Congratulations, I heard you had a baby.

I had a baby, yeah, just a couple of days ago.

Well not you didn't have a baby.

I actually did it, I had the baby.

It's never been done before.

No, we had a baby.

Did it hurt?

Not that bad, wait, was a couple of days ago.

Last Wednesday, my wife gave birth to a boy,

which is our first boy, so it was very exciting yeah.

(crowd clapping)

Actually, it's great that you're on tonight

because I don't know what I'm doing.

And you actually have a little girl and a little boy.

Yeah.

And so you can help me out.

Well, I don't know what I'm doing either but, yeah.

Really, really I mean.

You don't have to have a license.

You don't have to have a license?

I clearly need a license.

One of the things they've warned me about

is you've got to make sure that our daughter

doesn't get jealous.

So they told us all these things, like give her presents

and say, it's from the baby boy who just showed up

but I think she knows something's up.

She's like, "how did he buy these."

He doesn't have any money.

Yeah, where did he go?

Maybe he has a credit card.

Yeah, exactly, there's all these weird things like that

that you think.

did you have to worry about that?

Yeah, well I think we did that too

and my daughter is pretty savvy, she's like,

"yeah, daddy told me that it came from Deacon

but I know he went and bought it himself."

She's very savvy

but there is like a big difference between boys and girls.

They're so different.

Like even tonight I was just, I was leaving the hotel

and my son, he has just a really quick temper

and I said, "I have to go to work."

And he went and he threw his truck at me.

and Ava goes, "now Deacon."

She goes, "mommy has to go to work

so she can make money so she can pay the bill.

So you can keep your pillow and your blanket."

(crowd laughing)

That's incredible.

That's scary.

I laughed so hard.

She's incredible.

And she did it all while she was coloring.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why she's got attitude also.

I can do this and color at the same time.

She didn't even look up.

That is amazing.

The other thing they told us about was, I mean,

so far our boy is so mellow,

he's just a baby, but our daughter was so kind of intense

and the baby's like goo goo, you know.

He's here, he's chilling out.

He's here, he's doing a good job

but no, two is a whole new thing

and one thing the pediatrician told us to do

is when you talk to your daughter,

come up with all these things

so that she doesn't get jealous,

say, "you've got the pockets on your pants.

Little Beckett doesn't have that

'cause he's too little, like and I thought,

it just sounds like we're taunting the new baby.

You can walk but he can't because he's too little, like,

people overthink it maybe.

You know, no somebody told me

like a director of a school or something,

make sure you complain about the baby to the older child.

Like, his crying is really hurting my ears.

I really don't like it when the baby,

like and I thought that was kind of weird and somewhat evil.

I really hate your brother.

(crowd laughing)

Maybe you and I should just go hate your brother.

Yeah exactly., that's a good idea.

You seem like you'd be a terrific mom.

You're very together.

You're a very well-organized person, I've read.

Is that true, is that fair to say?

You know, I don't think I am.

And then I have these moments where I'm just you know,

over the summer we went to visit Ryan's parents

in Delaware and they had just gotten this new house

and everybody was kind of sleeping and I was jet lagged.

So I woke up early and I tiptoed

and I discovered she had one of those label makers

and I started labeling her house

and I was like, and then she came down.

She's like, "what are you doing?"

I said, "I was just labeling your China

and your napkin drawer."

And she just was like, "what are you doing?"

It was just odd.

I mean, I can see that.

Some people will relax that way but just, you know,

it's weird to do it in someone else's home probably,

you know?

Or your mother-in-law's home, that wasn't very good.

You showed up here and you made a label for me

that said "host" and you put that right on your head.

You know, it makes things very clear.

Yeah, clear and simple.

Everyone knows their place, you stay over there.

You stay there, you're host, I'm guest.

We work this out.

Now I want to talk about this movie,

I saw this movie a couple of days ago and it blew me away.

After you had a baby you went and saw a movie, oh my God.

This is one of the last things I did

before the baby was born.

Oh, that's great.

I'm sure your wife was happy about that.

No you go honey.

She came with me.

I'll just be in labor.

No, she came with me, she wasn't in labor yet.

Oh cool.

We came, we saw the movie and then that did it.

Whoa.

It was that good, the baby was like,

"there must be more films like this in the world."

No, it really is an extraordinary film

and it's a great love story.

Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash.

This is an amazing story

and what I didn't realize is you sing in this movie,

but when you got the role,

you didn't know that you were really going to be singing.

Is that right?

No, I was a little bit of hoodwinked there.

They told me I had this job

and I was going to do the acting part and play June Carter.

and then about two weeks after I signed all the contracts

the director called me up and he said,

"I want you to come to my house."

And I came to his house

and he said, "sing a little something for me."

I was like, "why?"

He said, "Oh, 'cause I'm gonna have you

record all her tracks."

And I just freaked out

'cause I've never sung before professionally

and more ever than that

I have stage fright, terrible stage fright.

I sweat, my knees sweat, my ears sweat

when I see more than 20 people,

it makes me very nervous.

Right, right, don't look over there.

There's no one there, it's a laugh track.

Get out.

But you know, what's funny is I mean

and I'm not just saying this.

You're great, you do a fantastic job.

You're a great singer

and so it's a little hard for me to believe

that you hadn't done it before.

How did you get to that point where you can sing like this?

Well, we practiced, we did six months of voice lessons.

And then we recorded an album over six months

but that was a long time to rehearse for a movie.

I mean, we usually rehearse for a week

and I got to learn how to sing basically,

this man, Roger Love taught me how to sing.

And now you're a little uncomfortable.

'cause people I understand, are coming up to you

and saying you're a great singer,

and you feel like, "Oh no, I'm not."

Yeah, well this morning I was on Good Morning America

and I was in the elevator with Garth Brooks

and there's like 12 people in the elevator

and there was Garth Brooks

and he's this big country music star

and someone across the elevator,

across Garth Brooks to me goes,

"Reece, I heard you're a really good singer in the movie,

you're so good, oh my gosh, I didn't know you could sing."

And I keep looking at him going,

"no, I can't, I can't."

I was so embarrassed

and he's like, "Oh, you're trying to sing in this movie?"

I was like.

Yeah, it just feels like,

"I don't want Garth Brooks in the elevator

when this is happening."

And then she's like, "no, you're the best singer

in the elevator."

(crowd laughing)

Not good, not good.