TUES PT 2: Amy Almost Didn’t Survive Ecuador Trip + Gavin Adcock On Zach Bryan Feud And Possible Duet? + Eddie Almost Got Mugged In NYC

Amy shared the best part of her trip to Ecuador and what surprised her the most. She shared the reason she thought she wasn’t going to make it out alive. Bobby talked more about his trip to the mountains with his family and in-laws. Eddie talked about how he conquered New York City even though we have our doubts. Lunchbox talked about loving his trip to St. Louis. Gavin Adcock joins us to talk about his wild year, his new album, and why he called out Zach Bryan. He also talks about growing up on a cattle farm, how different types of alcohol affect him onstage and Bobby gives Gavin a $5,000 challenge.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Bobby Bones Show. What was the best part of
going to Ecuador?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, getting that time with my cousin was really special.
And then just going to South America. I haven't been
to that continent yet. So checking that off my bucket list.
And I don't know that I was aware it's a
third world country. It is. But beautiful people, great food,
a lot of really cool experiences.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Beautiful people, like they're all good looking?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Very kind. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
You mean like their hearts?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes. Like lovely people, the energy. There's something, and that's
what my cousin and her husband love about it. They're like,
there's something about the energy here that's just, you feel good.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Can you live pretty cheaply down there? Yes.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
There are some, some things are going to be wildly
expensive because they're difficult to get, but then other things,
we did a lot of spa time together and like
hair things and stuff that she would like to go
do but she's not going to go by herself and
so having like me come to town as an excuse
to go do all these really cool experiences and it
was crazy how in in in the U.S. it would

(01:04):
be five times the cost so it was really like
whenever they would check out I mean and it was
of course in a different language and I'd be like
did I understand that just you know Tres?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
80 cents for a car?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, I bought a bottle of water. It was a quarter.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
A bottle of water here at the gas station would
cost me $ 4.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
99.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Do they have Montezuma's Revenge in the water?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, their water is very clean. It's coming. I mean,
I was buying bottled water, but she said all the water,
even drinking there, is very clean coming from.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
The mountains?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, whatever. And then we went up into the Andes.
We drove pretty high up to this place called Cajas
National Park, where UFOs park.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I saw your Instagram story where it was a body
of water.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, there's a lot of those. They're called glacier lagoons
and they're formed. Well, I don't really know exactly, but
they're not. They appear. There's also crater lakes like where.
Craters have dropped, and then it forms the water.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's cool.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Meteors have dropped.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Meteors have dropped, created craters.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Sorry, yes. Meteors have dropped. And I don't know what
the difference is in the glacier lagoons. I forgot to
look that part up. But there are people around town,
and they would pull out their cell phones, and they'd
be showing me all these orbs they have on their phone.
And they're like, yeah, UFOs are here all the time.
And then they're like, this is where they park. So
I was like, we're driving up there.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's pretty common in that area of the world. Yes.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
What UFO sightings?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Where it's so common that it's not a big deal
to them. Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, that's what I'm telling you. It was just like
I was calling it.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Maybe UFOs is a weird word, but they just know
it's something. They don't know what it is. They can't
describe it. They can't get a hold of it. And
it's always happening.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes. And there are some different reasons online as to
why you might be seeing these phenomenons like with the
fog and where you are and elevation. So it could
be just something that's happening that makes you think it's
something there. But. They're very casual about it, and I
was calling it local lore, like folklore, like, okay, this
is just kind of rumor stuff. But then they bust

(03:08):
out pictures on their phone, and then they're all very
matter-of-fact and casual about it. And they're like, yeah, yeah, no, no.
In those lakes, the UFOs, they go, they park down there,
and then they come out.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
It's pretty neat.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
But it happens all the time, so it's not a
big deal to them. No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
But we drove up there. I saw nothing. It was
an extremely foggy day. Also, fun fact, it's winter there
right now.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Really?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Warmer than here, though.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Huh. Well, warmer than here, but still got pretty cold
in the mornings and evenings. Oh, you were up high, though.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You were up high.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
It was up high. And then, of course, up there,
it got even higher. I felt like at one point,
we stopped at this little coffee shop in the middle
of nowhere, which they were playing Garth Brooks, by the way.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
That's cool. It's huge in Ecuador.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yukon Jack?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, but country music was coming out. But when we
walked by, it was Garth Brooks. It needs no explanation.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
How do they get Garth over there? We can't even
get Garth.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
We need Amazon.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Maybe radio. Yeah. Or Amazon.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
When it comes down to temptation. That's the song that
was playing.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
It all makes perfect sense.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
And that's true. He doesn't stream, so.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
It doesn't Amazon music only.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, well, maybe that's what.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I don't have that.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't either.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
And I swear, when I started making that video to
record the Garth, I was like, wait, is snow falling
down on me? Like, I was cold.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
How was the flight down?

Speaker 5 (04:24):
It was.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Because you had first class and they took you out
of it.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh, well, huh.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
So you didn't have first class and they messed up
and gave it cheaply. Yeah, there was a mix up.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
But then turns out the flight, all my tickets were
booked together. But I didn't know which flight what. Turns
out on my first two flights, I was first class.
It was on my third flight that I got moved back.
But that plane doesn't even really have first class because
it's a smaller plane. Ecuadorian airline.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
So your longest flight, did you have first class?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh, that makes it so much better. I, let me
tell you, I took a little Xanax and I went
to sleep because it was going to be a 12
hour travel day and I needed to rest. And then
when I got off the plane, I immediately, because I'm
first class, I was the first one off the plane,
first one to customs, no line. And I walk right
up and they're like, passport, please. And I'm like, yeah, sure.

(05:17):
No problem. And I started digging through my bag and
I was like, I don't have my passport.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
What?

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Like you didn't bring it on the trip?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Of course I brought it on the trip. I had
to have it at the first airport, but I realized
I left it on the plane.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
How'd you get it back?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Of course you got lucky.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Well, I did.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I did get lucky. They wouldn't let me go back,
but I was talking to a guy. He did not
speak any English.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And my little travel pouch that.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I keep it in.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is a little leopard pouch. And so I'm trying to
describe to him and I'm like, you know, leopard cat.
And then I pull up the leopard emoji on my
phone and I'm like showing him. And so he's radioing
in telling somebody in Spanish like to look for a pouch.
And then several minutes later, up walks this woman with
my pouch and she's digging in it, pulling out my
passport to make sure that my picture matches me. And

(06:19):
by this time, the whole plane has de-planed and the
customs line is 200 people deep. And I'm like, I
have another flight to catch. But I made it through.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's crazy you left it.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
She looks like this.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, I'm not surprised I left it because I was.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, no, we're not surprised. We said it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Every time.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Let me tell you. Because I still had some Xanax
up to me, I was not stressed at all. I
was so breezy.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I was like, oopsie, left it on the flight. Like, oh, well,
if I miss this next flight, like, we'll figure it out.
But I was able to catch my next flight, and
I made it. And it was really just overall like
a very lovely, energizing, relaxing. Like you said, Bobby, your.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Cup is full. Yeah, I'm not– Rested. But my cup
is more full from my vacation.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, my cup is more full.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, my flight back, my travel. I mean, I took
six planes and every one I thought was going to
be my last.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Because you would die?

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, we were in the Andes Mountains and, you know,
that book.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
That one plane.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Miracle in the Andes.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Were you first class on the way back?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yes, because my only issue was on the smaller plane,
but I didn't know that. That's where I'd been reseated.
But the smaller plane, it didn't matter because all the
seats were the same. But here's the thing. Whatever Delta plane...
Only when I got to Ecuador was I on an
Ecuadorian airline, but from Atlanta to Quito, I was on Delta.
And on the way there, we reclined all the way back.

(07:49):
It was so amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
You had bed, first class? It's the greatest.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, it wasn't like bed, bed like you see on
the fancy ones to like Europe or something, but it
still reclined back enough. On the way... Home, my flight
was 10 p.m. I left at 10 p.m. and returned
to Nashville at 10 a.m. So it was completely overnight.
And I was so excited for my reclined bed-bed situation. Well,

(08:12):
I guess I don't know if we were on an
older model plane. First class was like, sure, it's still fine.
I'm not complaining. But it was like... We reclined back
this much.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
And that was on my overnight.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Oh, man.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
We'll listen to it. No crying on the yacht. I'm
not crying on the yacht.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Plus, remember, if you remember, some people maybe don't remember
or they weren't listening. I only bought the first class
because it was actually cheaper than coach. It was a
weird thing that I got lucky with and I snagged
it and I got lucky.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
I would rather you just be honest, which you are doing.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
I am.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
And not have to be like, oh, no, no, no, no.
And just say, nah, no crying on the yacht because.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, but I know, but I would have had it reversed.
Like on the way down there, give me the one
that reclines like an inch. And then on the way home,
when I'm flying overnight, like my flight from Quito to
Atlanta was 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. And I'm on
an airplane sleeping. And it's same time zone, so thankfully
no time change. But when I'm leaving the Cuenca airport,

(09:09):
getting on a Ecuadorian airline, they call, I hear my
name over the loudspeaker.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh, boy. Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I do not.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
They're like, Brown Ami, Brown Ami. And I was like,
is that me? Am I Brown Ami?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And Amy's like, did I get more tan here? Is
that why?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
So then I'm like, they must be calling Amy Brown.
It sounded like enough of me to where I went
to the desk. And then they rip out. a piece
of paper from a notebook, like ripped in half. And
they're like, can you write your address and your emergency contact?
And I'm like, what?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
For what? For what?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
So I was like, well, I don't really know who's
my emergency contact these days.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Oh, dang.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah. Was it me?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I know. No, your ex-husband right well he still is
in my phone yeah like if something happens with my
phone it's gonna call my ex-husband but um I just
wrote down my address and then put my sister and
then And then I handed it to them and I'm like, what,
what is, is this for if something goes wrong? They
have their collection of ripped pieces of papers. They call,

(10:16):
they call, they just like call my sister. Like, are
you related to Bronomy? Cause her plane went down in
the Andes. Oh, that was very nerve wracking.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Are you glad you went?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I am so glad I went. If you ever go
to Ecuador, like it's, there's so many beautiful things. It's
very old, way older than, you know, stuff here. There's
so much to explore and see. And like, we went
into caves and sat in clay.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Did you feel safe?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Oh, we're safe the entire time. No cartel. Her husband
told me they don't, they leave, uh, this part alone
because this is, it's not a travel through for the trafficking. He,
they said specifically what places not to go to because
they would abs, but apparently a lot of money is
laundered through Cuenca where we were. So there's a lot of, um,

(11:07):
high rises going up that are only like 20% occupied.
But like, it doesn't matter. They just want a place
to put the money.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Sure, sure, sure. That's fine.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
So no cartel. I felt very safe. We walked a
lot of places. I highly recommend.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I feel like there are donkeys everywhere. Are there donkeys everywhere?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I didn't see any donkeys.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I feel like we're just like walking on the edge
of racism a lot here. And I'm okay with it
because we're not because our hearts aren't there. But even, oh,
Bungalow Enemy.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Are you sure?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And then lots of donkeys.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
No, I know.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
It's just, if people didn't know us. No, it's just Spanish.
I know.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
And what's wrong with donkeys?

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Nothing. I just said we're walking on the edge. We're
not there.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
There was also a lot of, there's apparently, Eddie, to
answer your question about livestock, there's a lot of alpacas
and llamas. And I was looking high and low. There's
even cross, they have like, you know how here we
have like deer crossing. There it's like alpacas crossing.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
That's cool. That's really funny.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
And I kept waiting for an alpaca to cross the road.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
And these are wild alpacas?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know. They might have homes.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
That'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't know if they're domesticated down there.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, I doubt it.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
But they might have a farm they belong to, but
people let them go graze.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
No, I really don't know if they're domesticated down there.
That was my.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah. Because like.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Because there could be wild and domesticated. Right. Huh. That's fun.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Top three things. Go. Number one.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Going to the cave with my cousin, which was a spa,
and we sat in clay for like an hour and
then went into this steam room that also had a
cold plunge and then we exfoliated with Epsom salt and
then these two women all dressed in white waved these
towels over us and suddenly bubbles appeared. I've never experienced
anything like it. Apparently it's called hamam ritual. Top spa

(12:46):
experience of my life.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Number two.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Number two. My, just cousin time, because she's my cousin.
It's not really my cousin. Our moms are best friends.
And I think that we could both feel that our
moms and our dads, they're all now, they were all friends.
They're all now in heaven together. And we felt like
they would be so proud that we were intentional and
made time to be together.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Oh, so she's not your blood cousin.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
No, she said that before.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
I know, but it still confuses me when.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
You say cousin. Her psychic cousin's not her blood cousin.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, but I grew up her.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay, got it.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's very deep south. That's what we would say in Arkansas. Yeah.
I would say it's deep South and black community.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Like you've got your auntie.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah. Even though they're not related. Um, and then where
I come from is deep South and black. So everybody,
we have just cousins.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I would say just knowing that our parents would
be so proud of us for like maintaining a connection
that they really wanted since we were younger. Uh, and
then 13, golly, there's so many other good things, but
I'll go with that. A day before my arrival, my
cousin and her husband, uh, came across a puppy in

(13:53):
the street that was about to get hit by a bus,
like two different times, two different buses. And it was
dodging and covered in fleas and in real bad shape.
And they took him in, took him to the vet,
got him all cleaned up. And then when I arrived,
she's like, well, we have a new addition to the family.
And so we had a little puppy with us the
whole time and they're keeping him. And so that was

(14:14):
like a nice treat. I haven't been around a puppy
in a while and it's so precious.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Are they going to stay down there?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like to live-live?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah. And if you remember, my cousin's husband is significantly
older than her. He's 75.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Whoa, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And we're 45. And I had to straight up ask her, like,
what are you? I was like, I'm concerned. You're here
in this country, and it's y'all two. And they've met
a lot of expat friends and other Americans there. But
I was like, if he were to die, what's the plan?

Speaker 5 (14:46):
And?

Speaker 1 (14:47):
She has one.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
She has, they have people that she knows exactly who
she would call that would help her. And she was like,
I'll probably move to Nashville.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Got it.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was like, perfect.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Oh, I get free psychic advice then.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
That'd be cool.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
So we're going to self-contain this YouTube because we did
15 minutes on, no, no, no, on Amy's Ecuadorian, because
we can put this up with a thumbnail that just
goes Amy's Ecuadorian vacation and self-contain it. So we're going
to start, we're live, but we're going to, and people
will say, hey, why does the live go private? Because
we take it and we put it into the actual
feed because the live feeds are all its own. But

(15:17):
if we take it and we thumbnail it, especially we
put it into our real content, that's why. The same
things go up, but we move it to a different part.
But I want to, for YouTube purposes, stop the video now.
Does my butt look bigger?

Speaker 4 (15:29):
What?

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Did you get implants?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
You got an Ecuadorian butt lift? Okay.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
What you're talking about, but we've got to save this,
save that, and then we'll be back. Okay, but the
podcast is going to keep going.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
So my vacation, we went to East Tennessee. We were
in the Smoky Mountains. And you know how you talked
about people see the orbs and it's just normal? That's
how people there feel about bears because they just walk
around everywhere.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Did you see bears?

Speaker 1 (15:56):
My mother-in-law did. We didn't go. We went out a little,
like meaning just out in the woods. And we were
in a place that they kind of make sure there
are not a lot of bears. Because if you like
pigeon forage, they're just everywhere.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
On the street?

Speaker 1 (16:09):
On the street. And the last time my in-laws... went there,
bears got in their car, remember? I showed you guys
that video. The bears opened the door and then got
in their car. Or maybe they were taking their luggage in,
and while they did that, the bears went in. They
had two bears in their car. So that's how bears are,
where normal people would go, a bear, that's crazy. There,

(16:30):
they'd say, yeah, just bears, just keep your food in.
If you don't do anything to them, they're not going
to mess with you. But don't touch them. But it
was great because I just love when my in-laws are
with us. And it wasn't just about having help with Billy.
Because that's also a real nice part of it. They
love to spend time with her. They live in Oklahoma,
so they don't get to see her as much. But

(16:52):
I just like having them around. And so, man, I
wish they lived closer. It's crazy. I wish they lived, like,
next door.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
That'd be cool. Yeah. Just to have family so close.
Because I'm like you, dude. I don't have family anywhere
near us. And it kind of sucks.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Yeah, but next door would get old.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
But he's saying he really enjoys spending time with her.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
I know, I know, I know.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
But next door... I mean, even if you enjoy them,
you need a little space.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
It'd be like everybody loves ramen.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
Yeah, that would be tough.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Maybe, but I'm telling you, to me, their personalities, because
now I feel like my sample size is large enough
that it's not we're newly dating or newly married. We've
gone on vacations together. Their personalities, to me, aren't something
that I don't like being around. Now, with any human,
if you're around them all the time, you get hungry,

(17:38):
you get irritable.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
But I don't know. I just wish they lived closer.
Caitlin does too because she's like, man, it sucks. I
don't have any family to help us with stuff. So one,
I loved that they were with us. And on the
middle podcast that we used to do, Tell Me Something Good,
I did a top five vacation moments and I did
a Q & A. And I do talk about that

(18:01):
a lot. But we had a really great time. We
spent three nights together. is the first time we had
taken Billy on a vacation. Cause the first time we
just stayed home cause she was too young. Um, I
don't know. She's crawling now, which is wild. She's five months.
She's crawling and it's, it's just, it's weird. And now
you got to keep an eye on her a little more.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
She get very far.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
If she can't get there fast, she starts to just
barrel roll. Then she can get there fast.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's so weird. It's funny.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
So if she's crawling and she can't quite, she'll just
go screw this and just start rolling. Um, But it's
always different. I don't come back rested. Usually I do.
No rest. But it was great.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, I love that you got in-laws that you really enjoy.
For one, not everybody has that.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, man, you're lucky.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
But for two, because you didn't have the same parent
experience as Caitlin did growing up, it's almost like at
46 years old you're.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Getting a mom and a dad.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I agree, and I think that is a slight part
of the appeal because I don't want to say that's
the only appeal because I love them.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
They're the best.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
But that is a part of it because I just
am not used to having family, just actual family. I mean,
even Arkansas Keith, who I would consider my closest family member,
I didn't meet him until I was 12 or 13,
and him and my mom divorced when I was 17.
So it's not like there was a huge— we' re still close.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Absolutely. That's not to ignore that you have family and
a sister, and you had a mom, and you had
a grandma, and they loved you. Traditionally speaking, like her
there and it's very rare, like her parents are still together.
And I don't know. It's just you're lucky that you
married into that and they have such a healthy relationship.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
I just wish OU wasn't as good at football as
they are this year. Because we'll just be talking. And
they're a football family. They're a sports family, both. I
got lucky with Caitlin in that way. She grew up
in an absolute sports family. She doesn't always want to
watch sports as much as they do, but she understands
it because that was the culture of how she grew
up with her mom, with her dad, with her brother,

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with her sister. And she played sports. But sometimes she's like,
you've watched four games in a row. Like, what are
we doing here? But she gets it. But when they come,
we all sit around and talk sports, except for Kaylin.
She's like, can we talk about something.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Else?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Her dad watches every Thunder game, 80 games, 90 games,
whatever he can get to. He doesn't always, I say every.
If he can watch it, he watches it. But we
talk a lot of sports. And then OU football is
going to be really good this year. So when we're
trying to talk about our teams, and he's like, he
feels bad for me. So he's like, I know.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
It'll be better.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
It'll get better for Arkansas. So my vacation was great.
But I'm not rested. But that's OK.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
What did you guys do? I saw you. Did you zipline?

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Oh, dude, I thought you were going mad. You were ziplining.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I was like, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Caitlin's dad said, hey, let's do this ropes course. I'm
always up for adventure. And also, I'm still scared of heights,
but I'm a little less scared because I've done so
many things where I had to absolutely confront that. And
the fear is still there, and I don't like it.
But I'm not scared of anything with a harness anymore
because I've been harnessed up. It's so safe. Harnesses don't...
If I got a harness on, hang me from a spaceship.

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So we harnessed and ziplined. It's a ropes course. You
have to walk across stuff. Only a couple of ziplines.
But it was a lot of fun. So, yeah, just my...
Trip wasn't so much about where we went. It's about
all of us being there. And it was great. I
really wish Caitlin's sister and brother-in-law, they could have come.
But DJ's is the new head coach at Tulsa.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh, he's in it.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Now he's in it. And Grace is pregnant again, too.
But the last time we went, Caitlin was pregnant.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
And she was vomiting out the window. She was vomiting.
We had little things. We should put plaques here because
Caitlin vomited here last time.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
You remember this spot right here?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, that's really what it was. So that was mine. Edward.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Edward. Yeah, so we really didn't do much other than
just the first part. It was New York City because
of my son's birthday. But let me tell you about
New York, man. We conquered. We had two days to
do New York, and we conquered New York City in
two days.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Okay, I'm not going to push back on that because
it sounds stupid because you can't.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
But anyway, oh, that's cool. Dude, we did all the sites.
I asked him, what do you want to do? He
wants to see the Statue of Liberty.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Did you go in it?

Speaker 3 (22:23):
No.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
No.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
He just wanted to see it. So I was like, perfect.
We'll go to that park, Battery Park. You can see
it from there.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's cool.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Boom.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
We had lunch. We sat there. Dude, I made the mistake.
I got a hot dog from a hot dog stand.
That was not good.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Why?

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh, no.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Why?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (22:34):
It was purple.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, that's the problem. You didn't look at it before
you ate it? Inside.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
But don't they look, don't they normally look purple?

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, they're probably, those hot dog stands, that's how they look,
but they're good.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
I've had decent experiences with them.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Same.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
I thought my whole thing was like, okay, this is
New York. This is what people do. Like, they wouldn't
exist if people didn't eat these, right?

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
So then I bought one. I took a bite and
I'm like, well, that's purple on the inside. And then
I felt it like 12 hours later.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Really?

Speaker 3 (22:59):
For sure. But we had lunch there at that park.
We saw the Statue of Liberty. Got on the subway.
We went on top of the Rockefeller building, saw all
of New York. We went to a Yankees game. We
got a tour of Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
You went through and did the tour?

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
That's fun.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Casey Musgraves kind of messed it up for us, though.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Why, her big ball sack hanging from the sky?

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh, no. She was playing that night, so we couldn't
get on the floor because her whole crew was setting
up the stage. Although, I did look for the ball sack.
Didn't see it out there.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Probably back behind.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
They hide that.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
You know the ball sack?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, so yeah, she was sitting on it.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
It's a disco ball, but it's two beside each other.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
She sits on it. It's a disco ball sack.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
I looked. I kept looking. I'm like, no, I don't
see the ball sack. But anyway, so we did the
tour of Madison Square Garden. We got to go to
the locker room. That was pretty cool. They didn't have
the trophy, which was weird. I thought they would have
the NBA championship trophy, but they did not.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Maybe it's just not where you went, though.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, did they have the lockers? It said Brunson. Did
it have the names?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
No, and the names weren't on there, but it was
the locker room.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Did they have Taylor Swift was married here?

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Dude, that's really what I was really excited. Like, the
whole time, because we were, like, in a group of
maybe 10 people. And the whole time, like, wow. I'd
say it out loud just so people can react. Wow,
Taylor Swift got married here. This is crazy. And people
would be like, oh, my gosh. That's not even the
cool thing that's happened here.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Your family?

Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, the other people we were with.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh, it was a group tour.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, like 10, 12 people. Got it. But that was cool.
We rode bikes around Central Park, which I'd never done,
and realized Central Park is humongous.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Like, really big.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well, then allow me to say, it sounds like you
conquered New York.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
I really think you did.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, I mean, I was wrong, and I take that
you conquered it. I didn't think it could be done
in two days.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
You did it hard. And I would joke to him, like, guys,
what else can we do? You want to go to
the club? Like, that's all we need to do. Go
out at night, which we didn't. But I'd say it
was pretty cool, but man, let me tell you, I
almost got mugged. Dangerous.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
No, no, no, guys, this is serious. And I had
no idea. We were at Times Square, which we did
Times Square, by the way, too. And we were crossing
the street and some guy came up to me. May
could have been a homeless guy. I'm not sure. Kind
of just had that vibe. And he started yelling something
at me. It's almost like he picked me out of
the group of the whole crowd and just started messing
with me. And he kept asking me a question, but

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I couldn't understand what he was saying. It wasn't a
different language. He was just mumbling. And so my rule
in New York is like, just don't make eye contact,
look down and keep walking. And the guy kept saying,
I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. And I
just kept on walking and my wife and my wife
and my son were behind me. And so I just
kind of like made sure they were good. And I
kept on walking straight. And then finally he left me alone.

(25:40):
And then my wife came to me and said, he
almost knocked you out. Like he walked behind you with
his fist up in the air and was about to
punch you and stopped about an inch behind your head.
And I didn't see any of it because I was
kind of like New York, whatever. I'm just going to
walk straight and ignore this guy. And then some guy
walking the street, too, goes, man, I had your back. Dude,

(26:00):
I was watching the whole time. If he would have
hit you, I would have definitely tackled him. I was like, wow,
that's crazy. I didn't know I was in that much danger.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
So it doesn't sound like a mugging. It sounds like
you almost got whooped.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
It just sounds like somebody was messed up on drugs.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I was going to hit you.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I was just going to hit you.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
And then my wife said she saw a gun on
his waistband when he lifted his hand up.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
The problem with that is maybe, because maybe, because I
did doubt you conquered New York, and you did. So
I was wrong there. You have a gun in New York,
it's way different than having a gun anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
I know.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
And also, maybe, maybe.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
She said she saw the gun handle, and then the
guy was like, dude, that was crazy. Like, I had
your back for sure, but that was crazy. I've never
seen anything like that before.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Could have been someone so strung out and really, but
I would think he would have punched you then.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's like he stopped like an inch before he hit
my head. That's what my wife said. I'm telling you,
I didn't see any of it because I was just like, whatever, dude. Like,
this guy's not going to hurt me. There's thousands of
people here. What's he going to do? And then I
saw on the news that some lady stabbed all these
people at Times Square. Yeah. Killed another lady.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
That was wild.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
That was the day after.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's crazy. I'm glad you didn't get punched in the head.
Although it would have been a better story.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
And the thing, too, is like my son, it scared
my son for like the rest of the day. He
was just like he was loving New York and that
kind of freaked him out. But I said, dude, you
know what? Like that's you got the whole experience. All
of it. You got the nice part of New York.
You got the crazy part.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Of New York.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
You got it all. So I'm kind of glad, I
don't know, when they turned 13, this whole trip, the
purpose is like to just kind of, I remember when
I went to New York for the first time, I
thought like, wow, everything's possible. Like anything is possible. New
York is just a city. You know, TRL is just
a place. MTV is just a channel. And I kind
of remember leaving New York feeling that. So I kind

(27:41):
of wanted that for my son. And I think he
got that.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
It's pretty cool getting off that subway when you go
to Yankee Stadium because you walk right up and it's
just there.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's like, what?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's really cool.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
And the subway is cool, too, anyway, because you just
walk up to the ground and the whole city is
just moving as soon as you get up to the
top step. But he loved that. And the Yankee Stadium
was amazing, dude. It was a great game, 16 to 1,
five home runs. It was just the best scenario for him.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Your other son, when you took him on his 13th birthday,
he went to L.A., right?

Speaker 5 (28:12):
L.A.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
He wanted to go see movies?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Like where they make movies?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
He wanted to see the studios. He wanted to see
like the Hollywood sign, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
You're two younger boys. They know that when they turn 13,
they're going to get it too. So they don't get jealous.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
No, they're not jealous. And they're already thinking.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
So the next son in line, he was like, how
far is Alaska? So he's already thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's cool. That's fun.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
And then somebody asked too, like, does the whole family go?
I'm like, no, it's just me and my wife and
that kid.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm sorry you got COVID too. That sucked.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
That sucked.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
When I was in Italy last year, I got COVID
and missed the whole trip. I was in my hotel room.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
How bad was your COVID? Really bad?

Speaker 5 (28:48):
Terrible.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
And I was scared they were going to put me
in European prison.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Prison?

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Like holding cell?

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, because I'm an American, a foreigner with COVID, like
giving to citizens. And so, yeah, it sucked. I never
left the hotel for the whole trip.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, that sucks.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
So I feel you because it sucks. But yours was
the last day, right?

Speaker 3 (29:07):
It was like towards, yeah, the middle of the last day.
And I hit it well, though. I was kind of
just like, I don't feel great, but whatever. Like, I'm
going to power through it.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, I felt bad for you. That stinks.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, I made the rest of the vacation kind of
crappy because I just kind of stayed home.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, I guess fortunate then, if we're looking at bright
sides of things, that it didn't happen at the beginning.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
You probably also got it from the hot dog guy.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
That's what I was thinking, the hot dog stand.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Purple hot dog.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Purple hot dog, man.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Lunchbox, your vacation.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
St.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Louis, you told us earlier.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Oh, yeah. We went to St. Louis.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
It was great. I mean, I didn't realize everything St.
Louis had to offer, man. I've been to St.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Louis once. It's a really cool city.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
It really is.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, like I had been once to a Cardinals game,
I think, and I went to the Bowling Hall of
Fame back in the day, but it's not there anymore.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's not there anymore?

Speaker 5 (29:51):
No, I don't know where the bowling hall of fame is.
It was always right next to the stadium. It was
right next to the stadium.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
If it rained a lot, you'd go to the bowling
hall of fame.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
I went to the bowling hall of fame one time
because it was take a picture with your favorite player
day so there was no batting practice and there were
thousands upon thousands of people and I was like, ah,
so me and Forrest, we went to the bowling hall
of fame and I was like, this is going to
be some rinky-dink thing. The bowling hall of fame was amazing.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, it was really cool. It was so cool.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
But anyway, that wasn't this time. Um, What did we do?
Did you go to the Arch? I mean, I haven't
even started, but yes, I did go to the Arch.
I conquered St.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Louis.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
There you go. Oh, dang.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hey, impossible.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Well, let me tell you what we did. We stayed
at the Union Station Hotel, the old railroad. Dude, that
was so freaking cool.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
That sounds expensive.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh, good question. It just popped into my head, I think.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
The dusty paper that one?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, no.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
He just said to you guys, he's just getting started.
Let him talk. Yeah, yeah. What else did you do?
He scolded Eddie. Now he's going to scold you.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, I'm going to write it down so I don't
forget it.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Just getting started.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
But it was like the old train station back in
the day, and this is what was crazy. So it
was called, like Mopac was the railroad company.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Missouri Pacific, right? Yes.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
I had an oh my gosh moment.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Home.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Mopac Road? Yes.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
I grew up on Mopac was the street right outside
my neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Highway road.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
And I called my parents.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Toll Road, though.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
And I was like, holy crap. Guys, I figured out
what Mopac is named after. You mean Slowpack? Yeah, Slowpack
right now.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Hey, you told your kids that?

Speaker 5 (31:30):
I did. And they didn't care. They didn't care one bit,
but I called my parents immediately when I got in
the room and I read the little thing about like
the Missouri Pacific and Mopac. And I was like, Oh,
and they were like, well, didn't you always see the
railroad track? And I was like, yeah, but I didn't
know that that's what the, the road was named after.
It was crazy. That was mind blowing to me. Really stupid,

(31:52):
like side note. But, uh, What else did we do?
We went to the arch. Okay.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Did you go in it?

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
You went up?

Speaker 5 (31:59):
Went all the way up.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Good, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
How does it go up? I'm so confused.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Yeah, you're like clunk, clunk. Didn't you go? You're in
a little pod.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
We did. It was pre-Eddie.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Oh, it was pre-Eddie.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I didn't go up. I've seen it, but I have
not gone up.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Five people can fit in a pod, and it's really small.
It's kind of warm in there, and it just goes
up and up, and you can see all the stairs
as you're going up. And all the stairs that you
would have to walk if it got stuck. And then
you get up there, and you look out these windows,
and there are little slits.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
A little tunnel up there, right? Yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
And you can only go halfway because there's people coming
up on the other side. There's a north side and
a south side. And you just look out, and you
see the city. You see the Mississippi River. You can
see inside the Cardinal Stadium. And you just see downtown
and everything. And you look down, and people look like
little ants down on the ground. I mean, the arch
was so cool. Like, really neat.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
It felt that high.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well, okay, so you did the thing we talked about earlier,
which was the museum.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
We did City Museum, and let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Well, we did that already. We did a long talk
on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Is there something new you want to tell us?

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Because we did like 10 minutes of that.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Well, I mean, it was so cool.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
It was so freaking cool. And then we did an
illusionist museum. Like, it's all illusions. And that was so
trippy because it's like you have these two lines on
a wall, and it's like, which one is longer? And
you sit there and you guess, and then they have
a ruler, and they're the exact same. And it's all

(33:27):
these things that they create illusions with that mess with
your mind, and it's just like you see things like, oh,
this picture, the lines are slanted, right?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Wrong.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's because of this, and it explains why, and it's
all parallel lines. It was so trippy.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
How long did you guys stay?

Speaker 5 (33:43):
We got there what night? Wednesday night till yesterday. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Thursday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night.
You said six nights? Whoa.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Five nights. We drove back yesterday.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
We conquered St.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Louis.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
We conquered St.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Louis.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
We conquered.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
What was your question for him before he... I just
didn't want you guys to get too.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
So because Lunchbox and his wife don't share bank accounts,
who pays for vacation? I don't know how they split
things up, and I'm very curious.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Oh, you split a percentage, but you're like, oh, I'll
get the hotel room. You do some treats. Like, oh,
she'll get dinner one night. I'll get dinner one night.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
There you have it.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
But what we did do, we did take the kids
out of school. That was a tough one. That was
a debate.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Who didn't want to take them out?

Speaker 5 (34:29):
My wife didn't want to take them out.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
And you said?

Speaker 5 (34:31):
I was like, man, think about what they're going to
learn in the real world.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Did they only miss two days, though? Yeah, they missed
two days.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
When they got home from school on Wednesday is when
we left. and that was the debate because, I mean,
I'll be honest, when I was a kid, I didn't
get to miss school for vacation.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (34:48):
Okay, wow.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
He's evolving.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
We did take two days, and it was like, oh, man,
this is so weird, but we did it. They missed school,
and it was the best decision because, and we went
to the zoo. Let me tell you, the zoo, coolest
thing about the zoo in St. Louis, it cost $ 0.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
That is pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
And it's a good zoo. It's a good zoo.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yeah, and it's shaded.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
I don't like zoos, but it's still a good zoo.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
What do you mean it's shaded? The whole thing's shaded?

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Oh, yeah. They got a path that goes around the
whole thing, and they got trees over everything.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Eddie went and read for 15 minutes.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
How'd it go?

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Dude, I can't tell you what I read. This book
is wacky.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Okay, tomorrow you'll do it again.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I mean, I read about.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Don't freak yourself out over it.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
I'm not freaking myself out. It's just I had to
tell myself to remember these things, because if they ask
you questions, you're going to have to remember it. I
got through seven pages.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
You should take a highlighter with you.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh, and highlight things?

Speaker 1 (35:38):
There's one on your cup. And just stuff that you
think's memorable.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Highlight it up.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
They've already hit one of the agreements. Which is? Talking.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Words.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
What's the agreement? Just said that when- What's the agreement
officially called?

Speaker 3 (35:50):
Oh, I think it said word, like words. Because that's
the only thing that we agree on.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
Words.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Anything. Like if you say a word and I understand
what you're saying, we've agreed.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Even if we don't agree on what you're saying, the message,
but we understand and have an agreement on what that
word represents.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Sure. Okay.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Just keep reading. It's not, there's no pressure. We're not
going to quiz you. We believe you don't lie. You're
not going to, it started.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Really weird, dude. Like talking about how mirror, like we're
a mirror of ourselves and light is life. And I
didn't know what it was saying.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Really? That's okay though. Don't put the pressure to understand
everything all the time.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
The great thing about reading on an iPad is that,
They're words that I don't understand. Like I had to,
like I thought I knew what cacophony meant. It got
used twice. And so I said, I need to make
sure what cacophony means.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Cacophony.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Because I knew it was a plural of something. And
it is like a plural of sounds, different types of
sounds all at once. And so, but the great thing
about the iPod is, iPad, it's a loud, unpleasant, and
jarring mix of harsh noises, right? So they'd used the
word cacophony twice in this book I'm reading now. And
I said, I need to make sure I know that word.
And it was about all the sounds, right? But the
good thing about the iPad is I can just hit it,
probably on a Kindle too, and go look up, and

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it just tells me what.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
The word means. That's cool.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
That helps me a lot.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
But doesn't that slow the process?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm not in a hurry.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
I'm not in a hurry, but I'm not in a hurry.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
But the point is, and Bobby wants to learn the
new words.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, I read to learn.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
But when you watch a movie, though, aren't you always
pausing to see how much is left?

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
So why don't you do that in a book?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Well, I do it. On the bottom, it tells me,
on the top, it says how many pages in the chapter.
On the bottom, it tells me where I am on
the pages of the book. And what sucks, too, is
if a book is like 400 pages, I've said this before,
my vision's bad, so I had to make the words bigger.
So then it's like a 900-page book. Just because they
can't fit as many words on a page.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
That's funny, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
We're going to go to our talk with Gavin Adcock.
I like the guy. I'll say it.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Yeah, so do I.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
It's an acquired taste.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Like, I didn't know what to expect at first, but
I like the guy.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
It's an acquired taste. And I think also that I
have met his parents a couple times, and they're so normal.
And they're so nice. And they're just, his mom, that
I can kind of see where he comes from. But
Gavin Adcock, yeah, there's that. And don't forget our 90s
country podcast, one from every year. That's up on the
Bobbycast feed. All right, here he is. Gavin Adcock. Here

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we go.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
On the Bobby Bones show now.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Gavin Adcock.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Gavin, how are you, buddy? Doing good.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I was looking at this song, this wannabe song. I
was listening to it too, but I was looking at
the songwriters. We got a bunch of, big stars here,
writing the song.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
It's you, Wallen, Ernest, Brad Clausen, Jacob Durrett, this wannabe song.
Were all you guys in the same room?

Speaker 4 (38:38):
No, the song got sent to me by Ernest. Yeah.
And I changed probably two or three lines, four lines,
and made it my own, let it out.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Like lines that made sense about you personally?

Speaker 4 (38:54):
Yeah, there was just a couple lines that I didn't like,
and then it originally said East Tennessee, my home sweet home,
and I changed it to Bulldog Country.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Got to do Georgia, huh? Hey, Ray, play me a
little bit of Wannabe. You dip?

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, quite frequently.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
What's the benefit of it?

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I don't know, it helps me lock in. Sometimes it
stresses me out.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Do you do zens?

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Alps, zens. Okay.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I don't know. So that's, that Zin's a brand then, right?

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
I like Alps a little better. They're a little thicker,
last a little longer.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
And so that's, so that nicotine gives you day energy.
Is that what that's about?

Speaker 4 (39:40):
I don't really know what it does, but it's kind
of a habit now.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
As a kid, did you ever swallow it and puke?

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Uh, yeah, I drank my daddy's dip spit a few
times and, uh, You know, you really watch out for
that after you figure that out.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
And you guys ever do that?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Yeah, it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I mean, with a boyfriend, not my dad's.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
And they say don't, like, swallow, but you can't help
because it's just all in your mouth.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Well, you're talking about if you're dipping.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Yeah, I'm drinking. No-T Keith used to leave his dip
cups around our house, and I'd drink it.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Wait, you would?

Speaker 1 (40:09):
On accident?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Sorry, you just sounded like.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
You'd walk around and drink it. You'd grab it and
be like, oh!

Speaker 1 (40:15):
You did that with an ex-boyfriend?

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, like in college. I don't know how. I mean,
it's just so jarring and nasty.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
But some girls like it.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I just wonder. I don't have anything that I lean
to because I'm not a big caffeine guy. Like I'd
like to be.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
No coffee?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
I don't like coffee. I don't like the taste of coffee,
do you?

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Damn, morning radio guy doesn't drink any coffee. You're a unicorn, man.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
I don't need much of a stimulant. I think my
stimulant is trauma and growing up poor and getting up
and having to be like, I don't want to be
poor again. That's my coffee.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Yeah, hell yeah, I love.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
That.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
What's been happening with you lately? Because I see stuff
on the internet, but it's always stuff like you in
the middle of stuff. So what have you been doing
that's not you in the middle of stuff?

Speaker 4 (41:10):
I mean, I've just been working on this album, getting
it turned in, playing a bunch of shows. I was
just on the West Coast for 17 days, the Pacific Northwest,
all up there in the smoke and wildfires and stuff
and playing some sold-out shows.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Were you feeling the smoke while you were playing it?

Speaker 4 (41:27):
No. In a couple of the cities, it was at
pretty heavy levels of smoke, and it really bothered me
after the show. I got some IVs, had to do
some humidifiers and different things.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
What if you're sick before a show? What do you do?

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Drink. Just dip? Knock on wood, I've never canceled a
show for being sick. I've had the flu a couple
times and played. And it's just hydrate, get IVs, and
go out there for an hour and 45 minutes, and
then Usually, I'm about to fall out by the time

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we get done.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
You ever get a steroid shot before?

Speaker 4 (42:03):
No.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Man, I've been on the road, if I'm doing stand-up
and sick and feeling terrible, and I'll go to one
of those minute clinics, get a hard steroid shot, and
you feel invincible. It feels like seven zens and some
dip at the same time.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Yeah, I've had a steroid shot before. Definitely makes you aggressive.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, I didn't fight anybody.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
I mean, it just makes you just feel amped up,
like you just can't be beat.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
And the next day, it's a terrible fall off.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
That's the same thing with Jack.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I've asked the show, because I've never had a drink before,
but I've asked the show how different alcohol makes them
feel different ways. And even we had Joe Nichols, and
I said, hey, what's the deal? How does tequila work
for you?

Speaker 3 (42:49):
And he would tell.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
how does Jack Daniels react to you how are you
different when you drink whiskey.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
You know when we first started playing shows there was
some nerves because I never played shows before so we'd
have five six seven drinks before the show and you
wouldn't be nervous and now it's just like have you
a shot and a beer before you go on just
to loosen up a little bit Jack kind of makes
me just feel like Superman there's no you're not you're

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not scared of anything uh when you the The problem
is you start mixing tequila and liquor, like brown liquor, man,
it makes you turn into just a terrible person. It's
like you got to really... You really just got to
stick on like one liquor throughout the night.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
What if you only drink tequila? How does that make
you feel?

Speaker 4 (43:38):
I try to stay away from tequila on show days.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Is that a bad one for you?

Speaker 4 (43:43):
I mean, I just... It really makes me feel like Superman.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
I feel like everything makes him feel like a version
of Superman.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
Superman on a steroid shot is what tequila makes him
feel like when you drink Jack.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I always heard the rhyme, though, tequila and liquor never
been sicker. Or is that.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Alcohol and liquor?

Speaker 1 (44:00):
It's the water you drink. I don't even know the rhyme.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
It's liquor before beer, you're in the clear. Beer before liquor,
never been sicker.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
He's got it.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
But I don't believe in that. Oh, really? Yeah, I
don't think that's a thing.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Oh, I guess I just always took it as like Bible.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Well, I didn't even know the rhyme, apparently. You tired yet?

Speaker 2 (44:20):
No.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Still got the good energy?

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
I feel like you're going pretty hard. You taking vacation yet?

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Probably two months ago I went to the beach down
in St. Thomas.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Nice. For how long?

Speaker 4 (44:34):
A week.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
What do you do at the beach? Don't say drink.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
No, no. I really don't like to drink too much
at the beach. I just like the quietness. I mean,
whenever I can find some peace and quiet, sit on
the beach, soak it in, get in the water, go
get some good food, hang out with family, friends, girlfriend,
just something quiet is nice.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Do you fish?

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Yeah, I went fishing the other day, but not in St. Thomas.
I went in Bend, Oregon. We went fly fishing first
time ever.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Do you know how to tie a fly on?

Speaker 4 (45:08):
No, I had a guide. That was the first time
ever going, and I loved it.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Did you catch anything?

Speaker 4 (45:13):
About 30 of them. Awesome. And I must have missed
about 150. What are you catching, trout?

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yeah. It's the most fun. I never grew up fly fishing,
but I'm fortunate to know Johnny Morris, the owner of
Bass Pro Shop. Yeah. And so I went up to
his place, and he said, I'm going to put you
in the honey hole. And we went, and it is unlimited.
You see them.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
That's the perks of being from Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
And I'm talking about toss, pull, toss, pull, every third pull.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
A big boy. It was, it was really amazing, but
I never fly fish cause we didn't have rivers like that.
It was all lakes.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
And so it was a lot of other bass fishing
or striper fishing. My stepdad was a striper guide for
a long time. So like stripers and hybrids, those were
the most fun to catch because it was a fight
the most.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
But also the worst eating. Did you eat a bunch
of fish growing up?

Speaker 4 (45:59):
Catfish.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Did you eat a bunch of cow growing up?

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Way too much.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Cause farm? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
I mean, I could eat steak five, six days a week.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Still? Yeah. So what was, what was your farm? What
did you guys have on it?

Speaker 4 (46:11):
We grew up on a beef cattle farm. We had
anywhere from 500 to 1,000 at a time. And my
dad just had a mix of a bunch of breeds.
He put together load lots. He'd buy them at 500,
600 pounds, put them together by color and size, and
then grow them until like 800 pounds and sell them

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on a load and send them out to wherever they
bought them.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Would you worry about people stealing them, like cutting a
fence and stealing them?

Speaker 4 (46:39):
Yeah, I mean, that was a concern. I mean, you
hear about people getting their cows stolen.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
I only know that from, like, Dutton Ranch. I don't
know that from real life. I didn't see that on,
you know, those shows.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, I mean, it does happen. I mean, you just
leave an unlocked gate open, somebody runs in, grabs a
few of them. If they're smart, they don't take a lot.
They take just a handful. It's kind of like if
your mom's got $ 500 in her dresser and you take $ 40.
She might not notice, but if you take the $ 500...
Like these guys that keep robbing banks in their hometown.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Like, okay, you got one. Go somewhere else. Don't do
two or three.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Because then you get caught. Would you have done that
if music hadn't worked out?

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Yes, that's what I was going to do. I just
bought some land down in Georgia, and I plan to
run some cattle on it. It was going to be
my career, but I'm glad it's going to be just
something I can enjoy and hobby.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Where do you want to live forever?

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Probably back in Georgia.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Do you have like a timeline on– You need to
make it this much to move back?

Speaker 4 (47:43):
I mean, I'd say in the next five to seven years.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
How long is the drive from here to there?

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Six hours.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
It's just long. That's like home to me. It's just
long enough that it's not easy to make the trip.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Yeah, it's just Chattanooga and Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Do you still do the dip of the day?

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Dip of the day?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I mean, if an opportunity prevents itself, I love doing
that when the opportunity– comes about but i just didn't
want to make it i like i want to make
it special if i find a good if i find
a good dip you.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Know anybody ever get mad at you for that probably
i mean i don't do you really just not care
no i don't i have a theory i had a
theory and i like you a lot and but i
i have said before that i think at some point
in your career you and zach ryan will do a
song together i don't know but it's not out of

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the realm of possibility.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Yeah, I mean, I really just didn't like the way
he was treating those people, and I just called him
out on it. A lot of people don't call out
big stars because they kind of want to possibly get
up under their wing or do a show with them
or do a song with them, and that's just not
my mindset. I really hope the guy's doing better because

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it seems like he was in a really terrible spot
there for a while. And I mean, I think that
situation kind of put his feet on the ground.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, I think eventually we'll see up for CMA for
Musical Event of the Year. I think it happens. Eventually,
I think it happens. Maybe not now. There's no need
to be friends. I mean, it's not like I've heard
glowing reviews about him either. Yeah. Yeah, I think one
day we all get a little older.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
You got a record coming out. Yep. How long have
you been working on this?

Speaker 4 (49:37):
I never stopped working on music. I never stopped writing.
I tried to write a song or two a week.
Got up about 150 songs and picked my favorite.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Jesus, really?

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
What'd you do with the rest of them?

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Saved them for the next record. And picked the best
25 songs that I liked, that I felt like went together.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
How do you know what's good when you have 150
of them?

Speaker 4 (50:02):
I like to show my band and family and friends
and girlfriend. But this is what we wrote this week.
and I can just tell if they light up or
if it makes them feel some type of way.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Do you make them listen to it in front of you,
or will you let them go about their own business
and listen in their own way?

Speaker 4 (50:18):
I like to listen in front of them because I
can read them and tell if they're over-the-top excited about
it or they're like, oh, it's just another song.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
You know the most awkward thing is to have to
listen to music in front of somebody who wrote it?
Because I'll show you what I have to do. If
you play me a song, you're like, Bobby, I want
you to hear this song. Whatever you play me, I'm
going to do this right here.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Ooh.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Oh, wow. I do the mouth. Tastes good. I feel
like I have to do that because you're watching me
listen to something.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Yeah, I mean, I don't really. I wrote it, and
the song's going to do what it's going to do.
And my band and crew and everybody's pretty honest. They
don't go, oh, that sucks. But they'll be like, oh, cool.
Or they'll be like, man, that's it. They'll let me know.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Have you sent songs off to have people collab on them?

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Yeah, I've got a few collabs on this record.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Has anybody said no? You don't have to say who.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
I mean, not really. I try to become friends with
the people before I reach out to do a collab
and reach out to people that are more than likely
going to say yes, that it's like, that it just
makes sense.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Do you reach out yourself or do you have somebody
to make it less awkward?

Speaker 4 (51:30):
I prefer to reach out myself.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
And what would that text say?

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Hey, what's up? You want to Write a song when
we're on the road this weekend when we see each other.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Oh, write a song. But what if you already have
a song and you want them to get on it?

Speaker 4 (51:43):
I like to write it with them. It means more.
The opportunity of cutting it is just way higher.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
What do you think your fans are like?

Speaker 4 (51:53):
You know, they're just good people. They like to wake
up in the morning, work their tail off all week,
get to Friday, have some drinks through the weekend, start
it over. And I like to think they got pretty
solid morals, even though that we have a rowdy brand,

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just like you can be a great person, have a
wild time, throw down. I guess they're kind of like me.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
I feel like in meet and greets, people probably want
to hug you, women. You're very huggy. You seem like
a real dude.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Is this you confessing you want to hug?

Speaker 1 (52:31):
No, it's just as rough as his exterior seems, he
still feels like a real guy. Like, if I saw
him just walking, I'd give you a hug. I'd be like,
what up, dude?

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Yeah, I mean, I hug a lot of women at
the meet and greet. I shake everybody's hand, but if
they're like, can I give you a hug? I'm like, yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Like, he just is a warm guy.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I get it, because you're very tough, but there is
a teddy bear vibe.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Wow, we shook hands when he walked in. Not my
best look.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I missed it.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
It was just weird. Our hands weren't at the right angles,
and I gave them, it was like 18% of what
I normally do. And I was like, Gavin, come back, man.
I got to do that again. It's a little awkward. Yeah,
it's all right.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
I mean, that won't be the last awkward handshake I have,
and we made it right.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Yeah, I called him back over and I was like,
I got to do that again.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
You know what most girls find hot? The list of
things of, you know, they love it when a guy
wears a hat backwards or he rolls his sleeves up
a little bit or watching two guys do that handshake
that's like, you know, and you kind of go in
and do like that.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Handshake to that?

Speaker 5 (53:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
And then pat on the back. You like that? Well,
it's not just me, like a whole research.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
I mean, studies have been done.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Research?

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
What Harvard study are you reading?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Well, there's definitely... So you.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Like it if two guys can pull that off and
it's like, what up?

Speaker 2 (53:45):
It's like so, yes, like y'all see each other and
it's just, who knows if y'all have ever even done
it before, but you do it and it's so smooth.
Like there is something very attractive about that.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
It's funny you say that. I was watching my camera
guy sent me some like slow-mo videos that I was
just going to post with a new song behind it.
And me and Zach John King were on stage on
the Morgan Wallen tour. And I saved it because I
wanted to send it to him. I was like, damn,
that was a clean dab.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
You nailed it?

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Yeah, it looked so good. And I'm planning to send
it to him.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Okay, well, yeah. I always get offended if I'm with
a black friend and we see another black guy and
the black guy gives him the dabs and then comes
to me with the handshake. I'm like, oh, you don't
think I can do it?

Speaker 4 (54:25):
It's like that Key & Peele skit where they're like, hey,
nice to meet you. Hey, nice to meet you. Hey,
nice to meet you. What up? Then the next person's like,
nice to meet you.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
The new album comes out October 2nd. Coming up quicker
than I kind of imagined. When you get all this
new music that comes out, do you start playing it?
All of it? Or have you already played some of it?

Speaker 4 (54:50):
If I drop a new one, I start playing it.
Dropped one last week. Dropping one this week. Gonna drop
one the next week. The week after that. And mostly
every week until we roll up into the album.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
I was kind of seeing that formula there, every week,
new song.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
Yeah, just a different approach.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
No, I just wonder, when you play a show, what
song does the crowd sing back the loudest?

Speaker 4 (55:18):
I mean, my first song I ever let out was
Ain't No Cure, and it has just been a staple
in my set. It's a very loud song, like vocally,
so it really gives them an opportunity to open up
their vocals and just scream it. Either that one or
Last One to Know. Really good on both of those
for sure.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
You got a girlfriend, huh?

Speaker 5 (55:41):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
How long?

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Probably coming up on three and a half years.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Oh, it's been that long? Yeah. Must be going pretty
good then?

Speaker 4 (55:50):
Yeah, it's going pretty good. I mean, we went through
a rough patch as most relationships do, but we've been
real solid. It's been great.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Yeah, good. Good. Does she make you softer, or does
she say, hey, you're out of control here, or hey,
you're doing great here? Do you trust whatever she says?

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Oh, she definitely calls me out.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Yeah, you know, she's a good, solid, like, Christian girl,
has really good values, really keeps me grounded for sure.
And sometimes she's over the top with getting on to me,
and I tell her, and sometimes she's right on par,
and I need to chill out.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
How'd you guys meet?

Speaker 4 (56:28):
Uh at a bar in athens georgia so she's a
georgia girl yeah she went to university georgia.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
She up here now with you how she like nashville
she likes it how do you like nashville you.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
Know my answer to everybody is i'm not there enough
to hate it so when i come back i like
it the food options are good there's a bunch of
stuff to do and i'm only here about three or
four days a week and i when you're here are
you writing all the time yeah i try to write
uh twice a week i got a small knit group

(57:03):
of writers that write most of my songs with me
the last few weeks have been a little different i've
only wrote a couple songs just because finishing album stuff
and uh being on the road and i'm coming up
with stuff all the time but just getting together and
finishing one it's the last couple weeks has been just
a little hectic when you.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Finish one Can you kind of tell how good it is?
Like that's a good one or that one kind of sucked?

Speaker 4 (57:31):
It just depends. If we have a demo guy in
the room, and most demos are terrible from my experience,
I would almost rather a phone recording that sounds terrible
because then we're not kind of in this box of
what it needs to sound like or what we like
out of that. Me and my producer can kind of
go in and just take off running with something fresh.

(57:53):
And then there's a couple demo guys where I'm like, dang,
this demo is really good. And I love that because
then me and my producer have to beat it.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Do you ever get demo-itis where you want it to
sound exactly like the demo and if it doesn't, you're upset?

Speaker 4 (58:08):
All the time. Yeah. It is the bane of my
existence in music for sure.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Do you ever write a song and it sounds so
great broken down and acoustic that you want to keep
it broken down and acoustic even though it probably should
have a lot of instruments added to it and you
have that battle.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Yeah, a good bit of the time. I just like
my stuff sounding raw. I don't really, I just don't
want to put a bunch of instruments in there that
me and five other band members can't play at the show.
I don't want tracks. I don't want to be like, oh, well,
we don't have three other people, but we put three

(58:44):
other parts in there, so just run a track behind it.
I just, I try to keep it to where we
can play that It's the best of our ability without that.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Do you like to listen to your own music?

Speaker 4 (58:56):
I mean, a lot of the times it's about all
I'm listening to. As much as we let out and release,
I'm just trying to critique all of those. I rarely
find a new song that I like very much. that
comes out. I'm just, I don't know. And I don't
want to be swayed into like making a style of

(59:17):
music that other people are letting out. I definitely check
out all the releases and I give my honest opinion,
but I really try to stay out of listening to
too much that's going to make me gravitate towards that music.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Do you have a comfort album that that you listen
to then if you're gonna listen to music that you
put on uh.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
One of my favorite albums of all time is a
robert earl keen album and he's just got some really
weird stuff in there it's just a he's a texas
artist and i don't know he wrote uh merry christmas
from the family You're talking to.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
A whole bunch of Texans here.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Oh, we all know.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
These were my college days.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love that stuff.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
You're preaching to the choir right now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's probably one of my at
least top three.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
If you ever get bored, find the clip of me
and him together and him knowing every birthday of every
president that's ever existed in the history of time. It
is the weirdest, coolest party trick because I could be like, Nixon. Nixon.
nailed it. Nailed every president exactly the day they were born.

(01:00:27):
Robert Earl Keene.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
He reads a lot of books.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
No, I don't read a lot of books.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
I wish I could.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
I just, I'm pretty ADD, like terribly. I go to
read and I'm just, I'm so focused on trying to
get all the words right that by the time I
get to the next three lines, I'm just not remembering
what I just read. I'd love to. I wish, I
wish that hopefully in my older age I can lock
in and read something.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
I have a tip for you, fellow ADHD person here,
something that changed the game for me. And this was
a tip. It's also helped Eddie and I have dyslexia
and it's hard. You read a page and you're like,
what did I just read? I have no idea, but,
and you can afford to do this. You buy the book,
physical copy, and then download it on audible and listen

(01:01:15):
to audible while you're reading and it really, it helps you.
And then once you get locked in and then you're
invested in the story, you need to know and you'll
keep going. But the hearing the actors play it out,
especially if they have, you know, cast really great people
to read it. Sometimes they sound annoying and you're like, Oh,
I don't want to do this. But if you can

(01:01:36):
pick like a good one where they've got a good narrator,
it's so helpful. And that has changed the game for me.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Yeah. Do you have a charity organization that you're passionate about?
if I were to say, what, what, what do you
care about just generally? And you'll see where I'm going here.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Uh, I mean, my manager Saxon, uh, is on the
board for this all in for Miller foundation, which is
just a really small childhood cancer, uh, group. And over
the past couple of years during Christmas time, they really,
they get together and try to make a kid that's

(01:02:11):
got really terrible cancer, have a really great Christmas time and,
I've been donating to that the past couple years.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
I'm going to put the screws to you just a
little bit, only because I like you. I'll donate $ 5, 000
to that if you read The Hunger Games book. It's
an easy book. It's awesome. You have to read it
and not listen to it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Have you watched the movies at all?

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Ever?

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
Yeah, I've watched nearly all of them.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Sometimes it's hard, though.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
I will say for an 80- It's the greatest book ever.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
It's for charity, Gavin. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
$ 5, 000?

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
I give $ 5, 000 bucks?

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
But you have to actually read it. I'm just going
to trust you. I think you're a trustworthy guy. You
read the book. They answer a few questions.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Take a test.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
No, I just ask them like three questions and you go, boom.
I promise you I read it. You read it with
your own eyeballs. I'll donate $ 5, 000 to that. All right.
Will you do that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Probably.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
I can get it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Let me know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
How many pages is this book? They got any pictures
in this thing? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Do you think that's fair?

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
Yeah. Do you think that's a jerk thing for me
to do?

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
No. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
No. Because I think you'll like it. It has barely
a little over 300 pages.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
That ain't bad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Yeah. It's written for kids. I loved it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Yeah. And I mean, and I kind of know what's happening.
So it would probably help me, help me read something
that I've already seen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
If you, and I'm just going to take your word
for it. You read that book front to back and
you say, I'm done. I'll immediately donate $ 5, 000 to that charity.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
Sounds good.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
And then we both gain something here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
It's the first 100 games?

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
I wish I could re-experience reading that book. It was
so good. And so everybody wins.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
That's all. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
We did it. We did it, boys and girls. When
the album comes out, we'll hit it up again. But
that's October 2nd. But we're going to play Wannabe now
because I know this song is all over the place.
Anything you want to say about the song?

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
It's just a high-energy, fun, summertime song. We've been starting
the show with it recently, and it just smacks you
in the mouth, and people are loving it. They're singing
it back to us nearly every word, and I'm having
a good time playing it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
I don't want to be your dip of the week
because I got you in here and said you have
to read a book.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
No, you're good. All right, there he is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Shoes is good, too, by the way.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
That's a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
More of my vibe.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Yeah, I like stripped down acoustic.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Yeah, that's my energy. That's my energy. When you do
those songs, that's my Gavin Aycock energy.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Because I'm not really the guy that's like, because this
wannabe is like hell raising.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Look at me. Am I a hell raiser?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
No, you stir up some shit, but you're.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
Not a hell raiser.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
Yeah, in a different way than you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
We're stirring it, but we got different spoons, different bowls.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Yeah, that's just why I let out a song like
Shoes and a song like Wannabe. It's just because Bobby
Bones doesn't like wannabes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
No, that's not what I said.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
No, no. It's just not his style. It's not my style.
It's not his style. So that's why I let out
a variety.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
It's radio style, though.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
No doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
I like shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
That's my style.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
There he is. Gavin Adcock.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
That's going to do it. Thank you guys so much
for listening to the podcast. Thanks to Gavin Adcock for
coming by. Don't forget, we have a full every year
of the 90s podcast that I didn't know how I
would do, but People are so complimentary of it. You
could go to the Bobby cast feed or even go
back in the Bobby bone show feed. The Bobby cast
feed is probably a little easier, but it doesn't matter.
But we did a whole 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94

(01:05:49):
from that year, the top 10 things in country music
and just kind of a history lesson podcast. And we
have the other five episodes done as well, but we'll
be releasing them one at a time. So that's up.
Be sure to check that out. Otherwise that's it. Thank
you for being here and we will see you guys tomorrow.
Bye everybody.