Best Bits (Just The Bits) with Morgan: PART 2

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two.
What's up, y'all? Happy weekend. If you're listening to this
on the weekend. Maybe you're listening to this during the week,
but this is the Best Bits podcast. I'm Morgan and
this is just the Bits. So if you missed Part one,
I did an interview with Lunchbox. We caught up on life,

(00:21):
he talked about his kids. We also talked about some foods,
had a very strong debate about chips. Lunchbox even gave
me the lowdown on how he feels based on a
romance poll, so pretty interesting stuff. Make sure you check
that out on part one. This is part two where
you just get to hear the bits without much interruptions
besides me telling you what's happening. So coming in at

(00:42):
number seven, Bobby helped out a listener named Merle who
called into the show wanted to surprise his wife with
some news on the show. It was a really cute
moment and Bobby helped him out, So definitely check this out.
Number seven. Hey Merle, yep, how you doing. It's Bobby.
Hey Bobby, I'm doing great yourself? Yeah, doing pretty good.

(01:02):
I got a question for you. Yes, sir, I'm reading
here that you want to surprise your wife for a
trip to Nashville. Is she around right now? No? Actually
I had to take some clothes to the dry cleaner,
so she's not with me, so she won't know about this. Still,
whatever happens happens. Yeah, I I didn't even know. We're
going through them. So to our listeners right now, today
is Thursday, May twelve. This is after the show on Thursday,

(01:23):
and I saw Merles call and so just know this
is recorded on Thursday, and you want to tell her
on Friday, which, if people are listening to this, today
is Friday. Is that what the plan is? Yes, yes,
today it's Friday, and we're leaving at eight o'clock to
land in Nashville around nine o'clock Nashville time. And she
doesn't know any of this, so and why are you

(01:44):
surprising her? It's our thirty fifth wedding anniversary. Wow. Nice,
that's awesome. Okay, I want to get back to that
in just a second. So, okay, so it's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna play this on the radio, and okay,
at eight twenty or so Central, people are here in
this nine twenty eastern, so just know that that's when
it's gonna happen. So make sure she's hearing this on
the radio right now. Can you be sure to get

(02:05):
her to a radio or buy a phone by nine
twenty Yeah, because you're Eastern time, right, yeah, I'm Eastern time. Yes, sir,
this is on the air. Merle. I would like for
you to say whatever you'd like to say to her,
or about her, or whatever the surprise is. How about it, buddy,
I'll set you'll set you legend. Gentlemen, here's Merle. Hey, Kimberly,
this is Merle. I'm sure you recognize my voice. We're

(02:28):
on our way to work. I'm sure you're surprised to
hear this. Tonight. We're leaving for Nashville for our thirty
fifth wedding anniversary. You've always wanted to go. That's pretty cool,
and you've never been, right, Merle, No, sir, what do
you guys plan to do when you're in town? That's
a good question. I've been hitting my son up. He's
been to Nashville several times. In fact, he met you
two years ago on Broadway, and so I've been hitting

(02:52):
him up to say where do we want to go
and what do we want to do? A Broadway show,
wasn't it? Him? Personator? Okay, so you guys are coming
to town. Let me see here. I'm gonna do something.
So Friday night, I'm looking at my app here Friday night,
let's say, well you don't get into yeah, yeah, yeah,
so let me try Saturday. I mean, where should we

(03:14):
send them to dinner? If I can find? Oh that's nice. Well,
it's just you don't have to do anything like that.
I just wanted to surprise. Oh he knows he doesn't.
But listen, if you told me I had to, I
want it. Well, you're just gonna book you're thirty five
years like this is. I mean, I was thinking one
of your favorite places. But I don't think we're so

(03:35):
late on it. I know that I can't oh oh
oh oh, how much you want to spend? Well, what's
what's the deal? Because I have a hook up. You
know where I have a hook up? But is can
you get him in? Probably? Okay, here's what I'm gonna do.
Merle let me text do you have I mean that
this is gonna be good, and don't don't do the
card where you're like, oh, I don't want to just
accept it. That's pretty amazing. Do you have a Venmo

(03:57):
or a cash app or any of that. No, I
got Zell Zell. It's like yeah, it's it's like, does
anyone have Zell? I do? Okay, So if I send
you money on ben Mo, can you this is risky?
Can you send it to Merle? Yeah? Do you promise? Man? No? No, no,
We're not messing around here, do you promise? Okay, Merle,

(04:18):
I'm gonna send you and your wife to dinner. Okay,
We're gonna try to get you into one of our
favorite places here. Well, you want to ask them what
kind of food? They're like, what are they gonna like
this type of food? Like this place? Yeah, they'll like
the place, okay. Um, And then you guys go and
have a great time. And you know, once you get
back into I'll be gone. I'm going to Arkansas for
a graduation, so I will not be able to see
you come up. You could come over to the house,
who knows, but call me after the weekend you guys

(04:40):
get back in town, let me know how it went.
But I will send you and your lovely wife to
dinner thirty five years is awesome, and I appreciate you
listening to the show, all right, be awesome. Hey, I
appreciate you taking time to talk to me, all right.
And your wife, she is a lucky lady. By the way.
Merle a plus name that I haven't heard a long time.
That's a good name. That's that's a solid name. All right, Merle,
I'm gonna put you on hold. Ray, would you get

(05:01):
his info? All right? All right, Merrill, talk to you soon, buddy. Hey,
thank you, Bobby, you're walking And lunch Box and the
whole crew, all right, Eddie didn't get congratulation that restaurant faster,
I got chilies on the line. We're good, all right.
It's the best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two.
We had Craig Morgan on the show this week, and

(05:23):
if you listened to the bits with Lunchbox, then you
heard that he was just a phone call. He wasn't
actually in the studio. But that's okay, because every time
Craig Morgan comes on the show, he is hilarious. He's
such a good dude. And Bobby asked him what he
loves about every day of the week, you know, because
his song. That's what I love about Sunday's super fun moment.
You just don't want to miss anything from this interview,

(05:44):
because there was also kind of a prank that happened
with the rest of the show that we never let
Craig Morgan in on. So here you go number six,
the Friday morning conversation with Morgan. There he is right
now on the phone. And I tell you, Craig, I
saw that you announced all these concert dates and it
made me think I haven't talked to Craig and probably
a few months. So one, I wanted to get you

(06:05):
on the show because I just love you so much
and talk about your tour. And then two, I just
as I was thinking about you last night, I'd have
a lot of questions that I've never asked you. So
welcome to the show. Welcome to the show, my friend,
Thank you, Bud, thanks for having me back. Where are
you now? All? I'm a shouting dickon Tennessee right now?
Buying tomato plants? Buying tomato plants for what for your house? Here? Yeah?

(06:28):
So you're not at what's the deal on you here
versus Alaska? Oh? That's you go to Alaska in the winter.
I think it would be the opposite. Yeah, most people
think that. Yeah, we spend our we spend our summers
down near Florida, we have placed down there, and then
we spend our winners over in Alaska. I feel like
I would run from Alaska in the winter. Okay, So

(06:49):
here we go, Craig. Before we get to the tour
and the meat and potatoes of this interview, I have
a few questions that I was thinking about because you
at one time, we're a police officer, and I wonder
if did you ever sing in your uniform with the
badge on? Oh yeah, I probably saying to myself a lot.
Do you think that you could have been the singing

(07:09):
like the singing sheriff like on TikTok if that would
have happened twenty five years later? If maybe you're cragged
the singing sheriff and that's how you got your deal,
I'm gonna say no. I would just too focused on
on doing that job. You know. It only when I
was riding around by myself or park somewhere, maybe listening
to something sing along with the radio, did I sang? Otherwise?

(07:31):
I was focused on such a word for awareness. Yeah,
I know you say that, but what about did you
have to get pepper sprayed to be a cop? Yeah,
what's your memories with that? I'd rather be tasted three
times as opposed to have to do pepper spray one.
It's that bad. Why, it's just brutal, man. It takes forever.
You know, the tasting's over pretty quick. It hurts really

(07:51):
bad initially, put you to your knees and you know.
But but the spray stays with you for some time. Well,
I thought I would rather be sprayed than Ta's, but
I guess now I'll choose the other option. All right,
bring it in. We're go doing on the phone now.
He's gonna listen in. Craig Morgan's on with us right now.
The tour is happening. Tickets at craigmorgan dot com. You're

(08:12):
gonna go October nineteenth all the way through the middle
of November. When you go ahead and do this tour, Like,
what are you doing all the hits, Craig, I'm gonna
be honest, I'm not doing them all. There's a few
that we don't do because I ought to do some
of the new stuff, new material, and we have fun
with it. You know we might do a cover too.
I just want anybody to come enjoy the show. Now,

(08:33):
having said that, it's fare in a place and you
know we're good on time, and someone yells out a
particular song. The guys aren't prepared to play all the hits.
In fact, they're probably more prepared than I am. I
don't remember all the words. Sometimes, Well, you play that's
what I love about Sunday though, Oh for sure, Okay,
that's all I really wanted to know. I just wanted
to ask it in a nice way, because if I

(08:54):
came to your show and you didn't play that's what
I love about Sunday, I might walk out right. I agree, Hey,
I agree with you. If I went to a show, uh,
and and the ticket ars didn't sing a big fat
hit that they had, I don't know that. I wish
I'd be kind of ticked off. So the problem is,
you know, I had some songs that were hits that
we're just kind of like, so so hit, that's so

(09:21):
so hit was really important to someone coming. And so
I've gotten text you know, I can't believe you didn't
do whatever. You know, I'm like, oh, I'm sorry, we
want to hit some much. So what about International Harvester?
Yeah for sure? Okay, good, all right, we're good. Then
I want to ask for a refund. We're all good, Mike.
Here's my second question for you. Craig Morgan's on with us,
so you guys can get tickets to his tour. Just
go to his website Craigmorgan dot com. What I'd like

(09:43):
to do because I know what you love about Sunday
and I'm gonna I'm gonna sing this to you this question.
I'd like to know what you love about the other days?
Here we go. What do you love about Mondays? Go ahead, Craig,
Monday is my Sunday? Oh, because it's like a day off, hardest,
like his day. All right. I started to do another one.
What do you love about Tuesdays? Stake night? Okay? I

(10:08):
like all right, right to the point. Every Tuesday? Every Tuesday?
You have steak every Tuesday? Why Tuesday? Every Tuesday? Just
what me and my wife has been doing. Okay, all right,
all right, we're gonna let's try the next one. What
do you love about Wednesdays? I have no idea I
could say you what I do? Ok Okay, okay, Amy

(10:29):
take Thursday. Go ahead, and what do you love about Thursdays?
That's when I get on the button head your way.
Oh that's good, that's very good. Well I got two
more days here. What do you love about Fridays? That's
when I get to stand on my stage. Oh we're
good now he's got to feel of it. We're singing

(10:51):
the song with each other. Good. One more? What do
you love about Saturday? Bike rid and run before I play? Oh?
Every Saturday you go get a bike ride? Do you
ever run a triathlon? Basically? You ever wrecked before a show? Oh? Yeah?
Pretty every show? He's like, yeah, every show, every Saturday. Now,

(11:13):
but Saturday, I do a long ride. How long is that? Wow? Mine?
Are you not tired when you get on stage? No,
not at all. I'll walk on the treadmill before show
and I'm like, I can't even do it. All right,
Craig Morrigan is on with us. What we're gonna do
in a second, We're gonna play a new unreleased song
that Craig is sent up. I haven't even heard it yet,

(11:34):
but we're gonna play that. We're gonna talk about the
rest of the show. Have questions for you as well?
That they have prepared that probably aren't not as stupid
as mine, where I sing them to you and let
Craig will be in Green Bay October nineteenth, Mason City,
Iowa on October twentieth, and Wisconsin, Dell's October twenty first, Brestll,
Tennessee on October twenty ninth, Jackson, Mississippi on November fourth.

(11:55):
Now the show would like to ask you a question.
Up first is Amy my co host Amy Craig Morgan's
on which I ask him, Hey, Craig, so sorry, Hi,
how are you feeling right now? I feel great? There
you go. If you're referring to the tour, I'm excited
about it. And I started to get out there in
place down of this new music, one of which is
the new song that you guys just played, some other

(12:16):
new things. I got something I just wrote I'm gonna
be doing out there that ain't even on I mean,
the label don't even have a we don't have a demo,
much less an album cut on it. I'm looking forward
to scid it. I liked it. Craig's like, breaking stuff. Now,
let's just make one up right now and sing it.
He's like, well, do you one Um, okay, Amy, that's
a great question, pretty generic. Yeah, do you have another one?

(12:36):
I do? Okay, here we go. What did you eat
for breakfast? Break ups of coffee. That's it. That's my breakfast.
I generally don't eat breakfast. Well, they say it's the
most important meal of the day. But I'm for you. Yeah,
let's go over to Eddie, our video producer, Eddie Craig
Morgan's on what would you like to ask him now?
Why I don't eat breakfast because I don't need the

(12:59):
I don't need it for fuel. See, for me, I
approached food a lot different than most people. A lot
of people approach food as a an experience and so
on and so forth. For me, food is fuel. That's it.
Not to say that I don't enjoy my steak on
on Tuesday night. Tuesday night, obviously, but but I'm I'm
a car guy. I kind of watched My Car's pretty close,

(13:21):
and I've learned that I don't really need as much
as my mind once told me. I did lunchbox. One
final question for Craig Morgan. I want to ask him
about this TV show he did, But go ahead, what
you're watching? I'm hooked on this Netflix making Anna or
something like that. Yeah, yeah, yes, I love it. I'm

(13:41):
pretty proached on that. I know it's like it's the
weirdest thing, but I'm enjoying that show quite a bit. Hey,
tell us about this show that you did where you
were out in the jungles and Panama, Like, how hard
was this show? Really? You've done it all? How hard
was it for you? What was that experience like beyond
the Edge? Yeah, a show. I mean, I'm gonna be honest.

(14:01):
For me, it wasn't that difficult. It's like you said,
I've been there, have done that, and still do. In fact,
when we talked about it, you know, I go to
Alaska and live off the grid for two or thretty month.
Now I am in a cabin and I do have
a lot of luxuries there. Because I do off grid living,
not survival living, then there's a difference. But this is

(14:23):
more of a survival thing. But it was something I
was well prepared for. I've been in tantamall before. I'm
well aware of the food resources that are available. I'm
well aware of all of the things that want to
bite you, staying you eat you. So I had a
lot of working knowledge, but For me, it was a
lot of fun. It's like taking a survival vacation. But
I can't say the same for everyone else. And not

(14:45):
the sea weren't any more capable. They just had never
experienced that. I mean, you know, so it was And
on top of that, it was like running a triangle
on every day and then going back and trying to
find food and water and do all the things that
you had to do to get through the day. Lunchbucks.
One final question for Craig Morgan. Favorite city. Oh my goodness,
this is tough. I'm gonna have to say. Not North Dakota. Hey,

(15:10):
I loved it there, super nice people. It's cold cold.
I don't like cold. Eddie. One final question for Craig Morgan.
Go ahead, before we go where he said mine? Not
North Dakota. Yeah, yeah, Eddie doesn't listen. All right, listen
there is I'm gonna say it one more time, Craig Morgan.
He is out, he is doing shows. I hope you

(15:30):
guys go And if you see him on a Saturday night,
know that he has ridden his bike fifty miles and
also done a run before that show. And if you
happen to run him to him on a Tuesday afternoon.
Just know he's gonna beat in stake later that night.
I feel like we've learned so much about him, So
go to Craigmorgan dot com to get tickets. Is there
anything that I missed? I mean, i'd also encourage you
guys to read his new memoir that came out God,

(15:51):
Family and Country that came out to Endo last year,
like September October. So that's out. Oh, oh, it's this September. Oh.
I was wondering watch that because I did it. Yeah,
and I was like, I'm not a good friend. So
it's this September. You get a book. Okay, good, I
get it. I thought I missed it and I was
just all right. Last thing I remember now what triggered
this call. I saw you were doing your tour and

(16:13):
long ago I said, hey, Craig, we really need a
tor t shirt. And Craig promised me a Torti shirt.
And you know who doesn't have a Torti shirt from
Craig Morgan come home? You know who still doesn't have it? Me?
That's right, he asked him. Who. That's all. That's all
I'm saying. I'm still shirt. Let's Craig, I had to
give you one of the older ones. That's yeah, yeah,

(16:35):
they're hard to find. Were these guys, all of my guys.
You're not gonna believe this because of course you asked
this question. Now, they have literally been on Etchy and
everywhere trying to buy old shirts. So you're saying they've
been looking for me one or looking for you to
have old ones, looking for one for your why, that's right,

(16:59):
that's what it's for. Yes, Okay, well, I mean I
can do that. I go to Eddie and try to
find one. Okay, no, no, no no, I got your
T shirt coming and we'll make sure you get one
of the new both of you a half one, and
you'll have to wear it on the show, The New
God Family Country to our T shirt. Okay, we're there.
We can all wait to see you in town here,
but Craig Morgan is all over you, guys. Go to
Craigmorgan dot com. The book comes out in September, which
I was very confused. Why I thought it was this

(17:20):
past September And I thought Craig and I weren't here
as close because he never sent me a book other
than that. Hey man, good luck with those tomato plants.
And you know I love you and I'll see you soon.
Thanks you by so forward to seeing you all right,
Craig Morgan, everybody, it's the best bits of the week
with Morgan. Number two this was a hot topic and

(17:40):
on number five Eddie heard his kids using a word
and he was like, no, you can't use that in
this house. That's not okay. And pretty much the entire
show did not agree with what he thought, but a
lot of our listeners did. So listen for yourself in
case you missed this bit from the week and tell
us your thoughts. Maybe you're on Eddie's team, or maybe
you're on the rest of the studios team. Number five, okay,

(18:03):
Eddie cottage boys saying something inappropriate. By the way, for
our audience, how old are your boys? So I have
a thirteen year old, I have an eight year old,
a seven year old and a three year old. And
which of those four? What are you saying this? These
are the two middle boys, seven and eight, and they're
in their bedroom like first second grade, yes, first exactly ahead,
And I'm walking in by the room and I hear, oh, yeah,
they're talking about this girl, right, and one of them goes, dude,

(18:26):
she's so hot, bro, and I go, what did I
just hear? They're seven and eight years old? So I
go in, I'm like, what are you guys talking about? Oh,
we're just talking about you know, so and so and
so and so thinks she's she's pretty hot. I don't
think she's that hot, but she thinks she's that hot.
And I'm like, guys, let's let's not do that. Like,
we're not the word hot, let's not use the word

(18:47):
hot when you're talking about someone's physical But well, if
you can use any word to talk about some physical appearance, pretty,
she's pretty. She's not kidding. But your argument's not the same.
What do you mean if you're gonna say, let's not
talk about someone's physical appearance, No, not a should use
the word hot. Okay, So I'm just making sure we're
on that, just so you can't go. I told him
we shouldn't judge someone by their physical I didn't say

(19:09):
that perfect just saying the word hot. Said guys, you're
you're too young to say like someone's hot or not.
You don't even know what hot means. Now, I think, Eddie,
I think it's not apparent, but I think it's a
bit absurd. That's why why doted. You guys are way
into this. Go now, guys, don't you me lunchbox? Like,
we know what hot is. We say hot, Hey, dude,
she's pretty hot, right, We've said it for years. But

(19:31):
a seven and eight year old I don't think they
even know what that means. And if they heard them
saying calling the girl hot, like if the girl heard that,
that would get offended, like what are you talking about?
That's that's very rude. I think if you're walking while
walking by and they were like, man, she's sexy, that's
probably too much for seven or eight year old. Or
if you're eight year old's like that girl's bone horrific,
you'd be like sun, well yes, I would have a

(19:53):
lecture there too. I think those are probably the levels.
Well where's hot? In that level? Hot? It is fun,
the nicest thing you can say. Let's go to Amy, Amy, Amy,
think about this lunchbox and I obviously we're dudes. They're
like hot, it's easy, it's not offensive. That's what we think.
Seven and eight year old can they say hot? I

(20:13):
don't understand the issue here, and I feel like he
made it a bigger deal. And now I my son
is Levin. But even back when he was seven, if
he was like, oh, jee's hot, I don't know that
I would really have a long lecture about it. If
you wanted to have a lecture about them talking about

(20:34):
someone physically respecting, yes, I think that's but I wanted
to make sure no. That's why I made sure you
weren't going to turn it into this. I didn't say,
as you said, you can say pretty, but you can't
say hi. Well, yeah, I mean it's normal in the narrative.
I think someone is pretty or not. It's relative, but
it's pretty not the same thing. It's not like I mean,
it's just saying. It's semantics a word. You are the
most overprotective, overreactive parents. That is so insane, a reactive

(20:59):
true goodness. That helicopter is just oh, Eddie just said
we say we say all the time. We've been saying
for years, girls are hot. So like, Eddie, where did
they get it from? They probably got it from you. Well, yeah,
like I'm walking around my kids saying she's hot. I
can't even stay that around my wife. She'd be like,
what are you talking about? No, I can't saying it
for me. They got it. They got it from I

(21:20):
don't think hot is in any way a bad thing
to say if you're just judging it on the word
that's seven years old. Correct. So they're walking around, bro,
they're like, you know, drinking beer. It sounded like I
was walking by a bar and I'm like, what is
going on? And theirst thing they're saying is somebody's hot.
I think you're doing pretty good. And are they walking around?
They were in there the privacy of their room. Oh

(21:41):
so whatever happens in there is cool. That's not what
she's saying. Well, then what are you saying. I'm saying
like you're acting like they're in public every day, like
every woman that walks by they're like, hey, hottie, what
would be different? It's different speak to say. It's a gateway.
You start in the room saying someone's hot, and then
next thing you know, you're at the mall doing it.
You're dropping your kids off. The next couple, the foot

(22:06):
locker who feels sorry for Eddie's kids. They're cool, they're good.
I mean, I think Eddie's a good dad, but I
just don't know that I wouldn't realize that. There was
no way I was gonna walk by that room and
just let that happen. I had to say something, how
they're smoking cigarettes? Yes, dude, you had like they're drinking
from the bottle. Hey, if I want mine, their smoking cigarettes?
Trouble grounded for life. Yeah, well yeah, we agree with

(22:30):
you on that one. But hot, Yeah okay, so let's
vote here, everybody, everybody phone, you're on this show. Does
anyone side with Eddie that a seven or eight year
old shouldn't say that someone privately to their brother brother
Bro's hot is hot? Does anyone agree with Eddie? Wow? Scooba, No,
Mike's even yeah, he said no, not at all. Everyone

(22:54):
feels is ridiculous if you do say I wow, it's everyone. Yeah, Morgan,
yeah that's me too. Sorry Eddie. Now your kids, you know,
your chilly, your beans. It didn't feel right, so I
felt like I need to say something. But you brought
it up and said, hey, I said this is and
we all think that you are inappropriate your kids. Oh
I'm the inappropriate. I think you're inappropriate. All right, thanks, guys,

(23:16):
you want to hear someone who agrees with you, though,
I don't want you to fill alone. I'm sure that's
not the only caller. Well it is, but I saved
them here so you could have a team in an ally.
All right, this is Brittany in Lubbock, Texas. Right, if
you could put her on. Brittany, good morning, Thank you
for calling. Good morning. How are you guys? We're pretty good?
What do you think about this? I agree with Eddie.

(23:38):
I completely agree with him. I've got a seven year
old daughter, and then I've got two nieces eight and six.
And what's funny is that knocked out long ago my
oldest niece. They were in, all three of them were
in the room, and she said this boy was hot,
and I thought the exact same thing. I was like,
that is not appropriate for y'all to say. I mean, older,

(24:02):
it's not so bad, but just coming out of your
little eight year old mouth, it just doesn't it doesn't
sound okay. I'm sure it seems weird. Yeah, I'm very weird.
It is just talking like an adult and you're a
parent and your rules and you're a good parent and
everybody out there. This is not parent shaming. This is
just Eddie asking if we think he's crazy and that

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you guys. Answer is yes, I think hot's fine as
long as they're not walking around and going, hey, lady,
what's up hot stuff? Hey, Well, after that lecture, they're
definitely not gonna be walking around saying that stuff. They
don't walk around at all. They're just in the room
walking around. Thank you very much, Brittany. We appreciate that.
I hope you have an awesome day, and thank you
for lending us your perspective. Okay, y'all have a good one,

(24:45):
all right. Glad Eddie could have a teammate. She sounds smart.
I'll give you her number. Focus Crew support that. It's
the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
We heard finally the breakdown lunchboxes top ten cringeworthy moments
from the last several years, and if you didn't cringe
when you originally heard them, you may just cringe listening

(25:07):
to the top ten. It was a great time reliving
some of these moments, and also on the Best Bits
Part one, Lunchbox said he has no regrets and he
doesn't understand why anybody felt cringey about these things, So
definitely listen right now to relive all of them, especially
in case you've never heard them before. So here is
lunchboxes Top ten cringeworthy moments, number four. Here we go

(25:30):
Lunchboxes ten cringiest moments of the last five years, as
compiled by us Lunchbox and I know the list number
ten when Lunchbox revealed his mom had to give him
a naked sponge bath after having surgery. Yes, but you're
an adult man. As a kid, I get it. Yes,
I'm an adult man, but I can't. I had surgery
on my ankles, so I had to lay in the

(25:52):
bathtub and I could not. Yes, I had to lay
in the bathtub, and I had to put my foot
out of the bathtub so I couldn't wash all the
way down my legs in everything. No, so I had
my mom do it for me. No, she seen me.
N you didn't have to be naked, man, But your
arms weren't broken. It was your yeah, foot like you

(26:12):
had to hang your foot like you can bathe yourself.
Nothing about this make sense. But do you know how
far the deep the bathtub is and you put your
foot up and then by that point you your way
up here and your foot's way above your head. The
only point is your mom did not have to see you. Yeah, yeah,
at how would I be clean? Okay? Okay? Lunchboxes ten
cringiest moments when he called the cops on his neighbors

(26:33):
graduation party. Oh yeah, no, I called the cops on
their graduation party because we were during the pandemic height
of COVID and it said you were not allowed to
have a gathering of more than ten people, and they
had at least thirty to forty. But what was that
doing to hurt you? Yeah? And what was that doing
for you? They weren't following the rules. We were trying
to get out of the pandemic. We were trying to

(26:54):
follow the rules so COVID would not spread, and they
were choosing to ignore the rules. And look, the longer
they didn't follow the rules, the longer I had to
be in lockdown. And I didn't want to be in
lockdown anymore. So you think you calling and splitting up
that graduation party? Yes, breaks up the super Spreader event.

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That one was pretty crazy when he admitted he had
called the cops. Number eight and I have a clip
for this one. The time Lunchbox attempted stand up comedy.
It all started during a post show where we brought
up the topic of me doing shows and Mike d
doing shows, and Lunchbox claimed he could do stand up
because it was so easy. So Mike took him to
an open mic night and it was so much cursing

(27:37):
during the four minutes set, we couldn't play most of it.
But here is a gap of the of the of
the but they're writing down here as a bomb. Here
we go. And I always say, you never know who
you're sleeping next to, So I kind of hadn't ins
in like this with my wife a little bit ago.
When you know, I want to go up the next morning,

(27:59):
I roll over, I said, sleeping next Tony had new idea.
Yeah that's a bad one. Yeah, they seem to like it. Really,
just said, I think they were liking two things. I

(28:21):
think they were liking the awkward and a seven until
you just called your wife for the sake of a joke. Yeah,
that's where you're doing comedy, guys. It doesn't matter. Nothing's
off limits. What is wrong with that? Nothing, nothing's good.
It's a funny joke. Crowd liked him Number seven lunch Bikes,
claiming he was so famous, and then going up to

(28:42):
a tour bus and nobody knowing who he was at all.
Here you go. Hey, y'all know rocking find lunchbox? Hey
you guys, no rocking find lunchbox? No where Outwait, didn't
take pictures? Yeah, if you can just show me where
lunch by ads me. Good to see you, guys, he said,

(29:07):
show me, And that's me in the same second, and
that silence is everyone looking confused like who is this guy?
And at number six lunchbox creeping out Gwen Stefani and
he was told don't touch her. Man. I saw her
at the hotel in Vegas, the Cosmopolitan. She was trying
to leave out the front doors, and I ran up, quinn, quinn,

(29:28):
Can I get a picture? Can I get a picture?
And she turns around. She's like fine. I go to
put my arm around her and she goes, no touching,
And so I had to do the two thumbs up
in front of her, like hey hi. And it was
very awkward on her part. I agree awkward. I wasn't
cringeing on my part. How is it cringe? Like that's
cringe on her. She should be ashamed of herself, not me.

(29:50):
You try to get you try to just throw your
arm around you what do you do when you're in
a picture with a sleberty. You can put your arm
around him. You don't just stand there with your hands
by your side. You put your arm around them. That's
what you do. Did she agreed to the picture already? Yeah?
She was like sure, And she turned around and I
go to put my arm around her and around her
waist or shoulder, shoulder, and they said no touching. And

(30:13):
I was like, okay, too, thumb club. I mean, that's
cringe on her. That's all on her. That's nothing on me.
That's just me being excited to see someone famous in
the public. And maybe the story is just cringe. Yeah,
I mean I did. I was running after her with
my suitcase. Okay, See it always jumps out at the end.
What's so cringey about it? Like she had a couple

(30:34):
of bodyguards and I had my suitcase, and I was.
I was in the check in line at the hotel
and I saw her and I was like, I jetted
out of the check in line. I was I was
gonna get that picture. The top five coming up in
the next second. Okay, I'm not in Crimson. I mean,
if those were in the bottom five, you have more
like yo, yeah, and they get better two words Lauren
and Lena, Oh, definitely. Number five happened on the show

(30:57):
where Lunchbox is trying to interview a guy. Ferry had
a chicken rest try and down. Goodness. This one just
happened yesterday. Terribly awkward. To make sure you're listening to
the Bobby Bow Show. I don't know who you are.
You are, I'll tell you, Lunchbox matter legit. If you

(31:20):
grill about all this, I'm gonna find you. That felt
so at that beginning of that h he's looking around,
He's like, can someone explain to me who this guy is?
I was tapping him on his shoulder, trying to get
that he loves touching boy, he loves touching people. Number
four when he kept Dirk spent Ley's medallion after the
CMA dinner. This is horrible. This is horrible, horrible. So

(31:42):
would you like to tell the story? Amy? Okay, So yeah,
we were at this really really fancy CMA dinner thing
for people that have won the CMA Award. Quite honestly,
we didn't belong there, you know, but I guess we
won radio stuff. So anyway, we're there and like somehow jokingly,
Lunchbox gets dirksdall and Dirk's is fully expecting to get

(32:02):
it back, but lunch Box straight up keeps it. And
I mean, this is a very special thing for any artist,
and of course they want it, and Lunchbox like thinks
that Dirks really gave it to home. Listen, let me
tell you how I went down. This how went down.
You go to the CMA dinner, right, and everybody that
is nominated gets a medallion. Well, we didn't get a medallion,
even though we were nominated. So I thought that was weird,

(32:25):
and so I was just talking to Dirks. I was like, man,
we were nominated, we didn't even get a medallion. He
goes here, you can have mine, and he put it
around my neck and walked away. Kitty, there was a joke. Really, then,
why didn't he come back and get it. Why did
he gives you left to take it home? No, because
he put it around my neck and walked away. I
didn't walk away. You don't think before you left to
go home, he'd been like, dude, here's your medallion back. Hey,

(32:45):
he knew where I was, He knew I was there.
If he wanted it, he couldn't come and got it.
And how long did you keep it? Like three weeks?
Oh my gosh, and Jill Bobby made me give it back,
like I don't understand. When somebody show you something, you
take it. And it was cool to have Dirk Spentley's medallion,
like you know where that medallion is right now? He
has no idea either exactly, so I would have had

(33:06):
that hanging in the wall, like, hey, Dark's gave that
to me. Number three lunchbox trying to sell a picture
of Sam Hunt and his wife. Oh, oh my gosh,
why is that Cringewar's terrible that I had to buy
so I wouldn't go to timz that. No, No, that's
like the picture that really that's really more valuable now
because it's really like the first picture of them reconciling

(33:27):
getting back together. What was cringeier him trying to sell
it or the fact that he took He hid in
a car and took the picture. Oh that's pretty even.
I mean I pulled up at a four way stop.
I was going to pick up some lunch and they
just happened to walk right in front of my car,
and I was like, what in the world so I
had to pay the money that tim Z was going

(33:48):
to pay to get the picture plus a dollar plus
a dollar, so he wouldn't sell the picture. Man, I
still think about that. I mean, he really was on
I was it two ch thank you Lunchboxes beef with
Chris Jansen about trying to take his whole family to
an industry event. Somebody at Chris's label said no, that's
too many people. So then Lunchbox got on what you

(34:13):
got on social media? I got on No, I came
on here and said there's a beef. I told you, Hey, listen,
Chris Jensen didn't allow my family when his album title
is all in, And I said, obviously that's not accurate
because not everybody was welcome all into his party. It
was only some people got into his party. Then he
on social media, so I give you a gift. Yeah.
He he went on there said my bad, we messed up.

(34:34):
I know we were bad. Where we want to correct
this and they gave me a He never said any
of that. That's what he heard though. That's basically what
he's saying. When when he gives you that, that's an
apology saying, hey, we messed up. Let's just make it right.
And he brought me a gift car for what was
a two hundred fifty dollars. Yea, they ask gonna be
a nice dinner yet now yet, I gotta find a babysitter.

(34:55):
Fringy number one lunchbox posting pictures of Lauren at Chipotle.
Uh yeah, I was eating lunch at Chipotle and I
was sitting there and all of a sudden, Laura Lena
walks in. I'm like, man, this is great. I'm gonna
see what she does. And she comes in by herself,
and she orders, and she sits down, she starts eating
by herself. Then she goes outside, takes a phone call,

(35:17):
comes back, and her jour and all all this. Basically,
He's like, she's at a restaurant. He's like Ken and
her friend came and joined her, and then Lauren Lena
went to get some a refill on a water or whatever,
and she spilled it all over the floor and she
kept saying, oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Let
me clean that up for you. And they had to
clean it up, and I snapped a couple of photos
of her at Chipotle. Wasn't it wasn't just about you

(35:37):
taking a couple of pictures of her. It was that
they were all from the back. Yeah, well yeah she was.
She was sitting with her back to me, but you
know her exactly. Man, it's off for the back and
I think she was in yoga pants, and it just
felt weird and everybody and it was like Papa Razzi
a little ill. It wasn't like I was zoomed in
on her backside. It was her whole body. It was
just she happened to be and like her back happened

(35:58):
to be to me. So you're not allowed to weird.
I just want to bury the pictures. And then then
everybody starts to come after him. Well, yeah, those people
are idiots, isn't weird. I don't think that's cringing. You
see a celebrity in public, you take a picture, even
if it's the back of them, I mean they're walking away.
You're not allowed to take a picture. Now, you know her?
Is that the you know her? And it was her
button yoga pan six feet away? What's crazy? He's disagreed

(36:19):
with every single one on this list. So none of
them are crenchy. I didn't find any of those cringing,
all right, I mean I felt cringing for Gwin Stefani
because that was her fault. Yeah, thank you for her, Well,
thank you for doing all these non cringey things. Yeah,
I mean I don't him. You guys came up with
a weak list. Hey what chers Eddie, you have a
favorite of all that? Well, I think number one is
for sure my favorite on the list because it was
so cringey. Yeah it was Lauren Lena. I was I

(36:41):
was in another country working and we're going to the controversy. Dude,
I'm thinking about it right now, being like, oh, why
would he do something like that? I mean it was
let me tell you, I got a text for umber.
She goes, oh, that's really funny, and then like an
hour later she goes, after thinking about it, I think
you should take those down and never do that. Actually
we didn't know you got the text bar Yeah, And
I was like, well, that's weird someone but you know her,
she has your number to text you. Wow, this cringe
level just got hired. Did you take them down or

(37:04):
did Morgan take it down? Well? I had to take
them down. I mean I had some of my social
media and I was like, you know, and there was
other artists chiming in with their two cents and oh
I hate how this makes me feel. Yeah, I see
there would go. That's the clear winner. Thank you, and
we'll pause the picture so you guys know it's the
best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two, it

(37:27):
was a big day in country music, not on this Thursday,
but we did a throwback Thursday and on this date
there were so many things that happened in country music,
and y'all love hearing some history. This one definitely has
a lot of history about country music from Elvis Presley,
Willie Nelson, and George Strait, Garth Brooks, Brooks and done
just fun facts about country music for this Throwback Thursday.

(37:51):
Number three. Today being Thursday, there are just so many
cool things that have happened in country music. And we
don't always do Throwback Thursday, but let's do it now.
Bobby Bone Show Thursday. It's good stuff. Nineteen fifty seven
will start Elvis Presley all shook up tops the Billboard
Country chart. Here you go, yeah, my hand shake and money.

(38:18):
He's a week. I can't seem to stand on my
own two feet do come on? I thought Elvis wasn't
country Eddie, Eddie tell you a few things. Elvis from
Mississippi man awesome. Get any more country? Then you know
what happened was they kind of said, Okay, well you're
not gonna be rock, You're not gonna be pop. And
he just got so big. But yes, Country Music Hall

(38:40):
of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, UM, Baseball
hall of Fame. Oh, isn't all the Hall of Fame
that one? I think he's also, but like the Christian
Music Hall of Fame. It's awesome. Um in nineteen eighty
four and Eddie and I went Halloween. Is these two folks?
One time Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias hit the top
of the chart All the girls I've loved before, and

(39:05):
I was Willie and Eddie was Julio. That makes sense.
He's Spanish, Spanish gold. I was naturally dark. He's like Edie, say,
I am, I don't want to put that on yet,
and I want to sing like that whole o the
girls I've loved to be far good costumes that year
it's good? Huh? Yeah? Did this make Willie international star?

(39:27):
I mean this got him to a new level. Right,
I would just have to base it on what I've
read or I was Onio was three. Well that's true,
it's a long time. I really dialed in Eddie, you
tell us because Julio was an international star. Yeah, so
I assumed this collaboration made Willie like really really big.
Sure it introduced him to a new audience. Yeah. Today,

(39:48):
in nineteen ninety, Travis Tritt scored his first number one,
would help Me, hold off n help me us? May?
I love Travis Trits music so much. It is such
a sound of me being nine to fifteen. Just there's
like fifteen songs that just I'm like, man, I love it,

(40:10):
which just hurts. He's blocked me on Twitter, you know. Yeah,
that's okay, you can blocked. I don't know. Anytime I
try to go look it, it blocked says you can't
go here. I don't know. I just off. It's like
a cookie or something. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's a tough one.
Traps trend uh. Today in nineteen ninety one, George Straits
if I know me number one. But if you guys

(40:38):
love that one, love it this car round, I won't
get away through town. I'll be sorry. That one to me?
Is that that that's not not that substantial that that one. Yeah,
but you guys are big text George straight number one,

(40:59):
he's got I'm a Garth guy. But man, I grew
up listening to George If every tex says, I bet
they were just bigger to you. Yep, oh yeah. And
did you hear that line? That's the kids these days
won't understand. I had to stop him, call the kid
to pull over today. In nineteen ninety three, Brooks and
Done claimed three honors during the ACMs Album of the Year.
They won Top Vocal, Do It, and Single of the Year.

(41:20):
And here's a little brook Brooks and Dine in your church.
You know, we talked about songs you shouldn't sing it karaoke.
That one is a lot of fun, but it starts
really tough because it's that big. I saw the lot.
It's just out of nowhere, that's all. And you're like

(41:42):
almost have a seizure when the song starts. I try
to sing that once with the guys from Lanco at
a Dirks show once and I did. Then I went huh,
and I was like I can't do it. So I
just I just mount let them do it. Yeah. Next
up in nineteen ninety eight Garth Brooks disc box set.
The limited series debuted in the Billboard Top two hundred's

(42:04):
sold over three hundred and seventy two thousand copies. It
had had this song here, Much Too Young and the
Wild Lines Today. In two thousand and one, Tim McGraw
received an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of
Louisiana Monroe. I felt that Tim McGraw and in two

(42:26):
thousand and four Rascal Flats Mayberry very underrated Rascal Flat Solids.
I think it's rated high. You probably wouldn't go top
five if you're asked, But then when you hear it,
you're like, that might need four or five. Where you
play that again from the top right, the first part
of that cold one, the Nana Nana. Well, so there

(42:59):
you have it. That's a good throwback Thursday one day.
It makes me want to go back to all of
those times, including the Elvis one, like I experienced that. Yeah.
The trouble with that is like medicine, travelogy, internet, Yeah,
I know, cars, no ac it's all that stuff. It

(43:22):
makes me not want to go back. Yeah, so, but
pretty cool, pretty cool. I've got William Julio. That was
probably like a man that was probably like fjlbb REXA.
You know there for sure, maybe bigger bones. I'm saying
that's always everywhere, but every kind of station you put
it on. Yeah, it was like the girls I've loved far.

(43:42):
It was meant to be, it'll be, it'll be. Maybe
it's meant to be. Maybe that's a good one. It's
the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.
This segment was featured in Lunchbox's Top ten cringe Worthy Moments,
but it also deserves a little moment on its own,
because boy did this make us all cringe when we

(44:04):
heard this happen on the show Lunchbox In quotation marks
interviews in quotation marks Guy Fietti. He had a restaurant
opening in Nashville. Lunchbox went asked a lot of questions,
he selfie mode the whole video like it was a thing. Right,
Let's just say we may not have, you know, Guy
Fietti's support after this interview. Nobody really knows, so just

(44:26):
hear it for yourself. Number two. I haven't heard this yet,
but I'm being told this could be on the list
of Lunchbox's most cringeiest moments. I thought, how you told
me that you set up an interview with Guy Fieri. Yeah,
and then you talked about food and life and we
were going to play it back. But that's not what happened. No,
that's not what happened. I got an insider tip that
he was opening a chicken restaurant in town and that

(44:48):
he was going to be dropping by the chicken restaurant.
So I mean, you know me, if he's gonna be there,
I'm going, so you go. Was he there? And oh?
He was there? And there was a lot of people there,
news cameras everything. Oh okay, I mean talking bodyguards, like
four guys in suits. So it was like a press day.

(45:09):
I don't know if it was a press day. It
was a press day. So all that everybody's told, yes, Scuba,
it's a press day. He was. He was in town
film and stuff or dives and drives and all that,
and they're doing a press thing about his chicken restaurant. Okay,
And so I was like, man, well, I gotta go,
And so I went to get an interview. So what
are the I went to get an interview because I
gotta go. Doesn't but he had no like press credentials. No,

(45:30):
I just had me in a T shirt and shorts
and flip flops and just walked in with my my iPhone.
Nothing official, just really just walked into the Chicken restaurant
and just planted myself at against the wall and boom.
I hid behind the TV cameras. Okay, when you have
to hide to get an interview? This also, Hey, Mike,
can I read versus his off air note? Can I
read that on the air or no, Scuba, That's just

(45:52):
that's just context for you that that kind of gives
everything away. Oh it does? Yeah, okay, got it. Okay,
So I'm gonna hit the clip. What do I need
to say before I played the clip? I mean, let's
just say that he was just he was about to
do some stuff. Why does he say he was about
to do stuff for TV? Like they had all the
news channels there and I was like, you guys, wait,
I got my he didn't know you were talking hand,

(46:12):
no idea who I was here? We go make sure
you're listening to the Bobby Bones show. Run. I don't
know who you are. If you are, in my case,
to anybody show, I'll tell you why. Both didn't know.
I'm Lunchbox, I'm Morning Show. Let's better be Legit. If
you're getting one night grill about all this, I'm gonna

(46:33):
find the governor and listen. I am one episode of Legit.
We're one hundred and five markets all over, baby, let's
go here. You hey, just make sure you're listening to
this guy. Can I get my name right? Now? Get
my name right? There? You go? I know, I know,
he just got it wrong. So this is guy Fitty.
Don't listen to Lunchbox because he gets my name wrong
every time. But you know what, I'm listening to the

(46:53):
Bobby Bone Show. Come on lunch Box. Oh no, whoa?
What about that got him to do a liner? Us
embarrassed said my name It's okay, It wasn't you. It's
like I'm sending out my henchman. Yeah. Like it's like
I'm one of the villains in Marvel sending out one
of the guys to beat up to superhero. And he

(47:14):
knows you. He said, I know who Bobby Bones is. Wait, guys,
were you not impressed? Then? I thought, hey, let me
get a liner from him. Like he hasn't made his
back to me, and I just go up and I
started tepping him on the shoulder. How is that? How
is that a liner? Because it wasn't very crazy worse?
Oh you cringe moments, dude, Maybe later Tater tomorrow. No,

(47:36):
I don't understand. You didn't think that was good. Hey
when he said, you were all up in his grill
like what are you doing? Sund him on the shoulder
and I said, hey, say, you're listening to the Bobby
Bones Show. Okay. I was trying to get him to
say that he listened to Bobby Bones Show. I thought
that was cool. You know how you say, oh, there's
Jason Ld. You're listening to Bobby Bones Show. I thought
it'd be cool to have guy FIEDI do it. I

(47:56):
like it. You're trying to say his name to his accent,
well because I said it wrong and he goes get
myne am right? Oh god? Okay, So then why are
you saying how many markets were? Yeah? That's best. If
you're like, he's like, are you legit? I might know
we're way living. They don't numbers, right, I think you're
just yelling a number. Yeah, you sound big. I think

(48:17):
it's more than it, and more than that, I should
say but also he's in syndication and he's probably in
my mass in the world. That's what I'm saying. So
he appreciates syndication. He understands big time. Let us play
the next clip. Okay, can I describe the scene now? Okay,
he is standing against the wall. Let's just say no,

(48:39):
this is not It's not unless you say this is.
Let's let's let's talk about it. So he's about to
take questions from all these cameramen like local news stations.
I'm like, they're gonna ask dumb questions. So I just
turned around the iPhone started selfie mode, and I did
an interview with him, me and him without the news cameras.
Did he know you were doing? No? I just start
yelling at him, all right, yeah, I'm hanging out with guy.

(49:03):
I'm hanging out with guy. You guys don't believe me
and Guy are best friends? Right? Guy? Best friends? Woooo?
Guy is out of it. So no, no, I'm just excited.
You have to get luncher shift that starts to help out.
I know that's why I gotta get out of here
him quickly, but I just want I wanted to make
sure eybody knew we're friends. We're friends, right, or you
gotta say we're friends, not start lunch Box and guy

(49:26):
are good friends. Lunch Box is out of control one guy.
My question is, okay, look, if you want to come
to my house and cook Mother's Day and get me
out of the doghouse, how much would it cost? See
how much you already owe me from the last one? Um, well,
the seventy five hundred the last one, so probably with
another seventy it's gonna have been. It's gonna be up
there around forty rand usus. That's cool, don't too party

(49:48):
out of state check again? No, hey, no problem. Can
you change the kids diapers? Also, why we're there? He's
out on that. And that's when the security guard came
up and said, okay, you're done, sir, no kick out. Yeah,
change diapers? How it's like, great? Was that guy? Doesn't
want he's trying to be a super nice guy and

(50:10):
play along so you can get they can remove you.
And he's like just trying to joke and it's really
not like you're not presenting him a good canvas to
joke back to. And then you're like, oh, I mean,
how great was that? No? And I thought they would
give me some of the chicken guy chicken when I
was on my way out, But they didn't give me

(50:31):
a chicken. Yeah, you weren't walking out on your own power. Though.
They don't usually give parting gifts to people that they
have to escort it. They're gonna throw you out the
door and give you a gift back. Yeah, hey, yeah,
thanks for causing a ruckus. It's already had to kick
you out. Here's some chicken, that's true. Vibe was like,
it's like he was sending a message to his team.
This guy's out of control. Ha ha ha, Like that

(50:51):
means get him. How great was that? I don't know.
That's not the word I would It wasn't great. Man, Really,
thank you for this exclusive interview. I wonder if we
submit it for like an ACM if A win, you know,
behind the scenes biggest interviews. But you don't think guy
had fun. No. I think it was quite annoyed and
it was a great sport about it. I mean because

(51:12):
the I will be honest one of the news cameras like, hey, man,
you're in my shot. You're in. I don't care about
your shot, Like I'm not worried about you got him.
I got me and guy. Here. Me and guy are
having a best guy we're best friends, righting and right guy,
And I got him to give me DAPs I got.
In the video you'll see him give me DAPs man.
Hard hitting interview, Lunchbox, Thank you, guy fiery. I don't
know if you'll ever hear this, but thank you and

(51:34):
sorry for not killing him. Very sorry about that that
you had to go through. That. That is something else.
But diners, what is it again? And guys chicken Yeah,
chicken guy, Chicken guy. Oh, I get a chicken guy guy, Diners,
dives and drive ins. That show is pretty good. Yeah,
I mean really good. Sorry, I mean really good, A
little moderate. All right, that's it, Lunchbox, thank you for that.

(51:57):
You're welcome. It's the best bits of the week. With
Morgan number two coming in so hot at the number
one spot. I mean, we just got hit up all
over social media about this interview. Everybody loved it. So
many people said it's their favorite one that's ever been
on the show, and I have to agree. It was
one of the best that we've definitely had in here

(52:19):
of someone who just wanted to share their story and
talk about everything that had happened in their life and
what they're doing now. His name's jelly Roll. You might
have heard him as a hip hop artist or as
a rock artist. He put out a country song. He's
just doing so much stuff and he has a really
really interesting story to tell and he told it all
to Bobby And if you missed it at all, if

(52:40):
you want to watch it, you can go to Bobby
Bones dot com or watch it, but definitely listen right now.
In case you missed it, here is jelly Roll Number one.
I saw that you have posted announcement saying you're coming
on the show and that The Rock had liked it. Yes,
sir on your Instagram. Yes, how do you know the rock? Dude?
It's kind of weird. So you know, the Rock has
real Nashville root, like supernatural roots. So he was like,

(53:03):
I think it went to mcgavock. So he just keeps
his like finger on the pulse of Nashville, like he's
just like engulfed in the culture. And I think like
a song on my randomly came up on his plays,
like the most random occurrence ever, and somebody reached out.
I was like, Yo, the Rock's gonna post a saw
a video with one of your songs. I was like,
please don't play with me. It's like, I don't do
that to me. It was like, I swear to guy.

(53:23):
This was like four or five years six years ago,
and he sure did. And ever since then we stayed
in touch. Man. He was the first person to congratulate
me whenever I got invited to the Grand Old Library
and he congratulated you. How he sent me a voice
He sends like the voice memos. That's like his thing.
You know, He'll like, you got a voice memo from
the Rock Yeah, yeah, for sure. I want to play it,
but I don't want to be that guy. Yeah. I

(53:45):
mean I said, I listened to it every now and
then to put myself. It's like it's like my pre
workout before I go get drunk, because I don't work out,
so right before I go to a bar, I'll listen
to like a voice memo from the Rocket Black. Let's
go jelly rolls with let's talk about for the audience
that hasn't come across your music yet or who you are, Like,

(54:05):
what's up with the name jelly roll? So I'm obviously
looked apart and my mother named me that whenever I
was a little chubby kid, been fat in my whole life.
And she tried to calling me jelly Roll when I
was young, and I spent the next thirty years trying
to grow into the name. I think I've done it,
and you had just stuck. And then I had a
guy in high school that jokingly called me jelly Roll.

(54:26):
He didn't know that was my house name. And his
name was one Arm Clay and you won't believe it,
but he had one arm and one arm Clay was like,
we should call you jelly Roll. I'm one arm Clay
and you'll be jelly. I was like, my mama calls
me jelly roll. And then once the high school starts
calling you something, you know, that's that's the kid in caboodle.
And so when did you start doing music? I started
writing songs whenever I was like seven or eight. In

(54:47):
the words of Brantley Gilbert, I didn't know I could sing,
but I knew I could talk fast, So I wrote
a lot of raps. What did it for me was
my mother strove. First of all, my mother follows this
show and she only follows like six people. And I
don't even think I'm one. I think it's like my
three aunts, some dude that she shouldn't be following that
has a six pack in the Bobby Bones show. So
if you want to put me on y'all's Instagram, that'll

(55:07):
be fine. We'll put you up. But uh yeah, just
kind of just kind of came that way. So I
do want to play some of the song because it's
such a good song. This is called Son of a Singer,
and I'm gonna play it for you now from Jelly
Roller searching ways I can get I'm a battle to

(55:31):
the if you have a ride beat song. So it's
kind of a different approach from you from what I've heard,
Like this is very emotional you're singing. It's I mean,
it's a country song, Like, why create this song in
this way? Well, I had a record. I've always wrote

(55:51):
very cathartic music. My mother struggled with addictions and mental
health issues when I was younger. She's a totally different
woman now, But Bobby, she would listen to music and
it would change everything. You know. She'd put old records
on a smoked cigarettes and that old moumu and sit
at the kitchen table and just white Trashes could be
just singing along to Bob Seg or Wayland Jennings, and

(56:12):
I just remember thinking, man, I want to make music
that makes people feel like this music makes my mother feel.
You know, had my mother had help from a doctor,
I might have been a surgeon and had a six
pack and been called slim totem or something. But it
just turned out the other way. So I've always kind
of wrote real songs for real people's with my goal,
and the country thing was just kind of me leaning
into my roots. I was born and raised right here

(56:32):
in Nashville. You know, it's every kid's dream in Nashville
to some sort to be a country music artist, And
it just kind of happened organically. Me and Ernest were
in the studio about as high as a hippie, about
three sheets gone, and picked up a guitar and there
it went. When you played the opera, I think it
was in the last year, twenty twenty one, right, that'd
be a special moment, especially growing up here in Nashville. Yeah,

(56:55):
it's like not only the historic side of country music,
but it's the sight of life driving by there my
whole life, dude. I remember the grand old opry House
from the Screaming Delta Demon at opry Land at his
old school Nashville Talk. Before that whack Mall was at
Mall Sucks. Before that mall was there, it was a
theme park, you know what I mean, So we would

(57:15):
watch it from the theme park. Dude. It was like
I just remember as a kid, just thinking, man, and yeah,
it was just like a dream come true on all fronts.
Did your family think it was super cool that you
were performing in that circle? Oh yeah, dude. My mother came,
My whole family came. It was a white trash bass dude.
We were all there. Everybody wore their Sunday beasts. Man,
you should have seen it. I bought a sports coat.
It was big, dude. It's a big deal. Man. My
daughter got dressed up. It was huge for us. We

(57:36):
don't dress up like that for funerals or weddings. I mean,
it was that big of a deal. Were you nervous?
I'm nervous now. This whole thing is unreal. Do you
got a real I'm a kid that was spending most
of his juvenile life in jail. Dude. You are the
Joe Rogan of country music. I am sitting on this
is I am here? You know what I mean. It's
like I was if you think I'm nervous of all this,
you know, I don't want to cuss, but yeah, this

(57:57):
is all my nervousness makes me want to start spouting
out of the mouth. What is it about now that
I mean? Because you're I'll just say, you're kind of
blowing up more mainstream than ever. Like, what is it
about this chapter of your life that is creating this
for you? Now? I think it's the ten year overnight
success store, right, it's the kid that slept in a

(58:18):
van and did two hundred and thirty shows a year
for one hundred dollars a show. Dude, I used to
open up for a pack of bubble gum and a
bag of bud you know what I mean. So it's like,
I think it's just years of writing a thousand songs
and thousands of songs and just kind of coming here
and I don't know, I think it's getting the opportunity
to sit in places like this and tell my story
that's probably helping the most, because when you look at me,

(58:40):
you probably don't expect to hear from me what you hear,
you know, So what is your story? I mean, if
someone said, hey, man, we're thinking about doing a book
with you, right, are you considering it? I well, let's
let's hear your story. What is and you know you
can tie it up a bit, But what is your
story that you think inspire so many people? I want
y'all to be clear. Bobby Bundle just signed me to
a book public and dealing on this show, y'all. So

(59:02):
in a nutshell, I'm from Antio, Tennessee. I grew up
in a middle, lower class community. My father was a
hard working meat salesman. He ran a meat company called
d Fort Sausage and Dfort Old Sale meets. It's our
family name on the Saddy book bets. My mother struggle
with addiction. I was the youngest of four. I never
controlled the radio. That's the reason that I make the
kind of music I make now. And at about the

(59:24):
age of fourteen, I started making a desist series of
decisions that would lead to what we call the revolving
door of the judicial system. And I spent probably twelve
years in and out of that system, probably nine years in,
three years out, you know the old due, a year in,
three months home, two years in four months home kind
of thing. And I won't even talk about the crimes

(59:45):
because I don't think there's no glory in them and
I'm not proud of them, but it is a part
of my story, and it's also too many to list
on this show. But yeah, man, I had a Damascus
Road experience in the old Baptist term. On May twenty second,
two thousand and eight, I was at CS on Hardened Place,
right down the street from here. I was in sell
two twenty three, and a guard knocked on my door

(01:00:08):
and had told me that I had had a daughter.
And I knew that I had heard that I had
got a young woman pregnant during one of my outs
or ends, I guess in that case, but I had.
But when I was back in jail, the baby was born,
and I just remember thinking, man, I mean, I had
a good father. He was a hustler, but he was
a really good man. And I was like, I want

(01:00:28):
to be a good father, you know. And I didn't.
I didn't have any skill sets. I'd never had a job.
I'm still to this day and not qualified to do
much more than talk to you and sing. And I
was like, well, I know I can do music. So
I came home and started selling CD's office spindles and
mix tapes out of trunks and doing shows and you know,
selling a little bag of bud here and there when
I had too. But I'd got away from real criminal,

(01:00:49):
nefarious activities, and uh yeah, I just kind of led
to here. And now I'm sitting here at the Bobby
Bone show, you know, ready to talk to lunchbox about
drinking tequila? Are you a big tequila drinker? Oh? Is
that the drink? Oh? Boy listened. It's like when you
blow the whistle of the dog. Here's and he's the
only one in the room that hears it. Can we
are we shooting some? He got some not ex I

(01:01:16):
thought this is where you bust out the bottom like well, coincidentally,
the Rocks sent us some terre mind. I was gonna
be like, yes, you have a lot of face tattoos.
How many on your face? I never counted. Well, if
I'm guessing, well, some of them connect. Right. When you
have to commit to your first face tattoo, is that
a big decision? I was too young to commit to
anything when I did that. For what it's worth, what

(01:01:37):
was the first one? I think I had the cross
in the tear drop at the same time when I
was one of my stints on a state funded vacation.
Oh you had them done in prison. Oh yeah, I
didn't seem safe, No, no, no, But it's that it's
the safest thing there. You think that's not safe to
see the stuff that happens in prison, right, there is
great a safety, buddy. Let me day that would pass

(01:01:59):
the commissioner CDC. Would it proved compared to the other
stuff happening in there? Well, you have a rose up
near your I do, above your left eye. It connects
down to what is that? It's a heart way a locket,
and at this point you've seen it so many times
it's probably just your face right. Well, I see it
backwards too, So you know, you gotta think when you're
telling me something, I don't know what side what's on.

(01:02:20):
You have one that goes down Bobby bones is reading man,
I'm being I wanted to describe. He also has one
that's like a straight line going down into his left
eye and it comes down below always the clown. Yeah,
what's the word above the eyebrow? My son? Noah, okay, yep, yeah,
And this is ignorance on my part. But we've always
heard the teardrops. Like, if you have a teardrop and

(01:02:41):
it's not filled in, well, I'm just asking. I don't know, ignorance.
You can teach me. If it's not filled in, you
attempted to kill someone and unsuccessful. If it's filled in,
it was a success. No comment, that's why you don't know.
I'm a minor for the tears. Would never forget. We

(01:03:02):
shared see powerful jelly rolls in studio, by the way,
is which By the way, dead Man Walking number one
rock song as of today. I thought, that's why we're
shooting to quila you you muff the punt. None of
us most added dead Man Walking number one on the

(01:03:24):
rock chart. Do we have a clip of that ray?
Same album? Here it is? And you would you consider
yourself first and foremost a hip hop artist? No, no, no, dude,
I consider myself a singer songwriter. I guess I just
knew you from doing hip hop first though. I know,
ain't that crazy, and it's you being a hip hop

(01:03:46):
artist and then the rock stuff and now the country stuff.
But I think that's that's the attitude, like you're just
creating based on what you feel. Just make just make
real music for real people. I call it a therapeutic
music bybe It's just important. Some music's meant to be
heard and some music is meant to be felt. And
I hyper focus on making music to people can feel.
You know. It's kind of the Willie Nelson effect. I'm
a but he wasn't big, But I'm a big, jovial
guy in real life, you know, kind of a hippie.

(01:04:08):
But Willie wrote the saddest songs, and I feel like
that's kind of where when I get in that studio,
my wife calls it my uh confessional booth. It's kind
of my therapy. Do you ever confessor something? And she's like,
I didn't know that. No, no, no, dude, we're best friends. Dude,
I can't surprise that one with anything. I wish I
could surprise her. We've lost all surprise. She helps me
find bulls on my butt. I mean, we're as close

(01:04:29):
as you could be, boils on his butt, Like they're
so close, she'll look to find them than the watch,
the watch her screaming at me, why thank you? Like that?
I was hoping it would that's real, Yes, sir, well
no in casebody wants to hit me in the head later.
It depends on who's as I mean, that is a
watch and it looks loaded with diamonds. Yes, sir, like

(01:04:52):
that is my wife bought me this back to her.
Shout out to my wife, Bunny. I love her to death.
And your wife's name is Bunny, Bunnie? And is that
as like jelly roll Bunny? Or is her name really Bunny?
Her name is Bunny. Yeah, she was Bunny before me.
So you ever think about changing your name officially to
jelly roll so it could be a legal name. I've
thought about it, but I just I don't you know.
I don't like going. I don't like paperwork. He probably

(01:05:13):
could imagine. Yeah, I've considered making Bones my real middle
name so I can use it if I run for office, Right,
I can officially use it when you run for office?
Can I be your running mate? Can? Did I get
a book deal and an offer to be running mate? Show?
I'm blown away by this man. This is more than
I ever expected. What are your live shows like? Like? Incredible? Okay, man,

(01:05:35):
let me brag for a second. And I'm a humble guy,
but man, we turn that thing upside down. It is.
The live shows cover everything from old classic rock to
hip hop to country, the soul. We do a little
motown in there. I mean, it is an incredible show.
It's a live band, two guitars, bass, DJ to keep
the old school hip hop element alive and well more

(01:05:55):
of an MC than a DJ. But he'll still scratch
a little bit here and there. Drums. We do it right.
Adding a steel player this year. It's gonna be fire.
You're adding a steel player. We are. That's awesome. We
got a full blown country album in the works. Baby,
this wasn't this, you know, make no mistake. It looks
like a toe tap, but I'm going to do a
cannonball in the country music bubba. I'm on the way.
I'm belly flopping. I saw that you and Branley are
doing some shows together. One of my favorite dudes on earth.

(01:06:18):
So how did Branley Gilbert? I guess he got in
touch with you and said, hey, come do some shows
with me. Yeah. He called me one night, which was
like the craziest call ever. But I kept hearing around town.
Hey man, you need to meet Brandley Gilbert. Man, y'all
look like y'all get in trouble and I love people
all get in trouble with and everybody kept telling him,
hey have you met Jelly roll y'all should meet, and
he finally, you know, I guess the word of traveled.
He called me and say I want to do some

(01:06:40):
shows next summer. And what's crazy is I had done
a podcast with my wife a couple of years earlier,
and I was like, when it comes to doing shows,
I think artists missed the old school approach of like
doing it for people and doing it for the exposure.
So I was like, if this was two years ago,
my wife's podcast three years ago, I said, if Branley
Gilbert d Rockers Shine Down called me, I would not

(01:07:02):
even ask what the amount of money was. I'd say, yes,
I want to go on tour with them. And I'm
literally doing thirty dates with Shine Down this year in
like ten dates with Brandley Gelbert. That's cool. Yeah, it
was just a complete manifestation. So I'm looking at you
and you're in black and you got the chains on
and the face tattoos and the blaying. Do you know
we've met before? Oh yeah, listen. I tried to make

(01:07:26):
them turn the golf cart around and chase you, but
we've met and I didn't want to say I've met
Jelly well playing golf before. Noah, I was spected him
to say, this is the most memory I have was
I was with Steve Hodges from Sony right, and he's
like playing golf on a nice course. Yeah. I didn't
want to fine like I've seen Delly role playing in
a nice golf course. Oh yeah, so are you Are
you a big golfer? Well, I'm I'm big in golf,

(01:07:49):
but I am not a big golfer. I'm not a
good golfer, but I really I enjoy anything that you
can have a cocktail at nine am and people don't
judge you. And golf is that sport. We've all been
out there with an old man and that ordered a
jack and coke at eight fifteen in the morning. Nobody
says nothing that old man except that's awesome, right. That
only happens on tour and a golf course. You know,
when I saw you with a big record guy, what

(01:08:10):
are you guys talking about this project now or no,
we're just having life. No, I was already I'd already
signed with Broken Boat at that time and we were
just you know, I love how just man. He's a
good dude, and you know I've got a you know,
I'm just good dude. Man. He's flying to golf with
We played good together. And I'll also gass him up
and get him drunk on that back nine. And I
think people intentionally bring me out on days when they
want to get loose. Whenever you have to go to

(01:08:32):
the golf course, so you know it's tucked in. You
got you nice because I saw you looking like a golfer, Yes, sir?
Does that feel foreign with the collared shirt? Oh? Yeah,
I'd never looked goof here. Yeah, I've never looked goof here. Man.
I'm telling you, I don't wear collared church for nothing
but the opera. I didn't en wear him the court.
How many times do you think you've been to court? Oh? Fifty, easy,
one hundred. I couldn't even imagine. If we get serious

(01:08:55):
for a second, what would you say to a kid
now that's listening to this at fourteen fifteen years old
that maybe is not growing up in the most ideal
situation and has to make some tough choices right now
like you did. Man. It's if we can get serious
about that subject. We're doing a show later in Nashville
this year, a big show, and I'm donating one hundred
percent of the money from the show to help build
a music program in the juvenile here in Davidson County.

(01:09:16):
And I'm matching it with my own money dollar for dollar.
So you're raising money and then matching the money you raise, Yes, sir,
I believe artists need to start stroking a check man.
I hate when artists just want to fundraise and they
don't want to reach in their old, precious bank account.
Put your money where your mouth is, you know. And
why is that important to you? Because I think these
kids when I was in juvenile Bobby, nobody ever came
to talk to me that I understood, right, God bless them.

(01:09:39):
The guideons would come and they'd slide a Bible learner
the door. And I appreciate that because I read that
bibble a thousand times and they go, God bless you,
young man. But you know it's eighty year old dude
with a suit and tie that was disconnected by a door.
Nobody comes to and gives these kids hope. And I've
been to the adult prison and I've been to the
juvenile prison. The adult prison is full of a bunch
of grown mens who need to figure out a way
to break a cycle. The juveniles full of a bunch

(01:10:00):
of young kids that don't think they know any better.
They don't know any better, you know. And I'm a
big advocate for justice reform because when i was sixteen,
I made a decision that I'm not proud of, but
ended up getting charged as an adult. And here I
stand in front of you, twenty years removed from that decision.
I'm not allowed to carry a firearm. I'm not allowed
to vote. I just had to fight tooth and nail
to get a passport. I'm missing millions of dollars in

(01:10:23):
Canada that I'll never be able to go get because
of a decision I made twenty years ago. I was
sixteen years old, dude. I mean, I don't know if
I can say this, but I hadn't even started sprouting
hair down there, you know, And here I was being
charged as a full blown adult. I couldn't buy a
pack of cigarettes, but you justified my criminal act is
enough to charge me as an adult. I'm super passionate

(01:10:43):
about that. These kids need chances, they need to see
outside of their environment. I have people right now, Bobby
that are from my neighborhood that never left my neighborhood.
They watched the Tennessee Titans on TV, and I call
them now that I'm successful. I'm like, I'll take you
to a game. They're like, no, I'm cool. I'm like,
you know that stadiums eleven minutes from your house, never
seen it. They don't know anything past that environment. Nobody

(01:11:05):
ever comes through and tries to help these kids, man,
And that's what I'm the most passionate about, and that's
what i want to help with the most. And I'm
gonna put my money where my mouth is when it
comes to it. What about your kids? How do you
plan to be a good dad and use what you've
been through as an example to your kids. My daughter
is almost will be fourteen this month, and her mother

(01:11:27):
had got into about with heroin and had a rough
addiction and we ended up getting custoded of her, her
man and my wife eight or nine years ago. I
have my daughter all the time. She flies out on weekends.
I mean, I've seen her this morning on the way
to school. I'll be the first thing she sees when
she comes home from school, and to me, parenting is
just about honesty. You know, it's just about being really

(01:11:50):
honest and have an open dialogue. These kids are exposed
to stuff so much faster than we were because of
the Internet. Dude, back whenever I wanted to get a
little risky, I had to go put together pieces of magazines, right,
you know, I had to go find them in various spots.
You know, these kids are exposed to so much stuff,
and uh, to me, it's just about being honest and
having a dialogue. My daughter is like I called her

(01:12:12):
my little road dog. That's my little homie. You know,
that's my my little best friend. And we talked like
that and every now and then you gotta be dad.
You got to growl and show your teeth. But ultimately
it's just about bringing her along the way and keeping
as close as you can, just kind of watching it grow.
Sounds like, honest, he's a massive part of who you are. Yeah,
but you know I lunch boxes met me outside of here.
The same guy that's sitting here. The same guy was there.

(01:12:33):
You know, where'd you guys meet? Well? Softball? We played
softball together and we drank a lot. We did. It's
facts so I was. I was excited to bring this up.
You play softball, you play golf. Yea, where are you
doing the equestrian dude, I'm listen. I am an athlete
and an alcoholic's body Bobby, I'm trying to tell you, man,

(01:12:54):
I have I had a bomb, didn't I had a stinger? Dade?
I had the most famous base hit and celebrities saltall history.
I was one of the celebrity games. H don't you
guys want like a secret league or something on Tuesday nights? Here? Yeah? Yeah?
Can we bowled on Wednesdays? Come hang out, we'll talk
about that book. Jelly rolls here with us again. Congratulations.

(01:13:14):
I'd been walking a number one song. It's great Son
of a Center again, most added at country radio. And
you have a whole country album coming out. I do Yeah.
Me and Brandley have been writing a lot. Me in earnest.
I got some stuff in the kettle pot. Man, I'm cooking. Baby.
We're gonna play Son of a Center now. But man,
just appreciate you coming in. You know, I think you
gotta you have a great message. I think you can

(01:13:34):
speak to the people that you want to speak to.
And again, You're probably one of the only people that can,
you know, because unless you come from something, you almost
don't want to listen to people lecture you. You know.
I am from a very small town in Arkansas, and
it's like people don't understand unless they've experienced it, right.
So I appreciate your message, and I think you're probably
reaching a lot of people when others can't so, and

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you have to go through a lot to actually get
that message and gather those tools. But man, it's good
to see you here. I feel dude. I'm a huge
fan of the show. My mom is a fan of
the show. We're all like, this is a big deal. Man.
We're keeping up with the big acting debut and I'm
looking forward to drinking with Lunchbox again. I'm totally in
the know of this show. This isn't I didn't do
research on the way in. I literally I've seen Luke

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Combs sitting his seat and I was like, we're getting close.
I'm bigger than Luke, but it looks like he's comfortable
in it. So now that I'm in it, I feel
great and I'd love to come back and talk a ken.
And one thing you're always going to get from me, Bobby,
for better or worse. It's honest and real, and I
do want to be a voice for the voiceless. I
do want to help the people that you know the
music's here to help, and I think that's what music

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did for me to this day. Music helps me through
my darkest moments. We got three minutes of songwriters to
change the way people feel or to ride with them
in the darkest moment or the best moment of their life.
And I take those three minutes more than I more
serious and I take anything else in my life. I
appreciate that. And at jelly Roll six one five, if
you want to follow him, it's the Best Bits of
the Week with Morgan number two. All right, y'all, thanks

(01:15:01):
for hanging out with me. That was a great time
on this Best Bits where it's just the bits, and
also on the Best Bits where I talked to Lunchbox
and we caught up on life. So make sure you
listen to both of them. They are all a good
time and if you have missed some, we've made sure
that they are just the interviews behind the scenes with
everybody else on the show. You'll catch things with Amy

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Eddie Scuba Steve, Abby Ray, Mike d and of course
Lunchbox from this weekend, so make sure you catch up
on past best bits as well. They're all there for
you guys to listen to. I hope you have a
fabulous weekend. I love y'all. Goodbye,