(Tues Full Show) We Remember Toby Keith + Jake Owen Details Message He Received From Toby Keith + JD Clayton On How His Dad Being A Pastor Played Role in Music Career

We remember Toby Keith and share the impact he made on music, the people around him and more. Plus, Jake Owen calls in and details one of the final messages he received from Toby Keith that he thinks everyone should hear. Then, JD Clayton stops by the studio for the first time to talk about his music, how his father being a pastor played a role in his music career and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A Tooby Keith passed away last night, and we spend
a massive part of today's show talking about our memories.
Artists call with their memories, listeners with theirs, and so
there is a lot of that on this show. Woke up.
It was very surprised to see it. Honestly, my feeling
was from him being here, but we saw him in Orlando,

(00:29):
like we went up during the football game and hung
out with a little bit of Jake Owen and I
did and they was talking about golf, and I guess
my feeling was he had gone through a lot of it,
but the worst of it was done, and I guess
it wasn't the case. But he's very very private about it.
And again I was surprised to see it. This morning.

(00:50):
The family said he died peacefully. We had so many
callers that are still on the phone right now, which
is what we're gonna lead off the podcast with with
just some stories here because I don't want to not
get to somebody. I do want to put Chelsea in Wichita.
And our phones make a weird noise. Now, I was
told we have new phones like that sounds like you're
punching like a or like a Judge dabbled you in.

(01:12):
Oh that's it, Chelsea. Can you you want to share
a story with us?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I was ten years old when I went to
my first concert ever. My aunt won tickets through cornbread
here in Wiches Hall, and it was the most fun
concert that I've ever been to. It was it was
in that year of after nine to eleven, and the

(01:42):
country was being very patriotic and it was kind of
the dividing line between that red and blue when the
country cousin started fighting against itself. And so I was young,
and he definitely helped me figure out what side I
wanted to be on and how awesome of this country is,

(02:06):
and especially after nine to eleven when this country really
rallied together and he's kind of lost that these days.
And so Toby Keith really helped out with me and
being very proud to be an American for one. So
he was an awesome guy. And this is a huge
loss for the country and just in general.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, we really appreciate your call and sharing that story
with us. Obviously a very personal story for you means
a lot to you. So thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, thank you, all.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right, I see you later. Let's go over to Sherry
in Massachusetts. Who's on the phone here, Hey, Sherry, would
you mind telling us your story?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yeah, but first of all, I just want to expend
my condolences to Philby's family and just let them know
how much we all loved them or him.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
So I was a bartender at the time that I
love this bar came out and what a song like
just to change the energy, like the feeling in the room,
like everyone singing it.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
It just like.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
It was just amazing. It was such a cool, cool
thing to experience. And we were done to the point
you kind of got sick of that song, but it
didn't matter. You sang it, you danced to it like
it helped you in like two sentences in and you
were just up again. And everybody at that bar that
I worked at had a wedding song, like a song

(03:43):
that they commemorated to somebody.

Speaker 7 (03:45):
You know.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
They were very passionate about our country. They would think
about their friends overseas. He just touched so many people,
and I think he kind of knew it, but I
hope so, you know, like you said, with the is
kind of like saying goodbye and coming to see you
one last time and reaching out to people. I honestly,

(04:08):
God feel like that was more to comfort the rest
of us for what we were going to see than
it was even for him to say goodbye. Yeah, it
was like his final active kindness, because that's just what
people thought of with him.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Sherry, we appreciate that call. Thank you for sharing your
thoughts and your memories with us, and I hope you
have a great day.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
Thank you you as well.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
All right, bye bye. Feels like to Kim in Delaware. Kim,
you're on the Bobby Bone Show. Kim, Yeah, Hi, Hi,
what would you like to say?

Speaker 8 (04:40):
Uh so, Tobe Keith, like my daughter's gateway and country
music when she was two, you would say, for my
oh my gosh.

Speaker 9 (04:54):
Here for my horses child appropriate, absolutely right, So up,
Like this.

Speaker 8 (05:01):
Is maybe not the most from but she'd sit in
the backseat of the band just picking her little leg.
Her name's Violet. She's getting married and that's one of
the songs pants I'm playing.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Mmm, that's that is a great story. Also shows the connection.
Thank you very much for that call. Thanks all right,
Congratulations to her, by the way, for getting married. Let's
go to Erica from Oklahoma, which is where Toby's from. Hey, Erica, Hi,
thank you for calling. What would like to say?

Speaker 10 (05:35):
So?

Speaker 9 (05:35):
I am from Oklahoma. I'm from a I mean small
town about thirty to forty five minutes away for more.
And there's this place. It's a burger joint called Jan
B Grill in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Kobe or Tobe visited Austin. Well,

(05:56):
I was a teenager in high school and it was
around closing time and this huge, tall man walks in
and this restaurant is just a bar with no tables,
and you can see the girl and everything, and the
cook turns around and says, hey, man, sorry, we're clothes.

Speaker 11 (06:16):
And this man that had just looked in.

Speaker 9 (06:19):
Goes okay, thinks man, it turns around.

Speaker 11 (06:24):
And walks out, and a guy sitting at the bar
was like, dude.

Speaker 9 (06:28):
You just turned away Toby Keith.

Speaker 11 (06:31):
And he was like, well, he can go sing me
a sad song about it. And it was so funny.
We laughed about it the rest of the night because
it was just such a Toby thing. If you're from Oklahoma,
it wasn't rare to run into Toby, and he was
just so down the earth. He could have been like,
I'm Toby Keith, make me a burger.

Speaker 9 (06:52):
But he was just like thanks man and love and
we were like, oh my gosh, I'm such an Oklahoma
Toby thing.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Do you know who I am before you send me away? Yeah?
Thank you very much. I hope you have a great day.
Thank you for sharing that story. Uh huh, all right,
let's do one more. This is Ashley in Norman, Oklahoma
Online seven Ashley, Hi, Hi, thank you for calling. What
do you want to say? Don you tell me your story?

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Morning studio, Morning morning.

Speaker 12 (07:25):
So growing up in Norman, Kobe Keith was always a big,
you know, part of our community. My sister went to
school with Koby Keith's son, Yeah, and he came into
their class one day and wrote a song with them.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh that's that call? Was it Beer for my Horses?

Speaker 13 (07:45):
No?

Speaker 12 (07:45):
I think it was one of those like just fun
songs that he just asked them if they wanted to
put something in a song, and they just wrote one.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's fine. That's super cool. Well, thank you for the call, Ashley.
And obviously a Saturday for country music saurday, Oklahoma's that
day for a lot of folks. But thank you for calling,
and I hope you have a great day.

Speaker 12 (08:05):
Thank you too.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, see you later. So you're listening now on
the podcast, what we're gonna do stuff that's not Toby,
But what we wanted to do is set. The original
plan was to do an hour because our head of
our format alert at all the stations, make sure you
don't screw this up. So we had an aur but
then we ended up doing way more than that. But
country star Toby Keith, he has passed away. The news

(08:29):
was shared on social media. Twenty twenty two is when
he said that he has stomach cancer. His last performance
was in December for a sold out Las Vegas show.
Our boss Rod went to that show. We talked to
him about that too. So you will hear a lot
of the normal show. Then you hear a lot of
Toby Keith. But I just want to start with this
because it really was the biggest part of the day.

(08:50):
All right, here we go transmitting Liza, what's up? Welcome
to Tuesday Show Morning studio.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Morning.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
All right, let's go around the room and check in
with everybody here. 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. It's Eddie. Guys. Guy, guys,
I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot.

Speaker 14 (09:16):
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.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Miss you. Guys.

Speaker 14 (09:35):
We should get together again soon. Left 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.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
I got uh it wasn't the same day.

Speaker 14 (09:47):
Oh my gosh, it's not the same guy, And he said, yeah,
that's why I texted you, because the game was so cool.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I texted the wrong dude, I miss you. We should
get together soon. Do you not like this guy? I
just don't know him that well. So it wasn't so
much that you're like I was teking somebody I don't know.
It's like you were a little too personal with somebody
that you Yeah. I always never.

Speaker 14 (10:08):
Tell this guy I missed you. We should hang together
se because we've never hung out together ever.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's funny.

Speaker 14 (10:14):
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.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Kept watching the accidental talking to somebody text, I'd 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
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,

(10:39):
but I was talking to my neighbor and I was like, yeah,
come back after the show. So he drove off. Yeah,
and thought I was just confused the whole time, and
then I looked. 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?

(11:00):
I was like, you're also here? Oh no, wrong one
where oh.

Speaker 15 (11:05):
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 right.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Now, No, and in my mind though, he ignored it,
like that's what. Yeah, but he didn't come up to
you and hey about the game. All right. He's always
trying to start a side hustle and make money quick,
but none of the ideas ever seemed to stick. It's lunch, Bob, I.

Speaker 16 (11:24):
Might have another side hustle.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I didn't realize work here was also a storage unit
where you can put things that don't work 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.

Speaker 16 (11:36):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
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 16 (11:44):
It's been in thenunstairs garage for over a week. It
hadn't moved.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Are you storing your car here? No? No, no, no, no,
I was moving you.

Speaker 17 (11:50):
It was just 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 that cars unloaded. Everything's fine. But you left
here for a week.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
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 (12:09):
Didn't you used to leave yours up here when we
on a weekend.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, and we go on mark and then we go
on vacation, you know what I mean, 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 16 (12:21):
He's like, man, I'm just.

Speaker 17 (12:22):
Gonna store it with those starts leasing off parking spots
like fox size.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
She's getting back in the dating game. So double tap
you see her name. It's amen.

Speaker 18 (12:30):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (12:31):
So I watched that documentary on Netflix that is about
that We Are the World.

Speaker 18 (12:35):
Song, the making of the video.

Speaker 15 (12:37):
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 18 (12:46):
So I give it five out of five of.

Speaker 15 (12:49):
The biggest pop star good in the eighties.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah. 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. Really yeah, but
it was every massive massive. But I haven't seen it,
but see that that that's crazy and we all know that.

Speaker 14 (13:07):
But what's really nuts is it happened in one night
and over it I schedule everybody to get there. Yeah,
because there was an awards show in town. So they're like, everyone, No,
that's not spoiling anything.

Speaker 15 (13:17):
It was actually fascinating how they got everybody together.

Speaker 18 (13:20):
Because this is so I wasn't going to say anything, but.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
That doesn't mean you should tell him not to.

Speaker 18 (13:26):
I'm not being blamed.

Speaker 15 (13:27):
This is my little segment and now I'm going to
get blamed before it and.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Said it though, and I didn't spoil anything, so kind
of night I spoiler. They recorded a song that everyone heard.

Speaker 15 (13:40):
Okay, but yeah, but you don't know how they got
together and you how is that important?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Like you just book them. I'll watch it.

Speaker 18 (13:50):
It is fascinating.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
It was really good, dude, there's some stuff in there.
You're gonna be like, what on earth?

Speaker 15 (13:55):
What?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I can't tell? He held up all from Mountain Pine Arkans.

Speaker 17 (14:00):
He gets random texts all the time, but he doesn't respond,
so he's fine, Bobby bone.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
You very much.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
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tape on my mouth, and I wanted to have a
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(14:29):
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Sometimes you get appne to sleep apn mouth, don't you
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Speaker 19 (14:44):
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Speaker 1 (14:54):
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You're all set for a peaceful, uninterrupted night's sleep.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
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It's just sticky, and it doesn't hurt to take off,
and it doesn't you're not restrained three of it.

Speaker 18 (15:25):
You could.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes, we've got we've got a couple kinds. But I'm
gonna tell you, I don't know that it's helped tremendously,
but it definitely has allowed me to not worry about
I don't know, but it's help. It helps fifteen.

Speaker 15 (15:40):
I think I've read when you're breathing through your nose,
the more oxygen and then that helps.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
With So I'm gonna say through five nights, it definitely
has helped a little bit. And never once if I
woke up like 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

(16:06):
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 little bit better. Oh okay,
and it doesn't 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 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 20 (16:28):
You send mail and read it all the air.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Pick something we call Bobby's mail bag. Yeah, hello, Bobby Bones.
My friend recently left a band that he's been touring with,
and he's trying to make it as a solo artist.
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.

(16:52):
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? Signe friend of an aspiring musician, Well,
it's 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

(17:12):
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, or like fix you by cold
playing this. You don't have to do that. But do
you say it's good, like even babily? I think because
he's also just starting, he's very excited and it's going
to get better. But you could also be like, yes,

(17:33):
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,
just be encouraging. That's what I want to say. Yeah,
there's no integrity play where it's like, I must tell

(17:53):
the truth. You probably lie all the time, whoever you are.

Speaker 15 (17:56):
Are you doing that thing though, this year where you
just tell people's not me though the.

Speaker 18 (17:59):
Truthd amount of what I know. I'm saying I don't listen.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
To people's music though, because people want to send me
music all the time. Yeah, and I won't. 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 music, but I did,
But I don't say anything but mostly the first one,
or is it? If your role in this friendship is

(18:21):
to be the supportive friend, don't feel like you have
to be the person who gives it to him straight?
What do you know about music? Anyway? 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,

(18:42):
just be supportive. That's why I say anything from you.
Thanks for supporting me. Thank you, Sanksy supporting me.

Speaker 15 (18:47):
No, yeah, I'm supporting you in being a friend that
supports Thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
All right, close it up.

Speaker 17 (18:52):
We got your team mail and we read on their
Now let's find a clothes Bobby failed, die.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Deamn on the phone? Now is Tyler and Ozark Missouri?
Hey Tyler, what's up? Buddy?

Speaker 4 (19:04):
I had the games played in games won with percentages
for twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Every game we played on the show.

Speaker 16 (19:11):
Wow, this is the second year road called Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Hey, I remember last year we were blown away?

Speaker 13 (19:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, Okay, so we said, you said you.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Have percentages and I was like, no, but I'll get
them next year. So I got them.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, let's talk about so give us some give us
some data here. So all the games played, listen every podcast,
tell me, give me, give me some stuff. All right.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
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 or different games until you know
the next round. Yeah, So the most games played by
a single person was Amy with one hundred and fifty seven.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Wow, God, okay, that's a good stat What else you guy?

Speaker 4 (19:56):
There was only one person in the show that got
one hundred percent games? Played games?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
One? Okay? How many games did they play?

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, they played one game?

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Okay, who's that? And they might have gid okay, oh, Ray,
he wasn't. Ray had all the answers and he's playing right,
all right? What else you got for us?

Speaker 4 (20:16):
I mean, do you just want to go from the
top or like I can't really ever get any Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
No, go whatever you have there, give me some like
who who has the worst winning percentage on the show?

Speaker 4 (20:28):
The worst winning percentage was Morgan. She won twelve games
out of seventy twelve out of.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Seventy that's terrible. And what and what's that? What's that percentage?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Seventeen percent?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Okay, that's like the pistons.

Speaker 18 (20:41):
You know what, if you can't be first, might as
well be lost.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
No, 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 pointer points are doubled,
and then the double points ended up actually making you lose.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
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. I'm gonna
I don't what I'm gonna g him'mna him some at
the end of this. Okay, So take me out of it. Now,
give me lunchbox of stats. Where did he fall?

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Lunchbox went forty four for one thirty eight at thirty
one point eight percent.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, I mean that's fine. Okay. Where did he rank
in the rankings? Was he next to last or was
he up there?

Speaker 4 (21:35):
If you take so Morgan was last, I'll just go
from bottom up.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Go ahead, Yeah, yeah, I like.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
That all right. So Morgan was last and second to last,
play was Amy at twenty one percent. She got she
went thirty three for one fifty.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Seven to say, heard from Dank got it? Okay, he said, thanks.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
And then you have Aby went ten for thirty seven
at twenty seven percent.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Wow, he's on there.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Then you had lunch Box at thirty one point eight percent. Okay,
and then you had Eddy went fifty seven for one
point nine at thirty eight point two percent.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
What all I do is win, man, I'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 games. That's awesome. Wow,
that's good Tyler.

Speaker 16 (22:33):
So, so does you have like a spreadsheet, like how do.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
You I was gonna ask, like, do you listen it
and everyone just listening 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 4 (22:45):
No, I just I mean I get behind like a
week or so every now and then because my work's
up and down depends on how much windshield time I have.
But uh, yeah, as I listen, I just got it
in my notes. I have each versus name with games
one game played, and then at the end of the year,
I just did the percentages.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Would you have a job that requires you to do
math or spreadsheets.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
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 (23:26):
You're the most winner. The proof is in the pudding. Well,
you're the winner. The proof is in the data. Yeah. Hey,
so I want to give you something for all this
hard work. Are you a NASCAR fan by any chance?

Speaker 4 (23:37):
I have a Instead of you sending me something, could
I do fifteen seconds of self promo?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah? That'd be awesome. Go ahead, let's start the timer, Raymundo,
and don't start yet, Tyler. When we get the TikToker up,
we're gonna go. I'll give you fifteen seconds of self promotion.
This is Tyler who lives in Missouri. Ready, Tyler, and
go earn.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Tyler, Kay Wiley or And I've been in picktok jail
for a long time. I'm stuck at four hundred and
eighty thousand followers. 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 (24:17):
You have half a million five wait, so it's not Kyler,
But what's thet Yeah, what's your account? What's your account? Kyler?
What's your name there?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
It's just Kyler and it's my name, k y l
E r n n.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I E Kyle Kyler Ennis on TikTok.

Speaker 16 (24:33):
Yes, just have a million? How do you have a
million follower?

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:36):
What'd you do the world?

Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
What'd you do to get all that? All the followers?

Speaker 4 (24:40):
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.

Speaker 21 (24:48):
Oh yeah, He's like, I've kind of become the.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
Grit Strengths guy. I test different groups, different occupations, group strength,
and those those of those videos have been doing really good.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Jeff, if you ever.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Want to do a Grip Things video in the studio,
let me know.

Speaker 21 (25:04):
I'll drive to Nashville.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
That's no big deal.

Speaker 18 (25:06):
What's what's a grip Sorry? What is it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, what's a grip show? So you have the machine?

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Right, Yeah, it's a handheld dynamometer and whenever you squeeze
it, it shows like how many kunds of pressure you can squeeze, And.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
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. 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. Kyler. We appreciate that.

Speaker 22 (25:33):
Man.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Hey, you guys are awesome. I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, buddy, hey, give it up for Kyler. Yeah, alright,
see Kyler.

Speaker 23 (25:41):
All right, it's time for the good news.

Speaker 15 (25:48):
A longtime customer of Schooner's Restaurant in Illinois gifted the
thirty employees that work there a thousand dollars each.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wow. Yeah, thirty.

Speaker 15 (26:00):
They did it in honor of his late wife and daughter.
He sees the restaurant as a second home and the employees' family.
He did not want his name shared, so I don't
know it, but the guy that owns the restaurant.

Speaker 18 (26:13):
Said, hey, you don't have to do this.

Speaker 15 (26:15):
When you first heard about it from the man, 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 (26:34):
That is awesome. Yeah, I can't imagine walking into hand
me a thousand bucks and luckchwatch, can't imagine me doing
it with that one that.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, I don't know why you want not your name
out there. I mean, if you're going to go there,
people can see who you are.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
You have a table named after you.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I was just saying, have a booth named after you
that's you walk in. But if you walk in and
you want that booth, those people have to move.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh oh, I thought they just named it after like
the wife. But you want it to be yours all
the time.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
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 1 (27:05):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (27:06):
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 (27:14):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Oh you should say we went out of business's.

Speaker 15 (27:20):
It's relocating and then they're building something there because of
the sucker.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's what we do.

Speaker 17 (27:25):
Whatever we relocated, we did all right, that's what it's
all about.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
That was telling me something good on the Bobby Bone Show. Now,
d Clayton, I'm a big fan of this next guy
that's gonna play. But Lunchbox, what'd you tell him before
we went on?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
I said, when you're performing your song, I'll probably be
doing my word.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
He's not lying. But why would you say that to
j D?

Speaker 2 (27:48):
No, because Eddie said, uh, he's not going to pay
attention when you're in here.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh, Eddie sold you out.

Speaker 16 (27:54):
Yeah, Eddie sold me out with a straight up j I'm.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Sorry, buddy. You come in and these guys they have
a kind of mind to their own. I was laying
it straight, man. This is just how it's gonna go.
That's not a saying laying it straight.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
You gonna just said, hey, there's Lunchbox and I said, hey,
what's up.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
JD?

Speaker 16 (28:08):
Nice to meet.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
He's cool, and then we could have moved on with
our lives. But he's like, hey, he's not gonna listen.
He doesn't like music, so don't be offended.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, let me tell you about JD. Hey, you got
to make this way too much about you. I met
JD for the first time. We did a show together
in Arkansas raising money. JD sat beside me and Eddie
and I would play and then JD would play. Then
people would forget about us playing because JD was so good.
He's awesome, And I was like, oh man, we should
bring him up on the show. But you are one
of the rare. You don't live in Nashville anymore, right,

(28:34):
I don't Where do you live?

Speaker 20 (28:36):
I live in Fort Smith, Arkansas. That's where I'm from.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And how does that work out? Do you have to
come back to Nashville A lot?

Speaker 22 (28:41):
A lot?

Speaker 20 (28:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Too much.

Speaker 20 (28:43):
I don't think it's too much. I want to I
want to come back. I love Nashville.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Do you drive it?

Speaker 20 (28:47):
Yeah? Most of the time, seven hour and fifteen minutes
with one bathroom break. You have a kid, I do.
I've got a little girl that's almost two and one
on the way, dang, And you.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Drive it two or three times a month? Maybe? Did
youraw us on the road too, right? Playing shows?

Speaker 20 (29:04):
Right? Yeah? Yeah? Two three times a month, it's probably right,
but sometimes it's more.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Where did you start playing music? Were you a church guy?

Speaker 20 (29:13):
Yeah, my dad is a pastor, and when he we
had a music guy that he had kind of hired
to lead worship and he took another job, and I
was the only guy in the room that dow how
to play a piano or shrom a guitar. So I
just naturally got chosen to start leading songs.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
And so you're basically the music leader. Basically, how did
you start playing guitar? Who taught you? Who gave you
a guitar? First?

Speaker 20 (29:38):
My dad taught me a few things. He gave me
my guitar. But my grandfather was a banjo player in
a bluegrass band. They would like tour around, play in
prisons around different regions of Arkansas, feed the guy's barbecue,
and then play a bluegrass show. So wow, a lot
of my I'd spend every Friday night at my grandparents'
house and we would sit and he'd try to teach

(29:59):
me some bluegrass standards, and so I knew G, C,
and D all the way up to like seventh grade,
and then I kind of got a bug and started
learning songs off you know, YouTube videos teaching myself.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
What was the goal as you were a kid. Were
you just playing music so you could make some extra
money or get girls, or did you think you wanted
to be like a singer a musician later in life.

Speaker 20 (30:22):
No, I never wanted to do music.

Speaker 13 (30:24):
I was.

Speaker 20 (30:25):
I was not encouraged to do it. My family kind
of frowned upon it, to be honest, it just was
where I'm from. It's not something that you had a
real thing. No, it's Hollywood. Well, and then you know
it could lead to drugs and alcohol, so yeah.

Speaker 18 (30:39):
But not if you're leading worship.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
You could lead worship music in that way, not leading
drugs and alcohol.

Speaker 20 (30:45):
Right, But there's no money in that. So up until
freshman year of college, I was going to be a dentist.
I was a double major in biology BioMed, and then
finished my first semester and realized that I was meant
for marketing in business.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Did you just stop going to school and start playing
music or did you finish school?

Speaker 10 (31:08):
No?

Speaker 20 (31:08):
A friend of mine my senior year of high school,
a friend of mine talked me into playing graduation. She
knew I could sing and play guitar.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Played your graduation, Yeah, dang, that was super feel like
i'd be tense as crap.

Speaker 20 (31:21):
I was, Yeah, but after playing it, I just got
the bug.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
And what'd you play? What song?

Speaker 20 (31:29):
Rivers and Roads by the Head and Heart.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Oh, that's a good one. But I can't imagine that
a lot of those kids knew that I know the song.
I'm a big fan of Heading the Heart.

Speaker 20 (31:37):
I didn't know it. I just learned it for h Yeah,
she said that's what we're playing, and I learned it
and we played it.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
So did you get feedback that was kind of like, uh,
you know the reference like it felt like a drug. Yeah, wow,
this is awesome.

Speaker 20 (31:50):
Right. The next week I started playing down at the
Farmers Market in Fort Smith.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Is there a stage or do you just go dan
somewhere just like next to a tent, And do you
even plug in or do you just play Acousticainst Island.

Speaker 20 (32:04):
Was plugging in on those early days. But then people
would get mad because some of the old dudes that
have been there for years.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Getting the corn. Yeah, you're doing double music, that's right.
So when does it come into your mind that if
you focus on this, because this is a hard job
and there's no stability in any art Yeah, when did
that happen where you're like, I'm really going to dedicate
myself to it as hard as it could possibly be,

(32:31):
because I believe in it myself.

Speaker 20 (32:33):
I had written songs all during college, and I would
wake up at five am on a Friday, drive to Nashville,
skip classes on Friday. I'd be here for the weekend
and then I would make it back to class but
my afternoon class on Monday. And during those weekends I
would just record demos, and I finally my senior year,

(32:56):
put out an EP and did a show in Fort
Smith and like two hundred and fifty people came one.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
So you did one show and all that time, like you.

Speaker 20 (33:04):
Know, I was playing shows all from sophomore year. I
started playing at bars and stuff just in in the
downtown area of Fort Smith.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
So you made this record and you did like a Okay,
this is me and this is my music, right.

Speaker 20 (33:18):
Yeah, it was the first time putting together. It was Yeah.
I mean we put an ad in the newspaper and
all all my parents friends game.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
So when you do a show like that, do you
take tips? Still? No, real, you got to be.

Speaker 20 (33:34):
Real and this was the chance for the big time.
So after that show was like my parents, I think
saw that I had written songs, recorded them in a
professional way, put them out, marketed them, and then people
came and listened and they liked the songs. And once
I saw that they there was a little approval there.

(33:54):
I just was like, all right, this is what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Did you move to Nashville for a while?

Speaker 20 (33:58):
No, So I had graduated and then my wife still
had a year left of nursing school. We got married
our sophomore year of college, and after she graduated. We
both just loved Nashville, regardless of music. We loved the
town and that was where we wanted to relocate, and
so as soon as she finished school, we moved here

(34:19):
and lived here for about three years.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Did you feel ads you were in Nashville that it
was kind of an insurmountable mountain that you needed just
to get lucky because there's a lot of good people.
There's a lot of great people that sometimes don't even
get discovered. Like, what is that feeling when you're a
new artist in this town and you really it's not
like you have family in music. You don't have like

(34:41):
super close connections that were built in What did you
feel like those three years while you were here.

Speaker 20 (34:46):
Well, my experience was kind of strange because as soon
as I got here, COVID hit and I went to
work for a landscape company down in Nolansville, So I
most of I got a little taste the first few
months of what needed to happen, and I it was

(35:07):
going nowhere. I mean I was just playing a few
shows at the basement here and there.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, COVID shut it all down. Ye yeah, that stinks.

Speaker 20 (35:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
So when did you move back to Arkansas?

Speaker 20 (35:15):
And why so I moved back to Arkansas. I guess
it was summer of twenty twenty two. My wife and
I had had a kid for about three months, and
I had started working with I got a manager and
got a booking team. Things felt like they were going
in the right direction, and I had a safe space

(35:38):
to kind of just take a step back and move
back close to family, get help while touring was going
to take off.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
And Justin Moore lives in Arkansas, Yeah, and you know,
lived here for a while then moved back. I was like,
I just want to be near my family. Yeah, and
he was able to do that, but yeah, more and more,
you don't have to be here as much as I
think you probably needed to five seven years ago. Yeah,
it would be cool. I would I would like to
go and live in Fabville. My wife won't let me.

Speaker 20 (36:03):
Such a cool town, I know.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
He's like, I'm not, Well, would I go to Faville?
I'm like, it's close to Oklahoma? She goes, Okay, but
it's still not Oklahoma.

Speaker 18 (36:11):
What about Bittonville?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh, it's the same to me.

Speaker 18 (36:15):
But would she be to that?

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Because she knows to be a trick well a little rock. Well.
We have a cabin in central Arkansas near where I
grew up, and I really live where the Arkansas plays
the sports.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
You know?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Uh, what's been cool about playing all these shows? Did
you play with Red Clay Strays?

Speaker 20 (36:32):
Id?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Dude, I'm such a I'm such a fan of They're awesome.

Speaker 20 (36:35):
We opened for them at Growlers in Memphis six months ago.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, how was that?

Speaker 20 (36:39):
It was awesome?

Speaker 1 (36:40):
They're gonna come up here and play the show too.
I'm gonna I'm a massive fan. But I've honestly I
found it on TikTok. So it's like TikTok is a
legit of a music exploration services. Anything's ever been Are
you doing stuff on TikTok? Are you singing?

Speaker 20 (36:53):
I'm doing some things, uh, not as much as But no, dance.
You're not the dancing guy. I don't dance, Okay, No,
I mean I if no one's watching.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, yeah, and nude that's a I do too. Yeah,
do that too. Yeah. Parker McCollum, you go with him?

Speaker 20 (37:06):
We did yep two dates with him. We did the
amp in Northwest Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
So how are you get How do you do? Somebody
just call say, hey, do you want to open for
these folks or do you want to support? That's cool?

Speaker 20 (37:14):
Yeah, the booking agent handles all that for me. She
Lindsay Hastings. She's a dear friend but also like just
crushes it and sets it all up.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
What's been the coolest.

Speaker 20 (37:25):
I don't know, opening up for Hank Williams Junior in Alfaretta, Georgia.
When I graduated high school, my wife and I went
and saw Jack Johnson at that Amphtheater and ALFARETDA. Jack
Johnson's kind of like the reason why I pursued music.
He's my biggest musical influence. But we stood by the

(37:47):
entrance to the stage and the manager ushered hankup and
he got out. He had just got off the bus
and smelled like a big cigar and uh, he just
it was kind of gruff, and we just got a
photo with him. He walked on and kicked in and
it was it just was a big moment.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, that happened here, it's gruff and I just kind
of walked on.

Speaker 20 (38:09):
I've seen that.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
We fought with them and it was love. And I
was like, sit down, do you want to smoke a cigar?
That's cool? And then of all of them, why is
playing with me your favorite? It's not a real question,
it really was. It's a cheating question.

Speaker 20 (38:28):
Before you walked in. I was telling Eddie that that
show ended up being one of my favorite from the year.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
I don't know. That was just fun.

Speaker 20 (38:32):
It was just fun.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, and we tried not to outshine you. That was
our goal. We were like, let's not sing too hard
because JD's next to us, and we don't want the
people to lose respect for him because of our vocals
and our music product.

Speaker 20 (38:44):
I loved it. You guys are really funny.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, no, no, we said, we said singing quality.

Speaker 20 (38:49):
I love y'all's jokes man.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
You guys are funny. What are you gonna play for us? JAD?

Speaker 20 (38:54):
This is one of the first songs I wrote. It's
called Ever Brown Haired. Yeah, one of maybe number five?
Okay maybe? All right?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
So what's around blue Eyed Baby?

Speaker 13 (39:04):
All right?

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
This is JD Clayton and he's performing live for us
in studio right now. Come on, man, wow, that's like
we played a club amy and then you know, it'd
be loud of the club and we're playing, they be
like shut up, And then he played everybody shout, everybody
would shut up?

Speaker 4 (39:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
That's a different yeah, yeah, yeah, just so good. You
guys can follow JD on Instagram at JD Clayton Official
JD Clayton Official. I know we didn't talk about this.
You want to do another one? Sure? We rarely almost
never ask somebody to just do a second one if
we don't, but do that was all it was. Just
that was amazing. So and while you're if you need

(39:43):
to retune, retune where we gotta do. What's a song
called JD?

Speaker 20 (39:46):
This is called Beauty Queen.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
This one about me? Yeah, another one. Both of these
are about me. It's I'm kind of embarrassed by this
whole day.

Speaker 20 (39:52):
In the opening line, darling, you're a smoke show. Yeah,
took one.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
No, thank you, thank you. I'm embarrassed if I blush.
You guys, just here he is JD Clayton. Dang d
that's awesome. Clutch whistling, good, dang thank you. I know
I do that, like as amazing as you are. I
was like, how did you do that? Which? Man, You're awesome.

Speaker 20 (40:17):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
But yeah, really thanks for having me. I'm super glad
that you came in. We're also featuring on International Countdown
Show too, and super cool. You guys follow JD maybe
the first time you heard of him at JD Clayton
Official and I go stream him.

Speaker 20 (40:31):
You're working on new music now, Yeah, we're almost done,
uh mixing my second record and working with Vance Powell
and hopefully I'm gonna be rolling that out here in
the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Awesome, dude, we'll go congratulations. I think our audience is
going to love you.

Speaker 14 (40:46):
And hey, I will say Lunchbox did pick his head
up for a second there, No, I got the word.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Oh you got it, so you gave up.

Speaker 16 (40:53):
I got it, so I had nothing else to do.
I got five.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
You can't go to another wordle No, it's only one today.
There's not like all ones you can do.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
I don't know if I can do that. I usually
do it every day. But the average was four point three,
so I was below average.

Speaker 20 (41:06):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
I don't never done a word all.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
So you have six chances there. It's a five letter word, right, yeah,
and you guess it. And like if you if it's
a yellow letter, that means it's that letter is in
the word, but you haven't the wrong spot if it's green.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
But do you just randomly guess a letter like you
just pick an L.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
You just pick a five letter word and you put
it in there. And so like today I started out
with the word beast.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Is there a clue? No, you just just randomly pick.

Speaker 16 (41:30):
A word, randomly pick a five letter word, and it's beast.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
And so all the five letter words you willt beast. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I think about things that describe myself and beast is
one of them.

Speaker 16 (41:41):
Okay, And so.

Speaker 20 (41:42):
Yeah, you ended up being below average, thank you JD.

Speaker 16 (41:48):
And so the B was in the right spot. It
was green, E, A, S.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
T were gray, So they are not even exist in
the word.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
They're not in the words, so you gotta go out
the next line, and I guessed.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Blown B L o w N b L o w N.

Speaker 16 (42:03):
The L was yellow, so it's in the word, but
in the wrong spot.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
It's blade. Oh thank you. No, that's the right spot though.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
No, yellow is in the wrong spot, so the L
can't be the second So what would you guess next?

Speaker 24 (42:14):
Because the O w N N or out but the
L somewhere else. Yes, so I'd probably bail bailed. That's
too many letters B, A, L, E D. That is
six letters.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, no, it's five, and I may be spailing it
wrong the B C thanks, thanks Jady Clayton becoming by
Jdy Hank tight b. You don't know where the L goes.
Bah balls. It can be two of them, because it
could be two.

Speaker 16 (42:42):
You can have double letter balls. Okay. I My next
word was build.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Okay, the U was in the right spot b U.
And then there's an L.

Speaker 16 (42:53):
Then I not in the word L wrong spot again,
D not in the words B in the world. Yeah,
he is in the right you bulky, Bulky, I went
with bully next.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
I know, I said, Bulky, I know, but I'm telling
you what I did know, but I'm just guessing a word.

Speaker 16 (43:14):
I understand. The word was bulky.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Oh I got it, dude, you got it.

Speaker 20 (43:22):
So it's how many chances you can get. Sorry, here's
the thing. This is more interesting.

Speaker 16 (43:29):
You only get six hosses and then you just lose.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
So you ever got on the first guess, No, I've
gotten it on two. If you get on the first guess,
it's pure luck. I'm saying, yeah, but I've gotten it
in too, and that feels amazing.

Speaker 16 (43:41):
And I thought, man, I'm so good at this game.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
For the first time ever, though like Sunday and Monday,
I didn't get the word. I missed it twice in
a row. That was the first time I've been doing
this for like two and a half months. I never
played this game before. And I was like, man, I'm
really good. And then I was like, man, I need
to evaluate my strategy.

Speaker 20 (44:00):
You on it.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
But what do you think about jd Oh, great man,
great dude.

Speaker 20 (44:03):
I really appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
I think he's making a bad financial decision not living
here because if he drives up here three times, but listen,
if he drives up here three times a month.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Listen to his money to talk.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
You're wasting money on gash. You got to get a
place to stay. You got to pay for a hotel.
I mean it's just good.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Well that's the same thing place to stay in a hotel.
So he just doubled for no reason, you know what
I'm saying, Like, yeah, but you just paid two times
for and.

Speaker 15 (44:28):
Then you also have to consue.

Speaker 16 (44:30):
Maybe he sleeps on someone's couch.

Speaker 20 (44:31):
Maybe my dad's a pastor. So I just we were
really well off. Oh yes, I didn't know that. Yeah, okay,
well there you go.

Speaker 17 (44:39):
Take financial advice on this guy. Thank you man for
all all your help today.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
And your wordle. I didn't know how to play wordle.
I literally had never And the.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Only reason I do it is because my wife did it,
and so it's something so I can like, okay she
was doing I was like, that's so stupid that you
do that.

Speaker 16 (44:51):
But then it's like something we can uh.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Like, oh do you do the world bond over it?

Speaker 16 (44:55):
Yeah, we go over what we guessed.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
And like who gets a better you know, like, oh,
how did you get it in three?

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Can you prove it?

Speaker 16 (45:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
It has your stats, like see, it tells it all
right here, I believe you have to throw your computer
and it tells you like oh, the bot says I
would have guessed this word or and like my first
word today beast. Out of all the words that were eligible,
I eliminated all but fifty two.

Speaker 16 (45:21):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
I'm so bored.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
After the second guest, I was down to six possible solutions.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Wow, I just got more bored. Yep.

Speaker 16 (45:27):
And then after the next guest, I was down to two.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Dang.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Then my next guest, I was still down to two.
They said I didn't eliminate a word, which is weird
because bully is a word.

Speaker 16 (45:34):
So I eliminated him. Then I got it right?

Speaker 1 (45:36):
All right, Well JD, we appreciate you, but let's just
do the whole thing against me so long it's fair
to play. Just play the both songs again.

Speaker 20 (45:41):
Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
You guys follow JD Clayton. Awesome. JD Clayton Official, there
is j D Clayton right, appreciate it all right. This
is Jose from Missouri.

Speaker 12 (45:51):
Good morning Studio.

Speaker 13 (45:53):
I have a joke for Amy.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
I was up all night wondering where the fun went.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
L on me? Hell all right?

Speaker 25 (46:06):
Next up, I just heard the podcast about Eddie's deal.
He did it at the coffee shop, and if I
remember correctly, he was supposed to laugh for five seconds
at his own jokes, and then Yen didn't address that
because the video sucks so bad. But he did not
laugh at his own jokes for five seconds, so when
he redes it, he needs to laugh at his own joke.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
For five seconds.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
We need somebody to go back through the actual terms
of the bet because that he screwed it all up
and you have to do them. She nailed it, she did.
Thank you. We need you. She didn't though, because the
video is actually good. The audio was really good. No,
the whole thing was done terribly and you can see
the videos perfect. So thank you. We appreciate that Eddie
has to do it again.

Speaker 16 (46:48):
Pile of Stories.

Speaker 15 (46:49):
A small town in New Hampshire is upset about a
new business called the Diaper Spa. The vipers spat yep,
people wear diapers and pretend to be babies.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Adult Yeah.

Speaker 15 (46:59):
The owners a therapist who says it's not a fetish thing.
She claims it's a form of therapy to people promise
or process excuse me, issues from their childhood.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
I'm sure that that is the intention, but you know
there're gonna be some freakohs, So give me the diaper
fery order.

Speaker 15 (47:17):
Close to a park. So there's a petition that's been
put up. More than five hundred people have signed it.
But there is a ninety year old in the neighborhood
that says people need to chill out.

Speaker 18 (47:27):
This doesn't bother me at all.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
The diaper's spa has an adult sized crib where you
can spend one point five one But who says that,
like ray one point five thousand, it's fifteen hundred bucks
to pamper the little ones inside of you.

Speaker 14 (47:41):
Okay, forgive me for this dumb question. But the girls,
they're just wearing the diaper two nothing on top.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
I'm should wear a shirt. Okay, Well I'm just thinking,
I don't know. I don't know that everyone's just wearing diapers.
I just pictured like, Okay, this word gets freaky.

Speaker 18 (47:53):
So a two hour session, if you're there.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
You're not in there with other people either, well you're not.
It's like a room. It's like you going to get
on a side.

Speaker 16 (48:00):
There's a bunch of babies.

Speaker 15 (48:02):
You can have a virtual play date that they'll hook
you up with other people.

Speaker 18 (48:07):
I guess for two hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
It feels a little odd, but it doesn't feel illegal.
If it's a real doctor saying that this it's weird.
But that doesn't mean that it's it needs to be
shut down until there's some sort of proof that there's
some weird stuff going on.

Speaker 26 (48:20):
OK.

Speaker 15 (48:21):
If you do sign up, it comes with top notch
care and pampering services.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
That's why I would want to go the pampering some
of your needs.

Speaker 18 (48:28):
I mean think that if they weren't met as a child,
maybe you can give yourself.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah. I'm not gonna do that though, Okay, yeah, what else.

Speaker 15 (48:33):
A woman is going viral for bragging about how she
returned her couch to Costco two years later and she
suddenly just decided she didn't like the couch, but Costco
has a very generous return policy.

Speaker 18 (48:44):
And she straight up took advantage of it.

Speaker 15 (48:47):
Although some are commending her, like hey, if they don't
have it written anywhere and they gave you a full refund,
the money got put back on her credit card, nine
hundred dollars.

Speaker 18 (48:55):
All she is go to the counter, she had a receipt.

Speaker 15 (48:58):
They pulled up her order and they're like, oh, gave
her the money back, and so online there's a big debate.

Speaker 18 (49:03):
It's split.

Speaker 15 (49:04):
Some are commending her and some are totally just slamming
her for taking advantage of them.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Well, she is taking advantage of it the rule. But
what's gonna happen is they're going to change the rule
and make it harder for people who actually have a
reason to bring things back.

Speaker 14 (49:16):
Yeah, and then you do that with your team. It's
very well known that that's their policy. There's no questions
asked if you bought it ten years ago or five
years ago or last week, so you can return it
man for a full refine or in exchange.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Most of the time, I would hope people were getting
a refunder in exchange because it was a faulty product,
right right. You didn't like it the first few times
you used it, expectations not. You used it, it died,
and then you traded it in. Well it died, man,
it's not working year. I feel you. But this is
why rules get changed, because people take advantage of them.
What else?

Speaker 15 (49:49):
Okay, I got a quick little quiz for you, Bobby.

Speaker 18 (49:51):
I'm going to figure out how middle aged you are.

Speaker 15 (49:54):
Okay, go ahead, Okay, So I'm gonna be keeping score.

Speaker 18 (49:56):
Just say yeah or nay.

Speaker 15 (49:58):
You can't sleep past nine am?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Nay.

Speaker 15 (50:01):
Oh, you can't start a movie past nine pm.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
My job dictates that differently. I haven't been able to
since I was like twenty or two or twenty three.

Speaker 18 (50:11):
Already young.

Speaker 15 (50:12):
You have to ask a kid or call kids for
tech support.

Speaker 18 (50:15):
No, okay, you have Peter Pan. You call like thirty
year olds kids?

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes if they look young.

Speaker 18 (50:24):
Okay, how old your wife?

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Okay? Kid? Okay?

Speaker 18 (50:28):
You swap ailment stories with your friend.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
I don't know how old people are at no point. Hey,
listen to that one. This one's good. Say that again.

Speaker 18 (50:34):
You swap ailment stories with your friends.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Me, mother, athletic, my athlete buddies.

Speaker 18 (50:38):
Hey, you're on Facebook?

Speaker 1 (50:40):
No you are. I'm not on Facebook. You are?

Speaker 10 (50:44):
You are?

Speaker 18 (50:44):
You haven't synced up to your Instagram? It loads?

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Oh right, you may not know it, But I'm not
on no, no, no, But I don't ever post on Facebook.
I don't even look at.

Speaker 18 (50:53):
Face you do when you post on Instagram because it's
but that doesn't count.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
But I'm not on Facebook. But I don't even I
don't even have a log in Facebook.

Speaker 18 (51:00):
I'm gonna go ahead and give you a middle age.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
No, I don't get on Facebook. That doesn't count.

Speaker 15 (51:04):
Okay, you write appointments on a paper calendar.

Speaker 18 (51:07):
No, you're not quite sure how you got that bruise.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Sometimes but mostly from training.

Speaker 18 (51:13):
You go into the bank to make a deposit.

Speaker 15 (51:14):
No, you've dialed a rotary film before.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Well, yeah, kid.

Speaker 15 (51:19):
Okay, you still have a landline. No, okay, you can't
find your glasses that are sitting on top of your head.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Oh no, no, but I can't find my glasses because
I can't see if they're somewhere and I lay them down.

Speaker 18 (51:28):
Like what the Woh you scored good? You are not
very middle aged.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Well the Facebook thing, you even cheated me out of
points there.

Speaker 18 (51:34):
Hey fine, if I remove that.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
You don't even want password to get into Facebook.

Speaker 18 (51:37):
We're out of thirteen.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
But somebody will go, hey, I saw it. You're right,
so may I saw on Facebook. I was like, what
you mean? Instagram? They're like, no, because if I load
a story, it loads to Facebook real. Well yeah, and
they turn that feature off.

Speaker 18 (51:49):
Isn't that bad? I mean?

Speaker 1 (51:50):
No, I just I have a Facebook page with like
twenty people from like high school or something. I guess
that's I don't know. I don't even know who sees that.
So what else?

Speaker 18 (52:00):
Him?

Speaker 20 (52:01):
Amy?

Speaker 18 (52:01):
That's my pile.

Speaker 16 (52:02):
That was Amy's pile of stories.

Speaker 23 (52:05):
It's time for the good news.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Mary Martinez is a teacher at Pine Crest Elementary in
South Florida. She's like, how can I relate to these students?
How can I make them pay attention? So she started
using football to teach math and language. Hot hot, hot, touchdown,
different terms. I don't know exactly how she did it.
Some of her lessons went viral on TikTok and the

(52:34):
NFL saw it was like, that's really interesting.

Speaker 16 (52:36):
So Dan Marino, who.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Used to play for the Dolphins, surprised her with a
video saying, hey, here, you're a big Dolphins fan and
you love to use football in your teaching lessons.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
For that, we're sending you to the super Bowl. Super
Bowl so cool. It's so cool. Eybody's get sent to lunchbox.

Speaker 16 (52:53):
Yeah yeah, I'm like, I watch football.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
I do a lot of stuff in the community, not
well football, I mean, Saint ju But you're told to
do that.

Speaker 16 (53:01):
That's right, Okay, that's a great start.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
What's her name again?

Speaker 17 (53:05):
Her name is now marrior. Nott told to teach that's
her job, her profession. She's chosen.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Her name is Mary Martinez and she's a lifelong Dolphins fan.
And so when she is there in Las Vegas, she
said she will be cheering for the forty nine ers.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Why doesn't say, Oh, They probably just asked her, wo
you're rooting for? 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

(53:40):
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. That's some friends and
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

(54:04):
away last night, February fifth, surrounded by his family. 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. He was in town. He's been in town
a couple times since, but he was in town and

(54:25):
he received the Like the Songwriter that Like basically a
lifetime Achievement Songwriter award, and he played obviously will have
such a lasting impression of country music. A lot of
personal thoughts and stories for me that we'll do this hour,
even from you guys, if you have them. Proud Oki

(54:50):
A lot to say about 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 22 (55:03):
Probably only worked a handful of shows in the last
wide COVID two big seas COVID and cancer, so I
adn't working 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 that concerned me
was being away from it for three years and remembering

(55:24):
all the words because they subconsciously come to you.

Speaker 16 (55:28):
When you're working.

Speaker 22 (55:29):
Yeah, you don't even think about it, you know them,
and then getting completely away from them and having to
start back. So they had a teleprompter up there and
I got into a little bit of a sound check.

Speaker 16 (55:40):
I remember go a full dress rehearsal.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Day, but.

Speaker 22 (55:45):
I didn't even use it. It was just like riding
the bike.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Oh you knew all the words.

Speaker 22 (55:48):
Yeah, once I got up there and started rolling and
it got familiar, I just I didn't even look at
the tail prompter.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Again, this is from just a few weeks ago here
in studio. Here is you know how I was doing
and how his stomach surgery affected his singing, because it
all has to do with each other. 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 22 (56:12):
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

(56:33):
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
so 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,

(56:55):
you know, like when I sang MacArthur Park at Carnegie
Hall is 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 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,

(57:16):
you know, going through our lists, working it up, and
I hev a issue, you.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Know, when it comes to Toby 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. Not
the case with Toby Keith. Not with Toby, not that
he wasn't a normal dude, because again we were lucky
enough to spend a good amount of time with him,

(57:43):
even out of the studio. But I can just remember
the first time that Toby Keith came into the studio,
the first time that I had 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 still was making music but will always be known

(58:05):
for making history. At the same time McGraw Chesney like
those will be contemporary legends. And so it was a
big deal Garth that Toby was coming in for the
first time this when we first moved to town. First
of all, massive, dude, look like a football player. Same thing.

(58:27):
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 you know, he was ready to go, like he

(58:51):
was here to go. 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 just as a random generic just to see
where he would go, and he goes google me. We
were all caught by surprising. He still quote that. That's

(59:15):
ten years ago. We still quote that to this day.
Google me.

Speaker 14 (59:20):
But as serious as he was about that stuff, you know,
he was laughing.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
It was totally him messing with us.

Speaker 14 (59:27):
Yeah, but he would say it's serious, Yes, google google me.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
You want to say, google me? And so 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? Can we talk? Do you want us to talk? Sure,
anybody out there that's listening that if you're a listener
and you have a story, or if you're an hardest

(59:54):
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,
and I don't. This is also a story that we
share as a kind of an inside joke around here

(01:00:14):
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 is the thing.

Speaker 18 (01:00:27):
I think it was shortly after the Google.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Oh, I know, but I don't remember what we were talking
about where I would ask a question that led him
to saying I made more money on merch and one
night than the president does in a year.

Speaker 14 (01:00:39):
But that's when I knew there are gonna be a
lot of things to quote, like every time he'd come
in the studio completely quotable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
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 or
I'm not sure when it happened, but we'll spend all
hours sharing stories and sharing music. Toby Keith passed away.

(01:01:10):
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. We
know it was was pretty thin, but was still super positive.

Speaker 18 (01:01:35):
Yeah, his demeanor still.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Had the big Toby keithness about.

Speaker 15 (01:01:39):
Him, like he was seemed just more fragile, but still
seemed very much him.

Speaker 17 (01:01:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
He was wearing a lot of clothes though, to try
to not show that his health wasn't good. I mean
multiple coats, he had sunglasses on, he had a hat on.

Speaker 15 (01:01:55):
The sunglasses he had on, Yeah, but especially big and
almost like a rapper.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
They were bigger. But still came in And if you
weren't able to see him and you just heard it
and you didn't watch it back, you would have thought
that here's 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

(01:02:28):
instead of this is what he's doing as he comes back,
like 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

(01:02:51):
fortunate that he was here just a few weeks ago.
And I told you guys that are listening, like cal
if 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, d C.

Speaker 25 (01:03:06):
Kim.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
I appreciate you calling. Let's go over to Kim if
we can pick her up. We have everything. Everything's broken,
all right. So it's a new phone. I clicked it.
It acts like it's good. Kim. Can you hear us?

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
I hit three? We have new phones? There we go.
Whatever happened? That was the weirdest.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Hey, Kim bye, good morning studio morning.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Can you tell us your story? Oh, it's a.

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
Great story, and just epitomizes what kind of guy he was.
My husband was a marine, a career marine, and we
did two tours at Harris Island is drums And it
was the summer two thousand and two, right after nine

(01:03:52):
to eleven, of course a year before, and the first
two weeks of the recruiting. That's 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 for all
missing our husbands.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:04:13):
Well, Toby Keith was in the area. He had done
a concert either Charles or Savannah, and he actually made
a deep And why this is so important is because
he actually came to an abandoned airfield on Parrett's Island
and gave a concert. And the commanding general gave all.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
Art crews, all of.

Speaker 7 (01:04:38):
The drill instructors, all of the family, basically two hours
to come on the base to this rady old airfield
that was hot mars with awful. So they had a
page set up and Toby gave a killer performance, killer

(01:05:00):
and he.

Speaker 9 (01:05:01):
Just loved his troops.

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
He loved him America. For him to take the time
out of he's downtime to give this concert, it's not
only to take give a concert. They catered to barbecue
for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
There no doubt that Toba Keith loved America. Let me
put a boot in your butt, you know what I mean,
No doubt, no doubt I mean that, And that'll be
one of his legacies, how much he loved the flag
and the troops. One of the shows that we played
with him, Eddie and I went to Well DC right

(01:05:39):
out of DC and all before the show because we
were going to go back and again, Toby had invited
us to come up befohim last minute because something has
fallen through like Senna's plane to come get us. He's like,
can you guess come open for the one show? Yeah,
and we were like yeah, sure, gives a kind of
a quick deal. So he sent his jet, picked us up,
flew us up there, and they were like, he Toby
wants to see you guys. Because it was kind of

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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 Tooby want 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 talking to. It's probably thirteen or fourteen people,
and so we're like, we'll just come back. They're like, no, no,

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hangout for a second. You should see this. 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 them 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 it probably something they did every or I know

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he did a lot, but something he did consistently every
time that he was able to do it. He did that,
and I think that's what a lot of his a
legacy will be.

Speaker 15 (01:06:56):
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 1 (01:07:10):
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 Steeves 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 27 (01:07:39):
Like, oh man, I have so many thoughts thanks to
letting me share, 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 back stage say hi
and take pictures, which now is you know, an amazing
memory and something special that have been a part of.

(01:08:02):
But yeah, I called you right away. I'm like, you
wouldn't believe it, Like this Toby t show is crazy.
And keep in mind when I saw him, it was
the second night of back to back night and you
just didn't know what to expect, right, this is a
guy who was persevering but battling. And I can tell
you for sure that you know, he didn't get on

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stage and do forty five minutes. He didn't get on
stage and 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.

(01:08:45):
And the last three songs were bangers. Right, he had
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 from the crowd,
and he walked off stage stronger than he walked on stage.
It was it was honestly remarkable to watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
What was the crowd like with Toby and was it
just a pure sing along the whole time?

Speaker 20 (01:09:12):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:09:12):
The whole time?

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
You know.

Speaker 27 (01:09:13):
I obviously you jump on your phone if you've got stuff,
start 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 singing
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 cahime 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 sing 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 vocalist, right, this guy could.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
Sting live.

Speaker 27 (01:09:55):
And was terrific, But you would have thought 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 had that he hit
them all and it was just Toby and his amazing band.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
It was cool.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
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. Was Toby. 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

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Toby played after. But I remember Rod being like, yeah,
I was on the bus with Toby ke till like
three o'clock afterwards, because it came with Rod, came with us,
just Toby sharing stories larger than live what like what
can what can you share from that?

Speaker 27 (01:10:47):
Well again, in another situation, I had no business being there, right,
but you know, because I was hanging out with you guys,
you're the opening act, and you know they wanted they
wanted a chance to say, hey, Toby, I'm like cool
to your point. Next thing, you know, it's after midnight,
We're having a great social event and the guitar comes
out and there's nothing like it, right, A legend literally

(01:11:10):
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 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,
Toby's like, how do you play golf every day? How
do you come out here and hang out every day?
And it's Clint Eastwood who gavehim the line. He wakes

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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 of us.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Well, we appreciate the time coming out with us this morning.
And for those that don't know that song, we're going
to play coming up in a few minutes. That's the
last song because he had put out a single before
and then had just decided we're going to 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 we'll do that
coming up in just a second, Rod, thanks for your time.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
In oh I appreciate it.

Speaker 27 (01:12:09):
God blessed to the Keith.

Speaker 15 (01:12:11):
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 and not
even like if you're older, don't let the old man say.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Don't let the boy in, yes, or that, don't let
that every day?

Speaker 15 (01:12:30):
Every day, the complainer in or whatever you're feeling like,
don't let that person in.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
You know, are you wussy boy? Let him in?

Speaker 16 (01:12:37):
Let him in.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
That's your version of this. Texting with my father in
law right now, who is massive Oklahoma fan lives in Oklahoma.
Like when 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 this sports. But he

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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 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. We have George Berge on the line,

(01:13:25):
and think about George is he just had a number
one song just so I 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 we have George? There is George? What

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was your relationship? How did you get to know Toby?

Speaker 20 (01:13:51):
So?

Speaker 21 (01:13:52):
Hey, guy, that's good morning, morning man.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
So Toby actually was one of the first people to
discover me as music and signed me to one of
my first record deals in twenty fifteen. So he was
always just larger than life to me. We had come
like out of a van 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

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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, would be on the
porta potti or on the trash can or something like that.

(01:14:38):
But he was also always really cool to us, like
he gave us longer than we deserved for sound check,
Like we were always welcoming his catering, which was like
filet mignon and lobster mac and cheese. And then we'd
be standing side stage watching the shows and it'd beat
Bob Stoops or Larry Bird or Roger Clemens, and it
was just the most surreal experience getting to tour with him.

Speaker 28 (01:15:01):
And I think more than anything he.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
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 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

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he knew you couldn't name a song that he couldn't
play as a cover.

Speaker 28 (01:15:26):
He'd literally, like aggressively look at you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:29):
And be like, name a song, any song, and he
would make you.

Speaker 21 (01:15:33):
He would make you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:33):
Say a song, and then he could play the whole thing,
from Merle Haggard to sugar Hill Gang.

Speaker 28 (01:15:37):
It was unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
His just love and respect for music.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
What did you see about him as a professional as
a performer that inspired you?

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
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. He would, you know,
thank everybody for being there. He was proud of who
he was. He was proud of the music that he made,
and more than anything, he was proud of his relationship
with his bands, and I think they genuinely felt that

(01:16:08):
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 (01:16:17):
And then my final question will be auf of out 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 6 (01:16:29):
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.

Speaker 13 (01:16:53):
He was always.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
Donating his time and his money to the US military.
He was a guy that knew who took of him,
and he made sure to do the same.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
George appreciate you talking with us this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:17:06):
Thank you guys, and I appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
George Burge again was signed to Toby's label. 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. I want to put on Eric in Delaware. Hey, Eric,
we appreciate you calling the show here. A lot of

(01:17:30):
people have stories, thoughts, emotions regarding Toby's death. Eric, you know,
on what would you like to say?

Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
Oh, my goodness, Hey, good morning, studio morning. Hey quite
the thumber Tuesday. But I just wanted to share a
Toby Kee's story about when I was deployed in Afghanistan.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
We had just.

Speaker 10 (01:17:56):
Done under you know, under attack and lost some people
verry somber, bad time. We knew there was a concert coming,
but we didn't know who at the end of the week,
and you know, I kind of stumbled upon where it
was at and this big blonde haired dude get on

(01:18:17):
stage and started strming his guitar and I lost it
and it was Toby. You know, he 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 was coming in to

(01:18:39):
a hot zone and he just wanted to be and
be there with us and he did so. It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
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 you know
I mean, and it is like we were I don't know,
just studio one day and Toby keeps was touring and
whomever was opening for him was not able to open
for him for a show we knew Toby, and Toby calls,

(01:19:10):
he goes, hey, can you guys come and do open
a show for me? The opener fell through as Eddie
and I the raging idiots. Now it was so quick
and we have a full band us when we do
big shows, not this time. But is he on now?

Speaker 7 (01:19:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Okay, well let's just let's hold this story then. Okay,
uh yeah, turn them on if you can. Jaco and
is on the phone, and Jake is one of these
guys that I know had a real really like would
be really it is really sad about this, So I
even thought maybe I don't reach out to Jake, but
then I just wanted to give Jakes the chance, as
emotional as he is about Toby, to talk about it
on a stage where a lot of people could hear. Important.

(01:19:45):
Toby was to Jake, Jake, good morning, Uh, you know
you heard the news. What are your thoughts?

Speaker 13 (01:19:52):
Hey man, Hey guys, Uh, it's just tough to really
process me. It's kind of paralyzing, really how much not
just you know, take myself out of it in the
world and put them forced to think about what he
did for so many people. And I think that's what
a lot of people don't realize is, yeah, he's his

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music was great, and but you know, he went on
over three hundred USO tours, and I know he spent
a lot of time with my good buddy Scottie Emrick
going over there and visiting all those soldiers and getting
more of himself and just the music. And over the
last probably a couple of years, I've been checking in

(01:20:34):
with him on and off. And one of the most
prolific things that he told me and a message back
after I told him I was thinking about him. I
was just reading back through my text messages, thinking about
how fast he can lose someone. And he said, uh, Jake,
just make sure one thing. He said, life is way
bigger than this music. Make sure you leave something behind it,

(01:20:56):
bigger than the music. And I think that's important for
everybody to know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Jake and I were down. I think we went to
Orlando and Oklahoma was playing Florida State. Now Jake's massive
Florida State fan, Toby was their massive Oklahoma fan. I
was long for the ride because my wife's an Oklahoma fan.
And again Toby loved OU loved Oklahoma, and Jake and
Toby we all. Jake and I went over to the

(01:21:22):
suite where Toby was, and Jake and Toby didn't even
fistfight right before the game. They loved each other that much,
even though their schools were playing that night. It was
just respect. It was such a respect to and again,
Jake has so many number ones and Jake's my friend,
but like Jake's a big deal and has made a
heck of a career out of country music. Put to
see just the respect that Jake had just for Toby

(01:21:47):
as a person. As you were sitting there, it was
like watching somebody who's great, like look to somebody who
has been great for such a long time. And I
think I think a lot of artists felt that way
with Toby, not even as a singer, not even as
a songwriter, but also a philanthropist. I mean, I feel
like a bit he was like a in a way,
a mentor to you as far as how to live life.

Speaker 13 (01:22:11):
Yeah, I think he's a mentor for all of us
as artists really, and for those that had never got
to meet him or spend time around him. I really
feel for those because he left the lasting impact on
me just from a standpoint of being a strong guy
that kind of did it his own way. You know
that some might say could be brash at times, but

(01:22:33):
I think that's what made him who he was, and
he did what he believed and that was always doing
things for other people. And you know, his wife, Trish
is an unbelievable woman and strong, and I played a
lot of golf with both of them, and I just
can't imagine what his family's going through right now. But
it's just important that everybody out there knows that he

(01:22:56):
left an incredible gift of his music, but not only
as a human being while he was on his earth.
And that's all I could ever strive to do.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
Toby known to give. But could you talk about Toby
as a songwriter just a bit, because we know Toby
the singer, we know Toby the larger than life presence,
we know Toby the person who gives a lot. But
I think something that happens with even artists like yourself,
the songwriting part of it isn't really that public because
you write in a room and who knows who writes
what Toby Keith as a songwriter, what would you say

(01:23:28):
about him.

Speaker 13 (01:23:30):
He's up there with guys like Merle Haggard, you know.
I mean, there's no doubt about that. And one thing
that people don't realize about Toby Keith is if he
had I mean, I can't imagine how many number ones
the guy had over probably forty or fifty number ones
and he wrote I think fifteen or twenty of them
by himself. And it's just, man, I don't know, it's

(01:23:54):
already even processed in music right now.

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
Outside of as I mentioned, the legacy left.

Speaker 13 (01:23:59):
Behind as a human being. I've talked to so many
of my friends this morning, from John Daily to you know,
Brian O'Connell, the promoter that spent so many years with him,
and everybody's just nobody's really talking about the music as
much as we just obviously talk about him as a
human being and how much he impacted all of our lives.

(01:24:20):
And so I I think it's great you guys are
shigning a huge light on him, and I hope that
we all as a community don't just make this a
day that we do this, that we we always reflect
on how much a guy like him as has mad
it to us.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Well, I know it's hard for you to come on,
So I appreciate that. Love you, buddy, and rest in peace.
Toby Keith, Thanks, shake yeah, man.

Speaker 13 (01:24:42):
See you guys, don't just make this a day that
we do this, that we we always reflect on how
much a guy like him as has man it to us.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
Well, I know it's hard for you to come on, so
I appreciate that. Love you, buddy, and rest in peace.
Toby Keith, Thanks, shake yeah man.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
See you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
All right, see there, that's what you're going to hear.
People go to is what kind of duty was even
though he has so many number one songs and most
of us would just know from his songs because we
didn't know him personally, but those are know him personally
took something away from him that I think they didn't
expect the story that I was going to tell. I mean,

(01:25:21):
this is a funny story. But Toby calls and goes, hey, well,
can you guys come up last minute and open for
the show in DC? It wasn't it. It was right
outside of a NAMA Theater at U Jiffy Lou Live.
It's considered DC, but it's like Northern Virginia. Yeah, And
we're like, yeah, but we can't get up there. We
don't we're not able to take a Southwest fly and
if we has it all down. But they like specifically

(01:25:44):
made this shirt quickly for us. And so we go
back and I mentioned that when we get there, you know,
we're in a bit of a rush because we were
late and we're trying to sound check. And we go
back to talk to Toby, but there are so many
veterans who had been injured that were at Walter Reed
they had brought to this show, and he spent a

(01:26:04):
time with all of them, so we we didn't need
to spend a lot of time with him because we
knew him. But I just wanted to say, hey, we're here,
don't worry, we're here. Look here we are. We're good. Uh,
thanks for thinking about us. And he was like, so
how do I tell more on stage? How do we
tell it? Because we had cost it. We had like
uniforms outfits that we wore as the raging idiots because
we were so we did comedy. We want people to

(01:26:26):
know that we weren't serious, so we basically had the
same outfit on and is how do I you guys
should come up and sing red Solo Cup. It's the
first thing, and I'm like, okay, I know that song. Well,
the problem with knowing a song is you think you
know a song until you're supposed to sing the song,
right because you know Red Solo Cup, and then you
forget h proceed to party. Let's have a party, and

(01:26:49):
let's so you're like, oh god, oh no, I don't know.
I just sing along with them on the like on
the radio or play it. And so so we're cram
in our phones and I'm like, do we sing it together,
Eddie and I he goes, no, I'll call on you. You're
the white one, You're the Mexican one. And I'm like, okay,
we got it, we got it, yes, yes, that's our cues.

(01:27:10):
And so, because Eddie had introduced himself as the Mexican
one of the raging idiots, it was it was me
that he was like, I'm the Mexican one, and and
he loved that. He thought that was the funniest thing
in the word, like, oh, no, you're the white one,
You're the Mexican one. Got it. So we get up
on stage and he's done Red Solo Cup, and again
I'm a little nervous because although I know the song,
when you have to sing the words with the band

(01:27:32):
in front of twenty thousand people and you know people
are recording it just because it's Toby and you screw
it up, it's gonna get posted on the internet. And
also you don't want to disrespect Toby and sing the
song wrong. So Eddie and are cramming read so so Bisco.
But Davin, we're like, Okay, I got it. So I
go out and he's like, here he is the right one,

(01:27:54):
bo and I'm like, luckily got it right, sold old cup,
I feel you? Who proceed the party? And he goes
and now where's the Mexican One? Well, the thing was
he didn't. He didn't reset the joke that Eddie introduced
himself as the Mexican one, that Toby Keith. So anybody
watching was like, he's looking for the Mexican what.

Speaker 14 (01:28:16):
What you can see the whole crowd just been like,
what is he talking the Mexican one?

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
But to tell me, you were just living what told
him two hours.

Speaker 16 (01:28:24):
Ago, like whe's the Mexican One?

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
And then then he comes out and sings it and
it was awesome and we didn't screw it up. I
don't think that bad, but.

Speaker 14 (01:28:32):
Well not that bad because at the end of the night,
we're walking by his tour bus and he's out there
and he goes and I go, oh, I hey, tell me,
thanks for having us. Hey, next time, learn the damn word.
Oh I love this. That's funny. I didn't know he
said that to you. That's funny. I never forget it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
So my point with all that is, even when he
was on stage, he wasn't thinking to himself, how can
I be this person they want to see? He was
just didn't even care to share the inside part of
the joke that probably would have made people go, oh, okay,
he's not just yelling on words and Maxine Eddie introduced
himself as the Mexic. He just didn't tell everyone. Just
didn't tell anybody else that part of that joke. Yes,

(01:29:12):
So that was Oh. And we were playing opening that show.
I remember looking on the side stage and David Murphy
was watching us as we were playing, and I remember thinking,
this is bizarre. We're playing opening for Toby Keith. David
ly Murphy's watching us because he came on the road
to right with Toby. Yeah, just to write yep and
Toby Keith is there. We're gonna go. It was just

(01:29:35):
a wild night and on brand.

Speaker 14 (01:29:38):
Like people have been saying, there was military standing backstage too,
like you have David Lee Murphy and a bunch of
military people color guard everything back there a lot of
Toby stories.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
We will come back with more. I have the first
time he was ever on our show in twenty thirteen.
I have some clips from that. I have callers. I'm
gonna try to get to whatever I can get to.
Rest in piece Toby Keith. They announced he died early
this morning. Toby Keith passed away. They announced this morning.
I'm not sure exactly when he passed, but this morning

(01:30:11):
early the family released the statement saying Toby Keith had passed.
He was just in our studio a few weeks ago,
played his last shows in Vegas. We had George Berjon,
who just had a number one with Mind on You,
who toured with Toby. Toby was the first person to
give him kind of a record deal. We had Jake
going on. He was very close with Toby. I was
texting with John Daily, the golfer who's friends with Toby,

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and I've been texting with him for the last few
minutes here and he said, hey, I want to come
a talk on the show, but I can't quit crying.
He was the best. We just talked a few days
ago after a surgery and then they said f cancer.
That's what John said. He said he was the best brother.

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So as you can see, it's people not going and
he made the best songs. He sang the best song.
The's people that knew him going.

Speaker 20 (01:31:06):
Like.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
He was a guy. He was a human who cared
about other humans, big personality. Loved Oklahoma. We went to
my wife and all of our family and you know
me as Arkansas as it gets, but I do root
for Oklahoma softball because basically our family coaches that team.

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Patty Gasso, the Oklahoma softball coach. We're very close to her.
She's my brother in law's mom, and so we go
and it's hard for me to route Oklahoma, I'll be
honest with you, but I do, and I love Patty.
And so we went to the championship game, which we
have been a couple because they have won I think

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the two or three in a row. And Toby was
there and he's tons of ou stuff up. He still
lived in Oklahoma and he was there, and then we
go to the after party. Mostly I just want food,
but then Toby showed up and they sing, uh. I think,
what will you have the clip ray of Toby in

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the mardo here play this crazy?

Speaker 4 (01:32:13):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
It's really good fun on brand?

Speaker 18 (01:32:16):
What cool memory for them?

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
I do want to go talk to Cowboy Mike in
Maryland who is online for Raymundo if you can pick
him up. Hey, Cowboy Mike, can you tell me your story?

Speaker 28 (01:32:27):
Hey, good morning studio. Okay, So I love his music.
It always felt like he was out there for us,
you know, the regular guy. I was in Vegas in
his restaurant and we were just sitting there eating dinner.
He comes in just the hugest presence, Like you said,

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he took time and went to every table, shook everybody's hands,
little chat, you know, And when when people would ask me,
you know what I would tell him, they were like,
can you just like? How was it? Describing?

Speaker 5 (01:33:05):
In one word?

Speaker 28 (01:33:07):
And it was just genuine. The only word I can
think for him is genuine.

Speaker 1 (01:33:14):
Gotta be pretty cool to be having dinner and to
Keys comes to the restaurant. Yeah, we appreciate that. Cowboy Mike,
thank you, for the story.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
Thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
I want to go over and talk to Billy and Georgia. Hey, Billy,
you got to meet Toby, I'm hearing. Let's go check
it in, Billy.

Speaker 21 (01:33:31):
Yeah, go ahead, Okay, yeah, yeah, I got the medium,
so I got a lot of playback.

Speaker 28 (01:33:39):
Okay, but chances.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
Oh you're good.

Speaker 21 (01:33:44):
Okay. So yeah, I made him in a rack in
two thousand and leves and first of all, like everybody saying,
he's a genuine guy. Uh you know when your meaning
it's fucking new.

Speaker 10 (01:33:58):
Ing, and.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Oh we lose him. I can read you what he
was going to say. I guess we lost his cell.
He said he got to meet Toby and Iraq. He
did a concert for them. They started to get hit
as far as I know, bombs or eventy fire.

Speaker 13 (01:34:18):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Yes, And he said Toby went hit in the bunkers
with everybody. And then after that was over, came out
and saying Curtis the Red, White, and Blue.

Speaker 7 (01:34:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
Right after that. Wow.

Speaker 15 (01:34:32):
I keep in my mind playing over and over what
a caller earlier said. I think his name was Eric,
and Toby had come to Afghanistan when he was deployed there,
and they had had a rough week, lost some people,
and then Toby played for an hour and the way
Eric put it, which is probably how so many soldiers feel,
because I guess Jacob and said he played three hundred

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USO shows.

Speaker 18 (01:34:53):
So a lot of people saw Toby.

Speaker 15 (01:34:55):
But for one hour they were taken home, you know,
and to be overseas and in that environment, but then
to have an hour where you get to be home,
you're in You're not in America, but Toby took them
there where they probably felt just such comfort and peace
for that one hour.

Speaker 1 (01:35:12):
Toby was obviously synonymous with Oklahoma. Again. He moved back,
which a lot of country artists don't do because the
industry's here. But Toby was like, I'm good, I made
all my money, I'm still going to tour and I'm
still still Toby freaking Keith and so. But he was
on and we just this didn't really make the show,
but we talked about his love of Oklahoma football and
just because he's a massive fan, do you live close

(01:35:34):
enough to go to a bunch of games? Like are
you close enough to Norman?

Speaker 22 (01:35:37):
I'm seven miles from the stadium. My ranch is about
seven miles the stadium. Kind of sits on the outskirtsy
town and I'm out further.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
Would you ever put on another team's like shirt? No?

Speaker 22 (01:35:49):
Now, I will say this my parents. My mom's from
Arkansas and my dad's from Oklahoma. So I told you
I'm all over you. But my second if I have
a second favorite team, h is Arkansas. In the first
two or three football games I went to as a
six or seven year old, my grandmother took me to
Fayettville and Little Rock, two different they y'all played two

(01:36:09):
different statements. So I went to Fayetteville and then I
went to Little Rock, saw Tech and SMU and the
old Southwest Conference. But so I tell everybody, Keith Jackson's
a great tide in at ou. He's smartingsa and when
we see each other we know Boom or Sue instead
of Boomer. Soon he.

Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
Toby Keith passed away. They announce it this morning when
we come back. In a second, I have Toby's very
first ever appearance on this show, which is now eleven
years ago, the first time we had met him, when
he gave us the infamous Google me wow. And I
don't even know if you said that on the air.
I think he just said that we were talking to
him being final. Really, Oh okay, we've told that story

(01:36:49):
an inside joke with us. Yeah, but I have clips
of him on the show for the very first time.
We'll do some callers. You know, Toby was in just
a few weeks ago. If you have a great story,
we encourage you to call us to eight seven, seven
seventy seven, Bobby. You'd be back in a second.

Speaker 13 (01:37:05):
Though.

Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
Country star country icon Toby Keith has died. Maybe you
saw it on social media, heard us talk about it earlier.
The news was shared on social media way early this morning,
twenty twenty two, is when he told people he was
battling stomach cancer. Had kept as much of a private
as he could. Obviously, we didn't know what he was
going through. He was here just a few weeks ago.

(01:37:27):
We talked about his health. His last performance was in December.
He did two shows, maybe more sold out shows, his
final shows larger than live. The first time he was
ever booked to come in, I didn't know what to expect,
and again, we just moved to Nashville. It wasn't like
we knew anybody famous and famous people coming to the

(01:37:49):
studio at this time. We were just like, Wow, this
is crazy. We can't believe they're gonna come. And I
would say he was the first, like big, extremely magnetic
presence and at times maybe even intimidating because he was
so large as a human too. Not only was he
there and he was like I'm Toby, he was massive,

(01:38:10):
like six, I don't know four, I don't even know
how big he was. So everything about him was big.
And so what we did is we pulled some of
this from the twenty thirteen in studio interview. The first
time did we ever talk to Toby Keith, I think
before my voice even changed, I was still going to
before puberty. So it's really high pitson And so here
we go from twenty thirteen Toby on getting into horse

(01:38:31):
racing with his dad, buying his dad's first horse and
winning its first race. They entered, here you go. How'd
you get into race horses?

Speaker 22 (01:38:38):
My dad had some family friends who he grew up
with who had some homegrown racehorses. But around ninety four
ninety five go the track with and watch them run
their horses, and I said, Dad, I'm going to buy
you a horse so you can. So I bought him
in the little bought half interest in a local horse
when we win the first race, and he was all excited.

Speaker 26 (01:39:00):
On the first race. Did you expect to win the
first roun guys? Today, I got a horse. I'll take
twenty thousand or half of him. So I bought my
dad a horse and he went to the track at
Remington there at Raymondon Park in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
One of his first race was like then I was hooked.
I'm in. Did you Dad get in the picture afterwards? Yeah?
He went down on in the NFL. I got the
picture with the in the winter sir. Yeah. Yeah. Here's
Toby talking about Willie Nelson and what it was like
to work with Willy back in twenty thirteen. So what's
the light working with Willie? Spend the time with Willie?

Speaker 22 (01:39:32):
Well, the unique thing about him is the guitar player.
It's been in my band that I've had forever. Joey
Floyd was the little boy in Honeysokele Rose. So my
guitar player grew up in the Willie family since he
was in grade school. To be around them all the time.
It was just like they were already family. I was
in with them the second that I met him. And

(01:39:55):
Will He's always been very professional, very good friend. Call you,
tell you joke. He loves jokes. If you you know,
he'll just call you up out of blue and say
if you heard it good? One to day he's he
wants to know when he starts his day out whether
he's gonna have some new material to lay on everybody
all day. And it's amazing how big his heart is

(01:40:16):
and and the little light that shines in his eyes.
And what a you know, what a great guitar player
had Jazz he is man, he is jazz.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
WILLI is just jazz.

Speaker 22 (01:40:28):
His his guitar is like an extension of his spirit.
And he can really create music on a guitar that
no one else can.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
Toby has the I Love this Bar and Girl. That's
the name of it, right, Yeah, I've seen him all over,
I've been in them, but that's what it's called. I
love right, I love this bar. I love this Bar
and Girl. Yeah. He talked about sneaking into his own
restaurant to watch his the workers. Toby Keith, I love
this Bar and Girl continue to expand. You have almost
twenty locations now, right, I think there are twenty? Are

(01:40:58):
there twenty now, yeah, maybe more. At press time there
was eighteen. So two have happened in the last hour,
Like they're run like we're twins. Yeah, so you ever
go just okay, you don't tell him you're coming, but
you see one. You go in, you have a meal
and just yeah oh yeah, and then you get like
bad service and you go have a talk with the manager.

Speaker 22 (01:41:15):
Way usually don't get that far when your pictures on
the wall and it's your joint.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
Usually sit down.

Speaker 22 (01:41:20):
Somebody goes all right, oh my god, you're oh.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
Then they would tell everybody and everybody freaks out.

Speaker 22 (01:41:25):
Yeah, so's I snuck in one and uh and I
actually didn't get it very It was in the afternoon,
so it was like four o'clock in the afternoons, so
it was tweiner time of day. You know, the dinner
crowd hadn't hit yet, and the lunch was way over,
and I kind of snuck in the side door and
sit down by the bar. And we'd been playing golf,
so we had four or five golfers, so they just

(01:41:46):
thought we were four or five dudes. Took him ten
minutes to figure it out, but it took them a
while A wait on me I was like, Hey, you're
not getting over here quick now, so slop some whiskey
out here. Girls come home.

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
It's funny, Toby Keith, rest in peace.

Speaker 10 (01:42:00):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
We spent a good amount of time with them over
the years, not only in studio but out of studio,
on the road, opening forum or I don't know. Man.
He was larger than live for sure, Amy striking. And
I know this was not on purpose. I've never seen
you drink out of a red Solo cup before in

(01:42:24):
the studio.

Speaker 18 (01:42:25):
Nope.

Speaker 15 (01:42:25):
I grabbed it last minute and I was walking out
of my house. I hadn't even looked online yet. I
didn't even know he had passed away. But I have
these travel like or to go clear cups I normally use,
and I was I opened the door and I was out.

Speaker 18 (01:42:40):
Thought, Ah, so I go over this other cabinet where we.

Speaker 15 (01:42:43):
Keep like, you know, the Tito's, and that's where the
rest Solo cups are, and I grab one.

Speaker 1 (01:42:48):
So that's what you're drinking. You're drinking.

Speaker 18 (01:42:49):
No, I'm still having my iced coffee.

Speaker 15 (01:42:52):
But I was like, oh, I got a hurry, grab
that and I walk out and then I'm.

Speaker 18 (01:42:56):
Sitting here drinking my coffee and Mike D's like, hey,
kind of fitting Amy's drinking out of a.

Speaker 15 (01:43:02):
Red Fellow cup today, and so yeah, that part is
very ironic.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Yeah, rest in peace, Toby Keith. We fit the last
two hours telling stories, talking about Toby, our stories, listener stories,
artist stories. If you want to hear any of that,
you can check it out all on the podcast. We
will put it up there. Just go search for when
the show is over, go search for the Bobby Bone
Show on demand and Jake going on talking about Toby,
George Burrs, our stories. But it'll all be up on

(01:43:30):
podcast if you want to listen to that again or
if you're just waking up sad news Toby Keith passed away.
I was very surprised he was just here. I can't
say I was shocked, because I knew. I guess I
wouldn't be shocked if anybody's battling cancer like that. But
I was very surprised because my feeling was he was

(01:43:55):
doing this all again to get started again, and I
think that maybe that wasn't the case. I think he
was doing it again to do it one last time,
like coming here, like going to Vegas, like to play
those shows. So rest in peace. Toba. Keith Bobby Bone show.

Speaker 20 (01:44:13):
Orry up today.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
This story comes with us from Luisy and a thirty
six year old man's driving his white suv. He's got
blue lights inside and he sees a car kind of
making an legal maneuver, and so he.

Speaker 16 (01:44:27):
Says, whoo whoo a police car. Ah, he's acting like
a police car.

Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
I knew something fishy was going on.

Speaker 16 (01:44:34):
He had his blue lights in his car.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Yeah, pulls the car over, walks up, shows him a
badge and the guy's like, man, there's something not right
about that badge because I'm a real cop.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
Oh no, it's made of gum.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
And so the guy tried to run back and get
in his truck and drive away, but he had to
be restrained. They found a gun, a police skinner, fake badge.

Speaker 1 (01:44:54):
You know, you could just go train to be a cop. Yeah,
but that's a lot of work, it is it is.

Speaker 16 (01:45:00):
You probably gonna pass a background check.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Yeah, but I mean you could do that young, if
that's like your dream, take the time, study, get in shape,
become a cop. Otherwise, if you do this, you will
go to jail.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
But literally, he pulls this guy like when you pull
the guy over, what are you gonna do? Like tell him, hey, bad,
bad bad, Like you don't have tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
Or you say if you want to get out of this,
Oh you know what you yeah, I don't know that
that's true. I'm just saying that. All right, there you go.
Thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:45:30):
I'm much box at your bonehead story of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
We appreciate you guys being with us here today. You know,
we did spend a majority of the show talking about
Toby Keith. It's not my favorite kind of show to
do because you hate to just see people die, honestly,
And we had a good and interesting, hilarious at times
relationship with Toby Keith, and we shared a lot of

(01:45:56):
those stories, and different people called in and share their stories.
But if you are just waking up, first of all,
wake up earlier. Okay it's late. I'm jealous. No, I
wake up earlier. It's not fair you get to wake
up this late, or maybe listening to the podcast. But
then you heard us talk about it already. But country

(01:46:17):
star Toby Keith has died. He had been on our
show just a few weeks ago. He didn't look like
the Toby Keith that we had known forever. Because he
had been battling cancer. I don't think you would have
known it was Toby when he walked in, had someone
not said, hey, Toby's coming in. And he also was

(01:46:39):
very covered up because he was going through it more
than I think we even knew he was going through it,
and obviously he wanted to keep a whole lot of
this private. Passed away last night or they announced this morning,
so it could have been the last few days. I
don't know. They're very private about it, but again it

(01:47:01):
came out this morning when the statement put out of
the family put out a statement. So, but we did
a lot on the show if you want to hear
that on the podcast. It's not all that, but there's
a couple hours of it because what we thought we
were going to do is a tribute hour to Toby
Keith turned into oh, you know what we should talk about?
Oh you know we should talk about now, oh remember this,
And so we did a lot of that. And it's

(01:47:21):
not like the saddest show ever. It's sad and it
sucks he died, but he wasn't a sad person. He was,
you know, the opposite of that. So when he came in,
he's a firecracker man. All Right, that's it. I hope
you guys have a great day and we will see
you tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Goodbye, everybody show