Best Bits of the Week with Morgan2 - What You Didn't Hear About Mike D Having To Wear A Purse (Week of 4/26)

This edition of the podcast features behind the scenes from show members and moments that happened after we turned off the microphones. Morgan2 brings on Mike D to talk about him having to wear a purse for a week, how ideas are sparked after the show and his upcoming wedding.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
Welcome y'all to the Best Bits of the week. I'm
Morgan number two. Thanks for hanging out with me this weekend.
If this is your first time listening, what I do
every week is take the best seven segments from our
show and I count them down based on all of
y'all's engagement online, phone calls, texting, all the things that

(00:25):
you guys do with engagement, and I decide which bits
y'all love the most, and then I bring them on here.
And my favorite part is I bring somebody with me
and we kind of do some behind the scenes we
talk about the show bits. We also, you know, go
off the rails a little. You never know what you're
gonna get. But this weekend, I'm bringing on Mike d
and we're gonna get a little more information on his wedding.

(00:46):
And you know he's now a purse holder, so that too,
all right. In at number seven, Eddie, he plans to
read his seven year old son's locked journal. I know
this has been like a whole debate and so many
of you online have a lot of opinions on this,
and Eddie really hasn't listened to them, so we get
an update on how he's feeling, what he's going to do,

(01:08):
and know why he's doing it. So listen. Now, this
is a pretty funny update number seven. Last week, Producer
Ready shared with us that he found his seven year
olds locked journal and Eddie wants to read his kids
journal got a lock on it. So we talked about it.
Should he open that journal and read it? I said no,
what do you think? No? Yeah, no, we are. We

(01:28):
decided my daughter wants a locked journal and no I'm
getting We got her one and I wouldn't read it,
and you said read it. So it was two to
one in the room, so lunchbox went out and talk
to folks. Here's number one. Open it up and read it.
Why safety? Now, hold on stop full seconds. Let me
show you who you are. Ask him. You're asking a
model with three kids, a thirty one year old, a

(01:51):
thirty year old in the twenty eight year. You've lived
through it. I've lived through this. What if it's something
in there that you can prevent from happening? Right? In
that case, that's called safety. You're not friends. You're not friends.
What are your parents? You're a parent and a child.
I feel like she's scary. Yeah, he's all scared? Is

(02:14):
that right? Yeah? Okay, that's good. I do like her perspective.
I hear another one. I would maybe ask him because like,
I just know, you have this lot of journal, Like,
is anything you feel like you need to share with me?
I had a journal when I was a kid. It
was a lot and I literally drew pictures in it.
I don't know. I feel like you're kind of breaking
a boundary if you just look at it. Now, if
you feel like he starts having like suspicion behavior, like

(02:35):
he's acting a little abnormal, I would look at it,
because who knows how he's feeling. Think of it this way.
If you never found it, if you wouldn't be worried
about him, that I wouldn't open it. So, now, how
old was she because she sounds really young. Yeah, but
that was opposite from the parent. She ended that with
a really wise statement. What she said, now to separate
take the journal out. If you weren't worried about him, Like,

(02:58):
if he's not displaying any sort of behavior that's causing
you any concern, you wouldn't be worried about reading the
journal takes the journal out, like, is your son doing
behavior that's concerning, then don't read the journal? So I say,
but you can't be like, hey, what's in that journal?
And he's like nothing. You believe him, but he's like
oh he starts stuttering and like, oh, you're hiding something.
One more here you go. Nothing was locked up? Okay,

(03:24):
So if that was your kid, would you open it?
Probably just to be nosy because there was no nothing
was ever locked in podcast. The people have spoken, They
sound like me. They say, to unlock it and read it.
Where are you on this? Yeah, unlock it and read it.
Are you gonna read it? Probably? But why? Well? But
I do? I do think I'm going to take the
approach of asking him first, be like, hey, what's in
your journal? Like, let's let's let's look through it. I
think he's gonna be cool about it. Let's be real,

(03:46):
what's in there? Bones? Really? He's seven years old? Yeah,
so why break that boundary? I just curiosity. I want
to know what's in there. And like the ladies said
at the end, there's no privacy in our home. Just
as a question here, your curiosity is more important to
you than his sense of privacy. Oh, yeah, I mean
seven years old. Yes, Okay, that's all I wanted to know.
You're the dad, don't. It's the best bits of the

(04:06):
week with Morgan Number two. Every once in a while
we get a really interesting call on the phone, and
this week David from Virginia called in to talk about
his fiance and his cat. Okay, there's this whole situation
happening where his fiance wants him to give up their cat. Mike,

(04:28):
I don't know about you, but I was laughing this
whole segment. Yeah, any right after we did this call,
we were like, is that a real human? Was that
a real person? And it was right, No, it's a
real person. He had so many opinions about his fiance
that he totally was hoping to share with the entire world.
And but my whole thought process during this whole thing,
regardless of like their relationship, I was like, Yo, we

(04:51):
don't give up the cat like that. Somehow throughout this segment,
I think it got brought up. Okay, you know, eventually
you get rid of the cat. But I'm like, no,
I would stay on my ground and I would not
get rid of that cat. I think there's a lot
of things you can do before getting rid of the
cat and this story to see it's crazier and crazier
that you'll hear. Yeah, So if you missed this one,

(05:11):
I'm telling you listen to it now. You'll get some
good laughs in and share your opinions with us. If
you didn't get a share how you felt about David
and Virginia with his fiance and the cat, then hit
us up at Bobby Bones show on all the socials,
because I bet you'll have a funny reaction too. Number six,
let's go over and talk to David who is in Virginia. David,
what's up, buddy? I will sub is this Bobby Bone?

(05:34):
It is, man? What can I do for you? Ain't husting? Man?
I would just talking to the lady. I would need
some advice on what to do with my fiance and
the cat and our relationship. Okay, our cat is two
years old pretty much now, and she's been with us
for since she was six weeks. My fiance who I've
been with for over three years now, and I proposed
to a Valentine's Day this year. She says that the

(05:55):
cat is putting over wedge between our relationship and it's
either the cat has to go or it's either that
we're gonna split up. So I need to know what
to do between what to do with the cat and
what to do with her. Man, it's weird that someone
would say a cat's driving a wedge between them. Yeah,
what's up with the cat? Like attacking her while she

(06:16):
sleeps her way? No, I mean, listen, the cat goes
in heat, and y'all are can already kind of guess
what that means. The barking and the mealen and the
stuff like that, and she gets sick of it and
it irritates sir, And so she's telling you get rid
of the cat or get rid of me? Pretty much?

(06:37):
Which way do you lean? Just right now he's asking you,
are you leaning too? Which one are you getting leaning
her to get rid of? Mean? Man, you already know
that you already know the answer to that one. We
know we have no idea. Yeah, girl goes No, I
think it's a cat, and kind of it's a cat,
and that gotta go on me. But sometimes I wish
you might be flip floped. But what's the person? Though?

(07:00):
Like eighty five percent the cat needs to go, fifteen
percent the fiance needs to go like, what, what's that percentage? Yeah,
he doesn't know. I will be honest. Would she argues
with me, I'd rather go the cats like my side chick.
She don't argue back when we start arguing that your

(07:22):
side chick? What? Okay? But also in relationships, you know
that there's like you have to sometimes work through problems
and have there's confrontation at times, right, okay, but no, yeah,
this one, I'm una say. Let this one. I say
I've heard enough. I've heard enough. I'm going to say

(07:42):
that one. It stinks that she's saying, get rid of
the cat or me. I think that's also a flag
for future situations. That doesn't mean you're rid of her,
but I think it's something that you have to prepare
yourself for that She may just be like always, all right,
get rid of this or me. Does she try to
dictate your life? I mean, honestly, I'm gonna be real,
Yes she does. I make I make, I make great paycheck.

(08:04):
I'm at work right now speaking, and um, I made
great pay and you know what I do in my
paycheck every Friday, it goes straight to that one. But
six hundred dollars every week right, Why write to her
and then do what she wants? I give her money
and I only even asked her about maybe sixty five
seventy eighty dollars of spending money to have for me
while I'm at work, and she tries to argue with

(08:27):
me about that. But man, it's the cat. Just gotta go.
It's crazy. That's a jealousy over a cat, a woman
and a human and an animal. I mean, come on now, man,
she's a jealous person in general. She's got a she's like, um,
I got a complex pretty much. If I ain't showing
her no attention, she feels like I'm cheating on her. Guys,

(08:49):
I was starting to at first when this started. I
was like, of course, you get rid of the cat,
But I ain't feeling that. I ain't feeling like that anymore.
She's getting this whole paycheck. She's jealous. Amy, I'm gonna
come to you. I'm gonna go to you first. You
are the woman here. Well, I don't know all the
details of each person obviously and your relationship, but I
would say you need to maybe do a pros and

(09:11):
cons list. Those are always helpful to like put pen
to paper and see where you know, the cat falls,
where the girl falls. But also I would just evaluate,
like you're working hard, and do you want to be
in a relationship I don't know, Maybe you do where
you know you're being controlled and all your money's going
to one person. Like to me, it doesn't sound like

(09:32):
you mean you maybe need to set some boundaries in
the relationship anyway, and she may not like that and
she may break up with you. Problem solved. Also, do
you have kids? Yeah, oh man, we got a twelve
year old, seven year old not three year old as
two year old. Well that's why, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry,
Ignore what I said. I don't want your kids to

(09:52):
find a pros and consulate. You gotta get rid of
the cat, all right. You have kids involved were now
you gotta get rid of the cat if one of
them has to go. But you have to find a
home to raise the cat. This is a big life decision.
I hopefully you have some other people you can talk
to as well. No, we're good. We've settled up for you, David.
We're experts, all right. Man. I appreciate y'all so much.

(10:15):
Is this I can put on a song request, hold on, No,
he is this bigger than the cat, David. It's pretty
much arguments every day. But when the cat starts what
she feels like I'm showing a cat more attention. She
gets jealous. It feels like I'm showing her more attend
What it boils down to, I'm with a jealous woman

(10:38):
that I've been with for three years, that she has
three kids of her own and we have one together.
But she don't understand that if I really want us
to go somewhere and leave her and her three kids,
then I would not be I would not be there
and I would not bring her my paycheck every week.
When she fails to neglect that if I wanted to leave,
I could do so. I'm twenty seven years old. I

(10:58):
could do exactly what I want. Working man every day. Yeah, yeah,
I think she fails to recognize that I'm not that guy.
I'm the guy that took on the vow to take
care of the kids, which I did when we got together,
and that's what I'm gonna keep going. So the cats
got to go, but the woman's got to stop arguing.
There we go. You're just talking our way out of it. Yeah,
all right, We don't do a lot of song requests

(11:19):
honestly here on the show. But what song would you
have requested if we were to do one? My kind
of Crazy by Brandley Gilbert. Oh, it's okay, that's gonna
end up in some domestic Now we're not doing We're
not gonna play a song I heard being crazy, but
we'll play a clip of it, all right, David, appreciate you, buddy,
appreciate that call. Go you gotta find a home for
that cat. That's your goal, Okay, loving home? All right, man,

(11:39):
I appreciate there. And here is a clip of Brandley Gilbert.
My girl's crazy. No, she's working, please she please, kid.

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It's a good old lash No we strouser little bitch kids,
real fashin my baby crazy. It's the best bits of

(12:25):
the week with Morgan. Number two. We had another spill
the tea moment on the show this week. In surprise,
it wasn't Lunchbox and Eddie, but Lunchbox was still involved.
He spilled the tea on Scoopa Steve. Now, Mike, I
want to know if there's ever been like a moment.
He really wanted to spill the tea on someone on
the show, but you're like, yeah, I shouldn't do that. Well,

(12:47):
thing is I find out things about Lunchbox sometimes, but
Lunchbox almost has no shame to the point to where
if you did spill the tea on him, he wouldn't care. No,
he would defend it. Yeah, there's instances where I was like,
I should probably bring that up on the show, but
then he'll bring it in the next day, is like
being proud of it. So I'm like, I don't think
I could spill the tea on Lunchbox. He is unteable
for me. Yeah, I feel like that's super true with Lunchbox,

(13:08):
Like he really does do a lot of things. You're like, oh,
that would be so funny to like talk about him,
but then he'd be like, yeah, no, that was me.
I did that, And you have to have a really
strong defense to go in on Lunchbox. So I was like,
I don't think I have the energy or the brain
space to take care of that, so I will not
spill it on him. Well, and I will say, I mean,
I think it's just really more of whenever you know
the show's over and we're all just kind of hanging

(13:30):
out and like really letting our guard down because during
the show we're also like focused on work. Yeah, so
then when we're just hanging out here, there's a lot
of random things that happen. Like I've wanted to spill
a tea on Eddie so many times and I'll say
it because it's nothing bad, but he would like come
in sometimes and he'd have like his zipper down, and
it was just like a really awkward situation because it's

(13:51):
like me and Eddie and I'm like Eddie, like, why
is this happening right now? He's like sorry, sorry, sorry,
and I'm like that's not appropriate. And I think that
happens with us is like that time we have right
after the show is over, in between we're all still
hanging out, finishing things up before we go home. I
think that's where a lot of our prep happens. Because
they're hanging out, somebody's doing something ridiculous or somebody's doing

(14:13):
something like why are they doing that right now? And
I kind of see everybody either make a mental note
or put something in their phone of like, oh, you're
gonna prep that later, aren't you. Well it's so funny too,
because show prep, you don't know it's coming like it
is one hundred percent out there and until it happens
on the show, you're like, I did not know anybody
even knew I was doing that. Yeah, that's the thing

(14:35):
that Bobby's always kind of wanted to have that element
on the show, and he wants everybody's genuine reaction when
they hear it on the air for the first time.
So I think keeping people just to the point where
he knows what's going on and it's a surprise everybody
else has that element when we do it live, like, oh,
this is your genuine reaction. I think the only person
he's allowed to like in that kind of see behind

(14:58):
the scenes with that is me. And it's kind of weird.
You're like I know everything, Like I know too much.
You have so many secrets. I'm pretty sure you could
blackmail all of us with Sunday Night. I am great
at keeping secrets though, so that would never happen. This
is true. You really are. You're like the guard of
secret keepers. Like if there was a superpower of secret keeping,
I think it would be you. I think the other thing, though,

(15:20):
is that I'm so quiet, like nobody really assumes anything,
and they're like, who's he going to tell anybody. He
never talks. So what you're saying is it's always the
quiet one, exactly exactly, So it is that is a
cool behind the scenes part two. Like, so every day
we all send in prep like news stories and personal
things that happen in our life. We send it to Mike,
Mike sends it to Bobby, and that's all that happens, like,

(15:42):
and then Bobby just determines whatever happens on the show. Yep,
that's how it goes And that's so funny because I
don't think a lot of people really know how that
goes down. But you know, sometimes we think something's really
funny in our lives, but it's really not that funny.
And I think the best part is you'll send something
again you think is a US it's gonna make it
on the show. It never does. And then sometimes it

(16:02):
gets brought up randomly later and you're like, see, I
knew it was a good idea. You're like, wait, that
was like forever going you just remembered it. Yeah, that
has happened before. When like something will get brought up
with me and I'm like, wait, I think I brought
that up like two months ago. Just come from. But
you know, we're always leaning into basically everything in our
life because also the whole hard part about PREP is

(16:25):
that we have to have interesting lives, and like, on
the daily lives really aren't that interesting, you know what
I mean. Yeah, you like almost have to go out
and do things that have something to send in and
during a frigging pandemic, yeah, when we're our lives interesting.
When you're sitting at your house is like a spider
crawl on me. Cool. I remember those first two months
we were just completely in our house. It was basically

(16:47):
the show of what did you do in your house yesterday?
It was the weirdest time. It was so weird. So yeah,
at least we have more interesting lives now because we're
starting to be able to do things. But it's definitely
probably the hardest part of this job, as I'm like, man,
I really need to like pick up some hobbies or something,
because I don't feel like I'm an interesting person. Yeah,
but here it is. This is lunchbox. He spilled the

(17:07):
tea on Scooba, Steve and Mike and I pretty much
never spill the tea on anyone because it just kind
of stays there. Exactly, but you will hear some yelling
during the segment, Scuba Steve kind of went back at Lunchbox,
so it's it's good number five Lunchbox wants to spill

(17:28):
the t on somebody on the show. Of course he does.
Oh wait, wait, can we guess? Is it Eddie? Let
hit that button yo, if you let's spill the tea
at your your stage, Lunchbox. Yeah, so I want to
spill the tea on Scooba Steve. Who I mean? We
are gonna rename him Steve the purse Holder because he

(17:49):
got a call from his wife. He's in there working
and his wife's like, hey, I'm at the mall and
I need you to come carry my bags. And Scuba
runs out of the building. He's like, okay, I gotta go,
I gotta go, and he picks up a stuff all
in a hurry to go carry bags at the mall.
So he is no longer Scooba Steve. He's Steve the
bag Holder. How embarrassing there's no bag. Also good he

(18:17):
left work early. He wasn't even I'm here every freaking
day PM while you're at home hanging with the kids,
Z dinner, enjoying life. I'm still here, So I take
one day to do something nice for my wife and
hold the bags for her while she was on four
months from eternity leave and went back to work and
was feeling a little bit about herself and wanted to
buy something nice for herself. So I carried the bags

(18:37):
for her, as a good husband and soulmate should do.
But what does it mean leaving work early? What time
did you get that text? I left at twelve thirty?
Are you kidding me? That is but that's not early. Yeah,
he didn't leave anytime after ten o one. If he
has to heave anytime he wants, Guys, it's the fact
that he was doing work and she said, hey, I

(18:58):
need my bags held. He's like, I'll be right there.
I want to know what lunchbox was doing so late
at work. Yeah, and you see, you know, I know
you don't think I worked. I do work, so you know,
but this is one I'm gonna say this what I've learned.
You know, you guys know that's more than I do.
And I'm just now starting to learn it now. I
had posted a video on Instagram or a picture and
it's Kaitlin and I together and so I was like

(19:18):
you you are everything you used to make fun of.
And I was like, you know what, Yeah, I was stupid.
Then whenever things are happier at home, everything goes better
for me. Just in general. So if your wife, if
your number one needs anything and you can do it,
do it. Yeah. And she sacrifices her whole career to
come here for me to move to Nashville. She left

(19:38):
the job that she had and loved. So if she
has something that needs that she needs, I'll do what
she needs. And in this scenario, she I had to
hold her bags, so so what and we got to
enjoy some time together. How did he see that text? Ema?
Because I was like I had I was in a
mad rush. I was like, hey, my wife needs me.
I gotta go. And he's like what are you What
are you going? You got stuff to do? And I'm like,
who are you? You're not my boss? And I said
it is everything. You asked him, who are you guys to? Well,

(20:00):
he said, my wife needs me. I said, is everything okay? Goes? Yeah,
she needs me to hold her bags at the mall.
It's like wow, dude, like that's embarrassing. Steve the bag
holder no longer. The name is not gonna pick up
Scuba Steve because the alliteration scuba Steve. Right, Yeah, the
bag holder, it doesn't even go together. Well, you're the
one holding the bags man, not me, and you think

(20:22):
he's blank whipped okay, and you are. I run the relationship,
trust me. And my wife called me and said, hey,
I'm at the mall. I need you to carry my bags.
I'd be like, get a shopping cart, but also or
I'd be like, you're buying too much crap. Okay, okay,

(20:43):
never mind. It's not everyone that's on Team Scuba. I
say everybody that's on team Lunchbox. On Nico Jackson checked in.
You know I'm on Lunchbox. You shot. I wouldn't go
to the mall with my wife. Nico, you're not married?
Well are you to be? Really? What happened? Oh? Yeah,
she passed away? Wait wait you went passed away? Why

(21:05):
did you go? So we're doing a comedy bet and
you went dark because he's trying to get sympathy or empathy, yes,
one of the two, whatever they are. I didn't know
which one you want me to do. Okay, she left
me because I wouldn't hold her bags at them. Okay,
she died. She found That's why she left. She found
some guy named Steve the bag holding that was funny.

(21:28):
That's good. You killed the bet with you go. You
passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. Well, I don't want
to keep going ray would you hit that bud twigging
in this part of this conversation? That's what was Let's
just spill the team. It's the best bits of the

(21:48):
week with Morgan number two on the show. This week
we had the famous actor Dean Norris. Many of you
know him on Breaking Bad as he played a really
epic role there, and he talked all about Breaking Bad
plus his new TV show. So yeah, did you love
that interview? Mike? You love movies and TV show? I do,

(22:09):
and I love Breaking Bad, and I think we were
talking about how that was like the first show we
binged watch and I remember taking an entire I don't know,
a couple of weeks to watch the entire season or
a series of Breaking Bad, and that was really cool
to get to talk to him. Is there an actor
You've gotten to talk to some cool people that I
think we're really big moments, like even Steven's the girl. Yeah,

(22:30):
you ought to talk to her and that was really
cool for me. But is there like a list for you,
like your mount Rushmore of actors actresses that you would
love to talk to? Oh? Yeah. See the thing with
me is I love movies, and I feel like really
big movie stars are really hard to get ahold of them,
and they also don't do many interviews. Yeah, so I
think like Leonardo DiCaprio would be up there on mine,

(22:53):
probably like Brad Pitt, and then on the music side
for sure, post Malone, We've been trying to get him
on the show in some capacity. He's my favorite artists,
so that would be like the biggest one for me. Well,
and you obviously have you know movie Mike's movie podcast.
Do you ever watch TV shows? I know you watch
movies and I know you love them, but do you
watch TV shows? Yeah? I watch. I watch a lot

(23:14):
of TV shows that have to do with movies, like
I watched Yeah, like Talking in the Winter Soldier. That
was the last thing I watched. Oh let's talk about that.
Yeah you did watch it? Yep? Okay, so good. I
loved it because Captain America the Winter Soldier is besides
the Avengers movie is my favorite marblement, Okay, And so
when this came out, I was like, oh my god,
this is like my time to hine. I love this

(23:36):
movie series everything about it, and I also love Captain America. Right,
So I was kind of set up to be disappointed
because it wasn't gonna be Chris Evans, but I was
so oddly like happy with the entire series. What did
you think about it? Oddly enough, it wasn't my favorite really, yeah, okay,
so what did you not like about it? I felt like,
I won't spoil anything, but the entire thing is six episodes.

(23:59):
I like it could have been one movie. Yeah, I
wasn't every time I turned on an episode. I don't
think it kept my attention the entire time. I thought
the whole story of what happened was cool. And now
they're talking about how it's going to lead to a
Captain America four movie. But watching that show, I wasn't
excited every week. It didn't leave me as an awe
as a wand division did before that. But also, just

(24:21):
Captain America in general is not my favorite. So if
he is your favorite, I can see why you loved it. Yeah,
but for me, it wasn't quite there for me. Yeah,
well in Wan division really like set it up. The
thing that's kind of surprising me with these is that,
like Marvel really is known for their movie series, they
really don't do a lot of TV shows. It's not
really their bread and butter. Right. Yeah, they're kind of

(24:41):
getting into it now with all the Disney plus so yes,
but they're only doing like six or ten episodes. I'm like, Yo,
this is not how this works. You gotta give me
a lot more content than that, because I could have
been just like a day. Yeah, you watch shows so fast,
Like a show will come out at midnight and it's
like the next day you've seen the entire series. How
do you do that? And I just binge watch things
while I'm working, Like I'm really good at multitasking, and

(25:04):
I always have to have something on in the background.
So I just find a show and I just start
binge watching it while I'm doing all of my work
at home. And that's kind of my way of being involved.
I guess I'm not sure how I can keep up
with things. At the same time, I think I put
like my mind on overdrive, which is probably why I
passed out so hard or I but that's typically what
I do. I like just put it on throughout the
whole day and it's just kind of on while I'm

(25:26):
doing everything. So with that show though, coming out once
a week, how do you feel like with that kind
of schedule versus when they release all the episodes at once.
I have like a love hate relationship of it. I
think I like it more. Well, it makes me like
wait and like really anticipated and get excited. But then
I'm like sitting there and I'm like, Okay, well I
want to know what happens next. My patience is gone

(25:47):
because of the binge culture. Yeah, you know, I think
I got burnt out on the beinge culture because I
would just watch the next episode for the sake of
watching it or trying to. I have a weird thing
in my brain where I try to clear off with
an entire list, So when I see an entire series,
I'm gonna try to get through it as fast as
I can. And with the one episode a week, it
kind of allows me to digest each one and enjoy
it more. That's how I felt with it, So I'm

(26:09):
into it. I know some people don't like it because
you can't binge it all in a weekend, but I
think it makes it more enjoyable. Yeah, I mean you're
totally right. I mean, like I said, like, I definitely
missed details, and then I'll get on TikTok and I'll
be like, hey, wait, I realize that moment happened, and
then I'll go back and watch it. But what about
when Anthony Mackie who was the Falcon without giving too

(26:30):
many details, when he got revealed, Yeah, how did you
feel in that moment? That was the moment that that
did it for me? Like, that's the moment when I
was watching that show, I got hype and it made
me excited for it. I needed that more throughout the
entire series. More moments like that, Yeah, for sure. And
definitely the whole idea of the White Wolf, which is
could be really cool in the coming years with Marvel movies. Yeah.

(26:53):
And also I'm trying to like talk on this without
giving because I know it's like so new. But then
it was when he got revealed. But then the other
moment when he had like his speech at the end,
where I kind of got chills and I was like, okay,
like this solidifies why he is becoming who he's becoming. Yeah,
that did come that way. Okay, that makes sense. I
like that. Yeah, okay. So besides Marvel stuff or like

(27:16):
you know, TV shows that's been into movies, has there
been a TV show that you like love a recent one? Yeah,
recent or just ever? I mean of all time, my
favorite show is The Simpsons. And yeah, that's not a movie.
I mean that and that's yeah, that's a straight on,
full TV show. I think the entire basis on if
I'm any ounce of kind of like funny when it

(27:37):
comes to writing or doing any kind of jokes, I
think I owe it all to the Simpsons, like they
kind of as a kid created my mind of like
how to see the world differently and how to see
the world with the sense of humor. And I think
it was watching all those seasons as a kid that
made me want to do something like that. And even
the episodes now, I still enjoy them, and over the

(27:58):
course of my entire life, I've related everything that's gone
on with me to an episode of the Simpsons. So
that's been my favorite show, a show that I can
watch any single episode, no, every single word, dude, So
that that's been my ultimate well, and I could totally
see that. I see the relation between that humor and
your humor and the way that you connect two. I

(28:20):
also know you've said that you would love, like your
kind of ultimate dream job would be to be a
writer for a TV show or movie. Right, Yeah, So
would you hope to write for something like Simpsons? Are
you just open to any kind of writing? I mean,
I'm open to anything, Like I would love to write
even just one episode on even a line of the Simpsons,

(28:42):
like like if I or if they like took a
tweet and like, hey, we want to use that any
show that would be like the ultimate thing. I think
even now, like, um, we've been doing the new on
Time with Bobby Bones twitch show, which I write, and
I've found the most enjoyment of that than any of
the new projects I've taken on recently, because that's basically
starts with a blank word document and I go in

(29:04):
and try to build the entire show, which we do interviews,
we do games, but we do like a monologue where
I'm writing jokes for Bobby, and that's been the most
fulfilling to me. And I've taken you know, things I've
learned from the Simpsons to create that. So for me,
writing is just fun because it's literally taking nothing, putting
a bunch of words on a piece of paper, and
trying to make something entertaining. So that's why I love it. Well,

(29:25):
I love that. So say, right now, somebody reaches out
to you and you could be a writer for a
TV show or for a production company or network or something.
Would you take that jump right now? I don't think
I'm there yet. I think I'm sharpening my skills right
now to be there someday. Yeah, I don't think I'm
ready for it yet. I'm just trying out kind of

(29:48):
my voice as a writer and how to do it
more effectively and just write things that are just better
than I'm doing right now. I don't think I'm at
that level yet, So maybe five years i'd be there. Okay,
So it's the it's kind of the ultimate dream job
and potential rest of your life career. Yeah, okay, and
we're are you like big on writing in high school
or did this become like after high school? I mean

(30:11):
I always I was in a band all throughout junior high,
high school, or I would write songs, but then it
was when I got to college that I started taking
on more creative writing. So I took a bunch of
like poetry, like essay, like even like technical writing, like
how to write a freaking manual. I learned how to
do that just because I've always loved it. And I think,

(30:31):
like I was saying earlier, it's because I'm a quiet
guy that I communicate the best through words. Even now,
I think we'll talk later about my wedding, but getting
ready to write my vow. Yeah, but like I'm a
lot more efficient with getting words out when I write
them than I do speaking sometimes, And it's weird for

(30:52):
a person who works in radio does a podcast that
I'd say that I'm a better writer than I am speaker.
But that's, yeah, that's how it is. Well, I feel
like just talking about this subject, I think when you
get to talk about something you're passionate about, I think
you're really good at talking about it. Like you're sitting
here talking to me and it's no big deal. That's true,
But I know you fair and it's something you're really
excited about too, though, and that could have something to

(31:13):
do with it. You know, you're like, I don't want
to just talk about nothing yeah, you know it's true.
How are you and like? Because I know we're similar
in some ways, But when it comes to being like
in a social situation, can you go in with people
that you don't know and just immediately start a conversation. Yes, see,
I envy that I go into a situation like that
and I say no words and hang out in the background.

(31:34):
I wish I could be more like you. Well, to
be fair, alcohol helps with that. I'm not gonna lie
about that, but I still could, Like I just I
hate awkward things. I'm really like uncomfortable when things are awkward,
So instead of ever letting it get to that, I
just talk. So my I'm just gonna like get out
of the awkwardness. So like for me, that's what makes
me uncomfortable. So instead, I like try to make sure

(31:57):
that never happens. So you can't have a lull in
the conversation, even with the stranger. You have to feel
that time. No, Like Mike, when I would go on dates,
and like I would go on obviously you know, not
good dates, and somebody would like not be a good talker,
and I'd just be I would be making up stuff
so hard, Like I would just be like, Okay, so
when you were a child, what did you like to do?

(32:17):
Like I can make a conversation out of an orange really,
like I could talk to a brick wall. But that's
genuinely just out of the fact that I hate awkwardness,
Like lunchbox Love is being awkward, and even being around
him sometimes makes me uncomfortable because I hate awkward, Like
it just makes it. It makes you cringe. I don't know,
I see I'm the opposite. I thrive in silence, Like

(32:37):
I got my hair cut last week, and they do
that thing where they kind of, you know, make the
small talk. Yes, I give like I'm like, I'm good
just sitting here and saying nothing, And I think sometimes
they respect that. They're like, you know what, we talk
to people all day long. I think I've asked my
person before, like you like, care about small talk? You know,
Like they're like, it's nice to have a break sometimes,
so we say nothing throughout the entire haircut, and I

(32:59):
love it. That's so funny. Oh, I love that. But
also like that's why it's so cool to have friendships
with so many different kinds of people, because I think
you need that balance in your life. I think you
need somebody who wants to be the social butterflying. You
need someone who doesn't want to be that and just
kind of wants to hang out and live in that silence.
I think that's really awesome. I think that's where friendships

(33:20):
thrive is when you're just different. You kind of blend
the two together and you're like, Okay, this works. Somehow
it works, and somehow it works with me and Bobby
because we are both like that. We can go an
entire trip together and say nothing and we're fine with it.
Like that's how we work together because we are both
that way. Yeah, it's not like a microphone in front
of our faces. Yeah, that's true. He you know, Bobby

(33:43):
could be really silent when he's not in front of
the mic, and that would probably shock some people because
he's so outgoing on the radio. Yeah, but that's cool.
I mean, Mike just gave you a nice little tidbit there. Yeah,
take him away from the show, put him in as
the situation we're hanging out, and you'll say it like
five words. Maybe this is true when he when we
would go out to the bars and stuff. I mean,

(34:04):
he would love to like dance, but he thrived and
just kind of chilling there and living in the moment
and not really like talking much. And he's probably taking
mental notes about what he can talk about on the
show later. That's how he works. He would he would
always bring out and write down something. I'm like, oh gosh,
here we go. Oh well, that was a fun little talk.
But before we get into more conversations, because we're so

(34:26):
going to talk about your wedding, here is Dean Norris
on the show talking Breaking Bad, the United States of
al all the cool things that he's doing right now.
So here we go. Number four, We're about to talk
to Dean Norris, who you may know as Hank from
Breaking Bad, the bald brother in law of Walter White. Right,
he's on a comedy now and CBS. We all watched

(34:49):
Breaking Bad, right, so good it started everything for us,
like binging television. That's how it started. Maybe I think
I would already bench like Madman okay around that same time,
But for me, I think that was it too. That
our orange is the new black back in the day.
So he's got a new show and we're gonna talk
about but he's like, hey, come on, talk about Breaking Bad.
If you wants. It's we're all such a big fans
thought we'd get him on. So here he is Dean

(35:10):
Norris aka Hank from Breaking Back on The Bobby Bones Show.
Now Dean Norris. You guys can check out Dean in
United States of Al. It's comedy. It's out now on
CBS on Thursdays, also streaming Paramount Plus. Dean. So happy
to have you, so great to talk to you. How
are you man? Hey, I'm great man. Thank you for

(35:31):
having me feeling good? Yeah? Me too? And how important
is it for you because you're hopping into a comedy,
You're coming off a show where everybody knows your face
from breaking bad like that, next step it's pretty important, right?
Why did you choose to go over into a comedy? Yeah?
You know, I'm want to do something completely different than
I've been doing before, and shit time's about as different

(35:53):
as you can get from from a you know, serious
drama show. And had the great Chuck Laurie said he
had a role for me, and I was like, great, Um,
that's somebody I really want to work with. I'm going
to do a sitcom. Obviously he's done a few shows,

(36:13):
is there? And and that was it. So is there
a preparation involved? And that's different when you're going to shoot,
you know, a thirty minute sitcom versus you know, when
you're doing the big drama role of breaking Bad. Yeah. Absolutely, Um,
the sitcom is you know, it's much more of a

(36:34):
the live even though we don't have a full live
audience because of COVID right now, it is shot as
if we're in front of a live audience, So we
have a lot of producers and writers and kind of
a smaller audience there. So there's kind of a theater
filled to you know, getting ready, h and when the
show as opposed to uh, you know, sixteen hour days,

(36:57):
I'm shooting a drama. Do you ever crack? I mean
it's a comedy, you're not supposed to laugh. Oh yeah,
all we crack all the time. We have such a
good time. But I love my cast. We get along
very well, and we have so many laughs offset and
they inevitably get to when when we're filming, so we
have a lot of times where all of us cracked.

(37:20):
So walk my listeners through the plot, like the storyline
of United States of Alan, Why you think it'd be
great for them to check it out just once, because
then they'll be hooked for sure. Yeah. Great, it's it's
my play a guy named Art Dugan who is a
Midwest military vet and my son comes home from Afghanistan.

(37:41):
He's a marine, and he has some trouble to Justine,
he has some PTSD marriage is falling apart, and then
he brings his interpreter, Al, who he gets him over
here and just as a site note, that's a very
important thing that's out there. And I didn't really until
the show, but once you're an an interpreter in Afghanistan,

(38:05):
now you have a target on your back because you
helped the US. So getting them over here is a
matter of saving their lives. So he comes over and
he and my son live in my garage, and I
also have a daughter who lost her fiance to the war,
and she lives with me too, an adult daughter. And
we you know, it's a it's a really seems like

(38:26):
a really serious topic and it is, but we deal
with it through comedy. United States of Al Thursdays on CBS,
streaming anytime on Paramount Plus. Are you good at memorizing scripts?
Like I always felt like it was such a struggle
remembering anything, will you sit down and read the script
and know it in a day. I'm pretty good at
needing at memorizing script. Yeah, it's has never been a

(38:47):
problem for me. Thank goodness. Well they let you ad
lib at all, since you're, you know, really one of
the finer actors of the last twenty years. They ad lib.
We certainly, we certainly can pitch our own jokes if
we think that we have a funnier line, and we'll
throw it out there and if it works, it works.
If it doesn't, it doesn't. So yeah, they definitely allow
that to happen. How do they tell you it doesn't?

(39:09):
And they're just like, sorry, go back to the original.
That's pretty much it, man, there's nothing. There's been much
starry to break it to you. They're like, that didn't work. Nor,
that's pretty funny, and listen, I know when I perform,
I like to be told right away so I can
just go on to the next thing. Does that ever
hurt when you're like, oh, I got this, I'm gonna

(39:30):
nail this joke and then you're like you try it
and they're like, nah, wasn't I good? Uh no, man,
there's so many of them, you know, that, and that's
just part of the process. And the writers too. On
the day they will you'll do the scene and then
they'll throw you four different lines um to try. So
they're pitching them too, and some of them works, some

(39:50):
of them don't work. So you went to Harvard, We're
always wait, let me get this straight. You went to Harvard?
I did. Dang, you are fancier than we ever thought, Dean.
I was the first person in my entire family to
go to college, let alone Harvard. How do you have?

(40:12):
What about you? What was the skill set that you
used to get Harvard to accept you in because you
have to be pretty elite? Was it acting? It was
not acting? Um I was? I was a validatoring in
my class? I was. I did, I did well on
my on my SATs and all that stuff. And you know, well,
I guess I wrote a good a good say to

(40:34):
get in. How many schools did you apply to and
did you expect to get into Harvard? Were you that
good of a student? Were you like, I'm for sure
getting in? I definitely didn't say that, but I applied
to several of the Ivy League and um in got
into a couple. Oh well, then maybe who rejected you,
dang who didn't let you? Indeed? Yeah, I don't want

(40:59):
to say okay, that's all right, all right, Well listen,
I hope you guys check out the United States about
It's a very funny show Thursdays on CBS, and you
you will recognize his face because we all are massive
Breaking Bad fans. If you go out, now, does everybody
just are they like, that's that's Hank from Breaking Bad? Yeah,
pretty much. Are you tired of it yet? Are you like,
let me move on in my life, or are you like,

(41:21):
you know what I am, let's talk about it. Yeah.
I don't say yeah, I am, let's talk about it,
but I'm not tired of it? By Andy mean, uh,
you know, it was a great show and I'm I'm
I'm lucky to have been a part of it. So
anybody that that appreciates that and expresses that to me,
I'm fine with it. Did they give you the full
script for each episode or just your lines so that

(41:42):
no spoilers would leak? Yeah, they give us the full scripts.
Towards the end, they would they would black out certain
stuff and you'd have to read it in a in
a special room because they didn't want it to fall
into the wrong hands. But yeah, generally they would give
you the whole scrap. I actually would try to not
read parts of them because I want to enjoy the

(42:05):
show as a fan on Sunday nights when it aired,
so I'd read my stuff and then I try to
as much as I could avoid other stuff. So I
was as shocked or surprise watching the show as anybody else.
What was the day like for you when the finale aired?
It was surreal, man, it was. It was crazy. Actually,

(42:27):
two episodes before when I spoiler alert things don't work
out for Hank, there was this big party that that
the all these like Hollywood, mega powerful people for to
watch the episode. I was as Mandias and it was like,
I mean, I can tell you to whoso of people

(42:50):
in Hollywood, and it was really surreal to have all
them kind of sitting in this big house watching um
watching that episode. United States of Al from the pilot
to when you guys started in production, and the same
thing with Breaking Bad pilot too, we got picked up production.
What's the what's the difference in how long those took? Uh,

(43:12):
it's very short for the United States of Al. Um
partly because of Chuck Laurie I'm assuming, and partly because
that we've been trying to make this since last April
and it was until now that we got to really
get into it. H And uh, Breaking Bad took quite
some time because you know, you have to imagine at

(43:34):
the time it was a crazy story and uh, you know,
we all we all thought it was like one of
the best things that we'd ever read. And then in
but we all felt like, boy, is this gonna make
it on the air? How are they going to you
know that how they get a marcuses blah blah blah
and think think goodness, same state did the right thing,
so you didn't have to audition for United States of

(43:56):
al Am. I hearing that right, right? Did you have
to audition for Breaking Bad? Oh? Yeah? Do you know
who you beat? If so, tell us he's a really
sweet No, I don't know what. I don't think I was.
I want to be honest with you, and I hope
this didn't sounding modest, but I think what's I met Vince?

(44:19):
We were they were pretty convinced. I because I was
the guy. I didn't even even when you have these
things he called he'd do a test in front of
the eighth in front of the network, and uh, I'm
not even sure anybody else was there. Well, tell me
what an audition process is like. Earlier in your career,
you know, you were just auditioning for roles. Just you
just go up to a room and is it like

(44:40):
the movies where it looks like twelve people sitting around
in the same room and just walk in and do
your thing around the other people you're competing against. It's
exactly that. It's exactly that. It's ridiculous. It's a it's
a stupid process. Um. I actually enjoyed it because I
got you know, it was a chance for me to
perform that day. But it's just a ridiculous process to

(45:01):
you know, read being a role with somebody who's reading it. Yeah,
and you're sitting literally sitting against three o three other
ball guys are sitting across from me. You know, I'm like, Okay,
what role are you guys going for? Wow? Listen, let
me encourage everybody to check out United States Aval Thursdays
on CBS, streaming on Paramount Plus. Obviously we're big fans

(45:21):
of Breaking Bad as well, and I think probably a
lot of people see you on that and go I
should check the show out because I loved Hank so
much on Breaking Bad and you're just such a great actor.
Had no idea you went to Harvard Tall. I was
doing a little research and I was like, not only
is a great actors, he's Fonsie Darling. That's right, He's
he's fancy Dean. That's right from Harvard. Hey, Dean, we
appreciate your time. You guys can follow Dean jay Norris

(45:42):
on Instagram. You guys check out United States Aval Dean.
Have a great day. Thank you, Thank you so much. Man,
have a great one. It's the best Bits of the
week with Morgan. Number two. This week, we found out
that Bobby plans to not have a first look at
his wedding. Also, he kind of talked about some other
things that may happen during the wedding, including him crying. So, Mike,

(46:06):
I know your wedding's coming up because I'm going to
be there and I'm so excited, and I know you're
probably really excited about We're like, I mean a month
and a half away. Yeah, that's close. Yeah, Like are
you counting down the days? Yeah? I think every day
we look at the calendar and be like, oh crap,
it's the last suner, what do we think? Okay, so
are you worried at all that you might cry during
the wedding. I'm gonna cry one hundred percent. I already
know you know, you already know there. And with us,

(46:29):
we had that same conversation or doing the first look,
and my fiance, Kelsey, wanted to do it, and I
had to convince her that I didn't want to because
I don't want to see her beforehand, Like I want
that moment when she's walking down the aisle to be
the first time I see her interwding dress, because I
know that's going to be an emotional thing that I
could never get back, so I want to talk about
I want to experience that. And I had to tell

(46:50):
her like, I want to see you walking down the
aisle for the first time, and I know it's probably
gonna make me cry, but I think that's worth more
than having like pictures together. That first look. I guess
that's what the whole thing is. It's just meant to
have like a private moment for you to have that
first look instead of in front of everybody. Yeah, but also,
like I feel like having it in front of everybody

(47:10):
kind of adds to it because technically, all those people
are part of your story, right, like your guys's love story.
Those are all your friends who you know cherished you
and supported you guys along the way. So I feel
like it's kind of cool and it adds more to
that moment. Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah, I think. I
just I would remember that more than having that private
moment together. Well, yeah, and you get to see her
in her dress for the first time, yeah, which she

(47:32):
looks stunning by the way. Yeah, she brought it home, Like,
I guess what do you get like alterations or whatever
to it? And I was like, I don't want to
see it. Get it out put in the other room.
So do you guys plan to write your own vows? Yeah,
we were writing our own vows. I've already started working
on mine. Like I'll get an idea, I'll jot it
down and I'll kind of build off of that. But yeah,

(47:55):
it's it's a weird thing to sit down and right
because you're like, how am I getta in words describe
everything I've ever felt or what I want to say?
Do I make a joke? Do I not do I
go just full on romantic, like what do I do here?
So I have about two different ways it could go.
It could kind of go a little more lighthearted but
then serious at the end, or just full on try

(48:17):
to make it cry more. Kelsey, I'm so sorry. Which
way are you leaning to kind of in this moment?
I mean, I think kind of in the middle. I
think right now the version I have is like a small,
lighthearted story at the beginning with a little joke and
then just kind of bringing it back into being serious.
And I think that'll make me more comfortable when delivering

(48:38):
it because a bit of it I'm worried of like
what if I get emotional in the moment and I'm
like crying or something and can't get the words out,
and I don't want to be up there like stalling
trying to like get out my vows. So I think
if I have a little bit of lightheartedness at the beginning,
it'll help me get through the rest of it. Okay,
I feel like that's a good balance of the two too. Yeah,
I mean, I'm not gonna get up there and do

(48:59):
like a stand up but had like a little bit
of fun. I don't think you could do your vows
without having a joke. I think Kelsey would be sad
if it weren't. I feel like that's who you are. Yeah, so,
oh my gosh, I'm gonna cry, Like just hearing you
talk about it, I'm like tearing up. I'm like, this
is not good, not good for anybody. Okay, So vowels
we got those? Is there any other like big updates?

(49:20):
I mean, you guys are like forty days forty five,
I mean somewhere something like that. So is there any
other like big updates? Things happening and you're guys stressed out?
Is everybody hanging on? Okay? Yeah? I think we're all good.
I think the next step is we have to go
get our marriage license because you have to go back
to Texas. Yeah, because you're getting married in Texas, so
coming up next week we have to because you have

(49:41):
to get it like a month out or so. So
we're gonna go get our marriage license. And I think
that's for me when it's going to feel the most
real and like she'll text me randomly like um like
future almost husband, And I think seeing that word kind
of written out, it's kind of starting to hit me
more that I am going to be married, have a wife,
I'm gonna be somebody's husband. And then I think when

(50:02):
we go to get our license, it's going to feel
like real, like for the first time ever. So I
think that's the next big step we're doing. Have you
guys had that, and you don't have to answer if
you guys haven't. If you guys had the discussion about
is she going to take your last name? Does she
plan to keep hers? Do you guys know, I believe
she is taking my last name. And then I think

(50:24):
she's going to change her middle name to her last
name right now, okay, because her kind of story is
interesting because her dad passed away when she was young.
She never really knew him, so she's kind of the
last one who has that last name. So I told her, like,
if you don't want to change your last name, don't
change it. Oh. I you know what, Mike, I already
respected the crap out of you, but now I'm just like, oh, hunk,

(50:46):
I'm melting in my heart because I was like, that's
your I mean, that's your dad's last name. That's like
the last thing of him that you have a connection with.
And I was like if you don't want to change it,
don't change it. You don't have to take my last name.
Really means nothing to me, like if you do or not.
But she's like, I want to take your last name.
I'm gonna do it and just switch it over. Oh
my god, I think that's the first time you've really

(51:08):
shared that story. Yeah. I mean I've known that story
because I know you guys, but I mean that's a
really emotional story for Kelsey and that's a big part
of y'all's life. Yea life. So that's so cool. Yeah,
that's the other thing we're thinking of. Like I kind
of brought the idea to her of honoring her dad
at the wedding in a way, and I was like,
we just leave a seat at the front for him,

(51:30):
like an empty seat just where he would have been. Oh,
and you guys are doing that. Yeah, we're going to
do that. I love that because you're I mean, both
of your parents are going to be there. Her mom's
going to be there, yeah, and her stepdad. Ye. So
I mean big family. Which also they haven't really met
entirely yet. No, when we go for the marriage license, sty,
they're going to meet. Okay, So that's going to happen

(51:51):
before the wedding. Yeah, okay, are you getting like a
get together kind of like a pre wedding party, Yeah,
like a pre wedding party to plan everything kind of
if we need anybody to help about kind of meeting
type thing is what's happening, But mainly just so everybody
can meet each other for the first time and it
not be at the wedding whereverybody's like, hey, nice to
finally meet. Oh. I don't feel like there should be

(52:11):
any nerves of that at this point because you and
Kelsey are so in love, Like nothing's going to change
anything about how y'all feel about each other. No, it'll
just be them meeting and yeah, everybody already kind of
knows about each other and we should like each other,
so it should be fine. Okay, before I'm gonna like
just start crying talking about all this. You guys can
hear Bobby talk about his first look what he's going

(52:32):
to cry about. But also, I'm so excited to get
more updates from Mike because I'm gonna have him on
Agan at some point, either before the wedding or right after,
so we can get all the details there. One last
thing before we go honeymoon? Do you guys have honeymoon plans?
Not really, because I don't know if we're going to
do one right away. I think we may wait, do
like a mini moon the weekend after, and then plan

(52:54):
a bigger honeymoon later. Okay, and do you know where
you guys want to go? Someplace tropical? We're on a beach. Okay, well,
here we go. Now, here's the seground. I'm done asking
questions because I'm gonna start riding. Number three. They're calling
her a bridezilla as being slammed because she made eleven
strict rules for her wedding guests. Sometimes we hear about
the wedding party. It's like, can't have your hair like this,

(53:16):
can't have your dressed like this, be skinny or be fatter.
There's all these rules. We're like, what's happening here? But
she sent a rule out to the everybody's gonna be
a guest. Okay, let's just see if we think the
rules are out of line. Okay, of the eleven number one,
don't wear white, Yeah, sure, that's sense. Give that a ding,

(53:36):
like yeah, such an unspoken rule? Yeah, there you go.
One correct, please, don't show up late after the ceremony
has started or the middle of the ceremony. I got
no problem with that rule. Good, no cell phones during
the ceremony, that's makes sense. It feels a bit aggressive,

(53:57):
but I agree with it when everybody's phone out because
I don't think we're having cell phones are our wedding
at all. We're gonna be like Chriss Rotten does put in,
we have to check our phones. Yeah, like in a basket.
I think I'm not sure how we do it, like
a coat check, but a phone check. Maybe we just
say no phones out. I'm not sure, but I don't.
I think we're gonna have phones at the receptions. Fine,

(54:17):
but the ceremony. I can't remember. Did Lunchbox allow phones
because I'm wondering why we didn't get him on video
crying right, because there was no crying exactly, because you
guys lie a lot. But it's okay. We were seated
in the very back and we saw it and I
would have zoomed in on that number four. But we
feel okay about no cell phones, right, Yes, number four
pace yourself when drinking. That's dumb. I mean, I feel

(54:39):
like the dumb role to have to stay right, but
people are going to break that. Maybe it shi some
people where they need to be reminded, but I think
you remind them separately. Okay, So are you going to
say that to like, I don't know Ray and Eddie.
I've already had a talk with Eddie. Huh. No, there's
no drinking before the wedding, right, no drinking before the wetty.
But after the wedding's over party party? Yeah it recept

(55:00):
shouldn't have at it. Okay, Ray, you're not able to
show up after you have to be there on time. Yeah, yeah,
I got you. I'll just have a couple. Don't even
want no drinking before the king before the wet But
I think she's wrong on that one. Pace yourself when drinking.
I think everyone should, but I don't think that anything.
Next one, don't get in the photographer's way. Well it's
a good note. Yeah, I don't think about it, but

(55:23):
maybe it's a good note. The next one, no bringing
in or trying to smuggle your own drinks. I mean crazy,
you have to remind people of that. Well, I don't
really care if someone brings in their own drinks. I
mean I don't want them to walk in with a cooler.
But if someone has a flask, not that big of
a deal. No rushing anyone, that's a dumb world have

(55:44):
to put in there. No trying to change things about
the decorations. Would do that. Yeah, well we did talk
about your cake. No nitpicking, no big announcements or proposals. Nice,
that's a good one. Yes, that's kind of a funny one.
And then finally, no posting to social media before us room.
That's that's a good rule. Yeah, that's like, hey, because
they're busy, they can't be on their phone and they

(56:05):
don't want everybody else posting all this stuff, except for like,
if we're at your wedding reception and we pull up
Instagram stories and you haven't posted anything yet, are we
not allowed to go away? Get await? You need to wait? No,
I mean this was her role, so you're adopting this
is your rule from your reception. There's no way we're
gonna beat Bobby to the social media bus. There's no
If I'm tied up in the middle of the wedding,
I can't no no about no phones. No phones allowed,

(56:25):
so we can't. True, I'm not sure, but I have
to ask the boss. Okay, m you know she is,
I know for sure. How do we feel about this
list of wedding rules? Are we mostly okay with it? Yeah?
Mostly right about? Like she's just being logical. Yeah, there's
just a couple where I would go, don't tell you

(56:45):
about a past on the drink and just hope they
will and the people you're worried about have a little
conversation with them. Ones, but like, don't change decorations. Who's
going to try to home make over that thing? I
don't know. Yeah, she must have some funny friends. Um.
That being said, I will answer a question about my
wedding that a lot of people are asking. And the
question was are we going to do a first look?
Which I didn't even know what that meant until recently.
What is that exactly at the dress? Well, some people

(57:09):
won't take a picture through their pictures before they get married, okay, yes, yeah.
Other people will wait till after because they don't want
to see them before they walk down the aisle. And
I was asked what I wanted to do, and I
don't want to see her before I walk down the aisle.
So pictures after the way, pictures after the yeah, and
it may take a lot longer, but that's okay. Hey,
don't rush, don't We can't rush here. I don't want to.

(57:30):
I want to feel that emotion. You know. If I
want to cry, I'm gonna let it go right there.
I'm worried though, that i'llo say I'm because I'm right
on my vows. I'm worried that I'm not gonna be
able to get through them because you're gonna be crying.
I don't know. I don't do things halfway like. I
can't just I won't just get a sniffle in around.
I will be bawling or I will be able to
control it and then cry later. But I don't. We're

(57:52):
not doing a first look as of right now. We're
gonna just I want to wait and see her and
then move on with the ceremony. Makes sense, bones, as
your best man, if you start like crying and fall
in and everything, do you want me to hold you
while that's happening or just leave you alone? Day you're
supposed to offer the I do like to be held. No,
you can't hold you. Just rub my shoulders a little

(58:13):
tap and then maybe just a rub the shoulder. Yeah,
just give me a little shoulder rub, give you a
handkerchief and then you can run your hands down my
waist and like rotting you back and forth, and everyone's
like what. It's the best bits of the week with
Morgan number two going from something super emotional and so

(58:34):
sweet to something really funny that happened on the show
this week. We had a drawing to see who on
the show of the Guys has to carry a purse
after Harry Styles was in the news for carrying a purse.
So Mike d you got chosen, Yeah, and it was
your bed. I came up with the idea. I saw
the picture in GQ magazine and I was like, Hey,
that'd be funny to do, and a little bit when

(58:57):
I wrote it, I was like, you know what, I
kind of want to send this in because if I
get picked. I had a feeling that I was gonna
get picked, and I was like, you know what, I
think it'd be funny. What are the chances I actually
get picked? And then we drew names and it was me.
I mean to be fair, out of all of the
guys on our show, I feel like you're the one
that could pull it off the most, though that kind
of pop runk pop not wrunk pop rock styles, Like

(59:20):
they really do so many different trends. Yeah that I
feel like that just kind of fits in. That vibe
is just kind of like whatever they're doing is whatever. Yeah,
as I've been wearing it, I feel like if I
had one that was a little more functional for me,
I think I could see myself doing it like a
black satchet, Yeah, like something a little more like yeah,
like a messenger bag type of situation, not so much

(59:42):
just a straight on purse. But it's my mom's first,
but I could see it having some use, Like like
I have a bunch of random things that I don't
know where to put in there in my pockets, Randomly
throwing them all in one bag could be helpful. Well,
we never really talked about this, but the whole reason
that purses were such a big thing for women is
because we didn't have pockets, like in jeans and things.

(01:00:05):
Those were the first times we would get pockets. Like
you have skirts and dresses, you never have pockets, so
you had to carry something with But I think what's
funny about that too is that guys they do have pockets,
but like I'll see you guys, and you'll see like
eighty different things bulging out of their pants because everything
stuffed in their pockets, and you're like, okay, there's a
lot on there. So I feel like we need to

(01:00:27):
normalize like these kind of murses as we want to
call them, a man purse or a satchel or a
fanny pack type thing for guys. Yeah, somebody tagged me
in a picture of blanco brown wearing one, and I
was like, many rocks. It like, if you get one
that looks kind of your style, you can do it well.
I mean at the end of the day, I mean, yes,
what you're carrying around is this brown, like straight up

(01:00:48):
purse that is like your mom's purse you're carrying. Yeah,
you get like one that's like a crossbody and it's
black and and it fits with your whole vibe. I
don't see why anybody would like call you on. They'd
be like, okay, that's a good idea. Yeah, But the
one I have been carrying. I were to the gas
station earlier this week and I got some looks, and
it's weird just to walk in wearing a purse when

(01:01:11):
nobody knows why you're doing it. But it was just
kind of a weird feeling. Yeah, but so did in
your relationship with Kelsey, has she ever been like, hey,
can you hold my bag really quickly? Did you ever
feel weird about that? Yeah? The weekend before we did
this bit, we were at the mall and she had
to go to the bathroom, so I was holding her
purse and I was like, let me go walk around
and look around. And I was just walking around the
mall with the purse and I was like, hey, it's

(01:01:32):
kind of the same situation now. And then I was like,
are you gonna be embarrassed to go out with me
in public having to carry the purse? And she was like, well,
the fact that we'll both be carrying one might be
a little longer. It's a game changer, the things that
are happening. But I mean, I'm here for it. I
feel like it could be really useful for y'all, especially
you guys don't have to carry backpacks. When I see

(01:01:54):
like a thirty five year old man walking in with
a backpack, I'm like, no, just get that man like
a natural. He's not in school anymore. That is true.
I mean I still have a backback too, So maybe
I convert it. It's like it's like the adult version
of it, you know. It's just one of those things
where you're like there's functional things for each Like you
get a briefcase. If you work it, you know, you're

(01:02:14):
an attorney or something, maybe like a satchel. As you're
like adult version of a backback. I feel like you
can still rock backback until you're like thirty five, so
you got you got time. But like when you get
into those older phases and you start to become a
dad and stuff, I think you could carry like a
really cool satchel and it's not a big deal. Yeah,
because I could never imagine myself in a briefcase, right.

(01:02:35):
I think about a briefcase if I ever had to
carry one of those, and I just doesn't feel like
it fits my vibe. Oh man, Okay, so you have
how many days left you have to Where are you
done after this weekend? All the way to Tuesday? Okay,
so a few more days left? Do you plan to
go anywhere with it? Just to kind of experiment, I'm
gonna go to like the grocery store and see what

(01:02:57):
they say about it. I've tried to go into guesstions
have gotten no reaction. So I got some places they
hit this weekend. Maybe a restaurant, Yeah, a restaurant. See
if somebody will like mention something. You just I just
want to get one compliment. Nobody be like, hey, that
looks really good on you. Like I wasn't to say
a thing, but you look great in it. That's all
I need. Okay, Well we will get an update I'm

(01:03:17):
sure next week. But here this segment of Mike, you know,
his own bit backfiring, and he now has to wear
a purse for a week number two. So I love
Harry Styles. He's more. He's carrying a purse around. That's
cool to think about. If it wasn't assigned to a
certain sex, we carry a big background, nobody would judg us. Okay,

(01:03:38):
I think you guys have an advantage. A purse carry
so much more than a wallet. What would you carry
in the purse that you are not able to carry
in a wallet? Oh? Boy, every day my pistol. Yeah okay, no,
really like what you now get to leave the house
with more things? So what do you put in there? Food?
Maybe a snack, an extra pair of underwear? You never

(01:03:59):
know when that's gonna be needed. That's good. Your keys
so you don't have to put it. They're all clunky
in my pocket, cutting into my leg. Oh gum carry
also working to the janitor open school. Okay, No, I'm
just saying there's probably probably don't even know the options
that are given to me yet, right, And everybody's look
at Harry Styles carrying a purson. I'm like, look at

(01:04:20):
Harry Styles carrying a purse, normalizing it. Hopefully he also
paints his nails like Eddie. Yeah see I tried guy
pearls for a while. He does not. So what we're
gonna do if we're gonna draw a name and one
of you guys can Harry Styles for a week and
carry it on a purse all week. No, you can
keep your wallet in the purse, but it can't come
out of the purse. Okay, all right, let's draw the

(01:04:40):
names here. Oh god, And like when you go places yet,
if they put your purse up, if there is a
picture of you take in somewhere and you don't have
your purse with you, it's one hundred dollars. Fine, now
you're getting the listeners, it's one hundred dollars fun, So
listeners be cool about it. So I'm gonna draw. When
I draw, your name is alm needed with this person?

(01:05:01):
What it is? Ugly us a coach with a different purse.
If you want, I need a Louis Man. Yeah, Harry
Styles don't got that. He ain't got no plu. This
is like aunt Roses. I know. All right, we're ready.
The first name, because there are a few guy names

(01:05:22):
in here. It's me Eddie, Lunchbox, Raymundo or audio producer
Mike d and Scuba Steve who will do the Harry
Style challenge. They have to carry this purse from Tuesday
to Tuesday. The first name eliminated that doesn't have to
carry the purse. Yeah, Eddie, Yeah, to be kidding me.
How does this happen? Well? It just does. It just

(01:05:43):
does it? Just doesn't You wanted you sign it? Eddie? No,
we're good. Next up, Come on, they're all tangled. That's
me eliminated, Raymundo, see you lunch Bikes. It's gonna be
Lunchbox again. Stop thinking that it's gonna be you. No,

(01:06:05):
I don't. But every name that comes out there's something
like a magnet. Let do you always win these? You
don't win games with you win these you don't know
because this has nothing to do with music. That's why
I can't win. I win these. Next person, come on,
it doesn't have to carry the purse. Is that's me?
That's a long name, Bobby, Amy, you can draw the

(01:06:27):
last ones. There are how many names last? It's me
and my Dan and Scoopa the bat carrier. Come on, okay,
go ahead, Amy. The next person who doesn't Amy, we've
been friends for some ye okay. The next person we

(01:06:50):
draw has to carry the purse. Okay, just so it's
no The next name we draw, we'll be carrying the
purse for a week. In the Harry Styles Challenge, Amy,
don't don't open it yet. Oh that's the winner. Three
mid sar. Hey, Mikey, when you go to Michaelan, let

(01:07:23):
me ask you a question. Yeah, so this person is
like ten years old too. It's like Tanning, it's older
than ten. I don't know. Well, so Mike D, you're
gonna carry the person around for a week. Mike D
is our our rioter and he writes a lot of games.
But I would even venture to say you wrote this
segment I did, regretting I thought it'd be funny at

(01:07:44):
the time, and I was like, what are the chances
I'd get picked for this? And here we go. It's
just funny. When his own sword he cut. He made
his own sword he and then he asked it he
gets cut by it. Yes, okay, Mike, here you go.
Here's your purse. Alright, what's your question? Can he buy
his way out? I don't think so. Okay. I think
he just lives with it. He's gotta carried every day

(01:08:05):
for a week. We're gonna get it to him. Now
here you go, buddy, we better not see you with
anything but that purse. Shoulder. Yeah, and when you walk,
it's got to be on your shoulder. Right. Oh my gosh.
That look. That's cute, Mike. It is good. Yeah. Are
you getting that one of the black one? Yeah? Matches
your style. No. I think you got to wear the
tan because it sticks out more. Dan t it sleep.

(01:08:31):
I can't. He's pulling it off a little bit challenge. Okay, Yeah,
he's pulling it off in the studios. We're all laughing
at him. Uh, congratulations, Mike d nice bit, buddy. It's
the best Bits of the week with Morgan. Number two
Now coming in at number one is the legend. Alan

(01:08:53):
Jackson was on our show this week. He's about to
drop a new album for the first time in a
few years, and let me just tell y'all, Alan Jackson
is one of my all time favorites. After this interview,
I think I had Eddie Biddy on repeat for like,
I don't know the whole week, and now I still do.
So listen to this interview, y'all, because Alan Jackson not
only talks about like a lot of his big hits,

(01:09:15):
but he also talks about the one song that his
wife thought was stupid and it ended up being a
number one. Plus he didn't think Chattahoochie was going to
be the hit that it was. And there's so much
in here. It's such a good interview and it's Alan Jackson.
So even if you listen to it this week, I'm
telling you listen to it again and then go watch
the interview on our YouTube page, Bobby Boneshow because it's

(01:09:37):
that good. So here we go, Alan Jackson. We love you,
number one, mister Jackson. I call you that, you know,
just out of respect. I don't know for an interview,
should I call you Alan, like, how do you want
me to refer to you publicly, because I would call
you mister Jackson if I saw you in person. No,
I like just my first name, fast whatever you feel
comf with. I don't really care, all right, mister Alan Jackson.

(01:09:59):
Don't call me a well that's it. Wasn't that your name?
Early on? Though? Didn't people call you out? Weren't you
using that as your name? Just people that didn't like
me call me that. Nobody ever called me out. They
called me a j you know that kind of thing.
Back in like eighty six or so, when you were
on You Can Be a Star on TENN, which, by

(01:10:20):
the way, my grandma and I would watch ten N
all the time. That's where he watched. That's where I
really fell in love with the opery was TENN liked?
Did anyone come off of that show You can be
a Star other than yourself? Remember anybody else in that show? Well,
the truth is I wasn't a contestant on that show.
You know. I worked at TNN in the mail room,
and so the people that worked there with me knew

(01:10:43):
I was aspiring to be a singer and songwriter. And
one day I was just standing around backstage when that
show was taping, they said, hey, we need somebody else
to sing going into commercial, because that they pull people
out of the audience to sing, just a guest audience
member just to sing going into the commercial. And they
asked if I wanted to sing until I jumped up there.
So you jump from working for the network backstage to

(01:11:07):
just hop it on stage. Do you remember that and thinking,
holy crowd, this is a big performance here or was
it just another day because you were playing at night already. Anyway, No,
that was a huge I mean that was the first
time I'd ever done anything from uncle camera, I would imagine.
And I had mold brown cowboy back there, you know
that the first cowboy OWER had I'd ever bought and honed,
and I stuck it on my head and went out

(01:11:28):
there and sang a George Jones song. If you go
out in public now and you're not wearing your cowboy hat,
will people know that it you? I get recognized quite
a bit with just a ball cap or something on it.
It's you know, you more diehard fans that know me well.
But I think as I've gotten older, I don't look
quite as the same as some of those early videos,

(01:11:50):
So but yeah, I don't cowboy hat. Definitely you stand
out a little more on with Alan Jackson right now, which,
by the way, full album Where Have You Gone? Available
May fourteenth. But we got a couple of songs out now,
let's let's talk about some of them. Let's why don't
we talk first about Where have You Gone? You wrote
the song by yourself, right, yeah, I guess now nowadays

(01:12:15):
most writing is happening in rooms of two and three,
sometimes four. How common was it back ten, fifteen, twenty
years ago to actually write a song by yourself versus
you know, like it is now. I don't think he
was much different back to the end of If you're
a songwriter in Nashville or alreaist hanging around town and
you're writing with other writers, I would typically write with

(01:12:39):
somebody else or maybe three, but occasionally I'd write something
by myself. I think I just kind of grew into
it because once my career took off, I was gone
all the time, you know, and I was on the road,
so I was pretty much had to write by myself
unless somebody wanted to come with me. And and that's
how I just kind of developed. I guess, how do

(01:12:59):
you know when you write by yourself if it's actually good,
because any time I write jokes by myself or anytime
I'm writing dopey songs like I kind of need that
other person to tell me that I'm not that funny.
Like when you're writing, how do you know if you're like, yep,
I did it all. I know it's good. Well, I
don't know if I know that either. I think you
definitely when you write something, if your own and you're

(01:13:22):
singing that, you get real close to it. It's hard
to have a perspective of somebody that's never heard it before.
But you know, my wife's a pretty good board to
bounce it off of. And and uh, you know, I
think I just feel like I know when when uh
gut instinct tells me, usually if it's a pretty good song.
And I'm not always right, but I mean I've written

(01:13:43):
a lot of things that I realized weren't top shelf,
and everybody does you don't really know me, Like Denise
one time I wrote this song that that she uh
told me was stupid that went on to be in
the number one, So you never know, and what song

(01:14:05):
was that? If we can ask gosh, I wish you
hadn't asked me that. Now. It's not I'm in love
with you, baby, it's well, I can't remember. If it
comes to you, let us know. Did you ever have
a song that you wrote? I mean, you're in the
Songwriter Hall of Fame, so you know you're writing song
after song, great songs. But did you ever have a

(01:14:26):
song and you thought, I don't think that song is
gonna do much, but then it ended up being a
big smash and you were surprised by it. Yes, Chattahoochie.
When you finished Chattahoochie, you finished writing in that room
that day, did you go, all right, this is never
gonna be heard by anybody other than us who wrote
the song? Well, Jim and Briden. I wrote that, and

(01:14:46):
I just thought that it was, you know, a title
of the name of the river in Georgia that I
grew up on around and and nobody, unless say you
were from that area, we're even gonna know what in
the world I was singing about. And it was I
guess the song was really more than that. It was
it was a growing up kind of coming of age
song in a small town. And I realized later that

(01:15:08):
everybody had a Chattahoochie or something like that, so they
related to it regardless of the title. So I was
wrong on that one. I mean, I still play that
song about once every two weeks. I will play Chattahoochie
just because I feel like playing Chattahoochie. And here we are,
this many years later. Do you ever hear it on
the radio today? And you're like, dang, I cannot believe
that song is still sounding good. Well, I don't. I

(01:15:31):
hear my songs every now and then. Yeah, they all
surprised me that they're still out there, But yeah, I get.
I mean I've sung that thing a million times, you know,
on stage, and people still jump up on their feet
when they love that thing. So a couple of songs
I want to talk about in the new project, You'll
Always Be My Baby and I do now. They were
both written for your daughter's weddings. That true, That's absolutely right.

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My oldest daughter, Mattie was the first to get married,
three or four years ago now, and they of the song.
She wanted me to write a song for the father
daughter dance. You know that they do it the reception,
and so I wrote that and then I told all
three of my girls. I said look, I wrote this
song for the dance, and I'm not going to write

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one for every every wedding. So all three y'all got
to use this so far off it, I've used you twice.
Did you ever early in your career play a wedding
to make some extra cash? Very rarely, but I did
do a couple that were friends of my wife. I
think even after I came to Nashville. My still player,

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that's been one about thirty years. He was in that
little band and we went down to Atlanta and played
this little backyard reception for this wedding. And he's still
every now and then'll bring that up and laugh about it.
Us playing that wind. I was, I saying my own wedding. Wait,
say that again. I need to hear you say that again.
You did what? But Denise and I got married, you know,

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I was singing then, just kind of you know, weekend
warrior thing, Georgie. And so when we got married, we
set our vows and for you do the ring thing.
I sang this wedding song that Pat Terry, was a
Christian writer around Atlanta area, wrote it and it's real
pretty song. And I stood there and sang it to

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her and looked at the church in front of everybody.
That's hard, Yeah, I was. I was gonna say how
hard it was that to sing at your own wedding.
I mean, if I feel like i'd probably be a
bit emotional while I was doing it. Yeah, I think
I was just more nervous and scared than I was emotional.
But yeah, I got through it pretty good. I thought,

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Alan Jackson's on with us right now. Hey, what role
did you have? And I asked this from someone who
was in musicals myself back in the day. In Oklahoma,
if I'm correct, you were in the production of Oklahoma,
Who are You? Oklahoma? No characters by name, but U So,
I don't know. Did you sing that, Oh what a

(01:18:02):
beautiful morning? Was that you at all? Yeah? I know
the songs. Yeah, I would probably had sung that. I
actually was in a play in Taschoo that had him.
It was a musical and I was one of the
think guys in there, and uh, I sang the old
John Denver song country Boy in there, the thank God

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I'm a country boy that one. Yeah, thank thank God
I'm countoryable. Yea you sank thank God I'm a country
boy In a high school play I did. That was
the kickoff of my career. I'm looking at your list here,
and I think I know every one of your number
ones by heart, and you know many of the other
ones as well. Of the thirty five number ones, I
mean where I come from, that's the one we're going

(01:18:46):
back in time. That's the one Denise said that was stupid. Okay, See,
I knew we would get there eventually. Yes, you can't
possibly play all your number ones in a set a
single show, right, how do you decide which big what's
the biggest songs you're gonna play? Well? I guess over
the years, I've tried to just bounce it back and

(01:19:09):
forth with the audience and figure out which ones I
feel like that they respond well too, and also which
which songs fit together in a couple of hours. And
I mean it's tough. It's tough. I mean I've had
sixty or seventy singles. You know that there have been
either one or five or top ten hits, And I
mean I couldn't remember them all if you ask me.
And it's it's it makes me feel really bad. Sometimes

(01:19:32):
I'll see a fan out there holding up a side
of a particular song from twenty years ago that I
hadn't sung in a long time, and uh, you know,
I just can't. Most time, I couldn't do it if
But every now and then they'll hold something up and
I can remember enough to sing the chorus or something
for him, and that's that's kind of fun to do,
but it's very It makes me feel bad. I know

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some people come to hear one particular song and you
just don't get to do it for him. So I
try to just pick the biggest ones and the ones
that have affected to most people or that I enjoy
as will. How did you earn money to buy your
very first ever guitar back in the day. I didn't
buy it. My mom and daddy gave it to me
when I was sixteen for a birthday. Was that because?

(01:20:15):
Was that because they knew you wanted to play guitar?
Had you expressed how I would love to be able
to afford a guitar and they went and got you one? Well, yeah,
I guess so. I'd been singing, you know, at church
some and that kind of thing, and I was dating
this girl who had a younger sister played a twelve
string guitar. And and we started singing together, just doing
some kind of folky stuff and out in really country

(01:20:39):
stuff much but church kind of stuff month mainly. And
I started playing just doing that. And then I met
a boy that was a friend of one of my
older sisters, and he played electric guitar and sang real
country stuff, I mean Gene Watson and Haggard and all
that stuff. And he's the one that really turned me
onto it and got me singing. He sang a little

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good of harmony and we formed a little duo and
it grew into a band later. And that's what led
me to Nashville. Really, when you moved to Nashville, was
it to be a songwriter or to be a performer singer.
I had never written a song in my life until
when I was singing with that band, and everybody kept
telling me you ought to go to Nashville, you know.
So I didn't know much about I didn't know anything

(01:21:24):
about the music business or recording or anything. And this
one old guy in Noon and a young man that
had a band or rock band he played in Atlanta,
sum He had a little four track studio in his
basement or something. He's the only guy whover knew the recording,
and so I asked you you know about it? He said, yea,
if you go to Nashville, you know, you can't go
up there singing everybody else's songs. You need your original
materials to show them who you are. So I started

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writing songs, and when I came to Nashville, I had
a paper sack full of songs, and a lot of
those ended up on the first two or three records.
And when you started writing songs, because like I said,
you didn't have a huge history of writing songs before
you got to Nashville, was did it come to you
pretty easy or did you have to take a long
time and and kind of labor to learn how to

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actually write a good catchy song. Well, I think some
of it. You got some kind of natural abuility to
hear melodies and make it rhyme. But uh, you know,
it's a craft, I thought, you know, the more I
wrote and wrote with experience writers, I learned. But I
mean the first month or two I moved to Nashville,
you know, I never lived anywhere, and my wife was

(01:22:28):
working a job to pay our bills something. She was
out of town most of the time. I was up
here by myself, lonely, and it was sad. The first
month or so I was there, I wrote a song
for my mama for the Mother's Day that was coming
up right after I had moved here, and and it
was called Home. It's a song about my mom and
daddy in the house they grew up in, and this
true story, a bunch of facts scribbled down. And that

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was one of the first songs I wrote when I
came to town, and it went on to be a hit,
you know, years later, And so you just, you know,
you never know you're writing something like that that comes
out of you that's personal. Sometimes it writes itself more,
you know. You know, of the songs that you have
written that ended up again being big smashes that have
gone generationally, which one of them kind of fell out

(01:23:12):
of you the fastest where you just kind of sat
down an hour and a half You're like, well, we
got a song here, and then it turned into a
big hit. Gosh, I don't I've had a lot of
them come to me that way, you know. I would
think the one that that was the most inspirational in
a almost spiritual way, and was where were you when

(01:23:32):
I just got up in the middle of the night
and there was that song, you know, and wrote the
chorse down and and that whole thing just came out
of nowhere. And then the next morning I started scribbling
all those little verse things down about different visions I'd

(01:23:53):
seen during all the term woil on television and here
and hearing people's stories. Yeah, that one was almost god sent,
you know. Alan Jackson's on Where Have You Gone is
his first album in six years. It'll be available in
May fourteenth. You've got twenty one performances. We've talked about
a bunch of the songs so far, but no record

(01:24:15):
for six years. Are you a guy that can separate
and just put music in life in separate places and
just live your life and not worry so much about
music for a while. Oh, definitely. So. Yeah. I've always
when I come off the road, I'm off the road,
and I've always enjoyed just life with my family and
doing things that you I've always enjoyed doing even before

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had any money to do it, you know, and it's
it's wonderful. I think that's one thing that's helped me
stay more focused and grounded and be able to write
songs that still connect with people as I've never really
worked hard to be in the spotlight. I had two
final questions for you, mister Jack Allen Allen, my friend Alan.

(01:24:59):
That's why to say, my friend Allen, I have two
final questions for you. Um, the first song on your
set list if you were to go out tonight you
hadn't played in a while, what's the first song you
play when the crowds out there were going? All Allen,
I used to kick off of God Country because I
just it's just a great opening song and a good
track for that, and I've been doing that for years

(01:25:21):
and it leads into the show real well. Who the
crowd seems to they like that. It's just like it's
it's the statement, you know, to kick off the song show.
What are you close with? Uh? Typically we get down
to Chattahoochee. I like a running little set of five

(01:25:42):
o'clock and Chattahoochie, and then I come do some Mercury Blues.
Sometimes a team come on Mercury Blues. That's my jam.
That's my jam, Listen. All I think about it is
home improvement in that car, turning around and tend to
tool man Taylor and al Borland and you're up there.
I'm gonna buy me a mercury and cruise it up now. No,
that's it for me. That's my childhood. Oh I love it. Okay,

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here's the real final question. Okay, your wife's maiden name
was Jackson. Did she even have to change her name
illegally after you got married? I don't guess. So it's
the same Jackson, right, it's just Jackson's Jackson. Yeah, far
as I know, we're probably related somewhere down the tree,
so far ahead. You know, all our children turn out
and almal So okay, there we have it. Upcoming album

(01:26:27):
Where Have You Gone? Out May fourteenth. Let me encourage
you guys. Check out Where have You Gone? Check Out?
You'll always be my baby. Check out Things that matter
way down on my whiskey. Mister Jackson Allen, thank you
very much, just a massive fan. Appreciate your time. I
would say good luck with your career, but I think
you already won. So you're the winner and we're lucky
to have you around. Well, thanks for talking to me.

(01:26:48):
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