February 7, 2024 • 35 mins
We look back on all of Toby Keith’s appearances over the years on the Bobby Bones Show. The singer-songwriter passed peacefully on Monday night, his family shared in a statement posted on social media. Keith was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2021. He was 62 years old. Take a listen to some great memories that include Toby’s first appearance in 2013, the time he talked about making more money than the President in one night and his final appearance in January 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Episode four thirty five. We thought we would do a
Toby Keith special because over the last twelve years we've
had a lot of fun interviews, experiences, stories with Toby Keith.
And we were on the radio show yesterday, which was Tuesday,
and you know, talking about Toby Keith passing away at
age sixty two. Obviously, it was a sad day, sad
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day for all the people that knew him, all the
people that had worked with them were been affected and
influenced by him. But some of the stuff that we're
gonna do here just isn't sad. And although it did
feel very sad on the day that we came and
talked about his death, I just don't want to leave
that as kind of the last impression of us talking
about him. So I wanted to just play a bunch
of clips, a bunch of interviews from the many times
he's been on the show, some of the stories that
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we've shared as well. So in memory of Toby, we're
gonna do a special Bobby Cast that you know, features
everybody from the people on the show to Toby calling,
to Toby being in the studio, and we're gonna start
with back in October of twenty thirteen. Twenty thirteen is
the year we moved to Nashville. It was a wild year.
It even snowed in April that year, I remember, And
so we moved here. We're all like new to the area.
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Toby Keith was coming in the studio. We were like,
this is crazy. I remember walking in. He was humongous.
Obviously we knew he was, but we never met him.
But he was like six three six ' four and
big personality. Obviously felt like he had a duck walking
in the door. We talked about tequila that he was
drinking during the interview, playing with Willie Nelson, how he
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got into horse racing with his dad, and a few
other things. So this is us with Toby Keith back
in October of twenty thirteen. Hey, Toby Keith is here
this morning on the Bobby Bone Show. Hey, yes, it's
tequila with you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's a mescow. It's a cousin of tequila, but it's
a mescaut with a worm and it's the real McCoy.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, what's the difference. I've never had a drink alcohols.
I don't know anyth about it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You don't even drink.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I got water.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So what's the mesca is?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Tequila's made from blue agave farm raised and they squeeze
the juice out, extracted the raw juice and make tequila
and Mexico. It's kind of Mexican moonshine. They take the
green of goavi that's wild and they smoke it like
a ham and gives it a smoky flavor and cure
it and then they've crushed the juices out of it
and they make it. And there's a worm in the
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bottom of the bottle that always is symbolic to Mexican moonshine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Would you all the time?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Are you immune of the worm?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Immune?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, Like it doesn't bother you anymore, Like you have
immunity to worm.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Immune.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like what if I hate the worm? What would happen
to me?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You'd lose your show?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Probably, Oh, I didn't know where that was going, Bobby.
Nothing would happen if you just took the worm out
of the bottom of the bottle.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Nothing would happen.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Though they say that there you see visions when you
eat the worm, But I think it's just because he's
the bottom of the bottle.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Because you've had the entire bot. I got it. That's
called wild Shot and you can get it where.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You can get in thirty seven states liquor storage. It's
the number one premium mescow in the US.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So what's the light working with Willie? Spend the time
with Willie.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, the unique thing about it is the guitar player
has been in my band that I've had forever. Joey
Floyd was the little boy in Honeysokel Rose. So my
guitar player grew up in the Willie family since he
was in grade school. So to be around them all
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the time, it was just like they were already family.
I was in with them the second that I met him.
And will He's always been very professional, very good friend.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Call you tell you Joe. He loves jokes.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
If you you know, he'll just call you up out
of the blue and say, if you heard a good one
to day. He's he wants to know when he starts
his day out whether he's going to have some new
material to lay on everybody all day. And it's amazing
how big his heart is and the little light that
shines in his eyes, and what a you know, what
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a great guitar player, how jazz he is man he
is jazz.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
WILLI is just jazz.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
His guitar is like an extension of his spirit, and
he can really create music on a guitar that no
one else can.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, we're gonna play a new song, Toby, you ready,
all right?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Drinks after work and so for those maybe they haven't
heard it yet. First of all, the album of the
same name comes out October twenty ninth. Tell us about
the album that tell us about the song album.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is as I told you earlier.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I write all year long, and I go in the
spring and I start piling my songs up there I
wrote and I never have a theme or anything. I
just take my ten or twelve best things I think
I wrote and record them and live with them. So
they're all homebreads. It's not like we went over to
Kentucky and handpicked a bunch of iarling race horses and
gave a million dollars each for them. They're no cherry
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picking going on. We write them and them their home cooked,
and then we stick them out and I live with
the results. This is one song here that's on the
album that I didn't write. Drinks after work and Mark right,
my partner found this song, and he said, you have
to cut this song. I didn't know if it fit me.
I didn't know if I could sing it. It was
putty out of the box and we did a knocked
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it out in the studio and it kind of bloomed
in the studio and the tornadoes hit hit. I only
had four songs done for the album running behind in
June Tornadoes hit Oklahoma. They said we'll have a single
by June eighth, and I was like, well, I'm kind
of busy here and and so I turned those in
and they said, let's pick something. So we went with
this first. It's a really cool song. It's kind of
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a wednessy hump day song.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I love this bar and girl continue to expand. You
have almost twenty locations now right.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think there are twenty?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Are there twenty now?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah? Maybe more?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
At press time there was eighteen. So two have happened
in the last hour, like they're growing, like we're twins. Yeah.
So you ever go just okay, you don't tell them
you're coming, but you see one. You go in, you
have a meal and just oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
And then you get like bad service and you go
have a talk with the manager.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Usually don't get that far. When your picture's on the
wall and it's your joint, usually sit down. Somebody goes
all right, oh my god, you're old.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Then they would tell everybody and everybody freaks out.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, so's I snuck in one and uh And I
actually didn't get it very It was in the afternoon,
so it was like four o'clock in the afternoon, so
it was twein er time of day. You know, the
dinner crowd hadn't hit yet and the lunch was way over,
and I kind of snuck in the side door and
sit down by the bar. And we'd been playing golf,
so we had four or five golfers, so they just
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thought we were four or five dudes. Took them ten
minutes to figure it out, but.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It took them a while.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
A wait on, men, I was like, hey, you're not
getting over here quick now, so's slop some whiskey out here.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Girls.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So you're a racehorse guy, huh yep, I grew up
near Oakland Racetrack. You sneak in like twelve years old.
You just go races all time?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I go, I racehorse silver all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And hey, love, we would go and you know, two
dollars minimum bet, and you go and find an adult
to make your bet for you. There all day and
his bet horses.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
As kid, Yeah, I bet the long shot most of
the time as a kid all sixty.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Try to make sixty dollars out of two.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Or you take the two and you'd bet the favorite
and you bet them a show and you make like
two dollars and ten cents. Now you do one of
those two things. So how'd you get into racehorses?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
My dad had some family friends who he grew up
with who had some homegrown racehorses, and he passed away
in two thousand and one, but around ninety four, ninety five,
he was go to the track with and watch them
run their horses, and I said, Dad, I'm I want
to buy you a horse so you can. So I
bought them a little bought half interest in a local horse,
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and we win the first race. And he was all excited.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You won the first race? Did you expect to win
the first rounce?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Today, I got a horse. I'll take twenty thousand or
half of him. So I bought my dad a horse
and he went to the track at Remington there at
Reymingdon Park in Oklahoma City, one of his first races.
Was like then I was hooked.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I was like, I'm did you dag Get in the
picture afterwards? Yeah? Yeah, he went down on in the NFL.
I got the picture with ther.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
In the winter, sir, yeah, yeah. And so then look up.
That was sixteen years ago. And now I have one
hundred and twenty five mayors, and.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You have one hundred and twenty five mayors? Well, where
do you keep those things? Do you have your own
horse racing ranch?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I do really In Oklahoma, I keep twenty five quarterhorse
thirdbred mariors are thirty there and I keep the other
one hundred and something in Kentucky. I have four thoroughbred stallions.
Two stand in Kentucky, two stand in Florida. I have
three quarter horse stallions.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Do you know all their names?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah? You know what?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
No? You know everyone name?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Really mean the stallions?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No? Every horse? Now she thinks every horse?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Ye horses, I actually do.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Really, I believe it. We're all big fans Toby Keith.
Everybody right here on the Bobby Bones show. Next up
as us with Toby. In twenty fourteen, Toby came back
into our studio to promote his new single that they
released that day called Drunk Americans. And something that we
have talked about in our studio, even off the air
for at least ten years, is how Toby said he
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could make more money in one night unmerched, than the
president canon a year. Kind of hilarious, very much an
inside joke around here. I didn't know if it was
even on the air or off the year that he
said that to us, But here is that back from
twenty fourteen. All right, Toby keithon studio right now?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What I'm in, Hey man, not a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Good to see you again. Yeah, today's a big day
for you because today is the world premiere of your
new song, right, which we just played, and people are
going to be able to hear it every hour decent
around read reviews.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Never right iTunes, I haven't read one in fifteen years,
maybe fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Or if you have any like an album song, nothing, nope.
Drunk Americans, Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, it's just about a bunch of people who get
together at night in this happy go lucky.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Bar, and it is and the song is about all
kinds of different people.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's kind of a cross between I Love This Bar
and American Ride?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Do you ever think about running for frofas hell?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
No, no, no, you mean liars man, You didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's what I say too about politicians is they don't
know what it's like to be normal, because most of
them get to be you know, they grow up rich
and title. So that's why they get to run for
offst to begin You can't.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It'd be really hard to run that show because you
just everybody around you would either be a yes man
or a liar.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You don't feel like you could break that mold though,
don't you feel like you broke a mold? And country
music and you know, feel like you can break them all?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
In politics now, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I could put a niche in maybe at the city
level or something. But plus, the pay sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Right, that's about power though, that's not even about pay.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I can make more in a night and the president
makes all year and a night.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You can make over one hundred thousand dollars. You brought
it up, not me, he makes more than a hundred.
I'm just asking thom in a night you make over
one hundred grand. Oh yeah, oh my goodness, Holy crap,
you're simple. I am simple. What's the president maker year?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Two fifty? Is that what the salary is for the president?
The two fifty? Right? You didn't not you can make
over twenty fifty thousands.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I made that much in merch before in a night
in the night.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Could touch you. So you went from like not having
anything to having whatever you want. Do you feel like
you're different inside?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What's what's money you've been able to let you do?
Like on on a gravel giving level, on.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A giving legl Yeah, oh, I built. I built a
sixteen room Ritz Carlton disney World Children's Cancer Lodge in
Oklahoma City that we didn't have cost sixteen million bucks
to build, as it really looks like Ritz Carlton meets Disneyland.
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I had hold on, let me get.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This, Hey, who is it? Let's who's calling Toby somebody cool?
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's a buddy of mine runs a meat packing plant.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
What would he call you for right now? Like? What
would he say?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
We I have I have a company that I don't
call dream Walker Farms Meats.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So what has plug that right now? And say?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
What sell smoked turkeys and stuff through the through the internet.
So he's called me to tell tell me that the
turkeys are smoked or something.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You gotta hook it up. Then you gotta send me
you need a turkey. I need like five of them.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The best. I wouldn't be in it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
If they want to say the name again.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Dream Walking farms.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Meats okay, And that means Bobby gets some free dream walking.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I send you some turkeys and some bony and filets
and stuff and turkeys and beef.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
See you think that that message was, Hey, Toby and
turkeys are in, turkeys in, We're all good, We're all good.
What was the first song that you finished and it
comes out hits number one? You're all right, I'm here
to stay now.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
She'd have been a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So that was it. That's when you knew this is
this is it?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm here. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I mean, you obviously had to follow it up with something,
but I knew I had. If they liked that one,
I knew I had another one just like it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You know, we were talking earlier about all the stuff
that you're able to do now that you make money.
Is that the best part about making Money's you able
to do things for other people?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It is you can only make so much. You probably
hit a point to where you make enough for you
and then you're able to like build the Ritz Carlton
Disney thing you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, And the biggest thing that we get a kick out.
I was letting my kids pick stuff out, like around
the holidays and stuff. They start picking stuff out, big
stuff we can go do silently, you know, so I
can't really talk about it much more, you know than
keeping it souight. But they'll pick something in the paper
where somebody struggling at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How do you do it with kids? Because I'm sure
you're brought up way different than your kids brought up now.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But I never missed anything. I mean I never knew we.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Were right, and I didn't know I was poor either.
But now that you have money and you have gift
to raise kids with money, do you fight them having
a sense of entitlement? Is that a hard fight?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It is a hard fight.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
How do you manage to balance a making You.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Can't You want them to have more than you had,
but at the same time, you know there's a balance there.
You have to try to, you know, I try to
do you know what I mean? I tell them like, Okay,
we're gonna we're gonna get you a car when you
turn sixteen. But I'm not you know, but we're not buying.
I'm gonna get you like a Mustang or one of
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those a twenty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You making pay their own insurance or anything like that?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, but I make them have to pay for their
gas and stuff through doing chores.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And earning their way.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Do they ever have to work real jobs?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Like well, Crystal was working with her husband an oil
and lease office.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And I'd be like, come on, dad, I sai you
on Forbes. I'm working to well on Lisavi. You have
you have free turkeys? Come on, good to see you
you too. Yeah, all right, Toby Keith here, everybody.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Next up is Toby from twenty fifteen. And he surprised
me by calling you to the studio and he asked
Eddie and myself and the Raging Idiots to come open
a show for him in DC, and he sent us
plane to come pick us up. It's a whole deal.
It's pretty cool and We've talked about that three or
four times over the past few days, but we haven't
played any of this yet. And then following the call
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with Toby, You're gonna hear the segment we did on
the radio following that week and recapped all of that
with Toby, even some audio of us on stage singing
red Solo Cup with Toby Keith.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I thought it was a joke at first because I
was walking to the airport. Here's a story, and I
met one of Toby's people and he was like, Hey,
nice to meet you. And then I get a call
and they said, hey, Toby would like for the Raging
Idiots to open up for him in DC. And I
was like, okay, I thought this was like punked. Yeah,
I thought it was like punked. I was like, okay,
stop it. So I said, I talk to Toby, and
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so Toby's here now. Now is this a joke, Toby?
And be for real because I don't like you, know,
like you, I don't like pranks me and play it
on me. What's the deal here?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Well, we're just going to have to come in open
up the DC show, and we're always looking for new
crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So you are legitimately asking us, the Raging Idiots, to
open up for you. This is a real question. Yes,
no question, Eddie, We're in right, it's an honor.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
How many millions do we.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Get shows you want to do?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sincerely? Yeah, we would not say no ever in a
million years. So thank you. I thought it was a joke.
So that's that's crazy awesome. So Eddie and I go
as the Raging Idiots and we go to play right
outside of DC Northern Virginia. We're opening up for Toby Keith.
And first of all, let me say thank you to Toby.
It was a great experience. It's crazy to play such
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a big venue. I mean it's a twenty thousand seed venue,
so to even have us up there, which is ridiculous.
More on that later. Yeah, and then I went out
with Christiansen and did buy me a boat, completely unexpected.
One of the coolest things I've ever got to do.
I'll tell you about that later.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
At one point, the whole night was a blur because
we have like twenty stories from it, good and bad.
But at one point during Toby's show, and I'm talking
about the crowd, it is just twenty thousand Deep at
Jeffy Lube Live and they always bring out the acts
that played before him to come on and do Red
Solo Cup with him. So Red So Low Cup, I
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fill you up. Let's have a party. We're all hitting.
So before we go out, we're talking to Toby backstage
and we're talking about the Regie Idiots and I'm the
white one and Eddie's the Mexican one, and that's how
we introduce ourselves. Yeah, I'm the white one. Hey, I'm
the Mexican of the band. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's easy to just keep up with you all.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, because we look alike. We're like twins basically, but
it's like, hey, I'm the white guy and he's like
the Mexican guy. So we walk out on stage and
it's totally a joke that Eddie brought up to Toby,
like I'm the Mexican one. And Toby's like on the
mic because we're not singing Red Solo Cup, and he goes, oh,
where's that Mexican one. The crowd has no idea. I'm
gonna play the clip and we laughed so hard because
(18:43):
Eddie is the one that told him like, hey, I'm
the Mexican one. But here here we go. So this
is me and Toby singing you here Eddie a little bit,
and you hear him during the clip go, hey, that
Mexican one. So if you listen again, what he says
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and I slowed to he says, hey, let's get the
Mexican in here. But what people don't know is Eddie
told him to call him that, so before anything else happened.
You know, I don't want me to get you call
Eddie a Mexican. Sure, Eddie's like, call me the Mexican.
I am the Mexican of the I'm the white guy. Boom,
(19:47):
then you're gonna. I didn't think you'd be able to
hear me that much, that they had our mics up loud, loud.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I think I think that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
When I first got the mic, I was lip syncing
because I didn't want to mess up the words, and
I think the sound guy probably boosted us up because
of that. So in return, i'd not heard myself jam
it out. I mean, because that's like not even Toby
like I hear me. Yeah, that's tell me. Oh my goodness.
(20:17):
The next time Toby was on our show was twenty eighteen,
he called to talk about the release of his song
Don't let the Old Man, in, which he wrote for
the movie The Mule starring Clint Eastwood. So Toby talked
about the inspiration behind this song, what the movie was about,
and hanging with Clint Eastwood. Hello, this is Toby, this
boy bones.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Hey Bob, what's up buddy?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Don't let the Old Man? D tell me what the
movie is about? Like, normal person? Normal person.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Uh, it's based on a true story about a guy
from Indiana that was eighty something years of old, eighty
eight and he he is fame to fame was he
was famous that uh even got a printed in the
New York Times that he made these lilies or something.
He grew flowers. And at some point the cartel started sticking.
(21:07):
He'd haul loads of vegetables, I guess, and the cartail
start putting a sack of something else in there with them,
you know. And then when he found you know, as
he found out, he knew he'd kind of wrecked his
life and was desperate, and so he ends up running
drugs for the cartel. And and uh, they didn't really
(21:28):
ever check him because they did see an eighty eight
year old man and just not checking. You know, it's
not what they were looking for. And uh, it's a
great movie, great story. And so I wrote the song
and sent it to him. He called me back the
next morning after I sent it to him and said,
I'm putting it in the movie.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Hey, what's plenty of would like though?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Like hanging out?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
He's uh, really, he's a real nice guy man and
me he's real, Uh, he's real laid back, he's funny,
he's real soft heart.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I was expecting to be riding with dirty Harry, you know,
and he's just he just I love that he's been
with the same company, Warner Brothers, for over forty five years,
and that they kind of let him do what he
wants to do. And he really doesn't have to. You know,
a lot of people work for a lot of different
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whatever's the best script and whatever pays the most or whatever.
But he kind of gets to go about and do
his own thing. And I love that. But he's a
total gentleman. And he's an old dare guy. Will get
up in the morning, play golf all day and then
hosts this event till midnight. I mean, and he'll do
it three days in a row, and he's in great
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mind and shape for a guy of his age.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
All Right, Toby keats on with us, and the movie
we're talking about is called The Mule. That's what Toby's
gonna go and watch. And the song is Don't Let
the Old Man In and Toby's singing it. Toby wrote it. Toby,
it's good to talk to you, my friend. We don't
see each other enough.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, come out. See you used to come out jam
with us once a while. Still you're still doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm just trying to like pay my mortgage right now,
so I'm doing everything to survive.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Okay, brother, all right, see you, Toby.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The final chat with Toby will be one that happened
last month where he came into our studio. We talked
a lot about his returns, his return to music, his
returned to the live stage, his return here with us,
and so we talked about that being in Vegas and
his concern of remembering the lyrics on the Bobby Bone Show. Now, Toby, Toby,
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it's rare that people that I'm super close to ask
me for tickets anything, because they know, like, unless it's
really meaningful, don't ask. And I've only had two close
friends asked me for tickets this whole year, and our
last year.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
It was Morgan Wallen and it was your shows in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's how big those shows were. And they sold I
saw they sold out immediately. What do you still have
any sort of anxiety at all about shows selling?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
No, I hadn't worked in I probably only worked a
handful of shows in the last wide COVID two big seas,
COVID and Cancer, So I hadn't worked handful of shows
in the last three years. But I worked every year
for twenty seven eight years, And I mean I was
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only the only thing I had that concern me was
being away from it for three years and remembering all
the words because they subconsciously come to you when you're working. Yeah,
you don't even think about it, you know them, and
then getting completely away from them and having to start back.
So they had a telepromp trip there and I got
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into a little bit of a sound check We're going
to go full dress rehearsal to day, but.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
I didn't even use it. It was just like riding
the bike.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Oh you knew all the words.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, once I got up there and started rolling and
it got familiar. I just I didn't even look at
the tail from.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
What about playing at all? Did you did your handstake callous?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I still played no matter where I was, always had
a guitar there and still plunked around. But they've been
callous so long.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's all callous and even bones anymore. It's just all callouses.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yeah, that's why you have an extra fingernails.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You guys are putting these songs. Don't let the old
man in. Its hard, it's been out, but you're like, hey,
this song's good.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Here it is, remember it. We're gonna push it again.
Where did that come from? And why?
Speaker 8 (25:42):
So? So that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
So we put that in the in the Eastwood movie
three or four years ago, and the movie didn't do
as well as they thought. But and it's at the
very end, and as powerful as the song was, it
still didn't really get us to do. Great songs have
a way of finding a home.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Will he cut it?
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Humpherdnt cut it?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
A bunch of foreign legends cut it in their language,
And I thought, well, that's cool, you know. And then
when the Icon Award came up at the People's Choice,
Rack Clark did Clarkson Who's I'm known for years, he's
produced a lot of the award shows. He said, I
really want you to do this song. I was like, man,
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Blake's present.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Me, Oh, yes, you do that song? Like you weren't
planning to do that song, got.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
It and because it's it was it's dark, you know,
and it's and and I hadn't been in the public
eye for a while, and so I was like, Blake's
gonna do Who's Your Daddy? And I want to do
something up tempo because he's he's going to be fun
and funny. And he goes, no, Rack insisted, and I said, Rack,
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if you want me do it, I'll do it.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
He goes, I think it'd be gigantic highlight and he
was right.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
He was massive. People went crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And so because of that response, everybody's like, we need
to reintroduce this song.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well it just it went number one immediately on iTunes.
And then people start calling saying, hey, it want service radio. Yeah,
and I haven't really served. I haven't done anything in
three or four years. And I was like, I don't
know if they play this kind of music anymore. You know,
this is way different than what you normally hear. And
I said, this is this song is even more classic
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than my age. This song could have been recorded in
the fifties, you know, our sixties, and it's it's so
it's so country and so old school that I said,
you do what you want to do with it. But
I just love it that it got it, it found
a home.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
So you live in Oklahoma, right, almost all the time
all the time. So do you live close enough to
go to a bunch of games? Like are you close
enough to Norman?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'm seven miles from the stadium, you are. My ranch
is about seven miles. The stadium kind of sets on
the outskirtsytown and I'm out further.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
What's been difficult for me being someone that is very
much from Arkansas and a diehard razorback is that family
that not only are the massive OU fans, but they coach.
Oh you, Patty Gasso is the OU softball coaches won
like seven national championships.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And it's been hard for me to be a fan
of OU sports.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
But I've picked a softball team I'm fan of can't
quite jump on board with football quite yet. Yeah, you're right,
And my wife's like, you should put up Would you
ever put on another team's like shirt?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Me up?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Now, I will say this my parents. My mom's from
Arkansas and my dad's from Oklahoma. So like I told you,
I'm half Hog in my raising, I'm all Ou. But
my second, if I have a second, favorite team is Arkansas.
And the first two or three football games I went
to as a six or seven year old, my grandmother
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took me Little Rock two different y'all played two different stadiums.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
They still do that one time a year. I wish
they wouldn't, but yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I went to FEE, and then I went to Little Rock,
saw Tech and SMU and the old Southwest Conference. But
so I tell everybody, Keith Jackson's a great tide end
at ou he's Smarkansas, And when we see each other,
we y old boom or Sioue instead of Boomer.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Soon.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, at the house, we do woo pick sooner, but
only that because I put to woo pick first. We
have a Matt that's half Arkansas half Oklahoma. And my
wife she's not petty though she can go to Arkansas
games and be like, let's go with me.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I struggle.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I could probably if the Hogs were in the National
Championship and I was like singing the anthem at the
game and they weren't playing Oklahoma, I could put on
a I'd be comfortable in Arkansas Jersey.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You like Venables, I love it. What do you like
about him?
Speaker 8 (29:43):
He was here when Bob Stoop's got the coaching job,
and he was here for years.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
And his defensive prowess. I mean, the guy's been around
twenty two years coaching at that level. Not head coach,
but defense going. He's he's played in eight national championships
fourd oh you and Ford Clemson and his number. I mean,
he's just a great defensive coach. We were a really
really bad shape. He's processed like sixty five players in
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the last twenty four months. It was on the last team,
and only two of the portal guys got Power five deals.
Everybody else went smaller division. So we were really lacking
on the defensive side of football. And he fixed that.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
You do you do an al stuff yourself?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Oh yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Do you talk about it?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I'll talk about it.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
You do talk about it because people ask me to
talk about him like, I mean, I guess I will.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
But I do stuff like I take these student athletes
and I hire them to use their name, image and
likeness to promote things that I do make sure.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Yeah, yeah, I just give them money.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Oh well see yeah, I have to like find a.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Kid, I have a charity, I have a foundation, and
we'll get them to whatever.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
You know. I mean it's you get them to do
a little stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, get them to do stuff for the charity.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah, they show up, you know, I get them to
show up at my golf tournament or my foundation auction
or something. But they don't really have to do much.
You know what's weird about that whole thing is this
toothpastes out of the too, you know, yeah, put it back.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, I can't ring that bell for sure.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Four years ago, if they have just said, hey, we
don't give every player in fifty grand, they had a
sign that immediately. But it's with the portal in that
it just makes it crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It is absolutely bizarre, even where players just moving all
over the place, even to shopping for deals.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
No one's loyal, no one. I mean, you recruit them
and get them on campus. You do everything. You can
give them money, you get them education, and you have
to recruit them again next year.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It's it. I wouldn't want that. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I think I take it, though, I still take it.
I still be a head coach. Yeah, I'll be pretty good.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, we'd run, we'd wide open offense. We'd run, you know,
probably have two footballs, three tailbacks, two doing two quarterbacks,
so one that could also play wide receiver in motion.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
You never knew he was going to come through and
actually take the snapper.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Not tell me that's not revolutionary, that's like, that's not
Lincoln Riley stuff. Yeah, but then it wouldn't work because
I'd have no defense and then we'd lose and.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Everybody would laugh.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Well that would be Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, that'd be Lincoln Riley exactly. Yes, yes, So how's
everything going.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's going pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
But I've got a roadhouse out in the country by
that's like a ninety seven year old roadhouse that has
a lot of music history, a lot of Oklahoma history.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What's a roadhouse. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
It's like a bar outdoor. Oh, got it, got it,
got you know, it's an old roadhouse.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Like Texas roadhouse, the restaurant type place.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Well, like a bar out in the country that people
would drive out to, like in a movie. You'd see
people they'll set a roadhouse up, Remember the one where
Patrick Sway roadhouse?
Speaker 8 (32:55):
Yeah that one.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know that one.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah one, all right, so yeah, there you go. Okay,
So that's kind out by itself. This thing's like ninety
seven years old. The old actor James Garner was named
James Bumgarner before he went to Hollywood. He pumped gas
in there. Bonnie and Clyde State and some cabins behind it.
Bob Wills and Texas playboys people like that would come
through and play these little dances out there, and then
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it turned into a convenience store. We used to get
baked beer, tobacco stuff there before we rolled it up.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
And then we're going to tear it down.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
And my whole countryside out there where I live, I
know everybody, that's my sanctuary. They were like, man, they're
telling it tearing the old Hollywood's corner down.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
And so I.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Went and bought the thing, popped it up, cleaned it up,
put some lights in the trees, put a stage out there,
shot in all State TV special out there Live concert
from all State Entry and left the stage up and
now you can go out there, get some food, get
a beer, sit on the lights, bring your dog, bring
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the kids, and have bicker night on Wednesday. And I
saved it, you know. And so one night I said
I want to try to play. So I called the
manager and I said, tell uh, Jennifer, I said, tell
the band. They're paid, but they're not going to play.
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And then she goes, who's playing? I said, another band?
Speaker 8 (34:23):
And then I was.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Bringing my guys in from Nashville, and we were just
gonna go up incognito and just let the word build
and just have fun. And I was going to see
how far I could go without taking a break, you know.
So I did two three hour nights and she goes, well,
who do I advertise is playing? I said, the Greasy Weenies,
and so she put it up the Greasy Weenies will
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be here Friday and Saturday. Well, everybody started going something
not right because the bands getting paid. So when I
showed up first night, they were just like lined.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Up down the ditches a half a mile in every direction.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
And and I did two nights in July, and I
was like book it go book me some shows. So
you just can't get the trucks and buses after three
years all together, and the crew everybody's off working with
everybody else, you know, So it took till December to
launch this thing.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
Yeah here we.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Are, well Toby, good to see you. There is to
Keith everybody.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Toby's been kind enough to come in the studio and
call into our show numerous times over the years and
has let Eddie and I perform with them, and we've
also performed with them at festivals. And Toby Keith will
always be a major part of country music. His songs
will continue to live on and they will for sure
be played for decades to come. Thanks to Toby Keith
for all that he did. Thank you guys for listening.
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This has been a Bobby Cast production.
Episode four thirty five. We thought we would do a
Toby Keith special because over the last twelve years we've
had a lot of fun interviews, experiences, stories with Toby Keith.
And we were on the radio show yesterday, which was Tuesday,
and you know, talking about Toby Keith passing away at
age sixty two. Obviously, it was a sad day, sad
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day for all the people that knew him, all the
people that had worked with them were been affected and
influenced by him. But some of the stuff that we're
gonna do here just isn't sad. And although it did
feel very sad on the day that we came and
talked about his death, I just don't want to leave
that as kind of the last impression of us talking
about him. So I wanted to just play a bunch
of clips, a bunch of interviews from the many times
he's been on the show, some of the stories that
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we've shared as well. So in memory of Toby, we're
gonna do a special Bobby Cast that you know, features
everybody from the people on the show to Toby calling,
to Toby being in the studio, and we're gonna start
with back in October of twenty thirteen. Twenty thirteen is
the year we moved to Nashville. It was a wild year.
It even snowed in April that year, I remember, And
so we moved here. We're all like new to the area.
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Toby Keith was coming in the studio. We were like,
this is crazy. I remember walking in. He was humongous.
Obviously we knew he was, but we never met him.
But he was like six three six ' four and
big personality. Obviously felt like he had a duck walking
in the door. We talked about tequila that he was
drinking during the interview, playing with Willie Nelson, how he
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got into horse racing with his dad, and a few
other things. So this is us with Toby Keith back
in October of twenty thirteen. Hey, Toby Keith is here
this morning on the Bobby Bone Show. Hey, yes, it's
tequila with you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's a mescow. It's a cousin of tequila, but it's
a mescaut with a worm and it's the real McCoy.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, what's the difference. I've never had a drink alcohols.
I don't know anyth about it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You don't even drink.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I got water.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So what's the mesca is?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Tequila's made from blue agave farm raised and they squeeze
the juice out, extracted the raw juice and make tequila
and Mexico. It's kind of Mexican moonshine. They take the
green of goavi that's wild and they smoke it like
a ham and gives it a smoky flavor and cure
it and then they've crushed the juices out of it
and they make it. And there's a worm in the
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bottom of the bottle that always is symbolic to Mexican moonshine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Would you all the time?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Are you immune of the worm?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Immune?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, Like it doesn't bother you anymore, Like you have
immunity to worm.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Immune.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like what if I hate the worm? What would happen
to me?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You'd lose your show?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Probably, Oh, I didn't know where that was going, Bobby.
Nothing would happen if you just took the worm out
of the bottom of the bottle.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Nothing would happen.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Though they say that there you see visions when you
eat the worm, But I think it's just because he's
the bottom of the bottle.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Because you've had the entire bot. I got it. That's
called wild Shot and you can get it where.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You can get in thirty seven states liquor storage. It's
the number one premium mescow in the US.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So what's the light working with Willie? Spend the time
with Willie.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, the unique thing about it is the guitar player
has been in my band that I've had forever. Joey
Floyd was the little boy in Honeysokel Rose. So my
guitar player grew up in the Willie family since he
was in grade school. So to be around them all
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the time, it was just like they were already family.
I was in with them the second that I met him.
And will He's always been very professional, very good friend.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Call you tell you Joe. He loves jokes.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
If you you know, he'll just call you up out
of the blue and say, if you heard a good one
to day. He's he wants to know when he starts
his day out whether he's going to have some new
material to lay on everybody all day. And it's amazing
how big his heart is and the little light that
shines in his eyes, and what a you know, what
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a great guitar player, how jazz he is man he
is jazz.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
WILLI is just jazz.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
His guitar is like an extension of his spirit, and
he can really create music on a guitar that no
one else can.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, we're gonna play a new song, Toby, you ready,
all right?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Drinks after work and so for those maybe they haven't
heard it yet. First of all, the album of the
same name comes out October twenty ninth. Tell us about
the album that tell us about the song album.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is as I told you earlier.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I write all year long, and I go in the
spring and I start piling my songs up there I
wrote and I never have a theme or anything. I
just take my ten or twelve best things I think
I wrote and record them and live with them. So
they're all homebreads. It's not like we went over to
Kentucky and handpicked a bunch of iarling race horses and
gave a million dollars each for them. They're no cherry
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picking going on. We write them and them their home cooked,
and then we stick them out and I live with
the results. This is one song here that's on the
album that I didn't write. Drinks after work and Mark right,
my partner found this song, and he said, you have
to cut this song. I didn't know if it fit me.
I didn't know if I could sing it. It was
putty out of the box and we did a knocked
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it out in the studio and it kind of bloomed
in the studio and the tornadoes hit hit. I only
had four songs done for the album running behind in
June Tornadoes hit Oklahoma. They said we'll have a single
by June eighth, and I was like, well, I'm kind
of busy here and and so I turned those in
and they said, let's pick something. So we went with
this first. It's a really cool song. It's kind of
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a wednessy hump day song.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I love this bar and girl continue to expand. You
have almost twenty locations now right.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think there are twenty?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Are there twenty now?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah? Maybe more?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
At press time there was eighteen. So two have happened
in the last hour, like they're growing, like we're twins. Yeah.
So you ever go just okay, you don't tell them
you're coming, but you see one. You go in, you
have a meal and just oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
And then you get like bad service and you go
have a talk with the manager.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Usually don't get that far. When your picture's on the
wall and it's your joint, usually sit down. Somebody goes
all right, oh my god, you're old.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Then they would tell everybody and everybody freaks out.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, so's I snuck in one and uh And I
actually didn't get it very It was in the afternoon,
so it was like four o'clock in the afternoon, so
it was twein er time of day. You know, the
dinner crowd hadn't hit yet and the lunch was way over,
and I kind of snuck in the side door and
sit down by the bar. And we'd been playing golf,
so we had four or five golfers, so they just
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thought we were four or five dudes. Took them ten
minutes to figure it out, but.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It took them a while.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
A wait on, men, I was like, hey, you're not
getting over here quick now, so's slop some whiskey out here.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Girls.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So you're a racehorse guy, huh yep, I grew up
near Oakland Racetrack. You sneak in like twelve years old.
You just go races all time?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I go, I racehorse silver all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And hey, love, we would go and you know, two
dollars minimum bet, and you go and find an adult
to make your bet for you. There all day and
his bet horses.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
As kid, Yeah, I bet the long shot most of
the time as a kid all sixty.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Try to make sixty dollars out of two.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Or you take the two and you'd bet the favorite
and you bet them a show and you make like
two dollars and ten cents. Now you do one of
those two things. So how'd you get into racehorses?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
My dad had some family friends who he grew up
with who had some homegrown racehorses, and he passed away
in two thousand and one, but around ninety four, ninety five,
he was go to the track with and watch them
run their horses, and I said, Dad, I'm I want
to buy you a horse so you can. So I
bought them a little bought half interest in a local horse,
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and we win the first race. And he was all excited.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You won the first race? Did you expect to win
the first rounce?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Today, I got a horse. I'll take twenty thousand or
half of him. So I bought my dad a horse
and he went to the track at Remington there at
Reymingdon Park in Oklahoma City, one of his first races.
Was like then I was hooked.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I was like, I'm did you dag Get in the
picture afterwards? Yeah? Yeah, he went down on in the NFL.
I got the picture with ther.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
In the winter, sir, yeah, yeah. And so then look up.
That was sixteen years ago. And now I have one
hundred and twenty five mayors, and.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You have one hundred and twenty five mayors? Well, where
do you keep those things? Do you have your own
horse racing ranch?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I do really In Oklahoma, I keep twenty five quarterhorse
thirdbred mariors are thirty there and I keep the other
one hundred and something in Kentucky. I have four thoroughbred stallions.
Two stand in Kentucky, two stand in Florida. I have
three quarter horse stallions.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Do you know all their names?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah? You know what?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
No? You know everyone name?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Really mean the stallions?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No? Every horse? Now she thinks every horse?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Ye horses, I actually do.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Really, I believe it. We're all big fans Toby Keith.
Everybody right here on the Bobby Bones show. Next up
as us with Toby. In twenty fourteen, Toby came back
into our studio to promote his new single that they
released that day called Drunk Americans. And something that we
have talked about in our studio, even off the air
for at least ten years, is how Toby said he
(09:15):
could make more money in one night unmerched, than the
president canon a year. Kind of hilarious, very much an
inside joke around here. I didn't know if it was
even on the air or off the year that he
said that to us, But here is that back from
twenty fourteen. All right, Toby keithon studio right now?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What I'm in, Hey man, not a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Good to see you again. Yeah, today's a big day
for you because today is the world premiere of your
new song, right, which we just played, and people are
going to be able to hear it every hour decent
around read reviews.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Never right iTunes, I haven't read one in fifteen years,
maybe fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Or if you have any like an album song, nothing, nope.
Drunk Americans, Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, it's just about a bunch of people who get
together at night in this happy go lucky.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Bar, and it is and the song is about all
kinds of different people.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's kind of a cross between I Love This Bar
and American Ride?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Do you ever think about running for frofas hell?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
No, no, no, you mean liars man, You didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's what I say too about politicians is they don't
know what it's like to be normal, because most of
them get to be you know, they grow up rich
and title. So that's why they get to run for
offst to begin You can't.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It'd be really hard to run that show because you
just everybody around you would either be a yes man
or a liar.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You don't feel like you could break that mold though,
don't you feel like you broke a mold? And country
music and you know, feel like you can break them all?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
In politics now, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I could put a niche in maybe at the city
level or something. But plus, the pay sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Right, that's about power though, that's not even about pay.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I can make more in a night and the president
makes all year and a night.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You can make over one hundred thousand dollars. You brought
it up, not me, he makes more than a hundred.
I'm just asking thom in a night you make over
one hundred grand. Oh yeah, oh my goodness, Holy crap,
you're simple. I am simple. What's the president maker year?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Two fifty? Is that what the salary is for the president?
The two fifty? Right? You didn't not you can make
over twenty fifty thousands.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I made that much in merch before in a night
in the night.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Could touch you. So you went from like not having
anything to having whatever you want. Do you feel like
you're different inside?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What's what's money you've been able to let you do?
Like on on a gravel giving level, on.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A giving legl Yeah, oh, I built. I built a
sixteen room Ritz Carlton disney World Children's Cancer Lodge in
Oklahoma City that we didn't have cost sixteen million bucks
to build, as it really looks like Ritz Carlton meets Disneyland.
(11:55):
I had hold on, let me get.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This, Hey, who is it? Let's who's calling Toby somebody cool?
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's a buddy of mine runs a meat packing plant.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
What would he call you for right now? Like? What
would he say?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
We I have I have a company that I don't
call dream Walker Farms Meats.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So what has plug that right now? And say?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
What sell smoked turkeys and stuff through the through the internet.
So he's called me to tell tell me that the
turkeys are smoked or something.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You gotta hook it up. Then you gotta send me
you need a turkey. I need like five of them.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The best. I wouldn't be in it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
If they want to say the name again.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Dream Walking farms.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Meats okay, And that means Bobby gets some free dream walking.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I send you some turkeys and some bony and filets
and stuff and turkeys and beef.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
See you think that that message was, Hey, Toby and
turkeys are in, turkeys in, We're all good, We're all good.
What was the first song that you finished and it
comes out hits number one? You're all right, I'm here
to stay now.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
She'd have been a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So that was it. That's when you knew this is
this is it?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm here. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I mean, you obviously had to follow it up with something,
but I knew I had. If they liked that one,
I knew I had another one just like it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You know, we were talking earlier about all the stuff
that you're able to do now that you make money.
Is that the best part about making Money's you able
to do things for other people?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It is you can only make so much. You probably
hit a point to where you make enough for you
and then you're able to like build the Ritz Carlton
Disney thing you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, And the biggest thing that we get a kick out.
I was letting my kids pick stuff out, like around
the holidays and stuff. They start picking stuff out, big
stuff we can go do silently, you know, so I
can't really talk about it much more, you know than
keeping it souight. But they'll pick something in the paper
where somebody struggling at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How do you do it with kids? Because I'm sure
you're brought up way different than your kids brought up now.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But I never missed anything. I mean I never knew we.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Were right, and I didn't know I was poor either.
But now that you have money and you have gift
to raise kids with money, do you fight them having
a sense of entitlement? Is that a hard fight?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It is a hard fight.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
How do you manage to balance a making You.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Can't You want them to have more than you had,
but at the same time, you know there's a balance there.
You have to try to, you know, I try to
do you know what I mean? I tell them like, Okay,
we're gonna we're gonna get you a car when you
turn sixteen. But I'm not you know, but we're not buying.
I'm gonna get you like a Mustang or one of
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those a twenty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You making pay their own insurance or anything like that?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, but I make them have to pay for their
gas and stuff through doing chores.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And earning their way.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Do they ever have to work real jobs?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Like well, Crystal was working with her husband an oil
and lease office.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And I'd be like, come on, dad, I sai you
on Forbes. I'm working to well on Lisavi. You have
you have free turkeys? Come on, good to see you
you too. Yeah, all right, Toby Keith here, everybody.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Next up is Toby from twenty fifteen. And he surprised
me by calling you to the studio and he asked
Eddie and myself and the Raging Idiots to come open
a show for him in DC, and he sent us
plane to come pick us up. It's a whole deal.
It's pretty cool and We've talked about that three or
four times over the past few days, but we haven't
played any of this yet. And then following the call
(15:47):
with Toby, You're gonna hear the segment we did on
the radio following that week and recapped all of that
with Toby, even some audio of us on stage singing
red Solo Cup with Toby Keith.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I thought it was a joke at first because I
was walking to the airport. Here's a story, and I
met one of Toby's people and he was like, Hey,
nice to meet you. And then I get a call
and they said, hey, Toby would like for the Raging
Idiots to open up for him in DC. And I
was like, okay, I thought this was like punked. Yeah,
I thought it was like punked. I was like, okay,
stop it. So I said, I talk to Toby, and
(16:21):
so Toby's here now. Now is this a joke, Toby?
And be for real because I don't like you, know,
like you, I don't like pranks me and play it
on me. What's the deal here?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Well, we're just going to have to come in open
up the DC show, and we're always looking for new
crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So you are legitimately asking us, the Raging Idiots, to
open up for you. This is a real question. Yes,
no question, Eddie, We're in right, it's an honor.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
How many millions do we.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Get shows you want to do?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sincerely? Yeah, we would not say no ever in a
million years. So thank you. I thought it was a joke.
So that's that's crazy awesome. So Eddie and I go
as the Raging Idiots and we go to play right
outside of DC Northern Virginia. We're opening up for Toby Keith.
And first of all, let me say thank you to Toby.
It was a great experience. It's crazy to play such
(17:21):
a big venue. I mean it's a twenty thousand seed venue,
so to even have us up there, which is ridiculous.
More on that later. Yeah, and then I went out
with Christiansen and did buy me a boat, completely unexpected.
One of the coolest things I've ever got to do.
I'll tell you about that later.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
At one point, the whole night was a blur because
we have like twenty stories from it, good and bad.
But at one point during Toby's show, and I'm talking
about the crowd, it is just twenty thousand Deep at
Jeffy Lube Live and they always bring out the acts
that played before him to come on and do Red
Solo Cup with him. So Red So Low Cup, I
(18:01):
fill you up. Let's have a party. We're all hitting.
So before we go out, we're talking to Toby backstage
and we're talking about the Regie Idiots and I'm the
white one and Eddie's the Mexican one, and that's how
we introduce ourselves. Yeah, I'm the white one. Hey, I'm
the Mexican of the band. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's easy to just keep up with you all.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, because we look alike. We're like twins basically, but
it's like, hey, I'm the white guy and he's like
the Mexican guy. So we walk out on stage and
it's totally a joke that Eddie brought up to Toby,
like I'm the Mexican one. And Toby's like on the
mic because we're not singing Red Solo Cup, and he goes, oh,
where's that Mexican one. The crowd has no idea. I'm
gonna play the clip and we laughed so hard because
(18:43):
Eddie is the one that told him like, hey, I'm
the Mexican one. But here here we go. So this
is me and Toby singing you here Eddie a little bit,
and you hear him during the clip go, hey, that
Mexican one. So if you listen again, what he says
(19:15):
and I slowed to he says, hey, let's get the
Mexican in here. But what people don't know is Eddie
told him to call him that, so before anything else happened.
You know, I don't want me to get you call
Eddie a Mexican. Sure, Eddie's like, call me the Mexican.
I am the Mexican of the I'm the white guy. Boom,
(19:47):
then you're gonna. I didn't think you'd be able to
hear me that much, that they had our mics up loud, loud.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I think I think that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
When I first got the mic, I was lip syncing
because I didn't want to mess up the words, and
I think the sound guy probably boosted us up because
of that. So in return, i'd not heard myself jam
it out. I mean, because that's like not even Toby
like I hear me. Yeah, that's tell me. Oh my goodness.
(20:17):
The next time Toby was on our show was twenty eighteen,
he called to talk about the release of his song
Don't let the Old Man, in, which he wrote for
the movie The Mule starring Clint Eastwood. So Toby talked
about the inspiration behind this song, what the movie was about,
and hanging with Clint Eastwood. Hello, this is Toby, this
boy bones.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Hey Bob, what's up buddy?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Don't let the Old Man? D tell me what the
movie is about? Like, normal person? Normal person.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Uh, it's based on a true story about a guy
from Indiana that was eighty something years of old, eighty
eight and he he is fame to fame was he
was famous that uh even got a printed in the
New York Times that he made these lilies or something.
He grew flowers. And at some point the cartel started sticking.
(21:07):
He'd haul loads of vegetables, I guess, and the cartail
start putting a sack of something else in there with them,
you know. And then when he found you know, as
he found out, he knew he'd kind of wrecked his
life and was desperate, and so he ends up running
drugs for the cartel. And and uh, they didn't really
(21:28):
ever check him because they did see an eighty eight
year old man and just not checking. You know, it's
not what they were looking for. And uh, it's a
great movie, great story. And so I wrote the song
and sent it to him. He called me back the
next morning after I sent it to him and said,
I'm putting it in the movie.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Hey, what's plenty of would like though?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Like hanging out?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
He's uh, really, he's a real nice guy man and
me he's real, Uh, he's real laid back, he's funny,
he's real soft heart.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I was expecting to be riding with dirty Harry, you know,
and he's just he just I love that he's been
with the same company, Warner Brothers, for over forty five years,
and that they kind of let him do what he
wants to do. And he really doesn't have to. You know,
a lot of people work for a lot of different
(22:24):
whatever's the best script and whatever pays the most or whatever.
But he kind of gets to go about and do
his own thing. And I love that. But he's a
total gentleman. And he's an old dare guy. Will get
up in the morning, play golf all day and then
hosts this event till midnight. I mean, and he'll do
it three days in a row, and he's in great
(22:47):
mind and shape for a guy of his age.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
All Right, Toby keats on with us, and the movie
we're talking about is called The Mule. That's what Toby's
gonna go and watch. And the song is Don't Let
the Old Man In and Toby's singing it. Toby wrote it. Toby,
it's good to talk to you, my friend. We don't
see each other enough.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, come out. See you used to come out jam
with us once a while. Still you're still doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm just trying to like pay my mortgage right now,
so I'm doing everything to survive.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Okay, brother, all right, see you, Toby.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The final chat with Toby will be one that happened
last month where he came into our studio. We talked
a lot about his returns, his return to music, his
returned to the live stage, his return here with us,
and so we talked about that being in Vegas and
his concern of remembering the lyrics on the Bobby Bone Show. Now, Toby, Toby,
(23:52):
it's rare that people that I'm super close to ask
me for tickets anything, because they know, like, unless it's
really meaningful, don't ask. And I've only had two close
friends asked me for tickets this whole year, and our
last year.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
It was Morgan Wallen and it was your shows in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's how big those shows were. And they sold I
saw they sold out immediately. What do you still have
any sort of anxiety at all about shows selling?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
No, I hadn't worked in I probably only worked a
handful of shows in the last wide COVID two big seas,
COVID and Cancer, So I hadn't worked handful of shows
in the last three years. But I worked every year
for twenty seven eight years, And I mean I was
(24:35):
only the only thing I had that concern me was
being away from it for three years and remembering all
the words because they subconsciously come to you when you're working. Yeah,
you don't even think about it, you know them, and
then getting completely away from them and having to start back.
So they had a telepromp trip there and I got
(24:56):
into a little bit of a sound check We're going
to go full dress rehearsal to day, but.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
I didn't even use it. It was just like riding
the bike.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Oh you knew all the words.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, once I got up there and started rolling and
it got familiar. I just I didn't even look at
the tail from.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
What about playing at all? Did you did your handstake callous?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I still played no matter where I was, always had
a guitar there and still plunked around. But they've been
callous so long.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's all callous and even bones anymore. It's just all callouses.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yeah, that's why you have an extra fingernails.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You guys are putting these songs. Don't let the old
man in. Its hard, it's been out, but you're like, hey,
this song's good.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Here it is, remember it. We're gonna push it again.
Where did that come from? And why?
Speaker 8 (25:42):
So? So that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
So we put that in the in the Eastwood movie
three or four years ago, and the movie didn't do
as well as they thought. But and it's at the
very end, and as powerful as the song was, it
still didn't really get us to do. Great songs have
a way of finding a home.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Will he cut it?
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Humpherdnt cut it?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
A bunch of foreign legends cut it in their language,
And I thought, well, that's cool, you know. And then
when the Icon Award came up at the People's Choice,
Rack Clark did Clarkson Who's I'm known for years, he's
produced a lot of the award shows. He said, I
really want you to do this song. I was like, man,
(26:25):
Blake's present.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Me, Oh, yes, you do that song? Like you weren't
planning to do that song, got.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
It and because it's it was it's dark, you know,
and it's and and I hadn't been in the public
eye for a while, and so I was like, Blake's
gonna do Who's Your Daddy? And I want to do
something up tempo because he's he's going to be fun
and funny. And he goes, no, Rack insisted, and I said, Rack,
(26:51):
if you want me do it, I'll do it.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
He goes, I think it'd be gigantic highlight and he
was right.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
He was massive. People went crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And so because of that response, everybody's like, we need
to reintroduce this song.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well it just it went number one immediately on iTunes.
And then people start calling saying, hey, it want service radio. Yeah,
and I haven't really served. I haven't done anything in
three or four years. And I was like, I don't
know if they play this kind of music anymore. You know,
this is way different than what you normally hear. And
I said, this is this song is even more classic
(27:27):
than my age. This song could have been recorded in
the fifties, you know, our sixties, and it's it's so
it's so country and so old school that I said,
you do what you want to do with it. But
I just love it that it got it, it found
a home.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
So you live in Oklahoma, right, almost all the time
all the time. So do you live close enough to
go to a bunch of games? Like are you close
enough to Norman?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'm seven miles from the stadium, you are. My ranch
is about seven miles. The stadium kind of sets on
the outskirtsytown and I'm out further.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
What's been difficult for me being someone that is very
much from Arkansas and a diehard razorback is that family
that not only are the massive OU fans, but they coach.
Oh you, Patty Gasso is the OU softball coaches won
like seven national championships.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And it's been hard for me to be a fan
of OU sports.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
But I've picked a softball team I'm fan of can't
quite jump on board with football quite yet. Yeah, you're right,
And my wife's like, you should put up Would you
ever put on another team's like shirt?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Me up?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Now, I will say this my parents. My mom's from
Arkansas and my dad's from Oklahoma. So like I told you,
I'm half Hog in my raising, I'm all Ou. But
my second, if I have a second, favorite team is Arkansas.
And the first two or three football games I went
to as a six or seven year old, my grandmother
(28:52):
took me Little Rock two different y'all played two different stadiums.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
They still do that one time a year. I wish
they wouldn't, but yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I went to FEE, and then I went to Little Rock,
saw Tech and SMU and the old Southwest Conference. But
so I tell everybody, Keith Jackson's a great tide end
at ou he's Smarkansas, And when we see each other,
we y old boom or Sioue instead of Boomer.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Soon.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, at the house, we do woo pick sooner, but
only that because I put to woo pick first. We
have a Matt that's half Arkansas half Oklahoma. And my
wife she's not petty though she can go to Arkansas
games and be like, let's go with me.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I struggle.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I could probably if the Hogs were in the National
Championship and I was like singing the anthem at the
game and they weren't playing Oklahoma, I could put on
a I'd be comfortable in Arkansas Jersey.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You like Venables, I love it. What do you like
about him?
Speaker 8 (29:43):
He was here when Bob Stoop's got the coaching job,
and he was here for years.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
And his defensive prowess. I mean, the guy's been around
twenty two years coaching at that level. Not head coach,
but defense going. He's he's played in eight national championships
fourd oh you and Ford Clemson and his number. I mean,
he's just a great defensive coach. We were a really
really bad shape. He's processed like sixty five players in
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the last twenty four months. It was on the last team,
and only two of the portal guys got Power five deals.
Everybody else went smaller division. So we were really lacking
on the defensive side of football. And he fixed that.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
You do you do an al stuff yourself?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Oh yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Do you talk about it?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I'll talk about it.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
You do talk about it because people ask me to
talk about him like, I mean, I guess I will.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
But I do stuff like I take these student athletes
and I hire them to use their name, image and
likeness to promote things that I do make sure.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Yeah, yeah, I just give them money.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Oh well see yeah, I have to like find a.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Kid, I have a charity, I have a foundation, and
we'll get them to whatever.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
You know. I mean it's you get them to do
a little stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, get them to do stuff for the charity.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah, they show up, you know, I get them to
show up at my golf tournament or my foundation auction
or something. But they don't really have to do much.
You know what's weird about that whole thing is this
toothpastes out of the too, you know, yeah, put it back.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, I can't ring that bell for sure.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Four years ago, if they have just said, hey, we
don't give every player in fifty grand, they had a
sign that immediately. But it's with the portal in that
it just makes it crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It is absolutely bizarre, even where players just moving all
over the place, even to shopping for deals.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
No one's loyal, no one. I mean, you recruit them
and get them on campus. You do everything. You can
give them money, you get them education, and you have
to recruit them again next year.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It's it. I wouldn't want that. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I think I take it, though, I still take it.
I still be a head coach. Yeah, I'll be pretty good.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, we'd run, we'd wide open offense. We'd run, you know,
probably have two footballs, three tailbacks, two doing two quarterbacks,
so one that could also play wide receiver in motion.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
You never knew he was going to come through and
actually take the snapper.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Not tell me that's not revolutionary, that's like, that's not
Lincoln Riley stuff. Yeah, but then it wouldn't work because
I'd have no defense and then we'd lose and.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Everybody would laugh.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Well that would be Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, that'd be Lincoln Riley exactly. Yes, yes, So how's
everything going.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's going pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
But I've got a roadhouse out in the country by
that's like a ninety seven year old roadhouse that has
a lot of music history, a lot of Oklahoma history.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What's a roadhouse. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
It's like a bar outdoor. Oh, got it, got it,
got you know, it's an old roadhouse.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Like Texas roadhouse, the restaurant type place.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Well, like a bar out in the country that people
would drive out to, like in a movie. You'd see
people they'll set a roadhouse up, Remember the one where
Patrick Sway roadhouse?
Speaker 8 (32:55):
Yeah that one.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know that one.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah one, all right, so yeah, there you go. Okay,
So that's kind out by itself. This thing's like ninety
seven years old. The old actor James Garner was named
James Bumgarner before he went to Hollywood. He pumped gas
in there. Bonnie and Clyde State and some cabins behind it.
Bob Wills and Texas playboys people like that would come
through and play these little dances out there, and then
(33:19):
it turned into a convenience store. We used to get
baked beer, tobacco stuff there before we rolled it up.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
And then we're going to tear it down.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
And my whole countryside out there where I live, I
know everybody, that's my sanctuary. They were like, man, they're
telling it tearing the old Hollywood's corner down.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
And so I.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Went and bought the thing, popped it up, cleaned it up,
put some lights in the trees, put a stage out there,
shot in all State TV special out there Live concert
from all State Entry and left the stage up and
now you can go out there, get some food, get
a beer, sit on the lights, bring your dog, bring
(34:00):
the kids, and have bicker night on Wednesday. And I
saved it, you know. And so one night I said
I want to try to play. So I called the
manager and I said, tell uh, Jennifer, I said, tell
the band. They're paid, but they're not going to play.
(34:20):
And then she goes, who's playing? I said, another band?
Speaker 8 (34:23):
And then I was.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Bringing my guys in from Nashville, and we were just
gonna go up incognito and just let the word build
and just have fun. And I was going to see
how far I could go without taking a break, you know.
So I did two three hour nights and she goes, well,
who do I advertise is playing? I said, the Greasy Weenies,
and so she put it up the Greasy Weenies will
(34:46):
be here Friday and Saturday. Well, everybody started going something
not right because the bands getting paid. So when I
showed up first night, they were just like lined.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Up down the ditches a half a mile in every direction.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
And and I did two nights in July, and I
was like book it go book me some shows. So
you just can't get the trucks and buses after three
years all together, and the crew everybody's off working with
everybody else, you know, So it took till December to
launch this thing.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
Yeah here we.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Are, well Toby, good to see you. There is to
Keith everybody.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Toby's been kind enough to come in the studio and
call into our show numerous times over the years and
has let Eddie and I perform with them, and we've
also performed with them at festivals. And Toby Keith will
always be a major part of country music. His songs
will continue to live on and they will for sure
be played for decades to come. Thanks to Toby Keith
for all that he did. Thank you guys for listening.
(35:45):
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