The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Early) George Birge Performs His Viral Hit + Eddie Wants To Put A Basketball Hoop in His Neighbor’s Yard + Mailbag: Should I Fight My Brother-in-Law?

Episode Date: July 25, 2022

George Birge stops by to perform his viral hit “Beer Beer Truck Truck” and the amazing story behind it. He went from almost giving up his career as an artist to writing a clever song that blew up on TikTok! Eddie shares what he wants to do in his neighborhood that we think is a bad idea. In the mailbag, a listener is debating on whether he should take up his brother-in-law on his challenge to a boxing match.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hope you had a great weekend. As always, let me say, more in the studio. Morning. I want to start with a voicemail from Whitney in Ocala, Florida. I was just curious if Lunchbox was still bicycling to work every day. Thank you guys so much. We love you. Lunchbox?

The bike has been in the shop. What? What happened? No, no, no. Nothing happened. It's just routine maintenance. When you first bought the bike, they say, after a month or two of having the bike,

you need to bring it back in so we can stretch out the brake cables and everything. There's certain things. that need to be fixed on the bike after getting some ride on it. And so I thought, okay, I'll just drop it off and they'll fix it right then. And they were like, all right, we'll see you back in a little over a week. And I was like, oh, I thought I was going to get right back. So I had to walk home. See, then you walked home.

Yeah. I had to put my helmet in my backpack and I walked home. And here's what's funny. Here's what's funny. I got home and my wife's like, why didn't you take an Uber? I didn't even think about it. I honestly forgot all about Uber and I walked home. But you've been riding your bike

consistently, yes. And you feel safe doing it now. Yeah. Got the path down. Got the path, got the, you know, the timing. So I know it takes however long and I go that, boom. And so I look at the clock. I'm like, oh, I got to go.

I'm running out of time. There's a couple days I've had to pedal a little faster because I'm like, ooh, I left a little late. But I love it. So when you come in, sometimes you're sweaty and kind of frazzled a little bit. I am frazzled sweaty and I change clothes when I get here. And you haven't wrecked except for the one car that almost hit you. Right.

And I had to dive into the grass. This. leads me to something, though, called spill the tea. Let's spill the tea. Eddie. Look, man, I have the, I have the advantage of sitting next to lunchbox, and it's great. Great entertainment, because I get to see what he's looking on his computer, because it's right next to me. And the other day, I look at it at his computer, and he is searching happy hours.

It's like, that's weird, and he's taking notes, happy hour here, happy hour there. And then he's Googling the address, and he's checking to see if these places are on the way from work to his house. Like bike, his bike path. And I'm thinking, oh no,

lunchbox has a problem. He's stopping at bars on the way home to grab a drink on his bike before he gets home. Does that mean a problem? Well, guys,

what time do we get out of here? Yeah. We get out of here like at noon. Well, Eddie, you leave it like four. Oh, yeah, that's true. That'd be a good happy hour. Is there something wrong

with having a drink of alcohol? I knew it. At noon. on your bike. You stop him? We have a beer on your bike. Yeah. Alone? I meet someone for lunch. Hey, they got a good part. No, no. No, no. I meet. Hey. No, alone. No, I don't do it alone. Ever. Ever. I'm not going to a bar alone. That's weird. Really? Who are you meeting? I mean, friends that have jobs. Hey, you want to grab a bike? You want to grab a beer?

Like, it's weird. The industry we work in, it's okay to have beers at lunch. It's okay to have drinks at lunch and go back to work. A lot of people do it. I mean, heck, I see construction workers doing it. What? So, I mean... Why are you watching construction? Yeah, yeah. So, Eddie, your spill of tea is you think lunchbox is riding his bike to the bar after work? Yes.

Straight up. Yes, yes. And I think he tells his wife he's working late and... Does that happen? No, I tell my wife, stopping for a drink. I'll be home in a little bit. Stop for drinking at 11.30. I'm busy.

Hey, stressful day at work. Got to have a drink. When has it ever been stressful? Oh, dude. You guys, you guys are hard to deal with some days. You know, is that not true? We're driving you to drink? Yeah.

We're biking them to drink. Okay, but you're good. Yeah, I mean, no stress express here. I mean, Eddie, who cares? All right. Eddie has a beer when he gets home. I have a beer at the bar. What's the difference?

At 1048. No, I get beers later later than night. No, no, 1048 a. a.m. Yeah. That's what you're doing. But you know what? I'm going to say not a lot of tea there.

Could have been tea in the tea box. That was very watered down. Yeah, watered down tea for sure. Let's open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's mail. Like, yeah. Hello, Bobby Bones.

So a few weeks ago, we had to get together with the family at my brother-in-law's house. We're having a good time. After a few beers, we started the discussion of who is the most athletic person in the family. Okay. I'm very competitive, and so is my brother-in-law. We started debating who's the faster runner, who could bench press more. And then we landed on boxing. Oh, no.

My brother-in-law was adamant that he could beat me in the ring. I told him that even though he's a little bigger. than me, I could handle him, no problem. But it was all in good fun, no punch is thrown. Well, the other night, he came over for dinner and he brought it up again. This time, no alcohol was involved. He was still dead set on it and said, we should find a time to actually get in the ring against each other.

He even texted me earlier this week to see if I was free this weekend. I don't think anything good coming this. Seems like a lose-lose situation, but honestly, I like to take him down just to prove it. Oh, gosh. Should I fight my brother-in-law, or will it cause more problems than it's worth to just prove a point? Signed, boxing Brian.

See, this is toxic masculinity here at its best where the guys just can't even have this conversation and they feel insulted that someone thinks they're more masculine than they are. I suffer from this occasionally. I'm not going to fight anybody because I'm going to lose, right, for the most part. But if you're competitive and someone says, I'm bigger, faster, stronger than you, you kind of want to show them that they're not right.

I do think this will cause problems if you win or lose. if you lose you will have to live with it and live with him always talking about it forever if you win it is going to put a bit of a wedge in the relationship because he's going to be embarrassed or he's going to go you cheated and it's going to that's going to be awkward it's really a no win and you're going to get in the ring and 45 seconds into it you're both going to be gassed anyway as someone who I just train box

it's really a grind, but then you add to the fact that someone's trying to punch you in the face and getting hit while doing it, it is exhausting. If you want to do it, I would go two, three minute rounds, and then call it after that.

But I wouldn't do it because it's just a win-win. If you must, and you think you both could handle it and you're mature enough to handle it, don't try to do Rocky and go 12 rounds. And if it's a tie, it's a tie, but then you do it and get it out of your system. I just, I don't, it's just not.

a good idea either way. Now, Lunchbox, what do you think about these two dudes fighting? I love it. Listen, this is how you do it. When you run your mouth, you got to get in there and settle it. But I don't know that anybody's running their mouth because it did come up in a conversation. There's mouth running, but it was organically brought up. Yes, but then he came over again with no alcohol involved and it's still eating at him and he still wants to prove a point.

So you know what? Hey, you want to step in the ring? Go three rounds and do it. do a minute and a half rounds because you're... You're going to be so gas. I'm telling you, man, I know you think you're... If you're in shape, it's a whole different beast once you're doing it and getting hit at the same time.

I say you probably shouldn't do it because it's just the odds of it being bad for your relationship are very high win or lose. If he just won't shut up and you know you can win, I wouldn't go into it going, I think I can win. If you know you can win, that's the only way I would even consider it. And then he's going to want to rematch and, I mean, you'll have the trilogy.

And then he's going to be... Exactly. I mean, you've got to negotiate those, and that's always a fight. Just stay away from it, boxing, Brian, if you're just wondering at all, it'll go away. That's, Eddie, you're a dude, we have this debate where you're like, I can beat you up. You can't. I'll wipe your butt. But what do you think?

I think it'd be a great story for the family to come. I think for years, they're going to be like, dude, do you remember when you guys fought? That was so funny. You guys boxed and so-and-so beat your butt. It was amazing. I was watching a story back when the Celtics in the NBA had won a championship. There were two players on the Celtics that had just won. Rondo, who was a guard, and Ray Allen, who was a guard, and they hated each other, and they

had no cameras, and they fought each other in the locker room. And how did that end? Rondo was trying to knock his head off, and Ray Allen was like, jab, jab, jab. And then it ended with no real, they just did it and got it over with, and nobody was hurt. Did they respect each other afterwards? I don't know. I'd talk to them. Dudes always want to fight, man.

All right, don't do it, I say. These two guys say do it, so take whomever's advice you value the most. That's two to one, so. Yeah, but it's you too, you know? All right, Brian, thank you. That is the mail bag. We got your email and we've read it on the air. Now it's about to close Bobby's mailbag.

Yeah. Eddie, what's happening in your neighborhood? Man, I'm in a pickle because we live on a street that's kind of slanted. Like the driveway is at a slam, but the boys want a basketball hoop. I'm like, guys, you can't play basketball in our driveway. It's not possible. So they're like, oh, we can't play basketball. I said, why don't we do this?

Just down the street, there's a cul-de-sac. There are five houses. We don't know who lives there. But go knock on the door. Ask them if that's okay if we put a basketball hoop on the cul-de-sac and we'll let the whole neighborhood play. We just got to get an okay from the people that live in the cul-de-sac. And they're like, no, Dad, that's so embarrassing. I'm like, guys, this is a genius idea.

I'll pay for the hoop. Why wouldn't these people want a basketball hoop in front of their house? So does it stay up all the time or does it just stay up whenever you guys are playing? No, it'll be like a professional basketball hoop. It's a permanent hoop that the whole neighborhood could use. Concreted in? No, because it's going to be in the cul-de-sac. Right.

So it's going to be with a base, a weighted base. Absolutely. Yes, you put like sand on it, cement, whatever. And you think they're going to go for that? I don't know, but I'm saying guys. You think that's a decent idea? I think it's a fantastic idea. Who doesn't want a basketball goal in front of their house?

Because I've seen like two kids living in some of those houses. I don't know who lives in the houses, but I've seen kids ride their bikes around that cul-de-sac. So I'm assuming if kids live there, they're going to say, yeah, that'd be awesome. You would need all five of those families To say yes And that they're okay with the basketball hoop Where kids are going to be gathered in that cul-de-sack

Now we can set hours Hey, no dribble, no B-ball after 10 p.m. Or 9 p.m. Whatever. You're going to enforce that. You're not going to be down there to do it. Maybe I'll go down and be like, all right, guys, parks closed.

This is my hoop. No mayvies. You wouldn't. I just don't think you can do that. Really? I don't even, it's not your part of the street. It'd be like you'd parking your car down there And just to leave.

Now you could. You could park car on that. curb and just leaving your car down there though because that's legal but is it acceptable as a good neighbor I don't think it is so you say five you gotta get five okays from the people that live in the cul-de-sac now what if four say okay and one does it no that's it I wouldn't even ask you I wouldn't send you wouldn't send your kids to go ask I think it's showing them responsibility you'd be like door to door hi I'm a kid that wants to play basketball if your idea is to show them responsibility and you know they're going to get a no I don't know

I think they're going to get a yes, though. Is there any chance, all five neighbors, say please put a basketball hoop in front of our front yard where kids will be gathered the whole time? I say yes. Okay. I think there's no chance they're going to say yes, but I go, okay. The question is, do you think they'll allow it? I go, no. I mean, I hope so for the sake of the kids, but there's probably going to be one person that's not down with it.

So you're going to say? No. Oh, one Grinch. I'm going to say yes. You've got to send the kids. You send dad. They're going to say no because some old man is at my door. The kids, it's hard to say no to the kids.

But if you, it's a permanent hoop. It's a permanent hoop, dude. But it's open to the neighborhood. And I told them, guys, if you're going to pitch it. I don't want something in front of my yard that's open to the neighborhood for everybody to just be like, this is the gathering place. Really? I would not want that. Even if it's kids, how enjoyable are kids playing outside?

It's great. The sound of kids play. Nine or younger. I don't want a 14-year-old that's also looking at br- and then they're going to play some two-on-two. The older kids and young kids can't play. I just think it's a bad situation. What if two groups show up at the same time and want to play? Like, who gets the court?

Oh, that's tough. Then they come to me. I'll go settle the dispute. Maybe I'm the marshal, dude. Maybe I'll put my address there. Come to me and I'll tell you if you can play or not. There's like a lock on me. Are you going to send them down?

I've tried to. This has been two weeks in the making of like, guys, go. I don't even think they should do it. If I were the person and I had kids, I wouldn't allow it. I was telling you, I was walking the dog and I saw one parent outside watering their plants. I was like, ooh, should I ask for them? But like, no, no, no. I'm not going to do my kids work for.

You guys go to Facebook. Here's a situation. Eddie wants to put a hoop and somebody else's cul-de-sac. That's it. But he's going to pay for the hoop. Hey, I'd put it on my driveway. I'd put it on my driveway. But it's for your kids.

But I can't. It's a slant. It's a slant. They can shoot on a slant? They can shoot on flat? You know what I'm saying? Good point. Okay, all right.

On Facebook, the question is, can Eddie put a hoop in someone else's cold a sack? A permanent hoop in someone else's cold a sack. Let's go. Because it's public. Yeah. Think about the sound of kids playing. It's beautiful.

I don't. No, you don't like that? No, it's not. They're crying. Their balls are bouncing. All right, go to our Facebook page and put your answer up there. It's time for the good news. With Bobby.

Tell me something good. Anthony is nine years old. He got a new bike from his aunt for his birthday. And he put it next to the garage. Went to bed. woke up the next morning. It was gone. So someone stole his bike.

His mom, Crystal and her sister, the aunt that bought him the bike, went looking for the bike. could not find it. So she posted on social media saying, hey, there's a bike thief in the area. Then a woman reached out to Crystal saying, hey, I'd like to buy your kid a new bicycle. She said, no, that's okay. You don't do that. We're just going to try to help find the person. But the stranger insisted. And so she said fine. So the stranger is remaining anonymous. She met them at the local Walmart. She found the exact same bike. And she bought it. And she was like, hey, happy birthday. And I thought that was extremely random and nice of her to do. Anthony's got a bike and they're still trying to find the bike thief.

But it just reminds me of Amy seeing her kids' bikes being rolled around the neighborhood by the people that stole their bikes. Riding them. Yeah. They rode right past us. And you went up and you tried to stop them. Yeah. My kids' bikes were very specific. They were stolen out of our garage.

And then a few weeks later, we were down at the park and these kids come rolling by. And my son's like, that looks like my bike. And I look and I say, you know. know what, it is. So I go running after them and I confront them and said, hey, those are my kids' bikes. And they said they got them from a friend. They might have. Right. I doubt it.

Yeah. I mean, it was definitely dangerous and a police officer later told me that I should have never done that ever. But guess who got the bikes back? And that's another good news story, Amy. Me. And guess who got robbed a week later? Who? Amy.

No. That was the scary part is I was like, these people know exactly where I live. Did you ever see the kids after that, the same kids? Yes. In fact, one of the boys, and I would try to speak to him often. He said he lived with his grandma. One time he asked me if I had a dollar, and I said, why, yes, I do. I just wanted to show him some compassion and kindness and that I wasn't going to hold him against them. And you know, there's room for second chances. And there's room in their garage now for a new bike. And we moved. I'm talking about the person in the story, not just you. Yeah, Amy moved, different ending. All right, that is what it's all about right there. That was Tell Me Something Good. to have George Berge in. Here's our 30-second bio on George Burge. He is from Austin, Texas. You may have known him from the duo Waterloo Revival. He's a solo artist now. And he decided after that he wasn't going to be an artist at all, but Clay Walker said, bro, we're writing

songs, but I don't know if Clay Walker said, bro, but he said, you put your songs up on TikTok. And so he did, and it kind of took off because he is really, really good. He's a big barbecue guy. He played golf at the University of Texas, and he just celebrated his 10th anniversary with his wife Kara, they have two kids. So I'm a big fan of this guy right here, George Burge. Great story, great artist. Let's go. On the Bobby Bone Show now.

George Burge. George, how are you, buddy? I'm doing great, man. It's really, really good to be here. You know, I don't know what inspired. Maybe I saw something online that was really good, and I was like, we got to get George in the studio. Were we talking online recently or something? Man, so first off, been a fan of your.

forever. Growing up in Austin, been listening to you on the radio forever. And I'm sitting on my couch one night. I had just posted like a little story about being on the road with Gary Allen and I covered one of his songs in my post. And I'm sitting on the couch and I scroll and I see your name commenting on it and I about fell out of my seat. Yeah, I was like that was cool, man. It's really good. Yeah. That's what it is. And then I took that and I pushed a little arrow and I sent it over to school with Steve's account. And I said, hey, book, George, we'd like to have him up on the show. I was just looking for stuff on Insta. I mean, I guess that's what I do now. I don't even go search full songs. I'm just like looking for people playing on Instagram. And George is really good anyway.

And you got a little heat on you right now. Man, life has been really good. You know, I've been in Nashville almost eight years now, which is wild. And, you know, you bang your head against the wall forever. And then finally some things start working out. And this last year has kind of felt like a dream, man. We've been touring. We've been recording music. And it feels like it might actually work, man. So it's really exciting. It feels like it might actually work for me. I'd like to do a couple things, George, before we get to your music. If you haven't heard it, I'm going to get to his song Beer, Beer, Truck, Truck in a second because I think we had you on the phone when that went viral.

But there was a girl on TikTok who said all country songs say Beer, Beer, Truck, Truck. And here's a clip of that. Beer, beer, truck, girls in tight jeans. So she said that's all country music was. And you did something that was pretty clever. You actually made a song about it, but you kind of flipped it a little bit. here's a clip of Georgia's beer, beer, beer, truck, truck. So what you did is you said, hey, it ain't always, and you start beer, beer, truck, truck.

So whenever you get the idea for that, do you go, okay, this could be really dumb or this could be, like, really clever? Were you kind of, or did you know you had something there? So it was almost like a stars-aligning kind of week. I was in Galveston, Texas. Clay Walker had invited me to his house to write for his record. Hey, what a flex. Didn't have to add that, but I like that you did. Yeah, I like that you did. I like it. We got to lay the groundwork here.

But I had basically just told Clay that I was probably not going to do the artist thing anymore. Not because I didn't want to just because I had been trying forever and I could not figure out how to make it work. And so I'm sitting there on the edge of the couch waiting for Clay to change my life with this advice. And he says, you need to put your songs on TikTok. So Clay Walker's late 50s, 60, you know, he tells you you got to get on TikTok. And, man, I wish you could have seen my eyes roll. I literally put nothing into it. Like I was like, man, that's a bummer.

But I go back to my room to get showered up before we're going out for dinner for the night. And something in me was like, you know what, just try it. And so I downloaded the app. I have like six followers, my mom, my sister, a couple fake accounts, and that's it. And the first thing I do is I click the country music hashtag and I see that video. And I was already in like a good head space from like writing songs for the week. And I was like, man, wouldn't it be funny if I took her words and wrote a song out of it kind of as a rebut? And then we went to dinner and Clay's like, open it up, how to do.

In that three hours I'd gone from like six to 20,000 followers. And all of a sudden, it's got like hundreds of thousands of views and there's all these comments and then a week goes by. And I've got 100,000 followers. And there's thousands and thousands of comments saying that I need to finish the song. And I'm like, man, I've kind of got myself in a predicament. I'm going to have to put out a song called Beer, Beer Truck Truck with my name on. So I sat down and I finished it as best I could.

and I actually sent it to this girl. Her name's Aaron Chambers, and we actually developed a bit of a relationship. She's awesome. And she told me that she actually grew up a country music fan, got away from it. But this song gave her a bunch of nostalgia and that she really liked it,

and I actually brought her on as a songwriter with me. And we put it out. So you made her a songwriter on? I did. Because this song's got over 10 million streams, so she's made a little money off. She actually just texts me that she's like, these royalty checks are pretty fun.

That's pretty awesome. She's an elementary school music teacher, just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. So the story got, I mean, it's one of those things you can't make up, just the stars aligned, and, you know, sometimes it just works out. It was really cool. That's amazing.

So George Burge is here, and I'm going to have you play this song, and then we'll talk about it afterward because it's pretty interesting how and why you cut it. But this is Mind on You. George is here. George, you want to introduce who's playing with you here? Yeah, this is my guitar player

and one of my best friends. This is Daniel Newell over here on guitar and harmonies. So, Daniel, you will know that you have first are a guitar player and second of best friends. So always know your role. My whole life. He's my best friend that plays guitar. Okay.

All right, here is George Burge. Go ahead, George. Well, baby, you're a wildfire. Little like me a little out of control. Yeah, you know. Well, baby, you're a tall drink. Little tap shell, it'll get me gone. Hold on.

We both know there, oh, there. We're going down. Right now. I can think about. I got my mind on you and you on my mind. Got these four wheels on a two lane and we cutting through the night. Got you eye in my head and your love on my lips.

Hugging on these curves like them jeans on your hips every time you have been looking like you do. I got my hands and my eyes and my mind on you. I got my mind on you. I got my mind on you. I got my mind on you. I got my mind. George Burge.

Thank you. Follow George on Instagram, George B-I-R-R-G-E. If I ask you to play a little bit of beer, beer, Beard Truck, Truck, and the Gary Allen cover, do you know them both? Yeah. Oh, boy, that, yeah.

No, I can play beer-d-rruck truck, I don't know about the Gary Allen cover if I, if I, yeah. I can play the chorus of it, probably. That's all I care about, George. Yeah. Because I'm deciding here if I want to do another segment with you or not, and if you can't do it, you're just going to have to go. Say yes, George.

Say yes. You're just going to have to go. Just always. Always say yes, George. Yes, sir. Just remember always say yes. On the Bobby Bones show now. George Burge.

So it turns out I was on Instagram and I saw George play this song. Play me a little bit of the Gary Allen cover. What song did you do on Instagram? It would be you. That's one of my favorite Gary Allen song. So it's like, if it was a drink, it would be a strong one. If it was a sad song, it would be a long one. If it was a color

It would be deep deep blue And if we're talking about a heartache It would be you Wouldn't you invite him to come up here if you're Yes Yeah That's awesome George Burge So you grew up in Austin, Texas

Yes sir You were born there Born and raised in Austin Texas Actually never lived anywhere else until I moved here Really this show Born and Raised in Austin Texas I know it Yeah. Many of times in high school where I was late to class listening to the show.

I would appreciate that. So you live in Austin. When do you decide to make the move to Nashville? I moved to Nashville at the end of 2014. And actually, I never really thought I would play music for a living. It was always something that I loved. I did in high school. I grew up on 6th Street. X's on my hands and a little band. And we kept it going in college and stuff. And I tried to be responsible and get a desk job. What'd you do? I worked in commercial real estate doing business. development and I was like a number cruncher at a financial firm too. Were you like always itching though to get out and play even though you were doing that? Were you playing locally or just give it up for a while? Man, we just played locally.

It was like didn't even tour or just did it because I love it. I would, you know, it was one of those jobs right out of college where you're working until 9, 10 p.m. every night and I would get out of work and we'd go rehearse until 1 a.m. And then go back to work the next morning and then we'd play Friday, Saturday nights in little dive bars in Austin. And it kind of started, you know, a couple friends would show up. and then all of a sudden it started getting bigger and bigger, and we started just packing out these local venues,

and then we were doing a show for a local station in Austin, and I met one of the guys that ran one of the stations, and, you know, like everybody else, this was the time of my burn CDs. I was like, hey, man, I got this demo. Like, can I give you a demo with my burn CD? And he took it, and he called me back the next day, and he's like, you're the first person I've ever called back that gave me a demo.

Do you mind if I send this up to Nashville? And that's what he did. And some... It's mailed up to the city. He's Nashville. Nashville. And it just A couple lucky breaks

got me here, some big people believing in me and, you know, I've been here for a minute now and had a couple things almost take off. I've been knocking at the door for a minute. But this last year,

you know, beer beer, truck, truck went crazy. I got to sign a record deal and make my first full-length record and started touring a little bit and opening up for some guys like Gary Allen and Jake Owen and Brantley guys that I've hung the moon for me, you know, that I've idolized my whole

life. So this past year has definitely, I mean, I'm out here hanging out with you, man. This is, this past year has been a whirlwind for me. Yeah, I think they're trending downward. Yeah, I think they're trending. Would you play a verse and chorus of beer, beer, truck, truck. Yeah, man. If you missed the last segment, what happened was, a girl was on TikTok going all out here in country songs, beer, beer, truck, truck. And then George was like, well, let me sit down, I can write that. So when I wrote it, I kind of sat down on the edge of my bed and I was like, okay, beer, beer, truck, truck, girls, and tight jeans.

Yes, we are guilty of that at country music. Like, whether we care to admit it or not. And we all love that, too. And this was kind of like what I came up with as far as, like, the verse in the story. So it would be like, somewhere on a dirt road, somewhere where the stars turn blue,

somewhere on a tailgate on lane bag, just dreaming about you. I know you think I'm crazy. Out of here just living slow. No, I can't blame you, baby. Just all you should. know it ain't a big, be a truck truck, girls in them tight jeans, small town, riding around.

Girl, I hope you're missing me. I know the city calls you. Go, baby, spread your wings. I'll be here waiting on you out here in the country. When you play a live, it's even better. Yeah, that's awesome. So you're single now that you played a minute ago. Ray, would you play a little bit of mind on you?

I got my mind on you and you on my mind. You know, when I hear this song, I can hear, and maybe because I kind of know the story a little bit, I can hear Al Dean singing this song. It sounds like when Al Dean wants to do that couple songs where he tries to act sexy, like this sounds like one of those songs he sing. Like, I'm in my underwear. You know, and you're like, that's a catchy song. It's kind of weird, but when he sings it.

But I can feel that vibe in it. So he had that song on hold. When I was kind of on the verge of like potential, not doing the artist thing anymore. I was really focusing on writing songs. And so Colt Ford, one of the first big artists to believe in me and give me a chance. And me and him were in the writer's room and not really writing for anything specific, just trying to write a great song. And we finished it and I didn't really have a way to put it out. And it wasn't what he does as an artist. So we're like, let's send it to Jason Aldeen. And 24 hours later, we get an email with his

entire team, C-Ced on it. And they're like, hey, don't play this for anybody else. Aldine wants to hold it for his new record. And fast forward six months, this dumb song, Beer, Beer Truck Truck, like blows up and completely changes my life and I've got record labels calling me and I'm like, I just have no idea what's going on.

My world is spinning. And all of a sudden, I, you know, decide which record label I'm going to sign with and I'm on the phone with the head of that label and he's like, hey, man, I've listened to all your stuff. And I think Mind on You is your hit. I think that's a song that changes your life. And I'm like, man,

I'm in trouble because I just gave it away. And he goes, well, you need a call and ask for it back. And they gave me my song back, man, which does not happen that often. You know, they could have easily told me to buzz off. And, man, I can't believe I got to put it out with my name on it. And I'm really, really excited. I feel like we might just be getting started and I can't wait to see where it goes. George Burge, got a self-tiled EP out now.

It's got five songs on it, including Mind on You and Beer, Beard, Truck, Truck, a few other songs. So if you liked them here, I think you're like this, but you say you finished your whole record. Is that coming out? Like more songs soon or what? Should be coming out this fall. I actually just got mixes in yesterday, and I don't know if it's cool or not to listen to your own music, but I think I've listened to it like a hundred times. I'm just so excited about this project, and we'll have the record coming out, hopefully in the fall,

and doing a bunch of touring too. So I'm feeling very blessed right now. That's what's up. George, great appearance. This is one of those. We were going to do one segment, and we did two because it was so good, and I rarely do that if I'm being honest with you. Bobby, I cannot thank you enough, man.

That is really special. And thank you for believing me and having us up here. Well, and I know this is radio, so listeners, some, in their cars, like, can't see the smile on his face. Like, when he, hopefully they can hear it. But whenever you're telling a story, you're talking about your songs or looking at this, like you've this smile on your face, and it just, I mean, I hope it's coming through.

Well, you look 15. And you've been married 10 years. Hey, what about this beard, man? I've been working hard on this thing. You can barely see it. It looks like you've been working hard on it. Bobby, my life is a struggle, man. So it looks like it.

Yeah, yeah. All right, there he is. George Burge. Follow him at George Burge on Instagram or George Burge official on TikTok. Not the unofficial guy, because that guy's a douche. The unofficial George Burge. All right, there he is George Burge.

Let's clap him out of here. Nice job. This couple bought this house, and then they were doing home renovations to this house, and they found bones underneath it. And first they were like, wonder what animal. It's a human, human bones. They found human bones underneath their house. Cassidy Cassell and Eaton Merritt

bought their house in March and they were trying to renovate it and then they found bones and newspaper from the 1960s so not even like 1800s like 1960s like I wonder they just say they're oddly large

and he was under it I guess doing some electrical wiring and just thought it was like an animal or something but they were really big what do you think of a woolly mammothin? I think we found a woolly we got a woolly But it's massive. And it's a bone like when you see the skeleton in the classroom and you see like the fibula.

Like it's a long leg bone. Beamer. Yes, it's that. They're super long. And they're clean bones. So they're like, all right, that's the deal. And everybody freaked out. And then they realized it was a large goose.

Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like human bones, though. But for a long time, it was human bones to everybody. Man, that's a big goose. Yes. No, it's a long bone. Wow.

So, huh, huh, as a goose on the human. But I wanted to walk you through their emotions while they were feeling it as well. They had to like shut it down because they thought somebody was murdered into there. Wow.

Here's Amy's pile of stories. Doritos has a new flavor coming out called tangy tamarind. And apparently this is the first time this flavor has ever been used for a snack. And it's like a tangy treat with like a kick of heat that'll pop in. And so,

And so I googled why wouldn't tamarine be used? And apparently side effects of this are acid reflex and high risk of dental problems. Oh, wow. I never heard of tamarine. Me neither. Oh, I have one down south Texas. It was tamarindo was the ingredient. So it's a thing.

It's a thing. So it's a regional thing. You know what else would give me dental problems and hot. Acid reflex? Prostate, whatever that is. Yeah. Anything hot. So it must just be a real like pepper type kick.

Like all the candies we would. we eat as kids, they would say acid on them. We'd be like, hmm, I don't care. But it was so good. It was tamarino. Tamarindo. Yeah. Wow, okay.

I thought when I read that it was some sort of fruit. Yeah. A tamarino. Like a mandirando. That's what I thought it was, a mandarin. All right, what else? So if you find those Doritos, eat with caution, which, speaking of caution and things that might end you up in the ER,

I have funny ways celebrities ended up at the hospital. Okay, I'm ready. Chrissy Teagan, she wants bit into a suspicious orange, and her lips swelled up due to a major allergic reaction, and she had to go to the ER. Why was it suspicious? Well, I don't know. Was it like whistling?

I guess it ended up suspicious. Nothing to see here. Like, was it a different color? It's just an orange. She probably was allergic to it, right? Yeah. Okay. Demi Lovato cut her forehead open with a healing crystal.

I heard suspicious healing crystal. Oh, wow. She should have known because it was suspicious. Yeah, so be careful with that. Gal de go cut off the tip of her finger while day drinking and cooking. Okay. And I guess her husband was so grossed out, the severed tip that he quickly threw it in the garbage disposal, so they weren't able to even

go back on her finger? I don't like that story. Anybody ever have to go to the hospital for something really dumb? I saw Ray hit a microphone, a button. Do you, Ray? Do you have anything? Yeah, I did when I cut off my tongue. I was in the shopping cart and I tipped out, but I was young. It's not when I was older. Oh, you fell out? You fell out and cut your tongue? Yep. I like part of it off? Yeah. Is it still off? No, no, it's back on. I'm good now. You grew back like starfish? You're a starfish? Yeah. That's cool? Regeneration. I like it. All right.

Halsey was loading the dishwasher when she slammed her ankle into the door and actually fractured it. And then lastly, Candice Cameron had a hand injury when her brother, Kurt Cameron, drove over it with golf cart. All right. Now that I physically feeling comfortable, what's the next segment? Well, Dolly Parton was talking about how therapeutic writing music has been for her. And she said, yeah, that is her therapy. She never had to go to a therapist because songwriting is. what heals her. And I was like, oh, dang, I wish I had something that didn't make me go to

therapy once a week. Yeah, PlayStation heals me. I tell my wife that I'm like, it heals me. My mental health, I need to play PlayStation. That's what I do. And you know, you know, she doesn't really buy it. She didn't really think that's a, yeah, she's cool with it not being a mental health tool. And yeah, if I'm admitting it, I'm lying. Yeah, there we go, I said it. But that's good that you do have awareness that PlayStation relaxes you. Yeah, I'm probably lying about that. I just like it. But you also need some probably, like, interaction and feedback. Yeah, I do all of that.

All right, is that it? I'm Amy. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. Midori Edwards reached out to her local news station, Denver 7,

after she got straight up scammed by a mechanic. He was so shady. He took money. She's pregnant. She's already a single mom with a toddler. And he said he was going to pick up some parts for her, and then he just straight up never returned, took her money. So she's like,

people need to know about this. So when the news reported the story, the community felt for her, and they decided to start making donations to cover the money that she had lost so she could get her car repaired. Well, then Budget A1 Transmission stepped up and said, we're going to go ahead and repair your car for free, so you keep that money to get yourself back up on your feet. Then Denver 7 decided to send her on a shopping spree to prepare for the birth of her. her new baby and get everything that she would need. Dang, they just kept like, I see you and I raise you. Yes.

And she's like, dang, all this good stuff's happening to me. I'll take it. But she was literally in a place where she said she had pretty much lost all hope in humanity and this completely restored it. I'm there in that place about 4.30 every morning. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I hate waking up. Really?

Lost hope in all humanity, myself even. That's what I feel like every morning when I wake up. When does that change, though? I'm just not at 8.30. P.m. Yeah, basically, when I wake up a little bit. Good for them. Good for them for stepping up.

Did they ever catch the guy? Do you know? I mean, she definitely outed him. But they didn't find him and beat him up. Listen, that one not, I don't know, that's not tell me something. No, I didn't. We'll leave that out. We'll leave that out.

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