The Morning X with Barnes & Crash - 99X

On this edition of The Morning X, they welcome a beloved listener and fan-favorite creator back into the studio. After sharing a story about getting recognized by surprised gym-goers, she steps up to the microphone with a handwritten, custom tribute dedicated to Leslie. Tune in to hear this rhythm-fueled performance that playfully roasts Leslie's fashion, favorite restaurants, and relationship secrets.

This is from the Best of The Morning X vault.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

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Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

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The Morning X is back on the airwaves, nursing a bit of a concert hangover after an incredible, late-night show at State Farm Arena. The passion shifts from music to sports as the guys get fired up over the newly released college football rankings, calling out overrated powerhouses and debating who actually deserves a top spot. Finally, they pivot to a deeply emotional tribute celebrating the life of a beloved musician, highlighting a star-studded memorial performance that left the studio with chills, followed by a heartfelt conversation about mental health and looking out for one another.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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The Morning X is already in mid-season trash-talking form as they react to a prominent sports analyst's controversial list of national championship contenders. Tune in to hear them clash over their own teams' roster flaws, debate a stadium shakeup for a classic rivalry game, and find out who has already completely thrown in the towel.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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On this episode of The Morning X, they put their senses to the test with an auditory illusion that will have you questioning how you process the world around you. They introduce a simple, play-along listening game designed by a renowned psychologist to see if everyone really hears things the same way.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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The Morning X keeps the phone lines wide open for part two of their popular "Ask Us Anything" segment, putting themselves completely at the mercy of their listeners. 

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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The Morning X dusts off a classic, no-limits segment where listeners are invited to ask absolutely anything. They quickly find themselves in the hot seat as callers grill them on their greatest behind-the-scenes disappointments and their secret on-air pet peeves.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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The Morning X wraps up their popular modern etiquette series with a straightforward Houston attorney who delivers his final, blunt rules on what grown men should absolutely never post on social media. 

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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After celebrating a fun night out in a concert suite, The Morning X turns their attention to Crash’s notoriously out-of-control spending habits. This prompts Barnes to ask a relatable question: What is the absolute craziest thing you've ever done when you were completely flat broke? Listeners flood the phone lines with unbelievable stories of extreme survival.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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The Morning X is running on fumes after a high-energy arena concert kept them up way past their morning show bedtimes. Tune in to hear them break down a chaotic suite companion's double-fisted eating habits, a mind-blowing set design that had the arena literally bursting with fire, and an opening act that completely stole the spotlight. Plus, they call up a lucky listener from Woodstock who won his way into the luxury suite for a direct, post-concert debrief.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

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On this segment of The Morning X, Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy open the phone lines to hear the absolute worst ways listeners have completely torpedoed their own love lives. Tune in to hear about a landline phone mishap that allowed a partner's deepest secrets to be overheard in real-time, a suspicious boyfriend who used his professional telecommunications skills to run a secret agent-style surveillance operation, a wedding day hot-mic incident in a restroom that left a video crew absolutely stunned, and a fancy dinner date ruined by an accidental physical blunder so mortifying the caller wanted to bury his head in the sand.

This is from the Best of The Morning X vault.

THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH originates on 99X Atlanta. Listen live weekdays from 6–10 AM Eastern on 99X Atlanta (100.5 FM in Atlanta), at 99X.com, or via the 99X Freeloader app. All live show content is available hours after broadcast. The Morning X has been a staple since 1994, founded by Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy.

Please review and subscribe to THE MORNING X with BARNES & CRASH, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Get exclusive Morning X video interviews, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes footage on all platforms at TheMorningX.com.

Join The Morning X Quiz Showdown every Thursday at 9:05 AM ET for your chance to win $1000. Sign up at GetInTheRing.com.

Executive Producer: Steve Barnes
Hosts: Steve Barnes, Crash Clark
Associate Producer: Leslie Tillery

FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This podcast may contain copyrighted material used under fair use for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research as protected by U.S. copyright law. For concerns, please contact [email protected].

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.