The Bobby Bones Show - (Tues Early Bird) Remembering Toby Keith + Bobby Attempting to Sleep With Tape On His Mouth + Listener Shares 2023 Game Stats

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

We remember Toby Keith and share memories, listener stories and the impact he made on music. Then, Bobby is trying to sleep with tape on his mouth, find out why and how it's going! Plus, we share the 2023 Bobby Bones Show game stats!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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around the room and check in with everybody here. He says he's with it. Drake fan and when he looks at The Bachelor, he thinks that he's the better looking man. It's Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. Guys, guys, I'm an idiot. So the other day, I got a text from a random number and I'm like, what is this? And it says, dude, are you watching this game? It's so good. And I showed my wife the number like, do you know this? She goes, oh, yeah, yeah. I think that's our son's friend's dad. And I go, oh, okay, cool. I like that guy. I haven't seen him in a while. So I said, dude, I am watching this game. It's awesome. Miss you guys. We should get together again soon. Left it as that, right?

No response. Nothing. So a week later on my son's basketball game and another dad's sitting next to me, he's like, hey man, that game was cool, huh? And I go, uh, it wasn't the same dad. Oh my gosh, this is not the same guy. And he said, yeah, that's why I texted you because the game was so cool. I texted the wrong dude. I miss you. We should get together soon.

Do you not like this guy? I just don't know him that well. We should hang out again soon. So it wasn't so much that you're like, I was taking somebody. I don't know. It's like you were a little too personal with somebody that you met. Yeah. I would never tell this.

guy I miss you, we should hang together because we've never hung out together, ever. That's funny. So now I'm like, what do I do? Do I tell him? Because when he said that, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just kept watching the time. The accidental talking to somebody text, we have a cabin in Arkansas and

the neighbor that's been very helpful. Like when the weather gets bad, I have him saved his neighbor Arkansas. Also, the women's basketball coach is neighbors. We have my phone and I was having this, we're going to Fayetteville and we were playing and I know coach neighbors and I thought I was talking coach neighbors. I was talking to my neighbor. And I was like, yeah, come back after the show. So he drove

off. Stop. Stop. Yeah. And thought, I was just confused the whole time. And then I looked, I was like, oh no. It's the most helpless feeling. Once I invited the wrong cruise over to play video games. That's funny. There are two cruises. Yeah. And then when cruise show, you're like, what are you? I was like, you're also here. Oh, no, wrong one. Yeah. That's terrible. I was just going to say, Like if that dad ignored it, obviously you're good. You don't have to do anything because he never replied to it, right? No, and in my mind, though, he ignored it. Like, that's weird.

But he didn't come up to you and go, hey, about the game. All right, he's always trying to start a side hustle and make money quick, but none of the ideas ever seem to stick. It's lunchbox. I might have another side hustle. I didn't realize work here was also a storage unit where you can put things that don't work and you can just leave them here. So I guarantee you.

That's what you're doing with our palate. You just leave it in a room. No, but I mean, there is someone on the show named Ray that he's doing that with his trailblazer because he never parks downstairs. It's been in the downstairs garage for over a week. It hadn't moved. Are you storing your car here? No, no, no, no.

I was moving. It was just embarrassing to have my entire life in my car and just parking it right next to the door and you guys all walk by it. So I kind of hit it downstairs, but now I'm driving a different vehicle. My wife's that car's unloaded. Everything's fine. So you left here for a week? Yeah, probably.

And I thought, oh, no, it brought. down and he got it towed here because he doesn't want it just sitting. Didn't you used to leave yours up here? On a weekend? Yeah, like we go on... Or if we go on vacation, you know what I mean? Like, I'd leave it here for the whole week because you don't want it out in elements. And so I thought maybe Ray, maybe

he couldn't make it to his new house. He was like, man, I'm just going to store it at the... He starts leasing off parking spots like Sparks does. She's getting back in the dating game, so double tap you see her name. It's Amy! Okay, so I watched that documentary on Netflix that is about the We Are the World song, The Making of

the video. Yeah, Eddie told me about that too. It's unbelievable. It's called The Greatest Night in Pop, and I feel like I have so many highlights that I would share, but I don't want to ruin any of it for people. So I give it five out of five of the biggest pop stars in the 80s. Yeah, it's that good. So they get together to sing a song, We are the world, we are the children. Yeah, for Africa.

And it was to raise money for famine relief. Yes. Yeah. But it was every massive. Massive. But I haven't seen it. But see, that's crazy. and we all know that,

but what's really nuts is it happened in one night and overnice. They just schedule everybody to get there? Yeah, because there was an award show in town so they're like everyone. Stop,

stop. No, no, that's not spoiling anything. No, I thought it was actually fascinating how they got everybody together because this is,

so I wasn't going to say anything. But that doesn't mean you should tell him not to. I'm not being blamed for this because this is my little segment and now I'm going to get blamed for it. And I'm not giving it though and I didn't spoil anything.

Okay, well, but that kind of says. How they got together. Hey, spoiler, they recorded a song that everyone heard. Okay, but yeah, but you don't know how they got together. How is that important? Like, you just book them. You just book them.

I'll watch it and be the judges. Okay, Bobby, it is fascinating. I was told him it was really good. Dude, there's some stuff in there. You're going to be like, what on earth? Like what? I can't tell you. See?

See? He held up. All right, right. From Mount Pine, Arkansas. He gets random texts all the time, but he doesn't respond, so he's fine. Bobby Bones. Thank you very much. Hey, for the past five nights, I've been sleeping with tape on my mouth.

And I wanted to have a long enough runway to talk about it so it just wasn't one night. So let me play this. So this was the story. If you can't sleep at night, mouth breathing could be the surprise reason why. And so they talk about breathing through your mouth. You could be twice as likely to experience regular nasal congestion. 50% of mouth breathers say that they don't get good sleep. But sometimes you get apnea, sleep apnea, your mouth open your throat closes.

So I've been struggling sleeping, so I put the tape on my mouth. And so there's a tape called hostage tape. I want to play a couple clips here. Here's number one. Here's the tips. Go ahead. First, ensure that your lips and surrounding area are clean and dry. You don't want any grease or oil or residue on, which would hurt the adhesion.

On the back, you'll notice a perforation. Pull the tape apart to easily remove the backing. Next, place the tape gently over your clothes. lips, smoothing it out to ensure it adheres fully. Give it a good rub to help activate the glue, and that's it. You're all set for a peaceful, uninterrupted night's sleep. Blue is kind of weird because it doesn't feel like glue. It's just sticky, and it doesn't hurt to take off. And it doesn't, you're not restrained. It's called hostage tape is a funny name. If you needed to get free of it, you could. Yes, we've got a couple kinds. But I'm going to tell you,

I don't know that it's helped tremendously, but it definitely has, allowed me to not worry about, I don't know. I'd say it helps 15%. I think I've read when you're breathing through your nose, more oxygen, and then that helps with the lot. So I'm going to say through five nights, it definitely has helped a little bit. And never once have I woke in it, be like,

you didn't have nightmares that you were being held hostage. Oh, man. I didn't. And my wife has worn it a few nights too. She's the same thing. So, that feels weird. It feels weird the first time you put it on But I'm gonna keep wearing it for a while

And I'll check back in in a couple weeks I struggle with sleeping But I do think it's made it a little bit better Oh, okay And it doesn't feel like I'm being abducted Which is what I thought it kind of would Like you'd wake up and be like I'm a mobovoo!

So yeah And if you want water What I do is wake up water Pull it out, drink water, put it back in line Oh, I thought you put it up your nose No, I didn't do that It's time to open up the mailbag You send an email

And we read it all the air It's something we call Bobby Mailbag. Hello, Bobby Bones. My friend recently left a band that he's been touring with and he's trying to make it as a solo artist. He just started writing new music. He's really excited about it. He constantly wants to show me his new songs and expects enthusiastic feedback. The problem is, I don't much care for his music.

I don't feel like it's very good. I feel kind of bad for thinking this, but I don't want to discourage him. But I'm also tired of pretending, should I be straight with him or continue lying? What should I do? Signed, friend of an assistant. aspiring musician. Well, what is your role in this friendship? If your role is somebody that he leans on to actually give him truth, then yes. But if you're a friend and he's just looking for support, just give him support. Just give him support. You don't have to lie, lie. I'm like,

it's my favorite song ever. I like, fix you by cold playing this. You don't have to do that. But do you say it's good? Like even vaguely good? I think because he's also just starting, he's very excited and it's going to get better. But you can. could also be like, yes, you can euphemism your way around it. If he's not looking for you to be his true feedback, people have like one or two of those in their life. Otherwise, they go to people just to have some sort of positive reinforcement. If you're positive reinforcement friend, if you're encouraging friend, just be encouraging. That's what I'm going to say. Yeah. There's no integrity play where it's like, I must tell the truth. You probably lie all the time,

whoever you are. Aren't you doing that thing though this year where you just tell people the truth no matter what? I know I'm saying you go. I don't listen to people's music. though because people want to send me music all the time. Yeah. And I can just say honestly, I don't listen to people's music. Or if I do, I'll act like I never heard it and go, I don't listen to music, but I did, but I don't say anything.

But mostly the first one, or is it? If your role in this friendship is to be the supportive friend, don't feel like you have to be the person who gives it to them straight. What do you know about music anyway? That's what I would say to myself. Or if someone's like, hey, how do you feel my architecture is? And if I were like, man, that's ugly, I would think, what do I know about architecture? I mean, I know what I like.

But I really can't tell you if it's good or not. I know nothing about architecture or wine or so unless it's your specialty, just be supportive. That's what I say. Anything from you? No, I think it's supportive. Oh, thanks for supporting me. Thank you. Thank you.

No, yeah, I'm supporting you in being a friend that supports. Thank you. All right, close it up. We've got your email and we've read it on the air. Now it's about to close Bobby's mail bag. On the phone now is Tyler in Ozark, Missouri. Hey, Tyler, what's up, buddy? I had the games played and games won with percentages for 2023.

Every game we played on the show. Wow. Oh, this is the second year in a row. It's called in. Yeah, I remember last year we were blown away. That's great. Yeah, okay, so. You said you have percentages?

I was like, no, but I'll get them next year. So I got them. Okay, let's talk about it. So give us some data here. So all the games played, you listen to every podcast. Tell me, give me some stuff. All right. So the most games played by a single person was 157, and that was Amy because there's different times.

You know, the lowest person got booted out of easy trivia or different games until, you know, the next round. So the most games played by a single person was Amy with 157. Wow. Good job, Amy. Okay, that's a good stat. What else you got? There was only one person in the show that got 100% in games played games won. Okay, how many games did they play?

Yeah, not many. That's stupid, we already know. They played one game. Okay, who was that? And they might have cheated. Okay, oh, Ray. It wasn't when Ray had all the answers and he's playing the game anyway. Yeah, right, 100%.

All right, what else you got for us? I mean, do you just want to go from the top or I can't really take me? Yeah, no, go whatever you have there. Give me something. Like, who has the worst winning percentage? percentage on the show. The worst winning percentage was Morgan. She won 12 games out of 70.

12 minus 70. That's terrible. And what's that percentage? That is 17%. That's like the pistons. You know what? If you can't be first, you might as well be lost. No, I don't agree.

Just trying to get that draft fit. Aside from Ramundo, Bobby, you had the second highest percentage. And it kind of has an asterisk. You went 9 out of 10 for 90%. but there's one game where you won and then you're like, oh, let's keep playing. Points are doubled.

And then the double points ended up actually making you lose. Oh, then I lost. That's a loss. I lost. I'm just here for a good time. I'm not here for a long time. And you don't play many games.

I'm just for a good time. I mean, this dude knows every... This is my hero. I don't know what I'm going to get them. I'm going to give him something at the end of this. Okay, so take me out of it. Now give me lunchbox of stats. Where did you fall in line?

Lunchbox went 44 for 138 at 3,000. 31.8%. Yeah! Not bad. I mean, that's fine. Okay. Where did he rank in the rankings? Was he next to last or was he up there?

If you take, so Morgan was last, I'll just go from bottom up. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. All right. So Morgan was last. And second to last place was Amy at 21%. Oof. She got, she went 33 for 157.

Amy got anything to say? Dang, got it. Okay. said. And then you have Abby went 10 for 37 at 27%. Wow. Abby's on there.

Then you had lunchbox at 31.8%. Okay. And then you had Eddie went 57 for 149 at 38.2%. Let's go! All I do is win, man. You'll be a Hall of Fame in baseball.

All you do is win. 38% of the time. He just said all I do is win. basically. We played 157 games, though, last year. That's a lot of games. That's awesome. Wow, that's good, Tyler. So does he have like a spreadsheet?

Like, how do you do this? Well, that's what I was going to ask. Like, do you listen and everyone just listen and keep track? Or do you do it all year? Or do you just go through and, like, cram all night and go through everyone and find every game? No, I just, I mean, I get behind like a week or so every now and then because my work's up and down. It depends on how much windshield time I have. but yeah as I listen I just got it in my notes I have each person's name with games one games played

and then at the end of the year I just did the percentages so do you have a job that requires you to do math or spreadsheets I'm a job site superintendent so I'm probably managing a job site and doing all that kind of stuff but I really I just like numbers and I thought it's kind of fun to keep track of it because you guys always said Eddie always won, so I wanted to see how accurate that was. You're the most winner. The proof is in the pudding. Well, you're the winner. The proof is in the data.

Hey, so I want to give you something for all this hard work. Are you a NASCAR fan by any chance? I have a, instead of you sending me something, could I do 15 seconds of self-promo? Yeah, that'd be awesome. Go ahead. Let's start the timer, Ramundo. And don't start yet, Tyler, when we get the TikToker up, we're going to go. I'll give you 15 seconds of self-promotion.

This is Tyler, who lives in Missouri. Ready, Tyler, and go. Tyler, there's a K-Y-L-E-R. And I've been in TikTok jail for a long time. I'm stuck at 480,000 followers. I don't know what happened, but I could really use the B-Team to give me a boost and get me back in the algorithm

so I can start making viral content. You have half a million followers. This is Kyler with a K. Wait, so, oh, it's not, oh, it's Kyler. But what's the account? Yeah, what's your account? What's your account, Kyler? What's your account, Kyler?

What's your name there? It's just Kyler Ennis. My name, K-Y-L-E-R, E-N-N-I-S. E-I-S-E-I-S on TikTok. Yes. And he has half a million. How do you have half a million followers? Yeah, what did you do?

What's the world? Yeah, what'd you do to get all the followers? I started with like DIY stuff. Whenever my daughter was born, like three years ago, we did her nursery, and I did like a nursery makeover deal. Oh, yeah, he's like, but then I've kind of become the grit strength guy. I test different groups, different occupations, grip strength, and post those of those videos have been doing really good.

So if you ever want to do a grip-ranked video in the studio, let me know. I'll drive to Nashville. That's no big deal. What's a grip? What is that mean? What is it? Yeah, what's a grip show? So you have the machine, right?

Yeah, it's a handheld dynamometer, and whenever you squeeze it, it shows like how many pounds of pressure you can squeeze. And so he goes to all the different professions to see who has the strongest grip. That's a funny name. Okay, so let me say his name again. You guys go follow Kyler Ennis. I just followed him. K-Y-L-E-N-N-I-S. We get him out of TikTok jail.

He's our statistician. We hear from him once a year. Kyle, we appreciate that, man. Hey, you guys are awesome. I appreciate you guys. All right, buddy. Hey, give it up for Kyler, Ennis. Yeah.

All right. All right, see you. It's time for the good news. With Amy. A longtime customer of Schooner's restaurant in Illinois. gifted the 30 employees that work there, a thousand dollars each. Wow. Yeah.

You didn't have one, two, three. 30,000. Yeah. He did it in honor of his late wife and daughter. He sees the restaurant as a second home and the employees as family. He did not want his name shared, so I don't know it. But the guy that owns the restaurant said, hey, you don't have to do this. When he first heard about it from the man, he's like shocked and saying, this is too much.

This is too much. Don't do it. And the man insisted because he's by no means rich. Somehow maybe he just had this money, maybe because of the late wife and daughter, who knows, but he wanted to donate it to everybody. And it's super cool. That is awesome.

Yeah. I can't imagine somebody walking just handing me $1,000. And lunchbox can imagine somebody doing it without one. Yeah, I don't know why you'd want not your name out there. I mean, if you're going to go there, people can see who you are. Like have a table named after you. I was just say, have a booth named after you. That's cool.

But I don't think that's not the point. But if you walk in and you want that booth, those people have to move. Oh. That's your booth. Oh, I thought they just named it after like the wife, but you want it to be yours all the time. Well, no, no. I'm saying other people can use it. But if you're there, they got to get out.

If you're there, they got to get up. Like, hey, we're moving you over here in the back. Like mid meal? Yep. Got it. We were going to, our booth at Culvers where we met, we were going to get a little plaque thing there. But you know they're tearing it down. I didn't know that.

Oh. You all should save it. It went out of business? Let's save it. Save the Culver. No. It's relocating, and then they're building something there because of the soccer. That's what we did.

Whatever. We relocated. We did. So it's sort of, yeah. All right, good story. 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 what you're saying. 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.

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

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

He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Ego Wadam. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever.

I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come, look for up-and-coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar. of, you know, the cat just hang in there.

Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to spend this hour talking about Toby Keith. If you haven't heard, country star Toby Keith has passed away. The news was shared on social media earlier this morning. So we've kind of just been gathering our notes and clips so we could put together

as concise of an hour of a tribute as we possibly could. Toby told the world in 2022 he was battling stomach cancer. His last performance was in December for a sold out Las Vegas show. Add some friends that went. It said it was just a great show. His family put out a brief statement on social media and again we saw it this morning. Quote, Toby Keith passed peacefully away last night's February 5th, surrounded by his family. He fought with grace and courage.

Please respect the privacy of his family at this time. time. And it was back in June of 2022 where he announced he had stomach cancer. He was in town. He's been in town a couple times since, but he was in town. And he received the songwriter, like basically a Lifetime Achievement Songwriter Award. And he played, obviously, we'll have such a lasting impression in country music. A lot of personal thoughts and stories for me that we'll do this hour, even from you guys, if you have them. Proud, Oki. A lot to say about him, but I was going to play a couple clips from when he was in studio just recently. This was Toby on our show just a few weeks ago talking about his health and talking about getting back to playing shows.

Probably only worked a handful of shows in the last wide COVID. Two big seized, COVID and cancer. So I haven't worked a handful of shows in the last three years. But I worked every year for 27, 28 years. The only thing I had that concerned me was being away from it for three years and remembering all the words, because they subconsciously come

to you when you're working. You don't even think about it. You know them. And then getting completely away from them and having to start back. So they had a teleprompter up there, and I got into a little bit of a sound check. We're going to go full dress rehearsal a day, but

I didn't even use it. music. It was just like riding him by. Oh, you knew all the words? Yeah, once I got up there and started rolling and it got familiar. I just, I didn't even look at the tail prompt. Again, this is from just a few weeks ago here in studio. Here is, you know, asked him how I was doing and how his stomach surgery affected his singing because it all has to do with each other. It's all affected by each thing. Here you go. You're going on the road. How's your health? How's everything going? It's going pretty good. This is a roller coaster, and it takes a little while to get you. your brain wrapped around it.

You get to a point where you just say that, hey, this is what I do. And you can't let it define your future. You can sit around it, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. But the thing that I've had to overcome is the surgery I had on my stomach, they had to stitch on my diaphragm. So, and not using it to sing every night, that is a muscle, you know. So I've had to really work that to get it. So where I sing really, really hard and really, really violent and loud.

And I didn't have that last 10% on the bottom where I could just really belt anything. You know, like when I sang MacArthur Park at Carnegie Hall, it was like opera stuff. So I don't know if I could do that, but what I do on the stage is no problem. So it's like I've had to work on that diaphragm. And it's getting better all the time. but I went through about three hours yesterday off and on, you know, going through our list, working it up, and I didn't have any issue.

You know, when it comes to Toby Keith, some people are larger than life on screen or on a video or in an interview, and then you meet them, and that's really not the case because they're just normal people. Not the case with Toby Keith. Not that he wasn't a normal dude, because, again, we were lucky enough to spend, a good amount of time with them even out of the studio.

But I can just remember the first time that Toby Keith came into the studio, the first time that I had ever met him. And again, there are legends in country music. And there are contemporary legends in country music. Like the contemporary legends are Toby, who still was making music, but will always be known for making history at the same time. McGraw, Chesney, like, those would be contemporary legends. And so it was a big deal, Garth, that Toby was coming in for the first time this when we first moved to town. First of all, massive dude. Look like a football player.

Same thing a lot of times when you meet somebody this famous or you see somebody from TV. They're not as big in real life as they are when you're looking out of them on camera because they're like standing next to little chairs instead of normal size chairs. But Toby was a monster. And so I remember Toby coming in, huge personality. And, you know, he was ready to go. Like, he was here to go, all right, look, you guys are all funny and stuff, but I'm Toby and I'm funnier. And don't come at me because I'll come back harder, which I loved. And I remember saying, hey, man, how's it going?

Just as a random, generic, just to see what he would go. And he goes, Google me. We're all caught by surprise. We still quote that. That's 10 years ago. We still quote that to this day. Google me. But as serious as he was about that stuff,

you know he was laughing behind it. It was totally him messing with us. But he would say it's serious. Yes. Google me. You want to say Google me. And so Toby was a trip. And I think this whole.

hour we'll kind of share stories. I have friends in the country music community that are reaching out to me to go, hey, like, what's up? Can we talk? Do you want us to talk? Sure. Anybody out there that's listening that if you're a listener and you have a story or if you're an artist or a manager and you have a Toby story, like hit us up. We're here, 877, 77 Bobby. If you can't find the number, Google it. He said once And I don't, this is also a story that we share as a kind of an inside joke around here as well, because Toby had such a big presence. He said he made more merch and more money on merch in one night than the president does in a year.

I don't remember the context of how we got into that is the thing. I think it was shortly after the Google me. Oh, I know, but I don't remember what we were talking about where I would ask a question that led him to saying, I made more money on merch and one night than the president does. a year. But that's when I knew there were going to be a lot of things to quote. Like, every time he'd come in the studio. Completely quotable. We had no idea exactly what, especially

Eddie and I, what our relationship would be with him over the next 10 years or so as we were played with him and traveled with him. If you're just waking up, Toby Keith passed away. They announced it this morning way early. I'm not sure when it happened, but we'll spend all hour

sharing stories and sharing music. Toby Keith The news came out this morning. He was in studio a few weeks ago. And he didn't look like the Toby Keith that we've known because he had been battling cancer and had been battling going through different procedures. You know it was pretty thin but was still super positive. Yeah, his demeanor.

Still had the big Toby Keithness about him. Like he was seemed just more fragile. but still seemed very much him. Right. He was wearing a lot of clothes, though, to try to not show that his health wasn't good. I mean, multiple coats. He had sunglasses on.

He had a hat on. The sunglasses he had on. He always had sunglasses on. Yeah, but these look especially like big and almost like a rapper. Yeah, they were bigger, yeah. They were bigger. Yeah.

But still came in, and if you weren't able to see him and you just heard it, you know, watch it back. you would have thought that here's a guy on the other side of it because that's why he was coming out. And I don't know this for sure. But what it seems like is maybe this is what he was doing one final time

instead of this is what he's doing as he comes back. Like this is him doing his last shows in Vegas and like his last round doing any sort of media or hanging out with us. and I feel super fortunate that he was here just a few weeks ago. And I told you guys that are listening, like call. If you have a story, let's go because we have 100, but you just don't want to hear ours. Like, for example, line 3, Kim in Washington, D.C.,

Kim, I appreciate you calling. Let's go over to Kim. If we can pick her up. Everything's broken. All right, so it's new phone. I clicked it. It acts like it's good. Kim, can you hear it?

Right, I hit three. We have new phones. There we go. Whatever happened, that was the weirdest sound. Hi, Kim. Hi, good morning, studio. Morning. Can you tell us your story?

Oh, it's a great story. And it just epitomizes what kind of guy he was. My husband was a Marine, a career Marine, and we did two tours at Terrace Island, at Drumsworth. And it was the summer 2002, right after 9-11, of course, not even quite a year before. And the first two weeks of the recruiting process, when they actually get to the depot, those recruits are gone for two weeks. You don't see them, you don't hear from them, along with our husband and all of the other families from missing our husband.

Well, how big people was in that area? He had done a concert either Charles and Savannah. And he actually made a detour. And why this is so important is because he actually came to an abandoned airfield on Paris Island. And gave a concert. And the commanding general gave all of our crew, all of the drill instructors, all of the family, basically two hours to come on the base to be. to this

ratty old airfield that was hot-marked with awful but they had a stage set up

and Toby gave a killer performance killer and he just loved his truth he loved

being American for him to take the time out of his downtime to give this concert and not only

did they give a concert that catered barbecue for everybody there. No doubt that Tobu Keefe loved America. I'm going to put a boot in your butt, you know? No doubt. No doubt.

I mean, and that'll be one of his legacies, how much he loved the flag and the troops. One of the shows that we played with him, Eddie and I went to, well, D.C., right outside of D.C. And all before the show, because we were going to go back. And again, Toby had invited us to come open for him last minute because something had fallen through. Like sent us plane to come get us. He's like, can you guys come open for the show? Yeah. And we were like, yeah, sure.

It's kind of a quick deal. So he sent his jet and picked us up, flew us up there. And they were like, hey, Toby, wants to see you guys. Because it was kind of like land and fire. Meaning we were in and going. So there wasn't a lot of time to like, whatever. We don't do anything anyway. But we weren't there all day.

And they're like, hey, Toby wants to see you. And we go back to see Toby. but we couldn't get back there yet because there was a line of people that Toby was talking to. It's probably 13 or 14 people. And so we're like, we'll just come back. They're like, no, no, hang out for a second.

You should see this. And so Toby had brought in a bunch of people from Walter Reed, the hospital where a lot of the injured military men and women were, and it brought them all backstage and was hanging out with all of them and just spending a few minutes with every one of them. That's awesome.

And that wasn't something that he put up on social media because it's probably something he did every, or I know he did a lot, but something he did. Consistent. Every time that he was able to do it, he did that. And I think that's what a lot of his legacy will be.

Yeah, I feel like Kim's story is probably one of multiple over all of these years where he would, yeah, maybe if he learned of something or knew of a place during his downtime, he would just pivot and make it happen. I do want to talk to Rod, who Rod is the head of I Heart Country

and the reason I want to talk to Rod is because Rod went to his show in Vegas which was basically his last run of doing shows and Rod like me was like man how's he gonna play? Because again he looked like somebody

who had been battling cancer he was frail and I remember Rod and I can let Rod tell the story it started off and I was like oh boy but then by the end he was rocking it Rod what was Toby's last show like? Oh man And I have so many thoughts.

Thanks to let me share, because he's obviously coming, you know, rushing back to us as we wake up to the news. But, yeah, we go to Vegas and we got the, you know, fortunate opportunity to go backstage, say hi, and take pictures, which now is, you know, an amazing memory. And something special to have been a part of. But, yeah, I called you right away. I'm like, you wouldn't believe it. Like, this Toby Kee's show is crazy. And keep in mind, when I saw him, it was the second night of back-to-back night. and you just didn't know what to expect, right?

This is a guy who was persevering but battling. And I can tell you for sure that, you know, he didn't get on stage and do 45 minutes. He didn't get on stage and do an hour. He did an hour and 45 minutes or more, which was just remarkable to watch. And you said it from the start of the show to the end. He got more energy by the end. I was worried like, hey, when is he going to tap? Because again, it is a difficult thing to physically get through.

And the last three songs were bangers, right? He had more energy. He was feeding off the crowd. It's what he did, right? You could see that an artist who lived to perform got all that energy from the crowd. And he walked off stage stronger than he walked on stage. It was honestly remarkable to watch it. What was the crowd like with Toby?

Was it just a pure sing-along the whole time? Oh, the whole time. You know, obviously you jump on your phone if you've got stuff and start looking at pictures or videos. I mean, I was in the crowd doing that whole thing. I wound up for all the songs. The only one that wasn't really sing-along, but was a huge moment, as you can imagine, is don't let the old man in. You know, he just sat there, just him in a guitar. And I was about to post a video of that one.

I mean, that's now even more touching than it was. But everything else, you know, every word is sing along from start to finish. But let me add this, because I told you this after the show, you would have thought great vocalists, right? This guy could sing live and was terrific. But you would have thought maybe some backup singer help. To my knowledge, it was him, right? He wasn't looking for people to fill in any notes that he couldn't hit any of that.

He hit them all. and it was just Toby and his amazing band. It was cool. Eddie and I played Frontier Days with Toby, and it's a whole set of, you know, there's like seven or eight artists, but we were direct support for Toby. It was Toby, this is a different show than the DC one.

Muddy, just, it was just awful weather-wise. Place was still packed, and so we played up until like 9.30, and Toby played after. But I remember Rod being like, I was on the bus with Toby Keith to like three o'clock afterward. Because Rod came with us. Just Toby sharing stories larger than live.

Like what can you share from that? Well, again, another situation, I had no business being there, right? But next thing you know, because I was hanging out with you guys. You're the opening act. And, you know, they wanted a chance to say, hey to Toby. I'm like, cool. To your point, next thing you know, it's after midnight. We're having a great social event.

And the guitar comes out and there's nothing like it, right? A legend literally sitting in front of me just picking on the guitar and singing. And that's when he told the story about don't let the old man in, which is a line he got from Clint Eastwood. He played golf with him at Pebble Beach. Clint Eastwood getting up there in years. Toby's like, how do you play golf every day? How do you come out here and hang out every day?

And it's Clint Eastwood who gave him the line. He wakes up and he doesn't let the old man in. And it turned into this song. watch Toby picking this song that I'd never heard before and it was just it was life changing quite honestly I will never forget that moment as late as it was on a tour bus well we appreciate the time coming on with us this morning and for those that don't know that song we're going to play it coming up in a few minutes that's the last song because he had put out a single before and then had just decided we're going to do it again and when he was here the last time that's what he was saying

yeah it's kind of weird we're doing this but we're going to do it again so we'll do that coming up just a second. Rod, thanks for your time, Ann. I appreciate it. God bless Tobitke. What a powerful line of like even just thinking about that right now. And I think when the song plays, like listening to that and a reminder to all of us of, you know, even how we can wake up and what we can do with our day of not even like if you're older, don't let the old man in. I say don't let the wussy boy in. Yes, or that or don't let the, every day, every day. The complainer in or whatever you're feeling. Like don't let that person in, you know. Let him in.

Don't let him in. That's your version of the song. Okay. Texting with my father-in-law right now who is massive. Oklahoma fan, lives in Oklahoma. Like, when now I'm home with my wife in Oklahoma, I have to tell him like, okay, enough Oklahoma. Can I please talk about Arkansas a minute? Like, just sports.

But he sent me this whole thing about Toby Keith, and he says, a sad day for Oklahoma. Oklahoma loved all caps, loved Toby Keith. And he just wrote beloved. I think a lot of people listening in Oklahoma feel like it. That's their dude. I think a lot of people in country music feel like it's their dude. We have George Burge on the line.

The thing about George is he just had a number one song just so I can kind of set this up with, I got my mind on you. I don't know all the words. That's it. Yeah. But we talked about George a couple weeks ago with him because it was an old school picture of him and Toby Keith. We were like, hey, what was that?

It was him, Toby Keith, and Post Malone. Now, George, do we have George, there he is. George, what was your relationship? How did you get to know Toby? Oh, hey, guys. Good morning. Morning, man. So Toby actually was one of the first people to discover me as a musician and signed me to one of my first record deals in 2015.

So he was always just larger than life to me We had come like out of a van and trailer Like touring across America playing dive bars And he took us out on tour with him And all of a sudden it was amphitheaters And 30,000 people a night And just classic Big Dog Daddy style Everything was like the biggest you'd ever seen in your life

And I was a Texas Longhorn And he knew that So he always loved to give me some fire about it We'd show up and my name for the green room would be on the porta potty or on the trash can or something like that. But he was also always really cool to us. Like he gave us longer than we deserved for sound check. Like we were always welcome at his catering,

which was like filet mignon and lobster mac and cheese. And then we'd be standing side stage watching the shows. And it'd be Bob Stoops or Larry Bird or Roger Clemens. And it was just the most surreal experience getting to tour with them. And I think more than anything, He had, you know, all the success and the fame and all these people coming out to his shows, but he just genuinely loved music. He would go on stage, play 90 minutes worth of the number ones for the fans,

and then he would grab us and he'd say, hey, let's go to the bus. And he would want to play acoustic guitar for, like, three hours on the bus and just shoot the breeze. And he was literally a human Jew box. Not a lot of people know this, but he knew you couldn't name a song that he couldn't play as a cover. He'd literally, like, aggressively look at you and be like, name a song, any song. and he would make you say a song and then he could play the whole thing from Merle Haggard to Sugar Hill Gang. It was unbelievable. His just love and respect for music.

What did you see about him as a professional, as a performer that inspired you? I think it was the way that he held the crowd in the palm of his hands. He had everybody, he really made everybody feel seen. He would, you know, thank everybody for being there. He was proud of who he was. He was proud of the music that he made. And more than anything, he was proud of his relationship with his fans. And I think they genuinely felt that.

And there was a real connection there. So it wasn't just him up there sitting behind a guitar playing music. It was him enjoying time and connecting with friends when he was on stage. And then my final question will be off of that. Like what kind of person when no one else was around? Like what do you think about when I mentioned Toby Keith? Toby was one of the most successful guys in the history of country music, if not maybe the most successful, but he was also one of the most generous. And it was not when people were looking.

Not a lot of people know that Toby hired almost exclusively from his hometown from people that he grew up with. He started that, OK, kids corral taking care of kids that were sick. He was always donating his time and his money to the U.S. military. he was a guy that knew who took care of him and he made sure to do the same. George, appreciate you talking with us this morning. Thank you guys and appreciate you all having me on. George Burge, again, signed to Toby's label

toured with Toby. He has a lot of great Toby stories. Spending a lot of the show, if not most of it, talking about Toby Keith. They announced this morning that he passed away at 62 years old. I want to put on Eric in Delaware. Hey Eric, we appreciate your call on the show here.

A lot of people have stories, thoughts, emotions regarding Toby's death. Eric, you're on. What would you like to say? Oh, my goodness. Hey, good morning, studio. Morning. Hey, quite the somber Tuesday. But I just wanted to share a Toby Kleeve story about when I was deployed in Afghanistan,

And we had just gone under attack and lost some people. Very somber, bad time. We knew there was a concert coming, but we didn't know who at the end of the week. And, you know, I kind of stumbled upon where it was at. And this big, blonde-haired dude, get on stage and start strumming his guitar, and I lost it, and it was Toby. You know, he just rocked out for us in the middle of Afghanistan and brought us all home through his music for maybe an hour or so. And he didn't care that he was coming in to a hot zone. And he just wanted to be there with us.

And he did. So it was amazing. Yeah, that tracks fully on brand for Toby. We appreciate that story. Eric, we got a lot more just like that too. I just said, hey, if you know something. I mean, and it is like, when a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.

They take matters into their own hands. I vowed. I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe.

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