The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Early Bird) Craig Morgan In-Studio Talking About His New Memoir 'God, Faith, Country' and The Best Advice Garth Brooks Gave Him + A Vet Calls In To Talk With Bobby About Stanley And His Torn ACLs + Mailbag: Boyfriend Loves His Car More Than His Girlfriend

Episode Date: October 3, 2022

Craig Morgan is in-studio with us today talking about his new memoir 'God, Faith, Country,' his thoughts on aliens, the best advice Garth Brooks gave him and more! Plus, a listener who is a vet called in to talk to Bobby about Stanley's torn ACLs. She helps answer his questions and gives some good pet parent advice. Mailbag: A listener is dating a new guy who loves his Mercedes so much, he couldn't pay their last dinner bill because he just has his car detailed. Do you think this guy will ever love her as much as he loves his car?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Monday show. Morning studio. Morning. Hope everybody had a great weekend now. Away we go with Monday's show. Let me see if I can guess these accurately. Eddie, 5 foot 11, 178 pounds. Close.

What do you got? That's close enough. Yeah, six foot. You're not six foot. 180. Oh, you think you're taller and heavier. Yeah. You're definitely not six foot.

With the extra inch, yeah, I get a little heavier. Here he is, our video producer, Eddie, everybody. All right, welcome. New week. I've told my wife this hundreds of times when we're grocery shopping, don't open the chip bag and start eating before we pay for it. We've talked about it on the show. I've talked about it here. Well, she finally got her lesson at the store.

We go to pay our stuff. And the cashier lady, she goes, oh, do you want to get another bag of chips? This one's open. And my wife goes, oh, no, no, I opened it. I was hungry. And the lady said, you ate it before you paid for it? And my wife said, yeah, yeah, I just took a little bit. Oh, I didn't know what you can do that.

there's some cake over there at the bakery if you want to go eat it before you. And I was like, yes, this is awesome. Exactly what I've been saying. And my wife got offended. She brought the sass, professional sass. She's like, oh, there's some delicious cake if you just want to open it up and eat it and then bring me the box and I'll bring it up. I'm surprised at that reaction. Oh, me too.

It was crazy. It's a little uncalled for. Yeah, not necessary. I love it. I eat at the grocery store. I don't. But I think sometimes I'll drink. If I'm really thirsty, I'll open a water, like if I'm dehydrated and drink it as I'm going

through and then pay for it. We'll go help yourself to some cake over there. That's right. I agree. Some good cake over there. I can't believe the sass was brought like that. What's your wife say? She's just like, no, I'm good with a cake. Thank you very much. Did you stand up for her? No, I said, yeah. I told her the same thing, too. Why eat the chips? Pay for it first. That's funny, dude.

Okay, up next. Let's go over to lunchbox. Five, 10 and a half, 179 pounds. 5-11. 170. Maybe 179 soaking wet. Okay, here he is.

Lunchbox. And action! Guys, it's acting week. This is the week. I'm in the musical in Las Vegas. Yes. I didn't realize. This coming Saturday.

I will be in Las Vegas. Bad out of hell. You got to buy tickets. You can come see me. I'm going to be in a musical. This is crazy. I didn't know it was this week. Are you nervous?

Do you even know what you're doing? Have you said? Oh, I know what I'm doing. I'm going to be in. Bad out of hell. No, no, no, I know. We know that. Is it all sold out? Like as far as you? I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I think there's a few tickets available like 100. So I need people that are living in Las Vegas are going to be there this weekend to come see me on Saturday. Is your face up on the marquee? I went by there when we were there for I heart. They hadn't got it on the marquee yet. Oh, yeah. That's the key one yet. Yeah. So when do you fly in? I fly in this Friday. And do you watch a show Friday night before you do on Saturday? show Friday night and then Saturday I'm on the stage. Have you been texting with the producer, the director, anybody?

We've been chatting. What's that mean? We talked. Like, I met him when I was in for Iheart. Oh, you wouldn't met him? I went and met him, went and talked to him, you know what I mean? We did a, he showed me my dressing room and... You have a dressing room?

Yes, Amy. I'm an actor. I'm a Festian. Big star Saturday. Yeah, do it. Saturday. That out of hell. Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Get your tickets now. Let's go! Hey, Steve, and some of our listeners are going, right? Yes, some people from Las Vegas are going to be there. And then Abby's going with him as his, like, social correspondence and help her and produce her. Oh, boy. Is she going, like, we're paying for it? Oh, yeah, she's not paying for it at her own pocket.

It's supposed to be me, but I can't go, so Abby's going. That's amazing for Abby. Shocking, every time I have a trip, Scooba can't go. And he puts you with Abby. Like Diamond Mine. Oh, Scoba can't go. I'll go with Eddie, though. I get it.

He comes with me all the time. Well, a big weekend, Lachbkewaffe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Amy, seven foot tall. 80 pounds, I don't know. I'm just going to leave that out of there. Go ahead, Amy. Okay.

So I talked to my psychic cousin because last week or so, I think she came up and you're like, hey, can we get her on? And I thought, well, I don't know. We were talking this weekend anyway, and I threw it out there. Like, I have no idea why he wants you to come on. But are you willing? I just want to check in. See if she sees my death card anytime soon. Okay. Does she do that?

I have no idea. Territ cards? No, I don't think so. But I don't know. But she said, sure. So she'll come on and answer any of the questions again? Yeah. I got to figure out what they are

Don't do death, man That's just weird That is morbid, huh? Oh yeah, don't do that On the new Game of Thrones This guy's like, Do you want to know When you want to die?

And what do they say? They just kept walking I would have thought about it I was like, wow Do I want to know? Would you want to know when you die? No chance. I don't know

I would only want to know if it was forever away. You're so calculated though I feel like you'd want to know and it would help you out Yeah, my only fear would be This is what I like Close my eyes

and then I open it and I get five seconds of any year that I want to see. I get to cash down like one a year forever. Oh, that's cool. Let's say I close my eyes and I want to see 2052. And I close my eyes and I open it back up and it's just black. That means I died by 2050. I've got this whole story in my head about this scenario. That's terrible.

Yeah. That's terrible. And then I have to wait another year to go, oh, I'm dead by then. So 2040, I close, open up. I'm still black. So that means every year I learn that I'm dying earlier and earlier. Okay. You've been thinking about this?

Yeah. Yeah, you need it. So we'll be 72. Who knows? I was, then I'm like, tomorrow, and I close my eyes and it's black. Oh, my gosh, you died it by tomorrow? And that's what's up. And then you're like, wait, I'm dying between now and tomorrow.

And then the whole rest of the book or the movie is me trying to keep myself from dying between now and tomorrow. Wow. But you can't because you're going to die anyway. You can't keep yourself from dying? Or can I? Can you change the course of history? But when you want to spin that time? Change the course of history?

People you love. You mean destiny? That's what I would do. I'm so, man. Yeah, let's get your psychic cousin on. All right, go ahead, Ray. I'm saying 6-1 and 171. It's pretty accurate.

I got down to about one... I've cut sugar 95% of my diet, and I haven't done anything else different. I'm still eating and not fasting. But I got to like 168, and I was like, damn, feeling pretty good about myself. Like, not weighing every five minutes like I used to. But yeah, we'll go 6-2.

No, not going that high. So the deodorant I've been wearing, and I've talked about it, sometimes it makes me stink. I've had two different kinds This has not been good So my wife's like Why don't you just use mine?

And so I didn't use it for any reason Other than she was like tried It won't make your armpit smell bad But it's something called native deodorant It has no aluminum There are reasons to actually buy this deodorant Oh Scoopin just showed me some You have it too?

I've been using this for a few years now It's legit It's awesome I smell good and apparently I'm not eating aluminum Yeah exactly That's a women's Absorbed into your skin

Yeah same thing That's women's deodorant I don't know It's just the kind I think she uses but they make. What flavor? Mine's coconut and vanilla. Me too.

What is it called? That's how you guys realize my deodorant. I've been eating it the whole time. Oh, that's why you smell bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's coconut and vanilla. It's really good.

What's your flavor? Oh, mine's homemade coconut and vanilla. You guys are both coconut and vanilla? She said she makes hers. Yeah. That's weird. But it's not native. No.

Oh, got it. All right, anyway. There's a new deodorant if you guys are looking for it. All right, that's what's up. Let's start a Monday show. everybody feeling good? Yeah.

This Monday is a lot better than last Monday. Oh, much better already. Because the rest of the day didn't send us to Vegas in the heat, work us for 50 hours a day, say fly back in the middle of the night and start the show three hours later, but don't be tired on the air. That's why. All right, cool. Nobody cares except us, but we're back.

Let's open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Hello, Bobby Bones. I heard you guys talking about lame types of cars the guys drive. I just started dating a guy who loves cars, which is just fine.

He has a Mercedes-Benz, and I think he loves it more than he could love any woman. He calls the car, honey. Oh, my gosh. He does not even have a pet name for me. I'm not allowed to eat in the car and have to clean my feet before I get in. He spends 50 bucks a week having it cleaned in wax.

Yes, every week. The other day, we went to eat, and he didn't have enough to pay the bill because he just had the car detail. Don't get me wrong, he's very sweet and respectful, but I think he's seriously in love with his car. Do you think this guy will ever love me as much as he loves his car? Signed second to a Mercedes. I'm first going to go out on a limb and say he probably loves this car because of something that happened when he was young. They didn't have a nice car.

He got made fun of for having an old beat-up car. That's why someone usually attaches to something like this later. in life. Because he has a car fetish now because probably never got any car when he was young. So there's that. I would kind of figure out what the rude to this is first. If he's

respectful, you know, if he's very sweet, if he's working hard, let him love his car. It's a little odd that he pays more than he should. And he can't pay the bill. Honey? Honey? Yeah. He calls it. I'm not a car guy in anyway.

I don't care about cars. I've had cars. whatever, doesn't matter. Take it or leave it. But I can still understand somebody being in love with something. Shoes, that would be mine. I don't have shoes. Absolutely.

My first, quote unquote, big paycheck, I went and bought a pair of Jordans. Because I was like, wow, I can now afford to buy shoes because my whole life, we had to buy shoes at yard sales. And I got made fun of because the kids who sold the shoes at a yard sale will then see me at school in their shoes that they sold. And I would just get tortured because of it. So I've always had this thing with shoes. I'm like, man, when I make it, nobody's making fun of me for shoes. I'm having every shoe. Maybe that's his deal with the car.

I don't know. But what do you think about him going to dinner and not having enough money because he just detailed honey? That's weird. Yeah, honey. That's very weird. He needs to chill out on getting waxed and washed every week. Maybe we move it every two weeks. So let him have his thing.

As long it's not affecting day-to-day life, I think you're okay. What do you think about a Mercedes in general? You like Mercedes? Yeah. D. You think it's a DB, huh? Dolly, DB. Or a surgeon.

if it's like a doctor surgeon get it. Other than that DB. DB, man. You're proving something that you don't have. I don't think Mercedes is a DB car. It's interesting that you do. Not the SUV. The car. The SUV is like those are nice and stuff. But the car, no. Give me a DB car. Lunchbox. Hang, man. I don't know. There's not many DB cars out there

in my mind. Because you think they're just all cool. Yeah, like I like Lambos, corvettes, Ferraris. I would say BMW or Land Rover Those are DB cars Yeah Would you drive a Land Rover if someone gave you one?

Yeah Yeah 100% 100% 100 Yeah What about a BMW? Yeah

Yeah What if you found 120% off? No, no Probably not Okay Amy What is a DB car

I guess This guy Anybody calling his car Honey? No, what's wrong with him taking care of his car Okay, I don't care about that

I'm not a brand of a car. What's a DB car? A long... I guess the Corvette. Corvette's good. Oh, come on. That's a DB car? Yes, because every time you see like a convertible Corvette,

you see someone, you're just like, okay, this guy thinks he's so cool. Or it's somebody that's like 55 that... Who thinks he's so cool? No, that wanted one when he was 20 and finally can afford it, so he's having a midlife crisis car, and that's okay. That's not a DVD. Old person.

Is that old person? Yeah, I don't really think that would be a... DB. If I see a DB... I mean, anything yellow. Oh, come on. What about like a Toyota SELICA, yellow? Just yellow, because you have to chase yellow.

It's not on the lot. Yellow's tough. You have to custom order that? Yeah, and then unless it's on the lot, then it's like a Lamborghini or a Ferrari or a Porsche. It's yellow, and I'm like, you wanted it to be yellow, so we'd all stare at it. So you're calling that dude, DB, the one that we saw with the yellow car? The car, the anything, yeah, I'm going to go yellow. But you're going to call that dude, DB.

I'm not saying anybody. I would say yellow. Yellow. Listen, he loves his car. Let him love his car. It doesn't sound unhealthy yet. He's only missed rent once, sounds like. Let him take care of the car.

You're all good. If it goes more than this, hit us back and let us know. All right, there you go. That's the mailback. We've got your email and we've read it on your air. Now it's about to close. Bobby's mailback. Yeah.

Emily in Missouri's on the phone. Emily, are you a veterinarian? I am a veterinarian. Well, you are just a person I wanted to talk to. I have a bulldog. He's three. He's named Stanley. He halfway tore one of his ACLs.

He all the way tore his other one right into two. And so they say, you got to have surgery, but they didn't say I had to have it right away. What do you think about this? Well, I would say so I personally, my dog said she has torn both of her ACLs. And I did surgery on both of her legs at different times. And it was totally worth it. I, um, she's doing great. It's been a couple of years now.

She never limped. And so I would suggest probably trying to get the surgery done as soon as you can, um, just because he's going to be in pain up until the surgery and for several months after the surgery. But the longer you put it off, the longer that time span is going to be stretched out. They're telling me I have to keep him leased for months because he can't run off. So he's either got to be in a crate or in a small room or he has to be on a leash so he doesn't run away. Do you understand how strong and how rowdy my bulldog is and what kind of life change that's going to be for him?

I do. I do. That's going to be really hard. And I will say with my dog's first knee surgery, we did not follow the rules as much as we were supposed to. And I think it took longer for her to recover from that one. What kind of dog? It's terrible. What kind of dog would you not get?

Like if listeners are out there, because bulldogs are tough, and I wouldn't have just pursued a bulldog. I never wanted a bulldog. And had he not been presented to me like, hey, we have this dog, he's not, because Stanley's had, he's going to, it's going to be 11 surgeries if we do these two. But he's had nine surgeries so far. And my friend was like, his needs an eye surgery. He needs a wiener surgery. But you can have them if you do these surgeries and take care of him. So I said, great.

But bulldogs, I don't recommend them because everything's wrong with them. They're all inbred forever. I love Stanley, but I don't. don't think they should make bulldogs anymore. But do you have, like, as a vet, do you see bulldogs and go, man, those dogs just aren't worth it? Like, what other dogs would you tell people not to, not to get into? Oh, man, my top answer would be a bulldog. Yeah. And I say mine from the place of love. Love Stanley, love every dog, big dog guy. But I wish they would just stop making them because they're not healthy. He can't breathe. He can't swim. They're so cute, though, dude.

I know, but that's why that's why. I know. What's like the second hardest dog for people to keep up with? Because there's just always something wrong with them. I'd probably go with something similar, like a pug. It's all the flat-nosed animals, right? All the keys. And what's the best? Yeah, breathing is really too. The most healthy dog.

When you go, okay, they brought in this dog. We're going to take, like, a mutt out of it because Elder's got all kinds of dogs in her. She's healthy. She can eat it. She'd grab an animal, eat it, follow it up with a double shot of poop. She's all good, right?

So she never gets sick. But what kind of other animal if someone's going to go and get an animal? What's a good, healthy kind of dog? I've always said that standard poodles are really underrated. No way. A standard poodle? Standard poodle.

Yeah, they're really nice. They're healthy. And they're actually, you know, the big ones, the big standard ones. They're pretty athletic and terrible. Yeah, the big ones are good. The little ones. No, those little poodles. Any dog you can put in a purse, I'm going to pass on.

Like, if it needs a home, I'm going to help eat it. I'm going to find it at home. But if you can put it in the bag, that dog probably ain't for me. You know? How long have you been a veterinarian, Emily? Four years. Do you think you've been pooped on over a hundred times? Probably, yes. There she is.

Oh, wow. She needs to go and get pooped on again later today, so we're going to let her go. But I appreciate your advice. Anyone have a quick question for Emily about their dog? We have a veterinarian. She's not charging us. Anything you want to know, Eddie? Yes, I have a schnauzer terrier, and she's almost like a teenager.

If she doesn't get what she wants, she pees in the house. What do I do about that? She's potty trained, but it's her way of getting angry at us. Well, I guess you ought to give her what she wants. Boom, one answer. Love that answer. Amy, your turn. Go ahead. I have like a four or five-year-old Labradoodle. She's a rescue, so she has a lot of anxiety issues. Do you think she's constantly licking? Like, is that part of the anxiety? Is there anything I can do or spray on her to make her stop licking herself all the time? Well, licking can be a part of anxiety. And there's a whole lot of things that can be done to address that.

And so, you know, you could, I would certainly sit down with your veterinary to talk about that. But licking can also be a symptom of allergies and itching. And so, like, if her paws are itchy, they'll lick them a bunch. And so that could be allergies or a sign of a skin infection. Oh, great. Okay. Hey, it could be anything. One final question.

Why do dogs paw smell like free-dose corn chips? That's good. Ah, that's because they get basically yeast infection between their time. hose. Why am I smelling it so often then? It's yeast. Yeah, I'm disgusting. You just put your nose in a use.

I'm like this. Just smell it all up. That's not good. Wow. Emily, thank you for your time. We really appreciate that. Thank you for calling. And I hope you have an awesome day.

Yeah, you too. All right, there she is. Let's give a round of me. I'm sure I'll be invoice for this at some point. Thank you, Emily for your time. You're welcome. Have a good day. Bye-bye.

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Oh gosh. He said that they do pranks a lot and he was going to dinner with her and her parents and could you come arrest me and put me in the back of the car and then I'm going to propose. That's funny.

Oh, that's pretty risky, huh? Yeah, yeah. But that's exactly what happened. He was eating dinner with his girlfriend and his future in-laws and police rolled up to the restaurant. They walked straight in, they just put them in handcuffs

and they walk them straight out. With his in-laws, I like this. They got to be like, what's happening? Yeah. He doesn't fight it. He just goes, well, what's happening? What's happening? They take him out?

And she goes, can I speak to him before you take him off? And he's in the back of the car and then, well, you marry me. He comes out of the car. I do have some audio here. Here's the club of Kristen saying she was so mad at a boyfriend for being arrested right up until he proposed.

I was having a heart attack. I was just horrified. I was ready to kill him. And he's so lucky it ended that way because I was so mad. She kills him and she goes to jail forever. It's a weird twist of the story. It all worked out. I just think of what those in-laws, their faces look like.

Oh, gosh, what they were thinking. Not even her, just the in-laws. Like, wait, this is who she's marrying? What did he do? But shout out to those cops. Shout out to him. It's a funny idea, especially if they prank each other all the time. That's a good one.

That is what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. Got so many hits. From back in 2007, here's International Harvester. From back in 2004, that's what I love about Sunday. I'm not going to do, I'm always got so many.

From 2005, here is Redneck Yacht Club. He's got a new memoir that came out on the 27th. Man, he's so funny. Such a good dude. Welcome to the studio Tennessee's own Craig Morgan On the Bobby Bones show now Craig Morgan

You know I read most of your book on the toilet That's a good place That's where I can really focus honestly That's funny I'm not in there long enough to read Oh I'm in there for like days now I'm some sort of IBS thing You're like that guy on 40 something When you're playing video games and stuff

And sometimes I'll be able to get a lot of work done That's awesome Yeah I have a whole setup, a computer I got out. In the bathroom. Craig's got a book called God, Family, and Country. It's a memoir, which it's really great. Thank you. It's very personal. Thank you.

And I know that's tough to do because I'm going to imagine there were times where you thought, one, do people actually care? And two, am I being too personal? But I thought you nailed it. What was the hardest part of writing this book for you? Taking the time. And quite honestly, we had nothing but time. The majority of this, we started during the pandemic.

pandemic when we weren't working. But I had gotten lazy because we weren't touring. I was just traveling around with my wife, Karen. We'd go to Alaska and come back. And my co-writer, Jim DeFleash, will be like, hey, you want to get together and work on this book thing, you know? Yeah, I think that, and as you alluded to talking about it. You know, when I first approached this book, for me,

it was a lot like doing any other project that I've ever done in my life. I figured, we'll do this, be done, and go do something. else, you know, like an album. When I do an album, I work on the album. As soon as I finish that album, I'm focused on writing more music for the next project, for somebody else, or whatever, production. It doesn't matter. And I thought the book would be the same thing, but it's not. It's really, it's weird. You know already, you've done this, but this is the first book I've written, and it being a memoir, boy, it's going to be there forever. Did you find yourself, and I can just be a weirdo, but did you find yourself a

you were telling some of the stories that you're kind of reliving them. And I don't want to say re-experienced them, but seeing them from a different perspective, and either they reminded of you how awesome a moment was or like how emotional a moment was that you haven't thought about in a long time? I don't think that's weird at all. That's exactly what happened. So a lot of the, especially the military stories, I mean, that's been a while for me. And when we were talking about Panama, I went down to, we went down to our beach house,

and I brought a bunch of my buddies in that I served with in Panama, and we spent two days together talking about the stories and reliving some of those things. And it was very surreal. It's one of those kind of like outside looking in. I don't want to sound all weird. No, it's that, though, because you're outside looking back in at a part of your life that maybe you didn't fully appreciate or understand because you're right in the middle of it.

Yeah, and I've lived my life that way. Like, you know, when I jump out of a plane, I'm jumping out of the plane right then. After I'm done, my feet hit the ground, parachutes rolled up. You're moving on. You don't think about that jump no more. I'm thinking about the next thing.

Looking back, it was like, at one point it was like, holy cow, I've done a lot of crap. You know, now I know why everyone was trying to get me to write the book. Because I think the longer I went, the less I would have been able to remember. And I may mess the country up here because there were a lot of countries. there's a lot of places that you've been in this book. But in Thailand, you were working undercover to fight sex traffickers. Yeah.

I didn't know that. I'd never talk to you about that here. I didn't know that. So would you mind telling these guys a little bit about that? So I work with an organization, and I've worked with others, but Exodus Road is the one that I'm working with now. And we have offices around the world, but the entire objective is to remove people from sex trafficking.

It's literally modern day slavery. And on that particular operation, in Thailand, what people don't understand, the Thailand government is run basically by the military and the majority of these military leaders on clubs downtown. And another thing that most Americans do not know, prostitution is not legal in Thailand. It's not legal. It is not legal. It is encouraged. But it's not legal. And I will say if a woman is whatever age of legal age and she chooses this as an occupation, I mean, that's on her. But what is sickening is when there's a 14-year-old girl who's forced into it, whose parents sold her in order to have the money.

And then she's forced to work or even worse yet, or not worse yet, but another scenario that we ran into while we were there that was really odd is people that come from other countries. They were going to various countries throughout the African continent and promising these people work and these women. You'll be working at a hotel as a clean-up lady or whatever. and they get on there and then they take their passports and they say, okay, now you work for us. The cleaning lady job is gone and you owe us for your room and board every day. So they basically are forced into prostitution. And one of the weird situations, and this one wasn't in the book, because this is currently an ongoing investigation, the pimp was a female.

And she's a female from Africa. She's in Africa. and she was the one that's basically gathering these people up to work with the people in Thailand. And no one ever got a picture of her. They have never seen her. And we were there and I was on the street with some of the women talking to them and she called. And we were like literally talking to her. This woman in Africa talking to her women there.

And I took a selfie with her of the cell phone. It's the first picture they've ever got of that woman. Wow. Did you ever feel like your life was in danger doing that? No, not really. They're little people. I don't mean that in a derogatory manner. I just mean they're very little people.

You're strong. Yeah, I did get in a scuffle one night, just a little scuffle. So we all carry, let me tell you, I've done a lot of things, and I've seen a lot of disturbing things and experienced a lot of disturbing stuff. That was some of the, that's the only thing wherever when I came home, I thought, man, I need a 15-minute break to clear my brain because some of the stuff I've seen was so bad. But we all carry like little backpacks or we have these shoulder packs. And they're all wired with cameras and different things.

And we were going into a club and they wanted to check our bags. And I'm like, they're not checking my bag, bro. And so we kind of just walked past them and ignored them. Act like, you know, stupid American tourist. And they come in and tried to grab my bag from me. and I had been filming this gentleman across doing some very lewd things, you know, to what we had suspected was an underage girl. And he tried to take my bag, so I'm like, none.

So they were going to throw me out of the club. I'm like, okay, this is going to be fun. So like five or six of them attempted to grab me, and we scuffled around quite a bit until they got me outside. And then the local police come over. And so you've got to go through the whole motion, even though some of the police officers that were there. And we did have a police officer assigned to us,

a Thailand police officer. He, and I know I'm going way far, he knew what we were doing, so he comes over and puts me under arrest and then takes me off, and they have to see this whole thing. And he's pointing his finger at me, and he's yelling at me and telling me to go and take the handcuffs off and I walk off. And they're all happy, and we're all happy. We go back the next day and they welcome me right back in.

Really? Yeah. See, I would feel like I was about to die there. I mean, but you're, I don't know, 10 times more than me? 20 times more the man? What do we think? We're putting in the percentage here. It's like a movie.

That's fascinating. And the fact that you would take that on to try to help those people, that says a lot about you. So aside from that, let's talk about some of the positive stuff that you were able to see. Right? I mean, through the book, what are you most proud to share? Like, when you think of all the personal stories, all the things that you've seen, like what do you really lit you up to be able to share that with people? I don't know.

That's a good question. No one's asked me. Yeah, I do. That's what I do. thing. You fight people. I try to find interesting questions. You know, I don't know. I think family, the whole concept of this book, God, family country, those are the three most important things in my life. And in that order, my God is always first, my family second only to my God and my country, my love for country. I hope that when people read this book, they feel inspired and in some way

maybe motivated to feel like they want to do good, they want to be good. And I'm not trying to take away from what we're discussing, but like, Amy, I follow your posts, and you always seem to post very positive things. And I think more people should do that. There should be more of that and less of the attempts to put each other down and beat each other up and try to, you know, derive something negative from every comments that's made instead of, I mean, you know, there's a lot of stuff on the media outlets that you could easily turn it to a good if you wanted. to instead of trying to beat it up and make something bad out of it. You know, so I'm hoping that when people read this, that they feel motivated to maybe want to do

good or be good. And understand that even though we all experience various hardships in our life, those things, you know, we all say, and I've heard a lot of people say, well, everything happens for a reason. And I kind of believe that. I kind of also believe that we bring things on ourselves sometimes that maybe shouldn't have happened. But we should all learn from every one of those things. And we should all become better people.

Heartache, scars, pain. All of these things build us and build character and make us better people, I believe. The book is God, Family, Country. Memoir by Craig Morgan. You got Blake on the front. Morgan's memoir, will move you. It's serious. He didn't even make a joke.

Blake Shelton said that. Morgan's? Well, I didn't put the rest of it on there. Oh, you left the right. I hope you guys check it out. We're going to talk about music in a second. But I would definitely want to spend this whole segment talking about the book. It is a great book.

And again, it talks about all of that, your faith, your family. And not only what it's going to sound like John F Kennedy, what you've done for the country, but what the country's done for you, honestly. Yes, it's a lot of that. Amen. I say that a lot. You know, the military, I wasn't near as good for the military as the military as the military was for me. Well, I hope everybody orders it on Amazon, or if you do go buy one of those, and they have like walls and you walk in a door and you buy a book.

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He's got a new memoir that's out It's called God Family Country He's got a new song that we're going to play in a second Which I think we've already played this song on the show Like before it was even released right Didn't you text it to me and then we played it? You did. Okay, that makes sense.

I knew I'd heard it before Yeah And I was like I remember hearing this And feeling like really Then I thought maybe it was when we were with the opera together But we played it here too You did. Yes and I felt like a child after the label called me

Like I'd done something wrong and they were smacked You're not supposed to do that yet don't they know who you are? You're going and use your hands and kill them all. I don't think they care. Yeah, they don't care. They don't care. I don't care about them either, though.

Yeah, who cares? I like your pants. What kind of pants you got there? I don't know. You don't know? What are those? My wife bought and made me dress up. What do you mean?

Those are awesome pants. I don't know. They're not jeans. How does it make you feel when I say I like your pants? It didn't bother me at all. To compliment, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think those are awesome pants.

I like stretching. Should I not be complimented? Well, that's the debate here on this show. Eddie saw someone with good pants and he said I don't want to say something I'd be weird I was like why not just say you like their pants I like in the man yeah I think there's nothing wrong I like Craig's pants yeah no I saw that

how did you when I said that it was it was it wasn't awkward I think the way you did it was kind of like them yeah I mean it's pretty it was pretty honest I didn't say man those pants fit you well I didn't say anything like that well Bobby can I tell you what girls do to take it next level if they like a pants and the girl doesn't know

they'll check the tag oh so go check the tag bones oh I'm not checking your tag I feel like Craig's such a manly man He might not have underwear on, I'll be honest with you I don't know I'm like, what, what? I always love that boxers are briefs

And I'm like, oh, neither That's what I thought he said If it weren't for the fact so many of in the room I probably wouldn't have any pants on Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, anyway Here we are, Craig Morgan. I'm kidding So I got a couple things to talk to you about

First of all, we mentioned on this show When you had posted that you had a bunch of Adel CDs at your show Yeah, yeah. So you're doing a show and obviously you're selling merch. And some of the merch is music and you cut it open, box cut or whatever. And it's just literally Adele CDs? Correct.

Like a whole box? No, like four or five boxes. So my guys stopped to pick up merchandise before we left. And, you know, they don't open it and check everything because on the tag it said, Craig Morgan, you know, God, family country, the title of the album. So they just stick the boxes in the truck or under the bus or whatever. And they come and got me like, you're not going to believe this. Like, what?

We got the CDs. I'm like, thank God, because we sold out. It had been like two or three shows and we didn't have CDs, and that's a big deal. And they're like, oh, we finally got them. And they're like, you're not going to believe this. They pull it out and it's an Adele CD so that somehow they had got mislabeled. So did Adele get a bunch of Craig Morgan? She's like, what in the bloody out of there?

I don't know. I'd have probably sold more if Adele had put them out there. Did you end up A, selling them, the Adele ones, or people like, this is just weird? No, A, I didn't because I didn't know, I was afraid somebody might get like, you know. It's hilarious. You should have signed them. Would you like an Adel one of a kind, Adele CD signed by Craig Morgan? We did think about that.

Yeah, and then two, do you send them, do you get that money? Do you still get your CDs at some point? I think Jerry just, when we got back, he took them back and exchanged them for our CDs. They realized their mistake. This would have been the greatest PR duet setup ever. if all the sudden, because you know how people fake stuff to set up duets, all of a sudden in three weeks you're launching it. Like that was for real.

A Nadell duet. Yeah. I know. Yeah. So you're out doing these shows. Is it hard for you because a lot of your songs are so emotional. A lot of them are so emotional. I'm watching people cry every show.

Every time I see you, you're doing a song that's either about your family, your faith, your country. It's basically your book, but you have all these songs. I feel like there are people crying at every Craig Morgan show. Yeah, so I don't do them all. every show. I got to be honest. Like, especially the father, my son, the Holy Ghost. I don't do that all the time. I don't know that I've ever done it at a, like the big festivals,

the fairs where there's 30,000, 20,000 drunk people. Probably wouldn't roll. And he'd get mad that people are talking drunk during it. No, you know, I'm not that guy, too. I'm not the guy that stands on stage and tells everybody to shut up and listen. You know, because people are having a good time, man. And I think sometimes we take ourselves too serious up there. And that's what we're there for us, to entertain them.

allow them to have fun. And if I'm music in the background of their conversation, then that's cool. I mean, they're paying good money. Come see me, so they're allowed to talk if they want to. Did you ever play bars where people were just living their life and you were just the background music? You're going to laugh. I never played a bar in my life until after I got a record deal.

And why would they send you back to a bar after you got a record deal? Money. You just needed to work. Yeah, I did it for the work. In your book, you talk about how hard it was to leave service. Yeah. I mean, just as a person, it was hard. Yeah, it still is.

Would you? People ask me how I transition from, you know, the military, the music. I always say I'm working on it. Would you go back if you could? In a heartbeat, especially if I could do what I did. And in a combat situation. Now, let me say this. I wouldn't want to go back just to go hang out and, you know,

although I love and miss a lot of that. But if they said, hey, we got this going on and this part of the world, and we need you to come in, I'd be gone in. I'd be gone in a heartbeat. You ever been a spy? I would leave in a heartbeat to go do that. No, I've never been a spy. You answered that fishy.

I'm just going to move off. Or is he a spy right now. Yeah. No, no. I've worked with spies. Yeah, and you've worked on a lot. Like, really, like real spy people. Isn't that?

I mean, when I was writing this book, I was like, I forgot men that we did that. Like, I was the first artist to play at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq when it reopened. But I wasn't really there just to do a show. My show was a cover for the agency and various other governmental organizations to bring in the new government for Iraq. And it was just cool as it could be. Who's your favorites by? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Don't answer that. Wait, so how long goes by until you can say that?

Well, apparently about 15 years. He just did. Yeah, a lot of the stuff, when Jim and I were writing this, there were other stories that we submitted. and they were like, we don't know if we should discuss that. The big thing, here's how we knew it was okay, especially with the agency, when I would submit something,

and I was talking about Panama. And for one, I'm talking about 1989. I mean, you know, that's a long time ago. Half the crap that the military had don't even exist anymore. So we weren't giving away any governmental secrets or nothing like that, but we were talking about an operation that involved the agency.

And all they would say was we can neither confirm nor deny. And like, okay, fair enough. That's cool. And then there would be one and go, we would definitely oppose the truth of this. So you're like, oh, okay, can't say that. Well, the book that I got was an early version.

It was all redacted. It's all black lines all the way through it. Half of it was. I want to play the new song. We're going to have you hang out for a little bit, but I want to play the new song here. It's called How You Make a Man. And again, this is a poignant, emotional song.

I don't know. Like, what do you say about this? What do you say about this before you play it in a concert? Well, you know, being a new song, I just say, hey, this is my new single. I want to know if you like it because if you don't, I don't want the radio stations to play it. If you do like it, call them and wear them out, and I'll give you Bobby Bone's cell phone. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Just hit him.

Call him. No. And then afterwards, I tell him, you know, I believe it's a song that we need to hear. Because the chorus of this song just hammers me. You run, you crawl, you rise, you fall. You hit your knees until you learn to stand. That's how you make a man. I mean, and that's life, man.

Sometimes you've got to fall. And I think in today's time, it seems like everybody's scared of scratching their knees. You know, it's like, oh, I don't want to get hurt. And love, you know, it's like the same thing with love. I don't want to get my heart broke. Man, you're not going to experience real love if it haven't, have it broke a little bit, you know? And I feel like when you say how to make a man, and man, it can be a man. man or a woman.

Absolutely. And I do say that. Yeah. This isn't just about a man. It's about a human. It's how you make people. It's how you make good people. On the Bobby Bones show now.

Craig Morgan. A couple things. One, Craig's new memoir is out. Now it's called God, family, and country. You guys, go read it. It's great. We played his new song a second ago, and I hope you stream it like crazy.

It's called How You Make a Man. You have a lot going on right now. But what I want to know, you've done a lot of things. You've been a lot of places. All over the world. You've seen some stuff. You can tell us some you can't. You've seen good stuff, bad stuff.

Do you believe there are aliens? I believe there definitely could be other life forms, but I don't know that it matters. Do you think, because some of these guys are saying that come out of this special part of the government that is over UFOs and have to be aliens. It's just something that's not identified. They're like, we can't tell you everything because you'll freak out. What do you translate that to mean? I think people don't need to know everything. It could be, I'm just making stuff up here.

China has a technology that we don't have maybe, and that would freak us out too. Could that be a thing? Most definitely. Most definitely. What do you know? I know that I'm fascinated that we walk around in our lives as if nothing is going on except what we're doing. I agree with that. Yeah. And it's a big old world and it's a big old universe. But I also have a lot of faith in God and I know that he's in charge and ultimately this is temporal for me. We're here for a while, some longer than others. And I look at it. forward to the time that I'm in a life that is not temporal, that I'm living up there. I hope mine's way longer than all you guys.

I want to be like 200. I'm telling you, man. I want to live until I just can't. I want to be one of those people that's like on Instagram and they're like a hundred and 30 year old golfer. It's a ball. And it looks real sad, but you're also like it's really cool. Like that's what I want to be.

Yeah. How's your health? Everything good? Oh, great, man. Are you still biking 50 miles? No, I'm not. I would love to be, but I'm just so busy. right now. I'm still running quite a bit and a bike when I can. We've gotten into the mountain biking.

Well, you wrecked that, man. That's bad. It's worse, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You still no 50 mile bike right Saturdays anymore. How about steak night? Still have steak night. Absolutely. Is it still Tuesdays? Yes, because I can't eat steak on Friday, but yes, when I'm home with my wife, we do steak. I grilled the steak. You can't eat steak on Friday. We don't eat, we don't, we don't eat meat on Fridays. Like all year long or just during Lent? all year long. That's why they have fish Fridays in school. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that was why. That's how impacting Christianity used to be in our society. They didn't have fish. I mean, they had fish on Fridays because they didn't want, as an option for those people

who didn't eat meat on Friday. In Arkansas, you couldn't buy beer on Sunday. Yeah, I decided. Now you can. But for a long time. I mean, it ain't nothing like a beer after church. Look, how are you juggling it all right now? You're a book promo, you got a new song, you're playing shows. I see you at the Opry. How are you juggling at all? Man, I have a wonderful team of people, and I have a superstar of a wife.

My wife really just kind of keeps everything in check. Yeah. Does she ever tell you a song's not good? Oh, every day. Oh, that's easy. Unvoluntarily. I mean, she don't care, man. If she don't like it, I mean, y'all, but the truth is, I don't really,

In fact, I love it when my wife says that's not good. Guaranteed hit. Guaranteed hit. She didn't like Red Net Yacht Club. She didn't like International Harvester. What song gets the loudest sing back at shows? Well, it depends on where I'm at. If I'm in the Midwest, no question.

International Harvester's, I mean, it's a people go absolutely ballistic. And it's at the, as soon as we start that tractor noise, you know, they just go nuts. They know. In the southeast, Redneck Yacht Club Seems to be one of the bigger ones. That's what I love about Sunday, no matter where we're at, seems to draw real well.

Man, that's a good one. Like, universally, that's the one. Yeah. I mean, it was a big song. It still is. I mean, and it's one of those that, I feel like it's timeless, you know, no matter what happens forever,

that song will be a song that can be played. You can also picture all the people on the song. Even if that's not the same name, you can just picture, you know, I went to Mount Pine Baptist Church and I could see all, Miss Betty, singing off key.

All of everything. Just said, even though it wasn't Miss Betty, you know, all those people are kind of, you know, assigned to our life in a certain way. A listener called us and said he'd like to have you play his wedding. And I think you said, I remember. I'm sorry about this. He said, how much to get Craig Morgan to play my wedding? And I said, you probably, how much I tell him?

$250,000? I think is $250. Remember. Is it just, it might. It's a fair number. Okay, that's what I was going to say. I don't even need the number. It's a fair number for a wedding.

I've only ever done one wedding. Do you sing when they come down the aisle or are you the, After. Like the after party. Like I said, I've only ever done it one time, and I will, I swear I would never do it again. This is the truth. After, after the party. They were married.

They got married. And it was, I mean, tons of, tons of money. They paid me a fortune. We come in, we do the wedding. After the wedding, I hear on the bus door. And I'm like, Jerry, see what, see what's up. And we're on my bus. the band's on the other bus.

The lady comes to the bus and she says, my husband gave me a hall pass. No way. Hey, my tour manager's standing out there. Stand up, Jerry. Tell them if I'm telling truth, yes or no. Oh, my goodness. Oh, no.

I said, lock the door and go get Jim Ed, the fiddle players. You've got to take one for the team. That's funny and awkward. In the book, you talk about Craig Greer. Yep. being a stage name. Yep.

So who told you not to use that his stage name? Well, Garth didn't tell me not to use my last name. He just said, you will have a better private life if you're not using your real name. And he was right. You know, of course, this was all before the influx of social media. And now it's weird because even though I am Craig Morgan, I'm still Craig. that's actually my middle name, Craig Morgan Greer. So when discussing with the label, they're like, wow, Morgan's great.

Let's just go with Craig Morgan, you know. And he was right for a long time. Like people couldn't find me. They didn't know where I lived. Not that it really mattered, but they couldn't. Well, now, man, you can do enough research. And they all know my real last name. But, I mean, I don't know that it really matters.

I think they also know I hunt and I'm a good shot. So nobody just shows up. Anybody ever look at your ID and you're like, You look like the, it's not, it's not you, but you look like the Craig Morgan guy. Yes. So I did a hunt one time and the DNR came to the show afterwards because they had seen that we were hunting. And my, they could not, they could not find a hunting license for Craig Morgan. So they come there to talk to me about it and like, oh, that's not my real man.

Jokes on you. Okay, look, you got it all out there. The book's great. I hope everybody, if you're looking for a great book to read, God, family, country, it's out. It's a lot of Craig's stories. It's a wonderful book, and there's a lot of really personal stuff, really inspirational stuff. Oh, I hope people just give it a chance.

If you love country music is one thing, you'll love it. But if you just love America, I mean, it's that kind of book. Like you finish it and you read about all that you've done. It's like there's an appreciation for you that I didn't have. I mean, I kind of liked you before you came in and read the book, but now I really like you. You know what I mean? And then also Craig's new song How You Make a Man, it's out as well.

I appreciate you coming in. It's always good to see you. You're one of our favorite guests. And next time you want to come by and bring some Adele CDs, we're here. I will, buddy. And I appreciate you as well. We still got to get you to Alaska. I am not doing that.

It's not that I don't want to go to Alaska. I've never been to Alaska. I'm not doing your track. You got to you land in like a small plane, then you walk across ice, and then you, there's like four bears you got to dodge. The first three are good. The fourth one's mean. So you got to know what that is.

Then you get a summer salt. It's like, Craig, I don't want to do that. It's really not that thing. He's like no motorized vehicles. We hike through the woods. What is that? Like, three blocks? It's 72 miles.

No, you're exact. Then he sent a picture of his cabin. He's like, check it out. And I'm like, where's the Wi-Fi? He goes, we don't have any. Do you have running water? Yeah, you run down to the lake. I'll have a bucket and run back.

All right, Craig Morgan. There he is. All right, Craig. Good to see you, buddy. The Bobby Bone Show is. proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, non-profit Christian University based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. They say higher education is outdated, irrelevant. Well, GCU doesn't settle for the status quo. They shatter it. At GCU, academically rigorous,

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coming like a surfer gets on and just ride. He's done. Riding on top of that thing on the kayak. writing that thing. Oh my good. That's it took him 91 days. That's crazy, man. A California man became the second person ever to kayak from California to Hawaii. The journey took him over 90 days. His name's Cyril is 46.

He set off from Monterey in June in his modified kayak, which included pedals and a small sleeping cabin, but no motor or sail. Oh my gosh. Three months. At night, I would be so scared. Yeah, and when you sleep, don't you drift off course? Anchor. Like, how does you...

You're not anchoring in the ocean. It's not going to touch anything. I don't know, man. Like he said he was sleeping cabin. He spent 10 hours a day paddling. He went easy. He said, I had to eat the right amount of calories. I was eating 4,000 calories a day.

But what kind of food? Yeah. Are you even going to have out there 4,000 calories? Does Uber Eats deliver out there? I don't think so, man. On a big boat? Yeah, that's crazy. 91 days on a boat.

That's from UPI. Congratulations to him. I could not do that, but I'm glad he did. What did we learn from this? Why did he do? What did that give back? Nothing. You can do anything. Okay, I like it.

We can do hard things. Yeah, absolutely. That's it. Okay, good. Want to go away? That's it. Here's Amy's pile of stories. Some Uber drivers are reportedly worried that they're unknowingly delivering drugs via Uber Connect, which is the company's career service. Yeah, we invented that with Will at Uber. Just for the record.

We were the first. We sent funny stuff across town, and we debate Will at Uber? What were some of the funny things that we sent across town? A stinky crock bot? Divorce papers. Yeah, a cutout, a life-size cut out. Yeah. Somebody, a ring.

We had the guy proposed with a ring. Wouldn't there a box with a snake in it? There's so much. We invented this. They took our idea. But yes, I could definitely see how with the courier service, who knows what you're hauling? Yeah, one driver told NBC News that he ended up with a package that was small, tiny, clear.

He could see, like, little crystallized forms in it. So he drove straight to the police station. He dropped it off, which is wrist. because they can see where you're going. They're going to kill you. Guys, it was a science experiment. It wasn't even drugs. I hope these couriers, their face isn't on there where the people know it's there.

Like the app. Yeah. Because they get murdered. So she's like, well, they had a little box. The box said cocaine on it. He was confused as to what it was. Yeah, that stinks. All right, what else?

A Reddit group called Financial Independence has a weekly thread where frugal people share tips for saving money. So I've got some highlights. Never go to Starbucks. It'll definitely save money if you do that. And I like Starbucks, but that's a big one because it's so expensive to get anything. It adds up. Yeah.

Well, they say never buy the newest tech. You need to get things that are three years behind. Yeah, okay. Yeah, good luck getting an iPhone that's old because they start shutting that thing down. Yeah, those updates. They start slowing it down. So you can't even email. What else?

When you go out to eat as a couple, split one meal. I'm still hungry. Switch back to bar soap because it's way less expensive than. the body wash. I like bar soap anyway. Yeah, I do too. I do bar soap. Yeah, I didn't know I was being so frugal.

Yeah, look at us. I just like it. I don't know what else. Order your groceries online, but pick them up. Do not pay the delivery fee because that adds up. Also, you can cut sponges in half and then slow down while driving. Don't gun it at stoplights because you'll gain miles per gallon. I was thinking about this buying groceries one.

That's a good one. I'm going to tell you why. Because I go to the grocery store, always a few extra things I see while I'm there that I'm going to get. Exactly. When you buy online, you're not taken over by your desire to have, ooh, I like that cereal, let me try it. Yeah.

An apple pie? A mini apple pie? With a hole in it for ice cream? You know all this stuff. Get one free? Yeah, you don't even know all this. Yeah. That's a good idea.

And then just go get it yourself. All right. What else you got? Well, Luke Brian is saying that he hopes to slow down in a few years to spend more time with his family. He says that once his sons are in high school and playing more sports, he wants to be able to spend time being a dad on the sidelines, cheering them on. Now, he's not talking retirement by any means, but just slowing down.

Because as it is right now, it's American Idol. He's recording stuff. He's touring and he's very busy. You know, I think if you're a college or NFL coach or if you're a touring artist, that is a, it's a very glamorous lifestyle for a lot of people who makes them a lot of money. They're famous. But that's a big one where you don't get to see your kids play sports or Friday nights or whatever they're doing on Friday and Saturday nights. You know, so Bob Stoops, he kind of quit so he could watch his kids. finished and play football in high school. I love that.

They didn't fire him. They wouldn't have kept him on. Garth. Garth stopped his career for a little bit. Garth is straight up moved back to Oklahoma for his kids. That's awesome. Yeah, so as luxurious as the lives they live, I bet they're like, dang, I wish I could watch my kid play football.

All right, is that it? Yep, but maybe that's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. This woman in California, her name is Joanna Carrington. and she is 100 years old.

She said that she feels that spending time with pets is one of the secrets to a long, happy life. And her dog recently died. Now, at 100, she thought, no one's going to give me a dog. Like, if I want to rescue a dog, they're going to be like, oh, I don't know. I don't know.

That's true. You do have to go through a process for rescue. Yeah. So, luckily, one of her neighbors works at Muttville's senior dog rescue, and she was matched with a senior chihuahua, an 11-year-old dog was put with her, and she has this caregiver named Eddie Martinez, and he agreed to walk the Chihuahua every day.

The Chihuahua's name is Gucci, by the way. I got to imagine an 11-year-old Chihuahua doesn't need a lot of walking now. Probably not. But he needs to get outside, and she doesn't really do that a lot. But Eddie said, hey, look, I'll take Gucci on walks. We'll be good to go. He'll be able to be a partner for Joanna and we'll be good to go. So I just thought it was a really sweet story.

She's old, the dog's old. I love that. Yeah. And she says she has big plans for her 101st birthday with Gucci. The brand or the dog? The dog. She said that she hopes to do something fun to celebrate. All right. That's what it's all about right there. That was Tell Me Something Good.

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