TUES PT 2: Celebrity Open Marriages And Prenup + Lunchbox Blows Up On Eddie + Clint Black On 'Better Man' Airing On CMT, Reba And His New Book

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – May 19, 2026 (Tue Pt 2)

Episode Theme:
A lively and candid episode where the crew debates celebrity open marriages and prenups, dives into personal banking habits, and welcomes country legend Clint Black to discuss his new book, career insights, and stories from music history.

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Main Topics Covered

• The reality of celebrity open marriages (Mr. Feeney and wife)
• Celebrity prenup debates, focusing on Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce, J.Lo & Ben Affleck
• Financial habits: HSA maxing-out and workplace money debates
• Feel-good story: Michael Jordan FaceTimes his old teacher in hospice
• Radio show hijinks: Office “flirting” accusations and classic pranks
• In-depth interview with Clint Black: Book release, career, Reba, touring tales

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1. Celebrity Open Marriages: Mr. Feeney and Wife

[02:02–05:12]

Discussion Points

• Morgan shares about William Daniels ("Mr. Feeney") and his wife celebrating 75 years—they allegedly had an “open marriage” as per her new memoir.
  • Morgan: "They've had an open marriage for a long time. She came out in her memoir, talked about things, affairs she's had...”
• Bobby Bones questions whether it counts as an open marriage if it was never discussed or mutually agreed upon.
  • Bobby: “Is it open if you’ve never talked about it being open?” [02:36]
• Lunchbox summarizes: “It sounds like maybe they both had affairs and then they were both just like, we're both okay with it.”
• The team muses on relationship norms and the definition of “open marriages.”
  • Bobby: “If you never talked about it before, but then you did it... and you're like, ah, we’re okay with it. I feel like that's kind of a post-understanding.” [04:14]

Notable Quotes

• Bobby Bones: “If you’re not hurting people, do whatever you want. You can poop on each other, I don’t give a crap… If it works for you, it works for you.” [04:52]

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2. Celebrity Prenups: Taylor & Travis, J.Lo & Ben Affleck

[05:12–08:18]

Key Points

• Amy brings up rumors of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce working on a prenup—discussion on state laws and personal net worth.
  • Amy: "Taylor is worth an estimated 2 billion. Travis comes in at about 90 million."
• The group questions whether all these reports are speculation.
  • Eddie: “That’s kind of my problem with all this Travis Taylor news. Who knows what’s real?” [06:44]
• Discussion expands to Ben Affleck and J.Lo, with Amy reading their rumored net worths.
• Lunchbox points out: “She has so much more she’s going to have to have all this stuff written because he has, what, a couple footballs and a podcast.”
• Bobby Bones offers insight about “intellectual property” and how, in high-earning celebrity couples, prenups are about more than just “you keep yours, I keep mine.”

Notable Quotes

• Bobby: “You get to a level where it’s actually somewhat accepted you don’t need a prenup if both people are significant.” [07:20]
• Amy: “I feel like J.Lo has way more money than Ben Affleck.” [07:49]

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3. Financial Habits & HSA Debate

[08:18–11:47]

Highlights

• Bobby recalls recent listener criticism for Eddie not maximizing his HSA benefits.
• Amy attempts to explain the logic of maximizing Health Savings Accounts: "If you were going to spend that money anyway... you're saving so much money for the year."
• Eddie defends his financial choices but admits he needs to double-check his HSA status.
• The segment turns playful as the team jokes about who understands their finances the least.

Notable Moment

• Amy (to Eddie): “I don't think you understand what we're saying. Because if you did, you would change it.” [09:52]
• Lunchbox worries he signed up for a “non-rollover” HSA by accident:
  • Bobby: “But it sounds like something you would accidentally click.” [11:32]

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4. Heartfelt Story: Michael Jordan FaceTimes His Teacher

[12:03–14:45]

Story Recap

• Eddie shares a story: A woman in hospice wished to talk to Michael Jordan, a former student from her teaching days. After outreach and some delay, Jordan FaceTimed her, which she deeply appreciated.
• The team debates whether Jordan should have visited in person.
  • Bobby: “My thing is, Michael Jordan has a private jet, could get there in five minutes to give her a hug.” [13:26]
• Lunchbox is skeptical of her motives: “She just wants to be associated with Michael Jordan.”
• The conversation shifts to memories of teachers and nostalgia around favorite educators.

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5. Show Pranks & Office “Flirting”

[15:38–27:00]

Award Mishaps and Classic Pranking

• Lunchbox talks about NFL player Jackson Smith-Njigba getting sent the wrong award.
• Bobby Bones recalls accidentally keeping an award meant for Andy Roddick and giving acceptance speeches on his behalf.
• Hilarious tales of pranks at award shows and show dinners, including Lunchbox showing up to dinner in a suit when no one else did and huge pranks at awards ceremonies.

Flirting Accusations

• Eddie accuses Lunchbox of “flirting” with Morgan, sparking a heated exchange.
  • Eddie: “He goes, 'Hey, imagine where you would have been if I wouldn't have said, hey.' Like, what?” [19:56]
• Morgan and Amy clarify it's not flirting—Lunchbox just annoys Morgan with a running joke.
• Claim is refuted as others say Lunchbox never plays this “bit” with men.
• The debate escalates, with Lunchbox feeling unfairly accused.

Notable Quotes

• Lunchbox: “That’s the third time in, like, three months. I’ll start making jokes about Eddie!” [24:08]

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6. Interview: Clint Black on 'Killing Time' Book, Reba, and Career

[31:17–66:55]

Interview Highlights

On Music, Performing, and "A Better Man"

• Bobby Bones notes that when Clint Black walks in, he can't help but sing his songs.
  • Clint Black: “That happens to me when I see you.” [31:44]
• Clint shares he still enjoys playing his hits: “No, I don’t [get tired of them]. I’m still trying to get better at playing them.” [32:35]
• They discuss nerves, connecting with audiences, and finding excitement in new material.

Career Origins and Memories

• Clint talks about starting in construction, then leaving to pursue music with no plan or savings.
• Finding old pictures for the book made him reminisce about childhood jobs, including falling asleep on newspapers as a paperboy.

On Good Looks and CMT Era

• Bobby: “Good looking dude, you. Good!” [38:28]
• Clint admits he tried to focus on being a “serious artist” and intentionally discounted praise to keep ego in check.
  • Clint Black: “I developed a mechanism of discounting compliments…by 30 or 40%.” [41:02]

Reba and Nashville Friendships

• Clint describes meeting Reba backstage—friendships often formed during shows and Opry events due to hectic schedules.
• Names Steve Wariner as a close Nashville friend and long-term songwriting partner.

Writing “Killing Time” and Career Turning Points

• The significance of the "Killing Time" theme, feeling fatalistic as a teen, and the premium he’s always placed on time.
  • Clint Black: “I was a very fatalistic… Growing up, I didn’t think I would live a long life… Time was always coming to a close for me…” [44:04]
• The story of how “Better Man” became his breakout single after he pushed for it in a promo meeting—shows how a single decision altered his career trajectory.
  • Clint Black: “If I hadn’t gone to my pocket, my career may have had a completely different trajectory.” [60:37]

On Touring, Performing Injuries, and Resilience

• Details a jump off stage that caused severe injury, resulting in urgent surgery and “29 surgeries and procedures” since. [54:03]
• The discipline of getting back to work post-surgery.

On the Writing Process, Family, and Audiobook

• Clint describes the emotional process writing and narrating the book, breaking down when covering his father’s death during audiobook recording.
  • Clint Black: “It took me five days to read it on tape.” [66:22]

On Influences and Family

• Grew up in a country household with his dad, but his brothers brought in rock records (Zeppelin, Deep Purple). He later explored singer-songwriters.

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Notable Quotes from the Clint Black Segment

• Clint Black: "Every night’s a challenge because the venue’s different... I’m still trying to get better at playing [the songs]." [32:44]
• Bobby Bones: "If you never talked about it before, but then you did it, and you both found out and you’re like, ‘Ah, we’re okay with it’... that’s kind of a post-understanding." [04:14]
• Clint Black: “I got pretty good at recovering quickly and getting back to work and getting off pain pills after like two days.” [55:42]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Open Marriages/Mr. Feeney – [02:02–05:12]
• Celebrity Prenups – [05:12–08:18]
• Financial Habits & HSA Debate – [08:18–11:47]
• Michael Jordan Story – [12:03–14:45]
• Award Mishaps & Pranks – [15:38–18:46]
• Flirting Accusations/Lunchbox & Morgan – [19:33–27:14]
• Clint Black Interview Start – [31:17]
• Favorite Clint Black Childhood Story – [36:46]
• On "Killing Time" and Career Turning Point – [44:04, 60:11]
• Performance Injury Story – [50:05–54:02]
• Audiobook Emotional Impact – [66:07–66:53]

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Episode Tone & Style

• Language/Tone: Friendly, candid, full of inside jokes and playful ribbing (true to the show’s banter style)
• Memorable Moments: The intense (yet light-hearted) argument over office “flirting”; Bobby’s self-deprecating humor with Clint; Clint Black’s sincerity about health struggles; unexpected emotional depth in discussing family and resilience.

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Final Thoughts

A quintessential Bobby Bones Show episode: personal, offbeat, earnest, and hilarious. Clint Black’s appearance injects wisdom and warmth—his stories about luck, resilience, and Nashville friendships give weight to a show just as comfortable joking about dinner pranks or debating celebrity net worth. If you missed the episode, you’ll walk away with new appreciation for country history, some life/finance tips, and plenty of smiles.

Transcript

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

All right, let's go around the room. Let's go to. I'd like to look at you on the faces and see who I feel good about. Morgan, you go first.

[Morgan]

All right. So everybody knows Mr. Feeney, right? Oh, yeah. Well, him and his wife are about to celebrate 75 years together. Really exciting. But they've had an open marriage for a long time. She came out in her memoir, talked about things, affairs she's had over the course of their whole marriage.

[Bobby Bones]

Not an affair if it's open.

[Morgan]

Yeah, and it was like a pin. She said that it was an affair, but then said that they had an open marriage.

[Amy]

But.

[Morgan]

But they've also never discussed having an open marriage, so. Interesting.

[Eddie]

That is interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

Is it open if you've never talked about it being open?

[Eddie]

No, that would be an affair.

[Bobby Bones]

Or is it closed and you just go, eh, that sucks. Move on.

[Eddie]

No, you kind of have to discuss this.

[Bobby Bones]

I think so, too. I did see the story. He's in his 90s now. Right.

[Amy]

Wow. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

So is she. But it was so weird. Like, if you actually read it, it says that they did this back in the 70s. And then that he went, she did it first. And then he had a little affair with a producer or something. And then she was like, I'm not for this open marriage thing.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And she said there's never a discussion as what they were gonna do. But she said that after 75 years together, you know, it'd be abnormal if we weren't attracted occasionally to other people. So there's. There have been times, both of us on each side, that things have happened.

[Eddie]

Are they still married?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And they're both alive.

[Eddie]

Wait, she's 99.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. Why is she writing a memoir?

[Eddie]

Right. Is she famous?

[Morgan]

She's an actress.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Morgan]

So I think that's where that's coming from.

[Bobby Bones]

Who is she?

[Morgan]

She was in Love of Life.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't know what that is. I saw the headline, feeney admits to open marriage. But it sounds like maybe they both had affairs and then they were both just like, we're both okay with it. Let's just move on and not do it again.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that's what it sounded like when I read it.

[Amy]

No, but she said we never sat down, made any rules. We just live our lives, and if he's away for a year, he's away for a year.

[Eddie]

Sounds like her side of the story.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but if you read farther down, I'm telling you, like, she said this, like, in the 70s, this went on then she was like, this open marriage thing's not for me.

[Amy]

Okay, gotcha. But he would leave for a year.

[Morgan]

Yeah. She said our lives just went on. We never got unhinged. But our lives did go in different directions occasionally. It's like they haven't had an open marriage, but it was not.

[Bobby Bones]

It sounds like they had a post understanding. Not a pre understanding, but a post understanding. Oh, after they both cheated, there's an understanding. Well, we both did. It ain't for us anymore. Let's move on. If you never talked about it before, but then you did it, and if you did it and you didn't want the other person to know and they found out, and then you both found out and you're like, ah, we're okay with it. I feel like that's kind of a post understanding. But regardless, Mr. Feeny, when I first read it, I thought they had it now, and I think they're in their 90s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

So, I mean, it worked for them, they're celebrating 75 years together.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm definitely not going to relationship shame anyone if they're happy. If you're not hurting people, do whatever you want. You can poop on each other. I don't give a crap. Hey, pun. But if it works for you, it works for you. If you don't hurt anybody else, that's awesome. Do whatever. Do whatever your relationship allows you to do if you're both happy. All right, Amy.

[Amy]

Speaking of relationships, Taylor and Travis are getting married, and I was reading a little bit about their prenup situation. Apparently, they're trying to figure out what state they're gonna file the prenup in, because every state has different laws. Taylor is worth an estimated 2 billion. Travis comes in at about 90 million, which. That was a lot higher than I thought.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, he broke poor. He broke.

[Amy]

That's definitely not broke. That's way higher than I thought. If you were to say, what do you think Travis Kelsey's worth?

[Bobby Bones]

I would have said 45 million.

[Amy]

Yeah, about that. Half. That half of what he is. So it's worth a lot. I feel like when you both make that much, can't you just, like, I don't know, write down, like, you keep what's yours, I keep what's mine. Sign here.

[Bobby Bones]

It's about more than that. It's about, like, intellectual property that's created, too, while they're together.

[Amy]

Okay. Minus our intellectual property.

[Bobby Bones]

I think there are just a lot of those elements of creation that you have to decide. She creates it, and it's part of her Taylor Swift empire. Music. Anything that's.

[Lunchbox]

She has so much more going on. I mean, she has so much more that she's gonna have to have all this stuff written because he has, what, a couple footballs and a podcast.

[Amy]

The lucky states in the running for the prenup. Rhode Island, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, and New York.

[Bobby Bones]

Also. They don't know this is true.

[Amy]

This is just speculation from folks through our sources.

[Bobby Bones]

Exactly.

[Eddie]

That's kind of my problem with all this Travis Taylor news.

[Lunchbox]

Never happened.

[Eddie]

He knows, like, what's real.

[Bobby Bones]

They're locking it all down.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Because I used to fall. That used to be my beat, too. I used to fall for all of it. And then I'm like, no one knows

[Bobby Bones]

this could be happening. I'm sure they are discussing a pre.

[Eddie]

Yeah. But, like, oh, the venue has been. They know where it is. Like, no. And then they come out later. Like, no, they don't. That was not it.

[Bobby Bones]

I would imagine that a lot of it is Again, the intellectual property they both create remains theirs regardless of how much money is made from it while they're together.

[Amy]

So they could also go the Ben and JLO route and go without a prenup.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, if you have so much, that is an easy thing to do because a judge is not going to go, hey, you've only made 90 million. I think she needs to do spousal support for you. So if there is a level, you get to where it is actually somewhat accepted that you don't need a prenup if both people are significant, because a judge literally is not going to go, Travis Kelsey needs spousal support.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And if they're pretty level. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, but they're not level.

[Lunchbox]

They're not 90 million.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I thought you meant.

[Eddie]

No, I'm saying JLo, Ben.

[Amy]

I feel like JLO has way more money than Ben Affleck.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I don't know about that.

[Bobby Bones]

But we speculate on things that we kind of know they made. We have no idea the investments they've made.

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Bobby Bones]

We have no idea the property they've sold. We have no idea. So whenever you see this stuff online, this person's worth this much. It's only based on the things that they know the folks are doing professionally. A lot of the stuff is done with financial advisors. And you're probably making more money off things you're not doing publicly than you are.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I was, I was at the dentist and I saw a rod is like, own this, like, denture company. There was a poster with a rod like, hey, my dentures.

[Bobby Bones]

Miles Teller ended up selling a company and making like $100 million or something. Yeah. And he's like, I'm still gonna act. But it's like, when you make money, you have to invest the money. And sometimes you make more money by investing the money than you did even in your high dollar jobs when you're acting or playing ball. So cool. That's what's up. He said pretty cool.

[Eddie]

Pretty cool.

[Lunchbox]

That's pretty cool.

[Eddie]

That much money.

[Bobby Bones]

But you could also make money making medium money.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And make more money than you would make if you were. But it's not just about having high money. It's about having medium money or even low money. Man, people were just railing Eddie for that one podcast we did when you were just telling him about his.

[Eddie]

They were railing me?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Wait, for what?

[Eddie]

For what?

[Bobby Bones]

When you were telling him he needed to. His. His medical card, he was like, you guys don't understand.

[Amy]

And, oh, maxing out your HSA card.

[Eddie]

Were they talking to Amy?

[Bobby Bones]

Amy didn't understand.

[Eddie]

No, you. Oh, me?

[Bobby Bones]

Because if you were going to spend that money anyway, you're say overall saving so much money for the year, you have more money, but it doesn't matter. But yeah, you were getting hit pretty hard.

[Eddie]

Yeah, and no one knows my financials, so.

[Bobby Bones]

But then. No, that's not the point. It's.

[Eddie]

It's the point.

[Amy]

It sounds like you don't know your financials.

[Eddie]

I do.

[Lunchbox]

Your wife does.

[Eddie]

I know my expenses that don't have to do with medical.

[Amy]

I know, but you're.

[Eddie]

I need.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but I'm going to give you 30. 30 seconds.

[Eddie]

No, no.

[Amy]

Okay, well, here's what I'll say. I don't think you under. You may understand your financials, but I don't think you understand what we're saying.

[Eddie]

I understand what you're saying.

[Amy]

No, you don't. There's no way you do.

[Eddie]

I do, I promise.

[Amy]

No, because if you did, you would change it.

[Eddie]

So I have these things that I pay off. Right. That aren't medical, that are personal. Like I support someone else.

[Amy]

Gotcha. Okay.

[Eddie]

And. And I need that money to help them.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

But if you're someone, and if I take my portion of my paycheck to put in my hsa, I won't have enough to do that.

[Bobby Bones]

But here's what you're. What you're not understanding is you end up spending way more money medically. You would have more money to take care of whomever overall.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

If you did that.

[Eddie]

Yeah, because it wouldn't be. I. And I understand, like, that's not taxed. Right, like that.

[Bobby Bones]

But also you're talking about 250 extra dollars. You're not talking about 10,000.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Whatever that max is. I think that's what brought up the whole thing. Right. Like, are you maxed out in that? And I thought I was. I need to double check. I don't know I'm maxed out or not. Okay, but.

[Bobby Bones]

But you think it's like some sort of $80,000. It's like 250 extra dollars. And we're going. If you max out the 250 bucks and it's on and it's not taxed, you're actually making more money for the whole year that you can do all these things. You're talking.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I know. I know what you're saying. Well, it's pretty cool. Like when I got my, my root canal, it's pretty cool to like pay some of that with My HSA card lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

I look at this card and have a million dollars in there.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I don't.

[Eddie]

I checked on that.

[Lunchbox]

I gotta call them and get a card. I have no idea how to get a card.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but you've been paying on it, huh? Yeah. Are you sure?

[Lunchbox]

I know I have because on my paycheck it says hsa.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy said it rolls over.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

So, I mean, I just.

[Bobby Bones]

What if you signed up though, for the non rollover?

[Amy]

That would be terribly sad.

[Eddie]

And it goes away after the year.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't even know if that's a thing.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that would be terrible.

[Bobby Bones]

But it sounds like something you would accidentally click.

[Lunchbox]

Probably.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Also, I don't know if this is accurate. I'm on TikTok. Jennifer Lopez is worth 415 million and Ben Affleck 251 million.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I would think they don't need a prenup.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's a lot.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, he's so comfortable. He just gave her a $50 million. I mean, that's.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's right. That just happened.

[Amy]

Yeah, 50 or 60.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Amy, thank you for your story, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Okay, so this is cool. There is an old lady, she's in hospice. You know, it's. She's the. Towards the end, it's not cool. But while she was at hospice, she was talking to the people that work there, and she was telling them that, like, I would love before I die to talk to one of my students that I taught. And they're like, well, who was that student? They're like, well, it was Michael Jordan, you know, back in North Carolina. I taught him in high school. And they're like, that's cool. So they reached out to Michael Jordan, said, hey, would you want to talk to your old teacher, Miss Etta? She's talking about you. And they got nothing. They got radio silence. Well, last week, out of Nowhere, Michael Jordan FaceTimes said, hey, let me talk to Ms. Etta. So they talked. They FaceTimed each other and they talked a little bit. And it was pretty cool that she got to get Michael Jordan on the line to talk before, you know, she dies.

[Bobby Bones]

I saw the picture. Yeah, I know. It was a weird one.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that was very weird.

[Eddie]

No, but I mean, that's cool. That was on her bucket list.

[Lunchbox]

Her bucket list was to hug him one last time.

[Eddie]

Well, but that wasn't that.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I don't like to be that guy. Can I have permission to be that guy? I don't like to be that guy.

[Eddie]

Be that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't want to be that guy.

[Amy]

Well, let Daniel be that guy.

[Eddie]

No, Daniel's not that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Daniel's not the guy. Lunchbox is that guy.

[Eddie]

Correct.

[Amy]

Oh, sorry, sorry. Let lunchbox be that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. You can be the guy.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, this is weird. It's just. She just wants to be associated with Michael Jordan.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's not my guy.

[Eddie]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, we're doing two. You're worse than Michael.

[Eddie]

She's about to die.

[Bobby Bones]

My thing is, Michael Jordan has a private jet that can get him there in five minutes to give her a hug.

[Lunchbox]

He could have done anything, like fly on over.

[Bobby Bones]

She wants a hug, you give her.

[Amy]

Oh, you're saying Michael Jordan was lame by doing a FaceTime?

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't say lame because he didn't have to do that. But I'm saying I'm being that guy. I don't like to be that guy.

[Lunchbox]

He could have literally been there in 10 minutes.

[Eddie]

I get that. But he did call.

[Bobby Bones]

I hear you.

[Eddie]

He didn't have to do that.

[Bobby Bones]

You're right.

[Eddie]

And a lot of people don't do that.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's why I don't like being that guy. And I'm that guy. Right now, where I'm thinking, man, she asked and you. It meant enough for you to call. I don't know, hop on your Jordan jet, go say hi and bye, and

[Eddie]

then on your way.

[Bobby Bones]

But I want to be that guy because I don't think it's fair to be that guy.

[Eddie]

Have you seen his jet?

[Lunchbox]

I mean, because he flies every week to the NASCAR race.

[Eddie]

That's business. That's his business.

[Lunchbox]

But make a pit stop. I mean, it ain't that hard.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I don't know that I'd pit stop for an event. I'd probably do it now. You know, I'm saying yeah, because she's.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, that's what I'm saying.

[Eddie]

Like, she's on the clock. She.

[Lunchbox]

They said they didn't hear from him for like a week. I mean, yeah, that's.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, but also, he might not have got it. There are layers to get to Michael Jordan.

[Eddie]

Who knows what they tried to do? Like, Michael Jordan dot com, like, how did they try to get a hold of him?

[Lunchbox]

But once he got to him, I mean, you're right. But, yes, I think it's a little weird that she wanted. She just wanted to be associated with Michael Jordan one last time. She wanted to meet someone famous.

[Bobby Bones]

But I think it would be cool to be associated with Michael Jordan one last Time.

[Clint Black]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't mind that part of it.

[Eddie]

Especially when you knew him as a. When he was a kid.

[Morgan]

Is it also possible? Maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you gonna be that guy? Remember her?

[Eddie]

I remember all my teachers.

[Lunchbox]

I remember all of what I mean, pretty much. You remember all your teachers?

[Morgan]

No.

[Eddie]

Well, Ms. Kowalski. Kindergarten.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Mrs. Mead. My first grade.

[Lunchbox]

Ms. Anderson.

[Eddie]

Ms. English. My third grade.

[Amy]

Ms. Toliver.

[Eddie]

Ms. Cisneros. My fourth grade. Fifth.

[Amy]

Ms. Purvis.

[Bobby Bones]

I moved to a bunch of schools, only had some teachers for like.

[Amy]

I can't think of my fifth, sixth.

[Eddie]

Ah, Miss Samora. On my fifth grade.

[Lunchbox]

You can't remember fifth grade, Miss Willis, come on.

[Bobby Bones]

I think you can remember most of your teachers.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Ms.

[Lunchbox]

Beard. Was science in fifth grade.

[Bobby Bones]

I probably remembered her anyway. I'm glad that he called her. I don't want to be that guy anymore. So I'm going to take that off. I'm taking off the that guy cap. Okay. Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

We all make mistakes, you know. You win awards, you're all excited. Jackson Smith and Jigba is a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Champions. And he won Offensive Player of the Year this year. And the NFL mails him his award. He opens it up and he got the Defensive Player of the Year award.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, they sent the wrong.

[Lunchbox]

They sent the wrong award.

[Eddie]

That's interesting.

[Lunchbox]

So he opens it up, he's like, oh, I got it. I'm gonna put it on my shelf. And it's the wrong award.

[Bobby Bones]

I found an award in my house the other day when I was going through stuff and it wasn't to me. And so I had an award and it was for Andy Roddick, who is one of my dear friends, but he played tennis back in the day. Was like world number one. For a long time I thought, why do I have this Andy Roddick Award? And then I remembered I went and accepted it for him at an Austin Music Awards. Cause he couldn't be there. He's playing tennis and. And I remember it made me laugh. But I remember getting up and giving a speech. I said, hey, if you win, I'll be there. I'll accept it. And then I got up and gave a speech about how he only wanted to thank me for me being his inspiration for the whole award. I haven't thought about that in forever. Made me laugh out loud. I laughed at something I did. I usually hate everything I do.

[Eddie]

And it's actually funny that you accepted it and then never gave it to him.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I kept it. I still have it. Yeah. I got up and I said, I got this note from Andy. I would not be able to be here without Bobby Bones. He is the wind beneath my wings. And I just talked about all me for the whole time.

[Amy]

That's funny.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that was pretty funny. Remember when we made Carlos get up and do the same. Same speech over and over again?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh, I was hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Back when we were in Austin, the Austin Music Awards, we would win the morning show of the year award. And so Carlos was a producer on the show for a long time. Very close with Carlos, and we said, hey, man, you go up? And I wrote it out. I said, I'm not going to give the speech. I want you to do it. And he's like, all right. So he gets up and the speech was like 12 lines. I said, but when you finish, just start over. He said, okay. I said, when you finish that time, just start over. Do not stop until they come and take you off the stage. I think he got through like three and a half.

[Eddie]

That's a long time.

[Bobby Bones]

And then they finally came out, they, like, played the music and they got them off. Man, those were the days.

[Eddie]

These awards ceremonies were big, though. I remember they were like, in a full, like, auditorium. A lot of people there.

[Bobby Bones]

Mm. Yeah, that's a good one. We did one too, where we made lunchbox wear a suit.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, this is. This is rude. We were having a show dinner at a nice restaurant, Ruth Chris Steakhouse.

[Bobby Bones]

I was like, guys, big show dinner. It's on me. Let's have it. Everybody's got to dress up, wear suits. And we're all. We all show up. T shirts and shorts. And he shows up in a suit.

[Lunchbox]

They said, to go to this restaurant, you have to wear a suit. And I'm like, man, sounds probably about right. Downtown restaurant, not something I've dined at. And I roll up in a suit and I walk in, I'm like, you sons of guns, didn't you.

[Amy]

Wasn't it like your dad's?

[Bobby Bones]

It was his dad's.

[Eddie]

You didn't have a sandman.

[Bobby Bones]

He didn't have a suit.

[Lunchbox]

I was like, oh, this is bad. It was pretty bad.

[Bobby Bones]

We also did one of those awards things to Carlos, too, where we told him it was a Hawaiian themed. And so we're all dressed up and he shows up in full Hawaiian gear, Hawaiian shirt and shorts. That was a good time.

[Eddie]

No, dude, the worst was when you got up to accept the award and you said that I was a Chilean miner. Oh, that's got out of the Mine.

[Lunchbox]

That was great.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you remember that story where the Chilean miners were trapped in the mines?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie came with me to the award

[Eddie]

ceremony, and you didn't give me a heads up. I was just sitting at the table,

[Bobby Bones]

and I got up, and they had just been freed. And I said, not. This isn't just about me. You guys saw the Chilean mine story where they've all been freed. My friend down there, I brought him tonight because he was one of those

[Eddie]

miners, and it was a standing O, and people.

[Bobby Bones]

I got him. I started clapping for him.

[Amy]

Did you wave?

[Eddie]

Yeah, of course.

[Bobby Bones]

Then he played the part. The rest of the night, people would

[Eddie]

come up and be like, wow, what was it like in there? I'd be like, oh, very dark. Very dark. It was scary.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, man.

[Eddie]

So stupid.

[Bobby Bones]

What a day, huh? What a day. One other thing, and I'll. We'll break after this. Eddie thinks he saw Lunchbox flirting with Morgan yesterday.

[Eddie]

It's just bizarre, dude.

[Amy]

What?

[Eddie]

It's just bizarre.

[Amy]

It's weird you would say this.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Lunchbox]

Me too. But here we go. This is Eddie. You know what? This is like the third time in the last three months that Eddie has tried to insinuate that I'm cheating on my wife.

[Eddie]

Can I say it's amazing.

[Lunchbox]

I'm gonna start putting rumors you're cheating on your w. Can I say.

[Eddie]

Can I say what I saw?

[Amy]

I feel like this is.

[Eddie]

Can I say what I saw? It was very bizarre.

[Amy]

Okay, say what you saw.

[Eddie]

Morgan's leaving, and as she's walking to the door, Lunchbox goes, hey. And she turns around. He goes, imagine where you would have been if I wouldn't have said, hey, like, what?

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Eddie]

And then, like, she was like, oh, lunch, whatever. He's like, hadn't done that to you in a while.

[Clint Black]

Huh?

[Eddie]

And then I was like, they have these little games that they play. Like, what was that?

[Morgan]

Mind you, not games that we play.

[Amy]

He plays by his own.

[Eddie]

Is it weird to you, Morgan, explain that game.

[Morgan]

It's not a game for me. He just does it to me all the time, like. And I think he actually needs something.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you, Amy. Thank you.

[Eddie]

What is it?

[Amy]

It's funny.

[Morgan]

It's funny to you because it hasn't happened to you 50 times. He does it to me all the time. I'll be like, fully down the hallway, and he'll be like, hey. And he'll be like, ha.

[Amy]

Well, I guess I'm just picturing him trying to be like, hey. And then he's like. And Then you stop and you turn around.

[Lunchbox]

So you waste time.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's a time.

[Lunchbox]

It's a time was there. And you're just like, oh, how far would you have been if I wouldn't have stopped you? God, she gets so mad. It's funny.

[Bobby Bones]

It's kind of flirty.

[Eddie]

That's what I'm saying, man.

[Bobby Bones]

It feels kind of flirty.

[Lunchbox]

It does feel flirty.

[Amy]

Do you do it to men?

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Name a man. You've done it. No, you don't name a man.

[Amy]

I've done it to people for years.

[Lunchbox]

I've done it at the old building, people that were walking down the hall.

[Eddie]

Have you done it? You've never done it to me,

[Clint Black]

Eddie.

[Lunchbox]

Because you're not around me.

[Eddie]

No, because I'm not a woman.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. That's what it is.

[Clint Black]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I thought that was crazy. A little bizarre.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Amy]

And you witness it.

[Eddie]

And he was like, hey, hey. And she was like, what? Then he goes, imagine where you would be if I wouldn't have said, hey. What?

[Bobby Bones]

You sound like Matthew McGonagh.

[Eddie]

That's so weird.

[Amy]

He doesn't. And Lunchbox doesn't sound like Matthew McConaughey.

[Commercial/Announcer]

But.

[Eddie]

And that's part of it. His voice was like, hey.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, it was not like that. Now you're being an idiot.

[Bobby Bones]

He wasn't, though.

[Amy]

We'll do it.

[Lunchbox]

He's acting like I'm being seductive. He goes, hey, I didn't say it like that at all. I go, hey. And she goes, what? And I was like, how far you think he'd been if I had not stopped you? Oh, why do you do that? And she leaves. That's it.

[Eddie]

How long you been doing that game?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, years, man. Years. I've probably done it to Abby. I've done it to a lot of times.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, Abby. Abby. Has this ever happened to you?

[Amy]

Literally? Never.

[Commercial/Announcer]

Never.

[Eddie]

What is happening?

[Lunchbox]

Well, you should see Eddie fort with the girl at the front desk. Morning, Mal. Every morning we walk by, every morning we go to the bathroom, he's. Morning, Mal.

[Bobby Bones]

I say. I say morning. Or too. No.

[Lunchbox]

But the way he says it, he's like, I want to get in your pants.

[Eddie]

What are you.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. He really had a nerve with Lunchbox. No, no, no.

[Lunchbox]

On the cruise ship. On the cruise ship, he got up in front of everybody and goes, hey, be careful. Lunch is going to try to invite all you women to his room.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like, what about a wedding ring?

[Eddie]

Somebody was saying something about yes. Like, guys make this the week of yes.

[Amy]

And then I Said that.

[Lunchbox]

And then Eddie goes, except for when Lunchbox invites you to the room, because he's going to try to get you women to his room.

[Eddie]

I didn't say all that. You did. That was.

[Lunchbox]

Did he say that?

[Clint Black]

Yeah, because he wasn't wearing his wedding ring either.

[Lunchbox]

But it was just like.

[Eddie]

Like, where was your wedding ring, dude?

[Lunchbox]

At my house.

[Eddie]

I was going on a cruise. Why would I bring it?

[Lunchbox]

But do you see what I'm saying? Like, it's just like, the last three months, he said it at least three times.

[Eddie]

It's a joke, dude.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, so if I started saying you're trying to bang other women, your wife would be okay with it. But if I did that to Eddie, he would be pissed.

[Eddie]

I never said, good morning, Mal.

[Lunchbox]

You did.

[Eddie]

You literally say morning to Mal on the cruise ship.

[Lunchbox]

No more morning to Mal on the cruise ship. You insinuated I was trying to bang chicks by saying, don't say yes when Lunch tries to invite you to the room. Ladies, he's gonna try to get you in there. I mean, it's like.

[Eddie]

Joke. Okay, it was a bad joke.

[Lunchbox]

If I said that in front of a crowd, you would be okay with it.

[Eddie]

Hey, I apologize.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I'm asking you. So if I get up in front of a Nissan stadium and say, hey, Eddie wants to go home with all

[Eddie]

you women tonight to settle down, I'm asking you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

You had a nerve, dude.

[Eddie]

I did.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, I'm gonna start making sexual jokes about Eddie and his relationship.

[Eddie]

I wouldn't like it, dude.

[Lunchbox]

No. It's gonna happen now. From now on, I'm gonna start handing out your number to women and say, hey, Eddie wants you to call. Well, it's no big deal, right? It's just a joke.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy.

[Lunchbox]

I'm asking you.

[Eddie]

You're not asking, dude. You're really not.

[Amy]

Ray, has Ray. Has he ever done the. The hey to you?

[Bobby Bones]

Never.

[Eddie]

Amy, don't.

[Lunchbox]

I quit flirting with Amy. She's single, man.

[Clint Black]

Exposed.

[Bobby Bones]

Some sort of exposed nerve got touched there. Okay, well, no, no, but you can't, like.

[Lunchbox]

I know.

[Eddie]

You're right. We can't joke about that.

[Lunchbox]

Like, it's just. That's the third time in, like, three months. Okay, I see.

[Bobby Bones]

Another time. That's two. What was the other time?

[Lunchbox]

Another time we were at something and he said, lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

What, though?

[Lunchbox]

I can't remember exactly what it was, but I remember it and going, here we go again.

[Amy]

Was it still on the cruise or.

[Lunchbox]

It was off the cruise. We were back.

[Eddie]

Bahamas.

[Amy]

No, like, we Were back.

[Eddie]

Back in America.

[Lunchbox]

So.

[Eddie]

Okay, all right. No more. I won't joke about that anymore, dude.

[Clint Black]

But.

[Eddie]

But. Okay, how could I rephrase the.

[Amy]

It's just me, like, hey, Morgan and Lunchbox have this cute little game they play.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no one knew.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Amy]

You know, but that's not saying, like, they're flirting.

[Morgan]

I'm part of the game.

[Amy]

Okay, maybe you just say Lunchbox has this game he plays with Morgan, with girls, with. Well, so far, he's only played it with Morgan.

[Clint Black]

Sure. Too.

[Bobby Bones]

That's true, too.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Amy]

Unless. I mean, there's other people.

[Bobby Bones]

But I've never been walking down the hall. He's done it to me.

[Eddie]

He's never done it to me.

[Bobby Bones]

Ray. He said no.

[Amy]

Can you imagine if he did that to you?

[Bobby Bones]

I wouldn't stop.

[Eddie]

Has he done it to you?

[Clint Black]

No, but he does do a lot of these, like, joke things where he's

[Lunchbox]

always like, happy New Year.

[Clint Black]

And he says it every day, and he said it for six years. So I think he, like, does these things where, like, they're just games and we all play into it.

[Amy]

That's fun.

[Clint Black]

We do.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, it's Saturday on the Best Bits,

[Clint Black]

and Morgan gets hella pissed. So we. There's like, this thing.

[Eddie]

Hella pissed.

[Amy]

Wait, why?

[Eddie]

But it airs on Saturday because they

[Morgan]

yell at each other and interrupt a segment. Like, we'll be talking, and one will come in and interrupt us talking to each other, and it's just loud and obnoxious.

[Lunchbox]

I can't believe you're here on a Saturday. What are you doing here on a Saturday?

[Morgan]

He basically just has a lot of inside bits that he likes to do, and I am the.

[Lunchbox]

No, that's what Scuba. That's between me, Scuba, and I. Like, that has nothing to do with Morgan. That is me and Scuba's joke, and Morgan hates it.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess my point is that he

[Clint Black]

has a lot of these little things, and we just roll into it.

[Amy]

You know what is so cute? My son now comes home from school, and when he walks in, he goes, hey, hey, hey, hey. Like, every time. And it. It's starting to get. It gets deep. It's gotten deeper and deeper as the year has gone on. But it's so cute. I just. And I asked his dad, when he comes home from school and walks in your house, does he go, hey, hey, hey, hey. And he's like, well, I'm not normally there when he's home. And I was like, oh, dang. So I feel special. I feel like we have this little thing, like, bugs Morgan. Yeah. It's just cute. Like, he comes in and he. I just love that he does that. It's like his little I'm home. Yeah, I hope he never stops that. I hope he's 30 years old when he comes to visit. He walks in my house and goes,

[Clint Black]

hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Bobby Bones]

Morning. Morning, Mal.

[Eddie]

Morning, Mal.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, I'll stop.

[Amy]

I'm trying to move on.

[Eddie]

All right?

[Morgan]

Hey, hey.

[Eddie]

My kids walk in and I'll be like, who is it? And they're all like, it's me, dad. We do that.

[Morgan]

And you're.

[Amy]

You're like, which ones?

[Eddie]

Kind of cute.

[Amy]

Have y' all seen that thing where m moms are all turned around and they're lined up and kids say their. Say hey, mom. And then the moment. Whose kid? That's their voice. She has to be the one that turns around. That would be so nerve wracking. If you have a room full of kids and they all say, hey, mom. But whatever. Mom hears their kid's voice, they have to turn around. Like, what if your kid says, hey, mom, and you don't. You don't turn around.

[Clint Black]

Dang.

[Eddie]

It's hard because I've been at, like, a trampoline place and somebody says, dad. And I turn around like, oh, gosh. And that wasn't. It was.

[Amy]

Yeah, but you would know your kid if it's quiet and it's a game and your kid says, hey, dad, you would know.

[Clint Black]

I think so.

[Amy]

I would think so too. But then how embarrassing if there's like a glitch and you. Yes. Well, if every other mom is turning around to their kids saying, hey, mom, and then you're the mom that doesn't

[Eddie]

recognize it, they'd probably get their feelings hurt for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm gonna take a break.

[Amy]

That's not on Yalls algorithm.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like you guys are just extending now for the sake of extending. So we're gonna.

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[Bobby Bones]

We have some big news.

[Eddie]

What's the news?

[Bobby Bones]

Huge news. We created our own podcast called hey Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it, we just contributed to it.

[Clint Black]

We're the first people to do podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

Pretty. Yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts starting, but this one's extra special.

[Clint Black]

So how did we. How do we actually come up with the name hey Jonas?

[Bobby Bones]

Guys, I honestly don't remember.

[Lunchbox]

I think it was on a call

[Clint Black]

about what we should call it and. Well, we were thinking. I'm originally calling it one of the

[Bobby Bones]

early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes, I have a very different memory of this.

[Clint Black]

We were talking about a thing a

[Bobby Bones]

bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, hey Jonas. And offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that. Guys, listen to hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it.

[Commercial/Announcer]

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[Eddie]

The worst?

[Commercial/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Me.

[Commercial/Announcer]

Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation to the group the Yardbirds?

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Clint Black]

That's the name.

[Commercial/Announcer]

The Harvard Yard.

[Lunchbox]

But they're open.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have a name suggestion?

[Amy]

We're open.

[Commercial/Announcer]

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[Bobby Bones]

Humor me.

[Clint Black]

I need some jokes to make me

[Bobby Bones]

seem funny on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Clint Black. There he is. Clint Black is here.

[Clint Black]

Hey, that guy's great.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, wait.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait till he comes in. You're not gonna like him. Clint, good to see you.

[Clint Black]

Good to see you.

[Bobby Bones]

I got your book in my hand.

[Clint Black]

Awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. It's out today. So before we get into the book, whenever I see you in my head, I just start singing your songs. Like, I.

[Clint Black]

That happens to me when I. When I see you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What are you. What are you saying?

[Clint Black]

No, I'm. That way, when I. When I see people, one of their songs pops into my head, and so. And then I start hating those people.

[Bobby Bones]

No, when you walked in, I was like, and I'm leaving here, and I was like, I shouldn't sing it. Do people ever sing your songs around you?

[Clint Black]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Just randomly?

[Clint Black]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Are they trying to get you to notice them, or is it, like, mine that's kind of a bit subconscious? That comes out, I think.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, they're. They're trying to say it's you. Hey, I see you.

[Amy]

Oh, that's how they get your attention.

[Bobby Bones]

For me, that wasn't it. I was trying to avoid your attention when you walked in.

[Clint Black]

Yeah. I need a Coming Here a Better man song sequel.

[Bobby Bones]

Go on.

[Clint Black]

For when I enter the room, go. Instead of leaving, I'm coming here a better man. I'm leaving. Much worse off. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you. Do you get tired of playing the songs you've played so many times?

[Clint Black]

No. No, I don't. I'm still trying to get better at playing them.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so we're gonna do the humble thing.

[Clint Black]

No, it's true.

[Bobby Bones]

You're a virtuoso.

[Clint Black]

Every. Every night. Every night's a challenge because the venue's different. The way I can connect with the audience is different. And, you know, don't you feel that when.

[Eddie]

When.

[Clint Black]

When you play, you're just. It's like, I'm gonna. I'm getting better. I'm. I'm gonna. Tonight's gonna be my best performance.

[Bobby Bones]

And, yeah, I feel like I know what's gonna work, but I can't wait to do the stuff that I'm not sure works, because then I can. Like, if it's a joke, I don't know if it works. Like, I'm excited about it, possibly probably not working, but I'm like, oh, this is the moment where I get to feel. Because I know the stuff that's gonna work. Like, I got jokes that I know are gonna get big laughs I've done 10,000 times. But it's like, the stuff where I'm like, this may not go well. That excites me. And I get so excited about it. Pre and afterward. I could be like, oh, that sucked. But I like that feeling, like I'm about to do something new and do

[Clint Black]

you share the cringe with the band? Look around, you go, hey, that was really bad.

[Bobby Bones]

I think the cringe is shared with everybody in the room, for sure.

[Clint Black]

I mean, there. There are shows where the jokes aren't going over its proximity or size of venue or everybody's already drunk and they're just. And you just know they're not going to go over. But I love doing them, and so I'll do them anyway. And when there's no response, it's, you know, during the headlights out there. You just.

[Bobby Bones]

Just hit a chord.

[Clint Black]

No, I just look back at the band. That was bad, wasn't it?

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever have a stage where you played behind chicken wire?

[Clint Black]

No, we're okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I like Blues Brothers.

[Clint Black]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Where they, like, throw the bottles and stuff. Yeah, yeah, that. That have been a cool story if you had that one, though.

[Clint Black]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Didn't have one of those.

[Clint Black]

I'll go find one.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Clint Black]

I don't know if they still exist.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. I know you played like.

[Clint Black]

It's. Now the singers are throwing the beers at the audience.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, now the audience. Those phones at people.

[Clint Black]

Yeah. So Riley.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's one of them. But they'll throw a phone, hit them or throw it near. And their goal isn't to, like, maim the singer. It's so the singer picks it up and records a video with it. But you can't be. You can't throw stuff. I saw Eric Clapton on stage the other night, and someone threw a. Hit something. It wasn't a phone hit him. He was like, show's over. Walked off, walked off. Just like, I'm not doing this.

[Clint Black]

You know, it's. It can. It can. It can harm you. You know, people don't realize that. I mean, Riley's ear was cut, you know, but if you get hit in the wrong place, get hit in the eye, you know, it could do some damage.

[Bobby Bones]

You played, like, restaurants, though, right? Like, lounge is when you're. Because you were doing construction. And then would you go play at night? Pretty much every night.

[Clint Black]

I couldn't when I was doing construction. I was exhausted at the end of the day. And. And I think, you know, every now and then, maybe on a Saturday and Sunday, you know, playing in a barbecue or something like that. But no. And. And that's why every day on the. On the construction job, I just. Why am I here? Why am I. I should be singing. And I finally quit.

[Bobby Bones]

How hard was it to quit, though, and do something where there is no stability? Construction stability. Yeah. Music. No.

[Clint Black]

Stability.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Clint Black]

It was tough, but it wasn't a hard decision. It was just, you know, I'm done with this. Let's go starve to do what I think I need to be doing.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you save up like a good nut to do that, though?

[Clint Black]

No, no, no. You mean, did I have a plan?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. Savings account to get you through for a little bit.

[Clint Black]

I'm Clint Black.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Clint Black]

I didn't have a plan.

[Bobby Bones]

So your book here, Killing Time.

[Clint Black]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

Excellent. And I'm always curious about the. What you have to reevaluate, what new memories, like, come back into play that you haven't thought about in a long time whenever you're finding pictures. Because when I did my books, I have to find the pictures. I'm like, oh, man, this really reminds me of something. Or I get a feel. Like in your picture search for this book, like, what came up that you hadn't thought about in a while?

[Clint Black]

Oh, I can't remember. You know, it was such an exhaustive process of getting all the stories down into some form, finding and looking through all the photos. You know, they. They jog. They jog your memory. You know, I remember being there. I remember, you know, getting my paper route ready and.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean?

[Clint Black]

You know, just getting the newspapers. You had to do the inserts and all of that stuff. So it'll take me back to that back porch when I was doing that. And. And I remember falling asleep on top of a stack of newspapers, and my dad had to come find me. People are calling. They want their paper.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, wow. You fell asleep for that long? It wasn't five minutes. It was. He fell asleep so late. They didn't get their papers.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

This picture of you as a kid on the COVID Yeah. When was that, you think?

[Clint Black]

I was five. That would have been, you know, 67.

[Bobby Bones]

What is that picture? What's the memory with that picture? Why'd you put on?

[Clint Black]

I don't have one. It's just the earliest thing we have of me being a cowboy is that, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You got big boots on, like a little.

[Amy]

And a hat.

[Clint Black]

Stick pony.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's a stick pony.

[Amy]

What, you think that was coming out

[Bobby Bones]

of those things that hobos had on the stick that they get on the train with? I thought Clint was doing, like, the hobo train thing.

[Clint Black]

Yeah. Oh, it's a. I was going to run away, but I had a. A horse, so I had saddlebags and stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it. What about this picture in the middle here? It's like, maybe you sing in like a festival or show or something.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, I think, I think that was the, the Wheeling Jamboree. I'm not sure.

[Bobby Bones]

In the town of Wheeling.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, I think that was Wheeling, West

[Bobby Bones]

Virginia, I gotta tell you. Yeah. Good looking dude. You good?

[Clint Black]

Goes without saying.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm saying like I get it, like I didn't get it then as a

[Clint Black]

child, but you know, I, I, I went through that, you know, heartthrob thing and tried not to, you know, like say that I don't, I don't want, I want to be a serious artist and everything. But was, it was so good for the, the CMT thing happened and immediately my face was recognizable and the what, what that did for my career, it was. I don't know how to talk about being handsome.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I brought it up.

[Clint Black]

I'm going nowhere.

[Bobby Bones]

CMT thing though. You mean the network starting to emerge and like the, immediately.

[Clint Black]

I mean the single had no legs at all.

[Bobby Bones]

Which one?

[Clint Black]

But the video did A Better man. So a Better man came out with the single. And the better man. A better man is the video is really what sparked things off. Did you people were showing up at bars.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a weird, weird question, but answered as honest as you can. Did you guys consider yourself like a good looking dude?

[Clint Black]

I was happy with my looks. I, I didn't think of myself as, you know, I didn't want to be like up there like Tom Jones, you know, and hey, you know, charming the ladies with my looks. I didn't want to do that. So I didn't think about it a lot. And I, and I, and I was, I was ego suppressive, you know, don't think too much of yourself.

[Bobby Bones]

Where'd that come from?

[Clint Black]

It came from friends when I was just starting to play and sing, telling me I was going to be a big star and then in the same breath saying, don't let it ruin you. So this was said to me many times. And I, so I came into the business worried about ruin, worried about ego getting out of control and placing myself above people. And I sort of realized looking back, I developed a mechanism of discounting compliments, you know, by 30 or 40% so that, you know, if you think I'm that great, I'm gonna think less, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Mine is if you think I'm good, you just wait. You're gonna really be surprised that I'm not.

[Clint Black]

I like the self deprecating stuff. Yeah. You know, man, if you saw me play, you wouldn't believe how much I practice.

[Bobby Bones]

You talk about Reba A little bit in the book and. And hearing Reba's music. When did you get to know Reba?

[Clint Black]

Well, I got to know her backstage at the Opry and at award shows. Backstage, being around her like that. I opened for her at some shows, but we're all going 100 different directions, so it takes time to. To develop friendships and get to know other artists, because we're never around at the same time. So it's like those. Those Opry's and award shows are like the. The homecoming where you get to see everybody who did you feel like you

[Bobby Bones]

became close friends with when you moved to town, that was an artist you had no relationship with at all until you got here.

[Clint Black]

Steve Warner. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you guys both are, like, just fantastic musicians, too.

[Clint Black]

Is that why I just liked Steve? Steve was fun and funny, you know, Steve will make you laugh. I mean, I thought I was gonna bust a spleen one time, and he knew it. And I'm saying, you know, I'm dying laughing, and I can't stop. And I'm really begging him to stop what he's doing. And he's like, oh, this is working. And then he comes in for the killer, and he could have killed me with it. So I think you hit it off that way first. And then you say, you know, we need to write a song together, which is like, you know, the. The way, you know, you ask another singer for a date, you know, don't want this to be awkward. And I take. Can I take you out for a burger?

[Bobby Bones]

You know, and so did you guys write pretty well together?

[Clint Black]

Yeah, yeah, we wrote. We wrote a lot of songs together over the years, and a couple of them, you know, like, Nothing but the Tail Lights, you know, big hit, Been There, and then a bunch of deep cuts that are favorites of mine. One of. One of the favorite songs. I'm gonna do it in an event I can't talk about yet, but it's America still in love with you. Our love letter to this country.

[Bobby Bones]

So.

[Clint Black]

Songs I'm really, really proud of, and. And some of them in my most favorite compositions. And along with that, you know, when you're. When you're not doing that, he's showing you a guitar lick, and. And, you know, and then I steal them. I go away, and I change them a little. And in their mind.

[Bobby Bones]

And then you claim you wrote it. Yeah. Why? Why? Killing Time is the name of it. I mean, you got a bunch of songs that kind of better man would have worked as a title. Killing Time.

[Clint Black]

Yeah. One of the things I've always known about myself is the premium that I put on time. And. And I was a very fatalistic. Growing up, I didn't think I would live a long life. And so time was always coming to a close for me. 16, that's it. I mean, because we were losing friends to car and motorcycle accidents and drug overdose or cancer. And. And so I, I just knew. And the Vietnam war was looming and I just thought, you know, something will get me. You know, I can't imagine something will get me. Something will get me, you know, like it got my friend or. Yeah. And. And then 18 came and I was like, okay, 21 is probably it, you know, and then 21 came and 25 came and I'm like, okay, better start flossing. You know, might live a while. And I. And I sort of walked away from that idea. And it wasn't something that kept me awake at night, but. But that's, that's. That was my, you know, latter teen years. So Time, you know, killing time Buying time Spend my time no time to kill till the end of time There's a lot of not thinking of. Off the top of my head. I've written a lot of songs on that subject. Life gets away and that just comes from just knowing, you know, you just. You don't know how long you have. When I started thinking about what would I name the book, it was. There wasn't. No, this was the first thought. Killing Time is my biggest hit and. And it's the irony of that. I have not been killing Time. I've done a lot. It's not. It's not all in the book because that would be boring. But it's just the obvious choice.

[Bobby Bones]

To me that was named the album too.

[Clint Black]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Killing Time.

[Clint Black]

Yeah. And it was the. And the album was finished and Hayden and I wrote that song at the last minute and. And did a quick demo, sent it in. Everybody said, oh, yeah, that's. That has to go on the album. But we cut the track for that and. And Hayden actually recorded that six string Jerry Jones bass part that you hear in the intro at Master Phonics while we were mastering the album. That's how close we were to missing the window of getting that song on the album.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you have a name what the album was going to be until.

[Clint Black]

No, no, not until Mary Hamilton was head of the art department at RCA and we did a photo shoot with Senor McGuire, Jim McGuire down in Galveston. And. And then I was sitting with her at RCA looking through the photos, picking ones that we wanted to, you know, put in the, and for artwork, and she came across that cover photo, and she said, look at you. You're just killing time. I was like, yeah, yeah, that's, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing.

[Bobby Bones]

And then. Did you write the song after that?

[Clint Black]

No, no. This, okay. She, she had this, the list of songs, and she just, she just put that title with photo.

[Bobby Bones]

1989 is when that came out. Are you a good guy remembering what happened in certain years? Because I am not.

[Clint Black]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Clint Black]

No. The, the. My least favorite word throughout this process was timeline. Your timeline seems off. You know, and fortunately, I had Craig Shelburne helping me, and Craig would do research, I would write a story, and Craig would say, yeah, that didn't happen in 1994. He saved me from being wrong.

[Bobby Bones]

Whenever you recorded Killing Time, that's the last song on the album. Was that the first single on the album?

[Clint Black]

No. Better Man. Better man than Killing Time and that. I think Nobody's Home came after that.

[Bobby Bones]

Kind of a generational run there.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, yeah. Five number ones. And then it was, it was history making. So that made me a news item, you know, because that hadn't been done with a debut album in any genre any, any time.

[Bobby Bones]

Man, did that feel crazy. Are we going so hard? You didn't even really understand what was happening.

[Clint Black]

It felt crazy. You know, you're everywhere you go, you're an event. You know, you're in a truck stop and people know you went to a mall and somebody screamed and you just, you feel it everywhere you go. And a song member Little River Band song Cool change would get to me at times on the bus when I needed that cool change. I needed to get away from that guy. And just for a minute, could you

[Bobby Bones]

not wear a cowboy hat and it'd be a little easier?

[Clint Black]

Yeah, no, I, I, if I went to the mall, I didn't wear, I didn't wear my cowboy hat.

[Amy]

That'd be weird. You'd be looking for attention.

[Bobby Bones]

He's wearing his cowboy, walking around the guitar singing, yeah, yeah, leave me alone, everybody. Hell, I'm leaving here.

[Clint Black]

Can you give me some space?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, please.

[Clint Black]

God.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever have one of those instances where you fell off stage, like, in, in your, your heyday, and then you just have to, like, play hurt for a while?

[Clint Black]

Not in my, not in my heyday, but a few years ago, I did what you heard. I, I ruptured a disc in my lumbar and cracked the femoral head. My hip.

[Amy]

Oh, my.

[Clint Black]

And I didn't know it. I knew I. I knew I hurt my back and. And I was in surgery about four days later getting that fixed.

[Bobby Bones]

How did you fall off the stage?

[Clint Black]

I didn't actually fall. I turned. Well, I turned it into a jump because it was either that or fall. So the one night my. My crew forgot to put the white tape along the edge of the stage, oh, man, was I. I'm going out there. I'm singing. Put yourself in my shoes. So I'm holding the mic like this and, well, like this. And for those of you listening at home, this is much better. Look. And I'm walking out singing to the crowd, and I realized my momentum is going to carry me over the edge and. And so I just made it a jump. I'm jumping. I can't see the ground because the lights in my eyes, it's a concrete floor in a hockey arena in Canada. And when I land, my right leg is straight and I land on the heel of. In my boots. And the. The jolt was electric. It went through my body. I didn't fall down. I. I missed a few lyrics. Hayden was looking back and he said. He said he looked back at the dick on the drums, and when he turned around, there was a weird clinko. It's weird. He's not singing. So I walked around and security person helped me find my way through the curtains and, and back to the stage. I started singing, you know, right away.

[Bobby Bones]

You finished the show?

[Clint Black]

Finished the show. I had. I had one day off and, yeah, iced my back. I got some muscle relaxers and spent the day in bed. And then I had two more shows in Canada, finishing in Vancouver. And by that time, my. My right leg was numb all the way down to my foot. So I'm. I'm. I'm kind of. Yeah, I'm fine. You know, nobody can tell. But there were a few times when I almost fell down just because I couldn't feel my leg. It was, you know, I. The buses cross the border. I go to the Seattle airport. I get on a plane. By the time I make it to my seat, I tell the attendant, flight attendant, I'm going to need a wheelchair when we get to la.

[Bobby Bones]

And you're not joking.

[Clint Black]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Clint Black]

And I hated that. And so then I had somebody call the hotel and ask him to put a wheelchair, have a wheelchair for me to get me to my room. And. And so, first of all, I'm hating being wheeled through the airport in a wheelchair, you know, but I can't. I can't walk. And so I. I get to the hotel, I get up to my room, I get in bed, and I look over at that wheelchair sitting there. You. I'm not gonna. You're not a part of my future. And. And I went and had an injection. Didn't help. And I was in surgery the next morning and it was a little bit of a slog, but I was back on tour about 10 days later. Yeah, that's great.

[Bobby Bones]

You write about that in the book.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, yeah. There's a list of about a third of the surgeries I've gone through as a result of my first injury. There's about 29 surgeries and procedures. I'm the Six Thousand Dollar man now.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever have throat issues, like surgery on your throat, like any sort of polypy thing or anything?

[Clint Black]

No, no, nothing like that.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you think a little bit of that's because you had to sing so much when you first started out that you develop like a really strong, like hours at a time performing?

[Clint Black]

We've started the interview, right?

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, we're not recording it.

[Clint Black]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. So I'll tell you the truth off air.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know if you're kidding right now.

[Clint Black]

I'm kidding.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Amy]

I don't think. I can't tell.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I know.

[Amy]

I'm like, you're still talking.

[Bobby Bones]

So dry. I don't know what he's doing.

[Clint Black]

Not able to express things with my face.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, I. I sang so much, played harmonica so much that actually the. The first surgery had to go through the front of my throat and move my vocal cords and all of the veins and arteries out of the way to get to my spine. And I was supposed to take 45 minutes. It took an hour and a half. And the surgeon said that half of that time was figuring out where to put the veins and arteries. You know, they were. They're just. They were so big because you'd worked them so hard. Yeah. Wow. So he had to take all that time to move all that stuff out of the way.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you have anything in the book that you hadn't thought about in a long time and then you just reappreciated it so much because you kind of relived it.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, all of that. All of the surgeries and recoveries. I got pretty good at recovering quickly and getting back to work and getting off pain pills after like two days, three days max, and getting back to normal. I got pretty good at that. So, you know, my psyche was always about getting going again and going back through that, talking to My surgeon and getting all the information and getting all that right and looking at the totality of it got me. It's getting me now. You know, if this, If. If these things had happened to me, you know, 30 years earlier, they wouldn't had nearly as good a fix for them back then, and I would have probably suffered more. So I look at that and I'm just. I'm so grateful that I had a great surgeon who had confidence in. And he was pushing the envelope, doing experimental stuff, developing his own plates, you know, for stability plates, and. And, you know, he was on the front end edge of stem cell injections, which I had working with Korea, who was ahead of us, and. And so I was in really good hands.

[Bobby Bones]

What's your guys's rule about playing in the rain?

[Clint Black]

As long as it's not dangerous if the crowd is sticking around? There have been some situations where we were made to stop and it was. There was just too much water getting in. People could get hurt or killed. But when you're playing for a crowd in the rain and they're staying, you know, you. You just. You just given, you know, where's that 110%? Where's. Where's 120? You know, what can I do that's better than what I do?

[Bobby Bones]

Because you're grateful for them for standing in the rain. So you're gonna play.

[Clint Black]

I was just gonna try to give them everything I've got as opposed to my normal 80%, which.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you just kind of show up and go through the motions. Was there ever a moment with Killing Time? Better man, those two songs early on that if, like, one little thing wouldn't have happened, one random thing wouldn't have happened. Maybe those songs don't become really successful.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, I was making the. Doing the promo tour, playing songs for program directors who decide what. What's going on the air.

[Bobby Bones]

And what year was this?

[Clint Black]

You think this was 89? This would be. Well, no, it would have been late 88 or January of 89. And. And so we're at KZLA. Bob Guerra sitting in. In his office, hand him the tape of the single. He hits play, listens to chorus and a verse and hit stop and says. He goes, you know, if you get that into the top 20, I can add it to our playlist. I'm thinking, oh, that sounds terrible. How do I get into the top 20 without you already playing it? And the song was straight from the Factory, which is the first cut on the album, Western Swing. And I had this little feeling that Western Swing isn't going to go over in every market. A term I would later use, cities is what I called them. But, you know, cities, big cities, you know, they may not play a western swing song. I had a cassette in my pocket of the other songs, and the one I wanted to be the single I had. It was the first. First song on the cassette. I wasn't sure if it was okay. And Carson Schreiber was the promotion guy for West Coast. And I kind of looked at him, I looked at Bob, and I said, can. Can I play another song? And Bob said, sure. So he put it in Better Man. He listens to the verse. In the chorus, he hit Stop. My heart stopped. And he said, I'll add that out of the box.

[Bobby Bones]

So he added it immediately.

[Clint Black]

No, no, not. Not yet. It wasn't the single, and this was just introducing me. But he said, I'll add that out of the box. And we walked out into the parking lot, and I grabbed Carson. I said, we have to change the single. And he agreed. He called Joe Galani, told him the story, and they changed the single.

[Bobby Bones]

Had you not gone to your pocket, your career may have had a completely different trajectory.

[Clint Black]

Yeah, it may have been a slower startup if. If it did get legs, but A Better man went number one. And that was noteworthy because debut singles going number one, don't. Don't happen all the time.

[Bobby Bones]

Then it was Killing Time.

[Clint Black]

Killing time. And those two songs became the number one in two singles of the year. And Billboard, which was another noteworthy news item, and the last time it had happened was 35ish years earlier with Hank Williams senior. 35 years earlier with two songs I sang in the Bars, your Cheating Heart and Collage and. And now my story has a connection to Hank Senior.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, was there a point where you started to go to award shows and you felt like you belonged? Like, when did that start happening?

[Clint Black]

No, it took a couple of years. You know, I was. It was a lot of deep breathing. And you can see if you see me getting my first CMA Award, my first award, I get up, you know, in front of the microphone holding my award, and I take a big breath. It just, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know what it was for

[Clint Black]

the Horizon Award, which is Best New Artist?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Dang, that's awesome.

[Clint Black]

It was. It was, you know, and I'm looking out at, you know, Reba and Haggard and Skaggs and Straight and, you know, everybody. Everybody else, they're all right there in front of me. It's just, okay, be normal thing. I kept Saying be normal. Yeah, you just. You look good. You're standing well, you know, how do I. It's another funny thing, you know, people don't think about. They see new artists performing and sometimes, you know, we look goofy. I still look goofy. But we're all having that conversation. I'm sure you've had it.

[Bobby Bones]

Not completely.

[Clint Black]

Just.

[Bobby Bones]

Imposter.

[Clint Black]

Don't stand that way anymore. You've been standing that way too long. Billy Joel's singing, you know, Honesty, such a something word. I wonder, maybe I have tuna sandwich tonight. Don't go changing. I had that last night. Try and please. You know, I'm thinking, you know, I'm leaving here. Better man. Okay. Stand on the left leg. I always cut. I always cut people slack when I start to get judgy because I know, you know, that we're all just trying to be normal. But it's not normal to be up there doing that, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

The book is out today, so. Clint Black Killing Time.

[Eddie]

What do you want?

[Bobby Bones]

What do you want people to know from the book?

[Clint Black]

Like, overall, I didn't overdo it with the commas.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Clint Black]

I really was judicious with that. You know, you can read sentences right through without anything. You know, speed bumps to slow you down. I get tired of those in books.

[Bobby Bones]

What kind of music did your brothers play around you when you were young?

[Clint Black]

Well, my dad, big time country, like Frank Sinatra, but. And Tony Bennett. Outside of that, it was all. All country. And then when I was about 8, my brother started bringing home the Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Wishbone, Ash, you know, just anything that was happening on the Texas radio. Yeah. And, and so, you know, this. As the years went by, it was. It was more and more of that rock and roll. By the time I was 13, I was starting to look for my own records, you know, getting the redheaded stranger, some Loggins of Messina, Jim Croce, Dan Fogelberg. And so I had all that country stuff, you know, as my base. And then my, my brothers, you know, the, the rock and roll. And then, and then I started going for the singer songwriters, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

I hope everybody goes and buys the book. It is out today. Clint Black Killing Time. I hope you sell a million.

[Clint Black]

Thank you, man.

[Bobby Bones]

That'd be crazy if he sold a million, though.

[Clint Black]

What are you saying?

[Bobby Bones]

That'd be crazy if you sell a million? Because that's a lot. That's a big deal.

[Clint Black]

I expect it can't stream.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess you can stream a book. They should buy the audiobook. Did you do your audiobook?

[Clint Black]

I Did my audiobook. You go through this process, and it's like, okay, I finished the book. And then the editor gives you notes. Oh, I gotta go through the whole book again. And then you go, okay, that's done. And then the editor gives you more notes and you do it again. And then you do that again. And then the. The legal gives you notes. And then now you have to go through it with legal. And then now it's. Okay, read this one more time. And that's it. We have to read it one more time. And that's when it starts impacting me emotionally. When my dad died, I broke down reading something I wrote and reread already five times. And like that last time, when I'm going through it meticulously, it got. I broke down and sobbed and. And then I'm done. And then, okay, we need to schedule the audiobook recording. And now I'm reading it, and you can hear my voice shaking at times trying to get through that. It took me five days to read it on tape.

[Bobby Bones]

So get. Killing time. You can order it or you can listen to it. You can download it and listen to the audiobook, because that counts too.

[Clint Black]

That's right. And I'll be saying things in it.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we hear the commas?

[Clint Black]

You know, I. I had to really become an actor in order to, you know, do the pauses, observe the periods, deliver on the exclamation marks.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll be listening for that, you know. Yeah, yeah, I'll text you and be like, kind of.

[Clint Black]

There's a little music in there at the top.

[Bobby Bones]

There is.

[Clint Black]

Put some. Me and my guitar in harmonica.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you have in the room with you?

[Clint Black]

No, I did that later.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean?

[Clint Black]

After we finished recording the book, then I. Then I came up with some music.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, and added it to it. Yeah, yeah, guys, go get it. It's out today. Clem Black, killing Time. There he is. The lovely, lovely Clint Black. There he is. I thought lovely twice. Lovely twice.

[Clint Black]

If I had a nickel for every time someone called me lovely, I'd have a nickel.

[Bobby Bones]

I said it twice, though. 10 cents. All right, there he is. Clint Black, everybody. We're gonna wrap this up. All right, thank you, everybody. We will see you tomorrow. Bye. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.