The Bobby Bones Show - (Fri Full Show) Dierks Bentley Is On The Show Talking About His New Album Out Today, Why It Took Him Three Times To Create It, If He's Ever Seen An UFO & More! + Amy Found Out Lunchbox Did Something Shady + Easy Trivia!

Episode Date: February 24, 2023

Dierks Bentley stops by the show to talk about his new album, Gravel & Gold, that is out today! Find out why it took him three times to create this album. And if he's ever seen an UFO! Then, what shady thing did Amy find out Lunchbox is doing, and why does he not think it's a big deal. Plus, we played a new round of Easy Trivia! Hear who this week's winner is!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Transmitting. Welcome to Friday show. Morning, studio. Morning. It's Dark's Day. Ooh. Old Dark, Diggler will be in later. Bentley. Dirk's Bentley will be in later. Diggler. I was like, whoa. Thank you very much for being here.

We'll go around the room and check out on everybody's lives. That's what we do this time of morning up first. Our video producer, Eddie, what up, Eddie? Good morning. Good morning. So my 15-year-old son came to me and said, hey, I want to start watching Outer Banks because all my friends at school have been watching it. And I saw the first one.

I don't know if I think there's two. Whole season or episode? A season. And I saw the first season probably two, three years ago. I don't really remember it, but I do remember that it's kind of like they're a part. They're a party crowd. So they do stuff like hook up with each other and drink and stuff.

And I'm like, I don't know if I want my 15-year-old son watching this. But he swears, dad, the entire school is watching this. But I know Ray's seen it and I think Lunchbox has seen it. Do you think it's okay for my 15-year-old to watch Outer Banks? Lunchbox. Yeah, he's 15 years old, man. Ray. Yeah, I mean, he's in high school.

He can definitely watch it. Exactly what I'm saying. And he's like telitubbies, right? Like, exactly, man. Is there any chance he can watch this without picking up me-me-me-bad habits? Eddie, sometimes you're a little overprotective. Man, I mean, do I trust Ray and Lunchbox, though? Well, okay, there's a site called Common Sense Media, which Amy brought to us.

Yeah, okay. I'm on it. Come on, Amy. That it's 12 and up, five stars. 12 and up, Eddie, 1915. Oh, man, okay. For outer banks. Okay.

Hold on, there's two ratings here. Parents say four out of five, so that's still really good. Like four out of five stars and it's okay for a 12-year-old to watch. Yeah, my son's 15. And kids save five stars, okay. I mean, is Eddie? Well, I'm just, I remember watching this and being like,

ye, that's crazy. He's also 15. I know. All right. Thank you, Eddie. Up next, lunchbox, everybody. Go ahead. Go ahead.

I got a question for you, Bobby. And I need to know what I need to do. You guys all got those Nashville SC jerseys the other day. I didn't get one and I don't know why. I'm the only one that in here that's a true fan. I have season tickets. And so do I need to threaten, like, send an email and say, how I'm going to cancel my season tickets?

I think it was a mess up. So for our listeners is a soccer team in Nashville, the Nashville SC Soccer Club, and they sent us all a Johnny Cash jerseys. Black jerseys. Like man in black jerseys. They look awesome. They look awesome. And I know nothing about it.

I didn't think I got one. I thought Eddie only got one. And I was little jealous. Then we all had one. And in a typical fashion. Yeah. Lunchbox. And somebody else didn't get one too.

Ray. Did you ever get one, Ray? No, I'm probably never going to get one because I told Scoob to drop it. I've moved on. One of you, it has arrived. Oh, okay. Hey, here we go. It better not be right or I'm going to lose it.

Scoop, would you bring it to me, please? I am going to lose. Because listen, the home opener is tomorrow. Oh, really? You see, that's what I'm saying. Eddie doesn't even know. It is the opening game of the MLS season. Hey, that's cool, dude, we should go.

So they did send us this. It's one they forgot to put in the shipment. Let's go. Who do you think it is? Do you think it's? I don't know. Oh, it's got to be lunchbox. You think it's Ray or lunchbox?

Got to be lunchbox. Please be lunchbox. I'm going to be so mad. Like, because I have a, you know, you have those ticket people that you buy them, but you give a ticket rep. Yeah. I want to send her an email. But if you.

And cancel your season tickets? Yeah. And be like, look, I don't know what's going on. The disrespect is reaching an all-time level, all-time high. Please be Abby's. I mean, it's, there's no name on it, so it's lunchboxes. No! Let's go!

I didn't know who was a good. going to be. I just knew they had sent one up here. Yeah, because he did not want his name. Yeah, you don't want your name. Why? Because you don't like hanging out with our listeners. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Wow, dude. So I told you, since you ordered yours different, it probably was just taking longer.

Hey, I take everything back. I said about National City. You guys are amazing. He's going to cancel his tickets. And why is he number two? I thought it was like 2023. I don't know why he's number two. That was my jersey number in high school, man. Oh, God. Uncle Rico. You asked what number I wore?

And what? Soccer. Oh, okay. Okay, well, there's your answer. You guys didn't have a number in high school? Yeah, but I don't wear it. Yeah, well, what number would you want me to put on there, man? I don't know, man.

Although I should. Because I was, I'm always like, I don't know, number one. But I'm going to do the lunchbox and ask for my old high school football number now on my jerseys. Which is what? Yes, absolutely. 89. Why would you not do that? And then people are going to ask me.

I'm going to be embarrassed to tell them why my number is 89. That's cool, dude. You look good. Okay, let's go over to Amy. Here she is Amy. Let's go. What's going on in your life? Well, I experienced customer service at its finest. I had to have some work done on my patio. Nothing crazy, but worker came out, did a great job, paid them.

Then a few days later, I get a handwritten thank you note in the mail from the company with a $10 Amazon gift card. I was like, okay, I will definitely be hiring you again. So you just need to be giving a gift card and... No, but I just thought... That easy. A, they didn't have to send a handwritten thank you note for hiring them. And then they certainly didn't have to include a gift card to Amazon. So I just thought it was like locking in that, hey, if you ever need us again, we're your people.

So what they did is they overcharge you by $10 every time. I don't know that that's true, but that's funny. I don't know. It's a good business. All right. Finally. From Mount Pine, Arkansas, he loves his Hyundai SUV and he's the guy that most kids want to be. Bobby Bones.

Thank you very much. Hey, here's the thing. I made fun of Eddie. Maybe yesterday when he was like, I'll tell you, man. Maybe I'm getting old. But they just don't put as much deodorant in the old deodorant steak. Come on, come on, talk to me. Well, I looked at my deodorant, and I didn't see any difference.

I went home and looked at it. Oh. But then my ritual every morning is I love cereal. Like, love cereal. I need it every morning. They don't put as much cereal in the cereal boxes anymore. They literally don't. It's two bowls, and it's almost all the way gone.

Hey, you better believe it. You put me on this, and I'm like, oh, my God, Eddie's on to something. Dang right. So it's two bowls and there's just enough money for a full bowl, so you go ahead and you cap it off. You must eat big bowls. No, they're normal balls. Hey, I'm not big deodorant. It's normal.

You're not big deodorant. You know, I'm not using a live deodorant. Yeah. We can tell. But I'm jumping on. Dude, they're getting this. They don't put near as much cereal in the boxes as they used to. And just a normal box.

And they think we're dumb. We're not. We are, but this one we catch. Okay. Yeah, we are. We all pay more because it's like they're putting less, but they charge more. I wish they would overcharge me and give me a $10 gift card of the prize. in the cereal.

Exactly. Then I would be like, I love this cereal. Time to open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Yeah.

Hello, Bobby Bones. A co-worker, friend, and I both love Morgan Wallen, and I purchased pre-sell tickets for us to go see him in May in Houston. I purchased the tickets in November. It's now February. I've not been paid back for her ticket. She told me she'd Venmo me the money back

for her half, but Venmo wasn't working then. Upon finding out this information, she offered to bring me cash, and she never did that. I've been patiently waiting since November for her half of the money that she owes me. I'm not sure to kindly say it. We work together. We're also friends. It's awkward. What do I do?

Thanks for the advice. It's greatly appreciated. Sign, money for Morgan. Well, this is pretty easy because Vimmo's working now. Yeah, it is. I just sent somebody some five bucks. So you send a request. And you go, need my money.

Then you plan that Rihanna song. You better have my money. You just have it playing at your cubicle. Hey, what do you mind coming over? We're talking about some stuff. And you keep it jammed up. But you do Venmo and then you do email and you go, hey, the show's coming up. That's easy too.

Like getting closer to the show. Show's coming up. So I've got your money for the ticket. If you want to send it in Venmo, that's fine. Or here's my cash. Whatever it is. It's a very easy thing. It gets even easier as you get closer to the show.

But I would start with the Venmo request because it's working now. Yeah. I'm not sure it wasn't even working then. I'll be honest with you. Amy? Yeah. I mean, this is always hard. it's awkward, but Venmo request is awesome.

Because they get an email notification or a text. It's like so and so. I mean, I love the request. Sometimes I owe people money and they do the request thing. I owe somebody money now. I just thought about it. Oh, see? Yeah, yeah, yeah, me.

$200. No, I do not owe you jack. I don't see the request as a rude thing at all. I see it as helpful. Like, oh, yeah. And then you get to just press the button and pay the, it's so much easier. So hopefully that's exactly what will happen for you. If not, hold the tickets hostage or.

Yeah, that'd be healthy for it. It'd be even healthier than what she's, worried about being awkward. Yeah, hostage ticket holding. Very healthy. You should offer someone else the tickets. You know what I mean? Unless you get paid.

Say, hey, I'm going to, Tommy. He loves Morgan Wallen. And he's like, if I have an extra ticket. And I realize you hadn't paid for yours yet. So, boom. I sent you Venmo. I'm playing B better have my money. I still ain't got anything.

So, tick, talk, talk. That's it. All right, thank you for the email. It's as easy as the first couple things I said. Not that last option. Oh, hi, hijacky. That was a joke. Yeah.

Holding it hostage. All right, thank you. We got your email, and we I'm going to air Now it's about to close Bobby's mailback Yeah I send everybody away on Thursday

And I say don't come back Unless you got a fun fact For tomorrow's show Right everybody? Right Fun fact Friday Around the room With the most fun fact

Amy, your first In 1946 A trapped moth caused an early computer model to malfunction And that's how we get the term bug as a reference To software issues

Oh Yeah, I got to What year? There was a computer in 46? It was, it was a computer model. Uh-huh. So some sort of... Those things used to be huge. They'd be like, this thing can send one message to another and it'd fill up an entire room.

Like way back in the day, it would take all that. Like, like a generator to send an email. Crazy. But I didn't know moth. That's pretty interesting. Lunchbox. How long before you had to go pee? Like, when you, oh, I can hold it.

And it's like, oh, and then you got to go pee. From the moment that you realize you have to be? Yeah. I don't try to hold it very long. That's bad for you. I guess how long are our segments? Yeah. Why do you ask? Because wood frogs in Alaska,

they hold their pee for up to eight months. Why? How do they not explode? Does it drink any more water? It recycles inside their body, and it keeps them alive while the winter is going on. That would be legit if our food can just recycle inside of us. Yeah, that'd be cool. They'd just like in a circle. Yeah, it'd be awesome.

All right, Eddie, what do you have? So in the ocean, there is enough salt to cover the entire world with 500 feet thick salt. Like that's how much salt there is. The entire world. Isn't that crazy? Like 500 feet tall of salt. Think of when you're cooking.

Like, oh, a little pinch of salt. Dude, that's how much salt. That would be if you took it out of the ocean. How did you figure that out? I don't know. They have to guess. They guess. At some point.

No, somebody took the salt. They don't know how deep the ocean is. Morgan, go ahead. Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. So businessman Lamarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by saloons and brothels, so he built roller coasters for good, clean fun.

Well, it only distracts him for like, I don't know, three minutes. Yeah, very short. Back in the brothel we go. That's fun, fellas. Quick trip to the saloon and over to the brothel. Yeah, sure. I need a drink after this ride. Holy cow.

American spent almost $100 billion a year on the lottery. Now, that's a lot of money, but I don't like those stores that are like, they spend $10 billion on chicken wings. I'm like, what does that even mean? So, here you go. $100 billion a year on the lottery is more than we spend on books, movies, music, video games, and tickets to sporting events combined.

We spend more money on the lottery as Americans. Books, movies, music, video games, and tickets. You combine them all together. It's still not as much that we spend on lottery tickets. That's crazy, man. Where if you read more books, you could actually make more money, not have to buy lottery tickets. But you had to spend money. Once you read that book, you had to spend money to make that money.

No, you learn things you could do, like skills. All right. No, not all right. I mean, I'm not going to argue with you. I just thought it was crazy. We spent more money on lottery tickets and all those other things combined. There's a lot of dreamers out there. As a dreamer, you don't play the lottery.

As a dreamer, you chase your dream by doing the work and making a strategy to make it come true. No. That's a... True. No, that's called a grinder. That's someone that wants to grind. No, grinder's something different. Okay, never mind.

Fun fact Friday. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. There's a group in Tampa called the Rough Riders, and they donate over 10,000 teddy bears to people who need a little love each year. We collect teddy bears throughout the year. We probably collect over 10,000, mostly from the community at large, and we will sort the bears here in our warehouse at our facility in Tampa, and we will redistribute them to children's hospitals, VA centers, assisted living centers, pretty much anybody in need of. with teddy bear and a little bit of love.

Are these guys the ones that are on horses? Yes. And so they're on... You see a bunch of guys on horses with teddy bears run to the neighborhood. That'd be weird. I mean like, what the crap's happening? They're on horses, and they're called the Rough Riders

because back in the day, President Teddy Roosevelt, his cavalry was called the Roosevelt Rough Riders. And that's also why they deliver teddy bears because of Teddy Roosevelt. Thank you very much. That is what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. The easiest trivia game ever. it's easy trivia, the category is Bobby Bone Show.

Eddie, we'll start with you. You're the champ. Thank you, thank you. Who's the oldest on the show? Oh, that's me. Yeah, that's right. All right. That was easy. Morgan, whose significant other is nicknamed Bay. Oh, Ray Mundo's wife. Yeah, Ray and Bay Mundo. Yes. Ray Mundo and Bay Mundo. So if you say Ray Mundo, you got to see Bay Mundo.

I like that. Amy, how many books have I released? Two. That your answer? Yeah. It is three. That's correct. Lunchbox, what anniversary is the show celebrating this year? Oh, 10-year anniversary.

In Nashville, correct. Yeah, good. Nice job. Okay, so you're all through the first round. That was super easy. Now, Eddie, you're in the lead here. You do have the tiara on because you're the reigning champion. Oh, yeah.

I saw someone out in public today. They said, where's your tiara? I'm like, I don't wear it every day. You should, though. That's what I do. Also, if you miss a question, you'll hear this sound. You've been bow. The goal is not to be boned.

Here we go. Signature fast food items. Eddie, what restaurant's signature item is a Cherry Lime Aid? That's Sonic. Correct. Morgan, what fast food's restaurant signature item is a Whopper? Ooh, Burger King. Correct.

Amy, what fast food restaurant's signature item is the Blizzard? Dairy Queen. Good. Lunchbox, what fast food restaurant signature is the Big Mac? McDonald's. Yep. Boom. Let's go to the next round.

The category is 90s country. Yes. Eddie, who released Fancy in 1990? Bones, that's Reba. Correct. Morgan in 1993. What year were you reborn? That year, 1993.

Who released? Should have been a cowboy. Toby Keith. Correct. Wow. Amy, 1995. Who released? I like it.

I love it. I love it. I want some more. Tim McGrough. When you got to Tim, I thought it would kind of flow out, but she like went through a bunch of Tim. Like what other Tim? Timmy was there. Tiny Tim.

I just wanted to be sure. Tim Tebow. Lunchbox. Who released Amazed in 1999? Thank you. Lone Star. Correct. Okay. Category 3, slightly harder, still very easy. Come on.

The category is named that Bobby. Eddie, famous radio host and winner of season 27 of Dancing with the Stars. Hey, that's you, Bobby Boones. Thank you. The name of a kind of sprung hairpin or small clip. Oh, a Bobby Pin. Correct. What is Will Ferrell's character name in the movie Talladega Nights?

Oh, gosh. Will Ferrell's character name. Oh, oh. Ricky Bobby. Correct. I would have also accepted Tim Ricky Bobby. That was tough one, Amy.

Lunchbox, celebrity chef, restaurant tour, and reality television personality. Name that Bobby. Bobby Lay. Correct. Superhero real names. Eddie, what superhero's real name is Bruce Wayne?

Okay, I thought you're still on Bobby's. No, I said superhero first names. I know, but I'm like Bobby, Bobby. Batman. That's Batman. Correct. Morgan, Clark Kent. Superman. Correct. Peter Parker, Amy. Spider-Man. Correct. Lunchbox, Tony Stark.

Iron Man. Correct. We're rolling. We're rolling faster now, guys. Women of 2000's country is the category. I hope you dance in the year 2000, Eddie. I hope you dance in the year 2000. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Martina McBride. What?

What's her name? Leanne Womack. What is her name? Leanne Womack. Lunchbox, did you know that one? No. Oh. Wow.

Thanks for being honest. Dang it. Morgan, you knew that one, right? Yeah. I know. Wow. No, no, I didn't. Eddie, you're out.

Yeah, yeah, thank you. Morgan, who released Redneck Woman in 2004? Gretchen Wilson. Correct. Who released Suds in the bucket in 2003, Amy? Sarah Evans. Correct. Lunchbox, who released?

This one's for the girls in 2003. What? This one's for the girls. This one's for the girls. I've never heard that song in my life. This one's for the girls. The girls over here, girls over there. Everywhere.

Shaking their tails. Shaking their tails. Everywhere. Shaking their tails, girls, girls. That's Molly Crew. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Who?

Faith Hill. You've been boo. The answer is, Martina McRide. Oh. We're terrible, dude. Have you ever heard that song? We're down to two. We're down to two.

It's Morgan and Amy. Oh, let's go in. The category is famous U.S. locations. Oh. Morgan, the Gateway Arch, is in what state? St. Louis. Correct. State.

You said state. I did say state. You said state. You said state. Oh, I did say state. Oh, my God. I did say state. You're right.

That's terrible. The question is what state? The answer was Missouri. I just heard St. Louis. Okay. Amy, if you get this, you win. I am. She just jumped on it.

I know. It's St. Louis. Amy, what state is area 51 in? Okay. All right. But let me think. It's one of those over there. So the West.

Is it Nevada? I don't know if there's another one. Nevada. Correct, winner. Oregon. You had it. You didn't think about it. Dang.

Amy is our winner. Nice job. You get you a point there. Thank you. You have two points now. You're one-away to Medi. Yay. Let's go.

That's easy trivia. That's it. Yeah, yeah. What a tough loss from Morgan there. All right, back in a second. 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. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast, it's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So, if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be.

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Let's go. We did beat them in improv. You had an improv against the team? Yes. We would pull up their schools would be there with signs for us. It's competition. What you would win is a bottle of gold slager. James Fester threw it out of a van because he didn't want us drinking it.

For more games with names, visit the IHeart Radio app. you get your podcast. This is Colton from Missouri. I just want to say how much you guys mean to me. I just listen to you guys every day and I've listened to you for about a year now and you guys just mean so much. You're some of my best friends.

I just want to say, I love y'all and you're the best. Dang, either is a dare that somebody said, do that dude, because they're idiots and you should go in. Yeah, it almost sounds like somebody put them up to it. Hey man, Colin act like you love these guys. They're awful. Or just like a really kind kid. And Colton, thanks.

I appreciate that. I always felt like the morning show that I listened to growing up was even though I never knew them Like I felt close to them Oh yeah Like Tommy Smith and Big Dave's who I listened to growing up And also Bob Robbins But he played more music

On the country station But Tommy Smith they talked the whole time And I was like man I want to be Tommy Smith's friend And then one day I met Tommy Smith Because he worked in the building that I worked And I saw him in the hallway In Little Rock

Because I worked in Little Rock for a while And I said hey He thought I was like an intern He was like hey would give me some coffee Happened me twice in my career. Once with Tommy Smith, once with a Bob Cole in Austin.

They both thought I was an intern. And they both asked me to get them something. Wow. And both cases I did because I was like, yes, sir. And I don't think they ever knew

I wasn't an intern. What was Bob Sammy, Sammy what? Bob and Sam. Sammy and Bob's? No, Sammy Kerchall. Sammy All ready. Okay, Sammy All ready. He asked me to get copies

of paper off the photocopier for him and I should have looked I probably looked like an intern to him. But I was like, no, this is my first day at the Bobby. Don't show. See?

Amy knew how to do it. Yeah. I was like, whatever he needs. Clean your feet. Clean your toes, whatever. Thank you, Colton, for that call. We appreciate it. The Bobby Bone Show.

Here's one of our favorite moments from the last 10 years in Nashville. Eddie claims that if you really love someone, that going from West Virginia down to Tennessee is not that far in distance. I have decided that $10,000 to this charity,

the National Angels, and I will walk from West Virginia down. to Tennessee carrying love on my back. He's so talented. I'm crossing the street, guys. There he is. 100 miles.

You did it. Tennessee. Almost $200,000. You made it. Eddie, you made it. How do you feel right now? I feel good. Oh, I feel good.

Hyundai is celebrating the 10-year journey of the Bobby Bone Show. Live from Nashville. You just want to say love you show. The Bobby Bone Show. Here's Amy's pile of story. The largest four-day workweek experiment has wrapped, and we have the results. I saw it. Interesting. Most of those companies are going to stay four-day work weeks, huh?

They studied all these companies for six months. And, yeah, 92% of them say that they're going to keep the policy going forward. And this part was interesting to me because 15% of the employees, now they're so used to it, and they love it, that no amount of money could get them to go back to five days. Well, that's bullcrap because we know it could. I saw that too. They said no amount of money. Yeah, it would.

Or no money at all once they get fired if you don't go back to five days. True. But, yeah, almost every one of the companies found that their productivity was higher. People get them more rest, helped. For that four days, they were more dialed in and focused because they knew they had to get a lot done so they could get that fifth day off. Okay. Pretty wild study. I can't wait until they go to the three-day experiment.

Yeah. It's a constant experiment until we put everything in one hour. We don't have to work in a dollar. Yeah, we didn't go to work and get paid. Wow. Yes. Okay. A TikToker is sharing a customer service hat.

I personally haven't tried it myself, but we all know how exhausting it is to call and then immediately get put on hold or you're trying to talk to an automated system and they don't understand you. Well, apparently, if you hit zero pound, zero pound, zero pound, that'll take you right to a human.

I've tried zero. Sounds like a scammer. Yeah, it's risky. This is something that I feel like is not going to end up good. Sometimes zero has taken me there. Yeah, if it's like, hey, push for whatever. You hit zero operator, sure.

Yeah. But zero pound, I feel like, I'm getting charged like 1999 every time I hit pound. We have to do it. Zero pound, zero pound, zero pound. So if anybody has a customer service call, they can try that hack today to see if it works. So Zach Bryan met a young guy at the airport. His name is Wynne Williams and he was carrying a saxophone case.

So he goes up to Zach, hey, I'm a fan. I hope to catch one of your shows but couldn't get tickets to the show in Aspen. So Zach said, hey, if you come to my show with that saxophone, you get on stage, you perform, you got tickets. What do we learn here? Walk around with a random instrument case. Get free tickets. Even if you don't play it, just find Zach Bryan. Well, yeah, but then he's going to ask you to play.

And you're going to be like, oh, crap. Don't get up there. Be like, oh, man, I forgot about Marie. How many strings? Good thing for a win. He took him up on it and he killed it. Mr. Win. I told you guys about the Green Day concert I went to where they brought people up to play.

Yeah. And the guy just did not know how to play guitar. He was terrible. He was terrible. He couldn't play guitar. Like the drummer. The bass player, the bass player.

Oh, man. It was a disaster. Hilarious. But yeah, good for that kid. Ben Rector met his, I think, Sax player on Instagram. He was like, yeah, I'm a big fan. I play Saxon University of Nebraska.

So Ben took him out on the road with him. That's cool. Love that. Yeah. I mean, I have no need for once. If you're a, I don't need a sax player. Sorry, dude. It'll message me, but that's pretty cool.

All right, is that it? I made me, that's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With lunchbox. Tell me something good. Look who's back. Back again.

Say hi with the snowman is back. Tell a friend. What was all that? Was that part of the story? No, no. I ad-lib that because it's back. For the third year in a row, it's something with the Colorado Children's Hospital where kids in the hospital, they design their perfect snowman.

And like, whatever they want to see on a snowman, they draw a picture of it. And the hospital reaches out to volunteers in the community that build those snowmen. Oh, that a real snow. Snowmen. Snowmen? Snowmen. Or snowmen. Or snowmen.

And it encourages people to be active in the community. It gets kids out of the house to help build the snowmen. And then they send pictures and videos to the kids in the hospital and say, here's your snowman. That's awesome. Yeah, I love it. It's just you threw us off guard with the M&M deal at the beginning. Well, yeah, because it was back.

I mean, do it again this time. Try to hit it this time. Go. Look who's back. Back again. Say hi with a snowman is back. Tell a friend. It's just too many syllables.

It would be like, look who's back, back again, snowman's back, tell a friend. No, but it's called, you got to commit, though. The hashtag on social media is say hi with a snowman. Yeah, do you have to say that though in the entry? Like the hashtag? Well, how else are you going to know what's back? You're saying the story. I'm going to say, oh, this thing.

Go, three, two, one, go. There's a thing back. Oh, my God. Guess who's back? Oh, snowman's back. And then I go to the hashtag later. is what you're saying. You did it, yeah.

But how cool? I mean, listen, it's a great idea. Did you know that in Colorado, their snowiest month of the year is March? So there's still plenty of time to get involved in this. So they're looking for people to jump in and be a volunteer to build snowman. To build snowman.

Because. Look who's back. Back again. Snowman's back. Tell a friend. That's right. Yes, who's bad. I almost did build a snowman again.

Yeah. Or say how it was a snowman. That's pretty cool. It is pretty cool. That's, you know what? We're going to wrap this. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good.

On the show right now and on the phone, it's Amber in Iowa. Amber, good morning. Good morning, studio. Morning. I am getting a small-brained puppy in about two and a half weeks, and I'm starting to get really nervous. So I was wondering if you guys had any advice for me. Yes, it's going to be overwhelming. And I've had many dogs, and every time I get a puppy, I'm like,

is going to be awesome this time because I've done it 11 other times. It's going to be overwhelming, but it's also going to be awesome. Puppies are very difficult. Puppies especially. They whine, they cry, they pee, they poop. It's like you have your own lunchbox, but in a kennel at the house. It's going to be tough, it's going to be awesome. And three to six months, a long time, but three to six months, you're going to love life.

And you're going to have all the little things like, buy this, buy that. You don't need all that crap. Oh, okay. You don't. But like, don't you get chewy stuff because they chew on furniture? You can. but they have to be a chewy type dog. You know, they're like, oh, get this thing that has a heartbeat in it.

And yeah, you want to waste $22 bucks on that? They're going to look at it once and never deal. We'll put your shirt in there that has your scent on it. They're going to pee on it and really never care. But every dog's different. Congratulations. Have a time. And it's going to be very expensive.

Thank you so much for all of that. I have seven large breed dogs. And so this small breed is really making me super nervous. Hey, it's going to be like your other ones. You know what it's like. Puppies are always hard. Here's what I'm going to do, though. I like you.

You're a dog person. I'm a dog person. I like this. Amber, this is what I'm going to do. In honor of our 10th anniversary live from Nashville, our show here coming up on 10 years. All this week, Hyundai wants us to hook people up with some cash for being on this journey with us. So we are hooking you up, Amber, with $1,000. Oh, my goodness.

No way. Yes, because I know a puppy can be very expensive. And she has seven other dogs. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's it. Thank you so much. There is no catch. you don't have to sing a song or hold your nose going to water

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Mount Rushmore. I like that. That's great. Chuckles? That was the morning corny. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. About to have Dirk Spently on,

which he's sitting right. beside me, but this is where we go through a little about the artist. Okay, good. Yeah, yeah. A lot of new listeners come to country music every day. This is why I get a chance to see the notes of the label pass along. No, this isn't label notes. This is six pages of like, we go deep.

We have to go really deep on you because we've known you for so long. Right, so you've got to dig up some extra stuff. Yeah, Dirk's got 21 total number ones. Wow. Which is bizarre. I thought he had like two. Me too. That's why I walk on stage.

I know, he's so famous. For example, gone in 2021. I've been gone. Living in 2019. Some days you'll live. Woman Amen, 2018. Every night I should be. Here he is.

Dirk's Bentley. The Friday morning conversation with Dirk's Bentley. You weren't supposed to talk until now, but I like that. It's a little like a career retrospective right there hearing those songs and you don't think about those things very often. So 21, wow, it's a lot. That is a whole, that's crazy.

That's awesome. Do you name them all? Gosh, no, I mean, you think it'd make, the set list should be so easy, but I'm hearing that 21 hits and I labor over the set list, you know, trying to get it right. It should just go down the list, I guess. Do you still play, not the only one that wants to have fun tonight? Yeah, that's, you know, I'm kind of coming up with the set list for this year, and it changes throughout the tour, but there's some songs that stick around the whole thing. I think that I'll

still be in it. It's such a great song for a live show. You know, who wants to have fun tonight? It kind of gets everyone on the same page. I was thinking about you. I watched the George Jones Tammy Winnett show on Showtime. Oh, man, I haven't seen it yet. I was going to ask because I know you love George Jones. Yeah, I do. I was just talking to Nancy. I'm going down there doing a show for George, for Nancy in Alabama here in middle of April. But I love George. He's one of my favorites of all time. And the show was based off his daughter's, their daughter's book. Okay.

Right. So it's not just some writers in a room. Right. But I wanted to get your take on it. So if you haven't seen it yet, it's great. It's sad. I need to go check it out. Megan's got me turn on some show called Slower Horses.

Have you heard of this thing? No. No, it's good. What is it? Where do you watch that? It's like a British, like, it's like a James. Bond, current James Bond movie. It's about a, it's on Netflix or Apple, I guess, but it's about like, you know, spy. Slow horses. It's a real movie. He didn't make it up, guys. It's really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have to check out George and Tammy. I've been reading too. I've read his books and, you know, I'm just a huge fan of his music. Have you been by Tammy's house? I've been to that house. I drive by it all the time and I'm like, I just wish I knew who lived there. Well, I want to go at it. It used to be Earl's lived there for a while, the one of Franklin Road. Yeah. So I used to go there when there's like some bluegrass picking parties over when Earl's there. But now it's something like, he bought. Rich real estate investor owns it.

Yeah. It sat there for a long time. And I remember I got a hit up to me to buy it at one point. But it was like, gosh, it needed a lot of like, it's kind of that classic kind of vibe, you know. And you didn't have 21 hits then. Now you can buy two of them. Yeah. Probably could have got it now.

Dirk's here because he's got a new record. Hey, let's talk about this because when you put out a new project at this point, again, are you just trying to continue what you're already doing? Are you doing anything that when you were recording it? Because you do switch stuff up. Sometimes you go to a different state and record. You're here. Sometimes sonically, you're influenced by different things. What's this record about? And it's such a broad question. No, but it's, I just heard you play Gone. I listened back to that song. Gone was me out in Colorado trying to like delay the whole process. I was like, just give the label a hit song and let me buy some more time to be kind of just stay out here and not do music. I was just so enjoying being off the road and away from everything and just getting a chance to catch up on some outdoor adventure with friends.

I put out a couple songs just to kind of really just buy some more time. I love that song gone. It's a great song. And I put out beers on me, which I wrote with a bunch of people out there in Colorado. That was just kind of another way to kind of just buy myself some more time to figure out what I was trying to do with this album. I had no idea. It was a 10th album. And I wasn't really in a musical mindset during most of the pandemic.

So I came back here and tried to get into it. And it just took a while to give everything going again. We went in the studio in the beginning of 21 and realized we were all pretty rusty. And everyone was still wearing masks. And you had to get a COVID thing before you went in the store. studio and just that really hurts the vibe of trying to make music you know it's already hard enough and then you got to add this element of like you know that whole element to it so it was just kind of a hard time the studio then got some great stuff out of though and uh learned a lot about getting back into the

mode and then as the record went on I just realized I don't want to make a compilation record of like greatest hits but it is my 10th album and I want to kind of make a compilation of sounds and styles that have been in all the records leading up to this one so it has like you know what I'd called Arena Country. Well, like Billy Strings is on... Yeah, it has bluegrass. High note, right? Yeah, it's got bluegrass, 90s, traditional country,

and more current stuff. But yeah, I got... In the bluegrass world, I've always had a bluegrass song on every record, and it seems like. And Billy Strings came in and sang a song called High Note that Charlie Worsham wrote. And Jim Beaver. Jim Beaver.

Jim Beaver, yeah, who's one of the greats of all time, actually... All time, maybe the greatest of all time. Jim's really good, man. Jim is half the mind behind the... the Hot Country Nights. He's a... Also wrote Fandy Pack with Raging Idiots. And I think, and the Target song, right? That's true. Yeah, Jim.

Maybe the greatest song. If I don't put him in a songwriter Hall of Fame, I don't know what it does. Hits and bits. Yes, that's true. So he's on that song. And I'm a huge Billy Strings fan, and so it's just to have him on the tracks pretty great. And got Ashton McBride on a song, too, called Cowboy Boots. And so I'm really happy with the collaborations and just overall, the record came together.

It took three times in the studio to get it right. Three times in the studio? Yeah. What happened the first two? first one ended up being kind of like a demo, just a really good demo session. And you felt like you went in to do the record though? And you came out going to go do it.

I had my band and I had a Jim's brother Brett producing and Luke. And we had a great time. It was really fun. But it's like, we hadn't been making music in like two years, you know. And you go in there and you're still masking up in the studio, which I can't just say enough. Imagine being, it's just hard to work that way. I mean, you just can't communicate when you're trying to,

guys are trying to talk to each other and you can't see their face. It's just, it's hard to make music. So it was a good, it was really good stuff. Also, I don't think I had all the songs at that point. I hadn't written gold by that at that point. I went back in about four months later with Luke Dick, who's one of the greats of all time in this town. And we cut stuff that was awesome.

But it felt like it was all on this kind of one, the kind of the Luke Dick country, which is really cool stuff, you know, but not like, I wanted to have stuff that. I knew the traditional element. I needed the blue grassy element. I knew I was going to be the only one that could really do that. So a few months later, I went back in,

and produced myself, but I brought in Ross, and I brought in Ross, Ross Coperman and the engineer Reed Shippen who I've worked with forever. I made him a producer and at the end I brought John Randall in to help me kind of sort out with all the stuff that I had and just turned out to be a really good collection of like if I had to hand out one record of like what I've done all these years it's that but it's not a greatest hits album it just has like I said a great hits of like

sounds and styles and everything that's made me Derek's his favorite Sonics. Sonic yes it's my version of Silk Sonic it's a country Sonic. I um we hear you go in the third time after you go on the first time, you're like, that ain't it. Like, we had something, but that ain't it. Second time, you're like, okay, that's also really good, but that ain't it. Yeah.

Do you start to question yourself at all that you're ever going to find it? No, I know I'm going to find it. I just know, I know when it's right. I know when it's not right. That's all how to describe it. I don't have the words. That's why I brought John Randallin to help me finish the record because I don't have the vocabulary to describe music.

I just either know when it's right or when it's not right. And I need someone to come in sometimes to be like, hey, you know, that thing that, Sam Bush did in 1972 on New Grass Revival with the slide mandolin. Can we put that in the segment? John can speak that way. I'm just like, I just know when it's right and not right. So I'm really good. I think what I do in my career and everything I do is just about bringing great people together,

whether it's on stage, backstage, or in the studio. I'm good at bringing in really great people to help me do what I need to do. And this record was definitely an example of that from the songwriting to the musicians, who I called all those guys. It's the musicians or everything, you know. So having the right musicians on the record, the last go around was huge. But really, the first two attempts weren't failures. It was just all about trying to get back into this mode of making music after COVID and being away from town and kind of go through some personal stuff as far as like Nashville and reembracing being back in the city.

You mean hating it? Yeah, same. Been there. I've lived there like 80% of the time. Well, I've had such a weird relationship to this town. Love, hate, love hate. And I really, when we got out for COVID, I was like, God, because the last song on the mountain, my previous record was how I'm going out. And it's like, oh my gosh. I used to laugh my wife like

My headstone would be like Here lies is Dirk's Bentley He got out And then when we came back It'd be like a little I'd carve back in the bottom of my headstone Just kidding he's back Because I didn't get out

I thought I got out I didn't get out But I came back in I've been loving it since I came back So I want to play a little bit of high note With Billy Strings This is Dirk's Bentley

From his album Gravel and Gold The place of glory Let in my left head And I'm good together Man he's great He's so great Now I'm playing bluegrass again.

I'm playing the station in the first Tuesday of the month under my band. Same band, just different name, Long John. You got three bands now. What's happening here? Our bus driver's name is John Long. So our name of our van is Long John. How do you juggle all the personalities between, because, you know, you got it. Well, this one's just, we're not, no makeup or clothing or mullet wigs on this one, just the regular guys.

But it does a testament to my band. I mean, these guys can play 90s, right with my stuff, bluegrass really well, too. So I've been playing bluegrass again down the station in, which is really awesome. Awesome. And I just, I love the music. I'm a huge fan of bluegrass. You know, Billy's probably one of the biggest artists in any genre of music right now. Doing two sold-out shows of the Bridgestone. The third show at the rhyming on the second. That's where I'll be. Buy your tickets now. He's going to ticket plug during his album. Let's play a little bit of cowboy boots with Ashley McBride. The album, Gravelin Gold, is out today. We're going to play. Paul Franklin on the steel guitar. Who? Paul Franklin.

I like he does like liner note shoutouts during the show. That's my favorite thing. I'm playing guitar, brought us some of the guys that made 90s country. And the guy dropped off Uberita, Mike, who stopped by it. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th.

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drinking it. For more games with names, visit the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. The Friday morning conversation with Dirk Spentley. I was doing an ice bath which I haven't done. Yeah.

And Jake Owen's a big ice bath guy. We were off together and he's like, dude, you got to do an ice bath. And I was like, I'll do it like two. He goes, no, no, no, you wake up in the morning and you do it. I'm like crap. Okay, so we did the ice bath, froze. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know the benefit of it except me going, I did that this morning because I told everybody. Well, it's hard. That's one benefit. You get something hard done, you know. Yes, but what? Why? Why are you such an advocate? Because I'm sure there's something there. I just haven't done it. Yeah, I have a couple ice baths. Elv. Shane gave me one. And then a friend of mine gave me a really nice one. It's sitting in the backyard just getting rained on. I can't do in the morning because I just not have time to go out there and do that. But I do a cold shower every morning, which is easy enough to do.

But why the ice baths in general? I mean, there is that one thing. It's, it's, I think for me it's like a meditation thing. I can't sit still. I have a hard time doing yoga or something like that. But if you get an ice bath, it's like you can't think about anything else except survival. Right? All your thoughts are gone. You're like, oh my God. I'm literally in survival mode. But then it teaches you to get below your conscious mind, which is screaming like, I'm going to die. And you have to go deeper into like a subconscious mind. It's like, I'm going to be okay. Like I can get out anytime I want to.

Let's see how far I can take this. And I do feel like you carry it into the rest of your day and into your life. It's like, I can do hard things. I just sat an ice bath. I've done 24 minutes before in a full 32 degree. You done how many minutes that are you? 24. What is the hell?

That's probably dumb. But I was cold for a long time. Is that a dare? Yeah, there's that a little bit. There's that old of it too. A double dog deer. Yeah, triple dog dare. Stick your tongue against the pole.

On the road, yeah, you get a little competitive out there. And so I did 24 minutes. And I was cold for, I was kind of probably hypothermic for a little bit. But we had this little rubber ducky that stick. We have these trash cans. I bring them on the road and make everyone get in there and do them with us. But the little rubber ducky was definitely in the low 30s on that one because it's full of ice. But I think it's just like, yeah, doing something hard.

Yeah, I'm good. I do enough hard stuff in the day. All day long. He was like, aren't you proud you did that? Wimhoff would say there's all sorts of like, you know, health, immune benefits to it. Well, it stimulates the Vegas nerve. Okay. I do that once a year.

I heart festival. The nerve is basically. That nerve is fully. See, I don't get a chance to stimulate that one, but you don't invite me. So I have to stimulate it some other way. So I did a nice bath. The album is Gravel and Gold. Dirk's new record is out today.

14 songs. Here is song number two, sunsets in Colorado. So won't you come out here with me? Hold on, right. I'm playing your song. You can't talk over it. Are we going... Derek just talking over his song.

Ray hit it again. So won't you come out here with me and chase this Rocky Mountain Freedom? And what were you saying? Oh, I was saying that Sam Bush on Mandolin. Yeah, of the greats of all the time. Derek's like, you know, cleaned up after the show? I'm sorry, I love musicians.

I'm all about the musicians. They're more important than the artists and the songwriters. This town is built on great musicians. Here is beer at my funeral. Cold beer At my funeral Did you make a clip or something for this on social?

I think I just did, yeah You think you did it? I just, well, yeah, it's coming at me from all directions right now. I got you, okay. YouTube and TikTok and TikTok and all this crap,

it's just endless stuff. Alan Jackson did not do this although I'm not Alan Jackson. Although he didn't have TikTok at all but he may have. He might have TikToks but not TikTok. Dirk's a lot. It's a lot of stuff.

The album is, we're going to come back with Dirk's in a second. Just you guys hang out. We're going to get Dirk's some water and like a Xanax. The Friday morning conversation with Dirk Spentley. Are you still flying the plane? I am, yeah. I just flew my son down to a hockey tournament down in Atlanta.

So you've seen all this stuff come up about UFOs. Yeah, I've not seen one. I think pilots, I'm sure pilots fly across the ocean night or something. Probably see a lot of stuff. I've never seen one. I'm always looking, but I definitely believe it. I mean, 100 billion planets in our known galaxy. There's a lot of stuff going out there.

You know what? It also freaks me out is when if I'm flying and there's a plane that's like flying close, like right under or over. Yeah. As a pilot, does that feeder go away? Well, the con trails, the Kim trails you're talking about, like that coming into your plane? I'm just talking about the plane flying under me. No. Yeah, well, you have like when you're flying, you have ATC telling you, hey, there's a plane coming in this direction. Usually, sometimes they miss it, but you have like a little, what I call a fish finder on there that kind of shows the altitude of the plane that's coming by. A fish finder, that is really interesting. You see where it is below here? Yeah, you can see it on your fish finder, so it kind of tells you what's coming up.

Can you play music in the... Yeah. It's still called the cockpit? Yeah, I can't play... I can't stream. But can you, like, jam... Will you, like, turn... Highway to the dangers on.

You're flying? Not in the prop plane. No, it's a little loud in the caravan. It's not that quiet in there. It's made for jumping out of more than... You have a prop? You have two planes? Well, I own a caravan, which is a propeller plane.

It's like a high-wing Cesson with the turbine engine, the propeller. I fly... I'm type to fly jet through Cessna, but I don't own the plane. Okay, so let's say, It's a sponsorship deal. Follow me here. Yes.

Cessna. I'd like the sponsorship deal as well if you're listening. Follow me here. We're on a Southwest flight. You and I decide we're going. We're just going to go have a weekend and, you know, rekindle the old flame. Me and your buddies. I just flew Southwest two days ago.

We're going and the pilots of both had a heart attack at the same time, randomly. I think about this all the time. Could you go and take over? Absolutely. I'm hoping one day that actually happens. What? I mean, I thought that died. I was to eat the chicken to be a little incapacitated for a little while. You know, I'm the guy that did not eat the chicken.

Food poisoning. A little food poisoning. Poisoned, they're out. I get a chance to get in there and, oh yeah. You could land the plane, no problem. I would say no problem, but I would, of course, I could land the plane. I would say I could land the plane. I was going to die. For sure, going to die if you're up there. Grant, I'm the same person said, I'm going to be a country music singer, which is chances of that are like zero to a billion. So I'd be, I like to, I've been on myself. Yeah, I could land it. I mean, it's not, the flying the plane is not the actual hard part. It's

like, you know, it's, it's all about like the weather and the making good decisions and logistics. The actual physical part of flying planes is pretty, pretty easy. Do you ever getting nervous while you're flying if you fit really bad turbulence, but you can't show up to the people on the plane because you don't want them to be scared? Thanks to why I got my pilot's license because I used to hate turbulence. I didn't understand it. And so I was like, okay, I hate this.

I don't like to enjoy this. I'm going to become a pilot. So I have a control issue. I like to be in the front thinking that actually makes a difference, whether it's in a car or a plane. You still play pickleball? I do play. I don't play.

It's more of a road thing. I've got some guys of the band that play all the time because they don't have, you know, three kids running around. But yeah, it's a road thing. We'll tape it up there. and I'm definitely the best in my band and probably one of the best in the world. I did win a pickleball tournament

sponsored by Stephen Colbert. So I'm one of the best for sure. I'm pretty good. Are you play? Yeah. You never invite me to play with you, but I play. Do you play?

I play with a little group. Where are you all play? At the court near the school near my house. Yeah, yeah. It's hard to find somewhere to play. Yeah, we have a place. Problem is on, you feel like creep because there's kids over,

but it's not on the school grounds. Yeah. You know. I love, yeah, it's such a, it's such a, it's such a, people, polarizing sport, they love her hair. I hate tennis players. I hate pickleball.

Yes, or people like lunchboxers like, that seems stupid. Andy, I saw Andy Rodic at the airport one time, and I said, I don't know why I told him this. I'm like, do, do, do, do, oh, I've been playing some pickleball. He goes, oh, that sound. It's just, it'd be, you go, what he said, it goes, it'd be the same viewer in the studio making music

and I came in there and farted. He goes, he just hates, it's a disease, it's taking over. Gravel and Gold, it is out. I do want to play. The first track. here. This is same old me. They got a couple questions about it. Is there a message with that song? It's track one.

I always felt like track one's there for a reason. Luke Dick is such a good songwriter. He brought that idea to me. When he first brought to me, I was like, I'm not the same old me. I'm doing ice bass, man. I'm like so evolved. I'm a dad now. I'm such an evolved person. I'm writing better songs. And the truth of matters, the more I think about, I really am the same old me. I mean, it's just I still love playing music with the band and being on the road and still got the same old bus that I've had since the very beginning.

And now I'm playing bluegrass gigs, back to the station in where it all started. So it's kind of a reminder that, like, you know, how much you think you're evolving and changing in life. It's, for me at least, a lot of things have still still really stayed the same for better or for worse. Gravel and Gold out today. You guys go stream it. A final part of the interview. This is uncomfortable questions from our listeners.

I'm already uncomfortable enough. With dirks. Yeah, you walked in and goes. This room sure ain't warm. Well, it's light. It's like a Bob Bowling show, man. Everyone's listening. It's a big show, man.

It's nerve-wracking. The camera's on and the panel of judges. Those aren't judges. Those are like other members of the show. I know the show. I know everyone on the show very well. I do feel judged. They're judging for sure.

Number one, does Dirk Spenly still wash his hair? You know, I just washed my hair like three days ago. So, yeah. Answer is yes. Yeah. Has Dirk Spenley ever taken someone out on tour with him that he didn't like, but it was a good financial decision. He doesn't have to say who?

I'm sure I've been taking out because I'm a good financial decision back in the day. I was cheap. But no, I, there's, I, no, I take, I, I try to pay more than most. I take people to help me sell tickets, man. Right, that's what I'm saying. They're asking, you ever have anybody with you

that you really don't like as a person, but you know, okay, cool. No, life's too short for that. Does Dirk's Bentley have a will? I think so. Good answer. And does Dirk's Bentley have a six-pack? No, I don't have a keg. All right.

You look like you're in pretty good shape. I mean, it's pretty good down there. It's, probably if I pull the skin back. Okay, you put your shirt down. I pulled this skin back really hard. Yeah. I bet there's like some form of like bump in there. It was two-packed.

I actually was thinking to myself that you look like you're in really good shape right now. Yeah, I don't do. I go through phases, you know, I was doing a bunch of squats and all that stuff for a while back trying. You know, dead lifts. Just squats in general. My brother's big on squats. He has a hat that says, Make America squat again. I don't know.

I think squats are really important. I really into it. He got me to that for a while. It's like, yeah, I just ride bikes. mostly. What you look good? Do some Peloton bike dancing. Gravel and gold.

So embarrassing. It's out today. There he is. Derek Spentley. No tour day. No tour like, I know you're playing festivals and stuff, but I don't see it because I looked.

I don't see any like Dirk's Bentley tour. Tours, they better go on the summer, right? It starts in June and got some ideas. Okay, there you have it. He's got ideas. I got some people who have ideas. I got some people who don't like him,

but financially they're great. You know, I got them really cheap. I just found some people on TikTok and I'm going to hire them. You know, the money's going to be good. The show's not going to be great, but hey, I'm going to save some money in the back. I got a great tour lined up, and I'm looking at doing all the same guy that does the Super Bowl. Bruce Rogers does our production, which means it's very expensive.

But we're going to put it all together, the tour, and hopefully Rihanna's going to come out and open for us for a shoot. Love that. Flood around a little bit. That'd be awesome. All right, Dirk's Bentley. I can't afford everybody. I bought her kids. Her kid.

He still talked for us. All right. There is. There is. Dirkfellley, everybody. Because Sam Bush played. Okay. Both Eddie and Lunchbox.

his dream is to blank. Retire. Yeah. Can't wait. Can't wait. They will go to old age tomorrow if they can just retire, but be, it's, that to me, I don't even understand. How amazing would that be?

Yeah, like you hit that lottery, retire. I get lottery and now and you have so much, but you guys are just going, I can't wait to retire it. What age? Whatever. Next year would be great. No, no, I'm not saying best case scenario. I don't know what age you retire.

You're not even saving towards it. I say 50. That's not going to happen. Well, you know. I think 55. No, that's not... But you guys are saving nothing toward it, right? Correct.

Well, a little bit. But what? I pick up coins on the ground. Okay, listen, there's a girl. Her name's Pixie Curtis. She's 11 years old. She started her own business during the pandemic, selling bows and things to help her mom.

Three years later, she's like, you know what? I'm making... I've made $130,000 bucks a month. A month. What? On earth? What? She's already spent some of her money.

She owns a Mercedes-Benz. She can't drive it. But she's like, I think I'm going to retire. I don't need to work. ever. So she'll go to school and then she just has a whole bunch of money. She's like, who knows if I'll ever work again? That's amazing. What are these bows? But see, you can't retire at 11. But what if you have millions and millions of dollars? Because you have all these years to spend that. Us, we retire at 50, 60, right? We go, what do we

got? 20 years left? Maybe 10? But you're missing the point. She has all this money. She can invest it. It makes more money. Real estate. And then she can just live. She's 11. She gets to retire right now. That's amazing. Well, I'm trying to look up her business. Who's driving her car? Mom and dad? Probably mom. For sure. Probably mom. Bride and groom.

They missed the reception after being trapped in the hotel elevator. No way. It wasn't even their fault. It's the elevator's fault. It wasn't like they did something wrong, which I would be like,

what a bonehead. But no, their reception was on the 16th floor of the hotel, and they get in. Wait, we're not going anywhere. The Charlotte Fire Department had to come hoist up, get them out of there. Nobody was hurt, but they missed the whole thing. You said they missed it.

They have it without them? Yeah, they can't just stop. I mean, what are they going to do? They already paid more. And it starts without them anyway. So everyone's dancing and everything while they're stuck in an elevator? And I think eventually it gets back to them, the people down there. But remember, sometimes, like, we were taking pictures and stuff.

So the whole reception starts and there's a big entrance and we come in. We're like, hey, so that happens. So it started. And then at some point, they had to be like, they're stuck in an elevator. And people are like, all right, well, I guess we got to dance. Keep going. Celebrate good time. The oldest dog ever just set a new world record.

The dog is throwing. 30 years old. In dog years? No. No. No. In human years. What is it?

A chihuahua. A 30 year old, Portuguese dog named Bobi was recently crowned the world's older. I need to see that they didn't replace. They're not replacing dogs. It looked the same. Is it on a ventilator like where it breathes for it? So it looks like it's a lot.

Hey, it looks old. But 30 years, you're supposed to look old. The average age expectancy of one of these dogs is about 14 years. Wow. But they say he has never been chained or attached to a leash. He's always roaming. owned their land, and for the last 30 years, he's lived on a diet of human food. Oh.

I mean, humans on human food don't live. I mean, a whole lot. Very good. But that's from four states homepage.com, a 30-year-old dog. I like a Stanley, my bulldog. He's three, about to be four pretty soon. They only lived like nine because they're just not, and it makes me sad already. I get sad just looking at them.

Like, I love them to death. But it's like, those dogs, they're not meant to be made. It makes me sad thinking about it That's terrible Okay, walk me through this guys I got a text I don't know who it is It's from a 615 number

Which means it's from here Okay Bobby Exclamation exclamation Incredible night Tuesday That was our million dollar show So somebody that was there Or heard about it

Or watched it Was honored to be a part of your event Okay Be part of it Thank you for inviting me And having all these amazing artists Come together for something so meaningful Good on you

Thumbs up, thumbs up Okay, have a guess They didn't say, but they didn't say who he was. Do you, okay. Her. Holy crap. I got it. Yeah, I don't care.

He has away. Okay, Parker McCollum. Do you have his number in your phone? Yes, and Parker and I text and we're friends. Dana Carter. But Dina wouldn't say good on you. That's like a dude thing. Yeah, that's Scott Stapp.

No, and they have, you think so? I mean, do you have his number? And the thumbs-ups are tan. Yeah. He's tan them a little bit. He's dark. Madeline. No, I have Madeline.

No, Scott Stap is, he's darker, dude. And he would say that. I don't really feel like he's... Good on you. Good, no, good on you. Good on you. To me, that sounds Australian. No, but Morgan Evans is the only Australian,

and I talk to Morgan all the time. Okay, I'm just... So... I know, I'm just guessing. And it sounds like someone who really isn't normally going to be part of that event. So it's like, wow, hey, thank you for letting me be part of this because I normally wouldn't be.

So what do I respond? Cool, arms wide open, dude. Thanks. No, it may not be Scott's staff. Hey, I'm not going to go on. You took us higher. No, I'm not doing creed. I don't think it's crazy.

Come on. What up? Should I just call the number? Right now? Is it Randy? Houser? I think it could be Randy Houser. Could be Randy.

But he wouldn't say, good on you. He might. You want to just call it and see? Come on, let's go. Yeah. No, Mike? Call it.

Call it, call it. I need to hear it. Hey, what are you to say? I don't know who did. I guess it depends who's calling me. It's going to be one of those automated voicemails. The number you have called. Your call has it.

It's got to be Scott, dude. Let me say this. Okay, FaceTime. No way. Try to call you. I don't know who this is. Can I say that? Oh, no.

I wouldn't go there. I just would go right to go right to the point. Just say, hey, tried to call and they might call right back. There we go. It's great having you at the show. Great having you. Okay, great having you. But I want to tell you in person.

Good on you. Hit me back real quick. But got to be honest. Don't know who this is. No, no, no, no. I love that you want to do that, but I wouldn't say that. Oh. I'm gonna say, I don't, hold on, hold on, but this is a new phone who this.

Okay. No, no, it could be Dave's Highway. Is it Charles Kelly? But this is a, but this is a, cool. They're not tanned. But this is a new phone and I don't have. Dave. Your number.

No, Charles. Why would the tan finger guys, the tan thumbs up? Well, he's now at the beach. Who's this? Can I say who's this? Oh, I don't like that, dude. Not yet. So who is this? How about that?

No. I'm just doing that. Guys, just go right to one. In life, you just go right to it. Just go right to it. I'm going to say, try to call you. You're great having you at the show, but this is a new number. I don't have it.

I don't have your number. So who is this? Okay. And you send it? And send. Okay. You're going to hurt their feelings. Oh, boy.

No, he's not. Scova, what? I can rule out one for sure. Go. It's not Scott Stapp. He has a Florida area code. Okay. So it's Charles or Randall.

I think Randy Houser would be my guess, but I don't have it. Okay, well, there it is. We'll find out sometime soon. maybe Monday. I'll wait that long. I'll give it 10 seconds and we'll go. There's no bubble popping up. And they didn't answer.

Randy would be good. Seven. Who else was there? Five. Oh, it could have been the wreckers. Two, good on you. That's not Michelle Branch or... She wouldn't say that, no.

All right, well, that's it. We're going to go to break. I'll let you guys know as soon as I get it. Damn. Get your Bobby Bones on. A win is a win. A win. A win is a win. I don't care what you'll say it. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th.

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for St. Jude every year. We finally eclipsed altogether over $20 million for St. Jude. It's a lovely night. But I didn't know all the side stories we're coming out. And so Amy said, you know, Lunchbox is really doing shady stuff when you're not around. Because he doesn't do shady stuff when I'm around for the most part. It's always, I have to hear about it because it's not directly with me.

So what happened this time? Well, we had a client dinner before the show. So sales is there. Clients. And they're because clients want to go to the show. Yeah. And these are important clients. It's a time to just spend with them, get to know them.

It's at a really nice restaurant up on the top floor. We have a designated room just for us. And lunchbox brought his wife. And I didn't think anything of it at the time until, because I thought, well, maybe we just didn't get the mint. We're plus ones invited. I just didn't, I didn't know. And nobody else had a plus one.

And she wasn't sitting with him. But then I learned later that it's because he had to sit the client and there was no room at that table. So he sat her with like sales, like people that she doesn't know. So you just brought your wife without being a day. Yeah, because look, it was going to be a nice dinner. My wife and I don't get to go out to nice dinners very often. And so the kids were still in daycare and she didn't have to pick them up until a certain time. It wasn't really, I get all that. It was at 4.30. But you not say, hey, is it cool if I bring my wife? I just assume, man, you can just bring it.

It was like, hey, come to this dinner. We're going to have a preset menu. And so we're going have tables, you're going to have drinks, free cocktails. Was it awkward when they didn't have a seat for her? Because it was a work thing, not really a dinner. I mean, it was a little weird when I was told, oh, you're at table five. And I look at table five and there's only one seat remaining. And I'm like, well, what about my wife? And the guy running it was like, well, I guess she can sit over there and she put her in

like the kids table with the salespeople. And so we didn't really get to enjoy the nice dinner together. Because that's not really what it was. It wasn't like a night. we, we, everybody had to go and like talk to clients. It wasn't really about us having a dinner or people having a dinner. Right. Yeah.

But I thought it would be a great time to go out and have something special and romantic. And it's a nice dinner. Skibba, were you there? Yeah, she was sitting at the kiss table with me. And it was a little weird because I even told him when we set this up. I was like, this is a client thing. You're going to be sitting at a table. It's time for you to talk to them and show appreciation.

And I don't think in any of that would you bring your wife? Like Ray didn't bring her. his wife, Amy didn't bring anyone. I mean, no one, Morgan didn't bring anyone. It was really weird. I didn't bring my wife. Yeah. I'd love to have. It was a really nice dinner. Yeah, right. I mean, you had a choice between steak, salmon, or a vegetarian option.

Did she feel it was weird? Your wife? Did you tell her she wasn't supposed to come? No, no, I told her she'd come. Oh, so then she had to feel awkward? His wife is awesome. I think she thought it was, you know, spouses were invited. And here's the other thing, too, because

it was early, and we all had to leave to go to the show and Lentbox is like yeah get take take everything to go like got because it's steak

salmon like all the things and he wasn't going home but she didn't come to the show she went home and so you sent a bunch of food home with her

that wasn't even your food you just took extra yeah yeah you can't hate it I can't hate it exactly I mean what is wrong with that like my wife

your constant actions are this like always trying to squeeze the system and then I felt bad for your wife who didn't know she was not

don't feel sorry for my wife she got a great meal I mean, we didn't get to talk. Like, we didn't get to have, you know, conversation, like, without the kids. You know, usually the kids are interrupting you at the dinner table. And that would have been nice. But she got to enjoy a night out at a nice restaurant where, I mean, we had a reserved room. Felt like VIP, very, you know, fixed menu.

That's when you know it's special. It's a fixed menu. And it's like, that's when you know it's special. Yeah. Yeah. When it's like, I'll take one of those, one of those. And so, yeah, I took my wife. Do we need to start saying, do not bring your kids and wife to things instead of.

Apparently it's not. You think you would just read between the lines and know that that's not a thing you would do. I'm surprised they don't come to work with them. Why not? They can sit in the guest room and the green room. Bobby Bones Show. Story of the day! This story comes up to us from Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A man broke into a home, took out the AC unit, stole the TV, stole some other items. And he's like, man, there's a trailer out back. What's in that? Chickens. $100,000 worth of poultry. He steals that. police are chasing him. How did he steal the chicken?

Lotus truck up and they're just in there? They were in the tractor trailer. Oh, he stole the whole trailer. He stole the whole trailer. Okay, get, good. Put the ball hitch on. I thought he just took the chickens. And police respond and they're chasing him down the highway.

And then he plays a good old game of chicken. He goes on the opposite side of the road and is trying to run into the cops. Finally, he crashes into a farm and is arrested. He played chickens with chickens. Everybody lost. I hope chickens are okay. The chickens are okay. He did crash. I mean, they probably lost some of them. They're going to get slaughtered anyway.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. That's a sad part of this one. Okay, well, he's an idiot, obviously. Don't go for the chickens. If you can just go with the TV? Yeah, just take the... What do we learn from Mr. Rogers back in the day? If you can just steal a TV and an AC, get out and be happy with it. Mr. Rogers said that?

It was an episode that didn't make it. It was an episode about greed. Yeah, yeah. All right. I'm Lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day. Megan, you're on. on the show. You're in California. What's going on? Hi. So I asked for Cody Johnson and Christensen tickets

for Christmas, and my mom got them for me, my fiance and my sister. And then, like a month later, my fiance's sister texted me and planned her bachelor at party. She's getting married as well. I was like, yeah, I'll be there paid, not realizing it's the same weekend as the concert.

And now I don't know what to do because I really want to go to the concert because Cody Johnson and Chris Jansen. Yeah, and both of those guys are awesome. So good. But how awesome is your, is she? I mean, we're not super close. She was invited to my bathroom at party and she's not going. But she's also moving.

So like, I don't know. Okay. If you don't go, will she be sad? You're not there. Or did she feel obligated to invite you? Explain the relationship again? So it's my fiance's sister. I'm a bridesmaid and her wedding as well.

Oh, you're a bridesma. But, okay, hold on. Is it a bridesmaid? that is well she's got to be a bridesmaid because she's sister. I know, but or is it like a close friend because there's a difference

in what you owe obligationally. So are you only a bridesmaid because you're the sister? Wife? I feel like that's the reason why because we're not super close. I wish we were closer but well this is not going to help.

Well yeah she finds out to a concert it's not going to help. He's like, I wish we were closer, but... But I don't think that the Bachelorette party, because Amy didn't go to Caitlin's, my wife's, and that didn't, I mean, this look of the stuff came up. It's not her future sister-in-law. Well, but to be clear, that was something very family personal, not a concert.

Right, but I'm just saying you can not go and know what... People don't hold it against you. Like, things can happen. And Cody Johnson, that's very personal. Ever heard of songs? Yeah. Have heard of songs? And the girls moving, the girls moving across the country,

so you can't be that close to her anyway, so you can be phone friends, but missing the bachelor's up party, no big deal. Well, you're going to be more than that because you're going to be, like, family. This is what I would say. If you can find a different show, you can probably sell those tickets and go to a different show and drive another hour, depending on where you are. I'm sure that's not the only show they're playing close. That would be option one.

I'd try to do that first and balance it out. But that show's going to be within a couple of days of the other one because you play on a tour. You know, it's all routed. Oh, I'd just go to the concert. I'll be honest with you. I would just go to the concert. She ain't going to be that hurt. I'd go to the show.

And that's it, especially if you're not close friends. That's not what you want to hear probably. I would go to the concert, Megan. Okay. It's like Chris Johnson and Cody Johnson, you can't find them together ever again. That's not true. Ever again, ever again. They may never play together again.

That's a great point. You could watch them separately. That costs double the money. Eventually down the line. I'm going to go to the concert. She's not that close to her anyway. Go to the concert. I'm going to say go to the Bachelorette thing because you did say you wish you were closer to her.

And this will help nurture that relationship. And then you can find a concert later. That's a responsible thing and mature thing to do. Amy, good for you. Concert. Lunchbox? Go to the concert. Listen, at the Bachelorette party, guess what?

There's going to be 15 other girls. So it's not like you're going to get a lot of one-on-one time to grow this friendship. You're one of 15 girls. And he's only in California for two nights. So you got to go to the concert. You got to go to the concert. Eddie? No, you got to go to the Bachelor.

rep party. This is your future sister-in-law, dude. You gotta start moving now. I hear you. But I'm trying to do more stuff just for me now, too. Because I've always just been considered. Go to the concert. Okay, two to two, Ray, you get to settle it. Whatever you say she's going to do. A concert, I mean, Eddie skipped mine, we're still friends.

That's true. Oh, why? Why do you skip it? COVID. COVID, but then he went to Florida to Corona Cove and got it. A different time. And are you guys... Two days later. Are you... Was there, like, any rift because of that? No, really. Absolutely not. No, we're great friends. All right. Hey, Megan, go to the concert. You heard it.

Okay. All right. All right. Thank you guys. Oh, man. Go to the best. I'm going to ask that everybody allow this next person to be a bit vulnerable without making fun of them. You can a little bit at the end because we're all friends here. But don't jump in hard on them until they finish expressing their emotions.

Okay. Okay. Everybody good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, of course. I do want to go to Ray Mundo or audio producer. Oh, great. Well, Ray, what's, why are you doing this?

I just felt left out. It's the main reason. Okay. So, listen, BetterHelp is one of our sponsors, and we're advocates of therapy and expressing emotions. And I think that's got with Ray a little bit. And he just wants to share it with you guys out a little bit. His feelings are hurt. This is true.

Okay. Ray, go ahead. Yeah, so we all had a dinner before your million dollar show a couple nights ago. And that was awesome. I got invited to the dinner. It was me, Amy, Lunchbox, Morgan number two. And so we all got invited. But apparently they all got together and decided.

they're going to ride share together. Meaning everybody but you? Yeah. I wasn't on a text thread. I wasn't in person. So they all just decided to meet at the radio station. Let's figure out ways to save money. So I go to the event.

I pull up to the restaurant. I have to pay for parking and do all that. Well, they all had orchestrated this perfectly planned idea to ride share. Did you go into the place by yourself when they all went in as a group and you felt dumb? I was in there 30 minutes before everybody else. I didn't get the memo that you're supposed to show up fashionably late. Or together with the group.

Correct. who would like to speak? I didn't know this happened. I'll speak on behalf. Yeah, that's messed up. I don't step up. I don't know that you're the... No, I will, I will. I'll step up and talk. Because this is what happened. We were standing in the glass room and Morgan just said, hey, would everybody

like to meet here at 430 and ride together? That was it. That was the only talk of it. And that was the end of it. Did he not hear? I guess he didn't hear. How come somebody didn't go? What about Ray? Well, how do I know if he didn't hear? He was in the room, wasn't he? Right, he was in the room. Everybody was in that room.

So then whoever wanted to show up at 430 did. And so me and Morgan were the only ones that showed up. And so Morgan and I rode together. That was it. Is there a text thread? No. Morgan, you're responsible. And what do you think happened here?

Yeah, we were talking. Lunchbox is right. We were talking about it in the glass room. And genuinely, I think we just assumed everybody heard it and didn't think twice about it and just kind of moved on. There was no conversation past that. And Amy didn't even end up coming. It just ended up being me in lunchbox. So nobody was really left out.

It was just me and Morgan. And then Morgan ended up driving because she was like it's cheaper than. Yeah. Yeah, because it turned out, it was like if we came all the way here, then I was going to be late. Might as well just go straight to the venue. So, this is what we learned. Ray, you weren't alone. First of all.

We would never leave you out right. Ray, you're important to us. Okay. Honestly, you are. You're so important to me and the show and just in general. Yeah. One, two, thanks for sharing. And then three, let's just remember.

Even though we think everybody heard, it'd be nice to check in and be like, hey, everybody knows this could be the plan, right? We also know, Ray is very stressed about time. So if anybody was a minute late, you know what I mean? No, we can't blame him for this because he came on. and shared his emotions. We're not blaming Ray for this. Right, right. I understand that. I just think for future, yeah, you're absolutely right. We need to have a text thread. And then it probably, what happened is I ran into lunchbox in the parking garage and ended up walking in with him. So Ray probably thought I was a part of him. Yeah. And also, we said we were going to get there at 4.30. That's not our fault. Like, that's not our fault. But maybe he wouldn't, it doesn't matter. We're not blaming Ray because we feel bad. Right. Right. But he was like, no, but. No, but. No, but. Okay. Just imagine if it was you. Hope you had a great week. We're, we're. We're not. We're not. We're. We're not. We're. We're just imagine if it was you. We're. We're back Monday. We'll see you then. Goodbye, friends. The Bobby Ball Show. 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, my basketball and college football journey,

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