Best Bits of the Week

Morgan shares the top 7 segments from the Bobby Bones Show this week! 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the best Bit of the week.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
With Morgan Part two, she's breaking down the top seven
segments from the Bobby Bone Show this week.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
What's up, everybody, Welcome to the Best Bits this weekend.
I hope you are having an awesome Easter weekend, celebrating
with family, friends and doing lots of fun Easter egg hunts.
I have one planned for my animals tomorrow, very exciting.
I put treats in little eggs and send them off
into the backyard and it's so fun. And then my
cat I put them kind of all randomly on the

(00:31):
counter and she just kind of swapped out them.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
But it's fun nonetheless.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
So I hope you guys are enjoying this Easter weekend
and thank you for being here.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
We're going to catch up on the Bobby Bone Show.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
If you want some extra content this weekend and you're
not doing Easter stuff, you can check out Part one,
Part three This weekend with Mike d Part one, we
catch up all on life and get some updates from Mike.
If you made a new friend in a run and club,
how the braces are going, his wife really wants a dog?
All that good stuff. And then Part three we answer
listener questions as always that I post on my Instagram page.

(01:03):
All right, everybody. The reason you are here, though, is
to catch up on the Bobby Bone Show. The top
seven segments from the show this week. Let's go wo Cardinals,
blue Jays.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
We talked to All Things birds this week after an
actor shared an experience they had with a hawk and
how they think it was another actor sending them a sign,
and Amy kind of clarified her thoughts on birds and
how she feels with her mom and her dad and
that whole experience that she has, and maybe some people
can relate if they also have experience seeing their loved

(01:35):
ones in the birds.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Number seven, This made me, Thank you, Amy. So, Maggie Wheeler,
who played Janis on Friends, can you do the impression?
YEAHO fine, I'm getting her in the Nanny.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
So she says she got a sign from Matthew Perry,
who played Chandler, and she was talking about it and
that sign was a hawk that flew over while she
was in a neighbor's pool. Now, I bring this up
because neither Amie's parents are alive and she believes they
are both birds. Her mom is a cardinal. Her dad
is a blue jay, and she got very excited because
she saw a cardinal and a blue jay together one

(02:09):
day and thought her parents were back together. And you
know what, that's exciting.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, yeah, no, they were rarely at the feeder together
and I was like, what, this is amazing.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
So she saw this bird, a massive hawk. She also
lost her brother to addiction and says she got a
message from both of them recently. So that's quote. After
Matthew died Matthew Perry, I was in a neighbor's pool.
I was alone, there was nobody else around, and I
was on my back thinking, man, I shurely look out
for him, meaning Matthew Perry and her brother. And then

(02:41):
two hawks flew over her head and flew past her.
One circled around and the other one came down near her.
She was a beautiful moment.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
That's legit.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
That's good for that's special for her.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I love that, I especially, Yeah, I guess I needed
to find what I think special? What do you think
special about that? Do you do you think that was
Matthew Perry and her brother.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, in like whatever way they could, she was given
that sign of like peace or whatever she needed in
that moment, because she was asking for that and she
got it.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Back to my question, do you think that Matthew Perry
was one of the birds.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, so I'm not exactly sure how it works because
I don't really think my mom is in the bird.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Oh well, the narrative has changed a bit.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It doesn't change, you know, I've always felt this way.
I don't think that she is physically in the bird
like her soul. She's not reincarnated as the bird.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
That's what you me too.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
No, no, no, guys, I've always been clear. It's not reincarnation.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Has she been clear?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, I've been like, my mom is sending me a
sign through the bird, like my dad because remember my
mom's ad Because guys, remember the dead blue jay. My
dad was sending me a message through the dead blue jay.
So he's not in the blue jay because otherwise than
he'd be dead.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Again, Okay, I'm confused here. So your mom is not
the bird.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
She it's just easier to say she is the bird.
But she's sending me the message through the birds. So
she's the bird, but she's not.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Your Mom's not the bird. She's just sending out like drones.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Can you just imagine it?

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Like she like, she's like Santa Claus at the North Pole,
but he has his other guys go out.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Malls to the malls, the other Santas.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
So the other Santas are birds for you.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, thank you for that analogy. I think that that's
a good way to put it. It's like Santa has
all his little other Santas.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Your mom has mal Santa's.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
My mom has a She must have a slew of
cardinals because at her disposal, because she uses them.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Do you think every cardinal and when I'm mad, if
like you're up there and all of a sudden, somebody
who comes up and has access to all the cardinals
and you don't.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Right now, other people obviously have access to their own cardinals.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
What about the ones that you see? Do you think
they're all your mom?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I don't. Not every cardinal speaks to me. It's sometimes
if I've asked for something or I just I can't
explain it. I see the cardinal and and I have
a sensation and an internal dialogue that starts to happen
with the bird, like it's like a connection, like oh hey, Mom,

(05:13):
Like telekinesis. Yeah, I don't know a message is coming through.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
You're talking to the bird without talking with human words.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Have you not had this experience with anything ever?

Speaker 5 (05:24):
It sound like it because he's laughing, so it makes
me laugh, and I'm just trying to figure out what
your head is.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I know, I don't. I don't think that you're making
fun of me. And I guess what I'm asking is
for a little grace because I don't fully understand how
it works. I don't know. I think that it's it's
been a special thing for me between me and the
birds ever since my parents died. I don't I didn't
ever have this experience until my mom died.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
And what was the cardinal about? Why did the cardinal
get assigned to your mom?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Because a bird? We were at my sister's house in
a hospice situation when my mom died. We'd set up
my sister's master bedroom or primary room as the hospice
care and we were laying in the bed with my
mom when she passed. And as we're laying there with
her for like an hour, a cardinal came into the

(06:17):
tree outside my sister's window, and it was a beautiful
fall morning, and then all of a sudden, in this
green tree, there's like a red cardinal. And my sister's like, oh,
it's mom. So she was saying like, hey, guys, I've
crossed over. I'm here, I'm fine, Like you're gonna be okay.
We both felt this sense of peace. So ever since
then it was a cardinal. Then fast forward many years later,

(06:39):
my dad passes away, and I'm really into birds at
this point, and I have a feeder and a blue
jay has never visited my feeder. And I know this
because I played bird Bingo and I would keep track
of my visitors. You nip, And all of a sudden,
who flies to my feeter? After my dad dies?

Speaker 6 (07:00):
You're dad?

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Well, now the Santa Claus in the mall of your dad.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, I guess my dad got access to blue jays
because there he is.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
And then you think it's regions like sonics, Like you
have a region if you get a sonic, like this
is your area. Oh, like you have territories for if
you're a cardinal or blue jay, and you're like, I
am the cardinal keeper of the territory that my daughter lives.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
You know, like my dad could have come as something else.
But in that moment, I had this, like I said,
this internal dialogue, this connection. All of a sudden, I'm like, Dad.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
And you're like talking back and forth without talking.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Same thing. When my mom showed up at the feeder
as a cardinal and my dad showed up as the
blue jay, I'm like, yeah, yeah, Hey, what's up. Y'all
are hanging out. I don't know if they're back together,
but they're like, look, we've reconciled. We're cool. Like I,
I know we got divorced when you were younger, but
everything's good now, life is good. But do every time
I see a blue jay hair cardinal, is it my

(07:51):
mom and dad?

Speaker 7 (07:52):
No?

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh, the ones that don't talk to you are probably
somebody else's.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I don't know how to explain it. Like the cardinal
when it came to tell me to move that was
my mom. I saw the cardinal. Your wife was there
a bird told to move houses and she did so.
She so she she's in like she could not be
anymore a good word. I can't prove you're wrong. You can't.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
I know, I cannot prove you're wrong.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
But have you ever had something that just unexplainable? No,
but you still have faith in it.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
No, I think that I wish I had a little
more of what you have. I just want a dose
of it.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I don't Maybe you should ask for it.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Can I have a dose of it?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
No?

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Here it comes.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Ask for a sign, because that's what.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
A bear opens the door and walks in.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
That would be more believable. But lion would walk in,
like we don't see lions around here.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Well, that is a little doominal snowman. No, listen. I
saw the story about Janis and Matthew Perry and thought, oh,
that reminds me of Amy.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I know that I sound like a complete wacko when
I talk about this.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Everybody that experiences something different sounds like a complete wacko
until other people experience the difference. Right, So I was, yeah,
I'm giving you that grace. I just wanted to know
what your thoughts were. Yeah, and if Janie saw her
Matthew Perry and her brother as hawks, because she I.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Think she absolutely did. They have access to hawks apparently,
and they sent some down because she was like laying
there asking for it.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Okay, there you have it, guys, very well explained. I
can't prove you're lying. I can't prove you're wrong.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now now that Eddie's into birds and he's lost his father, you.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Have I haven't said anything this whole segment, but I
do think a dove that's been coming around to my
dad window.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
You're just taking of birds because Amy put that in
your head.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
No, he possibly, possibly, but my dad picked a dove.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Apparently his dad has access to doves, because.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
This dove came to my window and looked in my
windows like, cos up is it?

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Let me ask you?

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Did you have bird feeders on your window?

Speaker 6 (09:43):
Yeah? For sure?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is it a mourning dove?

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Okay, it's a mourning dove.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, mourning And it's not mourning m o r. It's
mourning m ou are I'm mourning?

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah? Hey guys, I just want you guys, and I
love you guys. And uh, no judgment. I'm glad it
gives you guys peace because that's really what it's about.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, Eddie, I would I want you to pay attention
to this morning. Devin. Also, I hope I.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Gotta get lunchbox. Ten seconds he's sitting over there about
to explode ten seconds ago.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
You guys make us sound like the cucko din like,
I mean, everybody's listening to this going. These people have
lost their freaking mind. Eddie. You put a bird feeder there.
He's looking for the food. There was no food in
the bird feeder. He's like, hey, dude, you forgot. He's
not saying, Hey, what up?

Speaker 6 (10:25):
I'm my dog?

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Do that?

Speaker 7 (10:26):
I mean Amy, And you say, just trust me on this.
I talked to it without talking to it. What are
you talking? You sound psychotic?

Speaker 5 (10:34):
I alway psychotic. But it's different and all people that
have differences are looked at it a little weird at
first until they're proven true. So hey, I'm glad you
guys have found some sort of piece.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right, it's the best bits of the week with
Morgan Number two.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
You know, we can't always be smart, and for some
of us, we had some really dumb moments lately, and
it identified with some of you guys out there on
our social media because you're like, yeah, say this has
also happened.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
So maybe if you just.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Need to hear somebody else share a moment where they
were just really not smart aka dumb, then here you go, Bobby, Eddie, myself,
We're all going to share some stories.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Number six. I struggle with sleep. I get nerves in
the bottom of my stomach whenever I'm in the bed.
It's the only time that I think I have anxiety,
or at least the only time I allow the anxiety
to take over. I really struggle with sleep, and I
have for a long time. I only now call it anxiety.
Forever I was just like, I just can't sleep, but
it really it's like a when your foot falls asleep.

(11:41):
That's what it feels like in the bottom of my stomach.
When I go to bed at night, when I lay
there long enough, I fill my heart pounding in my neck,
I feel it pound on my shoulders, and my stomach
feels like my foot's asleep, but just not in my foot,
my stomach.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
This is a.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Weird array of symptoms, but that is a version of anxiety.
So it is what it is. I try different things,
and I try to read books on anxiety. I tried to,
and I read this, and this is gonna be my
I cannot believe I'm this stupid story. And if anybody
else has one, then I'd like you to share it.
But I cannot believe I'm this stupid because as I'm

(12:15):
trying to track down why I can't sleep. I'm reading
this story about how to wake up less groggy because
there are some nights I get three hours, four hours,
some nights I get two. I'm wait for two, but
I wake up and I'm groggy as crap. And then
I read about this beer that actually helps you be
less groggy, and I'm blown away and I'm going, there's
a beer.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
What? Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
This It's not what you're thinking.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's not it's not it is it natty light?

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Well, it's literal natural light, not of the beer natural light.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
I thought they were talking about the beer.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
Ny you no natural light.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
The whole story I'm reading, the whole thing about natural
light will help you wake up less groggy. And I'm like,
maybe I drink the beer I never drink in my life.
And I'm going, maybe I just try the beer in
the morning and it helps me with my sleep. Except
it's not natural light the beer. It's literal natural Lightian rhythm. Yes'
not the beer too. Oh my gosh, welcome to the team.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah wow, solid marketing from natural light, because now that's
what they didn't do that I understand. But natural light
has been around since God created it, and we see
that in the headline in an article, and we immediately
we think beer instead of like the god given natural light.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
We've always said, well, I.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Too believe God created natty light.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, I again, as someone who's never had a drink
of alcohol, I'm going, maybe maybe this is the reason
that I need to drink some alcohol. I'm fine with
I'm not morally against alcohol, but I'm like, maybe I
need to drink now. And then I'm like, why the
cheap beer because I never had it, But that's what.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
That's cheap, Definitely cheap.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
It'd be like Red Dog twenty twenty makes you feel
better at night. And so then I started reading the
story and it's like letting natural light in your bedroom
twenty minutes. And I'm like, I'm such an idiot because
I'd already gone down though, Am I gonna drink same?
That natural light will help you be less groggy? But
not the beer that's funny, literal natural light. So yeah,
that's that's me. The last time you felt stupid, Eddie,

(14:19):
you have one?

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, yeah, this mine's different. Like, I just felt like
an idiot because I never do this, and I don't
know why I decided to do it. But I had
a Dallas Cowboys shirt on, and I saw a guy
walking towards me with an Eagle shirt and I was like, okay,
big rival. So I flashed him on Dallas Cowboy. I
was like Cowboys Nation baby. And he looked at me
like what is he? What are you doing? I said
Eagles fan and he's like no, this is like Middleton

(14:41):
Elementary Eagles. I don't like football.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
He wasn't a Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
I felt like an idiot.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah that's fun, Morgan.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
So I had my smoke alarm going off for weeks.
I would think i'd fix it the battery and it
just keep beeping. I took the whole thing out of
the ceiling and this thing kept beating. I was like,
this doesn't make any sense in my brain. I call
somebody out and he's like, okay, yeah, let me take
a look. He's like, no, I mean maybe it just
needs new batteries. I was like, I've done that, but
we'll do it. It keeps beaping. He's like, do you have

(15:15):
any other alarms in here? And I was like no,
do you have a carbon monoxide monitor?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Happened to be in here?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
I was like, oh, there is one plugged in behind
the mirror, and he goes.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
He looks.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
He's like, man, that's what's been beating for.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
The past several weeks.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
So do you have a carbon monoxide leak? No it?

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah? Yeah, would have been.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Like, yeah, okay, Well, I'm just thinking, like, what what
if that's her vertigo She's slowly.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
Dying in carbon monoxide. It's also tough to find the
one that is beeping if you have multiple smoke bombs
in your house, because you're like, okay, and then you
like try to count. You stare at one. You just
stare at it and you're like, I think it's that one.
Bit like oh my god, it's not that one, So
you go to another one.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
And I did that whole thing with every single alarm,
Like I shut doors and I.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Was focused on each one.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
I was like, it has to be this alarm.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, that's funny. That sucks there. I remember once out
a car problem. I couldn't get my car. I was
in a in a in a garage and it would
not start. And I don't know much about cars, but
I know how to start the car. It would not start,
would not start, So I have as part of my
like a roadside assistant sight thing with the car. And
so they come out and the guy gets in and

(16:27):
all of a sudden starts it up, and I'm like,
he didn't do anything under the hood. So something happened
that I'm I know, I'm about to be embarrassed, and
I'm like, what was wrong? He goes, it was in drive.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
You're it wasn't.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
It wasn't even in p for me to start. It
literally was sitting there in drive so it wouldn't start.
I felt pretty stupid there too. I don't know that
I fell as stupid as a natural light though, And
I'm thinking about giving up all my history of not
drinking to have natty light to wait wake up in
the morning.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
I show drunk.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
You're like, I'm just doing the story, guys, the story
said do it.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
We'll put this up on social media too. Last time
he felt stupid, just go to our Facebook page and
you can write underneath.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Lunchbox may or may not have yelled at some middle
school kids.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
No, he definitely did. That's what this segment is all about.
And I kind of think he was validated. Some people don't.
Some people on the show think he was validated, some don't.
It's all across the board of how everybody feels about this.
But it happened over his kids in.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
A swing set number five. So Lunchbox kind of fought
with some middle school kids. Have you guys heard this story?
Does anybody know about me? Okay, then I'm going to
remove myself and let him tell it and let you
guys make up your own minds. Okay, okay, okay, I'll
recuse myself from the story. Lunchbox, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (17:50):
So my three year old and five year old were
a couple doors down. They have a swing in the
front yard, and they were just swinging on the swing,
having a good old time, and these three middle school
dudes go walking by, and I don't think anything of it,
no big deal. And then here come my three year
old and five year old running home, and they look
upset and they're like, da dada. Those kids told us

(18:14):
they were gonna slap us in the face and knock
us out of the swing. Why would they say that?
And then that's my time. I'm like what do I
do here? I'm like I'm sorry they said that to them?
Do I go confront these middle schoolers? Or do I
just leave them alone? Do I just let it go?

Speaker 5 (18:28):
I would say, out, leave them alone, and you don't win.
You don't win fighting adults versus kids, even if you're right,
you don't. That's not a win. So so I.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
Jumped on my bike.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
This is where the adult part gets swept out because
it go middle.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
You know, because they're about a block block and half away,
and I'm like, I'm not going to run after him.
I'll just jump on my bike and I ride up
to him. I said, guys, what are we doing? Does
it make you feel cool to talk to a three
and five?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
I like that.

Speaker 7 (19:00):
Let's not be a bunch of dumbasses.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Oh you that to the kids?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Describe the kids you're talking to.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Maybe thirteen, probably eighth grade, seventh or eighth grade, you
know what I mean. And they think they're so funny.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Were they just bratty enough to swing on you though,
because then you get into a place where you can't
hit back, and now you're getting beat up at thirteen
year olds.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Maybe?

Speaker 6 (19:21):
Were they much smaller than you?

Speaker 7 (19:23):
No, because they were definitely tall.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
I mean did it startle them that an adult man
comes up on a bike to.

Speaker 7 (19:29):
They were like, oh, uh uh, I mean we're just
playing and I was like, no, no, you can't. Like
it's a three and five year old. Does it make
you feel tough to talk to them that way?

Speaker 5 (19:39):
And they're like, okay, I agree with everything you said,
and fuel I think it's tough when you don't know
the kids. And what if their parents were nearby watching
an adult man come up to them threatning them, then their
parents jump in and.

Speaker 7 (19:50):
Hold on, there was no there was no threat.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
I said, you did say a curse word, and you did.

Speaker 7 (19:55):
Where was the curseword?

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Dumb dumby?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, that's a curse word. And then secondly, you did
approach them on a bike aggressively. Yeah, with your baseball
car and your spokes.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
He rang his bell when he pulled down.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
I agree with what you felt. I haven't agree with
what you said. It's just risky to do that with kids,
because ain't your kids and you really you're also going
on your three and five year old's word of exactly
how it went down.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yeah, but I mean my three and five year old
they don't ever say anything. I mean, you know what
I mean. I did see the kids walk by, and
then my kids immediately come running back and they look upset,
and I'm like, man, these kids are threatening a three
and five year old, Like how but.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
How threatening were they really? If they're just idiot thirteen
year olds yelling at kids on a swing and wasn't.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Lunchdogs an idiot thirteen year old?

Speaker 7 (20:40):
Yeah, but I wouldn't talk trash to a three year old.
It's like, you know how small a three year old is, Guys,
a three year old is tiny. You know what a
three year old looks like when you're thirteen.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Maybe he was taking it on the five year old
and three old, which is there could have been. Again,
I agree with how you felt. I don't agree that
you should have gone up to the kids and been like.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Hey, it's definitely risky.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
It's risky because all he needs. Another parent said, I.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
Didn't call him das I said, let's not be DA's
same thing.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
If you're saying it, it's the same thing that means
you are, so let's not.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Maybe it does, but I felt like I handled the
situation because I was like, man, this is the It
was my first time i've ever having that moment of
what do you do like the other kids messing with
your kids?

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I did it feel good? Did you win?

Speaker 7 (21:20):
I did it feel good?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (21:21):
It felt pretty good. I was like, yeah, I mean
I let those kids know, hey, don't mess with my kids.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Do you feel like you were telling you though a
version of you when you were thirteen?

Speaker 7 (21:30):
A little bit? Because I remember my dad telling some
kids when they had messed with my brother's car. They
had broken the windshield.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Oh gosh.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
And he saw him one day and he told them,
don't f with any cars tonight. They're like, excuse me, goes, Look,
you guys got to go to bed. You want to
app with cars? I can have with your car all
night because I don't have to go to sleep. Never
mess with my brother's car again.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
But you are also the kid messing with cars. I
was and throwing tennis balls on the interstate of people.
I was, yeah, okay, I feel like I give it
a C. Mind you get to pass because nothing bad happened.
But if I'm grading this whole thing, I give it
a C minus. I don't think you should go out
after other people's kids, though, because they didn't really do
anything to your kids except yell at them.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
Yeah, they kind of threatened them. Okay, we'll slap you
out of that swing.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
Amy, what do you if you're what do you give
his grade for his actions? I give him a bee
honor roll what for his reaction? But he has to
stand up for his kids, and like I got to
other kids to an adult, maybe you go to their parents.
You find their parents and go to their parents.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay, I know, but you're talking to someone. When those
kids stole from my kids, I went and confronted them
and the police told me not to.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Why do you think the police told you not to?
My friend? Exactly like the point, exactly.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
Point the cops told you not to.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Let me tell you something. It takes a village and
Lunchbox did the right thing by telling them not to
mess with A plus A plus.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
So he got to see you b in an a.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
I think it's okay to tell kids not to mess
with them, but to go up to him on a
bike on the road when you don't know who's around
their parents, I think that he puts himself in dangerous
It's the best bits of the week. With Morgan number.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Two, we all shared some life updates recently. One had
to do with a grocery store. One was a portable
device that somebody was gifted for their birthday. I took
by some therapy and somebody on the show was worried
about another show member.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
So just lots of things in here, and they're kind
of updates, kind of just the life moments, all the things.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
If you will number four updates about life around the room.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Amy Well, I have a little debate in my head
right now because of the grocery store. Yesterday. I saw
an interaction between a man and a woman in the line.
We were checking out, and I was a few behind
this woman that had a full cart and she was
up next and the guy behind her only has two items,
and I guess he was in a hurry, and he
asked her, do you mind if I just go real
quick before you, And she said no, sorry, I'm in

(23:57):
a hurry too, Otherwise I guess I would let you.
And he just mumbled under his breath, he's like so
much for common decency, And I was like, what is
wrong with him?

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Why?

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Why is she now at fault because she was ahead
of you in line. I get that she has way
more stuff, but if she's in a hurry too. She's
going to get the heck out of there as well,
and she doesn't have to give you that spot in line.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
They both kind of suck, yeah, because she doesn't have to.
She doesn't have to get up the spot. But it's
two items. They would take forty five seconds for him
to get through if they're both in a hurry, and
he's gonna go so quick. It's like the Dave Ramsey,
so I'll pay off your lighta's death quick as you
could actually let him go and almost lose no time.
Where he is going to lose a lot of time.
It's his fault. It's his fault, totally his fault. But

(24:39):
you can roll and be like, hey, do you mind.
She kind of sucks for not all know what, because
if she's in such a hurry, she's not gonna have
a full basket of groceries and get nineteen things. She's
gonna get her things and get out of there quick.
You're not in such a hurry if you have full
grocery day. Okay, she probably was, just like I was
in line first, which I respect, and you it's your
spot in line. It's like people on planes who are like, hey,
will you move so my kid can sit here? It'd

(25:00):
be nice if they did, but you don't have to.
And when they shame people who don't move, I'm like, no,
they're no shame of them. They got that seat, she
had that spot in line. That's absolutely hers. But also
it's two items. It take them ten seconds. However, dude,
you got there late. There's no mumbling comment. How about

(25:20):
get there and be on time to stuff?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know. I was just like so glad I wasn't
her in that moment.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
I feel like they both kind of suck a little
bit there and that one Eddie.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
I got the best birthday gift ever from my sister.
It's called a Ninja Blast blender. And it's a portable blender.
It's the size of maybe like a tall boy, like
a beer tall boy, and you charge it.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
That's all. That's all the size it is.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, maybe a little bigger, huh. And so you charge
it like a phone and then it's a blender and
it works. So basically like if I go to like
my workouts, I put all my fruit in there, my protein,
and I don't have to blend it yet.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
What workouts are you going to or you're taking this
your workout. You've never once brought it over.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
It's in my car. It's SATs in my car.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
When did you get it?

Speaker 1 (26:00):
He's going first birthday, birthday?

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yeah, yeah, and then it stays in my car. And
then when I'm done my workout, I just hit and
it blends while I'm driving and I can drink my smoothie.
Not only that, dude, I can make I can put
all this stuff for a margarita head to my kids
baseball games in the parking lot.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
I think that invention is great, but he's not going
to use it how he says he's using it in
a car after a workout.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Already been using it at home.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
I think it's a great practical thing to travel with,
but he's not going to take fruit and travel with
the fruit. And then that he's done that, I've done it.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
I even showed our trainer. He was like, WHOA, that's
the coolest thing.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
How many times have you done it?

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Twice?

Speaker 5 (26:38):
And how many workouts did you in the morning before
work twice? And did you quit that?

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah, I'm just saying I think the inventions great. I'm
not hitting on the adventtion. I think it's super cool.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Wait I get I know ninjas make great blenders, but
what's this one called Ninja.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
Boy and it's called the Ninja Blast blas.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
So it's like gives you, like maybe like a little
sixteen outs smoothie.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
But it does sound really cool to make a sixteen
out smoothie at home on the road, man.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
On the road, when you blend it up fresh if
something about it, I get the idea behind that.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
He's not going to take it with them on the
road and make it right when he gets.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Literally it's a cordless portal. I had never heard of
this before.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
I think the invention is cool. I know you, I
know me. No way, no way. Why would you just not?
It doesn't matter because the.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Little pop tops, you're like drinking.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
It like you drink it like like the whole blender
is like a cup.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Man, awesome. I'm not talking about the invention, about your
relationship to the invention.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
I'll bring it to my next workout.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
How gross is the fruit sitting in there?

Speaker 6 (27:40):
Grows fruit?

Speaker 5 (27:41):
Okay, but you can put it to make the drink
in the blender and put the blender on a nice
chest and it's the same.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Guys, y'all don't understand the swig of a freshly bleach.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
It's bliss.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Man, get his point and he can put it in
a cooler and then fresh blood.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Why would you want to do that in your truck?

Speaker 7 (28:01):
You got to bring it?

Speaker 5 (28:03):
Watch it. Okay, you're out of your mind. Okay, lunchbox
speaking of it.

Speaker 7 (28:08):
Out of your mind. Amy has lost her mind?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
What did I do?

Speaker 6 (28:10):
This is now?

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Guy?

Speaker 7 (28:12):
She has full blown conversations with herself.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yes, I told you all, I've been having those. Sometimes
I accidentally do it out loud and y'all hear it.

Speaker 7 (28:20):
She was doing a spot the other day, a commercial. Yeah,
like a commercial, and then all of a sudden she
messes up and she just starts talking to herself. Listen
to this.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
You recorded her doing?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Wait? No, how do y'all get this audio of me
when I'm doing my own spot? Somebody is selling me out?

Speaker 7 (28:34):
No? No, no, there was no one in here. And I
walked by the glassroom and it just as you can
hear it in there over the speaker.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
So you so you recorded it?

Speaker 7 (28:41):
No, because she's recording the commercial and so, so.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Then how did you get the audio on?

Speaker 7 (28:46):
Was it was? I was like hey whenever, whoever has
that when they're done said.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Okay, it's Kevin sold me out because Kevin. That's who
I's in my audio to. I save it in Kevin's file.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Okay, she's going crazy right now, Gray, would you hit it?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I love doing that sort of stuff with my daughter.
And back to that cozy situation. Did it say cozy fire?
Did I say cozy fire? Or did I just say
it in my head? I need to start over because
I can't breathe. I'm not done, but I gotta work out. Man.
I'm in doing much cardio. I'm trying to row. Have

(29:17):
you ever rode? It's hard, like a rowing machine? Up
my intensity.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
Okay, there's she's just talking to herself. That's weird.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Man.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
If there's somebody in here, like producing your spots that make.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
They're not they're not in here. But this is what
I can explain. I figure when Kevin's getting the spots
and he's putting them all together, I'm talking to him.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
I think he wants to hear you talk editing commercials.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's the future Kevin who's listening to those later, That's
who I'm talking to.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
He's not listening to a podcast. He's doing one hundred
commercials back there.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah, somebody put a wet watch cloth on her head.
My grandma always it's worked for me when I was
a kid.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
You row so Kevin. You don't think Kevin likes.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Slip No, No, I think he has a lot to do,
and I don't think he wants to listen to like
commentary while he's doing a hundred spots, you know, because
he got all commercials from all of us.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah, that was weird to hear.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
That was weird. A couple more Morgan update.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh I got a bit by a tick.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Oh no, lime disease.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
Okay, well that's a that's a what where is it?
It's a hefty jump. It's a hefty jump. Most ticks
aren't lime disease. You're gonna freak her out cause she's
been dealing with a lot of health issues. Let's pumped
the breaks.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm already honestly, I did.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I took it out with tweezers, and I did put
it in a baggie and it's currently being frozen in
my bad off.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I know I've done this before, and I'd put it
in the freezer and then I mailed it off, so
I can't I tell you where to send it.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
I would say, Morgan, you're fine, but you can send
it off. As someone who got by a lot of
ticks growing up in the woods, most tics don't have
lime disease. Now some do, and it really does mess
you up. But I would say, the odds of you
having lime disease from this tick are very, very very low.
But Amy did this once and sent it off. So
you send it off and we'll do the thing where
you don't know the results we did on the air.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Okay, we can do that.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
But also, guys, the head is still in my body.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh, I get it out. You need to get that out.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
I tried.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
I tried to use a needle and get it out,
and it was there was a lot happened.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Like the fangs are still in your body.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
It was on my stomach like just right here, and
I like looked down. I was like, oh my gosh,
that's a tick.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
The legs were moving, and I pulled it out with
tweezers because I tried all the little techniques of like
getting it out and it wasn't coming out. So I
pulled it out and then I looked down and I
still see like a little brown.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Spot amy and get in there. She got many splinters
out of my feet over the years. It's not a splinter,
but she can go in.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
So right now you have it in your stomach. Yeah,
oh that is you are getting.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
No, No, you don't get.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
It says, yeah, it's not too it doesn't seem too bad.
But I just wouldn't feel comfortable with it in there.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, maybe you can help her.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, yeah, tweezers.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
I'll go, I'll finally go.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
My therapist asked me how many time it's been late
to work yet? Because my challenge was to be late
to work. Remember, he was like, hey, you need to
be late to work a couple of times just to
like break your your habits, like break your your rigidity.
And I did tell him none, Yeah you haven't.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Been, so then what's what's your punishment?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
I have to wear truck from my neck in therapy.
But that's that. That was the update. He's also given
me a couple of other challenges too that are very
very uncomfortable for me because I haven't been late to work.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Ever. I think you're even getting here earlier now, which is.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
I do I slowly started get, yeah, you're doing this
opposite of what you're therapy telling you. I know, I know,
I know, but that that that's the update, is that
I had to have that conversation. He checked in and goes, okay,
because I go, we don't talk about every time. You
say how many times you've been late to work not
late for air, but late as my normal time, And
I said zero. And he's like, how do you think
you're going to get better if you're not actually doing
things that make you uncomfortable? And I completely agree that part.

(32:55):
It's really hard.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
I can show you, man, it's really.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
I know. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Number two.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
I think we all feel like we are always honest
on the show and share our true thoughts and feelings.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Well, a show member came to the show.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
And said, no, I really need you guys to be
honest with me about a particular subject. And it's kind
of awkward and I feel also a little like I
got yelled out for no reason.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
In the segment Number three. The segment might get awkward,
it may not, but someone on the show has asked
for one hundred percent pure honesty.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Do not sugarcoated.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Do not be safe with their feelings. Don't don't be
precious about feelings. Just be honest. Okay, okay, all right,
it's not me, it's.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
Eddie, and you're gonna be honest, right, guys.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, we just can't look at you.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Yeah, I won't.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
You don't have to look at me.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I'm not.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
I think you're gonna need to Nope, No, I think
you're gonna need Okay, Okay, Eddie, we're gonna be honest.
Everybody commitment to be honest for y Yeah, okay, go ahead,
no problem, and don't answer until I come to you. Okay,
but Eddie, go ahead and talk about scenario.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
Okay, guys, I just want to ask you a question,
am I fat?

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Stop?

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Okay? Why do you think.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Because Morgan had to do these AI like, uh, I
don't know, action figures or something. You take three pictures
of yourself, You send it to AI. You say, make
an action figure out of me, and when I got back,
I'm gonna send it to you guys right now, the
original one I got back.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
Oh, we didn't see the original no no, no.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
I had to go back and say make me skinnier
because the original one made me fat?

Speaker 5 (34:28):
Oh I see you?

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Oh and so I'm thinking, like, is it me thinking
I don't look like that? Because I don't think I
look like that? Okay, So my question for you guys,
and just so.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
You told her make you skinnier.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
I told Ai make me skinnier. Please?

Speaker 5 (34:43):
You told Morgan to make a No Ai, you did
it yourself?

Speaker 6 (34:46):
Yes, okay, and AI made me skinnier. But that's the
original picture that it's sent it we want to see.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
So I said, it's in that group text. There's a viral,
it's a meme, a trend where it's like this is
the action figure and it says producer already on air.
Personality is picture of Eddie. There's a Dallas cowboy. He
had about one hundred kids, a grill and a guitar,
basically his life and what do I look like? So
he wants to know the question is what do I
look like? That your question has changed. The question was

(35:14):
at first am I fat?

Speaker 6 (35:15):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Is that what you want to answer to?

Speaker 6 (35:17):
Well? Yes, the answer is the question is am I fat?
Because A I think so I'm fat? So I want
to know my fat.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
Okay, See here's the thing you know different people are
going to have different read like Amy is going to
be very sensitive to your feelings, and.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I can I can answer honestly on this.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
I can even look at it heat, I can take it.
Come on, No, you're not. I don't. I'm I don't
like commenting on your body anymore?

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Why right?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
But I know? But if he's asking genuinely, no, you're not.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
Yeah, it's offensive when people don't like, well, ask like
am I fat? But like and you just tell him
you're fat? It's not offensive when I'm asking you, guys,
tell me right now, look at me in the face.
Am I fat?

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:58):
And you're not?

Speaker 5 (35:59):
Lunchbox Eddie.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
Unfortunately, you are fat in this figurine. And I think
maybe you uploaded some fat photos because you had to
upload three photos, so maybe you did old fat photos
and that's how they thought you were fat.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
No, I took the photos of that moment and just sent.

Speaker 7 (36:15):
Them, Oh, because I don't think you're fat.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
What do you think? He is?

Speaker 7 (36:21):
Plum chubby?

Speaker 5 (36:24):
So you would say fat chubby?

Speaker 7 (36:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (36:28):
How do you feel about being chubby?

Speaker 6 (36:30):
I don't like it chubby. I feel like I don't
feel like I'm chubby. I feel like I'm I.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
Would say this guy in the picture's chubby.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
No, I gos fat?

Speaker 6 (36:38):
You think?

Speaker 1 (36:38):
So?

Speaker 6 (36:38):
Okay, that's a fat dude.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
A I made me fat, Morgan, No, Eddie.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
I don't think you're fat, but I do think you
have a dad bought.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Oh wow, you're a dad.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
That's rude.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
You're a dad. That's a good thing.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
How you strong? How do you see yourself he works out? Yeah, like,
how do you see yourself?

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Fit? With maybe a little bit of fluff, but overall fit.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yes, I would agree with that. He's overall fit.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
We didn't say you were unfit. You can be chubby
and be fit.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
I would say you look strong. I don't know that
I would use fit. Yeah, I wouldn't say fit, but
I would say strong. And yeah, who cares? You got
a little belly?

Speaker 6 (37:23):
That thing exactly? So does AI exaggerate what it sees like?
Am I fit with a belly?

Speaker 5 (37:31):
I think you're strong. I don't think you're fit. I
think you're strong. I think you're strong with I think
you're strong with a belly.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Strong with a belly. See, because like you like strong
like doesn't mean like, I don't know, like you can
be kind of bigger and look strong like Babe Ruth
looked kind of strong.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
But it looks so I think our general consensus is
you're not fat, but you're probably not as skinny as
you think you are.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
Okay, okay, but.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
That all.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
That was fine?

Speaker 6 (38:07):
And then and then Morgan called me said, I had
a dad.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Boss, you have You've referred to yourself as having a dad.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
I think you have a strong dad body.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
What does that mean? What does that mean?

Speaker 5 (38:19):
You're the most sensitive and we appreciate that for you
and who you are, and you know you're very sensitive
to people's bodies and stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yeah, this whole thing is stupid.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
But this is he. He's the one that brought it.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
I want to know.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
He's the one that was like, can I please get
full honesty.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
Because I don't want to live my life thinking I
look like something? And then really I look like that.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
I don't think you look like that, but I don't
also think you look like what you think you look like.
I guess somewhere in the middle.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
None of us look like the AI thing, like, nobody
really looks like. All of our figurines look a little different.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
Why didn't send mine back to be redone?

Speaker 6 (38:50):
Yours didn't come back fat, Yours came back skinny.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
My head looks stupid. I like Stephen Colbert on drugs. Yeah,
but I didn't send it back.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
I wasn't worried about the face like or the head whatever.
But when it came back, look maybe me looking like
a lumpapa.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
So what do you take from this conversation? We're all
honest with you. What did you learn here?

Speaker 6 (39:09):
I think Amy is being very very nice. She said
the nicest thing about me. But I think she's being sweet.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Don't want her my sweet person person?

Speaker 6 (39:16):
Does that? You were pretty honest with me.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
I think you're strong strong, you have back muscles, are strong.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
I think you have you still have a little belly.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Yeah. And then Lunchbox. I can't really take what he
says because he's just, you know, saying things that make
me mad. Morgan and Morgan's hurt. Morgan's hurt me a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
You called yourself that so many times.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
So I don't know, dude, do you feel growth from
this growth?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Ware?

Speaker 6 (39:40):
I feel like I need to look at myself more
of an understanding. I'm fatter than I thought I was.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
You're not fat, you're not fat.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
You're gonna make me cry.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I'm also worried that Eddie sent his fat figurine to
my old number.

Speaker 6 (39:55):
Did you?

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Oh no, Amy's old numbers got sent to the and
it's gotten all my information on.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Whoever has my old phone number is a minor and
they have thrown to call the police.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Oh my god, they don't know you asked them and
I look like that right, So send that number of
picture of you shirtless and say.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Two Counting Crow stop by our studio, which, if you've
been the listener for a long time, or maybe you haven't,
this is one of Bobby's favorite bands, so he totally
geeked out. He even had a dedication to them in
his first book, So Huge Fans.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Is a cool moment.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
And beyond having a really fun interview and hearing about
some of the moments in their career, they also did
a performance which you can go check out on our
YouTube page at Bobby Bone Show and while you're there,
subscribe do it for Eddie myself in Lunchbox. We make
some money if we hit five hundred thousand subscribers, which
could be really hard.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
But we're trying it.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
Number two on the Bobby Bone Show.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Now Adam Durrett's of Counting Crows.

Speaker 9 (41:11):
Adam, good to see you again, buddy. Hey, no, I
realized there's things going on in the head that I'm
missing out on. It was literally a voice just going
and now Adam Durret's counting Crows.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
I mean, if you really wanted to hear that?

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Did sound cool?

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:25):
Intro seven out of ten?

Speaker 9 (41:27):
All right, okay, it's cool as long as I got
the idea. Now I feel like I've hit the stage.
There's been a yeah I'm here here? Do you guys
have an intro?

Speaker 6 (41:36):
Now?

Speaker 5 (41:36):
When you come out?

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Like?

Speaker 9 (41:37):
Why do you guys come out? We usually play this
song it lately it's been stand By. It's lying the
family stone, lights go down, stand comes on. We come
on about midway through the song.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
So the song is playing like over the top and
you guys walk out.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
On the hall.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
It comes out when you do a set list? How
often does it change during a tour?

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (41:57):
Every night?

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Is that part of your you know, I don't know.
Creative nightly task is to recreate the set list?

Speaker 6 (42:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (42:06):
Im or who he was here a second ago? He
and I do it after dinner sometime. Does that depend
on the mood that you're in. Yeah, yeah, just sort
of what do you want to play tonight? That way,
we're playing stuff we want to play.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Do you ever do want of you ever go hey,
maybe we haven't played this song in a while, we
throw this in. Is there ever like a battle?

Speaker 9 (42:24):
No, it's usually like that, you know, somebody wants it's
I mean, anybody in the band can say, hey, you know,
I've been really dying to play this, and if we
you know, if it's if we've been playing it, we
just stick in the set list. If we haven't been,
we'll work at soundcheck and then put it in the
set list. Sometimes we need a few days to work
on something if we haven't played it for a decade
or something.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
You know, Oh, you'll bring old songs back sometimes, yeah.

Speaker 9 (42:46):
Because people like you know, we have so many records
at this point and so many songs, and people like
get to where they're dying to hear something, or someone's
girlfriend is pretty insistent about something. My girlfriend really wanted
us to play this song Butterfly and Orver for a
long time, and it was a song even when it
was released, we only played it once or twice. One
of my friends checked on the whatever the archive, we

(43:08):
only played it once or twice, and we worked on
it and put it in the set, and now it's
been like every night for a few years. That everybody
loved it so much that it's kind of stuck in there.
But yeah, you know, there's things you haven't played in
a long time.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
Are there any songs that you feel you have to
play every night? Is there one song that stays in
the thread the whole time? A long December does nothing else?
I mean, I don't feel like there's anything I have
to play every night, because sometimes you just get tired
of it. There anything there is, you get tired of it,
except for some reason, for me, A Long December, I
never get tired of it. There's never been a night

(43:40):
where I didn't want to play it. I don't know
why that is. I have no idea, but I'm always
kind of excited to play it. Like an arrangement change
up on that song, like playing it by yourself at
a piano or the full band. Does that ever change
even though the thread as you play that song every night.

Speaker 9 (43:51):
Yeah, I mean, we'll change little details of it. There's
little like breakdowns that go into it. For the last
couple year and a half, I started. I just we
went to see Taylor Swift and it was really great
and I really loved that song the one, and so
I started like backstage working on a version of it
by myself, and then I just walked down stage one

(44:12):
night and played it and let it right into A
Long December. So it the end of that song built
and became the intro to A Long December. And I've
been doing it that way for about a year now
and I'm really loving it. I don't know, It's such
a great song and it was a real cool surprise
to then crash it into a Long December and start
that song from there. So I've been doing it that way,

(44:33):
but I've done that with different songs. I remember doing
it with Live Forever, that Oasis song. We were touring
Anyone once and I went, you know, and figured out
how to play Love Forever and then just surprised everybody
on stages at one.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Night with cell phones too. It's got to be different
because if you're gonna go do Taylor, the one that's
either gonna go super viral or it's not it's gonna
be kind of weird.

Speaker 9 (44:53):
Well, it was kind of cool because at some point
midway through the first verse, I alway hear the scream
from a bunch of girls like it happens, because it's
not immediately recognizable as that song, because I'm playing it
pretty differently, kind of inside out. But at some point,
like two thirds of the way through the third verse
or the first verse, there's just a scream from a

(45:16):
bunch of girls who realize what's going on, and then
I don't know where they're hitting their mom going no,
you don't understand, mom.

Speaker 5 (45:23):
How has content creation been for you with music? Because
that's different for anybody that was, you know, playing the
nineties and two thousands. I have friends now that are
struggling with man, I have to make content now to
go with my music. How has that been for you
and you guys, Well, it's kind of a I was
really enthusiastic about social media when it first started. I

(45:47):
was on the message boards at AOL, you know, in
ninety six when I realized, oh, here's a way to
talk directly to fans. I don't have to go through
the press or something. And then when Twitter came out.
I really jumped on that.

Speaker 9 (46:00):
The problem is you're not always at the forefront of something,
Like you're patting yourself on the back for being on
the message boards, you know, ten years before social media,
and then you're patting yourself on the back for building
up Twitter and you don't realize that Instagram is the
next thing, or you don't or you finally get on
hold of that. And you know, as you're older, you're
not in touch with the same stuff that kids are,
and so you don't realize that TikTok is really important.

(46:24):
You know that it's just inevitable that you fall behind
because you're not keyed into the same you know, zeitgeist
as kids are. But yeah, you just kind of adjust,
you try to. I mean, I think at this point
in my life, I'm always a little behind, which is okay.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
It's you know, it's kind of fun to catch up.
Sometimes some of my friends are like, man, I hate
singing into a phone like that. They really have struggle
with like singing in their songs into a phone to
put it on TikTok? Was that? Ever? When you shot content,
do you shoot it wider? Because you can shoot a
video ish style or where it doesn't feel as ridiculous, because
it does feel kind of weird to put your phone

(46:59):
up in sing right into it. How are you guys
doing that?

Speaker 6 (47:02):
Well?

Speaker 9 (47:04):
Early on, I mean, I don't mind singing into my
phone because I was doing it for voice memos. It
was like, Wow, I got a thing I can record,
I work on new songs. I can record and write them.
That seemed like the coolest thing in the world to me.
I didn't need a recording studio. I have my phone.
And then I started doing like it was a little
while to learn how to do all the stuff and
learn to edit. You know, I had to go learn
how to edit stuff, get the editing apps. And I
was making cooking videos because I was bored during the pandemic,

(47:27):
so I was making I was, you know, teaching kind
of cooking lessons on my Instagram.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
And then you know, I watch a lot of it.

Speaker 9 (47:33):
I see people doing these clips of songs and how
you only have to do a whole song, but clips
of songs are really cool and I kind of like
watching them. So, you know, I wised up to doing that,
but it took me till this record to wise up
to doing that. It's not hard to do them though,
sometimes doing my phone. Sometimes we have a videographer who
works with us. He'll come over and just film me

(47:54):
doing stuff, or he filmed when we were making the record.
He was there with cameras. So you know, we've been
using clips of all of us from in the studio
that we filmed. And then I had them come over
and shoot a bunch of clips of me just doing
the vocals because they were a little bit it wasn't
as immediate the clips from the side away from the

(48:14):
mic in the studio, so I wanted to cut a
bunch of clips of just my face doing stuff. I
called them up and said, I want to make videos
out of these, but I don't want to just use
the studio footage. I want to shoot stuff in front
of a screen. And so we did that and we've
been putting those up for Spaceman and now for Under
the Aurora.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
You mentioned voice notes, So what were you using before
voice notes? Was it just a pad of paper all
that was a notebook all the time. Well, I mean
I always use these notebooks, but I also had there
was an app. It was it was just called like recorder,
but it was just an app that had really good
compression on it that you just pushed record so I

(48:51):
could use it on my computer back then, and it
was a really great It was a better app than
any I've found since then. It just sort of did
all for You had a great compression, a great Q
on it, and it was boneheaded. You just pushed record
and play and it did great recordings. I did a
whole record with that app. At one point just called
all my Bloody Valentine's. It was like Valentine's the week

(49:12):
before Valentine's Day ten years ago or whenever it was,
and I just said, I'm gonna record a song. I'm
gonna learn to cover a day and record a song
a day for the next week leading up to Valentine's Day.
And I just did seven songs and ended up putting
it out and giving it away to all our fans.
Do you have any of your original handwritten lyrics to
any of the old any of the old songs?

Speaker 7 (49:30):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (49:31):
Yeah, I've got all these lyric books. Yeah, to just
live somewhere in your house. Yeah, there's like piles of them.
I've always written in these books, so I have these
little ones that they are like spiral binders that are
about that big. They're like for school, you know notebooks.
I used them when I was in college too. I
don't do it as much anymore. I find the notes
function in my phone is really great because I just
lay around. Also, we've all stopped writing, yeah, so writing's

(49:55):
not as like natural as it was. So you know,
with my phone, I can walk around when I'm working
on a song, can just walk around huming stuff to
myself and I just you know, type it into the notes.
I have a lot of lyrics in my notes, but
I still use the notebook for stuff too.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
We were talking a little bit ago about how gen
Z doesn't know has never written a handwritten letter, and
my answer to that was, well, you know, our parents
never churned butter, and I'm sure their generation ahead of
them was like, I can't believe the kids now. I
don't churn butter. So there are certain skills that you
don't have to have, you know, as time goes by.
I just feel though, if I use a like GPS,

(50:31):
I know how to get nowhere because I GPS everywhere.
And if I write everything down onto my phone, like
I write a bunch of joke Ida and on my
phone constantly, but I don't remember stuff as well. If
I'm putting it in digitally, does your mind remember the
same digitally as it as handwritten?

Speaker 6 (50:45):
No.

Speaker 9 (50:45):
I mean I realized last night. I was I can't
remember what I was out to dinner last night, and
my girlfriend was giving her phone number to somebody, like
one of our friends. And I suddenly realized, Oh, that's
not cool. You don't know her number. I mean I knew,
I don't know. I know, like seven or eight number,

(51:05):
I wouldn't she was saying it. I was in my
head going, oh, and then the last two numbers I
had wrong. I'm like, Wow, you don't know your girlfriend's
phone number.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
I would be in trouble if I were being held hostage.
I know nobody's phone number unless it was from Like
I know my friend Evan's dad's number from when I
was like twelve, Like I can remember that one, but
I don't know anybody's phone number. Now. Being held hostage
comes with a lot of other problems anyways, But first
I need to call somebody. They're like, they're like, we
demand ransom, and I'm like, I don't know how to
get a hold of anybody.

Speaker 9 (51:31):
And then that's kind of the cops give you one call.
I don't know about hostages. Sometimes they do, but what
if they just don't like you.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Then they will not want to ransom. And you're not hostage,
you're just dead. Yeah, then you're just dead.

Speaker 9 (51:42):
Yeah, it's there's a lot of problems of the hostage
situation above and be on the phones. But I get
your point.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
Did you watch Why Lotus last night?

Speaker 6 (51:47):
But I did? I did?

Speaker 5 (51:48):
You did?

Speaker 6 (51:50):
No?

Speaker 5 (51:51):
Okay, no, I'm not done yet. Okay, then I was
a little disappointed. But we're not giving any answers, not
saying anything, but a lot of people so I watched
the whole thing, right, My wife had already watched all
of it, and I just wanted to watch the finale
with her. So I did like seven episodes this past
weekend just to totally catch up. And I was told
by a lot of people season three was pretty slow.

(52:14):
I felt season three, the people in it, and again
no spoilers, not to be as gross as seasons one
and two, just generally, you know.

Speaker 6 (52:21):
It's the weird thing.

Speaker 9 (52:21):
Season one had like six episodes and season two had seven,
and season three had eight, and I thought six would
have been great for all of them. They'd just be
He's a really, really, really good writer, and somehow expanding
it just kind of I don't want to. It's such
a good show. I had never watched it, and then
this year I never. My girlfriend talked me into watching
it and we watched the first season like.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
Binged it, second season binged it. Third season got through
two episodes and I was like what, and she said, Oh, no,
that's that's where we're up to right now. Why are
we watching it?

Speaker 1 (52:54):
You know?

Speaker 5 (52:54):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (52:54):
I like to binge everything, you know, and she so,
then I've been doing it every week. I'm not sure
whether it's storting how it feels to me because I
have to wait for it.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
It felt really padded.

Speaker 5 (53:04):
I did all binge all three seasons, and I finally
finished right before the finale. So my feeling was my yeah,
season three people didn't feel as gross feltretty good about it.
That's cool, but there was I never felt the need
to get back to it, but I did enjoy it
while it was on. It was one of those weird,
slow burned shows for me.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
I love the other seasons.

Speaker 9 (53:25):
I just like I kind of felt like also, I
felt there's a lot of padding this season. But I
was also thinking, well, I bet the ending it will
be great, you know there, because we're gonna get there finally.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Well, don't worrybody, We're not gonna saynything about it. We're
not gonna say it. No, no, no spoiling there. What
else do you guys watch?

Speaker 6 (53:41):
Right?

Speaker 9 (53:42):
Like, did you watch Severance? Watch the first season and
I thought that was incredible.

Speaker 5 (53:46):
One of my favorite seasons ever of any show. And
we're gonna I think we're gonna watch the second season
after this.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
We just watched is it Black Doves?

Speaker 1 (53:53):
That?

Speaker 6 (53:53):
Kieran also that.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
Was great, freaking awesome. I'd be a Black Dove. I'd
be good at that. Yeah you would, Yeah, I mean
as long as you're not held hottage. Yeah yeah, well
I didn't know a phone number if I'm held hostage.
How does writing songs now compare to writing songs twenty
years ago? You know, we talked about the difference in
digitally or writing it with a hand, But like, do
you feel the need and do you schedule writing now

(54:16):
or can you only just go when you feel like it?

Speaker 6 (54:18):
I just write when I feel.

Speaker 9 (54:19):
I don't write a lot as soon as I started
touring and really being in this band, I stopped writing
all the time. I wrote every day for you know,
ten years before that when I started writing songs, But
then I can't really write on tour because I don't
play guitar. I played piano and poorly that and then
I so I wouldn't write for like a year and

(54:39):
a half because we'd be on tour. So I tend
to Ever since then, I've tended to just kind of
not write for a year or two and then write
with ten songs whatever the record is, and sometimes there's
an extra song or two, but not many. I don't
write a lot of extras. So it was different this
time because I I wrote all I just think the

(55:03):
I've been sort of changing some of the ways I write,
and sort of my the music I was writing was
a little more ambitious than my ability to play it,
and so I couldn't really tell how the songs were.
I finally I sat on them for a couple of
years because I hadn't have a lot of confidence in them,
and then I called the guys up and said, I wrote,
we'd love for me to z from this the first

(55:23):
song on the record, and I knew I loved it,
and I thought, I got to figure out what I'm
doing with.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
The rest of the songs.

Speaker 9 (55:28):
And I called, you know, Immer and a couple of
other guys are bass player and drummer, and said, just
I need everybody to come to my house for a week.
I just need to play this stuff with you. I
need to hear how it is with the band and
then I'll know. And when as soon as we started
playing it, I was like, oh, wow, this is I
love this stuff, but this is the first time. A
lot of it was in my head, like I couldn't
really play it, but I knew it. I knew how
it was supposed to go, had the chords. I just

(55:51):
my ability to play piano. I couldn't do these songs.
And so I was carrying around in my head until
I heard them play it. I describe what I wanted
and it was great, and I was really excited, but
that that hadn't really happened.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Before the with Love from A to Z Whenever, because
I've listened whenever. The first half came out and it
was all one track. Loved that thought it was super cool,
and then I guess then it split up into songs later,
I will shout out the name Bobby uh two references
on this record.

Speaker 9 (56:18):
Yeah, I know it was very inspired by you know,
the last time we were hanging out.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
Thank you very much. Well Bobby and the Right Kings.
I think was already exist existent when we hung out
last time, but this one. But I knew we were
gonna hang out yea, yeah, yeah, I knew it was
gonna happen. Spaceman of Tulsa. I get a shout out
as well, you're back, Yes, I'm back baby.

Speaker 6 (56:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
So when you do new records, how how many these
songs do you put on a set list tonight? You
have so many songs to kind of jump between.

Speaker 6 (56:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
I mean the Suite. I really only liked playing the
Suite altogether. The guys that tried to get me to
like just play single songs, but I really like it.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
All is one.

Speaker 9 (56:48):
So that's a chunk if you're gonna play that, I mean,
that's twenty minutes of the show right there.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (56:52):
I guess it depends on the night. We'll start doing
it and you stick them in. I don't know, it's weird,
you know, like we're you want to play your whole
new record. But sometimes there was a time we could
do that when everyone was buying all the records and
everybody knew all the songs. So maybe if Spaceman and
Telsa blows up to the roof or under the Aurora does,
or one of them does, we can just play the

(57:13):
whole record for people.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
What's the song that you hear out randomly the most
of ours?

Speaker 9 (57:19):
Yeah, I suppose it's probably mister Jones. I hear Long
December a lot.

Speaker 6 (57:24):
Especially.

Speaker 9 (57:24):
It's become kind of a Christmas standard, Like every like
holiday season, it seems like everybody's covering it, and it
shows up like on TikTok and on Instagram, you know,
people playing it.

Speaker 6 (57:35):
This year, m J.

Speaker 9 (57:37):
Linderman was doing a version right around Christmas, and Gracie
Abrams sang it. I saw that benefit for the fires.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
It was awesome. What do you think about that?

Speaker 6 (57:44):
That was cool?

Speaker 5 (57:45):
Yeah, I mean I always think it's cool.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (57:47):
I think our songs are kind of weird sometimes that
you know, my phrasing's a little difficult.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 9 (57:53):
I don't hear a lot of people covering us, except
in bars. Sometimes you know where you don't necessarily want
to hear it as much.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
But have you in a bar and heart someone covering you? Yeah?
And what someimes? It's really good that I heard a
version of a round here a while ago.

Speaker 9 (58:05):
That was like, wow, that that was really good, actually suppressed.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
Do you tell them it's you?

Speaker 9 (58:10):
Oh no, no, well I used to have it used
to be obvious it was me before I shaped off
the dreads like it was, there was no question it
was me.

Speaker 6 (58:17):
Then.

Speaker 9 (58:18):
I think I'm a little more anonymous now. I think
I'm a lot more anonymous now.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Was that a big decision to cut off the dreads?

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Not really.

Speaker 9 (58:25):
I felt it wasn't a big decision to me. I
just felt like I was excited. I mean, it wasn't
really that. I just kind of did it on a whim,
you know, like, uh, but I think it was a
big decision for a lot of other people somehow.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
And I get asked about it a lot.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
One of my neighbors lives a few houses down is
Tibow and Burnett. Oh really yeah, and he was that
he was over a few weeks ago. We were talking
about August and everything after and the wallflowers. Uh what
was working with him like as a producer. That's a
long time ago.

Speaker 6 (58:56):
I mean it was cool.

Speaker 9 (58:57):
He's really good. He's got you know, there's a lot
of producers that just have like a sound like they've
got a studio trick that they do and that's what
they their records sound like, t bones, not really quantifiable
like that. He he helps you figure out who you
are and who you want to be on a record.
I think he's really It's why he's worked with a
lot of bands on their first records. It made a

(59:17):
lot of really good first records with bands, because I
think he really helps you define yourself. He's got a
thing that, you know, an understanding of music that not
everybody has. He's really really good at that.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
He brought the coolest friend over, which is Ringo Star.
They came over together. That's pretty that's a strong friend
or guest. Yeah, that's that's a strong friend. Who was
responsible for putting you as background vocals of sixth Avenue Heartache.

Speaker 9 (59:45):
Well, you know, the Wallflowers had made their first album
on Version and it's a really good record, but it
didn't really make much of an impression. It's it's it's
not it didn't really sum up who they were. And
Jake and I were friends. I was bartending at the
Viper Room and he was there a lot, and we
would talk about, you know, what we were doing. And
he asked me at one point, I think if I
had any advice about that, and I said, well, you know,

(01:00:06):
t Bone is really good. What I just told you
is like helping you define yourself. And I felt like
that's kind of what that record needed. That he's a
real unique guy and a unique songwriter and singer, and
that didn't get brought out as much on that first record,
and so I suggested t Bone. And you know, a
few months later, I was at home. I lived in
Laurel Canyon then, and I got a phone call from

(01:00:27):
either t Bone or Andy Slater, who was Jake's manager,
and they're like, we have we're working on this song
and it's just not singing yet, you know, do you
want to come down and singing? I was like, which song?
He said, six ave new Hardech. I said, I don't
really know that one, because I knew a lot of
the Jake songs that he was working on. And he said, well,
will you just come down the hill? And so I

(01:00:48):
went down and had a beer and listened to it,
and then had a beer and sang it a couple
times and left. I mean it just felt great. I
mean it was like that. They just felt like we
figured out exactly that that was just what that song needed.
It was a great song. It just needed something to
pick up the chorus, and it just felt great right away.
I think I only sang it once or twice, and

(01:01:09):
then I went back home and it turned out great.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
How long until you actually hear it.

Speaker 9 (01:01:15):
I think they sent me a copy like the next
day I got it, but I heard it right then
and we went into the controller matter.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
I sang it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
It sounded great.

Speaker 9 (01:01:22):
I mean, that's like he's got Mike Campbell from the
Heartbreakers playing the guitars on that song. It's a really
good band. I think Ben montangees on that one too,
from the Heartbreakers. I don't know about that, but yeah,
it just felt great. I knew it was great right away.
It just felt really like sometimes you just figure out
the right thing to sing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:39):
It makes it makes it work.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
SNL just did their fifty years You guys performance on SNL.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
One of them.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
I'm not sure how any of you did just popped
up on my TikTok the other day. This guy named
Huggy posts all the music performances on TikTok. What do
you remember from SNL? It was a rough week. It
had a really hard time we had.

Speaker 6 (01:02:01):
We had.

Speaker 9 (01:02:04):
Said no for a long time when they asked us,
because we were just sort of like, we wanted to
play around here at Mister Jones. We wanted to play
round here first. We didn't want to edit the songs
we had. Both Lettermen and SNL were asking us to
be on, and we just were really determined to do
it the right way. It was going to be our
first appearance ever on television.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
They wanted you to edit it for time.

Speaker 9 (01:02:24):
Yeah, they wanted both have metited. They wanted Mister Jones first.
I really wanted to play round here first. I didn't
want to edit the songs, and so we kind of
negotiated with both shows for the longest time until SNL agreed, okay, yeah,
you can, you can play them the way you want
to and you can play around here first. And then
we got there that week and they were like, oh,
by the way, we changed our mind, and I was

(01:02:44):
like no, and they said, yeah, I know, we're going
to have to do it this way, and I said, no,
we're doing it this way. And it's okay, we'll leave,
but we're not doing that. And it was just a
difficult week, fighting with them all week, and then it
was great.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
We played great. It made our career.

Speaker 9 (01:03:02):
I'll say that it made our career because we weren't
even in the top two hundred and that record jumped
forty spots a week for five weeks after we played
Saturday Night Live and until we were at number two
for the next two years. I mean, it made our career.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
What'd you play first? Round Here?

Speaker 9 (01:03:19):
Yeah, I mean it was great. It was It was
perfect because like mister Jones is a great song, it
really is. But there's a lot of songs like mister
Jones that are just catchy, you know, kind of rock tunes.
But round Here is unique, you know, and I think
it just like this is who we are. It's not
what you've been hearing before. And it completely made our career.
We were not even in the top two hundred before

(01:03:40):
we played SNL and you know, a month later we
were at number ten and then number two or something
like that, and you know, but it was a difficult week.
I went there once. My friend was Ian McKellen's agent,
and when like all the Lord of the Ring movies
are coming out, he hosted and there was this one
producer who kept getting sent to do all the talking
to us. You know. I was in the green room

(01:04:01):
because they wanted me to come. I had never been
back since then, so this is like eight years later.
And I saw this guy walk by in the hallway
and then he came back and he's like, whoa, I
never thought i'd see you again.

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
That's going on.

Speaker 9 (01:04:15):
And I was like, uh, nothing, just my friend represents
Ian and he's like, oh cool, well, you know, no
hard feelings. I was like, no, that's fine, man, all right,
do you want to get high? I was like no,
that's cool, right, okay, cool, see you later.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
It was weird.

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
I was like they'd look on his face that he's like, wow, I.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
Never thought i'd see you again.

Speaker 5 (01:04:33):
That's funny. Yeah. The record, so it's the completion of
the twenty twenty one right, So that's what it seems
like to me. So it's the rest of that. This
is all one album. So why was this a whole
body of work that you know, had been working on

(01:04:53):
and recording and now you're done with it, or to
just keep going after twenty twenty one and keep building
on that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:58):
No, I just wrote the sweet It was really like
a standalone thing. And then we were interrupted by the
pandemic anyways, and then when the pandemic was over, I
went back to my friends. He's got a farm in
the west of England, which is where I wrote the
whole suite, and I worked and I wrote a lot
of this stuff, and on the way home, I stopped
in London and sing on my friend's record. They've got

(01:05:19):
this band, Gang of Youth, Australian band. They live in London, though,
And when I got home from that a little while later,
they sent me the record and it was so good.
It's called Angel in Real Time. And I just had
this thought, like, Wow, these songs aren't as good as
their songs. I thought this stuff was really great, but
I'm seeing it in perspective compared to their stuff. You know,

(01:05:40):
it needs some work. And I actually went back to
the drawing board and I rewrote the chorus for under
the Aurora, like I rewrote a bunch of the stuff,
and I thought it was really good at that point.
But that's kind of why I didn't have a lot
of confidence in it, and I sort of sat on
it for two years before I wrote With Love from
Me to Z and then called the guys like I
told you, uh, But but it was an experience I've

(01:06:01):
never had before. I've never kind of like finished things
and thought, oh wait, they're not that they're not good enough.
But that's kind of why it took a little longer.
But originally I was just writing the suite, but then
I wanted to write this stuff to go along with it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
You mentioned you had a Taylor Sweats tour. What did
you see there that was inspiring?

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (01:06:22):
It was just really well thought out, you know. I mean,
I write songs and sing, and there's a lot that
goes into a concert that has to do with like
set design.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
We don't do a ton of that.

Speaker 9 (01:06:34):
If you want to do visuals and videos and stuff,
there's a lot of thought that has to go into
what's the right visual to put behind your song? And
I know how complex that thought process can be. And
we don't do a lot of video. We're generally set
moods with lights. But the thought that had gone into

(01:06:55):
the visual presentations at that tour, like how it was
really moving. It was really really good. And this combination
of the sets, the incredible video presentation, the movement on stage,
the whole thing. There's just a lot of complex creative
thought that goes into making a show like that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:07:17):
It's it's practically like making an entire movie, you know.
And also it's three plus hours long. That's a lot,
you know that. I was really impressed with the amount
of creative people from different disciplines that had come together
and made that really impressive show that wasn't just like laserium,
you know, like lasers like you know, you see it.

(01:07:39):
It was like moving. Each song was really thought out.
All the things that went into each song were really
thought out, and they really worked. I was just very
impressed by it. It's not the kind of show we
put on, but I thought it was brilliant.

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
One of the old man things that I say kids
miss out on now are the secret tracks. And there's
a couple of different secret tracks that I think of
with you guys, and one was the uh maybe it
was hard Candy you hold down the fast forward and
you guys did the Joni Mitchell song before Vanessa Carlton
came on, was that Hard Candy. At the end of
Hard Candy, Oh.

Speaker 9 (01:08:11):
Yeah, okay, yeah, we had to rush out the initial
pressings of that record, so we didn't have Vanessa's parts
on there yet. I think you had to like hold
down the fast forward but just barely to get to
it or let it. You fall asleep with it on
and then all of a sudden the song startles you.
But even before that, when it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
Was the what I Want wow in the Desert Life.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Yeah, and at the end of that that that that
art is no longer because now if there's a track
that's seventeen minutes long, you just see that and you're like, well,
why would you guys pick those songs to do hidden
and who was the one that suggested to do it
hidden track?

Speaker 9 (01:08:45):
Well, sometimes it's just something I really like that doesn't
work in the flow of the record. It just didn't
feel like part of the record, like kid Things on
a Desert Life. On Desert Life just didn't feel like
part of the record. But I really loved it, and
thematically it was part of the record, but it was
done really low fi and it just it didn't fit
in the I tried to fit in the flow and
I couldn't sequence it. I mean, I know nobody listens

(01:09:07):
to records anymore, but I really like to make records
and I want you to be able to sit down
and listen to it all the way through, even if
nobody's gonna do it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:13):
That's what I really like. I like making that work.

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
And sometimes I just couldn't get a song to fit,
which meant I left a couple of songs I love
off records and I hit a couple just because that
seemed kind of fun. It was like a nice Easter
egg for fans. That was the thing with the with
the kid things. It just didn't it fits thematically, but
it didn't it didn't flow in the record. But uh,

(01:09:40):
Big yell a Taxi was different because we just spent
this one weekend doing all these covers for B sides
when we were while we were mixing the record, we
were like in another little room just cutting cover songs,
and uh.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
That just turned it.

Speaker 9 (01:09:54):
We had this kind of acoustic hip hop version of
Big Yellow Taxi that we play in concert, but we
wanted to try doing a remix with it. We like
went out to Farrell back then it was just starting
in the Neptunes, then went back to him, Jimmy jamm
and Terry Lewis from the time, but we weren't able
to sort of get any of it done in time.

(01:10:15):
And Ron Fair came and said, hey, I know you've
been doing this with all these other guys, but I
actually did a version and I think it works really well.
And he sent it to me and I was like, oh,
that does work. That's really cool. Thanks, And then he
wanted to have someone sing on it. And right before
we were mixing Hard Candy, he was in there mixing
a record with this with Vanessa Carlton, her first record,

(01:10:37):
you know. And I had heard a bunch of it
because he was in there, you know, and Jack Josepegeld
played me some of her songs, thought that they were
really good, and I knew that I had to leave
for tour before we were going to be able to
finish it, and I thought it might be intimidating for
someone to come in and sing on one of our tracks,
but he could get a lot out of a woman
he had just worked with. Well, she would be comfortable
enough with him to actually like improv on our track,

(01:11:00):
and she did.

Speaker 6 (01:11:00):
Yeah, it worked out great.

Speaker 9 (01:11:01):
It's funny because she was this total unknown singer and
then by the time it came out, she was very popular.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
The complete Sweet comes up May ninth. Man, you guys
doing a lot of shows too. Do you do the
touring where you just go away and don't come back
for a couple of months.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:11:14):
Mostly, Yeah, we the weekend this sort of a Nashville thing,
I know, yeah, Friday, Saturday, maybe maybe Thursday, maybe Sunday,
but back home. Yeah, that sounds very convenient. Yeah it is. Yeah,
so you guys just go because you guys are going
like Europe too, the whole thing.

Speaker 9 (01:11:28):
Yeah, we're doing the whole summer is gone or out
on the tour in America. You know, we passed through
home wherever your home is, you usually pass through it,
and then we'll go to Europe in the fall.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
That's pretty cool. A lot of days from June and
we'll put them up in the notes here on the podcast,
but from June, yeah, all the way up until November. Yeah, yeah,
until it gets cold.

Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
Do you do cold weather shows or most of your
show's amphitheaters, Well, not during the summer, but other times
a year. Do you ever play, you ever play the
longest in December and the crowd goes ah, Like just
because you yelled December, it's like yelling at city when
you're in it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
Yeah, like he said, our month, he said our month.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
This is crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:12:07):
I should write one for each month because then I
would have hits any time of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
Yeah, that would be good. Uh, we're going to play
some music here in this second. Oh, by the way,
I should tell you not that it matters. I looked
it matters me. It doesn't matter. But this was the
first book ever wrote, and it was best seller for
a little bit. It's pretty Cool'm pretty proud of it.
But I thank you guys in the back of the book. Really,
I did, Can I have a copy? Well, you don't
want no, No, it's not sure you can have a copy.
But it wasn't for that. I just I it was

(01:12:33):
laying here by my foot, and I was like, you know,
because you guys are you guys are my favorite band
of all time, And so I said, I wonder if
I thanked them in the credits like the book, and
I did. You're on the back page when it was like, hey,
I want to think kund of Cross.

Speaker 9 (01:12:47):
I know you came to that show in Nashville few
years ago and they told me you were there. Then
you didn't come backstage.

Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
Yeah, because I don't want to be that guy like
I just want to and honestly, and I think you'll
understand this, I didn't want to not like you because
I love I love my relationship with your music, and
I didn't want to not like you. And so I
was like, you know what, I'm good because the place
I'm in now with Count of Crows, it couldn't be better.

Speaker 9 (01:13:10):
I hear you, I hear you. If you come backstage
at some point, I promise not to be well.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
Now I like you, though now I'm feel good about it.
But that was really the reason. They were like, you
want to go meet at him? And I was like, no,
I just enjoyed the show. I was like, I do
not because right now I love Adham. He might be
well and not even that, but like I intured doing
stand up and some days you just don't feel good.
Some day that's true, and so I just didn't want
it to be there. So next time I probably still won't.
But right now, when I say, well, can I have

(01:13:36):
a book or else, now I'll give you a book.
I want a book. It's really cool. They were thanking
in the back.

Speaker 6 (01:13:42):
Of the book.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
I won't want How did you think him?

Speaker 5 (01:13:44):
Like I said, I just thanked him for the music
for like all the you know, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
You read it, read it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Okay, what if it's like Adam, I'm in love with you.
Also a big sad hug to the County Crows for
making lots of great music that makes me sad by
feeling happy, by feeling sad. Actually that's pretty great. Actually, yeah,
it's nice. Yeah, because I mean that's how I felt.

(01:14:12):
So I got a little choked out.

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
That was actually pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
Well, thank you well, and I'll clarify some importance behind
that and some of Bobby's up bringing. You can have
a lot of space to feel, so I think your
music gave him that space to feel sad.

Speaker 9 (01:14:26):
Hug all around. I'm not making funn of you. That's
actually really sweet. I'm kind of touched by that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
But any hug at all was happy for me. And
now we're going too far. That's right, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan Number two.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Some things get really weird at our work.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
And this is one of those moments.

Speaker 5 (01:14:47):
Ay, he's doing something.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Lunchbox witnessed it, and he was like, I cannot believe
she was doing this at work.

Speaker 4 (01:14:53):
And I know you guys might have went to a
dirty place. That's not what this is about.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Okay, don't go there.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Gode awkward though all the way around, and I'm not
sure how I feel about it on multiple levels.

Speaker 4 (01:15:03):
But without further ado, here's.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
Lunchbox witnessing Amy doing something at work.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Don't go there. Okay, it's not dirty.

Speaker 5 (01:15:12):
Number one, you were doing therapy at work.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Well, it had to because it was virtual. But we
got done like two minutes after it was supposed to start,
so I had to like run to a production room
and pull up my computer and.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
Then I would have never done that. Here microphones and people.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
I know, But what was I supposed to do?

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
I postponed.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
No, this was the only slot she had available, and
we had a book at last minute, and it was
for noon one day, and that's normally when we get
done ish, So I was like planning on a production room.
But you never know. Sometimes if we got an eleven
forty five, it would have just driven somewhere. But it
was twelve oh two. So I ran to a production room,
got on my computer and loaded up the zoom and

(01:15:53):
I'm totally We're in therapy. My boyfriend is joining me,
my therapist is on there, We're all in the computer,
and out of the corner of my eye through the
production room window, I started seeing Lunchbox and we're having
a moment in the session and he is like making
faces and noises and I'm like, did.

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
You know what she was doing?

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:16:14):
At first I didn't know what she was doing, but
then when I realized it, I was like, Oh, this
is kind of funny, and it was kind of interesting
to see an animal in their habitat because Amy is
like mis therapy and I've never seen her do therapy
and she talks about it all the time. I mean,
I've never seen Amy so focused. She was dialed in.

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
Did you think you shouldn't watch?

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
Though?

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Like, that's very private thing. It's a very personal thing.

Speaker 7 (01:16:34):
I mean, what is so private about it? There's a window,
you're doing something where there's a windows, the doors closed,
you have the light on, and you're at work, So
I mean, is it really that private?

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
I want to still go you knew what it was, so, Yes,
I would have never done.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
That at work, I know, But what was I supposed
to do?

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
Like I said, I would have said, hey, I didn't
get out, or i'd have said, hey, I need to
leave work a few minutes early because I don't know
you needed to do, or.

Speaker 7 (01:16:57):
Say give me five minutes, I'll go sit in my car.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
I mean I have car, Okay, I could do that.

Speaker 7 (01:17:01):
Well, I'm just saying.

Speaker 5 (01:17:02):
That doesn't give you the right to like, stare and
make faces when she's like trying to like, well.

Speaker 7 (01:17:05):
I don't know at what point. What if they're just
doing introductions, that's still.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
Not a point to if you know she's doing therapy,
then that lunchucks.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Did you see I was staring at my computer and
I was emotional.

Speaker 7 (01:17:14):
I mean you did have an emotional look on your
face like oh I'm about to cry maybe or I
don't know, but you were really concentrated so I know
you can focus, which was pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
So you couldn't hear lunchbox and I couldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
You're sitting where her face was to the window, so
you could see her face.

Speaker 7 (01:17:28):
He's gone to sitting sideways like she had the computer.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Yeah, then once I saw like this. Once I saw him,
I moved the whole thing to where he couldn't see
because I was like, oh my gosh, now he's like
just buying on us.

Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
I'm gonna have to side with Amy, but barely. It's
weird to do therapy at work, but.

Speaker 7 (01:17:44):
A lot I got a question. Did your therapist or
your boyfriend think it was funny when they saw my faces?

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
No, they thankfully couldn't see you.

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
But the only that people can't see her faces of
people behind the camera on her computer.

Speaker 7 (01:17:55):
Right, like thought, maybe I was in the camera shot.
I was doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
You weren't in the shots. When I started to go
from sadness to laughter, like, they were like what's happening?
And I was like, and I'm moving and I'm like whatever,
it's my coworker.

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
So he killed he killed the vibe VI or did
I save you from crying?

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
But crying's good. I had to get it out. But
laughter is good too, so you know, I'll take it.
It just was, Yes, it's not ideal to do therapy
at work, but I guarantee you a lot of people
have to do it. And I would go to the
car though I didn't think of that. I didn't think
of that. I did it way back in the day
when I had to do these really intense ones with
my ex husband. Sometimes I would have to do them.

(01:18:34):
They were like three hours long, and I would do
them from your office back in the.

Speaker 7 (01:18:37):
Day, but there was no window there. That's the only
there was no window.

Speaker 5 (01:18:40):
But like sometimes that I'm lucky to.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Walk in. And in one time I yelled the effort
really loud and slave my computer and I was like,
did anybody hear that? That was? That was from your office?
But that was Those were different times.

Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
Yeah, I was pretty cool. I y Yeah, No, they.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
Were very very different. You remember they were different. Those
were different different That was probably twenty twenty, twenty twenty two.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
Okay, so here's a different times.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Different times.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
If she's doing therapy, don't stare in the window. Okay,
that's why I wouldn't go out staring. That's a really
personal private time. And also just don't do therapy at work.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Well that's that's I think you can do therapy at work.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
You can, but what's gonna happen if you gonta people
walking about making faces?

Speaker 7 (01:19:22):
Yeah, or put something over the window. If don't want
me to see.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
And there are microphones and there. I'd be afraid and
I could hear it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
They could.

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
I would turn a microphone on from another room and
record the whole thing.

Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
Wait really, of course, Oh yeah I do.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
They I mean you can't know. I looked at the
panel and made sure everything was off, but someone else
could access the.

Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
You don't think people can. It doesn't matter. I would
just say I wouldn't do it here. Just be careful,
it's not making faces and grow up? All right? Everybody good?

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That's are good.

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