The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits Of The Year

Episode Date: December 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, Morgan shares the top 7 segments from the Bobby Bones Show in 2023. These segments were chosen based on listener engagement and virality that happened from January until now. Some involved special guests, while others were big life moments for the show members.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Part two. Just the bits. Happy New Year! Yeah, that feels weird to say, guys. I cannot believe we are about to enter. into 2024. This year has flown, flown, flown by.

And I don't know if you guys are feeling that or you're like, dang, it's creeping. I'm ready for the new year. However you feel, I hope you're getting to celebrate in the way that you would like to this weekend. We are sharing this week the best bits of the year. So best bits of 2023. Now, we've had some incredible moments. I mean, talk about some honorable mentions. Eddie and Abby going skydiving with the Army Golden Knights.

Amy getting ear surgery in the studio, there was a lot of wild moments. But these ones that I'm bringing up here, I pulled from our website, our social media, all of the digital things and found the biggest numbers for these stories. These are the biggest social engagement bits for us in the past year. And that's why they made the top seven. So we're about to find out together what were the best bits of Bobby Bone Show, 2023. The Bachelor-Bachelorette fans showed out in full fashion for this one. We had Jordan Rogers on for the first time. He talked all about his time on The Bachelorette and obviously doing sports thing, everything he's doing now.

It was a really cool interview and you guys loved it. Particularly loved him talking about his time on The Bachelorette. So that's why it's coming in at this number seven spot. It happened in July of this year. So here's the interview with Jordan Rogers. Number seven. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know.

His name is Jordan Rogers. First of all, he won the Bachelorette way back in the day, 2016. And they're still together. They were married. Look at this. Congratulations. I mean, everybody knows. Secondly, he has a show called The Big D.

It airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on USA Network. It streams the next day on Peacock. And so it's a committed relationship show. He also was a quarterback of Vanderbilt. He was real good. He signed a contract to play with the Jags, the Bucks, the Dolphins, NFL. Well, there's a lot here. Let's talk to him now.

Here he is, Jordan Rogers. On the Bobby Bones show now. Jordan Rodgers. Jordan, do you sing at all? Oh, that's a... Like, do you sing well? No, I don't. I sing passionately.

I like that. Like church would say, make a joyful noise. You do that. But you don't sing well. I can sing, like, a good soundtrack, really... Like, you give me a Latin soundtrack. I'll nail it. But not, you never wanted to be a country singer or any kind of singer at all.

No. I asked that because he's an athlete, he's good-looking, he's talented, these talent. All those guys end up coming over here. Oh, yeah. Like sand. We get chased. They're all like super star. That is true. I didn't get that. And I thought maybe Jordan's going to come in and announce his country music career today. No, look, I wanted to play drums in high school. So I got a drum set and I sucked. Never did it. No music at all.

Well, you know, I was a, I found my way in as a extra in an a cappella group and pitch perfect two. I saw that. So technically, if you want to say, I have sung on a number one soundtrack on iTunes. I like to throw that one in there. He's got number one record. Here he is. There he is. There he is. Thank you.

I want to talk about your show, the big D, because very interesting because you're taking divorce couples and putting them together. And then it's like divorce couples, but also Temptation Island at the same time because they can also get with other people too.

It's all the islands of reality TV mixed together. How did they come to you about this show? So we got pitched the idea in our first reaction, me and Jojo, because at the time when we filmed, we were still engaged, about to get married, we're like, we're not divorced. We've never been divorced. We're about to get married. Are you sure we're the right ones? And as we kind of dove into their plan for the show, because we've done a few reality shows, I actually was really attracted to the craziness of it. We're reality TV show junkies. We love them all. So the train wreck of what you would expect when you move in a bunch of divorced couples into a villa. But we have a relationship coach there. And really the focus is kind of on closing a chapter, a chapter, five.

finding healing, dating again, getting to a place where you can have a healthy relationship with your ex or a place where you're like, wait, maybe we ended this a little too soon. So we're the ones that are like, hey, this is a crazy TV show, but we fell in love on TV. I know it's weird, but it can work. So that was kind of how it happened. We're like, yeah, we'll do it. And it's really, it was a really, really fun show. It's starting to get really good now. We're about halfway through the season. It's on Peacock. Obviously, streaming if you need to catch up. It's on USA Network every Wednesday night, but it's wild. Wednesday nights at 9, so it was on last night, but you can also stream it on Peacock today. Amy's recently divorced. Any chance season two? Like, why was I sitting here

thinking like, oh, I'm about to get called out for this? Does that sound like the worst thing? Like, in your mind when you heard there's like, I would never do that. No, I mean, I instantly went to, okay, wow, what if some of these couples don't have access to a therapist or a coach and signing up for something like this. Are you the therapist on the day? No, but I will say a couple times I kind of had to be. Right. I'm not licensed. Like a Hail Mary for them and they have tools and resources, but of course drama as well. But season two for me, no. You're going to say no on that? Well, no, because you have to be almost divorced, right? Or you're totally divorced? Totally divorced. No, legally divorced. Yes. But you, but you're right. Like, the interesting part was seeing some of these couples and we did the whole like,

they walked up on the beach to meet each other the first time, right? Do they know that they're going to see their divorced person? I think so. Yeah, I think they knew that they were doing the show. We get into it. We add divorce couples because we bring singles in. They didn't know their ex was maybe going to come in. So the first group knew. The second group did not know that their ex was going to show up. But what I love is a couple of the singles divorces showed up. And they were like, I want nothing to do with you. We're good. But like, I'm single. I'm ready to date. And then you start to see that a little bickering. And they realize that way, wait, like, why did we divorce? Like that wasn't. that big of a deal. We just didn't know how to talk through this issue or one of the couples, one of my favorites, Devin and Alexa, were divorced for years and their mom was really heavily involved, probably too involved in their relationship. And they start to talk that through and realize, we weren't really the issue. It was kind of the outside noise that got to our relationship. And they're starting to figure out maybe it's not over yet. So you're saying that there's a chance that some people get back together. You're a chance. There's a chance. Yeah. Wow. And they've been

divorced for years. Years. Did some of them have kids? Yes. Wow. Amy. That's cool. You get some of your stuff back. Yeah. Half of it. Yeah. The other half. Okay.

Yeah. I did lose half. So, you know, it makes me think, too, like, as a kid, I come from a divorced home. What if your parents went on this show? Well, yes. That would be weird, right? If you're, like, 14 and your parents are... Right.

Like, I would be mortified with the same time. Like, that's all we ever wanted. Like, me and my sister, when we were little, you would just be like, oh, my God, it's so cool. It's, like, mom and dad got back together. and like how cool if this helps someone make that happen. No doubt. And I'm just, you know, maybe a little teaser, but it's happening right now. If you're looking into watching, tune in because there is love brewing with a rekindled relationship.

You know what else is next to me thinking of people watching. And so if they're watching couples on TV be able to come back together and work, like they may not even have to go on this show to have that happen. It may make them be like, maybe I should like maybe we could book a counseling session or let's go to therapy. Or like maybe we need to revisit this. Yeah, you're acting like people watching USA reality TV is going to make a really wise decision about counseling. Well, okay.

Or calling there. Or it makes them think like, maybe. I like it. We fought over some things silly like that. I do that? Me and Jojo sit and watch reality TV and we're like, oh, yeah.

But do you ever go, we should really get with a therapist after you're watching. I say that, but in a, I mean, listen. I mean, it might, I'm just saying it might rekindle other people. I like it. It's positive attitude. And they don't have to go on the show. Amen.

I think most of the time we sit there and go, yeah, we're not that bad. Exactly. That's why you watch it to go like, I'll never do that. Or I'd be so much better at that than them. Like that's why we watch reality TV. Totally. So by the way, everybody, it's Wednesdays at 9 Central on USA Network.

Streams on Peacock. The episode from last night is up today. Let me ask about this because you went to Costa Rica and I just want to compare it because I'm about to be really irritated. I did a show for USA. We went to Costa Rica. We lived there for six weeks. And it was in the middle of COVID.

We lived in a terrible hotel. We had to live with all the crew. It was awful. It was Mike D went. We did the radio show from there every day. Awful. Please tell me your experience was awful. Yes. Okay, good. All right. We're good. We'll move on. I'm about to get real upset. We were excited too, but it was still COVID. It was 2021, late 21. So we were locked in the hotel and we weren't in the hotel. We were at the kind of like house across from the cast house where we kind of had the setup and we couldn't do much. for fun because you were kind of miserable. A little bit. Thank you.

Thank God. Yeah. Makes me feel good that he was also kind of miserable. But also because we were so confined, Dr. Jada, the relationship coach on the show, we got our therapy. We like, we get every single day. If she decided to send me a bill for that, I probably couldn't afford it. So you guys utilized her because she was there too?

Yeah. We're just in the green room talking and we're like, hey, we're about to get married, you know, like, and Joe Jio would be like, hey, so Jordan, he, he's not a good communicator. What? Costa Rica is awesome, though. It is. People are so nice, and I haven't spent a lot of time in South America, and we flew down and there were people on the streets with machine guns, and it scared me at first because

I thought, what's going to happen here? I realized, first of all, they don't have a military in Costa Rica. They're a friendly country, no military, but they're just trying to stop cars coming through running drugs. They're not trying to stop us. I remember seeing the trucks, like in the back of the pickups and the guys, and I'm like, whoa. And I'm like, what's about to happen here?

But it was really because people were driving from, you know, Panama, going. up through Costa Rica and they were just trying to catch stop those cars that were running drugs which the people were so nice I just remember my we stayed at a what hotel Hilton Garden in by the airport oh wow not really what you want to do in Costa Rica because it's not the experience that you really are told about what's their saying like piravita Buddha yeah all right as a really white guy from Arkansas says piravita yes piravita you guys watch the big D which by the way when they tell you that's the name of the show you giggle a little bit right I did okay just making sure Well, I honestly had not heard of it yet.

And when you sat down, Bobby's like, so, you're hosting the Big D. And I was like, I didn't know what's before? I was like, what show is this? The best was, if I can have a 10 second story, the best was we did an Instagram live, kind of promoting the show a few weeks ago. And you know when someone pops up in your thread and they want to join? And so a name pops up, Dr. Jada wants to join. Oh, you're talking about the show.

Yeah, let's bring her in. Brought her in. And it was a naked dude that had hijacked our Instagram live and was dancing. everything right in front of the camera. So great built-in marketing for the big D. So was the big D or the little D jumping in? It was the marketing was on point. Was it the little? The big D was. The big D was Yeah. USA probably set that up. And we learned a lot about our relationship because I froze and Joe just like, oh wait, how do I get this off? How do I get this off? So people that are on a live when it gets flashed like that, I guess, what do you call it? Sure. Yeah. Anyone watching just they all

see, like, so if there's, like, kids on there or, that is crazy. And we found out this person is like a serial does this and, like, makes fake names somehow. Don't know how he does it. Or did he create a fake account that's almost like Dr. Jada? I think that's what he does. And we're just in the moment, see it. All you see is like the name. Like, oh, yeah, bring her in. It said Dr. Jada. Definitely, parentheses, definitely not a guy's winner. And he's like, all right, I'm clicking that one. So you have like the greatest job because you get to do shows like this, but you also get to work for ESPN. Yeah.

And you get to, I was watching, I watch all of them. I was watching you fly in once. And I guess you guys had a sponsorship with. Wheels up, yeah. And it was like, and now flying in, were you really on the plane they were filming or are they just filming that? They're like, here's Jordan flying in on a wheel? And they're showing the plane land.

Sometimes not, but you're talking about it at Arkansas, right? Probably. Yeah. So in Arkansas, the tightest turnaround I've ever had because we finished our show at noon. I had a 3.45, 3.30 kick something in Arkansas. I landed at like 247. And where you land is, I can see the stadium.

So that one, they actually were filming the plane because they were like, is he going to make it? Like I had to like, quick change in the plane and go straight to the stadium, straight to the field and we kicked.

How is that going into a game with all the knowledge you need to have about that week's game versus all the knowledge you need to have while you were playing a game? Very similar. Not quite, right? It was a lot more pressure when you're getting hit. But the thing I like about calling games on TV

is that to me, I kind of get a little bit of that rush again because I'm prepping for all this stuff. And I don't know what's going to happen. So I kind of get to react as things happen. There's an anticipation for me. But I appreciate that I don't wake up on Sunday with, you know, in pain and getting hit every day when I make a mistake. So I make a lot of mistakes on TV and people just hit me on Twitter. And I'm fine with that.

Yeah, I was going to ask you, have any clips to go viral where you have said something dumb? Yes. Because I have a 10 million. But I wonder, do you and do they still live? And what's the one you're most embarrassed about? Yeah. One is still making the rounds from last. years. So we did a South Carolina game in Columbia. And they had, at the same time, they had the

state fair right there, literally almost outside the stadium. And so kind of the whole show or the whole game, our truck is kind of doing cutaways of the carnivals and the food and everything. And they're doing like a pan of these giant corn dogs. And kind of in a, I thought I was being funny, but I don't think it landed that. I was like, oh, talk to me dirty corn dog in that voice, too. What were you thinking? Kind of not remembering I'm on ESPN. Like, what are we doing here? So that one lives forever, but also we ended up running food up to the booth.

And on our little peep cam in the booth, I have just a giant footlong corn dog. And let me tell you, there's no graceful way to go at that first bite. Yeah, it's tough. Anything I've learned to. So that lives on the internet forever as well. If you open your mouth real wide for anything that's a bit phallic, they can Photoshop anything in. I did.

So now they mesh together the. Talk to me dirty corn dog and then that shot. There you go. That'll live forever. People don't forget. What's the preparation like before you do a game? What are you actually learning other than the player's names? So I'm just a junkie for football.

I love it. So in talking to coaches, they don't give you much, right? They give you a little bit. So I like to just watch games. I kind of understand the concepts that maybe a team will want to run, what they're good at. And then I understand the defense as well. So in my mind, I'm trying to prepare like a coach.

Arkansas is good at this. What is this defense going to run to stop that? And then so in the game, I kind of want to show that to fans, like, here's what this defense is going to have to do to stop KJ. Jefferson on this play, this type of play. Whether they're doing it or not, I'm going to tee that up and then let the game kind of take over. So I treat it like I'm a coach because I, that's what I'm used to. I'm used to prepping like that.

So it is a lot of, you got to make sure you know everybody's name because someone's mom and dad are watching. And if they get a catch, you know, they want to make sure you say their name and have a little something about them. So that's part of it. But also I like my job on TV. I hope I teach a little bit of football. I don't want to talk like a PhD, but I want to teach a little bit of football. So people that are watching kind of go,

oh, that's why they did that or, oh, that's what that's called. When you're quarterback at a Division I school like Vanderbilt in the SEC and you're just walking around campus, it's a life awesome. Because I just got to imagine. Well. I mean, when you are the quarterback and you look like you do, and I would just imagine life's like.

the greatest. Well, you've been in Nashville for a while, right? I have, but still. Vandy hasn't been great. So I will say other schools that may have been cooler. It was still, I mean, yeah, we did well when I was at Vandy. So it was fun, but I will say it's academics and sports. At least it was back then. So yeah, but it's not like Alabama, walking around as the quarterback, you know, Bama Banks and all. When you went to Vandy, so you went to junior college before Vandy, when you were deciding on where to go, did you have other offers? Like, Division I did. Why did you pick Vanderbilt? So I picked Vandy because they were really bad, and I was like, I want to go to a bad team in the SEC.

No, you know, I was, I had aspirations to want to play in the NFL, and I was like, where can I go that I can show that I can play at that level? Like, I had other offers to go play in other conferences, and I was like, I want to go play against the best. Because even if we're a bad team, but I show that, like, I can play against SEC defenses. I can have some success. Then I think that'll give me the best opportunity to play at the next level. So in the Nashville, I visited, and Nashville wasn't bad. So I was like, this would be fun. I lived at home in junior college.

I was ready to get out. Where did you almost go? So Washington was on the table late. And then a smaller school is like Western Kentucky was on the table. And there was a couple of other Mack schools that were there that had good opportunities. I will say Vandy wasn't the best opportunity because they had a starting quarterback. But I was like, yeah, we'll see. Correct me if I'm wrong.

But didn't you have a winning record of Vandy when you were here? Yeah, we won nine games for the first time in 97 years at Vandy when we were there. So it was fun. We got a chance to do something that had never been done. He's also winning. He's the quarterback. They're winning. You just like have it.

So why in the world, and I say this is somebody who's done it as well. So I ask you this in the most complimentary way. Why would you go on The Bachelorette? It's a great question. Because your life is just going in a great, it looks like it's all happening for you. Why would you do that? It was the most, I'm very spontaneous. It was honestly the most spur of the moment decision I've ever made.

And I wasn't someone that watched the show. I'd never watched. I knew what it was, obviously, because I dated people. Oh, hey, the Bachelorette sound cool. But I literally got a call from a producer. Oh, here's actually a good story. They start filming like in the middle of March. End of February, I get a call from my agent, my sports agent,

because I was doing radio at the time, hadn't been doing TV yet. She's like, hey, Fox is doing a dating show. They kind of want an ex-athlet. Would you be interested? I'm like, maybe I'm single. Give me some information. A couple weeks later or a week later, my agent calls. Yeah, they went with someone.

else. I'm like, okay, whatever. A producer on that show was married to a producer on the Bachelorette. So they passed my name along. I got a call from a guy named Bennett, who's one of the executive producers on the bachelor. He's like, hey, have you ever heard of the show? Yeah? He's like, well, are you single? I'm like, yeah? He's like, well, I got a pretty cool girl. You could come and it could be fun for a couple weeks. And at the worst, you get to travel a little bit and have fun. I'm like, all right, sounds fun. Like, I'll do it. So I didn't go through any of the casting, the they fly 55 guys out in January, cut it down to 25. I was a part of no of that.

None of that. I said a week before we started filming, sure, I'll show up. And then you get there and there are all these other dudes. I mean, even if you don't know the show, you then learn the show kind of quick. Because I'd never, when I had to dance with the start, I never watched the show except for like little clips,

but then I tried to even study it, right? Yeah. So, but you get there and do you strategize? And also, are they intimidated by you? Because, again, you were just freaking starting quarterback at Vanderbill. I would have been intimidated. I will say the intimidating part is you walk into the mansion night one, right? And I was actually one of the last limos.

Even though on the show, I'm the first one to step out, I was in the last limo. So everybody was already there when I showed up. I was one of the very last ones. You walk and you look around and go, it's a bunch of good looking dudes. You know what I mean? And so the strategy. I'm in this room every day with all you guys. That's how I feel every day.

Yeah, go ahead. I think the strategy I started to, I wasn't like strategizing, but I started to notice that everyone was like panicking for time and attention. And I was like, you know what, I'm going to be the one that kind of just sits back and just waits. And I found that if I waited, especially in these big group environments for the last opportunity to talk to her, I got the most time. Because it was kind of, they weren't trying to make sure everyone had time. So I would kind of just sit around and wait. But also, Jojo got pissed because she's like, this guy doesn't even like me. He doesn't even like me. He doesn't even care. He's not, he's not, you know, coming to find me. And just like,

hey, I'll wait. I'll sit and wait my turn. But it actually ended up working pretty well. So I'd say that was kind of the strategy that I had is just like, don't be over eager because I think it came off like kind of bad. What's been cool about your career is I don't even think about you as being a bachelorette person. I mean, and everybody you kind of assigned to something, but you've been able to do so many things successfully. It's like some of these artists that come in that have blown up on TikTok, but then they've really launched a career outside of that to show that they are, like I don't really think you as the bachelorette dude. I appreciate that. You're in the minority. Really? Well, I guess I watch a lot of sports, though. I guess I just, but

Most people know you as that? I think so still. That's how. I'm big big D guy. I'm big D. I'm like, they're joined for the big D when I see him. That's right. No, but I mean, I don't think it's bad. I don't need that you're, but you seem to have like some that we know.

It's like they don't, they're holding on tight to it. You know, like they need it. Like they're like, oh, this is like my last like claim to fame even though they were on it years ago and they haven't really done much else. But I don't know. I see you as like. So you're saying he's the only one of the talent ever on the show? No. I'm not saying that.

at all. I think there's women and men that have been a part of it that have like they're clearly talented outside of just trying to get on there. And you didn't even fill out an application. Like you didn't even, they sought you out. What percentage of... They do the SDD test on you though? Oh yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. He's like, I didn't even do the SDD test.

Everything. And I'm kind of like, wait, actually, maybe I should watch this show. What am I doing? What am I signing up for? Well, what percentage of the guy's there? Like, I'm thinking if I'm a guy that filled out an application, like really wanted to be there and I find out this guy comes in last minute. But I don't think you talk about applications. Yeah, I don't think they knew that.

How many pages you fell on your app question, John? Ah, it's three. What about you? None. I don't think that conversation happens. I know. It probably doesn't. Did they find out now that you were brought in last minute by, well, obviously the

story's out there. But you know what I mean? Like, that would be. Yeah, I don't know that guys. I don't know we'd care. Oh, I would think they would be favoring you because they're like, oh, we got this guy. I just always think how crazy that is, right? I mean, it's my wife now.

Yeah. Right? I mean, that's, it's weird. Like, every now and then we'll just be sitting and go watching a show. be like, we, like, we met doing something like this. Like, how dumb is that? Can you see when people come up to you, I can, and I can always tell if it's somebody who listens to the radio show or watch American Idol or dance.

This is an age of demographic for whom, can you tell when they're coming up what they know you from? 100%. Yeah. And it's mostly, it's interesting because the, the guy, it's interesting to watch the like, the 30, 40-year-old man that his wife, like, is not with him, but he's like, oh, hey, my, my, can I get a picture for my wife and it's really funny, but there's definitely a demographic. Like, and when I'm traveling for football, it's still about 90% of people that are like, I saw you on the Bachelor

ad. That's crazy. It's still that. Yeah. Well, and they're like, oh, well, you know, I see you on football too, but, you know, I, like, I know you from the Bachelor. I'm like, that's awesome. What's been the key because you guys were both public, you still are both public, but what's been the key to having a successful relationship and then marriage when everything is public and what to keep private? Like, what have you guys prioritized? That was the hardest part. I mean, we were very open that our first year was bad. Like, we just, you know, you come off a show and what people don't realize about that show is you are never not on camera.

Like, you don't get any conversations that aren't like on camera. So you have to make sure you're authentic. But I think we never had to go through adversity on a reality show. We never had to get back to real life and have a bad day and then figure out how to have like a conversation after that. So our first year, we just didn't know how to communicate. So we would be in an argument and we're speaking different. languages and it would just escalate, escalate, escalate. And then we'd just be like, well, okay, let's move on, forget about that and try to go look like we're happy. Because you're in

our spotlight where everyone's expecting you to be happy all the time and have this amazing relationship. So there was a lot of pressure to go like, hey, we're working through a lot of stuff, but we need to like look happy, right? Because like we don't want to let people down. Like there was a weird pressure about that. So I think we got to a point about a year in where we're like, F this. Like, we either got to do this because we want to be together. And not that we were staying together because of anything, but it's just like, we got to actually work at this. Like, it's not just going to be brushing stuff under the rug. We got to lean in, work at this relationship or I love you, you love me.

It's just not going to work. And so we kind of chose the first path and said, okay, this is, it's going to take work. It's going to take a realization that we're not perfect and that we have a lot of issues that we just need to like address head on instead of going, hey, we're happy. Hey, we're happy. So that was kind of how we did it. We were like, hey, we're going to be more open about the fact that it's not easy. and it's not all rainbows and butterflies after a reality show. It's actually very hard.

You're in a spotlight. You're not prepared for it. So I think just the realization internally, then also just not being afraid to say that was big. Hard for me. And my wife is a very private person, but it was hard for us. I've been married two years.

Never been married before. Never been engaged. So it is work. I never understood what people said it is work to be married. For me, it's work to remember to put someone, at least equal, if not more than myself. Like it's to, because I've been so, and I'll just use the word selfish,

because I've just been a self, I've been the sun in the solar system, my own solar system. Right. It is such a shift to not be it anymore. It's worth it, but sometimes it is work for me to have to have that understanding of,

your life is different. We don't have kids yet. You guys, and I imagine that happens again once kids come out, but it's been hard, but in the best way. In the same way, like,

you can't see them now, but I have huge biceps, right? And those curls, you know, they were hard to do. But those muscles got big. But I never really understood the work part of it until I actually got married. And I can imagine when you're both coming off of something so public, there is that pressure to not show that it's hard. No doubt. And because when you come off the show, we're not that cool anymore.

Like people come up when we're traveling and say hi. But like there's paparazzi and stuff that first like year, like outside of our house. And so like if I was taking the trash out and I looked like, well, like, like, like, like, that's, like, that like that. Like there'd be an article. We're in the grocery store, walking out of the grocery store. It was just, it was crazy. That's crazy. So we felt like we were putting out a facade that wasn't an accurate representation of the struggles we were still going through. Where do you guys live? What town? What city? We actually live in Puerto Rico right now. So we live in Puerto Rico right. So we live in Arkansas, bro. That's a long way. That's a long way. He didn't know how far.

He missed his flight. He missed his connector. So how does that work? It's great. We were in Dallas and then the middle of COVID, kind of a lot of our friend group had moved away. And I travel during football. She has family down in Puerto Rico. So it's like, let's just go rent a place month to month. At worst, you're near family. We'll have to travel a ton. And it's little, we can be outdoors more. Her families where again? In Puerto Rico. Yeah. Both of our brothers lived down there. That makes sense. Yeah. And so we moved down there. We love it. We're like, hey, until we have some kids and we want to settle down, like this is going to be a good spot. But we'll end up here in Nashville at some point. We have some land here. So we'd like to build a house here eventually and, and kind of put our roots here.

That's pretty cool. I was just thinking, like I, when we moved, I wanted to live somewhat closest to the report because I travel so much, but you travel to a lot of these southeastern towns. Not easy to get to. Yeah. He's going to Columbia, South Carolina from Puerto Rico. There are no Southwest, boys. I don't know if you're familiar with how that works. So it makes the travel during football season a little bit longer, but again, I can't complain. Football season is five months and the rest of the year. We do a lot of other projects, but it's not as travel intensive and work together 24-7 most of the time. We do a lot of work together, so. Remove my bias. So don't answer this question for me. Who is your favorite head coach, SEC, to hang out with?

Not best coach, but like if you were going to go to dinner and they were like, hey, pick any coach, you guys just go hang out for an hour. Who would it be? Ooh. It would probably be, rest in peace, Mike Leach. Like, Mike was one of the best to be around. Like, just because you never knew where the conversation was going to go. But I'd probably say, Beamer's pretty fun.

Shane Beamer, South Carolina is pretty fun. He's quirky and he's got a great personality. Lane's pretty fun as well. You got to peel back the layers of lane, though. You know what I mean? You got to get him comfortable, and then he starts to open up a little bit. What is Nick Sabin like in person?

Nick's great in person, but he's just like, there's an aura around him. Like there's a, it's, he's the goat. So he's great in person, but he is very, he's business. He's got a cup of coffee. I want to answer,

talk football and then you're good. Well, I will say, okay, Sam, Sam is one of my favorite coaches as well, just to. Sam Pittman at Arkansas. Yeah, Sam Pittman, just to, he would be the best to go get a beer with, no doubt actually. Now I think about it totally.

Sam's a man. A lot of money, a lot of pressure to be a head coach, especially in the SEC. Which of these coaches are, who is the most hands-on as far as they're in these meetings offensively or defensively? And who's a CEO, the best CEO? Like, give me, though, because Mac Brown was an excellent CEO type of Texas. Like he knew how to run that program. Last time Texas has been really good.

Yeah. And so, but he was very much that CEO type guy. Give me both of those. Like who's great at CEOing and who's great at being hands-on and really getting like granular with the team? I think Brian Kelly's a really, really good CEO. I mean, he's done it for a really long time. At LSU. Yeah, at LSU.

And he's hired good staff around him. So he is definitely a guy that you just sit and you realize he has the 30,000-foot view for everything in his program. And he's willing to get down in the nitty gritty when he needs to. But he is the guy that tells the ship which direction they're going and make sure it's going in that direction at every level. So he's definitely a CEO type. As far as more X's and O's guy. Maybe it's somebody who even calls plays still offensive.

You know, like it's an offensive guy who still calls plays. Yeah, Josh Hypole is a guy that he is becoming more of a CEO because he's realizing what that takes at Tennessee. But he's still a, like he just wants to talk offensive ball. and so he's a fun one to sit down with because you know he lives and breathes offense and he just loves it and that's all he wants to do and if he could just call plays he'd probably just call plays just so happens he's a great head coach and he's got other responsibilities my wife's the massive oklahoma fan her family is and they get to come over to the SEC next year which i'm very excited about because that just means

we get to play the same teams and get to play each other occasionally right uh Josh hypole was yeah her favorite player growing up she loved Josh hypole and Josh hypoeepel got five fired at Oklahoma as the offensive coordinator on your stoop's and Josh Hiples now at Tennessee after being at UCA. But he's at Tennessee and Oklahoma is now going to be in the SEC. That is interesting because if you are a player and you have your allegiance and you played and you won at Oklahoma and you coached, but then you got fired, how does he feel, this is just you your opinion? How does he feel about playing those guys? Does he want to kick the crap out of them or is it like man this is awesome i get to go back into norman back to the people that made me i think

it's both i think you're able to kind of separate right because as a coach when you've been at so many different programs you've played in your allegiance is initially to where you play i believe and it probably still is deep down for a guy like josh hypole i think you end up wanting to dominate and win in those games and because really you're not coaching and playing as much for the logo and the university as you are for the guys so as a head coach like you end up having so much invested in these kids, right? These 18, 19 year olds, they're like, that's really why you want to go beat your alma mater.

Not because it's your alma mater and there's bad, bad blood. I think you still have like a deep allegiance to it. But you end up just doing it for the guys that you spend 99% of your day with. Because those coaches spend more time with those players than I do their family. Coaching's tough. Like, you have zero hours. You ever want to do that? Part of me, yes, but I've also been so close to it now that I'm realized that it would take the perfect scenario.

If I live back here in Nashville and there's an opportunity to go coach quarterbacks at Vandy, like that is something where if I live there, I've already told Clarkley, I've already told Clark. I've told Clark. I'll be here and I may be ready to step onto that side. I did have an offer a couple years ago as a position coach, but I just, I like what I do on TV now and I like the flexibility. It allows me to do other things. At some point, yes, that could be something I'd like to do.

You have such a great job. Like, I'm jealous of your job. do you get paychecks every week or only five months during football season? Every week. He's got a salary too, boys. Wow. Eat it up. I mean, when you play in the NFL and I was only a practice squad guy, so I wasn't making

big money, but you realize like, oh, wow, these paychecks are awesome. And then they stop in December. And you're like, wait. Wait, I get zero until August? Wait a minute. Being on a practice squad in the NFL, are you basically learning what every team you're playing that week's quarterback is doing and you have to mimic that? Yeah.

So I was in Tampa in 2007. A guy I work with now, Dan Orlovsky was a quarterback there as well and Mike Glennon. And it was my job because Dan's a big, tall, unathletic guy. I'm a shorter athletic guy. So when we played like Russell Wilson, I was Russell Wilson. We played Cam Newton that year when he was in North Carolina. Or sorry, we did the Panthers. I don't look like Cam Newton, but I could run around a little bit.

So yeah, you kind of just mimic whoever, whatever quarterback you're playing. But that year we were injured at receiver. So I ended up playing receiver for our scout team, running routes against Dorel Rivas. I was like, wow. Yeah, I'm not as athletic. as I thought I was. So Daryl Rivas was locking you down in practice? Yeah, he was legit.

Yeah, that's pretty awesome. I caught one ball on him. I'd be like, hey, take a picture of me. I mean, do you have a picture of Derel Rieves? Unfortunately, no. I was like kind of too scared of that boy. I'm just like, I'm just a scout team quarterback. Wait, how tall are you?

I'm just under 6-2. I'm like 6-1. Oh. Yeah. Because he said he was considered like, I don't know if he said little or small. Shorter, yeah, for a quarterback, totally. That's a big D. Relax.

Yeah, hey, hey. I know, I just didn't know, because I mean, Yeah, some of these athletes you just see them on TV. Yeah. So I can't, and you hear like in real life they look tall or big or huge and like you seem tall, but you're saying you're small. Yeah. The cat in the hat.

I am, Sam, I am. Yes. In that same vein, I was pleasantly surprised at just Ryan Gosling is a normal size guy. You know, actors you never know. Stood next to him the other day. I was like, wow. Did people say you look like him? No.

Just now. I just see it. Does anybody else see it? Not really. No. No, our eyes are kind of close together. Were you at the Barbie premiere or something? Were you really?

Yeah, and he's just a good-looking dude. Did you watch it, the movie? Yeah, yeah, we watched it. And? It was good. It was fun. You know what I liked about it? It was kind of self-deprecating in a way,

just because they acknowledged the point. Yeah, they're Barbies, so it was fun. All right, final few questions here. Question number one, who wins the SEC East, and why is it going to be South Carolina? Oh, it's not going to be South Carolina. It could be. Actually, I think that week three, I think it is game against Georgia is going to be interesting.

Do love South Carolina. It's going to be Georgia. They're just too good. Even Tennessee. You go Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina? Yes, just because I think Georgia's going to lose one. I think, I mean, I don't know. Tennessee has every opportunity, but I'm going to go with Georgia sitting here right now.

And over in the West, it's probably still going to be Alabama again. I got LSU. Really? That quick. He turns a program around that quick. Alabama is good. They're deep at every position. They don't have the superstar.

is on offense that they're used to having in their quarterback position is going to take a step back. They're going to be fine. They're going to be good. But I think LSU has everybody back, especially on offense. So I think they're going to get the West. Has Saban lost his edge? No. Has other people's edge is just sharper then? Yeah. Kirby smart, sharper edge. I mean, well, we're mad at saving because he's only one had like a national championship every other year essentially, you know, averaging over the last six or seven years. No. I just think NIL is changing things, right? It's easier to now pay kids and get them there

as opposed to just going, hey, we're Alabama. So that's even in things out a little bit. Are there rules against you participating in NIL? Let's say you wanted to have a kid at Vanderbilt or any school. Yeah. And you'd be like, hey, I want you to promote my show, the Big D. Could you pay them? I believe so.

Yeah, I think I could. Because I do a lot of NL, although I can't saw kids. Totally. But I'm also not working in sports or ESPN. Yeah, it's weird. It's probably like a gray area. like maybe it's frowned upon, but. Bobby, 25 whistles.

Yeah, but that's a podcast, and it's sponsored by draft kings, and they're just kind of like, do your thing, you know? Yeah, it's not ESPN. Because if he's calling the game. I got it, yeah. And he's got a player on the Georgia defensive line. Yeah, that's true.

Like I said, I don't think it's illegal for me, but I think they'd probably say, maybe not. Yeah, I stay away from stuff where I'm like, I don't think it's illegal, but if it's on that line. Okay, so the Big D airs Wednesdays that aired last night, but you can watch it on Peacock today, Jordan Rogers,

and you're here for SEC Media Days. So what do you do? You just talk to everybody. Yeah, a bunch of radio opportunities, coaches and players are here, so we have a set over there. We'll interview some of them and just talk football like we know what's going to happen

in a month or two when we don't. Do you want, here's the option. Last time, we had a guest here, because you were kind enough to Uber up here. Yeah. Now, lunchbox can drive you back to your hotel. Yeah, I could. He drove Richard.

He goes, I could. He drove Richard Marks back to his. hotel. Wait, in what car, but in my car. Yeah, that's right. He picked him up and dropped him home. Right. And so the problem, the thing is, I gotta take some stuff back. What's that place called where you buy like salt shakers and stuff? It's like way expensive. Williamsonson. Oh, great, love Williams. Went to William Sonoma? Oh, my God. I walked out of there. I didn't know the Salt Shaker calls 100 bucks. I got a salt shaker and there's a hundred bucks that I'd take back today. So if you do take them, you got to put that in the back seat. Oh, I got to

take it to William and Sonoma? No, yeah, I'll take it back. I'm taking it back today. That's like, come on now. William Sonoma in the winter when they get the peppermint chocolate bark and then they have like the apple cider taster spots. I never even been in there. I can't believe the stuff is that expensive. Oh, you should go in. It's nice. I did go in.

I bought a salt joker for $100. Oh, okay. When you enjoy that, that is a definite like marker in your life. He goes, oh, yeah, I made it to that point where I love going in William Sonoma. There is no salt shaker. That should cause $100. What does it do? Shake salt.

Wait, does it, is it the automatic one when you like flip it and it comes out? It's like a motor. Yes. I don't need that. No, it's not cool. I'm taking it back. Let us see it. Maybe we'll buy it from you.

Hey, maybe I'll give it to him as a gift. I'll give you $60 for it. That's his Derek Jeter goodbye. Yeah, like it's a salt shaker. Okay. Jordan Rogers. You guys follow Jordan on Instagram. Jay Rogers 11.

Killing on ESPN, S-C network and also the Big D. Jordan, thank you for your time. I appreciate it. There is. Jordan Rogers, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. This one went mega viral on social media. and it wouldn't go viral for the reason you think.

Of course not. No, no, no. It wasn't because people were loving taking this test. It was because they couldn't believe how dumb the studio was. So Bobby brought the world's shortest IQ test to the studio. And all of us took it. And we all responded with our answers and all of us did pretty dang bad. Like, failed it.

And so we posted that on social media. It went viral. I mean, millions of views of people just totally trashing on how dumb we are. So that's why it's coming in at this number. Number six, bot. This happened in August of this year. The show took the world's shortest IQ test. Number six.

So the question is, are you smarter than 80% of the population? I'm going to give you the world's shortest IQ test. If you get all three, you're smarter than 80%. If you get two, you're smarter than 60%. If you only get one, you're smarter than 40%, which is less than average. If you get none, well, you're dumb. I don't know. So I already took the test, so I will not take it again here.

Now, we'll give you 45 seconds with each question. Here is question number one, but it will not start until I say time starts. Thank you. Here are the three questions. Number one, a bat and a ball cost a dollar and ten cents in total. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Do you want to hear it again?

Yes, because I was getting a pin. Why would you already not focused? No, I was looking for a pin. I know, but the question was happening and you were like digging off. I know. Shoot. A bat and a ball. Go ahead.

Here are the three questions. Number one, a bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? You have 45 seconds starting now. Lunchbox is already in. I was in before Amy got her pin. Mm-hmm.

Hmm. It is the world's shortest IQ test. There are three questions here. There's no way I can hear it one more time, right? It's part of the time, but sure. I know how to answer this. Hold on. Here are the three questions.

Number one. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Why did you just get mad? We were playing the question again. I know because my, I was, it just distracts me, but it's fine. Because I know this.

There are two things. One, you can take your headphones out. Mm-hmm. Good point. Or two. Good point. Just hear the question. I think I got it.

It's a dollar. Five seconds. More. God, this isn't right, but gosh. Dang it. Time. A dollar more. Okay.

The question one more time, please. Here are the three questions. Number one, a bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Eddie? 10 cents. Amy?

10 cents. Lunchbox? Not right. 10 cents. Morgan? 10 cents? That's not right. It's not right.

Think about this. So you have a dollar or $10. It's a dollar more. So it has to be at least a dollar more. because to be a dollar more. But if the other one's 10, that's only 90 cents more. Right. So you got to go down on one and up on the other.

So it's $1.5 and $5. It's $5. Man, I had $5 and I scratch it out. Because if it's going to be a dollar more, which is the question. You have 10 cents written down. I scratched out five. No, no, there's no scratching out.

There's no what I would have had. Dang. Oh, oh, oh. Everybody gets... Did I explain it okay? Yeah, I messed up. I went too quick. I got cocky. I mean, I heard it and I was like, oh, That's easy.

Okay, here we go. Question number two. Number two, if it takes five machines, five minutes to make five widgets, how long does it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? What? Now I'm going to play it again, and then we'll start the time? British accents. Number two.

Yeah, it's the accent. If it takes five machines, five minutes to make five widgets, How long does it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? The timer has started. I'm in. Nice. Amy comes up quick for air. I can give you the question one more time, guys?

Number two. If it takes five machines, five minutes to make five widgets, how long does it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? five seconds I think I'm in everybody good yeah Eddie yeah

write your answer yeah time good let's go over to Morgan one minute Eddie a minute and 40 seconds how'd you come up with that

the time it's like 100 minutes or dang I didn't do that right lunch bucks 100 minutes Amy 100 minutes it's five minutes

why if it takes five widgets five minutes five machines five machines five minutes to make five widgets it takes a hundred machines they're making a hundred widgets it's gonna take five minutes because five makes five and five minutes and a hundred in five minutes oh it's the same thing stupid

I'm feeling really dumb right now bones I mean the rush of 45 seconds is really killing me it's a rush he means we're being rushed oh oh I see that now yeah there's no difference there's no difference I'm so stupid. Five machines make five widgets.

Yeah. A hundred machines make 100 widgets, both in five minutes. Yeah. I need to get one right. Okay, that's... At best, you guys are going to be smarter than 40% of... We need to get one right. We need to get one right.

Tricky, tricky. Okay, last question. Go ahead. And number three, in a lake, there's a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long does it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? What?

You're talking about? This is stupid. What is he saying? Now they're all angry at it. And now it's the accent. The lilies. Play it again, Ray. And number three, in a lake, there's a patch of lily pads every day.

The patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long does it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? That's so hard. This is hard. I'm in. It's not that answer, Amy. You're wrong.

Sure. Yes. Dang. But you didn't see what she wrote. She wrote 24. I'm not saying what she wrote. Are you looking at my paper? How can I see your paper?

But I know if you went that fast, I know you wrote 24 and it's wrong. I'm just surrendering to the, my brain. One more shot here. And number three, in a lake, there's a patch of lily pads every day. The patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake. how long does it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? Yeah, five seconds, guys.

Every day it doubles. Time? So then it would be like it. Pens down. All right, let's go over to Morgan. Well, if it's not 24, then maybe it's 56. There was only 48 days. Listen, just let my brain do what it was doing.

Yeah, that's definitely. Eddie, you said a minute 40 in the last one, which is still don't quite get how you got there, but I respect it. original thought. Go ahead. 43. Why? I don't know, man. I did I doubled and then I subtracted. You guys, I've figured out this game. Now, it took me

three questions, but I figured it out. Go to Amy and I'll tell you the right answer. Okay. It's double in size. Amy? What's your answer written down? Well, I wrote down 24, but it's like, it's like, it's like, it's a cold. It's 47. Correct. Because if it doubles, on the 48th day, if it fills the whole thing,

one day before it was only halfway full. Stupid. It's 47. I still don't understand that. Oh my God. Lunchbox, you're smarter than 40% of the population. Amy and Eddie, I don't know, man. No, Morgan. Oh, yeah, Morgan, sorry, you too.

I mean, it just took me, and I wish I would have been more awake on the first two questions. Awake? Yeah. And I've already told you guys, I have a numbers issue. It's a disorder. It's not a numbers issue. Yes, I do.

Here's the final. Here you go. The answers to these questions are 5 cents, five minutes, 47 days. So dumb. Did you get them? No. No, they didn't, buddy.

I did. He got one. We got... By my son! No, 36, 9, 12. We got one out of 12. We got less than 10%. Man, we're not smart.

Did you get all three of those? I did, yeah. Just like... In how many seconds? No, it wasn't super quick. Bobby answers three questions. The widget one took me at least 30 seconds. In 30 seconds.

Oh, but you did it under 45? Which is why I gave you guys 45. But yeah, the widget one was the flower one I got immediately. I mean, the widget one should have got. That's so... And the money one I got pretty quick. too, but the widget one took me a little bit. I'm sorry for calling you out like that.

That was rude. I mean, but I knew right away that you had it like. I know. I knew. Just like the 10 cents, it's like, I know this isn't right, but I don't know what else to do. But it is wrong. In a minute, 40 seconds, Eddie, you get the win for no idea why. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

It was the segment that kept on giving in another segment that went mega viral on TikTok. Amy had a huge water bill mystery. She had a really high water bill. Nobody knew what was wrong. She had gotten a whole lot of people out there, and she wasn't getting answers. And then she talked about how she put Kool-Aid in her toilet to see if that would give her answers

or stop the high water bills. And then after that, she finally figured out the mystery. It was a segment that just kept on going. And every time we posted about this, people were loving it. Apparently, a lot of people have water drama going on in their lives. That's what I learned from this bit. So right now what you're about to hear is Amy talking about, the time she put Kool-Aid in her toilet to see if it would help.

And this happened in February of this year. Number five. Our listeners are intrigued. Why do you put Kool-Aid in your toilet? The water company told me to do it. So for months, we've had issues with our water bill. One month I came on and told you all it was $600 and $500. I was doing everything to try to lower it.

People came out, no issues, finally got it down to $90. But you didn't do anything different. They just said, called and complained a lot. And all of a sudden, your next bill is $90. Right. Right. Well, I guess they couldn't keep up with that. So I got a new bill high again. Like 300 range or 600 again? Three, almost 400. So, I mean, that doesn't make sense, right? So I asked the water company to please send someone out. So he came. Checked the meter. He said the meter numbers were basically saying like this is just, this is not actually what's happening. But the numbers are,

representing that say I had a water faucet just on all day long, water just blowing out of there. I'm like, okay, well, that's not the case. There's nothing on. So he said, okay, let's do a little experiment with your toilets. Go get some of that old school grape, Kool-Aid powder, and put it in one full pack in all of your toilets. Like the tank of it? The tank. And I don't have the actual issues, but it could be like a flapper issue. And somehow if purple from the purple Kool-Aid ends up in the toilet bowl, then there's an issue. Yeah, but that can't be accurate either fully because.

Why? Because it would only... You can't use it. What? No, no, I know, but I'm saying if it... Follow me here. If there's purple in the tank and that purple goes down to the bowl, but it's not leaving the bowl.

But if the flaps close, it should get into the bowl. Yeah, you're not flesh in it, so it should stay in the tank. Right, right. But I'm saying it's not a nonstop. situation. The water, it shouldn't be that high still. It's just one shift down into the bowl. That's it. That's not going to cost 400 bucks. If it's gone out of there and then it's gone out of the bowl too, that's where it's all gone and who knows how often that's circulating with all that water. Okay, listen.

So you need to do grape on top, cherry on bottom. This is what he told me to do. And I don't know. But it does make sense though just to see if the tank, if there's a problem with the tank. If something's run, like it and water's just running. And so pretty much only one of my toilets was good to go. The others, all issues. It was all drinkable? And I had to have... In the bowl?

Yeah. I know. My son was like, yum. This is amazing. All your bowls had the toilet. So I had to have Hiller the Happy Face truck today come out and fix these flappers. So this is just step one in the mystery. So now we got to wait for another bill cycle to see what is happening.

It seems fishy. It seems fishy still because like I said, follow me. Your tank's full of water. It's got water that's 12 inches high. Yeah. it all is coolated up and goes into your bowl. If your bowl just got coolated in it, it's only 12 inches that's up there.

Now, that's going to cost a little more, but it's not going to double your bill. And if that's one or two toilets, it's not that much water like leaving a water faucet on the whole time. Well, yes, if the flapper is not working, it'll never get back to that 12 inches, so it consistently runs because it's running. But then the bowl would be higher.

I mean, I didn't know you guys were plumbers. I had to be. Hey, real people know what's like to jiggle a handle to get the toilet to even stop running. I do the jiggle the handle. I've jiggled before. Yeah. So it's like I had to kind of become a plumber when I grew up.

Because we had broken toilets all the time. But the fact that you know that if it doesn't go down the bowl, it's not really going. The point is, he's saying it fills back up. But it would overflow the toilet if that were the case because it wouldn't stop ever. It doesn't naturally just go down without fleshing? That's the case. If it does, then it's like that. But no, it's not.

She has frigranberry delight in her toilet. Black cherry too late. I'm overwhelmed. I'm not buying it, Amy. I'm letting you know, that's probably a case a little bit. I'm not buying it. Yeah, that stinks. I bet you get a cheaper bill.

You get like a $40 bill next month. Can't wait. Mark my words. Okay. And you'll get some free Kool-Aid in the mail. Yeah. All right. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of The Girlfriends, Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.

I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care, so they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the Girlfriends. Trust me, babe.

on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Ago Vodam. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.

I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up. and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.

If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hanging. Hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a paternity

scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth. You doctored this particular test twice in someone's, correct? I doctored the test ones. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case. I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for. Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant.

They would uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Gregalespian and Michael Marantini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trap. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.

Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Americopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I mean, y'all out here really want me to find love. And for that, I love you so much because that would be awesome. But coming in at this spot, you guys really loved me shooting my. I shot with a country artist. I put together a friendship bracelet with my phone number on it. I was inspired by Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift. I mean, they're basically the king and queens

of all things pop culture right now. And so I did it with a country artist. And a lot of segments happened here that set up when it happened. We have video of when it happened. We had a follow up and another follow up and crazy tabloid stories that happened. There was just so much with it. And you guys were loving the updates. So I decided to throw this one in here. because this also had a lot of views, a lot of engagement, a lot of people talking. And it is me shooting my shot with Dustin Lynch. Number four. I just say this is Employ the Month style bit right here.

It is. It's big. For sure. Employee the year. Yeah. So Morgan runs our digital. She's also on the air a bunch. How long have you been with the show, Morgan?

Oh, we are six and a half years? In all six and a half of these years, this certain artist has come in for all six and a half years. Yes. And I never knew, we haven't said who it is, I never knew you had a crush. Had you always had a crush? No, honestly, I never let myself get there because I never was going to date an artist. Like, I just really had put a barrier up. And why now have you removed that barrier?

Well, because nothing else has been working. So why am I going to keep putting like limitations on things when nothing has worked? Okay, you want different results? You do different things? Yeah. Man, it's so awkward. And Amy, you know who it is? I do.

And I can say who it is now because I have the clip? Oh, there's a clip. Yeah, I don't know if you want to play the clip first and let it be what it is. Oh, come on. Lunchbox, Eddie said he got on your computer because you were searching it yesterday and you had titled country artists that have a T in their name or something. Oh, I mean, there was a list of 300 country artists. I'm like, dude, what are you doing? Yeah, that's why.

I mean, I left out the first word, the first, because I forgot his first name. And I realized it later. I was like, man, that would have narrowed it down. But who did you think it was incorrectly? He thought it was Brett, Eldridge and Matt Stel was another one of those. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

But, man, let me tell you, I was a witness. Oh, you saw this happen? Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. So now he knows who it is. Yeah, yeah, I was a witness. Before we hear the clip, can we get lunchbox his feelings?

No, no, I can't even say anything until the clip. For those that don't remember, Morgan has a friendship bracelet. She put her phone number on it. She was going to give it to the artist if she saw him and you guys. Would you do an interview when you saw him? Yeah, it was just me and him during an interview together. Oh, my God. I'd have been so nervous leading up to it.

Oh, I was freaking out. My whole body was shaken. She told me I needed to leave. I didn't want lunchbox there I get it I was gonna I get it So how was he a witness I didn't leave

Oh then I get that too Ray how many clips do I have Just one one minute Okay so here is Morgan Do you say who it is Or do you have to hear his voice You'll hear his voice And then I think you'll figure out who it is

Then I'm gonna say who it is Because I don't know that All right is to figure out who it is immediately By his voice Is you're gonna tell us right now who it is Yeah come on Who is it's Dustin Lynch Oh

I don't remember the red Of course. Really good looking guy, athletic, super nice. How old is he? How old is Dustin? I think he's late 30s. Like 38 or something? You think, you know.

38? He is 38. I don't know. I think it's birthday's like June 3rd, born in 12th, Libya. I don't know any of that. Okay. Amy, we looked it up when we did a podcast together. I know, but I just forgot the exact age, but I'm sure you've Googled him.

We talked about it. Does he follow you on Instagram? No. Okay. Oh, that'll be good. And I just started following him when this has all started happening. The move will be does he start following her now. Okay, here's the clip of Morgan.

I have not heard. Oh man, I felt awkward already. All right, here we go. You know Travis Kelsey. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. He did a little friendship bracelet for Taylor Smith. Yes. So I'm doing one for you.

Let's go! It has my phone number on it. Are you serious? We can go out sometime. I love this. Is this seriously your phone number? Yeah, it really is. You can't show anybody that.

It also has like, I, I, I try it. It's got a lot like, okay. There you go. I tried to do the vibes. You got my favorite colors on there and you have stars. And we got stars. This is going to be what pushes the song number one right here. Yeah, that's it.

It's a good luck charm. Amazing. Here we are. Are you going to use that phone number? Absolutely. Where's family at? Kansas. Perfect.

Do you like Kansas? Yes, I love it. Okay, all right. Well, we did own property for a long time. You did? Whoa. You still got some people with property? Yes, we do.

Here we go. This is good. Time to go home and meet the family and hunt. This is moving really quickly. You're not ready for that? I'm ready for like a first day. Oh, okay. We can roll with that.

That could be our first date. We could fly to Kansas? Yeah. Okay, I like this. See? I like this first day. I can have to worry about driving. He's going to be your pilot and you can get up in the cockpit.

That's right. There's a reason why I didn't want lunchbox involved. I'm picturing lunchbox is like coming around the corner with a microphone. He did. That's exactly what happened. I was exactly what happened. I like it. There's a lot of things I have to say because it's awkward doesn't mean it's not awesome.

So I would like to say good for you. Yes. Everybody handled it really well. Yeah. Even him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thoughts? Because I have a lot of them, but you have anything?

Thoughts after hearing that clip? Yeah, has he texted you? Oh, it's a follow-up question. Okay. Has he texted you? No, that hasn't happened yet. Okay. I heard he said maybe the song, oh, number one after this.

Yes, and what did that mean for you? And I went, ding, ding, ding, okay. And he knows we're going to talk about this on air, and then we'll probably play his song. Okay, so that's one thing. Then number two was, it seemed like he really wanted to date you if your family had a hunting lease in Kansas. Yeah. They got property? I noticed that too.

Can I make an observation? Yeah, go ahead. Observation. That wasn't in that clip. Yeah. And we were like, are you really going to do this? He goes, yeah, let's give me more air time on the By-Bone show. Oh, he said that.

But I feel like if he really felt that way, he wouldn't have said that. Ugh. I was like, to be fair. I feel like if he really thought that he wouldn't have said that. Yes. And he said things like, let's go meet the family for the first date, which that's not. That's a joke. That's a joke, too.

So is that. That's my point. He was being a good sport about the whole thing. And he wasn't, like, caught off guard, which sort of makes me think that he's, he was into it. What, is there an update at all since you guys met? No, this is, this is the update for right now, but there might be another one coming.

What does that mean? There's a chance I see him again. You're giving us an update that there might be an update. Wait, well, are you going to give him another bracelet? There's another potential run-in that could happen. Give him a necklace. Oh gosh. With your social on it.

A ring. Yeah. Man. Another piece of jewelry. All your social security number. But I will say the rest of the interviews he was going around, he had the bracelet on his arm. Wow. He didn't take it off.

So we can find Morgan's cell phone number on like cat country 102s. Yes, 100%. Like he kept it on there. I kept going to see different interviews. I'd be like, yeah. He's followed him around. Yeah. That's funny.

I wanted to find out what was going down. I mean, I'd be humiliated if it were me, but you were doing that too. But that's funny. Okay. Morgan, do you feel like you guys will go on a date? I don't know because I don't know if he just. just thinks I was kidding and I was just doing it like to be funny. You did give him your phone number though. I know. So I'm hoping he realizes that like yes, while it's like a funny bit, it's, I'm also

serious. Like I will go out on a date. So I don't know. I like I was shaking. I literally was shaking. My whole body didn't know what to do. And I felt very uncomfortable doing it. I'm proud of myself for putting myself out there though. I am too. Me too. It's awesome and awkward. Based on how you heard Morgan speaking to him, do you think he thought she was. serious? I think he's great at giving a positive reaction regardless. He's pretty clutch in from having dealt with him. He just reacts positively to everything because he's a very positive person. Right, but the question is, does, whether he thinks it's a... I think his brain was turning while it was happening. He's like, oh, your real numbers on this.

He goes, let's go! He was trying to stall for a minute. Like, he was not like eight, seven, seven, seven and he needs to snickers. So I could think for a minute. I don't know. I, I don't know. I'm rooting for you. I like both you kids. He's like three years younger than I am. I like both of you kids. Let us know, there's an update. It's a very exciting time here at the Bobby Bone show.

Or he'll never come in again. And it'll just be awkward. I got cringy vibes like I do when lunchbox goes to bathroom stalls. Me too, man. I was like, oh, that's what I felt like. But you loved it at the same time, right? I love it for you. For you as a person because you're vulnerable to do that.

it's brave. You're trying new things to get new results. Like that I love. You're giving other single women ideas. But that doesn't mean it's not like cringy when you have to hear your friend go, I like you. Do you like me? That's tough, but good for you. All right. Let's play a little Dustin Lynch now. How about Stars? No, that'd be too easy for him. Yeah, this goes out to morning.

I feel like he deserves the spin. No, no. No, because maybe he just wants to spin. We're going to play something old that won't affect him. Let's do Small Town Boy. Okay. Because this one's already was a number one. All right. Dustin Lynch, we see you. Your move. Ball's in your court.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Add another cliche. Yeah. Your turn. Okay, good one. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. We love Lunchbox's antics on the show. It's what makes some of our show the way that it is. He is so obnoxious and so wild and crazy and we'll do just about anything that it's pretty awesome. And one of those things being that he really wanted to visit Todd Crisley in jail. This has been a running bit that has continued on and on and on. And earlier this year, we're basically

making like a full circle moment because this happened in January. He wrote a letter and sent it to Todd Crisley to see if he could come and visit him. But then you never heard back. And then there was an update that somebody was stealing letters and then Lunchbox sent another letter to a day. There's a lot of things that have happened with this bit since. This aired in January. But this January moment when he was talking about and sharing what he wrote in the letter was all over the place. People loved it and they were engaging with it and that's why it's coming in at this number three spot. So you're about to hear that the letter that Lunchbox wrote and sent to Todd Crisley while he's in jail. Number three. The only way Lunchbox can go visit Todd Crisley in prison in Florida is if Todd puts him on a

list. And we've told Lunchbox, if he puts you on the list, you can take off from the show and drive down and go visit him. You ever visited anyone in prison? No, just been visited in prison. You weren't in prison. You were in jail. And that was the bit we did it on the show. And you were out in 24 hours. That ain't the big house.

That's a small house. But they did say my name or the thing and go to visitation room two. And I walked in there and it was just like on TV where there's the window and you pick up the phone. You talk to the guy on the other side. Is a lawyer. And it's like, yeah. And I was like, when they called my name, I was like, dang, my dad's here to see me. It wasn't your dad, though.

I was the lawyer. I had no idea who it was. I was like, how did my dad know how to find me? Lunchbox got one call out of prison. Jail. Sorry, now he's convinced me he was in jail. We did a bit, whatever. Lunchbox went to jail.

And he got one call and he called me. And so I had to call his parents and be like, hey, lunch fuck's in jail. It's a weird call, man. So lunch wants to go visit Todd Crisley, and I think that's awesome. And Todd was a guest host on our show. We know Todd Chrisley.

We didn't know what he was up to. But we know. So to go visit, he's got to be on a list. Todd's got to put you on a list. The only way we can get a hold of them is by writing a letter. You've written it. How long is it? It's not that long. Okay.

Here is Lunchbox's letter to Todd Crisley with the intention of getting on a list to go visit him. Okay, here we go. Todd, I hope you're doing well and settling in and getting comfortable in your new digs. It's Lunchbox. You might remember me playing with you in a charity softball game a few years ago. I was on your team then and I'm on your team now. A lot of innocent people get wrongly convicted every day. Oh, come on.

And it's a shame this happened. to you. The Todd I know doesn't deserve to be in prison. Women commit fraud every day with their push-up braw, spanks and all that makeup, but they're still out here walking the streets. But they have you locked up for the next 12 years. Seems crazy if you ask me. I'm heading to Florida in a few weeks, so I want to stop in and catch up on life. If you could do me a solid, I need you to add me to your visitor list so I can get past the guards. Let me know if you need me to bring anything and keep your head up. We will get through this together. I will always be the captain of Team Todd.

T-T for life. Your BFF lunchbox. I like it. Pretty good. That's a good letter. The only thing I think I would put in there is I really want to come. I mean, you really have to, because he could think it was a joke. He could think you're just kidding with him.

Like, put me on the list. So I can get past the guards. I would just say, I do want to come visit you if that's cool, but I need to be on the list. Like seriously. Okay. So I should put PS? Yeah, PS. As much as this seemed funny, it was.

But I would love to come see you. So let me know if you can put me on the list. Okay. There just needs to be a serious line. Okay. Man, that was good, right? So is it okay that he's, like, lying about the whole being on your side kind of thing? You know what, Eddie, I don't care.

I mean, went a little hard on that one. Because he's definitely not. He actually did the research that convinced us of the opposite. Because I was like, I don't know. What do I know about this case? Sometimes people in lunchbox, well, actually, he did it, and here's why I think that. Yeah. When you read into it, it didn't seem like he did it.

Okay. you just contradict for the letter. T-T for life, man. Send it off today. Okay. And then every week or so, we'll just check in and see if you've got a letter back. What if he writes back? Are there any rules? Can you send it next day air to prison? Or do you have to send it regular? Like, is there a rule on the envelopes coming in? I don't know what kind of packages they can get in prison? Like, can I send a care package? Like, could I send goldfish with it? No. Probably not. You have to get a money. And they're going to look at every letter that's sent. obviously. Oh yeah, they check it for

drugs, everything. But I wonder if you could just send, because we use stamps.com, can we just send it like UPS? Yeah, that's a good question. Guy in the brown truck drives up. That's Todd Crisley. You should call the prison and ask them. I will. Yeah. Yeah, do that. We'll check with you in about a week or so. We won't hear anything in a week, but we'll check with you anyway.

Okay. All right. Nice job. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either.

We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands.

I said, oh, hell no. I vowed I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, everyone?

I'm Ego Vodom. My next guest, you know from Stepbrothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Farrell My dad gave me the best advice ever I went and had lunch with him one day And I was like And dad I think I want to really give this a shot

I don't know what that means But I just know the groundlings I'm working my way up through And I know it's a place they come Look for up and coming talent He said if it was based solely on talent I wouldn't worry about you Which is really sweet

Yeah He goes but there's so much luck involved And he's like Just give it a shot He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there.

Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to thanks dad on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. In 2023, Former Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a paternity scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth.

You doctored this particular test twice in so much, correct? I doctored the test ones. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case. I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for. Sunlight's the greatest disinfected. They would uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg Alesspian and Michael Marantini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trap.

Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Americopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I don't think there's a single person on this planet that doesn't love when we interview Jelly Roll. His interviews always go crazy. And this one in particular, because Bobby asked him some uncomfortable questions from our listeners, went mega viral on Instagram and TikTok. Y'all blew it up on our website.

That's why it's in this number two spot. It's Jelly Roll talking about his career, but this was before even. Just he had all his blowups because this happened at the beginning of August. We've had him in since then. So we really had two Jelly Roll interviews this year. But this interview happened in August. And he was answering uncomfortable questions. And there's a moment in here that happens.

And it will give you a really good laugh. The way Jelly Roll responds to Bobby, I think that's particularly why it blew up the way that it did on social media. So what you're going to hear now is probably going to make you laugh and make you smile and then probably make you want to go jam jelly roll music for the rest of the day. So here it is. This is Jelly Roll answering some

uncomfortable listener questions that Bobby asked him. Number two, it's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. His birth name is

Jason DeFord. His performer name is Jelly Roll and he has been killing it. So Jelly Roll, let's do this. Son of a sinner. Need a favor. His debut country album,

Witsa Chapel is out. His documentary, his Jelly Roll, saved me. He's had both a rock and a country number one song. He was engaged and got married to his wife Bunny on the same night. Here he is, our friend. On the Bobby Bones Show now, Jelly Roll. Walking into the studio right now is a guy that I think we all like. As a person, we all love as an artist.

He's killing it right now. Here he is, Jelly Roll. Yes, baby, that's what I'm talking about. What's up, buddy? What's up, Bobby, baby? I was talking about you. Last time we saw each other a few weeks ago at the Grand Ole Opry and I've been either performing at the Opry and I performed before you went on and I could

feel something was just a little on just a little just a little different right because the crowd they were just like and I'm up telling jokes and I'm like man this crowd is like in it and then when you came out and I've seen many people play the opera and I've seen like Garth playing it go bananas I've never seen the reaction from the beginning of an Opry set as electric as it was when you walk in the history of me going to the opera. It was as electric of the grand ol' operas I've ever seen at the beginning of a set. Dude, it was so special that night, Bobby. And I heard you talk about it on the Bobbycast.

Thank you for that, man. I didn't, I thought, like, you know how in a moment you're like, this was, this is crazy? And then the next day you're like, I still think it was crazy. So, you know, sometimes you wake up the next day. Like, it wasn't. It was crazy, but it wasn't. So I went and watched it again. And it would, dude, it was everything me and you thought it was.

There was a time where the crowd was going so crazy. And there's like a three-minute commercial break in. and jelly were going to sit and just kind of talk in between on the live stream where people are watching. And they wouldn't sit down because of a standing ovation that I was like, ask, go it, a lot of them cheer. They'd show for three whole minutes until we went back. It was awesome. It was all crazy. What has been the craziest part of this recent season for you?

Because you've been going, you've been grinding for a while. But what's been the craziest part of this recent season where, again, you have to like look back and go, man, that's still crazy that that happened of all of this? Oh, dude, I mean, where do you start, dude? Meeting Garth Brooks, winning three CMT awards. I mean, what about the greatest night? Dude, I didn't go to prom. You know what I mean? I didn't have a prom.

I didn't graduate, and I'm sure that's what it felt like. Both in one night in front of six million people. I mean, it was the greatest night. I caught out, you know, dude, I did the North Dakota State Fair. I broke the attendance record at a fair that's been there for 50 years. Wow. Almost 19,000 people. We beat Aerosmith's record by like 27 tickets.

It was insane. Everywhere we go is like just my relationship with the police that they picked me up from airports now and take me places. This is the coolest thing now. I see police and I'm like, that's my friend. I know they're here to help. They now get you instead of apprehend you. Exactly.

It's just a word switch there. It's a difference. Yeah, it's great. So the Hulu documentary, how has that impacted folks that maybe wouldn't have known who you were? Because I imagine a lot of people like, I saw that. Dude, it was, I get it all the time. I get people that are even like, hey, man, not a country fan, but dude, love you.

Love the story. Watch the doc, you know. And I think it was most important, kind of like we talked about on this show, kind of catalyst that whole thing with what we're doing for at-risk youth. And I think that it's kind of a thing, too, that I think it brought attention to a cause that people never really thought about existing. And that was one of my purposes and agreeing to do the documentary from the beginning. So when you talk about at-risk youth and you've done, and you're constantly trying to do a lot for kids that are,

right now serving time or young adult serving time. Why? Why is it important to help the kids or the young adults incarcerated right now? Well, it's deeper than just helping that. I think that as an artist or as a human that progresses in life that we have an obligation to give back. I think it's just so important for us to be conscious of always what we can do. And I think things that are passionate are the most important to us, right? So for me, it's important because I was a juvenile. I wasn't at-risk kid. And I say it all the time. I support the adult jails.

We go see them all the time. But, you know, by the time you go to your fourth or fifth time in jail, you're an adult, you've got to figure out a way to break the cycle. When you're 16 years old, you don't understand the cycle. You don't need discipline. You need love. You need rehabilitation. There's times in life you need discipline, but not when you're a 15-year-old kid.

And I just want to go back and give them courage, dude. It's cool. I go to that same juvenile now, and that same juvenile I was locked up into that parking lot of that stadium. I just played CMA Fest. You know what I'm saying? I got to, like, you can do it. It's obtain them.

And I think it also helped because when I was in there, Bobby, nobody ever came to talk to me that I related to. The Gideons would come and give us Bibles, and I appreciated that because I read the Word of the Lord because of that, which has been a strong anchor of my faith. But I didn't understand these 75-year-old men with bow ties. You know what I mean? We're a bunch of convicts.

So it's like, hopefully me coming in there kind of spreads that love when we go in there, too, and lets them know that there is hope on the other side of your summer of 16. Jellyrolls here, we're going to play Need a Favor, which is, man, this song's just so good. It's just so good. Like I like the other, I mean, I really like the other stuff too, but this song, like the first time I heard it, it just hits different. One, the message obviously. I think we all feel like that too. I think we all feel like that.

Like we kind of ask for help. Like we pray mostly when we need it more than we try to be better at it. We make like deal. But I mean, this was it. So tell me about this song and how it all came together like creatively here. Well, all of a sudden and then we called me with the idea. And I loved everything about it. I just felt like we needed it. The production was probably going to be the most important part of this for us because I wanted it to feel like an old church anthem. Like I grew up, I gave you a typical Sunday in the South for me yesterday. I woke up and my brother became a deacon at a little small church in South Nashville. And my daughter's best friend got baptized, so I had two. And that's not a normal thing for me.

You know what I mean? But also, it wouldn't surprise me of either one of them had a drink on Saturday night. One of them was a 50-year-old deacon. The other one was a 16-year-old high schooler. You know what I'm saying? and I think that's also indicative of a Sunday in the South, right? Or a Saturday in the South, should I say. And I wanted it to feel like that.

I was like, what does worship music for real sinners feel like? And that's what was important for the song. Jelly, when you and your wife met, did you get engaged and married, like super close to each other? Oh, yeah. How quickly did you get engaged and married? The same night, I guess technically. Well, so I was at the 10. What do you mean I guess technically?

So we got one of them old stories that we didn't, we don't know our anniversary. And this is why. I asked her at the tin roof here in Nashville to marry me. And one night we were in there drinking, I was like, we were just talking about it. I was like, I'm in. We were in Vegas out one night. Is that how you proposed literally? We should just do it.

I'm in? Yeah, yeah. It was something like, I mean, it was a little more drunkenly romantic, but we were both, you know. But we went down to Vegas and we were out there and they had a show. Yellow Wolf had a show with the death tones. And Yellow was like, what are you doing the night? I was going to go to the courthouse after this and get married. I'm just kind of, you know, kind of nudging him.

He's like, you see her? I'm like, yeah, he's like, come out on stage and say it. So I brought Bunny out on stage at the joint in Las Vegas, which is now the theaters at the Virgin Hotel. And I asked her, would she marry me that night? And she said, yeah, and we got straight off that stage. Didn't even watch the rest of the yellow wolf set or the death tones. Got straight in a car and went and found a courthouse.

And sat did it right then. Went to a little chapel. We got married by a little lady that looked like a hobbit. And because we got married at like 1 o'clock in the morning, we like, they let us pick our anniversary. so we don't really know what day we actually got married on. So this year, we play Vegas on our anniversary somewhere between the 30th and September 1st, August 30th, September 1st. So when I play Vegas, shameless plug, tickets are still available now at Jellero 615.com.

When I play Vegas at night, we're going to leave the show, go straight back to the little chapel we got married at and do it again. This is where we're going to have a real date. That's going to be September 1st. I'm doing a show on that stage, the Virgin Theater stage, where you and your wife got shameless plug bobbybones.com. and come after that, comedically inspirational, Bobbybones.com. But I'm doing,

that's what I do on my show where you guys got engaged at that version, that theater. It is awesome. Have you been there before? Uh-uh. It's kind of like a legendary,

it used to be called the joint because it was connected to the hard rock hotel. It's kind of like a legendary little rock club. It's huge, too. It's like four or five thousand people. That's a big club, dude.

How are you, how are you feeling? You look good. I feel great. You look the best I've ever seen you look. I'm telling you, baby. Like your hair looks good. It's like, is this a new hair? I cut my hair.

Looks good like you're busy. I don't know. Why did y'all let me run out here looking homeless and unkept for so long? I know I had a song called Long Hair, Son of a Center, but nobody loved me enough to be like, dude. My wife kept saying it, I thought she was being a hater. Why would I not listen to the person I trust the most? You know, and she's like, I'm telling you, dude, you got to do something. You look really unkept.

Nobody else was saying, I was like, I'm thinking I'm looking great. And finally, I was like, I look really bad, man. But you look good. I feel great. What are you doing differently? I'm drinking less. I'm eating better. I'm losing weight.

I'm not, I'm working out a little bit, but kind of taking it slow. Are you playing golf at all? Not as much. Dude, I'm swinging. That's the first place I ever met, ever met Jelly Ever was on a golf course. He was up in the car ahead of us with our friend Steve. Yeah, I love you, Steve. And he was like, right with Steve.

And he was like, hey, this is Jelly Roll. And I'm like, the rapper? It was like, yeah. I was like, all right, all right. That's the first place we ever met. Dude, I haven't had much time to. Dude, I've been, I've been pushing, man. I'm probably going to do 200 shows this year if I had to guess.

I've been to leave for that 44 city tour. and just really been cranking, man. I've been kicking. You're touring like a rock star or hip-hop artist because you're staying out and doing weeknights too, right? Oh, yeah. We're doing a lot of Tuesdays and Thursdays. My 50-something city tour that I'm fixing to leave on

will average four and a half shows a week. That's a lot of shows. Your voice is interesting because, again, you can do multiple things because, again, I knew you first as a rapper, but you're also a good singer. Like, what do you think you're best at? I think I'm you know I don't know enough about singing I just I think what I'm best at is songwriting right right I think my real strength lies in my ability I chose connection over entertainment Bobby that was probably the biggest decision I made early in my career was what did I want to be an artist that entertained people or did I want to be an artist that connected with people and I think that's my biggest attribute I think I'm actually mediocre at everything like singing mediocre you know like I'm not like you're not gonna be you're pretty you are you can sing yeah because I was a honestly I'm a too much

be honest with. We can be for it with each other. The first time you were going to come and sing, or the first time I was like, can he? Because I'd listen to a lot of your, just a lot of your hip-hop stuff. I was like, can he say, but yeah, you can sing. So better than mediocre. I don't, you know, I get it. I do the same thing. I'm like, I'm so ugly, but, you know, everybody knows I'm a model, right? Let's see. But so do you feel like you're a better rapper or because you've done it longer? Yeah, well, I think I know more about, it's like if it was a sport, I think I know more about that sport. But I think I sing with conviction. I think you connect with country music so well.

I think you're connect. You're right. It's about connection. Yeah, I think I sing with conviction. And I think that resonates with people. And I'm not afraid to sing about the stuff that people are afraid to sing about. What was this story at that Dallas Waterburger where you tipped employees a thousand bucks? How did that all come together?

God, I hope nobody ever asked that. Because I don't remember it. That's funny. That's funny. So what do you think happen there? I had to relive it when it went viral. And I was like, that was so sweet of me. I do that all the time, though, but I just don't, you know, I'm not like normally.

I'm not getting film doing it. It's like, my crew knows that if we ever, like, we're like, my mother was a bartender, so I'm like a super crazy tipper by just nature. Just because I think on my mom, I'm like, somebody's got a little jelly roll that needs an extra jelly roll at the house. You know what I mean? But these kids were just cool, I guess, and I was just lit, man. We were celebrating, dude.

That was an ACM night. We had a party. I had went to air. I knew it was over when I showed up to Old Dominion's party at an Applebee's. Old Dominion had a bar. Old Dominion had a post-acem. And I showed up there at like 1.45 in the morning. I tried to kidnap Mitchel Tenpenny.

I mean, it was a wild, wild night, dude. Kidnap him. Yeah, yeah, I did. I put him in. I was like, just go with us. He was like, what are you doing? I was like, come on, man, we're going to this other party. And then we went to go see Dustin.

But dude, it was one of the coolest nights. I like you're doing an impression of you drunk. He's doing his own impression of himself. That's exactly how I sounded in the thing. When I was like, how many y'all are in there? You can just hear the just blackoutness in my voice. And I was on my live. That's what's even worse.

Or was it my live that went viral or theirs? Because apparently I was on Instagram live. Yeah, it was yours. Yeah, I don't know what I was. I never go live and three in the morning, four in the morning, drunk jelly after an ACM performance, Laini Wilson. I met Garth Brooks. That's what I was really celebrating.

Yeah. Jelly Rolls here. We're going to come back, do one more segment with Jelly Roll. You guys, let me say this. The album is Wizard Chapel, but again, he's on the road, and the Backroad Baptist tour is happening, and it's a lot of shows, but you're going to so many places. I mean, wherever you are listening to our show all over the country,

I looked, you're going near kind of everybody. You're all over the country. Yeah, here's my story, man. And this is my sales pitch about my tour. If I'm not coming to your town, I am coming close enough to drive. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, like you're near everybody that's listening right now. Yes, yes, sir.

So you guys go and go to the show, jellyroll 615.com, right? Yes, sir, jelleyroll-615. All right. All right, you guys check out jelly roll 615.com, or you can follow them, Instagram and Twitter at at Jellyroll 615. Okay, I have uncomfortable questions from our listeners to you. All right. It's hard to make me uncomfortable, so this will be fun.

Okay, cool. Let's see what happens then. You know what I mean? The easy one. Who is the most famous person in Jellyroll's phone? The Rock. That's cool. Yeah, I mean, he's one of the most famous people on Earth.

I don't think I'll ever meet nobody more famous than DJ. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool, too. If it's even cooler, when he told me to call him DJ, I was like, thank you, sir. Does Jelly Roll drive an expensive car? No, no, I don't drive like, no. I drive like, like, like, Rams and stuff. I mean, it's expensive compared to, like, when I was, yeah, for sure, I drive it.

Really expensive. But it's, you know, driving like a Bentley or anything? Dude, fat people don't drive sports cars, man. We're just like a bigger truck or something. I just need something with more space. You know what I mean? Could you imagine me trying to get? You'd have to jaws a life of me out of a Ferrari out there, Bob.

Y'all'd be out there with a saw. I'm not even laughing at this. I'm not even laughing at this. Scoobestee would be out there trying to saw me out of my car to come. I never even thought about that. Okay, okay, okay. Does Jellydroll have any, and don't mention them by name, but are there specific executives who told you,

hey, you're not going to make it in country music, because you're not what country music is. Oh, dude, 95% of the labels in this town. So that non-uncomfortable, then who believed in you? Jonathan Loba, Joe Jamie, and Adrian Michaels from BMG. Broken Bow Records bet everything on me. They believed I wouldn't blow their relationships, and I owe him my life. Loba, I love you, Joe Jamie, I love you, Carson.

I mean, that whole staff. The radio team's the best. I love that label. Jellyroll posted a TikTok of him getting on a private flight. Does he fly private to every show? Not every show, just the shows where I can't make it on a bus. And finally, what's the most amount of hours Jelly Roll Estate awake for?

I used to do cocaine. Does that keep you up? Oh, goodness, yes. Bobby. I've never even seen it. No. I've never seen it either. I expected that from you.

Bobby? I've never even seen it, yeah. I just have trouble believing Bobby's that. I don't mean no disrespect, Ms. Amy, but you're, as we say, as green is a pool table and twice a square. We like that. We agree with that, right?

And I thought Bobby was just green, but that hurts my feelings. We should hang out sometime. Not to do drugs, but just the culture. Just the culture each other. You know what I'm saying? That's funny. It'd be really cool. There's stuff you could teach me, too.

I've never seen a diploma. You know? Bobby's a doctorate. Do you ever think about, you ever think about, you know, getting GD? My mom and back got her GD. I did. I did. I did get it.

You did it? I was proud of myself. That's awesome. It was a really cool moment for me, man. That is, I was super proud of my mom too. She got pregnant at 15. You know what? Let me spill something I've never said ever. I did two years of community college when I first got out of jail. My probation officer said you have a choice to do school or work and I'd never had a job. I'd only done, you know, what a legal activity. So I was like, I don't even know how I'd work. But I felt, I was really proud of my GED.

So I went to volunteer state community college and got an associate's degree in sociology. Dude, that's awesome. Why sociology? Never said that on interview. I just thought that even then my heart was to give back. I came out of that. feel so focused on changing my life that I was like, well, let me learn something about the environment, how I can help the people around me and how, you know, the idea that our social circumstances kind of mold who we are. Because I feel like it's kind of nurture, kind of a little bit of nature and nurture. You know what I mean? And I was, I don't know. I just, I was, I was drawing to that. I thought I might be a social worker. I still think I might be when I grow up. I'm

not sure. And you kind of are in a different way. Exactly. You are. Hey, man, I'm proud of you. I'm proud for you. Yeah, I'd love to see it. You just, people love you. There's a reason. you're magnetic. It's so cool to see you come out and just kill it and not, you know, live in a box and teach other people. They don't have to live in a box. They can be themselves. And I think you're the best version of that. So, well, thank you. Let me praise y'all too. This show has been a friend of mine from the beginning when this town was still very skeptical on me and I wasn't even in the 40s. Y'all gave me a platform. You let me come in here and tell my story. If you haven't seen that, you should go look at it. That video is, I think, close to a million views now if I had to guess.

And it was one of the great. It was definitely an undeniable. I know you hate when people praise. you. But it was an undeniable catalyst for me. It was the cosign that I needed in that moment. And y'all didn't hesitate in a mental lot. And I came in here nervous. Now I found out that you y'all are really cool. It's just really tense. Proud of you, Jellie. Thank you. Awesome to see. There he is. Jelly Roll, everybody. Love y'all. Yeah, baby. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. And as I've mentioned before, it's always really weird when I have to put a somber message. in this number one spot for best bits.

It's hard for me. It's a conflict because, you know, this is the best bits of the year, but best bits could mean so many things. And it just so happens at the best bit this year, the one that got so much engagement, so much response, is something that isn't so great that happened in somebody's life. But we do come on the show and we talk about a lot of personal things and we share our lives with all of you.

And it's something that you guys really enjoy about the show based on all the feedback that you give us. And so that is why it's always a big deal when something big happens in somebody's life. So Amy shared some really big news in March earlier this year. And that's what's coming in at this number one spot. So if you missed it, Amy and her husband Ben got a divorce. And she shared that news in March of this year. Now, she's talked a lot about it since.

And she's in a really great place. I had her on the best bits a few weeks back. And if you didn't go listen to that, you totally should. We talked a lot about where she's at, how she's dealing with everything right now in this moment, especially going into the holidays without her kids. So, highly encourage you guys to go check that out to hear how she is now, especially hearing this bit right now of her making this announcement. This is coming in at the number one spot. Here's Amy sharing some very personal news about her marriage from March. Number one.

You know, we live a lot of our lives here on the air with you guys sometimes alongside you. Sometimes we share stuff, so, you know, you'll get to know us better. Sometimes we share stuff because it relates and we think we can help. You know, a lot of different reasons. We've been doing this for a long time. I've been doing this since, dang, 17, 18 years old. So I've been doing it for a long time. How old am I?

42? Yes. So we do. We try to share a lot with you for different reasons. And so that's what we're going to do here. And I would just rip the Band-Aid off and just go right at it. That's what I would do. Yeah.

Well, so we share a lot of our lives. and I know listeners have walked alongside so much that we've been through. Both of my parents passing away, the adoption of children, you know, the first year of the show, back in 2006, my first year on the show, I got married. And, you know, I've been walking through something for the last couple of years that it's not a secret, but it's also something that we've kept pretty private so that we could heal as a family and take care of everyone involved. And so, yeah, talking about it right now isn't easy,

but it feels right. Like, this is the right time. And Ben and I, that's my husband, I don't talk about him much. He's always been a very private person. In fact, when I joined the show, he was in the Air Force, and we called him Air Force guy

because he didn't want his name. We did? On the radio. Yeah, when we first started dating, you were like... I should have picked a different branch, though, to not be so dialed in that one. Yeah.

Yeah, but he wasn't, yeah, he's in Air Force. Yeah. So Ben and I are getting a divorce and this is something that was not made lightly at all whatsoever. In fact, like I said, it's been the last couple of years that we've spent a lot of time just working towards what is most loving for everybody involved and really most true to the people that we've become. and I know from my childhood and now as an adult how divorce is painful, stressful, it's emotional. And so really the well-being of our kids. And co-parenting and learning how to co-parent in a way to show up as the best parents possible for our kids has been the top priority through all of this. And so I think that's what we've been working through.

And I'm honestly very, I'm very proud of how we've as a family navigated this whole thing. And I guess it's just, it's hard to, you know, say it. Again, it's not a secret to our people. But just now putting it out there just so I can show up authentically as myself in this new chapter of my life. and nobody wants something like this to happen. I mean, honestly, I never thought it would happen to me. And my younger self would have never allowed it. What do you mean?

Well, thinking back to 2006, my first few years on the radio and marriage, I remember so many topics would come up. And I remember always saying divorce is not an option. And listeners would even call in. And they'd experience more life than me. But again, I came from a divorced home. but I think that's why I was, I held so tightly to that and ended up in a very legalistic environment for a long time. And I think I just, that was something that was rooted in me that I couldn't see past.

And I was like that, I will never do it. And I remember you in lunchbox throwing out different scenarios about my husband potentially being in jail or doing this or that. Right. If a head grows out of his butt. Right. We were throwing all kinds of stuff out of it. Right. And I would be like, not an option.

Right. We'll stand, you know, not an option. What if you killed 80 people? Nope. Nope. I love them. lot of adoption. And so I'm pretty sure it's that younger, my younger self that's been the most terrified of all of this. And so I have to, I have compassion for her and who I was then and

who I was even six years ago. Like one of my dear friends went through a divorce and I didn't know how to support her. And that, I mean, that's what gets me right now. I mean, we've done the healing and in our own relationship, Ben and I both. he's aware we're talking about this right now and um i think that's what i i hurt for how i didn't know how to understand what other people might be going through because the reality is you don't ever really know fully what someone is going through and i wasn't able to be there for my friend and i wasn't able to show up for her and we recently in the last seven or eight months reconnected and were able to repair our relationship.

And I was able to finally see because what Ben and I have been walking through, what she was going through and how I just, I think I, because I didn't understand it, I had some like, why can't you figure this out or a little bit of judgment in there that now I have fully released, thank goodness. And I'm thankful now that I'll be able to show up for people in a different way. And we wouldn't be where we are today at all in this process if it wasn't for the love and support from our family and friends that have walked alongside us with no judgment and just such encouragement and support and wisdom and guidance from therapists. And I just feel like divorce brings up a lot of complicated feelings.

Shame being the number one thing. And so that's what we've been working on releasing. And I feel as though we're finally there. We've released ourselves from any stigma. And my hope in sharing this is really that anyone else walking through this type of loss will also be able to release any shame they feel around it because you're not alone in what you're going through. And so that is where we are.

that everyone is doing well. I was going to ask, like, how are you? It has been very, it is, it has been very hard. But I'm, how am I now? I feel like we're finally on the other side. Like, we weathered multiple storms at the same time, not even just this. There was a lot happening at once for our family

that almost didn't seem, like, how can this happen all at the same time? But now that we're on the other side, of it, I see actually how divine each thing was. Like one of the things had to happen for the next thing to be able to happen. And then for the next thing to happen. And again, those are details that are close to our family. But I say that to also encourage anybody else going through multiple hard things is to, sure, you have to process and deal with it. But just somewhere, somehow, start to process, okay, what does this make possible? And don't waste it. Don't waste what you've been through

and linger in that hurt and pain. Like if you can process and heal, then you can get to the other side and see what came from it. And for our family, so much has come from the last two years that actually we're now on the other side better people. What do you feel like you've learned about yourself? That I mean resilient is a word that comes to mind

which feels weird to say about yourself but all of us that were involved like there was a time in probably 20, 21 that I didn't

I mean I wouldn't I didn't fear for I didn't think I would do anything to myself. But there were times where if I I'd be driving down the highway and I thought okay

like if I were to just get in an accident that would be okay. You know? Like it was that hard. So resilient comes to mind because we persevered as a family. We showed up for each other. We're a team.

We've been and I both are a team. Like we went to therapy about all of this and mostly just to a lot of co-parenting but us trying to figure out what was happening and where we were going to go and what we were going to do and that was a year we saw one couple's therapist for a year every week a lot of those were two-hour sessions there was a season where I would leave work and I had therapy for other things that were going on in our life that last one of the things was intense like five weeks three hours a day and that's where I would leave here and go do that and it was it was heavy but and I know there was a time where

I was absent from the show during some of that and like you said you know you've said many many times before if you're not in a right space like go take care of yourself you don't have to be here so I'm thankful for that I mean this work plate this our work environment is as part of that that support that I'm talking about from family and friends. And again, the therapist, like, I say all that because it took work. You can't just come out on the other side of stuff like that without really digging deep. And it was heavy and it's hard to do stuff like that, but we came out on the other side. And I feel as though I can see the rainbow now.

Like the storms have passed and I know in life I'll encounter more storms for sure, but what we've walked through, I just don't think now I'll grip so tightly to the umbrella. Like I feel like I just was holding on to it and I couldn't see the rainbow. But now, now I just have different tools and I have different life experience that is now, I think, going to benefit me in this new chapter. And I'm a different, I'm just a different person from it all. Yeah, you've been through a lot, been a pretty heavy 18 months or so, maybe two years. Yeah, I think back, I mean, all of this is probably around 2020. And I know for a lot of people, that happened to be the year that everybody's lives probably got a little crazy. But none of this has anything to do with COVID.

But it all started that year. So it's just a lot. Well, I'm proud of you. I love you. We love you. And like you and I have talked about many times, not even on the air. A lot of people go through their version of this and you shouldn't feel alone, but I think it's something that can make you feel extremely lonely because you really don't hear a lot of people talking about it in a way like you do. We're not talking about it at all except saying this happened on to the next.

Right. And this isn't, again, it's not something that was decided yesterday. This has been well over, like at least. two years, well over a year in this decision. But we were taking care of our family first before it became a thing. And I think, yeah, I just want to be able to show up here in segments and like not have to- Yeah, to have to dodge certain topics. And, you know, Ben and I are both, again, in a good place.

Like, when I say I'm proud of us, I really mean it because it's not easy. And I hope that that's encouragement to. anybody else going through something hard like this is that hopefully, and I know not everybody's blessed with two people that are doing the work and two people that are getting the healing and two people that are wanting to continue the work to make it right. Because if you're in this and you're the only one doing the work and the other person's not, I can't even imagine. Honestly, cannot even imagine. And so my heart goes out to anybody that's in that situation. But I would hope if you're listening to this and you're in that and you may realize like, oh, shoot, I'm not doing the work.

I might be the person that's kind of making this super difficult. My hope would be that, you know, us talking about something like this might be that nudge to get the therapy, get the help, dig deeper, show up as a person that, you know, you can be proud of later that handled it well and well for your kids, well for your kids. Like, that's like for the last year, we have kept the kids in our house and I know not everybody has this option. and it's going to transition soon. We'll start to rotate a week on, week off. We're doing 50-50 custody.

But we had an apartment close by, and the kids would stay in the house, and we would rotate. So every week for the last year, we've been packing bags midweek and switching. And that was important for us to do that, so the kids could feel like they were stable in their home. And now they're involved in the process of their dad getting a new house.

And we drive by and look at houses, and they're like, oh, can he get one with the basement? And, you know, so they're now involved. And they feel like they've got a little agency over this as well. Well, they're also very lucky to have two parents that love them. Yeah, and we do very much. Yeah. Well, I'm proud of you for talking about it.

It would have come up. And you're right. We had to dodge some stuff. And, you know, it's got to be tough to come on and go, young me was kind of uneducated, and this version of me is better educated, and I hope to help other people too. and that's what you did and that's what you're doing.

So, you know, I say it again. We love you. I love you. You know what? Worst things have happened to weaker people, but you'll get through this, be better for it and help others and help them get through similar things as well. I have no doubt.

Yeah, well, I'm able to come out and talk about it now because I feel like I am on that. I've made it to that other side. It didn't seem right to come out any sooner than now. Well, and also, there are things to our listeners, we love 95% of you.

5% of our listeners, we can't stand. But the 5% that want to get on social media and write, like, Amy, we know. Like post stuff. There's a reason she can't share things that it can be legal. It can be kids. It can be. There's a reason, literally.

And you're the reason we don't like 5% of you because you want to get online and be like, Amy, we know. We know we never see your husband in pictures. Amy, what does that even do? There's no reason. Amy's a real life human being. Yeah. Yeah, there's just a lot. It sucks.

I would get so mad when I see people like, we know. Well, yeah, of course. I think people knew, but they didn't get online and be like, because their lives were so worthless, they got to get online and put other people's crap out there. Maybe 94% of your listeners I like. 6% I don't. I get mad.

But anyway, okay, Ray says we have to get out of this break. We're speaking to Ray. I thought he had my name in that envelope. So did I. I hit Amy this morning. I had Amy this morning because we've been talking about this. We're figuring out when we could actually talk about this. Like legally.

And then the envelope happened to be. today. And I text to Amy and said, what if your name's in the envelope? That's why we did the envelope first in case her name was in the envelope. It wasn't her name. But I thought it was. Ray, would you have ever done that? No, but man, I would have looked like a genius. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Oh, guys, that was a whole dozy. I mean, we went up, we went down, we went sideways. We went everywhere this year in 2023. It has been an insane year. and don't get me wrong. There are so many things that are not included here that were massive for the show and things

that happened and things that got talked about. These are just the ones that you guys have engaged with, commented on the most. So if you don't like those, make sure next year in 2024 you're commenting on things that you love. Comments and engagement is always good for all kinds of brands, especially ones that you love. Just a pro tip from a digital director over here. But, dang, this feels weird. This feels weird because I'm ending 2023 right now.

with y'all essentially. Like this is the last best bits before we go into 2024 and I am just sitting here not sure what to do with myself. So thank you guys. Thank you guys for an insane, wonderful year. Thank you for being incredible listeners. Very thankful for each and every one of you that listens to this if and when you do. And I'm thankful that you also push it on other people to listen to when you post on social media and tell your friends. So thank you. Thank you from all of us at the Bobby Bone show. I hope you have a very safe, wonderful new year. And we will see you guys in 2024. I love y'all. Bye. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.

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