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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Liza, what's up. Welcome to Tuesday Show Morning Studio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, let's go around the room and check in
with everybody here.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He says he's with it in a Drake fan and
when he looks at the Bachelor, he thinks that he's
the better looking man.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
It's Eddie, guys, guy, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
So the other day I get a text from a
random number and I'm like, what is this And it says, dude,
are you watching this game? It's so good? And I
showed my wife and them are like, do you know this?
She goes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's our
son's friend's dad. And I go, oh, okay, cool. I
like that guy. I haven't seen him in a while.
So I said, dude, I am watching this game. It's awesome.
Miss you guys. We should get together again. Soon left
(00:46):
it at that right, no response, nothing. So a week later,
on my son's basketball game and another dad sitting next
to me, he's like, hey, man, that game was cool.
Haun I got uh it wasn't the same day. Oh
my gosh, it's not the same guy, And he said, yeah,
that's why I text you because the game was so cool,
I texted the wrong dude, I miss you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We should get together soon. Do you not like this guy?
I just don't know him that well.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So it wasn't so much that you're like I was
texting somebody I don't know. It's like you were a
little too personal with somebody that you Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I always never tell this guy I miss you.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We should hang together se because we've never hung out
together ever. That's funny. So now I'm like, what do
I do? Do I like tell him because when he
said that, I was like, oh yeah, yeah, And I
just kept watching the accidental talking to somebody text. We
have a cabin in Arkansas and the neighbor that's been
very helpful, like when the weather gets bad, I have
him saved his neighbor Arkansas. Also, the women's basketball coach
(01:40):
is neighbors having my phone and I was having this
We're going to Fayville and we're playing and I know
coach neighbors, and I thought I was talking to coach neighbors,
but I was talking to my neighbor and I was like, yeah,
come back after the show.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So he drove off, yeah, and thought I was just confused.
The whole time, and then I looked.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I was like, oh no, it's the most helpless feeling.
Once I invited the wrong cruise over to play video games.
That's funny. There are two cruises. Yeah, and then when
cruise show you're like, what are you use? I was like,
you're also here? Oh no, wrong one.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I was just going to say, like if that Dad
ignored it, obviously he's you're good, you don't have to
do anything, because he never he never replied to it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Right now, no, and in my mind though, he ignored it,
like that's weir Yeah, but he didn't come up to
you and hey about the game.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
All right.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
He's always trying to start a side hustle and make
money quick, but none of the ideas ever seemed to stick.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's lunch, Bob, I might have another side hustle.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I didn't realize work here was also a storage unit
where you can put things that don't work.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And you can just leave them here. So I guarantee
you that's what you do with our palette. You just
leave it in a room. No.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But I mean there is someone on the show named
Ray that he's doing that with his trailblazer because he
never parks downstairs.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It's been in Thennuncetairs garage for over a week. It
hadn't moved. Are you storing your car here? No? No, no, no, no,
I was moving.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
It's embarrassing to have my entire life in my car
and just parking it right next to the door and
you guys all walk by it. So I kind of
hit it downstairs. But now I'm driving a different vehicle.
My wife's, uh, that car's unloaded, everything's fine. But you
left here for a week.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yeah, probably, And I thought, oh no, it broke down
and he got it towed here because he doesn't want
to just sitting.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Then you used to leave yours up here when we
on a weekend. Yeah, and we go on mark and
then or we go on vacation, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
What I mean.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Like I'd leave it here for the whole week because
you don't want it out in the elements. And so
I thought, maybe great, maybe he couldn't make it to
his new house.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
He's like, man, I'm just gonna store with those start's
leasing off parking spots.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like Fox says, she's getting back in the dating game,
So double tap you see her name, it's Amen.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Okay, So I watched that documentary on Netflix that is
about the We Are the World song the making of
the video. Yeah, unbelievable, the greatest night in pop and
I feel like I have so many highlights that I
would share, but I don't want to ruin any of
it for people.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
So I give it five out of five of.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
The biggest pop stars in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, they got together to sing a song we Are
the World, We Are the Child for Africa and it
was to raise money for famine relief.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, but it was every massive, massive But I haven't
seen it.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But see that that that's crazy and we all know that.
But what's really nuts is it happened in one night and.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Over it I schedule everybody to get there.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, because there was an awards show in town, so
they're like everyone that's anything.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
It was actually fascinating how they got everybody together. Because
this is so I wasn't going to say anything, but that.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Doesn't mean you should tell him not to.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I'm not being blame.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
This is my little segment and now I'm going to
get blamed for it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And said it though, and I didn't spoil anything.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
So that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Night I spoiler. They recorded a song that everyone heard.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Okay, but yeah, but you don't know how they got together,
and you how is that important?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Like, I just you just book them. I'll watch it, Judy.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
It is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was really good, dude, there's some stuff in there.
You're gonna be like, what on earth? What I can tell?
He held up?
Speaker 10 (05:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Go ahead from Mountain Pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
He gets random texts all the time, but he doesn't respond,
so he's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Bobby bone, Hey, for the past five nights, I've been
sleeping with tape on my mouth, and I wanted to
have a long enough runway to talk about it. So
it just wasn't one night, So let me play this.
So this was the story. If you can't sleep at night,
mouth breathing could be the surprise reason why. And so
they talk about breathing through your mouth, you could be
(05:33):
twice as likely to experience a regular nasal congestion. Fifty
six percent of mouth breathers say that they don't get
good sleep. Sometimes you get appne to sleep apn mouth
don't you throat closes. So I've been struggling sleeping, so
I put the tape on my mouth and so there's
a tape called hostage tape. I want to play a
couple of clips here. Here's number One's the tips.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Go ahead.
Speaker 11 (05:53):
First, ensure that your lips and surrounding area are clean
and dry. You don't want any grease or oil residue on,
which would hurt the adhesion.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
On the back.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
You'll notice a perforation. Pull the tape apart to easily
remove the backing. Next, place the tape gently over your
closed lips, smoothing it out to ensure it a hears fully.
Give it a good rub to help activate the glue.
And that's it. You're all set for a peaceful, uninterrupted
night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Flu is kind of weird because it doesn't feel like glue.
It's just sticky, and it doesn't hurt to take off,
and it doesn't you're not restrained.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Three of it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You could, Yes, we've got We've got a couple kinds.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But I'm going to tell you, I don't know that
it's helped tremendously, but it definitely has.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Allowed me to not worry about I don't know, but
it helps. Fifteen.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I think I've read when you're breathing through your nose,
I mean more oxygen and then that helps.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
With So I'm gonna say through five nights, it definitely
has helped a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And never once if I woke up like.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You didn't have nightmares that you were being hell hostile,
I didn't. And my wife has worn it a few
nights too. It's the same thing. So it feels weird.
It feels weird the first time you put it on.
But I'm gonna keep wearing it for a while and
I'll check back in in a couple of weeks. Wow,
I struggle with sleeping, but I do think it's made
it a little bit better. Oh okay, and it doesn't
(07:22):
feel like I'm being abducted, which is what I thought.
It kind of worked like you'd wake up You're like,
so yeah, And if you want water, what I do
is wake up the water, pull out, drink water, put
it back. Oh I thought you put it up your nose.
It's time to open up the mail bag.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Friend mail and read it all the air. It's something
we call Bobby's mail bag. Yeah, hello, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
My friend recently left a band that he's been touring
with and he's trying to make it as a solo artist.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
He just started writing new music. He's really excited about it.
He constantly wants to show me his new songs and
expects enthusiastic feedback. The problem is I don't much care
for his music. I don't feel like it's very good.
I feel kind of bad for thinking this, but I
don't want to discourage him. But I'm also tired of pretending.
Should I be straight with him or continue lying? What
should I do?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Signed friend of an aspiring musician Wells, What is your
role in this friendship? If your role is somebody that
he leans on to actually give him truth, then yes.
But if you're a friend and he's looking for support,
just give him spport. Just give him support. You don't
have to lie line like it's my favorite song. Ever,
I like fix you by cold playing this. You don't
(08:30):
have to do that. But do you say it's good?
Like even vaguely?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Can I think?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Because he's also just starting, he's very excited and it's
going to get better. But you could also be like, yes,
you can euphemism your way around it if he's not
looking for you to be his true feedback. People have
like one or two of those in their life. Otherwise
they go to people just to have some sort of
positive reinforcement. If you're positive reinforcement friend, if you're encouraging friend,
(08:56):
just be encouraging. That's what I want to say. There's
no integrity play where it's like I must tell the truth.
You probably lie all the time, whoever you are.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Are you doing that thing though, this year where you
just tell people, not me though, the truth?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
No matter what I know. I'm saying I.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Don't listen to people's music though, because people want to
send me music all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, and I won't.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I can just say honestly, I don't listen to people's music,
or if I do, I like like I never heard it,
and go I don't listen to.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Music, but I did. But I don't say anything but
mostly the first one, or is it?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
If your role in this friendship is to be the
supportive friend, don't feel like you have to be the
person who gives it to him straight?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
What do you know about music? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's what I would say to myself. Or if someone's like, hey,
how do you feel my architecture is? And if I
were like, man, that's ugly, I would think, what do
I know about architecture? I mean, I know what I like,
but I really can't tell you if it's good or not.
I know nothing about architecture or wine or so unless
it's your specialty.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Just be supportive. That's why I say anything from you.
Thanks for supporting me, Thank you sting me.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
No, yeah, I'm supporting you in being a friend that
supports Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right, close it up. We got your game May
and we ran in on the air.
Speaker 12 (10:04):
Now let's find the close Bobby's mail by Yeah on
the phone.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Now is Tyler and Ozark Missouri? Hey Tyler, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 10 (10:13):
I had the games played in games won with percentages
for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Every game we played on the show. Wow, this is
the second year row.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, I remember last year we were blown away. Gone
yeah yeah, okay, so we said, you said.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
You have percentages and I was like, no, but I'll
get them next year. So I got them.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Okay, let's talk about so give us some give us
some data here. So how all the games played? Listen
every podcast, tell me, give me, give me some stuff.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
All right. So the most games played by a single
person was one hundred and fifty seven, and that was
amy Because there's different times you know, the lowest person
got booted out of easy trivia, different games until you
know the next round.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
So the most games played by a single person with
Amy with one hundred and fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow, god man, okay, that's a good stat What else
you guy?
Speaker 10 (11:05):
There was only one person in the show that got
one hundred percent and games played games one?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay? How many games did they play?
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (11:13):
They played one game?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Okay, who was that? And they might have gid Okay, oh, Ray,
he wasn't. Ray had all the answers and he's playing right,
all right?
Speaker 12 (11:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
What else you got for us?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
I mean, do you just want to go from the
top or I can't really ever get any Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No, go whatever you have there?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Give me some like who who has the worst winning
percentage on the show?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
The worst winning percentage was Morgan. She won twelve games
out of seventy twelve.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Out of seventy that's terrible. And what and what's that?
What's that percentage?
Speaker 10 (11:47):
Seventeen percent?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Okay, that's like the pistons.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
You know what, if you can't be first, might as
well be lost.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
No, I don't try to get that d from aside
from Raymundo Bobby, you had the second highest percentage, and
it kind of has an asterisk. You went nine out
of ten for ninety percent. But there's one game where
you won and then you're like, gotta, let's keep playing.
Points points are doubled, and then the double points ended
(12:13):
up actually making you lose.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I lost. That's a loss lost. I'm sure I'm here
for a good time. I'm here for a long time.
You don't play many games for a good time. I mean,
this dude knows everything. This is my hero.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'm gonna I don't what I'm gonna ge him'mna him
some at the end of this. Okay, so take me
out of it. Now, give me lunchbox of stats. Where
did you fall?
Speaker 10 (12:31):
Lunchbox went forty four for one thirty eight at thirty
one point eight percent.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, I mean that's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Okay. Where did he rank in the rankings? Was he
next to last or was he up there?
Speaker 10 (12:44):
If you take so Morgan was left, I'll just go
from bottom up.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Go ahead, Yeah, yeah, I like that, all right.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
So Morgan was left and second to last play was
Amy at twenty one percent. She got she went thirty
three one fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
May anything to say Dank got it, okay, he said, thanks.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
And then you have Abby went ten for thirty seven
at twenty seven percent.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Wow, he's on there.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
Then you had lunch Box at thirty one point eight
percent okay, And then you had Eddy went fifty seven
for one forty nine at thirty eight point two percent.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
What all I do is win, Man'd be a Hall
of Famer in baseball. Yeah, all you do is win
thirty percent of the time. He just said, all I
do is win. Basically, we played one hundred and fifty
seven games though last year I have games. That's awesome. Wow,
that's good, Tyler. So, so does you have your spreadsheet?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Like, how do you I was gonna ask, like, do
you listen it and everyone just listen to keep track
or do you do it all year or do you
just go through and like cram all night and go
through everyone to find every game?
Speaker 10 (13:53):
No, I just I mean I get behind like a
week or so every now and then because my works
and down depends on how much windshield time I have.
But yeah, as I listen, I just got it. In
my notes, I have each person's name with games one
games played, and then at the end of the year,
I just did the percentages.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Would you have a job that requires you to do
math or spreadsheets?
Speaker 10 (14:19):
I'm a job site superintendent, so I'm probably managing a
job site and doing all that kind of stuff. But
all right, really, I just like numbers, and I thought
it was kind of fun to keep track of it
because you guys always said Eddie always won, so I
wanted to see how accurate that was.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You're the most winner. The proof is in the pudding. Well,
you're the winner. The proof is in the data. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Hey, so I want to give you something for all
this hard work. Are you a NASCAR fan? By any chance?
Speaker 10 (14:45):
I have a Instead of you sending me something, could
I do fifteen seconds to self promo?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah? That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Go ahead, let's start the timer, Raymundo, and don't start yet, Tyler.
When we get the TikToker up, we're going to go.
I'll give you fifteen seconds of self promotion. This is
Tyler who lives in Missouri. Ready, Tyler, and.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Go earned Kyler? Okay, kay wyle le r And I've
been in picktock jail for a long time. I'm stuck
at four hundred and eighty thousand follower. I don't know
what happened, but I could really use the B team
to give me a boost and get me back in
the algorithm so I can start making viral contents.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You have half a million?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Wait, so it's not Kyler, but what's the Yeah, what's
your account?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
What's your account? Kyler? What's your name there?
Speaker 10 (15:34):
It's is Kyler and it's my name is k y
l E R the n N I.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
E Kyle Kyler Ennis on TikTok. Yes, guy, have a million?
How do you have a million follower?
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
What'd you do the world? Yeah? What'd you do to
get all that? All the followers?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
I started with like d I y stuff. Whenever my
daughter was born, like three years ago, we did our
nursery and I did like a nursery makeover deal. Oh yeah,
he's like, then, I've kind of become great strength guy.
I test different groups, different occupations, group strength and post.
Those of those videos have been doing really good.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Jeff, if you ever.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Want to do a Grip Things video in the studio,
let me know. I'll drive to Nashville. That's no big deal.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
What's what's a grip?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sorry?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah? Yeah, what's a grip show?
Speaker 10 (16:18):
So you have the machine, right, Yeah, it's a handheld
dynamometer and whenever you squeeze it, it shows like how many
kinds of pressure you can squeeze.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And so he goes to all the different professions to
see who has the strongest grip. That's a that's a
funny name. Okay, so let me say his name again.
You guys, go follow Kyler Ennis. I just followed him.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
K y l E R E N N I s.
We'll get him out of TikTok jail. He's our statiician.
We're here from once a year.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Kyler. We appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Hey, you guys are awesome. I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
All right, buddy, Hey give it up for Kyler. Rea
see Kyler. All right, it's time for the good news.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
A longtime customer of Schooner's Restaurant and Illinois gifted the
thirty employees that work there one thousand dollars each.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wow, yeah, thirty thirty girl.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
They did it in honor of his late wife and daughter.
He sees the restaurant as a second home and the
employees is family. He did not want his name shared,
so I don't know it. But the guy that owns
the restaurant said hey, you don't have to do this.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
When he first heard about it from the man.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
He's like shocked and saying this is too much, this
is too much, don't do it. And the man insisted
because he's by no means rich somehow, maybe he just
had this money, maybe because of the late wife and daughter,
who knows, but he wanted to donate it to everybody,
and it's super cool.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That is awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, I can't imagine walking into hand me a thousand
bucks and lunchwatch. Can't imagine me doing it with that
one that.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Yeah, I don't know why you'd want not your name
out there. I mean, if you're going to go there,
people can see who you are.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You have a table named after you.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I was gonna say, have a booth named after you.
That's if you walk in and you want that mood.
Those people want to move.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Oh I thought they just named it after like the
why But you want it to be yours.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
No, no, no, I'm saying other people can use it, but
if you're there, you're there. They got to get up like, hey,
we're moving you over here as a bad meal.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yep, we were gonna our booth at Culver's where we met.
We were going to get a little plaque thing there.
But do you know they're tearing it down.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I didn't know that. Oh you should say went out
of business.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Let's it's relocating and then they're building something there because
of the sucker.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's what we do. Whatever we relocated, we did a
right good story. That's what it's all about. That was
telling me something good. I'm gonna spend this hour talking
about Toby Keith. If you haven't heard, country star Toby
Keith has passed away. The news was shared on social
media earlier this morning, So we've kind of just been
gathering our notes and clips so we could put together
(18:56):
as concisive an hour of a tribute as we possibly could.
Toby told the world in twenty twenty two he was
battling stomach cancer. His last performance was in December for
a sold out Las Vegas show at some friends went
said it was just a great show. His family put
out a brief statement on social media, and again we
saw it this morning. Quote Toby Keith's pass peacefully away
(19:20):
last night's February fifth, surrounded by his family.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He fought with grace and courage. Please respect the privacy
of his family at this time. And it was back
in June of twenty twenty two where he announced he
had stomach cancer.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He was in town.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He's been in town a couple times since, but he
was in town and he received the Like the Songwriter
that basically a Lifetime Achievement Songwriter award, and he played
obviously will have such a lasting impression in country music.
A lot of personal thoughts and stories for me that
(19:57):
we'll do this hour, even from you guys if you
have them, proud Okie.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
A lot to say about.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Him, But I was going to play a couple of
clips from when he was in studio just recently. This
was Toby on our show just a few weeks ago,
talking about his health and talking about getting back to
playing shows.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Probably only worked a handful of shows in the last
wide COVID two big seased COVID and cancer, so I
haven't worked handful of shows in the last three years.
But I worked every year for twenty seven to twenty
eight years. The only thing I had to concern me
was being away from it for three years and remembering
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all the words because they subconsciously come to you when
you're working, you don't even think about it, you know them,
and then getting completely away from him and having to
start back. So they had a teleprompter up there and
I got into a little bit of a sound check.
I remember go a full dress rehearsal day, but I
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didn't even use it. It was just like riding the bike.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Oh you knew all the words. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Once I got up there and started rolling and it
got familiar. I just I didn't even look at the
tail prompt.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Again. This is from just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Here in studio here is you know, asked him how
I was doing and how his stomach surgery affected his singing,
because it all has to do with each other.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's all affected by each thing. Here you go, you're
going on the road. How's your health, how's everything going?
It's going pretty good.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
This is a roller coaster and it takes a little
while and get your brain wrapped around it. You get
to a point where you just say, hey, this is
what I do, and you can't let it define you know,
your future. You can set around and wait wait wait,
wait wait. But the thing that I've had to overcome
is the surgery I had on my stomach. They had
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to stitch on my diaphragm, so and not using it
to sing every night. That is a muscle, you know,
So I've had to really work that to get it
where I sing really really hard and really really violent
and loud, and I didn't have that last ten percent
on the bottom where I could just really belt anything,
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you know, Like when I sing MacArthur Park at Carnegie Hall,
it was like opera stuff. So I don't know if
I could do that. But what I do on stage
is no problem. So it's like I've had I've had
to work on that different and it's getting better all
the time. But I went through about three hours yesterday
off and on, you know, going through our lists working
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it up, and I have a issue.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
You know, when it comes to Tobe Keith. Some people
are larger than life on screen or on a video
or in an interview, and then you meet them and
that's really not the case because they're just normal people.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Not the case with Tobe Keith. Not with Toby, not
that he.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Wasn't a normal dude, because again we were lucky enough
to spend a good amount of time with them, even
out of this do But I can just remember the
first time that Toby Keith came into the studio, the
first time that I'd ever met him. And again, there
are legends in country music, and there are contemporary legends
in country music. Like the contemporary legends are Toby, who
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still was making music but will always be known for
making history. At the same time McGraw Chesney like those
will be contemporary.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Legends.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
And so it was a big deal Garth that Toby
was coming in for the first time. This when we
first moved to town.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
First of all, massive, dude, look like a football player.
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
A lot of times when you meet somebody that's famous
or you see somebody from TV, they're not as big
in real life as they are when you're looking at
them on camera because they're like standing next to the
little chairs instead of normal sized chairs. But Toby was
a monster, and so I remember Toby coming in, huge personality, and.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, he was ready to go, like he was
here to go.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
All right, Look, you guys are all funny and stuff,
but I'm Toby and I'm funnier and don't come at
me because I'll come back harder, which I loved, And
I remember saying, hey, man, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Just as a random generic just to see where he
would go, and he goes google me.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
We were all caught still quote that. That's ten years ago.
We still quote that to this day. Google me.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But as serious as he was about that stuff, you know,
he was laughing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It was totally him messing with us. Yeah, but he
would say it serious. Yes, google google me. You want
to say, google me? And so.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Toby was a trip. And I think this whole hour
will kind of share stories. I have friends in the
country music community that are reaching out to me to go, hey, like,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Can we talk? Do you want us to talk?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Sure, anybody out there that's listening that if you're a
listener and you have a story, or if you're an
hard ist or a manager and you have a Toby story, like,
hit us up. We're here eight seven, seven seventy seven, Bobby.
If you can't find the number, google it, he said once,
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and I don't. This is also a story that we
share as a kind of an inside joke around here
as well, because Toby had such a big presence. He
said he made more merch and one more money on
merch in one night than the president does in a year.
I don't remember the context of how we got into
that as the thing.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
I think it was shortly after the Google.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh, I know, but I don't remember what we were
talking about where I would ask a question that led
him to saying.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I made more money on merch and one night than
the president does in a year.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
But that's when I knew there are gonna be a
lot of things to quote, like every time he come
in the studio letely quotable.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
We had no idea exactly what, especially Eddie and I,
what our relationship would be with him over the next
ten years or so as we were played with him
and traveled with him. If you're just waking up, Toby
Keith passed away. They announced it this morning, way early.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm not sure when it happened, but we'll spend all
hours sharing stories and sharing music. Toby Keith passed away.
The news came out this morning. He was in studio
a few weeks ago, and he didn't look like the
Toby Keith that we've known because he had been battling
cancer and had been battling going through different procedures. You know,
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it was pretty thin, but was still super positive.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, his demeanor.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Still had the big Toby keithness about him, like he was.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Seemed just more fragile, but still seemed very much him.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
He was wearing a lot of clothes though to try
to not show.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That his health wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I mean multiple coats, he had sunglasses on, he had
a hat on with the sunglasses. Yeah, but the especially
like big and almost like a rapper. They were bigger,
but still came in And if you weren't able to
see him and you just heard it and you did
to watch it back, you would have thought that here's
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a guy on the other side of it, because that's
why he was coming out. And I don't know this
for sure, but what it seems like is maybe this
is what he was doing one final time instead of
this is what he's doing as he comes back, like
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this is him doing his last shows in Vegas and
like his last round doing any sort of media or
hanging out with us. And I'm I felt super fortunate
that he was here just a few weeks ago. And
I told you guys that are listening, like call if
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you have a story, let's go, because we have one hundred.
But you just don't want to hear ours like, for example,
line three, Kim in Washington, DC. Kim, I appreciate you calling.
Let's go over to Kim if we can pick her up.
We have new everything. Everything's broken all right, So it's
a new phone.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I clicked it. It acts like it's good. Kim. Can
you hear us? Right? I hit three? We have new phones.
There we go. Whatever happened? That was the weirdest Now.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Hey, Kim bye, good morning, studio morning.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Can you tell us your story?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Oh, it's a great story, just epitomizes what kind of
guy he was. My husband was a marine, a career marine,
and we did two tours at Paris Island as drums ross.
And it was the summer two thousand and two, right
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after nine to eleven, of course ninety a year before,
and the first two weeks of the recruiting process when
they actually get to the depot. Those recruits are gone
for two weeks. You don't see them, you don't hear
from them. Along with our husbands and all the other
families were all missing.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Our hosts.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (29:28):
Well, Toby Keith was in the area. He had done
a concert either Charleston or Savannah.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And he actually made a seat for.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
And why this is so important is because he actually
came to an abandoned airfield on Paris Island and gave
a concert as the commanding general, gave all art crews,
all of the drill instructors, all of the family, basically two.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Hours to I want the base to this rady old
airfield that was hot Mars to be awful that they
had a big set up, and Toby gave a killer performance.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
Killer and he just loved his truths.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He loved being Americans. For him to take the time
out of his downtime to give this concerts. Not only
to they give a concert, they catered to barbecue everybody.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
There no doubt that Toby Keith loved America. I need
put a boot in your butt, you know what I mean,
No doubt, no doubt I mean. And that'll be one
of his legacies, how much he loved Flag and the Troops.
One of the shows that we played with him, Eddie
and I went to what DC right d C and
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all before the show because we were going to go
back and again, Toby had invited us to come over
be from last minute because something has fallen through like
Senna's plane to come get us.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He's like he can you guess come open for the
one show? Yeah, and we were like yeah, sure, gives
kind of a quick deal.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So he sent his jet, picked us up, flew us
up there, and they were like, he Tooby wants to
see you guys. Because it was kind of like land
and Fire, meaning we were in and going, so there's
a lot of time to like whatever, we don't do
anything anyway, but we weren't there all day and they're like,
he Toby wants to see you when we go back
to see Toby, but we couldn't get back there yet
because there was a line of people that Toby was
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talking to.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's probably thirteen or fourteen people, and so we're like,
we'll just come back. They're like, no, no, hangout for
a second. You should see this.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
And so Toby had brought in a bunch of people
from Walter Reed, the hospital where a lot of the
injured military men and women were, and it brought him
all backstage and was hanging out with all of them
and just spending a few minutes with every one of them.
And that wasn't something that he put up on social
media because probably something they did every or I know
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he did a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
But something he did.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Consistently every time that he was able to do it,
he did that, and I think that's what a lot
of his legacy will be.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Yeah, I feel like Kim's story is probably one of
multiple over all of these years where he would, yeah,
maybe if he learned of something or knew of a
place during his downtime, he would just pivot and make
it happen.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I do want to talk to Rod, who Rod is
the head of iHeart Country. And the reason I want
to talk to Rod is because Rod went to his
show in Vegas, which was basically his last run of
doing shows, and Rod, like me, was like, man, how's
he going to play? Because again he looked like somebody
who'd been battling cancer. He's seves frail. And I remember Rod,
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and I can let Rod tell the story. It started
off and I was like, oh boy, but then by
the end he was rocking it. Rod, what was Toby's
last show?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Like, oh man, I have so many thoughts.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
Thanks for letting me shit because he's obviously coming, you know,
rushing back to us as we wake up to the news.
But yeah, we go to Vegas and we got the
you know, fortunate opportunity to go backstage say hi and
take pictures, which now is you know, an amazing memory
and something special to have been a part of. But yeah,
I called you right away. I'm like, you wouldn't believe it,
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Like this Toby t show is crazy. And keep in
mind when I saw him, it was the second night
of Back to the Back night and you just didn't
know what to expect, right, this is a guy who
was persevering by battling. And I can tell you for
sure that you know, he didn't get on stage and
do forty five minutes. He didn't get on stage and
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do an hour. He did an hour and forty five
minutes or more, which was just remarkable to watch. And
you said it from the start of the show to
the end, he got more energy. By the end, I
was worried, like, hey, when is he going to tap
because again is a difficult thing to physically get through.
And the last three songs were bangers. Right, he had
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more energy. He was feeding off the crowd. It's what
he did, right. You could see that an artist who
lived to perform got all that energy from the from
the crowd. And he walked off stage stronger than he
walked on stage.
Speaker 12 (34:17):
It was.
Speaker 14 (34:17):
It was honestly remarkable.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Is to watch it? What was the crowd like with Toby?
And was it just a pure sing along the whole time?
Speaker 12 (34:27):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (34:27):
The whole time?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You know.
Speaker 14 (34:29):
I obviously you jump on your phone if you've got stuff,
started looking at pictures or videos. I mean I was
in the crowd doing that whole thing, phones up for
all the songs. The only one that wasn't really sing
along but was a huge moment, as you can imagine,
is don't let the old man in. You know, he
just sat there, just hime and the guitar. And I
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was about to post a video of that one. I mean,
that's that's now even more touching than it was. But
everything else, you know, every word, it's sting along from
start to finish. But let me let me add this,
because I told you this after the show, you would
have thought a great vocalists, right, this guy could staying
live and it was terrific, But you would have thought
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maybe some backup singer help. To my knowledge, it was
him right. He wasn't looking for people to fill in,
and he notes that he couldn't hit any of that
he hit them all and it was just Toby and
his amazing band.
Speaker 10 (35:26):
It was cool.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Eddie and I played Frontier Days with Toby and it's
a whole set of you know, there's like seven right artists,
but we were direct support for Toby.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Was Toby.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
This is a different show than the DC one, Muddy
just it was just awful weather wise. Place was still
packed and so we played up until like nine thirty
and Toby played after. But I remember Rod being like, ye,
I was on the bus with Toby ke till like three.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
O'clock afterward, because he came with Rod, came with us,
just Toby sharing stories larger than live, Like what what
can you from that?
Speaker 14 (36:02):
Well, again another situation. I had no business being there, right.
Speaker 10 (36:06):
But next thing, you know, because I was hanging out
with you guys, you're the opening act, and.
Speaker 14 (36:13):
You know, they wanted they wanted a chance to say
hey to Toby. I'm like cool to your point. Next thing,
you know, it's after midnight where we're having a great
social event and the guitar comes out and there's nothing
like it, right, A legend literally sitting in front of
me just picking on the guitar and singing, and that's
when he told the story about don't let the old
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man in, which is a line he got from Clint Eastwood.
He played golf with him at Pebble Beach, Clint Eastwood
getting up there in years and Toby's like, how do
you play golf every day? How do you come out
here and hang.
Speaker 10 (36:43):
Out every day?
Speaker 14 (36:44):
And it's Clint Eastwood who gave him the line he
wakes up and he doesn't let the old man in.
And I turned into this song and I watched Toby
picking this song that I had never heard before, and
it was just it was life changing. Quite honestly, I
will never forget that moment, as late as it was
on a tour.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
About well, we appreciate the time coming on with us
this morning. And for those that don't know that song,
we're gonna play coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's the last song, because he had put out a
single before and then had just decided we're gonna do
it again. And when he was here the last time,
that's what he was saying, Yeah, it's kind of weird
we're doing this, but we're gonna do it again, So.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
We'll do that coming up in just a second. Rod,
thanks for your time.
Speaker 10 (37:23):
In oh I appreciate it.
Speaker 14 (37:25):
God blessed to the Keith.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
What a powerful line of like even just thinking about
that right now, and I think when the song plays,
like listening to that and a reminder to all of
us of you know, even how we can wake up
and what we can do with our day of not
even like if you're older, don't let the old man say.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Don't let the w boy in, yes, or that, don't
let that every day, every.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Day, the complainer in or whatever you're feeling like, don't
let that person in looking at you.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Whisky boy, let him in. Don't let him in to me.
That's your version of the texting with my father in
law right now, who is massive Oklahoma fan lives in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Like when now I'm home with my wife in Oklahoma,
I have to tell him like, okay, enough, Oklahoma, can
please talk about Arkansas'm in it like just sports. But
he sent me this whole thing about Toby Keith and
he says, sad day for Oklahoma. Oklahoma loved all caps,
loved Toby Keith, and he just wrote beloved. I think
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a lot of people listening in Oklahoma feel like it.
That's their dude, I think a lot of people in
country music feel like it's their dude.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
We have George Burge on the line, and think about
George is he just had a number one song just
kind of set this up with I Got my mind
on you in all the words, that's it. Yeah. But
we talked about George a couple of weeks ago with
him because he was an old school picture of him
and Toby Keith and we were like, hey, what was that?
Is him? Toby Keith and post Malone? Now George? Do
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we have George there? He is George? What was your relationship?
How did you get to know Toby?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
So?
Speaker 15 (39:08):
Hey, guys, good morning, morning man. So Toby actually was
one of the first people to discover me as a
musician and signed me to one of my first record
deals in twenty fifteen. So he was always just larger
than life to me.
Speaker 12 (39:24):
We had come like out of a van.
Speaker 15 (39:25):
And trailer like touring across America playing dive bars, and
he took us out on tour with him, and all
of a sudden it was amphitheaters and thirty thousand people
a night and just classic big dog daddy style. Everything
was like the biggest you'd ever seen in your life.
And I was at Texas Longhorn and he knew that,
so he always loved to give me some fire about it.
We'd show up in my name for the green room,
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would be on the porta potti or on the trash
can or something like that. But he was also always
really cool to us, like he gave us longer than
we deserved for soundcheck, like we were always welcoming his case,
which was like filet mignon and lobster mac and cheese.
And then we'd be standing side stage watching the shows
and it beat Bob Stoops or Larry Bird or Roger Clemens,
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and it was just the most surreal experience getting to
tour with him. And I think more than anything he had,
you know, all the success and the fame and all
these people coming out to his shows, but he just
genuinely loved music. He would go on stage played ninety
minutes worth the number ones for the fans, and then
he would grab us and he'd say, hey, let's go
to the bus, and he would want to play acoustic
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guitar for like three hours on the bus and just
shoot the breeze. And he was literally a human jew
box Not a lot of people know this, but he
knew you couldn't name a song that he couldn't.
Speaker 10 (40:41):
Play as a cover. He'd literally, like aggressively look at
you and be.
Speaker 15 (40:44):
Like, name a song, any song, and he would make you.
He would make you say a song, and then he
could play the whole thing, from Merle Haggard to sugar
Hill Gang.
Speaker 10 (40:53):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 15 (40:55):
His just love and respect for music.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
What did you see about him as a professional a
performer that inspired you?
Speaker 15 (41:03):
I think it was the way that he held the
crowd in the palm of his hands. He had everybody.
He really made everybody feel seen.
Speaker 10 (41:12):
He would, you know, thank everybody for being there. He
was proud of who he was.
Speaker 15 (41:16):
He was proud of the music that he made, and
more than anything, he was proud of his relationship with
his fans, and I think they genuinely felt that and
there was a real connection there. So it wasn't just
him up there sitting behind a guitar playing music. It
was him enjoying time and connecting with friends when he
was on stage.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
And then my final question will be auth of dout,
like what kind of person when no one else was around?
Like what do you think about when I when I
mentioned Toby Keith.
Speaker 15 (41:44):
Toby was one of the most successful guys in the
history of country music, if not maybe the most successful.
But he was also one of the most generous. And
it was not when people were looking, you know, not
a lot of people know that Toby hired you know,
almost exclusively from his hometown, from people that he grew
up with. He started that Okay Kids Corral, taking care
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of kids that were sick. He was always donating his
time and his money to the US military. He was
a guy that knew who took care of him, and
he made sure to.
Speaker 10 (42:17):
Do the same.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
George appreciate you talking with us this morning.
Speaker 15 (42:21):
Thank you guys, and I appreciate you all having me on.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
George Burge again was signed to Toby's label.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Toured with Toby, has a lot of great Toby stories,
spending a lot of the show, if not most of it,
talking about Toby. Keith announced this morning that he passed
away at sixty two years old.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
I want to put on Eric in Delaware. Hey, Eric,
we appreciate you calling the show here. A lot of
people have stories, thoughts, emotions regarding Toby's death. Eric, you know,
what would you like to say.
Speaker 12 (42:52):
Oh, my goodness, Fay, good morning, studio morning. Hey quite
the thumber Tuesday. But I just wanted to share a
Tobe Kee story about when I was deployed in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
We had just.
Speaker 12 (43:11):
Gone under you know, under attack and lost some people
Sarry somber, bad time. We knew there was a concert coming,
but we didn't know who at the end of the
week and uh, you know, I kind of stumbled upon
where it was at and this big blonde haired dude
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get on stage and started streaming his guitar and I
lost it and it was Toby. You know, he isn't
just rocked out for us in the middle of Afghanistan
and brought us all home through his music for maybe
an hour or so, and he didn't care that he
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was coming in to a hot zone and he just
wanted to be to be there with us and he
did so. It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah, that tracks fully on brand for Toby. We appreciate
that story, Eric. We got a lot more just like
that too. I just said, hey, if you know I mean,
and it is like, who
Liza, what's up. Welcome to Tuesday Show Morning Studio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, let's go around the room and check in
with everybody here.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He says he's with it in a Drake fan and
when he looks at the Bachelor, he thinks that he's
the better looking man.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
It's Eddie, guys, guy, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
So the other day I get a text from a
random number and I'm like, what is this And it says, dude,
are you watching this game? It's so good? And I
showed my wife and them are like, do you know this?
She goes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's our
son's friend's dad. And I go, oh, okay, cool. I
like that guy. I haven't seen him in a while.
So I said, dude, I am watching this game. It's awesome.
Miss you guys. We should get together again. Soon left
(00:46):
it at that right, no response, nothing. So a week later,
on my son's basketball game and another dad sitting next
to me, he's like, hey, man, that game was cool.
Haun I got uh it wasn't the same day. Oh
my gosh, it's not the same guy, And he said, yeah,
that's why I text you because the game was so cool,
I texted the wrong dude, I miss you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We should get together soon. Do you not like this guy?
I just don't know him that well.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So it wasn't so much that you're like I was
texting somebody I don't know. It's like you were a
little too personal with somebody that you Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I always never tell this guy I miss you.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We should hang together se because we've never hung out
together ever. That's funny. So now I'm like, what do
I do? Do I like tell him because when he
said that, I was like, oh yeah, yeah, And I
just kept watching the accidental talking to somebody text. We
have a cabin in Arkansas and the neighbor that's been
very helpful, like when the weather gets bad, I have
him saved his neighbor Arkansas. Also, the women's basketball coach
(01:40):
is neighbors having my phone and I was having this
We're going to Fayville and we're playing and I know
coach neighbors, and I thought I was talking to coach neighbors,
but I was talking to my neighbor and I was like, yeah,
come back after the show.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So he drove off, yeah, and thought I was just confused.
The whole time, and then I looked.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I was like, oh no, it's the most helpless feeling.
Once I invited the wrong cruise over to play video games.
That's funny. There are two cruises. Yeah, and then when
cruise show you're like, what are you use? I was like,
you're also here? Oh no, wrong one.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I was just going to say, like if that Dad
ignored it, obviously he's you're good, you don't have to
do anything, because he never he never replied to it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Right now, no, and in my mind though, he ignored it,
like that's weir Yeah, but he didn't come up to
you and hey about the game.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
All right.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
He's always trying to start a side hustle and make
money quick, but none of the ideas ever seemed to stick.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's lunch, Bob, I might have another side hustle.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I didn't realize work here was also a storage unit
where you can put things that don't work.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And you can just leave them here. So I guarantee
you that's what you do with our palette. You just
leave it in a room. No.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But I mean there is someone on the show named
Ray that he's doing that with his trailblazer because he
never parks downstairs.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It's been in Thennuncetairs garage for over a week. It
hadn't moved. Are you storing your car here? No? No, no, no, no,
I was moving.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
It's embarrassing to have my entire life in my car
and just parking it right next to the door and
you guys all walk by it. So I kind of
hit it downstairs. But now I'm driving a different vehicle.
My wife's, uh, that car's unloaded, everything's fine. But you
left here for a week.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yeah, probably, And I thought, oh no, it broke down
and he got it towed here because he doesn't want
to just sitting.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Then you used to leave yours up here when we
on a weekend. Yeah, and we go on mark and
then or we go on vacation, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
What I mean.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Like I'd leave it here for the whole week because
you don't want it out in the elements. And so
I thought, maybe great, maybe he couldn't make it to
his new house.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
He's like, man, I'm just gonna store with those start's
leasing off parking spots.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like Fox says, she's getting back in the dating game,
So double tap you see her name, it's Amen.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Okay, So I watched that documentary on Netflix that is
about the We Are the World song the making of
the video. Yeah, unbelievable, the greatest night in pop and
I feel like I have so many highlights that I
would share, but I don't want to ruin any of
it for people.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
So I give it five out of five of.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
The biggest pop stars in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, they got together to sing a song we Are
the World, We Are the Child for Africa and it
was to raise money for famine relief.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, but it was every massive, massive But I haven't
seen it.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But see that that that's crazy and we all know that.
But what's really nuts is it happened in one night and.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Over it I schedule everybody to get there.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, because there was an awards show in town, so
they're like everyone that's anything.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
It was actually fascinating how they got everybody together. Because
this is so I wasn't going to say anything, but that.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Doesn't mean you should tell him not to.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I'm not being blame.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
This is my little segment and now I'm going to
get blamed for it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And said it though, and I didn't spoil anything.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
So that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Night I spoiler. They recorded a song that everyone heard.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Okay, but yeah, but you don't know how they got together,
and you how is that important?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Like, I just you just book them. I'll watch it, Judy.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
It is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was really good, dude, there's some stuff in there.
You're gonna be like, what on earth? What I can tell?
He held up?
Speaker 10 (05:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Go ahead from Mountain Pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
He gets random texts all the time, but he doesn't respond,
so he's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Bobby bone, Hey, for the past five nights, I've been
sleeping with tape on my mouth, and I wanted to
have a long enough runway to talk about it. So
it just wasn't one night, So let me play this.
So this was the story. If you can't sleep at night,
mouth breathing could be the surprise reason why. And so
they talk about breathing through your mouth, you could be
(05:33):
twice as likely to experience a regular nasal congestion. Fifty
six percent of mouth breathers say that they don't get
good sleep. Sometimes you get appne to sleep apn mouth
don't you throat closes. So I've been struggling sleeping, so
I put the tape on my mouth and so there's
a tape called hostage tape. I want to play a
couple of clips here. Here's number One's the tips.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Go ahead.
Speaker 11 (05:53):
First, ensure that your lips and surrounding area are clean
and dry. You don't want any grease or oil residue on,
which would hurt the adhesion.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
On the back.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
You'll notice a perforation. Pull the tape apart to easily
remove the backing. Next, place the tape gently over your
closed lips, smoothing it out to ensure it a hears fully.
Give it a good rub to help activate the glue.
And that's it. You're all set for a peaceful, uninterrupted
night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Flu is kind of weird because it doesn't feel like glue.
It's just sticky, and it doesn't hurt to take off,
and it doesn't you're not restrained.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Three of it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You could, Yes, we've got We've got a couple kinds.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But I'm going to tell you, I don't know that
it's helped tremendously, but it definitely has.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Allowed me to not worry about I don't know, but
it helps. Fifteen.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I think I've read when you're breathing through your nose,
I mean more oxygen and then that helps.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
With So I'm gonna say through five nights, it definitely
has helped a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And never once if I woke up like.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You didn't have nightmares that you were being hell hostile,
I didn't. And my wife has worn it a few
nights too. It's the same thing. So it feels weird.
It feels weird the first time you put it on.
But I'm gonna keep wearing it for a while and
I'll check back in in a couple of weeks. Wow,
I struggle with sleeping, but I do think it's made
it a little bit better. Oh okay, and it doesn't
(07:22):
feel like I'm being abducted, which is what I thought.
It kind of worked like you'd wake up You're like,
so yeah, And if you want water, what I do
is wake up the water, pull out, drink water, put
it back. Oh I thought you put it up your nose.
It's time to open up the mail bag.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Friend mail and read it all the air. It's something
we call Bobby's mail bag. Yeah, hello, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
My friend recently left a band that he's been touring
with and he's trying to make it as a solo artist.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
He just started writing new music. He's really excited about it.
He constantly wants to show me his new songs and
expects enthusiastic feedback. The problem is I don't much care
for his music. I don't feel like it's very good.
I feel kind of bad for thinking this, but I
don't want to discourage him. But I'm also tired of pretending.
Should I be straight with him or continue lying? What
should I do?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Signed friend of an aspiring musician Wells, What is your
role in this friendship? If your role is somebody that
he leans on to actually give him truth, then yes.
But if you're a friend and he's looking for support,
just give him spport. Just give him support. You don't
have to lie line like it's my favorite song. Ever,
I like fix you by cold playing this. You don't
(08:30):
have to do that. But do you say it's good?
Like even vaguely?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Can I think?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Because he's also just starting, he's very excited and it's
going to get better. But you could also be like, yes,
you can euphemism your way around it if he's not
looking for you to be his true feedback. People have
like one or two of those in their life. Otherwise
they go to people just to have some sort of
positive reinforcement. If you're positive reinforcement friend, if you're encouraging friend,
(08:56):
just be encouraging. That's what I want to say. There's
no integrity play where it's like I must tell the truth.
You probably lie all the time, whoever you are.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Are you doing that thing though, this year where you
just tell people, not me though, the truth?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
No matter what I know. I'm saying I.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Don't listen to people's music though, because people want to
send me music all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, and I won't.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I can just say honestly, I don't listen to people's music,
or if I do, I like like I never heard it,
and go I don't listen to.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Music, but I did. But I don't say anything but
mostly the first one, or is it?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
If your role in this friendship is to be the
supportive friend, don't feel like you have to be the
person who gives it to him straight?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
What do you know about music? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's what I would say to myself. Or if someone's like, hey,
how do you feel my architecture is? And if I
were like, man, that's ugly, I would think, what do
I know about architecture? I mean, I know what I like,
but I really can't tell you if it's good or not.
I know nothing about architecture or wine or so unless
it's your specialty.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Just be supportive. That's why I say anything from you.
Thanks for supporting me, Thank you sting me.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
No, yeah, I'm supporting you in being a friend that
supports Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right, close it up. We got your game May
and we ran in on the air.
Speaker 12 (10:04):
Now let's find the close Bobby's mail by Yeah on
the phone.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Now is Tyler and Ozark Missouri? Hey Tyler, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 10 (10:13):
I had the games played in games won with percentages
for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Every game we played on the show. Wow, this is
the second year row.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, I remember last year we were blown away. Gone
yeah yeah, okay, so we said, you said.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
You have percentages and I was like, no, but I'll
get them next year. So I got them.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Okay, let's talk about so give us some give us
some data here. So how all the games played? Listen
every podcast, tell me, give me, give me some stuff.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
All right. So the most games played by a single
person was one hundred and fifty seven, and that was
amy Because there's different times you know, the lowest person
got booted out of easy trivia, different games until you
know the next round.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
So the most games played by a single person with
Amy with one hundred and fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow, god man, okay, that's a good stat What else
you guy?
Speaker 10 (11:05):
There was only one person in the show that got
one hundred percent and games played games one?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay? How many games did they play?
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (11:13):
They played one game?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Okay, who was that? And they might have gid Okay, oh, Ray,
he wasn't. Ray had all the answers and he's playing right,
all right?
Speaker 12 (11:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
What else you got for us?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
I mean, do you just want to go from the
top or I can't really ever get any Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No, go whatever you have there?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Give me some like who who has the worst winning
percentage on the show?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
The worst winning percentage was Morgan. She won twelve games
out of seventy twelve.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Out of seventy that's terrible. And what and what's that?
What's that percentage?
Speaker 10 (11:47):
Seventeen percent?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Okay, that's like the pistons.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
You know what, if you can't be first, might as
well be lost.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
No, I don't try to get that d from aside
from Raymundo Bobby, you had the second highest percentage, and
it kind of has an asterisk. You went nine out
of ten for ninety percent. But there's one game where
you won and then you're like, gotta, let's keep playing.
Points points are doubled, and then the double points ended
(12:13):
up actually making you lose.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I lost. That's a loss lost. I'm sure I'm here
for a good time. I'm here for a long time.
You don't play many games for a good time. I mean,
this dude knows everything. This is my hero.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'm gonna I don't what I'm gonna ge him'mna him
some at the end of this. Okay, so take me
out of it. Now, give me lunchbox of stats. Where
did you fall?
Speaker 10 (12:31):
Lunchbox went forty four for one thirty eight at thirty
one point eight percent.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, I mean that's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Okay. Where did he rank in the rankings? Was he
next to last or was he up there?
Speaker 10 (12:44):
If you take so Morgan was left, I'll just go
from bottom up.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Go ahead, Yeah, yeah, I like that, all right.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
So Morgan was left and second to last play was
Amy at twenty one percent. She got she went thirty
three one fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
May anything to say Dank got it, okay, he said, thanks.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
And then you have Abby went ten for thirty seven
at twenty seven percent.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Wow, he's on there.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
Then you had lunch Box at thirty one point eight
percent okay, And then you had Eddy went fifty seven
for one forty nine at thirty eight point two percent.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
What all I do is win, Man'd be a Hall
of Famer in baseball. Yeah, all you do is win
thirty percent of the time. He just said, all I
do is win. Basically, we played one hundred and fifty
seven games though last year I have games. That's awesome. Wow,
that's good, Tyler. So, so does you have your spreadsheet?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Like, how do you I was gonna ask, like, do
you listen it and everyone just listen to keep track
or do you do it all year or do you
just go through and like cram all night and go
through everyone to find every game?
Speaker 10 (13:53):
No, I just I mean I get behind like a
week or so every now and then because my works
and down depends on how much windshield time I have.
But yeah, as I listen, I just got it. In
my notes, I have each person's name with games one
games played, and then at the end of the year,
I just did the percentages.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Would you have a job that requires you to do
math or spreadsheets?
Speaker 10 (14:19):
I'm a job site superintendent, so I'm probably managing a
job site and doing all that kind of stuff. But
all right, really, I just like numbers, and I thought
it was kind of fun to keep track of it
because you guys always said Eddie always won, so I
wanted to see how accurate that was.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You're the most winner. The proof is in the pudding. Well,
you're the winner. The proof is in the data. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Hey, so I want to give you something for all
this hard work. Are you a NASCAR fan? By any chance?
Speaker 10 (14:45):
I have a Instead of you sending me something, could
I do fifteen seconds to self promo?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah? That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Go ahead, let's start the timer, Raymundo, and don't start yet, Tyler.
When we get the TikToker up, we're going to go.
I'll give you fifteen seconds of self promotion. This is
Tyler who lives in Missouri. Ready, Tyler, and.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Go earned Kyler? Okay, kay wyle le r And I've
been in picktock jail for a long time. I'm stuck
at four hundred and eighty thousand follower. I don't know
what happened, but I could really use the B team
to give me a boost and get me back in
the algorithm so I can start making viral contents.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You have half a million?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Wait, so it's not Kyler, but what's the Yeah, what's
your account?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
What's your account? Kyler? What's your name there?
Speaker 10 (15:34):
It's is Kyler and it's my name is k y
l E R the n N I.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
E Kyle Kyler Ennis on TikTok. Yes, guy, have a million?
How do you have a million follower?
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
What'd you do the world? Yeah? What'd you do to
get all that? All the followers?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
I started with like d I y stuff. Whenever my
daughter was born, like three years ago, we did our
nursery and I did like a nursery makeover deal. Oh yeah,
he's like, then, I've kind of become great strength guy.
I test different groups, different occupations, group strength and post.
Those of those videos have been doing really good.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Jeff, if you ever.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Want to do a Grip Things video in the studio,
let me know. I'll drive to Nashville. That's no big deal.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
What's what's a grip?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sorry?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah? Yeah, what's a grip show?
Speaker 10 (16:18):
So you have the machine, right, Yeah, it's a handheld
dynamometer and whenever you squeeze it, it shows like how many
kinds of pressure you can squeeze.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And so he goes to all the different professions to
see who has the strongest grip. That's a that's a
funny name. Okay, so let me say his name again.
You guys, go follow Kyler Ennis. I just followed him.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
K y l E R E N N I s.
We'll get him out of TikTok jail. He's our statiician.
We're here from once a year.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Kyler. We appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Hey, you guys are awesome. I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
All right, buddy, Hey give it up for Kyler. Rea
see Kyler. All right, it's time for the good news.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
A longtime customer of Schooner's Restaurant and Illinois gifted the
thirty employees that work there one thousand dollars each.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wow, yeah, thirty thirty girl.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
They did it in honor of his late wife and daughter.
He sees the restaurant as a second home and the
employees is family. He did not want his name shared,
so I don't know it. But the guy that owns
the restaurant said hey, you don't have to do this.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
When he first heard about it from the man.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
He's like shocked and saying this is too much, this
is too much, don't do it. And the man insisted
because he's by no means rich somehow, maybe he just
had this money, maybe because of the late wife and daughter,
who knows, but he wanted to donate it to everybody,
and it's super cool.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That is awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, I can't imagine walking into hand me a thousand
bucks and lunchwatch. Can't imagine me doing it with that
one that.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Yeah, I don't know why you'd want not your name
out there. I mean, if you're going to go there,
people can see who you are.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You have a table named after you.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I was gonna say, have a booth named after you.
That's if you walk in and you want that mood.
Those people want to move.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Oh I thought they just named it after like the
why But you want it to be yours.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
No, no, no, I'm saying other people can use it, but
if you're there, you're there. They got to get up like, hey,
we're moving you over here as a bad meal.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yep, we were gonna our booth at Culver's where we met.
We were going to get a little plaque thing there.
But do you know they're tearing it down.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I didn't know that. Oh you should say went out
of business.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Let's it's relocating and then they're building something there because
of the sucker.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's what we do. Whatever we relocated, we did a
right good story. That's what it's all about. That was
telling me something good. I'm gonna spend this hour talking
about Toby Keith. If you haven't heard, country star Toby
Keith has passed away. The news was shared on social
media earlier this morning, So we've kind of just been
gathering our notes and clips so we could put together
(18:56):
as concisive an hour of a tribute as we possibly could.
Toby told the world in twenty twenty two he was
battling stomach cancer. His last performance was in December for
a sold out Las Vegas show at some friends went
said it was just a great show. His family put
out a brief statement on social media, and again we
saw it this morning. Quote Toby Keith's pass peacefully away
(19:20):
last night's February fifth, surrounded by his family.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He fought with grace and courage. Please respect the privacy
of his family at this time. And it was back
in June of twenty twenty two where he announced he
had stomach cancer.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He was in town.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He's been in town a couple times since, but he
was in town and he received the Like the Songwriter
that basically a Lifetime Achievement Songwriter award, and he played
obviously will have such a lasting impression in country music.
A lot of personal thoughts and stories for me that
(19:57):
we'll do this hour, even from you guys if you
have them, proud Okie.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
A lot to say about.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Him, But I was going to play a couple of
clips from when he was in studio just recently. This
was Toby on our show just a few weeks ago,
talking about his health and talking about getting back to
playing shows.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Probably only worked a handful of shows in the last
wide COVID two big seased COVID and cancer, so I
haven't worked handful of shows in the last three years.
But I worked every year for twenty seven to twenty
eight years. The only thing I had to concern me
was being away from it for three years and remembering
(20:39):
all the words because they subconsciously come to you when
you're working, you don't even think about it, you know them,
and then getting completely away from him and having to
start back. So they had a teleprompter up there and
I got into a little bit of a sound check.
I remember go a full dress rehearsal day, but I
(21:00):
didn't even use it. It was just like riding the bike.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Oh you knew all the words. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Once I got up there and started rolling and it
got familiar. I just I didn't even look at the
tail prompt.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Again. This is from just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Here in studio here is you know, asked him how
I was doing and how his stomach surgery affected his singing,
because it all has to do with each other.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's all affected by each thing. Here you go, you're
going on the road. How's your health, how's everything going?
It's going pretty good.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
This is a roller coaster and it takes a little
while and get your brain wrapped around it. You get
to a point where you just say, hey, this is
what I do, and you can't let it define you know,
your future. You can set around and wait wait wait,
wait wait. But the thing that I've had to overcome
is the surgery I had on my stomach. They had
(21:48):
to stitch on my diaphragm, so and not using it
to sing every night. That is a muscle, you know,
So I've had to really work that to get it
where I sing really really hard and really really violent
and loud, and I didn't have that last ten percent
on the bottom where I could just really belt anything,
(22:11):
you know, Like when I sing MacArthur Park at Carnegie Hall,
it was like opera stuff. So I don't know if
I could do that. But what I do on stage
is no problem. So it's like I've had I've had
to work on that different and it's getting better all
the time. But I went through about three hours yesterday
off and on, you know, going through our lists working
(22:33):
it up, and I have a issue.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
You know, when it comes to Tobe Keith. Some people
are larger than life on screen or on a video
or in an interview, and then you meet them and
that's really not the case because they're just normal people.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Not the case with Tobe Keith. Not with Toby, not
that he.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Wasn't a normal dude, because again we were lucky enough
to spend a good amount of time with them, even
out of this do But I can just remember the
first time that Toby Keith came into the studio, the
first time that I'd ever met him. And again, there
are legends in country music, and there are contemporary legends
in country music. Like the contemporary legends are Toby, who
(23:16):
still was making music but will always be known for
making history. At the same time McGraw Chesney like those
will be contemporary.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Legends.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
And so it was a big deal Garth that Toby
was coming in for the first time. This when we
first moved to town.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
First of all, massive, dude, look like a football player.
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
A lot of times when you meet somebody that's famous
or you see somebody from TV, they're not as big
in real life as they are when you're looking at
them on camera because they're like standing next to the
little chairs instead of normal sized chairs. But Toby was
a monster, and so I remember Toby coming in, huge personality, and.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, he was ready to go, like he was
here to go.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
All right, Look, you guys are all funny and stuff,
but I'm Toby and I'm funnier and don't come at
me because I'll come back harder, which I loved, And
I remember saying, hey, man, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Just as a random generic just to see where he
would go, and he goes google me.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
We were all caught still quote that. That's ten years ago.
We still quote that to this day. Google me.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But as serious as he was about that stuff, you know,
he was laughing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It was totally him messing with us. Yeah, but he
would say it serious. Yes, google google me. You want
to say, google me? And so.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Toby was a trip. And I think this whole hour
will kind of share stories. I have friends in the
country music community that are reaching out to me to go, hey, like,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Can we talk? Do you want us to talk?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Sure, anybody out there that's listening that if you're a
listener and you have a story, or if you're an
hard ist or a manager and you have a Toby story, like,
hit us up. We're here eight seven, seven seventy seven, Bobby.
If you can't find the number, google it, he said once,
(25:25):
and I don't. This is also a story that we
share as a kind of an inside joke around here
as well, because Toby had such a big presence. He
said he made more merch and one more money on
merch in one night than the president does in a year.
I don't remember the context of how we got into
that as the thing.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
I think it was shortly after the Google.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh, I know, but I don't remember what we were
talking about where I would ask a question that led
him to saying.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I made more money on merch and one night than
the president does in a year.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
But that's when I knew there are gonna be a
lot of things to quote, like every time he come
in the studio letely quotable.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
We had no idea exactly what, especially Eddie and I,
what our relationship would be with him over the next
ten years or so as we were played with him
and traveled with him. If you're just waking up, Toby
Keith passed away. They announced it this morning, way early.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm not sure when it happened, but we'll spend all
hours sharing stories and sharing music. Toby Keith passed away.
The news came out this morning. He was in studio
a few weeks ago, and he didn't look like the
Toby Keith that we've known because he had been battling
cancer and had been battling going through different procedures. You know,
(26:45):
it was pretty thin, but was still super positive.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, his demeanor.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Still had the big Toby keithness about him, like he was.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Seemed just more fragile, but still seemed very much him.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
He was wearing a lot of clothes though to try
to not show.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That his health wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I mean multiple coats, he had sunglasses on, he had
a hat on with the sunglasses. Yeah, but the especially
like big and almost like a rapper. They were bigger,
but still came in And if you weren't able to
see him and you just heard it and you did
to watch it back, you would have thought that here's
(27:29):
a guy on the other side of it, because that's
why he was coming out. And I don't know this
for sure, but what it seems like is maybe this
is what he was doing one final time instead of
this is what he's doing as he comes back, like
(27:50):
this is him doing his last shows in Vegas and
like his last round doing any sort of media or
hanging out with us. And I'm I felt super fortunate
that he was here just a few weeks ago. And
I told you guys that are listening, like call if
(28:12):
you have a story, let's go, because we have one hundred.
But you just don't want to hear ours like, for example,
line three, Kim in Washington, DC. Kim, I appreciate you calling.
Let's go over to Kim if we can pick her up.
We have new everything. Everything's broken all right, So it's
a new phone.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I clicked it. It acts like it's good. Kim. Can
you hear us? Right? I hit three? We have new phones.
There we go. Whatever happened? That was the weirdest Now.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Hey, Kim bye, good morning, studio morning.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Can you tell us your story?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Oh, it's a great story, just epitomizes what kind of
guy he was. My husband was a marine, a career marine,
and we did two tours at Paris Island as drums ross.
And it was the summer two thousand and two, right
(29:07):
after nine to eleven, of course ninety a year before,
and the first two weeks of the recruiting process when
they actually get to the depot. Those recruits are gone
for two weeks. You don't see them, you don't hear
from them. Along with our husbands and all the other
families were all missing.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Our hosts.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (29:28):
Well, Toby Keith was in the area. He had done
a concert either Charleston or Savannah.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And he actually made a seat for.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
And why this is so important is because he actually
came to an abandoned airfield on Paris Island and gave
a concert as the commanding general, gave all art crews,
all of the drill instructors, all of the family, basically two.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Hours to I want the base to this rady old
airfield that was hot Mars to be awful that they
had a big set up, and Toby gave a killer performance.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
Killer and he just loved his truths.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He loved being Americans. For him to take the time
out of his downtime to give this concerts. Not only
to they give a concert, they catered to barbecue everybody.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
There no doubt that Toby Keith loved America. I need
put a boot in your butt, you know what I mean,
No doubt, no doubt I mean. And that'll be one
of his legacies, how much he loved Flag and the Troops.
One of the shows that we played with him, Eddie
and I went to what DC right d C and
(30:57):
all before the show because we were going to go
back and again, Toby had invited us to come over
be from last minute because something has fallen through like
Senna's plane to come get us.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He's like he can you guess come open for the
one show? Yeah, and we were like yeah, sure, gives
kind of a quick deal.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So he sent his jet, picked us up, flew us
up there, and they were like, he Tooby wants to
see you guys. Because it was kind of like land
and Fire, meaning we were in and going, so there's
a lot of time to like whatever, we don't do
anything anyway, but we weren't there all day and they're like,
he Toby wants to see you when we go back
to see Toby, but we couldn't get back there yet
because there was a line of people that Toby was
(31:32):
talking to.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's probably thirteen or fourteen people, and so we're like,
we'll just come back. They're like, no, no, hangout for
a second. You should see this.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
And so Toby had brought in a bunch of people
from Walter Reed, the hospital where a lot of the
injured military men and women were, and it brought him
all backstage and was hanging out with all of them
and just spending a few minutes with every one of them.
And that wasn't something that he put up on social
media because probably something they did every or I know
(32:00):
he did a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
But something he did.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Consistently every time that he was able to do it,
he did that, and I think that's what a lot
of his legacy will be.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Yeah, I feel like Kim's story is probably one of
multiple over all of these years where he would, yeah,
maybe if he learned of something or knew of a
place during his downtime, he would just pivot and make
it happen.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I do want to talk to Rod, who Rod is
the head of iHeart Country. And the reason I want
to talk to Rod is because Rod went to his
show in Vegas, which was basically his last run of
doing shows, and Rod, like me, was like, man, how's
he going to play? Because again he looked like somebody
who'd been battling cancer. He's seves frail. And I remember Rod,
(32:49):
and I can let Rod tell the story. It started
off and I was like, oh boy, but then by
the end he was rocking it. Rod, what was Toby's
last show?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Like, oh man, I have so many thoughts.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
Thanks for letting me shit because he's obviously coming, you know,
rushing back to us as we wake up to the news.
But yeah, we go to Vegas and we got the
you know, fortunate opportunity to go backstage say hi and
take pictures, which now is you know, an amazing memory
and something special to have been a part of. But yeah,
I called you right away. I'm like, you wouldn't believe it,
(33:20):
Like this Toby t show is crazy. And keep in
mind when I saw him, it was the second night
of Back to the Back night and you just didn't
know what to expect, right, this is a guy who
was persevering by battling. And I can tell you for
sure that you know, he didn't get on stage and
do forty five minutes. He didn't get on stage and
(33:40):
do an hour. He did an hour and forty five
minutes or more, which was just remarkable to watch. And
you said it from the start of the show to
the end, he got more energy. By the end, I
was worried, like, hey, when is he going to tap
because again is a difficult thing to physically get through.
And the last three songs were bangers. Right, he had
(34:03):
more energy. He was feeding off the crowd. It's what
he did, right. You could see that an artist who
lived to perform got all that energy from the from
the crowd. And he walked off stage stronger than he
walked on stage.
Speaker 12 (34:17):
It was.
Speaker 14 (34:17):
It was honestly remarkable.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Is to watch it? What was the crowd like with Toby?
And was it just a pure sing along the whole time?
Speaker 12 (34:27):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (34:27):
The whole time?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You know.
Speaker 14 (34:29):
I obviously you jump on your phone if you've got stuff,
started looking at pictures or videos. I mean I was
in the crowd doing that whole thing, phones up for
all the songs. The only one that wasn't really sing
along but was a huge moment, as you can imagine,
is don't let the old man in. You know, he
just sat there, just hime and the guitar. And I
(34:51):
was about to post a video of that one. I mean,
that's that's now even more touching than it was. But
everything else, you know, every word, it's sting along from
start to finish. But let me let me add this,
because I told you this after the show, you would
have thought a great vocalists, right, this guy could staying
live and it was terrific, But you would have thought
(35:12):
maybe some backup singer help. To my knowledge, it was
him right. He wasn't looking for people to fill in,
and he notes that he couldn't hit any of that
he hit them all and it was just Toby and
his amazing band.
Speaker 10 (35:26):
It was cool.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Eddie and I played Frontier Days with Toby and it's
a whole set of you know, there's like seven right artists,
but we were direct support for Toby.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Was Toby.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
This is a different show than the DC one, Muddy
just it was just awful weather wise. Place was still
packed and so we played up until like nine thirty
and Toby played after. But I remember Rod being like, ye,
I was on the bus with Toby ke till like three.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
O'clock afterward, because he came with Rod, came with us,
just Toby sharing stories larger than live, Like what what
can you from that?
Speaker 14 (36:02):
Well, again another situation. I had no business being there, right.
Speaker 10 (36:06):
But next thing, you know, because I was hanging out
with you guys, you're the opening act, and.
Speaker 14 (36:13):
You know, they wanted they wanted a chance to say
hey to Toby. I'm like cool to your point. Next thing,
you know, it's after midnight where we're having a great
social event and the guitar comes out and there's nothing
like it, right, A legend literally sitting in front of
me just picking on the guitar and singing, and that's
when he told the story about don't let the old
(36:33):
man in, which is a line he got from Clint Eastwood.
He played golf with him at Pebble Beach, Clint Eastwood
getting up there in years and Toby's like, how do
you play golf every day? How do you come out
here and hang.
Speaker 10 (36:43):
Out every day?
Speaker 14 (36:44):
And it's Clint Eastwood who gave him the line he
wakes up and he doesn't let the old man in.
And I turned into this song and I watched Toby
picking this song that I had never heard before, and
it was just it was life changing. Quite honestly, I
will never forget that moment, as late as it was
on a tour.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
About well, we appreciate the time coming on with us
this morning. And for those that don't know that song,
we're gonna play coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's the last song, because he had put out a
single before and then had just decided we're gonna do
it again. And when he was here the last time,
that's what he was saying, Yeah, it's kind of weird
we're doing this, but we're gonna do it again, So.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
We'll do that coming up in just a second. Rod,
thanks for your time.
Speaker 10 (37:23):
In oh I appreciate it.
Speaker 14 (37:25):
God blessed to the Keith.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
What a powerful line of like even just thinking about
that right now, and I think when the song plays,
like listening to that and a reminder to all of
us of you know, even how we can wake up
and what we can do with our day of not
even like if you're older, don't let the old man say.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Don't let the w boy in, yes, or that, don't
let that every day, every.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Day, the complainer in or whatever you're feeling like, don't
let that person in looking at you.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Whisky boy, let him in. Don't let him in to me.
That's your version of the texting with my father in
law right now, who is massive Oklahoma fan lives in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Like when now I'm home with my wife in Oklahoma,
I have to tell him like, okay, enough, Oklahoma, can
please talk about Arkansas'm in it like just sports. But
he sent me this whole thing about Toby Keith and
he says, sad day for Oklahoma. Oklahoma loved all caps,
loved Toby Keith, and he just wrote beloved. I think
(38:30):
a lot of people listening in Oklahoma feel like it.
That's their dude, I think a lot of people in
country music feel like it's their dude.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
We have George Burge on the line, and think about
George is he just had a number one song just
kind of set this up with I Got my mind
on you in all the words, that's it. Yeah. But
we talked about George a couple of weeks ago with
him because he was an old school picture of him
and Toby Keith and we were like, hey, what was that?
Is him? Toby Keith and post Malone? Now George? Do
(39:01):
we have George there? He is George? What was your relationship?
How did you get to know Toby?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
So?
Speaker 15 (39:08):
Hey, guys, good morning, morning man. So Toby actually was
one of the first people to discover me as a
musician and signed me to one of my first record
deals in twenty fifteen. So he was always just larger
than life to me.
Speaker 12 (39:24):
We had come like out of a van.
Speaker 15 (39:25):
And trailer like touring across America playing dive bars, and
he took us out on tour with him, and all
of a sudden it was amphitheaters and thirty thousand people
a night and just classic big dog daddy style. Everything
was like the biggest you'd ever seen in your life.
And I was at Texas Longhorn and he knew that,
so he always loved to give me some fire about it.
We'd show up in my name for the green room,
(39:47):
would be on the porta potti or on the trash
can or something like that. But he was also always
really cool to us, like he gave us longer than
we deserved for soundcheck, like we were always welcoming his case,
which was like filet mignon and lobster mac and cheese.
And then we'd be standing side stage watching the shows
and it beat Bob Stoops or Larry Bird or Roger Clemens,
(40:11):
and it was just the most surreal experience getting to
tour with him. And I think more than anything he had,
you know, all the success and the fame and all
these people coming out to his shows, but he just
genuinely loved music. He would go on stage played ninety
minutes worth the number ones for the fans, and then
he would grab us and he'd say, hey, let's go
to the bus, and he would want to play acoustic
(40:32):
guitar for like three hours on the bus and just
shoot the breeze. And he was literally a human jew
box Not a lot of people know this, but he
knew you couldn't name a song that he couldn't.
Speaker 10 (40:41):
Play as a cover. He'd literally, like aggressively look at
you and be.
Speaker 15 (40:44):
Like, name a song, any song, and he would make you.
He would make you say a song, and then he
could play the whole thing, from Merle Haggard to sugar
Hill Gang.
Speaker 10 (40:53):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 15 (40:55):
His just love and respect for music.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
What did you see about him as a professional a
performer that inspired you?
Speaker 15 (41:03):
I think it was the way that he held the
crowd in the palm of his hands. He had everybody.
He really made everybody feel seen.
Speaker 10 (41:12):
He would, you know, thank everybody for being there. He
was proud of who he was.
Speaker 15 (41:16):
He was proud of the music that he made, and
more than anything, he was proud of his relationship with
his fans, and I think they genuinely felt that and
there was a real connection there. So it wasn't just
him up there sitting behind a guitar playing music. It
was him enjoying time and connecting with friends when he
was on stage.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
And then my final question will be auth of dout,
like what kind of person when no one else was around?
Like what do you think about when I when I
mentioned Toby Keith.
Speaker 15 (41:44):
Toby was one of the most successful guys in the
history of country music, if not maybe the most successful.
But he was also one of the most generous. And
it was not when people were looking, you know, not
a lot of people know that Toby hired you know,
almost exclusively from his hometown, from people that he grew
up with. He started that Okay Kids Corral, taking care
(42:06):
of kids that were sick. He was always donating his
time and his money to the US military. He was
a guy that knew who took care of him, and
he made sure to.
Speaker 10 (42:17):
Do the same.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
George appreciate you talking with us this morning.
Speaker 15 (42:21):
Thank you guys, and I appreciate you all having me on.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
George Burge again was signed to Toby's label.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Toured with Toby, has a lot of great Toby stories,
spending a lot of the show, if not most of it,
talking about Toby. Keith announced this morning that he passed
away at sixty two years old.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
I want to put on Eric in Delaware. Hey, Eric,
we appreciate you calling the show here. A lot of
people have stories, thoughts, emotions regarding Toby's death. Eric, you know,
what would you like to say.
Speaker 12 (42:52):
Oh, my goodness, Fay, good morning, studio morning. Hey quite
the thumber Tuesday. But I just wanted to share a
Tobe Kee story about when I was deployed in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
We had just.
Speaker 12 (43:11):
Gone under you know, under attack and lost some people
Sarry somber, bad time. We knew there was a concert coming,
but we didn't know who at the end of the
week and uh, you know, I kind of stumbled upon
where it was at and this big blonde haired dude
(43:32):
get on stage and started streaming his guitar and I
lost it and it was Toby. You know, he isn't
just rocked out for us in the middle of Afghanistan
and brought us all home through his music for maybe
an hour or so, and he didn't care that he
(43:53):
was coming in to a hot zone and he just
wanted to be to be there with us and he
did so. It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah, that tracks fully on brand for Toby. We appreciate
that story, Eric. We got a lot more just like
that too. I just said, hey, if you know I mean,
and it is like, who
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