The interview we’ve been waiting for. Cody Johnson stops by to talk about the early events of his career, his recent emergency neck surgery, his musical roots, and he performed two of his big hits. Eddie calls out members of the show for something he noticed that he thinks is ridiculous. Some listeners won the lottery BIG TIME after listening to the show talk about the Mega Millions!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good Transmitting America. We are back. Hope you had an
awesome weekend. Morten Studio. Morning Today on the show, somebody
wins over forty thousand dollars. We're just gonna give it away.
So that comes up a little later. But I do
want to start with this because speaking of money, and
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the big lottery was this weekend, you know, the billion dollars.
Morgan says. A listener dmmed her about the lottery, right, yes,
so what they say? Okay, So this couple when they
were in Maine, they won a million dollars in the
lottery by listening to our show. Oh my gosh. Yeah, okay,
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so let let me read this to you. So Cheryl
and Brian Vosson of Colorado, they went out to Maine
for NASCAR and then they ended up going over to
New Hampshire where they purchased their ticket because they were
listening to a country music station out of Nashville. See
this is a new story. Yes, so someone sent you
a link to a new story. Yes, because she lives
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in this town, she got the She's from New Hampshire,
so she gets the daily email from New Hampshire Lottery.
Start over. Thanks, I need to listen to it like
a new story. I was like Morgan's talking to an
awfully broadcasting voice. Okay, go ahead, Okay. So meet Cheryl
and Brian Vosson of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was the
love of NASCAR that brought them from Colorado to Maine
and then over to New Hampshire for the race. While
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on their way back to Maine, they were listening to
a country music station out of Nashville, Tennessee, and the
radio talk show host Bobby Bones was talking all about
the big mega millions Jackpot. Cheryl asked Brian to get
a few tickets at their liquor store on the traffic
circle off I ninety five, and that's how the story goes,
claiming they're one million winning. Wow, how does this make
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you feel, luncherbock, Hey, my life? Like, how do we inspire?
And they don't even give us anything, They don't owe
us anything because it wasn't our money. They use their
own money. Wow. So have you heard from the people
at all? No? I mean we could reach out to him,
obviously they listened to the show, but it was somebody
from New Handshire that they just happened to get the
lottery email every day and they're like this popped up
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and it's because of you guys that they want that's awesome.
We have to talk to them, scoopa. Can you track
them down? Yeah, that is an amazing story. And they
gave us a shout out in the news story, which yeah,
pretty cool, Lunchbox. We want somebody a million bucks. That
is so cool. That does mean no good, Like it's
not about you. This is not a new story. It
is we want someone a million dollars and they have
not reached out to give us a reward or like,
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hey didn't make them go. We inspired them. It's said
in the news story. I was listening to the Biby
Bone show. Who's the one that talks about the lottery.
Let him inspire me. I don't give him in my
paycheck inspirations free facts. You did not go buy a
lottery ticket because David Letterman told you. Okay, well, Lunchbox,
I'm sorry that this news dampers your morning. I think
it's pretty cool and I'd love to talk to them
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if we can get them. That is crazy, Lunchbox. It
should be a story of hope, like this too could
happen to you. It's it's scratch offs for me. I
feel like that's where our winning is. And scratch offs, well,
we don't keep we don't do that. I don't play those.
We keep buying those. All right, there you go, Morgan,
thank you. Yeah. I'd love to start the show off
with with a positive story in a big shout out
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to Cheryl and Brian Boston of Colorado Springs, Colorado in
the stories from Lottery dot NH dot gov. That's what
I'm talking about. Let's give away some money today too.
We'll do that. Somebody's going over forty thousand dollars on
the show this morning buying two truths in a lie.
We also have a whole other week. We're gonna do
it this bit. So if you guys gonna be a
part of it, just go to Bobby Bones dot com
and sign up. It's right there. It's time to open
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up the mailbag. Gets something we call ye Hello, Bobby Bones.
I'm a boyfriend and I been together for a little
more than six years. His family keeps asking when we're
going to get engaged. Recently had a friends up and
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tell me he was going to propose me this year.
A while back, I was joking, and I showed him
a ring that I thought it was pretty so recently
I went back online to look at it, and the
more research I did, the more I found out the
ring isn't really how it looks in real life. Now
fast forward to now, as he was trying to show
me a picture, I noticed he had the ring saved
to his phone that picture. My question is, how do
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I tell him the ring isn't that pretty? Or do
I even say something. I don't know if he actually
got that ring or if it's a reference picture signed
the not so pretty ring. Girl. Well, this is what
I would do quickly as I would say, hey, I
don't like that ring anymore. We talked about you can
find a way to bring it up. I don't know
you find it. But you don't want him buy that
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ring if you hate it, especially if he hasn't already
bought it, Like you just planned percentages at this point,
maybe he hasn't bought the ring yet. Fifty fifty he's
bought it, he's got it on his phone fifty So
fifty fifty that you can save him and you from
having to live a life of having a ring your
finger that you hate every day, because eventually it's gonna
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come out, maybe ten years on the road, and he's
gonna be embarrassed and hate it. But you're gonna have
to wear it every day for that ten years until
it comes out. I would say something now, So he
may not have bought it, or the other part of
that is, if he has bought it, and here cuts
into that fifty, he may can just take it back
and switch it. Yeah, and you can go with him
and get something you really like. And that's probably the
case unless he bought it from his friend Clint behind ihop.
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So I would say something. It's just too big of
a thing not to say something, especially because you said
something already to put him on that track. And if
you don't feel comfortable going, hey, remember that ring I
showed you. I don't like it anymore. You got to
find a way to bring it up. Like so and
so got engaged. Make up a friend. My friend Lucy
at work got engaged and he got her a ring
like I was showing you, and I saw it. It It
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actually isn't that good. I don't like that ring anymore.
You can do that, you can make up something. Just
the methods to him, But he needs to know. You
shouldn't have to wear a ring you hate. Don't make
him buy a ring that he may not have bought
yet because you him a long time ago. You liked it,
you don't anymore. So you got it. You gotta do it.
You gotta go chase it down. Nope, don't like it anymore.
The end. I mean, listen, the best way just go ahead,
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remember that ring. I told you I don't like it anymore. Yeah,
that's it. That's the easiest way. But if you want
to do something I would do, I'd be like, yeah,
my friend losing getting gig lucy. Hey, No, I agree.
It's okay to say something. You just have to find
the courage to do it and know that you know
you don't know what his response is going to be.
And I would say how he handles this could be
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very telling. Well, if he handles it poorly and he
gets his feelings hurt, that's only gonna be temporary. Though
that ring is gonna be forever. So I mean, he
may have his feelings hurt for a second and be like, oh,
but that ring will He'll be happy after his feelings
are hurt that you told him, Yes, take it from
somebod who gets his feelings hurt. I'm always happy when
my wife's like, yeah, that joke's not that funny, would
you tail? And she doesn't say it like that because
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I'll ask her. I'll be like, hey, what do you
think about this joke? And should go m I don't
think it's as funny as it could be. And I'm like,
what I could believe you would say that in my
mind because I know I just asked her to critique it.
And then she'll go, what if you move this word
here and say it like this? And I'm like, you
don't even know what it's like to do comedy. And
then I'm like writing it down on my phone and
then I do it on stage and it's so much
funnier how she did it. I'm so happy we went
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through that process having my feelings hurt because I asked
for it. Then she told me and it's better. So
there you go, so go do it. Go tell them
thank you. They're not so pretty. Ring girl. That's the
mail bag. Close it up. We've got your That was
about the cloth. I do think it's unfair. Well you're
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about to say, Eddie, what do you mean? Well, because
we dress like in pajamas our sweats most of the time,
regardless of whos go ahead and say your thing. Well,
I just think that whenever we have artists like Cody
Johnson come in and like good looking dudes, the girls
all of a sudden get dressed up, the dresses come out,
the nice blouses come out, we never see those Wait wait,
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wait are they not cal blouses? Okay, we understand your point.
By the way, Cody Johnson will be in a little
bit love Cody Johnson. You'll know him from this song
right here. He's gonna perform. But Eddie says, when good
looking dudes come, the ladies show out a little bit.
And I'm thinking, like, what do you think you have
a chance with these guys? Like, well, like why get
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all dressed up? Why are you looking to impress these dudes?
Is my question. Let's morrigan. Yes, obviously Edie's talking about you.
He can talk about me all he wants, because my
face and my hair are done every day, and that's
one thing that matters because of camera. That's why I
said basses and I like to make sure that if
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anyone comes in studio that I am more dressed up.
It doesn't matter what artists is love it. Amen, me too, Yeah,
me too. Actually, go ahead, that's just the case. So
I want to make sure I'm always a presentable person,
and so yes, on the days that I don't have
to do that, I would like to wear my more
comfy clothes because it's also cold in here, so I
like to be comfortable. It sounds like the story is
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that you guys, do you a lunchbox? Just stay slobs
all the time. Also, when people come over to your house,
do you not clean up a little more? Yeah, company's
coming a little bit, a little bit when you're answering
the phones and you're not gonna interact with them. No
need to wear dress interacts with every artist. But also
if people aren't going to the kitchen, why I clean
the kitchen? Why not let the dishes? No, you clean
the kitchen just in case. No, not down with that.
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I appreciate when people dress up and look a little
more professional when guests come in. It's company coming over
to the house basically, So I don't and you guys
look like slobs every day. And you know what, we're
not trying to impress any I'm not trying to hook
up with anything. I'm not trying to nobody's trying to
hook over with an artist trying to be best so rude. Yeah, Abby,
what do you want to say about this? Because they're
also shining a light on you here. Yes, they're freaking
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up because I have a dress on. But it's summer
and the like all their people are in here. Yes,
they're like fifteen people here, and I feel like I
don't dress up that much like Morgan does. And so
hold on, what were you saying with that? No, I
was just saying, so I feel like I need to
when there are artists in here, not any particular artists,
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but when there are guests and visitors, that's when I do.
And I felt like wearing a dress today. Remember the
time Lunchbox had one of the executive show up and
he was in like his underwear. Yes, yes, And then
she was like why did was he just wearing his underwear? Yeah?
And then so he's like, oh, sorry, I didn't know
I need to get dress. Yes, yes, when people here,
you have to dress up. Okay, I'll just remember that.
I'm gonna make sure every artists they're dressed up, then,
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every artist, not just not the cops. Though, no, no,
no, no no, they say they do it for every artist,
so I'm yes. I would also like to say that
you guys may think we're more dressing up for the men,
but honestly, we dress up more for the girls because
we like the respect of them. Of we dress uh
both as fashionably as they would, So we actually dress
better when the women come in because we want their
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compliments more than we want the men. Yeah, they seem
to think that doesn't happen. That would debunk your theory.
My theory, Come on, say your theory is what's put
it out there. Your theory is that they get dressed
up for these artists because they're trying to like, oh
my god, man is so crazy married that maybe maybe
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get a number. Okay, but like Cody Johnson is married
Mary forever exactly? They know that? Did they know that
before he came in? It's a google away. Okay, I
think you guys are crazy. I also thank you guys
when you dressed like you are today. Not professional. Yeah,
we're not. I'm not trying to hook up with Cody.
I'm number Cody Johnson coming in a little bit. I
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would like to say thank you guys for looking professional today.
They don't have to you every day because some days
there are no We're just in the studio doing it ourselves,
you know, but there are people coming in. You put
your best foot forward. I appreciate companies coming over. You
clean the house. I appreciate that. All right, well, you two,
it's time for the good news. Last year, Mary Cormier
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got a call about a dog with a broken leg
on the side of the road. The dog, Ranger, was
hit by a car roaming around, and so she went.
She picked up Ranger, and she found out that he'd
been homeless for seven years, which is crazy the dog
survived for that long. She took him in, she got
him the surgery that he needed. With the helpless of donations,
she had rescued several dogs and so she has a
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like a way for people to help her help these dogs.
So she got it, put the dog up. She said, hey,
does anyone want this dog? This is what he's been through.
This woman named Judy said I will adopt Ranger. So
Rangers now live with Judy for about two weeks. She's
been a companion and a protector so far. However, Ranger
recently alerted Judy when her granddaughter was having a seizure.
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He scratched on the granddaughter's door, whimpering very loudly, and
so Judy's like, what's going on? Scratch scratch, And so
she went in and her granddaughter had a seizure, which
is crazy that a dog could recognize and scratched through
that could hear something was going on. And then Judy
was like, let me see. Sometimes my dogs won't shut up,
and I'm just like, shut up. I don't go. I
don't even go see. Who knows how many lives I
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could have saved if I would have just went and saw.
But I'm like, yeah, you guys are good. But that's awesome.
So shout out to Mary Krmy for saving the dog
and making sure Ranger got the surgery, Judy for adopting Ranger,
and then Ranger for saving her granddaughter, which is a
pretty remarkable story. That is what it's all about. That
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was tell me something good on the Bobby Bones Show. Now.
Cody Johnson, Oh, Cody, after you had played our iHeart
Country Festival, always searching for you, I don't searching for anybody,
and I was like, I gotta go find Cody because
I never met you. Before, and I was like, where's Cody.
I was tearing it up back there, and they were like,
he had a family thing, and I was like, all right,
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I respect that and I'll see him some other time.
I got out of there. Yeah, but man, you just
do such a great live show. I mean, yes, sang
and I already really liked your songs. I remember sharing
your songs here on this show a few years, few
years back. But you were so good live that I
left going okay, good, you know, I was right. But
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then like Scuba Steve, our producer who didn't really grow
up on country music, he's in love with you and
he's got like the biggest guy crush ever. So yeah,
I throw him under the bus on the air. Well,
he's already done that to himself. We leave and he's
just playing all Cody Johnson all the time. But so first,
just your your live shows are so great. I imagine
that that is so important to you as a performer,
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and you know, coming up the way you've come up,
it's it's the only ladies you had to stand on
when you came from where I came from, um, you know,
growing up playing in Texas, and you I came to Nashville,
and I tried the whole thing, and it was very much, uh, well,
you got to take your hat off, and we're not
singing about country cowboys stuff. I mean, at the time,
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it was all very very platformed as far as for
will drive trucks and cut off shorts, and it was
very like it was a thing, and if you didn't
fit into that mold, you didn't you didn't get the spotlight,
which I was fine with. So when you go back
home with that and you're just kind of appreciate the
skin you're in kind of thing, Uh, your live show
is all you have, and those fans that you create
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on the independent level, they don't really care about what
radio station you're played on or what let record label
you're with. And when you can build that, that's what
got us to the point where we were able to
merge with Warner Nashville, and I was able to make
a partnership and get a deal that where I still
got to maintain my independent spirit. And now we're reaching
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fans that only care if you're played on the radio
or you have a label deal, so they're to merge
those two kinds of fans together. Your live show has
to be on point every day, every night. You have
to pretend it's the last show you're ever going to play,
that this is the show that's gonna make or break
you with these fans. And so when you see me
on stage, it's it's not rehearsed, it's not fake, it's
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it's authentic. You know, often poke fun at artists who
will wear cowboy hats but not be a real cowboy.
You know, that's just like kind of a It's like
carrot top and a prop. And so however, I often say,
like a Randy Howser was in he was a real
cowboy growing up. And John Party is a friend of mine.
He was a real cowboy. He can go out now,
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wrote and he could do all that with you. You're
a real cowboy. So for someone to be like, you know,
we don't do the cowboy, but you're like, I'm a
real freaking cowboy. What do you mean the cowboy stuff?
Like this is real life stuff. I wasn't very nice
for my manager. I wish I wish half yall could
have been in the room. It was we're I'm not
even gonna mention the label, but they said, uh, well
we when we love your stuff, We love you, but
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I mean, would you be willing to take the hat off?
And I was like, and I literally said, oh, you
thought I bought this to come see you? And he
kind of and my managers are pretty large guy, he
just kind of shrunk down his chair. And I shouldn't
have said that, I still said it. Do you you know?
I have like a couple of nagging injuries and it's stupid.
It's from like high school football or like a I mean,
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I'm to say this in front of you because your
real life cowboy. I did a dance competition once and
I hurt myself from when you were riding bull Do
you have any injuries that are still linger where it's like, oh,
my back of my leg? It's funny you say that.
I actually just had neck surgery in December. It was
I had been in pain since twenty seventeen and it
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just kept getting worse, kept getting worse, and there was
numbness and burning, and my whole right arm was just
felt like it was falling off. And so we went
into an MRI and they put me an emergency surgery.
They pulled out my C six and my C seven,
so they did an emergency surgery. You went in for
an MRI because of pain for a long time. I
could have been hurting. So you're like, well, I gotta
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get this done. I guess I'll go now. You're just
you know, you put it off. It sounds like yeah,
and then they go, we gotta go now, he said,
he said, we need to be in surgery within the
next hour. He said, because so this particular surgeon was
retiring and he's like, man, you gotta get this done, like,
you gotta get this done. And I said, well, maybe
I'll wait, and he said, there's a chance you can
lose the functionality of your right arm completely. So there
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was bones, spurs that were shaved off, of shaved off
of the vertebrae, completely ruptured disc, and they found thirteen
bone fragments on the nerve, which means at some point
I fractured my neck. And it was just I mean,
he's like, when you would know when you did this.
I'm like, no, I do a lot of stupid stuff,
So I really, I really don't know. I can't tell
you one particular time. That's crazy that they go, we
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gotta go now after you had just kind of let it.
I mean, I get it too. You're hurt. You're like,
I can't go to the doctor anytime, but they're like, no,
we gotta go right now. And then when they're digging
that in your spinal cord too, that's that's real deal stuff.
It was a five and a half hour long surgery.
You know, do you go? Are you nervous going to listen?
I had a colonoscopy and I was nervous. I was like,
I may die. But you're going in and they're dating
on like real parts of your body, are you like,
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oh man, I may not wake up. I was extremely nervous,
you know, but whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. And
I was in so much pain at that time. I
didn't care. I'm like, I'm not a pain pill guy
at all. Like I don't even take a tie at all.
And I was like, give me drugs, help me not
to hurt right now, and so I was. I was thankful.
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They're like, well, we're gonna have to cut here and
cut there. I don't care, just get rid of it.
Just I'd had enough. Do you think it's from falling,
like being tossed off of bulls or just the general
wear and tear of all of it. I mean, because
you're you're constantly getting tossed around and on my neck
and on my head um more than a few times, bulls,
horses and stuff like that. But I mean, yeah, I've
not been very nice to my body. I don't want
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to brag, but I've done quite the amount of mutton busting.
I remember, Brad Cody, I was seven year old. Actually
just want a mutton busting? Yeah, I was like seven
year old. I was like fifteen, fifteen, sixteen or so.
Do you watch Rodeo now or are you mostly like
some of my friends that played ball, They're like, you know,
I've seen it. I'm good, I don't need to watch
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it right now, because it was it was pretty traumatic
for me. No, I so for a long time. I
didn't a long time. And if anybody's I don't know
if you have or you haven't, but my documentary Dear
Rodeo kind of tells that story. If I was bitter
for a long time because I wasn't good enough to
make it and so I didn't watch it, and I
was pretty immature about the whole thing, and uh, you know,
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I'm in a different place in my life. Now, I'm
thirty five, I'm gonna at the point when my music
careers doing wonderful. I've got a beautiful wife that's my
best friend, and beautiful kids and a cattle ranch back
in Texas, and that's what we do every day, is
we rope and train horses and work cows, and so
it's like, it's funny. I thought that bull riding was
like that was I was really mad that I didn't
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get to achieve that goal when in all reality, like
I'm so much more involved in rodeo and so much
more involved in the cowboy way of life now than
I ever would have been trying to ride bulls. But yeah,
we follow it. Now. We've got a lot of friends
that are in professional rodeo, and so it's fun to
watch them compete and succeed. And you know, I'm pretty
handy with a rope, but I don't have time those guys.
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They have to chase that career like I chased this career.
It is every day, every night, day in, day out, grind,
and so it's there's a lot. Then they're not getting paid.
They're not like professional athletes that get paid whenever they
sit on the dal like you can hurt yourself in
baseball and sit on the bench and still get paid
non rodeo. If you're hurt, you're out. And so that's
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why you see guys keep and girls keep going even
when they're hurt. It's pretty it's pretty intense, man, Cody Johnson,
it's here we're talking about the rodeo. I mean, would
you play dear rodeo for us? Now? Absolutely cool? Hey,
we introduced this to your your your player here. This
is my fiddle player, Jody Bartola. He's my band leader.
He's been with me for twelve years. So twelve Jody,
twelve years? What what's what's Cody? You like? It's a
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boss fantastic. I would have been good answerer. I'm sorry.
I've been a cut job. That's been funny. What were you?
I wouldn't I wouldn't have been here for twelve years
if he wasn't. Well, let's hear a little Dear rodeo
from Cody Johnson, new Rodeo. I've been honey, if I
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tried to two you, I don't think about you after
you roll the mouse and wound nights. Had we been
through Lord knows we had a few you. I'd like
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to see it. I took the reins and away, no regrets,
no left on says, just turn the page. Ah, but
you know better, baby tween almost hat on zeiling, broken bombs,
the dream of a buckle I'll never put on. I'm jaded.
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Why I hated Somehow it hies out way the lows
and I do it on again even No, we both know.
I still have to let you go. Dude, do you
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on Cody Johnson and Studio Awesome? We were watching your
Cody play again at our our country festival. You came
out and you played Human and you did that that
song live, and you talked about how maybe it was
going to come out or did you just come out.
I think it's such a powerful song and i'd like
to play that now if you're cool with that on
the radio. Is that cool? Cody? Good with that? Oh?
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You want to play Human on the right? I thought
you meant right now? Yeah, spin it man, I'm gonna
spin it. Yeah, I'm gonna play it right now. You're
call with that? All right? So why let me ask
you before I played here? Why would you decide to
cut this song? What do I mean to you it's real. Um,
following up till you can't be in our first number one. UM.
It had a great message, and I think I've lived
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human and I think it's something we all have in
common or where you stand on any issue. We're all
doing the same thing. We're all doing through the same life,
trying to figure it out. And uh, I think that
that's kind of my mark is I'm gonna put out
stuff that I can stand behind and say I live
that it's authentic. So on the Bobby Bones Show, now,
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Cody Johnson, Cody's here where this is gonna be. I'm
either gonna hit this note, I'm gonna drop it down
a key. What are you talking to me? I'll hit
it for you this point, I'll nail. Hey, So you
gotta chane take it, take it while you got a
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cheese You gotta dream chasing. What are you talking about?
That sounds perfect? Nailed. I've never ever heard it better
in my life. Maybe should do your shows in the morning.
Everything about that, you gotta cheese take it? We practice
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it so you don't want to go as high because
it's early. Yeah, I'm telling you, but then it sounds weird.
I mean weird is not a way I would describe
either one of those there, But yeah, it's up there, man,
let's just can you play it drop down? Absolutely all right,
(25:22):
but don't get into it. Yeah, hold on, weld on
unless you want to practice it again. No, we're good
all right for me. I just that is one of
those things that I knew when I recorded it. You'd
have to sing it every night once you recorded it,
or do it right or it'll hurt you. Yeah, and
I'm not gonna you know what I mean. Yeah, don't
don't blow it out. Don't blow it out, all right.
Cody Johnson's here, uh, Cody watching you perform live, and
(25:45):
I remember watching not just listening to your vocal, but
watching you and it looked to me like definitely country music,
but definitely a little gospel as well, because I grew
up in a Baptist church, and right or wrong, I
feel like I could see a little bit of that
in your performance. Was church when you were growing up
(26:07):
part of your like musical in the early years. Absolutely,
It's where I learned the basis of most everything I know. Um,
you know, I learned drums because we needed a drummer,
and so I learned how to play the people in
you know, like the church up in and so they
were like, we don't have a drummer. And so my
dad knew drums, and dad just taught me rhythm. And
(26:29):
my dad played the piano, and so he was like
Floyd Kramer good and uh, I wanted to learn guitar,
and he taught me gc Indeed, it's the only things
he knew on guitar really, And so I would come
home from school and I would tape, like while I
was at school, I would take my cassette tapes and
I would record a channel I would record like the
country channel or the R and B channel or the
(26:51):
rock channel or whatever. And when I get home, I
would play the song and i'd pause it and I'd
try to play it and i'd play it back and
I'd do it until my fingers bled. But I didn't
get to play guitar in the church. It was just drums,
and they didn't let me playing drums very much. I
played like I wanted to play like Zeppelin in church,
like you've never heard all Flyaway Old Glory like I
played it. And so that didn't last very long. So
(27:11):
you're playing drums are you singing it all in church? Oh? Yeah,
that was so that was My parents grew up singing
like like quartet gospel types, like Gaither vocal band type stuff,
the Kingsman, and so I had to learn harmony first.
It wouldn't let me sing lead. It was you can
learn these harmony parts since, But it was it kind
of gave me what I call an ear education because
(27:33):
I don't know how to read music. I don't know
how to read a guitar tab like I can't even
do the number system in the studio with the studio guys.
But it's all from what I hear. And that's really
a blessing and a curse because I can hear things
that most people can't. But then it's hard. I can't
explain it. So, if your dad was such a good musician,
did he have aspirations of making it big back in
the day. No, I'm like, I grew up in a
(27:56):
really small town and a small town people, and I
think I might have been like the only guy that
just said I'm going somewhere and I didn't know how,
I didn't know what. But yeah, I'm kind of an anomaly.
Wog me through If You're at a piano with your
mom or your dad and they're teaching you how to
(28:16):
sing harmonies. Are they playing and you're singing the harmony
of the notes on the piano or are you their voice?
Like what are you chasing? It was their vote, their voices.
So this is the lead part. This is the low,
this is the high. You know, this is the what
is it the third up or the fifth? I can't
even tell you, but when you hear those different things,
and then we would learn to switch. When mom sang lead,
(28:37):
you know, dad would be down here and I would
be up here. When Dad sang lead, I would be
up here, Mom would be down here. And eventually I
got to sing lead. And then I was like, I
will start playing my guitar. And I went to school
and I played my guitar and girls liked it, and
I was like, Okay, there's something to this. And then
I graduated and started playing bars and I got paid
one time, and I was like, Okay, there's something to this.
(28:59):
And that's kind of where it started snowballing. So you're
playing music, but you're also rodeoing two careers where there's
not a lot of long term promise. Well, and you know,
I've always said this, like if I would have grown
up in West Virginia, I'd have probably been a coal miner,
because when you grow up in a little small town,
(29:19):
you'd grow up and you do what dad did. And
so that's what I did. My dad worked for thirty
three years at the prison system in Texas. So whenever
I turned eighteen, that's what I did, and I went
to work for the prison system. So that was your stability,
that was your paycheck work. That's about as far as
I looked. You know, it's a steady paycheck, it's got insurance,
and that was kind of my ceiling. That's where I
kept myself. And I just never was happy, you know.
(29:40):
And it took certain people in my life saying you're
gonna you're gonna be old one day and you're gonna
regret not having taken this chance to go play music,
you know, And like my warden that I was working
for at the prison system said, there's always going to
be people in prison, and there will always be room
for a job. Here, go try because if you don't
go try, and you don't take this chance, then you're
(30:02):
going to regret it. And that's what we did. We
went full force. My wife worked two jobs and I
went out on the road, and we didn't make money
for like the first five years. I was paying, you know,
like Jody here, I was giving him the hundred dollars
and whoever else the hundred dollars and my one hundred
dollars went to the van, and so I was literally
bringing in absolutely no money. It was we were just
(30:23):
riding on her shoulders, and so I wish we had
TikTok back then. You know, it's interesting because I think
sometimes it gets overlooked by certain people, but you focused
on it here and highlighted it. Your wife is such
a critical part to your success and you being right
here right now. Absolutely, She's probably the only reason I've
(30:44):
got my head on straight, you know, and people like me,
you gotta think about it. Any kind of man that
would work at voluntarily work at a prison, ride bulls
and go out on the road with absolutely no guarantees
of money. I mean, I'm a little bit of it.
I mean I am what I am. Are you an
adownaling guy, I'm absolutely an adrenaling guy. You like to
go fast and get be up, swinging high and all
that stuff. Yeah, you know, that's the thing is she
(31:04):
kind of makes me realize, hey, stupid stay down here
on earth with the rest of us, and and uh
it's a great reminder. But that's what you know. She
did so much for me. It's like I told her,
you know, one of these days, you're not gonna work,
you're not gonna want for anything, and I'm gonna make it.
And that's kind of the drive behind what I've done.
Cody Johnson is here. If you don't mind, I know
(31:26):
you got you still have your instruments on. Would you
play till you can't for us? Absolutely all right? Here
we go live on the show this morning. It's Cody Johnson.
(31:47):
You can tell you, old man, you do some large
mouth fishing another time, just got too much on you
play to pet and castle Line. You can always put
her ain't check in his hand to your kings. You
(32:13):
can keep putting off forever with that girl whose hearts you,
swearing that you last Sunday further down. Always put the
dialing on her hand to your kings. If you got
(32:38):
a chance, take it, take it. Ain't got a chance.
If you got a dream, chase it just a dream.
Won't chase you back if you're gonna somebody holding his
own and as strong and as clothes as you can
until you can't. Yeah, I get a chance, take it.
(33:03):
Take it. Why you got a chance. If you got
a dream and chase it, choose a dream. Won't chase
you back if you're somebody told them his song and
as strong and as close as you can't until you
can't get your can't ship. Take it. Come on, Cody Johnson.
(33:42):
Here the most pure rush yell I've ever heard right on,
I mean perfect, It's a controlled screen. It shook me
inside my guts. Okay, I got a couple of things
I want to say here. First of all, you guys
check out Human the double album, and we played the
song earlier, and I was looking at stuff to promote
and I still will. But everything's about basically Cody. It's
a great problem to have. I mean, I'm like, all right,
(34:03):
what can I tell people? So this is when I say,
Cody Johnson and friends. So it's go to Cody Johnson
music dot com. Because it's you know, different nights, Easton Corbyn,
Drew Parker, Randy Hows or I could go through. But
there are some shows where you can get a couple
of tickets, but holy maybe everything's selling out. It's a
great problem. We'll be in bigger venues next year. Okay,
I'd like to hear that. I will ask you about
(34:23):
this because I saw you talking about you were just
kind of teasing the three albums, three projects you're working on,
right it just yeah, So we just got through recording
a live album, which is something that we've always wanted
to do. You know, you mentioned at the very beginning
of the show how important the live show is. We've
never been able to capture the energy. And right now
we're in a spot where we're playing big arenas and
(34:46):
big amphitheaters and we're getting ready to make that next
move into much larger venues and that's a whole different animal.
But before we made that, well I say, before we
graduate to that next step, we really wanted to capture
what we are as a band. You know, Jody's not
only that he's been with me for twelve years. Bass
player has been with us eleven drummer has been with
us for ten. You know what I mean. We've we're tight.
(35:08):
We're a very tight knit group. We all wear the
brand proudly. One of our tattoos together, you know, for
the rock and cjab, and we wanted to capture that
before we start adding anything to the show, before we
add another player, before we So we recorded five shows
and we wound up with what we feel like as
the best representation of what we do live. No tracks,
(35:28):
bare bones, no gimmicks. It's just a band on stage.
And I'm one of those people like I complain on
my plates full, but then as soon as something gets
off my plate, I filled the plate back up again,
like I'm a glutton for punishment or I like pain
or something. So we're I'm in the process of I'm
fixing to go record a new studio album I'd like
to have out next year. And yeah, so we've got
(35:49):
a lot. We've got quite a bit going on right now.
It sounds like it happened something else too. You're not
telling us, and that's okay. I respect that. I respect that.
Cody Johnson, dude, just just great. I'm just honored that
you would play. I mean, you're a big stary I
you don't have to come play on this show, but
I'm very appreciative that you guys would come in and
play this Both of you guys, So thank you very much,
and we'll be standing outside defense that your concerts go on.
Let us in because I think, all right there he
(36:14):
is Cody Johnson, everybody. I'm a big truck driver advocate,
you know, having to get a cdo myself. It's tough.
And then people don't care, and they're they're swerving around
and you're driving this humongous truck and they're putting their
own lives at risk and then yours and your family,
and it's a hard job. And so big truck driver guy,
(36:34):
and so I root for him. I try to share
the safety issues they deal with. And sometimes we'll get
a good call from a trucker as well. This is
trucker Joe. Hey, Bobby, I have a TSA for all
your listeners, and since you took your test, you can
verify it. It takes a football field for a truck
to stop, so cutting bright out in front of them
(36:57):
is not a good idea and just supposed to be
three car lengths ahead of them before you move over
into their main. If a cop catch you're doing it,
sooner you can get a chicken. If the truck hits you,
it's automatically your fault, and trucks you have cameras in
them to show that. Thank you. You're welcome. Trucker Joe.
Appreciate that call. And if you hit a teen wheeler,
(37:20):
regardless of whose fault, your fault, my fault, default, you
lose because I think it's big, they're huge. Yeah, you
just lose. It's like walking across at a pedestrian walk.
If the light says go or not, you still got
to look both ways because if a car hits you,
regardless of right or wrong, you lose. Yeah, so you
gotta watch out. I appreciate that call, trucker Joe. You're
(37:43):
Amy's pile of stories. A big decision for parents is
what age to get their kids a cell phone. We
talk about it on the show often and data just
came out showing the most parents are doing it at
age ten. Thoughts on that, Amy, I mean, my son
is going to be twelve soon, and I know I'm
not getting him a phone. You've said, though, your son,
(38:05):
since he came from an orphanage in another country, maybe
it is a little behind. He is, yes, so so.
And then my daughter same things, a little behind. She
got a phone at fourteen. So your daughter rocking Man.
She's so smart. Yeah, do you think she's catching up?
She's she's catching up. She's very I feel like she's
street smart. It's some of the basic education stuff that
(38:26):
she lacked growing up in the orphanage and not having
some of the fundamentals that set her back, and then
English being her second language and only speaking it for
the last four years. Yeah, I forget that sometimes. But okay,
ten though too early in your mind, Eddie. It's not
a hard decision. I think once they start driving, you
can get him a cell phone. Six, but you fall
it used to be eighteen. It was eighteen. I came
(38:48):
down and my fourteen year old has one. But it's
kind of all my kids' cell phones. He doesn't take
it to school, he doesn't take it places, but we'll
take it. No, if we leave him at home, you know,
that's not called a cell phone, it's called landline. Wait, so, like,
what if he's out and about and he needs to
get a hold of you, well, ye, special special occasions
like that, yes, okay, Well ten is what the average American. Yeah,
(39:09):
And I would say, if you're doing ten, definitely take
advantage of the parental controls and then those parents are
also saying there's boundaries like the kids can't have the
cell phone up in their room and no cell phones
at the table, which I did see an article too,
saying that more and more families are trying to get
intentional about meals around the table because that's the best
way to connect to each other. Yeah that's good. I
like that. My wife enforces that with me. Yeah. Yeah, well,
(39:32):
and I don't. I don't. I now don't even think
about the phone really at dinner. I put it away immediately.
But you know, when we decide to have kids, I'll
probably put a cell phone in the crib because if
they start using it early, it won't be a big thing.
They'll just know and they'll know all the rules, right,
all right, What else, Bobby, When you went off to college,
did you know how to clean up after yourself? Like, yeah,
I raised myself up like a cook. I could uh yeah,
(39:54):
save a wounded human. I could do all of it. Yeah. Well,
in a survey, the majority of college kids all said yeah, like,
we're not. My room is clean, I feel my best.
But more than half of them said that they went
off to college completely unprepared and didn't know how to
clean up after themselves, which is crazy to me. How
to clean up after yourself ridiculous, Like you know, you
(40:14):
just act like you don't know, so when you don't
do it, like I didn't know, you know how to
clean up after yourself. Everyone does. Okay, Well, I'm just
sharing with you the survey, and I too was shocked
by it. And just a heads up to parents because
we've got it. Maybe a week or two before kids
have head off to college, and maybe you just teach
them the laundry to teach them how to do. Okay, laundry,
that's a thing. Okay, I don't really consider that clean
(40:35):
up after yourself. But okay, now I didn't know how
to really do laundry except for put it all in
there and do it on cold. That's a safe way,
like say in the dark, say in the towel. That
was a safe way. Yeah. So when I got to college,
I go to laundry Matt, I put it all on cold,
puts quarters in the end. Now I still I really
don't know how to do it now, all right, Else,
(40:57):
Tyler Howard said that he only had twelve dollars in
his bank account in two thousand and eleven before Cruise
came out. I remember being over in Barry Hill recording
our first album and we were literally working on Cruise
hood and on at the time that someone was going
to do what it did, And I was coming back
from lunch and I was sitting in the parking lot
literally checking my bank account and I had twelve dollars
left him in my bank account, which was you know,
(41:19):
and at the time, you know, I didn't I didn't
have a resource to go to other than what where
the next car I'm gonna watch, you know. And so
for me, I knew the next day, I can't go
to the studio because I gotta go work because I'm
down to pretty much one mill left. Is that for
my podcast? Yeah, I pulled that's got to tell the
same stories everybody. Yeah. I was really confused and I
was getting upset. I was like, oh, no, that's the
(41:39):
story he told me. Well, it came out the other
day on Friday. Yeah. I thought that that part was interesting,
and you can search for it on iHeartRadio or revue
listening to podcasts. I think the most interesting part is
when I asked him, did you guys break up because
your political beliefs. Yeah, oh yeah, there's a good question,
and I liked it. Get an award for that one,
all right? Is that it made me? That's my pile.
That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the
(42:02):
good news. I love when little kids inspire us. This
time it's a seven year old named Tuca. Sorry lives
in Pennsylvania, and he started his own business, Tied by Tuca.
He makes and designs and then sells tight eye shirts,
and he has donated three hundred and seventy five dollars
(42:25):
to Your Safe Haven, which is a local shelter. Then
he created some more shirts and was able to give
four hundred and twenty five dollars to the Special Olympics
of Pennsylvania. And he continues to just make shirts and
cut checks. Yeah it's good. It's a lot of money
to a seven year old. Yeah, a lot of money
for anybody actually had a seven year old who doesn't
have a job, also had a tied eye face for
(42:46):
a little bit. Tidy shirts are awesome. No where everybody
kind of has a tied eye face for a little
bit where they're all like, Tidi is cool. I think
the seventies were just said general tied ie face for everybody,
but had a couple of little phases where I thought
tied eye was where it was you Amy, Oh yeah,
I'm still I still wear it, latch box. I had
a tidye short for kickball. That's the only reason I
was given to you. So he didn't have a face yet, don't.
(43:07):
I would like to. I think they look cool, but
I don't know. I can I pull it off? Yeah,
you can pull off anything that you want to pull off.
That's right. If you like it and you want to
pull it off, go ahead and pull it off. Also,
I feel like if you wear tied eye, people don't
expect anything from you, Like, oh, that dude's just chill,
like he has no responsibility, Like he's like a They
think you're a hippie. Yes, stoner yep, because of a
tight eye shirt. Yes, huh So I think I need
(43:30):
to get some of those. You won't expect much of me.
Probably a haircut first, okay, it probably because yeah, yeah,
that'll be what it is. Have you someone trimmed your bank?
Someone trimmed your banks? No? No? All right? Would you
like us too? No? May we bring a style? Is in?
They give me a style, haircut, STYLI. Yeah, we'll see
if that's on the menu of things they do. All right,
(43:50):
that's what it's all about. That was tell me something good.
Good Transmitting America. We are back. Hope you had an
awesome weekend. Morten Studio. Morning Today on the show, somebody
wins over forty thousand dollars. We're just gonna give it away.
So that comes up a little later. But I do
want to start with this because speaking of money, and
(00:23):
the big lottery was this weekend, you know, the billion dollars.
Morgan says. A listener dmmed her about the lottery, right, yes,
so what they say? Okay, So this couple when they
were in Maine, they won a million dollars in the
lottery by listening to our show. Oh my gosh. Yeah, okay,
(00:44):
so let let me read this to you. So Cheryl
and Brian Vosson of Colorado, they went out to Maine
for NASCAR and then they ended up going over to
New Hampshire where they purchased their ticket because they were
listening to a country music station out of Nashville. See
this is a new story. Yes, so someone sent you
a link to a new story. Yes, because she lives
(01:05):
in this town, she got the She's from New Hampshire,
so she gets the daily email from New Hampshire Lottery.
Start over. Thanks, I need to listen to it like
a new story. I was like Morgan's talking to an
awfully broadcasting voice. Okay, go ahead, Okay. So meet Cheryl
and Brian Vosson of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was the
love of NASCAR that brought them from Colorado to Maine
and then over to New Hampshire for the race. While
(01:27):
on their way back to Maine, they were listening to
a country music station out of Nashville, Tennessee, and the
radio talk show host Bobby Bones was talking all about
the big mega millions Jackpot. Cheryl asked Brian to get
a few tickets at their liquor store on the traffic
circle off I ninety five, and that's how the story goes,
claiming they're one million winning. Wow, how does this make
(01:52):
you feel, luncherbock, Hey, my life? Like, how do we inspire?
And they don't even give us anything, They don't owe
us anything because it wasn't our money. They use their
own money. Wow. So have you heard from the people
at all? No? I mean we could reach out to him,
obviously they listened to the show, but it was somebody
from New Handshire that they just happened to get the
lottery email every day and they're like this popped up
(02:12):
and it's because of you guys that they want that's awesome.
We have to talk to them, scoopa. Can you track
them down? Yeah, that is an amazing story. And they
gave us a shout out in the news story, which yeah,
pretty cool, Lunchbox. We want somebody a million bucks. That
is so cool. That does mean no good, Like it's
not about you. This is not a new story. It
is we want someone a million dollars and they have
not reached out to give us a reward or like,
(02:33):
hey didn't make them go. We inspired them. It's said
in the news story. I was listening to the Biby
Bone show. Who's the one that talks about the lottery.
Let him inspire me. I don't give him in my
paycheck inspirations free facts. You did not go buy a
lottery ticket because David Letterman told you. Okay, well, Lunchbox,
I'm sorry that this news dampers your morning. I think
it's pretty cool and I'd love to talk to them
(02:54):
if we can get them. That is crazy, Lunchbox. It
should be a story of hope, like this too could
happen to you. It's it's scratch offs for me. I
feel like that's where our winning is. And scratch offs, well,
we don't keep we don't do that. I don't play those.
We keep buying those. All right, there you go, Morgan,
thank you. Yeah. I'd love to start the show off
with with a positive story in a big shout out
(03:15):
to Cheryl and Brian Boston of Colorado Springs, Colorado in
the stories from Lottery dot NH dot gov. That's what
I'm talking about. Let's give away some money today too.
We'll do that. Somebody's going over forty thousand dollars on
the show this morning buying two truths in a lie.
We also have a whole other week. We're gonna do
it this bit. So if you guys gonna be a
part of it, just go to Bobby Bones dot com
and sign up. It's right there. It's time to open
(03:38):
up the mailbag. Gets something we call ye Hello, Bobby Bones.
I'm a boyfriend and I been together for a little
more than six years. His family keeps asking when we're
going to get engaged. Recently had a friends up and
(04:00):
tell me he was going to propose me this year.
A while back, I was joking, and I showed him
a ring that I thought it was pretty so recently
I went back online to look at it, and the
more research I did, the more I found out the
ring isn't really how it looks in real life. Now
fast forward to now, as he was trying to show
me a picture, I noticed he had the ring saved
to his phone that picture. My question is, how do
(04:20):
I tell him the ring isn't that pretty? Or do
I even say something. I don't know if he actually
got that ring or if it's a reference picture signed
the not so pretty ring. Girl. Well, this is what
I would do quickly as I would say, hey, I
don't like that ring anymore. We talked about you can
find a way to bring it up. I don't know
you find it. But you don't want him buy that
(04:40):
ring if you hate it, especially if he hasn't already
bought it, Like you just planned percentages at this point,
maybe he hasn't bought the ring yet. Fifty fifty he's
bought it, he's got it on his phone fifty So
fifty fifty that you can save him and you from
having to live a life of having a ring your
finger that you hate every day, because eventually it's gonna
(05:01):
come out, maybe ten years on the road, and he's
gonna be embarrassed and hate it. But you're gonna have
to wear it every day for that ten years until
it comes out. I would say something now, So he
may not have bought it, or the other part of
that is, if he has bought it, and here cuts
into that fifty, he may can just take it back
and switch it. Yeah, and you can go with him
and get something you really like. And that's probably the
case unless he bought it from his friend Clint behind ihop.
(05:26):
So I would say something. It's just too big of
a thing not to say something, especially because you said
something already to put him on that track. And if
you don't feel comfortable going, hey, remember that ring I
showed you. I don't like it anymore. You got to
find a way to bring it up. Like so and
so got engaged. Make up a friend. My friend Lucy
at work got engaged and he got her a ring
like I was showing you, and I saw it. It It
(05:47):
actually isn't that good. I don't like that ring anymore.
You can do that, you can make up something. Just
the methods to him, But he needs to know. You
shouldn't have to wear a ring you hate. Don't make
him buy a ring that he may not have bought
yet because you him a long time ago. You liked it,
you don't anymore. So you got it. You gotta do it.
You gotta go chase it down. Nope, don't like it anymore.
The end. I mean, listen, the best way just go ahead,
(06:07):
remember that ring. I told you I don't like it anymore. Yeah,
that's it. That's the easiest way. But if you want
to do something I would do, I'd be like, yeah,
my friend losing getting gig lucy. Hey, No, I agree.
It's okay to say something. You just have to find
the courage to do it and know that you know
you don't know what his response is going to be.
And I would say how he handles this could be
(06:28):
very telling. Well, if he handles it poorly and he
gets his feelings hurt, that's only gonna be temporary. Though
that ring is gonna be forever. So I mean, he
may have his feelings hurt for a second and be like, oh,
but that ring will He'll be happy after his feelings
are hurt that you told him, Yes, take it from
somebod who gets his feelings hurt. I'm always happy when
my wife's like, yeah, that joke's not that funny, would
you tail? And she doesn't say it like that because
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I'll ask her. I'll be like, hey, what do you
think about this joke? And should go m I don't
think it's as funny as it could be. And I'm like,
what I could believe you would say that in my
mind because I know I just asked her to critique it.
And then she'll go, what if you move this word
here and say it like this? And I'm like, you
don't even know what it's like to do comedy. And
then I'm like writing it down on my phone and
then I do it on stage and it's so much
funnier how she did it. I'm so happy we went
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through that process having my feelings hurt because I asked
for it. Then she told me and it's better. So
there you go, so go do it. Go tell them
thank you. They're not so pretty. Ring girl. That's the
mail bag. Close it up. We've got your That was
about the cloth. I do think it's unfair. Well you're
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about to say, Eddie, what do you mean? Well, because
we dress like in pajamas our sweats most of the time,
regardless of whos go ahead and say your thing. Well,
I just think that whenever we have artists like Cody
Johnson come in and like good looking dudes, the girls
all of a sudden get dressed up, the dresses come out,
the nice blouses come out, we never see those Wait wait,
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wait are they not cal blouses? Okay, we understand your point.
By the way, Cody Johnson will be in a little
bit love Cody Johnson. You'll know him from this song
right here. He's gonna perform. But Eddie says, when good
looking dudes come, the ladies show out a little bit.
And I'm thinking, like, what do you think you have
a chance with these guys? Like, well, like why get
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all dressed up? Why are you looking to impress these dudes?
Is my question. Let's morrigan. Yes, obviously Edie's talking about you.
He can talk about me all he wants, because my
face and my hair are done every day, and that's
one thing that matters because of camera. That's why I
said basses and I like to make sure that if
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anyone comes in studio that I am more dressed up.
It doesn't matter what artists is love it. Amen, me too, Yeah,
me too. Actually, go ahead, that's just the case. So
I want to make sure I'm always a presentable person,
and so yes, on the days that I don't have
to do that, I would like to wear my more
comfy clothes because it's also cold in here, so I
like to be comfortable. It sounds like the story is
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that you guys, do you a lunchbox? Just stay slobs
all the time. Also, when people come over to your house,
do you not clean up a little more? Yeah, company's
coming a little bit, a little bit when you're answering
the phones and you're not gonna interact with them. No
need to wear dress interacts with every artist. But also
if people aren't going to the kitchen, why I clean
the kitchen? Why not let the dishes? No, you clean
the kitchen just in case. No, not down with that.
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I appreciate when people dress up and look a little
more professional when guests come in. It's company coming over
to the house basically, So I don't and you guys
look like slobs every day. And you know what, we're
not trying to impress any I'm not trying to hook
up with anything. I'm not trying to nobody's trying to
hook over with an artist trying to be best so rude. Yeah, Abby,
what do you want to say about this? Because they're
also shining a light on you here. Yes, they're freaking
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up because I have a dress on. But it's summer
and the like all their people are in here. Yes,
they're like fifteen people here, and I feel like I
don't dress up that much like Morgan does. And so
hold on, what were you saying with that? No, I
was just saying, so I feel like I need to
when there are artists in here, not any particular artists,
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but when there are guests and visitors, that's when I do.
And I felt like wearing a dress today. Remember the
time Lunchbox had one of the executive show up and
he was in like his underwear. Yes, yes, And then
she was like why did was he just wearing his underwear? Yeah?
And then so he's like, oh, sorry, I didn't know
I need to get dress. Yes, yes, when people here,
you have to dress up. Okay, I'll just remember that.
I'm gonna make sure every artists they're dressed up, then,
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every artist, not just not the cops. Though, no, no,
no, no no, they say they do it for every artist,
so I'm yes. I would also like to say that
you guys may think we're more dressing up for the men,
but honestly, we dress up more for the girls because
we like the respect of them. Of we dress uh
both as fashionably as they would, So we actually dress
better when the women come in because we want their
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compliments more than we want the men. Yeah, they seem
to think that doesn't happen. That would debunk your theory.
My theory, Come on, say your theory is what's put
it out there. Your theory is that they get dressed
up for these artists because they're trying to like, oh
my god, man is so crazy married that maybe maybe
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get a number. Okay, but like Cody Johnson is married
Mary forever exactly? They know that? Did they know that
before he came in? It's a google away. Okay, I
think you guys are crazy. I also thank you guys
when you dressed like you are today. Not professional. Yeah,
we're not. I'm not trying to hook up with Cody.
I'm number Cody Johnson coming in a little bit. I
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would like to say thank you guys for looking professional today.
They don't have to you every day because some days
there are no We're just in the studio doing it ourselves,
you know, but there are people coming in. You put
your best foot forward. I appreciate companies coming over. You
clean the house. I appreciate that. All right, well, you two,
it's time for the good news. Last year, Mary Cormier
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got a call about a dog with a broken leg
on the side of the road. The dog, Ranger, was
hit by a car roaming around, and so she went.
She picked up Ranger, and she found out that he'd
been homeless for seven years, which is crazy the dog
survived for that long. She took him in, she got
him the surgery that he needed. With the helpless of donations,
she had rescued several dogs and so she has a
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like a way for people to help her help these dogs.
So she got it, put the dog up. She said, hey,
does anyone want this dog? This is what he's been through.
This woman named Judy said I will adopt Ranger. So
Rangers now live with Judy for about two weeks. She's
been a companion and a protector so far. However, Ranger
recently alerted Judy when her granddaughter was having a seizure.
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He scratched on the granddaughter's door, whimpering very loudly, and
so Judy's like, what's going on? Scratch scratch, And so
she went in and her granddaughter had a seizure, which
is crazy that a dog could recognize and scratched through
that could hear something was going on. And then Judy
was like, let me see. Sometimes my dogs won't shut up,
and I'm just like, shut up. I don't go. I
don't even go see. Who knows how many lives I
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could have saved if I would have just went and saw.
But I'm like, yeah, you guys are good. But that's awesome.
So shout out to Mary Krmy for saving the dog
and making sure Ranger got the surgery, Judy for adopting Ranger,
and then Ranger for saving her granddaughter, which is a
pretty remarkable story. That is what it's all about. That
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was tell me something good on the Bobby Bones Show. Now.
Cody Johnson, Oh, Cody, after you had played our iHeart
Country Festival, always searching for you, I don't searching for anybody,
and I was like, I gotta go find Cody because
I never met you. Before, and I was like, where's Cody.
I was tearing it up back there, and they were like,
he had a family thing, and I was like, all right,
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I respect that and I'll see him some other time.
I got out of there. Yeah, but man, you just
do such a great live show. I mean, yes, sang
and I already really liked your songs. I remember sharing
your songs here on this show a few years, few
years back. But you were so good live that I
left going okay, good, you know, I was right. But
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then like Scuba Steve, our producer who didn't really grow
up on country music, he's in love with you and
he's got like the biggest guy crush ever. So yeah,
I throw him under the bus on the air. Well,
he's already done that to himself. We leave and he's
just playing all Cody Johnson all the time. But so first,
just your your live shows are so great. I imagine
that that is so important to you as a performer,
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and you know, coming up the way you've come up,
it's it's the only ladies you had to stand on
when you came from where I came from, um, you know,
growing up playing in Texas, and you I came to Nashville,
and I tried the whole thing, and it was very much, uh, well,
you got to take your hat off, and we're not
singing about country cowboys stuff. I mean, at the time,
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it was all very very platformed as far as for
will drive trucks and cut off shorts, and it was
very like it was a thing, and if you didn't
fit into that mold, you didn't you didn't get the spotlight,
which I was fine with. So when you go back
home with that and you're just kind of appreciate the
skin you're in kind of thing, Uh, your live show
is all you have, and those fans that you create
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on the independent level, they don't really care about what
radio station you're played on or what let record label
you're with. And when you can build that, that's what
got us to the point where we were able to
merge with Warner Nashville, and I was able to make
a partnership and get a deal that where I still
got to maintain my independent spirit. And now we're reaching
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fans that only care if you're played on the radio
or you have a label deal, so they're to merge
those two kinds of fans together. Your live show has
to be on point every day, every night. You have
to pretend it's the last show you're ever going to play,
that this is the show that's gonna make or break
you with these fans. And so when you see me
on stage, it's it's not rehearsed, it's not fake, it's
(15:39):
it's authentic. You know, often poke fun at artists who
will wear cowboy hats but not be a real cowboy.
You know, that's just like kind of a It's like
carrot top and a prop. And so however, I often say,
like a Randy Howser was in he was a real
cowboy growing up. And John Party is a friend of mine.
He was a real cowboy. He can go out now,
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wrote and he could do all that with you. You're
a real cowboy. So for someone to be like, you know,
we don't do the cowboy, but you're like, I'm a
real freaking cowboy. What do you mean the cowboy stuff?
Like this is real life stuff. I wasn't very nice
for my manager. I wish I wish half yall could
have been in the room. It was we're I'm not
even gonna mention the label, but they said, uh, well
we when we love your stuff, We love you, but
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I mean, would you be willing to take the hat off?
And I was like, and I literally said, oh, you
thought I bought this to come see you? And he
kind of and my managers are pretty large guy, he
just kind of shrunk down his chair. And I shouldn't
have said that, I still said it. Do you you know?
I have like a couple of nagging injuries and it's stupid.
It's from like high school football or like a I mean,
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I'm to say this in front of you because your
real life cowboy. I did a dance competition once and
I hurt myself from when you were riding bull Do
you have any injuries that are still linger where it's like, oh,
my back of my leg? It's funny you say that.
I actually just had neck surgery in December. It was
I had been in pain since twenty seventeen and it
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just kept getting worse, kept getting worse, and there was
numbness and burning, and my whole right arm was just
felt like it was falling off. And so we went
into an MRI and they put me an emergency surgery.
They pulled out my C six and my C seven,
so they did an emergency surgery. You went in for
an MRI because of pain for a long time. I
could have been hurting. So you're like, well, I gotta
(17:23):
get this done. I guess I'll go now. You're just
you know, you put it off. It sounds like yeah,
and then they go, we gotta go now, he said,
he said, we need to be in surgery within the
next hour. He said, because so this particular surgeon was
retiring and he's like, man, you gotta get this done, like,
you gotta get this done. And I said, well, maybe
I'll wait, and he said, there's a chance you can
lose the functionality of your right arm completely. So there
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was bones, spurs that were shaved off, of shaved off
of the vertebrae, completely ruptured disc, and they found thirteen
bone fragments on the nerve, which means at some point
I fractured my neck. And it was just I mean,
he's like, when you would know when you did this.
I'm like, no, I do a lot of stupid stuff,
So I really, I really don't know. I can't tell
you one particular time. That's crazy that they go, we
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gotta go now after you had just kind of let it.
I mean, I get it too. You're hurt. You're like,
I can't go to the doctor anytime, but they're like, no,
we gotta go right now. And then when they're digging
that in your spinal cord too, that's that's real deal stuff.
It was a five and a half hour long surgery.
You know, do you go? Are you nervous going to listen?
I had a colonoscopy and I was nervous. I was like,
I may die. But you're going in and they're dating
on like real parts of your body, are you like,
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oh man, I may not wake up. I was extremely nervous,
you know, but whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. And
I was in so much pain at that time. I
didn't care. I'm like, I'm not a pain pill guy
at all. Like I don't even take a tie at all.
And I was like, give me drugs, help me not
to hurt right now, and so I was. I was thankful.
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They're like, well, we're gonna have to cut here and
cut there. I don't care, just get rid of it.
Just I'd had enough. Do you think it's from falling,
like being tossed off of bulls or just the general
wear and tear of all of it. I mean, because
you're you're constantly getting tossed around and on my neck
and on my head um more than a few times, bulls,
horses and stuff like that. But I mean, yeah, I've
not been very nice to my body. I don't want
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to brag, but I've done quite the amount of mutton busting.
I remember, Brad Cody, I was seven year old. Actually
just want a mutton busting? Yeah, I was like seven
year old. I was like fifteen, fifteen, sixteen or so.
Do you watch Rodeo now or are you mostly like
some of my friends that played ball, They're like, you know,
I've seen it. I'm good, I don't need to watch
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it right now, because it was it was pretty traumatic
for me. No, I so for a long time. I
didn't a long time. And if anybody's I don't know
if you have or you haven't, but my documentary Dear
Rodeo kind of tells that story. If I was bitter
for a long time because I wasn't good enough to
make it and so I didn't watch it, and I
was pretty immature about the whole thing, and uh, you know,
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I'm in a different place in my life. Now, I'm
thirty five, I'm gonna at the point when my music
careers doing wonderful. I've got a beautiful wife that's my
best friend, and beautiful kids and a cattle ranch back
in Texas, and that's what we do every day, is
we rope and train horses and work cows, and so
it's like, it's funny. I thought that bull riding was
like that was I was really mad that I didn't
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get to achieve that goal when in all reality, like
I'm so much more involved in rodeo and so much
more involved in the cowboy way of life now than
I ever would have been trying to ride bulls. But yeah,
we follow it. Now. We've got a lot of friends
that are in professional rodeo, and so it's fun to
watch them compete and succeed. And you know, I'm pretty
handy with a rope, but I don't have time those guys.
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They have to chase that career like I chased this career.
It is every day, every night, day in, day out, grind,
and so it's there's a lot. Then they're not getting paid.
They're not like professional athletes that get paid whenever they
sit on the dal like you can hurt yourself in
baseball and sit on the bench and still get paid
non rodeo. If you're hurt, you're out. And so that's
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why you see guys keep and girls keep going even
when they're hurt. It's pretty it's pretty intense, man, Cody Johnson,
it's here we're talking about the rodeo. I mean, would
you play dear rodeo for us? Now? Absolutely cool? Hey,
we introduced this to your your your player here. This
is my fiddle player, Jody Bartola. He's my band leader.
He's been with me for twelve years. So twelve Jody,
twelve years? What what's what's Cody? You like? It's a
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boss fantastic. I would have been good answerer. I'm sorry.
I've been a cut job. That's been funny. What were you?
I wouldn't I wouldn't have been here for twelve years
if he wasn't. Well, let's hear a little Dear rodeo
from Cody Johnson, new Rodeo. I've been honey, if I
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tried to two you, I don't think about you after
you roll the mouse and wound nights. Had we been
through Lord knows we had a few you. I'd like
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to see it. I took the reins and away, no regrets,
no left on says, just turn the page. Ah, but
you know better, baby tween almost hat on zeiling, broken bombs,
the dream of a buckle I'll never put on. I'm jaded.
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Why I hated Somehow it hies out way the lows
and I do it on again even No, we both know.
I still have to let you go. Dude, do you
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on Cody Johnson and Studio Awesome? We were watching your
Cody play again at our our country festival. You came
out and you played Human and you did that that
song live, and you talked about how maybe it was
going to come out or did you just come out.
I think it's such a powerful song and i'd like
to play that now if you're cool with that on
the radio. Is that cool? Cody? Good with that? Oh?
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You want to play Human on the right? I thought
you meant right now? Yeah, spin it man, I'm gonna
spin it. Yeah, I'm gonna play it right now. You're
call with that? All right? So why let me ask
you before I played here? Why would you decide to
cut this song? What do I mean to you it's real. Um,
following up till you can't be in our first number one. UM.
It had a great message, and I think I've lived
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human and I think it's something we all have in
common or where you stand on any issue. We're all
doing the same thing. We're all doing through the same life,
trying to figure it out. And uh, I think that
that's kind of my mark is I'm gonna put out
stuff that I can stand behind and say I live
that it's authentic. So on the Bobby Bones Show, now,
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Cody Johnson, Cody's here where this is gonna be. I'm
either gonna hit this note, I'm gonna drop it down
a key. What are you talking to me? I'll hit
it for you this point, I'll nail. Hey, So you
gotta chane take it, take it while you got a
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cheese You gotta dream chasing. What are you talking about?
That sounds perfect? Nailed. I've never ever heard it better
in my life. Maybe should do your shows in the morning.
Everything about that, you gotta cheese take it? We practice
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it so you don't want to go as high because
it's early. Yeah, I'm telling you, but then it sounds weird.
I mean weird is not a way I would describe
either one of those there, But yeah, it's up there, man,
let's just can you play it drop down? Absolutely all right,
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but don't get into it. Yeah, hold on, weld on
unless you want to practice it again. No, we're good
all right for me. I just that is one of
those things that I knew when I recorded it. You'd
have to sing it every night once you recorded it,
or do it right or it'll hurt you. Yeah, and
I'm not gonna you know what I mean. Yeah, don't
don't blow it out. Don't blow it out, all right.
Cody Johnson's here, uh, Cody watching you perform live, and
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I remember watching not just listening to your vocal, but
watching you and it looked to me like definitely country music,
but definitely a little gospel as well, because I grew
up in a Baptist church, and right or wrong, I
feel like I could see a little bit of that
in your performance. Was church when you were growing up
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part of your like musical in the early years. Absolutely,
It's where I learned the basis of most everything I know. Um,
you know, I learned drums because we needed a drummer,
and so I learned how to play the people in
you know, like the church up in and so they
were like, we don't have a drummer. And so my
dad knew drums, and dad just taught me rhythm. And
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my dad played the piano, and so he was like
Floyd Kramer good and uh, I wanted to learn guitar,
and he taught me gc Indeed, it's the only things
he knew on guitar really, And so I would come
home from school and I would tape, like while I
was at school, I would take my cassette tapes and
I would record a channel I would record like the
country channel or the R and B channel or the
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rock channel or whatever. And when I get home, I
would play the song and i'd pause it and I'd
try to play it and i'd play it back and
I'd do it until my fingers bled. But I didn't
get to play guitar in the church. It was just drums,
and they didn't let me playing drums very much. I
played like I wanted to play like Zeppelin in church,
like you've never heard all Flyaway Old Glory like I
played it. And so that didn't last very long. So
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you're playing drums are you singing it all in church? Oh? Yeah,
that was so that was My parents grew up singing
like like quartet gospel types, like Gaither vocal band type stuff,
the Kingsman, and so I had to learn harmony first.
It wouldn't let me sing lead. It was you can
learn these harmony parts since, But it was it kind
of gave me what I call an ear education because
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I don't know how to read music. I don't know
how to read a guitar tab like I can't even
do the number system in the studio with the studio guys.
But it's all from what I hear. And that's really
a blessing and a curse because I can hear things
that most people can't. But then it's hard. I can't
explain it. So, if your dad was such a good musician,
did he have aspirations of making it big back in
the day. No, I'm like, I grew up in a
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really small town and a small town people, and I
think I might have been like the only guy that
just said I'm going somewhere and I didn't know how,
I didn't know what. But yeah, I'm kind of an anomaly.
Wog me through If You're at a piano with your
mom or your dad and they're teaching you how to
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sing harmonies. Are they playing and you're singing the harmony
of the notes on the piano or are you their voice?
Like what are you chasing? It was their vote, their voices.
So this is the lead part. This is the low,
this is the high. You know, this is the what
is it the third up or the fifth? I can't
even tell you, but when you hear those different things,
and then we would learn to switch. When mom sang lead,
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you know, dad would be down here and I would
be up here. When Dad sang lead, I would be
up here, Mom would be down here. And eventually I
got to sing lead. And then I was like, I
will start playing my guitar. And I went to school
and I played my guitar and girls liked it, and
I was like, Okay, there's something to this. And then
I graduated and started playing bars and I got paid
one time, and I was like, Okay, there's something to this.
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And that's kind of where it started snowballing. So you're
playing music, but you're also rodeoing two careers where there's
not a lot of long term promise. Well, and you know,
I've always said this, like if I would have grown
up in West Virginia, I'd have probably been a coal miner,
because when you grow up in a little small town,
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you'd grow up and you do what dad did. And
so that's what I did. My dad worked for thirty
three years at the prison system in Texas. So whenever
I turned eighteen, that's what I did, and I went
to work for the prison system. So that was your stability,
that was your paycheck work. That's about as far as
I looked. You know, it's a steady paycheck, it's got insurance,
and that was kind of my ceiling. That's where I
kept myself. And I just never was happy, you know.
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And it took certain people in my life saying you're
gonna you're gonna be old one day and you're gonna
regret not having taken this chance to go play music,
you know, And like my warden that I was working
for at the prison system said, there's always going to
be people in prison, and there will always be room
for a job. Here, go try because if you don't
go try, and you don't take this chance, then you're
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going to regret it. And that's what we did. We
went full force. My wife worked two jobs and I
went out on the road, and we didn't make money
for like the first five years. I was paying, you know,
like Jody here, I was giving him the hundred dollars
and whoever else the hundred dollars and my one hundred
dollars went to the van, and so I was literally
bringing in absolutely no money. It was we were just
(30:23):
riding on her shoulders, and so I wish we had
TikTok back then. You know, it's interesting because I think
sometimes it gets overlooked by certain people, but you focused
on it here and highlighted it. Your wife is such
a critical part to your success and you being right
here right now. Absolutely, She's probably the only reason I've
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got my head on straight, you know, and people like me,
you gotta think about it. Any kind of man that
would work at voluntarily work at a prison, ride bulls
and go out on the road with absolutely no guarantees
of money. I mean, I'm a little bit of it.
I mean I am what I am. Are you an
adownaling guy, I'm absolutely an adrenaling guy. You like to
go fast and get be up, swinging high and all
that stuff. Yeah, you know, that's the thing is she
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kind of makes me realize, hey, stupid stay down here
on earth with the rest of us, and and uh
it's a great reminder. But that's what you know. She
did so much for me. It's like I told her,
you know, one of these days, you're not gonna work,
you're not gonna want for anything, and I'm gonna make it.
And that's kind of the drive behind what I've done.
Cody Johnson is here. If you don't mind, I know
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you got you still have your instruments on. Would you
play till you can't for us? Absolutely all right? Here
we go live on the show this morning. It's Cody Johnson.
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You can tell you, old man, you do some large
mouth fishing another time, just got too much on you
play to pet and castle Line. You can always put
her ain't check in his hand to your kings. You
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can keep putting off forever with that girl whose hearts you,
swearing that you last Sunday further down. Always put the
dialing on her hand to your kings. If you got
(32:38):
a chance, take it, take it. Ain't got a chance.
If you got a dream, chase it just a dream.
Won't chase you back if you're gonna somebody holding his
own and as strong and as clothes as you can
until you can't. Yeah, I get a chance, take it.
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Take it. Why you got a chance. If you got
a dream and chase it, choose a dream. Won't chase
you back if you're somebody told them his song and
as strong and as close as you can't until you
can't get your can't ship. Take it. Come on, Cody Johnson.
(33:42):
Here the most pure rush yell I've ever heard right on,
I mean perfect, It's a controlled screen. It shook me
inside my guts. Okay, I got a couple of things
I want to say here. First of all, you guys
check out Human the double album, and we played the
song earlier, and I was looking at stuff to promote
and I still will. But everything's about basically Cody. It's
a great problem to have. I mean, I'm like, all right,
(34:03):
what can I tell people? So this is when I say,
Cody Johnson and friends. So it's go to Cody Johnson
music dot com. Because it's you know, different nights, Easton Corbyn,
Drew Parker, Randy Hows or I could go through. But
there are some shows where you can get a couple
of tickets, but holy maybe everything's selling out. It's a
great problem. We'll be in bigger venues next year. Okay,
I'd like to hear that. I will ask you about
(34:23):
this because I saw you talking about you were just
kind of teasing the three albums, three projects you're working on,
right it just yeah, So we just got through recording
a live album, which is something that we've always wanted
to do. You know, you mentioned at the very beginning
of the show how important the live show is. We've
never been able to capture the energy. And right now
we're in a spot where we're playing big arenas and
(34:46):
big amphitheaters and we're getting ready to make that next
move into much larger venues and that's a whole different animal.
But before we made that, well I say, before we
graduate to that next step, we really wanted to capture
what we are as a band. You know, Jody's not
only that he's been with me for twelve years. Bass
player has been with us eleven drummer has been with
us for ten. You know what I mean. We've we're tight.
(35:08):
We're a very tight knit group. We all wear the
brand proudly. One of our tattoos together, you know, for
the rock and cjab, and we wanted to capture that
before we start adding anything to the show, before we
add another player, before we So we recorded five shows
and we wound up with what we feel like as
the best representation of what we do live. No tracks,
(35:28):
bare bones, no gimmicks. It's just a band on stage.
And I'm one of those people like I complain on
my plates full, but then as soon as something gets
off my plate, I filled the plate back up again,
like I'm a glutton for punishment or I like pain
or something. So we're I'm in the process of I'm
fixing to go record a new studio album I'd like
to have out next year. And yeah, so we've got
(35:49):
a lot. We've got quite a bit going on right now.
It sounds like it happened something else too. You're not
telling us, and that's okay. I respect that. I respect that.
Cody Johnson, dude, just just great. I'm just honored that
you would play. I mean, you're a big stary I
you don't have to come play on this show, but
I'm very appreciative that you guys would come in and
play this Both of you guys, So thank you very much,
and we'll be standing outside defense that your concerts go on.
Let us in because I think, all right there he
(36:14):
is Cody Johnson, everybody. I'm a big truck driver advocate,
you know, having to get a cdo myself. It's tough.
And then people don't care, and they're they're swerving around
and you're driving this humongous truck and they're putting their
own lives at risk and then yours and your family,
and it's a hard job. And so big truck driver guy,
(36:34):
and so I root for him. I try to share
the safety issues they deal with. And sometimes we'll get
a good call from a trucker as well. This is
trucker Joe. Hey, Bobby, I have a TSA for all
your listeners, and since you took your test, you can
verify it. It takes a football field for a truck
to stop, so cutting bright out in front of them
(36:57):
is not a good idea and just supposed to be
three car lengths ahead of them before you move over
into their main. If a cop catch you're doing it,
sooner you can get a chicken. If the truck hits you,
it's automatically your fault, and trucks you have cameras in
them to show that. Thank you. You're welcome. Trucker Joe.
Appreciate that call. And if you hit a teen wheeler,
(37:20):
regardless of whose fault, your fault, my fault, default, you
lose because I think it's big, they're huge. Yeah, you
just lose. It's like walking across at a pedestrian walk.
If the light says go or not, you still got
to look both ways because if a car hits you,
regardless of right or wrong, you lose. Yeah, so you
gotta watch out. I appreciate that call, trucker Joe. You're
(37:43):
Amy's pile of stories. A big decision for parents is
what age to get their kids a cell phone. We
talk about it on the show often and data just
came out showing the most parents are doing it at
age ten. Thoughts on that, Amy, I mean, my son
is going to be twelve soon, and I know I'm
not getting him a phone. You've said, though, your son,
(38:05):
since he came from an orphanage in another country, maybe
it is a little behind. He is, yes, so so.
And then my daughter same things, a little behind. She
got a phone at fourteen. So your daughter rocking Man.
She's so smart. Yeah, do you think she's catching up?
She's she's catching up. She's very I feel like she's
street smart. It's some of the basic education stuff that
(38:26):
she lacked growing up in the orphanage and not having
some of the fundamentals that set her back, and then
English being her second language and only speaking it for
the last four years. Yeah, I forget that sometimes. But okay,
ten though too early in your mind, Eddie. It's not
a hard decision. I think once they start driving, you
can get him a cell phone. Six, but you fall
it used to be eighteen. It was eighteen. I came
(38:48):
down and my fourteen year old has one. But it's
kind of all my kids' cell phones. He doesn't take
it to school, he doesn't take it places, but we'll
take it. No, if we leave him at home, you know,
that's not called a cell phone, it's called landline. Wait, so, like,
what if he's out and about and he needs to
get a hold of you, well, ye, special special occasions
like that, yes, okay, Well ten is what the average American. Yeah,
(39:09):
And I would say, if you're doing ten, definitely take
advantage of the parental controls and then those parents are
also saying there's boundaries like the kids can't have the
cell phone up in their room and no cell phones
at the table, which I did see an article too,
saying that more and more families are trying to get
intentional about meals around the table because that's the best
way to connect to each other. Yeah that's good. I
like that. My wife enforces that with me. Yeah. Yeah, well,
(39:32):
and I don't. I don't. I now don't even think
about the phone really at dinner. I put it away immediately.
But you know, when we decide to have kids, I'll
probably put a cell phone in the crib because if
they start using it early, it won't be a big thing.
They'll just know and they'll know all the rules, right,
all right, What else, Bobby, When you went off to college,
did you know how to clean up after yourself? Like, yeah,
I raised myself up like a cook. I could uh yeah,
(39:54):
save a wounded human. I could do all of it. Yeah. Well,
in a survey, the majority of college kids all said yeah, like,
we're not. My room is clean, I feel my best.
But more than half of them said that they went
off to college completely unprepared and didn't know how to
clean up after themselves, which is crazy to me. How
to clean up after yourself ridiculous, Like you know, you
(40:14):
just act like you don't know, so when you don't
do it, like I didn't know, you know how to
clean up after yourself. Everyone does. Okay, Well, I'm just
sharing with you the survey, and I too was shocked
by it. And just a heads up to parents because
we've got it. Maybe a week or two before kids
have head off to college, and maybe you just teach
them the laundry to teach them how to do. Okay, laundry,
that's a thing. Okay, I don't really consider that clean
(40:35):
up after yourself. But okay, now I didn't know how
to really do laundry except for put it all in
there and do it on cold. That's a safe way,
like say in the dark, say in the towel. That
was a safe way. Yeah. So when I got to college,
I go to laundry Matt, I put it all on cold,
puts quarters in the end. Now I still I really
don't know how to do it now, all right, Else,
(40:57):
Tyler Howard said that he only had twelve dollars in
his bank account in two thousand and eleven before Cruise
came out. I remember being over in Barry Hill recording
our first album and we were literally working on Cruise
hood and on at the time that someone was going
to do what it did, And I was coming back
from lunch and I was sitting in the parking lot
literally checking my bank account and I had twelve dollars
left him in my bank account, which was you know,
(41:19):
and at the time, you know, I didn't I didn't
have a resource to go to other than what where
the next car I'm gonna watch, you know. And so
for me, I knew the next day, I can't go
to the studio because I gotta go work because I'm
down to pretty much one mill left. Is that for
my podcast? Yeah, I pulled that's got to tell the
same stories everybody. Yeah. I was really confused and I
was getting upset. I was like, oh, no, that's the
(41:39):
story he told me. Well, it came out the other
day on Friday. Yeah. I thought that that part was interesting,
and you can search for it on iHeartRadio or revue
listening to podcasts. I think the most interesting part is
when I asked him, did you guys break up because
your political beliefs. Yeah, oh yeah, there's a good question,
and I liked it. Get an award for that one,
all right? Is that it made me? That's my pile.
That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the
(42:02):
good news. I love when little kids inspire us. This
time it's a seven year old named Tuca. Sorry lives
in Pennsylvania, and he started his own business, Tied by Tuca.
He makes and designs and then sells tight eye shirts,
and he has donated three hundred and seventy five dollars
(42:25):
to Your Safe Haven, which is a local shelter. Then
he created some more shirts and was able to give
four hundred and twenty five dollars to the Special Olympics
of Pennsylvania. And he continues to just make shirts and
cut checks. Yeah it's good. It's a lot of money
to a seven year old. Yeah, a lot of money
for anybody actually had a seven year old who doesn't
have a job, also had a tied eye face for
(42:46):
a little bit. Tidy shirts are awesome. No where everybody
kind of has a tied eye face for a little
bit where they're all like, Tidi is cool. I think
the seventies were just said general tied ie face for everybody,
but had a couple of little phases where I thought
tied eye was where it was you Amy, Oh yeah,
I'm still I still wear it, latch box. I had
a tidye short for kickball. That's the only reason I
was given to you. So he didn't have a face yet, don't.
(43:07):
I would like to. I think they look cool, but
I don't know. I can I pull it off? Yeah,
you can pull off anything that you want to pull off.
That's right. If you like it and you want to
pull it off, go ahead and pull it off. Also,
I feel like if you wear tied eye, people don't
expect anything from you, Like, oh, that dude's just chill,
like he has no responsibility, Like he's like a They
think you're a hippie. Yes, stoner yep, because of a
tight eye shirt. Yes, huh So I think I need
(43:30):
to get some of those. You won't expect much of me.
Probably a haircut first, okay, it probably because yeah, yeah,
that'll be what it is. Have you someone trimmed your bank?
Someone trimmed your banks? No? No? All right? Would you
like us too? No? May we bring a style? Is in?
They give me a style, haircut, STYLI. Yeah, we'll see
if that's on the menu of things they do. All right,
(43:50):
that's what it's all about. That was tell me something good.
Hosts And Creators
Bobby Bones
Amy Brown
Lunchbox
Eddie Garcia
Morgan Huelsman
Raymundo
Mike D
Abby Anderson
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