The Bobby Bones Show - BONUS EP – CMA Awards Backstage Interviews: Luke Bryan, Megan Moroney, Chris Lane, Michael Ray, Maddie & Tae, Gabby Barrett & more!

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

The Bobby Bones Show is broadcasting backstage at the 57th annual CMA Awards in Nashville. Check out day one interviews right here and catch the awards LIVE Wednesday night at 8/7c on ABC!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar. of, you know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts. Broadcasting from the 57th annual CMA Awards. It's the Bobby Bones show. Lunchbox here with Megan Maroney. How are you? I'm great. How are you? Now, your record label came to us before and said, hey, keep it short.

She's losing her voice. Is that something they say so they can get you the head? out of here or you're really losing your voice? I think it's kind of a preventative thing as well. I played like four shows in a row. I've got a rooftop show tonight. I have a show tomorrow in Dothan, Alabama, and then I have to perform on Wednesday for the CMA Awards.

So we're just trying to make sure my talking, honestly, is where my voice goes out a lot. Yeah, that's tough because I think about my schedule. I'm like, man, what time can I take a nap? And then, like, what's going to be on TV tonight? Like, that sucks. I mean, it's good. No, no, it's good, but it sucks at the same time, right?

I mean, it's exhausting, but this is what I signed up for. So we're enjoying it now. I'm young, so. Yeah, I mean, I'm old, you know, thank you. That's just what you said. You're old. I'm young. I have energy, you don't.

But like, when you're thinking about the dream of being like a musician, do you realize how hard it, like the grind or did you think, oh, I see the lights, the camera, stage and you don't think about the back behind the scenes? I mean, well, I thought I was going to be an accountant, so I didn't never really, you know, think about what this would be like until it happened. And then once it started happening, I was like, well, I really want to do this with my life. So I'll do anything to make sure that I'm, like, working hard and keeping the ball rolling.

Oh, you're a smarty-pants, accountant, huh? So do you keep track your own money or you hire someone for that? Oh, no, I don't have time for that. So you want to be accountant and then said, you know what, I'm a passion, I'm going to hire a different accountant to watch my money. It's really funny during meetings and survival, they just see my eyes glaze over and I check out. I'm like, I don't want to talk about this

with the taxes and I can't believe I wanted to do that with my life, to be honest. I know because my uncle does it and I'm like, dude, you just sit there and look at spreadsheets all day and you have to call. I know. I'll send my business managers receipts and I'm like, I'm sorry that you have to do this.

Okay, so we're going to play a game called Would You Rather? Okay. So, would you rather meet your hero and throw up on them or meet your hero and have them throw up on you? I don't think I would want to throw up on Taylor Swift so maybe she could throw up on me. I don't know.

None of those really sound ideal but I definitely wouldn't want to throw up on her. Yeah, I mean, it would be awkward, but it would be awesome. Like, what a memory, you know? Like, Taylor, like you would be in the news, Taylor Swift puked on me. Yeah, I guess.

I'd be like, are you okay, girl? when you get you water. But then you would get some in a jar and have it forever, right? No. Ew. Okay. Now we have one more, would you rather? Because that was Morgan's and I think that one's kind of boring.

So I'm going to do mine. I want to know, would you rather pee out your nose or poop out your ear? The first. Once again, none of that is ideal. Right. But for the rest of your life, you had to pee out your nose or poop out your ear. What would you rather do? Yeah, pee out my nose for sure.

Huh. Interesting. Because I feel like he'd have that smell there forever And it was just like if something dripped You're hydrated That's a great point Didn't think about that All right

Hey good luck on Wednesday night Megan Maroney Thank you so much for stopping by Don't miss the 57th annual CMAs Wednesday night At 87 Central on ABC Is Morgan here with Luke Brian If you didn't hear that nice little laugh

That my laugh Of the signature Goofy laugh You know you got a lot going on Like you are about to host The CMA Awards You've got massive number one songs. You've been touring.

You have so much going on in your life. Is there anything you can't do? Oh, yes. Okay. Can you give me like a few things? Because I feel like you're pretty perfect. I think that, gosh, I can't ice skate. Oh, that's a good one.

I can't. You, like, fall all over the place? Yeah, that would be a bad deal. Like I said, I can't really chip very well. Chip. Oh, okay. Not a good golfer? I can chip my teeth.

Have you ever chipped your teeth? Yes, on microphones. You just eat the microphone? Well, you're just like, hey, what's up? There we go. Just having a little too much fun. Getting repaired. At buck teeth, I have an extra to file down.

Okay, that's fair. What about this whole Peyton Manning situation? You guys are like BFFs at this point. Have you had any crazy moments with him that you haven't told anybody about? Well, we have a lot. You know, we go take a couple golfing trips. We do some cool golf and stuff. stuff a couple times a year and um we um you guys have sleepovers i feel like your best friends

sleep we do we've not you know that that's a little uh we haven't done that um but you know maybe would entertain it you know maybe what would a luke brian sleepover look like it would look like a bonfire and uh camo clothing and whiskey oh okay whiskey sour just straight whiskey whiskey oh nice i like it what about this Cowboy and Plowboys song. Oh, me and party. There are some like in you windows with the song. People are questioning some things.

How do you feel cowboys, listen, just, just grow with it. How do you feel cowboys and plow boys should be taken? Exactly the way we exhibited in the song. Yeah, so how is it intended? Give us a little story behind it. Well, it's intended to uplift the, the, um, the, um, the different. Yet similarities between cowboys and plowboys and how they're able to interact in social settings, life settings, and how the analogies and the, how am I doing with this? You see where I'm going with this?

Wait, so which one of you is a cowboy and which one's the plow boy? I mean, I'm a damn plow boy. I'm going to be honest with you, Luke. I don't know the difference between the two. I'm speechless. Am I supposed to? Is this like an obvious thing? Well, you should look at John Party and kind of be like, well, that's a cowboy.

But I could argue you're also a cowboy. I can't rope. Okay. So that's the difference here. You got to be able to rope. Now, I mean, I can like, I could probably jump on a cow and wrestle it. But, you know, Cowboys, you know, you got to be able to drive track. partners to be a plowboy, you know, to plant, to harvest, to cultivate.

Which one do you feel is more badass? Ooh, that's different. I got to stick with being a pliboys badass. Okay. But cowboys are badass too. I hear you. I just was so curious about the song because, like, you hear cowboys and plow boys, and it could go a lot of ways.

Just. I have left Luke Bryan speechless, and I love that for me. Right. No matter what I say, I'm going to get in trouble. I love it. I have a would-you-rather question for you. Would you rather vomit on your hero or have your hero vomit on you? I've never even thought of that.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect you to. I would rather have my hero vomit on me. That's weird. Who would be your hero that would vomit on you? Oh, gosh. Conway Twitty. Oh, that would be an interesting situation. I'd dig that.

I'd dig that for you, too. What a cool story. Conway Twitty vomited on me. Thank you, Luke. Brian. You're the best. I'm trying to figure out if you're tripping or I'm tripping. I think we both are. Okay. The CMAs are

live on ABC. Wednesday night at 87 Central. All right, it's Morgan and lunch. Lunch. You're going to say Chris Lane. Well, lunchbox and good job, Chris. You know what you're doing. Morgan and Lunchbox here with Chris Lane. I know who he is more than he knows who he is. That would probably be true. I'm not going to

lie. Yes, and before we start the interview, Chris Lane, I'm just going to... The interview has started lunch just FYI. But Chris Lane, you've been doing like radio interviews for how long now like 25 years oh yeah at least you're touring the country did you just call him old indirectly yes he did yes he's done a lot of interviews and i just i he's got to take the gum out of his mouth because it well it could be you know what dip or something you don't know it's not dip i can smell it's gum it's gum it is true you're you're right it was the the gum rule of thumb i dropped the ball or your people drop the ball no or you just want to have good breath it's my

fall and I wanted to have good breath. Here, breathe on me and let me see what I'm not. Why? If you had to guess what kind of gum would I be choosing? If Chris Lane, I feel like you're a like winter green kind of guy.

Is it the five? Is it the big five? It is not. It's the only one I can picture right now. Because I used to you chew, chew. What? Oh, double bubble. That's not even for good breath, Chris. I agree. That's just for taste. After the first five chews, this gum.

You're doing that for fun. Okay, fair enough. Well, I do want to ask you a serious question. That is funny. That is funny. You've been on tour with a whole bunch of people. I want to know what you're- Are you calling him old indirectly?

Yes. Maybe. Well, listen, I can list it. Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Florida, Georgia, I mean, I can list all of them, you know. But what's your most embarrassing tour story? Like, maybe you did something in front of somebody, something happened. Maybe it's a secret.

You haven't told the world yet. Um, wow. I mean, because Tor, you're out there on the road with people the whole year. Stuff has to happen. One, well, one of the things that happened, I'll tell the story because I'm currently working with Jada Marcus with my new record label. So back when I was out on tour, Rascal Flats, they always used to tell this story. And people used to believe it.

It used to be a rumor out there. They were like, you know, we're so happy to have Chris out on tour. We're so proud of him and all the things that he's overcome. I just put out my first song fix at the time. And they're like, you know, he overcame this big meth addiction. And like, so it was a running story that I had a meth. I did not know you did meth, man. I did.

That's true. I did. Let's run that story. I bounced back hard. So you're debunking all the theories right now. They're not true. They're not true. All right.

All right. There it is. Okay. Well, that sounds like fun for. I didn't know we were going to go there. I thought you're going to be like, man, One time I was talking to Garth and my fly was down and we went straight meth. Yeah.

Did that also happen? That did not happen. No, I'm just saying like I thought it was going to be something like that. Maybe it also happened? I know. I feel like I'm definitely missing a good tour story that I can't even think of in the moment. It's okay. I'll walk away and be like, hey, let me come back over there.

I'm like, what's your name again? But we did learn you're on meth, so that helps too. That's right. It always helps. All right, lunch. Go with your question you want to ask. What is my question? Oh, I don't remember.

Oh, would you rather, what is it? Would you rather? I love a good, would you rather? Okay. Would you rather meet your hero and puke on them or your hero puk on you? I think I'd rather do, well, actually, I take that back because one of my biggest fears is puking. So I think I'd rather have them puke on me. Wait, hold on.

I have two follow-up questions. First is your hero. That would be puky. Yeah, like, who would you want to puke on you? Who would that be? In the country's side of things, probably Kenny Chesner. That would be an interesting situation. Some rum, maybe on a boat.

That's right. And you have kids. So how is puking a fear and, like, how are you handling that? I agree. And honestly, that was one of the main things that played on my mind when I decided to have children is they do throw up a lot. A lot. Yeah, it's alarming. So do you like run out of the room?

No, wait. Is it a fear of getting, like, you see someone puking? It's like, oh, or it's like just the fear of you puking. It's the fear of you puking. It's the fear. fear of me puke. Okay. I hate that feeling. Totally get it.

I can't really deal with snakes or spiders and any of that, but I honestly would rather deal with that over the feeling of puging. Yeah, my problem is when I puke. So this is your number one fear. Yeah. I would say it's definitely. It goes puk, snakes, spiders. I already told my wife when the kids come home sick from school and they have some kind

of stomach virus of some kind, I'm running out that house. She's going to have to deal with them. So what's the concession? What if you run out during the? that. What is she allowed to run out during? When it's TV time. Well, I just, there has been on that she is. What's her concession in this? That's right. That's right. That's right. When they're watching cartoons. Yep. 100%. All right. Well, thank you, Chris. It's good to see you. As always. Thanks for the fun conversation.

Thank you all. Appreciate it. Don't miss the 57th annual CMAs. Wednesday night at 8 7 Central on ABC. It's Morgan here with Jackson Dean. Before the CMA awards, Jackson, are you doing anything? with the CMA Awards this year. What's happening? I'm just walking to carpet. Oh, that's not a just. Let me remind you. That's a big deal. It's a big deal. Is this the first CMA awards for you? Or have you been before? No, we did last year.

Okay. Yeah, it was funny. I walked out right behind Riva last time. And I hate to admit it, but I got a little struck. And I didn't say anything, but I was like, I'm like, oh, my God, there's Reeva. So you think there's a video of there out that you, like, sitting in the background and you're totally geeking out? was this was no this was uh this was us walking thankfully there was no cameras to capture it but i got a little little excited and um no this was she was walking out to her car and um just kind of kept my distance i didn't want to crowd her or nothing um but yeah it was i remember that and walking to

carpet and do you have any other memories kind of like that of iconic moments where you're like holy crap this is my life um we i kind of had one in with with people i kind of had one. We did one of the biggest tours of Q1 with Blake and Carly. The last weekend of that tour they do a party and you know just say thanks

and you know just have a good time and my parents were there that weekend and so was my sister and so my mother and my sister at that party I'm going and I look over and my mother

and sister Gwen Stefani are all standing there talking babies, and they stood there for like an hour, and I was just like, what is life right now? And she's very, very nice. And, you know, I've seen them a couple times since then. And she's just like, oh, my God, how are you? You know, and she's very, she's very sweet. But to have to have her be that cool with my family and, you know, just be like, oh, this is happening right now is pretty cool. That is a very surreal moment. I couldn't even imagine talking to Gwen Stefani, let alone for an hour. Yeah, yeah. She's very, very nice. Very, very nice.

At least she was with us. You're like, the only experiences I have, they're great, right? Yeah, that's the only ones I got. Okay, you also have your song Don't Come Look in, which I will say, I have used for road trip pictures, because I love the idea of just, like, piecing out, nobody knowing where I go and I'm just gone. Yeah. When's the last time you've had, like, that trip where you're like, I want to stay here, live here, and never come back? Maybe it was a place?

I've been out this place a couple times. We actually shot Fearless. the video, a lot of big vista stuff for Fearless was shot here. It's Virgin Falls. It's out past Center Hill Lake east here out in Sparta. But it's five miles into the falls and enough solitude, you know. But in there, I went a couple months ago, and it rained pretty hard. And I'm pretty light when I go.

A little bed roll in a 9 by 12 tarp and all open, you know. But yeah, I went in there for three days and just cleared my mind. I try to get out now about once or twice a year. Either here I go back home and there's a river that my family's been going to since my dad was 10 years old. So that's 43 years they've been going up there. And I went earlier this year for a man's trip up there, which was big old drink-a-thon, three boats, and I think we counted it with 32 coolers. Drink of choice?

Vodka. Just vodka? You just taking straight vodka shots on me? No, no, no, vodka mules. Okay. I drank from the time I started drinking, which was, you know, you imagine. But it was always whiskey, and then I had some stuff going on, and I quit that for a while. And then my dad started making these vodka mules.

And I was like, damn, that's good. So I've been on a mule kick for about the last year and a half. Okay, well, I mean, we have to wrap it up. I'm getting the finger, the wrap it up finger. So we're just going to go get you a mule real quick, a vodka mule. Hell yeah. Sound good? Then we'll go out to the farm.

Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Okay. All right, important question. Would you rather vomit on your hero or have your hero vomit on you? First off, who's your hero? I'd rather have them vomit on me.

Okay. Yeah, it's not good when I throw up. And who would be that? Who would be vomiting? Reba? Just go Chuck Norris. Since he's on my mind here. I've been seeing a lot of Chuck Norris memes in the world.

No, it should be like, that's so legendary. Chuck Norris vomited on me once. Right? Good story to tell. The CMAs are live on ABC. Wednesday night. At 8.7 Central. A win is a win.

A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined.

And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment. And the next, we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music.

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Talk Podcast Network on TikTok. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, oh my God, this is the same man.

A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to

get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ego Wode. My next guest, you know from Stepbrothers, Anchorman, Saturday Night Live,

and the Big Money Players Network, it's Will Farrell. Woo, woo, woo, who, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through,

and I know it's a place that come, look for up-and-coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. Mm-hmm. And he's like, just,

give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to thanks dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. from the 57th annual CMA Awards. It's the Bobby Ball Show. Morgan here with Michael Ray, pre-CMA awards.

Michael, how are you? I'm doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. You're like tired yet? You've done this a million times? Nah, it's always fun. I feel like this is like kicking off like the holidays. You know, it's like CMAs is coming in.

Everybody's in town. It's cool to see everybody. Everybody's been running all over the place. So cool to see everybody in the hallways, at least for a quick second in between. And then everybody's in town, CMAs. It's like the Super Bowl. you know so everybody's here i did just see you talking to luke brian is it weird when you're like seeing all these people who maybe once upon a time were like your heroes and now you're like this is me

oh it's great i and i and i always try to remind them you know because i'm like like like you know you become buddies with some of these guys you grew up i mean i covered luke brian songs all through high school you know at all the bars i played at and the uh tailgate and tan lines record is still one of my favorites of his and favorite i still go to listen to it so wait the spring break album the tailgate tan lines have you listened to a spring break album have you listened to a spring break albums, though. Oh, yeah. Because those are where it's at.

I'm from Florida. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just making sure you do it. Some people are like, he has what album? Oh, yeah. I don't know about the Luke Brown.

I'm trying to get on that, that, uh, Crash My Pli. Yeah. How do I get on that? Right. Okay, well, enough Luke Brian. He's on his own.

You do have a new EPI out, dive bars and broken hearts. Yes, ma'am. And, I mean, I can relate to dive bars and broken hearts. So where did this come from, the inspiration? You know, I was,

after you know uh COVID and everything I think just everybody had that time period of really just rethinking things and kind of feel like I just really grew into myself and and got that found my sound I found the confidence and you know little chip on your shoulder don't hurt you know and for motivation and I feel like uh you know I've known Michael Knox who I'm working with now for for years and uh felt like I was ready to to work with him and feel like it was the right time for us and this whole record I just really you know dove all into vulnerability had never been a strong point for me. So I really try to push through that for my own self too, but also I just know that the reason

why I felt like I could say things growing up is because, you know, Tim McGrawl saying it or, you know, somebody's saying it that I listen to. And so I try not to forget that. Do you feel like it's weird, too, because I feel like maybe you're in a point of your life where that broken heart is mended and now you're singing about broken heart. So you're like, this is kind of weird. I feel like I'm in a different place in my life. Oh, yeah.

I'm way different in a different place in my life. But, you know, somebody's going through it. So that's a good thing about country music. That is very true. I also heard from a little birdie that you have a connection to Shaq. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So Shaq and I supported the sheriff, that guy that was running for sheriff years ago in my home county.

And so we did like a fundraiser thing at Shaq's house in Orlando. I think he just sold it. I put an offer in, but apparently five grand. It was way too low for what he wanted. But so we, they were like, hey, we're going to do this fundraiser. It's going to be at Shaq's house. And I was like, awesome. And so we go there and he has the exact replica of the Miami Heat basketball court.

Wow. All inside. Did you get a play on it? Yeah, I played guitar. I sang on it. I sang there. We had a big event there. Wow.

And then I know my limits. I don't think I should go against Shaq on basketball. Okay. Maybe free throws. I'm just kidding. Did you go your limits though on like, did you get his phone number? I do. I think I do have his number.

I did. I don't know if I still do, actually. Have you ever just like FaceTime Shaq when you were drunk? You're like, yeah, I got Shaq's phone number. I FaceTime Rick Flair drunk at 4 a.m. And me and my buddies were gator hunting. Me and my cousin and buddy of ours were gator hunting. And we didn't were on any gaiters.

So, of course, we went cooler hunting, you know, and that was stocked. So we took care of that. And then one of my buddies was like, FaceTime someone on your phone. And I'm like, Rick Flair's a wild, man. You know, he'd understand if he saw this and I would tell him. and then the next day I get a text message Hey buddy saw you face time me at 4 are you okay Rick Flair would be bailing out of jail

100% yeah 100% absolutely absolutely I knew I was safe FaceTime and him at 4 you know fair enough and just to wrap this up we gotta do a would you rather Would you rather vomit on your hero or have your hero vomit on you And maybe it's Shaq or Rick Flair I don't know Is it on their boots

It can be wherever you want I'd rather vomit on somebody I'll be honest with you I feel like I don't get embarrassed too easily and, you know, I travel a lot, so my clothes are limited. Okay, fair enough. And who would that be that you'd be vomiting on your hero? Oh, man, you're really starting some beef here. Well, you can have a lot of heroes, but like the one that this could happen with,

and you'd be okay. Again, I feel like Flair, you know, he's a wild man back in the day. I mean, you were really putting Rick Flair on the best friend list. Let's go, yeah. Give us your best Rick Flair impression, and I'll let you leave. I have spilled more liquor than you have drink. These suede shoes, $800. This Rolex with limousine, riding, jet, fine.

Woo! Nature Boy. I have no idea if that was correct or not, but I appreciate that. I appreciate the confidence that you gave it. That was good. Don't miss the 57th annual CMAs. Wednesday night. At 8.7 Central on ABC. It's Morgan and Lunchbox here with Maddie and Tay.

Hi, guys. How are you? How are you? You guys look amazing. Congratulations are in order. This is the first time we've seen you since the new baby has arrived. Yes, it's the best. How is it?

Like you guys are both now moms. Yes. And I'm a dad. We've been calling this. We've been calling this. This is our milf era. That's what we're going for. Oh, that's a great name for your next tour.

The Milf era. Do you know what Milf means? Oh, yeah, I do. Because you got one. Well, yeah, I got one. And I mean, I watched American Pie, guys. Come on. Oh, yeah.

That's where it's from. Oh, yeah. So why the Milfarra? Why is that the name? Well, one, it's like after you have a baby, you can do anything. Like there's a confidence where you're like, damn, my body did this and like, you know, and like delivered and grew and all this stuff. And so like even if you got a little stretch marks and some rolls and whatever, it's like, you know, you still feel hot.

It's just sexy. Yeah. I don't know how to describe it. It's like, damn, I've freaking birthed child. I need you guys to like bring that energy to my life every day. Girl, the bangs, amazing. It just looks like you run things because you do, but you just look like, girl, you crack in the whip.

Thank you, because that guy over there tried to rate my bangs on air. I didn't rip your bangs on air. I don't know what you're talking about. No, you tried to rate them. Oh, rate them, yeah, because I wanted to play a game around the studio. Rate the bangs. Like, what do you think? Oh, I think 10 out of 10.

Whoever cut them did a great job. Well, you guys both get 10 out of tens in the Milfair. Okay. Let's go back to having a baby. Let's go back to having a baby. So like when my wife pushed out our three babies, I watched, okay? Yeah. I was totally against watching.

I was like, I am not going to do that. And then when it happened, I was like, oh, I'm watching. This is amazing. How is it happening? It's really cool. Yes. Did your man watch? Well, unfortunately, we both had very dramatic.

Oh, well, this is. See, I should know this. No, no, no, we're fine. But I had to do an emergency C section. So I started pushing. And then once I started pushing, I've labored for 36 hours. Oh, my God. It was gnarly.

She was in labor for five days. So that's a, yeah, they were both gnarly. But my husband. You are. But does he watch the C-section? Can you watch that? No. So they had a big sheet up, but the bizarre part was when they were cutting me open,

my epidural wore off. So I felt everything. She literally felt the knife. Yeah, I felt them cutting the open. And you know what they say? The first cut is the deepest. It was, dude. Baby, I know the first could.

Yeah, okay. But with that being said, my husband wanted to, but they had to kick him out because they had to put me under anesthesia because I could feel everything. And you're not, you can't feel yourself getting cut open. That's not really. Yeah, that takes a term for the worst because like my wife on our third one, she was like, it was like eight in the morning. She's like, oh, I'm good, I'm good. I need the epidural. I need the epidural.

And so they come in, they start doing it. And she's like. Can't sit still. And she can't sit still. And she gave birth before the epidural got in. What a champ. Tell her, she gets bagelian goal. I tried to go unmedicic.

Katie down's like, oh, hey, oh no, gave them. Yeah, that's what she thought the first was just like, I'm going to do it all natural. And then she's like, she's like, puking halfway into it. And she's like, give me that epidural. And then the third one, she was like, I'm taking that epidural. And then she waited too long. So we did like the exact opposite. Oh, brother.

Yeah. But yeah, it's, my husband wanted to watch with all that being said. But then he was stuck with this baby while I'm still under anesthesia for an hour. And he's like, oh, my God. What do I do? Yeah. So it was traumatizing for everyone. But also a parenting question because I am a 42-year-old male, very, you know,

comfortable in my life and I still kiss my mom and dad on the lips. I kiss my baby on lips. I kiss her baby on the lips. Yeah, like a family, like culture thing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't do that with my family, but we've never done that. So it's not weird.

But you do it with your baby or no? I do with my baby. Yeah. I kiss her baby on the lips. And that's what I'm saying. But are you going to kiss them when they're 42 years old and grown? You know, this is weird. I kiss my mom on the lips still.

That's what I'm talking about. My dad kisses me on my forehead. But my family's French. My dad does that too. Yeah. My mom's side of the family is French. So even my grandpa would like kiss me on the lips. I would kiss my grandparents on the lip.

Do you do the double kiss too if you're friends? Do you do like the cheek kisses? We just went. That's, I will say that's when I'm not down for. It's like you know how people like to double kiss? I don't want to be double kiss. Fair enough. I feel so honored because T she don't do the, she only does that for me.

Yeah. She gives me cheek kisses but nobody else. And my mom. And like, in people that I know. And Tasha. You don't want strangers coming up to me like, kiss kiss, kiss. I'm like, I can appreciate it.

want to do that but I don't want to do that. That was like when I was pregnant in our meat and greed, some people would touch my stomach without asking. Explain me why. No, just because I'm big and giant doesn't mean like your hand should be there. And then they'd say weird things like, man, you're about to bless. Yeah, you're huge. I'm like, thanks.

I want to be reminded. My wife was coming out of the bathroom at a restaurant and this lady's walking in. She's like, oh my gosh, she starts touching her belly. She's like, I can tell you're having a girl or whatever. I'm 98% accurate. And I'm like, whoa, who are you? Because my wife. comes out to go, sorry it took so long.

Some lady accosted me in the bathroom and was like feeling up on the belly. And I was like, cool. Man, when I was like about to pop, we did a mean greet and I overheard this guy. He's like, oh, wow, I didn't know she was pregnant because you couldn't tell from the back. I would turn around and people would be like, whoa, God.

And so I was doing this meet greet with her and this lady's like, yeah, she's definitely due like next week. She's huge. And I was like, you're such a not due for another four weeks. Oh my gosh. Right. I was like, do I really look that big? And he's like, you look great and strong.

Tell that lady to shut up. It's tough when you're pregnant. Because like my dad, like when my mom was pregnant with me, I was a third of three, three and three years. And he looked at her one day. He goes, you look like big bird. Wrong answer. And it went south.

Oh, it went south. Yeah. Did she starve him? She cried and got emotional. And my dad was like, I didn't know it was so bad. I was just saying it. I'd be like, your ass is starving or going to McDonald's. Exactly.

You better get that question in before. I do have a quick question about your kids. Are you guys forcing them to be best friends? Are they just automatically better? They're automatically. Automatically BFFs. Layton loves forests. Like she's so smart.

So she's like, oh, fingers, fingers, fingers, fingers, all of his body friends. Oh, she's just so sweet. Yeah. Oh, I love that. Okay, well, we do have a fun, would you rather question. First off, who are your guys as heroes? Like, your number one hero?

First off, this is our favorite game to play on the road. and we have some gnarly ones. Okay, well, if you want to ask them, ours are gross. Oh, I got a gross one? Hold on. I got a gross one. We can ask your gross one.

Okay. Our first one was, if you met your hero, would you rather them vomit on you or you vomit on them? I would take vomit from Liam Wilmack any day. Yeah, I've already been vomited on. I'm not just kidding.

I would too. I've already been vomited on by a country singer. Who? Do I say? Heck yes. Travis Denning, puked on.

me on an airplane one time. We love him. He sees our buddy. Yeah, we love him and we give him crap for it. We all getting drunk on a plane. He was. We were doing our job, but he was hung over and had a good time the night before. He's a lot tamer now that he's married and stuff, but in his

wild days, yeah, he puked on me, but the lucky thing was I was like mom vibes before I was a mom where I'm super prepared. I've got like germex and wet wipes and all that. So I just cleaned him right up and gave him some medicine and called it a day. So I just kind of doctored him up and that is beautiful you're a champ that is a champ I'm doing the Lord's work out here yeah

I was trying to be closer I could not ask well I was trying to be protected of labels being like no don't use that so I was trying to run it they don't get to say anything so the rest of your life would you rather have to pee out your nose or poop out your ear oh that's a good one I feel like hide the ear but then you'd smell I feel like pee out the nose and you just cover your mouth real good you know that's going to I'm going to go poop out the ear because I could just wear some earmuffs or headphones and then just poop all in there. Like diaper headphones. And I feel like if you pee out your nose, it could accidentally get in your mouth and it's just like, ugh,

or there's just some leftovers there. I got a really gross one. Go for it. Would you? I love how much you love this. I love it. I literally plays game all the time. Would you rather eat a poop-flavored piece of chocolate or a chocolate-flavored turd?

Oh, a chocolate-favored turd. See? I say the same thing. 100%. I like your chocolate because at least it's chocolate. Same. Yeah, I mean, I would rather do that. Oh, wait.

No, no, no. No, no. No, you did it. The reverse. Oh, yeah. It's probably would be the turd. But at least it tastes like chocolate. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah, but it's a turn. I know they're just a piece of chocolate and I can. Because you know you're not going to like die. Yeah, no. I'm going to eat the chocolate. Yeah. Because if I go down, if I die, at least I ate some chocolate. Yes.

And listen, okay. I know we're getting the rap symbol and this lady's getting very mad at us. I'm sorry. I have to clear something up. So I had an Uber driver, right? And I start talking to the Uber driver. And I'm like, oh, you ever had any famous people? And idiot didn't recognize me in the back.

But he was like, yeah, you know, one time I had Maddie and Taye in here. And I was like, no, you're lying. No, I swear. And I said, oh, God. Yes. And I said, what kind of tippers were they? And they said, oh, well, it was them and someone from their record label and it was raining it outside. And there's only a couple blocks, but they didn't tip.

And so I just want to know what's up with that. Maddie and Tay? Dude, we are 20 percenters all the time, so management you got to tell Hayley. I don't know. I don't know. Because that means it's so different. Was it with the record label or with our manager? I don't know. They just said you were going a couple

blocks. It was in the rain. And it was in Nashville. It was in the Nashville. Well, and you guys were just going to K. If you were just going a couple blocks, it's okay. I'm just telling you what he said. So I just want to know what was up, Maddie and Taye. But you guys are good timbers. Oh, yeah.

I go 20% minimum at all times. Every single time you can tip or there's like certain situations where you will, maybe you won't. Like if you're at subway and they ask for a tip, you don't tip, right? Come on. They're just making the sandwich. But Uber you should always, even if it was a couple blocks, like a, you know, a couple bucks. I was trying to help you guys out. Well, it was it? Yeah.

I'm so sorry to that guy. Yeah. You heard of here first. Maddie and Taye apologize, man. I'm a given $20. Yeah, I'm sorry. Mad and I make public apology to Uber driver that we didn't. that we didn't tip on a few blocks. Yeah.

All right. Thank you so much, guys. Appreciate it. Our team's going to be like, thanks a lot, throwing us under the bus. The CMAs are live on ABC. Wednesday night. At 8-7 Central.

Rolling three, quiet on set. Two. Lunchbox here with Chase Beckham. What's up, dude? What's going on, lunchbox? How are you, bro? Oh, man, I got to say, I'm doing great. Life is wonderful.

It's just, you know, it's depressing because daylight savings time. It gets dark at 4 o'clock. Yeah. It's a different time of the year, huh? Like, it just sucks, man. It just takes the wind out of your sales. It really does. It's like, you walk outside.

It's like, oh, 4 o'clock, can't even go to anything. You can't go to the playground. I mean, not that you go to the playground, but I have kids. Right. You take them out to the park and get it to go to it. Yeah, it's not. You can't, you got to be home by 5 now. It sucks.

And like, so you can really do a show like, oh, it's 4 o'clock. You feel like you can start playing. You've got like six more hours. It's like, oh. It's throwing me off. that's throwing my dog off because he usually gets his dinner at 5 o'clock and now he has to wait and he doesn't understand why. And so, you know, I thought we were ditching the daylight savings thing. Is that happening? I don't understand daylight savings thing. I don't know how you can

ditch it. I don't understand how you can ditch it. So I don't understand any of it. No, there's places that don't do it anymore. Right, but I don't understand how you don't just do it. I don't think. Like, they never, it's just, that's it. That's it what time it is. That's how the world should be. I don't understand how you can be so different from this type of the world. Whatever. I agree. I agree. I agree. Let's talk about, you know, real life. life things like you know you were on American Idol and you had a mentor right and this guy like he mentors you and tells you what to do and the judges get up and judge you so now it's time to you know like flip the script I want you to judge the mentor we're talking about Bobby yeah we're

talking about Bobby bones we're talking about Bobby bones here yeah like as a mentor like how did he do like where room for him improvement like what a scale one to 10 Bobby was great you know and I got a I got to spend a little bit of time with Bobby while I was on there And, you know, I felt like Bobby was always really honest. And to me, that's something that I value is honesty from a person. And Bobby was always that person. And every time I get to see him, it's great to see him, you know, because we kind of started there on Idol.

And it's interesting, you know, being in a completely different setting and, you know, going and sitting in at Bobby's show and getting to perform there, it's a whole different deal. But Bobby was great, man. And I enjoyed working with him. So, I mean, does anybody, because I'm a huge sports fan, so does anybody ever be like, Dude, are you related to David Beckham?

Everybody. Everybody. When I was a kid, all the time. And then nowadays, not as much David Beckham's gender. I'm like, we're not related. David Beckham, I don't know. Like, I have no idea. I've never done the ancestry 23 of Me type stuff.

And I think if I did, I might find out that maybe we are a little bit. There might be some lines. That would be kind of cool. It would be cool. Hey, hey, David. Like, you know what I? Yeah, send me some underwear. Come on, man.

So we do this game called Would You Rather? Oh, I played that game. Yeah. So do you have a hero? Like, who's your hero that you want to meet or, you know, interact with? Probably Stapleton. Okay. Stapleton.

So your hero is Chris Stapleton. So you meet Chris Stapleton. Would you rather puke on Chris Stapleton or Chris Stapleton puke on you? Him peop on me for sure. Because then it would be like, oh, it's cool, Chris. You know, no worries. If I puke on him, it might not have there. I might be like, you can't ever see Chris Stapleton.

Again, if Chris pukes on me, I would probably be like, dude, it's fine. Like, it's totally okay. This happens all the time. Like, hey, it's not a big deal, dude. It's not a big deal. You puke on me. We're boys now. Have you ever been puked on?

No, I don't think so, no. I think I probably would pukes myself if someone did that to me. Yeah, man, I got puked on one time at a bar. So I had tuberculosis, right? And so I couldn't drink for nine months because I had to take a pill. Is this a true story? True story. You had tuberculosis?

It's not like a 1903 type of thing? Oh, 100% man. How the hell did you get that? I don't know. Still don't know. Still don't know. I just having night sweats, all this. Whatever.

All right. Doc Holiday. Come to the rest of the story. I'm like, you know what I'm still going to go out. You know what I mean? I can't dream, but it'll still be fun. You know what? It'll still be fun.

Yeah. So I go out and this is in Austin. I go to 6th Street and I'm there. First night. Austin sounds about right. And I'm with some buddies. And all of a sudden this dude next to me just turns and just pukes all down my shoulder and my pants. And I was like, I'm not going out when I'm sober. I'm done. And I'd left and went home

and for nine months, I was like, and then it cured your tuberculosis. Yeah, nine months later, I was back at the bars, but it was just like, this is a sign that I'm not supposed to be out here sober. Yeah, you can't just be out there as a free spirit, man. You got to be, you got to be drinking something. Oh, it's rough. All right, Chase Beckham. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate it. You guys take it easy. Don't miss the 57th annual CMAs. Wednesday night at 8 7 Central on ABC. I don't do the intro? No, you can do it. Lunch?

What? Lunchy. Wait a second. Call him lunchy. Hold on. Why are you called lunch? I don't know. Do you like?

Well, his name is Lunchbox. Yeah, that's why, but she just shortens it for lunch. Lunch. You didn't know his name's Lunchbox? Well, hello. Who's called my leg? No, I promise. I mean, this is unbelievable.

I promise. His name's on air. That's not your, oh. It's not his real name. Okay. Have you ever been on our show, Gabby? Have you ever heard of the Bobby Bone show? Where's Bobby?

I mean, Bobby is at a level where he doesn't... He doesn't... Yeah, okay. He has a lot more on his calendar than I do. And so... Fair. I'm just shot... No, no, hold on.

We started this off great. She had no idea who I was. I need to make sure we intro so everybody knows who we're talking to. This is Morgan and Lunchy here with Gabby Barrett. Hi. Go for lunch. Wow. I thought somebody's telling me that he's eating lunch.

I was. I was eating lunch. Oh, my gosh. Being one of the top 25 most famous people in Nashville. and then Gabby Barrett doesn't know who I am. This is weird. Sorry. You're definitely not top 25.

This is very awkward. Okay. That's okay. This is good. I got a question for you. Like, if you have something in your teeth, do you want something to tell you? Absolutely. Okay, because I've been eating lunch.

I have anything in my teeth? Oh, yeah. You actually do. I could feel it. I felt like I needed to clean my teeth for a second. I didn't get a chance to rinse. Yeah, all right. We are thriving here.

Gabby, you have us on Glory Days. It's out right now and it is. Why do I call you Gabby? Because that's my birth name. What's your birth name? Not lunchbox. Jason Gibble. Jason.

Hey, good to meet you, Jason. That's his fake name. Oh, my. What are you people smoking? I'm trying to help you out. He's really throwing you under. Action. My name's Nico Jackson.

Glory days. That's another one. Okay. Glory days. Lori days. I want to know what, you know, that's your song and you talk a lot about it. Yeah. But what is a perfect glory day for you look like?

I know it sounds cliche, but really it's like every day is kind of a glory day right now just because of everything that's happening with career and kids and family and being in the thick of it. And I really enjoy it. It's challenging, but I really enjoy it all. So, I mean, the music video that we did for Glory Days was just me, my husband, my kids running around in the grass and kind of what our everyday looks like. And so that's really the best picture of it for sure. Now on the flip side, for like, I've never been pregnant, so I have no idea what that feels like. It's rough. Let me tell you.

What is like your worst day? This guy. This guy right here. My wife's been pregnant three times and it was rough. You were not her though. I know, but I can feel her pain. Oh my gosh. What is the worst part about being pregnant?

Everybody talks about like all the great parts. But genuinely, like there has to be bad parts of being pregnant. For me, it has some people, it's the beginning. Some people, it's the end. For me, it's like towards the end when you're just like, oh, I want. want to meet who this is. I want to see who this is. And then all the weight of the baby is your whole lower half is just like taking it. It's just like taking it. You're just heavier on the bottom half. Your back hurts. You can't sleep. Did you have sleeping problems? You know what's the worst part

about baby? Oh, my wife, it was the sleeping towards the end. Like she would try to put the pillow in between the legs. It didn't work. She'd roll on her side. She would try to sleep, but kind of sitting up. That didn't work. She'd roll over the other side. Yeah. Can't roll on your stomach. But then, you know, She's like, ah, then she'd get out of bed and walk around for a little bit. She'd want you to walk around the house with her. And I'm like, ah, I need to get some sleep. Because I got to work in the morning. We got the other kids.

But yeah, that's the worst probably. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. There you have it. Yes. And getting in and out of bed. Default to that.

Yeah. That's about it. We do have a fun. Would you rather question for you, too. Are you ready? I did make it PG rated. Great. Thank you.

I like PG. If you met your hero, which you, would that be? If I met my hero, who would it be? Who's your hero? Oh my gosh. Probably lunchy. Not lunchy. She didn't even know you. A hero in person form would be. In person form, do you have an AI hero?

No, the Lord Jesus would be my hero, though. He's who I look to. I know. Maybe in the 3D world. No, no. I mean, I've met Dolly Pardin was like a really big inspiration for me to get. Dolly and Chenaya. I haven't met Chenaya yet. I haven't even met Riba yet either. I haven't met a ton of people within the country music industry.

But Dolly's was really cool. Okay. So if it was Dolly, Reba, or Shanaya and you met them, would you rather be the one to vomit on them or then vomit on you? What? It is, would you rather? Them on me. Why would I do that to them?

Right. That would be awful. That's just like, no. No. I'd ruin it for my story. Like, Dolly threw up on me. Yeah. And it's fine.

But it's fine. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. Nope. Nope. Well, that was the most PG-rated week ago. Perfect.

I love that. Yeah. And now we'll go a little better version of would you rather. So for the rest of your life. No, no, it's not bad. It's just really gross. It's really not bad. I got one eye open.

Well, yeah, it has sort of near your eyes. Just imagine your kids are talking to you right now. Would you rather pee out your night? nose for the rest of your life or poop out your ear. Ew. I know. Pe. Peat.

Who? First of all, people don't, I mean, I just don't openly talk about number dose. So, oh, no, would be the first. P is easier to. What are you even asking me? What is this? What kind of question is that? It's like, yeah.

I'm about pooping out the ear because if you pee out your nose, I can get in your their mouth. They could like... Well, just close your mouth. You know when soap wants to get in your mouth when you're in the shower and it runs down your face, but you like close your mouth? Let's do that. I'll shower every once in a while.

On a very serious note, I do bet you are out there empowering so many women because you're chasing an amazing career and you're an incredible mom and you're doing a lot of things that make you look like a superwoman. And you are? No, I'm not. But thank you. How does that feel that you'd be that representation for women? Thanks.

I think it's amazing to be able to... have a family. I think the industry and like social norms are definitely not having a family or doing both or it's like very one or the other type thing. But it's so possible to do two things you love at once. It's just time management and setting your priorities straight and doing the other one you can and enjoying the ride on wherever that takes you, you know? And so I just trust that the Lord's going to guide things to where he wants him to be and I'm okay with that, you know. So that's all. I love that. Well, I had to end us on a I love it. On a positive.

Talking about pee out your mouth. So, Gabby, thanks for joining us. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Gabby, it's nice to meet you, Gabby. Oh, you too, Jason. The CMAs are live on ABC. Wednesday night.

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