The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits of the Week with Morgan2 - What You Didn't Hear About Lunchbox's Parking Ticket (Week of 5/3)

Episode Date: May 8, 2021

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Get started at Redfin.com. Own the dream. of the week. I'm Morgan number two. Thanks for hanging out with me for another weekend. If this is your first time, what I do is I take the best seven segments from the week based on all of y'all's engagement online, phone calls, social media, everything, and decide which seven ones were our best from the week. So we can recap them with you. But along the way, I typically bring one of our other show members on so we can talk about some behind the scenes and maybe go rogue a little. You never know what happens and it's probably definitely going to happen this weekend because I am bringing a lunchbox on with me. What up? What up? Woo-woo-woo. Ah, so good to be here. Hello, everybody. How

you doing? Happy Saturday or Sunday or Monday whenever you're listening to this. Lunchbox comes in with two bits this week. So naturally, I had to bring him on. So let's go ahead and get this started. Hold on. Why is Hillary calling me? She called me too. Hold on. Hello? Yeah, I'm recording my podcast. What's up? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell Abby. Okay, bye. Yo, what's up?

Oh, okay, cool, cool. All right. I just saw you call, and I was like, oh, let me call her back. Did you really just call? Oh, Atlanta. Oh, my gosh, we're all idiots. Okay, all right. All right, have a great day.

Bye. Did you really just call her back after I had already answered? I didn't know if she was calling me for a different reason. I didn't want to be real. Bless you. Okay. This was a funny one coming in at number seven. lunchbox got a parking ticket and he basically is refusing to pay it.

So lunchbox, give us a little background on this. Tell us what went down. So I went to pick up some food from a restaurant. My wife wanted to try. So I'm like, all right, I'll run and get it. But there was no street parking. There was only a paid parking lot, but it was $10 for one hour. And I'm not going to be there for an hour.

And I'm not going to pay $10 to go pick up to go food. So I thought, ah, I'll just. Just park here real quick. Run in, get the food, come out, and we'll all be happy. I'll have food. I'll get out of their parking lot. And it'll be no problem. I'm in there for what, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve minutes, whatever it was.

Wait, the minutes are going up. Well, no, it's like six minutes. And I come out and there's a yellow envelope on my windshield. And it says parking violation. And I'm like, you have got to be kidding me. And I open it up. And I'm thinking, okay, they want their $10 because I didn't pay the $10. Oh, no.

It was for $60. $60. That is outrageous. I do admire when restaurants have like the few little parking spots that are like for to go pickup orders. Because then you can just pull in there and it's not a big deal. Did this restaurant not have that? No, I didn't see any parking. Like it was literally just all street parking and I couldn't find anything.

And I was like, man, I don't have. time to circle the block six times when I'm really just going in to get food that I ordered. And I thought it would be no big deal. But boy, was I wrong, $60 later? Yeah, right. So I thought about it. And I'm like, hey, that's an outrageous amount of money to charge someone for a parking thing, right? Like, I think if you get a parking ticket with the city, it's like $15. Yeah, it should not be $60. Right. Because I wasn't even there an hour. If you want to charge me by the hour, then I pay your $10 and were even. Not 60 freaking dollars. So I felt like I'm just not going to pay it. And I didn't know what would happen if I didn't pay it. Well, like I feel like I'm sticking up for the people out

there that are always wondered this. Like, if I get one of these tickets, do I have to pay it? And it's out of principle. You get so mad because I want to know where the person came from, really. Like, did he come up from underneath the parking lot and zoop? Like, he had to be on there so quick. Like he had to be hiding in the bushes and see me not pay. the $10 and he went right to my car. Yeah, let me tell you where they come from. So the two instances where I got these, the first one, I was with a premier parking employee,

one of my friends' boyfriends who was like, hey, I work there, don't worry about it, you don't need to pay. Oh. I didn't. What do you know? I get a ticket. Okay. And I still get it and I still had to pay for it.

So I don't know if this man was lying. I don't, I have never seen the man again in my life. So I have no idea what happened there. Second time I got one. But where did he come from him? You said where do you would tell me where they came from. I am. I'm getting there.

Oh, okay. So on the second time this happened, I was standing there trying to pay for one of these parking places because I was going to be there for like two hours. I was going out to eat. And it wouldn't give me my ticket. It like wouldn't give me a receipt, but it had paid for it. And you have to display the parking ticket on your car, right? And the parking guy that gives the tickets walks up.

I'm like, hey, I just paid for it. I need the, the receipt. see he's like, oh yeah, it's running out. Somebody's going to come refill that, but you're good. He tells me you're good. Okay. I go inside. I come back out afterwards and I have a ticket on my car.

I found out from somebody that night that they sit in that parking lot, a parking like attendant sits either in that parking lot or three like around it. They kind of monitor a few at a time and sit and watch for people to leave. even if they watch them go inside and not pay for a ticket, they'll put a ticket on your car immediately. And see, I feel I'm going to say that probably has to be one of the worst jobs in the world. Yeah. Because nobody likes you.

Like nobody sees you as like, hey, man, good to see you. Like you go to the cookie shop and you get a cookie. Oh, yeah. Or the ice cream shop. You get a scoop of ice cream. Everybody's excited to be there. But if you see the parking guy coming with that little stupid machine of his or hers, not to be sexist.

And do, do, do, do, do. Oh, that's a $60 ticket. No one is like, oh, yay. It's Henrietta, the parking police. Oh, my gosh. It's like, did you ever watch that show? Parking Wars? No, there's a show about parking?

And they would follow around meter people in like Philadelphia, and people would just chew them out because they would give them tickets for having expired meters. And it's true. No one's ever happy to see them. They are just the worst, it's the worst job in the world. Oh, absolutely.

especially these because they're privately owned. So like in Nashville, the parking companies are making bank. Listen. Okay? Like so much money off of people in Nashville. We all need to just buy a parking lot. You don't need to buy a building. You don't need to buy a house.

You don't need to buy just buy a parking lot. That's what we need to do. And why did no one tell me this when I was younger? Why did I not just buy a parking lot and just make a ton of money on a parking lot? Well, I have a real question out of all of this. Yes. Where did you get your food from? It was some deli.

How do I know what it's called? Shep. Come on. That was the big question. Shep's, I think is what it was called. What food was so important that you got a ticket. No, no. And see, that's the thing.

My sandwich wasn't even that good. Oh, yeah, that's a bummer. But my wife did go for breakfast one morning with my cousin and his wife. They were in town and loved it. Said it was so good. So maybe I didn't like the sandwich because I was so angry about the parking ticket. I have a feeling that $60 sandwich didn't taste as good. Right, right.

And my judgment may have been way off because I was so ticked off about life in general at that point that nothing was going to taste good. And so that may be unfair on my part. Okay. So we'll switch this. So you don't have to keep being angry. You know, we get it. You're not going to pay it. And understandably so.

I didn't end up paying mine for like six years. Found out that it could come back on my credit. Like they could take it to collections and then you get like a warrant thing. So I'm like, you know, whatever, I'll pay for it. which it does go up every year. It said if I don't pay it by a certain day, it goes up to $85. I'm like $25 jump for waiting a few days, relax.

Yeah, if I'm telling you, if I'm being honest, just pay it now and then you don't have to pay more later because I think I paid like $300. Oh my gosh. It's awful. Oh my gosh. I like bit the bullet and I was like,

wow, I should have just paid it. And that was in bad circumstances too. But, okay, we always get hit up. People are coming to Nashville and stuff. I mean, that's one thing to be careful of is the parking. but what are like three places people should definitely eat when they come to Nashville? Let's give some Nashville recommendation. Oh, there's a McDonald's on Broadway.

It's really awesome. No, give them real ones. Oh. Real ones. Okay. I know you love to eat. Yeah, yeah, but you got to, I mean, listen, hot chicken. You got to do the hot chicken.

I would say Hattie Bees is what I like. I've never had princes, but it's supposed to be really good. Or Bolton's hot chicken. I mean, you have to get hot chicken when you come here. Like, that is the one thing you have to do. And if you're here, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you a little secret. If you are here on a weekday, okay, and you're looking for something that's delicious, it's called Bok Box.

Let me make sure I said that right. I love that you said it that way. You said it that way. Let me make sure. Bok box. Let me tell you, this is coal fired chicken. It is, I don't understand how they do it, but it is. So freaking good.

Bok box is what it's called. Okay. Oh my gosh. Okay. Bok box. Yes, it is. Also,

if you choose to go to Hattie B's, don't go downtown. There's like 80 locations in town. Yes. Do anywhere but downtown. Right. Well, they now have one at that new fifth and Broadway.

Yeah, don't go there. But if you're already going to be on Broadway, you don't have to leave Broadway to go there. This is true. Then you can weigh in line. But if you're not on Broadway, don't go there because there'll be a line. But yes,

I would say that. But Bock Box, if you're here on a weekday, go there, lunch. It is simply amazing. And they're only open for lunch. They're not open for dinner. They're not open for breakfast. It's lunch only. Okay. So don't try to go at six o'clock because it's not going to be open and you're just going to be like, and you're going to be crazy. You're going to think I'm crazy because it's inside like their kitchen. They cook it inside a bar. Like they just

use the bar's kitchen to cook it and you're going to be blown away at how freaking good this chicken is. I love it. Okay. That's your number one. What's two more? Well, I told you, Hattie B's. Well, yeah, we talked about Hattie B's, but two others. but you get it, hot chicken. Well, Bachbox is not hot chicken. It's a different kind of chicken, but it's so delicious. Okay. Where else must you go?

I would say like Monel's for breakfast. Family style, baby. It's family style, so it's really cool. No phones allowed at the table. And you eat with a bunch of strangers, which is really cool. So if you have three in your party, you get sat with three from another party, four from another party. It's really a cool thing.

and it just comes out family style and I love that place. I think it's really cool. Okay. One more. One more. Where else would I go? Arnold's down south cooking or whatever.

I mean, it's like a hole in the wall, but I've heard it really good. Yeah, it's a really good like restaurants just like cafeteria style. You go down the line, tell them what you want. It's really good. Arnold's.

That's what I'd say. Arnold's Bockbox and. Haddie bees and Monels. Okay. So we did four. Oh, yeah. But that's okay. But yes, that's what I would say.

What would you say? Definitely Barcelona. It's a tapas bar. It's like a wine bar and it's an edge hill. So it's also sitting next to old glory distillery. So you can go have tapas and then you can go have some really like strong drinks. They're not called tapas. Tapas.

Tapas. Oh, okay. You tap dance. You don't tap. You know what? Tapas. I like tapas better. Yeah.

I think it's tapas. Okay. Well, tapas. Yeah. Okay. I've been there before. That's a good one. And then rose pepper is my favorite.

No, no. I know you don't like that. Hey, you know what? I've given these recommendations before and everybody likes that. Well, right. If you're looking, but that's Mexican food. I didn't hate on any of your choices. But I am from Texas.

And so when you say that, I just want people to know that that's not, I mean, if they're coming from somewhere that has real Mexican food, they're going to be disappointed. I am just, I'm giving a, what do you call that a warrant? It's not a warning. It's a really good place in town. I'm saying that you have to, I'm giving a disclaimer. If you come from where there's real Mexican food, you're not going to be impressed with it. Well, you're hating on all my picks and I didn't hate on any of yours. My other one.

You only had one pick. Yeah, because you keep hitting on roast ever. No, no. Anyways, Rose pepper. I didn't hate on Barcelona. I just hated on the way you said tapas. I know. Okay.

State side kitchen. Never heard of it. Best brunch ever. and not a lead you get bottomless mimoses, but there's a DJ at brunch. All right. State side kitchen. State side kitchen.

I'll check that out. I got a cold buddies coming to week. In a couple weeks, I got a couple buddies coming, so I need somewhere to take on the brunch. State side kitchen is wild. It's a great experience. Okay.

Is the food good or is just the experience? No, the food's good. I've had, but again, you're kind of a little picky eater over there. So I don't know. Food was really good to me. Is it because you were drunk off mimosas?

I was, I ate before I got drunk off my mimosas. Okay, because I mean, like, I don't want to, yeah, whatever, okay. No, it's a good one. And then I'll give another one. Can I take the kids there? I wouldn't. People do take their kids there, but I wouldn't. Okay.

I'm not sure it's the best environment for that. It can get wild by about one o'clock. One o'clock. That's nap time. They'll be asleep. I mean, I was talking about taking the kids at like 9 a.m. Oh, yeah. I don't think they even open until 10.

Oh. But since you, you hated on some of my other pigs. Here's another one. Amerigo's, it's good Italian food. Okay. Okay. Can you hate on that one? No, I've only think I've been there once.

I don't know. Okay. I know where it is. It's right there on white cheese balls. They're glorious. Like right there on West End kind of West End Broadway, whenever it turns. Like, can you explain to me how it's the same road, but it turns into West End or Broadway? I don't know.

No, it's called construction that we don't understand. Oh, no, wait. You know what? No, it is. It is broad, yeah, but nobody, nobody on here is going to care about that. I know. I'm just saying it to myself. I know.

I'm just asking you questions if you know the answer. No, I don't know the answer. Like the Chewis, is the Chewis on Broadway? No, Chewis is in Midtown. DeMumbrian. No. All right. This is inside talk that no one cares about, but this is things I wonder about.

But hey, if you're coming to Nashville, those are some recommendations. Also, if you go online, I've put up a bunch of places. Yeah. that people do love, even if lunchbox gives them a hard time. I didn't give them a hard time. Certified fresh by all of my friends. But all of your friends don't come from where there's real Mexican food. No, all of my friends that visit.

All my friends that visit tell me that I give great recommendation. So I know what's up. People know I know the real deal. Okay. I'm just being real. I'm telling you if you're here on a weekday. Maybe if you're like in your 20s, do what I do. If you're in your 30s, do it lunchbox sits.

If you have taste buds, do what I do. I have taste buds. I don't know. Okay, well, here's lunchbox getting a parking ticket and not paying for it. Number seven. Lunchbox got a parking ticket. I'm going to refuse to pay it. I mean, this is getting ridiculous.

So I was going to pick up to go food. I had placed an order and there's no parking on the street, nowhere. So there's this lot. But the lot is $10 to park. And I'm like, I'm just running in and get my food and I'm coming right back out. No big deal. I was in there for six minutes. And they put a ticket for six.

$60 on my windshield. $60. Sorry, you should give me some time to get my food and get out. None of this. Oh, it's $10 to park here to run in and get your food. And then to give me a $60 ticket. How can, that's a ridiculous amount of money for a ticket. And I'm not going to pay it.

Did the sign say, hey, if you need to run and get your food real quick, we're all cool. No, I didn't see a sign that said that. Well, then, yeah, I bet you wish you would have paid the $10. It stinks, right? You have to go find street parking. That's tough. Do you think that you did anything wrong? No.

There should be some kind of grace period. Like, I haven't understood. And then to charge $60? Like, that's a whole day's pay. Like, I don't understand. I mean, yes. Like, do you understand, like, when someone, I mean, $60 is a day's pay, and they want you to pay that for a six minutes?

For you, that's not a day's pay. Let's not act like it was a, for some people it might be, but I'm not going to let you sit here and act like for you. That's a day's pay. Absolutely. We're all like, We don't want to lie to our audience. You're doing all right, okay?

That's ridiculous, but I'm standing up for the other people too. I'm not saying it's not ridiculous, and I'm not saying that there shouldn't be, but you did break the rule. Yeah, and surely, like, there has to be another plan for, if everybody picking up a to go order decided to park in that lot and run in and get their food, then that would cause some problems for the lot. And if you park there, you're now on the clock. If someone sees you that gives tickets, they can give you a ticket. Yeah, because they don't know if you're going to be there five minutes or an hour or two hours. or two hours. You think they're going to wait for them?

Okay, he parked here. Let's give him 10. All right. There should be some kind of grace period. I don't disagree that it does. It stinks, right? However, that's on you. You got to pay the ticket.

So then you know what's going to happen if you don't pay the ticket? It says if I don't pay it within 35 days, it goes up to $85. And then? Then I don't know. But I'm not going to pay it. I mean, it'll just be on your record.

And next time if you get pulled over, you'll have an outstanding ticket and they'll cuff you. Yep. Here's the thing. It's a private company lot. It's not a city lot. It's just one of those parking companies.

Sorry, suckers. You're not getting your money. So it may not be jail times. So wait. I don't know. How do they hold people accountable? That's what I don't know. That's the case.

I'm never paying for parking. You just avoid that lot again for the rest of your life? Well, it's like, okay, thanks for the ticket. Maybe someone could explain that because that doesn't seem you'd think more people would just get tickets. Who's a ticket from, though? Morgan and Morgan. All them up. It just says parking location and then it has...

But is it from the city? I don't... Eddie, does that look like a city? Or it doesn't say, I don't know. Papa John's University. I don't know. It really just says parking violation. And it says parking notice.

But where do you send the money to? Is there an address? Oh, yeah, there's a website. Go to the website. If it's dot-gov, you're screwed. No, it's dot net. Okay, well, what is it? What's the website?

Parking... Parking. Parking.comnet or something? Hold on. Parking. I'm trying to zoom in on the ticket. Can you read that? Oh, I didn't know how to zoom in.

There you go. Don't say it out loud. Don't say what out loud. The website? He maybe doesn't want people know exactly where he parked or where he goes to eat. I don't know.

You think he'd want to because he loves some people to know where he is. Premier parking payment. Payment.net. Oh, wow. Oh, that's that. You see Premier parking lots all over the lives.

But why would you pay it if it's only like a company? I don't know. That's what I'm saying. Who gave it to you? The ticket was somebody with the badge? No, it was just on my windshield. They don't even sit there.

They don't have the... They don't have the... They don't have the gumpion to face me and give me the ticket to my face every six. They're probably going to that with their cars. But yeah. But yeah, I mean, $60? Ha! Guess what?

If it's not the city, I don't know that I pay it either. There has to be some sort of... But I don't know if I'm going to... It's not the city, Bones. It's not. It's private. Okay, so if it's private, then you don't have to pay the ticket. I don't get that.

Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Someone wrote a question. I got a violation from Premier in the last week. The statement says due May 22nd. I don't only now got it. It's mailed to an address in Florida.

The violation is April. I swear, let's see. Typically, a single ticket isn't enough for the company to take you to court. Okay, so that's what could happen. Oh, the company. Gotcha. Yeah. I guess just don't ever park.

You're no stranger to the court. I'm no straight to the courtroom, though. I'm not scared. Can you go two for two? Two and O? I'm not scared to battle in front of the judge. I don't get nervous. What do you want to say to Premier parking right now?

Listen, Premier parking, you guys are out of control. $60.00? Crazy. A days paid for six minutes in your parking lot. Come on now, people. You've got to give some grace. Let people run in and get there to go for. Get a life, losers. No.

They're just doing their job. This is their business. I'm kind of fired up right now. I don't know. There's no reason to be. I'm going to lunchbox aside. I know I shouldn't be. No.

Lunchmocks is a lot. in the wrong 100%. That's a day's pay, guys. Right. Geez. Back in the 1700s, it took a year and a half to make it.

And I'm not going to stand for it. And I just think about my days at Sam's Club pushing those cards up the hill for eight hours a day. That's a day's a day's pay right there. That would have been a day's pay. How can they charge that? They are not getting their money.

Listen, I may go to jail, though, but I'm not paying. You'll never go to jail. It sounds like a civil thing anymore. Yeah, because they're not going to take you to court. You may lose your house, but you won't go to jail. Yeah, yeah.

They can take my house? I mean, they'll sue you for something. So you might get sued, but I don't think you're going to jail. Okay. So rest easy. Yes. Ha ha! Feels good.

Would you go back to court and represent yourself? I would, absolutely. And what would you say? I'd be like, listen, Judge, they're out here charging a day's pain. You got to use that for you. Yeah, that's pretty strong. Yeah, that's pretty strong. The judge is going to be like, you know what, you're right.

Boom! Dismissed. That's pretty strong. Okay. Where do we side on this before we run? I wouldn't pay it. Team Premier. I wouldn't pay it.

I would pay it. I mean, you just don't want to deal with that. Well, you did it wrong. You're not going to be able to park in a premier parking lot ever again, and they're all over town. That's true. They are everywhere. You did wrong.

Bad lunchbox. But I'm on your side. Yes. Yes. And I want to say him to go to court. This is great for radio. Okay. Last time we went to court, didn't Eddie get kicked out of the courtroom?

Yeah, you were trying to film it. I was trying to record it for the radio. and they got kicked out. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. This was a crazy one. We had a sligamist on the show. She married herself. Lunchbox.

I want to know how you feel about this. We just did the interview on the show. I don't even understand. This is so ridiculous. I don't know. When I was listening to her talk, I was like, yeah, I would do that. Like, I almost would do that.

No, you would not. Stop. M2, you are not a nutso. This lady is. is nuts. She just wanted some attention. And so she had a wedding for herself so people could come. I mean, just who thinks of that? Like, just because you, like, you can love yourself without marrying yourself. Like, what a weird. That's a, she's off her rocker. Like, you can act like it's normal. And oh, she has good logic. No, she's off her rocker. There's screws loose up top. That's what I think.

I feel like when she was talking and she was like, well, you know, I wanted to just really make that commitment to herself. And I totally felt that. Like everything she was saying as crazy as it feels. What commitment did she make to herself? Hold on. As crazy as it feels and how like foreign of a subject it is, I feel like everything she was saying was like spot on.

Being somebody who's like a single woman, everybody always wants to talk about me getting married and finding somebody and settling down. Like everything she was talking about, I totally related to. And so after you marry yourself, are people on the street going to be like, hey, how come you're not settled down? No, people are still

going to ask you and then they're going to be like, let's say you go on a date because she said she still dates, right? A guy picks you up and like, you're talking at dinner and be like, oh, just FYI, I married myself. Gone. No guy is going to stick around or girl. Whatever you're, if they hear you married yourself, they're never going to talk to you again, period.

Well, I think that's how you weed out good ones from bad ones, though, too. That means she's waiting for a guy who's going to understand. her. No, no guy is going to date someone that says they married themselves. Like, that's like saying, oh, I'm married a bridge, but we can still date. No, no one's going to date. It's the same thing. No, that's an object. But hey, that object will never cheat on you, will never leave you, will never steal your money, will never murder you. So it's the same thing. Like, I just wanted something that's always going to be there for me. So I married the Golden Gate Bridge. I mean, it's the same concept. But if that, if that's crazy to you, then marrying yourself is just as crazy. I know it.

feels crazy. Like when I, when I first heard we were bringing her on, I was like, okay, this sounds crazy. But then I heard her talk and I was like, I totally get it. I really do. Like as a single person, everything she said, like I totally get. I understand you get it. But the fact of marrying yourself, having your dad walk her down the aisle when there is no one up there to take her is the most ludicrous thing I think I've heard. Like it's just, it's so dumb. Like she was looking to get famous. She wanted to be, probably get a TV show. That's probably what she wanted.

And congratulations. She got a couple press clippings. But what a weirdo. Well, now you know how lunchbox feels about it. I really enjoyed this interview. Morgan number two. I would probably marry myself. If you went out with a dude, okay?

Yeah. And he's like, hey, I just wanted to let you know. I married myself six years ago. And I'm about to celebrate my sixth wedding anniversary with myself. What would you say? I mean, I would ask why he did it. And if he had good reasoning, then it is what it is. No, Morgan number two, I just don't buy it.

You, I don't buy that you would be okay with a dude that married himself. You would think that's a little weird. Like, what's wrong with him? Like, is he just, eh, that's not all there. I don't, I'm not buying him. If I like everything else about him and that's the one thing holding me back, it wouldn't be the thing that would hold me back. If he has other attributes that I don't like, then yes.

Oh, you would find other attributes not to like just because he married himself. That's one thing. That means he's a weirdo. I just don't know if there's guys out there that would marry themselves. It's a whole, like, movement behind women because everybody always wants to ask women when they're getting married, when they're having babies. Like, it's changing the narrative. So that's what I like about it. Okay.

I mean, you guys go marry yourselves and everybody will look at it like you're, if I ever got invited to a wedding where someone was marrying themselves, it would be a fat, no, I'm not going. No, I mean, I do feel like a lot of people are going to feel the same way as you. I think it's very forward thinking right now. I think it's a foreign concept. No, it's not forward thinking. If it was forward thinking, everybody would be like, oh, it's a great idea. No one is saying that's a great idea. It's called cuckoo thinking.

I feel like in like 20 years, we're going to hear a lot more of this. I just have a feeling. Let's just put this way. I hope neither of my kids marry themselves. But if they do, I won't go. Oh, man, you won't give them away? No. To who?

You're not giving them away. They already are themselves. They can't, you're not giving them away to anyone. Oh, my gosh. I can't. I don't like this lighting. Okay, well, here's the interview. I really enjoyed it.

Lunchbox has all his opinions about it, but it'll at least give you a smile. So here's this oligamist. Number six. We're about to talk to Sophie, and Sophie, Sophie, am I right about this? You married yourself?

You are correct, yeah. And right now, are you in the UK? Yes, I'm in Brighton in the UK, yeah. And do you say you're your own wife or your own husband, or do you not say, like, what's that relationship there? I say I'm a syllogamist, which is like the official term for someone who married themselves. Sologamous would be solo, right? That's the root, solo.

That's it, yeah. How, why would you marry your, I think this is interesting, I've never heard of this, but why would you marry yourself? I feel like there's quite a big stigma around being single in our culture. So it was sort of a bit of a statement against that in a way, because I feel like society is kind of obsessed with romance, you know, but you can't really live happily ever after until you found your other half to complete you. Like people kind of assume that I'm going to be miserable and sad.

And, you know, how are you still single or don't worry the white person's just around the corner? And I just kind of got a bit sick of that sort of sympathy, like I should feel ashamed or had to excuse, you know, make an excuse as to why I hadn't settled down yet. So then I thought, I feel like I need a way to express the fact, that I am happy, happily ever now. And I'm happy in myself, and I want to have a ceremony to show myself growth and self-acceptance and self-love.

So you had a wedding to marry yourself? I did indeed, yeah. I had a self-wedding in Brighton outside in 2015. Do you invite people to that wedding? Do they have to RSVP? I'm having a wedding right now, Sophie. I've got to tell you, the RSVPs are so annoying. Do you have to have people RSVP to your wedding?

I actually, yeah, I sent out invites on social and, yeah, just by text and everyone, loads of friends accepted straight away in booked hotels, which I was actually really overwhelmed by because it was kind of, you know, a bit of a tongue and cheek ceremony. I wouldn't have been offended if they hadn't come, but actually loads of people, yeah, showed up. And do you do two sets of vows? Do you read one to yourself and then move to the other spot and read one to yourself, or do you just say one set in a mirror?

I adapted the traditional vows from the plural to the singular, and that works pretty well, actually. Her Instagram, her social media is the slogamist. Is that you say it? Salogamous, Sophie? The slogamist, yeah. I am someone who was single almost all my life. I mean, I'm engaged now for the first time. I'm 41 years old, and I know when you, I relate to people feeling sorry for you forever, because that happened to me. People were like, oh, people are like, oh, you're just alone, I can't wait. And I was like, hey, I'll eventually I'll find whatever. I'm glad I'd have to marry myself.

I'm glad I found the person. But what does it mean legally for you? Like, do you get any benefits for being married but to yourself? I think the whole thing about legally recognizing a marriage is kind of to protect your individual assets. So if it comes to like a divorce, you know, you're protecting your own assets. So I think there's no real need for a legal recognition of solo marriage because it's just you and your own assets. Have you ever cheated on yourself? People ask that, but I'm not trying to be two people.

So it's not like it's a massive betrayal if I'm with someone else. And I wouldn't divorce myself either. Are you still open if the right person comes along, man or woman, that you could marry them? Yeah. So again, the thing is, you know, self-marriage for me is about self-love and marriage is about romantic love. And self-love and romantic love, they're not mutually exclusive. They can exist together.

It's just, I think, self-love. I was just trying to raise the agenda of it and like raise the profile of it and show that it's probably just as important as romantic love. So it doesn't mean that I'm going to live like a nun and never embrace meaningful relationships with anyone else. I mean, she's kind of encouraging me to marry myself. I'll be honest with you. She has a great point.

You know, when you first hear about it, you're like, all right, just marrying herself. What does this mean? But now she's telling me why it's about loving yourself. I do take me to be my lawfully wedded husband. I'm into it. Yeah, this is good. Are there other people like you that have married themselves? I believe so.

Yeah, there's like mainly women kind of around the world. I'm hearing about more and more cases in Europe, some in America, I think. In your family, what do they think about the situation that you're kind of becoming known for marrying yourself? They were already kind of on board because I actually wrote a novel about it before I married myself. And they were, so it wasn't a new concept for them. But I mean, my mom was a little bit, she's had three divorces though, but she was a bit puzzled. My dad was totally on board and he gave me away to myself. And yeah, he actually loved the whole thing.

What's the lesson? I'm curious. You've been married now for, well, you've been married to yourself for six years, if I'm doing the math here. What is, what's the lesson you'd like to teach me about marrying yourself? It is just all about self-love and self-acceptance and promising to be your own best friend and be responsible for your own happiness, you know, because whether you're in a relationship with someone else or not, you should be able to fill your own cup and not go to them asking them to fill it. So that's what it is really. I think you can be sort of happily invested. in your own self-love journey and also being a really happy relationship with someone else. I got to tell you, Sophie. I thought you were going to come on and you're going to be pretty nutty. This is the truth. I was like, all right, let's talk to Sophie. She's going to be nuts.

We're going to probably have a few laughs. But I think your message is amazing. I think your message is fantastic. It's all about finding, you know, your worth within yourself before you can actually ever care about finding it within it. I mean, I think the whole marriage thing was a little nutty. I'll be honest with you. However, I do think, Sophie,

that this is a great message. this was not the angle I expected to go with this interview. I thought we'd come in be like, be like, how crazy is Sophie? But you're just kind of crazy, not fully crazy, and we're all kind of crazy.

So I admire that. So what are you getting out of this? Like, you're talking to folks. Like, what's the goal here? You know, I'm a self-love advocate, and I think it solves,

I think when you deal with your own crap, you know, the less others have to, and I think it solves a lot of problems in society, actually. So, yeah, I'm just like out there to have conversations, start conversations about it.

And on that point about ceremony, I know that having a big self-wedding ceremony might be a little bit nutty. But for me, I do think in our culture, like we don't have many rituals or, like, rights of passage that celebrate our personal development, apart from marriage.

And if you choose not to marry, then you don't really have anything, any milestone. So, yeah, that's why I did it. But I think you can love yourself in lots of different ways. You don't have to marry yourself. Okay.

Well, listen, I feel good about this. She's at the Salogamist. If you want to spell it, It's solo gamist, because it's a tough word. Salongamist. Her name is Sophie. Amy, anything you'd like to say to Sophie? Yeah, I guess since you did choose to celebrate it with a ceremony and you had your own

little wedding, do you get to register for gifts? What a great question. I actually said no gifts, which I actually instantly regretted, if I'm honest. Oh. I could have done with a nice gift list, but I just, yeah, I was like, no, your presence is my only present. Did you have a first song, a first dance? song and did you dance alone?

I invited everyone to my first dance, so we had a whole bunch of us. There's actually a video on YouTube of like everyone dancing to my first dance. It got a bit crazy. What was the song? It was Trini Lopez, if you want to be happy for the rest of your life.

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, better make a pretty one in your life. Yeah. Well, Sophie, I have to say it. I'm a fan. What are you? What am I? Isn't there a lyric that song?

Yeah. Pick an ugly girl to marry you. Yeah. Okay. Well, congratulations on six strong years of marriage. Yeah. Thank you. To many more.

Follow her the slogamist. Sophie, this has been a real treat. And thank you for your time. And hopefully, at some point, we'll talk again. Thank you so much. I'm good luck with your own marriage. Thank you very much. There she is.

Sophie. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Now this segment came from one of our post shows. Eddie told us that he had put together an audition tape because he wants to be a voice actor. So we heard all of his different roles. You know, you hear him on this show impersonate a lot of people. Luke Bryan. Eric Church.

Hey, y'all. It's Luke Brian. We hear it often. And so we heard he wants to be a voice actor. Lunchbox, do you think Eddie can be a voice actor? No. I mean, see, this is what everybody tries to do, tries to be like me. I want to be a voice actor back in the day. I didn't ever get cast.

I tried out to be Aflack. Affleck. I tried to be the Affleck duck. You actually auditioned to be Affleck? Yeah, when they were doing auditions years ago, they were looking for a new Aflac duck. And so I tried out. I didn't get it.

And then I invented Squeaky the squirrel and someone else. I forget the other name. And I didn't go anywhere, but everybody made fun of me. And then, oh, here we go. I'm taking acting classes now. So Eddie thinks, oh, you know what? Lunch is doing it. I got to do it.

I want to throw my hat in the ring to be a voice. actor, but he doesn't have any voices. He just is imitates people and that's not really voice acting. Well, I mean, there's different types of voice acting. I feel like both of y'all could have roles in voice acting. Well, I don't think, I don't think any movie comes to Eddie or TV show and says, hey, I want you to come on this TV show and be Ellen DeGeneres. No, they would just get Ellen DeGeneres to do it. But what if they couldn't? Well, they're not going to, they want someone to be their own person. They don't. Like in Finding Nemo, they didn't go to, I don't know who the people are in, but let's go with Toy Story because I don't know anything about Finding Nemo.

Don't know why I came with that one. But let's go with Toy Story. They didn't go to Tom Hanks and say, or they didn't go, hey, here, just, you know, they had Tom Hanks because his voice is famous. They're not going to go to Eddie and be like, hey, can you act like Tom Hanks? No. But I do feel like he could be capable of doing that. No, he could. He could act.

I'm saying he could act like Tom Hanks. but they would just pay Tom Hanks then. But like I feel like he could do other roles. He just has to maybe show it off. He's impersonated him for so long that maybe he just has to figure out that other role. No, no, but they don't want impersonators. No, I'm saying he could do other voice work. Oh, you think he could create his own characters.

Yeah. Okay. I feel like it's there. I create a side of Eddie. If they're looking for a nasly guy like sounds like this, yeah, they can, I mean, oh, you want a nasly guy to, you know, be in the movie? We're great. Are you just saying this because you would like to be a voice actor?

Absolutely. I mean, I think I'd be a great voice actor. My voice is so distinct, so different, and just it's very loud and man and deep. I think it would make a great character. Can you do that one more time? Very man and deep. I think it'd be great. Okay. Well, what is the update on your acting classes? Oh, they're still going great. I mean, how often do you do them? It's a couple times a month. And I mean, I'll bring in some new material here shortly. I haven't, I need to get some from the class that they've been recording. it and so they'll send it to me and I'll bring some in I don't know which roll up maybe I'll bring pastely when I was pastely from Dawson's Creek I don't feel like I could ever see you being in like a serious role so would you stick with the comedy no I mean you got to be you got to be multi-dimensional as an actor you don't want to get pegged in that one spot because then you get

tight cast and you don't get other roles you got to be able to do everything I know but you you just give me will feral vibes that whenever I see will feral try and be serious I can't take him serious well I feel like that's you for me Okay, I mean, yes, and that's my job as an actor to convince you and to sell you on my abilities and to make you forget about my funny. And wow, man, that dude's serious like that. I feel as emotion and pain. Yeah, see how serious I got there? I wasn't joking.

I don't know. You still make me laugh when you try and cry. How funny. Yeah, no, it's still not working for me. Oh, my gosh. See, I felt like I had it. I feel like that was a good, that was. I feel like I have a good cry.

though. Like I'm good at the cry. I feel like you have some good acting chops, but I don't think I could take you on the serious side. Well, it's because, I don't know. I feel like, like Matthew McConaughey, he used to be just the rom-com guy, and then he got into serious act. He started taking serious roles.

Did it take you a while to get over that? I mean, no. He did rom-coms and he did serious. That's all I've ever really seen him in. Right, but that's what I'm saying. He only did rom-coms in the beginning. But he was still like this, like, very stoic guy, even in the rom-coms.

Okay, fine. I won't, I'll just do comedy. I'll just do comedy. Whatever pays the bills, I don't care. I'll do it. Just sign me up, let's go. I'm ready to act. You just get a job that way, right?

Put me in commercials to start. That's fine. I mean, you didn't want to be the Affleck dogs or the duck. Affleck. Affleck. Yeah, I did. Okay, well, here's this. You might not have heard this on the show,

but Eddie, during the post show, gave us his audition tape, and everyone on the show shared their opinions. Number five. So on this show through the years, different people have tried to be voice actors. Lunchbox tried for a long time. He tried to do cartoon characters. Remember that? Didn't work out for them, right.

I'm being told now that Eddie has made a demo reel. I'm dead serious. For the same type of thing. This is how serious I am about it. I spent three hours after work on Friday to put this together. I'm like, I am going to get a voice acting job. This is the note Mike Deep left for me. Oh, boy.

The full thing is two minutes. We can stop when you've had enough. Oh, you won't have. enough. And that's the whole point of the demo. You're going to hear me like, oh, I can't, I got to hear the rest of it. Okay. This is Eddie's voice acting demo. But bones, bones. You're a producer, right? Your producer, you do cartoons. You're listening to this for the first time. Okay, go ahead. I haven't separated into the five, but this is the intro he did, and then it's Kermit and Cookie Monster. Oh, you're doing impressions of other. You need the intro. Okay, go ahead. Hello. My name is producer Eddie, and I do

voices. How you doing there? Producer Eddie? It's a Kermit the frog here. Hey, Kermit. How's it going? Yeah, I'm with Cookie Monster, actually. Oh, it's you and Cookie Monster. Yeah, say hi, Cookie. Oh, yeah, I like Cookie, but you know, I like country music, too. Cookie Monster. It likes country music like Eric Church. Oh, hey, Eric.

How's it going, Cookie Monster? Yeah. Here's Eric Church and Luke Bryan, if you want it. Okay, so that's the first club. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I do like that you're bringing a minute and putting it over at top of each other. I don't think that's your best voice-wise? What?

Your Cookie Monster wasn't very good. What are you talking about? It's really good. No, no, no, no, no, cookie. Your current was pretty strong. Thank you very much. Your cookie wasn't that strong. You're actually making the effort to make a guy, which is the first thing.

I like the overlapping of you're having a conversation. Let me hear the rest. How's it going, Cookie Monster? Yeah, I'm hanging out right now with my friend Luke. Say, I, Lou. Hey, y'all, it's me, Luke Bryan, and I do American Idol. There's a lot of talent out there, right, Eric? There is just, you're at a lot of talent out there.

Right. But sometimes it stresses me out. I like to escape and watch movies, and one of my favorite movies is Forrest Gun. Here's Forrest Gump if you want it Can you guys hear Ray? Is he talking to my ear? No, he's talking to me I never know because Ray just talks to me Sometimes, okay You want to hear Forrest? No I'm saying, that clip

That wasn't very good. That's not your best work I've heard you do them ten times better in here Yeah, what do you mean? Maybe you were nervous. Yeah, I wasn't nervous at all Okay, go ahead. Hello, my name's Forrest Gump I was born in Greenbow, Alabama Everybody does Forrest Gump. That's like going I'm going to really knock your socks off with an impression Here we go, I'll be balk.

What do you think? Oh, that was very good. Stop it. You guys are just doing this to make me mad. We're nice. Okay, what else does he happen? Play for us, Gunned. I'm a green bow.

And I, too, like music. I like music, like Pearl Jam. Oh, he. I'm going to say a little better Saturdays. Come on. You better impression's pretty good. Thank you. Yeah, go ahead.

You know, they called him the king because he was the king of rock and roll. That's Elvis. I'm caught in train. Is that like you trying to be Elvis? I can walk. But I also do like watching cartoons. And one of my favorites, it's goofy.

And then here's goofy if you want it. Gosh, thanks there, for us. You know, I do like movies too. But my favorite is when producer Eddie does the Home Depot commercials. Oh, okay. Is it a lot of clip of this? Yeah. Then I'll.

Oh, are you done with it? Because that's the last one. And it seems like you've made it through the whole demo real. Let's go. Only because... Go ahead. The Home Depot. More savings.

More doing. Come on. Back to you, producer, Eddie. Hey, thanks, Home Depot guy. All right, well, special thanks, too, to Kermit the Frog, Tom Hanks, Luke Bryan and Eddie Vedder and Elvis and everyone that came to help me show how good of a voice actor I can be. I appreciate your time to listen. This is something I've always wanted to do my entire life.

You can always contact me. All right. Okay. Here's what I think. I love... Damn good, isn't it? I love how you did the clip. The real. Yeah.

I think people aren't going to want impressions with voice actors. They're going to want to hear original. You stop. Stop pointing it. That's right. I think there's a brief clip where you could do a couple impressions quickly, essentially at the beginning, like, Hi, old Kermitifrog here, we're going to show you some characters I've invented, you know?

Oh, invent characters. Yes. Oh, boy. Because people don't want to hear your... They're not going to hire to do Cookie Monster. No, I know, but they're going to hire you to be Wally the... Weasel. So give me some direction on Wally the Weasel and I can do it. That's up to you. Yeah, you're the creative. You're the voice guy. Lunchbox has the squirrel that he invented.

It was squeaky the squirrel. That's great. I think if I do a bunch of squeakies and wallies and I think your package is good. Oh, it is it? Hold on. It's what you said. Hey, we're being serious, Amy. Like you need about 15 to 20 seconds of that whole thing there. Yeah. And your impression is more as good as you normally do them. Your Elvis sucked. Excuse me? I thought that was a pretty sure. This is all I love, by the way. Your Luke Bryan was sub-bar. Luke could be better. Somebody that's listening to hire you. He's not even going to know who Eric Church is.

Please, he's so famous. Like a Hollywood director who like has no idea what's happening in country music. You know? You did good. And you think Cookie Monster is bad? I do. For you. I'm only saying to hold your standards, you're much better than that. How is goofy? Pretty good. I give it a C-plus. C-plus. And your Home Depot, the one you love- It was terrible. The dude. Yeah. Okay.

All right. Well, all right. I'll go back to the drawing board, I guess. I like it. It doesn't need to be over 90 seconds, though. You do it quick. I can do a voices that already exist. I will goky monster.

Okay. Do two? Oh, Carpentie frog here. We're here to tell you about some people with the boys. You do you need to then knock out some voices. Waller the Weasel. No, I made, they just said that. Jenny the giraffe.

All right. Okay. No, this is great. It's good stuff. That's why I brought it to the table. I want you to kind of critique it for me. And we're going to hit it hard, get some job. get some jobs out there.

Paul the pecker. Excuse me? Woodpecker. Okay. I was like, Paul, a pecker. All right. I thought, Eddie, what is that with my joke? That wasn't good, Amy?

It was good. Mm-hmm. I don't know. I thought it was good, but I did think you were going to be bringing, like, a fictional character that you created and you gave it a voice, because that's what voiceover work. Yeah, yeah. Not voice overwork.

Voice overwork is when you're like, oh, sorry. Yeah. Voice actor work. Voice acting work, yes. because, like, I don't know, do you want someone to hire you to be like a goofy impersonator? No, no, no, no. Yeah, so you want a voice acting gig.

So you need to show. Rework it. 90 seconds max. We'll listen to it again. All right, thank you. I do like, though, I hope, Cermit D frog here to talk with Eddie, my friend, about his voice acting work.

And that was challenging, going back and forth and doing those things. Mike D even said put it to TikTok, but I don't know about all that. I wouldn't put that up there yet. Oh. You can refine that little bit. I thought it was pretty good.

It was pretty good. You don't want to put up pretty good. I'm going to put up dang good. All right. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. It's always a super fun time when we bring in Jake Owen. He came on, performed on the show, shared so many stories, and particularly a story about Dolly Parton that I loved.

Anytime an artist has a story about Dolly Parton, I love it, but this one is so good because it really hit you in the feels. Every time he comes in, it's always so good. Number four The Friday morning conversation With Jake Owen He's here, he's our hero He's the guy

He's the best guests we have We look forward to you coming in How are you, bud? I'm good, man I was excited to be here It's been a minute since You know, I've been able to do some stuff like this

So thank you Do you care a comment About your Oscar snub Because you had Listen, the show loved you In the movie Oh yeah, we all watched it And then you didn't get an Oscar

No nomination We were little irritated about that I didn't even know The Oscars happened So Well, you got snub We're letting you know this morning You've been there

snubs. When did they happen? I'm not sure. A couple weeks ago. Do they happen or they just came out with nods? No, no, they were there. They were like in a little room. Oh, that's true. The ratings were terrible. It was different. Hey, we did get good ratings on Rotten Tomatoes with our movie, by the way. It's like 80, 90%.

Were you pretty nervous? The movie was called Our Friend, if you guys aren't familiar. Jake played like a friend. I played a friend of the friend. Right. And basically, in short, the movie is a true story about a family. going through a very difficult time, the wife has terminal cancer. Yeah, like heads up, it's sad. 95% positive right now on Rotten Tomatoes. It's an incredible film.

It's a true story. And I think when people see it, especially in a time like right now, where everybody's kind of dealing with reality, you know, and that's something that I think a lot of movies out there is like takes you away from reality. And this one really brings you back home to what it is. And yeah, and it's about friendship. And there needs to be more of that. Did you feel like with your character, though, that like you're like,

oh, man, do I kind of have to be this? Totally. Dochebag? Yeah. Can you say that on the radio? I was that. I was totally that. And when I read it, that's kind of how I was scripted or casted.

And then I even questioned myself because I was like, did they cast me because I am a dude's bag? Well, you did a great job. Yeah. Well, yeah. See, I mean, comes naturally. You nailed it. Yeah, yeah. Comes honest.

Are you going to do more? Has anyone reached out and been like, hey, let's do some more acting? Are you pursuing that? I am not pursuing it. Maybe I should. But I have had people reach out since. then and I would do it again. It was fun. I really enjoyed it.

You have nine number ones now. Barefoot Blue Gene Night, alone with you, the one that got away, anywhere with you, beach and American country love song. I was Jack, you were Diane, homemade, made for you. Of the nine number ones, which one was just, it took the most work to get there? This one. And again, man, thanks to you guys for this. You guys have been praising this song before it was ever a single.

You guys would ask me about it when I was on the show. My fans out there, like since day one, when other songs were singles and I'd play this song on the road, people just would go incredibly crazy for it. And they related to it. And then my team at Big Loud, I mean, in an entire year where I couldn't visit radio and I couldn't get out there and play, they got this song to the top. So I think for all of us, it's like a big win for everyone that was like, I believe in this song. And y'all are those people too. So I'm very thankful for y'all. This is the hardest working one.

Honestly, man, I think the next one will be the hardest working one. everyone is a little bit harder than the last and you think it gets easier but like it doesn't that's why everyone is so special that you that you have play us a little bit I've made for you verse and chorus if I can remember it Water Towers

made for hearts and names and Friday nights made for football games and falling leaves made for falling in The front porch steps made for good night kissing

And I was made for you Yeah, I was made for you Sounds so good, man, do you miss I just playing for people Like, are you pumped to get back out there? I'm really pumped to get back out there That's why I do this. That's why I started doing it

And I tell people that all the time Like, this has been an odd deal people have been like, are you all right, man? Like, you know, you haven't been working in a while, and I know it's tough on you probably financially and stuff like that. And I'm like, man, never in my life, even back when I didn't have money, like I ever really worried about finances because I just like to play guitar and sing. And so this time around, like, yeah, I'm in a different place in life.

I've got more responsibility than I did when I was 24 years old. But I still know in my heart that when it all gets back through where we can get out there, which we're doing now, music is what fulfills me. So, yes, long answer to your short question. I miss those people and I miss. that's what makes me feel rich inside is like someone smiling or singing along or relating to that last

song and that's to me what's cool. I have to ask how your daughter's doing. She's in the hospital, Paris. What's happening? Yeah, she's all good. Now, thankfully, that's one thing you kind of learn in the hospital is like, what happened? Okay, so she had what we thought was a cold and she just kind of

runny nose, couldn't breathe. She has bad, a lot of people out there might know about this. Children with skin eczema have like this triad of skin eczema, allergies, and, um, and asthma, it all correlates. And so when one's, you know, heightened, the other one's heightened and her skin was getting really bad and she, it was itching a lot. And next thing you know, she literally could not breathe, like just stopped breathing. And, uh, we had to rush her to the hospital.

I mean, she was, it was bad. And then they wanted to keep her over night because she, her levels weren't high enough to go off on her own. But, uh, it's weird when you see a little two-year-old. that's not at the point yet where she can really say anything and tell you how she's feeling on her second birthday, like in the hospital. But man, I will tell you this.

I had more people reach out to me. Other artists, other songwriters, people like y'all. And it makes you realize, like, in moments where you're super scared, like, people are there for you. I mean, really. Because I felt alone. And then I walked in Vanderbilt, and I'm looking at all these other parents

that have their children in there, too. And you're kind of, like, frustrated. You're like trying to, you think, I don't know. I just had this feeling like I walk in like the security guards like sir you need to take your temperature. I was like you know I just wanted to like get mad at him. You're like wait my daughter but I get everybody's doing their jobs and Vanderbilt was incredibly helpful for us but just the people in general that reached out to us really made it a lot easier on Erica and I because we felt kind of lonely in there. You and Erica are getting married. Are you planning a wedding yet? I knew you were going to ask this question and I knew that I was going to have to come up with an answer. You opened the door you mentioned. You mentioned That's my cue to go, okay, speaking of Erica, what's happening? Yeah, we're getting married, man.

I mean, I gave her a ring. We're going to get married. What do you want from him? We know that part. I know, but that's the thing, though. There's like, hey, man, I did it, okay? I'm back. No, no, no, like, I love her.

We definitely want to get married. I mean, but this whole past year has been, I mean, when I gave it to her, part of it was because all of 2020 was just like this weird year that no one, and I wanted some happiness out of it. Because, like, I told you, even though we weren't on the road, like, I was really happy, at home with my children and my, and Erica, and that's the first time in my life that I've had time, like, multiple days in a row at home. Because before, it's easy when you're like, come home for a few days and you have that, like,

lovey-dovey relationship and you're like, see ya, I'm out. Then you come back three days later, you know what I mean? But when you're around someone 24-7 all the time, if you guys can still be in love, like, after that, and I guess it's meant to be. So we're pretty good. Like, we don't really, we don't fight or anything like that. So we're going to get married. Don't fight.

Come on. No, we do on stupid stuff. All right. Like I got in a really, like, I'm a OCD, like bad. And so I was just mad the other day. I started cleaning out our cabinets. And there was like seven, I counted, 17 cans of cream of mushroom soup. Now let me tell you something.

I've never bought a can of cream of mushroom soup in my life. And I can't remember the last time that Erica cooked anything with cream of mushroom soup. And so what my point is, if we're going to fight, it's over stupid stuff like that. I'd be like, why do we have 17 cans of cream of mushroom soup? She's like, well, I was going to make that chicken dish. I was like 17 times that you didn't. You know what I mean? She said, why do you have to be like that?

Why can you do it? So that's the fight. It's not like knock down, drag out fights. So the answer is TBD. To be determined. Yeah. Yes. And you fight about dumb.

I mean, the only stuff, Caitlin not really fight about is dumb stuff. If we have to be late to one more cycling class, we have to walk in when it's dark. Oh, I pull my hair out. I was hauling ass down here. Because I knew I was late. And I'm like, I cannot be late for you. He'll lock the door on you. I've never been late because I hear you talk about all the time how there's nothing worse to you than people that are late.

And you're right. And I'm notoriously late for . But I will not be late for your show because I don't want you being like. He was just another one of those guys. You were here early. We've only ever had one artist that was late late and I just said, nope, we're not doing the interview. The same with the show. And they used to be late.

What happened? Yeah. Don't come in and then that's it. They went home. They called me like, I'll be five minutes late. Well, cool. We'll be on time tomorrow. See tomorrow.

But it's all a respect thing. Like if Morgan's going to get here on time, and Eddie's not? Who's the first person here? Mike? Well, Ray Mundo. Oh, yeah, he's the first. Yeah. Ray is like the pillar who is making sure it's on.

Everything's on. The affiliates are getting stuff before the show starts. But in this room, I'm usually the first one in the room. Okay. But that's okay. I'm supposed to be. Got a lead by example, man. That's right.

Kobe practice harder than anybody. Jake Owen's here, yes. He's Kobe. Kobe fan I'm actually not a big Kobe fan But okay How does this get turned on me, losers? We were talking about Jake

And now it gets turned on to me Let's hear a little music That always breaks up to the awkwardness How about a little bit of homemade? Homemade Okay, I'd love to play homemade for you guys How about it? Jake Owens here, by the way

Where I grew up getting dressed up Mains a button down shirt and a good pair jeans wasn't Sunday supper without collard greens. Dad was boss and Christ is king. Friday night was living for the lights. Come on and I turned to Miller lights when I turn 21. There's some things about me that I can't change. I'll always be the man that homemade.

Home made me love a dirt road homemade. Me craves some ice cold homemade. Sweet tea only mama knows how to make. Yeah, homemade Homemade Home made me love a small town Homemade me want to settle down And a homemade for the two of us

Everything I love It's homemade Nice Jake O'Hoo Yeah Did you like that built in fade out That I did right there Slow it down a little bit When are you going back on the road?

Do you know yet? Has it announced? End of the month I got a couple shows I have a couple shows at the end of the month. I'm super excited about just me and a guitar. I'm excited for that because I really picking up where I left off in the early part of

2020, we were doing this what we called Down at the Tiki Tunk Tour. It was just myself and my buddy Larry Fleet that was doing really well and I took him out there and we just played our acoustic guitar for people in like little like theaters and it was cool because I like you could say hey, play this song

and I'm like, all right, I play it. And it was a bit of a difference from obviously years prior just playing big shows. and I kind of miss those, so I'm looking forward to starting the year that way, and I say start in the year. Starting your fiscal year.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. If you could not play one of your number ones, which one would you cut? People really like eight-second ride. Yeah, yeah. I hate that song. Yeah, yeah, we love that. We like it when you grunt.

I'm on up inside. Come on! Come on! Yeah, that's a jam. I swear. I wrote it when I was 18 at Florida State University. Hey, hey, hey, back there, Florida State. Yeah, we play that, and we like that.

And, yeah, I wrote it when I was 18. And my brother, I told you this before, but he used to have a, he used to keep his, like, dip cup. He's dip, like, in the center console of his Jeep. And every time I'd get in his Jeep, he would say, watch out for my cup, man, don't knock that over. So for him, when I wrote this song, because at the time I was writing songs for girls, I was listening to a lot of John Mayer and Dave Matthews at the time. And I was writing all these, like, love songs. And Jared's like, you have to write songs for guys.

So I was like, all right. And I was like, climb on up. but honey watch the cup that I've been spitting my dip inside. I thought it was brilliant at the time. And now every time I sing it, I'm like, God, here comes out stupid. But people love that song. They're probably mad at me for hating it now.

Every show you play it? Every show. Yeah, good. Come on. With it. Do you do that, though, every time? Absolutely. Yeah.

I can never recreate the perfect come on, though. Never. We play a game at my house. Which person would you let babysit your kids? And we don't have kids yet, but it's probably soon, right? in the next year, two years or so. And the one that we're stuck on a lot, because I'm going to ask you this too.

The one that we're stuck on a lot is the debate between Ray Mundo or John Party, babysitting if we had a kid. Like, who would we leave our kid alone with? Ray or John Party. Why would you ever leave your kid with your story? Well, it's like, what's the game where it's like you pee out of your nose

and poop out of your mouth? Would you rather? Would you rather? It's like if you had a kid and you had to leave them with one of the two, Ray Mundo, close friends with both of them are John. We have all picked John.

Now, of your country artist friends, who would you leave your kids with? Probably. I mean, Thomas Wreck comes to mine. He's got a lot of them. He won't answer his phone, though. Classic. Nice. So probably, I don't know.

Shut it down, boys. I don't know. Riba. Riva'd be awesome with kids. You know what I mean? Would Riba answer your call? Do you have Riba cell phone number? I don't.

But I bet she would if I could. Do you have Dali cell phone number? No. But I have a letter of, like, sometimes saying no is a beautiful thing if it comes from Dolly. And I asked her to be a part of this song that I just wrote. And she gracefully wrote me a no. But it was incredible because I got this note with the big Dolly thing at the top. And she just told me how much she loved the song.

And because my last name's Owen, it reminds her of someone in her life, the last name Owen. And maybe one day we could do a song together. But right now she said she felt a little overexposed. but I thought wow that's pretty cool I've asked many people to do things with me before and they've been like no you know what I mean but never has someone thanked me for asking them even though they couldn't do it

and I think that's a testament to why people love Dolly Parton that's pretty cool it's incredibly cool and it's a cool story to tell too and it makes us like Dolly even more if that's possible I mean that that's why when you heard that story about her saying no thanks to the statue that someone offered her she's like maybe at a different time but those are the kinds of people like when you ask

like who would you want that's why I want my kid to be around someone like that because they they learn from someone that's an actual real person and it's not like they're just babysitting because they're a star you know like I think dolly's more of a real person than she ever is a star you know you have nine number ones now do you know the next single you don't have to say it you can just say I mean I got some bangers coming up though because I'm not gonna lie let me ask you this put it this way I had like four or five of my artist buddies and this never really happens like heard a couple of these songs I've recorded lately and they all reached out to me and they're like damn you

And I was like, but are they songs that are already out or is your next song going to be something that isn't out yet? Something that is not out yet. Got it. What's the first note of that song? Play it for us. Just give us the first note. Okay. There it is.

Oh, we like that one. That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah, that is a good one. What about the third note? Oh, wow. Is that your next new song? I don't know.

It's really, it's pretty solid though. And when you hear the, I mean, here's the thing I talk to Joey about this a lot. my producer, I love all kinds of music. I think Made for You is probably like one of the closest songs for me that I've ever released. It was like really like poignant as far as lyrically. But like, man, I'm kind of my song, I've been good throughout my years and comfortable with like just having songs that make people feel good and sing along too and not try to overthink changing the world with my music.

And so I've strived this round to get back to like those kinds of songs that have been big for my career. And like yesterday too even like I've been growing this hair back out. Last time I was here was short, you know, and I walked by the mirror yesterday, Eric is like, your hair is getting long. I said, I know I'm back. Oh, my gosh. The old Jake is back.

He is back. We love it. Listen, we love you. Congratulations. You know, made for you is number one. Homemade. Killing it. You're just killing it again.

Thanks, man. You guys are crushing it all, y'all. Enough about us. This is about you. Your ninth number one. Can't wait for the new music. Thanks, man. Just a big fan.

Love when you come on the show. obviously. Appreciate that. Thank you guys for having me. It's always great to be here. There he is. I don't know. I don't know why he's got such a...

What is that? Smirk when you said that? He's like, oh. He's like, of course. I don't know if I should believe that. He's talking through the grit in his teeth. All right, Jayco and everybody. There he is.

Good to see you, bye. Thank you guys. It's the best bits of the week. Show! With Morgan number two. This week we had found out that our producer, Scuba Steve, swapped out the diamond.

and his ex-wife's wedding ring before they got divorced. Sneaky, sneaky. But lunch, I want to know how you feel about that. I think it's genius. Like, I mean, it may be one of the smartest plays you've ever heard. Like, you talk about great sports moments, the past, the hit, the shot heard around the world, the, you know, Montana to Clark, things like that. This is one of those moments that would go maybe on the Mount Rushmore's of stealth, slick,

smart moves in the world. how he thought of this? I don't know because I don't think I'd I'll admit it. I don't think I would ever thought of that. But he knew how to pull it off and he went and he got that cubic circoneum and he pulled off the ultimate move

and they never knew and he got $1,000 back. That is just, it's incredible. That is the sweetest type of revenge, the one type of revenge that the person won't realize until later down the road. That is awesome. You don't get to see their reaction, but you can anticipate and just imagine when they go into that ring shot trying to sell it and they get turned away.

Oh, that's just so good. Yeah, this segment definitely made me make sure that I never do anything bad to scuba Steve because I feel like his revenge would be so good on me that I don't want to experience it. And it wasn't, it's not even, it's not like he hurt anybody. He just did something tactically that was just really smart. Yeah, no, he did. That's what's crazy by it. It was so sneaky, so bland and so smart. Right.

And it was so like, and it was a, I mean, it's not a victimless crime because she probably got embarrassed when she tried to go. But I'm saying it didn't, you know, he didn't have to be there for the awkwardness. He could just like, he could be walking around like a week from then, two weeks, 10 years later and still smile about, dang, I got her good on that one. I know. That's the best type of revenge slash prank. Have you done anything like sneaky like this in your life that you.

you've never openly confessed to. No, I, no, I've never been in a situation where I needed to steal a ring back. No, not like a ring, but just like any type of situation where you were just kind of in something and you did something and people may not know that it was you. Not that I can think of. No. I feel like most of the time you really take ownership of all your things. I want people to know it and I like to brag.

So whenever I do something, you're going to know about it. It's not, I'm not going to be able to keep my mouth shut. There were people on Facebook who were like, for the most part, people were like, this is awesome. But there's some people saying that like in divorce, technically, like they could, she could get the money back for that ring. Yeah, she could, but she didn't because she didn't know about it. Do you feel like people when they get divorced should give back the ring? 100%. Absolutely.

Give the guy back the ring. He bought it for you. So give it back. You guys are splitting up. That means you should not want that ring anymore. you should give it back to him. He spent his money on that ring. Even though, like, technically it is a gift.

Okay. So we're going to go through and divide up every single gift. I mean, that's annoying. Like, so let's say he owns the house and you move in when you get married. And then you get divorced. Guess what? Guess who gets half the house? Yeah.

Exactly. I mean, don't you think he should just get the house? Okay, so what about like a car? What if, like, your husband or wife gifts you a car? Take it back. Take it back. Taking back all of them. Yes, take it back.

If someone gives you something and you break up, give it back. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm very single. So I have no idea. Well, it's sort of like, you know, in college when you would wear your guy's t-shirt and you break up, you got to give it back. Give back the t-shirt.

Oh, yeah, I burn some of them. See, that's what I'm saying. Like, you don't want the guy's t-shirt anymore. Why would you want the ring? Why would you want the car? Give it back. It just brings up bad memories. it's time to move on.

You don't want to have his scent on your body anymore. So give him back his little frat shirt, the TKE, the Kappa Sig, the Delta Sig, I mean, just give it back. You don't need it. Yeah, I do feel like if I were ever in that situation, which I hope I'm not.

But I feel like I would give back to rain. You don't think you'd just take it out back and burn it like you did the shirts? I mean, I hope not. Relationships different than a marriage, I feel like, you know, like being in a relationship,

but it's a different ballgame. But marriage, that's a whole other kind of commitment. It is. So I hope that I don't have a divorce. It's so bad I want to burn things. Well, here's the thing. I just hope I don't have a divorce at all.

Every divorce has to be bad, right? There's no good divorces. Yeah. They all hurt, right? Like, I feel like that's what it is. Some are just mutually like this just isn't working. Yeah, but there's always some bitterness and angry. I don't know anybody that's been like, oh, you know what?

It was the best divorce ever. Everything was so smooth. We were just like, oh, you get that plate. I get that plate. Oh, you get that cup. You get that cup. There has to be fights over everything. I don't know anything.

I don't, I mean, I just don't believe there's a good divorce. Well, yeah, I mean, divorce sucks. Everybody says, oh, I'm not, if I ever got divorced, it wouldn't be a bitter divorce. Yeah, right. You're divorcing me full. I'm going to make it hard on your. I was going to say something bad. Well, here's what I'm coming away from this as.

I hope I never get divorced. I would give back the ring. And that's all I got. All right. Regardless. So whoever my future husband is, you don't have to swap off the diamond. You can happen. Okay.

All right. Oh, well, here's Kim was to you admitting what happened. And honestly, it was a highlight of the week. Everybody was so shocked in the studio. All of you listeners had so much to say about it. So listen to this. It's great. Number three.

Tiffany's is launching engagement rings for men. Oh, okay. So how were you on this, maybe? Because I already wanted to wear my ring. I worked around my neck already sometimes. Uh-huh. But, okay. So it's your wedding band.

It's not an engagement band. So you would get two? Yeah. Okay. It's an engagement ring for a guy. dudes, how come we have... Here's the thing that I've learned now that I'm engaged and getting married later this summer.

You guys get two rings. Yes. You get a big fancy one to go, look at me, I'm about to get married, and you get another one to go, look at me, I'm married. Exactly. We only get that secondary cheap one that's like, I'm married. Yeah. There's no, like, I'm excited to be engaged.

You know what Tiffany's is trying to do here? Yeah, sell more rings. Exactly. They're trying to make more money. That's what the greeting card stores do with Valentine's Day, flower shops. This is capitalism. That is best, but let's go.

So does this open the door for women proposing to men? I think it may be down the line. Why not? Why not? Yeah. I mean, but women could already do that. They didn't have a ring. They never had a ring.

Most women I know, they've always come to me in private, I'm like, if I could just get a ring, I'd propose. The selection of rings are called Charles Lewis Tiffany, named after the founder. They come in titanium or platinum. The company says the rings honor the jeweler's longstanding legacy and love and inclusivity, paving the way. for new traditions. A guy engagement ring.

I'm into it. So you still have time. You could get one and wear it. Well, I already wear mine around my neck a little bit, but it didn't fall off the other day. Uh-oh. And I thought I lost it for a second. See? So I put it back in the box on the counter, and it's just going to stay there safely for a little bit.

I was reading this story, too. One in 17 men say they've been proposed and turned down. Like, that's about the rate. Yeah. One in 17. So you have good odds. And then 72% of guys, when they did get down to propose, say they got down on a knee. I'm surprised that it's only three quarters.

Yeah. Oh, wait, you would think more people would not? Would get down on a knee. Oh, yeah, okay. I would think 95% of guys. Yeah. Especially, because this is all America. Our tradition is the guy gets down on a knee.

But then in the room, you have lunchbox who didn't get down on one knee. Well, let's figure it out, though. Ramundo, do you get down on a knee? Yes. Where did you propose? At the baseball stadium, but there was ice. So I got my pant leg all wet, but I said it's tradition. It's symbolic.

I've got to get on the knee, even though my leg's going to be all wet. Ed, did you get down a knee? Absolutely, no doubt. I had to. Like, what did you do? Oh, it was my wife's old apartment where we met. She was living there when we met, so we went back to that spot and hung out and then got down one knee.

Oh, that's cool. You went back and remember the good old days? Yeah, the good old days. Right here, we used to sit here and talk. Mike, do you got on the knee? I saw the picture. Yeah. Like at a park.

We're on a trail. Yeah. Scoop and Steve, executive producer, we get down on a knee? Oh, yeah, most definitely. Yeah. I did. Yeah. Kind of retrimmed up the old barn.

Put a bunch of flowers and candles in there. down on the knee. Lunchbox, you did not because you proposed on the phone. Well, yeah, she brought it up. My brother was getting married and we were talking about the wedding and she was like, I think we should get married and I said, are you serious? And she said, yes. And I said, okay. And then so

her mom and her sister went with her and they picked out a ring at the store and then when I was there, I went and bought it. And then I gave it to her in the store. It was great. And see, that's less than 20% even just this room. Oh, wow. 16% or so, whatever that number is. But yeah, Did anyone ever think their person might say no?

Because I didn't feel like Caitlin would say no. It's like everybody was confident that their girl was saying yes. Ray, you were confident? Yes. She told me she's going to kill me the month before. Eddie, didn't you get an ultimatum? Yes, it was like pooper get off the pot. Well, y'all had been going out for six or seven years.

Both of you guys, Ray, you were with Bay for how long? Six years Slater was our wedding hashtag. Eddie, you were with your six years? And both of them said, hey, marry me, or we got to move on? Good for them for setting that boundary. Six years that you go back and think about it. There's a long time. We should have done a little sooner.

No one ever asked somebody else and got turned down. Like, I didn't, obviously. Scooba is the only one that I can see that happening to because we don't know his whole background. Me getting turned down? Well, you're like a mystery man to us. My first wife, I don't remember the proposal. But the second one, I knew for sure we were going to get a yes.

The second one, excuse me, the first wife, you don't remember proposing? I don't know. I got blacked out. Come on. Scuba, come on. on you don't remember. I don't remember the moment. No, it could have been a drunken night kind of thing almost like a Britney Spears, married 24 hours

kind of thing. I don't remember the proposal. Are you serious? Did you get a ring? Yeah, did you get a ring? Yeah, she had a ring. Yeah, she had a ring, yeah. Did you get it or she got it? I got the ring. There's a lot of stammering here. We're not believing everything we're here in scuba, Steve. She got a ring.

Yeah, she got a ring. I guess the part of them holding off is when we were about to get divorced. I took the diamond out of the ring and sold the diamond and put a Cubist Cerconian in. That's what I was kind of fun boy. Wait, does she know that? If she's listening now, she knows for the first time.

Or unless she tried to pawn it after the marriage. Hold on a minute. Breaking news. Oh, my goodness. It's always something with the most interesting man in radio. That is crazy. You were selling the ring, so you took the diamond out. Yeah, I knew that this was coming.

So one of her nights when she was passed out. Oh, gosh. And she didn't wear the ring very often anyway, so it was easy to obtain it and take it somewhere and remove the diamond and put it and replaced it with the Cuban-Sikonian. And, you know, a few weeks later, we got a divorce. What did you sell the diamond for?

It was close to a little over $1,000. And then, so she thinks, so either she still has a ring that she thinks is worth something. Yeah, or she sold it or tried to sell and they told her, hey, this is not real. So she maybe thinks it was fake all along? Probably, yeah. And are you okay with that? I don't care, yeah. That's fine with me.

Wow. Boom, that's a good move. That's a solid move. Guys, take notes. Dang. Got to play around, dude. Are you worried about revealing that here? No, I could care less. That was, I mean, almost 10 years ago, so.

Do you know where she is? No idea. Okay. What about that guy friend that you tried to have, and he left you too? Oh, so I found his email. You did? I was digging through my emails. It was somewhere buried in like a clutter box.

So it turns out it was my fault. And he had hit me back and was all excited to hang out, which I was excited to hang out, but it was in a clutter box. And it was my fault for not returning the email back to him. Bones, you have to explain that story for people that just picked up on it. The guy that he was right here. Scuba tried to meet a new friend in San Francisco when he lived out there. And the guy was like, oh, and he was all nervous. Scooby was like getting dressed, putting on a clone.

And they hung out and they hit it off. And then Scoop was like, I want to hang out again because you have any friends. And the guy wouldn't hit him back. Ghosted him. And then Scoobo was like, I guess we just didn't work out as friends. But he did hit you back. He did, yeah. Dang.

All right. Well, Scoob, we always love having you on the show. Thank you. I appreciate you having me. He saw the diamond. That's legit. That's great. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

Another one coming from our post show this week. Lunchbox, you reacted to my viral video. Oh, man. We're really going to bring this back up. I mean, I feel like we have to, which is something that the listeners need to hear. Okay, look, I understand that you went viral. Great for you.

Congratulations. It's just so frustrating that we do these dances, We do all this stuff and nothing pops off. Nothing goes viral. And then all you do is do a little climb up into your Jeep. And it gets millions upon millions upon millions of views. I've done so much for this show. And we do these videos and nothing goes viral.

Like come on. Like how does climbing into a Jeep window go viral? And nothing I do. It's just, it's infuriating. It's sort of like the lottery. Like I don't get it. Like I try. the lottery so many times and so many different

strategies and buy it at this gas station, this gas station, this town, go to a small town, go to a big town, never win. And then you hear these people, I played the lottery for the first time. I won $10 million. And it's like, why? Can it not be me? Well, do you want to know, like, the recent update of how many views are on these? I mean, I can tell by your face. It's a lot. So go ahead and tell me. I'm pulling this up. The one that's on my page,

are you ready? The one that's on my page has. Oh, hold on, why can't I see it? Oh, dang, they took it down for copyright infringement. That's too bad. Oh, what if I reported it? What if I reported it to Facebook and got you taken down? Why would you do that? Because that would be awesome.

But why can't, I don't know why it won't let me see the views later. Sorry about that. So maybe you've been making it up this whole time. I've not been making it up this whole time. Ah, yeah. That would be great. That's a good idea. I'm going to email Zuckerberg.

Don't do that. Hey, Zuckerberg. That's the ultimate jealousy form. Well, yeah. No. That is exactly what I am. I am super jealous. Oh, here we go.

And so I want to... Okay. I got it. Please don't get it taken down. 2.9 million on mine. Great. That makes me feel good about life. 2.9 million, yeah.

But I think the Jeep life one is really shot out. Like it's really gone more? The Jeep life one? The last that I had checked. I have to do it on here. I keep having to do it on my phone. Apparently you can't see views on. your computer.

Don't ask me why. Don't ask me why because I've never had a video that I need to look at the views because no one gives a crap. It has 15 million views. Golly! So basically like 19 million, 18 million, 19 million? Yeah, I got it. No, I can do the math. I got it.

That's a lot of millions. That's a lot of millions that I do not have. Well, to be fair, whenever we do post our like stuff that we do together, I posted on everything. I kind of thought our egg marshal. Smellow one was going to blow up. I'm surprised that one, didn't. I can't believe. Well, that's what I'm saying. None of them. I can't, I don't understand why none of my stuff goes viral. Is it just, is it me? Am I the X factor? It doesn't? I mean, I think some people would argue that it's

because I'm a girl and I'm semi attractive, maybe. Oh, that's why. But I feel like with the Jeep video, it's not, you're not looking at my face. I'm not doing anything like, ha, I'm just going into a Jeep. I think it has more to do with the Jeep. What does it feel like to know that all all these people are watching you. It feels kind of weird. Like 19 million people are just watching you over and over and over again. Well, I feel like that's crazy. I mean, like that,

you know that's hit like across the world, right? Because Facebook is global. It's everywhere. That's what's crazy to me more than like all of the people. So you like people like dudes are sitting in their office and they're watching that video. Now you have to paint that picture. I didn't need to paint that picture in my head. I mean, yeah.

But it's so cool because you went viral. That's what's so cool. I want to go viral. People, I don't care. What if I just lick a lollipop? Will it please make it go viral? Something. What do I need to do?

Tell me. We got to make something happen to you. Either I have to do something really cool or you have to have a hilarious fail. I feel like those are the two things that go viral. Yeah, but the fails. I laugh at all the fails. No, no. But who is rolling during those fails?

How do they know that are they just happen to be filming something and something bad happened? Well, I mean, you know, during the sore losers podcast this week, we talked about the fact that cameras, front door cameras always capture stuff. So you need to get one of those. I'm just saying. Yeah. We did talk about that. You're right.

You're right. Well, this will be the last time I bring it up unless something else crazy happens. Well, congratulations. I mean, Jeep put you in a commercial probably next. Would you be really mad? Oh, I'll be really mad. I'll quit my job. Oh, man.

Okay, well, listen to the segment. This was Lunchbox first reacting to it, and he was pretty angry. been done the post show, so you might not have heard it this week during the big show. Number two. Morgan had done a TikTok where she like flipped up into her Jeep. Like a handstand. Like a handstand feet into the window and then she pulled herself into it. Yes.

And you posted it and it did okay. Yeah. It did fine. Well, yeah, I posted it on my Facebook page and it has like three million views on my Facebook page. Well, what I'm saying is it got put over into the Jeep page and that's where it took off. Yes, which has like 10 million views. on that one. Yeah.

So, viral on their page. She has a video that's kind of has gone viral for it. How many views? Millions? 10 million.

That's amazing. What? Exactly. That is crazy. Oh my gosh. Lunch Fox are you for me? But that's the story is that he's been pissed about it.

I mean, I saw it over the weekend and I just kept checking back. Okay, now it's at this many. This is so ridiculous. Like, we try so many things to go viral. I, you know, I've been thinking about this for years. And all she does was crawl up in her Jeep and she gets like 13, 14, 14 million

views. Oh! She didn't just crawl up in her Jeep. She did a handstand and then pulled herself up. It was super cute. And Jeep people are, like a lot of people have Jeeps. So then a lot of people were wanting to try it and reenact it, right? Yes.

It was like the Jeep fan. Like it was getting shared on all of the Jeep pages, which I didn't even realize there was that many Jeep pages in the country. So Lunchbox, get a Jeep. Just find. You should try it. Try to do handstand. Do it in your Ultima. Oh, either the Ultima?

Are there alone an ultimate page? Maybe Nissan will pick it up. So annoying. And she's walking in this morning. I'm just like, oh, my gosh. You probably think you're so cool because you got millions of views. Do you make any money off that? No, I don't.

It just went viral. And people were tagging me in it. And like, the listeners were like, hey, that's my friend. I'm like, yeah, it was. You know, it was the friend of the Bobby Buncho that went viral. That's cool. So disgusting. Why is it disgusting?

Or you should be like, wow, that's so cool. No, because I want to be the one. that goes viral. This is something to go viral. It's not her fault. Okay, but just because you won it, you can't be happy for

somebody else? No, he can't do that. You know that. No, it's like if you won the lottery, I'd be ticked. I mean, it's like if you Googled Bobby Few Dancers.

He just got a bonus pick with everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. A super cool thing happened on the show this week. Bobby had met an artist out at a restaurant.

We call them on the show, and then we ended up bringing him on to perform. All of the events that unfolded were just so crazy, and you guys were loving it online. It was a new artist. He sounded awesome. He did a Michael Jackson cover, and then he performed an original song. Everything about it was just really cool from start to finish. So this is when he finally came on the show, Canon Cox, and performed for us. We got to hang out with him, meet him, and learn all about him.

So highly encourage you to listen to this back again, and then go watch his performance. performance on bobby bones.com. Number one. All right, let me do a little reset on what happened. Caitlin and I were looking for some food. We're like, let's go. She goes, there's a place called Del Frisco's. I didn't even know what that was.

Am I just dumb? No, no, no. Because I mentioned that people were like, how do you not know what Del Friscoes is? It's like, I don't. So we go in and we were not dressed properly. Because it's pretty fancy, Cana? Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, yeah. I was like what? Mix. So we go in and we sit down and having a nice dinner. and just goes, hey man, big fan, and leaves a coaster with his Instagram name on it and his cell phone number. He continued eating, put it in my pocket, checked it out online. I said, okay, he's real. But what I checked was to see if he was actually a fan or if he followed me on Instagram,

because if he didn't, this wouldn't be happening. It becomes up and says, hey, I'm not a fan, and here's my, and that'd be like, okay, well, there you go. There you go. He's being honest. So we called him yesterday on the phone. How'd that feel this morning? Yeah, yesterday morning. Pretty, yeah, incredible.

Yeah, I expect that. And about the Instagram, I literally unfollowed you after I gave you the coaster and followed you again just so it would be closer in your timeline, like in your feed just in case you would actually go back and look like, oh, that's that kid right there. Interesting, interesting. But yeah, nervous and crazy right now. Canaan Cox is his name. You can follow him on Instagram. And so we go into the restaurant, we eat, we reach out, you're here. You woke up this morning.

Where were your nerves, scale 1 to 10? Like 13. Nice. I love that because it means something to them. That's what we love to hear. I wait a call her a minute ago that said she saw you on a cruise ship in like 2014. Those are the OG fans, man. The OG fans there. Tell me about playing on cruise ships.

What was that like? It was pretty much the most perfect way to do anything ever. In like your 20s, we spent a year of my life in the Mediterranean. You just wake up and this was all you did for four hours. And you wake up, oh, today I'm in Spain. Oh, tomorrow we're in Greece. And so it was a pretty great way to save some money. That's amazing.

How do you get that? job? Just auditioning. At the time, I dated a girl who was doing like the bigger shows. And so she did some like connections for me. And you sit down and you film yourself singing some songs on a couch and send it in. Just like an agent. And so with that, I guess you don't have to pay rent because you're working on the boat. Yeah, no rent. Crew bars, like 60 cent beers. It's a yeah. So it's a good way to save lots of money. What about food? Do they feed you? Yeah, they feed you. I mean, the crew mess is, you know, not necessarily the greatest food in the world. But being, Being a performer, you kind of got a little more benefits.

You got to go to some of the guest areas and eat and do that kind of stuff. So you're traveling the world in your 20s. You're playing music. Your room is paid for. Basically, your food is paid for. You're seeing places you probably never thought you'd say. Where'd you grow up? I grew up in Asheville, North Carolina.

Okay. Mediterranean's fine. Northern Mediterranean is. Yeah. I don't know how to get there from here. Yeah. That's pretty cool, huh? It is pretty cool.

And you spent how long out there? I did it for three years, so contractually, like on and off, you know, six months here, take off a couple. Did you have so much money saved up when you got off the boat? Yeah, it was great. And then you blow it on on new music and music videos and all of that. I was looking at your Instagram. You make your own music videos?

Yeah, degrees in musical theater, so I have a very big passion for behind the camera work as well, directing and editing and stuff as well. So it's also like a side hustle done, you know, picked up some edits and directing on other people's projects. You know what I admire about Canaan is that sometimes you have to side hustle and side hustle and just to get your art to exist. And they're good that sometimes your stock is up. Sometimes your stock is down. But when it's down, you've got to do other things to make it just so you can have that shot to get that stock back up.

And so how long you've been working at Del Frisco's down there? Well, I actually worked there when I first moved here, worked there for a year. And then the GM just become fans. I told them in the interview, I was like, hey, just so you know music's what I want to do. So if I just piece out of here soon, like I'm not here to be your manager. So music became full-time until obviously COVID.

And then I messaged the GM again. She was still there. And I was like, hey, I am not obviously playing a lot. If you want me to pick up, I can do that for you. So, I mean, I've been back there since around October of last year. What's the biggest tip you ever got? I mean, people spend a lot of money, Del Fresco. So I think it was like 150.

Wow. $150. But, I mean, the bill was, that was a 20% tip on that. Oh, it wasn't someone good. It wasn't somebody going above and beyond. Oh, you were a great, you know, great server here. Now I was just like, oh, yeah, we just dropped 800 bucks. Dang.

So what's the most expensive bottle of wine you've seen bought? Like, what's the most expensive? Because the place just looked fancy. It is fancy. I mean, I enjoy it. I've learned a little bit about wine. I've learned that I love Merlot now from that. There's a couple that I enjoy.

I guess the cuva. The cuvei, I can never say it right. We wouldn't know if you did say it wrong. We'd be like, uh, yeah. Guanté from France. How much does that cost? Yeah, it's in like two. $200?

Wow. When you ever upsell and be like, listen, the Kuvaasel of Lae. Yeah, oh, yeah. The one from Napa Valley is way better or not. I can upsell a steak. That's about it. I always lie and say the chef's feature is a filet-aw-style. Now we know.

What, okay. I mean, you know, yeah, that's it. It's like, we never have a chef's feature, so I'm just like, the chef's feature today is the filet. That's funny. Just added $24 to your bill. Hey, you guys, listen, as someone who waited to him, a lot in his life, you gotta do what you gotta do. Yeah. For sure. You're hustling that

price up so that tip goes up. I know. Well, Kainan, you have just been the victim of me loosening you up. Thank you. And taking your nerves down, because we were doing a little sound check during commercial, he's like, oh boy. I'm just going to sit with them for a second. Talk a little bit. Is anyone else sweating? How long have you been pursuing a career in music

at this point? I mean professionally, so about four or five years now, moving, you know, but I've always known that I've wanted to do it with the cruise ships and degree in theater and stuff like that. performing has always been the dream, the goal. And the goal for you is to be a big country star? Yeah. Yeah. Like. Entertain you.

Eyes wide. Let's play massive shows at arenas. Like, that's the ultimate goal, right? I text my drummer this morning. I said, put Madison Square Garden in your books in like three years. Put it on that's pushing it, but we'll see. You know what I do? I put my goals on my phone lock screen. If I have one, and then I always see it. And I'm always, and it doesn't slip. And I never kind of lose focus. It's like, I'm reminded again. So there's no what, listen, you do it right. you can be a Madden's Square Garden in three years. So, well, that being said, I never ever ever to play.

All right, so. You might take that back. Let's see how it is. But I'm, with the musical theater background, did you do plays? Yeah, I mean, that was the whole BFA. I have a bachelor's of fine arts, so dance, I can tap, jazz, modern. Are you kidding me? You're like the Jennifer Lopez.

He boots on this carpet, no thanks. Okay. What did you do? What's a play you did? Where you had to sing. Pick one. Did you Oklahoma? Did Oklahoma?

I was Will Parker in Oklahoma. It was Conrad Birdie and Bye By Birdie. Will Parker is, is he, oh, what a beautiful? No, he's the funny, he's the funny force character. That was, I literally was so upset because I wanted to be curly. Curly, that's it. Curly. And then my teacher was like, Canaan, we wanted to give you curly, but Michael, the only

other guy in high school who could sing, he's like, he's just not funny. And so, classic. Will Parker has to be funny. What about Greece? Do you ever do Greece? No, I've had some offers from, like, little side theaters like out in Florida and stuff like that to do. I was supposed to be the guy

who moons everyone. I was like, I was that guy in the real life though. Age like 9 through 14, it was my thing. All right, Kainan, we're ready to hear you play here. Let's do, Amy, what do you want first? Do you want him to do a verse and a course of a cover to warm us up or do you want him to go right for his stuff? Let's warm us up with the cover.

Okay, well, give us a verse and a chorus of a cover, what is it? You want to know or do you want me sing it? Well, man, I'd like to know. Because if it's so bad and I can't figure it out, we're in front of it. Oh, man. It's the way you make me feel by Michael Jackson. All right, here we go. Oh, wow.

Cana Cox, everybody. I'm pretty, baby, we're at high hills on. You give me a fever like I'm never, ever known. You're just a product of loveliness. Like the groove in your walk, your tongue address. I feel your fever from miles around. I pique you bump in. My car room won't paint this down.

Just kissing me, baby, and tell me twice The other one for me, the way you make me feel You really turn me up You knock me off of my feet now, baby, My lonely days are gone Give it to me, give me some time, I said, come, I'll be my girl made me feel

Nice, Katie You can tell he is a trained vocalist because he's right up on that mic He was like Boom I don't even have any monitors So I don't even know why I'm doing it

Are you complaining? No, no No I'm kidding I'm getting up in my mix guys No All right Kaden Let's hear

What is this song That you're gonna sing Is this a song that you wrote? Yeah, I co-wrote this Nick Fabian and Dee Briggs And it's called Out of Nowhere Okay Is it good or no

honest. I mean, yeah, I think it was right on the precipice of me, like, figuring out who I was as an artist. I don't know, as cliche as that sounds. All right. Yeah, so. It's actually my first co-write, so. Being staying one step ahead of my shadow, sticking to the shallow and been here before I shut the door, but now when's open up again, out of nowhere here are, punching holes in the walls of my out of nowhere Because I don't want to I just want to let you drive me crazy

Take me for a spin Turn it up a tent To the max I don't want to go back there Baby I surrender I can't resist Didn't see you coming But I'm glad you did

Like a midnight star Falling out of the air Night Star falling out of the air Out of nowhere Come on. Great job, Canaan. Thank you so much, guys. That's so good.

All right, let's go over to Luke Brian. Luke Brian, Katie Perry. Lionel, what do you think? Who am I, Katie? It doesn't matter. You can be in here, though. Okay, well, Katie, and I thought that you were awesome. I feel like, I don't know.

I've heard that's better than some songs I've heard on three on the top of the chart. She means it's better than some songs she's heard that are big a hit. Yes. Yeah, no. Sure. Like I think that you have... And was a better performance to some of the people who sing their songs. A hundred percent. So I think there's so much potential. Like I think I already liked you coming into it because I see your passion and then I see how hard you're working.

And we like to root for someone that's really working hard and is kind of the underdog. So, yeah, I'm here for it. Thank you. Yeah, me too. You're good. Thank you, you know. You're really good. And we kind of threw you in the, you know, in the old boiling pot.

It's like, hey, come on. Listen, big opportunity, but also, you know, that's nerve-wracking. A little bit. And you came up by yourself, which, again. And he was early. And he was early. Like, everything I think is great. Dude, it's fantastic, fantastic performance.

For our listeners that are on now, or you can follow them at Canaan Cox, C-A-N-A-N-A-N, with the two-A-S, Kain-N-N-C-N-Cox. And go follow them up. We did it a bit yesterday. You had 24,000. Now you've got almost 27,000 followers and growing. Let's go. Thank you, my man. Yeah, Cox is C-O-X.

Yeah, C-O-A. Let's make sure. I just clarify. Well, I don't know. People. Nope, that's how they would spell it. I'm positive of it. Nope, nope, I'm positive of it.

Hey, some people might not. Plan shows in Evansville, Indiana, Fairfield, Illinois, Piori, Illinois, and Sarah Gordo, Illinois, Greenville, South Carolina, Fort Wayne, Indiana, all May and June. So go see them. I hope that somebody heard this, and I was like, man, we should give that guy a shot. You definitely have the voice. She definitely had the look. You're a nice guy. Thanks, ma'am.

I was worried because you're like really good looking, and I was like, he might be a DB. But you weren't. I have fat boy syndrome, man. I used to be fat, so. He said he lost 70 pounds. Yeah, so. Look at you. There you go.

All right. Canaan Cox, great job. Thank you guys. Let me put on Jennifer and North Carolina who you won't be able to hear her, but she wants to say something. Okay. Hi, Jennifer in North Carolina. You're on with us and Canaan Cox. Hi.

Good morning, everybody. Morning. Morning. I had to call. I have a first time caller, but Canaan, if nobody signed you, you, they're insane. She said if nobody signed you, they're insane. Okay. Thank you, Jennifer.

Hometown NC represent. Oh, true. Shouldn't have said that because now I'm like, oh, it's probably somebody you know. Oh, no. I don't know. With that accent, definitely. Go ahead, Jennifer. And I'm a first-time caller. Thank you. You just, you blew me out of the water.

And Bobby, you're amazing for what you do every single day. My children love you. I have two boys, and I swear you're the calming voice on the rides home and the rides to school every day. I mean, I turn you on and they immediately stop. Thank you very much.

You're going to do great things for this friend man. And he's just a star already. All right. I don't know what you look like, but your voice is... I'm going to tell him. Oh, yeah, let's tell her. Your hair's kind of red. He kind of looks like...

Strawberry blonde. If... And don't take offense to this. You're fine. If like... If like Opie was a UFC fighter but had a chiseled jaw to, too. I see that. Like, he's like all-American kid, but like a little too good-looking to make you comfortable.

Like, he's probably going to steal your girl if he's around her a little bit. But then he's actually nice and you end up being his friend after he steals her girl. So like a good-looking Ron Howard is what you're saying. Yeah, much younger. Yeah, much younger. Yeah, I was going to say, like, today you're on Howard. No, like with hair. Yeah, he has a lot of hair.

Oh, that's right. Oh, really good. Or Prince. Andy Dolton or Prince. Oh, yeah. Oh, Prince Harry. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I get those. Andy Dalton is. I'm just waiting for Chris. You don't like Opie? You were way off with Opie. Who's Andy, whatever? Quarterback for the Bears now. He's a quarterback for the Bengals.

Oh, okay. And the Calwood. TCU. Super red hair. I think I know who that is now. But then, yes, Prince Harry. We have spent too much time here. I'm sorry.

No, it's not your fault. Yeah, you got to go. Canaan, you don't got to go home, but you got to get out of here. Great job. Canaan Cox, wonderful. Eddie, anything you want to say to this guy as a superstar musician. Yeah, Kaden. You have a great voice, man.

Really, really good. And your story's inspiring. I can tell how hard you've. work to get here at this moment. So I love it. I'm all in, dude. You're so good. Keep it up. Thank you for my love. All right. There he is. Cana Cox. Somebody call you today. Sign up to a deal. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

That's a wrap for this week's show. Thank you guys for hanging out with me. It was super fun. Lunchbox. Thanks for hanging out with me again. I'm sorry. I had to bring up another touchy subject. Oh, that's okay. I mean, the parking ticket's not that sub- No, no, no, no, no. The viral. I went viral. Oh, yeah. That's okay. I'm okay with it. I'm going to be happy for you. I'm going to try to smile through this and just fake it until I make it because I'm not really that excited for you. But it's cool. I'm going to go viral. One of these days, I will go viral. That's my life goal. I mean, if I can't get on Survivor, real world, I'm already too old for that. They don't even do real world anymore. I'm not going to be on the challenge. So I've got to go viral somehow. It's going to happen. It's just one of these days, it's going to happen. And we know it's going to happen. And so that's what I can say. Okay, we'll make sure to do some more videos, okay? We'll keep trying.

Yeah, we'll keep trying. We'll keep trying. And I hope all you mothers out there, have a great mother's day. If you want to hit me on Cameo and send your mother a great, great message, let me know. I'm on Cameo Lunchbox. He's also Radio Lunchbox on all of his social media. I'm at Webgirl Morgan if you want to follow either of us and tag along to all the crazy adventures we do. But also make sure you follow the show at Bobby Bone Show, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,

and head over to bobby bones.com for all the videos from this week. Thank you guys so much again. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Always a blast. Always a blast. Always a blast from the past hanging out with Morgan number two. As Lunchbox said, happy Mother's Day.

Shout out to my own mom. Lunchbox's mom. Oh yeah. Shout out mom. Hatbox. I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day. You'll never hear this in your life because you don't know how to download a podcast. Well, my mama's listening.

So shout out Jeanette. Happy Mother's Day. Shout out Jeanette. There we go. Congrats on making wonderful. daughters. Bye y'all. Come on.

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