The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits of the Week with Morgan2 - What You Didn't Hear About Eddie's Son iPad Drama (Week of 3/29)

Episode Date: April 3, 2021

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That's AMU. APUS. Dot E-D-U-S-Military. Best bits of the week, and we've got them for you. Best bits of the week with Morgan number two. What's up, y'all? It's Morgan number two in case you're a first-time listener. What I do is take the best seven segments from the week based on your engagement online.

If you hit us up on the phone about it a lot, if you wrote us comments on Facebook, all the things. I take all of it and I decide what our best seven moments from the show this past week are. And we count them down from seven to one. But along the way, I kind of reveal some things that happened behind the scenes. I bring on another show member to talk with me about it. And this week I'm bringing on producer Eddie so we can chat about something that happened with him and his son. But also, we'll get some more commentary in there too.

So let's get going. Eddie talked about a situation that happened with his son and an iPad at school that got damaged. Eddie, give us a little brief breakdown, not too much because they're going to hear the segment. Okay. So basically, my son had a classmate of his shatter his iPad screen. And I was kind of under the, I guess, understanding that if something like that happens, the parent of whoever did it would pay for it. So it was kind of a discussion of like, what do we do?

do. Like, no one has offered to pay for this. Right now, it seems like it was my son's iPad, so now we have to pay for this. And so it was a big topic in our household. So during the segment, you kind of talked about what you initially reacted to it. And you kind of had some anger. So do you have anger often when it comes to these parenting situations? It seems like the longer I become a parent, the more angrier I get about things. But no, it's almost just kind of of like you want to do what's right. And in this, in this situation, I was really thinking like the right thing is for the parent to take care of this. But no one is doing anything about it. And I even thought maybe the school should be a part of this too because it happened on school

grounds. And an iPad isn't cheap. iPad screen isn't cheap. So I was thinking the school would be like, all right, guys, this happened. We'll sort it out. We'll let the parents know. And then you guys can figure out how to deal with it. Well, and there was some arguments online without giving like the final thing that happened away that your son should pay for half of it because it's his iPad and he let somebody borrow. Didn't drop it. But it's his and he let somebody borrow it. Maybe he shouldn't have let somebody borrow it. And that was the argument that maybe to teach him about his things and be careful about who's borrowing it. How do you feel about that? Well, I mean, there is the obvious like, oh, why wasn't there a screen on screen protector on there? Like all that

stuff, yes, and I did tell him that. I said, dude, you got to put your screen protector, but there's something he has against screen protectors. He likes to have the iPad the way it is, and even his phone, he likes it without a case. I'm like, well, that's what happens when it's not in a case. I understand that it's partly his fault. He needs to be responsible for his own things. But in this case, this was a class project. This was something where the school said, hey, you all need your iPads for this, use it. And then it happened in that situation. So I'm thinking. Okay, so that's interesting. Was this iPad something you guys had to supply him for school?

Yeah. So the way the school works is if you're able to supply an iPad, go for it. If not, they have a special fund or whatever where they can get school issued iPads. Okay. But so it is like, that's tricky because it isn't the schools. It is y'alls, which, again, like, in an ideal situation, they give them all iPads and they stay at school or whatever. Yeah, and if it's the school's iPad that breaks, then the school takes care of it. Yes, but this is tricky because it's technically his. He gets to take at home.

He can play games and stuff on it at home, all the things. Well, the way I thought about it was like, all right, even if this was outside of school and it's two friends playing with a phone, like, all right, here, we're playing whatever. Here, hold my phone. The phone breaks. You and me, right? It's my phone and you break my phone. Wouldn't you feel like, hey, you know what? We're adults.

Like, I should probably, I feel bad. Let me pay for that broken screen. Oh, yeah. Like if something happens like that, totally. So when you're a parent and your kid does something, guess who pays for it? The parent does. So that's what I was leaning towards. And I wasn't really thinking I was going to press that whole thing.

Like, hey, give me the parents number and I'll call their parents up and tell them they need to pay for it. I was never thinking that I had to do that. Honestly, when things get a little controversial like that, I make my wife do it. I'm not like the, I'm not. Does this mean that your wife is the good cop and you're the bad cop? Is that really what it is? No, I'm the good cop. My wife's the bad cop.

Does that make sense? Like, she's the bad guy. But she's the nice one. No, she's the one that complains. Like, like, remember when we had... I didn't anticipate that action. Like, I really thought it was the reverse. I don't.

I don't do that. I don't like confrontation at all. So, like, that we had a pizza thing a while back, you know, where they put the pizza in our wrong, our neighbor's doorstep instead of ours. So I was upset about that. And so I told my wife, I'm like, call Pizza Hut and tell them what they did. And she's the one that like, and it's weird because she's so shy and she's very sweet. And there's nothing mean about her at all.

But when it comes to, like, customer service. She's like, yeah, all right, give her the phone. I'll call. See, it totally surprises me because every time I haven't met your wife, she is so sweet. Like, nothing about her is confrontational. But, like, you do have anger sometimes. So I'm just so, like, blown away at this different response. I'm, I'm a implosive person. I don't know if that's the right word. You let it explode on yourself. Like, inward? I get upset in here, like, inside of me. It's an outward expression. I don't really, like, take it out on people. Okay. And so I beat myself up. I don't know if that's the right thing to do.

But that's kind of like where I get angry about it. And then I start talking to my wife about it. And then she says, fine, I'll handle it. So is your wife or is it you that's more like you obviously both come up with the disciplines for your children? But who actually like enforces that and make sure it happens? So that's tricky. When it comes to our kids, we have learned that they react more to my discipline than hers. It's a weird thing.

They're all boys. and they're all, they all gang up on her and they all like, whenever she kind of tries to discipline, they laugh. They're like, okay, moms try to be serious. They're playing to her like motherly side. They're like, hey, we're your kids. You're not going to do that. Like, you're going to be mad at me for two seconds and then you're going to hug me and kiss on my forehead

and then, you know, put me to bed. And so they really don't take her serious. But when dad gets mad and dad raises his voice and dad says, do this, they stop in their tracks and do it. So maybe that's just a dad thing. I mean, like my dad was like the disciplinary. So like maybe it's just like more of a your guys's temperament. I think so.

I think and too like I want to teach my my boys too to respect like women and and not really like it's tricky because I want them to be like, hey, your mom says to do this. You do it. And that's a constant in my house. I'm always saying that, but it just doesn't work. Like they're always like, yeah, okay. And I'm like, no, she said, like she's, I heard her tell you four times and you haven't even budged. Yeah, and you know what, maybe as they get older, they'll start to understand and respect that.

Yeah, hopefully. And kind of be like a mama's boy, you know? But four of them, they just gang up. They're so mean. Your poor wife. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Well, there was another thing, too, that was said on Facebook that we didn't really address on the show.

And again, not giving too much away, but we didn't give enough credit to your son's friend who told his parents. And, like, that's a big deal. It is a big deal. Because most kids would be like, I ain't getting in trouble. I don't want to tell my parents that. Like, I'm not going to be the one to reveal this information. Hopefully it'll just blow away. So here's kind of an inside of like whenever I talk about stories with my kids,

especially my teenager, he's very, I guess the last couple of years, his friends at school listen to the show sometimes and their parents listen to the show sometimes. So sometimes it gets back to him that I was talking about him. So I always have to be very careful, like to be like, all right, I want to talk about your iPad situation, but I don't want to embarrass you. So and I don't, and instead of like altering the story when this comes up, I always just pick and choose what I'm going to talk about. You omit some things to avoid any of that. There are. There are so many stories that I could talk about.

But I'm like, you know what? This is his life. And I don't want to. There's some boundaries there that you have to respect. For sure. But in this case, I thought it was. was so important to tell this story because of how, one, his classmate reacted and told his parents what he did. And two, how the parents reacted. Yes. All of it was like so cool. All of it was

very shocking and cool. And I thought like that to me was like, all right, this is something that's not going to be embarrassing to him. And it's going to be a good ending to a good story. Oh, man. Okay. Yeah. See, I loved it. This like this is a good story. Like front to end, like beginning to end front, front, front, back, whatever. You know what I meant. Um, listen up to this because it's really good if you're a kid, if you're a parent. It's just, you're probably going to face it at some point. So here we go. Number seven.

Hey, Eddie, tell Amy what happened at your kid's school. Okay, so my son was doing a group project in class. And in order for this project to go down, somebody had to donate their iPad to use for the project. So my son got partnered up with his other kid and he was using his iPad, my son's iPad. And this other kid's using it and he's doing scanning something with it or whatever, drops it. Boom. Screen shatters completely.

Oh, no. So he comes home and he's like, mom, dad, like, I don't know, you know, someone else did it. It wasn't me. I don't know what to do. And I'm kind of like, well, what did the kids say? Nothing. He didn't say anything. Oh, I kind of got a little heated up saying, I think we need to call the parents of this kid and tell him they need to replace his iPad or at least the screen, something.

So did you call the parents? Hold on. I don't know. I don't know. I was about to say. Hold on, all that. Amy, what would you do here? I don't know.

My brain automatically goes to whether, I don't know the other kids' situation, but I automatically wonder, I don't want to call this out because what if, for whatever reason, they maybe can't afford to replace the iPad. Like it would just make me uncomfortable to ask for that.

And it would, if my, if it was my daughter or son, I'd be like, they made the choice to give the iPad to that person. So this also teaches responsibility for my kids to hold on to their stuff. and that if you let someone else use it, then, you know, if something goes wrong,

I don't think I would call the other parents. I just would figure it out on my own. And, you know, I feel awkward right now knowing that Eddie called them. Oh, you already know he called? No, I have, no. I feel as though that's what Eddie did. Eddie, what did you do? Well, hold on.

Let me say what I would do. I don't know what Eddie did. Sorry, sorry. I thought you did. Go ahead. You know, I am a bit like Amy where I would feel nervous. asking somebody if it, because I couldn't afford that stuff as a kid. But I think maybe instead of calling and having that conversation on the phone, I would just send an email that way it's not

putting them on the spot, explaining the situation to see if they wanted to volunteer to help pay for what they could of the iPad. Because you're not calling them on the phone and being like your kid did this, which they may get defensive. They may get defensive with their kid. They may get defensive because they don't have any money. I don't know. But I think I would, would approach it as, hey, this happened. Maybe you heard about it. They were playing with the iPad and, you know, your son, Jethro, drop the iPad and it broke. That's his name.

Weird. So I would reach out, but I wouldn't reach out directly. Eddie, what did you do? Bones, you're going down the right track, I think. So we were talking about it. And my wife was like, absolutely not. Let's not even get the parents of all. This is going to be awkward.

And I said, no, we got to make this right. Like, somebody has to pay for this. And I don't think we need to pay for it. So as we're talking about it, I'm not kidding, an email comes through. And it's the kid's dad. And he emails us and says, my son came home today, told us exactly what happened. We would like to pay for this iPad. Wow.

Yeah. I was like, this is amazing. We don't have to do anything. Oh, okay. Well, that worked out. Just great. So now you know. I mean, because the only thing that's uncomfortable is not knowing their family

situation. And it's not like it's like a one or $5 thing. I mean, iPad's super expensive. So that's cool. What were you going to do, though, Eddie? I mean, I was talking a big game. I think in those situations, my wife usually wins and says, you know, we probably don't want to call them. I think she was actually leaning towards calling the school and saying, hey, what should we do in this situation and get their take on it?

Because it was a school project. But honestly, I don't think we were going to move fast enough to do anything. And knowing me, I'd probably chicken out. Yeah, iPads are expensive, too? Yeah. That's what stinks. They don't have school iPads. Amy, does your kids school have iPads?

Well, they provide them with a tax. tablet, like a computer thing. So that's what they use. And it's given out by the school. Eddie, what are your kids rules on the iPad? What can he be on? I mean, he has, my 13-year-old has free range for the most part. He has these, I think websites have ratings on them.

So we set him up to where there's certain websites he can't access and certain apps he can't get unless we accept it, like an accept like some kind of security question or whatever. And usually it goes to my phone and I just click one button and he can get it. If not, I decline it. Is there a workaround on that where he can actually have you tried to reverse engineer and try to download things? That's a great idea. No, I have not.

Because you know him and his buddies have all tried these little tricks and they know how to get by it. But no, I haven't tried to play the 13-year-old on his iPad, see if I can crack some codes. Well, the best thing to do, if you want to try to beat something that someone else is beating, is try to beat yourself. Yeah. I mean, with this show, I want to hire people to create. And maybe I talked about this off the air, but I went in paid people. people in radio to try to beat me. Like, I'm going to give you money.

I want you to listen to the show for a month, and I want you to develop a plan to beat me. And I hired them to give me that report so I could see how they would beat us. I could close up all the gaps. You did this? I didn't talk about this on the show. No.

Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. I don't know. I often scout against myself because there's shows popping up all over that are trying to take me and us down. And so I went and hired two different people and paid them top dollar.

and said, take a month. I want you listening to the podcast. I want you listening in live. I want you listening on different channels. And if you had free reign to just develop a show, what would you do? What would you talk about? Where are we lacking? And I had them write up this humongous report.

And then I take it. And then I go through it. And I go, okay, they have a point here. Let's do this. Let's not do this. And so I hire people to try to beat me and then I take that information. So what were you told? How are you going to reveal that?

Well, I mean, I don't know. Why would I reveal that right here? I just paid $10 dollars. Well, I don't know. I'm wondering what... That's top secret information! What did they say? Like, did they give you, like, even like,

oh, you shouldn't do this or shouldn't do that? Or you're, actually, you're just saying that they said, this is what we would do to counter you. This is what you do well. This is what you can do better at. But if we were going to launch a show against you, this is everything we would do to try to beat you. And thank you for that information.

I take that and I try to close up a lot of those holes. Was it helpful or did you just see the information? And it was like, actually, no one can really beat you. You're just that good. No, it's never. that. Never ever ever that. One of them was extremely helpful. So much so that it was so good. I went to the head of the company. I was like, oh, we need to hire her. Not on this show, but as someone who does this for other shows.

That's cool. Yeah. So, well, there you go. Like Amy's awesome. Okay, everybody's dying to know. The only person I gave that report to was Scoob of Steve. It was good, right, Scoob, Steve? That was pretty cool. It was very thorough, and I, like, took parts of it that I thought were great. And, yeah, it was a cool idea. I thought that was very inventive for you to do that. You want to not get beat? Try to beat yourself and then close up all those ways someone else can beat you.

They're right, the end. Super smart. I'm giving up too much of my strategy here. Eddie, congrats on the iPad, buddy. And I'll try that with my kid too. Yeah, no, you're trying to beat you. Right, beat me through his stuff. You've set up a plan to keep your kid from downloading things he shouldn't,

so you go try to beat you now. No, now we just, Eddie, we just need to hire people to tell us how they would be better parents than us. It's the best bits of the week. with Morgan number two. This week we were talking about Bobby's wedding coming up to Caitlin. It is fast approaching and they are getting all of their plans in order. And one thing that came up during the show this week, Bobby has chosen his signature drink at the wedding. And it's going to be one of his favorite mock tales, which is a Shirley Temple.

But he has to name it. And if you've been married and you've had signature drinks at your wedding, you name them. Like it's the bride's drink and the groom's drink. and they typically have signature names. So Bobby doesn't know what to name his Shirley temple, like the virgin version of it, or the dirty Shirley, which is like the alcohol version of it.

So Eddie, do you have any names that, like, you think would be good for this dream? Nah, not really. I mean, the one I've brought on air is not a good one, but I don't really have any good names for it. I've been seeing the tweets, though,

that people have been tweeting in about it. Yeah, let's read some of those. Pretty funny. I think my favorite one definitely is Bob Kate, almost like play off of Bobcat. And it's like Bobby Caitlin. It's kind of funny. But then you don't... But then it's not his drink. And she's probably going to have a drink, I would assume,

since he has one. Correct. So there's also a hog shrine. Wild hog shrine. Right. I would think that's like a moonshine drink. Well, there's a lot of like Arkansas-based like razorbacks kind of thing. Fair. But also too, this guy wrote Bear Bones and that's like the non-alcoholic Bear Bones drink. Okay. Kind of funny.

Yeah. What would be the dirty version of that? Like the alcoholic version. Like Big Bone. Bear bone and big bone? It's getting weird. I don't know. But that's pretty much it.

I feel like there's something. No, but I feel like there's something with the Shirley Temple being red and red is Bobby's favorite color. I feel like there's something with that. And I just can't. The red bone. The red bone. Again, I think we need to take bone out of it. Yeah, it gets dirty.

Especially if you have like drunk people going, I need the boner. Will you bone me up on that? Yeah. Yeah, that's going to get weird real fast. Maybe like the, I don't know. It's something red. I feel the red. Like in my soul, you know when you just feel it?

Yeah. I don't know what that name is though, but it's there. Something red? Something about the red coloring. Have you ever had a Shirley Temple? Oh yeah. I drink dirty Shirley's at the bar all the time. See, that's weird too.

Why? This whole thing is weird. Like Shirley Temple is a. a 10 year old, 8 year old Yeah, but it's so good. And then the dirty Shirley is the alcoholic version of it. It's very weird to me.

You know, but I'm like, yeah, I'll take it dirty Shirley. That was my first drink I ever ordered when I turned 21 and I was so proud to say that. And I was like, I need a dirty Shirley. And they're like, oh, this girl just turned 21. Oh, for sure. I know. Okay, so funny story about that.

Like when my sister, she had, she got, it's the first time she got into a bar underage. And she came with me and my wife. My wife and I were dating at the time. And she got in with us. We somehow got her in. And she goes to the bar and I'm like, hey, you're in. Let it rip.

So she's like, okay. Okay. So the bartender goes, hey, what can I get you? And she says, 7-7. And I look at her. I'm like, what? She's like, doesn't mom drink that? I'm like, yeah, I guess I guess so.

It's like Seagram 7 with 7 up or something. Whiskey and 7? Is that? Yes, it's like the old lady drink or whatever. My mom would drink it ever since we were kids. And I'm like, this is your first time of a bowl. and your orders a seven. So I was just like, I panicked.

I didn't know what to get. I panicked. It's so true, though, and you don't want to get in trouble. I remember that. When I was at bars underage, I, like, would look up things online to make sure that when I got there, nobody knew that I wasn't supposed to be there. So were you very, like, just relax at the bar, a little elbow on the bar? Oh, yeah, but I can't tell you how many times I ask for, like, a sex on the beach or

whiskey sour. Like, the so, the drinks that, like, people who don't drink a lot of alcohol drink, right? Like, that is a very fruity. like tastes good drinks. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know how I never got kicked out, but I managed my way through it. It sounds like your sister figured it out too. 7-7.

I'm like, get out of here. But 7-7 is like an old person drink. Salty dog, please. What? You never know what's going to happen, though. Okay, so with Bobby's wedding coming up, you have mentioned that you're not going to drink for some moments of the wedding so you can have like your best man's speech. Speaking of drinking.

Are you still sticking to that? I think so. I mean, I'll probably have a few. years before. I mean, it's, I just feel I've been getting in this point of my life where when there is something to be celebrated, you celebrate hard. Like, I don't think we celebrate as people enough as we should. Like birthdays to me, I feel like since I turned 30 probably, I look at birthdays and I say, it's just another year. It's like, okay, it's a day that I was born. It's just a, I'm one year older, no big deal. But that should be celebrated and we should celebrate hard on these things.

And Bobby getting married to me is a celebration moment where I'm going to go hard. So basically after your big speech, you're going to be going downhill. Yes. So I can probably get you to take shots at the wedding. Yes. I will definitely take shots. And then you're telling me, like, if these artists have, they're on stage and they're singing these songs and they're going to have karaoke night with live van, like, this is going to be

the greatest night ever. Oh, yeah. I'm so ready for it. It's going to be a great wedding. But I am excited to see you get drunk because I think I've only seen you like buzzed a few times and our whole time of working together. So this should be very interesting. I don't know if I'm any fun when I'm really drunk anymore.

You pass down on the table. It's been a while, so I don't know. I'm so ready. But anyways, y'all listen to this. This is where we talk about Bobby's signature drink, how he chose it, why he chose it, all the things. Number six. Let's go!

I think I'm stressing Caitlin out with the wedding coming out because I just forget to invite people. This morning woke up and she goes, hey, did you invite? And she lists off three people. And I was like, yeah, of course I did. She looked back at the list. She goes, nope, they're not on here. I was like, no, I'm pretty sure I did.

I would for sure invite them. And I didn't invite them. Like three people I for sure would have invited it. And I wouldn't even thought about until Caitlin's like, hey, did you invite these people? So I think I'm stressing her out a little bit. There's also a part of the wedding where they want us to create our own signature cocktail. And I don't drink.

So what do you think I created any? Shirley Temple type thing. Yeah, exactly it. Yeah. I didn't know what to name it. So if you guys have a name. Bobby Temple. Well, that's what I said.

That was the easy one, but I didn't think people would know what that was. Oh, I get it, but I don't know. What is in a Shirley Temple? Well, it's basically, you know, cherry juice or whatever that. And the version of a drink, grenadine. Oh, Grenadine. And like seven up, maybe. Yeah.

Okay. So it's pretty good. I like it when I go to a bar because it looks like I'm drinking. But you can also do a dirty Shirley with alcohol in it. Sounds weird. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like the sound of that. I don't want to order one.

There'll be two versions of those. There'll be the one that I have, the Shirley Temple. And there's the dirty Shirley. If you want to add, apparently you add vodka to it. Or the dirty Bobby? I don't know. Okay, here's the challenge I'm going to give our listeners. Call our voicemail line.

What should I name this Shirley Temple kind of drink? The clean one and the dirty one. Yeah. But they need to kind of be named semi the same thing. Right. 877, Bobby. Maybe if you come up with the name, we'll give you a dollar or something. I don't know.

Bobby Boom. Come on. Hey, we got some voicemails about my signature drink at the wedding. You know, because they said, hey, you need to create a drink. Caitlin needs to create a drink. And then people can order them. And I was like, I don't drink. And I like Shirley Temples, but I couldn't find a way the Bobby Temple didn't make sense. But a lot of people called and left ideas.

We have five of them here, what to name my signature cocktail. Here we go, number one. The non-alcoholic could be called Simpleaella, and the alcoholic one can be laydown Stanley. Okay, named after my dogs. Okay. I was kind of looking for that play into Charlie Temple somehow, you know? Okay. All right.

Here's Leanne from New York. I just had one name. It's the Bobby Beat Drop. I just thought that was a great name. Seems how it kind of incorporated some music theme to it, the beat drop. Okay, there you go. It sounds like a beet drink, though, when I hear that. Oh, like the vegetables?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, here's the next one. I'm confused. Why aren't we just cashing in on that bobby water? You know, whiskey and water? Bobby water. Throw some nerds in it. Get crazy with it.

Congratulations. Best wishes. Love the show. See y'all soon. Thank you. I would love to capitalize on it, but Sonic won't pay me. I would be Sonic's greatest endorser. I do this commercials where I sit there to go like,

hey, Mike D. How about this seatbelt? Doesn't go with my chili dog, does it? You know those commercials? You guys in the car? Yeah. For some reason, they don't want to hire me. Here's another one.

I was thinking maybe to name your drink the dirty razorback or just the razor back. What do you think? I like the razor backs. Okay. And then here, let's do Chris from Tucson, Arizona. Alcoholic one should be boned and people should ask to get boned. And then the non-alcoholic one should be unbelievable. and then if you order it

the bartender would be like, oh, you want it unbelievable. That was funny. You hate that. Oh! Yeah. Hey, I like the bone one though. That's pretty good.

I'm not going to have people at the wedding go. I'd like to get bone. One bone, please. Oh, then you won't like my idea then. Why, what was yours? I was going to do big bobbies and little bobbies. Like play on the, you know? No, I don't.

That doesn't even make sense. That's terrible. I can't, Eddie, I can't constantly say you're the funniest person on the show whenever you come up with just rotten. You know how they misspell your name sometimes? They put two oats? Okay. The big booby about the other booby.

Right, right, right. See what I'm saying? The only one that I thought that was pretty cool was someone named Sizzlingster 432. She said, how about calling it a Suey Temple? Like pig suey? Oh, I got it. A suey temple. That's pretty good, huh?

Yeah, Razorback, suey. Yeah, I'm still working on it. I appreciate everybody sending in their thoughts and leaving a voicemail. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Coming up next, Lunchbox, he decided to wrap and sing his way through some drive-thrus. And let me tell you, I don't think I've laughed so hard in a long time. This segment does make me crack up imagining Lunchbox, rapping, and singing through drive-thrus. And not only that, the employees that he was doing this to, like, totally took it in stride.

They were so great. This is the laugh you need on this wonderful weekend. Number five. Morning studio. Morning. Remember last week we had a TikTok of Craig Morgan singing his Starbucks order. Here's a clip. I'd like a venty Americana with extra heavy whipping cream.

And baby, could you please, baby could you please steam it for me? Also, she has to be like, what's happening here? So Lunchbox did this The guy who can't sing We'll see You be the judge You went to sing where lunchbox I went to White Castle

All right here we go Lunchbox singing his order All right welcome to White Castle We'll hit your order Oh yeah I need I need a small shrimp niblers

And don't And don't you And don't you forget I need that small I mean so small So small a small fry. I can't even sing. I can't even beat that.

Where are you drinking? You having something to drink today? No, drink for me. Just a shrimp nibblers and a small fry. Okay, that's going to be 621, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, you all made everybody smile. All right. I don't even know what you ordered. A shrimp nibbler? Yeah, a small shrimp.

What is that? I don't know. Just saw it on the menu. I thought it sounded funny to sing. shrimp nibbler. Okay, so that was it. And a small fry. So how do we like that? That's funny. Okay. He then decided to elevate it and he went to Starbucks to wrap his order.

Oh, boy. Okay. I'm going to like this. If you think he can't sing, let's see what you think about is rapping. Here you go. Oh, you know me? I want that hot chocolate, Vinti, but you can keep the whip for the next broski.

Oh my God. These guys got bars. That's what I do. I drop rhymes all the time. Oh, my gosh. So you want to keep the whipped for the next brosky? That's correct. All right.

Anything else? That's it. $29, boss. I'm out. Are those your kids crying? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. That guy, he was like, oh, my God.

He's like, you got barred. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. A little bit of a controversial segment on our show this week. Amy's daughter, she's 13 years old, told Amy that she wants a locked diary. And Amy was really cool about it. She says, yeah, I totally get it. She should have one. Her daughter wants it for her locked passwords.

Well, people online were just a little bit debating over all the things. Because when it comes to parents and kids, people love trolling about parent shaming. I mean, if there's one topic, they love to comment on. It is parenting. So we had all the kinds of people because Amy was clearly had some mixed emotions about this whole situation, as she should. It's her daughter, daughter's growing up, right? So Eddie, tell me your thoughts on this. So what's tricky with topics like this on the radio show is that we don't have a lot of time to think about it.

You get like one minute to break it down. It's very reactive. So when this came up, the first thing I thought of is just like that is crazy because I truly believe that if you have an open conversation and a relationship. where you can talk about whatever with your kids and they're cool with sharing things with you. There is no such thing as locked doors. I mean, sure. Yeah, lock the door of you're naked. Like, sure, whatever.

I was like, or Eddie, we may need to have a conversation. But realistically, there's no need to hide anything from anyone. Yeah. You know, if you're doing something that you need to hide from your parents, it's not a good thing. And so that's how I reacted to the locked diary. Now, there is the therapy side of it. of it or psychologist, psychiatrist that say, you know, no, it's very healthy to have a locked diary and have your thoughts to yourself. I mean, sure, but you could do that with a diary that's

unlocked and trust and understand that your parents aren't going to look to the diary. Now, I have boys. So far, they have showed no interest in having any kind of diary or journal. So I haven't dealt with this. But I just feel like in my house, I don't think that anyone will want to have that kind of privacy because my son who's 13 years old I mean the first time when I pick him up from school the first thing he's like we talk about like hey how to school go oh man this happened

and this happened and so and so did this and to me I'm like that's great because that didn't happen when I was a kid like they would pick me up from school you think it's great it's fine that was my answer all the time because I felt like I was just going to get in trouble if I told him like oh yeah so I got into a fight

like so and so yeah if you got into a fight you would probably get in trouble in middle school fights were kind of like a common thing. It was weird. Just punching people's noses? My middle school like it was weird. It was almost a ride of passage where like you're in sixth grade time to get into a fight.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. So but even the even the girls got into fights or was this just a guy thing? Girls got no fights. Cat fights? Cat fights? It's like mean girls? Oh my gosh. Hair being pulled and after the fights broken up somebody has a ball of hair in their in their hand. Yes.

Oh my gosh. Serious. I mean South Texas got really down there. Hey, you had a lot of experiences and I'll love it. Yeah, so there was that kind of feeling like, oh, I don't want to tell him. I got no fight. So I wouldn't tell him. I wouldn't tell him certain things or whatever. And I think that's led to us not having a true close relationship where I could just tell them whatever. And that's just something of when I became a parent. I'm like, I want to change that when I become a dad. So when he tells you things, do you kind of like sit with it before you ever respond to anything to make sure you don't react? I have to. So as weird. as some of the stuff is.

Like, it's like, I'll even say like when the becoming a teenager stuff. Oh, yes. The stuff that he comes to me with, I'm just like, what did you just say? But, and then afterwards, I'm like, hey, man, that's pretty cool that he can think like, hey, let me ask dad about this because I don't know what's happening. Oh, yeah, it's a great thing, especially as he gets older and some really serious life stuff starts happening. Yeah.

He will come to you. Totally. And that's the goal as far as me. me and how I parent. That's a good thing. Okay, so I was thinking about this. What if the reason, like, a locked diary thing is such a big deal is because it's siblings? You're not as much worried about your parents getting into it as you are your siblings because

growing up with three other sisters, I didn't, like, if I did something and they happened to see it in a diary that I had, they'd make fun of me for days about it. Did they do that? Yes. So I'm thinking of that. I triggered situation clearly. I saw it in your eyes. I would have diaries and like if my sister ever got a hold of it like it'd be a whole thing.

So maybe it's more about the sibling households that the lock diary is more of a situation. And then I'm down with that. But like the parents have a key and you know, whatever. I'm totally down with that. But yeah, you are right in that we did have a lot of therapists commenting and we're like, it's really healthy to do this and it's important for them. But it's also important for them to be able to trust you that you're not going to look. But other parents were sharing accounts of like their kids having been in some really bad situations.

and they saved them from them based on the fact they were writing and there was trust and they could go when they felt it was a right time to look in the diary. So like cool, so many different firsthand parent accounts on this outside when you get through all the trolling. Yes, and then I immediately thought too,

like there are just been stories of, you know, when there are kids like that have, you know, there's active shootings or whatever and they go back to the house and these are like teenagers that live in their parents' house and they had guns. like in their rooms and ammunition in their room and their parents never knew about it. To me, that's like very shocking to me that that's how detached you are from your children that you wouldn't even know if they bought something like that or they were planning on doing something like that.

So I don't know. There's definitely a conversation to be had about the need to write something down, the need to write something down in privacy and the need to like communicate with your. parents. Yeah. You know? There's a lot of steps to it for sure. But this was, it was a funny conversation because of how drastically we all reacted to it. Well, and you could tell when Amy was talking about her, her emotions were just very mixed. Like it was like, yes, healthy, but also like, what if something happens? Do I have a key? Do I am I allowed to, like so many questions, not even from the kid, but as a parent. Yeah. And that's kind of crazy. But too, like, it's hard to, you're trying to be protective. You're trying to be understanding. You're trying to do all

these things. Like, it's such a real thing that as you get older, like me being 27 and I look at my parents, I'm like, I get it. I respect so much of what you did. I didn't get it then. And I was mad at you or who knows what else I probably did in that moment. But like I look back now and like all the things that they had to think about with me and being protective over me. I'm like, man, I really put you guys through it. I'm so sorry. I think there's a lot of acting involved in being a parent too. Like acting like you wouldn't freak out of you found something in their diary. And then in front of him being like, oh, cool, I'm glad you wrote that down. And then closed that.

And then, and closed down. And like, what? Like, what is he thinking? This is crazy. So there's definitely a lot of acting involved, too, because you don't want to show them how you would naturally react over something. Because for kids, I think it's so important how your parents are going to react to something.

Yeah. It's so important. Like, are they going to say, oh, they're going to kill me when they find out about this? Or, you know what? Dad will understand. It's going to be hard at the beginning. But mom and dad will understand.

can if I explain it to him. So it's tricky. No, and that's a very real thing. It's funny. We were, my girlfriends and I were just talking about this. I always feel the need still as an adult to like have my parents feel proud of me and like proud in my decisions as a human being, right? Even though I'm like 10 years past them wanting anything to like actually do that for. But so I still like if something happens, say I get in like a car accident or something and I'm so afraid to call my mom because I'm like, I don't want to get yelled. Not that I can do anything about it, not that she can do anything about it. But I'm like, I don't want to call her.

I'll literally call my sister first and I'm like, I don't want to call her. Like, at 27 years, no, she'll be like, hey, like, really? Like, you had to do this again, but like she's going to be there. And like, that's all of those emotions, right? And as we're both adults now, she can go through all of those emotions with me. But it's just so funny that even still in an older age, you're like, I just don't want to disappoint them. And they just aren't going to be.

Right. For the most part. There might be some bad things But there'll be something They'll be disappointed about I mean I'm 42 years old And there's certain things I don't tell my parents And they get so mad

Why didn't you tell us? Because I didn't really want to worry you About anything It's crazy As the year's change You talk about your kids And it's like such a full circle moment I'm sure for you as a parent

Yeah my brother has a tattoo That my parents still don't know about Oh the other than right now Oops Sorry mom and dad Let's rewind that a little bit Okay well here's here's a segment about Amy and her 13 year old daughter wanting a locked diary.

Number four. Man, having a 13 year old daughter, that's just like a planet I've never been on. Yeah, and she's almost 14. Really? Yeah, in April. So what's going on? Well, she wants to get a locked diary. So she had me, well, I've ordered it.

We just don't have it yet. But she's like, I need a diary that locks. I'm putting all my passwords in there so nobody can know. Because she forgot, I guess, one of her email passwords. And she's like, oh, I can't believe I can't remember it. So she wants to write them down and lock them away in her drawer. And I thought, okay, well, that's interesting. But she may want to start journaling other things that she starts to lock away.

And I think that's cool. I think that writing down your thoughts is really healthy. And I hope maybe she does use that. But then I thought, oh, well, it's going to be locked. What if one day there's something going on with her and I maybe need a reader diary? And then I was like, no, you can't read her diary. It's her diary. But she's going to have it locked anyway.

But then it just had me, I had this whole conversation in my head about whether or not as a parent, what circumstance makes it okay to go into the diary. Obviously not just for fun on a Friday night. But like, if something's seriously going on with her, I may need to be looking out for her. So I didn't know as a parent how I'm supposed to handle that. This fake scenario of my head that has never even happened yet. If she gave you a key, is like here you can also have a key? Would you go snoop in it? No.

No. She thought about it. Well, I mean, if she's saying I could and I really felt like. No, she's saying if here's a key in case for emergency. Okay. Then if it's an emergency, yes. Again, I'm not going to. I want to show her.

Like we're big on respect in our house. And right now we're working on a lot of different core values as a family and we want to live by example to the kids. So like if she were to find out that I was snooping in her stuff with no emergency reason, then that. wouldn't be building trust and respect with her. I agree. For a 13, 14 year old to have a diary and write down all their thoughts, great. I think the only time you should get into it is if you think she's in danger and you have to cut that thing open and then you have to have the conversation.

I just got into your diary. Yeah. Otherwise, it's not like an Instagram account where people can interact with her. People can't reach out to her and her diary. That's the difference in a Facebook account, an Instagram account, a TikTok account where maybe you don't want your 13-year-old to have one of those because they are accessible to creeps. And that does happen.

And as a parent or parents, we can't be naive to that. But creeps and perves can't get into a lock diary. Right. Yeah. And again, I encourage her writing down her thoughts. I think that that's super healthy for anybody, kids or adults. And you should tell her, if I ever felt like you're in danger, I'm going to cut this open with a pair of scissors.

And you're going to know I did it. So I'm never going to do it without you knowing. Okay. That's what I would say. Eddie, you have a 13-year-old son. Yeah, there are no secrets in my house. So, like, if I have the diary, but there are. But there aren't because it.

It's my house. No, but there are. I know, but they're not. Because, like, if I find a diary, guess what? I'm going to read it. Like, and I'm not going to tell them I read it because I have boys, all boys. I'm not going to tell them I read it. But I want to know what's going on in their lives.

And I want to be able to relate. So far, I have a 13-year-old son. And so far, he communicates very well with us. There's a problem. He communicates those. And that's my goal to just keep that communication gap open. Because when I grew up, there was no talking to dad about anything. So I'm trying to change that culture in my, in my, in my,

fatherhood or whatever. So, but it also means there are no locks on the doors. There are nothing like that. Like, we can share everything with each other because guess what? I've been where you've been. Did you ever want to hide things from your dad? Yeah. But my dad never went in my room.

Ever. Like, I can't tell you one time where my dad went into my room. And he'll even tell you today. He's like, no, I had no reason to go in his room. That's crazy. You read stories of people that do bad stuff at school and they're like, you never saw the gun in his room. No, I never went in his room.

That is crazy to me. You don't want to give your 13-year-old son a bit of privacy. I want him to think he has the privacy, but at the same time, this is our house. Like, I don't have privacy. You guys are all up in my stuff. They're not in your laptop. They can't get in your computer. Sure they are.

He was on it the other day. And I'm like, that's fine. And I freaked out for a second. I'm like, that's my work laptop. He could easily tweet something in two seconds, but he didn't. Guess what? Because he knows that's dad's laptop, and he wouldn't do that to dad. So I'm trying to have an open communication.

But what if I said I need to have my own private space? Right. Like Stashear asked me for a locked diary. If your son asked you for a locked diary, you're saying you would not buy him one. I know. I would say absolutely. Just give me a key. What's the use of locking it then?

For other people, bones. You got to watch out for other people. Not dad. You can trust dad 100%. Other people, though, you can't trust them. But if he's like, no, dad. I just really would like a diary for myself. No key for you.

Then I would say, get the diary. Go ahead. And then I would find a way to open it up. He's not ways at school. Eddie. All right, you guys can go over to our Facebook page. Comment on this. Amy, I like your style.

Thanks. Eddie, we got some work to see. Oh, come on. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Coming in at number three, we had Dr. Francis S. Collins in. He is the director of the National Institutes of Health, and he talked all about the COVID vaccines, debunking. miss what you should do after you get it. And honestly, like as someone who's really young and just doesn't have a lot of life experience and conversations about doctors and medical things

in my life, this was a really cool interview that Bobby did with him. So listen to it, get informed, all the things that's happening right now. Number three. On the Bobby Bones show now. Dr. Francis Collins. Dr. Collins, it is such a pleasure to have you on. How are you today? I am just fine. It is great to be on your show with you, Bobby. I'm a big fan. So terrific to have a chance to talk about whatever we're going to talk about. You are the director of the National Institutes of Health.

What does that mean? That means I'm the guy who oversees our nation's investments in biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health is the way in which discoveries get made and clinical advances occur. And it's my job to oversee all of this in a $42 billion. a year medical research investment, which for the past year has been all about COVID-19, as you might guess, and we have made some real progress with vaccines and other things. Well, this is why I'm glad to have you on because this is the guy to ask about vaccines. I've had one shot.

Eddie's got a shot. Lunchbox has got a shot. Now, we're inside the two-shot system here because we didn't get Johnson at Johnson. So can you explain to me what the difference is in these three vaccines and if we should look for any of them specifically? Well, let me first say they are all wonderfully effective and safe vaccines. So the bottom line is you should take whatever one gets offered to you as soon as it gets offered, because this is how we're going to get past this terrible COVID-19 pandemic. Yeah, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, those are two shots.

They're based on something called messenger RNA. The Johnson & Johnson is one shot and is based on an adenovirus approach. But they've all been tested in trials of at least 30,000. people each and been shown to have safety records that are really quite impressive with no hint of any real troubles there and a highly effective way of protecting you against getting sick or dying of COVID-19. And that's what we are all waiting for. And now it is here. So I know people may be a little resistant about, wait a minute, did they rush this? Did they go too fast? I'm the guy who's been overseeing all of this at the NIH. Let me assure you,

I've never seen anything done better than this in terms of the way in which the trials were conducted and the strength, therefore, the conclusions about these being safe and effective. So roll up your sleeves, America. It's time to get past this pandemic. Dr. Collins is such a big deal, guys. This is a bigger get than Matthew McConaughey. You know, we had Matthew McConaughey in last week. This is a bigger, better interview in my mind.

I know we were all like, we got Matthew McGonahey. This is a better interview. I have so many questions. Okay, here's the next one for you, Dr. Collins. So in the next year, two years or so, we're going to. going to try to have a kid probably, right? And so my fiance who has one shot has been like, I'm going to get the shot, but what does this mean if you're trying to have kids? Is this going to affect anything? It is not going to have any effect. So let me do a little myth busting here,

because there's a lot of myths that are out there being spread around on social media. This vaccine does not cause infertility, first of all. By the way, second of all, it also won't give you COVID-19. the vaccine doesn't actually have the virus in it, just a particular protein that your immune system can recognize is what it's all about. Other myths, no, it does not have chips in it that Bill Gates or Tony Fauci designed. They wouldn't get through the needle. So, yeah, everybody, please, look at the CDC if you're looking for information about all of this. It's all up there.

CDC.gov is the best place to go if you really want the facts about what we know about the vaccines, their safety, their efficacy. That's the place to look. What about people, because I get hit a lot with, they didn't spend enough time. They rushed this vaccine. I don't want to get it if it's done so quickly. What do you say to that? What do I say to that?

Well, I know people are concerned because they heard about this thing called Operation Warp Speed, which maybe wasn't the best choice of a name for the project. But would you rather have Operation Slowboat? I don't think so. People were dying. We wanted to go as fast as we could to develop these vaccines to save lives. But let me tell you, because I'm right in the middle of this and have been now for the last 15 months. what we did was basically figure out where are the down times where nothing happens in between the various phases of vaccine development.

And those sometimes take months. And we figured out a way that we could get rid of the downtimes, but not compromise at all on the rest of the rigorous testing to be sure the vaccine was safe and effective. In fact, I think people who look at this would say these are probably vaccines that we know more about than almost any others that have ever been tested. Plus more, the technology that was used, people think maybe it just got invented overnight when COVID-19 burst on the scene back in January 2020. This is all based upon technologies that have been developed over decades that were ready for this moment and got brought forward and they weren't. So basically, you took all the time where they were just chilling out, doing nothing, waiting for things, but you did everything they would normally do anyway during a vaccine. I'm just trying to understand this, that it wasn't rushed with you just crammed things into a space where it shouldn't have been crammed. You just were extremely efficient at finding the vaccine.

That's exactly right. So first of all, one of the new technologies made it possible as soon as the Chinese released the actual letters of the viral genome, the code that that virus uses to replicate itself to start making the vaccine right then. 63 days later, which is a world record, we're ready to start the very first phase one trials. But then usually there's a big gap between phase one and phase two, not this time. And then there's a big gap between phase two and phase three. Not this time. Those were like days instead of months or years. And then the other thing we did, which is really important, Bobby, is we figured that some of these vaccines

might actually work. So let's actually start manufacturing doses even before we know if they're going to work. We'll have to throw them out if the vaccine is no good. But if it's good, we'll have them ready to go. once the vaccine gets approved by the FDA, people can roll up their sleeves and get started. And that's how we got started in December, as opposed to what otherwise would have been months waiting for a factory to be built. And maybe we'd have the vaccines by the fall of 2021. We didn't want to have that risk of waiting.

So all of this was very carefully planned. And it has made it possible in 11 months to do what usually takes five or 10 years. I like that answer, honestly, because I had no idea. I mean, to me, it was just a block of time where it came together quick. and I'm going, hey, I'm still trusting people that know more about something than I do. But to actually hear it laid out like that, I'm like, well, that makes sense. And also technology is getting better, too, obviously. So everything should be moving at a bit more rapid rate.

Okay, I'm pretty confident with that answer. Like I wouldn't be. We have the director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. Collins, on with us right now. I start questioning him. And I'm like, no, I don't know, Dr. Collins. Okay. My fiancé and a couple of other friends, they have a little red circle on their shoulder from that shot, like a little rash circle.

Do you know what that is or is that just, we're just eating the wrong food? Well, it's certainly the case that as with any injection, like a flu shot or a tetanus shot, you can get a local reaction after the needle where it gets a little sore. It may turn a little red. You may even feel for the next 24 hours or so a headache, maybe even a little chilly, a little feverish. When I had my second dose of Moderna, that's the one I got, I felt pretty puny for 24 hours just because of the effect.

But you know what? That's not a side effect. That's an effect. That tells you this is working. My immune system has recognized that it has a challenge on its hand. This vaccine is saying, come on, get busy. And it did. And I can tell it did.

And now I feel quite well protected because I know my immune system has in its file cabinet, the antibodies that it's going to need if I encounter that virus in the future. And that gives me a great sense of confidence that maybe I can actually see my grandchildren. in a few more weeks, which would be really nice to be able to do. Yeah, I had some friends. I didn't get sick at all. I felt nothing after my first shot at the Pfizer and had some friends who, after the second one for 24, 36 hours, got really sick.

Is there a reason that some people are getting sick and some aren't? And should I root to get a little bit sick? Like, is that a good sign? You know, my wife just got her second dose and she got Pfizer. And she didn't have a bit of a problem. She was just fine. And I was like, boy, you're lucky. and she was like, well, did it really work?

Am I okay? There's a lot of variability, Bobby. It doesn't correlate with whether you got a good antibody response or not. It's something to do with just the way your immune system is wired and whether it's like ready to really pull out all the stops when it encounters a challenge or whether it's going to be a little more casual about taking care of business. It really, though, everybody who's heard about these side effects, they last maybe 24 hours.

Would you rather be kind of sick and chilly for 20%? 24 hours or would you rather get COVID-19 and end up in the hospital or the ICU or lose your life? I mean, that's the balance we're trying to help people to understand. And I know there's still people a little on the fence here. I hope those who are listening right now really give it a serious thought about whether this is the time to roll up your sleeve too and join this effort to get this terrible pandemic behind us. Can I stop wearing a mask once I'm fully vaccinated? You know, we don't think it's time yet to stop wearing the mask because it is still possible,

although we don't have enough data to be absolutely sure that you could be vaccinated and you could still carry the virus somewhere in your nose or your respiratory tract, having no symptoms, which means you might then be infecting other people. So until we have more rigorous data about that, which is going to take a few more weeks,

still recommending that people wear the mask when they're outside around other people. And certainly if you're inside, wear the mask, even though it's a low risk. It's a kind of thing. It's a love your neighbor thing. It's not about protecting yourself in that situation. It's about whether you might unwittingly be a super spreader and putting people around you at risk.

And who would want to do that? So wear the mask, wait a while longer. We're going to get through this. Eventually, we'll be in a situation. We can take those off. Now, if you're in a small gathering, maybe invite another couple to dinner at your house, and they're immunized and you're immunized, then everybody can take their masks off and have a nice time together. But if you're in mixed company where some people are not immunized,

eyes, you still ought to wear the mask to protect those people who are still at risk. Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is on with us. I want to ask a question that isn't extremely about COVID, but I know that you're a devout Christian, you write books, which is extremely interesting in what you write on about the intersection of science and faith. And so the language of God, what is, tell me what this book is about, because it sounds like something I'd be interested in. Well, thanks for asking. I grew up as a agnostic and ultimately an atheist. And then I went to medical school and had to wrestle with questions about life and death

and realized I hadn't really thought this through. And to my surprise, as a scientist and somebody who was interested in genetics, for heaven's sakes, I realized that the atheist perspective was the least rational. That was sort of denying the possibility of God when you don't have complete data. And ultimately, over a couple of years, guided by beginning to understand the Bible and reading a lot of other commentators like C.S. Lewis, to my surprise, I became a Christian. Now, people said, your head's going to explode. You can't be a scientist and a Christian, can you? And you know what? Over 40 years, I've never had a problem with this at all. I think science is a

wonderful way to understand how nature works, kind of a glimpse of God's mind. But science doesn't answer a lot of questions that I'm interested in. Like, why am I here anyway? And is there a God? And does he care about me. And to be able to bring those things together in a harmonious way, which has happened down through human history, except for maybe the last hundred years, seems to me like something we should try to recapture. And so I wrote this book about how, for me, science is a way of worshiping because you're understanding the creator. And when I study DNA, which is what I did as the leader of the human genome project, I'm studying a language. And for me, God's the creator, that's God's language. So, yeah, that's what the book's about.

it, a lot of people were surprised that that perspective could be put forward. But there's a whole foundation now called Bio Logos, B-I-O-L-O-G-O-S, that has become a meeting place for people who have that same view. And so people are interested, go and have a look at that. You'll see a lot of really interesting and respectful conversations going on. Wow, the language of God. That's really interesting. Well, then my final question is, why am I here? Well, that's between you and God.

So you better get on your knees and see if you can get it. an answer. I'm still looking for the complete answer myself, but once in a while I get a glimpse here and then. Well, Dr. Collins, we appreciate your time. And I think that, listen, I'm in. I trust science. I got hit with the vaccine. I'm getting my other one first week of April. There are a lot of people in or around my circle that aren't fully in. And I think for them to hear this, this will provide a bit of confidence in the vaccine. Mostly the question of how did this come together so fast? I had no idea. I feel like I'm pretty dialed in and I had no idea. that was really what happened. Thank you for your time. Thank you for all the hard work you have put in.

It has been a busy 2020 for you for sure. And thank you for coming on the show and explaining, you know, they say explain like I'm five. I feel like we're all five years old and you're the teacher. So thank you for doing that with us. Thank you for the chance. And again, everybody, please look at the evidence and roll up your sleeve when you have the information in front of you. I think that's what you'll want to do. We are going to get through this. Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health. Thank you, Dr. Collins. Have a great day. Thank you, too.

All right. Bye, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Another really funny segment this week, Lunchbox, decided to write letters to celebrities as a seven-year-old kid. Not just like one seven-year-old kid or one celebrity. He wrote to Carrie Underwood, Oprah, The Rock. I mean, and these letters are hilarious. So another segment you can laugh at, but, but,

right before that. I'm going to talk to Eddie a little bit because Eddie had briefly talked about someone that he sent a letter, but he told me he has another story. Well, it's funny because it was such a big thing when we were kids to write these celebrities letters. And I remember my friend Mike Morrison. He was like, man, you'll never believe what happened. I wrote Nolan Ryan, who was a pitcher for the Rangers at the time. And he's like, I wrote Nolan Ryan, said I was a big fan and I got this autographed baseball card from him. And I'm like, what? They actually responded? So then that sparked my message. memory of just being like, well, okay, well, what do I do? What do I do? Like, pick a, pick a baseball player.

Ricky Henderson. He's kind of cool. Like, he steals a lot of bases. So I wrote Ricky Henderson, never got anything back. And so your friend did, but you didn't? So yeah. So I never got anything back with that. So I was kind of lost hope with all that. But on the show, I talked about writing this movie director. This was in college years, years, years, years, years. You weren't even like a child. You were like a grown adult. This was years later. And I remember a girl. going thinking back like okay well the only person I've ever written was Ricky Henderson and he never wrote back and so I'm like whatever let's just give this a shot but it's so funny when we brought this up I started thinking like it's the dumbest random thing to write letters to someone because

who's going to read your letter why would someone want to read your letter and do you ever think like is his people going to read it or is he going to read it correct right like that's always what I go through in my head but what's crazy now is you don't have to deal with that at all because in this age like just DM someone and they and they see it. Oh, the whole social media era has been a game changer for celebrities, right? Like, not only can they see what all their fans are up to, they can interact with them, they can message them, I mean, they can walk them if they need to. Like, there's just so many ways of being able to interact with your fans when like you guys

as kids, it was writing letters. Writing letters and not knowing, even like when you sent a text today, you know if someone read it. You had no idea if that even got opened or went straight in the trash. Like you just had to think like, I remember. He played for the Oakland A's, Ricky Henderson did. And I thought, wow, my letter's going to Oakland right now. And like, ooh, Ricky Henderson is just getting off the baseball field and going to the mail room and getting my letter.

Yes, but who knows? That never probably never happened. So you never responded. You never got any responses from any celebrity. No, Rick Anderson and then Cameron Crow never got any response. But in your adult life, you have gotten people to respond to you, right? Like, especially working for the show. What's been like a few celebrity responses you've gotten that are pretty cool?

I think like the weird one to me sometimes is Tim McGraw that he, I'll just tweet something and then he'll respond to it with an answer. Like nothing about him, just random. Like Johnny Lazzania will respond. Steph from Austin will respond. These are all B teamers. Danny will respond and then Tim McGraw. And I'm like, this is crazy. Like what, like what does he respond to?

Random things. Like if it's just a picture of like a rainbow, whatever and it'll just say it like, that's beautiful. I'm like, okay, that's what I'm talking about. I mean, that means like Tim McGraw knows you. That's really cool. I know. He does know who I am. I think that's really cool.

Did you write letters to anyone when you were a kid? One. And that was like because, I mean, when I. You kids in the block. Is that before? That was before you. No. I mean, no, they were my time.

They were when I was a kid, like really, really young. I knew about them. But no, I didn't write them. It would have been Backstreet Boys if I wrote to a boy band or in sync. But no, the one person I wrote to. before social media kind of hit because my space hit when I was probably like 10 right so things started phasing out of that um no I knew about that I used it but like I didn't really know what I was doing um the one person I did write to though was Chenaya Twain and she never responded

but that's crazy because you've met her yes like so many full circle moments I don't even like remember I think it was honestly a class lesson because we don't write letters anymore like when I was growing up, they're like, you need to learn how to write letters. So we would write these letters to celebrities and they would send them off. Most of the time there was no responses because it's more about a lesson. I know. I don't need that now. I'm like, hey, I could just in a DM. Like, I wonder what they're getting taught in class. They have to still get taught out of write letters. There's a quiz on DMs now. Let's see who has the best DMs. That's true. So yeah, I never got anything back, but totally full circle moment because the two coolest things that have happened like in life and on social

media was meeting Shania Twain and meeting Dolly Parton, both of who have interacted with me on social media. Shania ever tweeted my like recent TikTok video when I like ranked all her intros. And it was so cool. And then Dolly Parton retweeted me when I dressed up as her for Halloween. Like two like very honorable things. It's amazing. It wasn't even just like about them.

Like I had done something that was inspired by them. And then they responded to that. Like I didn't mess it up. that they wouldn't respond. Do they follow you? No, I don't think so. They're too big for that. That's fine.

Like these are just like, when both of these things happened, I straight up send it to all my friends, all my like text messages, groups, like freaking out. The two people in my entire life that I've loved since the beginning of time. How did you, when you wrote her first letter, how did you find out where you were going to send it to? Did you send you a record label or? I'm going to be honest. I think our teachers, like, tricked us and like said that they sent it off.

And I don't think it never was in off. It's like just that they still have it. Yeah, because they're like, hey, we got all the addresses for things you need. Yeah, like, how did they do that? No, they didn't. Respected teachers, I see them now. They have a lot of hard work to do. They're not looking up the addresses of famous people to do this.

Yeah, you're probably right. So, yeah, I don't think it ever got sent off. So I don't even think Shania had a chance. See, I hate that. I hate that. Same thing with my Ricky Henderson thing. Like, no way it got to him. It's right, like, lost in a mail, like sitting somewhere, you know, like 40 years later when it returns.

Oh, it's got dust all over. It's like, it's so yellow now. Never been over. Oh, man. Okay, well, we'll listen to this. Lunchbox, he wrote some celebrities. You can hear what he wrote them, what he asked for, and his kid voices. It's a little weird. Number two. Let's go! On last week's show, we talked about writing letters to celebrities. I wrote to Holcoggin, Amy wrote to Patrick Swayze, Eddie wrote to Cameron Crow, the director as a kid.

Lunchbox wrote to Troy Eggman. Anybody else write to celebrities? We all in? Okay, so we said, what if we do it as an adult? Well, Lunchbox took it on himself to already do it. Now, this is going to be a science experiment. What did you do? Well, I decided that I don't know if people even write anymore.

They just email fan clubs or whatever. So I decided to write letters. to three superstars as a kid and see if they'll mail me something. What do you mean as a kid? I wrote like I'm a seven-year-old. Oh, wow. Oh, you wrote the letter. Is that your real handwriting?

No, I wrote left-handed. Okay. Oh, wow. So I'm right-handed, so I took the opposite hand, and I wrote a letter to carry Underwood the Rock into Oprah, and I'm going to mail them and see if they'll mail me anything back. How long is the letter? It's just like one page, but it's just big writing and sloppy.

Would you mind reading it to us now? Would you like to read? Who would you like me to carry? Oh, you did three different ones? Yeah, I went to hear Oprah. Carry the Rock and Oprah. Okay, let's do Carrie Underwood first. Okay. Lunchbox has written a letter to Carrie Underwood. And how do you know where to send it, by the way?

I figure I'll just send it to the record label. I don't know. I was just going to send it to the record label and hope they get it to her. I don't know. Where do you send it to the rock? To his studio? He has a studio. Okay. And then Oprah Harpo Productions.

So you're. Okay. I'm just, I don't know. Shot in the dark. Shot in the dark. Okay, this is to Carrie Underwood. Dear Carrie, I a big fan and like to hear you sing. I hope to be cool, K-O-O-L, like you, win me older.

But a seven-year-old wouldn't say all that, would they? When me older? Like I misspell and I don't have proper... My seven-year-old wouldn't. He'd do better than that. Okay, but go ahead. I am Miranda and I-7. Can you send me a picture for my wall, please?

please I live at and I give my address and I put by Miranda. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. I just think it sounds like a four-year-old. It's okay. Yeah. Okay.

All right. Good. Now, you would you like to hear to The Rock? Yes. Mr. The Rock. I a big fan and like you on TV. I hope to be cool like you when me older. Tooth Fairy is Best Movie.

My name is Greg. Can you send a picture for the wall? And I give him my address. I am seven years old. Buy Rock, signed Greg. It almost sounds like Yoda. Like a kid Yoda is writing these letters. Or maybe he's from Russia or something.

You know, like English is not his first language. And finally. To Miss Oprah. My name is Amanda. I like you on the TV. I want to be on TV when I older. My birthday will be May 12th. Can you come?

Can I have a picture for the wall? I am seven. I hope to be cool like you when I get older. Bye, Miss Oprah. Signed Amanda. And you're going to mail them off today. I'm going to mail them off today, and I'm going to give them one month.

And are you going to write, though, an adult on the front, so it's like your parents addressed it. Yeah, yeah, my parents will address it. Obviously, a kid is not going to address the envelope and put a stamp on it. Oh, I thought it would be super impressive, and it might make its way to something.

one opening like, oh, this looks interesting. Well, okay, you have a great point. I would say make sure you don't misspell or leave words out, though. Right. Like, don't do what you did here. We're like, I, kid, food, like, write their name, make sure it's all there so you can easily read it. But if it does look like a kid, that's a good point, Amy.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, every week we'll check in and see if you got something back. This is kind of like when he sent the balloon up. I didn't think anybody would ever get the balloon message. and somebody did, so who knows,

we might be meeting Oprah. Oprah shows up. She's like, where is little Timmy? Oprah was Amanda. Where's Little Amanda? You're looking at her. Oprah, she's a hairy 40-year-old man. Lunchbox just raises his hand.

I, Amanda. All right, we'll check back in a week and see how that's going. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Of course, this is the number. Number one spot. Brett Eldridge came into the show this week. He helped us celebrate Bobby's birthday. He also talked about his own birthday. He performed his song, Good Day. I mean, just so much happened. And it's always fun listening to Brett Eldridge talk. So listen now. Here is Brett Eldridge. Number one, the Friday morning conversation with Brett Eldridge.

Brett, how are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm good. Today's my birthday. You just had your birthday. It's a huge day. It's a fine day. It's a fine. It's a big day. It's a good day. It's going to be a good. Yeah, yeah. What happened on your birthday? I went hiking. What else I'd do? I went out to dinner with the fam and ate some peanut butter cheesecake, which was really good. Well, I appreciate you coming in here on my birthday.

It is a good day. And you are doing the good day movement. Yes. What is that exactly? It's basically, you know, paying it forward, you know, lifting somebody's day, whether it's buying flowers and giving them. him to a friend, buying somebody's coffee in line next to you, anything just to lift somebody up, some words of affirmation that somebody needs it. You never know when somebody needs it.

And just giving somebody a good day. And I know what it feels like when somebody has lifted me up when I needed it. And I just think it's good to pass that energy along that love. You sent me a book called 10% Happier. Yes. Just got it. Haven't read it yet. What is that book about? Why was it so important for you to send that out? Timbers and Happier. It's a book about meditation. It's a meditation for fidgety skeptics is what Dan Harris calls it. But it's just, I think meditation has been really huge for me, dealing with this life and itself and anxieties and everything. And I sent it to you. And I try to just encourage people to meditate because I think a lot of people think it's something weird

and something where you sit there and you're supposed to think you're floating or something or whatever. but it's actually just some way to quiet your mind and give yourself some time and peace and quiet. Walk me through this meditation because I've tried it. I struggle with my mind racing all the time everywhere. Okay, I got this at this time. You got to do this. I got to make sure this to take all the time.

And I've tried to meditate because I struggle with PTSD really bad for a long time. It's still a little bit now. But I can't fully, I haven't been able to fully sit down and separate myself from what's happening in the world. Was that a struggle for you? What's the tip? for me. Big time. Just give yourself, okay, so like focus on, they always say focus on your breath

a lot of the time. So you, you know, you put both feet on the floor. I can't because I, oh, now I can. But you put both feet on the floor, just kind of close your eyes and just focus on your breath, like in, in for four, hold it for a second, out for four. And if you focus on that more, and then when you see, when you see yourself start to ruminate on things. What do I do? How do I catch my thing? Because I'm like, I start drifting. You call it mental noting, which means you're like, that's just me thinking. Okay, thinking. And then you go back to the breath. And it's as simple as that. And the whole practice is you'll be going throughout your day and you'll notice yourself thinking.

And when you catch yourself, that's from the practice of like, time myself to catch myself when I'm thinking about breathing. And that's where the practice comes along. And it gets better. And you never get to be a master at. it but it's like you can always grow with it it's cool how long do you do this and while you do it are you nude always nude always nude and uh i do it every morning you do every morning no lie every morning i did it this morning uh but uh every morning i get up a routine is big for me for just kind of putting on your armor for the day kind of so getting up uh doing the routine of meditating doing some stretching stuff like that and uh so i do it for 10 minutes and i started to do it for 10 minutes it's every morning and then a journal, then I go for a hike, and then I'm ready to go.

Now, I've seen you walking down the road before with this backpack on that has water in it. Yep. Are your hikes like four days? Because I feel like you could just put a bottle of water in your little pocket. I remember the first time. Somebody's like, wait, yeah, I run the long ways. This is before I got this Garmin running watch that I can have my music on it. So I used to have like, I would put my phone in the pack and also have the water if I wanted to get thirsty.

on my run in the camel pack. So I would do that, and I would throw it on there, and I'd run, and I'd just take some sips whenever I needed it. But I was running, like, sometimes eight, ten miles, and it run, so it's going to have a little hydration. Didn't it weigh you down, though? I would feel like if I'm running, I got a bunch of water on with that. I kind of got addicted, or not addicted,

but I just kind of started to get the feeling of like, you know, when you take something away after you've been used to for a while, it's like you feel weird. Well, like I got used to the feeling of it, being heavy and maybe it made me sweat more. I don't know, but I liked it. Brett Eldridge is here. We're talking camelbacks, packs.

Meditating in the nude. Meditating in the nude. Yeah, well, that was how I pictured you. I shouldn't. I'm always fully closed. Sorry, sorry, sorry, say. Why don't we, we talked about the good day movement. This song, Good Day is such a good song.

Thank you. It's on your last record. And that is the single now that I'm hearing being played everywhere. You have your guitar. You want to play a little bit for us? I would love to. All right, here is the new one from Brett Eldridge. Here is good day.

Everybody take a deep breath and let's just enjoy this. I fall asleep in the middle of it because I'm meditating. All right. Here we go. Let's have a good day. Here we go. One, two, three. I think I stopped my morning with Sinaitre.

Let those blue eyes speak to me. Skip all the things that I don't want to. Let my mind wander free. It's 42 cold and raining, and something's got me thinking maybe. It's going to be a good day. I don't know why, but it feels like love's coming my way, and the sun ain't even shining. If the world's going to keep on spinning, let it keep spinning on my way,

I got a feeling. It's going to be a good day. on, Brett Eldridge. All right. I think, and Amy, you can back me up on this if you would like. Anyone that comes and plays in here, I think Brett is pretty much the one that sounds most like the record. Oh, yeah.

Like when he sings, you sound like you sing whenever I play you on my phone. Yeah, I kind of close your eyes for a bit. It's like he's not even here right now. But why would you close your eyes and make him not here? I'm playing it on my phone. No, I'm saying you could close your eyes. I'm just playing the track on the phone. He plugs me.

He lips sinks and pulls all of us. Bill and Billy. Brett Eldridge is here. We're going to come back. I have two questions I'm going to ask when we come back. I'm going to let you know now so you have time to think about it.

Okay, let's think about it. One, what's the oddest place you've ever been recognized? Okay, so don't tell me now. Okay. I'm going to ask you that in a second. And then what's the best piece of advice that you've been given by another artist?

Those are two questions I'm going to ask when we come back. Brett Eldridge is here. You guys stream good day. Tweet your radio stations. Don't call them because nobody's answering phones for requests anymore. But let them know you like that song. The Friday morning conversation.

with Brett Eldridge. Bro, what's the oddest place that you as a famous country musician, artist, singer, songwriter? What's the weirdest place you've ever been recognized? One time I was recognized in church, and I was sitting in the middle. So I think the night before, drunk on your love went number one. And so I celebrated. I don't really have many, I don't really drink anymore. But at that time, I was celebrating, we were having champagne or something, and I did not feel great.

But I still went to church. still showed up and sat in the middle row and it was the hottest Easter of all time, I felt like. And I was sitting in the middle aisle and I was like, oh God, I just gotta go out. I gotta go, you know, I gotta take a break from the service. I gotta go, I gotta go to step out and have a drink of water.

Somebody followed me to the bathroom and wanted to take a selfie. I'm like just trying not to get sick at church. And somebody's like, I'm like, there's no one around that. someone comes down the show, they're like, no, please no, please no. And then they get their photo, they want to take a selfie. It's like, this is the most interesting place.

I think I've ever done that kind of a meet and greet thing, and I was not feeling great. Did you take the selfie? Yeah. Of course he did. He's in church. He's bred out there. Of course he did.

I was reading a story about you playing maybe Call a Duty with Shay from Dan and Shea. Yes. How often do you guys play? We used to play a lot. It got to the point where I was playing too much, but it was especially. when at the beginning of quarantine when um you know you couldn't even leave your you couldn't even understood that like you can go outside and run if as long as you're away from people or anything it was so

so we'd be playing hours in a day and just have that's how we would socialize and it was amazing how over this game that i'm terrible at that uh you just i just joined it for the camarader in the in the conversation and and uh and so we we would play a lot and i haven't laid a whole lot lately but uh we've gone in hikes and stuff like that from it. And really we weren't that close until we started playing Call of Duty. So it's pretty funny. It's interesting because Amy saw T.J. And we're friends with T.J. from Brothers Osborne hiking with Casey Musgraves.

We knew they were friends, I guess, but they were hiking together. And you mentioned you and Shay. What artists in Nashville would you, would you say literal friends with? Because it's hard because artist's life, you guys are traveling all over the place. We're all doing the same thing. Yeah, it's hard to kind of be in the same place at all. but I would say Shay, is there another one that you're close with? You know, close, it's so interesting.

Like, close when you see him on the road, everybody on the road, it's so, it's so different. Like, John Pardy and I started out together in town. And he's always been one of the most interesting people I've known. And we toured in Australia together, and we still got to catch up in old times. But, you know, it's not like I talk to a lot of other artists all the time. But he's one that I've just shared a lot.

lot of the journey of the ups and downs and all this with. And so it's not like we talk all the time, but he's somebody that I still root for, and he's a good dude. Who came in your class, meaning when you came to Nashville and you were new, and there are other new people around you, who do you remember kind of going through that early stage together? I think my new faces show was maybe, I know Thomas Wrett was in that. So it was like Thomas Rat. We did the, we co-headlined, the CMT tour together, suits and boots. And so Thomas Rhett, who else was there? Dan and Shay were pretty early, early, that's so on the spot, but those are some of the ones I can take over now. I'm hard hitting, hard hitting interview

question. I was thinking of the new faces show and I feel like was Sam Hunt at yours or no. No, but Sam was around that same era. I'm trying to think, yeah, Sam was definitely. I definitely want them as well. Here's the question I tease before we went away. What's the best piece of advice that an artist gave you when you were kind of starting out? They were going, hey, man, here's what's happening. I remember playing the opera and whispering Bill Anderson. He was like country music legend.

He said, he was standing on the side of the stage. I'm getting ready to do my debut, and I'm so nervous. I'm nervous just thinking about how nervous I was about to go play the opera. It's a big deal, you know. And he's like, just make sure you. you appreciate every moment while you're in it because when I was coming up, I was always worried about what the next song is.

And, you know, well, this one didn't do as well as I wanted it to, or this show wasn't as big as it was, but this next one's going to be bigger or whatever. It's like you've got to have that drive, but you got to appreciate the things you've got going on while these amazing things are going on because they're going to fly by and, you know, you're not going to appreciate them.

And that was a really good piece of advice. And I don't think it soaked in as much then and as much as it has over the last several years. And I really started to slow it down a little bit. We talk about, you know, other artists and getting advice. Is there anyone that you've kind of hit on the shoulder, been like, hey, let me give you a little bit of advice here, kiddo. Oh, I think I'm getting to the place where right now I feel like I've got so much more wisdom than I had before. So I feel like I haven't given that advice that I want to give yet. And I think I'm primed to do that now.

So I think I'm getting to a place where I've experienced a lot of things where I'd love to help out a new artist and kind of tell them what's worked for me and what hasn't because I've kind of been through the whole ride of it. And so I think I've learned a lot of things and I'd love to help somebody out that way. So I think the best wisdom is to come to the best help to give to somebody for myself.

Well, okay, good, because the raging idiots, we need some advice. Okay, okay. Give it to us. What would you tell us about being big stars? Just let it get to your head. Let it get to our head. We like that.

Oh, the opposite. Yeah, yeah. Most people say don't let it. Just let it get your head. Just go hard. That's what you should do. Disregard everything. That's it.

Yeah. I love that. One final question for you. It's almost 10 years ago that don't you want number one? Yep. 10 years ago. That's insane. Wow.

I didn't have. I haven't thought about that. You know you. When you listen back to this record, this album, do you still hear the same you? Do you hear a kid to you? Like what, 10 years ago? I hear the same me, but I hear a kid trying to figure it out

and, you know, I certainly didn't know where I was going fully yet, but the excitement and the fire and the, I think there was a magic about that first album feeling and that, you know, you don't really know what you're doing, but you know you're writing fun songs and you're doing all that. then you kind of go along and figure out more of what you want to say. But there is something to say about that super confident first album feeling of like, no one could tell me no, I'm not jaded yet, you know, or whatever, you know. You haven't felt the whole weight of the whole touring life yet, exactly,

or it's all so new, it's so exciting. And so when I hear that, it kind of excites me and reminds me to always have fun with it. You have seven number ones. Which one would you drop from your set list if you had to? Oh. Of all the number ones, maybe. That's so hard. You're going to play them all. You're not dropping it. I'm just saying if you had to drop one of them, which one would you go? You know what? I'm good. I think I might maybe lose my mind.

Why is that? I don't know. Yeah. You know my favorite song. Do you play long? Do you play? Do you play? Take me the. You play that in shows? Oh, yeah, all the time. Thank God.

I would not have to walk out. That's the jam. I'd be like, play, take me the long way around your town. Yeah, give me that one per. Come on, man. And then you don't play it in the whole show. You suck. You hate it.

Where's John Party? But I still love, I don't want to bash my own song. There's my mind. But I mean, if I had to pick one, maybe it's that one. Just because, you know, I like the deep. I like the deep songs, like the long way and stuff like that. So it doesn't mean I don't like it. It's just.

Okay. I feel bad now talking about my song. It's your own, so cares. It's a great song. We just ask a hard question. We're hard hitting here. Wait, what are the other number ones? I just want to hear.

Don't you? Mm-hmm. Sing it back to me, Amy. Don't play clips right. That's not you. Baby, little don't you. Don't you? Don't you?

Don't you? Does she get that one? Yes, you got it. Of course. B to the music. Oh. I need a, like, a, me, to the beat of the music. To the beat.

No, I have it. You're not going to get this one. I know, because now I have, I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a, a long way around this town in my head. Beat of the music. He's at the water with the swimming pigs. Right? Well, that's true.

All right, you'll play that one. We'll give that one. Thank you. Love to the beat of the music. There it is. Since she got the video. As long as you got the video, that counts. Okay.

Mean to me. Oh. Oh, shoot. Taylor slips in my head. Why you gotta be so mean. Oh, but it's like what you mean to mean, not that someone's being mean to you. You're right. Mean.

mean to me Wait You ever that one? Yes, that's it I'll be what you mean To me I knew that And you even like directed it

Yes Lose my mind Lose my mind I don't know this Okay go ahead go ahead You make all my dreams Come true Yeah yeah yeah

Good job good job How about drunk on your love Oh, drunk on your love. Now you're just making it. No. Can I have like a little, all these songs in my head, it's hard. That's why the game's hard. Go ahead.

Okay. I'm about to get drunk. On your love. How about drunk? Drunk, drunk. No, that's not it. You're tricking me. Ray, would you play it?

No, no, no. I woke up. Oh, you're right. You don't get that one. You're right. I don't know that I. know that I spend a lot of time with that one. It's all right.

I'm heart broke. Okay, go, go, go. Want to be that song? Oh, I want to be that song. I want to be the... You're almost there. That was the right start. Yeah.

I want to be the song. Good love. I want to be that song. I want to be that song. That makes you let... I want to be the song. Makes you hard. Makes you...

I'll give her that. I don't know. if she gets that one. Yeah, yes I do. You heard it and then jumped on. No, but I started off on the right thing. Takes me a second. Love someone.

Love someone? Mm-hmm. She's like, I didn't spend any time with that one. Hold on. Love someone. That's mean to me. I'm gonna love someone. Because we're all we go in the middle of the night.

You holding me so tight. What? Do you give her there, Brett? I give her like a... To love someone. I give her an eight. A what? I give her an eight.

An eight? Eight out of ten, not a hundred. Oh, I said A. So did I. I was like, A. different scales. I know. A, out of ten, solid.

That's a B. I'll take a solid B. Brett, that's my favorite song. Which you never even put to radio. But that's like his fault. Well, is it? Not? It was a slow song.

No? No. You're song shaming me. No. No. It's put me on a train. Put me on a runway. One way.

Sky. Ro plane Girl, I really need to change, get away See the smile on your face Keep going Find me a rowboat Make a float What?

I think so Find me a row boat Make it float On a rope On a rib opponent Y'all away I didn't spend enough time Without that maybe

No I did I know every word If you put it The whole thing on I sing it from Nashville to Atlanta I've got to get that Yeah Are there certain songs of yours

And the first record That weren't singles That you don't remember Uh there's definitely songs I would not know how to play. Yeah. For sure. And not know all the words too.

10 years ago, that's so weird to think about. Well, listen. We love Good Day. Played that, Ray, as I tell our friend Brett Elders goodbye. Yes. This is a jam. Thank you.

Love this song. I'm going to just, this is a throwaway question. Are you working on, working on new stuff? Yes, I was a lot right now. Okay. Yeah. That's good to know.

I'm heavy into it. You are heavy into it right now. Big time. Sometimes people get insulted when asked that question when we're talking about something else. No, no, I think you always got to be, you got to be striving for the next thing. But appreciate this, like I said, but always have something to grow from. And this record really kind of set a palette for where I can go from, you know.

Like Whisper and Bill said, always think the next thing to be bigger and always upset about it. Always obsessed about everything ahead. Do not enjoy the moment. All right. Just kidding. Everybody breathe and enjoy the moment. So you said earlier, you wake up every morning and you write. But like you meant, like, you just journal things.

You're not like song writing. the morning. So for 10 minutes? Yeah, how long? Just however long. Some days I might just write like three sentences. Some days I might write like a couple pages. But it's like, so this is the third day in a row that I've heard somebody talking about writing first thing in the morning.

Even for if you're creative too, how it can like unlock stuff in your brain doesn't even matter what you write. Like you can wake up and write maybe three pages and maybe that's daunting. But you could literally like, I don't even know what. I'm writing right now. The sky is blue. Oh, am I going to have coffee? This is what I'm going to wear today. Set your intention. Write your intention is the big one. Well, yes. And then, of course, you could get deeper. I'm going to roll up to Bobby Bones. I'm going to see everybody. I'm everybody's smiling. Everybody's going to feel good. Is that what you wrote this morning? That kind of thing, yeah. Oh, nice. I don't know. Just something to put out there for people that maybe are feeling

a little stuff. Yeah, like, I mean, honestly, and I've talked about this, like, interviews make me nervous sometimes. People never know that. At one point, I had like a panic attack in an interview and it made my mind think that I would have a totally fine talking about this. So I was in Scotland and I had a panic attack on stage because I was like jet lagged and had a bunch of coffee and just whatever for whatever reason. So it made my mind think that I'm going to freak out every time even if I'm not like going ahead of it. I mean I've never had a problem with interviews. Well so then I started doing a lot of things to deal with that. So writing your intentions out like okay I'm going to roll up. I'm going to feel confident. I'm going to do this.

and doing that kind of stuff, like intentions for a day. It could be for anything other than that. I'm just using it for an example for how I used it today. Yeah, I love that. Running your intentions are like, oh, I'm going to compliment a stranger today. I'm going to compliment Amy on her amazing singing of my songs. Thank you. I didn't say that because I wouldn't know in the future.

You guys wake up and you journal? Get your juices flowing? I like that. No, I mean, I'm in the beginning of thinking about doing that. I do that a lot of things. Yeah. Anyway. I'll tell you about a book you probably need to get when we get off.

Oh, I like it. Okay. Hey, there he is. Brett Eldridge. There is. Thank you, Red Eldridge. You guys check out a good day. Thank you.

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