Best 7 Segments From The Bobby Bones Show This Week
65 min
•Feb 7, 20264 months agoSummary
This episode features the best segments from The Bobby Bones Show, including a game of Bobby Feud about waiting in lines, Valentine's Day planning discussions, a compliment battle game, and an in-depth interview with country artist Lauren Alaina about motherhood, her music career, and touring experiences.
Insights
- New game formats like 'Compliment Battle' can drive engagement and create memorable moments, though they require clear rules to avoid confusion
- Personal life milestones (parenthood, relationships) significantly shift how public figures prioritize their careers and personal brand messaging
- Listener engagement through call-ins and questions creates deeper connection and accountability between hosts and audience
- Family-oriented content resonates strongly with audiences, particularly when hosts share vulnerable parenting moments and relationship dynamics
Trends
Game show formats adapted for podcast/radio entertainment with audience participation elementsCelebrity parenting content as primary engagement driver, especially for female artists transitioning to motherhoodNostalgia-driven content programming (throwback TV shows, classic songs) maintaining audience interestMulti-part episode releases extending listener engagement across weekendsAuthentic relationship dynamics and couple interactions as entertainment valueDelayed life milestones (driving permits, education) due to developmental considerations in blended/adoptive familiesListener call-in segments creating real-time accountability and community feedback loops
Topics
Game Show Entertainment FormatsParenting and MotherhoodCountry Music Career DevelopmentRelationship Dynamics and MarriageAmerican Idol Legacy and ImpactTour Life and Performance ScheduleCelebrity Endorsements and SponsorshipsAdoption and Blended Family ParentingValentine's Day PlanningVehicle Maintenance and Car AccidentsDancing with the Stars CompetitionMusic Collaboration and DuetsSocial Media and Personal BrandingFertility and Family PlanningRascal Flatts Legacy and Touring
Companies
iHeart Media
Podcast network hosting The Bobby Bones Show and producing the episode content
American Idol
Launched Lauren Alaina's career 15 years ago; she continues to appear on the show periodically
Big Loud Records
Record label that signed Lauren Alaina and released her collaboration 'All My Exes' with Chase Matthew
Rascal Flatts
Country music group that Lauren Alaina recently toured with, performing their hit songs
Costco
Mentioned as a place where listeners wait in line, particularly for gas station services
Ticketmaster
Ticket vendor for iHeart Country Festival where Lauren Alaina will perform on May 2nd
Moody Center
Venue in Austin hosting the iHeart Country Festival featuring Lauren Alaina
People
Lauren Alaina
Country artist and American Idol alum discussing motherhood, music career, and touring experiences
Bobby Bones
Host of The Bobby Bones Show planning Valentine's Day dinner with wife and Eddie
Morgan
Co-host presenting the best segments of the week and conducting interviews
Amy
Show cast member discussing parenting, car maintenance, and participating in games
Eddie
Show cast member whose Valentine's Day dinner plans are discussed and who participates in games
Lunchbox
Show cast member who experienced a car accident and received insurance settlement of $24,000
Cameron
Lauren Alaina's husband who played her unreleased song to Chase Matthew, enabling their collaboration
Chase Matthew
Country artist collaborating with Lauren Alaina on the song 'All My Exes'
Gary LeVox
Lead singer of Rascal Flatts who performed at Lauren Alaina's wedding
Craig Morgan
Competed with Lauren Alaina on survival competition show 'Beyond the Edge'
Luke Bryan
Country artist who took Lauren Alaina on tour twice early in her career
Jason Aldean
Country artist whose tour featured Lauren Alaina as first support at age 16
Alan Jackson
Country artist Lauren Alaina has toured with during her career
Quotes
"Your whole life changes. I guess my favorite part is the way she looks at me. I've never had someone look at me like that."
Lauren Alaina•Motherhood discussion
"She's completely dependent on me. And what a gift that I get to be the one that can nurture her and take care of her."
Lauren Alaina•Parenting reflection
"Now I have something more important and it's her. So I don't mind talking about her. I love talking about her."
Lauren Alaina•Career and motherhood balance
"I'm very grateful for that girl. How the heck that 15 year old little girl walked in there with confidence to do that."
Lauren Alaina•Reflecting on American Idol audition
"He was protecting her already. It was really weird and sweet."
Lauren Alaina•Discussing husband's protective instincts about baby's name
Full Transcript
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Part 2. She's breaking down the top seven segments from the Bobby Boncho this week. Time to catch up on the Bobby Boncho. Welcome to Best Bits Part 2, Morgan here. If you're interested, check out Part 1, Part 3 this weekend. It is with Scuba Steve. Part 1, we will take a walk down memory lane. We caught up on a bunch of things around nostalgia, some of our favorite old TV shows. We even did some comparisons like Are You a Pepsi or a Coke person? And then Part 3, we answered listener questions and it kind of goes off the rails in that one. So check both of those out. But if you don't want to, don't have time, then you're going to get caught up on the show right now. We played a round of Bobby Feud. The category was Top Places to Wait in Line. And this one caused some controversy. Number 7. And now the Bobby Feud. The category is Name a Place Where You Have to Wait in Line. 2000 Bobby Boncho listeners. Well, around that. Took part in this. Name a place where you have to wait in line. Morgan, you won the dice roll backstage. It's Morgan, Amy, and Lunchbox playing. You lost last time. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Morgan, name a place you have to wait in line. First thing that came to mind had to do with food. So I'm going to go with a restaurant. Or fast food. I don't know if they're in the same category. Show me a restaurant food. Put. You have to wait in line for food. That's not good. What? A lot of weak start. You don't know why. You wait in line at fast food all the time. Drive thru's. The grocery store. Show me grocery store. Grocery store and retail store the same at number three. Retails in that. Yeah, three points. Three points. Righty. You got to check out. I think that's probably what it was. Like, got to get your crap and check out. The DMV. Dang. Show me the Denver. Yeah. Number one answer, the DMV. The movie theater. Explain that to me. Well, either to get your ticket or get your popcorn. There's a line. Oh, the popcorn. Yeah. Show me the cinema. Wow. Number 10 answer is the movie theater. Have yourself 10 points there. Good work. Amy's on fire. She's heating up. I'm heating up. Grocery store, retail. Oh, shoot. Name a place we have to wait in line. We have to wait in line. Oh, the fair. Okay. Just hit X. What? You got to throw a ride. The fair. That's funny. For a ride. It's just so random. The bookstore. No, no. Fair did not make it. I don't know. You know what? I'm mad. Hold on. I think fair might make it. After I laughed at you, I think fair might make it. Because of what? Amusement parks on there? Theme park. Yes, that's a fair ride. Yeah, it is. It is. Theme park. After I laughed at it, I then knew that. I didn't want her to get that because I laughed at it. Mike, wouldn't you say? Yeah, that's the same thing. Okay. Rides. When you said rides, that's what triggered. I'm stupid. I shouldn't have laughed at you. I apologize. Number four. I'm so happy about that. Where else do we have to wait in line? I got a little egg on my face on that one. To get our oil changed. Oh, yes. The old line. The old line. Oil change in place. No. Okay. Lunch box over to you. Name a place where you have to wait in line. Yeah, man. That amusement park, I was ready to jump on it after she said fair crap. You know, when you go to a stadium, you go to the stadium and you're watching a ball game, you're like, you know what? Show me stadium. No, I haven't said it. You did. You said stadium. You said stadium twice in that. And you guys try to stretch the stuff out so you can say like seven things and it encompasses the answers. No, I haven't even finished my thought. The answer is the concession stand. You're watching the game. You get thirsty. Show me stadium. Concession stand. Incorrect. All right. Morgan. Come on, Morgan. I'm still thrown off my fast food restaurant. So the only other thing that's come to my mind is the voting polls. You have to wait in line to vote. Oh, that's it. That's good. To vote. Show me to vote. Not my category. Okay. Places you got to wait in line. The doctor? Show me the doctor. When did you wait in line as a doctor? The doctor and pharmacy are the same line. Get in line. Oh, yeah. You're always in line. The doctor. I feel like you're just waiting in a room in line. I didn't make the list though. Go ahead. Next up. Um, I wasn't sporting event, but let's focus on stadium. Oh, you wanted a stadium? Um, concert. Show me concert. Choose your words wisely here. Lunch box. A bar. Got to wait in line at the bar. Oh, yeah. Is there anything else coming? Can we go with bar? Like the club. No, that's different than a bar. No, it's the same thing. If fair and amusement park are the same thing, that's the same thing. Yeah, bar and club are the same. Club and bar are not the same. Yeah, they are. Because you can go to a bar. Yeah, well then amusement park and fair are not the same thing. That's what we were saying. That's why I canceled the whole thing because you want to use that rides. It was like, because I didn't want to give it to you. There's no bar or club, by the way. They're both wrong. Morgan. How many do we have left? We have three rounds. You have zero points. Lunch box has zero points. Am I at 32? Oh, wow. Domination. How many options do we have left? One, two, three, four, five. Name a place you wait in line. Name a place you wait. I guess I wait in some weird lines. The triple X truck stop store. I was thinking about a gas station, but I wait in line at Costco to get gas. Is that not normal? All that sentence was weird. You guys don't wait in line at Costco. I don't go to Costco to get gas. I just go to a gas station. They have the best place to get gas. I'm sure. I just don't have a card. I just, oh man. Okay, wait in line to get something. What would I wait in line for? Five seconds. I would wait in line to, at the mail store to deliver a package. At the mail store. I've waited in line a lot there. Oh yeah. You too. Post office. Yeah, that's it. You got there. That's where I was at. The mail store. Okay, I could be like, yes. Absolutely, absolutely. I'm panicking over here. Okay, Morgan, you're on the board. That was for a double point. You have 18. Hey, y'all. That's a big win. That's a big win. I'm panicking over here. Okay, Morgan, you're on the board. That was for a double point. You have 18. That's a big win. Okay, where else would I go and wait in line? Retail store was already in Amy's. That was another place I was thinking. Name a place where you wait in line. You do wait in line a lot at the mall, but like, that's retail. Okay. Five seconds. Yeah. Where else do you wait in line? At a stoplight. Wow. Sitting in traffic. At a stoplight. Show me stoplight. Okay, Morgan has 18. Amy up 32. This is your last time around. Round three. Point to tripled last time. Go ahead. Cell phone store. Show me the cell phone store. Didn't make it there. Four answers left. Santa. Show me. That's good. Santa. No. You like to take a picture with Santa? Your number two aunt. Why are you so mad? Cause she got theme park. No, no, doctor's office. You don't wait in line. Yes, you do. I didn't make that up. It's on the list. There is no line at the doctor. You're still in line. That's why he's not at line. You're arguing with the list. That's not a line. But pharmacy and doctor are the same. I didn't. Okay. You don't wait line at the pharmacy either. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. Then how is drive through not a line? She didn't say drive through. She did. Restaurant is a... She said restaurant. Oh my God. She... So a fair... What's happening right now? A fair and amusement park are the same thing, but restaurant is different than drive through that they're a restaurant. Neither one of them made it. That's crazy. We've all been under a lot of stress lately. But not drive through a restaurant didn't make it. Either one of them. Which is hilarious. That's what I'm saying. A doctor's office is this... I don't understand how it's a line. It's not a line. Number two is an airport. Oh, T-3. That's a line. That's a line. That's a line for sure. That one is a line. Number five is school pickup. Oh, the roller slimes. Oh, hate that one too. He hates that one too. Why do you hate that one? I've never experienced that. Oh, really? You were shaking your head angrily at it. Yeah, we literally ride a bus. Okay, well... Why do those... The school pickup line is so stressful. I wish I had thought of that. Next up, I'm scared. Generally, I just get scared. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. A bank. I just get scared. A bank. Oh, yeah. Why are you shaking your head at that one? Ding, ding, ding. Eddie, you guys always say no one goes to a bank anymore, but it's on the list. Okay. I know you're all probably going to make an elderly person joke when my boyfriend still goes to the bank. We weren't going to make... It's actually pretty funny. I was like, why don't you just do your online deposit and take pictures of the checks? He's like, I like to physically take the checks into the bank. And I was like... Hey, my father-in-law does that. And at num... He's hated everyone at the time. I'm scared of the rest of them. What's the last one? At number nine, stadium. No kidding. No, I'm kidding. You don't even joke. Do not joke. All right. Coliseum. It's just another version of it. Car wash. Dang. You hate that one? I almost said that. Whatever. Go ahead. When Morgan said Costco, I almost said Car Wash. She's allowed to speak like six sentences and I start talking and you just ring the butt like I didn't even get to finish. But we let you finish and then that wasn't there either. No, I didn't even get to finish. You said concession stand and we didn't say one. No, no, no. But he said that's your answer for stadium. I also said concession stand, not the one of the main. Right. At the end, but I'm saying Amy got to talk about seven different things and she never said ride. She said the fare. She didn't say ride. You buzzed her. I said it after I said fare. You said it after the buzzer. Well, I wanted to not give it to her. Now we know the root of it is that which makes way more sense than the doctor's office. That's what I'm saying. The root of it is she didn't even say ride during her answer and after it was buzzed, she goes, oh man, because you know, you go get in a ride and it's like, oh, let's go back and give it to her. That was more of what I was mad about. What was the final score? And you had zero. 32 Morgan 18. Let's box zero. Got it. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Bobby has figured out his Valentine's Day plans and this serves as a reminder for anyone who is planning something for the big holiday. It is days away. So get your chocolates, your sweets figured out or reservation, whatever your plans are. Get it figured out now so you're not scrambling at the last minute. But Bobby's Valentine's plans include Eddie. Number six, I've got my Valentine's Day figured out and I'm pretty happy about it. So we talk about it and not every couple celebrates Valentine's Day the same and it's hard because it's on a weekend night. I think it's a Saturday night. Celebrate mine on the 12th this year. Why are you doing it a little different? Smart. I'm asking Eddie, do you know about our Valentine's Day plans? I don't. So we were going to dinner, me, my wife, Eddie, his wife last week, it got canceled. And so we rescheduled it to the 12th and my wife said that counts as Valentine's dinner. She said that? Yep. Whoa. Does yours count? I didn't ask, but maybe I'll ask her. Hey, we're having this dinner with Bobby and Caitlin. We're going to a nice place. But the 12th, Valentine's on the 14th. So yeah. And the fact that your wife said that, that counts. I mean, she said it. So it's bought. Oh sweet. Bobby's going to pay for Eddie's Valentine's dinner. Oh, dude, that's amazing. That's amazing. That wasn't part of the deal. Oh, it's not. Yeah, but you know you're probably going to pay for the dinner. Are you? I often do. Yeah, I know. I often offer. I get my wallet out and I'm like, oh, okay, no, thanks, Bobby. Appreciate that. Think of a point. Maybe I shouldn't pay for his dinner then because it is Valentine's Day. True. Okay. Well, if you don't pay, then it's definitely our Valentine's Day too. But do you want me to pay? What could you still count it as your Valentine's dinner if I paid? Amy, let me ask you. Well, I mean, I guess he could, but he needs to do something else for his wife. Oh, why? Why? If Bobby's already doing that with his wife and we're at the same dinner table. No, now we're talking about if Bobby picks up the bill. Okay. Then use that money to give your wife something else because you already like returned the Christmas present you got her. And now here we are Valentine's Day and you need to get her something. I forgot about the Christmas present. You're right. Man, that's a good dude. That's awesome that your wife did that though. I'm almost positive. She said you can count it or maybe she said, or maybe she said, are you going to count it? Either way, I heard Calvin. Oh, either way. I didn't even factor it in and they changed the date of dinner. Big difference. I don't know, man. I think that connection can be drawn. And you know, she's pregnant. So she doesn't feel good a lot of times. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like if she's going to get dressed and put forth the effort of like getting ready and going out, then yeah, I would be like, yeah, let's do this. Don't do another dinner two nights later. You know, that's a lot. I love the idea. I love the idea. And if you pay even better, dude, maybe I get her roses afterwards and that kind of counts. You want Bobby to buy those too? No, no, no. I got that. I got that covered. I probably need to recheck, but I think the 12th counts is Valentine's dinner. Yeah. I mean, I guess that makes sense. You're still going to do something else though. What? No. No, no. You're going to do something. You'll do a little something. Gift giving is your love language. You can't tell me what I'm doing and what my language is. I'm not. But anyway, I thought we got it. I thought we kind of. That's pretty good, man. Got a little bonus. You know what I mean? Really good. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. During all the craziness of the ice storm and Amy had lost power. So one day up at the studio, her son came with her and we decided to ask him some questions about life and just figure out what's been going on with him recently. Well, that conversation spun into a listener wanting to question Amy about her son. Number five. You go back in, you listen to Tuesday's Bobby Boneshow podcast. Amy's son, Stevenson was in here with us. You guys didn't have power. So he was just up here because there was heat. And so I was like, Hey, you can sit in the room with this. And then we got him on for a little bit. We were talking about driving and so Jarra is on who lives in Tallahassee. Hey, Jarra, you're on the show. Morning studio. Morning. Okay, Amy, I have a question for you. I noticed you were very hesitant whenever Bobby asked him that he's 15 years old. Why hasn't he gotten a permit yet? And you kept deflecting and saying, Oh, he can drive his bike. He can drive a scooter. And part of me feels like it's because you're afraid of his driving. But according to Bobby and the rest of the studio, you aren't the best driver around. So why are you so hesitant about him driving? Okay, I know that's their opinion. I really am a good driver. We have, we did a driver's test and the instructor said I was the best. And she knew the instructor. Yeah, yours is more of a distracted thing. The issues I have in a car are with non-moving objects when I'm going like one mile an hour. I think your issues are you get distracted really easy and you're focused on other things. It's no, it's my peripheral vision. No, it's I watch you all day. You can't stay focused on one day. Just right now you're... Okay, so back to the original question because I can stay focused. We are per a lot of people's advice that we have received delaying this part for him. There's a lot of things he's behind on even in his grade. Like he's 15, but he's in what is he in eighth grade? So his peers are not getting ready to drive at this point. So his education, just emotionally, mentally, he's delayed given his circumstances like growing up in an orphanage, he was seven coming here. We're delaying a lot of things and it's good because he's just not quite there yet maturity wise. And I think that that's obvious. And I was trying to deflect his I'm like, oh, this is still a question we get because he knows he's 15. And he knows other people. He knows he's 15. If he did, yeah, but he knows that his sister started taking drivers at around that age. And they they were just at different levels at different times because she's matured a little faster than he did. Does that make sense? I think you could have literally just said I'm the mom and we'd have been like, yep, we got it. But I appreciate you explaining it like that. Jara, what do you think? OK, I definitely appreciate that. I do have another question for you, Amy, to follow up with the whole car situation. Yeah, every time you post on your Instagram stories, your car, you have a service engine light. Oh, are you ever going to get that fixed? Yeah, actually, actually did have an appointment at the dealership on Tuesday, but because of the snowstorm, I wasn't able to take it in. However, they've already told me that that it's not a big deal. Like the service, it's like, my oil needs to be changed. So they're going to change that and then it will be fine. But I wasn't able to go in because they were closed because of the ice. So thank you for noticing. How long has that light been on? Oh, it's on for various reasons. I think she bought it, possibly with it on as long as it's been on. It's so funny you noticed that, Jara, because yeah, it's on. It's on so much. I don't even notice it anymore. Oh, people notice it. Yeah, I get DMs and I'm like, OK, people. So you can I can switch it off. And sometimes if I remember before I post something, like I'll try to go switch, you know, switch the screen to something else. The fact you have to change your screen. Jara, that's awesome. Thank you for asking that. Any other question? No, that's all. Thank you so much for taking my call. All right, we'll talk to you soon. Thank you very much. There she is, Jara from Tallahassee, bringing the hard hitting questions this morning to Amy. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. You may have heard lunchbox got into a pretty big car accident recently and his car had to go into the shop while he finally heard from the shop that's been working on it. What the situation is with his car and we got a body update because he was hurting from the car accident. Number four, we're going to get a car update from lunchbox. He was in a bad accident. He was sitting on the interstate, somebody driving how fast? Sixty. Just nailed him. And the worst of it all, he lost a smoothie all in his car. It exploded in his car. He hasn't been able to look at pavement since. Don't like that word, man. See, he's. Oh gosh. So it's not funny. Your car's been gone, though. Been gone. You go yesterday. Been to the shop. I got a call yesterday said, Hey, we're ready for you to come in. Talk about it. Guys, I went to the shop. Walked in. Oh, what's your last name? Tell him, Oh, yeah, have a seat right over there. We'll be right with you. Then I got the devastating news, man. All right, here we go. Get a clip. All right. So now what happens today? Just crush it. It could be a salvage tile. It could be a strapped carpet. Got it. But you don't have a funeral or anything that we need to attend. No, right? You're not crying, so that's good news. Yeah. I'd be crying, but I'm not. Yeah. But the car's, yeah, it's a 2018, so hopefully it's all paid off. Yeah, it is. But it's a total loss. It's gone. So say bye car. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. All right. Yeah, say bye to her when she leaves for me. Total. Total. Gone. The car is a complete loss, guys. But isn't that kind of what you wanted at this point? Because now you don't have to deal with the car that's just been absolutely ravaged. Are they going to give you most of what that worth was? Well, they're going to give me a certain amount of money, but that doesn't buy you a brand new car. That's what I'm saying, like most of the value of the car. Yeah. What are they going to give you? Twenty four thousand dollars. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Right. Brand new. No, but I had the point. You were already hit. Like you were already hit. So let's put yourself. You already got hit in your options now or you get your car back beat up. Probably never going to run the same or they give you twenty four thousand dollars and you can go and buy something new. Ish. Or you can supplement the twenty four thousand if you're going to get a bigger SUV. Right. And like I they said I could keep the car and they would give me fourteen thousand. Why would you want a piece of scrap metal for a ten thousand dollars? She said you can sell it parts out of it. We had a pallet. I'm telling you, I think never got sold. That would never happen. And it gets sold. We made a profit. We had it's not sold now. I mean, there's still stuff sitting in my house. OK. But man, it was just rough to hear that it's totaled. It's gone because you got to you got to take a trip down memory lane with that car. I never even saw the car. It was your wife's car. I don't even know what it looks like. But yeah, there's no memory lane. No, no, no. Right. Well, we got it in 2018. We got it in December of 2017. And we were like, wait, you just changed the year. No, no, it was a 2018 car that he got in December. OK, that means that. But OK. And we were like, man, if we're going to start a family, we better get a car that can fit it. And a month later, she got pregnant. So we brought all three of our kids home from the hospital in that car. Now you're sentimental in what year 2017. No, we brought it home in 2018 and 2020 and 2019. Or no, 2021. Oh my God. So I can't. I can't. And when you have three kids, you can't forget what year they're born. Yeah. OK. One was born in 18. One was born in. You brought the car home in 17. This is in 2018. No. It's a 2018 car. You can buy it in 2018. In 17. Thank you. I'm sorry this happened to your car. I think it's a positive that it's totaled. It's just the world. It wasn't he was driving it for quite some time while it was. Yes. Yes. He kept driving it after the accident. That's interesting, too, that it actually worked, even though it was totaled. You think they say it's totaled and they just keep it maybe. And they just have to be totaled if the cost of repairs is worth more than the. Yeah, but they give you the money and they keep it. They find a way to kind of get around the system. I mean, they could maybe take the battery out, the, you know, carburetor, you know, things like that. Yeah. The hammy. What's the thing they all everybody goes and steals now? Yeah, the converter. That's it. I'm sorry I happened to your car. Oh, man, what's the latest with your body? My back still here. Here's the accident. My back still tightens up just randomly. Like when you hear the word pavement. No, that gives me the shivers and the freak out. You know, PTSD. Yeah. That's mental. And so like if I'll just be like around the house doing something, I'm like, all of a sudden my back's really tight and I'm like, oh, that's not good. So I got to make an appointment at the chiropractor because of the accident. Yeah. Cause it never got, it never hurt before. Will you get the same car? I don't know what I'm gonna do, man. Isn't it your wife's car? It's my wife's car. She's got to make a decision. And so we're just, we're, it's just, we're up in the air. Like it's chaos around our house right now. How long do you get to keep the rental? Not much longer. Yeah. You have to make a decision now. Yeah. Cause you also don't have a car. You ride your bike to work a lot of days. Yeah. And so that's another hard part is they want the rental back. Which is normal. Yeah. No, no, no. They're like, oh, you should already have bought a car. I'm like, whoa, whoa, guys. Like, well, that's not true. They give you the check. No, we haven't got a check yet. Got it. Well, good luck. I'm glad that I'm glad as a total. That's the best outcome. Once the accident happened. Yeah. I had to clean out everything. I had to go in there and get all my, you're not a sentimental guy. He gets about the cars apparently. Cause I mean, the ultimate and the special one. All the best off front of the house. It doesn't work at all. It doesn't work at all. What are you going to do with that? I don't know, man. Dude, get rid of it. It's been almost two years. Have it just sitting there? Yeah. You just have a dead car for two years sitting on the street. Yeah. Are there plants and stuff growing on there? No, no, no, nothing like that. Like I take a blower out and blow all the leaves and stuff out. So it looks yeah. It's like when you keep the grave of someone you love clean. You're looking your first flowers. That's what he's doing. He's like over there visits it. All right. Well, let us know when you get a new car. Yeah, everybody, let's have a moment of silence. How about we just play a song? It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. These next two segments go hand in hand because we started a new game. It's called the compliment battle. You get spun on the wheel. Whoever it lands on, the two people have to go up against each other and say compliments to each other. Well, it started out with Amy and I doing the first ever round of this. Number three going into my money pile here. Whomever wins this game is going to win all this cash right here. Four dollars. Nobody knows the game of me. So everybody's name is on a wheel, including myself. So I will spin the wheel and whoever it lands on is contestant one. Whoever it lands on after that contestant two. I'll tell you the game after we pick the players. OK. Great. Everybody ready to go? Let's spin that wheel. Contestant one is Morgan. Oh boy. Oh boy. All right. Here we go. Contestant two. Let's spin that wheel. Amy. Oh my gosh. OK. Morgan and Amy will battle it out in something called a compliment battle. Now, what? In a Jones in battle back in the day, somebody gets somebody to go. You go, oh, you should get three compliments. If you nail somebody with really good compliment. Oh, OK. Whoever wins with the best compliments is the winner of the game. Amy versus Morgan. OK. Can you out compliment the other person? OK. Yeah, exactly. You didn't think it was going to this route, did you? Tough. This is a tough game, man. OK. OK. Can I get some compliment battle music of some sort up there? Oh, I like it. Who wants to go first? Well, it's contestant one. Oh, good point. All right. Good compliment. OK. This was compliment number one. OK. Amy, gosh, it's been so cool to watch you over the last 10 years because you have only blown up. Your skin is beautiful. Your hair looks awesome. And you've come into your own style. You look like the perfect person now. I'm clarifying before we compliment. Is that that's one compliment? That's not like a lot. Yeah. Well, we didn't make the rules really, but that's it. OK, that's one. Yeah, yeah, just one. OK, so you can like. Yeah, but. It can be like. Yeah, you got 10 seconds. OK. Amy, you're up. Morgan, you have been so patient for so long and been through so much. And you finally like came into yourself like you were happy with being single. And then bam, that is when the love of your life found you. And you have been glowing ever since you got engaged. And I'm so excited and happy for you that you found the love of your life. What? I don't know about that. That's right. It's a battle. She had to be sometimes swinging this. She had to be ready to receive him. You don't keep complimenting. All right. And you both use glow, which was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But after this, I want to make it even though now you have to eat. It's one compliment. OK, like one sentence. Yeah, one. It's got to be about one thing. All right. All right, Morgan, compliment number two. I'm trying to make sure. I know what's in now. Now it's. Like ours and your divorce. You're a strong independent woman. You're what she is. She can change a tire. All right, you're up, Amy. Um, OK. I think it may have been a strategically wrong move to let the other person go first. I didn't know that we never played this game. Compliment battle. I know I got this. I get this. I got this. What's it called? Your therapy dog saves lives. Oh, that's a compliment for her dog. So he's complimenting her fiance and her dog so far. OK, OK. It's interesting. All right, Morgan, you need to knock out round three or you ain't winning this. Come on, Amy. All right, Morgan, you're up around three. OK, OK, OK, Amy. Are you ready to receive it? I'm ready to receive. You're a dang good mom. There's three in a row. Wow. You got to come up with the reckon ball. Amy, dig deep. You need to compliment her so hard. I know, but I'm like, I would be my with a problem was she called me a strong, independent woman. And I would be like, you're a stronger, you're even stronger and more independent than I hear you. I do that. Do that. Do that. See what you get from us. See our reaction. OK, compliment battle. Amy, final compliment towards Morgan. You have one of the biggest hearts of anybody that I know. No. OK. She does. Solid. I mean, the champion of compliments. That is for elderly. You don't need to vote. No, we don't need to vote, right? We don't even go to the scorecard. She's all yours. Amy. She's a highly empathetic person. Hey, Amy, was that tough? Oh, it was hard. It was really hard. It's hard to find stuff about Morgan. It's hard to go second because you can't copy. Like, things she said about me, I would say about her. And she. Yeah. Oh, yeah, like, she's a good mom. She doesn't have kids. I know. Oh. I was thinking about the, like, the rejections I know. No, but. The winner of the first ever compliment battle and four dollars from the money pile. Give it up for a compliment champ, Morgan. Yeah. And he has the money. Ouch. And with that. I'm sorry, Morgan. It's not. You did great. It's not so much about the money. It's where it came from. Right. The money pile rarely gets touched by anyone here. Morgan's are first. OK, so who's up next? No, that's it. We're complimenting out. I'm over complimenting out. We need to see y'all do this. You want an exhibition, Eddie versus Lunchbox? Yes. No, no, no, that's impossible. That's impossible. It's not impossible. If we do it again, I don't want to waste my compliments. That's a good point. I don't want to waste your compliments. I don't want you to waste your compliments. OK, there's our winner, Morgan. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. And because that went so well, we decided to do another round, which was Lunchbox versus Amy in a compliment battle, and this one took a different turn. Number two. It's time for another compliment battle. Let's go. Oh! Thank you. I don't really need to offer money, because this is mostly about the game, but $3 is up for good. We'll take it. I'll spin the wheel. The two people who lands on have to compliment each other, and the greatest complimenter wins the cash. This is the stupidest game we've ever played. All right, let's spin that wheel! All right, the first person in compliment battle is Amy. Oh! Amy's 0-1. Amy's 0-1. She's back! She's back! Look, who's back again? It's not hard for me. I gave compliments. Yeah, but you lost bad. Oh, it was pretty ugly. You lost bad. All right, here we go. Playing Amy, let's spin that wheel! Lunchbox! Let's go! Let's go! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! It's Amy and Lunchbox in a compliment battle. Oh, Amy, bring those compliments my way, baby! You were first, you get to pick. Do you want to go first or second? I want to go first. Okay, smart. Amy's in the compliment battle. Compliment Lunchbox. Three rounds, go. You are so... Like, I've never met anybody that just doesn't care. Oh! About what other people think! Okay, there we go. It is hard for Amy. Yeah, Amy is hard for Amy. Amy struggles. Lunchbox. Okay, let's see what he does, though. Lunchbox. Then Amy a compliment, round one. Amy, your perseverance is amazing. You got yourself knocked down on the bottom of the mat, divorced, your life was a wreck, and what do you know, you picked yourself back up and you've built yourself into a very strong woman. Oh! I don't know, dude. There's a lot of knockdown in that before. What do you mean? She hit rock bottom and she thought she couldn't survive and she was able to... Okay, we got it, we got it. We heard she was pretty good. Okay, okay. The panel's gonna have to think about that one. Oh, boy. Alright, go ahead, Amy. Round two. Okay, lunchbox, you are a really good dad. Oh! That's a good one. You are. Lunchbox, over to you, compliment battle. No, we believe you, Amy. Amy, some would say you have a heart of gold. I mean, you went to an orphanage in Haiti, found these two amazing children, and gave them hope and a life here in America. Oh! He said some would say. He didn't even say it himself. He said some would say. Yeah, you don't say that lunchbox. Why would you say some would say? Why don't you say I say? Well, I'm part of the sum. I don't think you guys understand. Okay. Alright. We got the just, but I've heard people say this. Okay, go ahead. Round three. Amy, say anything about me. You're a good dad. Good dad, and that he doesn't care? Yeah, like, it's got to be so freeing to just, like, not care. Yeah, okay. Third compliment. I love that. Compliment battle. Go ahead. I wish I didn't care so much. Um, lunchbox. You don't... Some would say. I didn't say he doesn't like give up, but he kind of does. Taking shots out. Taking shots out of him. I don't really give it up either. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything, Amy? I have it. Compliment battle. Amy, round three here. Um, I had it. It was like I saw the tower. It was the only other possible one and now you can't think. Yeah. Hold on. Oh, you... handle... diseases... really well. Yeah! He gets a lot of diseases and fights back. He does. He's had tuberculosis. Yeah. He's had... Swollen testicles. Yup, he also had... That thing that's in his throat. No, it was like a yeast infection. Yeast infection, his throat. Swollen testicles. He had... what was the one he had that he gave you? Oh, that was tuberculosis. Tiberculosis, got it. He got... pink testicle. Yeah. Now we're just making things up. Yeah, you like... you handle diseases like a champ. Oh! That's good. He's a disease champ. No, no, you can't say a different... you can't come back. Okay, lunchbox, your final compliment. That's what I said. I mean, it's supposed to be like compliment. Yeah, guys, nice. It's a battle of compliment. That isn't compliment. I know what he handles diseases well. Some of those diseases would tear people down. He's here. He's here. He had a yeast infection in his mouth and he made it. Yeah. Amy, do you handle not being able to get pregnant like a champ? Oh my goodness. What? Amy, are you okay? No, she... like some people that would tear him down, but she's still here. Is she crying? No. She's just like... No, I'm like laughing so hard. I might be tearing up from laughter. So she doesn't cry. Because that kind of means... So that you don't cry. He didn't went to the heart of... Wait, wait. I handle something like a champ. She handles out like a champ. How is that bad? I don't understand. Where's my... Where's my... Oh! Where's my... Oh, you guys forgot to do that. Do I need to say it again like she repeated it? You getting a yeast infection in your mouth is the same thing as her having fertility struggles? I mean, I battled through it. She battled through it. It's true. It's true. We both have battled our own ailments. Right. Eddie Morgan, who is the best here? Oh my God. I don't feel better after either one of them. I honestly have a lot worse about everything. What? He is... That's kind of awkward. Um... Eddie, who's the better or the compliment? I'm gonna say this game is hard for Amy. It's hard for Amy for sure. It's hard for Amy, but I think... Why is it hard for me? In this game, Amy, you win the battle. I also vote Amy. Amy, now, you vote Amy. Yeah, I was gonna go lunch until that last one, so Amy, it's yours. Amy's now one-in-one in compliment battles. I wonder, Amy, everybody, wow. I'm winning because I didn't go as low. That's precisely it. That's precisely it. Okay, there it is. Another compliment battle, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. That may be one of the last rounds we do of that game. Only time will tell. Lauren Alanda stopped by the studio. She's coming in at the number one spot. It was super fun to hear some of the stories behind her songs recently, including her collaboration with Chase Matthew. And then we also heard about her mom life, which she is loving being a mom. Hey, Lauren, good to see you. Hey, how are you? How you been? You know, busy. Good. Raising a baby. Yeah, so... Life has changed and yours is about to. I know. I know you were talking to my wife a little bit, too. Yes, I have. Yeah. She's been asking me, where do you put the baby? That's what she said. She said she asked you. When you get home with the baby, what do you do with the baby? Where do you put it? I'm like, for the first few months, they just sleep a lot. So, just found something cozy. But I told her, do not be embarrassed to ask me any new mom questions, because I have done so many things wrong, because I haven't... I mean, not wrong to the point where it can't be fixed, but like, I definitely swaddled the baby longer than I was supposed to swaddle her because she had started rolling over and I didn't know that, like... You just things I didn't know. So, I said, any question you have that you don't know, ask me. Like longer in the lifespan, not at a time. Yes, not at a time. Got it. I don't really know if there's a rule about that. I hope not. I mean, you swaddle them when they sleep. I was looking at your social media and you had posted like a throwback to when you were touring with Rascal Flats the last time, which was pretty recent, but you were very pregnant. Very. Is that hard to sing? You know, I didn't really notice it at the time, I think, because it was such a surprise that I was pregnant. I had taken the tour and then found out I was pregnant and it was a big surprise. And so I just knew I had to do it. So, I don't know that I realized how hard it was until... Now that I'm singing, I'm like, this is not... This is much easier not having a, you know, 7-pound baby between my ribs. I saw a TikTok and I saw it. My wife sent it to me and it shows when you have a baby inside of you, how all your organs get pushed up. And I was just thinking about you singing when all your organs are shoved up because it's got to make room for the baby. I know. I don't... Yeah, I don't know how I did that. But I mean, a lot of us do it, but I was 8 1⁄2 months pregnant by the end of that tour. So, I was like potentially having the baby at that point. Do you think maybe when you're on the road and you're 8 1⁄2 months pregnant, it could happen anywhere, whatever town you're in? I did start to get nervous a little bit. Yeah, I was like, this scene is really close. I was 8 1⁄2 months. I was close. I was very close. I was close enough that I think people in the crowd may have actually been nervous that I was there. But always well, she decided to come, you know, 11 days late. So, she was like, oh, yeah, I was 11 days past my due date. So, were you just every day like, come on, like, come on, come on. I did everything. I did all the things that you can do. Like spicy food or... Curve walking. What? Curve walking? Yeah, so it's like, you don't know about curve walking. Uh-uh. Well, when she gets close, if she's like, you'll be sooner. You work, you walk like on a curb and you put one foot up top and one foot on the bottom. And it's supposed to do something with like your hips. I don't really know. To help like, dilate your cervix. Did anything actually help? It did not. No, no. Did just whenever? We had to make an evacuation plan. Huh. She did not come. We could not get her to come on her own. That's crazy. I mean, I was like, I was talking to her and I was like, it's a really cool place out here. We really like you to get out, but... Has it been... What's been the best part about it? Oh my gosh. It is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Um, and everyone says that, but until you, and you'll, you'll soon you will know. Um, when they hand you that baby, your whole life changes. I guess my favorite part is the way she looks at me. Um, I've never had someone look at me like that. Like just she completely... Oh, it's making me so emotional. Go figure. But, um, just she's completely dependent on me. And, um, what a gift that I get to be the one that can nurture her and take care of her. And then my second favorite is probably watching my husband with her. I love him so much more. I already loved him, but, um, watching him father her is pretty special. Bobby, that's a good sign for you. Yeah. What, then my wife already loves me? She already loves you, but she's about to find you even more attractive. If I do a good job. It is crazy to see. If I do a good job, TBD. Well, I'm sure. Okay. Who knows? TBD. So like what kind of things have you seen your husband do where you're like, okay, wow, this is crazy. Like is it just him holding her? Yeah. He has a dance party with her every day when he gets home from work. So he will turn the music on in the living room and picks her up and they dance. And now she, it's almost like she's eight months old. It's almost like she expects the dance party. Just the way he interacts with her, I don't know. Cause when she was really little, he was a little scared over, I think when they're first born. Everybody's a little scared of them. I mean, they're, you don't want to break it. Yeah, they're so little, but they're very resilient. I mean, you're, your wife will, she's, the baby is going to be great. But just the, just the way he talks to her and the way he interacts with her. I've just never seen that side of him and it's so sweet. How hard was it coming up with a name? We went back and forth for a while. I am a woman and I don't know if this is true of all women, but I had like 15 names written. Since I was probably 13 years old, but we wanted to do family names for sure. So her first name is, she's named after my grandfather and his aunt. But we, we had a couple of different names and then the story behind her name is actually, sweet, do you want me to tell it? Yeah, I loved hearing. So we named her Benny, which, you know, is a boy name. So a lot of people are coming to us for that, but they can get over it. Um, but my grandfather, Benny helped to raise me. My parents were really young. So I spent a lot of time at my grandparents' house. Um, and he taught me to play basketball and all these things. So I was just really close with him. And a few years ago, I saw a girl on Instagram named Benny and I thought that was super cute. So I just wrote it down. And then her middle name is doll, like baby doll. My husband had an aunt Lucy, Lucy doll, um, Arnold was her name. And she never had children. He was very close with her growing up. She actually just passed away right before her 102nd birthday. She lived in 101? Yes. 101.9? 101.9. Wow. Yes. And we, she passed away a few days after Christmas and we took Benny to meet her on Christmas day and she passed away like three or four days later. Um, so we were so thankful that we stopped by. She lived in Atlanta on our way down to see the rest of the family. We stopped there. But anyway, those are the, the people that we named her after, but when we were trying to decide how to spell Benny, cause obviously it is traditionally a male name. Um, and that was the first time I realized that Cameron was going to be a really good dad because he was like, well, we can't spell it like your grandfather spelled it cause it's already, I don't want people to make fun of her. And I'm like, we have a little bit of a chance for people to make fun of her with the name Benny. He was like, can we just make it more girly for her? And it was the first time I was like, he was protecting her already. It was really weird and sweet. And, um, we were at dinner at Jay Alexander on Whitebridge. I'll never forget it. And we're super rich. Fancy. Um, and we were talking about how to spell it. And so I was just looking at different ways to spell her name. And my dad passed away in July of 2024. And we found out we were pregnant with her in September. So that was a crazy year. We got married in February and then dad passed in July. And then we found out we were pregnant in September very unexpectedly. So it was like all of these emotions. And I was so sad that dad, you know, wasn't going to be a part of any of it. And my dad was, you'll love this cause you're a big Arkansas fan. But my dad was a huge Alabama fan. And when we looked at the girl that I actually saw named Benny years ago, spelled it B E N I. And so I told Cameron at dinner, I was like, this is how the girl that I got the idea from spelled it. And he said, I love that. Let's do that. And I was kind of like, I don't know. And I looked it up and in Japanese that spelling of Benny means crimson. And it was like, yeah. Wow. And we were at dinner and he had actually gone to the bathroom and I was looking it up. And when he came back, I was hysterically sobbing at the table and, you know, pregnant. And he was like, what's going on? And I showed it to him. And this is really funny. My husband went to Auburn. So he hates Alabama with a passion. And I showed him the meaning of Benny with that spelling. And he said, well, there you go. Your dad told us how to spell it. So that was a really good moment for us because I know he hates Alabama, but he loves, loves me and my dad more. And so that's, that was like confirmation for us too. Because we were in the phase then too, that we weren't even a hundred percent sure we were going to name her Benny. That was just kind of our number one name for her at the time. And when did you know? Was it after you saw her that you were sure this is the name now? We told people that we thought we were going to name her that. And then they started monogramming things for us. And we felt like, yeah, I guess that's her name. Or it's a middle name. They started putting her name on everything. Yeah, nickname. We either shaming her this or throwing away all of the blankets. So we just keep it later in life. She's like, why do I have all this Benny stuff? You're like, well, we were going to name you that. We were going to name you Benny, but you didn't look like a Benny. You take her to Benny Hauna every week her whole life just so it kind of matches. Oh, you love Benny Hauna since you were a baby. So people started getting your blankets. Do you feel at all like you, like, have you feel like you've lost any of your identity? Like people only want to talk about the baby now. Some, yeah, but she is my favorite thing to talk about before I was my favorite thing to talk about. But now. Well, that's kind of all of our jobs, right? Yeah. Like we're our own brand. We constantly got to be like, this is what we're doing. This is how we're doing it. But now you have something else. I hope that to me it allows a perspective shift in me. It has for me. Yeah. We tell me about that. I just would, I would rather talk about her. It's really interesting. I think people asking me about her is no problem because she is the center of my world. And honestly, it has opened me up a lot with anxiety and stuff about all of my job in general. My job is me, you know, the brand is me. So I'm constantly thinking about me. You know, I mean, that sounds crazy, but it's true. And now I have something more important and it's her. So I don't mind talking about her. I love talking about her. And yeah, I've always loved my career so much and it has been my identity, but now she is my identity. And this is still so important to me and I love it and I want to do it until, you know, I've made enough money to retire. So you're 101.9. Yeah, until I'm 101.9. I'll never stop singing, but she has freed me up a little bit in making it the only thing, my only purpose. And that's really cool. That's a cool thing to have. I'm thankful to have that. Are you doing any kids music? Not you singing it or you listening to a lot of it and then are you judging it? Not yet. I pretty much make up songs for her and sing them. But she has just, I've started playing piano for her in the last couple of weeks and she's like obsessed with the piano and he plays her a lot of music. You know, I don't, I have not fallen into the children music yet, but it's coming. But I think her a lot of like the itsy bitsy spider and I made up a song and then realized I didn't make up the song at all. I just, I literally made it up around Christmas time and I guess I had heard grandma got ran over by reindeer. So I sing her that every day except it's bitty, bitty, bitty, bitty, bitty dog. Say melody. You're my punky, punky, punky, punky, punky. You're my best friend. You're my princess. You're the apple, apple, apple of my eye. And then one day Camerons was singing grandma got ran over by reindeer and I was like, they stole my song. You ripped my song off. Wait, I ripped their song off. I was watching you talk about your new song, The Apple Chase Matthew and it's about your exes, all my exes. Is that weird for your husband to have you still talking about your exes? Well, you know, I would think so, but Cameron is the reason that we even put this song out. I wrote it a couple of years ago and he really loved it and we signed with Big Loud and we were putting out, you know, a very country record. And this one is the least country of all the stuff that we had cut. But Cameron loved this song. He thought it was a hit. And to the point that when we were on tour with Aldean and Chase Matthew, he played it for Chase. And that is how the duet even came about. I had nothing to do with it. But, um... He played it for Chase? He played it for Chase and then told Chase to act like he didn't and Cameron talked me into playing it. Chase had committed to doing the song before he ever even heard it from me. Because of my husband. Because your husband had played it for him? Yes. That's cool. Yeah. So, um... He's very secure in our relationship. If I wanted one of those exes, I'd be with him. Well, I don't know if they'd want me, but you know what I'm saying? I chose him and we have a great marriage. So I think it bothers him less than it probably bothers me. I'm very tired of posting about my exes. But I've got to promote this song. So I'm like constantly trying to think of ways to do this. I mean, I've even gotten the baby in the TikToks at this point. I don't know what to do. Because the song's doing really well and I'm super grateful for that. But it is kind of a funny season of my life to be posting this song about all my exes. But it's the one that really caught on for us. And I'm so grateful for that because I do have a baby to feed. So we're going to continue to talk about those exes until we don't have to anymore. He's like, it's fine. We can talk about it. The camera's like, whatever pays the bills. That's right. What's it like to tour with the Flats guys? Rascal Flats? They are so fun. You know, I've been on a couple of tours like that where I toured with Alan Jackson and I toured with a lot of people who have these huge careers that you don't get to tour with a ton because they don't tour as much. And to be on a tour with someone like that and to hear the hit after hit after hit after hit, it's just crazy. I mean, it's 90 minutes of nothing but hits. They don't have one song that they just kind of throw in there, you know. What is the greatest Rascal Flats song? Let's debate this in the room. I think the easy answer doesn't matter. You say yours first. My personal favorite? Just do that. There's so many good ones. I mean, I get to come out on the tour and sing. I would say currently right now, which I may have had a different answer before I had my daughter, but is my wish. I'm singing it with them on the tour and it literally sounds, I don't know anything about the origin story of this song, but I feel certain it had to be a parent writing the song for a child. Had to be. Because my wish for you, I don't know the rest of it. Is that this life becomes all that you want until your dreams stay big, you worry stay small, you never need to carry more than you can hold while you're out there getting where you're getting to. Hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same things to. Yeah, that sounds like a parent. It has to be because at my wedding, that was the dance between my ex-husband now and his mom. That was the mother son dance. And she picked it as like her as the mom, what she wanted for him. It had to be. The verses too. Yeah, it does sound romantic. It's not super romantic. Unless it's like Bill Belichick and his girl. That's the only way. It's way older. My wish. Greatest Rascal Flatsong. God bless the Broken Road. I mean, I know that's probably obvious. That was going to be a, I love that song. I love it. I mean, it is an iconic song. I mean, speaking of weddings, how many people have walked down the aisle of that? I think my favorite is What Hurts the Most. Oh gosh, yes. And then when he goes, it's being so close. Every night on tour, people are like, it's crazy. He performed at our wedding and he did Fast Cars on Freedom. Okay, famous. I know. Flex. Jay Alexander. I remember you calling him and he made us sing it the way it was. I wasn't a big Fast Cars and Freedom guy, but now when I hear that song, I love it because he's saying that and God bless the Broken Road at our wedding. Because that's a wedding song. Yeah, but he's like, speaking of weddings. But Fast Cars and Freedom. That's so great about your wedding that DJ played it. By the way, Gary LaVoc's saying it. That's right. It's good. You know what's so funny? People think his name is Rascal. No, they don't. People come up to me in the meet and greet and be like, I saw that video of you in Rascal because I posted a bunch. I posted a bunch with Gary and people think his name is Rascal. Just like random people. That's really funny. Isn't that funny? Interesting. Like Lady A, Lady Annabella, I'm like that. I wonder if people, they think she's. Yeah. Are you Annabella? She's A. And she's it. Yeah. Those people must just be like half paying attention to life. Yeah. Well, I think they're just listening to songs as they come. Yeah. That's what I mean. They're not totally dialed in. Elena is my middle name. And so when I went on American Idol, everyone thought we were the Elena family. So my brother's name on Twitter and everything for a while was Tyler Elena. And that's literally, like not his name at all. He's a good sport. But yeah, everyone thought we, I was like, my name was Lauren Elena, which is legit. Your last name is not Elena. Nope. It's my middle name. I'm just learning this. Her last name is Rascal. My last name is Rascal. Lauren Rascal. Crazy Idol still killing, huh? Yeah. After all these years. Insane. American Idol is still, do you go back every few years? Yeah, I do. Like every once in a while, because you're not a, somebody who like resents it at all. No, no, I've never have. I'm, I'm very grateful for it. Yeah. I mean, I would go back and do whatever they asked me to do. I love the show. So. That's cool. I mean, I was like, the other day when you were like, it's been officially 15 years since I was on TV for American Idol. And I was like, oh my gosh. 15 years. I saw that clip too. It was you coming out. Yeah. And it was all these flashback clips of you. It was so cute. What do you think when you see that really young Lauren Rascal up there? Yeah, it's, I am so thankful for that girl. How the heck that 15 year old little girl walked in there. Confidence to do that. Like when I see 15 year olds now, I have, you know, family members. Who they're my first cousins, children are like that age. And I'm like, that's when my career started. How did I even think talk my parents in a driving me up to the bridge down, standing in that long line and your audition here in Nashville. I did. Yeah. My official audition in front of the judges was at the Ryman. So my whole career started there. That's crazy. Yeah. How long was the drive up a couple hours? I'm from right outside of Chattanooga. So it's not too far yet. About two and a half hours. Feels like forever, but probably yesterday at the same time. It is the wildest thing. Yeah. Yeah. I saw the clip. That show is still crushing dancing with the stars is crushing like crazy. Yes. It's crazy. Those two shows have lasted our whole life basically dancing with the stars is a hard show. Yeah. It's, it's, it's crazy. It's terribly. You're the whole reason I did that show, but it's, you're also way better than I was. But, um, yeah, it's really hard. What you want. So, yeah, the champion, but it's hard. It's really hard. It's really hard. Yes. It's very hard mentally. I kind of wish I'd had a baby and then done it because I was in the best shape of my life. It would be that, but I couldn't do it anymore with the child. There's no way with that schedule. The eating thing was hard because you would train and you'd order food while you're eating and then you really get to eat all the food. So not only are you training your face off, you know, for hours and hours, you're only eating a little bit. Yeah. It's crazy. The schedule is wild, but I had so much fun. I'm so glad I did it. I'm so glad you got me to do that. Would you ever go back if they were like, Hey, we're doing like an all stars. I don't know that I could because I didn't win. Well, sometimes like survivor, they don't pick just winter's right. Lunchbox. They pick like good people. Like people that are just people that are memorable and are good game players or evoke emotion. Yeah, I would. I would. Would you ever do like a survivor? Yeah. You have to be away from your baby though is the problem. Yeah. I don't know. See, I did, I did a show kind of like survivor. You did? I did. What? But like, did it air? Yeah. Oh, was it? I got hurt on it. It was called, what was it called? Is it that military one? Yeah, it was the beyond beyond the edge. No, it wasn't that one. I would do that one too. That one's gnarly though. That one looks scary. Um, but I lived outside in the pandemonium jungle and had to build a hut and do all the things. Y'all don't know about this. Are you sure that it was on something or just? Yes, I think so. Messing with you. That's what they told her. Did I dream this? No, I definitely was. I was doing one of the races and I twisted my ankle and hurt my foot and they, um, I said, I will stay and try to tough it out, but they basically disqualified me. Oh my gosh. It was a CBS beyond the edge only a few years ago. Back in like the 16, 1700s, possibly a little bit of 1800s, had you twisted your ankle? You're just dead. It's over because your job is like carrying stuff and running and running from animals. And a simple ankle twist. Uh, it was nice knowing you, Lauren. Yeah. Time to go. We liked that girl. She was pretty funny. Now she's going. Oh, I remember the show now that I see the picture of it. All the squares. Yeah. Yeah. I was like dominating. I won every competition I was in until I got hurt. Like I was so far in the lead. I would have won that show. Cause Craig Morgan was on it. Craig Morgan was there. Uh, yes. My dear friend. I love him. I thought you were going to say he died. I was like, I haven't heard that. No. She grabbed her heart like Craig. I got to let you guys know. We may have all died without him. Oh my God. It was like catching the fish. She scared me. She was like, I got bad news for you guys. Oh yeah. Like, so he was providing the food. Yeah. He was a great person to have on a show. I got a fish. When you're trapped in the jungle. Yeah. I mean, he could live it. You could drop him off anywhere and he would live. You are going to play our I heart country festival, which we're super excited about. Yeah. I'm so that's going to be a lot of fun. Those festivals are always fun when you get to play with other people. I mean, I'm not sure if you're going to play with other people. I mean, I'm not sure if you're going to play with other people. The first festivals are always fun when you get to play with other people because it's not like you get to, you live in the same town, but when you come home, you definitely, everybody goes to their own little huts. Oh yeah. And so with this, it's you. We get so few time. Yeah. So little time at home that it's not like we're trying to hang out. You, Luke, Brian, you ever tour Luke? Twice. That was my first tour ever. After Idol, I went out. Luke was direct support for Jason Aldein and I was first. What a crazy tour. I was 16 years old. That was my first tour. Oh, that was a long time ago. Like as far as like, that's kid Lauren. Yeah. And he's, they have both actually taken me out on tour a few times. Did you have to have a parent with you? Yeah, mom. I'm toured with me until I turned 18. Poor thing. That was really fun for her. I'm sure dealing with a 16 year old who all of a sudden thinks she knows everything. But this season of life with my mother has been the best. And I have apologized 1500 times to her for every time I was ever a smart alec. Now that I have my own daughter and I'm like, is she ever going to do that? Please no. Probably yes. A little bit. Yeah. Come watch Lauren on our I Heart Country Festival. It's Saturday, May 2nd at the Moody Center in Austin. Go to ticketmaster.com and congratulations on the song. Yeah, you're right. It is really doing well. Thank you. Yeah. Super cool. Thank you. And congrats. And Chase will be there at the show as well. So we'll do it together. That's all I say about Chase. I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. You guys go follow Lauren on social and not only that, strain the song, all my exes. Congratulations on everything Lauren. Congrats on the baby mostly. Thank you. That's true. I like the name Benny. I never thought Benny was like a super dude name. Thank you. I feel like Benny is just like a universal name. Thank you. I also like dude name. Say it louder for the people in the back. I also like, I've said this on the show for 15 years. I like dude names. Unless it's like Frank or Ron, I think guy names work on girls. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. Lauren Elaine everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. That wraps for me this weekend. Again, check out part one, part three this weekend with scuba Steve. If you want some extra content or you can go check out my podcast, take this personally. I had on shana game this week and we're talking all about relationships with money, which I know it sounds crazy. You're like, woo, woo, whatever money relationship. What? But I promise hear us out. It's a good conversation and if you're wanting to get your finances on track for 2026, this is a good conversation to hear. But if this is where I leave you, thanks for hanging out this weekend and please enjoy your weekend and stay safe. Bye everybody. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms. Ask Bobby Bones show and follow at webgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode. This is an I heart podcast.