asked to open up for John Michael Montgomery. And he asked me to perform with him basically and start this new project. So the first time I ever played a gig or ever sat on stage or ever sang in front of anybody other than the eight people at the karaoke bar was in front of 10,000 people at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

[Lunchbox]

Dang.

[Bobby Bones]

Opening for John Michael Montgomery.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So did you have any success?

[Tim Hurley]

The response was awesome. And I was like, this is cool. I guess I'll just try this now.

[Bobby Bones]

So how long did you do that?

[Tim Hurley]

So I worked with him for a couple years and then I just went on my own. And I was in music probably for eight years, I guess.

[Bobby Bones]

Doing what? Writing, Doing more event production.

[Tim Hurley]

I was doing the event stuff for money. And then I started. I just wrote all my own songs. I never did a co write ever. And I was really good at hustling. So I ended up getting us like really good gigs, but never got a deal or anything like that. And then Covid hit like it did.

[Bobby Bones]

Whatever. This is all pretty recent too.

[Tim Hurley]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, wow.

[Tim Hurley]

So I mean, we still play what's name?

[Bobby Bones]

What's in the group?

[Tim Hurley]

Tim Hurley Original at Tim Hurley Music. Yeah, no, I'm in Shameless Plug.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm in at Tim Hurley Music. That's awesome. I'm gonna go look at it right now.

[Tim Hurley]

So it's been underwhelming recently, but how do you.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I struggle with. If I'm touring, doing comedy, it's hard because our hours are awful.

[Tim Hurley]

Sure.

[Bobby Bones]

It's. I mean, awful.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So how do you manage that?

[Tim Hurley]

A lot of coffee and a lot of Zen.

[Bobby Bones]

Look at you here. Did you get in this picture? I can't really talk. You have a long sleeve shirt on this picture with short sleeves. You're pretty jacked, dude.

[Tim Hurley]

Used to be. I just had surgery a little while ago, so I'm trying to get it back.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't play it down. That's crazy.

[Tim Hurley]

Look at you.

[Bobby Bones]

I say Aftermath. You're behind a bar. What. What's that picture? What's this one here?

[Tim Hurley]

That's at the Shack in Playa Del Rey. It's my go to bar and they. I play acoustic there sometimes just as a favor to the owners and then they let me ten bar afterwards.

[Lunchbox]

That's cool.

[Tim Hurley]

Usually just myself.

[Bobby Bones]

Last night, as you watch the show, what performance did you enjoy the most?

[Tim Hurley]

Ashley McBride. I think she's one of the most, like, underappreciated artists in all of country music right now. And I think she's truly one of the most talented people right now. And she knocked it out of the park. And a lot of the people that have like big time production, you'll notice, you know, they get up on stage in front of a live audience and it just sounds like a little off. It's not that it's a bad but it's just a little bit off. And Ashley McBride gets up and she's just holding an acoustic guitar. She sounds like absolutely perfect every single time.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have any sensitivities or questions I can't ask you, like about people or.

[Tim Hurley]

Depends.

[Bobby Bones]

I know that's a weird question to ask.

[Tim Hurley]

And you guys already got canceled. I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into here.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, we've been canceled 100 times. Yeah. What's. What's another cancellation for us?

[Lunchbox]

You know what I mean?

[Tim Hurley]

No. Fire away. I'm. I'm good.

[Bobby Bones]

Zach. Brian, thoughts?

[Morgan]

Ooh.

[Tim Hurley]

I. I'll be honest, and I'm not just saying this, but I've. I've never been a huge Zach Bryan fan. I don't know why are you less.

[Bobby Bones]

Of one now after hearing all the personal things about him?

[Tim Hurley]

It's making me think when there's smoke, there's fire. But I haven't heard the response yet either. I'm so. I'm kind of curious. I mean, I'm here for the ride at this point. I'm not going to go either way.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm very much. I'm very much a viewer of this show. However, he does sound like a lot. A lot more of a dirt ball than. But then I Know so many artists and you. You don't have to make a noise here and agree or disagree because I don't want to put you in a weird spot. I know so many artists that people love and, like, this person's great. And they're absolute dirt balls. Like, they're the worst human.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, they treat people like crap. They got famous and so they're surrounded by all yes men, and they're absolute garbage. And as. As humans, great singers, but, yeah, they're just garbage cans. And I'm not saying he's that, because I don't know. But it's definitely not good for the resume.

[Tim Hurley]

The line that really got me was when Dave Portnoy said that he knows for a fact that his band hates him.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, me too.

[Tim Hurley]

That was the one. I'm like.

[Bobby Bones]

He's like, I know for a fact because if everybody around you hates you, that must mean consistently you're treating everybody around you like absolute garbage, especially the.

[Tim Hurley]

People that you're really putting up on a pedestal like nobody else. If they hate you and you're acting.

[Bobby Bones]

Like they're your best friends. Yeah. Like here, they just. They just mildly dislike me. You guys don't hate me. Just a mild.

[Lunchbox]

Not fully enough.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, right. Like, that's.

[Tim Hurley]

They were pretty open about it when I walked.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, they were like. They're like. No, it's very mid. Did you see the UFC stuff? Was that Ryan?

[Tim Hurley]

I did a little bit. I'm not a huge UFC guy, though.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So I didn't want. Okay, you guys, you know, little peas.

[Eddie]

Going to come out, so pee like urine.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's a Josie One camera, you know.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You know the UFC stuff. The fighter after he won the fight.

[Morgan]

No, I don't think so.

[Bobby Bones]

So here's what happened. So the last UFC fight, Brian Chicken Fry was there. It was known she was there. Dana White invited her out. She was doing tiktoks about it. And Zach. Bryan's. Zach or his management, it's the same because it's coming from him. Had offered. And I can. I can read the story, but I. He had offered somebody money that if they won when they do their mic to shout out Zach Brian. Because. Because Brandon was there.

[Lunchbox]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Dude. It's hilarious. So she's there. There's the interview in the Octagon after. The guy's name is David Onama, Right. Mike. He claimed he couldn't wait to come back to Madison Square Garden to see Zach Ryan in concert after he'd won the fight. When they're talking to him, he's like, I still think everybody. I can't wait to come back and see Zach Bryan in concert. And that was just. Okay. A lot of Zach Bryant fans. Heck, I like Zach Ryan's music, right? So the cameraman then goes over to Brianna because that's the story. The end. However, they get on a podcast, and I watch the podcast, and it's a couple guys, and they're interviewing him, and then it's just an interview about the fight or whatever. And they were like, you, Zach, Brian. Fanny goes, I don't even know who that is. They, like, called. And they were like. They, like, called and basically offered him money to say that as a way to, like, troll her. Wow. As she was sitting in the crowd. And so here's what. I have a quote. My manager called, hey, Zach Bryan is here. I want you to give him a shout out. He wasn't there, but. So they were a bit dishonest about that. He goes, to be honest, I didn't know Zach Bryan was. When the host asked if I. If it was a paid advertisement, he goes, exactly. That's literally what it was. So he paid to have, like, that's. That's. That's heavy, dude. Trolling. He. He. I'm gonna say this, allegedly took the cat that she adopted. Like, rescued, and, like, now does Instagrams with it, like, in the house.

[Lunchbox]

A real cat?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, no, it's a cat she saved. Adopted. Like, as a troller, like, respect, but as, like, a person, I think probably kind of a bad person.

[Tim Hurley]

It was a weird decision for him to do that, right? Because she literally said, he took my cat. And then the next post was a picture of him and the cat, and.

[Bobby Bones]

The cat was, like, on his shoulder.

[Tim Hurley]

Don't be proud of, like, being called a jerk.

[Bobby Bones]

And she's like, the reason. He won't deny any of this because I have all the videos to say otherwise, like, he won't. He won't come out and say he didn't do anything that I've said with the abuse. Because I have the actual videos. The other ones, there was a fighter that came out to something in the Orange Zack song. It came out to the fight on it. Ufc, too, that same night. And so that's not really a song you come out to, I guess. But, I mean. And I like this song. Like, I'm a fan of the music. I literally, genuinely am. But I mean, that now is speculation, too, that he paid to have that done just to troll her as trolling. Hilarious. As a person, if all this is true garbage.

[Tim Hurley]

He sucks.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. If true. He sucks. Not just for this, but everything that led to us even knowing about this. Like, the mental, emotional abuse that she alleges he sucks.

[Eddie]

This makes him suck even more.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, if. But he's committed.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Got to give him that.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, whoever came up with that idea in his camp, probably him, maybe think. Or maybe, like, one of his boys. Unless one of his boys hates him. Like, you know, but it's. It's. It's a soap opera that I'm. I'm in.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And I hate it that it happened. It sucks when you humanize things. It's like, I watch a Ted Bundy documentary and be like, I'm so entertained by this. And then I got to go, like, okay, this is real. But at least that happened in the past. But then you're like, don't say, at least people got murdered. It's a whole. I'm like, binding. But we all watch. And then we're like, did you watch a Ted Bundy documentary? It doesn't seem real, but yeah. Yeah, that's what I. That's what I wondered about that. So Morgan Wallen wasn't there last night. Thoughts on that?

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, that was very odd, but I. I thought it was pronounced Morgan Whin. No. Is that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, Whing. Right.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Morgan, wh. Did you make it to the end of the show? Did you actually see that one live?

[Tim Hurley]

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. No, that was interesting, but, yeah, that seemed like a little bit of a troll also.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I enjoyed that. Troll.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Now, that's one I fully enjoy. And I said that on the show. I was like, no, I'm. I'm for that. I think he purposely didn't show up. I think he should have won it last year, and I'm glad he won this year. CMAs are usually or at times have been a bit behind by a year, and there will be outrage, and then the next year they correct it.

[Tim Hurley]

I always love the new artist of the year category is amazing. Where it's like, people that have had, like, number one songs for, like, two years.

[Bobby Bones]

Mitchell Tincheny, the perfect example of this year.

[Tim Hurley]

I talked to him a couple times, and it was. So I'm like, what? New artist of the Year? Like, you've been around for, like, five, six years with songs on the radio.

[Bobby Bones]

I just got my pension, and I'm new. I'm up for a new artist.

[Eddie]

You know, my favorite performance last night that I saw because I had to leave early, but Ella Langley and Riley Green. I Was obsessed with it. Like, I was smiling the whole time. Like, I love that. Like, she popped up out of the crowd and started singing, and then she's on stage and then, boom, there's Riley. He stands up. I don't know. Just like quintessential country. It was so good.

[Bobby Bones]

She's a firecracker. They've done that in here. They've performed that in here.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I know, but it was like a. Just seeing them do that their thing on stage, like, they just. That's her first time doing anything like that, and she killed it.

[Bobby Bones]

She. I was watching a. Like, maybe it was after they had won their award for event of the year, which means just more than one artist, you know, doing something together. And she was like, this is the first award I ever won.

[Eddie]

Mm.

[Bobby Bones]

It's quite the introduction.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Pretty good.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like, I have a friend who took a son to his first college football game, and he took him. And the friend of mine is pretty connected because he's an agent to some massive sports figures. And he's like, I finally took him to his first game and we went on the field and we went back and talked to the coach, and it was a crazy game. We took pictures with the mascot and a couple of players. I was like, that's his first game. He's nothing. No games ever going to compare.

[Lunchbox]

Never.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, that's his first experience. He's done. Everything's going to suck from now on. And he was like, yeah, that's a good point. So then they went to another game, and he said they purposely bought tickets really high and didn't do anything just to. Just to give him equalizer experience.

[Lunchbox]

This is real life.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So what. What time do you have to wake up?

[Tim Hurley]

I'm kind of pushing it these days. It's like five. It's not too bad. You go on at six, six to ten.

[Bobby Bones]

And your. Your studio is how far from your house?

[Tim Hurley]

Like, 10 minutes, door to door, man.

[Bobby Bones]

That's.

[Eddie]

Ride your bike, like, lunchbox.

[Tim Hurley]

I actually do take the car for that one. I might have lied a little bit. I do drive in la.

[Bobby Bones]

Do they think you're the. Here you look like us. Normal. Everybody that you walk down the street in la, do they think you're a big hillbilly if you're just out and not your own neighborhood?

[Tim Hurley]

No. I mean, everybody wears a costume in la.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good point.

[Tim Hurley]

It's just everybody's dressed up for something, so they're like, all right, you're in the country. Costume Today, that's prime.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good point. Amy, question for you. Should we do a mid roll? Ray? Okay, quick mid roll here.

[Morgan]

Hey, what's up?

[Bobby Bones]

This is Ramses Job, and I go.

[Morgan]

By the name Q.

[Bobby Bones]

Ward, and we'd like you to join us each week for our show, Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and.

[Morgan]

Empowers all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show.

[Bobby Bones]

For non black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence. And we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, indigenous, lgbtqia, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters.

[Morgan]

And we're inviting you to join us.

[Bobby Bones]

For Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q.

[Morgan]

Ward, and some of the greatest minds in America.

[Bobby Bones]

Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Morgan]

Hey there, my little creeps. It's your favorite ghost host, Tereza. And guess what? Hunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season. Now, I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories. Well, wonder no more, because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you. Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice dust off that Ouija board. Just don't call me unless it's urgent, and tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Eddie]

Hey, everyone, this is Courtney Thorne Smith.

[Morgan]

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[Eddie]

Apartment buildings with pools were never quite.

[Morgan]

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[Eddie]

We are going to be released. Every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail and explosion, and every single wig removal.

[Morgan]

Together, secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you. Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by.

[Bobby Bones]

You know who they are.

[Morgan]

Sydney, Allison and Joe are back together on still the Place, with a trip.

[Bobby Bones]

Down memory lane and back to Melrose Place.

[Morgan]

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[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Amy, question for you, because we never talked about it and you never told me. Were you ever on tv?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yes, I was.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, you never even. And yesterday.

[Eddie]

I know, I know it's not a.

[Bobby Bones]

It is. Be proud, Amy. But it should have been a thing because we did a whole bit about it the day before. So, Tim, what happened was Amy went and did an interview with the Opry and they interviewed her for a bunch of stuff. And then you just kind of wait and see if they put any of it on the ABC the night before special. And we talked about it. We were like, Amy's gonna be. It's gonna be awesome. And then she never Came back and said that she was on.

[Eddie]

You don't know what they're gonna use.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. It was a 2020 special. And, yeah, I got. Is the. Some of my Jason Aldean stuff got used. Shabuzzi. Carly Pierce.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you bring any of it? Like, do we have any of it?

[Eddie]

Oh, no, it's okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you. You say it's okay. Like, did you not bring.

[Eddie]

Well, I don't know. How am I supposed to get that? I record it with my phone.

[Bobby Bones]

You just rewind and record? Yeah, it's okay. Oh, you just never.

[Eddie]

It just makes me feel. It just felt awkward.

[Lunchbox]

You were on 2020.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And you didn't kill anyone.

[Eddie]

Okay, so here's where a listener pointed out to me. They sent me a dm. They're like, oh, my gosh, I'm freaking out for you because you're sort of like, now one degree of separation from Robin Roberts. I mean, and she's been on my podcast, and I've. I've talked with her before. I just haven't met her in person. But, like, abc, that's her territory. And I was, like, kind of inching my way into her territory, and I was like, I wonder if she watches everything on abc. And she's like, oh, there's that Amy girl. I wonder what she's up to. And next time she needs a co host for something or help in country, she might call me.

[Bobby Bones]

I would say that sounds like crazy talk, but there have been situations where that's happened.

[Lunchbox]

Maybe that happened.

[Eddie]

Yeah. This is what I'm putting out there. I would like to do that because I just love her so much. She's been such an inspiration to me. So that was my little. I'm like, oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But I want to talk about what. What you. What they showed of you. Like, how much air time did you get?

[Eddie]

It was little snippets, like, with each artist. Like, the thing that came up, like, with Carly Pierce, it was. You know, she was. Had to call out a guy for being rude at her show, and she was like, an empowering moment for her.

[Bobby Bones]

Was that a song?

[Eddie]

An endearing. No, it happened, like, during a show.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Because every song is about calling out a guy, so I didn't know if.

[Eddie]

This one was about a song. No, it was the guy literally there. But it was just, I think, an endearing moment for her with her fans to, like, see her be there and be strong and stand up for herself. And then, like, Jason aldean, the Route 91 festival. So, like, with that, like Kelly Sutton had done, she was talking about the tragedy, like, what went down. And then it would go to, like, a clip of Jason on stage. And then all of a sudden I. Then I was talking and I was like, that's my voice. I wonder if they're just going to use my voice and not show my face.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you know, did they show your face?

[Eddie]

Well, eventually it was like, my voice. And then there I was saying just that, like, his. How he feels now, making sure. Staying connected to that because of the people that lost their lives. Like, he. He went through a lot on stage that night, but I don't really remember exactly what I said. It's like, I said a lot of things. And then they use that one little snippet.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it's the story of my life. I would go do. When I was on Idol, I do a three hour. They'd use 15 seconds of it.

[Eddie]

You know, what happened with the Shabuzi thing, though? Because, you know, I was like, reading up on stuff before, obviously, because I was like, okay, what if they asked this? And I. And my son really likes Shabuzi, so we've listened to some of his other music too. Like, obviously he has the hit, but, like, online specifically, it said he's been making music for 10 years, but the cliff right before Shabuzi goes, yeah, I'm 29, and I started music when I was probably, you know, 17, 18. I was like. And then the next clip goes straight to me where I'm like, he's been making music for 10 years. When he just said he's been making it for 11 or 12, that's the same thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Ten years, though it bothered me. That wouldn't have bothered me. And yes, you're a harshest critic. I'm saying, don't be bothered BY that, because 10 years is a general feeling. For around a decade, you could. That could have been eight. It could have meant 12.

[Eddie]

I know, but it's just where I was like, dang. He just did the math. And then it goes to me saying that, and then I. It looks like.

[Bobby Bones]

But they also didn't feel like that. What you said was stupid because they put it in there.

[Eddie]

True.

[Bobby Bones]

Because they felt. They felt like. I would have felt, yeah, 10 years just means around 10 years.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

Not. You didn't say.

[Eddie]

I didn't say around. I didn't say around. I said, he's been making me super. It just was funny the way it lined up, because it looked like, if Shabuzi and I were in the same room that I don't know how to do math.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't take that because I hate me.

[Eddie]

I know, but this is why I probably hate it. I just, like, also dissected every single thing I said, and I was like, stupid, stupid, stupid.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's why you need to have. Is that why you didn't bring the clips?

[Eddie]

Cause you thought you were stupid and. Yeah, I didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

The truth. Now the truth is coming out, probably. You also need to find a way to get the vert. The first generation version of it for your tape.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, I know. I need to build that.

[Lunchbox]

But you're real.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. You're gonna use that to make a tape to get other stuff. Like, you have to have that.

[Eddie]

I know. So we've been talking about that for a couple years now.

[Bobby Bones]

So don't run from.

[Eddie]

I know, I know. This is why I missed out on my opportunity to be in that Hulu movie, too.

[Lunchbox]

Why?

[Eddie]

Because I didn't. I get. Like, I give up. Like, I just.

[Bobby Bones]

What opportunity for a Hulu movie?

[Eddie]

Well, there's the girl. Well, maybe. I don't know if I didn't sound familiar. Yeah, I think I brought up that there was. Maybe it was on my podcast. I don't know. I brought up that there was that Hulu movie that came out this year for Christmas, and the star of it, she has her own radio show, and she.

[Lunchbox]

It's the one that we watched.

[Eddie]

She ends up with this cowboy. A widow or cowboy guy.

[Bobby Bones]

You thought you were gonna be the star of a hula?

[Eddie]

No, but I mean, I could, like, if I had stuck with it, I could have auditioned for that.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. She's iffing like crazy.

[Eddie]

That's me.

[Tim Hurley]

I thought you got offered the role.

[Bobby Bones]

Or it's like, hey, would you come audition? You're like, I don't have a tape. No, no, you're iffing, you're. Got it.

[Eddie]

No, but had I stuck with it. My point is Peter Panning.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You're up in the scare, this disguise. Very, very dusting.

[Eddie]

Sure. I'll give you that.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not totally realistic how you set that up. We thought you, like, missed an audition or didn't have a take.

[Eddie]

I did miss an audition because I gave up.

[Bobby Bones]

But they didn't offer you an audition.

[Eddie]

Right? Because I know that we didn't miss it. Right. But I. But had I stuck with it, then I would have maybe known about it, and then I could have.

[Bobby Bones]

And the same thing. The NBA Yeah. Cuz Scuba Steve believes if he could have made it to the NBA, way more confidence. If my dad would have been in.

[Lunchbox]

My life and I would have had that support system, I could have easily.

[Morgan]

Been in the NBA.

[Bobby Bones]

The strength. We don't. We don't not believe in you, but I don't think they would have given you a lead role in a movie. When you vote.

[Eddie]

I know you believe in me. The problem is I've got to believe in myself, which is like your suffering Scuba Steve syndrome. No.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, triple S. Oh, no. Get a doctor in here. This is not good.

[Eddie]

Diagnosis triple S. It's like after I did the first. That Christmas movie, I was on the high, like an inner. Like a high. And I just started. I was like, I'm gonna do this. And I went after it and somehow the high died. And then I was like, so I guess I won it bad enough, but also I got. I got nervous that, like, I, you know, I let the stories in my head get to me. Like, you're stupid. What are you doing? And I shouldn't do that because I don't. I tell other people all the time, don't do that to yourself. Like you should. You should believe in yourself and you're capable.

[Bobby Bones]

The high died. You had fear of failure, and that is natural. But yeah, the high dyed. My only point was I thought we missed a story about her, like being late to an audition or being offered one, that you have a tape. Because she was like, I should have saved it. That's how I missed the Hulu movie. Turns out she just saw a movie.

[Eddie]

About somebody who had a radio show.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Lunchbox]

And I've seen.

[Bobby Bones]

But I don't think you needed a radio show to be that she's single. No, no, that would have been more like that. I think that movie was based on me more than I could have played the part in that movie. Correct.

[Lunchbox]

I will say, though, I saw the movie and I did think, wow, Amy could do this part. But that's it.

[Eddie]

The woman that did it, she did a great job. She deserved. But I mean, I'm just saying Amy.

[Lunchbox]

Could do the job where you thought.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, this reminds me of Amy's. That's what it was. It reminds you of Amy.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but I thought since she's in holiday harmony, like she could be this person. Yeah, I did think that while I watched the movie.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you know what? Give you a rose too.

[Lunchbox]

No, I'm just saying. But then that's made me think, like, okay, dang, Amy really could have been in this Movie. But no, she. It was Bobby.

[Eddie]

Have you ever thought about writing a movie?

[Bobby Bones]

No. I mean, I'm thinking of it right now, but I don't want to do it.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not thinking about it anymore. I thought you were thinking about it. Hold on. I'm not thinking about being an astronaut right now. Hold on, hold on. I'm thinking about being an astronaut. Okay. I'm done with that too.

[Tim Hurley]

Hold on.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, that's a realistic question.

[Eddie]

Because you've written books. You write like.

[Bobby Bones]

Stop.

[Eddie]

That's it. Don't make fun of my question.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you said you're thinking about. Right now. I'm thinking about three feet. I'm on foot. Oh, that's weird. So my answer is I've written a couple of television show scripts. I hated it.

[Eddie]

Oh, so you don't wanna. But have you given movie scripts?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I don't care enough to do it.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm not. No. I don't have a genuine enough interest to be. To put the work into it. I think I could do it and write a hundred great ones. I think I can do anything because I'm nuts, right? Like, I'm certifiably insane. I think I can do anything.

[Lunchbox]

You believe in yourself.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I'm insane. Oh, yeah. More so than just believing in myself. I believe I can do anything in the whole world. Like, what's gonna stop me?

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean, do anything? Exactly.

[Eddie]

Some people have to act as if. And they have to tell themselves they can do it. And it's like you act as if, and then you.

[Morgan]

It.

[Eddie]

You create it and it happens, but you are naturally, certifiably acting as if you were born that way.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I can do anything. Maybe a heart surgeon. Okay, cool.

[Lunchbox]

Now you can't do that.

[Bobby Bones]

I swear to God, if I went right now and I need more than an hour.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, you need more than an hour.

[Bobby Bones]

Or I think you give me a year. I do. I'm doing surgery on hearts. Okay.

[Lunchbox]

No, check with your wife.

[Eddie]

He's saying he could dedicate himself to it. And then, like, I think believing in yourself is part of the battle.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And it's. I also understand how irrational it is, but it takes irrational dreams to do irrational things. And I think everything I've ever done has been really irrational. I have no background in any of this stuff. I've never written a book. First time they write a book, I was like, I know how to write words. Okay. I didn't tell them that. I was like, yeah, no problem. You know what I did? I just freaking wrote essays one after the other and then mailed them, emailed them off. It was like, I don't know. This sucks. I wouldn't even take money for my first book because I was so nervous it was going to be bad. But I was like, I know I can do this. Hold the money till we think it's good. And then after I've sent in the 30,000 words of the 60, they're like, this is good. I was like, give my money. I was like, but to them, I never was like, I don't think I can do it. I was like, no problem.

[Lunchbox]

I would have been like, give me all the money up front because it's probably not going to mean it. Good.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You ever act?

[Tim Hurley]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. You got. You got like the face for acting. You're good looking, dude. You can do that.

[Lunchbox]

And all the studios next door.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, I know, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Ride your bike over there. Do you know like cool people?

[Tim Hurley]

I mean, I just met you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

No, like real cool. Like we're like moderately cool for this building.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Everybody in this building. We're moderately cool for this building. Like, do you know like famous people over there now?

[Tim Hurley]

Really? I don't hang out with the famous crowd.

[Bobby Bones]

That's good because it's weird.

[Tim Hurley]

I keep my little bubble.

[Bobby Bones]

You ever go to a Diddy party?

[Tim Hurley]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Tim Hurley]

I can be that. I know I had a little hesitation there. I just imagined what it was hesitation.

[Bobby Bones]

But I think that went to Diddy parties, white parties that didn't do what? Diddy for sure.

[Eddie]

Because they would leave before midnight.

[Bobby Bones]

Or they just weren't invited to do that part of it. Like they weren't invited to do that part of it.

[Tim Hurley]

I have worked with Diddy before. Oh, and what about event production?

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Tim Hurley]

Capacity.

[Eddie]

He's like, I was just set up the white parties.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you hear? Because I always heard.

[Tim Hurley]

I never got the invite. I was batting my eyes and everything. Never got the invite.

[Bobby Bones]

I always heard weird stuff. But it was always like secondhand weird stuff.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever hear weird stuff about Diddy?

[Tim Hurley]

Okay. He gave off a very weird vibe. I will say. He had like six people working for him that were all between like 20 and 25 years old. And they were like running around in different directions. All they getting waters doing this and that. It was just like an odd vibe.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And I remember thinking, there's somebody told me that I knew new people. And I was like, no way. And it wasn't what he's in jail for. It Was just others. We like bizarre stuff. I wouldn't say on the. I don't want to, you know, be sued, but, Amy, I saw more of those Diddy videos, which.

[Eddie]

Oh, the ones like, where the private.

[Bobby Bones]

Investigators come to people's houses.

[Eddie]

That's so crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

So crazy. Like two. And it's always two investigators.

[Eddie]

You know what? This makes me wonder because you know how there's other people may be involved, like, how. How high up or whatever does this go? Because if it was like, Diddy and he had other famous people or politicians.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, they want to be protected, right?

[Eddie]

So that's why. So that's why things are happening.

[Bobby Bones]

That's why it took so long for the Epstein stuff to come out. There were people at Networks Family, like, now we're not doing this. And then you're like, why were they not doing it? Because they are the Harvey Weinstein.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, talking about extremely elevated people with positions that can smush stuff. But, yeah, I saw another one of those.

[Eddie]

Yeah. What? Like, no, no. I hate that it's political, but it's still just a huge story right now.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't go political right now. I just don't even feel like it.

[Eddie]

What.

[Lunchbox]

What's Mark Wahlberg like?

[Bobby Bones]

Why did you make a noise like a noise like you said on a whoopee cushion, Right.

[Lunchbox]

Then Hang on.

[Tim Hurley]

I'll just wait.

[Eddie]

Because I'm just like. I just. I don't know. I just wonder how deep some stuff goes and, like, how messed up a lot of things are. And I'm like, just like I said.

[Bobby Bones]

Those famous people were real dirtbags here. That dude, there's an artist that I know of. I didn't go. I didn't see them on eyes, so I can't actually say it. But who is a guy artist who. Whenever. Young female artists. This is just what's been told to me. Otherwise, I'd be like, if I actually had seen it or knew it for sure, that, like, young artists would come to town, they'd be like, hey, let's write. And they'd be like, take it. Make them go to a strip club. You're talking about like, whoa. Like, it's just gross stuff. Some people, they always say, when you get money or power, you find out who they really are. Because it's always more. It's always the most of whatever they really are. That's gross. Create. The creative industries are gross for the most part because people have to have a screw loose to even want to do it and to do it at a high level. Because you need to have something about you that's intrinsically different artistically. So you need to have a screw loose. You just got to hope it's, like, the right combination of screws. So you're, like, making great art, but you're not, like, doing other weird stuff, and that's hard. I find my weird stuff to be baseball cards. That, to me, is pretty healthy. So what's the rest of the day like?

[Tim Hurley]

I'm just catching a flight. I'm actually going to Jersey today to visit some family, friends, but much easier. I've had my Nashville fill. Man. It's been a long, long stretch here, as you guys all know, too. I'm sure this week it's like your Super Bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Stomach bug. So I didn't do much. I literally was on the Super Bowl.

[Tim Hurley]

That's more work, though, than actually doing the interviews.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, no, that's true. I would disappear for, like, half an hour on the show, and that's when they know I'm about to die. Because I don't. I don't even go to the bathroom, really, around here. And I was gone for, like, half an hour. And you get a text. You okay?

[Lunchbox]

It's not good.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I am. The weird thing about our bathroom here is that it looks like it's two doors in the men's bathroom, separate stalls, like. Like in fancy places, like in a casino. You open a door, you have your own room for the bathroom. That one. It looks like two doors and two rooms, but then you open it up, and there's, like, a little plastic wall in the middle, and you're still, like, chilling with your buddy.

[Lunchbox]

It's a. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's fake. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

It's not real.

[Bobby Bones]

You'd like. I'm in lap of luxury here.

[Lunchbox]

I was pumped about that when I first walked in and I saw the Gap.

[Bobby Bones]

Next thing you know, battles next to you taking a poopy, and you're like, well, this is. Yeah. This look too close for comfort here, by the way.

[Tim Hurley]

There's nothing worse than getting a text while you're in the bathroom.

[Bobby Bones]

Bathroom.

[Tim Hurley]

Asking if you're okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I just.

[Lunchbox]

But he knew because it'd been a while.

[Tim Hurley]

That's pretty rough, though, right? You're having a moment and somebody texts you about it.

[Eddie]

I just thought. I honestly thought you got pulled into a meeting. Like, you went to the bathroom.

[Bobby Bones]

That would have been a trouble meeting then.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah. Or somebody was here.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, man.

[Eddie]

Don't.

[Bobby Bones]

They can be mad all they want, Tim.

[Lunchbox]

See that on tv?

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

On tv.

[Eddie]

I wasn't on tv. No, we were on TV with the hoodie.

[Lunchbox]

And Lunchbox was in the front with his hoodie.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

No, Ray was in the front. I saw the picture, which is why I looked.

[Eddie]

Ray was the only person on that row, by the way. Did you notice that?

[Bobby Bones]

Hold on. I don't know any story about it because I wasn't there. I saw the picture and that's what led me to go, what is Lunchbox wearing? And then I looked and I had a message from someone going, what is Lunchbox wearing? And I thought he was wearing, like a funny suit. I didn't know what was going on.

[Lunchbox]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Wasn't feeling great. Anyway. And I look at the picture and Raymundo is in the very, very front. I loved it for you. You look great. Maybe. I always thought they put the smaller people up front. That's what I thought. That's what it was.

[Eddie]

No, we were like. So I was next to Crook and Chase, and they were supposed to be the front row. Crook and Chase are the ones holding the award on behalf of everybody that was up there.

[Bobby Bones]

Love Crook and Chase. I tried to get the award, but they gave it to Crook and Chase.

[Eddie]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

It's probably the hoodie. They're right. We can't give the hoodie guy the award.

[Eddie]

And so then Ray's just right there on the front. Nobody else is on that step. It's just like, Ray.

[Bobby Bones]

I respect that. Well, roll the tape back. I think somebody was standing next to me and they moved up last second. Did Ray, you are so on front. And Amy's hand is on your shoulder.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Because I was like, what do I do? This is awkward.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, this is our show. Let me explain the picture.

[Eddie]

It's so awkward. I know.

[Bobby Bones]

So funny. Because I've not looked at it on full screen.

[Eddie]

It's so bad.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, I need to see this.

[Bobby Bones]

So Crook and Chase. Is this on tv? Yeah, they showed the whole. The picture briefly when they're like, here's all the winners and it's everybody who won an award. So it's like. It's a lot of people. So Crook and Chase, legends in the industry. When I was a child, I listened to Cooking Chase. I've had him on pot. I love them.

[Lunchbox]

So their first cma, by the way.

[Bobby Bones]

No way.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I asked them, how many do you guys have? They're like, this is our first.

[Bobby Bones]

Is it because they did a Countdown account. Doesn't recognize until recently.

[Lunchbox]

They said that they never knew they had to submit.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's on them. That's on their people. So they're holding the award, which makes plenty of sense because everybody in that group respects them. So in front of them. And it looks like Ray is Charlie Chase's kid. He does. It looks like Ray is Charlie Chase's child and who's wearing a suit. And Charlie brought Ray with him because it's his first award. Like, he. Ray is in the very, very front. It does. Yeah. Yeah. So there's Ray. Ray. You look handsome as crap, though, by the way. So Ray is standing there now, right behind Ray. Like, over Charlie Chase's shoulder is Amy. But part of Ray's head's blocking Amy's face. Yeah. Can't really see Amy's mouth. No. So. And you have a great face. And I'm sorry that was that all of it. Wasn't able to be seen. So Amy is there now. Scuba Steve looks like he's gonna sell you cocaine.

[Morgan]

Yeah, he does.

[Bobby Bones]

Scuba Steve is right in the middle.

[Lunchbox]

He looks like a drug dealer of crook.

[Bobby Bones]

And Chase behind them, it perfectly gapped but raised. And Scuba Steve has the bald head with the beard. He's wearing sunglasses with a single chain over them, like, for sure. He lives in Miami originally. Grew up in, like, New Jersey and is like the low level coke dealer and somehow got into this picture. Like, that's what. That's what Scuba Steve looks like. There next to him is like the guy who they needed a seat filler. And so they're like, get in here to hold this position. And then he never left. And that's Lunchbox in a hoodie. It's like they grab somebody just to hold this because he's not dressed for the picture. So hold the spot till the roll. Lunchbox gets here in the suit. And then Lunchbox is in a hoodie. It's. It does stand out. Mike D. Is smiling. Good picture. Eddie, you look great suit. You're. Abby is like way to the side. Because Abby is like, I'll just get in where I fit in. I don't see more. Oh, I see Morgan.

[Lunchbox]

She's on the other side of the drug dealer.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You know, I didn't recognize you.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I didn't recognize you.

[Morgan]

Like, why Hairs up.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. It does. I don't feel like it. Looks like her.

[Eddie]

Looks just like her.

[Lunchbox]

That's Morgan, man.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I know it's Morgan. I saw her. But I'm saying, like, general, I wouldn't.

[Eddie]

Why don't you. I haven't even seen the picture, so.

[Bobby Bones]

And Then I see kickoff. Kevin in there up at the top, who's just like, I'm happy I got my name put on the trophy. So I'm just gonna stand up here, which is cool. Big part of the show, but isn't on the air a lot. So I think he's just like, boom. And there's some other people in the end. So every guy has on either a jacket or a tie. And then the seat filler guy. Is that Justin Suit? Yeah.

[Eddie]

He won. He won't.

[Bobby Bones]

Gray hair now. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

He has a kid now, so.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I knew that. Yeah. So.

[Lunchbox]

Well, the gray hair comes with it, buddy.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Justin the Suit is standing right next to Lorianne.

[Lunchbox]

That's pretty cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Justin the Suit was our guy when we moved here. Now he's in Chattanooga, like, running stuff over there.

[Lunchbox]

It was good to see him.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. Look at Justin the Suit. Did Justin sue make fun of your hoodie? No. Oh, I'm surprised.

[Lunchbox]

Are you sure?

[Bobby Bones]

I think he might have.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I think.

[Eddie]

I see it. I'm the only one blocked.

[Lunchbox]

You are the only one.

[Bobby Bones]

They demanded he be in front, and I respect that because you know how you get things in life. You go get them.

[Eddie]

Oh, dang.

[Bobby Bones]

Good picture.

[Lunchbox]

I do think somebody told him to go down there, though. I don't think he said no.

[Eddie]

He did it.

[Bobby Bones]

Ray. What's the real. What's the real situation there?

[Eddie]

You can't tell.

[Bobby Bones]

It was so rushed and hurried, and there were. There was several rows below Crook and Chase that I thought other people were gonna fill in. If you got any lower, your head would be on his dong. Dude. Like, you can't. You can't go another row. I just didn't think going up was an option because I am a shorter guy.

[Eddie]

You could have come up and stood right next to me.

[Bobby Bones]

I just didn't know there was a spot there.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I mean, we would have made great job.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, Scuba Steve and Lunchbox have definitely their own style. It's like scuba is at the wrong award show.

[Lunchbox]

That's just me. The Hip Hop Awards or something. But Scuba Steve dressed like that the last time he went. Yeah, he's consistent.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That's how I dress him. Not talking about how he dresses. I'm just saying in this picture, he for sure looks like a drug dealer. Yeah, it's the sunglasses in the picture. It's the chain with the sunglasses in the picture. And it's standing right in the middle of everybody. Hilarious. The biggest smile.

[Lunchbox]

That's what they asked me to be. She goes there's a window right here. Stand right there.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's a good picture of you.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

I appreciate it. Yeah, I think it's a good picture of you. Thank you. Well, there you go, guys. It's a good picture of me, too.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Mid laugh. Looking good. Your strings are out in your hoodie. Yeah, that's where they're supposed to be, man. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Can I just say one thing about Lunchbox? Just one thing? Yeah, one thing. He dresses better at I Heart Festival in Vegas. Like, he would never wear a hoodie to iheart Festival.

[Bobby Bones]

You mean buttons on it? He wears buttons on a shirt.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, he dresses up way more than that. So I didn't understand.

[Eddie]

No, he said this.

[Bobby Bones]

Look, if you're worried about how you dress, if you let other people worry, if you're worried about what other people think, then that's your problem.

[Lunchbox]

Right?

[Eddie]

But right now, that's your problem that you're letting it get to you.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. I just think it's funny that, like, Mike D's wife, I haven't seen her in six months, and she says, oh, I see you got your nicest clothes out. That's pretty funny. That's pretty funny. And that's somebody who says funny stuff. I think my wife would have probably roasted, too. But if I would have looked at her and said, well, your dress looks like a trash bag, how would my. But she's not insulting the quality of your shirt. She was being funny about the fact that you were way under. Okay, so what if I said, that's the dress you chose?

[Lunchbox]

Did you think you were underdressed? Like, out of everyone in there? Did not once did you think, like, wow, I really am underdressed.

[Bobby Bones]

I do think that.

[Eddie]

Let's get an outsider perspective, because he.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you seen Lunchbox?

[Tim Hurley]

I thought that was a great line, by the way. You could never tell your wife. You could never ask your wife, is that the dress you chose for that photo?

[Bobby Bones]

But it could come the other woman different. If they tell you you're dressing, we'll say business. What's a. What's a style? I don't know how. If they say you're dressing black tie, but if she's wearing an ugly black tie dress, at least she's wearing the style.

[Eddie]

No, no. What it would be. What would it. What it would. The equivalent would be black. If she showed up in, like.

[Bobby Bones]

That's not what that means.

[Eddie]

If she showed up in sweatpants.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Or something. A sweatshirt.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'll end on this because I think this is a valuable lesson. Again, I took the blame because apparently I didn't tell you guys to all wear suits, because I would have. Because I think that is what I should have expressed. Wear suits, wear dresses. Because that is. We've been. Many times. That's the dress code. But I think at times Lunchbox can get upset because he's not offered other, larger roles. National things, national album release things, television. And I think this is a very small indicator as to at times why people won't take you seriously.

[Tim Hurley]

Why.

[Bobby Bones]

And that you don't get offered those things because they don't trust that you can do even the baseline thing. So why would they be able to trust that you do the other things? Hey, I dress for me.

[Tim Hurley]

I'm not dressing for other people.

[Bobby Bones]

But then that's fine, and that's great. But then it's hard. You can't get upset whenever you're not offered other things because you do. And I would say my best advice would be if you want something, look like that as to what you want, because then they'll at least consider you for it.

[Eddie]

Act as if.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know what that means.

[Eddie]

That's what we just went over. Acting as if, like, acts apart and.

[Bobby Bones]

You'Ll know what we do all day.

[Tim Hurley]

I. I feel like the parents are fighting, and frankly, it's making me a little.

[Bobby Bones]

That's okay. If the parents are fighting. Our whole relationship is this. And we should have never got married.

[Eddie]

Wait, all of us are married?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we're all married. It's like a whole group. Yeah, it's like a weird religious thing.

[Tim Hurley]

It's 2024.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's all good. So when do you go back home to California?

[Tim Hurley]

I'll be back on Sunday.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you do the show from New Jersey? Are you on vacation now?

[Tim Hurley]

No, I'll do the show. What day is today? Thursday. Yeah, one more day of track and.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, one more. Do you need to use our studio track?

[Tim Hurley]

No, I'm good. Thank you, though.

[Bobby Bones]

All right.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, I'll do it live tomorrow morning.

[Bobby Bones]

It.

[Lunchbox]

There we go.

[Bobby Bones]

And what's cool about that is it's easier when you're east. Because when I had to go west and I could Mike D. And I lived over there for a month and a half when I danced with the stars trying to do the show. Miserable. Yeah, I gotta wake up at three.

[Tim Hurley]

It's a treat. It's a treat. And then you don't have to get dressed. You don't have to put pants on.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, dude, congratulations. With no Pants, currently.

[Eddie]

I used to. Well, not no pants, but. Well, I did the show from North Carolina for five years.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, from home. Yeah.

[Eddie]

While they were all in the studio. Those were the days because I was on east coast time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And y'all were an hour earlier. And my dog would sit at my feet and I would just wear my pajamas.

[Tim Hurley]

It was great.

[Bobby Bones]

Who's your favorite artist to come by?

[Tim Hurley]

Kenny Chesney is the guy that got me into country music and the live show.

[Bobby Bones]

Who's the. Who do you like? That's super nice. You could be a fan or not, but you know when they come by, it's going to be they're super cool.

[Tim Hurley]

Bailey Zimmerman probably gives the best interview in country music, I'd say right now. Nate Smith is another guy. Just super positive energy and super funny, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Tim Hurley]

Zach Top. I love that guy. Yeah, just look in his eyes, you know, he's like a sincere dude.

[Bobby Bones]

He hard launched his girlfriend last night. Did you see that, Morgan?

[Morgan]

Yeah, I saw them together at the after party.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you see the picture?

[Morgan]

Yeah, he posted.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know her. Do you know her? No.

[Morgan]

She doesn't look, like, familiar of anyone that I would know.

[Bobby Bones]

I think she's just a person and we like that.

[Morgan]

Oh, they were super cute together.

[Eddie]

You know what I did last night to some girl. I honestly don't know her. Really can't even tell you her name right now, but I see her on Instagram so much that when I saw her down on the floor, like we were at our seats and I was like, hey. And then I looked at her and I was like. And she looked at me like, who are you? And I was like, oh, my gosh. I just realized I don't know you. I just see you on other people's like, she's all. She must be a writer or producer or something. But I see her on people's stuff all the time. And I was like, yeah, you don't know me. Each other.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, somebody said Kevin James was there.

[Bobby Bones]

He was the king.

[Lunchbox]

The king of Queens. And he, like walked right by us and shook everyone's hand. And I didn't know who it was, so I thought that was like their friend that I didn't know. So I walked away.

[Bobby Bones]

That's pretty cool.

[Morgan]

Yeah, he had a. He had a boot on burn one time. Like.

[Bobby Bones]

Like a boot. Like a. Not a country music boot.

[Morgan]

No, like an actual. Like he broke something boot.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny. You didn't know it's him.

[Lunchbox]

No, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I hate that you think he Was with.

[Lunchbox]

He was by himself. He's wearing a ball cap like. And he just went up to our like, Morgan, he's wearing a ball cap.

[Bobby Bones]

At a black tie affair.

[Tim Hurley]

Oh God.

[Bobby Bones]

He was in a suit.

[Lunchbox]

He was in a suit.

[Bobby Bones]

Also. Also he's Kevin James.

[Eddie]

He's in a suit.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So once my wife wrecked her and her friend, they like recognized a former like OU basketball player. They were, they were literally a basketball game. And her friends. Let's get a picture. And so there's a picture of them standing with his OU basketball player. And right behind them it was Vince Carter, who they didn't even know.

[Lunchbox]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

And the guy that had the picture taken with them, Vince Carter, Amy. Very famous basketball player, North Carolina, NBA forever. And Caitlin kind of remembers the guy that they took the picture with being like, are you sure you want to take a picture with me? Because they didn't know who Vince Carter, but much more famous person right behind him thought, that's pretty funny.

[Lunchbox]

I did that with Hank Aaron. Everyone was like, oh, shaking his hand. I shook his hand, but I didn't know who it was. And then as we were walking off, they're like, gosh, hammering Hank in that crazy. That was Hank Aaron.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny.

[Lunchbox]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Was he in a suit?

[Lunchbox]

No, he was not in a suit.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Tim Hurley]

No hoodie?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, a white hoodie.

[Bobby Bones]

So Tim, I give your Instagram again.

[Tim Hurley]

That's at Tim Hurley Music.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Good for you.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I really appreciate you having going after it, man. That's awesome. And congratulations on everything's happening over there in la. And how long have you had that.

[Tim Hurley]

Job doing mornings for five years, since 2019.

[Bobby Bones]

You're not that tired yet? No.

[Tim Hurley]

First ever gig in radio too, so.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm exhausted. Yeah, I live exhausted.

[Tim Hurley]

Well, you've been crushing it for a long time here.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I've been. Crushing is not the word. The morning. I hate mornings though. Yeah, you hate mornings.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, I lied through my teeth to get the job for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that one of your questions? Do you like mornings?

[Tim Hurley]

They're like, well, yeah. He asked. He's like, oh, so you're a morning person? And I was like, absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good answer.

[Tim Hurley]

I wake up bright eyed and bushy tails.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, it's one. I'm the most creative and. And most funny.

[Tim Hurley]

Typically I fall asleep at the time where the show starts.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's tough. It is tough. Good to meet you. Thank you for being on with us. I know we literally hadn't met until a few seconds beforehand.

[Tim Hurley]

Yeah, I really appreciate you.

[Bobby Bones]

No, Scuba said you were here and I was like, oh, that's awesome. I'd love to meet him. So thanks for coming by and we'll say hi after we turn the microphones and stuff off. But by the way, we're done here. Everybody good?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, Good.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, we will see you guys tomorrow. Goodbye, everybody.

[Morgan]

Hey, I'm Jack Please Thomas, the host of a brand new Black Effect original series, Black lit, the podcast for diving deep into the rich world of black literature. Black lit is for the page turners, for those who listen to audio books while running errands or at the end of a busy day. From thought provoking novels to powerful poetry, we'll explore the stories that shape our culture. Listen to Black lit on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts at. And T connecting changes everything. Hello, my undeadly darlings. It's Tereza, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you. Haunting is crawling out from the shadows, and it's going to be devilishly good. We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join me, won't you? Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight. If you can listen to haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Marie. And I'm Sydney. And we're Mess. Well, not a mess, but on our podcast called Mess, we celebrate all things messy. But the gag is not everything is a mess. Sometimes it's just living. Yeah, things like JLo on her third divorce. Living girls trip to Miami.

[Bobby Bones]

Mess.

[Morgan]

Breaking up with your girlfriend while on Instagram. Live Living.

[Bobby Bones]

Mmm.

[Morgan]

It's kind of mess. Yeah, well, you get it. Got it. Live Love Mess. Listen to Mess with Sydney Washington and Marie Faustin on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Ja and I go by the name Q.

[Morgan]

Ward, and we'd like you to join.

[Bobby Bones]

Us each week for our show, Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence. And we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle.

[Morgan]

We're going to learn how to become.

[Bobby Bones]

Better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Eddie]

Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, the Running Interview show, where.

[Morgan]

I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more.

[Eddie]

After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with.

[Bobby Bones]

My guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.

[Eddie]

Listen to Post Run high on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.