#576 - Cody Johnson on Ear Injury Recovery, Rodeo Life & What Prison Is Really Like
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Cody Johnson stops by to talk about the scariest kind of setback for a singer: damaging his ear and wondering if his voice would ever feel the same again. He walks Bobby through the surgery, the unexpected upside of vocal rest, and what it’s like recording a new album after that kind of fear. Then it gets real-life Cody growing up near Huntsville, Texas, sneaking into bars at 14 to sing, and the no-plan-B moment that pushed him to chase music for real. Bobby also digs into Cody’s unique perspective from being around the prison world through his dad’s job, including what people get wrong about it and what actually happens day to day. Plus: the rodeo lifestyle, building his ranch, the Houston Rodeo break, riding out on a horse, and why entertaining a crowd still feels like a drug.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:12.1 | Cody, good to see you, buddy. |
| 0:13.2 | You too, man. |
| 0:14.1 | You just had a boy. |
| 0:15.0 | Did. |
| 0:15.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.2 | Two girls. |
| 0:18.3 | Were you wanting a boy? |
| 0:20.0 | I mean, like, I think every dad wants a boy. |
| 0:39.6 | I mean, I did. But then, like, 11 years ago, we had Clara. And it was the coolest thing in the world, you know, having daddy's little girl. And then, like, two years later, we had Corey. And so I've been a girl dad, like, this whole time. And so when we found out that Brandy was pregnant, it was one of those in the back of your mind. |
| 0:38.4 | You're like, what if i get my little boy and i actually got the test |
| 0:43.3 | results to give to her how did you get those we did that blood test thing and it went into my email |
| 0:49.6 | and i'm sitting there just in suspense everything turns blue, did you open it before she was even around? |
| 0:55.5 | She was sitting across from me in the living room. |
| 0:57.2 | Oh, she wanted you to. You didn't just get it and go. No, I was like, I want to be the one. And it turned blue. And I went, oh my gosh, I'm getting my boy. But even then, I was like, it's still probably going to wind up being a girl. It was just their test was wrong. |
| 1:09.6 | That's awesome, man. |
| 1:11.2 | That's great. |
| 1:12.3 | My wife's about to have a baby. |
| 1:14.2 | Congratulations. |
| 1:14.8 | Thank you. Like, what do I need to prepare for, like, day of, like when it happens? Do you have any good day of stories? Okay, so with the girls, it was a little different because I was brand new. Like, I'm a new dad, so it was like scary. Everything freaked me out. You know, even getting to the hospital. Why are y'all doing this? Why are you not doing this? That's how I am right now. Okay. Well, you don't have to be that way. I, with, with JC, when he was born, she walked into the other room and hollered a few words we won't say on Netflix. And I come running into the room and she said, my water broke. |
| 1:47.0 | And I said, are you sure? |
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