The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits with Eddie: PART 1

Episode Date: May 13, 2023

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No, no, no, you don't know hot. Like, Texas is hot and I miss it. That's like the climate that I grew up in. So I do miss being back here. It's cool to see friends and family, but it's also overwhelming because this is when all the friends come out and be like, buddy, you're in town? Like, let's hang out. I'm like busy, like really busy this week.

You're like actually having to work. Yes, because you know that. I mean, we come in town and it's like, we've got a schedule. And friends and family are always just like, what, you don't have like an hour to go get dinner. I'm like, I really don't. I got an hour for dinner, but you're going to have to meet me. And they're just like, no, come to our place.

Like, I can't do that. So it's a little overwhelming. Just kind of, you know, I've learned to not make a big announcement that I'm in town. You know, or else everyone's just going to be like, well, dude, I didn't know you were here. Let's hang out. So it's a little bit. It's a mix of both. That's fair.

Okay. I totally get that. But you're at least excited for the weather and maybe the authentic Mexican food? Absolutely. Yeah. That's one thing you didn't mention. So we got to throw that out there because I know you and Lunchbox complain about the Mexican food in Nashville. You know, I mean, again, we grew up with a certain kind of Mexican food.

And that really doesn't translate in other places, parts of the world or the United States. You know, one of my favorite things, one of my first I heart country festivals that I did with you guys, you lunchbox and I, you guys were like, we have to take her do like a good taco place. And I remember we rolled up to like this hole in the wall out in the middle of nowhere, taco place and it was so good but I still remember that because the food was so good. You guys were so hype about it and it was also just this random place that I just would not have anticipated. Yeah, we took you to Taco Deli. Yeah, it was so good. And I mean, you know, it's so annoying and I'm sorry we did that. But, you know, when you go back and visit places that used to live, like you want

to share the stories. You want to be like, oh, this is right here. This is like where I, you know, whatever, I passed out drunk here. My friends had had dragged me home. And so like that was that for me because I lived right behind that restaurant. Yeah, and you told so many stories. Like, I remember that day very vividly. And we were driving, I think we were in an Uber, and we were just going on back roads. I was like, guys.

Yeah. This is where right here, me and fours got busted. Yes, you guys were just telling your live stories. It was one of my favorite times. We were in Austin. Yeah, that was cool. So maybe we need to make a pit stop at Taco Deli. We should.

That would be yummy. We should, but they close at three, so we got a hurry up. Okay, we got to speed along the process. We haven't even started yet. We had Justin Moore on the show this week, and he was really awesome talking about why he feels like kind of an outlier in country music. And it was just cool to hear his perspective and why he feels that way and why his new album kind of represents that. And talking about Justin Moore, I want to know if you've had a really good interaction with a celebrity recently. Let me tell you this.

This is really cool. And I haven't talked about it really to anyone because it's a moment that I just kind of like enjoyed. but really it sounds kind of show offish if you tell anyone. But like it was really cool. Like we got to, I got to play golf with Kane Brown recently. Okay. And, and yeah, yeah.

And he was surprisingly a lot of fun. Like he's funny, which I never knew Kane to be funny. Like he's just very serious. He talks like this. And he's not a great golfer, but he likes to learn. And so he's open to learn.

He's not, he doesn't throw the clubs. He doesn't get upset because what makes me really like, I hate playing with golfers that like they're bad. Okay, we all know they're bad, but they get mad at themselves when they hit a bad shot. And it's like, dude, you're not good enough to be mad. So don't be mad. Like, just have fun.

And he had fun. And it was really cool. Like, we played, we played 18 holes. He was very chill and fun. Like, and even like after the round, we left the golf course to, like, at the same time. And we ended up at a stop sign together. Like, you know Which is your favorite thing?

Yeah, I love seeing people just in the wild. And I just spend like four hours with Kane And we pull up next to each other Like a red light and I started like making fun of his car And he started revving his engine, you know? And like we acted like we were going to race. And it was cool. And I'm like, I never had that interaction with Kane before.

And I feel like we're buds after that. I don't feel like that was like a kind of boogey thing for you to say. But I've never had the opportunity to just tell that story. Yeah. No one comes up to me and says, Hey, man, have you done anything cool lately? Like, yeah, I got you. This is what the best bits is for, Eddie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's a cool story. But it was really cool. And he is just surprisingly a lot of fun. I think that's probably why he does so well on TikTok. I think that's where more of his personality shines. He kind of gets to truly be himself because he is really chill and laid back. And so you just don't ever anticipate this very, like, goofy, funny side to come out.

Yeah. And I can tell from Caitlin, his wife, that he definitely has that side because she, She has that side. And most of the time, you know, they correlate together. So cool to know in real life he really does. And maybe that's it too because, you know, I'm always really goofy and Bobby's goofy and we're goofy together. And so he played along well with that.

You know, he just kind of like rolled with it. And we love that. You know, all the ways I've heard Bobby described, I don't think I've ever heard anybody call him goofy. That's a new one. When we're playing golf, we're very goofy. Okay. We're just always joking and making fun of each other like the whole time.

You feel like it's an extension of the raging idiots. Yeah. Yeah, anytime we're together, it's the extension of the raging idiots, always. Well, I didn't know with golf. Golf is a competitive sport. Well, he gets competitive. I don't get competitive. Okay.

That's the thing. With golf, like, the second you want to put money down and it gets competitive, I'm no longer having fun. I'm trying to win money and kind of turn into a jerk. Because part of the golf is the mental game. And like, if you want to put money on it, I'm going to mess with your head. And we start calling each other names. We start laughing when someone hits a bad shot. And then you start getting mad.

Oh, you're like, you're like passive, aggressively mean to people. Right. Because it's competitive. But if we're just playing for fun, oh my gosh, like we're helpful. Like, hey, try that again. Don't worry. Don't count that shot. So that's more your vibe.

I love playing golf that way. And Kane allowed you guys to play that way too. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, it was really cool. Shout out to Kane. Well, I also want to shout out. So my sister just got engaged.

Wow. Which was really exciting. But the way that it all happened was cool. So her, my now soon-to-be brother-in-law had called me. It was like a week before and he was like, hey, I'm going to propose to your sister. And I need your help if you can. Okay. I thought he was asking for permission.

No, he did ask my dad. Okay, okay. Which is a funny story all in itself. Apparently, like he kept trying to reach out to my dad. And my dad was like, no, we can all hang out this weekend. My dad had no idea. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, poor dad.

But he was like, my sister's favorite person in country music is Nicole Galleon. Love her. And Nicole and I have gotten to become friends over the years. We're both from Kansas. We just like, we have so many mutual understandings of things. And we've become friends over the years. And it's funny to my sister because she never, like, sees it that way. She's like, that's my sister.

Like, she doesn't do anything cool. Well, I do have, like, Nicole Callion's phone number. And he's like, hey, any chance we could do like a kind of meet and greet situation and I could propose to Taylor then? I was like, I don't know if Nicole will either find this really cool or really weird. I don't know. But I will absolutely ask. And Nicole is about the only person I feel comfortable asking. Most of the time I'd be like, no, I'm good.

You guys can figure it out. But Nicole, I was like, yeah, I actually think this would be really cool. And my sister cannot be surprised to save her life. She figures everything out. And so I hit up Nicole and her team. And they were awesome. Immediately she was like, oh, my God, yes. So they were coming to do a hometown show with Walker Hayes in Wichita.

on it was last Thursday. And they hadn't done meeting groups for the show. Nicole was like it being a hometown show. We just decided not to because we didn't. We weren't sure what was all going to happen. And she was like, but this is such an important thing. I want to find a way to make this work. And my team will find a way to make it work.

And they did. And they set it up. And I got to be on FaceTime during the whole time. Nicole's assistant had me on FaceTime the whole time. Her manager organized the whole thing to help. And Nicole was awesome. They did like a fake meet and greet, basically. And then like towards the end, Nicole starts going.

So like, how did you guys meet? And they start telling their story. My sister's like, what is happening? And then he like gets down on one knee. And it was just the she was so shocked, so surprised in just like glowing of happiness. Because she just got to hang out with her favorite person. And then her other favorite person asked her to marry him. That's really cool.

It was the coolest thing. And I've just, her entire camp, Nicole, everybody was just incredible. That's amazing. And Walker's team who also like allowed for some extra things to happen. Because as you know, when you go on tour, you got to make sure it's in the schedule. Oh, yeah. So just all around, like, the best experience. And they threw it together, like, in a week.

So you like her fiance? I love him. He is a great human. Because that's stressful. You guys are so close. Yes. That, like, you've got to 100% be on board with this. Oh, yeah.

Or else there's going to be problems. You know, it's funny. I've texted him before and we've, like, he's been in our family group chat sometimes or and whatnot. But he called me when this happened. I was like, oh, he's about to propose. Like I knew right away as soon as I got the phone call what was happening. And sure enough, and I could not be more excited.

You know, like it's really cool when they meet someone and it just works and that's exactly what happened with them. It's like they've known each other for years. And I felt just so much happiness in my bones as soon as he was. And it took everything out of me to keep not one, but two secrets for a week. And she, like, I would talk to her and I'd try and like make sly hints, make sure she was getting her nails done, make sure she liked her outfit for the concert, trying not to give anything away, just like normal things we talk about. And it went off without a hitch. So she was

surprised 100%. Oh, had no idea. She was like looking back now, yes. Like I probably these things probably would have allowed me to, but she was just like, nah. She at least knew that like it was going to come at some point. She wanted to marry him. They talked about marriage. Didn't know when, how or what. And so, and she was thrilled. So it was the coolest experience. It was the coolest experience. of me getting to do what I do every day and getting to connect that for my literal best friend and family. And to see that all like come to fruition was just the coolest thing. And isn't that awesome that like a camp and an artist?

Like they don't have to do any of that. I've learned in this industry you can easily just say like, can't do it. Like we've tried everything. It's not maybe next time. Like it's so easy to do that. And sometimes it's even like you have to do that. But it's hard. hard to say like, no, no, no, you know what?

We're going to make that happen. And we're going to move pieces around. We're going to move schedules. And like, that's really cool. And Nicole did that for you guys. That's really awesome. And that's why it's like, it's so close to my heart now and I'm never going to forget it because I even went in with the text.

I was like, hey, if it doesn't work out. Like that's just not my personality. Two, one, ask of anything of anybody. And two, especially to ask somebody who like I'm creating a friendship with. And I was just like, totally cool if you can't. But I've just like throwing it out there in case it, you know, some way we can. just for them to make it work and go above and beyond. And they, like, toasted champagne with her.

They, like, had a whole hang afterwards that I was not a part of. And then you start getting jealous. You're like, oh, what the crap? Like, but it ended up being so perfect. I was like, if I can't be there, at least Nicole's, like, other favorite person could be there. And it was just, it was magical. That's awesome. So I can't say enough good things.

So go listen to Nicole Gallion's new record. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Go support her. She doesn't need it. Like, you guys probably know a lot of her songs that she's written. She's a massive songwriter in town, but she also has a really cool, very Kansas dedicated album that she put out, which is really good as well. So I just had to shout her out. Yeah.

Because I just, I like cry thinking about it. I cried when she got engaged. I bet you did. That's your bestie. Yes. And Nicole, it was so cute. As on FaceTime, I'm watching, she goes, I was more nervous for this than I was performing. I get that.

Yeah, just the whole five. So all good things. So Kane Brown, Nicole Gallion, good people. Shout out. Good peoples. Is that what we say? Yeah, good peoples. Good peoples.

Why not? Amy talked about this week a emotional support animal story that her son's teacher shared. It wasn't their emotional support animals. Oh man, that's crazy. But traumatizing. Yeah. A reason why they can't have support animals. Which also, let me tell you, as a person who owns a therapy dog, this blows my mind.

Because Remy is so well behaved that she could. never, she also could never on her, like, I wouldn't ever allow her to get close in that scenario. So I just feel like there were, granted, emotional support animals are different. They don't need training. They can go in as long as they're pretty relatively tame and they're obedient, then they're okay. But I'm just shocked that this was, in any situation, that happened.

I know. It's crazy. Blows my mind. So that's on the best bits and you can go listen to that. But I want to talk about quirks of animals. Because, you know, at the end of the day, listen, it could be the most well-trained animal. They all have their quirks. They're like humans.

They got their things. Oh, yeah. And so we don't get to hear about Coachella a lot, which is your dog. Coachella is a trip because she is like a teenage girl. I mean, now, I mean, she's older now. I mean, I think she's like seven or eight. You know, we got her from the Humane Association. So we adopted her from there.

So you get a dog from there. They really don't know how old they are. They give you like an estimate. Yeah. I think she's like eight. maybe. But she, she has her routines. Okay. So like, really, if we don't call her or say, Hey, Coachella, let's go for a walk or like, hey, girl, come on, come on down. We're like going somewhere. She will not leave her spot. Like she, she's gone. You'll never see her unless someone

rings the doorbell. Then she's downstairs to greet. But she needs every day. It's so funny, other than her walk. She needs sun time. Like, it's one hour of sun time. It's usually around noon where she scratches the door. I need to get out. And she goes to the backyard and just lays on her back, spreads all her paws and gets sun for an hour. And it's like, where's Coachella? You know where she is.

It's noon. And that's her thing. Like, I don't know. It's so funny. But to her, it's probably like a necessity where she needs her vitamin D. And like, yeah. And so she goes out there on cloudy days. She's like, she's grumpy because she doesn't get her son, which is odd because you.

told me a while back that like I was like she's so weird and whatever and you're like you're like you know dogs are just like their owners so this makes sense and and I've always thought about that and I look at her I'm like hey I like the sun like I crave the sun I thirst the sun some days so maybe us and dogs are really alike oh she's 100% picking up on you mr beach guy yeah beach guy and then some days I just don't leave me alone I'm gonna be my room all day well think about it this way Eddie if you had the choice every day to go out on the beach you would yeah and so coachella knows that every day she has the chance to go outside we took her to the beach one time oh my gosh the biggest mistake ever like when she saw the sand and realized that she could this like run all over the sand

i couldn't catch her like she was oh you didn't have her on the league no no no i was like you know what she because she's really good without a leash to where like she's i just have to yell her name and she'll stop where she's at and then i can go up to her and and put a leash on if I need to. But no, in the beach, she just ran and ran and followed seagulls and followed birds and jumped in the water. And I couldn't grab her. Like for, you know, 10 minutes, I'm like, oh my gosh, she won't stop.

She was living her best life. She loved it. But yeah, that was, yeah, I only take her to the beach once. Oh, you need to take her back again. Oh, no, no. I'm telling you, it was a nightmare. And then it's just the birds. Like, she cannot.

She has terrible ADD. and it was like one bird I want to kill you and then she'd follow that bird and see another one I want to kill you and then she'd go to that bird and then I mean it was nonstop

oh but think about how happy she was very happy she was very happy and if you did it like you know every so often she'd probably tame down a bit because it'd be like okay yeah I'm used to it

I mean if we live by the beach I mean yeah I would take her every day oh my she is she's taking after you I guess you're right I'm telling you what is Remmy

I'm sure Remy has like thousands oh my god yes but I need pictures of Coachella sunbathing. Okay, I'll get you a picture. I also, I think you need to post that when you're back from your digital detox because that would bring everyone happiness to see her sunbathing. Every day. Just live in her life. What does she do in the snow though? She doesn't really like the snow. Like so when it's snowy out, she won't try and go outside. She goes outside, she won't try and she goes outside, she does the high pa. You know what I'm talking about? Like quick pick up like, don't judge. Yeah. She like takes one step and then up real high and then and then she does, goes outside, does her business and then comes back in. Yeah. So not the same. She's like, oh, I don't like this. But my kids are the same way. And you're that way, Eddie.

You don't like the cold. That's true. I don't, but I do like the snow. Snow is one thing. I like playing in the snow. But my kids, they're like, oh, I'm like, guys, it's a snow day. And they go outside for like 10 minutes. It's cold.

And I'm like, well, it's a snow day. Like, let's go sledding. Let's do something. Like, it's cold. My hands hurt. The idea that you can be inside with hot chocolate watching a movie. That's what they like better. Yeah, I get it.

It does. You get cold pretty quickly, especially when you're used. to hot weather, especially like Tennessee, Texas weather. Yeah. You're used to it. Yeah, Remy has quirk. And I'll share one of Remy's, but the reason I even brought this up is because my new cat that I adopted, they say it takes about three months for any adopted animal to kind of really showcase

their personality. And she's so funny. She now watches me sleep. Like stares at you? I've woken up every morning and she's just sitting right next to you. She just wait in. She doesn't pot me. Do you look at her?

What are you looking at? Why are you being weird? She hears my alarm and she jumps up on the bed and waits. And like, you up yet? Like, and just sits there. Does she want something for me or just? I think it, I think she wants to say hi and she also wants to be fed. But she doesn't do anything about it.

That's probably just the fed part. Yeah. She's definitely, oh my gosh, she loves food. Where's my food? That is. Is she fat? No. She's six pounds.

Okay. She's teeny tiny. But she eats a lot. She loves food. This is her other quirk. She loves cheese. Really? I literally have two cheese monster.

Well, three, because of me. Two in my house. Like, I bring out the shredded cheese box and they are both at my feet. And if I put cheese down for Remy first, Hazel nose dives at it. Like, that's my. I'm like, no, you get your own. You guys get your own. Do they fight?

No, they don't fight. But Hazel will hiss at Remy if she, like, gets a little bit in her space. But the other day, like, Remy was taking a nap and Hazel started kneading, making biscuits on her. And Remy didn't move. She just laid there. That's so funny. We're going. Yeah, that's great.

But yeah, they still like, cheese. If she's involved, they may get a little sassy with each other. That's her quirk. But yeah, she watches me sleep and it kind of creeps me out. I'll wake up in the morning. I'm just like, where, where do you come from? I feel like animals like are old humans. They are.

Because like Coachella looks at me too like that sometimes. And I'm looking at them like, what are you looking at? And she just stares. And she's like, even when I talk to her, she like is more even engaging. I'm like, what are you thinking right now? Right? Don't you just wish you knew what they were going in, what they talk about? Like, Hazel also talks to me all the time. She meows a lot, especially when food's involved. She really just loves food. And I think that comes from the hoarding situation because I have no idea if she was fed all that often.

And so she hangs out in the kitchen. Like, she knows that's where food's coming from. And she'll just sit there and meow. Like, hey, anybody hear me? Anyone? That's so funny. I think, I just wish I knew what it was that she was trying to tell me. I just assume I'm like, okay, you want food? That's what I was assumed. Like, all right, there's three things. You want to go outside.

There's food or you want to play. Yep. There's no in between. And so one of Remy's quirks, speaking of attention, if I am gone too much, like out of the house a lot or if I come home and, I mean, you know me. I work on my computer all the time. If I do one of those two things and it's just a lot in a short span of time, she will come up and knock my hands off the computer and like pot me and say, you've had enough.

Nice. You need that. Yes, she's very good about it. And I love her for it. Like most people be like, oh, I'm annoyed. I got to work. I'm like, no, I appreciate it. What if you have a deadline, though?

Oh, she'll come up there. She didn't care about deadlines? As long as I get down and play with her for a few minutes and like make sure I, you know, distract myself for a few minutes with her. She's very good about making sure I, like, kind of live in the moment, which is weird to say about a dog can do that, but she's so good at it. And that's kind of one of her works. I mean, dogs are smart. She knows what she's doing. Do you, does Remy like do the nose, like put your head, put your hand on my head kind of thing?

And then like when you move your hand, she like does it. Yeah, like I want more. Or she'll paw at it. Like she communicates with her hands like a human. That's crazy. Which is wild. They've always said doodles are basically a little spies. You know how everybody used to think that pigeons were like the drone government spies?

Now they think it's doodles. hilarious. And Remy is half poodle. You live with the one. Yeah. So I have a little drone in my house. And sometimes I question it. I'm like, you know too much.

What do you know? Yeah. So animal quirks. Every animal has them. Every single one. Yes. But I love Coachella. If you look like just past all my past pets, like I can name little quirks that they all had.

And I love it. Because it's their little personalities coming out. Yeah, individual personalities. And it always makes me wonder, were you like a human in another life and this was your quirk? And now it's coming out. I really true. I believe that. Like it's just they do things that we're just like, that's so weird.

And it's very human-like. Yeah. It really is. Yeah. We'll just choose to believe that. They had these really cool past lives. Yeah. On a recent episode of the podcast, Money and Wealth with John Hobriant,

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Ooh, this is going to be fun. So on the show, there's a segment that happens called Rejected Segments, where you guys hear a lot of segments that make the show, but then rejected segments is ones that didn't quite make the show but made the show in a segment. They just got rejected. But this is now rejected, rejected segments. Eddie, they didn't even make the show. Sometimes when we like, when I send in stories, I know they're not going to make it. So I'll just write on it like rejected segment before it's rejected. You reject your own segment.

Oh, yeah, because I know it's not going to make the show. Like anytime I talk about poop, I know it's not going to make the show. But sometimes I have poop stories. Like sometimes I have like, you know, we can talk about this right now. I really hope this is about your kids. Let's do, it's not about my kids. Let's do a rejected segment right now that I know we'll never do on the show. Okay, but correction. This is rejected, rejected, rejected segment. Rejected segment. Okay. So like I have a pattern of going to the bathroom. Like, it's every day at two o'clock. Okay. Are you do have a pattern? Yeah. Like every day around this time is when you need to go to the bathroom and do your thing. Yeah, I thought that was normal though. Are you going to tell me it's not? No, it's completely. I think, I mean, that's how I live my life. You live your life like that too. But what happens is. is like if I change something in my schedule, sometimes it changes to like 6 a.m. And I'm like, whoa, I didn't anticipate this. And then once you break that cycle and you go at 6 a.m., then your body readjust and says,

now your time to go is 6 a.m. And I've been on this 6 a.m. for two weeks now. And I'm like, this is not good. I'm at work at 6 a.m. I can't just get up and leave and go to the bathroom. And so it's a pickle. So can you readjust and shift your schedule? When you got to hold it, can you hold it?

How long can you hold it? Well, I don't know. I don't think that's good for you. That's what I'm saying. It's not good for you. Maybe you can like, so like on a weekend, maybe you sleep in a little bit longer. And so if you're sleeping, you don't wake up. Sleeping's the same way.

Oh, it wakes you up? Like, what, to go to the bathroom? Yeah, like on the weekend, is it still 6 a.m.? Yes, that's what I'm saying. but I don't sleep in on the weekends anymore. I'd say for the last two years I can't sleep in on the weekends. That sounds terrible. Well, have kids and that's just what happened.

I knew that was coming following that. It's just terrible. Okay, but maybe you just sleep until like seven. You just keep pushing it back a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I think the key is to hold it until two and then get yourself back in that routine. But it's, that's not good.

I don't think you got eight hours in your system. You can't. And sometimes you can't hold it. You know what I mean? Sometimes you just can't. You know, I have a crazy. I think that is, I think it's fair. Let me just, before you go and I think it's fair that you're concerned about your schedule.

Can I tell you a funny story? Yeah, of course. This is a funny story that my friend told me because we were talking one day. We were drinking beers talking about, I don't know how we got on this topic. I was talking about how I was walking the dog one day and I was like on the other side of the neighborhood and I had to go. Like really bad. And I almost didn't make it. I thought about like going in between two houses and just like.

Yeah, yeah. I really did. That's beyond public indecency. I don't even know it. No, no. I was like, I'm not going to make it. Like, I have no choice. I'm going to have to, like, go through those, between those bushes and, like, just let her rip.

So anyway, we, like, laughed about that, and I eventually made it back. We were okay. It was close, but it was, we were okay. It didn't have to go in between the houses. But I ran, like, clinched. You know what I mean? Was Coachella? Like, what was happening?

Yeah. No, this was my other dog. This was before Coachella. Okay. But, like, I ran, like, I was holding, like, something between my butt cheeks. Like, fast. So anyway, so my first- You know their neighbors that saw you and totally still talk about you to this day.

100%. And then my buddy was like, oh, you think that's bad? Listen to this. It's the funniest story I've ever heard. And I retell it all the time because it's so good. So he was sitting in traffic. And he was like, it was just, it was bumper to bumper traffic, not moving. And I just had to go.

Like really, really bad. And so he said he just like weave through cars and then got, there was no exit. nearest exit was like a mile away. So he just kind of went off the median and whatever onto that grassy part. And then drove to the frontage road because he was on the highway. Okay. And so he got in the frontage road and he's trying to get to a convenience store and he sees a convenience store. He gets out and they're like, no, no, no, no.

Bathrooms closed. Bathroom's closed. He's like, oh, man. So he gets back in his car and he sees like a motel or like one of those like, you know, Ramada ends or something. And he's like, okay, they usually they have a bathroom in those lobbies. And so he pulls in there and he goes to the hotel and there's, No one at the desk and he didn't see a bathroom in the lobby.

But it's one of those hotels where like the hallways go and just a long hallway with a bunch of rooms. So he said he just went down the hallway and he found a hotel room that had the door cracked. And he was like, I have to. Like I have to go so bad. And so he knocked the door. No one answered. He opened the door slowly. Check to see if anyone was in the room.

No one was in the room. However, there were like belongings in there. Yeah. And he's like, I just got to go. And so he ran into the bathroom and then went. And he said while he was in the bathroom, he's like, I'm just going to, I'm just going to like, if somebody walks in, I was telling him I'm sorry. I'll tell him my situation. I'll pay for your room.

I'm just the one I'm going to do. And so he did his thing. No one ever showed up. So he walked out, went back in his car, went about his day. Oh my God. That's crazy. You know those people got back to their room. It's like, why?

What does that smell? All the places. Especially on a front of a draw. Like he didn't want to find a restaurant. Like there had to be something. He said that the convenience store was the bathroom was closed and the next thing you saw was a hotel. Dang. That's why.

I thought at first though, you're going to tell me he did it right in the middle of the median and I was going to be like that. Listen. What's the craziest place you were going to the bathroom? Public place. I don't think I have any of those crazy stories. You've never gone out one night. You're just like, I got to pee so bad.

And oh my gosh. There was one when. I think so. I think this is more of a guy. Maybe. Well, my wife and I were on our way to New Year's Eve party. And like, I had to go so bad. I had to pee.

And like, again, we were in traffic and we were not moving. So I found a bottle in the car and I peed in the bottle, but I had to pee way more than the bottle. And I didn't know because it was dark. And it just like, it was like a volcano. And I was like, oh, no. We didn't even go to the party. I was like, turn around. Turn around.

I can't go to the party like this. I peed all over myself. I smelled like a homeless guy. I mean, at that point, you probably should just feed your pants. This is let it happen. Oh my gosh, Eddie. No, you know, but I will tell you, I've had a lot of throwing up incidents. My hangovers are really bad.

And for whatever reason, my friends will always plan things the next morning after something, and I have to go somewhere, and I have peaked on highways, a fanged on medians. Nice. Hotel rooms? Yes, there was one. I threw up in a Taco Bowl back. Oh my gosh. Anywhere that you can probably think of, I've probably thrown up at because my hang-up box is so bad.

I would think a Taco Bowl bathroom is in a fun place to throw up because, like, that's a public toilet. Especially, no. Yeah, you don't want to touch it. So you're basically going in there like hands behind your back and just like open for the best. That's so gross. But, you know, like, especially, you know that feeling when you're hungover and you get the dizzies. Oh, yeah. And all you want to do is throw up.

Well, that's not hungover. That's, you're so drunk you have to throw up. Oh, there's both, though. I get both. Really? Because the hangover, the hangover throw up is like, you feel like you're dying. Yeah, maybe the drunk one is dizzy and the next one is nausea. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so every time I just, I'm not well. And I have to drive. I'll be driving and I'll pull over and you've seen me puke. And I just know people see that happen. And they're judging you. And they're like, this woman is driving her car. And you just, what? And I've puked in airport bathrooms.

Wow. Those have been rough because I've had early morning flights. Do you not learn from some of those where you're just like, hey, take it easy. Why do you think I've quit drinking as much as I did? I'm just saying. There's a reason. But you've already mentioned like almost 10 times that you've done this. So you're a hard learner is what you're saying?

Well, most of them were in college. Yeah. And, you know, peer pressure in college. Like, I tried, but I had a bad hangover and everything revolved around drinking. So I, it was great. And I still did it as I got older. But like, the worst part about it is that it would be like, it went from like 10 drinks would do that to me to two drinks would do that to me.

So when it really hit that like two drink mark, I was like, okay, I got to quit this. Yeah. Yeah. One social drink, you know. That's hard. Otherwise, a lot of water in between. Yeah. I've definitely at least learned now that I got to eat.

I got to drink some water. I have things prepared. But, oh, yeah. I learned a lot of hard lessons. Mm-hmm. So. Hey, that's what life's all about. No bathroom, but other end.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the mouth end. Yes. Oh, man. The reason I wanted to talk to you about this because I also had a reject your rejected. Come on. Do you have any others? No.

Just your bodily functions? I gave you like five of them. Okay. But I was just making sure. I gave me five good ones. Maybe there's something you really wanted to talk about that you didn't get to talk about. Okay. It's kind of fun though when you get picked for rejected segments.

Because sometimes you send a story, I'm like, man, we never talked about that. Like, I thought that was pretty good. Then it makes for rejects things like, all right. You just talk about it, but you're getting judged while talking about it? Right. Right. Yes. So these are definitely rejected

But I thought they were interesting What's something that just isn't for you You've tried, it's not for you Because the reason I'm asking Is because I have tried to have five different houseplants Different kinds I have killed every single one You have?

I cannot keep them alive Is it getting sunlight? Yes, sometime You ever by a window? Right amount of water You're giving it water once a week Yeah, whatever it is Are you potting?

Are you planting it or does it already come planted? Most of the time they come planted, but one, I did this last one. I planted it. I created a little terrarium, and it was the easiest thing you could have, the little little mini cactus. Succulents? Yes. It was just this

little terrarium and it was doing so good. I brought home over Christmas time and it's been great. It's been thriving. It was even growing. And then just one day I woke up and they were just dying. You killed a succulent? I don't know how. They survive in the harshest weather.

I know. They're dead. Desert plants. And there's no other plants in my house for it to be talking to. So it can't be like, you know, communicate. They do talk. I know, but it can't be because I don't have any others. I only have fake plants because I keep killing them. That's so weird.

I have like 100 real plants in my house. I can't keep them alive, Eddie. I can't even keep the ones outside alive. Those all died. Outside's tough because the weather changes. Yeah, well, those all died too. I cannot be a plant parent. It's not for me.

I've tried. I've tried different versions. I want to help you so bad with this. Yeah, it's not good, Eddie. Okay. If you can help me, I love it. I have a plant for you. Okay.

So I have told you about my plants that I plant, but I trim them and then they grow roots and then I plant those. Yes. So my sister bought me this plant like two years ago and I have created like 50 plants from these and I give them out to people. I'm like here, here's a plant. Like it's just, it all came from one plant and now it's multiplied into so many and I bought a bunch of pots and I plant them and I give them to people. So I'm going to give you that plant. Okay. I'm going to give you that plant. Well, if it dies, if it dies, if it dies, if it dies, look, if it dies, if it dies, if it dies, if it does it. I mean, come on, this thing has produced like a lot of babies. Okay. What kind of plant is it?

I don't know. It's like a pink, I'll look it up. I have it on my phone. Is it like, it does it have flowers or is it just mostly green? No, it's a, well, it could be green, but it turns purple and sunlight. Okay. So it's mostly greenish purple. Okay, I like this. And it's vinesish. It's vinesh so it kind of spreads out. It could be huge. So this little thing that I'm going to give you could grow into being a huge plant. Which is why you trim it all the time. Which is why I trim it and then make other plants from it. Okay. But I'll give it a try. And you know, I think my house just doesn't have really good sunlight is what I think I'm starting to realize. It just may not be in a good place for sunlight. It needs that sunlight. Yeah. But I sit in by windows so they could still get the sunlight when it comes and hits the side of the house or whatever. Well, and you have to read about the plant too. Maybe your plants are shaking. plants and don't need direct sunlight succulites succulents don't they do not and they were not in sunlight and I had them in like indirect sunlight and then I moved them because they started dying here we go I don't I don't get it any plants I don't understand I don't know why they want to die all the time yeah it just they're they're tough they're like little humans they are and I just

can't do it and I feel bad I just keep murdering plants like my sad the saddest thing I ever did is it's an Aphrodites philent processes. Nailed it. Okay, here you go. Nailed it. See you can read that. No, wait, that's not it. That's not it.

Eddie's looking at his plant right now. It's a little bit of his phone. It's an inch plant. Inch plant. Yeah. Which makes sense because it grows a lot of inches. That's how it started. Oh, that's a really pretty plant.

That's how it started. And now it's huge and there's a lot of babies. Okay. Okay. I'm going to try this. Give me some of the babies. Okay. I'll give you some of the babies.

And I will try. I'm going to make this happen. And if you give me all the instructions, I will follow them. I'm very good at instructions. Inchplant is full sense. It needs to be in the window. Okay. I can do that.

I have a window. But this is maybe where. Good. I'm glad you have a window. Maybe this is where we learn that I don't have a lot of sunlight. Maybe that's why I'm so sad all the time. Maybe. You need to rip a hole through your roof.

I need to pull out Coachella and just one hour a day go lay out of the yard. Force the sunlight on me. Oh my gosh. So, yeah. That would be your rejected, rejected segment? Yeah, it's something that isn't for me. See, that's stupid. And that's why I hate that Bobby picks all these bits because I would love that segment.

That would be our show. That would lead the show. Yeah, we'd talk about plants. And something that you just can't do. Plant and poops. That would be our show. P's, the two peas. Is there something that you can't do?

Like, this is something that I've realized that it just may not be in my repertoire of skills. I can't do. You know, you have to look inside. Get vulnerable. You know what? I can't do computers. Like so, so, which is ironic, which is ironic because like my job requires a lot of computer work. But like beyond a certain like depth of computer knowledge, I'm an idiot.

Like I have no idea how certain things work. Are you telling me that you're like lunchbox? Not that bad. You know me. I know. Speak for both of us. Like lunchbox is special. Like computer special.

Yeah, yeah. He is. I'm not. I'm computer. limited. Okay, fair. And like when people talk about like, oh, I can create an app, I'm like, how do you do that? You probably know how to do that. Do you know how to code? I did. I took classes on learning how to code, but I don't think I could do it now. That's what I'm saying. Like, I have no idea how that works. Yeah. And I feel like I'm pretty good at like figuring out

anything but computers. Like, there's a certain knowledge in computers where I'm like, I don't know anything about that. Is it just computers or is it all technology? Like if you get to a point with like a TV if it's acting up. No, I can figure all that out. Okay, so it's just computers. I can figure out. It's just computers when you deal with the memory and the RAM and the ROM and the motherboard and the G's.

The Gs and the Gigs and the bites, all that stuff. I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. And like I've been, you know, because we have, I'm an editor. So I have to work with engineers and be like, yeah, man, my computer's doing this. And they're like, well, what's the gig and the bytes in the business? I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. So I was just giving the computer. I'm like, you figure it out.

I don't know. That is pretty ironic given that really as a video editor, you do tend to at least be more technologically savvy. Yeah. And you are. I still feel like you are. I can hold my own, but it's intimidating because I just can't figure that part out. So you just feel like you'll never reach your full potential. No.

And you're like Web Girl Morgan. It'd be like if you're Webgirl Morgan, but you don't understand the web. You know? That would be strange. But I'm like that too with guitars. Like so I've been playing guitar my whole life. And, you know, with a raging idiots, we toured a lot and we played with a bunch of bands and different artists. And people always, always want to talk to me like, what kind of guitar you got?

I'm like, here it is, man. You look at it. Tell me. You see it. I don't know. I have like 20 guitars. I don't know anything about them. Do you know how to read music?

Mm-mm. No, that's another thing, too. So in Nashville, there's something called the Nashville number system. And it's a number system? Yeah, it's a number system. So it's a way, do you know anything about this? No. You're speaking foreign language to me at this point.

Right. This is like bites and bits and rams and rams. And so, you know, when it's really cool. But a long time ago, the way they were doing music is still the way they do it today, is they were session players in studios. So like if Hank Williams wanted to record a record, they would just hire four guys to do the band. Not his band, but they would just hire four guys to do the band on the record. And so they would play a guitarist, drummer,

bassist, fiddle player. Right? And then so in order to make it move faster, they created a music system where not hears sheet music, but it's like, all right, this song is in the key of A. And the first chord is one. The second chord is two. The third chord is three. And so basically you just read through the numbers.

So like everyone sees the number. You start with a one. Then you go to a five. Then you go to a seven and everyone knows it and they just play it like magic. And it's really like it works amazing. if you know what it means. I was going to say it still sounds like foreign language. You explained it well, but I'm still like,

like a lot of these artists, a lot of these session guys show up to the studio without knowing what they're going to record that day. And they're like, all right, who is this guy? This is Blake Sheldon. Oh, hey, good to meet you, Blake Sheldon. Yeah, all right, here's the song. They look at it, cool.

And they go in there and they play the song. All based on this number system. And it's like, wow, that's just amazing. Doesn't that make it easier for the songs to sound similar? Or no. No. No. No, because it all starts with a key.

So like a key all sounds different. Okay. So that's, I mean, you can have the same song, the same song, same chord structure in the key of A. And then if you change it to the key of D, it's going to sound different. That makes sense. So it's a lot of different variables. So that's why music, you would think out of the millions and millions of songs that are out there, you would think a lot of them would sound the same. Well, and if like somebody can look at it and follow a similar structure, that's what makes me like, okay, how do we not have more similar

song. But I mean, it does, though. Like, if you think about it, a lot of country music, check it out. Eddie pull this guitar out. A lot of country music is. Yeah, sounds familiar. Or like, there's a, um, uh, uh, when, hold on, wait, I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you something. I've worked on this before. What's the hurricane song? Luke comes. Oh, oh, here, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. When you walk in. Hurricane Luke comes, hold on. Lyrics. Here we go. We did this with, we did this with a raging It's where we... Then you rolled in with the air and the wind. So, here we go.

Listen to this. This chord progression. See how many songs you can do with this core progression. Oh, and you rolled in with your hair with the man. You got warning. Right? Yeah, yeah. What you can do?

Oh, whoa. Here you go. Eric Church. Whoa, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Oh, I feel like Cowboy Take Me Away could be one with it. Okay.

Cowboy take me away. See? That's what I'm saying. It's like, so yeah, it does kind of make it all sound the same, but it sounds different. Yeah. So, anyway. It sounds very familiar. And then you add different lyrics and different to your point.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how we got. That hurts my brain. I don't know how we got there. but oh, oh, oh, it's not understanding it. Yeah, yeah. But it hurts my brain.

Like my brain hurts right now trying to understand. Well, yes, because numbers in general, math, I hate math. I have always hated math. Me too. And so when you start to take any numbers to anything, it could be simple as you're only using one through 10. And you start mixing them up and adding different levels to them. I'm like, no. My brain just, it immediately goes to straight like chaos.

It cannot read numbers. Yeah. So when you start like talking, how they do. No, no, but that's. That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know how to do that. But at least you can grasp it and understand. I understand it.

But like, like putting it to, you know, pin to paper kind of thing. Right, right. It's tough. See, you know what? At least we have a lot of things that it just isn't for us. But I feel like you and I can figure out mostly everything. We can. But this is my point of the segment is to just accept that there are some things.

No. You can't genuinely do. I am not accepting that. That plant is going to live forever. I'm telling you. I'm bringing it to you. I really need you to promise me that you're not going to hate me if it dies. I won't hate you.

And you won't kill it. I'm not going to purposely kill it. I know you won't kill it. I didn't think, listen, I had a money tree in my house for like four years and I was like, oh, this thing's thriving. Money trees are hard. So like, money plant or money tree? Well, it was like a little money plant.

Yeah, it's a money plant. Okay, I was like, turning to a tree. Because if it turned into a tree, that's legit. It was huge though. It was thriving. Yeah. And then one day I woke up and it was just dying. So money plant.

are very high maintenance. So like my money plant ever since. Well over. I don't think it gives you money. I wish it did. Listen, money plant, the whole point of it is to bring you like good energy. Mine's never done that.

Hey, I had a few solid years. And then it died. And yours died. Exactly. Your whole world fell apart. Yeah. Oh, man.

Yeah. So I'm going to try. I'm going to try for you. Okay. That's all you can do. Those were our rejected, rejected segment. Bailey Zimmerman was also on the show with us this week. It was his first time in studio, and it was just so epic to see him come in here and just talk about the story from kind of start to where he is now, especially the fact that he blew up on TikTok.

And then just quit his job the next day, that's a crazy story. And his Chad Kroger of Nickelback story, that was also wild, how that all happened. So just good. And then his full interviews up at YouTube.com slash Bobby Bone Show, which is shocked at how. young he is. Yeah, then he like 23? Yeah. Yeah. Like you hear his voice and you're like, oh, that's an older dude. Yeah, he has that. He's got a little rasp. Yes. Like, it sounds like a smoker's voice that's been smoking for like 50 years. Uh-huh. But he's like not 50. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. But go watch the YouTube, his performance, because Eddie puts a lot of

work in those videos. I do. Yeah. I was trying to shout you out there. So thank you. Thank you, and speaking of Bailey Zimmerman, he's a lot of people's favorites right now. Has there been an artist that's lived up to the hype for you? It could be like when you listen to their music if somebody hyped them up or if you went and saw them in concert and somebody really hyped up at concert, I can let you think about it. Well, I mean, the first thing, first, I mean, I don't know. It's just Garth is an easy answer, but, but it's hard for an artist to live up to hype. As big as the hype is.

And when you see Garth live live, you're like, gosh, this is like, this is really like top tier. Yeah. He does live up the hype. Like it doesn't really get better than that. You know, like Garth entertainment wise. like he'll reach you if you're the last seat in the house the back your backs against the stadium lights like that far away he still reaches you and it sounds so good and everything he says is like it hits you like just in the heart or it makes you cry or whatever it is and it's just really like next level

and so i don't think you realize that is if you've been a garth fan your whole life and you've never seen him live when you go see him live you're like okay this just put the stamp Right on it. This is why he is the goat. Yeah. You're not wrong on that. His live concerts are something out of this world. Really is.

That's for sure. One that I think of that comes to mine, and it's not mine, but hearing you talk about it, is so many people were hyping up Zach Bryan, and I hadn't really dove into his music. I think I heard clips on TikTok when he had first kind of started. And then when I finally dove into his music, I was like, okay, this guy's, he's worth the hype. But people are really hyping him up, and I just didn't anticipate it. Because when somebody talks about something so much that they love it so much, you're kind of like, okay, are you just so infatuated that you can't see outside or is it that good? And I feel like Zach Bryan's music was kind of worth all of the hype that he was getting.

That's cool. If I felt, if that's like a outside one. I haven't seen him live, but just his music. Just his music and gel. Focusing on the fact that everybody was hyping him up. He was all over TikTok. He was blowing up without anybody's help. Oh, sure.

Yeah. His music was all over the charts. And then just one day somebody's like, hey, have you listened to? new like Zach Bryan album I'm like wait what who is that and then I listened to it and I'm just like okay yeah why am I just now hearing about who this person is and so it was worth all that hype the reason I had brought it up to you those because I went to Taylor Swift the concert and everybody hyped up that concert I mean it was all over TikTok it was all over social media radio stations were promoting it like crazy it was like the ticket of the century to go to Taylor Swift and so I was

going in full well being like okay this is not this is not going to be everything is hyped up to be. Eddie, it was. Amazing. It was. Like, I wish I could explain. It's not even the fact of, like, her performing her songs, which I knew so much more than I remembered of her music, which was awesome, a cool experience in itself. But more than the fact of it being Taylor Swift and her performing, it was the environment of that concert. The people there? Yes. Like, it was like the, and I keep calling it this way, because it's the only way I can like connect it, it felt like a met gala because everybody was dressed to the nines in very specific type outfits all for her different eras everybody was very kind to each other which i've also never experienced that type of kindness

at concerts especially in that massive capacity and everybody was wearing bracelets so like the whole stadium would light up with every time she performed a song or worked the stage and so it just felt like it was like one unit instead of 70,000 separate people kind of feel in their own vibe it was like and everybody would sing every single song even like leading up before Taylor even went on stage. The songs were playing over and people were singing the songs together. That's really cool. It was just this environmental thing that I was like, wow, I've never experienced that

before in my life. So let me ask you this. Who starts the whole wardrobe era's thing? Like, did she come out and say like, here, this is what we want you to do this for this tour? Like, or did the fan base just say, hey, we're going to dress up like in different eras and it's going to be organic. Yeah, it was very organic.

Like, as far as I know of, I never heard her talk about it. She'll like videos on TikTok if they like blow up. But she never was like, oh, like, you know, dress in your eras. It was just like she announced the era store and all these fans like, especially whoever was the first concert. That's where it trickled down, right? So those fans were like, well, we're going to get tickets to the first show and you're going to see everything.

But they were going, you know, decking out like, oh, I'm going to dress as an era. And whoever kind of created that, I don't know. It has to be a major Swift fan. But it started organically in that movement. and then everybody just followed. I mean, it is all over TikTok. Like, you cannot look at videos without seeing it. Does she dress in the eras?

Oh, yeah. So she comes out. A set changes for every era. Like, she constructed a whole freaking forest for one of them. She had a whole, like, catwalk that goes out. She dove underneath the stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that. Like, all her outfit changes happened, and they were all the different, like, and it moves

in it. So it's not like one song's here and then it jumps to another era. She goes in, like, the different eras and plays to each. of those and you get like little tastes off of each of one of them and then every night she gives two surprise songs so you don't know what you're going to get that's really cool it's just so thought out and so like the the swifties are so thought out and so like coordinated even though nobody knows each other and then she was so like just overly advanced in production design and everything I just have never experienced anything like it there's still things I'm not like oh my god

I'm going to pay three thousand dollars sure that's not like my energy but I get it now. I understand why the hype is there because it's just, I've never experienced something like that at a concert. That's really cool. So it was like a hype. And you're not, I don't know like a handful of people that went and that's what everyone's saying. Big fan, not really a fan.

I just went because I got a ticket fans. Like all kinds of fans are saying the same thing. It was unbelievable. It's just it. She is just years ahead of the way that she, her mind works and how she puts. things together. That's cool. So shout out to T. Swift.

Yeah, man. She's awesome. She is. Do you wish you would have gone? Well, yes and no. Like, I told myself that I would, if somebody reached out and said, hey, do you want to come? Like, I got an extra ticket or whatever.

I would have gone. Like, I totally would have gone. But I wasn't going to go out of my way to say, like, to go look for tickets. Yeah. Like lunchbox? Like lunchbox. I wasn't going to bother every single person. That he knew.

Like when the Dallas Cowboys came to town, I bother every single person. Yeah, that's your Taylor Swift. And no one could get me a ticket. So I was like, so why would I try that with Taylor? Technically, I probably could have. But you were very pressed on making sure you wear Cowboys stuff. So I couldn't.

Right, right, right. I was going to make it word. But I was like, Eddie, I don't think you can wear. I know, I know. I can't be disrespectful like that. I know. But yeah, that's your T. Swift as the Cowboys.

I think everybody has that. But I do love T. Swift. Like, for my birthday, the boys gave me the new Taylor record. Like, I love Taylor Swift. I've never doubted. I've never like said that I don't like her. I love her music. Like I know all her music.

I love it. I just when a tour is that expensive and that in demand, I always kind of back up. I always back off and be like, you know what? I'm not going to chase that. Yeah. Like if I get an invite, I'll go. But I'm not going to try to squeeze my way into a ticket that everyone in the world wants. You know what I mean?

Because that was it. I mean, for the last like six months, everyone was like, hey, do you know how I get Taylor tickets? Like, how do you get Taylor tickets? Like, they're so expensive. I can't find any cheap tickets. Eddie, I haven't told anybody this. What? This is how bad people want those tickets.

My ex-X reached out to me, the bad one. For tickets? Like, the not good one. The terrible man to me. Texted me and called me trying to get Taylor Swift's tickets. That is ridiculous. First of all, I don't even work in pop music. Like, I don't have that.

connection, Taylor. I went with a friend who had the connection. And that's what I'm saying. And I didn't know him very well, but like, he wanted tickets that bad that he would call you? Like, what? That's crazy. Also, this is messed up beyond belief on multiple levels. I don't understand. Yeah, that's crazy. But what? Yeah. Yes. Like, people were trying to sell an arm and a leg to go to that show. Is that kind of show? And it is. They're not wrong to do that. But you and I would never do that. Right. But yeah, it was. It was worth that. But I did have FOMO.

So, like, so I can kind of see downtown, from my neighborhood. I can kind of see downtown a little bit. And I can see the glow at night. And I'm like, that's kind of cool. So you're having like mid-fomo? Oh, for sure, for sure. And then I would see like the little red glow, but it's definitely something off the red album.

Dang, that's cool. I love how you're being a big fan in like your element. We're like, dang. You're trying to like downplay your FOMO. Then there was a big blue light and like, ooh, that's got to be fairy tale, like for sure. Dang. She did play teardrops on, like,

guitar when I was there. It was really good. That's cool. Yeah, it was. But listen, it's just worth the hype. So if anybody gets a chance to go, totally go, even if you're like, ah, take Swift. Like, no, go for it. Like, it's worth it.

Even the guys came out saying me like, that was really good. Yeah, man, I bet. Yeah. That's cool. And Eddie will have FOMO if people. Major FOMO. Just glad it's not natural for you anymore. We also had a prank call from Lunchbox.

He prank called a listener's mom for Mother's Day this. The weirdest call ever. Yes, but also who made me laugh. Oh, yeah, always. Like, hilarious because the daughter was involved, which made it all the better. What's something that's kind of like felt like a prank to you in recent days? You know when there used to be that show punked with Ashton Pitcher and you'd be like, I have to be getting punked right now? Have you felt like that recently?

Yeah, I think I talked about this like earlier, I don't know, this week or last week, but about my son, he was crying after a baseball game because he was just like really hard in himself. And then I was talking to him And this lady just showed up And was just like, is he okay? And I know and I got a lot of like, you know, different feedback from that Like some people understanding some people being like she's just trying to help relax bro But it was one of those moments where I looked around like Who's punking me?

Oh my gosh, I have a new one too which is crazy and I was like I can't talk about this on the radio show But I'll talk about it I love that. Yeah, but I will There's another baseball story. So Oh man, this is crazy. And it's one of those like, what is happening?

It just doesn't feel real. My four-year-old, he started playing baseball. And, you know, he's four. He doesn't have a lot of friends that play sports yet because they don't really play sports at that age. But he's really, he's just a natural athlete. So we decided to put him in early. And so we just kind of asked around, like anyone have an opening in this team. Yes, somebody responded.

Yes, we have an opening. Bring him. And so he's played in this team for about like six or seven games. I have four boys. I have a lot of sports equipment that we bought in the last 10 years. Yeah, your whole garage is probably sports equipment. Everything. We have 100 footballs, 100 basketballs, 100 baseballs, like everything.

And so there are bats for every age that they are in. Yeah. And so I went back to my son's little bat and I'm like, here, you're going to use this bat. Yeah, it's six or seven years old, but it's a bat like in your four. Like who cares? And so he takes the bat and he's been hitting this same little bat and it's got a little dents on it. You know, it's seen better days. But he's four and he hits the ball.

It didn't go very far, but he hits the ball and all this stuff. Well, then the coach one day, like during a game, he's like, hey, hey, let's not use that bat today. Like, let's try another bat. And so he got like, I guess his son's bat and he let my son use it and my son hit like a bomb. Like it was it flew and the coach I can see him in the corner my like looking at me like see that I think you got to get this getting at yeah and I'm like what why why are you looking at me like that like what's like okay 400 dollar bat sure of course he's going to hit a home run with a 400 bat and so after the game they do little game balls they're like all right the game ball and they go

the game ball today oh I got to give it to eddie's son like yeah like game ball I mean guys it only took a good bat for him to hit like that and he's looking at me when he's saying that. And I'm like, is he trying to tell me that the only reason he hit that awesome ball was because he hit a good bat and that I should get him a good bat? And I'm like, this is crazy. He's bat shaming me in front of the whole team and all the parents. Bat shaming. Yeah.

And now I'm like, I'm not getting him when you bet. And he's, now you're, now you're passive aggressive about this situation. He's mentioned it like four times. Like, man, you should get him a new bat. Like that bat, that bat he's using dude. That's just, that's just not good. Let me ask you a question. Because they're only four, five, six for two years or whatever.

Why can't he use the other bat? That's what I told him. I'm like, hey, thank you for letting us use that bat. We'll use that from here on out. Like, totally. Yeah. The community bat. Sure.

We'll use it. Like, great. I mean, if it's the coaches, he's the coach, right? Uh-huh. It's his son's bat. Right. Thanks for letting us use it. Like, we'll use it the whole season. Cool.

And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe equipment's differently now, but we used to have community bats all the time. That's what I'm saying. And I'm like, he's four. If I get him a $400 bat at age four that he's going to outgrow next year, who do you think I am? I'm not wasting $400 on that. Plus, it's this first season ever. He's just trying to learn the game of baseball.

I don't need him to be Babe Ruth. I don't want him to hit a home run. Like, because then he'll unrealistically. think he could just hit her home runs and he's going to need $1,000 bats to do it. You know? Yeah. And it's a combination of the two. You have to have the skill with the bad.

Totally. I get it. And look, at age seven or eight. Yeah, he's older. Dude, I'll invest in a good bat for him. Especially if he wants to keep playing. You don't even know if he's going to want to keep playing. I don't even know if he wants to play baseball yet.

And it's one of those moments when he was batching me. I looked around like, where are the cameras? Like, there has to be cameras here because this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever experienced. That's funny. Never have I ever thought I'd hear about that shaming. Wow. It's funny. The things that people choose to be intense about.

I don't even know what that word is, but just very opinionated about. Well, you know, and in youth sports, sometimes you do have coaches that are very competitive. Uh-huh. And they're going to do anything that they can to win games. I'm more of the, they're four. Well, yeah, when they get older. I'm more of the, they're four years old. Like, who cares?

Also, let me tell you, as somebody who genuinely played in this sport particularly in softball, I played competitive softball. And I wish, at least when I was a little bit younger, that it was a little bit more lax on me because it burnt me out so quickly. Like, up until I started to play the competitive side of that, yeah, like, cool, I'm competitive. We're spending money. Like, yes, yell at me. But up until that point, like, I got burned out. so quick because I'd been yelled at my whole life about a sport.

Yeah. Yeah. So it is good at least to ease into it before the, we're going to buy you all these expensive things. These are all the expectations. Holy. So yes, you're doing the right thing. I just can't believe you got bats shaking. Well, then even my wife was like, well, but he did hit that ball really well with a new bat. I'm like, well, great. He can keep using that bat. I'm just not going to buy him one. Yeah. And she's like, you're being stubborn about this. I'm like, damn right. I'm being stubborn about it. Like, I'm not going to do it. Well, and it's probably really expensive.

That's were always expensive. Everything's expensive. And then they outgrow everything. Balls. Like you use a basketball. When they're five years old, they use whatever size basketball. Then they go to six, they go to seven or eight and then they get another size of basketball. And then nine, then they get another size of basketball.

Isn't there a place? Maybe it's academy. Play it again. Play it again. Where you can like take equipment or like bring yours and you can resell it and you can do all that. Is it like a good program? I don't know. It's awesome.

It's great. But midseason, it's kind of hard because everything's wiped out. So they don't have a lot of options. Post season, everything gets sold back. Then preseason, you get to buy good stuff. It's there. It's just not like middle. So.

But yeah, oh, play it against sports for any parent that doesn't know what that is. Yeah, let it rip. That's where it's at. For these situations. And maybe you won't get bad shame. Don't get bad shame. Like Eddie. I have brought this up because I, so I decided to get on Bumble.

I'd only been on the dating at Pinge. And I am shocked. ones? No, Tinder. Easy, Eddie. Stop with that in the universe. But I, you know, I met some exes on Bumble, so I had like bad luck. But my sister met her fiance, now fiancee on Bumble.

Hey, listen to that. So I'm like, okay, you know, let me get back on Bumble. And it's been great. I've had a better experience than Hinge, which has been good. But they made like half of the features unusable without pain. Eddie, to just use one week of Bumble premium. I'm like, if it's five bucks, school, whatever, I'll try it.

One week of Bumble Premium, it's $30. For one month, it's $60 to use premium features on a dating app to meet people. Yeah, it's pretty greedy of the company. One, it's pretty greedy, right? But two, and don't get mad at me here. But this is devil's advocate, and it is something that my therapist told me, if you want to better your life, you need to invest in your life. And this came with a conversation of like, I don't have.

have time to do this. I don't have time to do that. He's like, what is it? You don't have time to clean the house? Your wife's tired because she's cleaning the house. Hire someone to clean the house. You get, you're tired of mowing the lawn? Like, is it ruining your day because on top of everything you have to do, you have to mow the lawn? Hire someone to mow the lawn. So in that, with that theory, you're investing in your future. So is it worth? Do you think it's worth to have those different features to help you find your future husband? I don't know. I don't even know. I don't even know. And you don't even know what the features are. That's true.

That's what I'm saying. I don't know. I'm sitting here. But I'll get notifications like somebody complimented your profile. And then I like go click on it's like, you have to buy free. No. They got you. It's like if you get Hulu and you get the free version.

Yeah, I get that. And then they trick you and say, nope, sorry. You can't watch it without buying. That's what it's doing. That's messed up. The features are like you have to actually see what it looks like. You got to pay. Yes.

And you can swipe on normal and you can chat like normal. It's just like if it's like basically. to see in advance, to see, like, all the people who've, instead of just... Background check? I wish. That would save my life. That would be awesome. Like, you can swipe through everybody, but apparently one of the premium features is you can look who all has swiped on you.

So you don't have to, like, go through like a random page. So, data. Yeah. More data on... And I'm like, do I really need it? I don't think you need that. Like, if I'm going to invest in my dating, I just need to, which I have been doing is more eye contact in person. I've been trying to do that.

You know how hard it is to make eye contact with people in person? Yeah. I make eye contact and immediately look down. I'm like, nope. What if you really like someone? I feel like you would make better eye contact. I've been trying really hard to like make eye contact and smile. Instead of making eye contact and looking down, I'm like, eye contact, smile.

And then I like look away. But don't look at their butt. If you do eye contact butt, that's not good. Well, no, you can't make eye contact at the same time as their butt. They're on different sides of the body. No, I know. Well, you know what I'm saying. Hey, do it.

Hey, you like a nice butt though. Yeah, I know. There's a time and place to look at the butt. There was a time and place. So I, you know, I just felt like I was being totally shammed out of just trying to date in the really shitty dating world. Yeah, they're really like taking advantage of you there. Yeah. Like, because you're right.

You're just trying to like, hey, just trying to find my future husband, man. Yeah. And I'm just trying to. I'm a busy girl. Yeah. And $60. Like, literally. If it was like $15 for a month, I'd probably be like, yeah.

Let me try it. See, they should do that and everyone would pay that. Yes. But $60 a month to be on a dating app. Yeah, that's crazy. Ma'am. That's crazy. No, thank you.

So I felt like I was being pranked. Yeah. So we got a few of them in there. I like that. Bat shaming and dating out shaming. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Scamming. Scams.

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Oh man, yeah. Wild situation. It's very wild. Do you feel like there's any more activity going on? Have you called anybody? I know you'll give an update on the big show, but. No, I haven't called anyone, but. You're just letting him exist.

I mean, I'm just kind of scared. Like, it's one of those things like, don't look, don't look over there. Like, is it right next to you? Like, it's your right next to our neighbor. Doesn't that freak you out, though, that somebody could be living in there that's not supposed to be? So when, like, I. sold a house like two years ago and when we moved out I went back to do something oh I know what it was

I forgot that I might have told you this I forgot some liquor like there were some liquor bottles in a cabinet that I just forgot to move can't leave those behind I didn't even think twice about it and then like when I got to the new house I'm like hey where are my liquor bottles we never packed them so I went back to the old house and it was completely empty you had been out of there for like a week maybe yeah a week and a half or something and I go back and I open that liquor cabinet and like all the liquor was gone except uh uh dom of course without the expensive one yeah they didn't they didn't take the expensive one and then I went in the backyard and all the bottles were out there included like including beer boxes and cans like somebody came to our house and had a party okay okay question

how old would you have oldest son been at that point no no no he's 15 now, so he would have been, yeah, no, 13. I was going to say there is a chance of he was a little bit older. No, no, no, no. And I would know. Like, I wouldn't know if that was going on. No, I think maybe the people that came to paint the house when we were selling it, kind of painted and realized like, hey, there's no one here.

And then they're like, hey, let's come back tonight. This house is open. Let's have a party. Well, it had to be. Because I assume you had locks on the house. Not really because there was nothing in there. But you didn't have like a lockbox? Yeah.

Yeah, but I mean. And the painters probably had that if they got in. The painters have had that or they probably left the back door open. Who knows? Because once you leave a house, like, yeah, we're going to sell it. I don't care. But funny that it wasn't squatters and they like stayed. It was just somebody that wanted to come in and have a little fun of leave.

They partied, man. They saw a liquor bottle and they're like, dude, we can take care of this. Oh, that's a really good business idea. What are you talking about? It's not actually a good business idea. It's actually a terrible one, but I bet it exists is more of what I'm saying. Party rentals? Where?

Look for empty. houses? Yes. People probably go around, find empty houses, and then they try and throw parties. I know that's really bad and, like, liability is probably really bad. But you can do that when you're in high school. Like, that's how you do it. But that's what I think. Like, maybe there's like kind of a scam where there's like young kids going around trying to find these houses and they throw like a party because there's no furniture that they can ruin. There's nothing they can mess up. I feel like these are people that, these were people that didn't really know the good stuff because they didn't touch the dom. Yeah. And I would think like that would be the first thing like you would get. And I never bought the

Dom. That was a gift. Did you at least take the Dom back home? Yeah, I still have the Dom. Still hasn't been open. No. I don't know when I'm going to drink the Dom. Yeah. Have you drank your Dom? I don't think I had touch it. It's just going to stay there. Yeah. Like, in the cabinet. I think Bobby gave us the Dom for, were you? Did you get a Dom? I got one, not from Bobby, but I have one from somebody. No, I think Bobby gave us a Dom like when we won an ACM award or something. I remember that. Years ago. Because you got, you guys said you didn't want a plaque. You wanted to Don't. Maybe that's what we said.

I'm pretty positive that that's what happened. But I can't find a moment to chill and pop the doll. Yeah, you need a very celebratory moment. My dad and I talked about doing it when we adopted the kids, but we just never got to it. I think I chilled it, didn't drink it. Well, do they have an adoption date coming up? Yeah, but we don't really celebrate that. It's a weird thing where like it's cool.

My wife and I look into it like, hey, it's the anniversary. But I don't know. We don't really want to make it a thing around. That's fair. They're in their new life. Just to normalize their life a little bit. Yeah. No,

that makes sense. Well, maybe it can be for you and your wife on that day just to sell. Yes. That'd be cool. Maybe 10 year. Can you hold Dom that long? You know,

that was one of my rejected, rejected segments was I was cleaning out my liquor cabinet and I was like, does this stuff go bad? Ooh, that's a good question. I think some stuff does. But it's like spices. Google it doesn't.

Google it. I know I have Googled it, but I get mixed responses. Google it because, well, yeah. I mean, I think it depends if it's open or not. Because when it's open, the air is allowed into the bottle and that messes with the alcohol. Definitely wine for sure on open bottles.

You can taste that. Yeah. Like if you have wine that's over. But I don't think liquor does. Like vodka, tequila once you open it, I don't. I don't know. I honestly don't know. See?

Question. And the internet does not give you direct answers. See, that's not a rejected segment. This is informative stuff that needs to be on the top of the list. And I ended up throwing out a lot of liquor because I just didn't know. And I've had it for like five years. You throw out liquor? Well, it wasn't like expensive liquor, right?

Like, Captain Morgan or something. I'm like all the way to the last drop. Don't waste that. Don't waste it. It was like the ones that I wasn't going to drink, but I bought for other people, you know? And it's been in there for five years. Like nobody else is touching this. That's a good point.

So I have a bottle of gin and I don't like gin. Gin tastes like, it smells like a, I don't know. Do you like vodka? Yeah. Okay. But gin's got a different whole vibe. It does. And I had friends over, like, I'm telling you, six years ago.

and they wanted gin. So I went to the liquor store and bought gin. They probably drank, like, I don't know, a fourth. And that bottle's been in there ever since I'm like, I'm not drinking it. Exactly. But you're going to keep it in there. I'm going to keep it in there. Somebody else comes around says you have gin.

I know. See, I was like, I'll keep buying stuff that I will actually drink. So I got to make room for the stuff that I'm actually going to use. That's what was happening. I had like a full clean-out day of just random things. I went on like a random tangent. And one of them was my liquor cabinet. Yeah.

And it was stacked. Yeah. I had to throw out some stuff. But I was curious. as I was throwing stuff out. Like, is this actually never going to go bad? You never know. And the internet is tricky.

They are tricky, especially with health stuff. Don't trust that. I wanted to bring up, speaking of your neighbor's house. So my soon-to-be brother-in-law's family lives out in Colorado. And their ring camera, like their outdoor cameras caught a bear trying to get into their car. Dang! Showed up to the house in the morning and you can hear it open up. It's this truck.

And you hear it open up, try and open up the handle. Like, how smart are they? Thank goodness the truck was locked. And then it leaves. Nighttime comes around. It comes back again trying to look around. Like. The predator, man.

Oh my gosh. And they're so smart. What was in there? Peanut butter jelly sandwich? Probably something good. A little honey. A little something yummy. Pick a Nickbasket.

But that's why it's so, like if you ever go to any bear city, like to lock your doors, lock your, like, that's why the trash cans are like bolted down. Oh, yeah. Because they can get into, they're like, when I tell you, it was eerie listening to video because you just. hear the click of the thing of it moving. Yeah. And him opening it like a freaking human. Hilarious.

And it's huge. Did they scratch the door when they like try to open it? You know, I didn't ask them. I just was so sharp as a video. Or was the bear so gentle? I'm going to show you the. Oh wait, you know what my dad asked if they scratched the doors. But see, me and your dad.

He didn't. That's dad questions. I don't think he answered it though. But you can hear like a grizzly. Yeah. Does a brown bear? I think brown bears or grizzlies, right? Maybe.

I don't know. Yeah, but so that was a nighttime video that I just showed you. So he did one little try and then bailed? Uh-huh. Because he had already come back from the morning to try again. He was just coming back, seeing if they unlocked it during the day. So he probably smelled something in there. Mm-hmm.

Gosh, bears are amazing. Like, I love bears. So when we were Thanksgiving, Smoky Mountains, me, my wife, our family, and another family, we went and we shared a cabin. And the other dad, he's such an idiot. We fried a turkey. And the next day we were like getting cleaning up or whatever and we'd left the oil out there. And so he dumped the oil in the woods right by the cabin, not like in the middle of the woods, right by the cabin. And Morgan in like 15 minutes, we were in the cabin and one of the, his wife started screaming, bear, bear.

and on our porch was a black bear. Like just looking in the window. And we're all like, oh my gosh. And I think her scream scared the bear because he jumped and then ran away. And it was just, that was my first real encounter of like, wow, wow, wow, wow. Like, I'm from South Texas. We don't see bears. Yeah.

Like that's amazing. Well, it's crazy to me that they're just become so close. Also sad, right? Because there's so many houses built. They're so intertwined with their nature. But it's just crazy to me that there's so many close. encounters with bears. Like more than any other animal that we hear about.

Mountain lions, of course, but like bears is the one that still shocks me. I can see any bear video. I'm like, wow, there's a video on TikTok of a lady feeding a bear that comes by all the time. I'm like, what the. Have you seen the Gatlinburg ones when the bears walk into the streets? Yes. And they just stroll like the main streetway. Yeah, just walking on the streets, goes from store to store.

Like he's shopping. They're literally humans. They really are. And then when they stand up, they even look like humans. Don't you want to squeeze them? Yes. Like, I'm a mall you. It's the whole saying, if, you know, if not friend, why friend shaped?

What? You've never said. No. Okay, I'm helping you. I'm giving you lingo. Say that again? If not friend, why friend shaped? Oh.

People say it about animals. I get it. I get it. If I can't pet it, why does it look like I can pet it? A panda bear. Like, I want to squeeze and hug a panda bear. Yes. I want a panda bear, but I know that a panda bear will.

kill me and my family. But like, I want one so bad. And you want to because it's friendship. I will trade a panda bear in for Coachella any day. No, you would. Yes, I would. Coachella would be like, this is rude. Yes, I would.

100%. Poor Coachella is getting the crap into the stick. But you know what? Coachella does kind of live a panda life. They like hanging out in the sun eating bamboo. And I think Coachella would like that. And after, I don't know, this is a little sad, but after Coachella leaves this wonderful world, I mean, I don't think we're going to have another animal.

Like, we've just made that decision. of like no more animals. That's so sad. Because we've, because it's always been me. Like I told my family like, I'm the one that always takes care of the animals. Yeah. Our kids never. I have to remind, all right, who's feeding Coachella today?

But doesn't Coachella sleep with one of your kids? Yes, the baby. But just because he has a cubby underneath his bed. So he loves it. So she has her own little area underneath. Yeah. Okay. See, but I'm telling you, they're going to convince you.

It's going to happen. The only way we're getting an animal is a panda. I'm telling you. How awesome would that be, Morgan? a freaking panda pet. There's so many animals and you see them and you're just like, I just want to love on them. Sloth? They're not.

They'll hug you. But how frustrating would you be like, hey, we got to go. Let's go. And you have to like pick it up and it's still moving slow. We're late. We've got to go. Every time I think of sloth, I think of the Zootopia sloth at the DMV and it's just moving so slow. I love it.

Oh, yeah. So if not friend, why friend shaped? I like it. That's a little lingo for you. you that is very young. I understand it. I got you. Now you can comment that on TikTok videos about pandas. We're coming in at the number one spot is obviously Chris Stapleton. He came into the studio. This is the first time he's been in the studio that I have been with the show and I've been with a show six and a half years now. This is the first time I've gotten to see Chris Stapleton in

studio. Really? What did you think? He's so awesome. He's legit, isn't he? Yeah, he's just so chill. Like you want to talk about chill vibes? It's Chris Stapleton. There are people and And it's just kind of the business and how it works. But there are people that are trained to be a certain way in interviews. Chris Stapleton is not. No, he's just himself. He's just Chris Tableton. And it's awesome.

Yes. It's so cool to see him think. It's cool to, I love his belly laughs. Like, you know, whatever you said was funny when he does a gut laugh. Because he has like a few of those in there. And like, it's so cool. Yeah. Because it's a very genuine laugh.

It's not like, ah. Yeah. Yes, I love it. Yeah, so he was really awesome. And that whole interview, he can watch it, Bobby Bones.com. It'll also be on the best bits, just the bits. But, you know, Chris Dibleton was awesome, and I have no notes on him. So we're just going to talk about things that maybe you've watched recently.

I know I'm asking you this very ironically. Because I'm on a digital detox. So how has that digital detox been going? It's good. And now there are, and I said this one I mentioned on the radio, there are different. Look, the whole point of the digital detox. is for me not to be distracted by technology. So TikTok is a big distraction because I can sit on the toilet and I need to just really need like five minutes and it turns into 30 and I'm watching TikTok.

That's a time waster. That doesn't help me in my life. I could be doing other things that I need to do. So you haven't been on TikTok since the start? I've not. I've not video games and I've been avoiding. I've been hoping that we don't get that assignment of TikTok show and tell because then I'll really have to jump. jump on and like and if it's work I have to do it it's not a time wasteer because that's work.

So video games like I can get on there and I can kill three hours on a video game like that. So I'm not doing that. And then TV. So like if no one's home and I could be planting, I can be mowing the lawn. I could be, you know, whatever, don't whatever. I won't watch TV. I'll pick something else to do. But if it's me and my wife and we're hanging out and we're like, hey, what do you want to do tonight? You want to watch a movie?

Yeah, let's watch a movie. We're doing that together. So that's not a time waster. Okay. We have decided to do that together. I see. So do you understand? I see what's happening.

There's certain things that I'm doing, certain things that I'm not doing. It's not a 100% total digital detox. Yeah, I was going to say 100% you like go out to a cabin and you don't see anybody for who's going to do that. Some people do. Yeah, that's crazy. Dirk's Manly. Yeah, I was going to say, they've like turned everything off and they're like no technology

whatsoever. And I like, I know why because it is beneficial. And if I could do that, I would. Like, honestly, if I didn't have this job, I probably wouldn't be on any social media. Yeah, I don't, I don't see if for whatever reason you decide to leave someday, like you, we'd never hear from Eddie again. No, uh, you won't. You'd be wiped off on the face of the earth. Because I do enjoy nature.

I enjoy my own time. I enjoy enjoying my special moments in my memories. Like, I don't even like documenting stuff, which is, again, ironic. I'm a video guy. Yeah. And as much as you talked about. making money on reels too i know i know i don't even think like oh i got to get video of this my every time my kids play sports like parents have their phones out i'm always like oh i don't even

think about that yeah that's a funny one to me i didn't even think about that thank goodness my mom doesn't have 80 million videos of me playing softball making bad plays because it would be 80 million yes because it's every single time they go up to bat parents are like oh video i have a lot of pictures which is fine like those are more solid like solid like solid I mean videos like you get one and you're good and you can that wraps like six months. What is cool though and we're not at this level but like if you do have game tape. Oh to like watch back. To watch back.

Look what you did here. You can work on that, that kind of stuff. But I'm not there yet. I was going to say I don't think the kids are there yet. No, they know what they're doing wrong. Like they got it. They're not swinging the bat. Visually.

What they're doing wrong. Okay. So it's going well. I get your theory a little bit more now. Yes. Still a little ridiculous, but I get it. So I have watched a few things. Okay.

And I recently watched. It's called Bono and the Edge a sort of homecoming. I'm assuming it's about Bono. You too, yeah. Yeah. So they kind of do this whole thing where like Bono and the Edge, Bono is the singer of U2 and the Edge is the guitarist. And I guess the drummer heard himself or something.

He has some injury. so he's kind of taking some days some years off of the band they're not broken up but it's like yeah i got to like just chill for a little bit and i think the basis is making a movie or something so they're like do you mind if we do this little documentary together and the band was like yeah no problem so bono and the edge asked david letterman to come to dublin because they're irish and did not know that uh-huh and so david letterman which is cool just to see him like work again uh goes to ireland and like kind of explores the country and then interviews you too and that you two kind of re-imagines their old music for one show. Oh, wow.

Okay. It's on Disney Plus and it's really cool. And like if you like YouTube, the band, it's cool to see them revisit some of their songs just Bono and the edge. Yeah. This is the two of them. And really they bring in like other Irish artists that are like relevant. today, like young singer songwriters from Ireland that like talk about how they've influenced them as Irish.

Because in the U.S. We never talk about like, oh, yeah, U.S. music has really inspired me. But Ireland's a small little country. And so when one band blows up and comes back to help the little guys, like it's really a community. And they all know each other. And they all represent their country, which is really cool. Yeah.

To see that. So they all get together in a pub. and they kind of pass a guitar around and sing and it's like all these little no-named singer-songwriters and then Bono and the Edge. That's cool. It's really, really cool to see all that. Okay. And I'm probably going to sound music illiterate here, but The Edge, remind me who that is. He's the U-2 guitarist.

Okay. That's just his name. When they talk about their dumb names because they were like in high school, they were like a little gang. Oh, okay. And Bono, that was his little gang name. Do we know their real names? Yeah. Paul.

Paul is Bono. And the edge, I believe, is, I don't remember. Let me see if I can look it up. What is the edge? The edge. David? David. Is that right?

David. David, howell Evans. Yeah, there you go. Okay. And so. When you kept saying the edge, I was like, I know you referenced that, but it was throwing me off because I was like, is that like a guitar? No, and it's funny because they talk about how like that was their name, but then

And the two other guys were in the gang too, but their names were so dumb. They're like, no, no, no, we're just going with our first names. Just roll with us? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny. So it's a really cool music documentary. What do you give it? I mean, I give it four out of five pints.

Okay. Pints of Guinness. I like it. Because, you know, it's, I mean, music documentaries are so, like, niche. You know, you have to be, like, really into that band to love it. Yeah. But if you love you, too, and you, like, know anything about them, it's really cool to revisit that. And Dave Letterman,

It's just great. Yeah, it is cool to see him do stuff, especially now because he's like retired. So he's just doing stuff for himself. Yeah, and he's an old man just walking around Dublin, you know, making jokes with people. And so there's a concert, right? That's what this thing's revolved around like a little concert. And so he's out there buying like cheese in a market. And he's like, you know you too?

And they're like, yeah, I know you too. He's like, you want to come to a show tonight? So he's handing out tickets to all these random people like in Dublin. Oh, that is cool. And they're like, I've never seen them live before. This should be fun. Probably half of those people too are like, didn't realize they were also talking to a legend in that moment. Right.

Yeah. There are some parts where he's walking the streets and you see people behind and go like, that's David Letterman. Like registered. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. That's really cool. I know you're watching it.

Ted Lasso. I'm watching Ted Lasso. I'm probably two episodes behind. Okay. Because my wife's really not that into it. Oh, really? This season. She loves Ted Lasso, but this season she's not really into it.

So I can't really do that with a digital deal. talks. Oh, so it's not technically allowed? So technically, if I'm not spending time with her, but you still kind of watch it? I still want to watch it. Okay, wait. Did you, I'm just going to say, did you watch the string episode?

The string, string, string, string. If you don't know, then I'm not going to go wrong about it. Just give me like a. No, I can only say the string. You wouldn't know 100% what I'm talking about if you've seen it yet. Is it one of the signs? Just the string episode. String.

I don't think you have, which means it's probably the first one you'll watch next. The last one I watched was the Keeley and the boss. Okay. You haven't seen it yet. And all I'm going to tell you, this string episode, I was crying, laughing on my couch. So hard. I have never cried and laughed so hard at it during a show. Hilarious.

But I, like, this whole season has had me just laughing out loud. Yeah. I love it. And I didn't. I'm sad. Your wife doesn't like it, though. Now I'm bummed. No, I know.

She just said, like, I think she's just kind of over the, the same. head lasso humor. I'm not. I love it. Oh, I'm all about it. And this is the last season, I think. Is it? Yeah, I think they said the third goes last.

That makes me sad because I feel like they can just keep going forever. I know. And they're so funny. They have great humor in it. So that one is a great one on Apple Plus. And then I'm a big Bridgeton fan. Bridgeton. I love it.

I can't get enough of the old. Don't ask me why. I cannot get enough. But they released like a limited series called Queen Charlotte about the Queen. And like her whole story. It was so good. I watched it in a number. a day.

Man, that Bridgetton is a risque. Oh, my God. Eddie, it's like enough risque, but it's also drama. And then like old times, but new times, it's just, oh, it's so good. It's so good. So Queen Charlotte on Netflix was so good. Like, straight up might be my favorite of the Bridgeton series. That's cool.

Five out of five rounds. Five out of five. Mm-hmm. I love it. I love it. It was really good. The plot line was more serious than I anticipated. But it was still the typical Bridgeton.

Great. Yeah, I'm probably not going to jump on that. I know it's okay, but I know other people will. Okay. That's why I was giving the recommendation, but I was also talking about Ted Lazo because that's also awesome. I agree. So we got those. We got a lot of them.

Well, I hope your digital detox continues well. Thank you. You're through May? I guess 30 days. I don't know. You don't even know where you started. You didn't mark it? We're probably.

Yeah, it's somewhere. Okay. You wrote it down somewhere. But I mean, really, I mean, I might just keep doing it in a limited basis except watch Ted Lassow. Like I'll do that. That's the one. Yeah, but you got to be, I'm just going to work on being conscious of how much I pick up my phone and waste time. It's fair.

I think it's a great lesson to take from it. That's it. You just have to watch the string episode with Ted Lassow. I will try and keep a plant alive. Okay. I think that's the other thing we have to follow up on right now. But Eddie, thanks for coming on. Thanks, Morgan.

That's fun. Tell people where they can find you even though you're not on social media. Yeah. I mean, no, I'll still post a few things. So I'm on at producer Eddie on everything. At producer Eddie. And then, yeah, I'm not doing podcast anymore. I was going to say, I can't say like listen because I am on podcast.

It's called Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. You are. You're with me right now. Thank you for not ending your best bits relationship with me. Nah, I wouldn't quit this. You kidding me? Good. This is fun.

This is my favorite. Yours is organized. Yours has order to it. Don't tell lunchbox and Ray that. They'll be very sad. Well, thank you for hanging out with me and for getting vulnerable for all the people because that was fun. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.

Thanks, Morgan. All right, everyone, have a great Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, including Eddie's wife. Happy Mother's Day. Yes, my mom, all the awesome moms out there. I hope you guys have a great time. Eddie, thank you. Thanks, Morgan.

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