MON PT 2: Bobby’s 5th Wedding Anniversary Gifts + Raymundo CRUSHED In Vegas! + Joe Nichols On His Biggest Hits And The Chicks Controversy

Bobby shared how they ended up changing plans for their wedding anniversary and what gifts they exchanged to celebrate.  We also get the latest in the Taylor Farms story. We talked to Raymundo about his victorious Vegas weekend competing in the national Pop-A-Shot controversy. We recap the entire epic competition. Bobby talked about a crazy story where two 38-year-old men claimed they were switched at birth and are now suing the hospital. Joe Nichols stops by to talk about his biggest career hits like Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off, Brokenheartsville, Yeah and Sunny & 75. He shares the coolest compliment he got from Post Malone and the story behind his new song. He also shares how the controversy involving The Chicks benefited his career.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your balls on the ball show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We'll get to Ray Mundoz Papa shot in just a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
This weekend, it was my wife and I was anniversary
and we were supposed to go and watch The Odyssey.
We did not go watch the Odyssey because nobody was
feeling good. We bought tickets like a month ago, and
then Friday midday we were both not feeling great, so
we just said, I we'll skip it. So somewhere there
was a soul out Odyssey and two empty seats right
in the middle that I bought a month and a
half ago.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
You can't get a refund on that.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We didn't decide till very late, so probably with an
hour without Ah, it's not worth it. Why it has
a three hour movie? We thought, why good, be miserable,
we can go watch it another time. So we didn't
really do anything, and we did nothing. We were feeling good.
We tried to gifts we got We oddly both got

(00:51):
each other something like a piece of art. It wasn't
the plan. It wasn't like that was a theme. She
bought me this. She had an artist make this like
abstract razorback stadium like art piece and it's built up
and it's the stadium, but it's very abstract and so
it's super cool. And then I got her again, not

(01:15):
knowing we were doing an art exchange. But I got
her the guy that drew all the Madeline pictures and
did the Madeline books Are Baby's Nursery is a bunch
of Madeline like prints. But he died a long time ago.
But I bought her an.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Actual painting from him.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, so she.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Gave me mine, and I thought, well, how about this coincidence?
I also got you art.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
That's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Yeah, it's not like were doing.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, we we kind of said we weren't doing gifts anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
But what is it like paper? Isn't it like papers
on them?

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Year five?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
If it is, we kind of nailed it. I don't
I don't know what year five is. But yeah, I
don't know what I'm gonna do with my art piece
because it's it's not a painting, it's a sculpture type thing.
It's probably yay, Hi, what do you got wood?

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Wood?

Speaker 6 (02:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Okay? Is was it in a wood frame?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Now?

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh? Strong roots. That's what we did. We did five years.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We did a gift exchange the gifts are cool, but
we did not go and watch Odyssey, which Michael review
it tomorrow on Tuesday, Revieesday.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
But I know you liked it.

Speaker 7 (02:26):
Yeah, I loved it.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Everything I saw said it was like one of his
best movies and the internet loves crapping on things.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Is there a lot of action?

Speaker 7 (02:35):
A lot of action? Every twenty minutes, there's a big
action moment.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Was it packed? Sold out?

Speaker 5 (02:43):
So Mike wasn't in your theater?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Were there two seats in the middle? Did you go
to Imax?

Speaker 8 (02:48):
No?

Speaker 7 (02:49):
I went like a step below Imax. Imax had been
sold out for a year.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
You went to Max?

Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:53):
I went to just Max.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Is it still sold out for weeks to come? Or
was it just a weekend one?

Speaker 7 (02:59):
Sold out that weekend one? They put on more tickets
today that I'm gonna try to go see it in Imax, So.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
You'll go watch it again? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Oh wow?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Are you guys interested at all and seeing this movie?

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
In theater?

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, I am.

Speaker 9 (03:10):
Oh theater, I'd have to, Well, my son would probably
go with me again because he went. My son went,
he like it, loved it him and my wife went.
It's kind of like there she like it.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
She well, she said what she said was.

Speaker 9 (03:24):
If I were younger, I would really like it, but
like I'm older now and I'm kind of like, who's
gonna what's gonna have?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
What's gonna uh? What are we gonna make for dinner tonight?

Speaker 9 (03:32):
Really distracted, so she really wasn't focused on it. But
she's like, if I was twenty years old, like I
would love this film.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
That was her quote. But my son said, it's so
so so good.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, people love when something's hyped up to kick it down,
and the fact that it wasn't kicked down and all
the rotten tomato scores really high.

Speaker 7 (03:50):
The demand was so crazy here they added at three am,
showing three am, at three am and seven am, and
they were also I couldn't get.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
A ticket for that. That's if you're twenty you go
to that. Yeah, what'd you this weekend?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (04:04):
Friday night, my son went to the soccer game here,
the professional team, and I dropped him and a friend
off and then picked them up. And then in between
I just went to a friend's house that was close by.
But I didn't take into account traffic.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
A lot of yeah, because they are horible. Yeah, there,
especially because the roads are small.

Speaker 8 (04:27):
I was like, well, so they were late and then
we got home. I mean we got home so late.
But they got out. I was like, just get out.
There's the stadium, you can see it. Get out and
run because they wanted to be there for a kickoff
and so, but they had not been there and they
were kids, but they were meeting their.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Across country team.

Speaker 8 (04:45):
I guess everybody was going and even the coaches, so
it's not like they were just fitting for themselves. But
I also was like, look for lunch Box. You might
see him because you go to every game, don't you.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
I go to most games.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah, I don't know if you.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
Were there, but I just thought, if you if you
find yourself in trouble, like.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
But there's like ten thousand people, but what if he.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Saw lunchboxs and he was like I need out. I
don't know. They were fine.

Speaker 8 (05:06):
We had phones, but like it was and then when
I was picking them up, I'm on Live three sixty
like trying to map where they are, and I'm like,
I'm here, y'all, just stay still, I'll come to you.
While they ended up walking all the way to me
because I stood still in traffic the entire time.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
What would you do differently?

Speaker 8 (05:23):
Oh, my friends told me about this one address on
Craighead Street that I mean, you have to walk a
little bit from the stadium, but it's a straight shot
and you save yourself from getting into any of the
traffic at all whatsoever. And so that's what I would
do if I do it differently. But I learned after
the fact when I was telling another friend about it,
and they were like, oh, yeah, no, you go to

(05:44):
this address, park there, have them walk, you pick them up,
or if you're ever getting an uber from there, give
them that address you straight shot and then hop in.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, that's a brutal place to get stuck in traffic.

Speaker 8 (05:54):
Yeah, it didn't really, they haven't quite figured out the flow.
And I was like, wow, this is also a huge
money maker for people that live nearby. Like so many
people that live over there are just outside with their
homemade signs and flags and cones, and they're like twenty
dollars parking, and you know, every game, they've got a
whole system down. And I couldn't quite figure out a
couple of spots where I saw I was like, I
don't know how they're going to get what's their system

(06:16):
for like getting people out, who leaves, the order in.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Which these people leave.

Speaker 8 (06:20):
But I trusted that they had it down. It just
looked a little chaots.

Speaker 9 (06:24):
I remember I went one time and I had to
get an uber. I had to walk half a mile
away from the stadum to even get an uber.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's like that in Fabell. Around the football stadium. It's
all small roads. Everybody sells their yards to parking, and
if you don't get out when it's early, you're stuck
for ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Just you just stuck. And so yeah, well that had fine.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Oh they had a blast.

Speaker 8 (06:47):
It was They had so much fun, so it was
all worth it in the end. But I was pretty
I mean I was just on phone with speak on
speaker phone with them, like watching the map, and its apparent.
It's just all these people and you've got these kids,
and you're hoping they make it to you.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah who, yeah, I know.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
I just had never done it before, so I was
a little anxious. And then his friend got in the
car and I think he sensed my anxiety and he
was like, I can't remember, but he I can't remember
exactly what he said, but he's.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Like fourteen, and he was giving me.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
A pep talk, and I was like, no, kid, I'm good.
So then I was picturing him going home to his
parents like saying that I have anxiety, and like I
freak out. But I was just frustrated, and then I.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Was cool, I feel like you have anxiety right now.

Speaker 8 (07:35):
So then I spent like the rest of the drive
home trying to convince this kid that I'm cool. I'm like,
let's put on some music, windows down, like, let's go,
I'm easy.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
There is pressure when you take another kid in your
car to be cooler than you normally are.

Speaker 8 (07:48):
It's really weird, and I think that was part of
my anxiety. It's like, are these parents like gonna think
like I didn't know how to drop off and pick
up their kid from an event, you know. So I
think I was more nervous not for this safety of
my own kid, but like I was also responsible for
this other candidate. It was just it felt really chaotic
and everything was out of my control and I couldn't

(08:10):
do anything about it.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
But it was a success.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
It was a success, like an hour after we drove away.
But that was kind of the funny part to me
was that then he was trying to give me an
encouragement speech, and I was like, no, I promise some fine.
I'm sure he told his parents.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I feel like Taco Bell is getting a bad end
of this cyclospora situation because it's not their fault. And
everyone in every headline is Taco Bell, led us at
Taco Bell. This Taylor Farms is who supplies led us
to Taco Bell, amongst other things as well.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
Wou did you see the update this morning?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Like I have one of the latest Am I wrong
about Taco Bell?

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well, no, not about Taco Bell.

Speaker 8 (08:52):
I saw NBC and CBS report that Taylor Farms. Just
today it came out that that positive, the positive result
got was a false positive. And this is from the
FDA and they're apologizing.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, a false positive. What is that they're not pregnant?

Speaker 10 (09:08):
That they are they don't have cyclos supporious whatever that.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
Word is, their supply from Mexico.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's what I see US officials linked to Taylor Farm's
plant in Mexico to cyclosport.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Right.

Speaker 8 (09:19):
The latest update to that is that the FDA has
issued an apology and they it was a false positive.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
And so now I'm like, oh.

Speaker 11 (09:27):
My gosh, like this guy, so, so what's the positive.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's not from Mexico. They did not identify a Taylor farm.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
They now don't have. They don't have. I don't know
that they have. I don't know.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Through those articles that I read, it didn't name the culprit.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
But oh so it's not Taylor according to.

Speaker 8 (09:46):
This morning from the FDA, I mean just like an
hour ago. So it's it's it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
And also.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
From more than one head of lettuce, you get a
false positive, don't You don't just check one head of
lettus and move on. You check you know, ten thousand
heads of lettuce.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
I know, I don't know. That's just the latest.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I didn't see that this four hours ago.

Speaker 8 (10:08):
It said that Taylor Farms in an effort to just
like for everybody's peace of mind, they're pulling everything, even
though they're like bag salads, Like I saw Eddie's funny
post about their bag salads and the captains were pretty funny.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
People were coming up.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
As soon as I saw the Tailor farms, I'm like,
we don't have that. I go to my friends, like
we have two of those.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
Yeah, So Edie did a funny post. But those salads
weren't impacted. It was their Mexico supply train. Like if
you think of like bulk foods that get sent to
like a place similar to Taco Bell, you it's shredded iceberg.
That was what was quote unquote infected. But now they're
saying that was a false positive. So you're bagged kits
that you have at home. Those should be fine, but

(10:49):
they're pulling.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
It.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Says it doesn't change the companies voluntarily voluntary recall.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yes, so they're recalling stuff just to give people peace
of mind.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
But I just that's kind of crazy.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
So when is it okay to eat it?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Then?

Speaker 10 (11:06):
Like how many Like do we have to wait a
month for them to be able to put new stuff out?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
How does that work?

Speaker 7 (11:10):
Right?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
And then who is But I don't think there's a
day for day to put new I bet you pure speculation.
It's still Taylor Farms.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
I was thinking.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
But they already owned it. They owned it when they
got the positive.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
They owned it.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Like, hey, we don't you think if they apologize, I
think it was them at all, they'd be going it
was not.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
Us they got they were they were delivered the positive
result too, so they had to own it.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'm talking now. Oh, don't you think now that they're
saying false positive? If it wasn't you'd be like, we
didn't think it was us to begin with. We were
just it's not us.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (11:44):
I mean, I think they are saying, well, I don't know,
that's just the article I read. I think they are
saying like they've already issued the recall. I think they
just feel like that's the right thing to do.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
But if it were my business and they had put
me under the microscope saying that I had this parasite,
and and you found out it wasn't me, I'd be
out screaming that I told you it wasn't me.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was not me.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
We told you it wasn't us. We just did it
because we were pressure to. It's not us.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
We're healthy.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'm not seeing that yet. But also I didn't see
your story either. That's of July nineteenth.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, so are we starting over?

Speaker 8 (12:18):
Like, I don't know, dude, to where it came from.
That's all I care about is where did it originally
come from? And if you got a false positive? Okay, cool,
Well on to the next Where.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Is this coming from what can we eat well?

Speaker 8 (12:30):
And mostly our state thankfully not as impacted up for other.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
You know, where is this Taylor Farms? Where's the hub?

Speaker 8 (12:40):
Oh? You mean so there's a distributor in Mexico. But
I know in California, like the California people. I've worked
with them a little bit. I've met the California people.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
You've met Taylor Farms.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Wow, well on, mister Taylor.

Speaker 8 (12:54):
No, but some of their team they have come to
Nashville and I have met them And.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Dang, have you been lobbied by Taylor Farms?

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh that's why she spread?

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, this is how works.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
No, I saw the article.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
The kids that she had in her car is the
son of Taylor Farm.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, his name's Taylor.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
What do you see as of right now? Are we
all clear to eat everything?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Or now?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
I know I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm not so the mystery has not been solved.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Listen so much. So I will tell you.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
I'll give you a little behind the peak of my
relationship with them. This started spreading last week and I
emailed them proactically like I had a social thing I
was supposed to do with them this week and last week,
I sent them an email and I said, I'm so sorry.
I can't with all the speculation, like I'd rather not
like do this right now.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
And they were wondering why you were so fighting pro
Taylor Farms.

Speaker 8 (13:53):
I'm not fighting them pro. I saw the article. No
I know, but they didn't give me that article.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
No I know.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't think you you were paid to say anything.
But I would be the same way if like one
of my clients was and I was like, oh, they
weren't part of it.

Speaker 8 (14:07):
Well they I wasn't ever gonna they were owning it
last week, so it was fine. But before they even
got the positive test, I pulled myself from the knowing.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I think it's great. I don't think you were paid
by them. We were doing a joke. But I was
wonder why you're so invested emotionally? Oh do I know
emotion Does she feel emotionally invested?

Speaker 3 (14:26):
With that story?

Speaker 8 (14:26):
I thought Eddie Eddie's post was sort of Eddie's doing
trying to make money on Instagram, and it was funny,
but I don't force it.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I saw the tailor, I said, this is Eddie farming
for eight dollars.

Speaker 9 (14:39):
Yes, And then when Amy was talking about that. I'm
just like, oh, crowd, like, should I pull my post down?
Like that's one of her clients.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
No, no, no, no, I didn't.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
I didn't have I even commented maybe on yours, like.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
I'm not worried about that.

Speaker 8 (14:56):
They've I've they've been they've been great. But they like
last year they had the onion thing. Remember that was
last year the year before, so.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
I don't know any onion thing.

Speaker 8 (15:09):
Yeah with also I think talk about but their Taco
Bells onion thing distributor, right, So yeah, so I can't remember.
This one was flipped like now. I emailed them proactively
this week saying, I think it's best we pull back
on this. Let's wait wait this out because I would
hate to post and then get negative comments from people.
But on the top on the onion one, they reached

(15:31):
out to me and they're like, hey, we know you're
supposed to post soon. We're gonna lay low.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Let's pull out, like we have a lot on our
plate right now. I'm like, hey, all good, I get it.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
It was a Coli and it was onions at McDonald's.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh so they're servicing restaurants everywhere. This must be quite
the farm, Oh yeah, this must that must not be
one you just drive by and go look at the cow, right,
this is significant.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
The vegetables.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, we know nothing. Then it looks like we don't
know where it came from. What sucks.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
I hate that.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
And I for sure saw Eddie's Instagram post and thought,
I get it.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Did you do a carousel them?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, just a couple.

Speaker 8 (16:07):
It was me a cara of seldom for you to
make money, not just picture Really yeah, I thought when.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Eddie taught me about this, he said it had to
be a carros.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
He might have taught you that, but it could be.
It's wrong.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
I did not teach you that.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
You're the one that told me.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
But the more pictures you post, the more money you make.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
But it's it's it's very it's a very small about.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I talked about this on my uh in the weeds
one the picture that I put up a baby Billy,
the first one we got millions and millions of views.
People were like, how much money did you make? Zero dollars?
Because you can't collaborate or you make no money. And
then if I get something with a million views. It
makes like sixty bucks. So it's not like we're making
hundreds of thousands.

Speaker 8 (16:46):
Of dollars, not at all. It's just it's just more
fun than anything. Nick Wright or you know our friend Nick,
He commented on Eddie's post. One that made me laugh
out loud, like a caption this, So Eddie's holding up
the tailor farms and he goes, caption this, and it's
the bag of bags of lettuce, and n it goes,
let us know when you're out of the bathroom, let us.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Hey, buddy, bad joke.

Speaker 11 (17:08):
It's that made you Uh.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yeah, I thought it was.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
I thought it was funny. Another person goes this one.
I don't know who this is. Eric Designs, Romain Calm
and let us know how it goes.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Good stuff out there, guys, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
They were making me laugh.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
I wonder where all the diary is coming from.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I take back that.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think it's Taylor Farms.

Speaker 8 (17:34):
No, you don't have to do that.

Speaker 12 (17:35):
They know.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
I feel like they're.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Actually I'm gonna be eat Tilor Farms today.

Speaker 11 (17:39):
Just approve solidarity that well, I'm.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
Just saying after this blows over and maybe in a week,
if you see me post like yeah, double tap heart, give.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Her some love. I'll comment on it.

Speaker 11 (17:48):
If I say it, I'll comment on it.

Speaker 8 (17:50):
Don't be like.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Let us rejoin our eating habit.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah, well that sucks.

Speaker 9 (17:57):
For them, Like really, it really knows because now everyone's
just linking it to Taylor Farms.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
I never would have known even what Taylor Farms is, right, Like,
they don't exist to be a known brand. They exist
so they can service all these places and make a
munch of money.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (18:12):
And then yesterday I went to the grocery store and
I was buying some ingredients and like, I go to
the vegetables and I'm looking at the boxes underneath the
display to be like Taylor Farms, Taylor Farms.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Justice for Taylor Farms and fits.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
I mean, but also they will if it is if
they are to blame, I've seen them do it, they
will own it. Unfortunately, that kind of stuff happens, and
I know they feel awful. And I just liked that
I saw last week when it came out, they owned it.
And then now it's like whoop's false positive?

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Which that's scary?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (18:43):
Justice from Mexico too? Because like part when I saw
it I'm just like, oh, yeah, dull.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Like classic, blame it on Mexico. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
I was like, duh, water in Mexico is not good.
We all know that. Excuse me, avenge refresh my memory.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
On Monasum is revenge. You don't know. Monosum is revenge.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
It's Mexico's one thing.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's not one of my things.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Something I've known since I was eleven.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
Somebody's mirror. Who's painting in the house. Barbara Streison is
painting in the house.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Tries effect.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's a different than Monazuma's revenge. So monazuma is revenge
is basically traveler's diarrhea. You can't drink the water in Mexico.

Speaker 9 (19:21):
Oh, that's Monazuma's revenge.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
So the name alludes to the Aztec emperor Monazum of
the second and acts as a humorous metaphorical retribution against
travelers visiting the regions once conquered by the Spanish.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
So no way.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
So his revenge was to make the water bad.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, so anybody who comes in, Man, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I've just thought maybe it's just a tourus thing to know,
even though I've never been maybe like people that Mike,
did you know that? No, but I've had that interesting
the bad water, So maybe only Taurus the white people
hear about it being Monazuma is revenge, but you guys
actually know just hey, don't drink the water.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah, that's the rule when you go like, don't drink
the water.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
Yeah. The tickets they ever got was from when I
first drank water in Mexico. I hallucinated.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
So when I said Manu Zuma's revenge, you didn't know
what that was either.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
No, And I'm shocked you've never been to Mexico.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I have been across the border.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Different.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
That's back in the day when you can walk across
and walk right back across. You didn't need a passport.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Those are the good old days man two.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Thousand and five or something. I don't know by good
old days, but we used to go all the time.
We did it, We walked across. Let me read this.
We can learn something here. Monazuma the second rule the
Aztec Empire from fifteen oh two until his death in
fifteen twenty. When Spanish conquistador Cortes arrived in fifteen nineteen,
Monazuma welcomed them However, the Spanish ultimately took the emperor hostage,

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and he was killed during a violent uprising, and so
Manazuma placed a lasting curse for revenge against future European
and foreign invaders. Whenever tourists consume the local food or water,
they fall victim to the long dead emperor's revenge.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Called him, that's still happening, dude.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
I bet he'd be like, proud of myself. Look false positive.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
That's funny.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Hey, we're gonna talk in a second.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
We're gonna play Ray talking about his basketball in Vegas.
But Ray, would you play voicemail number one?

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Shout out Susan Ray Mundo just got done watching the
Papa shot Man.

Speaker 9 (21:20):
You killed it way to go.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
And this was left Friday afternoon. Would you play number two?

Speaker 6 (21:28):
I want to wish Ray the absolute best of luck,
but I also want to remind Ray that if he
shouts out the Bobby Bones Show on TV, I would
consider ESPN plus TV. I mean, I don't know about you, Bobby,
but it sounds like if he shouts you out, that's
some money in the pocket.

Speaker 11 (21:49):
Corey from Nashville, Corey.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
From Nashville sounds like the guy that was commentating, Oh, yeah, Ray,
you never got to talk, did you. I don't know
why they didn't interview us. I feel like they were
running around like chick with their heads cut off because
they didn't know what was happening either. Even the announcers
were look confused by the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (22:06):
I mean maybe the Flamingo dancers threw everybody off. I
don't really know where they played into it. I was like,
can they get out of the way so I can
feel these balls real quick and.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Get vegas gauge of the hoop? Scuba?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Did you have any sort of fomo?

Speaker 14 (22:19):
I tried to avoid it because because I did, I
knew to have massive fomo plus. I didn't have ESPN plus.
But I was a little bit like, damn, I wish
I was there to cheer my boy because I've seen
the whole thing and then didn't get to see the
like the final ending of it all.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
What about you being a part of that community and
trying to win the Popa Shot Championship.

Speaker 14 (22:35):
Oh, I still want to be part of it. I
get Ray was telling me. They were asking where I
was like, Hey, where Steve at? We're scuba Steve? Is
he not here? Today He's like, oh no, man, he's
not here for this trip. So yeah, I mean definitely.
I think Ray and I are both excited for next
season and trying to get into the big game, which
would be on ESPN the O Show in August and Orlandos.
That's still is a long term goal of mine. As

(22:55):
I crossed one hundred, gotten one eleven one for I'm
getting there, So I'm now part of I'm contender now,
I just came on.

Speaker 11 (23:01):
A little late.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
You need a machine.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
I do need a machine. We're working on that.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Those machines are legit.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
They are.

Speaker 11 (23:07):
They don't look.

Speaker 14 (23:08):
Yeah, they don't have any in Nashville, but we're working
on getting one here for us.

Speaker 10 (23:10):
Can I tell me the difference of qualifying for the
which tournament? Like, I'm so confused.

Speaker 14 (23:14):
I remember remember when Ray and I went to Chicago.
Was that qualifying for that's for the big tournament? So
what they do is they start usually in October, and
there's cities across the country like Los Angeles, Boston, wherever
the case.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Maybe.

Speaker 14 (23:25):
I mean, National's not one of them, but they're looking to.
But I have one here as well. But we went
to Chicago. That was part of the qualifying series. If
you won in one of those I think eight cities
at the top one or top three, then they put
you in the big competition like the Super Bowl or
the NBA finals of Papa Shot in August.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Got it, So you guys can't make the one connect now.

Speaker 14 (23:44):
So this one was just like a one off where
it's just a fun tournament in Las Vegas. Prize money,
more awareness of Papa Shot. And hey, by the way,
I'm sure the promo at the end was check out
the final tournament in August.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
The promo during it was a bunch of ads for
buying a Papa Shot game.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
I'm sure that's probably big too.

Speaker 14 (24:00):
Yeah, trying to get those out there because they are
pretty cool games.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
And so what's gonna happen is everybody's going to try
to get in in this.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
We're all going to be trying to get I find
up buying one for the house. I'm running, Kaitlin's gonna
go the baby needs.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
I'm like, no, no, no, I need seven more games.

Speaker 9 (24:15):
To get the qualifiers in Boston. That's your watching. You're
kind of thinking like I can do that.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh for sure.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
That's the point man, Sure, Okay, we'll get to that now.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
I was talking with ray about that.

Speaker 15 (24:29):
Last night. My boyfriend and I had a dinner day
and watched Susan Raymundo on the Papa Shot Plooza. It
was hilarious, nerdy, all the things, the great job top eight,
pretty epic and sick. He is so quick. It was impressive,
but yeah, fun, fun and funny to watch. Great fit

(24:49):
loved it, definitely worse, worse all the conversations.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Big night in my house Saturday night as ray Mundo
was on my TV on ESPN Plus in Las Vegas
playing Papa Shot. He did finish in the top eight.
So first of all, congratulations, dude.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
I was nervous for you.

Speaker 11 (25:08):
I mean, dude, thank you for that trip. That was
so fun. That was crazy to watch.

Speaker 13 (25:13):
It was I can't believe it was actually on TV
and they respected it and they acted like we were athletes.
It was the production of it and being in that
it was a club, but it was a studio and
arena was so cool.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
For those that didn't get to see. They had eight
of those Papa Shot machines inside of a room and
they had sixty four of the players that qualified nationally
to play in a Papa Shot tournament for five thousand
dollars I guess eleven thousand total. The first place got
five grand and so Raymundo had qualified. So he went
back to Vegas and they'd play eight, then eight, then eight.

(25:51):
He had to finish in the top half to keep
moving forward, and Rages kept winning, kept winning. The one
time he lost, he had three balls stuck in the
goal at the same time.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yes, that was weird.

Speaker 13 (26:00):
Sometimes that happens if you make so many at the
same time, I guess. But they redid that one. So
was it super competitive between the guys? Know, a lot
of them were friends. I mean, Tony is a community.
Some guys were sitting next to other guys wives I didn't.
I was like, oh, is this your chick and he's like, no, no,
that's my buddies. I'm like what, But they're all friends.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Apparently you had headphones when you played. People kept asking
me what you were listening to. Nothing, Absolutely nothing, that's
my answer. I just I couldn't stand the music that
DJ was pumping it. It was Chaos nightclub. I think
he thought it was a dance thing. He didn't know
it was Papa Shot. He thought club people were there.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
It was so loud. You were, I mean you were.
It was affecting how you were thinking. I speculated it
was nothing, absolutely nothing. Really.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, people and even Kaylin while I was recording, you said,
what's right listening to you?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I said, I bet nothing?

Speaker 9 (26:44):
Ray, have you watched the broadcast, because even the commentators
in the broadcasts were like, I wonder what he's listening
to under those headphones.

Speaker 13 (26:50):
If they would have done the research, it had been
funny if they had been like, I bet the Bobby
Bone Show, you know he's on that.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
They had a puppet doing commentary, you know, which was weird.
I didn't. I didn't know what we were. What we
were going for, maybe the kids to tune in, and
there's like some puppet. What well.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
The problem was they kept showing the guy that was
mouthings the puppet. You got to cut him out of
the shot. I was told that you can't ruin the magic.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Were you nervous competing? I wasn't. I played all day.

Speaker 13 (27:14):
I went to the NBA Arena and bought an NBA
at ticket, so they have machines there for the NBA
Summer League.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
So I played for three hours. I was just ready
to go do it honestly. So you got there, you won,
you won. You didn't win one, but then you won.
You got into the top about sixteen or so, right, yeah,
you had two. You had to be whatever they did.
They did the first rounds which was kind of like
the World Cup where it was knockout stage, and then
it was down to sixteen people, and so I went
head to head against was a dude's name. It wasn't Baser,

(27:40):
it was Ballser. I went against Ballser. He beat me first,
and then I came from behind and beat him the
next two games and he was done though, So then
we went on too the elite A. Yeah, then you
ran into the number one overall seed.

Speaker 13 (27:50):
Which sucked. You don't like to look ahead in the bracket,
but I did. I knew Ballser I was like, this
guy's terrible. And then I saw Eisham and I mean
he was a dominant force, number one seed. Im, I
gotta play ice em first. How was the number eight
seed out of sixteen? Did I go to then have
to play the one seed? Well, that's how bracket works.
Eight and nine play.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
I gotta look at it because I am curious how
that worked out. Like that.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well, even if you watch the NCAA tournament and aight'll
play one that quick second round?

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, dang, yeah, I know, I gotta watch more March Madness.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, you did great though you said you wouldn't be
happy with yourself if you didn't finish number one?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Did you feel happy with yourself? I'm happy I was.
It was freezing cold in there. If you watch the feed,
I was always my hands were in my shirt.

Speaker 13 (28:33):
Who knew they keep chaos twenty like sixty degrees twenty
below normal my hands. I should have brought my hand warmers.
Of all the things I brought, I needed handwarmers. I
need a lotion from my hands. I needed my lip balm.
I need a gatorade. They wouldn't let us bring any
drinks in. I'm like, oh cool, so I'm gonna play
basketball for two hours on vodka Red Bulls Like, what.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
What's a bar? You can get water at the bar? Yeah,
but I don't want water or gatorade I wanted. These
kids are drinking Prime of Lights.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
So will you compete for Nationals in Orlando?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
That's coming up too. I think they need to do
a celebrity entry for me.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Throw me in there because you don't want to kept
qualify again. I think their qualifiers are done. I believe
that tournament's all set. But was what was weird is
this thing was before it a month. Everybody that's in
the Orlando one was at this one. Well, congratulations, we
were proud you top eight, hop eight of sixty four,
and those sixty four had to be qualifiers. There were

(29:29):
some people that choked big time. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
Capudo he was so depressed. He was a favorite.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Nikki buckets he got out.

Speaker 10 (29:37):
Yeah yeah, minifty buckets, oh man.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
And then my boy Lando he made it. He was
out earlier.

Speaker 13 (29:43):
But but yeah, the the Iticham guy, he's a favorite,
That Murph dude that won it all. He gets on
the mic, he goes, I'm a forty five year old guy.
I don't know if you saw it on the broadcast.
He goes, I don't got a lot going for me.
This keeps me me competitive. Thank you guys so much.
Was he the guy in the collar shirt, Yeah, collared hurt.
He was like five bud lights deep and comes out
and wins the thing.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Going to do next year.

Speaker 13 (30:02):
That guy in the collared shirt was legit, like he
didn't miss. Yeah, And I guess last year in Orlando
he choked, so he got whatever. When it came down
to it, he didn't do well. And so this year
that's they said, he's always this good. What did you
do after the event?

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Uh murfh.

Speaker 13 (30:16):
He goes, Hey, Susan, I got an open bar tab
anything you want, it's on me. Like, I like this
rich popa shot community. These guys got these machines in
their basements and they're all rich. I love these guys.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Did you go anywhere else? I just go to bed
after well, I went and did a shot with Murph
and all, and I go, I'm good man, that the
SHOT's good.

Speaker 13 (30:34):
And so then I walked around with it. They were
called the Skyline Swishers, all these dudes from Denver that
own bars. They go, hey, come to our bars. We'll
pay for everything. They're like, we came out here to
Vegas in a limo. I'm like, what is happening you guys?
Wives just let you play arcade basketball on the side.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
That's amazing. But I hung out with them at the
palms and then I ditched them. I was like, guys,
I got a roll, I got I got a wife.
To get home too, but he didn't. Not that night.

Speaker 13 (30:56):
Did I split Early next day though, four am wake
up call. So I ditched those guys Seattle Swishers at
some pizza spot.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Well you did great. We were all rooting for you
the glove. He also choked, Yes, yeah, I don't remember
anybody's name.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
No, there were a lot of guys, and they didn't
know Ray's name.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, they didn't know a lot of people saying the
struggling at first because their screen names were all weird.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
I think even called Ray like Sison, raymondo.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
No season season, which makes sense because that's a yes.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah, but even the Raymond it was like Raymando.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yeah, that was I knew it was gonna be a
butcher job.

Speaker 13 (31:32):
When his nicky buckets he's a legend in the game
and he goes nicky butts, I'm like, oh my gosh,
you Thatt's like called Michael Jordan, Michael Jerk or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Bro, you gotta nail their names.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
That was Finn though, man, congratulations, thank.

Speaker 13 (31:45):
You had family watching, niece, nephew. Everybody's texting me. I
was getting messages to while I was there, and they're like,
no cell phones. I mean no headphones, Well, what do
you mean no cell phones? You couldn't have them in
the event apparently, but I still carried it. And then
they go, you cannot touch the balls until we start.
That's a great format. You want us all to play
ice cold cool.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
I did see some of the guys when they got
up there. There was one specifically, there was the first
one to kind of break protocol and just start shooting
as soon as he walked up there. And then everybody
else started doing it too. You know, everybody's like, Okay,
we're not waiting for the announcer. Let's get some shots
in because we haven't even touched these balls. The rims
are different, the hoops are different, the balls are different,
how they roll. It's a nightclub, but we don't have
any lights on the balls. So everything's different with any

(32:24):
situation with those environments. So I feel for basketball players
when they go to a different arena, it's all the same.
NBA players going to different cities the same as that
it's different.

Speaker 13 (32:33):
Because I was putting up one seventies at the UNLV place.
I go there, chaos, different lighting, you got girls, the
dancers wearing.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
No clothes, you got no lighting.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
You got a puppet doing commentary, a guy that's a puppeteer,
and some little doing it with his hand up his back.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
It was so it was odd.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well, I never thought on a Saturday night at ten pm,
I'd be watching a Papa Shot mini basketball tournament, rooting
for somebody on ESPN.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
And my wife, I don't even know if she understands
basketball as it is. She goes.

Speaker 13 (33:03):
I tried to support you sometimes. I didn't know if
you won, if you lost. She's like, I got so nervous. Yeah,
she wanted that paycheck. She wanted the five thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Well, Addie and I were texting did he win? Because
they would cut off before they would show the scores.
Sometimes wouldn't even see the green or the red to
see if you moved on.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
And the answer to that is it was tough for
the in house DJ.

Speaker 13 (33:21):
He was also telling us what we were doing, but
he also needed to relay the scores to the people
at home watching and on me. I didn't know ever
where the ESPN camera was. I was like, I should
have played to the camera more because it was such
a common camera. I think the ESPN camera was an iPhone.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
No, we saw the camera. It was a guy that
had like a row can.

Speaker 13 (33:40):
It was the very end when I finally looked at
when I beat the kid in the Sweet sixteen.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
I beat Ballers or what was his name, Ballzy's, I'd
looked at the camera. I was like, there's the camera.
I finally saw the ESPN camera two hours later.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
You did kind of pull the Baller move after you
won that Sweet sixteen game against that guy. Yeah, ray
puts his hands up, goes.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's a pretty good movie. I take a picture of that.

Speaker 15 (34:01):
Well.

Speaker 13 (34:02):
And then I also should have had a dance when
they first introed me. Instead, I just like, ah, you
were good, Yeah, good, you need to dance. I wanted
what if I threw my shirt off, that'd have been
pretty bald cool. I hope you don't give up on
your dream. Well, the dream started in January. I look back.
I bought the machine January twelfth, and I put up
thirty points insane.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I was in a tournament. I could have put up zero.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
If you guys want to see the video, just go
to our YouTube page at Bobby Bone Show and you
can watch Raymondo compete in Las Vegas and the Papa
Shot Tournament.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
It was on ESPN.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I tried to document the whole thing on my stories
because I knew not everybody had ESPN Plus.

Speaker 13 (34:34):
Yeah, yours was hilarious and awesome. The lunch also, his
was great because he was confused. He goes, what was
the score? What did Ray score?

Speaker 10 (34:42):
They wouldn't show you, and it was just like what
they I have no idea what. They would never show
the score. They would show side angles. You didn't know
what points were what. It was very frustrating.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, it's like they don't airrow out of those shot tournaments. Yeah, well,
we're proud of you.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
That was awesome. I go watch it on our YouTube.
At Bone Show, these two guys say they were switched
at birth thirty eight years ago. They're suing a hospital
in North Dakota over this, and so they're saying that
a DNA test says we have them been living with
our real families here. January twenty sixth, nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Only Kyle and I were born in that hospital that day.

Speaker 11 (35:20):
It's the only time we've ever been together.

Speaker 12 (35:22):
My aunt Martha and I were on ancestry dot Com.
I had done further DNA testing on my raising mom,
Evelyn Newton. That came out conclusively that you know, she
was biologically my brother's mom, but she didn't match with
me on the platform. We kind of concluded and said, basically, look, Kyle,

(35:47):
you were switched at at birth.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
This is why you don't take those tests. Oh too
much drama. Although I've taken the test, I keep having
new cousins. Like every week's job, I get an email
you got another cousin, and they're like eighth cousins or something.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
But how about these guys.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I think if I have lived a really healthy life
and love my parents, I don't think I want to know,
but I think I should know. Yeah, so these two
guys now are just what.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Do we do?

Speaker 5 (36:13):
Sue the hospital?

Speaker 2 (36:14):
They're sue in the hospital. That's from KKTV eleven news.
They were the only two babies and you switched those two.
They were the only two born that day and they're
the two that got switched. There were so many rules
when we had our baby, and it's different, right because
this is like nineteen eighty eight, but this is not
the forties.

Speaker 8 (36:31):
Yeah, but I think the rules these days, like why
it seems so like there's so many checks and balances.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Is because this happened because in the eighties, nineteen eighty eight,
and it's a hospital in North Dakota.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
They're the only two babies born.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
That's why it's again if it were nineteen eighteen, maybe
nineteen eighty eighth. Yeah, these two guys, I don't want
to know.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
But how about that.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
You open up the envelope and it's or you open
up the email and it says it's not your parents,
you probably think they just messed up the DNA test.

Speaker 8 (37:04):
I wonder if the kids experienced any when they were younger,
because they say with adopted children, they know they're separated
from their birth mom, and there's stuff that will pop
up in their later years. Sometimes when they're eight years old,
there's an attachment disorder happening, And so I wonder if
they experienced that because they weren't with their biological parents.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
One of them said that he felt like he never
really fit in with his family. So I think every
kid probably feels that way for a little bit.

Speaker 8 (37:34):
Right, Some signals, some some symptoms are so like you
think it's a defiance disorder and they're just misbehaved kids,
but really it's an attachment thing.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Like I felt like I didn't fit in with my family.
But I can tell like kids like no doubt about it.
That sucks for them.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
I think the positive is by finding out you at
least can know your family history. That helps your medical history.
Like for me, that's been something that I don't know.
I don't know a lot of my medical history because
I don't know a lot of my family. So when
they say, hey, did so and so have that, I
have no idea, but yeah, that sucks.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
I just don't want to know.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
The hospital says I found no evidence proving it was responsible,
but they acknowledged the heartbreaking situation, noting that records and
staff from that time are no longer available. See that's
from the Space Shuttle nineteen sixty nine when they lose everything,
not from nineteen eighty eight. You're probably putting stuff in
computers in nineteen eighty eight at a hospital.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
That was the transition time at a hospital.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (38:40):
I mean some I'm picturing Manila folds a lot of
them and.

Speaker 11 (38:45):
Like a file cabinet.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah, these poor guys.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
So that's what's up. What are you going to get
out of a North Dakota Hospital.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Is it still running?

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Hospitals make good money, but I mean is it still run?

Speaker 5 (38:56):
I mean they also spend a lot. I don't know.
I guess it depends on how well it's Funday.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
On the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Nichols, Joe, good to
see you again.

Speaker 11 (39:06):
It's good to see you, man.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
How you been.

Speaker 11 (39:08):
I've been really good, been really working a lot.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
So what does that mean? On the road or recording
or what?

Speaker 11 (39:15):
Both? So both?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
So my family doesn't see me a whole lot these days.
So when I'm not working on the road, I'm working
in the studio, so in a little stretched, little thin
Usually every July August is like that.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
So when you're on the road, when do you normally
leave on a Thursday night type thing?

Speaker 11 (39:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:30):
If I'm lucky, it goes normal like that, leaving on
a Thursday, two shows, Friday, Saturday.

Speaker 11 (39:35):
I'm home Sunday afternoon. Usually.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well do you still have in Texas?

Speaker 6 (39:39):
I do?

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Do you bust out of Texas?

Speaker 6 (39:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I fly out of Texas out of a little airport
that they all know me. So I've cut it really close.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
You know.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Flight takes off in like five minutes and they're holding
the door on two wheels. Now I live in Texas
and it seems to work just as well as it
did when I was in Nashville. You know, by the
time I get through now traffic, I would have spent
two hours at airport anyway.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Was that a big decision for you to leave Nashville?

Speaker 11 (40:05):
Huge? Yeah, it was a huge decision.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, and it was ultimately my my wife's uh, as
most things that was in my early marriage. And that
was one of the first lessons I learned, which is
all the big stuff is going to come down to
not really a coin flip, but it's gonna be yes, dear,
She's from Texas. So when we got married, we lived
in Nashville for a little over a year, and she
didn't make connections with a lot of people.

Speaker 13 (40:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
She found that the circles I ran in were fairly
shallow folks and not in all Nashville, but the people
that I that I knew, Yeah, you didn't know me yet, yes,
exactly right, And you've been the first person or to
But she just didn't make a lot of connections with people.
And at that time I was kind of just crazy,

(40:50):
just out of my mind in all directions and and
she said, hey, look, you know I'm moving to Texas
and you just got married.

Speaker 11 (40:57):
I'm moving to Texas. I have nothing in common with this.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I don't want to go back to Texas where Texas
people are you know my style? And and she said essentially,
you know you you can join me if you'd like.
She was a lot nicer than that, say she gets
mad at me for telling it like that, but that's
kind of how it went. Like I can't stay here
and I want to keep us, you know, together, So

(41:20):
I would really like it if you moved with me.
And so I said, yes, I moved down there, and
I've loved it ever since. Man, I don't think there's
anywhere else i'd go if unless I was forced to.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Can you go to the grocery store without being bothered?

Speaker 6 (41:32):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Usually bothered?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Bothered might be a different way to put it, you know,
like stopped and said hello, you know that doesn't bother
me at all, And people say, hey, you're that guy.
And you know, I can tell who's a country fan
who's not, because uh, you know, you got to know
country music to know who I am. You know, if
you're a rock fan or something, else, or you don't
listen to music, You're not going to know who I am.

(41:57):
I'm not a mainstream star or anything like that, but
I can tell who the country fans are, and they're like,
hey man, you're the You're the guy with the uh song?

Speaker 11 (42:06):
You know that's uh?

Speaker 10 (42:07):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (42:07):
The baby old Red?

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Is it old Red?

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Oh no?

Speaker 3 (42:12):
They're wrong?

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Song in you?

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Oh no?

Speaker 1 (42:15):
But I get a lot of that, like where when Yeah,
but they normally get you know, broken Heartsville and Tequila
makes a clothes fall off right, you know, so it
they're really cool about it there. I live in Tyler
and by now I've lived there so long that when
people see me, they're like as good to see and
maybe ask for a picture or whatever, but super cool.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
What song do people know?

Speaker 6 (42:36):
You?

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Most four that come up to you.

Speaker 11 (42:41):
Tequila?

Speaker 1 (42:42):
I think I had a New York City cab driver
who didn't speak like he knew anything about country music.
This is probably, you know, maybe ten or twelve years ago,
even maybe fifteen, but he was a he's a cab
driver and he was I know, I know you, I
know you're from somewhere. He's like, are you in movies?
I'm like no, I'm not in movies. And he's like,

(43:03):
you know, kind of doing the thing. He goes, you're
a musician and you sing a song that I like,
and I'm like, no, it's gonna be it's gonna be bad.
Uh and he says, uh. He says it's got to
do with tequila. And I'm like, oh, no, okay, all right,
we got a chance here. And he says something about
tequila tequila extra makes her get naked and makes her

(43:23):
clothes flop, Like, oh my god, that's awesome. I have
crossed into the to the mainstream. This guy probably doesn't
listen to much country music, I would imagine, And uh,
here he is like, he nailed it.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
That's fine.

Speaker 11 (43:35):
Yeah, even he knew more than Blake Shelton fans.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Dude, people give you a lot of free tequila as
a gift because that song is so big. Yeah, yeah,
so much so that you can't possibly drink it all.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
No, no, I I signed a lot of tequila tequila bottles,
but yeah, I quit drinking tequila a long time, long
time ago, so uh yeah, I couldn't drink it, not
even a drop of tequila go on sideways.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, I was asking the show because I've never had
a drink of alcohol and I was just asking them,
and your song was one of the reasons. Just tequila
affect you differently.

Speaker 11 (44:13):
Like how so does me? How so?

Speaker 3 (44:17):
All right?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
So I think it all depends on how your brain
is made up, the chemistry and your brain and the
sugars and how they impact you and everything and the
way they meet. Tequila, I think is a little different
because I think he used a gabby.

Speaker 11 (44:28):
I think this.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
I'm not an expert in this, so I don't want
to jump off in here and start explaining stuff. But uh,
I think there's just different sugar levels and different kind
of you know, things that are made, you know, that
make tequila. And for whatever reason, I am one of
these people that tequila does something to a whiskey did
something to me that made me feel totally, you know.

Speaker 11 (44:49):
At ease and ready to go at ease. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Most people think they're bulletproof on whiskey.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Oh man, I was normal on whiskey. Not drinking was
when I was bullet pri roof. But when I drank whisky,
I'm like, all right, everything, everything's cool.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
So what tequila? What if he the song he would
sing it he thinks of him himself. Yeah, you take
your clothes off, Yeah, and go to jail, do all
kinds of other stuff.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
But tequila makes you.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Uh, tequila made me want to fight. That was that
was my thing with tequila. So I stopped drinking that
pretty early on. And a different song, Yeah, and vodka
was I'm going I'm going time traveling because I'm going
to blackout drunk tonight if I did did vodka. So
something in the sugars or something. A lot of people
can correct me on that if they want to, But

(45:35):
that's what it did to me. Tequila, fight, vodka, blackout, whiskey.

Speaker 11 (45:39):
I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
I can drink as much as I want to and
I'll be sitting here talking like this and uh and
beer just makes me talk funny and gain twenty pounds.

Speaker 11 (45:47):
That's about it.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
That happens to a lot of my friends where they go,
I got to stop the beer, Like the first thing
they have to do is stop. I have a friend,
he works for me, but I have a friend who
would just drink beer every night. He was single, You
would drink beer every night. And he said he got
engaged and got married and he got really skinny, and
it was as your wife making you work out? He said, no,

(46:09):
she just doesn't want me drink beer every night. It
was only the beer he lost like twenty pounds.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
That's awesome. I mean, that's that's great for many reasons.
I hear a lot of those stories about dudes that
go that get divorced and they start drinking beer every
day and they never get married again.

Speaker 11 (46:24):
Hat something to do with it.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, did that song take off like a rocket ship?

Speaker 6 (46:28):
It?

Speaker 9 (46:28):
Did?

Speaker 6 (46:28):
You know?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
The first the first time I thought that song was
a legitimate contender for being a big hit. I was
dead asleep five o'clock, six o'clock in the morning, and
a friend of mine called me. There was a New
York Top forty, the biggest radio station I think in
the country with the biggest audience.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Is he one hundred or something?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yes, And it was a very famous morning show. Yeah,
and they decided to make fun of this song. Oh
the song it came out in country music. Oh my god,
I's got this one called Tequila makes a Clothes Fall
And they're all laughing, and I'm like, oh no, this
is gonna be humiliating. So they're like, let's play this song.
This is probably this What are they doing down there

(47:10):
in country music? And they played about a minute and
a half of it and none of them said a word.
And the next thing was the main guy said, yeah,
it's not that bad.

Speaker 11 (47:22):
I was expecting a lot worse.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
I actually like that.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
It's awesome.

Speaker 11 (47:25):
And that was the first time I knew that people
might like it if they give it a chance.

Speaker 8 (47:29):
And it was.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
It was a pretty quick song up the chart, I
think fifteen seventeen weeks something like that, and they sold
a ton of records. And that was back when songs
scooted up to chart in fifteen weeks.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
You know, when I think about the lyrics of the
songs that you sing, I think the most famous lyric, though,
is the Devil drives at Coop Deville. When you play that,
does everybody sing that part of that song back the loudest?

Speaker 11 (47:53):
Everybody sings that part?

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah, And everybody asked me afterwards, dude, what is your
deal with Coop Deville's because I Wait for You and
Sis Matters also had Coop Deville in it. But everybody,
when they say, oh man, it's my song, either say
here's to the past or they can kiss my you
know what, and they say, I think.

Speaker 11 (48:13):
The Devil drives a coop goodvill.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
They always say that Broken Heart Doll is a jam?

Speaker 11 (48:18):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Do you still feel that way about your song?

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Sometimes?

Speaker 1 (48:21):
About that one? Absolutely? I love playing that song every time.
There's no Usually, I'll tell you what. Usually, when a
song is old like that and it's a hit, you
go through these periods where you're really sick of playing
it because you do a radio tour and you play
it way more than any other song you have, and
by the time it's over, you've played this song hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of time in a short period

(48:43):
of time, and you're kind of sick of it. So
for a couple of years after it's been a hit
and it's moved on, it's buried in the step set
list a little bit, you're like, all right, I have
to play this one to night.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
I don't have to play with one we can.

Speaker 6 (48:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
I got a couple of songs that are like that,
but this song never got old to me. It still
feels like it's felt, you know, the first time I
sang it on stage, like just now people know it
and they go crazy when they hear it. It's like,
you know, they're instantly in there, you know, safe space.

Speaker 11 (49:12):
In the crowd. It's takes a lot of people back
to their childhood too.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
You know what I think I think about you a
lot is in the spring when it had seventy five degrees. Yeah,
I do, because all the temperature of the sun's out
and at seventy five, I'm like, oh, it's Joe Nichols Day,
Sonny in seventy five.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
I love having one every twice a year. I'm going
to have a meteorolity. Just hit me up on Twitter
and all that like that.

Speaker 11 (49:35):
Right, here we go, it's a Joe Nichols Day year. Yeah,
that's right, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
It's also like an earworm because it's it's a very
the title is very generic. It's just yeah, however, yeah,
what is going? Yeah back and forth? However, Yeah, yeah,
that's a jam, dude. Yeah, I don't know if you're
tired of that one, but that one's good. That's a
good one.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Yeah, and you would yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
You know for a lot of songs I found over
the years anyway, that some of the songs you cut
that are big hits in that moment, kind of date
you to that moment. Yeah, it was one of those
songs that feels like it belonged in twenty fourteen or
whenever that was. And the funny thing is that, like
Broken Hartsville doesn't feel like it was two thousand and

(50:19):
three or whatever. It feels like it's been relevant for
twenty four years. Do you think that's the production on it, man,
I think so. I think it's a mixture of It
was such a big hit that people, you know, you
could re release it every year and it would feel
like it fit in that time, in that period of time. See,

(50:39):
even the writing, you feel like, yeah, the writing, everything
holds up. Post Malone actually told me on stage it
is thing. This is a true story. Post Malone said, Man,
I think that's one of the greatest country songs ever written.
I wish I'd written it, but that's a really good compliment.
I think that's like you said, I think the writing
holds up. The production is very simple, very simple, and

(51:03):
it doesn't sound dated.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Yeah, it's hard to date. Cool and simple, yeah, because
cool and simple is always cool.

Speaker 11 (51:10):
It's fun.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Whenever sonically things are trying you, that can ease and
I'm not talking about your music, but generally speaking, that
can be dated because you're doing something different, you're trying something,
but cool and simple always wins, absolutely, especially if it's
freaking catchy.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Yeah, gimmicks, gimmicks work in the moment, but but trends, fads,
those things do. Like you said that, they do date you.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
This song say love.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
How you feeling about this one?

Speaker 4 (51:34):
Man?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I feel I feel like it's a fun song. I
don't want to get too confident on anything we put out,
but it's sure. I like hearing what people are saying
about it.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
I have friends of mine that will call every now
and then when we put out a song. They'll say, hey, man,
I like your new song, and you know that's pretty cool.
I like that I bought it, downloaded it. And then
you have, you know, songs that people feel like are
gonna be a big song, like, dude, dude, this is
gonna be They always say number one smash.

Speaker 11 (52:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Apparently that's the mainstream thing to say number one smash,
and they say, dude, this is the number one smash.
I can't believe it's gonna be great. And a lot
of people have done that lately. I've got a lot
of the number one smash texts, and that's that's awesome.
I think it's a fun song. I think there's horns

(52:24):
in there. I haven't done one of those ever, so
I think Merle and Hank Junior got away with that
a little bit in the eighties. They had a little
bit of a horns thing. And it's fun to get that,
you know that on the on the production. But it
feels fun. Man.

Speaker 11 (52:39):
I think I wanted to get done here in it.
I want to play it again. The crowd's singing with it.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
By the second verse, second chorus, the crowd is singing
the highlights of the of the chorus, and that's.

Speaker 11 (52:48):
A good sign.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Like with Tequila, I knew that that was gonna be
something because the crowd caught it instantly and they're singing
it back. By the third chorus, they're singing it as
loud as I am. You know, they've learned it that fast.
So those are all really good signs. I love that
people respond to this, you know, like that's my jam.

Speaker 11 (53:07):
It feels good.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Are the horn players on this song? Are they Prince's
horn players?

Speaker 6 (53:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (53:12):
One of them is. Yeah, I mean, I think his
name's ag roy Ages. That sound familiar.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Nope, but I wouldn't know anyway.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Okay, yeah, okay, I just I just knew that one
of the guys that had played with Prince was playing
horns in the red Yeah you're.

Speaker 11 (53:25):
A concession leader.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
He was awesome, man, he was He was funny, he
was great. He had the horn guys, you know those
It's funny is I'm a musician. I even hang out
with sometimes with studio musicians who I viewer are top
level musicians. And then those guys got in got in there,
and I'm like, oh, those are actual musicians. Like those
guys are the real deal, Like they call out you know,

(53:47):
actual sheet music, and it's it's another level. Those guys
are highly professional.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Do you record your music here? I do? Yeah, if
you come back here to record.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Yeah, unless it's something I gotta fixed and I can
stay in instead of you know, going through the whole
process of getting here for a couple hours. Uh, I'll
go to this local studio I like called Rosewood Studios
in Tyler, Texas, which a lot of thea a lot
of the bigger Texas music nowadays is made out of
out of Tyler, Texas at Rosewood. So I go down
there and fix some vocals here and there, do something

(54:18):
like guitars on the high notes was fixed in in Texas.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
How long does it take you to do a record,
a full record like this record? How long you take?

Speaker 1 (54:27):
It takes me a good year to even get up
the nerve to start one. It takes me wild even
get in that place when we start. It goes in
in from six months. If you're really trying to hurry,
I've made I've heard some records and I don't like them.

Speaker 11 (54:41):
Six months.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
But if I really take my time and nobody's pressuring
me waiting, waiting on to write songs or I'm writing,
it could take two years.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Wow, Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I wouldn't even like the songs I was done that
I did two years ago.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Yeah, that's that's the hard thing. By the time you're done,
you're so used to them. People are hearing it for
the first and you're like, please don't pick this song
as a single. I'm just so tired of play in
that song. So, but I think we got several of
those in this new album that I'm I think are
gonna be considered later on for singles that I'm probably
gonna be like Man of Songs just two or three

(55:15):
years old. I wrote it in twenty twenty five. Do
you do encorees at your shows? I do not, No,
because just playing, just jump off, play everything I can.
Most of the time we get a three hour show
if we're if we can, Yeah, I played. I've got
a lot of songs to play. There's a lot of
stuff on the radio that we put out that were
kind of hits.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
You know.

Speaker 11 (55:35):
I'm the kind of the king of the top ten
to fifteen.

Speaker 13 (55:40):
Man.

Speaker 11 (55:40):
If they did a stat on that, I'd win award
every year.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
So in the ACM for almost Yeah, that's funny out there. Yeah,
I was looking all the dates. You're playing a lot
of shows.

Speaker 11 (55:52):
Huh, playing a lot of shows.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yeah, you're all over the place. You guys can go
to Joe shows Joe Nichols dot com.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
What do you what do you start with? You start?

Speaker 11 (56:00):
I start with yeah, yeah, something, getting.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
The good stuff up front. You give them a single,
get them going. I go.

Speaker 11 (56:05):
I go with big single.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
So people are like, you know, and some people give
me grief at the end of the show, like you
didn't play Yeah. Michael you didn't get here in time,
so you know, you know, and I go into something
recent with tempo, we go to hard to be cool sometimes,
and then I go into some really nasty Stevie ray
Vaughn crossfire, you know, and blend it with a song

(56:27):
I had called Ain't No Crime, one of those King
of the Top ten to top fifteen, like a number
twelve record, you know, go into that and uh, then
we'll hit them with some some earlier stuff than possible.
Listen to me rattling off the set list and acting
like I don't know it every night. Yeah, my guys
are gonna hate this.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
You still like playing guitar?

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Do I've gotten better at guitar? I love playing guitar
because I never really took it seriously the first I
don't know how many decades of my career. But now
I really get into it and I start playing, and
people are like, yeah, you're supposed to be that good, right,
Just nobody knew that I couldn't play five years ago,
and here I am. I'm playing guitar and doing parts
in the show.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
So yeah, yeah, that's that's fun.

Speaker 6 (57:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
I don't think people realize you weren't doing it. Right,
But now that you're doing it, that's probably new and
exciting for you. Yeah, to be able to like take
a new skill and just every night do that.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
It's me at seventeen, like wanting to show my mom
and dad, like, look I can play a guitar. Look
I can do Sweet Home Alabama.

Speaker 11 (57:27):
Watch.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Yeah, it's how old were you when you moved to Nashville.

Speaker 11 (57:32):
I was twenty when I moved to Nashville.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Was there something that said, Okay, I gotta go now?
Or was it when I'm twenty I'm going?

Speaker 1 (57:41):
There was At the time, I'd done this independent record
for this company that had two people working for. One
of those guys is like the head of a major label.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Now.

Speaker 11 (57:50):
It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
It was this little label called Inner Sound, and I
was their only country act. It was based in Atlanta,
and I had an investor, and so I took a
little bit of that guy's money, made a little record
in one day. They made a couple of videos we
put out on CMT and thought, let's throw this out there.
May it may work in a song called six to

(58:11):
one a half dozen of the other in Walmart parking
Lot Social Club, and.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
It did.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
Okay, for being an independent record. It got like just
up like top fifty. And I was living in Fort Smith, Arkansas,
and like a warehouse. I mean I was living to
just where I could. And the shower I used with
this old put together plastic crate with a water hose.
You know, that was kind of it was very humble
beginnings and that little bit of success. Maybe you want

(58:39):
to move Art moved to Art moved to Nashville from
Arkansas and try to get a major label involved. Because
I thought people showed me that I was good enough
to go further. I was just limited by the resources
of the small label and everything. So I moved to
Nashville ninety seven and got my first major major label
dealing at ninety nine on Giant Records ninety nine, two

(59:00):
thousand and I was signed over there when Blake Sheldon
was signed over there, and that's how we became friends.
We were part of Giant Records, as we like to
call it, the Artist Protection Program, and we sat there
for a couple of years whinding together about when was
you know, Giant gonna put the saviors of Giant Records
out there? And they never did. I came along when

(59:23):
a Giant was bought by Warner Brothers. I was moved
along with the furniture. I was bought along with the furniture,
and so was Blake. He went off to have these
big hits, and Warner Brothers didn't like that I was
a traditional country guy. They wanted me to be more like,
you know, Flats, or they had envisioned me being something
like one trick Pony or kind of more rocking country

(59:46):
or no trick Pony, saw a trick Pony or Rascal Flats,
something like that, and I was just I could not
have disagreed more with that. But Jim ed Norman was
the president of that label, and he did something and
that no other label would ever do. He gave me
a check for fifty grand and said, your record contract

(01:00:07):
is still here if you want it, but here's fifty
thousand dollars to go find you another deal that you're
happy with. And if you don't find when you're happy with,
you still got your spot here. We'll just, you know,
get something. We'll get along somehow with the A and
R stuff. So I thought that was a very unusual
thing for a Nashville label to do, because usually they're like, well,

(01:00:28):
it's this way or no way, and so I'm always
grateful for Jim ed Norman for doing that. That was
in two thousand and one, and I had three offers
of big labels that were ready to go with it. Left, Yeah,
I left.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:00:40):
I found a great label with Tim Dubad and Tony Brown.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
They were starting a company together, was backed by Universal
and the first single, re released in March of two
thousand and two, became a number one in September of
two thousand and two.

Speaker 11 (01:00:54):
What was the song This is the Impossible?

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Really, man, that's such a good song.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
There's some controversy over that going number one. See back
then we had two charts. We had Billboard chart. We
had R and R charts what later became like the
Country Airruck and so you counted both of them. You know,
you didn't just count Billboard. But I guess Wikipedia only
counts Billboard. So I say six number ones, Wikipedia says
five number ones.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Well, did it go on that chart too?

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Three, it went to three, and it was it's all
a matter of how they counted the points and how
many points we had lost in the last couple of
days of the week.

Speaker 11 (01:01:30):
So that was kind of weird.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Justice for Joe, do that justice.

Speaker 11 (01:01:33):
I agree with you. Let's get them.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
But I'd say the funny story about the next single,
broken Heartsweel would have never been a number one had
two things not happen. I was number two when the
Dixie Chicks were overseas and did the whole meltdown thing
when that hale went down with uh had Bush and
comments of Bush and all that kind of stuff. That

(01:01:56):
was the week I was at number two. There was
a song flying up the chart. It had been on
the chart like three weeks, and it was already at
like number five, and it was for sure gonna be
a number one in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 11 (01:02:06):
And that was a song called Have You Forgotten?

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
So I was sandwiched in between this record breaking song
that was gonna be number one in like four weeks,
and and the Dixie Chicks were so far out in
front there's no way I could catch them organically. They
were like a thousand spins in front of me. And
they started coming down like two hundred.

Speaker 11 (01:02:28):
At a time. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, we're sweating it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
On Saturday and Sunday we're like watching the chart like,
oh my god, oh my god, it's gonna be so close.
You got all three records are within like one hundred
spins of each other, And it was miraculous that Sunday
at midnight, we were like fifty points in front of
Have You Forgotten, and just like one hundred points in
front of the Natalie Mains Dixie Chicks things. So we
got on number one on Billboard because the timing worked out,

(01:02:56):
said so perfect.

Speaker 8 (01:02:58):
We're so protesting, because I remember being like even the
country stations in Austin whenever that was happening. Yeah, they
were like pulling the songs. You couldn't turn on the
radio and hear the Dixie Chicks.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Yeah yeah, they were taking them into parking lot and
smashing their CDs and doing that whole thing. And my goodness,
I mean it was a that was chaotic. I held
my breath for an entire week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Yeah, as you smiled though, like yeah, here we go,
here comes Joe, Yeah, it comes Joe. Yeah, we're gonna
play the new song, and you guys go check out
Joe on the road. Just go to Joe Nichols dot
com or to his his Instagram. And I changed my
phone number, which I told you, Yeah, Joe te he
texts my old number and I still have that number

(01:03:38):
and I saw it check out like every couple days
and I was like, oh no, I didn't send Joe
my new number. I was like, dude, I'm so sorry,
save this new number. Uh so, uh yeah, good, good
to see you man. It's good to see you man.
Glad that you're here in town. And congratulations on the
new music. And you guys go watch Joe live. Great performer.
And now I play solos yea, how they can respect it?

(01:03:59):
Joe Nichols solo. Yeah, I mean they're not good solos,
but it's still.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
So there he is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
They're great, Joe Nichols. Thanks for hanging out. Thanks to
Joe Nichols for coming by. If you want to watch
the interview, you can, I mean you just heard it.
But if you want to watch anything, go to our
YouTube page at Bobby Bone Show. Also, like we mentioned,
you can watch Raymundo in Vegas playing Papa Shot Big
Top eight Finish super cool. You can watch that on

(01:04:28):
our YouTube page at Bobby Bone Show. All right, that's it.
We will see you guys tomorrow. Appreciate you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Bye,