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Happy post Thanksgiving.

It is the weekend, which officially means it's time to start celebrating Christmas.

This is the best bits of the week.

I'm Morgan. What I do is break down the show this week. And because it was a short holiday week, we only have a few shows to choose from. But trust me, there's a lot of good there. My favorite part about this podcast, though, is I bring somebody on from the show. And we just get into all the nitty, gritty details of work, life, and whatever else in between. This weekend, that is lunchbox. Gobble, gobble, gobble. Is that your best gobble? Yeah, one turkey. Survive Thanksgiving. Why? Because you didn't cut down a turkey. Wait, don't. Don't share because we're going to talk about Thanksgiving. You don't cut down a turkey. I know. He's going to shoot down. I just didn't want to say it. I know, but you said cut down because you were thinking Christmas tree. You were going to say Christmas tree.

True. because we're going to talk about Thanksgiving. You don't cut down a turkey. I know. He's going to shoot down. I just didn't want to say it. I know, but you said cut down because

you were thinking Christmas tree. You were going to say Christmas tree. True. You're not wrong.

Because you're thinking about Christmas already and it's like, ah, yeah, but it's okay. But I'm here,

you're here. We're all here. They're all here. Hello, everybody. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I hope you enjoyed that Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Yeah, we got a lot

to talk about. I mean, I want to hear about your Thanksgiving and I want to hear what you did

all the things, okay? I got it. All right, let's go. I love when people of other genres stopped by

our show and this one was no exception. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20. Yes, he is that guy, the lead singer,

and he stopped by our show to talk about that band

all of their years that they've spent together. Plus, he also talked about his Christmas

project and how his collaboration with Brad Paisley happened. So I'm telling y'all, great

interview. It's going down right now. Number seven. On the Bobby Bones show now. Rob, let me say I'm a massive fan, and I believe this is the first time that you and I have ever spoken, so I will lead being a complete super fan and just go, you're the best, you're the best. Oh, man, thank you, man. That's very nice of you to say. I'm glad you got my script. Yes. I did want to ask, because I've been a fan for such a long time. And whenever you put out new music, you know, I'm always drawn to it. But I did see when you put out the Christmas record, that song that you and Brad Paisley did together. How did this, how did this collaboration come with you and Brad? you know that we were still pretty much in lockdown the whole time we were making this over the summer. And so, you know, when I wanted to get friends to come in, I had to literally just reach out into my phone book and have people that I knew. You know, I didn't have like, it was going to be too hard to get, you know, my people to call their people and try and get, you know, the label to reach out to management and all that stuff. So I just, I wrote a country song that, you know, it was a country banger that, and the way that Brad plays guitar, the way that he sings, it was kind of a no-brainer. Like, I just was hoping. I went through it like, Manifest Destiny. Like, I went through it like, oh, I'm telling myself and my wife, like, oh yeah, this is the song I'm doing with Brad Paisley. And she's like, have you called him yet? I'm like, no, but I'm sure he's going to do it.

And then he did. Oh, I'm telling myself and my wife, like, oh, yeah, this is the song I'm doing with Brad Paisley. And she's like, have you called him yet? I'm like, no, but I'm sure he's going to do it.

And then he did it. I just attributed to the fact that he really didn't have a lot to do either. And he was kind of in lockdown and bored. So I lucked out with the timing. You guys are playing it at the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting on NBC December 1st.

Is it nerve-wracking to play a song on a national stage that you haven't done 500 times?

Yeah. Federal Center Tree Lighting on NBC December 1st. Is it nerve-wracking to play a song on a national stage that you haven't done 500 times? Yeah, I think so. I mean, there's an excitement level there, and especially because, you know, it's not like we haven't been on the road, right? So we haven't been out. Like the first time I played in a year and a half was me and Carlos in Central Park, right? And there was like 40,000 people.

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