Carrot Top Reveals His Surprising Friendship With Toby | Toby Keith: American Icon | NBC

-My God, Toby Keith, how do you even start, um? -♪ Red Solo cup ♪ [ Laughs ] ♪ I fill you up ♪ -Toby Keith was a patriot, a family man, an incredible songwriter. One thing that would surprise people about Toby is that we were friends. And people were -- People would always -- He'd even say, "I don't know why people don't think it's weird Me and Carrot hanging out." We would hang out. -♪ Proceed to party ♪ -He would come to my show with his family and his wife and his friends, and he sat there in -- in my dressing room and he performed, I don't even know. He did like an hour, just acoustic songs, storytelling, just unbelievably, just had everyone laughing. He was a good man. I do want to give an honest, big shout out to, uh, to -- to Toby Keith. Big dog. Love you, man. [ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah!

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