Best Bits of the Week with Morgan2 - What You Didn't Hear About Eddie's Son iPad Drama (Week of 3/29)

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We got week. What's up, y'all, It's Morgan number two
in case you're a first time listener. And what I
do is take the best seven segments from the week
based on your engagement online, if you hit us up

(00:23):
on the phone about it a lot, if you wrote
us comments on Facebook, all the things. I take all
of it, and I decide what our best seven moments
from the show this past week are and we count
them down from seven to one. But along the way,
I kind of reveal some things that happened behind the scenes.
I bring on another show member to talk with me
about it. And this week I'm bringing on producer Eddie

(00:46):
so we can chat about something that happened with him
and his son. But also we'll get some more commentary
in there too, So let's get going. Eddie talked about
a situation that happened with his son and an iPad
at school that God damn it, Eddie, give us a
little brief breakdown, Not too much because they're gonna hear
the segment. Okay, So basically, my son had a classmate

(01:09):
of his shatter his iPad screen and I was kind
of under the I guess understanding that if something like
that happens, the parent of whoever did it would pay
for it. So it was kind of a discussion of
like what do we do, Like, no one is offered
to pay for this right now, it seems like it
was my son's iPad, so now we have to pay

(01:30):
for this, and so it was a big topic in
our household. So during this segment, you kind of talked
about what you initially reacted to it, and you kind
of had some anger. So do you have anger? Often
when it comes to these parenting situations, it seems like
the longer I become a parent, the more angrier I
get about things. But no, it's almost just kind of

(01:54):
like you want to do what's right, and in this
in this situation, I was really thinking, like the right
thing is for the parent to take care of this,
but no one is doing anything about it. And I
even thought maybe the school should be a part of
this too, because it happened on school grounds and an
iPad isn't cheap, iPad screen isn't cheap, So I was

(02:14):
thinking the school would be like, all right, guys, this happened,
we'll sort it out. We'll let the parents know, and
then you guys can figure out how to deal with
it well, And there was some arguments online without giving
the final thing that happened a way, that your son
should pay for half of it because it's his iPad
and he let somebody borrow didn't drop it, but it's

(02:35):
his and he let somebody borrow it. Maybe he shouldn't
have let somebody borrow it. And that was the argument
that maybe to teach him about his things and be
careful about who's borrowing it. How do you feel about that? Well,
I mean there is the obvious, like, oh well, I
wasn't there a screen on screen protector on there like
all that stuff. Yes, And I did tell him that.
He said, dude, you gotta put your screen protector. But
there's something he has against screen protectors. He likes to

(02:56):
have the iPad the way it is, and even his phone,
he likes it without a case. I'm like, well, that's
what happens when it's not in a case. I understand
that it's partly his fault and he needs to be
responsible for his own things. But in this case, this
was a class project. This was something where the school said, hey,
you all need your iPads for this, use it. And
then it happened in that situation. So I'm thinking, okay,

(03:18):
so that's interesting. Was this iPad something you guys had
to supply him for school? Yeah? So the way the
school works is if you're able to supply an iPad,
go for it. If not, they have a special fund
or whatever where they can get school issued iPads. Okay,
But so it is like that that's tricky because it
isn't the schools, it is y'alls, which again, like in

(03:39):
an ideal situation, they give them all iPads and they
stay at school or whatever. Yeah, and if it's the
school's iPad that breaks, then the school takes care of Yes,
But this is tricky because it's technically his he used
to take at home. He can play games and stuff
on it at home, all the things. Well, the way
I thought about it was like, all right, even if
this was outside of school and it's two friends playing
with a phone, like all right, here we're playing whatever. Here,

(04:00):
hold my phone. The phone breaks? You and me? Right,
it's my phone and you break my phone. Wouldn't you
feel like, hey, you know what, we're adults, Like I
should probably I feel bad. Let me pay for that
broken screen? Oh yeah, Like if something happens like that totally.
So when you're a parent and your kid does something,
guess who pays for it? The parent does. So that's
what I was leaning towards. And I wasn't really thinking

(04:21):
I was going to press that that whole thing, like, Hey,
give me the parents number and I'll call their parents
up and tell them they need to pay for I
was never thinking that I had to do that. Honestly,
when things get a little like controversial like that, I
make my wife do it. I'm not like the cop.
I'm not this mean that your wife is the good
cop and you're the bad cop. Is that really what
it is? No, I'm the good cop. My wife's the

(04:42):
bad cop. That makes sense, Like she's the bad guy,
but she's the nice one. No, she's the one that complains.
Like remember when we had didn't anticipate that action, Like
I really thought it was the reverse. I don't I
don't do that. I don't like confrontation at all. So
like that, we had a pizza thing a while back,
you know, where they put the pizza in our wrong
our neighbor's doorstep instead of ours. So I was upset

(05:04):
about that, and so I tell my wife, like call
Pizza Hut and tell them what they did. And she's
the one that likes. And it's weird because she's so
shy and she's very sweet and there's nothing mean about
her at all, but when it comes to like customer service,
she's like, yeah, all right, give the phone, I'll call see.
It totally surprises me because every time I have met
your wife, she is so sweet, like nothing about her

(05:24):
is confrontational, but like, you do have anger sometimes. So
I'm just so like blown away at this different response.
I'm I'm a implosive person. I don't know if that's
the ref I get upset in here inside of me.
It's an outward expression. I don't really like take it
out on people, okay, And so I beat myself up.

(05:46):
I don't know if that's the right thing to do.
But that's kind of like where I get angry about
it and then I start telling talking to my wife
about it, and then she says, fine, I'll handle it.
So is your wife or is it you? That's more
like you obviously both come up with the disciplines for
your children, but who actually like enforces that and make
sure it happens. So that's tricky when it comes to
our kids. We have learned that they react more to

(06:11):
my discipline than hers. It's a weird thing. They're all
boys and they're all they all gang up on her,
and they all like whenever she kind of tries to discipline,
they laugh. They're like, okay, mom's starting to be serious.
They're playing to her like motherly side out, like hey,
where are your kids. You're not gonna do that, like
you're gonna be mad at me for two seconds and
then you're gonna hug me and kiss on my forehead

(06:31):
and then you know, put me to bed. And so
they really don't take her serious. But when dad gets
mad and Dad raises his voice and Dad says do this,
they stop in their tracks and do it. So maybe
that's just a dad thing. I mean, I like my
dad was like the disciplinary, so like maybe it's just
like more of a your guys's temperament. I think. So
I think. And in two like I want to teach

(06:52):
my boys too, to respect like women and not really
like it's it's tricky because I want them to be like, hey,
your mom says to do this, you do it. And
that's a constant in my house. I'm always saying that,
but it just doesn't work. Like they're always like yeah, okay,
and I'm like no, she said, like she's I heard
her tell you four times and you haven't even budged. Yeah,

(07:15):
And you know what, maybe as they get older, they'll
start to understand and respect that and kind of be
like a mama's boy, you know. But four of them,
they just gang up. There's so many Yeah, oh my gosh.
Well there was another thing too that was said on
Facebook that we didn't really address on the show, and
again not giving too much away, but we didn't give
enough credit to your son's friend who told his parents,

(07:40):
and like that's a big deal because most kids would
be like, I can get in trouble. I don't want
to tell my parents that. Like, I'm not going to
be the one to reveal this information. Hopefully it'll just
blow away. So here's kind of an inside of Like
whenever I talk about stories with my kids, especially my teenager,
he's very I guess last couple of years, his friends

(08:01):
at school listened to the show sometimes and their parents
listen to the show sometimes, so sometimes it gets back
to him that they that I was talking about him.
So I always have to be very careful, like to
be like, all right, I want to talk about your
iPad situation, but I don't want to embarrass you, so
and I don't. And instead of like altering the story

(08:24):
when this comes up, I always just pick and choose
one I'm going to talk about. You admit some things
to avoid any of that. There are so many stories
that I could talk about, but I'm like, you know what,
this is his life, and I don't want to. There's
some boundaries there that you have to sure. But in
this case, I thought it was so important to tell
this story because of how one his classmate reacted and

(08:45):
told his parents what he did, and too, how their
how the parents reacted, Yes, all of it. All of
it was very shocking and cool. And I thought like
that to me was like, all right, this is something
that's not going to be embarrassing to him and it's
going to be a good ending to a good story.
Oh man, Okay, yeah, see I loved it this, Like
this is a good story like front to end, like
beginning to in front, front back or whatever, you know what.

(09:06):
I meant, listen up to this because it's really good.
If you're a kid, if you're a parent, it's just
you're probably going to face it at some point. So
here we go. Number seven, Hey Eddie telling Amy what
happened at your kids school? Okay, So my son was
doing a group project in class. In in order for
this project to go down, somebody had to donate their
iPad to use for the project. So my son got

(09:26):
partnered up with this other kid and he was using
his iPad, my son's iPad, and this other kid's using
it and he's doing scanning something with it or whatever.
Drops it Boom, screen shatters completely. Oh no. So he
comes home he's like, Mom, Dad, Like, I don't you know?
Someone else did it? It wasn't me. I don't know
what to do. And I'm kind of like, well, what

(09:47):
did the kids say? Nothing? You didn't say anything. Oh.
I kind of got a little heat it up, saying
I think we need to call the parents of this
kid and tell them they need to replace his iPad
or at least the screen something. So did you call
the parents? Oh? No, I don't know, Amy, What would
you do here? I don't know. My brain automatically goes

(10:11):
to whether I don't know the kids other kids situation,
But I automatically wonder, I don't want to call this
out because what if, for whatever reason, they maybe can't
afford to replace the iPad, Like it would just make
me uncomfortable to ask for that, and it would if
it was my daughter or son and be like they
made the choice to give the iPad to that Person's

(10:32):
also teaches responsibility for for my kids to hold onto
their stuff and that if you let someone else use it,
then you know if something goes wrong. I don't think
I would call it the other parents. I just would
figure it out on my own and feel I feel
awkward right now knowing that Eddie called them. Oh you
already know he called. No, I don't know. I feel

(10:55):
as though that's what Eddie did. Eddie, what did you do? Well?
Hold on, I don't let me tell what I would do.
I don't know what Nye did. Sorry, sorry to go,
I thought you did go ahead. You know. I am
a bit like Amy where I would feel nervous asking
somebody because I couldn't afford that stuff as a kid.
But I think maybe instead of calling and having that
conversation on the phone, I would just send an email.

(11:17):
That way, it's not putting them on the spot, explaining
the situation to see if they wanted to volunteer to
help pay for what they could of the iPad because
you're not calling them on the phone and being like
your kid did this, which they may get defensive. They
may get defensive of their kid. They may get defensive
because they don't have any money. I don't know, but
I think I would approach it as, hey, this happened.

(11:39):
Maybe you heard about it. They were playing with the
iPad and you know your son Jethro dropped the iPad
and it broke. So I would reach out, but I
wouldn't reach out directly. Eddie, what did you do? Bones
you're going down the right track, I think, like So,
we were talking about it and my wife was like,
absolutely not. Let's not even get the pair of all.

(12:00):
This is gonna be awkward, and I said, no, we
gotta make this right, like something somebody has to pay
for this, and I don't think we need to pay
for it. So as we're talking about it, I'm not kidding,
an email comes through and it's the kid's dad and
he emails us and says, my son came home today,
told us exactly what happened. We would like to pay
for this iPad. This is amazing. We don't have to

(12:23):
do anything. Oh okay, well that worked out just great,
so now you know, I mean, because the only thing
that's uncomfortable is not knowing their family situation. And it's
not like it's like a one or five dollar thing.
I mean, I pad super expensive. So that's cool. Well
where are you going to do though, Eddie? I mean
I was talking a big game. I think in those
situations my wife usually wins and says, you know, we

(12:44):
probably don't want to call him. I think she was
actually leaning towards calling the school and saying, hey, what
should we do in this situation and get their take
on it because it was a school project. But honestly,
I don't think we're gonna move fast enough to do anything.
And knowing me, I'd probably check it out. Yeah I
patrick expensive too. Yeah that's a cred. That's what stinks.
They don't have school iPads? Amy, does your kids square iPads? Well,

(13:05):
they provide them with a tablet like a computer thing,
so that's what they use and it's it's given out
by the school. So Eddie, what are your kids rules
on the iPad? What can he be on I mean
he has My thirteen year old has free range for
the most part. He has these I think websites have
ratings on them. So we set them up to where
there's certain websites he can't access and certain apps he

(13:28):
can't get unless we accept it like an accept like
some kind of security question or whatever. And usually it
goes to my phone and I just click one button
and he can get it. If not, I decline it.
Is there a workaround on that where he can actually
Have you tried to reverse engineer and try to download things?
That's a great idea. No, I have not, because you
know him and his buddies have all tried these little

(13:48):
tricks and they know how to get by it. But no,
I haven't tried to play the thirteen year old on
his iPad. See if I can crack some codes. Well,
the best thing to do if you want to try
to beat something that someone else is beating and try
to beat yourself. Yeah, you know. I mean with this show,
I want to hire people to create And maybe I
talked about this off the air, but I went and
paid people in radio to try to beat me, like

(14:11):
I'm gonna give you money. I want you to listen
to the show for a month, and I want you
to develop a plan to beat me. And I hired
them to give me that report so I could see
how they would beat us. I could close up all
the gaps. I didn't talk about this on the Oh yeah,
well yeah, I know. I often scout against myself because
there show's popping up all over that are trying to
take me and us down. And so I went and

(14:32):
hired two different people and pay them top dollar and said,
take a month. I want you to listen to the podcast.
I won't you listening live? Won't you listening to different channels?
And if you had free rein to just develop a show,
what would you do? What would you talk about? What
where are we lacking? And I had them write up
this humongous report and then I take it and then
I go through it and I go, Okay, they have
a point here, let's do this. Let's not do this.

(14:54):
And so I hire people to try to beat me
and then I take that information. So what what what
were you doing? Well, I mean, why would I reveal
that right here? I just pay talk all of that stuff. Well,
I don't know, I'm wondering what what what did they say,
Like did they give you like even like, oh, you
shouldn't do this or shouldn't do that, or they'd you Actually,

(15:16):
you're just saying that. They said, this is what we
would do to counter you. This is what you do, well,
this is what you could do better at. But if
we were going to launch a show against you, this
is everything we would do to try to beat you.
I go and thank you for the information. I take
that and I try to close up a lot of
those holes. Was it helpful or did you just see
the information and it was like, actually, no one can
really beat you. You're just thinking it's never that never

(15:37):
ever ever that it was. One of them was extremely helpful,
so much so that it was so good. I went
to the head of the company. I was like, I
need to hire her. Oh, not not on this show,
but as someone who does this for other shows. That's cool. Yeah,
so well they're there, car like Amy's awesome or okay,
everybody's dying to know. The only person I gave that
report to was Scooba Steve. It's good right, Scooba Steve

(15:59):
was very thorough and I like took parts of it
that I thought were great, And yeah, it's a cool idea.
I thought that was very inventive for you to do that.
You want to not get beat trying to beat yourself.
I think close up all those ways someone else could
beat you that at the end, super smart. I'm giving
up too much of my strategy here, Eddie. Congrats on
the ipady, and I'll try that with my kid to
beat yeah. No, try, yeah, try. You know you're trying
to beat you, right, beat me through his stuff. You've

(16:21):
set up a plan to keep your kid from from
from download and thinks he shouldn't, so you go try
to beat you now. No, Now, we just Eddie, we
just need to hire people to tell us how they
would be better parents than us. It's the best bits
of the week with Morgan number two. This week, we
were talking about Bobby's wedding coming up to Caitlin. It

(16:42):
is fast approaching and they are getting all of their
plans in order. And one thing that came up during
the show this week. Bobby has chosen his signature drink
at the wedding and it's going to be one of
his favorite mocktails, which is a Shirley Temple. But he
has to name it, and if you've been married then
and you've had signature drinks at your wedding, you name them,
like it's the bride's drink and the groom's drink, and

(17:03):
they typically have signature names. So Bobby doesn't know what
to name his Shirley Temple, like the virgin version of
it or the Dirty Shirley, which is like the alcohol
version of it. So, Eddie, do you have any names that,
like you think would be good for this dream? Yeah? No,
not really. I mean the one I've brought on air
is not a good one, but I don't really have

(17:24):
any good names for it. I've been seeing the tweets though,
that people have been tweeting in about it. Yeah, let's
read some of them. Pretty funny. I think my favorite
one definitely is Bob Kate, almost like playoff a Bobcat
and it's like Bobby Caitlin. It's kind of funny. But
then but then you know, but then it's not his drink,
and she's probably gonna have a drink, I would assume
since he has one. Correct. So so there's also hog shrine.

(17:47):
Interesting shrine, right, I would think that's like a moonshine drink. Well,
there's a lot of like Arkansas based, like Razorbacks kind
of thing. Fair. But also to this guy wrote bare
Bones and that's like the non alcoholic bare bones drink. Okay,
kind of funny. Yeah, what would be the dirty version
of that? Like the alcoholic version like big bone bone.

(18:11):
I don't know it weird. I don't know, but I
don't That's that's pretty much it. I feel like there's something. No,
but I feel like there's something with the the Shirley
Temple being red and red is Bobby's favorite color. I
feel like there's something with that and I just can't
the red bone, red bone this is I think we
need to take bone out of it. Yeah, it gets dirty,

(18:31):
especially if you have like drunk people, but I need
the boner. Yeah, that's that's gonna get weird roll fast.
Um maybe like the I don't know, it's something red.
I feel the red like in my soul. No, one
just feel it. Yeah. I don't know what that name
is though, but it's there something red thing about the
red coloring. Have you ever had a Shirley Temple? Oh yeah,

(18:54):
I drink dirty Shirley's at the bar all the time.
See that's weird too. Why this whole thing is weird?
Like Shirley Temple is a ten year old eight year
old was so good nurse, and then the Dirty Shirley
is the alcoholic version of it. It's very weird to me,
you know. I'm like, y'all dig it, Dirty Shirley. That
was my first drink I ever ordered when I turned

(19:15):
twenty one, and I was so proud of it that
and I was like, I need a dirty Shirley, and
her like, oh, this girl just shurtin dirty one. Okay.
So a funny story about that, like when my sister
she had she got It's the first time she got
into a bar underage, and she came with me. She
came with me and my wife. My wife and I
were dating at the time, and she got in with us.
We somehow got her in and she goes to the
bar and I'm like, hey, you're in, let it rip.

(19:37):
So she's like, okay, okay. So the bartender was, hey,
what can I get you? And she says seven seven
And I look at her, I'm like, oh, what does
She's like, doesn't mom drink that. I'm like, yeah, I guess,
I guess. So it's like Seagram seven with seven up
or something. Yes, it's like the old lady drink or whatever.

(19:57):
My mom would drink it ever since we were kids.
And I'm like, this is your first time in a
bar and your order is a seven. So it's just
like I panicked. I didn't know what to get. True though,
you don't want to get in trouble. I remember that
when I was at bars underage, I like would look
up things online to make sure that when I got there,
nobody knew that I wasn't supposed to be there. So
were you very like just relax at the bar, A

(20:19):
little elbow on the bar. Oh yeah, but I can't
tell you how many times I asked for like a
sex on the beach, a whiskey sour like the show
the drinks that like people who don't drink a lot
of alcoholic drinks, right, Like this is a very fruity
like taste, good drink. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know
how I never got kicked out, but I managed my
way through it. It It sounds like your sister figured it out.

(20:40):
Seven seven. I'm good at seven. It is like an
old person drink salty dog. You never know what's gonna
happen though. Okay, So with Bobby's wedding coming up, you
have mentioned that you're not gonna drink for some moments
of the wedding so you can have like your best
man's beach. Speaking of drinking, are you still sticking to that?
I think so. I mean, I'll probably have a few

(21:01):
beers before. I mean, it's I just feel I've been
getting to this point in my life where when there
is something to be celebrated, you celebrate hard. Like I
don't think we celebrate as people enough as we should.
Like birthdays. To me, I feel like since I turned thirty,
probably I look at birthdays and I say, it's just

(21:21):
another year. It's not like, Okay, it's a day that
I was born. It's I'm one year older and nobody deal.
But that should be celebrated and we should celebrate hard
in these things. And Bobby getting married to me is
a celebration moment where I'm gonna go hard. So basically,
after your big speech, you're you're gonna be going down. Yes,
so I can probably get you to take shots at
the wedding. Yeah, I will definitely take shots. And then

(21:43):
you're telling me like if these artists have like they're
on stage and they're singing these songs and they're gonna
have karaoke night with live Van like you be the
greatest night ever. Oh yeah, I'm so ready for It's
gonna be a great wedding. But I am excited to
see you get drunk because I think I've only seen
you like buzz a few times in our whole time
I'm working together, so this should be very I don't
know if I'm any fun when i'm really drunk anymore.

(22:07):
It's been a while, so I don't know. I'm so ready.
But anyways, y'all listen to this. This is where we
talk about Bobby's signature drink, how he chose it, why
he chose it, all the things. Number six, I think
I'm stressing Klin out with the wedding coming up because
I just forget to him my people. This morning woke
up and she goes, hey, did you invite? And she

(22:28):
left off three people and I was like, yeah, of
course I did. She's look back into let she goes, Nope,
they're not on here. I was like, no, I'm pretty
sure I did. I would for sure invite them, and
I didn't invite them, like three people at for sure
would have invited and I wouldn't even thought about until
Kalin's like, hey, did you invite these people? So I
think I'm stressing her out a little bit. There's also

(22:48):
a part of the wedding where they want us to
create our own signature cocktail. And I don't drink. So
what do you think I created any Shirley Temple type thing? Yeah,
exactly it. Yeah, I didn't know what to name it.
So if you guys have a name Bobby Temple, well
that's what I said. That was the easy one. But
I didn't thin people would know what that was. Oh,
I get it, but I don't know what is in

(23:08):
a Shirley Temple. Well it's it's basically, you know, cherry
juice or whatever that and the version of a drink
grenadine up. Yeah, okay, so it's pretty good. I like
it when I go to a bar because it looks
like I'm drinking. But you can also do a dirty
Shirley with alcohol in it. That's weird. Yeah, I don't

(23:30):
like that. So here's what I like to sound about. Well,
order one. There'll be two versions of those. There'll be
the one that I have that the Shirley Temple, and
there's the Dirty Shirley if you want to add apparently
add vodka to it, or the Dirty Bobby. I don't know. Here, Okay,
here's the challenge I'm gonna give our listeners. Call our
voicemail line. What should I name this Shirley Temple kind

(23:51):
of drink? The clean one and the dirty one? Yeah,
but they need to kind of be named semi the
same thing, right, eight seven seven seventy seven, Bobby. Maybe
if you come up with the name, we'll give you
a doll or something. I don't know. We got some
voicemails about my signature drink at the wedding, you know,
because they said, hey, you need to create a drink.

(24:14):
Caitlyn needs to create a drink and then people can
order them. And I was about, I don't I don't drink,
and I like Shirley Temples, but I couldn't find a way.
The Bobby Temple didn't make sense. But a lot of
people called and left ideas. We have five of them. Here,
what to name my signature cocktail? Here we go number one?
Hey Bobby, Hey, guys, I'm thinking the non alcoholic could

(24:36):
be called simply Hella and the alcoholic one, laid down
Stanley Okay, named after my dogs. Okay, okay, all right.
I was kind of looking for that play into Charley
Temple somehow, you know. Okay, all right, here's Leanne from
New York. Hey, Bobby Morna's studio. I just had one name.
It's the Bobby beat Drop. Just thought that was a

(24:58):
great name. Sean's how I kind of corporates some music
theme to it, A beat drop. Okay, there you go.
It sounds like a beat drink though when I hear that,
like the vegetables. Yeah yeah, all right, here's the next one.
I'm confused. Why aren't we just cashing in on that
Bobby Water, you know, whiskey and waters, Bobby Waters. Throw
some nerds in it, get crazy with it. Congratulations, best wishes,

(25:20):
love the show, see y'all soon. Thank you. I would
love to capitalize on a but Sonic won't pay me.
I would be Sonic the greatest endorser. I do this
commercials where I sit there and to go like, hey,
Mike d how about this seatbelt doesn't go with my
chili dog? Does it? You know those commercials you guys
in the car. Yeah, but for some reason they don't
want to hire me. Here's another one. I was thinking

(25:40):
maybe to name your drink the dirty razor Back or
just the Razorback. What do you think? I like the Razorbacks? Okay,
and then here let's do Chris from Tucson, Arizona. Alcoholic
one should be boned and people should ask to get boned,
and then the non alcoholic one should be believable, and

(26:01):
then if you order it, the bartender will be like,
oh you want it unbelievable? Total is funny? He ate that?
Oh yeah, hey, I like the bone one though. That's
pretty good. I'm not gonna have people at the wedding
go I'd like to get bone on bone please. Oh
then you won't like my idea. That why what was yours?
I was gonna do big bobbies and little bobbies like

(26:21):
play on the You know, no, I don't. That doesn't
even make sense. That's a terrible I can't, Eddie, I
can't constantly sell you the funniest person on the show.
Whenever you come up with just rotten. You know how
they mispell your name Sometimes they put two outs, Okay,
the Big Booby and Bobby. What I'm saying. The only
one that I thought that was pretty cool was someone
named s says Lynster four thirty two. She said, how

(26:45):
about calling get a Sue Temple like pick suee, Charlie Temple,
got it, Sue Temple. That's pretty good. Huh yeah, razorbacks Sue. Yeah.
I'm still working on it. I appreciate everybody sending in
their thoughts and leaving voicemails. It's the best bits of
the week. With Morgan number two coming up next Lunchbox,

(27:08):
he decided to wrap and sing his way through some
drive throughs, and let me tell you, I don't think
I've laughed so hard in a long time. This segment
just made me crack up imagining lunchbox rapping and singing
through drive throughs. And not only that, the employees that
he was doing this too, like totally took it in stride.
They were so great. This is the laugh you need

(27:30):
on this wonderful weekend. Number five. Remember last week we
had a TikTok of Craig Morgan singing his Starbucks order.
Here's a clip. I'd like a denty man with the
extra heavy weeping cane and maybe because you please by
could you please stay man for me? All su she

(27:56):
has to be like, what's happening here? So lunchbox did this?
Great out the guy who can't sing. We'll see you
be the judge. You went to sing? Where lunchbox? I
went to Whitecastle? All right? Here we go, Lunchbox singing
his order. All right, welcome to Whitecastle? Or hit your order?
Oh yeah, I need I need a small shrimp nibbler.

(28:20):
And don't and don't you and don't you forget? I
need that small I mean small, was a small fry.
I can't even saying. I can't even beat it. Where
are you dragging? You're having summer drink today. Don't drink
for me. Just a shrip nipplers and a small fer. Okay,

(28:43):
there's gonna cheek twenty one? Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, you
alright over. I don't even know what you ordered. A
shrimp nibbler, Yeah, a small shrimp. I don't know. Saw
it on the menu. I thought it sounded funny to
sing shrimp nibbler. Guess that was it? And a small fry.
So how do we like that? That's fight? Okay. He

(29:05):
then decided to elevate it and he went to Starbucks
to wrap his order. Oh boy, do you think you
can't sing? Let's see what you think about is rapping?
Here you go. Oh you know me, I want that
hot chocolate venty, But you can keep the whip for
the next bro Sky. Oh my god, I got bars.

(29:27):
That's what I do. I drop rhymes all the time.
Oh my gosh. So you want to keep the whip
cream for the next Brosky. That's correct, all right? Else,
that's it. I'm out those your kids. God, that guy

(29:49):
he's like, oh my god, he's like, you got bared.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two,
a little bit of a controver. She will segment on
our show this week. Amy's daughter, she's thirteen years old,
told Amy that she wants a locked diary, and Amy
was really cool about it. She says, yeah, I totally

(30:09):
get it. She should have one. Her daughter wants it
for her locked passwords. While people online were just a
little bit debating over all the things, because when it
comes to parents and kids, people love trolling about parents. Amy.
I mean, if there's one topic they love to comment on,
it is parenting. So we had all the kinds of

(30:30):
people because Amy has clearly had some mixed emotions about
this whole situations, as she should. It's her daughter, daughter's
growing up, right, So Eddie, tell me your thoughts on this.
So what's tricky with topics like this on the radio
show is that we don't have a lot of time
to think about it. Take it like one minute to
break it down, very reactive like. So when this came up,
the first thing I thought of, it's just like, that's crazy,

(30:52):
because I truly believe that if you have an open
conversation and a relationship where you can about whatever with
your kids and they're cool with sharing things with you,
there is no such thing as locked doors. I mean, sure, yeah,
lock the door of your naked like, sure, whatever. But
I was like a conversation, but realistically, there's no need

(31:14):
to hide anything from anyone. Yeah, you know, if you're
doing something that you need to hide from your parents,
it's not a good thing. And so that's how I
reacted to the lock diary. Now there is the therapy
side of it, or a psychologist psychiatrist that say, you know, no,
it's very healthy to have a lock diary and have

(31:34):
your thoughts to yourself. I mean sure, but you could
do that with a diary that's unlocked and trust and
understand that your parents are going to look to the diary.
Now I have boys, so far they have showed no
interest in having any kind of diary or journal. So
I haven't dealt with this. But I just feel like

(31:55):
in my house, I don't think that anyone will want
to have that kind of privacy. Because my son, who's
thirteen years old, I mean the first time when I
picked him up from school, the first thing he's like
we talked about like, hey, high school, go oh man,
this happened, and this happened and so and so did
this and and to me, I'm like, that's great because
that didn't happen when I was a kid, Like they
would pick me up from It's fine. That was my

(32:18):
answer all the time, because I felt like I was
just gonna get in trouble if I told him, like, oh, yeah,
so I got into a fight like so and so, Well, yeah,
if you got into a fight, you were probably get
in trouble. In middle school, fights were kind of like
a common thing thing. It was a punching people's noses
my middle school, like it was weird. It was almost
a ride of passage where like you're in sixth grade,

(32:39):
it's time to get into a fight. Oh yeah, yeah.
So but even even the girls got into fights or
was this just a guy? A girl's got no fights?
Cat fights? Cat fight girls? Oh my gosh, hair being
pulled and after the fight's broken up, somebody has a
ball of hair and they're in their hand. Yes, serious,
I mean South Texas got real down there. Hey, you

(33:00):
have a lot of experiences and I'll love it. Yeah.
So there was that kind of feeling like, oh, I
don't want to tell him. I know. If so, I
wouldn't tell him. I wouldn't tell him certain things or whatever.
And I think that's led to us not having a
true close relationship where I can just tell him whatever.
And that's just something of when I became a parent.
I'm like, I want to change that when I become
a dad. So when he tells you things, do you

(33:22):
kind of like sit with it before you ever respond
to anything, to make sure you don't react. I have to.
So as weird as some of the stuff is, like,
it's like I'll even say, like when the becoming a
teenager stuff, Yes, the stuff that he comes to me
with I'm just like, what did you just say? But

(33:42):
and then afterwards I'm like, hey, man, that's pretty cool
that he can think like, hey, let me ask dad
about this because I don't know what's happening. Oh yeah,
it's a great thing, especially as he gets older and
some really serious life stuff starts happening. Yeah, he will
come to you totally, and that's the goal as far
as me and how I parents. That's a good thing. Okay,
So I was thinking about this. What if the reason,

(34:05):
like a locked diary thing is such a big deal
it's because it's siblings. You're not as much worried about
your parents getting into it as you are your siblings
because growing up with three older sisters, I didn't like
if I did something and they happen to see it
in a diary that I had, they'd make fun of
me for days about it. Did they do that? Yes,
So I'm thinking of that I triggered situation. I would

(34:27):
have diaries and like, if my sister ever got ahold
of it, like it'd be a whole thing. So maybe
it's more about the sibling households that the locked diary
is more of a situation. Then I'm down with that,
but like the parents have a key and you know whatever,
I'm totally down with that, but yeah, you are right,
and that we did have a lot of therapists commenting
and we're like, it's really healthy to do this, and
it's important for them, but it's also important for them

(34:48):
to be able to trust you that you're not going
to look. But other parents were sharing accounts of like
their kids having been in some really bad situations and
they saved them from them based on the fact they
were right and there was trust and they could go
when they felt it was a right time to look
in the die. So like cool, just so many different
firsthand parent accounts on this outside when you get through

(35:10):
all the trolling, Yes, And then I immediately thought too,
like there have just been stories of you know, when
there are kids like that that have you know, there's
active shootings or whatever and they go back to the
house and these are like teenagers that live in their parents'
house and they had guns like in their rooms and
ammunition in their room and their parents never knew about it.

(35:31):
To me, that's like very shocking to me that that's
how detached you are from your children that you wouldn't
even know if they bought something like that or they
were planning on doing something like that. So I don't know.
There's definitely a conversation to be had about the need
to write something down, the need to write something down

(35:52):
in privacy, and the need to like communicate with your parents. Yeah,
you know, there's a lot of steps to it, for sure,
but this was it was a funny conversation because of
how drastically we all reacted to it well. And you
could tell when Amy was talking about her her emotions
were just very mixed, Like it was like, yes, healthy,
but also like, what if something happens, do I have

(36:13):
a key? Am I allowed to? Like so many questions,
not even from the kid, but as a parent. Yeah,
and that's kind of crazy, but too, Like it's hard
to You're you're trying to be protective, you're trying to
be understanding, you're trying to do all these things. Like
it's such a real thing that as you get older,
like me being twenty seven, I look at my parents,
I'm like, I get it. I respect so much of
what you did. I didn't get it then, and I

(36:33):
was mad at you were Who knows what else I
probably did in that moment, but like I look back
now and like all the things that they had to
think about with me and being protective over me, I'm like, man,
I really put you guys through it. I'm so sorry.
I think there's a lot of acting involved and being
a parent too, like acting like you wouldn't freak out
if you found something in their diary, and then in
front of him being like, oh cool, I'm glad you

(36:55):
wrote that down, and then like what is he thinking?
This is crazy? So there's definitely a lot of acting
involved too, because you don't want to show them how
you would naturally react over something. Because for kids, I
think it's so important how you how your parents are
going to react to something. Yeah, it's so imparent. It's
so important, Like are they gonna say, oh, they're gonna

(37:17):
kill me when they find out about this, or you
know what, Dad will understand. It's gonna be hard at
the beginning, but mom and dad will understand if I
explain it to them. So it's tricky. No, that's that's
a very real thing. It's funny. We were my girlfriends
and I were just talking about this. I always feel
the need still as an adult to like have my
parents feel proud of me and like proud in my
decisions as a human being. Right, even though I'm like

(37:40):
ten years past them wanting anything to like actually do
that for But so I still like if something happens,
say I get in like a car accident or something,
and I'm so afraid to call my mom because I'm like, nah,
I don't want to get no, I can do anything
about it. Not that she can do anything about it,
but I'm like, I don't want to call her. I'll
literally call my sister fon I'm like I don't heard. No.

(38:03):
She'll be like hey, like really, like you had to
do this again, But like she's gonna be there, and
like that's all of those emotions, right, and as we're
both adults now, she can go through all of those
emotions with me. But it's just so funny that even
still in an older age, you're like, I just don't
want to disappoint them, and they just aren't going to
be right for the most parts. I'd there'll be something

(38:25):
they'll be disappointed about. Yeah, I mean, I'm forty two
years old and there's certain things I don't tell my
parents and they get so mad. Why did you tell
us because I didn't. I didn't really want to worry
you about anything. It's crazy as the years change, you
talk about your kids, and it's like such a full
circle moment. I'm sure for you as a parent. Yeah,
my brother has a tattoo that my parents still don't
know about. Right now, sorry, let's rewind that little Okay, Well,

(38:50):
here's here's a segment about Amy and her thirteen year
old daughter wanting a lucked diary. Number four man having
a thirteen year old daughter, it's just like a planet
I've never been on. Yeah, and she's almost fourteen, really yeah,
in April, so what's going on? Well, she wants to
get a locked diary, so she had me, Well, I've

(39:11):
ordered it, we just don't have it yet. But she's like,
I need a diary that locks. I'm putting all my
passwords in there or so nobody can know because she
forgot I guess one of her email passwords and she's like, oh,
I can't believe I can't remember it. So she wants
to write them down and lock them away in her drawer.
And I thought, okay, well that's interesting. But she may
want to start journaling. Other things that she starts to

(39:32):
lock away, and I think that's cool. I think that
writing down your thoughts is really healthy, and I hope
maybe she does use that. But then I thought, oh, well,
it's gonna be locked. What if one day there's something
going on with her and I maybe need to read
her diary. And then I was like, no, you can't
read her diary. It's her diary, but she's gonna have
it locked anyway. But then it just had me. I

(39:52):
had this whole conversation in my head about whether or not,
as a parent, what circumstance makes it okay to go
into the diary. Obviously not just for fun on a
Friday night, but like if something seriously going on with her,
I may need to be looking out for her. So
I didn't know as a parent how I'm supposed to

(40:12):
handle that. His fake scenario in my head that has
never even happened yet. If she gave you a key,
as I here, you can also have a key, would
you go snoop in it? No? No, well, I mean
if she's saying I could, and I really felt like
she's saying, if if here's a key in case for emergency, okay,
then if it's an emergency. Yes, again, I'm not going
to I want to show her like we're big on

(40:36):
respect in our house and right now we're even we're
working on a lot of different core values as a family,
and we want to live by example to the kids.
So like, if she were to find out that I
was snooping in her stuff with no emergency reason, then
that wouldn't be building trust and respect with her. I
agree for a thirteen fourteen year old to have a

(40:57):
diary and write down all their thoughts. Great. I think
the only time you should get into it as if
you think she's in danger and you have to cut
that thing open, and then you have to have the conversation.
I just got into your diary. Yeah. Otherwise, it's not
like an Instagram account where people can interact with her.
People can't reach out to her in her diary. That's
that's the difference in a Facebook account, on Instagram account,
a techtok account where maybe you don't want your thirteen
year old to have one of those because they are

(41:19):
accessible to creeps and that does happen, and as a
parent or parents, we can't be naive to that because
the creeps and PURBs can't get into a lock diary, right, Yeah,
And again I encourage her writing down her thoughts. I
think that that's super healthy for anybody, kids or adults.
And if she you should tell her if you're if
I ever feel like you're in danger, I'm going to

(41:39):
cut this open with a pair of scissors and you're
gonna know I did it. So I'm never gonna do
it without you knowing. Okay, that's what I would say, Eddie,
you have a thirteen year old son. Yeah, there are
no secrets in my house, so like if I had,
but there aren't because it's my house. No, but there
are I know, but they're not because like, if I
find a diary, guess what I'm gonna read it like,
and I'm not gonna tell them I because I have

(41:59):
boys boys, I'm not gonna tell him I read it.
But I want to know what's going on in their
lives and I want to be able to relate. So far,
I have a thirteen year old son, and so far,
he communicates very well with us. If there's a problem,
he communicates us. And that's my goal to just keep
that communication gap open because when I grew up, there
was no talking to dad about anything. So I'm trying
to change that culture in my fatherhood or whatever. So

(42:23):
but it also means there are no locks in the doors.
They're nothing like that. Like we can share everything with
each other because guess what I've been, where you've been.
Did you ever want to hide things from your dad? Yeah,
but my dad never went in my room ever. Like,
I can't tell you one time where my dad went
into my room. And he'll even tell you today. He's like, nah,
I had no reason to go in his room. That's crazy.
You read stories of people that do bad stuff at

(42:44):
school and they're like, you never saw the gun in
his room. No, I never went in his room. That
is crazy to me. You don't want to give your
thirteen year old son a bit of privacy. I want
him to think he has the privacy. But at the
same time, this is our how like, I don't have privacy.
You guys are all up in my stuff. They're not
in your laptop. They could get your computer, sure they are.

(43:05):
He was on it the other day and I'm like,
that's fine, and I've freaked out for a second. I'm like,
that's my work laptop. He could literally he could easily
tweet something in two seconds, but he didn't guess what
because he knows that's Dad's laptop and he wouldn't do
that to Dad. So I'm trying to have an open
but to have my own private space. Right, Like Stashier
asked me for a locked diary, if your son asked

(43:26):
you for a locked diary, you're saying you would not
buy him one. I know, I would say, absolutely, just
give me a key, absolutely, right, other people bones, you
gotta watch out for other people and not Dad. You
can trust Dad one. Other people though, you can't. But
if he's like no Dad, I just really would like
a diary for myself, no key for you, then I
would say get the diary, go ahead, and then I
would find a way to open it up. He's not

(43:47):
waiting to school, Eddie. You guys can go over to
our Facebook page comment on this. Yeah, Amy, I like
your style. Thanks Eddie. We got some work to time.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number
two coming in at number three. We had doctor Francis S.

(44:09):
Collins and he is the director of the National Institutes
of Health, and he talked all about the COVID vaccines
debunking miss what you should do after you get it,
and honestly, like as someone who's really young and just
doesn't have a lot of life experience and conversations about
doctors and medical things in my life. This was a
really cool interview that Bobby did with him. So listen

(44:32):
to it. Get informed all the things that's happening right now.
Number three on the Bobby Bones Show, Now, doctor Francis Collins.
Doctor Collins, it is such a pleasure to have you on.
How are you today? I am just fine. It is
great to be on your show with you, Bobby. I'm
a big fan, so terrific to have a chance to

(44:53):
talk about whatever we're going to talk about. You are
the director of the National Institutes of Health. What does
that mean? That means I'm the guy who oversees our
nation's investments in biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health
is the way in which discoveries get made and clinical
advances occur, and it's my job to oversee all of

(45:13):
this in a forty two billion dollars a year medical
research investment, which for the past year has been all
about COVID nineteen as you might guess, and we have
made some real progress with vaccines and other things. Well,
this is why I'm glad to have you on, because
this is the guy to ask about vaccines. I've had
one shot, Eddie's got a shot, Lunchbox has got a shot.

(45:33):
Now we're the inside the two shot system here because
we didn't get Johnson and Johnson. So can you explain
to me what the difference is in these three vaccines
and if we should look for any of them specifically. Well,
let me first say they are all wonderfully effective and
safe vaccines. So the bottom line is you should take
what everyone gets offered to you as soon as it

(45:56):
gets offered, because this is how we're going to get
past it's terrible COVID nineteen pandemic. Yeah, the Fiser and
Moderna vaccine, those are two shots. They're based on something
called Messenger RNA. The Johnson and Johnson is one shot,
and it's based on an ad novirus approach. But they've
all been tested in trials of at least thirty thousand
people each and been shown to have safety records that

(46:20):
are really quite impressive, with no hint of any real
troubles there, and a highly effective way of protecting you
against getting sick or dying of COVID nineteen and that's
what we are all waiting for, and now it is here.
So I know people maybe a little resistant about Wait
a minute, did they rush this? Did they go too fast?
I'm the guy who's been overseeing all of this at

(46:41):
the NIH. Let me assure you I've never seen anything
done better than this in terms of the way in
which the trials were conducted and the strength therefore the
conclusions about these being safe and effective. So roll up
your sleeves, America. It's time to get past this pandemic.
Doctor Collins is such a big deal. Guys. This is
a bigger get than Matthew McConaughey. You know we had
matthe mc on hand last week. This is a bigger,

(47:01):
better interview in my mind, I know we were all
we got Mattie mcgonaugh. Hey, this is a better interview.
I have so many questions. Okay, here's the next one
for you, doctor Collins. So in the next year two
years or so, we're going to try to have a kid,
probably right, And so my fiance, who has one shot,
has been like, I'm going to get the shot. But
what does this mean if you're trying to have kids.
Is this going to affect anything? It is not going

(47:24):
to have any effects. So let me do a little
mythbusting here, because there's a lot of myths that are
out there being spread around on social media. This vaccine
does not cause infertility, first of all, by the way.
Second of all, it also won't give you COVID nineteen.
The vaccine doesn't actually have the virus in it, just
a particular protein that your immune system can recognize. Just

(47:46):
what it's all about other myths. No, it does not
have chips in it that Bill Gates or Tony Fauci
designed they would put through the needle. So yeah, everybody,
please look at the CDC. If you're looking for information
about all of this, it's all up there. CDC dot
com is the best place to go if you really
want the facts about what we know about the vaccines,
their safety, their efficacy. That's the place to look. What

(48:09):
about people, because I get hit a lot with there's
been enough time they rushed this vaccine. I don't want
to get it if it's done so quickly. What do
you say to that? What do I say to that? Well?
I know people are concerned because they heard about this
thing called Operation Warp Speed, which maybe it wasn't the
best choice of a name for the project, But would
you rather have Operations Slow vote? I don't think so.

(48:29):
People were dying. We wanted to go as fast as
we could to develop these vaccines to save lives. But
let me tell you, because I'm right in the middle
of this and have been now for the last fifteen months.
What we did was basically figure out where are the
downtimes where nothing happens in between the various phases of
vaccine development, and those sometimes take months, And we figured
out a way that we could get rid of the

(48:50):
downtimes but not compromise at all on the rest of
the rigorous testing to be sure the vaccine was safe
and effective. In fact, I think people who look at
this would say these are probably vaccines that we know
more about than almost any others that have ever been tested.
Plus more, the technology that was used, people think maybe
it just got invented overnight when COVID nineteen burst on

(49:13):
the scene back in January twenty twenty. This is all
based upon technologies that have been developed over decades that
were ready for this moment and got brought forward and
they weren't. So basically you took all the time where
they were just chilling out doing nothing, waiting for things,
but you did everything they would normally do anyway during
a vaccine. I'm just trying to understand this that it

(49:34):
wasn't rushed with. You just crammed things into a space
where it shouldn't have been crammed. You just were extremely
efficient at finding the vaccine. That's exactly right. So first
of all, one of the new technologies made it possible
as soon as the Chinese released the actual letters of
the viral genome, the code that that virus uses to
replicate itself, to start making the vaccine right then sixty

(49:57):
three days later, which is a world record, need to
start the very first phase one trials. But then usually
there's a big gap between phase one and phase two,
not this time, and then there's a big gap between
phase two and phase three. Not this time. Those were
like days instead of months or years. And then the
other thing we did, which is really important, Bobby, is
we figured that some of these vaccines might actually work,

(50:19):
So let's actually start manufacturing doses even before we know
if they're going to work. We'll have to throw them
out if the vaccine is no good, but if it's good,
we'll have them ready to go. When once the vaccine
gets approved by the FDA, people can roll up their
sleeves and get started. And that's how we got started
in December, as opposed to what otherwise would have been
months of waiting for a factory to be built and

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maybe we would have the vaccines by the fall of
twenty twenty one. We didn't want to have that risk
of waiting, so all of this was very carefully planned
and it has made it possible in eleven months to
do what usually takes five or ten years. I like
that answer, honestly, because I had no idea. I mean,
to me, it was just a block of time where
it came together quick, and I'm on, hey, I'm still
trusting people that know more about something than I do.

(51:03):
But to actually hear it laid out like that, I'm like, well,
that makes sense. And also technology is getting better too, obviously,
so everything should be moving at a bit more rapid rate. Okay,
I'm pretty confident with that, and like I wouldn't be.
We have the director of the National Institute of Health,
doctor Collins on with US right now. What if I
start questioning him and I'm like, no, I don't know,
doctor Collins. Okay, my fiance and a couple of other

(51:24):
friends they have a little red circle on their shoulder
from that shot, like a little rash circle. What do
you know what that is? Or is that just we're
just eating the wrong food. Well, it's certainly the case that,
as with any injection, like a flu shot or a
tet and a shot, you can get a local reaction
after the needle where it gets a little sword. It

(51:44):
may turn a little red. You may even feel for
the next twenty four hours or so a headache, maybe
even a little chilly, a little feverish. When I hit
my second dose of Maderna, that's the one I got,
I felt pretty puny for twenty four hours just because
of the effect. But you know what, that's not a
side effect. That's an effect that tells you this is work.

(52:05):
It My immune system has recognized that it has a
challenge on its hand. This vaccine is saying, come on,
get busy. And it did, and I can tell it did.
And now I feel quite well protected because I know
my immune system has in its file cabinet the anybody
is that it's going to need if I encounter that
virus in the future, and that gives me a great
sense of confidence that maybe I can actually see my

(52:27):
grandchildren in a few more weeks, which would be really
nice to be able to do. Yeah, I had some friends.
I didn't get sick at all. I felt nothing after
my first shot. Add the Visor, and add some friends
who after the second one for twenty four thirty six hours,
got really sick. Is there a reason that some people
are getting sick and some aren't, And should I root
to get a little bit sick? Like? Is that a
good sign? You know? My wife just got her second

(52:50):
dose and she got Visor and she didn't have a
bit of a problem. She was just fine. And I
was like, boy, you're lucky, and she was like, well,
did it really work? Am I Okay? There's a lot
of variability, Bobby. It doesn't correlate with whether you've got
a good antibody response or not. It's something to do
with just the way your immune system is wired and

(53:11):
whether it's like ready to really pull out all the
stops when it encounters a challenge, or whether it's going
to be a little more casual about taking care of business.
It really though everybody who's heard about these side effects,
they last maybe twenty four hours. Would you rather be
kind of sick and chilly for twenty four hours, or
would you rather get COVID nineteen and end up in
the hospital or the ICU or lose your life? I mean,

(53:32):
that's the balance we're trying to help people to understand.
And I know there's still people a little on the
fence here. I hope those who are listening right now
really give it a serious thought about whether this is
the time to roll up your sleeve too and join
this effort to get this terrible pandemic behind us. Can
I stop wearing a mask once I'm fully vaccinated? You know,
we don't think it's time yet to stop wearing the mask,

(53:55):
because it is still possible, although we don't have enough
data to be absolutely sure that you could be vaccinated
and you could still carry the virus somewhere in your
nose or your respiratory track having no symptoms, which means
you might then be infecting other people. So until we
have more rigorous data about that, it's just going to
take a few more weeks. Still recommending that people wear

(54:17):
the mask when they're outside around other people, and certainly
if you're inside, wear the mask. Even though it's a
low risk. It's a kind of thing. It's love your
neighbor thing. It's not about protecting yourself in that situation.
It's about whether you might unwittingly be a super spreader
and putting people around you at risk. And who would
want to do that? So wear the mask. Wait a
little while longer. We're going to get through this. Eventually

(54:39):
will be in a situation we can take those off. Now.
If you're in a small gathering, maybe a invite another
couple to dinner at your house, and they're immunized and
you're immunized, then everybody can take their masks off and
have a nice time together. But if you're in mixed
company where some people are not immunized, you still ought
to wear the mask to protect those people who are

(54:59):
still risk. Doctor Francis Collins, the director of the National
Institute of Health, is on with us. I want to
ask a question that isn't extremely about COVID, but I
know that you're at about Christian You write books which
is extremely interesting and what you write out about the
intersection of science and faith and so the language of God?
What is Tell me what this book is about, because

(55:19):
it sounds like something i'd be interested in. Well, thanks
for asking. I grew up as a agnostic and ultimately
an atheist, and then I went to medical school and
had to wrestle with questions about life and death and
realized I had really thought this through. And to my surprise,
as a scientist and somebody who was interested in genetics

(55:40):
for Heaven's sakes, I realized that the atheist perspective was
the least rational, that was sort of denying the possibility
of God when you don't have complete data. And ultimately,
over a couple of years, guided by beginning to understand
the Bible and reading a lot of other commentators like C. S. Lewis,
to my surprise, I became a Christian. Now people said,

(56:01):
your head's going to explode. You can't be a scientist
and a Christian, can you? And you know what, over
forty years, I've never had a problem with this at all.
I think science is a wonderful way to understand how
nature works, kind of a glimpse of God's mind. But
science doesn't answer a lot of questions that I'm interested
in like, why am I here anyway? And is there
a God and does he care about me? And to
be able to bring those things together in a harmonious way,

(56:24):
which has happened down through human history except for maybe
the last hundred years, seems to me like something we
should try to recapture. And so I wrote this book
about how from me, science is a way of worshiping
because you're understanding the Creator. And when I study DNA,
which is what I did as the leader of the
Human Genome Project, I'm studying a language and for me,

(56:46):
God's the creator. That's God's language. So yeah, that's what
the book's about. In a lot of people were surprised
that that perspective could be put forward, But there's a
whole foundation now called Biologos Biologos that has become a
meeting place for people who have that same view, and
so people are interested. Go and have a look at that.
You'll see a lot of really interesting and respectful conversations

(57:08):
going on in the language of God. That's that's really interesting. Well,
then my final question is why am I here? Well,
that's between you and God, So you better get on
your knees and see if you can get an answer.
I'm still looking for the complete answer myself, but once
in a while I get a glimpse here and there. Well,
doctor Collins, we appreciate your time, and I think that listen,

(57:28):
I'm in. I trust science. I got hit with the vaccine.
I'm getting my other one first week of April. There
are a lot of people in it or around my
circle that aren't fully in, and I think for them
to hear this, this will provide a bit of confidence
in the vaccine. Mostly the question of how did this
come together so fast? Had no idea. I feel like
I'm pretty dialed in and I had no idea that

(57:49):
was really what happened. Thank you for your time. Thank
you for all the hard work you have put in.
It has been a busy twenty twenty for you, for sure.
And thank you for you know, coming on the show
and explaining you know, they say explained like I'm five.
I feel like we're all five years old and you're
the teacher. So thank you for doing that with us.
Thank you for the chance, and again, everybody, please look
at the evidence and roll up your sleeve when you

(58:10):
have the information in front of you. I think that's
what you'll want to do. We are going to get
through this. Doctor Francis Collins, the director of the National
Institutes of Health. Thank you, doctor Collins. Have a great day.
Thank you too. All Right bye, everybody. It's the Best
Bits of the Week with Morgan. Number two, another really
funny segment this week, Lunchbox decided to write letters to

(58:34):
celebrities as a seven year old kid, not just like
one seven year old get or one celebrity. He wrote
to Carrie Underwood, Oprah the Rock I mean, and these
letters are hilarious. So another segment you can laugh at.
But right before that, I'm going to talk to Eddie
a little bit because Eddie had briefly talked about someone
that he's in a letter, but he told me he
has another story. Well it's funny because it was such

(58:57):
a big thing when we were kids to write the
celebrity these letters. And I remember my friend Mike Morrison.
He was like, man, you'll never believe what happened. I
wrote Nolan Ryan, who was a pitcher for the Rangers
at the time, and he's like, I wrote Nolan Ryan said,
I was a big fan and I got this autograph
baseball guard from him and I'm like what they actually responded,
So then that sparked my memory of just being like, well, okay,

(59:21):
well what do I do? What I do like a
pick a pick a baseball player Ricky Henderson, he's kind
of cool, like he steals a lot of basses. So
I wrote Ricky Henderson, never got anything back and didn't
so yeah, so I never got anything back with that.
So I was kind of lost hope with all that.
But on the show, I talked about writing this movie director.
This was in college years years years. You weren't even

(59:43):
like a child, you were like a grown adult. This
was years later, and I remember going thinking back like, okay,
well the only person I've ever written was Ricky Henderson
and he never wrote back, and so I'm like, whatever,
let's just give this a shot. But it's so funny.
And we brought this up. I started thinking like, it's
the dumbest ram the thing to write letters to someone,
because who's going to read your letter? Why would someone

(01:00:04):
want to read it? Well? And do you ever think
like is his people going to read it or is
he going to read it? Correct? Right? Like That's always
what I go through in my head. But what's crazy
now is you don't have to deal with that at
all because in this age, like just DM someone and
they and they see it. Oh. The whole social media
era has been a game changer for celebrities, right, like,

(01:00:24):
not only can they see what all their fans are
up to, they can interact with them. They can message them.
I mean, they can walk them if they need to. Like,
there's just so many ways of being able to interact
with your fans when like you guys, as kids, it
was writing letters right now, letters and not knowing even
like when you sit a text today, you know if
someone read it. You had no idea if that even
got opened or went straight in the trash, like you

(01:00:45):
just had to think, Like I remember he played for
the Oakland A's Ricky Henderson did, and I thought, wow,
my letters going to Oakland right now, and like, oh,
Ricky Henderson's just getting off the baseball field and going
to the mail room and get yes. But who knows,
that never probably probably never happened. So he never responded.
You never got any responses from any celebrity. No, Rick
Anderson and then Cameron Crow never got any response. But

(01:01:06):
in your adult life you have gotten people to respond
to you right, Like I especially working for the show,
what's been like a few celebrity responses you've gotten that
are pretty cool? I think like the weird one to
me sometimes is Tim McGraw that he I'll just tweet
something and then he'll respond to it with an answer
like nothing about him, just random likes like Johnny Lasagna

(01:01:29):
will respond, Steph from Austin will respond, Danny will respond,
and then Tim McGraw And I'm like that's crazy, Like
what like what does he respond random things like if
it's just a picture of like a rainbow whatever, and
you'll just like, what's beautiful. I'm like, Okay, that's what
I'm talking about. It's like Tim McGraw knows you. That's

(01:01:50):
he does know who I am. I think that's really cool.
Did you write letters to anyone when you're a kid one?
And that was like because I mean you're not. No,
I mean no, they were my time. They were when
I was a kid, like really really young. I knew
about them, but no, I didn't write them. It would
have been Backstreet Boys if I wrote to a boy
band or in sync um, but no, the one person

(01:02:13):
I wrote to before social media kind of hit because
my Space hit when I was probably ten, right, so
things started facing up. Um No, I knew about that.
I used it, but like I didn't really know what
I was doing. Um. The one person I did write too, though,
wash and I twin and she never responded. But that's
crazy because you've met her. Yes, like so many full

(01:02:35):
circle moments, I don't even remember, like remember, I think
it was honestly a class lesson because we don't write
letters anymore. Like when I was growing up, They're like,
you need to learn how to write letters. So we
would write these letters to celebrities and they would send
them off. Most of the time, there was no responses.
Class I know, I don't need that. Now, I'm like, hey,
I could just in a DM, Like I wonder what

(01:02:57):
they're getting taught in class. They just don't get taught,
that's true. Um so yeah, I never got anything back.
But totally full circle moment because the two coolest things
that have happened, like in life and on social media
was meeting Shania Twain and meeting Dolly Parton, both of

(01:03:18):
who have interacted with me on social media. Shan I
ever retweeted my like recent TikTok video when I like
ranked all her intros and it was so cool. And
then Dolly Parton retreeted me when I dressed up as
her for Halloween, like two like very honorable things. It
wasn't even just like about them, like I had done
something that was inspired by them. And then they responded

(01:03:40):
to that, like I didn't mess it up enough that
they want to respond follow you. No, I don't think so.
They're they're too they're too big for that. That's fine,
Like these are just like I when both of these
things happened, I should up send it to all my friends,
all my like text mess text messages groups like freaking
out the two people in my entire life that I've
loved since the beginning of time? How did you when

(01:04:01):
you wrote her first letter? How did you find out
where you're going to send it to? Did you send
you the record label? Or I'm gonna be honest. I
think our teachers like tricked us. And like I said that,
they sent an office and I don't think it every
wont sent off. They still have it, yeah, because they're like, hey,
we got all the addresses for things you need. Yeah,
Like how did they do that? No, they didn't respected teachers.
I see them now. They have a lot of hard workshop.
They're not looking up the addresses of famous people to

(01:04:23):
do that. You're probably right, So yeah, I don't. I
don't think it ever got sent off, So I don't
even think she had a chance. Yeah, I hate that.
I hate that same thing with my Ricky Henderson thing
like no way it got to him is right, like
lost in a mill, like sitting somewhere, you know, like
forty years later when it returned, Oh it's got dust
all over. It's like it's so yellow now, never been opened.
Oh man, okay, well we'll listen to this. Lunchbox he

(01:04:46):
wrote some celebrities. You can hear what he wrote them,
what he asked for and his kid voices. It's a
little weird. Number two. On last week's show, we talked
about writing letters to celebrities. I wrote the whole Kogan,
Amy Roch, Patrick Swayze, Eddie wrote to Cameron Crow, the Director.
As a kid, Lunchbox wrote to Troy Yagman, anybody else
write to celebrities? We all end, okay, so we said,

(01:05:08):
what if we do it as an adult? The Lunchbox
took it on himself to already do it. This is
going to be a science experiment. What did you do? Well?
I decided that I don't know if people even write anymore,
if they just email fan clubs or whatever. So I
decided to write letters to three superstars as a kid
and see if they'll mail me something. What do you
mean as a kid? I wrote, like, I'm a seven

(01:05:30):
year old? Oh? Wow? Oh you wrote the letter? Is
that your real handwriting? No? I wrote left handed? Okay, wow,
I wrote, so I didn't. I'm right handed. So I
took the opposite hand and I wrote a letter to
carry Underwood the Rock and to Oprah, and I'm gonna
mail them and see if they'll mail me anything back.
How long is the letter? It's just like one page.

(01:05:50):
But it's just big writing and sloppy. Would you mind
reading it too? It would you like to read? Who
would you write me to carry? Oh? You did three
different ones, carry the Rock and Oprah? Okay, let's do
Carrie Underwood first. Okay, Lunchbox has written a letter to
carry Underwood? And how do you know where to send it?
By the way, I figure I'll just send them to
the record lay. I don't know. I was just gonna
send it to the record label and hope they get

(01:06:11):
it to her. I don't know where do you send
it to the Rock to his studio? Studio has a studio, okay,
and then Oprah I Harpo Productions, So you're okay. I'm
just I don't know. Shot in the shot in the dark. Okay.
This is to carry Underwood. Dear Carrie. I a big
fan and like to hear you sing. I hope to

(01:06:34):
be cool. Okay, O, L like you win me older,
but a seven year ol wouldn't say all that way older,
like I'm misspell and I don't I don't have proper Yeah,
my seven year old wouldn't. He'd do better than that. Okay,
go ahead. I am Miranda and I seven. Can you
send me a picture for my wall please? I live

(01:06:55):
at and I give my address and I put by Miranda.
That's good. Yeah yeah, I just think it as like
a four year old. It's still gay. Yeah, okay, all okay,
Now he would you like to hear to the Rock? Yes,
mister the Rock. I a big fan and like you
on TV. I hope it'd be cool like you when

(01:07:18):
me older. Tooth Fairy is best movie. My name is Greg,
can you send a picture for the wall? And I
give him my address? I am seven years old by
Rock signed Greg. It almost sends like Yoda, Like get kid,
Yoda is writing these letters or maybe maybe he's from
Russia or something, you know, like like English is not

(01:07:38):
his first language. And finally to Miss Oprah, my name
is Amanda. I like you on the TV. I want
to be on TV when I older. My birthday will
be May twelfth. Can you come can? I can? I
have a picture for the wall? I am seven. I

(01:08:01):
hope to be cool like you when I get older.
By Miss Oprah signed Amanda. And you're gonna mail them
off today? I'm gonna mail him off today, and I'm
gonna give him one month. And are you gonna write
though an adult on the front so it's like your
parents addressed? Yeah, yeah, my parents will address it. Obviously,
a kid is not going to address the envelope and
put a stamp on it. Oh. I thought it'd be
super impressive and it might make its way to someone

(01:08:23):
opening like oh this looks interesting. Well, okay, you have
a great point. I would say, make sure you don't
misspell leave words out though, right, like, don't do what
you did here. We're like, I kid food like, so
write their name, make sure it's all there so you
can easily read it. But if it does look like
a kid, that's a good point. Amy. Yeah, okay, okay,
mail them off today, okay, and well every week we'll

(01:08:44):
check in and see if you've got something back. It's
kind of like when he sent the balloon up. I
didn't think anybody would ever get the balloon message, and
somebody did, so who knows. We might be reading Oprah.
Oprah shows up, She's like, where is a little Himmy?
Who is that? Oprah? Was Amanda? Where's a little Amanda
looking at her? Oprah? She's a Harry forty year old

(01:09:07):
man just raises his hand. I Amanda. All right. We'll
check back in a week and see how that's going.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Of course, this is the number one spot. Brett Eldridge
came into the show this week. He helped us celebrate
Bobby's birthday. He also talked about his own birthday. He

(01:09:28):
performed his song good Day. I mean just so much
happened and it's always fun listening to Brett Eldridge talk.
So listen. Now here is Brett Eldridge Number one, The
Friday Morning Conversation with Brett Eldridge. Brett, how are you?
I'm great? How are you? I'm good? Today's my birthday.
You just had your birthday. It's a huge day. It's
a fine days. It's a good day. It's a good day. Good. Yeah.

(01:09:53):
What what what happened on your birthday? Uh? I one hiking?
What else? I do? One to out to dinner with
the fam and ate some peanut butter cheesecake which is
really good. Well, I appreciate you coming in here on
my birthday. It is a good day and you are
doing the good day movement? Yes, what is that exactly?

(01:10:13):
It's basically, you know, paying it forward, you know, lifting
somebody's day, whether it's buying flowers and giving them to
a friend, buying somebody's coffee in the line next to you,
anything just to lift somebody up, some some words of
affirmation to somebody needs it. You never know when somebody
needs it, and just just giving somebody a good day.

(01:10:34):
And I know what it feels like when somebody is
lifting me up when I needed it, and I just
think it's it's good to pass that energy along out
of you send me a book called ten percent Happier. Yes,
just got it, haven't read it yet. What is that
book about? Why was it so important for you to
send that out? Um, tim person Happier. It's a it's
a it's a book about meditation. It's a meditation for

(01:10:56):
fidgety skeptics, is what Dan Harris calls it. But it's
just I think meditation has been really huge for me
dealing with this life and itself and anxieties and everything.
And I sent it to you, and and I try
to just encourage people to meditate itus. I think a
lot of people think it's something weird and something where

(01:11:16):
you sit there and you're supposed to like think you're
floating or something or whatever. But it's actually just some
way to quiet your mind and give yourself from time
and piece and quiet. Walk me through this meditation, because
I've tried it. I struggle with my mind racing all
the time everywhere. Yeah, okay, got this at this time,
I could do this. I gotta make sure this take
all the time. And I've tried to meditate because I

(01:11:37):
struggle with PTSD really bad for a long time. It's
still a little bit now, but I can't fully I
haven't been able to fully sit down and separate myself
from what's happening in the world. Was that a struggle
for you? What's the tip for me? Big time? Just
give yourself okay, So like focus on They always say
focus on your breath a lot of the time. So

(01:11:58):
you you know, you put you put both feet on
the floor. I can't because now I can. Um, but
we put both feet on the floor. Just kind of
close your eyes and just focus on your breath, like
in and for four, hold it for a second, out
for four. And if you focus on that more and
then when you see when you see yourself start to
ruminate on things, um, and what do I do? How

(01:12:19):
do I catch my Because I'm like you say, if
you call it uh mental noting U, which means you're like,
that's that's just me thinking, okay thinking, And then you
go back to the breath and h And it's as
simple as that. And the whole practice is you'll be
going throughout your day and you'll notice yourself thinking and
when you catch yourself that's from the practice of like

(01:12:39):
tying myself to catch myself when I'm thinking about breathing
and that's where the practice comes along and it gets
it gets better, and you never get to be a
master at it, but it's like you can always grow
with it. It's cool. How long do you do this?
And while you do it? Are you nude? It always
knud always nude? And I do it every morning? You
do every morning every morning? I did it this morning,

(01:13:02):
but every morning I get up A routine is big
for me for just kind of putting on your armor
for the day kind of So getting up doing the
routine of meditating, doing some stretching and stuff like that.
And I saw I do it for ten minutes every morning,
and then a journal. Then I go for a hike
and then I then I'm ready to go. Now I've

(01:13:23):
seen you walking down the road before with this backpack
on that has water in it. Yeah, are your hikes
like four days? Because I feel like you could just
put a bottle of water in your in your little pocket.
I remember the first of yourself, He's like, what do
you Yeah, I run in the long ways. This was
before I got this garment running watch that I can
have my music on it. So I used to have like, uh,

(01:13:43):
I would put my phone in the in the pack
and also have the water if I wanted to get
thirsty on my run in the camel pack. So I
would do that and I would I would throw that
on there and I'd run and I just take some
SIPs whenever I need it. But I was running like
sometimes eight ten miles and a run, so it's gonna
have a little hydration. Didn't the way you down though,

(01:14:04):
I would feel like if I'm running at it does well.
I kind of got addicted, or not addicted, but I
just kind of started to get the feeling of like
you know when you take something way after you've been
used it for a while, it's like you feel weird. Well,
like I got used to the feeling of but being
heavy and maybe it made me sweat more. I don't know,
but I liked it. Brett Eldridge is here. We're talking
camel backs, packs, meditating, meditating, meditating the nude. Yeah, and

(01:14:29):
well that was that was how I pictured you. I
should I'm always fully clothed. Sorry, sorry, say why don't
we We talked about the Good Day movement. This song
good Day is such a good song, like you, it's
it's on your your last record. Um, and that is
the single now that I'm hearing being played everywhere. You
have your guitar, you want to play a little bit
for us? I would love to. All right, here is
the new one from Brett Eldridge. Here is good. Everybody,

(01:14:51):
take a deep breath and let's just enjoy this. I
fall asleep in the middle of it because I'm meditating.
All Right, here we go, let's have a good day.
Here we go. Who too? Three? I think I stopped
my morning with tonight. Let those blue eyes speak to me.

(01:15:20):
Skip all the things that I don't want to. Let
my mind want a free It's four to two, cold rain,
and something's gotten me thinking maybe it's gonna be a
good day. I don't know why, but it feels like

(01:15:44):
love's coming my way. In the sun ain't even shining.
If the world's gonna keep on spinning, let it keep
spinning on my way. I gotta feed it. It's gonna
be good, dude, It's gonna be good, good dude, Come on,

(01:16:17):
bred Aldridge. All right, I think and Ammy, you can
back me up on this if you would like. Anyone
that comes and plays in here. I think Bread is
pretty much the one that sounds most like the record.
Oh yeah, like when he sings you sound like you
sing whenever I play you on my phone. Yeah, I
kind of you close your eyes for a bit. You
might be it's like he's not even here right now,

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and make him not here playing it on my phone. No,
I'm saying you could close your eyes. I'm just playing
the track on my phone. He lipsk and it. Bred
Aldridge is here. We're gonna come back. Up. Two questions
I'm gonna ask when we come back. I'm gonna let
you know now, se you have time to think about. One.
What's the oddest place you've ever been recognized? Okay, so
don't tell me now. I'm gonna ask you that in

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a second, and then it's the best piece of advice
that you've been given by another artist. Okay. Two questions
I'm gonna asking we come back. Brett Eldridge is here,
you guys, stream good day, tweet your radio stations. Don't
call him because nobody can. Nobody answering phones for question anymore.
But let them know you like that song. The Friday
Morning Conversation with Brett Eldridge, Bro, what's the oddest place

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that you as a famous country musician, artist, singer, songwriter.
What's the weirdest place you've ever been recognized? One time
I was recognizing church and I was sitting in the
mid so I think the night before, Drunken Your Love
went number one, and so I celebrated. I don't I
don't really have any I don't really drink anymore. But
at that time I was celebrating, We're having a champagne

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or something, and and I did not feel great, but
I still went to church, still showed up and sat
in the middle row. When it was the hottest Easter
of all time, I felt like, uh. And I was
sitting in the middle aisle and I was like, oh God,
I gotta gotta go out. I gotta go out, you know,
I gotta take a break from the service, and I'm
gonna go. I gotta go to step out and have

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a drink of water. Um. Somebody followed me to the
bathroom and I wanted to take a selfie. I'm like
just trying not to get sick at church and somebody's like,
I'm like there's no one around that. Someone that comes
down the show's like no, please, no, please no. And
then they get their photot they want to take a
self It's like, this is the most interesting place I
think I've ever done that kind of a meet and

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greet thing. And I was not feeling great. Did you
take the selfie? Yeah, of course he did, he did.
I was reading a story about you playing maybe Call
of Duty with Shay from Dana Shay. Yes. How often
do you guys play? We used to play a lot.
It was. It got to the point where I was

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playing too much, but I was. It was especially when
at the beginning of Quarantine, when, um, do you know
you can't even leave your You couldn't even leave, like
no one even understood that, Like you can go outside
and run if as long as you're away from people
or anything. It was so so we'd be playing hours
a day and just how that's how we would socialize.
And it was amazing, how over this game that I'm

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terrible at, you just had I just I just joined
it for the camarader in the in the conversation and uh.
And so we we would play a lot, and I
haven't a whole lot lately, but um, we've gone and
hikes and stuff like that from it. And really we
weren't that close until we started playing Call of Duty.
So it's pretty pretty funny. It's interesting because Amy saw
t J. And we're friends with TJ brothers Osborne hiking

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with Casey Musgraves. We knew they were friends, I guess,
but they were hiking together. And you mentioned you and Shay.
What artists in Nashville would are you would You'd say
literal friends with because it's hard because artists life, you
guys are traveling at doing the same thing. Yeah, it's
hard to kind of be in the same place at all.
But I would say, Shay, is there another one that
you're close with? Uh, you know close, it's so interesting

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close when you see him on the everybody in the road,
it's it's so it's so different, like uh, Party John
Party and I started out together in town and U
and he's always been one of the most interesting people
I've known. We we toured in Australia together and we
still got to uh we got to catch up on
old times. But you know, it's not like I talked

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to a lot of other artists all the time. But um,
he's one that I've I've I've just shared a lot
of the journey of the ups and downs and all
this with and so it's not like we talk all
the time, but he's somebody that I still root for
and he's good dude who came in your class, meaning
when you came to Nashville and you were new and
there are other new people around you. Who do you

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remember kind of going through that early stage together. I
think my like my New Faces show was maybe I
know Thomas Rhett was in that. Um so it was
like Thomas Rhett. Uh we did the we cohead lined
Cohan line and the CMT toured together suits and boots
and uh so Thomas Rhett. Who else was there? Um?

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Dan Shay were pretty early early that's still on the spot.
But is there some of the ones I can think
of right now? I'm hard hitting, hard hitting interview questions.
I was thinking of the New Faces Show and I
feel like with Sam Hunted yours or no, but no,
but Sam was Sam was around that same era. I'm
trying to think, Yeah, Sam was definitely one of them
as well. What's Here's the question I tease before we

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went away, what's the best piece of advice that an
artist gave you when you were kind of starting out
and they were going hey man, here's what's happening. I
remember playing the opera and whisper and Bill Anderson, here's
like country music legend. He said, just make sure he
was standing on the side of the stage. I'm getting
ready to do my debut, and I'm so nervous. I'm
nervous just thinking about how nervous I was about to go.

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You know, play the operate. It's a big deal, you know.
And he's like, just make sure you appreciate every moment
while you're in it, because you know, because when I was,
when I was coming up, I was always worried about
what the next song is and uh, you know, well
this one didn't do as well as I wanted it to,
or or this show wasn't as big as it was,

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but this next one's gonna be bigger or whatever. It's like,
you to have that drive, but you got to you
gotta appreciate the things you've got going on, all these
amazing things are going on, because they're going to fly
by and and uh, you know you're not going to
appreciate him and and uh, that was a really good
piece of advice. And I don't think it soaked in
as much then, and as much as it has over
the last several years, and I really started to slow
it down a little bit. We talk about, you know,

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other artists and getting advice. Is there anyone that you've
kind of hit on the shoulder been like, hey, let
me give you a little bit of ice here, kiddo. Oh.
I think I think I am I'm getting to the
place where right now I feel like I've got so
much more wisdom than I had before. So I feel
like I haven't given that advice that I want to
give yet, and I think I'm I'm primed to do

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that now. So I think I'm getting to a place
where I've I've experienced a lot of things where i'd
love to, you know, help out a new artist and
and uh kind of tell them what's worked for me
what hasn't. And because I've kind of been through the
whole ride of it. And so I think I've I've
I've learned a lot of things and I'd love to
help somebody out that way. So I think it's the

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best wisdom is to come to the best help to
give to somebody. For myself. Well, okay, good, because the
raging idiots we need some advice to us. How would
you what would you tell us about being big stars? Um,
just let it get to your head, Let it get
to our head. We like that. Oh the opposite, Yeah, yeah,
people say, don't let it, let it get your head,
just go hard, disregard everything. Yeah, I love that. One

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final question for you. It's almost ten years ago that
don't you went number one? Yep? Ten years ago? Same?
That's insane, you little wow. I haven't thought about that.
Get to know, you know, when you listen back to
this record, this album, do you still hear the same you? Do?
You hear a kid? You like what ten years ago?

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I hear the same me? But I hear it, you know,
a kid trying to figure it out. And you know
I certainly didn't know where I was going fully yet,
but the excitement and the fire and the um, I think, uh,
there was there is a magic about that first album
feeling and that you know, you don't really know what
you're doing, but you know you're writing fun songs and
you're doing all that. Then you kind of go along

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and forgot more of what you want to say. But
there is something to say about that that super confident
first album feeling of like no one could tell me, no,
I'm not gonna I'm not jaded yet, you know or whatever.
You know, you haven't felt the whole weight of the
whole touring life yet exactly. Or it's all so new,
it's so exciting, and and so when I hear that,

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it kind of excite me, excites me and reminds me
to always have fun with it. Yes, seven number ones?
Which one would you drop from your set list if
you had to? Oh? Um, of all the number ones?
Maybe that's so, that's so hard you're gonna play them all.
You're not dropping it. I'm just saying, if you had
to drop one of them, which one would you go?
You know what? I'm good? I think I might maybe

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lose my mind? Why is that? Oh? Yeah, you know?
You know my favorite song? You play long? You play
take Me the Long? You play that in shows? Oh
yeah all the time. Thank god. I would not walk
on my favorite. I'd be like, play take me the
Long Way out of town? Yeah that one? Oh come

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on man? And then you don't play it in the
whole show, and then you hate it. Where's John Party?
But I still love I don't I want to I
don't want to bash my own songs with mine, but
I would I mean, if I had to pick one,
maybe it's that one, just because you know, I like
the deep. I like the deep songs like the long
Way and stuff like that. So it doesn't I mean,
I don't like that. It's just okay, I feel bad
now talking about my song. Yes, yes, it's a good,

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great song. We just asked a hard questions. We're hard
hitting here. Wait, what are the other number ones? I'm
just here? Don't you sing it back to mammy? Don't
play clubs? Right, that's very little. Don't you don't don't you?
We don't chill, won't. Yeah, just get that one beat
of the music. Oh, I need a like me to

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the beat of the music. The no, I haven't. You're
not gonna get this. I know because now I have.
I have a long way around this town in my head. Uh,
beat of the music. He's at the he's in the
water with the swimming pigs. Right, Well, that's true. We'll
give that one to thank you to be the music.

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Got the video the video that counts? Okay? Mean to me? Oh?
Oh shoot, Taylor slips in my head. Well you gotta
be so mean. Oh, but it's like what you mean
to me, not that someone's being mean to you, right,
mean mean to me? Wait? Did you give that one? Yes,
that's it, and you even directed it? Yes, lose my mind? Uh, lose, mom,

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I don't know that. You go ahead, go ahead, you
make all my dreams come true. Yeah? Good? How about
drunk on your Love? Oh, drunk on your love? No? Um,
can I have like a little all these songs in
my head? It's hard. That's why the game's hard. Go ahead, Okay,

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I'm about to get drunk on your love about drunk
drunk drunk? No, that's not it. You're tricking me, right,
would you play it drunk? You don't get that one?
You're right, I don't. I don't know that. I don't
know that. I spent a lot of time with that one. Okay,

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go go go. Want to be that song? Oh, I
want to be that song. I want to be You're
almost there. That was a right star. Yeah, I want
to be the song. I want to be that song.
I want to be that song. It makes you love song? Yeah, yes,

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I do. You heard it then, but I started off
on the right thing. Takes me a second love someone,
love someone? Hmm, she's like. I didn't spend any time
with that one. Hold love someone that's mean to me.
I'm gonna love someone old and me so t I

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give her like love someone give her a night. I
give her give her night an eight out of ten.
I said a started. I was like different scales, I know,
but Brett knows my favorite song, which you never even
put to radio. But is fault? Well is it not?
It was a slow song. It was not your songs

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on a train. Put me on one aeroplane? Good. I
really need to change. Get away, smile on your face,
keep going. Find me a rowboat, make it float? What thanks?
Find me a rowboat, make it float? Did spend enough
time with no? No? I did I know every word?

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If you put it the whole thing on. I sang
it from Nashville to Atlanta. I got to get that. Yeah.
Are there certain songs of yours and the first record
that weren't singles that you don't remember? Uh, there's definitely
songs I would not know how to play, Yeah, for sure,
and not in all the words. But ten years ago,
it's so weird to think about. Well, listen, we love
good Day. Played that ray as as I tell our

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friend Brett Elderts good bye. Yes, it's a jam. Thank you.
I love this song. I'm gonna just it's a throwaway question.
Are you working on working on working on new stuff? Yes,
I was a watch right now. Okay, Yeah, that's good
to know. Heavy into it. You are heavy into it
right now, big time. Sometimes people get insold when I
ask that question when we're talking about something else. No, No,

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I think you always gotta be you gotta be striving
for the next thing. And but appreciate this, like I said,
but I'll always have something to grow from, and this
record really kind of set a palette for where I
can go from, you know. So like Whisper and Bill said,
always think the next thing to be bigger, and always
upset about it, always upset about everything. Ahead, do not
enjoy the moment, all right, just kidding everybody breathe, Go

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ahead and enjoy the moment. So you said earlier, you
wake up every morning and you write, but like you meant,
like you just journal things. You're not like journal in
the morning. So for ten minutes, yeah, it's like, uh,
just however a long Some days I might just write
like a like three sentences. Some days I might write
like a couple of pages, but it's like, so this
is the third time, third day in a row that

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I've heard somebody talking about writing first thing in the morning.
Even for if you're a creative too, how it can
like unlock stuff in your brain. Doesn't even matter what
you write, Like you can wake up and write be
three pages and maybe that's daunting, but you could literally
I don't even know what I'm writing right now. The
sky is blue? Oh what am I going to have coffee?
This is what I'm gonna wear to do? Your intention write?

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Your intention is the big one. Well, yes, and I'm
gonna gonna roll up in to Bobby Bones. I'm gonna
see everybody, everybody smiling, everybody's gonna feel good. Is that
when you wrote this morning? That kind of thing? Yeah?
Oh nice. I don't know, just something to put out
there for people that maybe are feeling a little star Yeah,
Like I mean honestly, and I've talked about this, like
interviews make me nervous. Sometimes people never know that. At
one point I had like a panic attack in an

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interview and it made my mind think that I would
have a totally fine talking about this. So I was
in Scotland and I had a panic attack on stage
because I was like jet lag. I had a bunch
of coffee and just whatever for whatever reason. So it
made my mind think that I'm going to freak out
every time, even if I'm not like going ahead of
it think. I mean, I've never had a problem with interviews. Well,

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so then I started doing a lot of things to
deal with that. So running your intentions out like Okay,
I'm gonna roll up, I'm gonna feel confident, I'm gonna
do this, and doing that kind of stuff like intentions
for a day. It could be for anything other than that.
I'm just using it for an example for how I
used it today. Yeah, so I've not running your intentions like, oh,
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna compliment a
stranger today. I'm gonna compliment Ammy on her amazing singing

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of my of my songs, can give her eight out
of ten. So I didn't say that because I wouldn't
known in the future. But you guys wake up and
you journal. Yeah, get your juices flowing. I like that. No,
I mean, I'm I'm in the beginning of thinking about
doing that because a lot of things. Yeah, anyway, anyway,
I'll tell you about a book you probably need to

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get when we get off. Oh I like it. Okay,
there eight There he is Brett Eldredge the You gotta
check out A good Day. Thank you. It's the best
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that's a rap for this week's show. I hope you
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