June 18, 2022 • 58 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan number two.
What's up, y'all? Welcome to the Best Bits. This is
just the bits. Thank you guys for hanging out with
me this weekend. Before we get into it, make sure
y'all check out part one, which is with Scuba Steve
this weekend. We dive, we dived, we doved, you know
whatever verb it is, into our lives. Talked about some
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things from our past as well as what's been having
with us lately in Scuba and his kids. Just lots
of fun stories over there, so definitely check that out.
We're going to kick this one off. Coming in at
number seven. Amy felt that she might have been a
helicopter parent with her son. He asked to ride his
bike to jiu jitsu practice and she said yes, but
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she also followed him. So listen to this and let
us know what you think. Number seven. Okay, so the
question from Amy is is she a helicopter parent or
a responsible parent? Why do you ask this? What happened? Well,
so Stevenson has started to want to ride his bike
to him his practice, like his classes. You know that
he takes for martial arts and stuff, and I want
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him to have that freedom. Yes, go ride your bike.
We live in the area where you could do that.
But then at the same time, I followed him in
my car. Liberty, you're free child. Yea strong the lng. Yeah.
And then there was one point where I was at
a red light filming him and he caught me. He
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didn't know that you were following him at all. No,
I said, free as a bird. You got this, dude,
you got this. Go ahead. And so I followed him,
especially to this one busy or intersection that I'm worried about,
and I, you know, wanted to make sure he did good.
And then I went off and I pulled over and
kind of hid back behind these bushes to see if
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he would handle everything within the law. And he did.
I was so proud of him. Okay, I don't think
this is helicopter parent at all. Okay, I think it's
fine to do this a couple of times to see
if he's making good decisions. I think it's fine to
do it when he knows you're following him. I think
it's fine to do it when he doesn't know you're
following him, so you can see what decisions he's making.
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And then eventually, though, if you like what you see,
you have to fall off and let him do what
you told him he was getting to do anyway, right.
My only problem with is not so much that I'm
fearing his choices now that now that I've seen him
do it successfully, I'm very proud of him. I just
worry about other people that might snatch him or something. Well,
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that's always going to be there, right, are you going?
Are you going to let him just right? Yes, I'm
gonna make you feel good. Amy, here we go. Ready,
people are always gonna try to steal him. Okay, okay, okay,
I feel better about this. No, it's right. So are
you going to let him do it without you're following him?
Next time? We'll see, I'll let DVD. I'll keep y'all posted.
This is this is a big deal. I am proud
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of him, and we'll see what happens. One time I
couldn't catch him on the way back, and I had
to call my husband be like, you gotta follow him
on the way home because I can't be there and
you gotta fall So my husband was all trying to
be all incognito following our son home because in full
camo behind trees, crawling on the ground. But then like
did this maneuver where he beat him home and so
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he thought we were at home like the whole time, Oh,
we're clever. You're probably not as clever as you think,
but I like it. It It means you love him. And
if you watch him make good decisions many times in
a row, you have to trust that he's gonna make
good decisions when you're not watching him as well. Right,
that's what I would say. But are you a helicopter parent?
I go no, I'm gonna speak Freddie because he is
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a helicopter parent and go no. Eddie thinks you should
have him in that little cart beside you and you
should ride him. You know, you should put the little
cart like the little bicycle cart, the sidecart. Hey, she
was telling that story and the whole time I'm not
in my head. Absolutely, you're a great parent, Amy, Yeah, okay,
but would you eventually let your son just do it himself? Now?
Not the next year and he's like eventually twenty one,
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you're we're fourteen year old? Or held her? Yeah he's fourteen.
Oh my gosh, you're a helicopter parent. Let the kid go.
I mean guys, you have to let the kids out
in the world and experience things. I was riding my
bike to school a mile away when I was in
second grade. I was six years old, riding my bike
to school. You guys need to get a grip on reality.
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Let the kid go do his thing and trust that
you have raised him to make smart decisions. People. The
Cold War is over. Okay, exactly, Lunchboxes out argue with
Clouds right now, Mica, when I was a kid, but
I can't believe you won't let him ride his bike
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and you tailgated him. Well, no one knows that. But
also it was Lunchbox an advanced second grader six okay,
seven years old? Sorry, seven years old? Sorry about that, Amy,
keep doing you. I like it. Give us the up
date whenever you let him go himself. Okay, all right,
it's the best bits of the week with We're getting
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number two. You know, whenever our show gets invited to
an event or to go do something out in public
or out in the wild, it's almost guaranteed that stories
are going to come back from it. And that's definitely
what happened this time. Scuba, Steve and Eddie went to
Graceland for the Elvis movie, the whole press junket, all
that good stuff, and while something happened, basically, they did
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something that the show has deemed unprofessional and not a
good look for us. So you know, you can hear
the segment for yourself, and then if you check out
part one, which is with Scuba, he gives a little
bit more to this story and his thoughts on the
whole thing. Number six. You know, we are allowed certain
things because we do a show, a big show, I'll
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say it, the biggest it's ever happened in this format.
And so with that, like Spider Man, you know, with
power comes responsibility, and sometimes we aren't as responsible as
we should be with that power. And mostly I'm talking
about Scuba, Steven Eddie because they went to Memphis, they
went to go watch the Elvis movie. And whenever you're
a producer or you're like Eddie, you get the phone
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number of artists that will come play on the show
because you got to have these professional contacts. That doesn't
mean if you see someone covering their song in a
bar at midnight, you should send them a video of
somebody playing their song. Would you? When you agree, Amy
I'm nervous to hear what happened. Yes, okay, so what happened,
Scooba Steve, Why don't you tell me what happened? Somebody's
playing Gavin to Gross song somewhere. Yeah, so Eddie and
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Iron Memphis for that Elvis junket, and we're at a
bar and this guy we were upstairs at a top bar,
had a good time coming down. This guy he's just
killing it. He's got nine different pedals, he's playing solos.
He's really really good at playing the guitar. And he
starts singing a Gavin the Gross song and I'm like, whoa.
Eddie and I start singing along, and I was like, Eddie,
should we send us to Gavin. Eddie's like, yeah, dude,
totally send it to Gavin. I was like, but it's
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like ten thirty, it's kind of Lais like, no, Gavin
Hardy's late, don't worry about it, he'll be up. Just
send it to him. So, under the peer pressure of Eddie,
I sent a video. We're not blaming it on Eddie,
You're you're the oh Eddie, You're in fault too. But
Scooba Steve is the responsible list of the responsible and
was he playing I don't want to Yeah, yeah, so
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and I in the hindsight, I probably should have done it,
but I just and I've never done it before, and
I just felt like that was the time to do it.
And he responded and said yes. I think he felt
like he had no other options. He's a nice guy.
Don't text me. Whose idea was it to do that?
I don't remember because we both are little tips. I
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don't know. Okay, see alcohol and celebrity. Oh no, oh no,
Now I'm going to have to text him and say
I'm very sorry that we use a number that was
given to us for professional reasons to harass you, even
in the nicest way on a Friday night. I'm sure
people cover that song all the time. Can you imagine
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if somebody texted him somebody covering that song every time
they saw it? Mean anybody else guilty of texting artists
that have come in before? Anybody? Well Scoopa is the
only one that's a producer that has the numbers. I mean,
that is a that's a pretty crazy line to cross,
but it's a baller mood to be like start that
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friendships and say thing bad. It was just it was
just a cover. Wasn't like I was like, hey, man,
what are you doing? I want to hang out. It
was just like, here's this, have a great day, here's this.
Have a great day at ten thirty at night as
you've been drinking. That was basically a professional booty call. Okay,
you're at a bar, you had a few drinks, yet
somebody kind of have like a professional crush on Okay, okay,
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so inappropriate or totally appropriate, Amy, inappropriate, lunchbox, inappropriate baller.
I mean, you're starting a relationship. It's good Eddie. Hey, dude,
I was there. You're eliminated. No, I knew it. It's
not awesome. Okay, it's funny. I'm gonna be like, hey, sorry,
my guys text you while they were drunk on Friday night.
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They're gonna be going down Broadway just looking at people
singing covers to go through Scuba's phone to oh no, okay,
So I wanted to start with that. Hey, I'm not mad.
I'm just disappointed, right, Yeah, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
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Everyone loves this segment, which kind of makes me sad.
Because that means y'all like to hear us being rejected.
It is rejected segments. Bobby comes on and he shares
segments that were pitched to him but never quite made
the air. And even in this segment, they make the air,
but it's not a guarantee that you actually get to
talk about what's going to happen. So, without further ado,
rejected Segments number five. Listen, you guys come up with
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a lot of ideas for the show, and some of
them get used, and that one was very appreciative, but
some of them are so just we'd never do them,
and I appreciate the effort, but that's how we get
this segment called rejected segments. Rejected segments. Although some of
these are so dumb. I don't think you guys even
really wanted me to air it. I think you're just
filling out space. I gotta sitting in some ideas. So
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these are rejected segments segments and in a million years
we would have never done on the air. There have
been times though, where I've been like, wow, that's actually
a pretty good segment. Let's do it. So let's see
if any of those do this. We'll start with Lunchbox
Lunchbox welcome, thank you, and I don't know why any
of my segments get rejected. I'm shocked when they don't
make it. Lunchbox wrote, I am supper annoyed with my
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wife Supper, which I think I'm at super That spelling
is not my strong point. Care that much, he said,
I think my wife's faking a back injury so she
could just lay around all weekend, turn me into a
single dad. I don't think she was hurt. Listen to
these grunts and moans I've recorded of her, and tell
me that she isn't exaggerating it. Okay, guys ready like
this are getting up off the couch, in the car,
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out of bed. I mean, it is so ridiculous. Here
we go. Okay, I'm going it. She's not hurt. Come on,
like that's exaggerated, right, No, did she know you were
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recording her? No, that thing is real. I'd be so
mad if total my husband brought in. I mean like,
I mean literally, so for three days I had to
do everything with all three kids, like she just sat
there on the couch like I can't get up all
like the kids crying. Okay, oh, you're gonna have to
get that like what rejected segment? Rejected segment. That's how
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you guys stop talking about it. I just yelled. Next up,
Mike Dson. In Paintball Roulette, we get five different paintball guns,
but only one is loaded. Bobby, Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, and
Morgan get a chance to select a gun and we
take turns shooting each other. The game stops once one
person quits or goes to the hospital. Oh my gosh,
(11:48):
brutal bit, I've been hit. It's not that's like some
squid games stuff right there. Talking about rejected segments. Also
from Mike d It's a spin off of one of
our other segments where we do the employee of the Month,
but instead we recognize the person who is the worst
employee of the man because person needs to show the
most improvement, and we list all the things they did
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badly last month. That's hilarious money worst, that just would
not be good for morale. Rejected segments, Morgan number two,
And this one actually wasn't so bad. I just I
guess it didn't get to it. But you've been in
three different workout classes where the same guy keeps live
streaming the workouts. Yeah, I'm like in the background of
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all of his live streams and I'm just working out.
I didn't figure it out until all the way through
a full workout class and I walk over and there's
people like commenting on what we're doing. Is he a
person in the class or teaching the class? No, he's
a person in the class. Oh, he's just in the class. Yeah,
that's so weird. He's live streaming himself, yes, so that
others can work out with him. I don't know. But
then the rest of us are in the background of it,
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and we don't know that strangers are commenting on what
we're doing while working out. Yeah, usually just sign it
consent if we're a if you're a teacher, I get it. Like, hey,
we're gonna live stream the class to people who can't
get up here. Yeah, somebody random? Yeah, just setting up
on the side, like watching him go at it. Oh
that doesn't sound he listen. Even watched him do ab
crunches with his body like, you know, his legs towards
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the camera. It was not a pretty go. Is this
like a thing like a rejected segments lunchbox back in
the mix? Here? Oh, hello, Lunchbox is mad at Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Oh boy, because they're not putting on models.
He doesn't know. Yeah, they put Kim Kardashian on the
cover of the Swimsuit issue, and I'm like, we already
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know Kim Kardashian. Give another model a break. And also,
that's how we discover new models. That's how we what
do you what do you need models for? I mean
that's how they get their big break and we get
to see a new hotty instead of oh Kim kay,
we already see Kim kana bikini all the time. They
should rejected segments frustrating. Okay, Raimundo saw on TikTok how
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he can remove excess skin from his eye for twenty
dollars and let's know if he should right on the air, Yes,
tell us how Yeah, I've had these stighs on my eyelids.
They run in my family. My grandpa had on, my
father has him and my wife in a noise or
it's right on my eye. It's been there, Jack segment
rejected segment twenty dollars. Yes, he's gonna lose an Eye's
gonna tell us and somebody's gonna do it, but he
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could do it on air. Yeah, rejected segment phone, I
got one left. This one is from lunchbox. He wanted
to spill the tea on shady Scuba Steve because he
saw a shady deal in the parking lot and he
doesn't think what Scooba is doing is legal. Yes, there
was a car that pulled into the garage. Scuba went
out there and looked at his left right, stuck his
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hand in the car person hitting him like a brown
paper bag wrapped up. Scooba went put it in his
truck like no one was watching. I was like, that
doesn't seem very normal question. It wasn't like an Amazon delivery.
It was a can't cash for something? Like how did
this go down? Let me just run this by it? Yeah,
you like Scuba Steve. Yeah, let's say he was doing
a drug deal, which I don't think it was. I
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don't know what I was doing, all right, but let's
say it was. Would you really want to come in
here and tell on him for doing that? I mean,
if it's going down to work, like do that at
your house, man, don't bring that business to my work.
It was me at Jeopardy doesn't but what was it? Really,
I don't go was Steve, I don't know, I don't
It wasn't a drug deal, so I don't mind asking
him this. Yeah, yeah, no problem, was it a drug deal.
It was not. Actually the thing you're speaking into right now,
that red microphone that I got you for Christmas. It
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was that. Oh they got brought out that dropped dropped
it off, and I was trying to be secret about
it because it was a surprise. Oh that's it. So
how do you feel, lunchbox? I feel good. I'm glad
that Scoop was not breaking the law. It just seemed
weird than you're gonna just tell on him. It was
the car was in the car was all tinted windows,
and it was just seeing every car almost just saying
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it had a radio, just seeming really shady. Okay, well
those are all rejected segments. Amy didn't make the less
good job. Oh but I don't know, it's kind of
fun hearing them. Okay, here's battom for you. A woman
trusted Amy with her purse in the bathroom. Whoa, oh yeah,
that's a big dude. That's weird. That crazy. So she
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was in the stall next to me, and her like
toddler son was in there with her, and he kept
throwing stuff out of her purse into the other stalls.
And so when I got out and washing my hand,
she scooted it under and she was like, can you
watch this for me? And I'm like, this woman does
not know me. But I gathered everything and put it
up on the synk and waited for her to come out.
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You look trustworthy. She couldn't see me through the stall.
But why was that rejected? It could just a lot
to talk about it. Well, I wasn't going too And
you're like, whoa, what had that? Well? Okay, but I
just thought, wow, this woman trusts me because I could
have just walked out with her purse. No problem. That's
rejected segments. Thank you everybody. Please rejected segments. Keep them coming.
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It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Also in the Best Bits this weekend, Amy's son a
husband sending her photos of his bathroom visits and it
sounds exactly what you think. So I'm just gonna leave
this one here because I don't need to get into
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this and share my opinion or talk about it. I
just want you guys to hear it for yourself. Here
it is Amy's son what he's been doing lately that
she does not know what to do with. Number four,
I feel like you want to show me a picture
of something I saw Amy grab her phone. Is we're
going to segment what's on your phone? Well, I don't
know if you want to see it. But my son
now thinks it's hilarious to text me pictures from his
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bathroom experience. What do you mean like when he goes
to the bathroom bathroom number two, he takes a pictures.
Oh my gosh, I don't want to see that. I
don't know. Why don't text that? You don't know? No,
I thought, is this just the little boy humor thing
and the medical reasons? Yea, like mom, I think he
should or he's proud of himself. Oh no, I don't know. Yes,
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And now he thinks it's so funny. Oh oh, can't
stop old stuff. Oh no, I've never opened a text
from him. It'd be like I haven't eaten in days
that I wouldn't look at it because I wouldn't want
to see that. Don't to me? To me you no, no, no,
I don't want to say, Oh, dude, what are you
tell him? Please stop? This is not or don't send
these to anybody else? But mom, no, no, please stop. Well, yeah,
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no pictures. It's like a Jeans jaga born in the seventies.
No pictures, no pictures. Yeah, I don't know. I just
hope he's not texting him out to anybody. Have his
own phone. He has an iPad. He's taking a picture
of an he's having to get a cinematic. That thing's huge.
Oh no, he doesn't have a phone. Oh no, he
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can text me through his iPad account. Oh that's what
he's been up to, like an email, like a week.
What else he up to? Well, he had a friend
over and they got locked out, so that was quite
the experience. I get you at home. I wasn't home.
The friend has a phone, so text me and was like, hey,
I was just down the shad at the grocery store
and I was going to be back. And he's like,
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somehow we've managed to get locked out. And I said, okay,
well I'll be home soon, so just play basketball or
do something outside and I'll be there. And I get
back and Stevenson's very dramatic and is already spelling out
sos with sticks and rocks in our driveway for people
flying over instead of knock on the door. And what's
funny is he just learned what meant a week ago,
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and so I actually thought it was quite clever and cute.
But he was just very dramatic. When I pulled up.
We have been locked out for hours. It had been
no more than thirty minutes, that's for sure, and he
was spelling out sos, which, by the ways, means nothing.
Oh it means nothing. Save our ships, It's what people
have inserted the meeting meaning to him, But it means nothing.
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It's made of just those specific sounds. And the letter's
looking like a distress signal. Not save our souls, that's
another one. Save our sushi, We our sisters. Oh come
any of days. It's the best bits of the week
with Morgan. Number two talk about an epic weekend at
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CMA Fest for obvious reasons, but more importantly because I
got to meet Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and it
was literally incredible and such a fun, cool experience. I
met them in the wild. That wasn't like at a
press moment. They were just out being country music fans
and it was just so cool. So here's the story
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of how it all happened and how I realized that
it was Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. Number three, Morgan,
how did you meet Tom Hanks? Well, so I was
at CMA Fest working, but after I got done working,
I just went out into the crowd and I was
hanging out with my parents and we're jamming to Jason
Aldeen he was playing. I was like, you know, I
really need to go pee. So I left during the
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middle of Jason Aldeen set and I'm walking up the
stairs in this section where every other fan is at right,
and I kind of look and I'm like, oh, that
looks like Rita Wilson. She's on her phone. Didn't think
much of it. I went to Pete and while I'm
sitting there, I'm like, if that was Rita Wilson and
she's only sitting next to somebody else, that has to
be Tom Hanks. So I come back and I kind
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of scoot in front of him. There's no one around,
no security guards, know nothing, and the guy sitting there
jamming to the concert, Rita's on her phone reading something,
and I just turned around and sure enough, it was
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson just sitting there like watching
the show like any other fan. It's crazy that people
weren't piling onto them, going hey can I get a picture?
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Like they weren't recognized, I know. And they were sitting
like right on the aisle there in the rows in
front and behind them weren't full, like you could easily
access them if you wanted to. And after I went
up to him, first of all, I did go up
and say, hey, I'm Morgan from the Bobby Bones Show
and we all love you on our show. Both of
you guys are so awesome, Like do you mind if
I get a picture. And then after that I blacked
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out because he took my phone and like took a
selfie with me, and I have no idea what happened afterward.
See Tom Hanks knows the gay having to grow a technique.
You take the phone, take the picture, and you can
scoot people on their way. That's exactly what happened. And
they still feel loved, right, Yeah, I so did, because
like I was like, oh, Tom Hanks even touched my
phone like that even made me feel more special. That's crazy.
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Just saw Tom Hanks hanging out, so you walked off?
Why didn't they have better seats? Can't we can't we
get Tom Hanks and better seats than sitting in the
back of the stadium randomly. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
I don't know who they were there for, because they
did stay through Jason Aldeen. They stayed for a little
bit of Keith Urban and then they were gone. I
maybe saw two other people go up to him. But
besides that, there were people walking past the whole time.
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Oh see, that's what I would be nervous of. Is
it if they were just chilling and then someone sees
you asked for a picture, and then it causes this
flow of people, and then I would feel really, really bad.
I know that's why I did originally too. I was like,
I'm sorry, I won't post a picture right now, like
I'm not gonna make everybody come talk to you guys,
And they were so cool about it. I don't think
Tom heard me most of the time, though, because the
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whole set was going on, and he kept kind of
putting his ear up to me, like I really hear
what you're saying, But he just kind of smiled and
took my phone, took a picture and then waved and
I left. So did he look older younger in person?
I don't know. I've just never seen Tom Hanks in person,
and he's about as famous as you can get. Yeah,
I mean, honestly, he looked so good. I don't even
know how old they are, but like his smile. He
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I don't know if he's had work done or anything,
but he looks amazing. And Rita looked great. But they
don't look like Tom doesn't look like how he would
look in the movies. He looks like how he would
look out in public, and all those stories we hear
about him, it's all. He has his hair died, like
he's got like, you know, white hair, He's got his
glasses on. He's just like a regular guy. Well, I'm intrigued.
I wish I could see somebody famous in the wild.
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You know, I don't know if they would have known who. Hey,
I'm Morgan from the Bobby Bones Show. I think they're
just here. What's just white noise to them, don't you think?
I don't know. I feel like Rita knew who it
was because she looked at me and she's like, oh yeah, totally.
Tom had no idea. But Rita, I think new I
don't know. Some say Forrest Gump was based on me.
All right, let's do Morgan wall and waste it on you.
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That's a good story, Morgan, that's pretty cool. I can
hear Eddie's jealousy. You heard that. I can just hear
driven out at I can't believe it. You never met him, Eddie.
I've never met him. And that night I was supposed
to be there with Morgan, but schedules got shifted around
and I wasn't able to be there, So that was
my one chance. That's your punishment there. It's the Best
Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two. A super
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cool accomplishment for Bobby this week. His children's book Stanley
the Dog The First Day of School is out. Now.
He couldn't do the whole press stuff that he planned
for it because he's not been feeling well, and so
he did talk about it a little bit on this
show this week. But I'm definitely wanted it to be
here on the Best Bits so you guys could purchase
it and get it if you haven't already. If you
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pre ordered and did all that good stuff, awesome, But
if you haven't ordered it. You can go to Bobby
Bones dot com and get you a copy. He signed
a book for my niece and nephew and it went
to Kansas to them, So I'm super excited to hear
and see pictures of them reading it and make sure
if you're reading it to your kids or you got
the book, share it on socials with us. He's loved
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getting to see all of that. Number two, I had
a book come out on Tuesday, Stanley the Dog first
day at school. I had all this press lined up
to do and missed every bit of it, so I
got to do no sort of press for the book.
So well, what's crazy is how many people pre ordered.
And honestly I was shocked. I forgot I pre ordered
it and it arrived in the mail and I was like, oh, hey,
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look at me, okay back in the day. But also
I saw so many people that got it day of
which means so many people pre ordered. Yes, and I'm
very appreciative. And if you weren't pre ordering, because I
would never pre order anything really, and I appreciate those
who did. You can go to Amazon and order it
now and it'll be there in a day or two.
But it's yes. Two things to say. Yes, it's called
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Stanley the Dog First Day of School. But I haven't
received my signature yet. Oh you just kidding. I didn't
email the thing, but I saw some people are getting
mad and they're leaving that as a review and they
need to not do that because you're mailing it out
and they need to give you five stars. Well, here's
what happened. The book company says you need to do
a pre sale. I said, I don't want to do
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a pre sale. I think presales are dumb. They said, well,
it's in your contract to do a presale. I said,
I will only do a pre sale if I can
promise the people they are going to buy it early
that I can send them something extra. I'm not going
to charge them anymore. But they say, okay, great, So
we sell like thirteen thousand in presale. I've been signing.
I've been signing these little art cards every day for
at least an hour for the past two months. And
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so we never said they were going to come out
right when the book came, you're gonna get the book.
Some of them got it before, so we'll get it after.
But you'll get it in the mail and it's a
signed piece of art that goes with the book, and
people are all upset that didn't get there is when
other people are getting it on the app. We're mailing
them out individually. I'm going crazy over here and I
got sick. And so then they're leaving one star reviews
on Amazon. They're like, love the book didn't get them
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out to graft one star. Yeah, I was bothered by that,
but I was just saying too, they had to have
also sent the email to get the signature. Yes, it
is a matter anyway. Okay, It's the best Bits of
the week with Morgan. Number two in Super Hot At
the number one spot is Gavin DeGraw. He came on
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the show this week for an interview and he also
performed some of his hit songs, including Yes, I Don't
Want to Be, which, as a One Tree Hill fan,
such a fun moment. I've seen him in concert, but
nothing was like this interview in this performance. Gavin is
just such a good dude. And to have him in
here talking about all of his hit songs in his
new project and what he has had to go through
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in his life recently to put out this new project
just an all around. Incredible interview and probably one of
my favorites in recent years. So, without further ado, why
have I been saying that a lot lately? I have
no idea, but it's Gavin DeGraw Number one. Gavin. I
was watching some of this this this docuseries where you're
road tripping, and I know that you also like to
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be in your bus. Do you hate flying? I just
is like, would you hate flying or you just like
being on the ground. Uh? Man, I don't really like
airports because I hate flying. I'm scared of flying. Yeah,
you're scared of people. It sounds like, you know, I
don't like bad interactions and airports is like it's like
a recipe for bad interactions with people. You know, you
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taught me a lesson in an airport once. It was
a couple of years ago. That's pretty pandemic. And I
think we were sitting next to each other or near
each other on a flight and we had both been
stopped going through the airport. But you were you were
very efficient and very nice to people, and I'd be like, yeah,
let's take it. I would take like ten minutes and
you're like, no, here's what you do. You go, Yeah,
give me your phone, and you take the self before them,
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and you give them their phone back, and everybody wins.
And so that's the move because yeah, your lesson was
they're gonna be like, well, I can't give my camera ride.
I can't. He say, you just take the phone from them.
You do that, you take the selfie because you know
exactly how to do it. Then you hand their phone back.
At true, everybody wins a lot faster, and it looks
good because you control it because you've been doing it
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a million times. Yeah right. You know who did it
the best? Who I saw do it? And I was like,
he's knocking this out of the park Ed Sheering. I
was with Ed one night and things were blowing up
for him and I was like, man, this guy's really
good at this. Look at that angle way to hold
that phone steady. He's got it down. I got it,
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got out the mole skin. I was like chopping it
down on pen and paper. You know, I remember this
thirty degrees. I've passed your knowledge to multiple people. Yeah,
the same way I taught you, you taught me. Gavin's
going generationally at this point, let's do this. It's like
you'll save time you'll have a better picture. Just say, hey, yah,
let's take a picture. Give me your phone boom, take
it all right, there we go and I love it.
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And if you're not too heavily caffeinated, the pictures pretty good.
Otherwise the little shaky Yeah, let's forget about the caffeine
hits me hard. Man, I'll drink and eight ball's worth
of it and I'll be I'll take the selfie for
it looks like an earthquake gappen. Congrats on the new record, man,
so good you don't it was lucky enough that you
send it over to me, because you know, I'm just
a fan of you musically anyway. And I mean it's
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it's and we're gonna play something from it just a
little bit. But also, and I'm not sure if you
know all who's been bragging about the record, but I
would be considered like a half toaster. There's a there's
a podcast called The Morning Toast and they were player
bragging on it and playing it to a pretty podcast
and I was like, I know that guy. Thanks. Yeah,
So I didn't do it. Mind's right now, but there's
already happened, I think, yeah too, man, So the record
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is really great. So when this thing comes out, well,
I guess before it comes out, like, how long do
you work on an album like this? And do you
feel like musically sonically this is I don't want to
see a change. It definitely feels a little more in
the loveliest way, like mature, Like did this album did
do you feel? Did you feel like that appropriate way
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to describe it? I think that's spot on. Um. You know,
record came out on the twentieth of May, and and uh,
you know, I've been holding it back, um because I
didn't know if it was the right time to put
it out for a long time. It's been done for
a long time, but you know, the world was all
upside down and my life, my personal life was all
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upside down. Um, and I wasn't I wasn't sure when
when's the right time to put out new music and um,
when does it feel like the right time? And also
at the same time, how how am I going to
serve the songs to my fans? I didn't. I didn't
want to just launch this thing out, you know, out
of a cannon and hope people heard it. And I
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wanted to kind of deliver it to them personally and
go out and play little rooms. Um the tour I
just did. UM. I went out and I played rooms
that were the size of the rooms I played before
I ever had a record deal. UM like the Even
on launch, the actual release day of the record, we
played the Bitter End, which is the first place they
ever gave me a gig in New York City. You know,
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it holds one hundred and fifty people, two hundred people.
I just felt like being in those environments was the
right way to serve the songs to people who've been
with me for a long time. The audience is basically
what changed my life. So I wanted to serve them
the songs the way that I used to serve songs
before I haven't had a record deal. Get up on stage,
talk about the music, talk about my life and you know,
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here's a song about it and all these things happen,
and then just make it rhyme right, make it ry yeah, yeah,
and uh, you know, making this record it was heavily personal.
You know, there's a lot of loss in the family.
And I lost my mom, and then two weeks later
my grandma died, and then six months later my granddad died.
And then COVID happened, and then my dad got diagnosed
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and he died, and you know, I'm watching all that
stuff happened around me. But I wanted to finish the
record while he was alive. I wanted him to hear
the record. It was that was my timeline. My timeline
was finish it for dad right whenever, you know, hopefully
before I lose him. So it wasn't going to be
a business as usual album. That wasn't going to be Hey,
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let me write some songs and I hope I get
some hit songs. And it just had nothing to do
with that. It was just different. The world was different.
I'm different, and for me to go on and just
do business as usual, cutting records just in hopes of man,
I hope it catches on, it just wasn't gonna It
would be disingenuous. And I can't ignore the things that
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happened to me, or to them, or to every the
world as a whole, you know, and just launch a
record and and hey, this is so people dance. That's
just not how I feel. You know, the world changed
and I changed with it. I'm forty five years old,
I'm a grown man. For me to go out and
just trying to, you know, do my happy dance would
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just be silly. You know. I was listening to it again.
I'd spent some time with it when you sent it
to me, and then I was listen to it again.
And this the track that hit me always every time,
was Chasing Win. I'm gonna ray if you'll play some
of this. Here's some of Gavin song Chasing Win. You
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know what's interesting too, as Dave co produced this right
and Dave Calls worked with a lot of our favorite
artists here intown. He's he's genius. I took a meeting U.
He took a meeting with me, which I didn't expect
because you know who am I? And Um? I met
him in midtown here and U. We did lunch, was
he and I And I was expecting some old geezer
to walk through the door because I heard his name
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so many times, you know, and he had so many
hit records. But he walked in. He had cooler hair
than me, and he was cooler than me, and and
uh probably younger than me. Um. He said, what do
you want to do? And I said, I need to
get all this stuff out of my body. And I
don't want to co write with anybody. I want to
go back to writing alone like it did with the
first few records. UM. But I think you're the best
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producer in the world for kind of record I want
to make U And he said, with some explet is,
let's do it, you know. And a couple weeks later
we were in the room and UM, you know, he
brought in some ace players and I brought in the
best guitar player. I know this guy right here, Billy
Norris and uh and uh, and we just started recording
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and um. And I think that Dave's influence over the
record as a whole was something that took took it
to to heights I couldn't have I couldn't have seen.
And um My my vision for it was more linear
than his. Um. His vision was much bigger than mine. UM.
And he really challenged me in the studio, which I
really appreciated. I think we all worked better under pressure anyway,
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you know. I think everybody needs to have somebody kind
of putting a thumb on him and uh and challenging him.
And I think what he did, uh and what he
demanded made the album a whole lot better. Than than
I ever could. Gavin Nagrass here got a new album,
Faced the River. We're gonna play for it in just
a few minutes. But when I think about, you know,
somebody just says your name and that that chair that
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melody of Chariot, Yeah, just sits in like the on
the back when it's like, hey, you know, listening to
having a girl and immediately chair that that just that melody.
I'm assuming when you when you play, you play, do
you play all the hits like your shows? Yeah? Pretty much? Absolutely.
You know I'm walking you play a little bit of
Chariot just to get that that bug out of my ear? Oh? Absolutely,
won't play just play the hook. Sure that's a part,
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you know, Yeah, it's part I think I know more.
That's a part that Yeah, all right, here to good
three four chairing you go walking down, so check I'm
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singing out to God me give me you sho rang nice?
All right, I'm good. That worm is gone. You know,
you just gotta sometimes you gotta feed the worm and
the worms and the worm goes away. I like it.
I know you're gonna read tune now right? Do you
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need a second? Just a second? Cool? Can we keep talking. Yeah, okay, cool.
So Chariot was one of your first singles. I played
it on radio as wow. It was one of the
early ones, right very early. Yeah, two thousand and five,
somewhere and there. It was a funny little group of song.
The timeline is really weird because the first song I
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ever released, um, I don't want to say it didn't
do anything, but it didn't do anything. It was called
follow Through. And then I got lucky with a song
called I Don't Want to Be And then Clive Davis
loved the song follow Through so much he goes no
rereleasing follow Through, so he wanted to launch it again,
and that time, for whatever reason, it was a hit.
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And then the next one was Chariot. And so it
was in that first little little group. Yeah, but I'll
be around. It was till five or six. Everything's just
flying so fast. Then, I'm assuming at that stage of
your career, you know. It's funny. I was always um
afraid to acknowledge any successes that were happening. Um, I
was almost too busy to notice them. But as they
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were occurring, I was so afraid that they were going
to disappear if I picked my head up to look
in the rearview mirror and go, well, cool, look, look
what just happened. You know, um, and I and I
was you know, I don't know. It's a personality type thing. Man.
I'm always waiting for the other shooter drop. Yeah. Yeah,
so so you know, even when big things were happening,
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I just thought it was, oh, we have to do this.
We're doing this. It's great, we're doing this. But we're
doing this. I guess we're doing this because we have
to do this because nothing's working yet, you know what
I mean. And I don't know why. It's a personality
type thing. But you know, you get on, you're lucky
enough to come on, it will show like this me
and go, this is great, this is awesome. We definitely
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have to do this. Nothing must be working right. It's
a little happening by a little lot of nerosis because
I live no databauck, no dabt about it. It's it's
fear and uh and it's you know, it's fear of failure,
and it's fear of hey man, did I make all
the wrong decisions? And you know I joke about it
with with with friends of mine that you always feel
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like I'm I'm one one more bad decision away from
just playing the lobbyist some hotel in the middle of somewhere,
you know, and uh, you know that guy you know,
and uh, you're just you just you don't have complete
control of things. You know. You mentioned you got lucky
with I don't want to be yeah again. I was
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in pop radio at that point. I don't know it
from One Tree Hill that the show. It's one that
I don't know it from that. I'll just know it
from being played on the radio. So which this chicken
or Egg? Here? Was it a single? And then it
got big and the TV show put it on, or
did the TV show, and then it went from there. Man,
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you know, it's funny with that song because I thought
that was the obvious first single. My brother was screaming
up all the time at me, you know, in our
apartment in New York. He's like, that's a single. What's
wrong with people? You know, like they need to put
that out first? But follow Through is the one. And
I got a phone call from a guy. The song
hadn't been selected to be a single yet, and I
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got a phone call from a guy named Joe de
Vola and Joe de Vola said, hey, I want to
use your song for a TV show, and I said, nah,
absolutely not. I don't even watch TV. TV stupid, you know,
and that's just you know New York, you know East
Village Art, you know snob at the time, you know,
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I was kicking around Alphabet City and you know, twenty
years ago, right. So I said, nah, I don't even
watch TV. Who watches TV? And I don't want to
be associated with it. He goes, listen, you gotta help me,
help you the song I think would be a big song,
and I want to put in a show. I said, nah, no,
I really appreciate it. You sound like a nice guy,
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but no thanks. He goes, okay, let me ask you
another question. How much money you got in your bank
account right now? And I was like, he starts laughing,
and he goes, listen, think about it. We're not going
to touch the song. We're just gonna put it in
a place where people are gonna hear it, you know.
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And that show wasn't on yet, right, I wasn't even
on yet, right, yeah? And I followed through. Apparently had
been picked up and put in another show that was
in pilot in pilot mode that never got actually never
became bigger. But I think val Kilmerson was about the
porn industry followed through. I don't know, but anyway, but yeah,
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I said, you' know what, all right, this guy's right.
Guys like me aren't going to be watching this stuff
anyway and associated with certain things. I'm not going to
associate it with a teen show. I'm not a teenager,
you know. I was twenty seven at the time, and
I was an adult. But I said, all right, do it,
do you know, man, just do whatever you want with it.
I appreciate it, and you know what, just do it,
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Just do it. And sure enough that the song took off.
And then I walked into the label and I had
a meeting with Clive Davis, and he said, with everything
happening around this show, the show with the song you've
heard clap Talk, the obvious next single would be I
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Don't Want to Be And I was like, all right, great,
this is awesome. You know, so the song I originally wanted,
it's finally going to be the single, and it did it.
It took off, and you know, fortunately that was a
foot in the door. In the door moment you know,
does that I don't know. Obviously it got you to
the place that you originally wanted, meaning it's kind of
a weird way that happened. For sure, you wanted it.
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They said no, you didn't want it to be on
the TV show, then you finally said yes, which got
it back around where you wanted it. Yeah. So but
do you look back at it being on the TV
show and go, I wish I wouldn't have done it,
or I wish I would have, or are you just
like you know what nailed it? It had to happen.
The looking back things always tough because I think if
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I would have made a different decision, I'd be looking
back right now thinking I should have changed something else that,
you know, based on wherever I was at that at
that point, right as they say noah, they say, no
battle plan ever survives combat. Right, So so you know,
of course, no matter what changes I would have made
back then, there'd be some other something else I'd have
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to look back on now it say I should alter this,
I should alter that. But I think the association, certainly
at first, was a great idea. It opened doors that
were absolutely well did shut to me because there were
other artists who are always going to have priority at
other labels. You know, I wasn't I wasn't. I wasn't
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Alicia Keys. You know, she was out, you know, a
little bit before me, but under the same same company.
I wasn't Maroon five. They were out just before me,
with the same group of people doing the same marketing.
So there were already a couple of acts here that
we're going to get the most attention. And I needed
to find I had to find a window to crawl through.
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Um and that's that was the window. So then let
me ask you to you this way. When people go, hey,
I know you from one Tree Hill, that's right, right, sure,
Well people go I know you from one Tree Hill,
You're like, oh no, I say, that's awesome because you
know that's cool. Yeah, because how you found me, How
you found me, however you found me. You know the
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fact that you know, twenty years later someone's coming up
to me saying they know me from a team show,
but they're still coming to my shows. That means somehow
the music is making them feel good still, right, And
if they're only coming for that one song, hey, god
bless them. If they want to sit through two hours
in music, you know, for me to get song at
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the end of the night. You know, then cool. You know,
there was a speaking of which because I think every
artist probably goes through this the first probably on their
first their first successful song. Oh you're gonna love this, okay.
So because I was having little success with that song
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early on, and the song took off. Here it's a
big hit, blah blah blah whatever, people start coming to
your gigs. So then you know, for about you know,
for about six months, you start feeling pretty good. You're like,
this is pretty cool. This is I'm having some success.
You know, sadly, you feel like you're a little bigger, stronger,
you know, everything's bigger on your body right, so to speak.
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And so I thought, let's play the hit early tonight.
You know, let's do it like third. Everybody's gone by
the fourth song. You can't do that. You know, everybody's
left there is watching you just bored to death because
they already heard what they came again. There was there
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was like two or three gigs. I was like, I
know what I gotta do. I gotta play this one again.
That's fun to play it again, you know, And Uh,
so those are growing pains, those are those are real
learning experiences, I think, and uh, just the stuff you
gotta be able to laugh at afterward. Because every act,
every act that's had a big hit, I know they
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know what I'm talking about. Whether whether they decided I'm
going to try it out play the hit earlier or not,
I don't know if they've all done that, but I
know that they know the crowd is really coming for
the hits? Do you you gotta play them, but you gotta,
you gotta pick, pick and choose your moment. So you
did you ever have a stage where you disliked playing it?
You played it so much? No, I've never, not ever,
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Thank god. Well it's about to get real awkward. No, no, no, literally,
But you know it's funny because I do know acts
who talk about, oh, I don't want to play my hits,
I don't want to do those anymore. And I think,
to myself, does it how lucky they are right now
that they get to do this. You know you got
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to pull them aside. But hey, listen, I know you
know you've been doing this song every day since you
wrote this song. But must I remind you you have
one of the only jobs in the world that when
you get the clock out, people clap for you and
tell you what a good job you did. You know,
name another one, you know, name another job you could
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think of that at the end of your workday, people go,
great job, that was amazing tonight. You know, you don't
get that. Nobody gets that. You know, get up there
and give them what they came for. You're so blessed
to be able to do that, or you you're you
have forgotten how how tough real life really is. If
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you don't want to do a song for three and
a half minutes for people who saved up three and
a half months to drive three and a half hours
to watch you sing that song, well, okay, Gavin, the
girls here and he's looking at me when he said that. Sorry, man,
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so crazy that you would you want that, So listen
as a fan, I'm glad that you feel that way,
right And and with that being said, yeah, don't play
the whole thing, just give me that doesn't give me
the hook of that. I don't want to have him
yell at me. I don't just give me the hook.
And we'll call out to day on that one, all right,
here's Gavin the girl hit me with that hook of
I don't want to be Yeah, there we go. I
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don't want to be anything other than what I've been
trying to be. Laid leg have to dude singing me
and a piece of mind. I'm tired of it get around,
but I gotta do I'm supposed to be. I don't
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want to be anything other than me. That's awesome. Let's
get to the new stuff now, that's what we all
came for. We drove three and a half hours. I
don't want to yell at me again. I was thinking
about leaving. Yeah, you leave after that. It'll so the
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song that I'd like for you to play, if that's
cool as forward. It's from the new record. Would you
give me a little set up on this? And you
wrote it and forarded it, so what led you to
actually do both? Uh? Well, this song is about sort
of recognizing that you've been uh caught up on the
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hamster wheel of life, and you know, you have that
revelation one day of you know, my stuff owns me.
I don't own my stuff. Why why am I doing
all this other work? Or am I why am I
picking up this these o'ts Why am I doing these
other things to pay for things that I'm not even
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getting to enjoy because I'm spending all my time just
paying for him, you know. Um, And you're seeking advice,
so you know, I think if you're gonna get advice,
hopefully you get it from somebody that you love, somebody
uh uh who's smarter than you and and who's older
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than you, um, because they're gonna give you better advice.
So this is this is uh. The song's a conversation,
uh about somebody looking for advice asking some old dude,
you know what what do I do? All right? Here's
Gavin DeGraw. This is from the new record Face the River,
and here is for it. Try a tired but try
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and still I've been climbed the Oh why can't he
the top? Old man? Can't you help me understand why
I'm on this planet? Do you know when to stop
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working for a dollar? Oh? That tire making man feel broke?
Working for a dollar, that's the only thing nine old
just striving old Ford, count blessings and pray the Lord have.
Let's make it feel like more. Leave work the front door,
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work hard and you get paid. Don't giving your best
days only so meant me left saved some of them
up for the ones worth saving them for. Lata la
da da da da la da da da la da
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da da da Yeah, Lata la da da da da
La da da da da da da da da da
da da da. Yeah, it's so good yet kill him.
That's awesome. Song's good, the message is good, You're good.
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Everything that's great. Don't yell at me anymore. It's awesome.
I was amazing. That's really great. The records it's great too.
The record is an album that I would listen to
if I wasn't working in music and had to listen
to music for a living, right, I mean that that's
the music. I like this. This whole record is that
and wow. I encourage people to check it out. It's
not a few weeks called Face the River. So many
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good songs, and listen the feeling that you guys probably
got by hearing that song and that message. Those feelings
are sprinkled all throughout the record for different reasons. Yes, sir,
because I mean, you sing that song there and it's
like ring I should re evaluate my life and quit
this job and walk off the air right now, and
so and go and spend time with my wife and
wabbly through this place. Yeah, but you know that's the
kind of thing. It is, like I'm spending too much
(53:15):
time doing dumb crap and that same kind of oh,
like punching the gut in a good way is all
through the record. So great, great jobs, a heck of
a project. I appreciate it. I hate that so much
crap had to happen for you to create this project,
but I'm glad that you did it because I feel like,
hopefully it was therapeutic for you, very very I appreciate that. Man. Yeah,
(53:37):
I appreciate that it's been. Um, it was therapeutic writing it,
and it's it's therapeutic recording it and therapeutic playing it
every night. And it's been it's been emotional playing it
every night. Um. Some nights are harder than others, you know. UM.
But but I feel like it's a message that I
(53:57):
need to get out. UM, and I think it's something
really other people are relating to. And you know, when
you lose people, you become part of this fraternity or
this club that you never really wanted to be a
member of. UM. But we're all members of it um
(54:18):
or gonna be and and I just think you have to,
uh take it head on. You know. My father always
told me run to the lion, and I think you
just have to take you just have to take everything
head on. Everything you're worried about, everything that's scaring you,
everything you're that's you, that you were putting off. There
has to be a moment where you turn and you
go to it um and I just needed to go
(54:41):
to it. You did. It's it's again beautiful art, tragic circumstances,
beautiful art. And just don't stop doing it, you know, man,
don't stop doing it. Gavin Degrass here, you guys check
out the record. It's Face the River the there's a
six part documentaries on face book. Yeah, you guys did
about road trip and as you're making like the creative
(55:04):
Fish process, well it was after the uh, after the
record was made, I got to go out and do
do another road trip because I like road trip. And
you know what I said, I if I don't like
being in the air, I wish I could fly on
the ground. That makes sense. That's the move, That's what
that's that, that's the move. Can I fly on the ground?
We're supposed to see the world from about five to
(55:27):
six feet above the ground. Yeah, right where our head is,
right where our feet. That's that's yes, you guys check
that out in and that's gonna be it for now. Um.
My absolute favorite song of yours is not over You.
Wow you still like that one? Or no? Of course? Yeah,
I love it. I wrote that with Ryan Teter. I
did not know that. Yeah, I wrote with Ryan Teter
(55:48):
and the spark of it. One Republic guy, One Republic Yeah,
super just a wonderful uh pop songwriter specifically, just a
genius at pop and we um. He first played me
that riff, the piano riff up top that um come
on right that think we were in um Blackbird Studios
(56:13):
in her Nashville. He goes, you know, man, when we
think of this piano doing this, and I was like, us,
it's okay. I guess he was like, yeah, I need
to be great for your dreams. That's where I have
to go to see your beautiful fit sending more stared
(56:38):
ride a picture, rub you and listen to the radio
boop music conversation. We booting bit we had it good.
Then It's Daily Nation NINEO that and munch is understood
and not read a lot. If you ask me how
(57:00):
I'm doing, I would say I'm doing just fine. I
will light say that you not all mine. But I
go out and I sit down at a table set
and finally I'm force to face no matter what I see,
(57:26):
I'm not over you. Not over you. That's awesome, man,
I appreciate that. Thanks for walking us through that. That's it,
Gavin DeGraw. You guys follow him. Listen to the record
over and over again. Face the river. You will find
your own story inside of it. He created music. It
(57:47):
doesn't have to be the exact same story that you're living.
I find song a lot of times that speak to
me in different ways, and it was originally written and
it speaks to me the same way that they was
supposed to speak to me. So great, great body of work,
Gavin degral Thanks appreciate you, guys. It man there he
thanks a lot, guys. It's the best Bits of the
week with Morgan number two. Y'all, thanks so much for
(58:10):
joining me this weekend. I hope you loved the best bits,
the interview with Scuba Steve and the best bits, just
the bits. I always appreciate y'all hanging out and listening
to this podcast with your weekend time, because I know
that it's very precious and you can be doing a
lot of things and not listening to this podcast. So
I appreciate you downloading and listening and also tagging me
(58:32):
and letting me know you're listening to it if you
relate to something. I love sharing whatever you guys tag
me in on socials, so keep doing that too. I
love to see it. Y'all have a fabulous weekend. I
love you. Goodbye, Bobby Bone.
It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan number two.
What's up, y'all? Welcome to the Best Bits. This is
just the bits. Thank you guys for hanging out with
me this weekend. Before we get into it, make sure
y'all check out part one, which is with Scuba Steve
this weekend. We dive, we dived, we doved, you know
whatever verb it is, into our lives. Talked about some
(00:24):
things from our past as well as what's been having
with us lately in Scuba and his kids. Just lots
of fun stories over there, so definitely check that out.
We're going to kick this one off. Coming in at
number seven. Amy felt that she might have been a
helicopter parent with her son. He asked to ride his
bike to jiu jitsu practice and she said yes, but
(00:45):
she also followed him. So listen to this and let
us know what you think. Number seven. Okay, so the
question from Amy is is she a helicopter parent or
a responsible parent? Why do you ask this? What happened? Well,
so Stevenson has started to want to ride his bike
to him his practice, like his classes. You know that
he takes for martial arts and stuff, and I want
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him to have that freedom. Yes, go ride your bike.
We live in the area where you could do that.
But then at the same time, I followed him in
my car. Liberty, you're free child. Yea strong the lng. Yeah.
And then there was one point where I was at
a red light filming him and he caught me. He
(01:29):
didn't know that you were following him at all. No,
I said, free as a bird. You got this, dude,
you got this. Go ahead. And so I followed him,
especially to this one busy or intersection that I'm worried about,
and I, you know, wanted to make sure he did good.
And then I went off and I pulled over and
kind of hid back behind these bushes to see if
(01:50):
he would handle everything within the law. And he did.
I was so proud of him. Okay, I don't think
this is helicopter parent at all. Okay, I think it's
fine to do this a couple of times to see
if he's making good decisions. I think it's fine to
do it when he knows you're following him. I think
it's fine to do it when he doesn't know you're
following him, so you can see what decisions he's making.
(02:11):
And then eventually, though, if you like what you see,
you have to fall off and let him do what
you told him he was getting to do anyway, right.
My only problem with is not so much that I'm
fearing his choices now that now that I've seen him
do it successfully, I'm very proud of him. I just
worry about other people that might snatch him or something. Well,
(02:33):
that's always going to be there, right, are you going?
Are you going to let him just right? Yes, I'm
gonna make you feel good. Amy, here we go. Ready,
people are always gonna try to steal him. Okay, okay, okay,
I feel better about this. No, it's right. So are
you going to let him do it without you're following him?
Next time? We'll see, I'll let DVD. I'll keep y'all posted.
This is this is a big deal. I am proud
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of him, and we'll see what happens. One time I
couldn't catch him on the way back, and I had
to call my husband be like, you gotta follow him
on the way home because I can't be there and
you gotta fall So my husband was all trying to
be all incognito following our son home because in full
camo behind trees, crawling on the ground. But then like
did this maneuver where he beat him home and so
(03:17):
he thought we were at home like the whole time, Oh,
we're clever. You're probably not as clever as you think,
but I like it. It It means you love him. And
if you watch him make good decisions many times in
a row, you have to trust that he's gonna make
good decisions when you're not watching him as well. Right,
that's what I would say. But are you a helicopter parent?
I go no, I'm gonna speak Freddie because he is
(03:39):
a helicopter parent and go no. Eddie thinks you should
have him in that little cart beside you and you
should ride him. You know, you should put the little
cart like the little bicycle cart, the sidecart. Hey, she
was telling that story and the whole time I'm not
in my head. Absolutely, you're a great parent, Amy, Yeah, okay,
but would you eventually let your son just do it himself? Now?
Not the next year and he's like eventually twenty one,
(03:59):
you're we're fourteen year old? Or held her? Yeah he's fourteen.
Oh my gosh, you're a helicopter parent. Let the kid go.
I mean guys, you have to let the kids out
in the world and experience things. I was riding my
bike to school a mile away when I was in
second grade. I was six years old, riding my bike
to school. You guys need to get a grip on reality.
(04:20):
Let the kid go do his thing and trust that
you have raised him to make smart decisions. People. The
Cold War is over. Okay, exactly, Lunchboxes out argue with
Clouds right now, Mica, when I was a kid, but
I can't believe you won't let him ride his bike
(04:40):
and you tailgated him. Well, no one knows that. But
also it was Lunchbox an advanced second grader six okay,
seven years old? Sorry, seven years old? Sorry about that, Amy,
keep doing you. I like it. Give us the up
date whenever you let him go himself. Okay, all right,
it's the best bits of the week with We're getting
(05:00):
number two. You know, whenever our show gets invited to
an event or to go do something out in public
or out in the wild, it's almost guaranteed that stories
are going to come back from it. And that's definitely
what happened this time. Scuba, Steve and Eddie went to
Graceland for the Elvis movie, the whole press junket, all
that good stuff, and while something happened, basically, they did
(05:23):
something that the show has deemed unprofessional and not a
good look for us. So you know, you can hear
the segment for yourself, and then if you check out
part one, which is with Scuba, he gives a little
bit more to this story and his thoughts on the
whole thing. Number six. You know, we are allowed certain
things because we do a show, a big show, I'll
(05:43):
say it, the biggest it's ever happened in this format.
And so with that, like Spider Man, you know, with
power comes responsibility, and sometimes we aren't as responsible as
we should be with that power. And mostly I'm talking
about Scuba, Steven Eddie because they went to Memphis, they
went to go watch the Elvis movie. And whenever you're
a producer or you're like Eddie, you get the phone
(06:05):
number of artists that will come play on the show
because you got to have these professional contacts. That doesn't
mean if you see someone covering their song in a
bar at midnight, you should send them a video of
somebody playing their song. Would you? When you agree, Amy
I'm nervous to hear what happened. Yes, okay, so what happened,
Scooba Steve, Why don't you tell me what happened? Somebody's
playing Gavin to Gross song somewhere. Yeah, so Eddie and
(06:26):
Iron Memphis for that Elvis junket, and we're at a
bar and this guy we were upstairs at a top bar,
had a good time coming down. This guy he's just
killing it. He's got nine different pedals, he's playing solos.
He's really really good at playing the guitar. And he
starts singing a Gavin the Gross song and I'm like, whoa.
Eddie and I start singing along, and I was like, Eddie,
should we send us to Gavin. Eddie's like, yeah, dude,
totally send it to Gavin. I was like, but it's
(06:46):
like ten thirty, it's kind of Lais like, no, Gavin
Hardy's late, don't worry about it, he'll be up. Just
send it to him. So, under the peer pressure of Eddie,
I sent a video. We're not blaming it on Eddie,
You're you're the oh Eddie, You're in fault too. But
Scooba Steve is the responsible list of the responsible and
was he playing I don't want to Yeah, yeah, so
(07:08):
and I in the hindsight, I probably should have done it,
but I just and I've never done it before, and
I just felt like that was the time to do it.
And he responded and said yes. I think he felt
like he had no other options. He's a nice guy.
Don't text me. Whose idea was it to do that?
I don't remember because we both are little tips. I
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don't know. Okay, see alcohol and celebrity. Oh no, oh no,
Now I'm going to have to text him and say
I'm very sorry that we use a number that was
given to us for professional reasons to harass you, even
in the nicest way on a Friday night. I'm sure
people cover that song all the time. Can you imagine
(07:53):
if somebody texted him somebody covering that song every time
they saw it? Mean anybody else guilty of texting artists
that have come in before? Anybody? Well Scoopa is the
only one that's a producer that has the numbers. I mean,
that is a that's a pretty crazy line to cross,
but it's a baller mood to be like start that
(08:15):
friendships and say thing bad. It was just it was
just a cover. Wasn't like I was like, hey, man,
what are you doing? I want to hang out. It
was just like, here's this, have a great day, here's this.
Have a great day at ten thirty at night as
you've been drinking. That was basically a professional booty call. Okay,
you're at a bar, you had a few drinks, yet
somebody kind of have like a professional crush on Okay, okay,
(08:35):
so inappropriate or totally appropriate, Amy, inappropriate, lunchbox, inappropriate baller.
I mean, you're starting a relationship. It's good Eddie. Hey, dude,
I was there. You're eliminated. No, I knew it. It's
not awesome. Okay, it's funny. I'm gonna be like, hey, sorry,
my guys text you while they were drunk on Friday night.
(08:57):
They're gonna be going down Broadway just looking at people
singing covers to go through Scuba's phone to oh no, okay,
So I wanted to start with that. Hey, I'm not mad.
I'm just disappointed, right, Yeah, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
(09:19):
Everyone loves this segment, which kind of makes me sad.
Because that means y'all like to hear us being rejected.
It is rejected segments. Bobby comes on and he shares
segments that were pitched to him but never quite made
the air. And even in this segment, they make the air,
but it's not a guarantee that you actually get to
talk about what's going to happen. So, without further ado,
rejected Segments number five. Listen, you guys come up with
(09:41):
a lot of ideas for the show, and some of
them get used, and that one was very appreciative, but
some of them are so just we'd never do them,
and I appreciate the effort, but that's how we get
this segment called rejected segments. Rejected segments. Although some of
these are so dumb. I don't think you guys even
really wanted me to air it. I think you're just
filling out space. I gotta sitting in some ideas. So
(10:03):
these are rejected segments segments and in a million years
we would have never done on the air. There have
been times though, where I've been like, wow, that's actually
a pretty good segment. Let's do it. So let's see
if any of those do this. We'll start with Lunchbox
Lunchbox welcome, thank you, and I don't know why any
of my segments get rejected. I'm shocked when they don't
make it. Lunchbox wrote, I am supper annoyed with my
(10:24):
wife Supper, which I think I'm at super That spelling
is not my strong point. Care that much, he said,
I think my wife's faking a back injury so she
could just lay around all weekend, turn me into a
single dad. I don't think she was hurt. Listen to
these grunts and moans I've recorded of her, and tell
me that she isn't exaggerating it. Okay, guys ready like
this are getting up off the couch, in the car,
(10:44):
out of bed. I mean, it is so ridiculous. Here
we go. Okay, I'm going it. She's not hurt. Come on,
like that's exaggerated, right, No, did she know you were
(11:06):
recording her? No, that thing is real. I'd be so
mad if total my husband brought in. I mean like,
I mean literally, so for three days I had to
do everything with all three kids, like she just sat
there on the couch like I can't get up all
like the kids crying. Okay, oh, you're gonna have to
get that like what rejected segment? Rejected segment. That's how
(11:27):
you guys stop talking about it. I just yelled. Next up,
Mike Dson. In Paintball Roulette, we get five different paintball guns,
but only one is loaded. Bobby, Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, and
Morgan get a chance to select a gun and we
take turns shooting each other. The game stops once one
person quits or goes to the hospital. Oh my gosh,
(11:48):
brutal bit, I've been hit. It's not that's like some
squid games stuff right there. Talking about rejected segments. Also
from Mike d It's a spin off of one of
our other segments where we do the employee of the Month,
but instead we recognize the person who is the worst
employee of the man because person needs to show the
most improvement, and we list all the things they did
(12:09):
badly last month. That's hilarious money worst, that just would
not be good for morale. Rejected segments, Morgan number two,
And this one actually wasn't so bad. I just I
guess it didn't get to it. But you've been in
three different workout classes where the same guy keeps live
streaming the workouts. Yeah, I'm like in the background of
(12:29):
all of his live streams and I'm just working out.
I didn't figure it out until all the way through
a full workout class and I walk over and there's
people like commenting on what we're doing. Is he a
person in the class or teaching the class? No, he's
a person in the class. Oh, he's just in the class. Yeah,
that's so weird. He's live streaming himself, yes, so that
others can work out with him. I don't know. But
then the rest of us are in the background of it,
(12:50):
and we don't know that strangers are commenting on what
we're doing while working out. Yeah, usually just sign it
consent if we're a if you're a teacher, I get it. Like, hey,
we're gonna live stream the class to people who can't
get up here. Yeah, somebody random? Yeah, just setting up
on the side, like watching him go at it. Oh
that doesn't sound he listen. Even watched him do ab
crunches with his body like, you know, his legs towards
(13:12):
the camera. It was not a pretty go. Is this
like a thing like a rejected segments lunchbox back in
the mix? Here? Oh, hello, Lunchbox is mad at Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Oh boy, because they're not putting on models.
He doesn't know. Yeah, they put Kim Kardashian on the
cover of the Swimsuit issue, and I'm like, we already
(13:34):
know Kim Kardashian. Give another model a break. And also,
that's how we discover new models. That's how we what
do you what do you need models for? I mean
that's how they get their big break and we get
to see a new hotty instead of oh Kim kay,
we already see Kim kana bikini all the time. They
should rejected segments frustrating. Okay, Raimundo saw on TikTok how
(13:57):
he can remove excess skin from his eye for twenty
dollars and let's know if he should right on the air, Yes,
tell us how Yeah, I've had these stighs on my eyelids.
They run in my family. My grandpa had on, my
father has him and my wife in a noise or
it's right on my eye. It's been there, Jack segment
rejected segment twenty dollars. Yes, he's gonna lose an Eye's
gonna tell us and somebody's gonna do it, but he
(14:17):
could do it on air. Yeah, rejected segment phone, I
got one left. This one is from lunchbox. He wanted
to spill the tea on shady Scuba Steve because he
saw a shady deal in the parking lot and he
doesn't think what Scooba is doing is legal. Yes, there
was a car that pulled into the garage. Scuba went
out there and looked at his left right, stuck his
(14:40):
hand in the car person hitting him like a brown
paper bag wrapped up. Scooba went put it in his
truck like no one was watching. I was like, that
doesn't seem very normal question. It wasn't like an Amazon delivery.
It was a can't cash for something? Like how did
this go down? Let me just run this by it? Yeah,
you like Scuba Steve. Yeah, let's say he was doing
a drug deal, which I don't think it was. I
(15:01):
don't know what I was doing, all right, but let's
say it was. Would you really want to come in
here and tell on him for doing that? I mean,
if it's going down to work, like do that at
your house, man, don't bring that business to my work.
It was me at Jeopardy doesn't but what was it? Really,
I don't go was Steve, I don't know, I don't
It wasn't a drug deal, so I don't mind asking
him this. Yeah, yeah, no problem, was it a drug deal.
It was not. Actually the thing you're speaking into right now,
that red microphone that I got you for Christmas. It
(15:23):
was that. Oh they got brought out that dropped dropped
it off, and I was trying to be secret about
it because it was a surprise. Oh that's it. So
how do you feel, lunchbox? I feel good. I'm glad
that Scoop was not breaking the law. It just seemed
weird than you're gonna just tell on him. It was
the car was in the car was all tinted windows,
and it was just seeing every car almost just saying
(15:43):
it had a radio, just seeming really shady. Okay, well
those are all rejected segments. Amy didn't make the less
good job. Oh but I don't know, it's kind of
fun hearing them. Okay, here's battom for you. A woman
trusted Amy with her purse in the bathroom. Whoa, oh yeah,
that's a big dude. That's weird. That crazy. So she
(16:05):
was in the stall next to me, and her like
toddler son was in there with her, and he kept
throwing stuff out of her purse into the other stalls.
And so when I got out and washing my hand,
she scooted it under and she was like, can you
watch this for me? And I'm like, this woman does
not know me. But I gathered everything and put it
up on the synk and waited for her to come out.
(16:26):
You look trustworthy. She couldn't see me through the stall.
But why was that rejected? It could just a lot
to talk about it. Well, I wasn't going too And
you're like, whoa, what had that? Well? Okay, but I
just thought, wow, this woman trusts me because I could
have just walked out with her purse. No problem. That's
rejected segments. Thank you everybody. Please rejected segments. Keep them coming.
(16:50):
It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Also in the Best Bits this weekend, Amy's son a
husband sending her photos of his bathroom visits and it
sounds exactly what you think. So I'm just gonna leave
this one here because I don't need to get into
(17:10):
this and share my opinion or talk about it. I
just want you guys to hear it for yourself. Here
it is Amy's son what he's been doing lately that
she does not know what to do with. Number four,
I feel like you want to show me a picture
of something I saw Amy grab her phone. Is we're
going to segment what's on your phone? Well, I don't
know if you want to see it. But my son
now thinks it's hilarious to text me pictures from his
(17:33):
bathroom experience. What do you mean like when he goes
to the bathroom bathroom number two, he takes a pictures.
Oh my gosh, I don't want to see that. I
don't know. Why don't text that? You don't know? No,
I thought, is this just the little boy humor thing
and the medical reasons? Yea, like mom, I think he
should or he's proud of himself. Oh no, I don't know. Yes,
(17:57):
And now he thinks it's so funny. Oh oh, can't
stop old stuff. Oh no, I've never opened a text
from him. It'd be like I haven't eaten in days
that I wouldn't look at it because I wouldn't want
to see that. Don't to me? To me you no, no, no,
I don't want to say, Oh, dude, what are you
tell him? Please stop? This is not or don't send
these to anybody else? But mom, no, no, please stop. Well, yeah,
(18:20):
no pictures. It's like a Jeans jaga born in the seventies.
No pictures, no pictures. Yeah, I don't know. I just
hope he's not texting him out to anybody. Have his
own phone. He has an iPad. He's taking a picture
of an he's having to get a cinematic. That thing's huge.
Oh no, he doesn't have a phone. Oh no, he
(18:41):
can text me through his iPad account. Oh that's what
he's been up to, like an email, like a week.
What else he up to? Well, he had a friend
over and they got locked out, so that was quite
the experience. I get you at home. I wasn't home.
The friend has a phone, so text me and was like, hey,
I was just down the shad at the grocery store
and I was going to be back. And he's like,
(19:01):
somehow we've managed to get locked out. And I said, okay,
well I'll be home soon, so just play basketball or
do something outside and I'll be there. And I get
back and Stevenson's very dramatic and is already spelling out
sos with sticks and rocks in our driveway for people
flying over instead of knock on the door. And what's
funny is he just learned what meant a week ago,
(19:25):
and so I actually thought it was quite clever and cute.
But he was just very dramatic. When I pulled up.
We have been locked out for hours. It had been
no more than thirty minutes, that's for sure, and he
was spelling out sos, which, by the ways, means nothing.
Oh it means nothing. Save our ships, It's what people
have inserted the meeting meaning to him, But it means nothing.
(19:46):
It's made of just those specific sounds. And the letter's
looking like a distress signal. Not save our souls, that's
another one. Save our sushi, We our sisters. Oh come
any of days. It's the best bits of the week
with Morgan. Number two talk about an epic weekend at
(20:09):
CMA Fest for obvious reasons, but more importantly because I
got to meet Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and it
was literally incredible and such a fun, cool experience. I
met them in the wild. That wasn't like at a
press moment. They were just out being country music fans
and it was just so cool. So here's the story
(20:30):
of how it all happened and how I realized that
it was Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. Number three, Morgan,
how did you meet Tom Hanks? Well, so I was
at CMA Fest working, but after I got done working,
I just went out into the crowd and I was
hanging out with my parents and we're jamming to Jason
Aldeen he was playing. I was like, you know, I
really need to go pee. So I left during the
(20:51):
middle of Jason Aldeen set and I'm walking up the
stairs in this section where every other fan is at right,
and I kind of look and I'm like, oh, that
looks like Rita Wilson. She's on her phone. Didn't think
much of it. I went to Pete and while I'm
sitting there, I'm like, if that was Rita Wilson and
she's only sitting next to somebody else, that has to
be Tom Hanks. So I come back and I kind
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of scoot in front of him. There's no one around,
no security guards, know nothing, and the guy sitting there
jamming to the concert, Rita's on her phone reading something,
and I just turned around and sure enough, it was
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson just sitting there like watching
the show like any other fan. It's crazy that people
weren't piling onto them, going hey can I get a picture?
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Like they weren't recognized, I know. And they were sitting
like right on the aisle there in the rows in
front and behind them weren't full, like you could easily
access them if you wanted to. And after I went
up to him, first of all, I did go up
and say, hey, I'm Morgan from the Bobby Bones Show
and we all love you on our show. Both of
you guys are so awesome, Like do you mind if
I get a picture. And then after that I blacked
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out because he took my phone and like took a
selfie with me, and I have no idea what happened afterward.
See Tom Hanks knows the gay having to grow a technique.
You take the phone, take the picture, and you can
scoot people on their way. That's exactly what happened. And
they still feel loved, right, Yeah, I so did, because
like I was like, oh, Tom Hanks even touched my
phone like that even made me feel more special. That's crazy.
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Just saw Tom Hanks hanging out, so you walked off?
Why didn't they have better seats? Can't we can't we
get Tom Hanks and better seats than sitting in the
back of the stadium randomly. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
I don't know who they were there for, because they
did stay through Jason Aldeen. They stayed for a little
bit of Keith Urban and then they were gone. I
maybe saw two other people go up to him. But
besides that, there were people walking past the whole time.
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Oh see, that's what I would be nervous of. Is
it if they were just chilling and then someone sees
you asked for a picture, and then it causes this
flow of people, and then I would feel really, really bad.
I know that's why I did originally too. I was like,
I'm sorry, I won't post a picture right now, like
I'm not gonna make everybody come talk to you guys,
And they were so cool about it. I don't think
Tom heard me most of the time, though, because the
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whole set was going on, and he kept kind of
putting his ear up to me, like I really hear
what you're saying, But he just kind of smiled and
took my phone, took a picture and then waved and
I left. So did he look older younger in person?
I don't know. I've just never seen Tom Hanks in person,
and he's about as famous as you can get. Yeah,
I mean, honestly, he looked so good. I don't even
know how old they are, but like his smile. He
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I don't know if he's had work done or anything,
but he looks amazing. And Rita looked great. But they
don't look like Tom doesn't look like how he would
look in the movies. He looks like how he would
look out in public, and all those stories we hear
about him, it's all. He has his hair died, like
he's got like, you know, white hair, He's got his
glasses on. He's just like a regular guy. Well, I'm intrigued.
I wish I could see somebody famous in the wild.
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You know, I don't know if they would have known who. Hey,
I'm Morgan from the Bobby Bones Show. I think they're
just here. What's just white noise to them, don't you think?
I don't know. I feel like Rita knew who it
was because she looked at me and she's like, oh yeah, totally.
Tom had no idea. But Rita, I think new I
don't know. Some say Forrest Gump was based on me.
All right, let's do Morgan wall and waste it on you.
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That's a good story, Morgan, that's pretty cool. I can
hear Eddie's jealousy. You heard that. I can just hear
driven out at I can't believe it. You never met him, Eddie.
I've never met him. And that night I was supposed
to be there with Morgan, but schedules got shifted around
and I wasn't able to be there, So that was
my one chance. That's your punishment there. It's the Best
Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two. A super
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cool accomplishment for Bobby this week. His children's book Stanley
the Dog The First Day of School is out. Now.
He couldn't do the whole press stuff that he planned
for it because he's not been feeling well, and so
he did talk about it a little bit on this
show this week. But I'm definitely wanted it to be
here on the Best Bits so you guys could purchase
it and get it if you haven't already. If you
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pre ordered and did all that good stuff, awesome, But
if you haven't ordered it. You can go to Bobby
Bones dot com and get you a copy. He signed
a book for my niece and nephew and it went
to Kansas to them, So I'm super excited to hear
and see pictures of them reading it and make sure
if you're reading it to your kids or you got
the book, share it on socials with us. He's loved
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getting to see all of that. Number two, I had
a book come out on Tuesday, Stanley the Dog first
day at school. I had all this press lined up
to do and missed every bit of it, so I
got to do no sort of press for the book.
So well, what's crazy is how many people pre ordered.
And honestly I was shocked. I forgot I pre ordered
it and it arrived in the mail and I was like, oh, hey,
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look at me, okay back in the day. But also
I saw so many people that got it day of
which means so many people pre ordered. Yes, and I'm
very appreciative. And if you weren't pre ordering, because I
would never pre order anything really, and I appreciate those
who did. You can go to Amazon and order it
now and it'll be there in a day or two.
But it's yes. Two things to say. Yes, it's called
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Stanley the Dog First Day of School. But I haven't
received my signature yet. Oh you just kidding. I didn't
email the thing, but I saw some people are getting
mad and they're leaving that as a review and they
need to not do that because you're mailing it out
and they need to give you five stars. Well, here's
what happened. The book company says you need to do
a pre sale. I said, I don't want to do
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a pre sale. I think presales are dumb. They said, well,
it's in your contract to do a presale. I said,
I will only do a pre sale if I can
promise the people they are going to buy it early
that I can send them something extra. I'm not going
to charge them anymore. But they say, okay, great, So
we sell like thirteen thousand in presale. I've been signing.
I've been signing these little art cards every day for
at least an hour for the past two months. And
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so we never said they were going to come out
right when the book came, you're gonna get the book.
Some of them got it before, so we'll get it after.
But you'll get it in the mail and it's a
signed piece of art that goes with the book, and
people are all upset that didn't get there is when
other people are getting it on the app. We're mailing
them out individually. I'm going crazy over here and I
got sick. And so then they're leaving one star reviews
on Amazon. They're like, love the book didn't get them
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out to graft one star. Yeah, I was bothered by that,
but I was just saying too, they had to have
also sent the email to get the signature. Yes, it
is a matter anyway. Okay, It's the best Bits of
the week with Morgan. Number two in Super Hot At
the number one spot is Gavin DeGraw. He came on
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the show this week for an interview and he also
performed some of his hit songs, including Yes, I Don't
Want to Be, which, as a One Tree Hill fan,
such a fun moment. I've seen him in concert, but
nothing was like this interview in this performance. Gavin is
just such a good dude. And to have him in
here talking about all of his hit songs in his
new project and what he has had to go through
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in his life recently to put out this new project
just an all around. Incredible interview and probably one of
my favorites in recent years. So, without further ado, why
have I been saying that a lot lately? I have
no idea, but it's Gavin DeGraw Number one. Gavin. I
was watching some of this this this docuseries where you're
road tripping, and I know that you also like to
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be in your bus. Do you hate flying? I just
is like, would you hate flying or you just like
being on the ground. Uh? Man, I don't really like
airports because I hate flying. I'm scared of flying. Yeah,
you're scared of people. It sounds like, you know, I
don't like bad interactions and airports is like it's like
a recipe for bad interactions with people. You know, you
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taught me a lesson in an airport once. It was
a couple of years ago. That's pretty pandemic. And I
think we were sitting next to each other or near
each other on a flight and we had both been
stopped going through the airport. But you were you were
very efficient and very nice to people, and I'd be like, yeah,
let's take it. I would take like ten minutes and
you're like, no, here's what you do. You go, Yeah,
give me your phone, and you take the self before them,
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and you give them their phone back, and everybody wins.
And so that's the move because yeah, your lesson was
they're gonna be like, well, I can't give my camera ride.
I can't. He say, you just take the phone from them.
You do that, you take the selfie because you know
exactly how to do it. Then you hand their phone back.
At true, everybody wins a lot faster, and it looks
good because you control it because you've been doing it
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a million times. Yeah right. You know who did it
the best? Who I saw do it? And I was like,
he's knocking this out of the park Ed Sheering. I
was with Ed one night and things were blowing up
for him and I was like, man, this guy's really
good at this. Look at that angle way to hold
that phone steady. He's got it down. I got it,
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got out the mole skin. I was like chopping it
down on pen and paper. You know, I remember this
thirty degrees. I've passed your knowledge to multiple people. Yeah,
the same way I taught you, you taught me. Gavin's
going generationally at this point, let's do this. It's like
you'll save time you'll have a better picture. Just say, hey, yah,
let's take a picture. Give me your phone boom, take
it all right, there we go and I love it.
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And if you're not too heavily caffeinated, the pictures pretty good.
Otherwise the little shaky Yeah, let's forget about the caffeine
hits me hard. Man, I'll drink and eight ball's worth
of it and I'll be I'll take the selfie for
it looks like an earthquake gappen. Congrats on the new record, man,
so good you don't it was lucky enough that you
send it over to me, because you know, I'm just
a fan of you musically anyway. And I mean it's
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it's and we're gonna play something from it just a
little bit. But also, and I'm not sure if you
know all who's been bragging about the record, but I
would be considered like a half toaster. There's a there's
a podcast called The Morning Toast and they were player
bragging on it and playing it to a pretty podcast
and I was like, I know that guy. Thanks. Yeah,
So I didn't do it. Mind's right now, but there's
already happened, I think, yeah too, man, So the record
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is really great. So when this thing comes out, well,
I guess before it comes out, like, how long do
you work on an album like this? And do you
feel like musically sonically this is I don't want to
see a change. It definitely feels a little more in
the loveliest way, like mature, Like did this album did
do you feel? Did you feel like that appropriate way
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to describe it? I think that's spot on. Um. You know,
record came out on the twentieth of May, and and uh,
you know, I've been holding it back, um because I
didn't know if it was the right time to put
it out for a long time. It's been done for
a long time, but you know, the world was all
upside down and my life, my personal life was all
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upside down. Um, and I wasn't I wasn't sure when
when's the right time to put out new music and um,
when does it feel like the right time? And also
at the same time, how how am I going to
serve the songs to my fans? I didn't. I didn't
want to just launch this thing out, you know, out
of a cannon and hope people heard it. And I
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wanted to kind of deliver it to them personally and
go out and play little rooms. Um the tour I
just did. UM. I went out and I played rooms
that were the size of the rooms I played before
I ever had a record deal. UM like the Even
on launch, the actual release day of the record, we
played the Bitter End, which is the first place they
ever gave me a gig in New York City. You know,
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it holds one hundred and fifty people, two hundred people.
I just felt like being in those environments was the
right way to serve the songs to people who've been
with me for a long time. The audience is basically
what changed my life. So I wanted to serve them
the songs the way that I used to serve songs
before I haven't had a record deal. Get up on stage,
talk about the music, talk about my life and you know,
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here's a song about it and all these things happen,
and then just make it rhyme right, make it ry yeah, yeah,
and uh, you know, making this record it was heavily personal.
You know, there's a lot of loss in the family.
And I lost my mom, and then two weeks later
my grandma died, and then six months later my granddad died.
And then COVID happened, and then my dad got diagnosed
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and he died, and you know, I'm watching all that
stuff happened around me. But I wanted to finish the
record while he was alive. I wanted him to hear
the record. It was that was my timeline. My timeline
was finish it for dad right whenever, you know, hopefully
before I lose him. So it wasn't going to be
a business as usual album. That wasn't going to be Hey,
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let me write some songs and I hope I get
some hit songs. And it just had nothing to do
with that. It was just different. The world was different.
I'm different, and for me to go on and just
do business as usual, cutting records just in hopes of man,
I hope it catches on, it just wasn't gonna It
would be disingenuous. And I can't ignore the things that
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happened to me, or to them, or to every the
world as a whole, you know, and just launch a
record and and hey, this is so people dance. That's
just not how I feel. You know, the world changed
and I changed with it. I'm forty five years old,
I'm a grown man. For me to go out and
just trying to, you know, do my happy dance would
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just be silly. You know. I was listening to it again.
I'd spent some time with it when you sent it
to me, and then I was listen to it again.
And this the track that hit me always every time,
was Chasing Win. I'm gonna ray if you'll play some
of this. Here's some of Gavin song Chasing Win. You
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know what's interesting too, as Dave co produced this right
and Dave Calls worked with a lot of our favorite
artists here intown. He's he's genius. I took a meeting U.
He took a meeting with me, which I didn't expect
because you know who am I? And Um? I met
him in midtown here and U. We did lunch, was
he and I And I was expecting some old geezer
to walk through the door because I heard his name
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so many times, you know, and he had so many
hit records. But he walked in. He had cooler hair
than me, and he was cooler than me, and and
uh probably younger than me. Um. He said, what do
you want to do? And I said, I need to
get all this stuff out of my body. And I
don't want to co write with anybody. I want to
go back to writing alone like it did with the
first few records. UM. But I think you're the best
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producer in the world for kind of record I want
to make U And he said, with some explet is,
let's do it, you know. And a couple weeks later
we were in the room and UM, you know, he
brought in some ace players and I brought in the
best guitar player. I know this guy right here, Billy
Norris and uh and uh, and we just started recording
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and um. And I think that Dave's influence over the
record as a whole was something that took took it
to to heights I couldn't have I couldn't have seen.
And um My my vision for it was more linear
than his. Um. His vision was much bigger than mine. UM.
And he really challenged me in the studio, which I
really appreciated. I think we all worked better under pressure anyway,
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you know. I think everybody needs to have somebody kind
of putting a thumb on him and uh and challenging him.
And I think what he did, uh and what he
demanded made the album a whole lot better. Than than
I ever could. Gavin Nagrass here got a new album,
Faced the River. We're gonna play for it in just
a few minutes. But when I think about, you know,
somebody just says your name and that that chair that
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melody of Chariot, Yeah, just sits in like the on
the back when it's like, hey, you know, listening to
having a girl and immediately chair that that just that melody.
I'm assuming when you when you play, you play, do
you play all the hits like your shows? Yeah? Pretty much? Absolutely.
You know I'm walking you play a little bit of
Chariot just to get that that bug out of my ear? Oh? Absolutely,
won't play just play the hook. Sure that's a part,
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you know, Yeah, it's part I think I know more.
That's a part that Yeah, all right, here to good
three four chairing you go walking down, so check I'm
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singing out to God me give me you sho rang nice?
All right, I'm good. That worm is gone. You know,
you just gotta sometimes you gotta feed the worm and
the worms and the worm goes away. I like it.
I know you're gonna read tune now right? Do you
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need a second? Just a second? Cool? Can we keep talking. Yeah, okay, cool.
So Chariot was one of your first singles. I played
it on radio as wow. It was one of the
early ones, right very early. Yeah, two thousand and five,
somewhere and there. It was a funny little group of song.
The timeline is really weird because the first song I
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ever released, um, I don't want to say it didn't
do anything, but it didn't do anything. It was called
follow Through. And then I got lucky with a song
called I Don't Want to Be And then Clive Davis
loved the song follow Through so much he goes no
rereleasing follow Through, so he wanted to launch it again,
and that time, for whatever reason, it was a hit.
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And then the next one was Chariot. And so it
was in that first little little group. Yeah, but I'll
be around. It was till five or six. Everything's just
flying so fast. Then, I'm assuming at that stage of
your career, you know. It's funny. I was always um
afraid to acknowledge any successes that were happening. Um, I
was almost too busy to notice them. But as they
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were occurring, I was so afraid that they were going
to disappear if I picked my head up to look
in the rearview mirror and go, well, cool, look, look
what just happened. You know, um, and I and I
was you know, I don't know. It's a personality type thing. Man.
I'm always waiting for the other shooter drop. Yeah. Yeah,
so so you know, even when big things were happening,
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I just thought it was, oh, we have to do this.
We're doing this. It's great, we're doing this. But we're
doing this. I guess we're doing this because we have
to do this because nothing's working yet, you know what
I mean. And I don't know why. It's a personality
type thing. But you know, you get on, you're lucky
enough to come on, it will show like this me
and go, this is great, this is awesome. We definitely
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have to do this. Nothing must be working right. It's
a little happening by a little lot of nerosis because
I live no databauck, no dabt about it. It's it's
fear and uh and it's you know, it's fear of failure,
and it's fear of hey man, did I make all
the wrong decisions? And you know I joke about it
with with with friends of mine that you always feel
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like I'm I'm one one more bad decision away from
just playing the lobbyist some hotel in the middle of somewhere,
you know, and uh, you know that guy you know,
and uh, you're just you just you don't have complete
control of things. You know. You mentioned you got lucky
with I don't want to be yeah again. I was
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in pop radio at that point. I don't know it
from One Tree Hill that the show. It's one that
I don't know it from that. I'll just know it
from being played on the radio. So which this chicken
or Egg? Here? Was it a single? And then it
got big and the TV show put it on, or
did the TV show, and then it went from there. Man,
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you know, it's funny with that song because I thought
that was the obvious first single. My brother was screaming
up all the time at me, you know, in our
apartment in New York. He's like, that's a single. What's
wrong with people? You know, like they need to put
that out first? But follow Through is the one. And
I got a phone call from a guy. The song
hadn't been selected to be a single yet, and I
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got a phone call from a guy named Joe de
Vola and Joe de Vola said, hey, I want to
use your song for a TV show, and I said, nah,
absolutely not. I don't even watch TV. TV stupid, you know,
and that's just you know New York, you know East
Village Art, you know snob at the time, you know,
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I was kicking around Alphabet City and you know, twenty
years ago, right. So I said, nah, I don't even
watch TV. Who watches TV? And I don't want to
be associated with it. He goes, listen, you gotta help me,
help you the song I think would be a big song,
and I want to put in a show. I said, nah, no,
I really appreciate it. You sound like a nice guy,
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but no thanks. He goes, okay, let me ask you
another question. How much money you got in your bank
account right now? And I was like, he starts laughing,
and he goes, listen, think about it. We're not going
to touch the song. We're just gonna put it in
a place where people are gonna hear it, you know.
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And that show wasn't on yet, right, I wasn't even
on yet, right, yeah? And I followed through. Apparently had
been picked up and put in another show that was
in pilot in pilot mode that never got actually never
became bigger. But I think val Kilmerson was about the
porn industry followed through. I don't know, but anyway, but yeah,
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I said, you' know what, all right, this guy's right.
Guys like me aren't going to be watching this stuff
anyway and associated with certain things. I'm not going to
associate it with a teen show. I'm not a teenager,
you know. I was twenty seven at the time, and
I was an adult. But I said, all right, do it,
do you know, man, just do whatever you want with it.
I appreciate it, and you know what, just do it,
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Just do it. And sure enough that the song took off.
And then I walked into the label and I had
a meeting with Clive Davis, and he said, with everything
happening around this show, the show with the song you've
heard clap Talk, the obvious next single would be I
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Don't Want to Be And I was like, all right, great,
this is awesome. You know, so the song I originally wanted,
it's finally going to be the single, and it did it.
It took off, and you know, fortunately that was a
foot in the door. In the door moment you know,
does that I don't know. Obviously it got you to
the place that you originally wanted, meaning it's kind of
a weird way that happened. For sure, you wanted it.
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They said no, you didn't want it to be on
the TV show, then you finally said yes, which got
it back around where you wanted it. Yeah. So but
do you look back at it being on the TV
show and go, I wish I wouldn't have done it,
or I wish I would have, or are you just
like you know what nailed it? It had to happen.
The looking back things always tough because I think if
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I would have made a different decision, I'd be looking
back right now thinking I should have changed something else that,
you know, based on wherever I was at that at
that point, right as they say noah, they say, no
battle plan ever survives combat. Right, So so you know,
of course, no matter what changes I would have made
back then, there'd be some other something else I'd have
(43:31):
to look back on now it say I should alter this,
I should alter that. But I think the association, certainly
at first, was a great idea. It opened doors that
were absolutely well did shut to me because there were
other artists who are always going to have priority at
other labels. You know, I wasn't I wasn't. I wasn't
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Alicia Keys. You know, she was out, you know, a
little bit before me, but under the same same company.
I wasn't Maroon five. They were out just before me,
with the same group of people doing the same marketing.
So there were already a couple of acts here that
we're going to get the most attention. And I needed
to find I had to find a window to crawl through.
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Um and that's that was the window. So then let
me ask you to you this way. When people go, hey,
I know you from one Tree Hill, that's right, right, sure,
Well people go I know you from one Tree Hill,
You're like, oh no, I say, that's awesome because you
know that's cool. Yeah, because how you found me, How
you found me, however you found me. You know the
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fact that you know, twenty years later someone's coming up
to me saying they know me from a team show,
but they're still coming to my shows. That means somehow
the music is making them feel good still, right, And
if they're only coming for that one song, hey, god
bless them. If they want to sit through two hours
in music, you know, for me to get song at
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the end of the night. You know, then cool. You know,
there was a speaking of which because I think every
artist probably goes through this the first probably on their
first their first successful song. Oh you're gonna love this, okay.
So because I was having little success with that song
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early on, and the song took off. Here it's a
big hit, blah blah blah whatever, people start coming to
your gigs. So then you know, for about you know,
for about six months, you start feeling pretty good. You're like,
this is pretty cool. This is I'm having some success.
You know, sadly, you feel like you're a little bigger, stronger,
you know, everything's bigger on your body right, so to speak.
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And so I thought, let's play the hit early tonight.
You know, let's do it like third. Everybody's gone by
the fourth song. You can't do that. You know, everybody's
left there is watching you just bored to death because
they already heard what they came again. There was there
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was like two or three gigs. I was like, I
know what I gotta do. I gotta play this one again.
That's fun to play it again, you know, And Uh,
so those are growing pains, those are those are real
learning experiences, I think, and uh, just the stuff you
gotta be able to laugh at afterward. Because every act,
every act that's had a big hit, I know they
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know what I'm talking about. Whether whether they decided I'm
going to try it out play the hit earlier or not,
I don't know if they've all done that, but I
know that they know the crowd is really coming for
the hits? Do you you gotta play them, but you gotta,
you gotta pick, pick and choose your moment. So you
did you ever have a stage where you disliked playing it?
You played it so much? No, I've never, not ever,
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Thank god. Well it's about to get real awkward. No, no, no, literally,
But you know it's funny because I do know acts
who talk about, oh, I don't want to play my hits,
I don't want to do those anymore. And I think,
to myself, does it how lucky they are right now
that they get to do this. You know you got
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to pull them aside. But hey, listen, I know you
know you've been doing this song every day since you
wrote this song. But must I remind you you have
one of the only jobs in the world that when
you get the clock out, people clap for you and
tell you what a good job you did. You know,
name another one, you know, name another job you could
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think of that at the end of your workday, people go,
great job, that was amazing tonight. You know, you don't
get that. Nobody gets that. You know, get up there
and give them what they came for. You're so blessed
to be able to do that, or you you're you
have forgotten how how tough real life really is. If
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you don't want to do a song for three and
a half minutes for people who saved up three and
a half months to drive three and a half hours
to watch you sing that song, well, okay, Gavin, the
girls here and he's looking at me when he said that. Sorry, man,
(48:20):
so crazy that you would you want that, So listen
as a fan, I'm glad that you feel that way,
right And and with that being said, yeah, don't play
the whole thing, just give me that doesn't give me
the hook of that. I don't want to have him
yell at me. I don't just give me the hook.
And we'll call out to day on that one, all right,
here's Gavin the girl hit me with that hook of
I don't want to be Yeah, there we go. I
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don't want to be anything other than what I've been
trying to be. Laid leg have to dude singing me
and a piece of mind. I'm tired of it get around,
but I gotta do I'm supposed to be. I don't
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want to be anything other than me. That's awesome. Let's
get to the new stuff now, that's what we all
came for. We drove three and a half hours. I
don't want to yell at me again. I was thinking
about leaving. Yeah, you leave after that. It'll so the
(49:29):
song that I'd like for you to play, if that's
cool as forward. It's from the new record. Would you
give me a little set up on this? And you
wrote it and forarded it, so what led you to
actually do both? Uh? Well, this song is about sort
of recognizing that you've been uh caught up on the
(49:50):
hamster wheel of life, and you know, you have that
revelation one day of you know, my stuff owns me.
I don't own my stuff. Why why am I doing
all this other work? Or am I why am I
picking up this these o'ts Why am I doing these
other things to pay for things that I'm not even
(50:10):
getting to enjoy because I'm spending all my time just
paying for him, you know. Um, And you're seeking advice,
so you know, I think if you're gonna get advice,
hopefully you get it from somebody that you love, somebody
uh uh who's smarter than you and and who's older
(50:31):
than you, um, because they're gonna give you better advice.
So this is this is uh. The song's a conversation,
uh about somebody looking for advice asking some old dude,
you know what what do I do? All right? Here's
Gavin DeGraw. This is from the new record Face the River,
and here is for it. Try a tired but try
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and still I've been climbed the Oh why can't he
the top? Old man? Can't you help me understand why
I'm on this planet? Do you know when to stop
(51:21):
working for a dollar? Oh? That tire making man feel broke?
Working for a dollar, that's the only thing nine old
just striving old Ford, count blessings and pray the Lord have.
Let's make it feel like more. Leave work the front door,
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work hard and you get paid. Don't giving your best
days only so meant me left saved some of them
up for the ones worth saving them for. Lata la
da da da da la da da da la da
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da da da Yeah, Lata la da da da da
La da da da da da da da da da
da da da. Yeah, it's so good yet kill him.
That's awesome. Song's good, the message is good, You're good.
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Everything that's great. Don't yell at me anymore. It's awesome.
I was amazing. That's really great. The records it's great too.
The record is an album that I would listen to
if I wasn't working in music and had to listen
to music for a living, right, I mean that that's
the music. I like this. This whole record is that
and wow. I encourage people to check it out. It's
not a few weeks called Face the River. So many
(52:54):
good songs, and listen the feeling that you guys probably
got by hearing that song and that message. Those feelings
are sprinkled all throughout the record for different reasons. Yes, sir,
because I mean, you sing that song there and it's
like ring I should re evaluate my life and quit
this job and walk off the air right now, and
so and go and spend time with my wife and
wabbly through this place. Yeah, but you know that's the
kind of thing. It is, like I'm spending too much
(53:15):
time doing dumb crap and that same kind of oh,
like punching the gut in a good way is all
through the record. So great, great jobs, a heck of
a project. I appreciate it. I hate that so much
crap had to happen for you to create this project,
but I'm glad that you did it because I feel like,
hopefully it was therapeutic for you, very very I appreciate that. Man. Yeah,
(53:37):
I appreciate that it's been. Um, it was therapeutic writing it,
and it's it's therapeutic recording it and therapeutic playing it
every night. And it's been it's been emotional playing it
every night. Um. Some nights are harder than others, you know. UM.
But but I feel like it's a message that I
(53:57):
need to get out. UM, and I think it's something
really other people are relating to. And you know, when
you lose people, you become part of this fraternity or
this club that you never really wanted to be a
member of. UM. But we're all members of it um
(54:18):
or gonna be and and I just think you have to,
uh take it head on. You know. My father always
told me run to the lion, and I think you
just have to take you just have to take everything
head on. Everything you're worried about, everything that's scaring you,
everything you're that's you, that you were putting off. There
has to be a moment where you turn and you
go to it um and I just needed to go
(54:41):
to it. You did. It's it's again beautiful art, tragic circumstances,
beautiful art. And just don't stop doing it, you know, man,
don't stop doing it. Gavin Degrass here, you guys check
out the record. It's Face the River the there's a
six part documentaries on face book. Yeah, you guys did
about road trip and as you're making like the creative
(55:04):
Fish process, well it was after the uh, after the
record was made, I got to go out and do
do another road trip because I like road trip. And
you know what I said, I if I don't like
being in the air, I wish I could fly on
the ground. That makes sense. That's the move, That's what
that's that, that's the move. Can I fly on the ground?
We're supposed to see the world from about five to
(55:27):
six feet above the ground. Yeah, right where our head is,
right where our feet. That's that's yes, you guys check
that out in and that's gonna be it for now. Um.
My absolute favorite song of yours is not over You.
Wow you still like that one? Or no? Of course? Yeah,
I love it. I wrote that with Ryan Teter. I
did not know that. Yeah, I wrote with Ryan Teter
(55:48):
and the spark of it. One Republic guy, One Republic Yeah,
super just a wonderful uh pop songwriter specifically, just a
genius at pop and we um. He first played me
that riff, the piano riff up top that um come
on right that think we were in um Blackbird Studios
(56:13):
in her Nashville. He goes, you know, man, when we
think of this piano doing this, and I was like, us,
it's okay. I guess he was like, yeah, I need
to be great for your dreams. That's where I have
to go to see your beautiful fit sending more stared
(56:38):
ride a picture, rub you and listen to the radio
boop music conversation. We booting bit we had it good.
Then It's Daily Nation NINEO that and munch is understood
and not read a lot. If you ask me how
(57:00):
I'm doing, I would say I'm doing just fine. I
will light say that you not all mine. But I
go out and I sit down at a table set
and finally I'm force to face no matter what I see,
(57:26):
I'm not over you. Not over you. That's awesome, man,
I appreciate that. Thanks for walking us through that. That's it,
Gavin DeGraw. You guys follow him. Listen to the record
over and over again. Face the river. You will find
your own story inside of it. He created music. It
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doesn't have to be the exact same story that you're living.
I find song a lot of times that speak to
me in different ways, and it was originally written and
it speaks to me the same way that they was
supposed to speak to me. So great, great body of work,
Gavin degral Thanks appreciate you, guys. It man there he
thanks a lot, guys. It's the best Bits of the
week with Morgan number two. Y'all, thanks so much for
(58:10):
joining me this weekend. I hope you loved the best bits,
the interview with Scuba Steve and the best bits, just
the bits. I always appreciate y'all hanging out and listening
to this podcast with your weekend time, because I know
that it's very precious and you can be doing a
lot of things and not listening to this podcast. So
I appreciate you downloading and listening and also tagging me
(58:32):
and letting me know you're listening to it if you
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love to see it. Y'all have a fabulous weekend. I
love you. Goodbye, Bobby Bone.
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