#510 - Eric Church on Getting a Call from Michael Jordan to Become an NBA Owner + Going into Business with Morgan Wallen + Almost Getting Dropped For a Hit That Almost Never Got Recorded

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On this week's episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby sits down with country music superstar, Eric Church. Eric talks about being a part owner of the Charlotte Hornets after getting a call from Michael Jordan, why he always changes up his live shows, and how he and Morgan Wallen got into business together. Plus, Bobby asks Eric which hit he almost never recorded, and Eric tells the story of how that song almost got him dropped from his label, and much more!

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0:00.0	First of all, the label told me if I released that, they were going to drop me.
0:10.6	Because of what the song was?
0:11.9	Yeah.
0:12.3	There was no song like that in the year that it came out.
0:14.7	Like it was, first of all, we're all on our own path anyway.
0:18.1	And the label was like, listen, if you do this, just might as well go do it
0:21.3	somewhere else.
0:23.8	Welcome to episode 510 with Eric Church on Instagram at Eric Church Music. His single now is called
0:31.4	Hands of Time. We talk about the album. We talk about the tour. We talk about the time he got
0:36.1	fired for working for basically Home Shopping Network, which that does a pretty funny story. This is awesome. Yeah, and it was a good,
0:42.7	pretty much hour with Eric. I think what's cool, and I've been lucky enough to spend a little time
0:47.8	with Eric outside of work, outside of anything professional. It was just a really nice guy. He's
0:53.5	definitely still the chief.
0:54.5	And he had his sunglasses on the whole interview.
0:56.9	See, I should have done that way early so people couldn't see my eyes.
0:59.2	I couldn't see my eyes.
1:00.2	He could have been checking out my shoes, looking inside the house.
1:03.1	I'd have had no idea.
1:04.1	That's all I was wondering coming into it.
1:05.4	Was he good to wear him?
1:06.3	Yeah. going to be the chief or they're just going to be Eric Church? He was kind of like Chief Eric, I feel like.
1:11.4	And he's like so smart.
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