The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Early Bird) Taylor Hicks Is In The Studio! Find Out What He's Been Doing Since Winning American Idol + What Happened When Amy Saw An Energy Healer? + Mailbag: Helping A Kid With OCD

Episode Date: February 20, 2023

Season 5 winner of American Idol, Taylor Hicks, stops by the show to premier new music for the first time in 14 years! We also find out what he's been up to since winning Idol. his future plans, and he answers uncomfortable listener questions. Plus, find out what happened to Amy when she saw an energy healer, and why everyone on the show is making fun of her for it. Mailbag: a listener writes in asking for advice on how to help a kid who is showing signs of OCD. Since Bobby personally deals with OCD, the listener wants his thoughts on the matter!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to another week, another day of shows. Morning, studio. Morning. By the way, it's a holiday. Happy President's Day.

Who cares? I mean, it's President's Day. Who cares, right? It's not a real holiday. I don't get a gift. so who gives a crap. Or there's no good food, so who gives a crap. So that being said, we are working today. And I mentioned it on the show Thursday and Friday.

To be completely honest, we were told we could have the day off. But we did not choose to have the day off. No, you didn't choose. We chose to. Me and the mouse in my pocket. Yeah, I was going to say, if you took a poll of the room, I'd say we'd all vote day off. But we did not. We're here for you today because that's what we do. Thank you. Let's get started and go around the room. Everybody's got 15 seconds.

Did I say morning studio? No. Oh, yes, yes, he did. Let's do it again for the heck of it. Yeah, I love it. Morning studio. Morning. Morning. Thank you very much.

Let's go up first. He keeps finding money. And he's trying to slim down his tummy. Here he is. Producer Eddie, everybody. So a few days ago, Amy came in and said there was a movie on Netflix called My Place for Yours. She said it was great. Is that the one with Cuchar?

Couture and Witherspoon. And then Mike D. came on and said, no, it's not good. He disagreed with her. So I was like, you know what? I'm going to go on Amy's side. I'm going to watch it. Give it a chance. Amy, this movie is terrible.

It is not good. And you know what? The storyline is not bad, but Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Coochard, their acting was so, so, so bad. What? It was unwatchable. Oh. It is not unwatchable. Did you not finish it?

32% on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay. Wow. Obviously, Reese Whithspoon's a great actor and Ashley Coochard's a pretty good actor. Was it because their chemistry seemed weird, do you think? That definitely was weird. They were in two different places, you know, for most of the movie. So it just felt like they were going through lines.

They weren't really even talking to each other. Very weird, bones, but I have to have a theory. Go? I think it's because we're making so much content for all these streaming services. They're spitting out these movies so quick. They're not even trying anymore. They didn't write a script. They just said, okay, guys, I don't know.

You're at a restaurant, go. Let's just see what we like. Yeah, man, this was not good. It's all improv the whole time. Oh, man. Okay. I loved it. Eddie, rate it, though.

Give us some sort of out of five. I'm going to go one poker chip out of five. One? One poker chip. Do you regret spending time watching it? Yeah, dude. didn't even finish the last 30 minutes of the movie. I'm like, I'm not, I. So you didn't even get to the best bar? I was like, I want to see the end, but I'm like, not really, not that bad.

Hey, okay. He sometimes is loud and seems scary, but he all the time is very hairy. That's right. Lunchbox, everybody. I'm a businessman making business deals trying to get that money, and I got a business partner over there and Mr. Bobby Bones, and so I need to come to my business partner. I have a business question for you. First of all, I've seen no business in our partnership. He has made money off these shoes that we bought. I haven't seen a single dollar. And he claims that we've made money. Nothing.

I haven't seen one crispy nickel from this. I mean, you've got another like eight days and you're going to see a big old fat check. Okay, so thank you. I'd like to see that in eight days or so. Yes. What's your question? We only have a couple pairs of shoes left and I am ready to hit Go Live on eBay right after this segment. But I need to know, do we want to sell our last pair of Yeezys or do we need to hold on to them?

Are they going to become a collector's item? question. Sell and sell right now because I want more money. Remember that first song Rihanna did at Super Bowl halftime show? Yeah. What's that called? Where's my money? U.S. B better have my money? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's you. L.B. Better have my money. Good one. I just thought because Yeezys are not being made anymore. If we hold these

on for two years, they could be worth $10,000. They could. They won't. And I don't trust you to keep them for two years. So LB better have my money in eight days or so. So push go live. What size are they? They're 10 and a half. Universal. I mean, they are. How much are we selling them for? Opening bids, $5.

Wow. I have bucks for easies. I'm in. Let's go. Okay. No, we don't keep them for like those items. But they aren't making them anymore, and Adidas is losing billions of dollars because they have all these easies. They can't even sell now.

Which is crazy. See, they have all those easies. So why do we want to get in that market? I was just saying, I mean, it was a business. Don't call them your business partner because I don't like that. No, we are business partners. I've not made a single dollar. But either of I.

Thank you. You have all our money. She's invested in the business. Thank you. She's a mama too, and she brings the morning corny to you. Here she is. Amy. Thank you.

So I finally found a show that my son and I can watch together that I also enjoy because normally he wants to watch Clone Wars or some sort of cartoon situation. It's no good. Well, there's a show called Special Forces, World's Tuffest Test, and it's celebrities that are working with special ops guys, and they're taking him through different scenarios, seeing if they could survive. and if they tap out of anything, they're off the show. And so Jamie Lynn Spears is on there, Montel Jordan, Dr. Drew. Kate.

There's a Fox, right? I'm Fox, but I'm watching it. I don't know when it came out, but I started episode one on Hulu, and we're watching it through there. And we only do, like, we don't even do a whole episode of night. It's like 15, 20 minutes before we go read before it's bedtime. And Kate Plus 8, Kate Goslin, she's on there. But Stevenson just laughs because they can't. Some of them are dying.

Oh, he liked to see him fail? He's just like, he thinks, and he doesn't know who any of these celebrities are, but when they're really struggling, because it's so hard, they're like crying. Oh, Hannah. On Hannah? Bachelorette. Hannah Brown. She's on there.

She's pretty tough, I got to say. I've been impressed with her skills, but they're just put to the test and these things, and they're in agony, and he just laughs. Do you like it? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, it's entertaining. Like, for me, I'd much rather watch something like this than Clone Wars. So Jamie Lynn Spears, who I do know, she messaged me and she was like, hey, I just recommend you to the producers to do this show.

I thought about you. I was like, I'm good. Oh. I don't want to do the show. It looks great, and that's hard. Dwight Howard was on, I saw. You've been training for something, though. This isn't it.

Are you sure? And I think I would get on and do really well. That was my question for you. Wow. That's crazy. I didn't know she sent you that note. She was like, did she have to, I don't want to spoil it. Did she wet?

Nothing. But she, so she was like, hey, I did it. It was really hard. But the producers were like, hey, who do you know that would be good at this? So she told them me. And then I was like, hey, we'd love to do it. I just am not going to go live in the Middle East and miss the show. I was able to do that in Costa Rica because we had the internet connection. Yeah.

And that was my show, so I could go, I need to. I don't want to leave this show. We're working on president today. That's right. You got a word. Yeah. But I'm glad that you like the show. Yeah, it's pretty good.

They even do interrogation where they put the black, like, pillowcase over their head, and they take them to get media. They don't know where they're going. It's pretty wild. Okay. Thank you. And that's called Special Forces, World's Toughest Test. From Mount Pine, Arkansas.

He's known for being on TV. And for his next show, I guess we'll wait and see. Bobby Bones. Thank you. Thank you. Clap your hands, everybody. Thank you, I need it. That's a whistle.

Just a little quick announcement here. So we did the show called 25 whistles that Draft King's Sportsbook hired me to do, and I brought on a bunch of friends, and we did this show. And the goal was just to do 25 episodes because that's what they wanted. wanted us to do. So we called it 25 whistles. And at the end of every show, we'd blow whistle and be like, that's the end of the show. So we're going to do, they just got resigned for six more weeks before we retire for basketball season. So I like to thank all of our listeners who, I guess, gambled. I mean, let's be honest. Oh, yeah. Probably bad a bunch of money.

And maids more. More smiles and frowns. Yeah. So we're going to do six more weeks through the end of college basketball and then we're done. But they resigned us to a little, or just continue the deal for like six weeks. So you can still find it. 25 whistles is our podcast and we do that every episode. That's a good whistleblower in there. It's early in the morning. I just want to wake everybody up. They're up now, you know. All right, that's what's up. Let's get the show started. Time to open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it all the air. It's something we call Bobby's mailbag. Yeah. Hello, Bobby. I was wondering what your personal opinion would be on how to hope a kid that has

OCD tendencies. I know you've talked about it yourself. I have a five-year-old who's showing signs of being OCD. Examples. He has to give a certain amount of hugs when he's saying bye. He won't let anyone open doors other than him. I thought he would grow out of it. Unfortunately, he has not. His pediatrician is aware, but I just wanted to say your advice to a parent since you personally deal with this and also did you deal with it as a child. Much love signed obviously, could use direction, which is OCD mom. Obviously could use direction. I see what she did. Yeah, OCD.

OCD mom. So I'm going to be serious for a second in that I cannot give you real life advice on what to do for a child that is exhibiting these early signs. But we talk about a lot of relationship stuff. I'm like, I'm an expert, but I'm am a doctor, but not in this. Of letters. And I also, I know your pediatrician is aware, but I don't think a general, we'll call it a general practitioner type doctor, is going to have the knowledge to even understand how

significant this can be, especially if you don't find the root of it early. I did not really have a lot of OCD stuff as a young kid that I know of because that wasn't a thing. I was very obsessive about getting things. And maybe I was, but OCD wasn't a thing when I was a kid. Probably was, but not in rural Arkansas. So we didn't have therapy. We didn't have that kind of stuff. Again, we did, but we didn't because there were other priorities, eating, paying the bills. So what I would do is I would definitely find someone who specializes and has an education in this for kids. I know my route now. My root is I did not have a lot of control of things growing up where I lived, when I ate, just in general, like the fundamental things you should have, I didn't always have them,

so I didn't have control in that. So I wanted to get control in other ways. And so I still have these things. And I, it's just, it's a control thing. I feel like, well, I can control this. control. If I black this out, it's gone. If I go here at this time, this minute, it's a control thing. And I have combated it in a lot of ways. And I'm dealing with some of the slightly unhealthy parts of it now. But I do think there are some tendencies, though, that actually are good for me as well. So my advice is go and find somebody who's an expert in it, not me. I do have some OCD-type tendencies. I want to talk about control. I've had a lot of security issues. Now, in the past year or so, I hate to say this, it's been pretty good. I don't believe in the jinx, but just in case it is a jinx, you know.

But in my career, you know, I've had, I've had a gun up to my head. I've been jumped outside of work. I've had my house broken into. I've had multiple death threats. And so you don't have control. You lose control. You feel like, wow, anybody could kill me at any time. And so you don't.

So then you become extremely OCD about things that could affect that. I go through and I check the locks in my house. Every single one of them, I go on the same circular path. window and every room that we don't even go into. Check every single thing, right? And then, but if I can't remember when I lay in bed, me hitting every single one of them, like I will do a checklist. And if I can't remember or I, like, zoned out, I have to go do it all again. I have a security code type thing that's, but I do that because I don't have control. And so there's something in me that was like, I don't have control, so I need to find these other ways to find it. I'm not saying that's happening

with your kid, but that's what happened with me. But I would go and talk to someone who knows that it is, it could be significant. Because what's starting off is a number of hugs could be, I never want to leave the house. Yeah. And it could get serious. But I, you know,

I black everything out. It looks like government redacted files over here. What about your timing things? Is that part of it? Yes. But which part of it, though? Like whenever you, like, go out to eat and you're like,

oh, my order starts now and then you pull your clock out and you start timing it. I don't time an order. You made that up. I time everything else. I don't time an order. Now you're making me something like a jerk.

I see your... Your dad was the one that put the money on the table and pulled the dollar back when they didn't get it. That would be my dad. No, I'm just, like, you do pull your, your clock out a lot. I do time stuff, mostly because I want to know where, where I am.

It's mostly me. Not how long it takes. Yeah, no, not how long it takes. I just use that as a table. And when we fly, sometimes I do that. That's right. As soon as we lift off, I hit start on the timer. Because my fear is that all electricity or something shoots off and it goes down.

I can't see anything. I don't know what time it is. We're changing time zones. I want to know exactly what time it is and how long we've been in the air. Yeah, that's crazy. And all my time, stuff about being on time. Right, but it doesn't affect me in a terrible way. No.

It is quirky, but I don't want this to happen to a kid where he ends up like me or worse. Right. So good luck. Go to a specialist. It's awesome that you ask, though. It means you care. And you realize it's a real thing. We've got your email and we've read it on the air. Now it's about to close Bobby's mail back. Yeah.

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On our latest episode, we got comedian Blake Anderson from Workaholics and The Hilarious. This is important. podcast. 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 Goldschlaugger. James Fester threw it out of a van because he didn't want us drinking it. For more games with names, visit the IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. I just want you to know that I support you, Amy. Okay. And the show is going to give you crap for this. And I will too. But I want you to know it's fun. Or I just having a good time here on the show.

and I appreciate you sharing this with us, okay? Okay. Do you want to tell them about your energy healer that you went to? Energy healer? I told you. I told you. I know. It's like some people aren't ready for it, you know?

And I'm probably going to join in a little bit too, right? But I'm just letting you know it's all out of love and friendship, and this is what we do here. Yeah. So I may join in a lot, actually. Okay. Go ahead. You went to an energy healer. Yes.

Why? Why? And what is it? Well, my friend was telling me about it, and she had gone to her. So then she gifted me the appointment. And I was like, okay, I am open. And listen, I know, going into it, I'm like, okay, this is a little woo-woo. But when I laid on the table, I just kept my palms up. Are you naked?

No, I had clothes on. Are they, like, robe clothes, or are they normal clothes? My clothes. I just walked in, laid down. And then the whole time she was working, I just kept saying, like, stay open to this, stay open to this. What's the music playing? Oh, good question. I don't think she had any.

No, just her. And listen, here's the thing. Like, she barely touched my body. Her hands were just hovering over my body. And she was moving. Somebody paid for this? She was moving the negative energy. Mine was going out of my feet.

But it can go out of other areas, too. And because we're energy. Like, listen, there's other people do acupuncture. They used to think probably that was a little crazy. Maybe some people still do. I've done acupuncture for injuries. Okay. That is moving, blocked energy.

Didn't work. I put that in there. Okay, well, were you open to it? I was open to anything because my body was injured. And that's physically doing something. Like, she was just hovering her hands over you? Yeah, the needles weren't hovering over my shoulder. They were in you.

She is an energy healer. So she took it and then moved it. And then occasionally she would like just put her hands somewhere. What's crazy is she was like, I'm feeling some things around your like, like energy around your throat. And that is, when I'm in therapy and something comes up for me or if something's hard, and I've learned through my therapist to really pay attention to my body and see what I feel, and I instantly have to put my hand on my throat because that's where I feel it first.

Everybody has different spots where stuff shows up and mine's always my throat. And she was hovering over my throat talking about blockage there. And I was like, that's where I sort of like, when things come up for me, I grab my throat. Okay, okay. How much is this cost? Yes, you didn't pay for it, but do you know how much it costs? Ish. Okay, ish what?

I know ish of what it costs. It's the price of a massage. So like 100 bucks? Yeah. So she hovers for 100? For an hour? $100. But listen, speaking of massage, that's another form of energy.

No, that feels good. That's not energy. That's not energy. But that's moving knots. The energy. No, there's no hovering. If I went to a massage and they were going to hover-sage me, I'd be like, give my money back.

But all of it is. related to energy. Not really. We are energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Energy is everywhere. You know when you enter a room sometimes if there's bad energy,

like you feel the vibes. You mean like juju? You mean like if somebody's just a jerk in a room and you're like, I don't want to be around them? That's bad energy. No, all you got to do is hover above them

and it'll change. No, I don't have the, I don't know how to hover it out of them. I don't know what, how she has this. There any crystals in the room? I'm telling you. Nice.

I didn't notice any, but those have energy. Listen. A poster of Miss Cleo? No, I know this sounds so wild. But I was, when I stood up, I was so relaxed. I haven't felt that just. You took a nap on a table.

You were laying there. No, no, but even if I lay down doing anything else, something was different. When I stood up, I was like, oh. And then I slept the best that I've slept in years. It's crazy. I support you. I also make fun of you.

Yeah. Because it does seem. I would never do that. I would never pay somebody to hover. I just don't believe that's going to actually do anything to me. But I can't prove it. No, I've been out of her feet, man. She's not just hovering.

She's moving. I'd like for mine to come on my butt. Because I have such digestion issues that I wish she would just hover, hover out. Well, that would make sense because other stuff comes out of this. Well, it's like an actual way to come out. Correct. She can do that. She might unblock some stuff in your stomach.

Oh my gosh. So, Amy, are you going to go back and pay now? Maybe. Great question. That sleep was so good. Yeah, yeah. Yes, if there's more work to be done. There's always more work to be done with people like that.

A lot more work. A lot more. It never stops, actually. Well, I know myself. I am a constant work. You believe that she somehow... Listen. No, no, no, no, listen.

I'm open to it. No, no, no, no, no. That's what I'm like they're saying the whole time. Do you believe that there's... Okay. Is there a probability that she did something hovering and removed some bad stuff from your body? Yes. Okay.

You have every right to believe that. Thank you. Bobby, do you actually believe that? No, I don't, but it doesn't mean I'm right. Amy, you are. I feel like I'm right, but doesn't mean I'm right, because I can't prove it, and she can't prove that she's wrong or right either. But Amy is like the walking, like, oh my gosh, goal, ball, I'll pay for anything.

It's like when she went to that doctor and the doctor would just hold up a thing of pills, and if she could pull Amy's fingers apart, oh, you need those pills. Energy. Like, it was like what, Amy goes to these spooky. Didn't you have an issue with your energy bill recently? Where they came in charge your home. Oh, yeah, that's right. You ever think that that maybe, it's just, that's energy.

That's bad energy. Now that I've moved, the energy, maybe my energy was going to be lower. But the pill thing, my mother-in-law gifted that to me, and I love how he's bringing up something from like 17 years ago. But still, there are some people really believe there is something to that. I don't know. I'm proud of you for trying new stuff. Yeah. I feel like just, okay.

It is wacky. I want our listeners to know I do, and I think this is completely whack. So a lot of times you guys say stuff and it gets me in trouble because they just think apparently, all of you are me, which is not the case. This is not my thing. This is Amy's thing, but I'm going to support you if it makes you feel better, because that's what it's all about. And I'm not saying it's totally my thing.

It's a new thing that I'm open to. I need to give me an energy healer. I need to be an energy healer. Dang, I don't think about that. You beat me to it. That'd be awesome. It's such an easy job. Come here and hover over me. During the break, can you hover me?

Yeah, yeah, for sure. And does she talk to you? Like, what does she say why she's hovering? Yeah, there was talking. And look, I don't know why God gives certain gifts to people, but he designed us as energy. Some people are really smart. Some people hover the crap out of you. Right?

Okay, it's not just hovering again. It's hovering and moving. Yeah, of course it is. And then she said, I was going to feel a tingly thing, possibly down my leg. And I felt it. And that's when it was the energy was moving like a ripple effect out my leg. Yeah. Okay, well, let us know if you go again.

I hope you feel better. I do. There's a lot of placebo-type things that actually do work. And it's not a placebo if it works. Even if it is a placebo and then it works, it ain't a placebo because it actually worked. So good for you. Thank you. I'm glad you feel energized.

Thank you for allowing me this safe space. It couldn't be any safer. To share something that I did that other people might want to try. Yep. All right, I got a crystal ball psychic out waiting for me to do the after. So I'm going to go do that real quick. It's time for the good news. With Bobby.

Tell me something good. I want to go over to Brad in Ohio, who's got Tell me something good to share with us. Hey, Brad, what's going on? Hey, Bobby. Hey, Studio. Tell us your story here. So last year I was caddying in a tournament at a golf course and went into cardiac arrest.

And luckily, there was a retired firefighter who was volunteering who started CPR. Did CPR for about five minutes. I was shocked by an AED twice. I was in the hospital for a week. Wow. And all good. And two weeks later, we had our second child. Hold on a minute.

Let's rewind for a second. So you're caddying. Are you like a real caddy or was it like one of these, you know, fun events of where Eddie was like my caddy? No, it was actually a U.S. Open Qualifier at the club I belong to. And there was a kid there who didn't have a caddy. And so I volunteered to caddy for him. First of all, I volunteered for a kid. That's all right.

Help a kid. Look at this guy. And then what do you remember? What's the last thing you remember before, I don't know, you woke up? I vaguely remember, like, the hole before it happened. So I remember him teeing off on that hole, but then it happened on the green. And I don't remember. The next thing I remember is waking up in the ambulance.

Wow. And when you wake up in an ambulance, like you did, do you remember being so confused? Yeah, I was pretty out of it. They were getting me to chew a bear aspirin and trying to get my phone to call my wife. And so when you were told the story about the guy who did the compressions and the, what's called the defibrillator, basically? Yeah, AED. Yeah. Did you ever go meet with it?

with him after? I haven't. I have his information. I want to reach out to him, but it's just kind of one of those, like, not scared to, but, you know, it's just kind of like an emotional type thing. Yeah. Did he do mouth to mouth? Uh-huh.

That I don't know. All I know is what I was told. Hey, better not to know then. That's why he doesn't want to ask. Better not to know. That's right. He woke up and he was like, I got just, like, I think like Copenhagen for some reason. Yeah.

Apparently I was told I sat up and said, okay, let's go. And they're like, no, you can't go. Crazy that you are here talking to us today and that you had a kid two weeks later. I mean, do you just feel so blessed? I do. So I use my story to tell people to get CPR train so you could save someone else's life. Man, that's a great story, Brad. I really appreciate to sharing that with us.

I hope you have an awesome day. And this was last year, you say? Yeah, last June. Well, congrats on. on the baby and what are you if you're not one, is it still a baby? Is it not toddler yet? Infant.

Infant. So there's infant, then there's toddler, then there's... Then there's pain in the butt. Hell you. Yeah, oh yeah, hell of the butt. Okay. Hey, Brad, have a great day, man. Thank you.

All right. See you, buddy. That was Tell Me Something Good. I've been waiting 15 years for this. Maybe 20. Taylor Hicks is coming in studio. Now, Taylor Hicks was my favorite ever on American Idol back in the day. I used to buy the clothes he wore on that show.

Yep. voted for him over and over again. But Taylor Hicks is in the Hyundai Green Room right now. He has a brand new song that's really good called Porch Swing. He's going to perform for us. So you guys can listen to this segment or not. It didn't matter. I'm going to be in my little world here with Taylor Hicks.

You don't care. I don't care. This one's for me. Hey, this one's for the boy here. Okay? Taylor Hicks, coming in studio to perform next. Hyundai is celebrating the 10-year journey of the Bobby Bones show. Live from Nashville.

You just won't say love you show. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know I've been waiting since 2006 to do this next interview That's a long time Yeah I've been a Taylor Hicks fan Since the minute I saw his pretty face

And oh Abnormally, premature gray hair And I'm asking him about that Like he was in his 20s He was already gray On American Idol way back in the day But man, it's Soul Patrol Like I was in the group I voted for him

But the thing about Taylor Hicks is Like way back in the day He discovered he had perfect pitch When he was able to recognize The pitches of random things like a car driving by. So we'll get into that hopefully in a second. He's such a good singer.

He's got this new song called Porch Swing. So you guys can leave if you want. It's just a moment of Taylor, Taylor, and I. Just let you be. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Here he is. Taylor Hicks. On the Bobby Bones show now.

Taylor Hicks. I've been waiting my whole life for this, Taylor. Well, I'm just letting you know right now. I didn't realize that you liked my white shoes, my white, Billy White shoes. Yeah, not like love. You mispronounce the word love? Let me say this about Taylor Hicks.

And I was obsessed for like five years. I was going to say obsessed is the word. Yeah, I was just, I was like when you would perform, I'd be like, that's the kind of music I like. That's the guy. I bought shoes, the white shoes you had. I was just like, everything about that dude is what I like musically. I grew up in Arkansas and you're very soulful. I remember, did you do an Otis Redding song?

Oh, yeah. Try out a little tenderness. Yep. And then you did. I should, actually, I know all of it. You did a Queen's song, but there was a... Did you do a Sam Cook? Do you do a Sam Cooke song?

I did. Yeah, I did... You send me. Oh, yeah. Whoa. Come on. Okay, look. So, I've been trying for this event to happen for a long time,

and I just got famous enough that you'd answer my call. Oh, come on. That's what it... Right, guys? That's pretty much it. You know, I've been waiting for something really cool and organic to happen with this new music for 10 years. And everybody's been telling me,

they were like, you've got to put this music out. It's great. It's this soulful southern thing that you got going on. And I just have really just been waiting on a really beautiful moment and time. And I get woken up by all of these amazing texts right before Christmas. And Bobby's talking about being a fan of, you know, of me. And the next thing I know, within 15 minutes, I mean, this is like 8 o'clock in the morning. And I'm like, oh, hell, what did I do?

What did I do? What did I do? What did I do? And then Steve emails my agent and says, we'd love, you know, Bobby would love to have, you know, Taylor on, me on. And I just was like, oh, my God, this is amazing. This is exactly how I'm going to release new music. So it was a completely organic thing that's happened. And I can't thank y'all enough for making that happen for me.

I really mean that. Well, that's really cool. Taylor Hicks is here. Then let's just do this because I have a lot to talk about. But I would like to hear this song. So this is a new song called Porch Swing. Yeah. Okay.

I haven't heard it yet. Yeah. Is it good or no? Oh, it's great. Okay. You guys want to make sure. I was actually Jason Deere and Jennifer Wayne and I wrote it probably about eight or nine years ago. And we just thought about this really iconic centerpiece of someone's household all over the country.

And I was like, a port swing, because I grew up on a porch swing. So there's just a lot of things that happen around that particular centerpiece. And this one's about love and a porch swing. Jen Wayne, dear friend of mine as well. Great writer. Who's written a bunch of songs. is in Runaway June as well. Was a professional tennis player.

Did you know that? Absolutely. Okay, well, I don't know anything. Okay, well, he's got it all covered then. Here he is with his new song, Porch Swing. Here is Taylor Hicks. I would like to say, first of all, I don't smoke. I've never smoked.

But after that, I need a cigarette. You know what I mean? It's a little, some baby making music. Man, that is, that's awesome, dude. That's great. I mean, all you guys, John, the whole band, you guys are great. Thank you. Taylor, that's a great song.

I can't. I got more. Would you like to hear it? You know? Why we're on air. We're here with Taylor Hicks, who I'm just a massive fan of his music. Why don't we do this? Why don't we take a break?

Can we take a break and come back? Do you guys want to do another one? Do you do whatever you want? Sure. Do you have another one? Do you know any other songs? This is the way I play. Absolutely, we'll play.

Okay. So Taylor Hicks is here. We did not plan a second performance. So I'm going to give them a second to regroup, and we will come back with more Taylor Hicks in just a second. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'll say. Yep, that's me, Cliver 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. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. It's about to explode. The World Cup is coming. Ramers sending on to Ernie Stewart for chip.

I'm Tad Ramos. I'm Tom Boe. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines. I'm not worried about Policic. I'm not worried about Balagan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back. The biggest decisions.

If you're going to look at stats and numbers, he has no shot at making this World Cup team. And the truth about the U.S. U.S. national team. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals. The World Cup is almost here. Experience it all with us.

Listen, Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tab Ramos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple podcast, wherever you get your podcast. This is Julian Edelman, host of games with names. On our latest episode, we got comedian Blake Anderson from Workaholics and The Hilarious. This is important. podcast. 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 slover. 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 or wherever you get your podcast. On the Bobby Bones Show now. Taylor Hicks. Taylor, are these guys next to you? How long have they been with you? about 12 years and last night oh cool hey congratulations you guys meet at the bar

yeah pretty much no we've Stanton and I have been we've been playing together off and on for about seven years when he's not on the road with the wallflowers or jewel and we try to mix and mingle and do some stuff are you playing a lot of shows Taylor now I have been lately yeah you know I try to probably do five or six

five or six a month you know without new music I've got an Armed Forces Entertainment tour I'm doing over in the Middle East in March. Dang, that's crazy. Which I'm really excited about. We're doing eight shows in a lot of the Middle Eastern countries on the bases, which I'm extremely excited about. I've done some U.S.O stuff, but the Armed Forces Entertainment also is a wonderful organization that puts artists and entertainers on the road to entertain the troops. And you get an Instagram picture in a bulletproof vest, and that's legit. That's always the one I want it.

I just don't want. It's like holding up a fish that you didn't catch. I never wanted to put one on and take a picture. And if I wasn't really using it. Right. So one day I'm going to finally get to do that picture, you know? Taylor Hicks is here. He played his new song, Port Swing, which is out.

As of today, I want you guys to go check it out. It's such a great song. And we're finishing. I was like, hey man, if you want to stick around and play something else, you can. So I don't know what you're going to play or what you're going to do here. But tell me, Taylor, what are we going to get into now? This is a song about The Road. and love and, you know, as all of us that are in entertainment or any type of business that has to travel,

it can be tough on relationships. And this song has been around me for a long time, and it's out now, and we're building up to a big album release. I haven't done music in a long time, but this is every artist and every musician kind of understands what the road does. to relationship sometimes. So this is a song called Six Strings are hard on Diamond Rings. Let's see what you did there.

All right, here we go. Taylor Hicks. On Taylor Hicks. That's awesome. That's a good one too, dude. Well, I got more. Yeah, so classic. Can you guys do for our audience

who just tuned in? This is Taylor Hicks, by the way. You can follow them on Instagram at Taylor Hicks official. I'm a massive. I've been a fan boy. I was standing Taylor Hicks before standing was even a thing for those wondering. Could you do just the chorus again of porch swing, the song that is out today?

Here we go. Such a jam. So good. Here's what I'm going to do. That's just a really great song too. I'm going to, maybe not this weekend we may have it booked up, but the next weekend we do a national countdown show I do. I'm going to feature that in the national countdown show, that song. That's just also a really good song.

So good. So also, I have. This is awesome. I know. You have made, you've made the Soul Patrol's Day. I know, by the way, I'm the leader of the Soul Patrol. I have Jen Wayne from Runaway June. I'm going to FaceTime her real quick and to tell her the song's awesome because if she even answers.

You got to sing it to her though. Oh, yeah, she heard you sing it like with the instruments and stuff? She's heard, she hasn't heard the final copy though. Hello, Jen. Hold on. What are you doing? Let me flip you over real quick. How do we do that?

Boom. Nope, that's the wrong button. They're just a bit in my iPhone, and now I don't want to flip it over anymore. Hold on. How about, oh, got it, got it, boom, there it is. So I'm here with Taylor. How's he going, love? I texted her and said, are you and Taylor still cool?

That's the only what I texted her, because sometimes, you know, if you wrote a song a long time ago, maybe you're not cool anymore. We're cool, we could. Yeah, she said, she said, she said, she said that she loves you. And this song, Portswing is really good. You remember writing it? Yes. I mean, anything he sings is going to be really good. You can sing the phone book.

Well, I'm going to play it on the National Countdown show. And then when he said he wrote it with you, I was like, well, I like it even more now. So are you playing golf or something right now? I'm going to. I'm going to get nine holes in before my right. The life. The life of Jen Wayne. Golf, right, music.

It's so annoying about her that she can sing. And she's like a, like, A plus athlete. Like everything. It's so annoying. That's how we get on the phone. So annoying. Anyway, was here. with Taylor and just wanted to say hello and tell you that the song that you wrote with him

you guys crushed it and he sings it so wonderfully and that's all thanks bobby i miss you guys have fun there we will see you we'll see you we'll see you runaway june soon and i hope you uh you hit him good hit them straight all right bye jim there you go yeah she's awesome huh yeah's great she's awesome okay look here we are we've played some songs um i i i assume you don't know much about me but i worked on American Idol for four years. I worked as the main on-camera mentor and taught them or whatever you do on that show, you know? I record 10 hours and they use 20 minutes.

No, 20 seconds of it. Right. You know, that's kind of how it worked over there. So, do people, because people will come up to me and be like, I know you from somewhere. Because I'm just randomly on things. I'm like, I know you. And it's weird to go, you probably know me from this. Do you get that? It may not be this. It could be the show, the food show. It could be, do people come up to you and not know where they know

you, but they know you, and they're like, are you my mailman? I don't know. Does that ever happen? Oh, yeah. And how do you handle that if someone goes, I know you from somewhere? What do you say? Well, sometimes you have fun with it and you're like, I don't know. You know, what do you think? And so we, I mean, and then finally you say I was on Idol and they're like, oh, yeah, I said that to me. They're like, oh, were you on Judge Judy? No. I wasn't. I guess it wasn't me. You were thinking about once I went to get ice cream. place and she was like she pulled over phone i saw i google me and she was like no that's not him and then she put the phone down really because it was like a really good professional picture and i guess it looked like crap that day look taylor hicks is here um you're so good that harmonica that you have what what key is that he that's in the song e i have a e and then i've got probably 20 different keys that guy from blues traveler are he any good love him yeah he's different stylistically he

probably one of the more stylistic harmonica players in the world. He's a good friend. Oh, you know him? Yeah, yeah. I was just asking about a harmonica playing because he wears the vessel, the harmonicas. Oh, yeah. Do you have one of those? Great, and a great writer, too.

I mean, let's not forget. I mean, you know, he wrote the hook and, you know, some of those really iconic hits, you know, of the early 90s. I was wanted to play harmonica. Taylor, I'm going to tell you the little story about me playing harmonica. I always wanted to play in Eddie, who is the other half of my comedy do or comedy do or The Raging Idiots. He goes, well, you can play harmonica. I said, no, I can't because they're good. He goes, no, no, no, no, here's the easy way that they don't do

because they're good, but you can do it because you're crappy. So we, I think we played, what song did we play? It was like an old 80, was it, that's what I like, that's what I really know how to dance. So he just gave me the harmonica in the key, and he goes, just blow in and out during the key, and it'll match the song completely, and everybody will think you're a harmonica player. And I was like, all right, let's give it a run. We're on stage in front of like 5,000 people. And I've never played the harmonica in my life, except for just going, that, right, with the harmonica. And so the whole song is in whatever key it was in.

Eddie hands me, harmonica, goes, trust me on this. And there's the harmonica part in that song where it's, so I'm just, who, who, not really, I'm having like a seizure or something up there, because I don't even know how to breathe. And I put the harmonica out of laying on the crowd's going nuts because they think I'll play, I just rock the harmonica. And I was like, thank you and I retired that day playing harmonica.

One and O, but that's not real harmonica. Well, that's not real harmonica. Like, where did you start, when did you start playing harmonica? I started playing when I was about 14 or 15 But interestingly enough I was an only child and I bought my first harmonica At the Bessemer flea market in Alabama I would not suggest buying your first harmonica at a flea market by the way

What did you catch? What disease? I can't say I'm not going to disclose that that's for the next single But the so I ended up actually playing off of very kind of non-traditional sounds. So I would, like, go by behind the air conditioner, and I would find the key that the air conditioner was in, and I would play off of the air conditioner. So the air conditioner was like,

you know, then there wasn't anybody around to play music. So I would play off of air conditioners, airplanes, 18-wheeler rigs that would go down the road. How are you hearing keys, though? Where did you learn music or did it naturally come to you? You know, I think it's just, You know, it's an ear thing for me. You know, all of these sounds like, that's kind of, I didn't have a guitar or anything.

So that's kind of how I learned is just very non-true. And I would play off to the radio too. But if I didn't have a radio round, I would do, I would play off of mostly air conditioners. So you, trains are usually air conditioners are shameless plug, but they're an A. That's great. So interesting. I would, you would listen to the radio and just play along with songs like, a drummer would. Yeah. But you

would, but the thing about harmonica though is that you have to, you know, you have to have to have be in the right key. So you have the thing about harmonica playing is chromatic is the big fat one that Stevie Wonder used where you could click in and out of the keys. But just, you know, just

kind of traditional harmonica playing you have a lot of keys. So that's the reason why we were talking about Popper with the belts and stuff is because you have to find the key. So show, what do you have there in your hand. I just want to hear the difference of our audience here. Okay. This is an E.

I definitely got the blues from that. Let me hear what I have now. And then this is, this is an E flat. Now I'm even sadder. That sounds like Roseanne. So good. So, as a harmonica player, do you have to learn, do you ever learn melodies and play like a melody of a song? Or are you kind of just

jumping around with like a jazz player? Well, it's kind of like a jazz thing for me. But yeah, sometimes I'll have to find, you know, know, like, I'm going to love, let me do some of those lines. And, you know, hey, hey, man,

I want to, you know, those kinds of lines. But for me, I just kind of dig in, because I'm singing, I kind of just dig into the solo a little bit. I wanted to wear one of those things that you put it on your neck with a harmonica in it and do a whole show with it

but never actually play it. Just make people think the whole time I'm going to go to it, but I never do. I was like, wouldn't that be hilarious if I just wear it the whole time, big harmonica and never even address it?

And then I'm like, thank you guys. Good night. That's my kind of comedy right there. Well, you know, I've actually thought about like doing, having a giant one and then having a little bitty one like right here. So it looks like we're playing like a night. Oh, so you put a little room behind it. We can't see, but it's a mess. And you just kind of come out and waddle with it.

I like it. And you put on those big sunglasses at the same time that are oversized. Man, that would be awesome. See? See? Okay, look, we've done it all. Taylor Hicks, he's got a new song out today called Portswing. that's amazing.

That we're also going to feature in a national countdown. You played the second song. Let me see if I remember the title. Six strings and diamond. Ooh, I'm close. Diamond rings. What's it called?

Six strings and what? Six strings and diamonds. Oh, I had it. You did. I thought it was like it was they're hard on, or it's bad first. Six strings are hard on diamond rings. Hard on diamond rings.

That's the hook. You just said the word. Never mind. Okay, okay, okay. Easy. Also, I'll say too, both songs, they're sort, like, both of them. I was picturing the whole story,

the whole time you were singing, and I was following you along. I mean, I don't know if I had the narrative right in my head, but... What's funny is, coincidentally, I'm going to follow him along after this. Let's see where he lives. I'm going to follow him home. Soul Patrol, leader of the Soul Patrol.

That's right. Right here in Nashville. Okay, quickly, uncomfortable questions from listeners. Question number one. How old was Taylor when he was on American Idol? Because your hair was already great. You went gray early, huh? Yeah, 16.

You went gray at 16? Yeah, I would say I had people pluck him out of my head in class, actually. Because you're probably Yeah my whole family's like Gray early White yeah And did you ever think I'm going to dye my hair? No

Although they wanted me too on Idol I mean they were they were like They were like you should And then I You know then I had a manager that At one point in time Jordan Felstein who Who was

Maroon 5's manager Who passed loved him to death He and this is a great idea too And I mean I guess I'll give it away But he wanted me to die at pink For October for breast cancer awareness, which I'm totally down to do. And it would be easier to do because it's already light.

Yeah, it's already. I dive my hair pink. I'm like two shades from pink already. So, you know, I mean, that's, but no, they wanted me to dye it on on idle, but I just, I didn't want to do it. Question two. Would Taylor Hicks sing in my wedding for 20 grand? Anything's possible. Hey, that's a good answer. Kevin Garnett said it best. Hey, anything's possible.

Okay. You have to go through my agent, Bobby. How tall is Taylor Hicks? Six one. What about without your shoes? Five, six. Yeah, exactly. Okay.

Shoot entertainment. That's it. Everyone, go check out. Go follow Taylor Hicks at Taylor Hicks official. The new song is Porch Swing. You guys, everybody awesome. You guys sounded great. It's been a lot of fun for me.

And anything from you guys before we go? No. Thank you. It was great. It was great. I've put one of those Apple air tags on his car, so I know exactly where he goes after this. So I can track him.

Otherwise, Taylor, congratulations on a great performance in a new song, and hopefully we will see you soon, my friend. Thanks, guys. All right, there is. Taylor, thanks, everybody. Back in there. 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 my place 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. Listen to the Clifford show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. American soccer is about to explode. The World Cup is coming. Ramos sending on the Army Stewart. The chip. I'm Todd Ramos.

I'm Tom Bo. On our podcast, inside American soccer, you'll get the real storylines. I'm not worried about Polic. I'm not worried about Balagan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back. The biggest decisions. If you're going to look at stats and numbers, he has no shot at making this World Cup team.

And the truth about the U.S. national team. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals. The World Cup is almost here. Experience it all with us. Listen to Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tab Ramos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. This is Julian Edelman, host of games with names.

On our latest episode, we got comedian Blake Anderson from workaholics and the hilarious. This is important podcast. 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 IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. Coming up half hour so Jody Messina will be on. It's Carolina. Hills California. Somewhere greener. Somewhere warmer.

Up in the mountains. Down by the ocean. It don't matter long as we're going. Somewhere together. I got a quarter. Heads Carolina, Tails California. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

You keep going. She's coming on a little bit. Dr. Phil had an episode where a woman spent $4,000 so she could get married to herself. Huh. She's 30 years old. She wanted to learn how to love herself, so she did. And then she married herself with nine bridesmaids. They must be crazy too.

Oh, my gosh. Because they support that. Yep. I don't know how it's viewed as legal. And maybe it's just a $4,000 party. Yeah. But she paid $4,000. And I don't know if she can divorce herself.

Like, there's a lot of questions I have. Oh, man. But I'm not going to. to spend any time thinking about as soon as the segment's over. I just saw it thought it was ridiculous because I saw a teaser clip for it. Yeah, I don't think it's illegal. Coming up on Dr. Phil, she spent $4,000. It is legal and recognized throughout the U.S.

To marry yourself? No way. Since self-solomizing removes the need to hire an efficient, it makes a lot of sense for adventurous couple. That means if you marry yourself, like, no ordained minister. Okay. Oh, that's

like marry yourself like. You can be the preacher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I typed, I Google. Anyway, that's her Munelad. We're coming back with Amy's pile of stories next. He starts going adventurous couples. Here's Amy's pile of stories. Well, it's Monday, so it's the perfect time to talk about a trend.

Bare minimum Monday is what it's being called. And it is what it sounds like. You go to work, and you only do what you really have to do. There's a TikToker named Marissa Joe, and she's made it popular. and she said she just does the least amount of work necessary so she can get by that day and it helps her start the week off so she's not as stressed on a Sunday going into Monday.

You know, I hate copycats. Lunchbox has been doing bare minimum every day for every day, for every day for a long time. And here she is trying to make a name off of what you do. Yeah, and she uses on TikTok and oh, it's all of a sudden popular. I mean, you've been doing that for how many years? 20 years. Exactly.

And people are like, oh, you're so lazy, but this person gets called creative. Right, this person all of a sudden is breaking new. Yeah. She's a trend. The real influence is right here named Lunchbox. That's right. That's why I'm on Facebook right here. Bare minimum every day.

She says it can help us prioritize our well-being over our productivity. I agree. He agrees. Mental health is very important. Uh-huh. Okay, thank you, Amy. What else? Women scientists are saying we need to rebrand the term mom brain.

And I agree. But this, if you're a man or anything else, it's more of just anything negative that is associated to certain thoughts that you have. It gets ingrained in you. And then it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. So if you think you're going to have mom brain, then you're going to have more and more mom brain. You're going to forget more things because that's what you're expecting of yourself during this season of life. My wife hates when someone is called Mr. Mom because, and there's even that song about Lone Star that's Mr. Mom or it's like, clean the house, helps.

She goes, no, that's not called Mr. Mom. That's called being a good dad. Yeah, that's true. She goes, that's not called Mr. Mom. So I'm not doing Mom stuff. You're doing good parent stuff. And I was always like, that's pretty good. Like one time I said I got to babysit my kids. And I'm like, that's not, I'm a dad.

I should be watching my kids. No, that's a little, out of my mouth, I was literally about to say one thing that's annoying to me is when guys say they have to babysit their kids. Yeah, I'm done it. Did that happen on this show? I don't know. It happens in life. No, did you say babysit the kids on the show? Probably.

I would have decided, look at Eddie, going home and babysitting his kids. I wouldn't have thought anything of it. Bones, I can't play it now. I got to babysit my kids, dude. That's so funny. And I would have been like, okay, yeah, I get it, Eddie. And absolutely not. You're not babysitting your kids.

You're just being a dad. Exactly. So Luke Combs, speaking of being a dad, he says that becoming a father has made him feel like a kid again. He's got this new joy. And simply looking at a photo of his son, Tex, can instantly improve his mood. So then it made me curious, too, just with you, I know you're not a dad. But do you have anything you can look at that just instantly boost your mood? Oh, no.

Let's take a look into my picture folder and see if there's anything that makes me feel good. I'm just going to go from the very back side of the last pictures I took. library all photos okay photo one me and the guys from for king and country oh yeah doesn't boost my move i like those guys their real last name is small bone

and my last name is bones so we have a text thread every thursday we say what's up family and we talk for a little bit move on you three do that's funny because they're small bone and I'm bone so but that one doesn't make me feel too great I do have a picture here of the this one makes me feel good the NBA finals

on 2K on PlayStation 5, PS5. I don't call it PlayStation 5, but PS5. So I beat Andrew in the finals, and I won the championship. He's the champ, guys. And so my team's the Nashville Nibblers. I moved him from Utah, the Utah Jazz, to the Nashville Nibblers, and he's the Timberwolves,

and I woped him in the finals. And you know what? Looking at this picture, I'm feeling pretty happy. I made this my screensaver. You did just want that. I don't even need a baby. I just look at my video games. That was Amy's pile of stories.

It's time for. the good news. With lunchbox. Tell me something good. Carson Waters is a 15-year-old who loves basketball. So he has Down syndrome, so he's not going to play on the team. But he asks the coach, hey, can I help out?

So he's the equipment manager, gets to practice a little bit with the players all season long. And then last game of the year. Coach looks down at the end of the bench, says, Carson, Carson, go check in the game. Let's go. Puts him in the game. They put him down by the hoop.

Time's running down. they passing the ball. Carson lays it in off the backboard. It goes in. The crowd goes crazy. I love those videos. It's awesome. And you want to hear us about his mom and coach talking about it?

Seeing him go in and the look on his face when they called him into the game because he didn't know it was going to happen was just, I can't even describe it. He loves to hype up the crowd. That's his favorite thing to do whether he's playing or not. So that was really exciting. He's very deserving of it and he took it with stride. He went in there. He pumped up the crowd and he made a basket.

You know, sometimes when this happens, they'll put people in and they don't make their first shot. But I like it when the other team rebounds and then hands it back. Oh, that's the best. Here you go. Take another one. These are great videos. I love them all. It's like a military member coming home and surprising.

Yeah. I love those. And then I love these kind of videos too. Dang, that's it. Okay. Anything else? No, that's it, man. Making sure.

You never know. Two points. Good staff. He's 100% on the year. There we go. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. A win is a win.

A win is a win. I don't care which I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement

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